On Son, 16 Mai 1999, you wrote: / Am Son, 16 Mai 1999 schrieben Sie:
> Tom Berger wrote:
> >
> > Ok, I made some further investigations. Looks like I've chosen one of the
> > worst VGA/mainboard combinations possible...
> > The Epox guys told me to update the BIOS of the Matrox, and the Matrox
> > guys told me to do the same with the mainboard's BIOS. So I did flash them
> > both... Now let's see what happens next *sigh*. Anyway, does someone
> > know of/have a cool mainboard, maybe a dual one? Uh, and while I am at
> > it, I am also looking for good SCSI adapter that's not to expensive.
> > Anyone?
> > What occured to me doing this: How do people with Linux only
> > machines update BIOS'es? The whole process is DOS based and if you happen
> > to don't have any DOS around you are pi... bad off.
>
> Windows boot disks can be easily found, that's what I do. I wonder if
> DOSemu would work? Anyone tried?
>
> I can tell you that the latest Matrox BIOS and Award BIOS from FIC fixed
> my AGP problems under my previous Windows installation. Prior to those
> two upgrades, I was unable to turn on Bus Mastering on the Matrox
> Windows driver without suffering from screen distortion and random
> lockups and inopportune moments (of course, IS there a good time for a
> lockup?)
>
> Give the new BIOSes a try and see if it helps. I can't say that I've
> ever had Linux problems with the boards though...
>
Actually my box had begun to have very frequent freezes within NT, too,
when using the Internet Exploiter 5.0 (which is a real dog: heavy,
uncomfortable, prone to crashes. I installed Lynx on my NT which works
just fine... The mere thought of being forced to use that MS crap makes me
shiver. I wasn't a geek if it weren't for Linux.)
No hangs since then in spite of some heavy netscaping last night.
So there might be some hope.
You might have heard that the CompuPic File Manager will be ported to
Linux soon, so I gave it a shot within Windows yesterday. Result: just
another bloated commercial app (although the Linux version will be
available for free), much of bells, whistles and shiny crome. I would even
prefer using gmc (which is - IMO - the worst filemanger within Linux
I've tried so far, well, apart from xfm, of course) to this one.
When will they begin to port the _right_ apps to Linux? Anyway, I bought
my copy of vmware yesterday so it's not that urgent anymore...
> --
> Steve Philp
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tom
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specialists, at the Linux version one did not screw." (from Babelfish)
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