Linux-Hardware Digest #683, Volume #9 Wed, 17 Mar 99 17:14:09 EST
Contents:
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Burkard B. Kreidler)
X and motherboard asus sp97v (Julien Canivet)
Re: Q: Linux on a EZ-processed 8.4G Hdd, possible and safe ? (Allen)
Re: My mouse is screwed. ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Can I use a Lexmark 3200 under Linux? (Grant Taylor)
How can I use the machine with a USR-SportsterMessage+ modem (Ludovic Le Botlan)
Epson 700 Printer....under linux? (Michael D. Knight)
Can someone recommend me a 56K6 PCMCIA modem? (Carl Thijssen)
Re: Epson 700 Printer....under linux? (Grant Taylor)
Re: printer problem (Ludovic Le Botlan)
Re: But, but...I have an Internal IDE Zip Drive... (Eric)
Re: "Select the application, and then the platform" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Bill Anderson)
AWE 64 ("Craig Griffiths")
Re: 2.2.3, ess 1888, & insanity ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mustek 1200 flatbed scanner.....under Linux? (Michael D. Knight)
Re: Canon BJC 6000 - supported (Jan)
Re: Advise please re RedHat 5.2 and my install.... ("SChelvan Ponn")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers ("liam toh")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (doole)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (doole)
Re: CDR For Linux? (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Re: Sound Blaster AWE64... <<=Question==>> (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Re: CDs brennen... (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Re: vi (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support. (Burkard B.
Kreidler)
Re: AMD K6-2 vs. K6-III (Burkard B. Kreidler)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:33 GMT
>If you believe Microsofts answer/excuses, then you also believe in Santa
>Claus and the Tooth Fairy!
(OT)
Perhaps I believe in Santa Claus,
but never Billy's words
(/OT)
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From: Julien Canivet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X and motherboard asus sp97v
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 17:10:38 +0100
I've problems to install X because of my video card which is integreted
to my motherboard. It is a asus sp97v and is not recognised by redhat
5.2
thanx
juju
=====================================
Julien Canivet
Siegmunds Hof 2-4
62.11.00.11
10555 Berlin
email : [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel : +49 (0) 30/ 39 84 84 16
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Q: Linux on a EZ-processed 8.4G Hdd, possible and safe ?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 16:49:16 GMT
What is the rest of your hardware info? I'm searching for a reason why you're
not able to use LBA-- what distribution are you using, what motherboard and/or
ide controller? I've never had anything but problems with those large disk
"kludges", and in the long run, I've always had to reformat to remove them. I'd
recommend not to do it? What OS's are you trying to get to co-exist?? How are
you trying to arrange them, partition size-wise? Your bios date could be a
factor too, but your motherboard manufacturer may be the only one who could tell
if that particular version is so limited???
I'm not sure that it is possible, but I'm REAL sure that it's not safe!
On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:22:37 +0100, "Ton v.d. Wouden"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>In my continuing quest for space i recently installed
>a new WD 28400R 8.4Gb. Sadly i'm not able to get it to
>use LBA only in normal mode which leaves 528 Mb for other
>OS's. One of the alternatives i have is to install
>WD-EZ-drive to it. This will fix the problem for win/dos,
>but can it be used by linux ?.
>
>Is there some of you who could enlight me on
>- is it possible ?
>- is it safe ?
>- is it reverisble/uninstallable ?
>- is it wise/worth the trouble/risk ?
>
>Any help greatly appriciated
>
>Regards,
>
>Ton.
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My mouse is screwed.
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:50:52 -0500
This sounds like the problem I had in RH5.2. The MS Intellimouse PS/2 would
work at the console screen and then at the X window screen. But if I exited
X
back to the console the mouse would barf. This mouse has a wheel button
so I downloaded the 'imwheel' program from freshmeat. This program
includes a patched gpm which solved the mouse barf problem. (Note: the
original gpm did not show 'imps2' as a valid mouse type if you run 'gpm -i';
the patched one does.)
Here's the file /etc/sysconfig/mouse file I'm now using:
MOUSETYPE="imps2"
XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2"
FULLNAME="Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)"
XEMU3=no
Travers Nicholas wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm running Slackware distribution, and my Xserver is running sweet as.
>However, whenever i quit out of Quake, back into the server, The mouse
>goes haywire.
>
>Originally I was having problems with my mouse in quake, untill i added
>this line to SVGAlib; mouse IMPS2. In case you hadn't noticed, i have a
>ps2 intellimouse, and i believe the problem will be resolved if i can
>specify my mouse type as IMPS2 within the Xserver. I just don't know how
>to do this. Can anyone help?.
>
>at present i have my mouse setup as PS2, as intellimouse, and microsoft
>mouse wouldn't work. Any help on this matter will be greatly
>appreciated.
>
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use a Lexmark 3200 under Linux?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 13:15:55 -0500
> Paulo C�sar Carvalho wrote in message
>> How can I configure my printer?
"Paul Simard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to know the answer to this too, please!
AFAIK, this printer cannot now be made to work under Linux. The best
hope is a fellow who has written a driver fo the 5700 and 7000, but
that driver is thus far not working with the 3200.
See http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi for more
information on the state of Lexmark support (and the lack thereof).
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Ludovic Le Botlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How can I use the machine with a USR-SportsterMessage+ modem
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:17:51 +0100
My probleme is that I can give up MS Windows, just because I use
this modem, and it is really unpreasant. I use fonctionnality of machine ( I think it
is the right world : a machine used to record and lisen message on telephone) and I am
looking for a soft
allowing me to listen my messages.
Thank you for an answer.
PS : sorry for English mistakes. I am french and I am learning English.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael D. Knight)
Subject: Epson 700 Printer....under linux?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 09:07:26 -0500
I currently have an Epson 700 printer and would like to know
if there is a driver or utility that will let me use it.
It has a parallel port interface, so that should not be a problem....I
just need a driver to access some/most/all of the features of the
printer.
I've been away from linux for a couple of years, and don't know what
tools might be out there to work with this.
Any comments would be welcome.
Note...anti-spam in effect.....look at email address carefully.
-Michael
--
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of sharp teeth, cold Gulfstream Aerospace /O\
steel, cosmic warlords, Georgia Tech Aerospace \_______[|(.)|]_______/
and evil spirits mknight2@*spam*worldnet.att.net ++ O ++ o
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From: Carl Thijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can someone recommend me a 56K6 PCMCIA modem?
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:24:35 -0500
I'm using Debian on my laptop with an old 14k4 modem. I would like to
upgrade to a 56k6 modem, but I am unsure which modems are supported by
linux and which aren't.
Can someone recommend a 56k6 pcmcia modem?
Tanks,
Carl Thijssen
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 700 Printer....under linux?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 13:20:59 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael D. Knight) writes:
> I currently have an Epson 700 printer and would like to know
> if there is a driver or utility that will let me use it.
A Stylus, I assume? The 700 series Styluses (Styli?) work all right
with the Stylus 500 uniprint driver included with Ghostscript 5.10 and
greater. They work even better with the Stylus 740 upp uniprint
driver posted to one of the comp.os.linux groups a few weeks back by
DEPontius at (I forget where); find that in Dejanews for the best
output.
This information and more is available in the Printing HOWTO's
compatibility database at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Ludovic Le Botlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer problem
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:32:34 +0100
Digital Messiah wrote:
> ok, i have a HP deskjet 600c printer. it works fine during test with
> redhat 5.2. however, when i try to print anything else i get the error
> message sh: /dev/lp1: permission Denied. I can't even print as root. I
> know the printer works and the port is /dev/lp1. any ideas?
>
> --
> Scott Blair
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maybe, you have the same probleme that I had. When I install new kernels (> 2.1.x), my
printer stop working. In fact, I found that the printer moved from /dev/lp1 to the
/dev/lp0. So, if you use a new
kernel like me, try to reconfigure your printer.
Ludo.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: But, but...I have an Internal IDE Zip Drive...
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:05:23 -0700
Thomas Lepkowski wrote:
> All the books talk about SCSI drives and parallel port drives, but I
> have an internal IDE Zip drive. Not SCSI, no parallel port connection.
> What gives?
>
> Is there anybody out there who can help me with installing an internal
> IDE Zip drive?
>
> Thanks!
>
> -TML
It otta be picked up as a hard drive during install. Create a mount point
for it, say /mnt/zip, then mount it, something like mount /dev/hdc4
/mnt/zip. To figure out what your zip is called determine where it is
installed. If it is the master on your secondary IDE controller (like
mine), then it will be hdc4, if it is the slave on your primary IDE
controller, then it will be hdb4. For some reason they always seem to
want to be the 4th slice. If you are using RH 5.x, linuxconf has a handy
utility for setting things like this up.
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: "Select the application, and then the platform"
Date: 17 Mar 1999 16:37:11 GMT
In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.hardware didst Todd Bandrowsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
:>I guess you've never heard of MOTIF. Funny thing I was always required to
: follow the MOTIF >standard for dialogs and used the core widgets for say an
: open file dialog.
: If MOTIF is so prevalent on Unix, then why do all X applications look
: different? Why do I have a bunch of different X apps on my Linux box that
: all have different styles of FILE | OPEN. Heck. skip that even. Why does
: every one have completely different menus?
Motif is the widget set.
It's the application writer who decides what menus will hold what options
and where they're going to be.
The only thing Motif (or any other widget set) disctates is what the buttons
will look like, and how they react to being pressed...
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 20:52:52 +0000
doole wrote:
>
> Tim Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apparently said this:
> >
> >surely 'why not?' is an equally appropriate question here... and in many
> >cases you could replace the word 'need' with 'want' which is just as
> >valid.
> >
>
> If I'm a cop and I'm under all of those pressures and trying to get to
> some pervert, I don't give a crap what you want; I'm just trying to
> get the job done. Maybe I look in the wrong place once in a while. If
> I knew in advance where to look, we wouldn't be having these problems.
>
> And if I'm not a cop (and I'm not) I WANT him/her to get the job done.
>
> Don't you? I don't "want" the cops to be up against any more than they
> already are.
>
> Sorry, but I'm right.
wtf was that all about??
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From: "Craig Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AWE 64
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 09:33:36 -0800
I just installed Caldera Open Linux 1.3, Kernel 2.0.35 on a Pentium II 266
box. Recompilied Kernel with sound support fot the Soundblaster but it does
not seem to work. I have done this with an AWE32 with no problems and on
boot I see the lines "Sound Initialization Started" and "Sound
Initialization Completed" along with port, irq and dma info. However, with
the AWE64 I get the "...Started" and "....Stopped" lines but nothing is
displayed for ports, irq or DMA and I dont have sound?? I have double
checked the settings in the Kernel setup for port, irq and dma and they are
all correct???
Is there anything special I need to know about getting this card working
under Linux??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 2.2.3, ess 1888, & insanity
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:48:12 GMT
Heres my experience with the 1888. I have a Compaq Presario 3060. I can set up
the BIOS to use IRQ 7 for the printer and IRQ 5 for the ESS. If I boot Windows
98, it runs just fine, and Windows 98 tells me thats where it is - on IRQ 5.
Now if I try and configure ESS 1888 as a SB under Linux 2.0.36 or 2.2.2 if I
tell it to use IRQ 5, the driver gives an error immediately and says the IRQ
test failed. Now if I for example give IRQ 7, it loads fine, and works for a
while and then dies, with the same timout symptoms that you described. Editing
the code in the way you describe does not help. I have played with this for a
while - I have noticed that I can tell the sb driver to load using a number of
different interrupts and it works in the way you describe. But it never works
if I give it the interrupt it really is.
I gues there is a bug in the driver at a more fundamental level.
Best Regards,
Nick
In article <7cje6n$31a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Victor Sologoubov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the similar problem with ess1868. When I run
> maplay on a heavy loaded system, it sometimes displays
>
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>
> I think it is a bug in the sound driver.
> Partial solution for me was to edit driver/sound/dmabuf.c.
> In function dmabuf_timeout I replaced the line
> tmout += HZ/5; /* Some safety distance */
> with
> tmout += HZ; /* Some safety distance */
> and recompiled modules.
> Victor Sologoubov
> =======================================================
> In article <7cdb0v$5rp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Herbert Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > i've been having the strangest problems with my sound
> card (ess 1888) under
> > 2.2.3 kernel. it worked ok (kinda buggy, but worked)
> under 2.0.36 but refuses
> > to work now.
> >
> > i've tired compiling as modules and into the kernel. the
> best i get is the
> > ability to play ONE and ONLY ONE sound file. then it
> gives me the error i get
> > all the time:
> >
> > dma (output) timeout: IRQ/DRQ conflict?
> >
> > i'm sure this isn't a conflict. my /proc/interrupts:
> >
> > CPU0
> > 0: 74022 XT-PIC timer
> > 1: 1706 XT-PIC keyboard
> > 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> > 3: 2319 XT-PIC eth0
> > 7: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
> > 12: 30668 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> > 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> > 14: 32841 XT-PIC ide0
> > 15: 4 XT-PIC ide1
> > NMI: 0
> >
> > in addition, /dev/sndstat gives nothing helpful. just
> states the driver as
> > the ess 1688 when complied into kernel and the ess 1888
> driver when in
> > modules
> >
> > my /etc/conf.modules (part that pertains to sound):
> >
> > # sound information
> > alias char-major-14 sb
> > options sound dmabuf=1
> > options sb io=0x220 irq=7 dma=1 dma16=5 esstype=1888
> >
> > the card works fine under win95. it just won't work
> under 2.2.3. in
> > addition, after getting the dma timeout message, no
> program can write/read
> > to/from the floppy device. whether its mounted or not.
> i end up having to
> > reboot to restore use of the device. why is this?
> >
> > preusing this newsgroup i've only found a few related
> posts...and the only
> > reply to the few were that the proprietory oss drivers
> should be used. but
> > the webpage for it doesn't even have support for the ess
> 1888. it seems only
> > people have trouble w/ the ess 1688 and 1868 ...but not
> this. has ANYONE
> > gotten this to work?!?!
> >
> > ANY comments would be helpful. thanks in advanced.
> >
> > herbert ho
> >
> > "Just do me a favor, don't breed."
> > -- Adam Carona, Loveline
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion
> Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or
> Start Your Own
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael D. Knight)
Subject: Mustek 1200 flatbed scanner.....under Linux?
Date: 17 Mar 1999 16:04:01 -0500
I am about to install linux on my sys after being away from it for
about 2 years. I am checking to see what drivers are available for
the hardware I want to run.
I've gotten positive info on my printer and digital cam (thanks
guys!), and am now after my last peripheral....my scanner.
I have a Mustek PlugnScan 1200 III EP flatbed scanner. It is a
parallel port interface, so that should not be a problem.
I checked www.linux.org for hardware drivers, but Mustek isn't listed
as providing drivers.
Any comments welcome!
Thanks,
Michael
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From: Jan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC 6000 - supported
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:11:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rainer Koster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know whether the Canon BJC 6000 can be run with
> ghostscript?
The BJC 6000 is supported: Try Ghostscript 5.50, driver bjc600
I have a BJC70 also, and I can print on both printers with this driver.
Jan
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From: "SChelvan Ponn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Advise please re RedHat 5.2 and my install....
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:24:18 GMT
I have done a similar setup before with Windows 95 - NT and Redhat 5.1. You
must be really careful when you partition the remaing space for swap and
system for linux.
Linux can coexiit on the same hdd....
Gary wrote in message
>Hi Martin and Greg,
>Thanks for both your replies... I will break the seal and see what
>happens... I'd like to add a 4th question if you don't mind... namely I
>already have Windows NT installed on my dual processor system, and have a
>free partition on my HD... would Linux be able to coexist on the same HD
>with NT, could I stick it in partition 4 and have it leave NT relatively
>untouched? Anyway, while waiting for your reply, I'll be opening the seal
>and trying to figure out which of the 4 enclosed Linux books to try
>reading/printing (thank god for fast autoduplexing laser printers).
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "liam toh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 11:31:28 -0800
>>doole wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Why should the fact that someone is employed by one of those
>>organizations that you label an "Authority" give him the right to read my
>>private files?
>But I say it again, why would you care what they read - UNLESS of
>course, you were committing a crime. No one wants to answer that
>question directly, for some stupid reason.
sending email isn't a crime but I don't want just anybody rifling through
it, nobody I know wants 'authorities' peeping into their mail. Browsing
pornography isn't a crime but nobody I know want 'authorities' to make it
their business to monitor someone's browsing activities. Actually screwing
my wife isn't a crime but we don't want the 'authorities' to have a camera
in our bedroom.
>You send loads of your private information to the IRS, and willingly.
>Why the hell isn't anyone complaining about THAT?
people are complaining, maybe you've heard of the republican party?
>Doesn't make sense.
??you think people in a free society dont cherish there personal privacy??
BTW doole: do you work for the IRS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (doole)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:35:54 GMT
>
>>Doesn't make sense.
>??you think people in a free society dont cherish there personal privacy??
>
Of course they do (and should) and it shouldn't be abused, either.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (doole)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 21:37:03 GMT
Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> apparently said this:
>
>wtf was that all about??
<g> Not Linux, unfortunately. Time to get back to the point, I guess.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: CDR For Linux?
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:40 GMT
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:29:56 -0700, "rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anybody recommend an inexpensive IDE CDR
>drive that works with linux? I checked out the CD-Writing
>mini-howto but it's a year old and I suspect (hope) its
>list of compatible drives is not complete.
I'd highly recommend a SCSI drive since CPU-usage is much less. A
suitable SCSI card is around 50 $ and a TEAC R55S which I'd suggest
should be available for about 250 bucks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster AWE64... <<=Question==>>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:36 GMT
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:29:02 -0800, "CH" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 (value), and am trying to set it up under
>SUSE 5.3...
> I have read the Sound-HowTo, but that wasn't much help.
> Any explanations I have seen for the SB64 setup in the past have not been
>that clear. In addition, they have been for older versions or different
>distributions.
>
> I guess what I'm looking for is either some clear instructions on how to
>set this up or a referance to a site that has such instructions.
Why not provide us with more information?
Did you read the AWE 64-Howto? If not, why not?
Did you set up isapnp? If not, why not?
Did you compile your kernel with AWE32 support? If not, why not?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: CDs brennen...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:38 GMT
On 12 Mar 1999 01:02:37 GMT, Joern Smock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alexander Schliebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hallo Leute,
You should post in _english_ in this group. There's a german group
de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Even Joerg Schilling usually reads ist.
>> Ich bin auf Linux noch ziemlich unerfahren. Mit cdrecord hat er mir
>> Auch wenn ich eine Gr=F6=DFe f=FCr den fifo angebe, f=E4hrt er ihn
>> st=E4n= dig runter bis auf Null. Schlimmer ist aber - glaub ich -
>> das Problem beim Schlie=DFen der CD.
>
>what does `Gr=F6=DFe f=FCr den fifo angebe, f=E4hrt er ihn st=E4n='
>mean? (I just see "=F6" and such).
(OT) german umlauts (the a,o,u with two dots over them and the"s"
character that looks like a "B" are no ofiicial ISO characters and
give the nonsense above (/OT)
command-line programs like cdrecord usually are problematically for
beginners. You might use the xcdroast frontend.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: vi
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:41 GMT
>> (email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
>> onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
>> PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
When in editing mode, press [Esc]
Then type :q if you want to quit
or :wq if you wanna save and quit
Don't forget the colon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support.
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:30 GMT
>But I have the card, and I think the general consensus is that it is
>relatively stable and working well. And I don't think you should ever
>consider getting any hardware for present and past support but for the
>future. I'm sure TNT based cards will be more supported and become more
>stable quite soon and that's something he should take into account.
Basically yes. The Question is whether companies like nvidia publish
the specs for their products so that driver programmers can use them.
Most of the acceleration capabilities of the TNT can not be
implemented since no one knows how they work.
It's the same with the SB Live! soundcard. A great card but as long as
nobody knows the specs, you won't hear any sound.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 vs. K6-III
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 03:56:34 GMT
>Mem 64 MB CL3 PC100
>SCSI Adaptec 2940AU
>Disk 9.19 GB Seagate ST39173
>Graph Matrox G200 8MB AGP
>
>Originally I was thinking of just going with an AMD K6-2 400MHz but it
>would be nice to know whether I should shell out the extra for a K6-III.
>I heard that the K6-2 suffers in 'business applications' due to it's slow
>(100MHz) L2 cache. I'll be using the machine primarily for development
>(C/C++/Perl/Shell), image processing (custom software, IPW, ENVI) and
>report writing (LaTeX) along with the occasional reboot to Windows (for
>games only, naturally).
I'd rather go for more RAM than a faster CPU. The P5A has got 128 MB
of cacheable area, so I'd use it (and I do).
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