Linux-Hardware Digest #70, Volume #9 Thu, 31 Dec 98 01:13:37 EST
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Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!! ("umm")
C350 LIFEBOOK ("TURBO1010")
Sound Blaster Live
Re: Permedia ][ (Doug Kelly)
Re: AWE64 under RedHat 5.2 (Kyle Dansie)
Iomega Zip250 (Kyle Dansie)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Chris Lee)
Re: UMAX Astra 610S Scanner support... (Glenn Trigg)
Turtle Beach Montego A3DXStream ("SeRPaNT~")
Re: External Modem Question******** (Jason Dixon)
Re: Need help with Redhat 5.2 hardware compatibility? (Joel NewKirk)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (jedi)
Anyone use bellatlantic & Linux? (Jason Dixon)
Matrox G200, Xfree 3.3.3 Partial Solution, Need Help... (Shaun See)
Help! SCSI problem. Install can't handle Adaptec AIC 7770! ("Mike Treadwell")
Creative Labs/Soundblaster hardware identification (Ross Boylan)
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From: "umm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but
am stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:22:58 -0500
Welp you could fork out the $14 for the RedHat
CD-ROM at your local computer store but that kinda
nullifies the value of RedHat being freeware.
Unless you have 2 hard drives I think you will
have to partition your hard drive to have at least
2 partitions one could be 32bit but the other
should be split into a RedHat native and a RedHat
swap partition.
Probably the easiest way for you to install on a
2 disk system is to have 2 partitions on the
first drive with the downloaded files on the
second partition
c:\ = 32bit
logical drive of HD1 d:\ is 16 bit and contains the RedHat
then on HD2
fdisk and format it and scan disk it
Then use your boot floppies to install RedHat on
Physical drive 2
from Physical drive 1 logical drive D:\RedHat\
I am almost at the point that I think RedHat is
becoming useless. The development is getting
pretty far behind on support for current Hardware
Its getting to the point that you really have to plan
on purchasing a system that will do only Linux.
There are no 56k PCI modems for Linux
AGP is poorly supported
No USB and
X will fry your monitor
I mean what use is it
If your running a home system there are tons
of free daemons and software for Windows that
will work just fine and install in a matter of minutes.
I mean I just think its time for Eric Raymond
to come to grips that he is totally wrong.
Linux or any Unix system may be fine for an
a speciality application, Intranet Mail Server or
even a web server but it doesn't even come close to
being a system that you can install on your desktop.
Let alone a system that you can share with the family
let kids play games and learn and mom and dad can
do a little work at home.
I would rather use dos 2.0 with Gem.
Linux is not free you really need to buy it on CD-ROM.
Then you need hardware that will support Linux.
Then you need a manual and months of training
to be able to really understand and perform the
configuration correctly and fully.
Sure you could probably get it to boot in a full day of work
including partitioning re-configuration of PnP Hardware
hunting down Video signal specs.
Then when you do what is it good for ?
You can chat on IRC all day run some Warez FTP servers
or spoof some mail.
If Sun, Linux, SCO, BSD, AIX were so great
Microsoft would be suing them I guess
And such is proof that it will really be a BE OS
or some similar thing that will be Microsoft's demise
20 years from now.
The time has come to forget all this BS and start
becoming productive with tools that are available
and useable.
If you waste a day or a week or a few hours a
day or week and you continuously need to read arcane
manuals on sendmail and write scripts and use perl
to manage a system that is basically a headache and doesn't
support your needed hardware or software
then what is the real price.
I guess its like an old car
you can buy one and make it work well
but if you need a part or technical info you have
to spend a long time hunting it down.
If you can't find what you need you have to
make the part which means a large investment in time.
And Time = Money.
Most of all there is no dealer to get your money back from.
Just writing this news post I could have written
an article for my website which would have been
another 2 pages that could have banners on them
making me money.
Honestly from now on I am gonna point my friends
towards Windows and "enemas" towards Linux.
Then again Ill make you a deal
If Clinton is thrown out of office I will devote 1 day a week
to providing help to New Linux users.
Its all about reality I guess its just time to wake up
THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote in message <368ac28d.9690894@news>...
>Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
>you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
>and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
>Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
>32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
>that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
>can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
>but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
>and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
>to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
>install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
>linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
>changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
>it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
>install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
>crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
>until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
>Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
>connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
>have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
>boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
>formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
>machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
>method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
>the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
>obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
>it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
>ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
>installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
>recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
>video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
>drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
>the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
>option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
>message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
>site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
>other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
>bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
>install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
>are to be made during installation?
>
>P.S:
>PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
>USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW TO PARTITION MY HARD
>DRIVE SINCE MY 75. GB HARD DRIVE IS NEARLY FILLED UP. I PLAN TO
>INSTALL REDHAT LINUX 5.2 TO MY OLDER 730 MB HARD DRIVE SO PLEASE DO
>NOT BRING IN 7.5 GB INTO THE PICTURE UNLESS YOU ARE GONNA GIVE ME A
>FREE CD-RW DRIVE FIRST !!! ALL I AM ASKING IS THAT YOU GIVE ME A
>SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM I GOT. DO NOT GIVE ME IRRELEVANT BULLSH**
>SUCH AS TELLING ME TO PARTITION MY OTHER HARD DRIVE. I WILL CONTINUE
>TO POST THIS MESSAGE UNTIL SOMEONE HELPS ME FIX THIS PROBLEM !!!
>
>Please post a reply to this message. I've had to switch ISPs in the
>past due to people spamming and framing my acount(s).
>
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: C350 LIFEBOOK
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:25:36 -0800
anyone know how to set up X on this laptop? I know it uses a NeoMagic chip.
I can get X started with a small screen, but I can't seem to get it to a
full 1024 X 768. Can anyone tell me what the scan rates are for the
display? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster Live
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 23:52:02 -0500
Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is there any way to get a sb live to work under RH 5.2?
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:52:31 -0700
From: Doug Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Permedia ][
Shashank wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Since everyone keeps asking what's the best 3D acceleration in Linux and
> how can I get my Riva TNT to work with XFree, I thought I'd ask-
>
> Does anyone out there have a Permedia II card? How well does it perform
> under XFree?
>
> shashank
I've got a generic (EONTronic or something like that) 8 meg Permedia 2
card, and with the XFCom_3DLabs server from Suse (www.suse.de or
www.suse.com) it runs great. I generally run 1280x1024 x32 bits, and it
drives my (cheap) monitor just fine. I haven't ever run another card on
the same monitor at the same resolution/depth, so I can't comment on the
image quality other than to say that I don't find any problems with it.
A friend at work owns a Sun 24" widescreen monitor, and drives it with
a FireGL at 1900-something by 1400 or so, and he says it works pretty
well - he had to do some digging to get the modelines right, though.
Doug Kelly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:22:55 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AWE64 under RedHat 5.2
Dustin Oprea wrote:
>
> When ever I try installing my SB AWE under the Linux shell setup, it fails,
> how can I fix this?
RTFM
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Soundblaster-AWE.html
--
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Linux Rules
ZIP drive Mini-HOWTO
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
or
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
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Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:31:08 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Zip250
Just bought a new Iomega Zip 250 drive. This drive is a parallel port
model and now has 250 MB disks instead of the 100 MB like the older
drives. The write time also seems better than the old drive. Details
about the drive at http://www.iomega.com/product/zip/zip250.html
It also works great with Linux. Just use the IMM driver, same one as the
Zip Plus uses.
http://www.torque.net/~campbell/
Cheers,
Kyle Dansie
--
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Linux Rules
ZIP drive Mini-HOWTO
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
or
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: 31 Dec 1998 04:58:09 GMT
In article <76euvg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>However, even so, I do think that a part of the "winmodems suck"
>attitude probably is sour grapes. After all, linux supports a lot
>of other really inferior hardware out of necessity because it is
>common and cheap, like IDE as opposed to SCSI.
Nope. Windows users despise Winmodems even more than Linux users do. Check
out the online gaming groups for instance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn Trigg)
Subject: Re: UMAX Astra 610S Scanner support...
Date: 31 Dec 1998 12:32:24 +1100
FYI, I am using a UMAX Astra 610s. I bought a PCI based Advansys SCSI card
and have been very happy with both it and the scanner. I'm using SANE 1.0
as the driver and linked it with the gimp for scanning straight into an
image editor.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Patrick Mayer wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm currently running linux on my computer (Red-Hat 5.2 distribution. Kernel
> > 2.xxx: I'm new at this!) and I would like to know if it is possible to use a
> > UMAX 610S scanner with it (that's the SCSI version). Any guesses of where I
> > should look for a driver?
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
> >
> > Another guy slowly getting addicted to AfterStep!
>
> Yes, with a SCSI card that is supported in Linux.
>
> I just got a UMAX Astra 2100S myself, and have read about linux support
> for it at:
> http://www.mostang.com/sane/
> http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax.html
> http://www.wolfsburg.de/~rauch/sane/sane-umax-doc.html
>
> The card UMAX ships doesn't seem to have avaliable drivers for Linux,
> but if you run the scanner with a supported SCSI card, it will work.
>
> I am looking to get a scsi card for my scanner now, so if you have any
> recomendations, please read my post titled "SCSI Cheap/Supported?" in
> this newsgroup, and respond ;-)
>
> --
> "Robert W. Current" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - email
> http://www.current.nu - personal web site
> "Hey mister, turn it on, turn it up, and turn me loose." - Dwight Yoakam
--
Glenn Trigg - Computer Generation Incorporated
4th Floor, 564 St Kilda Road, Melbourne, Australia 3004
Tel: +61 3 9521 7431 Fax: +61 3 9521 7136
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "SeRPaNT~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turtle Beach Montego A3DXStream
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 15:51:49 +1100
Does ne1 hav the driver or knows the problem with the Turtlebeach card??
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From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External Modem Question********
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 20:30:14 -0500
Dear Dae and all linux-compatible-modem-wannabe-buyers:)
Check out the following page by Charles Clark. It contains some great
information on which modems are 'losemodems' and which ones are linux
friendly...
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Dae wrote:
>
> I can't remember where I may have read this, but from what I remember
> there were some external modems that did not work on Linuex. These
> modems ran on sometype of Rockwell Chipset.
>
> I guess what I'm wondering is is it true, or will any external modem
> work with Linux?
>
> If it is true, does anyone know if this modem (NewCom 56K/V.90 Dual Mode
> External Modem w/Spkrphn) will work with Linux?
>
> The Modem is on sale for $60 at Egghead.
>
>http://www.egghead.com/store/ent/eggs_prod.browse?sect_id=COM_2_171&prod_id=0000057245&sesid=^bpi!S3040278^cen!Y^
>
> I think the actual modem model # is 56kefxA.
> http://newcominc.com/products/modems/56kefxr.html
>
> BTW, can you use a External modem on a Wintel or a MAC by just changing
> the cable?
>
> TIA - Dae/MD
> Phat Fish Website
> http://www.attach.net/users/webster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel NewKirk)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need help with Redhat 5.2 hardware compatibility?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 05:03:36 GMT
> 1.)Because this modem has no jumpers it requires special
> software to run.
I> 've yet to see a jumperless internal modem working under
> linux.
> My advice is to ditch it and get a different modem.
Why? Is it a lack of fixed IRQ and such? if so, some BIOS support asignments prior
to boot. I ask because I am in the same boat, with a Lucent Tech PCI V.90 that I don't
know (yet) how to configure. I also have an external
Hayes on COM1, so lack of ability to configure doesn't mean it can't be done to me...
;^)
j
Joel NewKirk
POV-Team Amiga - http://www.amigaworld.com/support/povamige
personal home page - http://users.snip.net/~newkirk
KOSH - http://www.kosh.net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 19:10:35 -0800
On 30 Dec 1998 03:16:30 -0800, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael David Jones) writes:
>
>> This is where the Linux crowd needs to get a good stiff double shot of
>> the real world. People buy winmodems. They buy them because they're
>> cheap, and because they're good enough for most people's needs. If you
>> want those people to consider Linux, you need to make it work with the
>> hardware they have.
>
>Unfortunately, regardless of whether we would like to support them,
>the information required to do so is simply unavailable to us. Maybe
>the best spin we can put on it is that we didn't want 'em anyway.
While a software modem makes some sense in an Atari Falcon
that has a perfectly usable DSP likely sitting idle, it
makes considerably less sense in a market dominated by an
OS that doesn't manage concurrency well on hardware that
is barely more than a CPU and a bus.
--
Herding Humans ~ Herding Cats
Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,comp.protocols.ppp
Subject: Anyone use bellatlantic & Linux?
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:11:19 -0500
Hi everybody-
I'm one of the poor huddled masses try to successfully connect to my ISP
with a Linux PPP. I've tried minicom, wvdial, editing my scripts,
yadda,yadda,yadda. My ISP can't give me any detailed information on the
connection. I've read all of the HOWTO's, had help from many (thanks)
across the newsgroups, but I still can't connect. Is there anyone who
has been able to connect to BELLATLANTIC.NET via LINUX?
I'm not giving up yet, but I'm getting frustrated.
Help! - from the dregs...
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From: Shaun See <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Matrox G200, Xfree 3.3.3 Partial Solution, Need Help...
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 22:15:23 -0700
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Hi all...
Yes this is another posting for the Matrox G200 and Linux, in this case,
RH
5.2. I have the card mostly working thanks in great part to many peoples
kind
postings on this and other newgroups.
I apologize for the length of this posting as I am going to include a
fairly
detailed description of the steps I went through and follow that up with
some
questions at the end.
When I started researching the G200 and RH 5.2 Linux it seemed I had to
make a choice
to proceed with one of 4 directions:
1) Download the Suse server for the G200 from www.suse.com
2) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3 from www.xfree86.org
3) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3-1 using RH rpm's from
ftp://updates.redhat.com
4) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3-6 using RH rpm's from
ftp://developer.redhat.com
When I checked the Suse site, all I could find was a reference that
Xfree
3.3.3 was now out and a pointer to a site with the Suse RPMs to upgrade.
Upgrading X myself from Xfree directly seemed somewhat daunting so I
opted to
pull down the RH compliant RPM's and use those. I chose 3.3.3-6 from
developer.redhat.com because the readme's talked about a lot of fixes
since
3.3.3-1 which was all that was available from updates.redhat.com
Unfortunately, I was unable to find any directions on how to proceed
This is
what I did:
Downloaded files from ftp://developer.redhat.com/pub/rhcn/RPMS/i386/
190723 Dec 29 12:18 XFree86-rhcn-XF86Setup-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
313882 Dec 29 12:33 XFree86-rhcn-cyrillic-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
705995 Dec 29 12:38 XFree86-rhcn-VGA16-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
1095142 Dec 29 12:45 XFree86-rhcn-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
1196419 Dec 29 12:55 XFree86-rhcn-SVGA-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
1268608 Dec 29 12:56 XFree86-rhcn-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
1110212 Dec 29 13:00 XFree86-rhcn-libs-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
2164925 Dec 29 13:13 XFree86-rhcn-devel-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
8426568 Dec 29 13:45 XFree86-rhcn-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
958296 Dec 29 15:21 XFree86-rhcn-server-common-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
I then forced their install using rpm -i --nodeps --force *.rpm This
may have
been a mistake, but being new to linux and rpm, I could not figure out a
better solution.
I then ran xf86config and setup my card and monitor, G200 was a valid
choice.
I can now run X in 8, 16, 24 and 32 depth using the -- -bpp x (where
x=8, 16
etc) or by including the DefaultColorDepth x line in the screen section
of the
/etc/X11/XF86Config file.
Having said all of that... Here are my questions.
1) The Xconfigurator utility now core dumps on me. Has anyone else seen
this
aberrent behaviour and managed to resolve it? xf86config works just
fine?
2) I notice that in 24 and 32 bit depths my colors are a bit off? For
example
the icons in netscape are an awfull sort of grey? Again, has anyone
else
noticed this? I have 8MB of ram on my G200, do I need to upgrade to
16MB or
higher?
3) Now when I do a rpm -qa | grep -i xfree, I see both the 3.3.2
packages and
the 3.3.3 packages? Can I safely remove the 3.3.2 packages or do I need
to
uninstall everything for Xfree and install just the 3.3.3 stuff?
4) I notice in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file created for me there are
references to an Accelerated Server? Does anyone know what this is? Is
it
worth looking into? Does the G200 support it?
5) When I installed RH52 it prompted me about whether I want to include
Xvfb
as a new method of controlling the keyboard under X (rather than
Xmodmap)? I
don't profess to know much about this topic, but I do notice that the
package
for Xvfb is still 3.3.2 as there wasn't a 3.3.3-6 package on
developer.redhat.com? I did see a 3.3.3-1 Xvbf package on
updates.redhat.com?
Should I upgrade to the 3.3.3-1 version?
Once again I thank everyone for their postings and their help and beg
forgiveness for the length of this message.
Shaun
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- Shaun R. See # Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule
# and both commonly succeed, and are right. HL Mencken
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Hi all...
<p>Yes this is another posting for the Matrox G200 and Linux, in this case,
RH
<br>5.2. I have the card mostly working thanks in great part to many peoples
kind
<br>postings on this and other newgroups.
<p>I apologize for the length of this posting as I am going to include
a fairly
<br>detailed description of the steps I went through and follow that up
with some
<br>questions at the end.
<p>When I started researching the G200 and RH 5.2 Linux it seemed I had
to make a choice
<br>to proceed with one of 4 directions:
<p>1) Download the Suse server for the G200 from www.suse.com
<br>2) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3 from www.xfree86.org
<br>3) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3-1 using RH rpm's from <A
HREF="ftp://updates.redhat.com">ftp://updates.redhat.com</A>
<br>4) Upgrade Xfree86 to 3.3.3-6 using RH rpm's from <A
HREF="ftp://developer.redhat.com">ftp://developer.redhat.com</A>
<p>When I checked the Suse site, all I could find was a reference that
Xfree
<br>3.3.3 was now out and a pointer to a site with the Suse RPMs to upgrade.
<br>Upgrading X myself from Xfree directly seemed somewhat daunting so
I opted to
<br>pull down the RH compliant RPM's and use those. I chose 3.3.3-6
from
<br>developer.redhat.com because the readme's talked about a lot of fixes
since
<br>3.3.3-1 which was all that was available from updates.redhat.com
<p>Unfortunately, I was unable to find any directions on how to proceed
This is
<br>what I did:
<p>Downloaded files from <A
HREF="ftp://developer.redhat.com/pub/rhcn/RPMS/i386/">ftp://developer.redhat.com/pub/rhcn/RPMS/i386/</A>
<br> 190723 Dec 29 12:18
XFree86-rhcn-XF86Setup-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 313882 Dec 29 12:33
XFree86-rhcn-cyrillic-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 705995 Dec 29 12:38 XFree86-rhcn-VGA16-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 1095142 Dec 29 12:45 XFree86-rhcn-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 1196419 Dec 29 12:55 XFree86-rhcn-SVGA-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 1268608 Dec 29 12:56 XFree86-rhcn-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 1110212 Dec 29 13:00 XFree86-rhcn-libs-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 2164925 Dec 29 13:13 XFree86-rhcn-devel-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 8426568 Dec 29 13:45 XFree86-rhcn-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<br> 958296 Dec 29 15:21
XFree86-rhcn-server-common-3.3.3-6.i386.rpm
<p>I then forced their install using rpm -i --nodeps --force *.rpm
This may have
<br>been a mistake, but being new to linux and rpm, I could not figure
out a
<br>better solution.
<p>I then ran xf86config and setup my card and monitor, G200 was a valid
choice.
<br>I can now run X in 8, 16, 24 and 32 depth using the -- -bpp x (where
x=8, 16
<br>etc) or by including the DefaultColorDepth x line in the screen section
of the
<br>/etc/X11/XF86Config file.
<p>Having said all of that... Here are my questions.
<p>1) The Xconfigurator utility now core dumps on me. Has anyone
else seen this
<br>aberrent behaviour and managed to resolve it? xf86config works
just fine?
<p>2) I notice that in 24 and 32 bit depths my colors are a bit off?
For example
<br>the icons in netscape are an awfull sort of grey? Again, has
anyone else
<br>noticed this? I have 8MB of ram on my G200, do I need to upgrade
to 16MB or
<br>higher?
<p>3) Now when I do a rpm -qa | grep -i xfree, I see both the 3.3.2 packages
and
<br>the 3.3.3 packages? Can I safely remove the 3.3.2 packages or
do I need to
<br>uninstall everything for Xfree and install just the 3.3.3 stuff?
<p>4) I notice in the /etc/X11/XF86Config file created for me there are
<br>references to an Accelerated Server? Does anyone know what this
is? Is it
<br>worth looking into? Does the G200 support it?
<p>5) When I installed RH52 it prompted me about whether I want to include
Xvfb
<br>as a new method of controlling the keyboard under X (rather than Xmodmap)?
I
<br>don't profess to know much about this topic, but I do notice that the
package
<br>for Xvfb is still 3.3.2 as there wasn't a 3.3.3-6 package on
<br>developer.redhat.com? I did see a 3.3.3-1 Xvbf package on updates.redhat.com?
<br> Should I upgrade to the 3.3.3-1 version?
<p>Once again I thank everyone for their postings and their help and beg
<br>forgiveness for the length of this message.
<p>Shaun
<pre>--
- Shaun R. See # Under democracy
one party always devotes its chief energies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] # to trying to prove that the other party is
unfit to rule
# and both commonly succeed, and are right. HL Mencken</pre>
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From: "Mike Treadwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help! SCSI problem. Install can't handle Adaptec AIC 7770!
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 00:23:35 -0500
I am trying to install Redhat 5.2 on an older HP Netserver P75. It has SCSI
built in that uses an Adaptec AIC 7770. The correct SCSI choice seems to be
the 2940 driver. During autoprobe, Redhat dies with a Kernel Panic message.
Tried Slakware and it halts after complaining of "Waiting List
Inconsistency; SCB Index=0; NumSCBS=0".
Anyone have an idea of how to fix this? I tried the suggestions in the
SCSI-HowTo FAQ and the SCSI Programming FAQ.
Thanks.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ross Boylan)
Subject: Creative Labs/Soundblaster hardware identification
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 21:27:16 -0800
1) The FAQ indicate Ensoniq Soundscape is a supported card. It is not
listed with the Creative Labs hardware. There is a Creative Labs card
called "Ensoniq". Is that the same card? Did creative by the
company? Or is Creative's Ensoniq not supported?
2) I currently have a Creative Labs Vibra 16 (model CT2260, an OEM
version of CT2230). It came with a Dell. Does that work as a SB16,
or anything else, under Linux?
I'm about to get a new system for Linux, and am trying to figure what
soundcard to get/scavenge. Thanks.
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