Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ellick Chan:
> > If you are interested, I can send you a copy of the relevent portion
> > of /etc/modules.conf so you can compare it against what you did
> > originally.
> >
>
> Yes please, I would like to see it.
No problem, attached.
> Should I just use the Mandrake RPM
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 17:38:22 -0700
> From: Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource
> Efficient?
>
>
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ellick Chan:
> On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Your're correct, but I never got that to work on my Sony VAIO N505VX
> laptop which has the YMF744b chip.
The most frequent cause of people believing that ALSA doesn't work for
them is the fact that it mutes all audi
on 7/23/00 12:47 PM, Anton Graham wrote:
> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ralph Day:
>> Why do you say the i810 video support is shaky at this point? It works
>> great and is packaged with LM 7.1. I'll admit you do have to do a little
>> hand configuration.
>
> That's why :/ The i810's are marketted
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 11:48:13 -0700
> From: Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource
> Efficient?
>
>
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Vic:
> Does Mandrake 7 or 7.1 come with alsa drivers or
> just the oss design?
>
7.1 comes with ALSA standard, but 0.5.7 was the latest as of the
release date.
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Does Mandrake 7 or 7.1 come with alsa drivers or
just the oss design?
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ellick Chan:
> > I recommend a Yamaha XG card, but that will cost you about $30 of OSS
> > drivers.
>
> No longer :)! I run my Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-XG) with ALSA driver
ing new boxes
with just Linux installed.
Seve
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On 7/23/00, 1:27:07 PM, Pj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding Re:
[expert] Pentium
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Anton Graham wrote:
> In the meantime, hardware support improves constanty. The i810 is
> considered by many to be a priority project, so I wouldn't be
> surprised if it was Linux-newbie friendly by the time 7.2 becomes
> available.
I run i810 on many machines, and it w
Thus spake Anton Graham ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
[...]
> I can't count the times I have had to tell somebody to edit
> such-and-such file instead of using a (rather limited) GUI front-end
> to a program. Our Windows converts are coming from a point and click
> world in which all of the thinking has b
Amen! You might also add that many of the Windows converts won't have the
patience or don't want to take the time to work thru the little problems.
I've been trying for several months to install a stable Mdk. Every time I
get close I find another hardware problem. At the rate I'm going I won't
l
alsa drivers are coool.. the sound quality is the best!
-sarang
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ralph Day:
> Why do you say the i810 video support is shaky at this point? It works
> great and is packaged with LM 7.1. I'll admit you do have to do a little
> hand configuration.
That's why :/ The i810's are marketted to entry level consumers, who
would be more than a
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Ellick Chan:
> I recommend a Yamaha XG card, but that will cost you about $30 of OSS
> drivers.
No longer :)! I run my Yamaha YMF-724F (DS-XG) with ALSA drivers.
Believe it or not, the sound quality is actually better than what I
got with the commercial drivers from OSS.
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Sevatio Octavio wrote:
> Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:38:51 GMT
> From: Sevatio Octavio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource
> Efficient?
&
ility list to be sure
they are supported. It wouldn't hurt to post on the list too check how easy
they are to get working as well.
- Ralph
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Su
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by Sevatio Octavio:
> That gets to my next question... While shopping, I ran across a lot of
> boxes with motherboards that have onboard sound & video. What's your
> take on those? Do they tend to require funky device drivers that Linux
> may not have?
These have their pr
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On 7/22/00, 10:34:17 PM, Anton Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
regarding Re: [expert] Pentium 200Mhz/MMX and Mandrake - Resource
Efficient?:
> Submitted 23-Jul-00 by John J.
Submitted 23-Jul-00 by John J. LeMay Jr.:
>
> Doesn't there come a point when using a machine as old as an XT clone
> actually costs more to run (heat/electric) than grabbing something like the
> BookPC machines (around $500 ready to roll) and tossing the "classic" into
> the antique rack?
>
> I
> The real question is what you want the machine to do :) For example, I
> have an old PC/XT clone I still use as a terminal for an AMD K6-2/350
> system and a 386sx/25 (ex-doorstop) running as a firewall/router.
Doesn't there come a point when using a machine as old as an XT clone
actually cos
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