Linux-Hardware Digest #109, Volume #9 Tue, 5 Jan 99 04:13:34 EST
Contents:
Riva TNT - Viper 550 (Felipe Gustavo de Almeida)
Re: Minimalist Instalation? No CDROM.... ("Baumans")
ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD ("Dave M. Belk")
Svga Brand new Monitor 22627 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
video capture (Dale)
Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1 (Dale Weber)
Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need advice on what network cards to buy (David Fox)
Re: Swap file size with large amounts of RAM ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Newbie Modem Dial-up Problem ("Robert J. Hansen")
Re: i740 video card 8mb agp in 256 colours? (Brian Riley)
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (jisong)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Graham Murray)
Re: ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD ("Gary J Sanderson")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have (Michel Catudal)
Re: Create Bootable disk with LS-120 drive? (Paul E Larson)
Re: ZIP Drive mount (Hashi)
Re: Gettyin uugetty to work to allow dialin ("news")
Re: Sound Blaster Live (Keith Hudson)
LaserPrinter suggestions, please (Norbert Goebel)
Xwave 192 PCI Soundcard (Richard Griswold)
Re: Logitech mouse --- middle button broken (Dr. Joel M. Hoffman)
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From: Felipe Gustavo de Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Riva TNT - Viper 550
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 23:03:40 -0200
I'm planning to buy a new system, it'll include a Viper 550 if:
- XFree support Viper550 AGP version
- XFree DON'T abort RivaTNT driver
- XFree is stable enough...
anybody have any info?
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From: "Baumans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Minimalist Instalation? No CDROM....
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 02:14:06 GMT
Douglas E Harmon wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello all....
>
> If anyone can inform me of a URL I saw once on this group
>that related to a minimal install of Linux??? I have an old IBM ps2
>laptop with a 84mb drive and 2mb of ram.. I can get my boot disk from my
>main system to load. It detects the h-drive,ports, and mouse. The only
>problem it locks up loading the ramdisk. I believe it would be possible
>to install Linux after seeing this.
>
> Is this possible??? Or should I just use it as a door
>stop??? Comments and help appreciated......
I believe in the slackware dir there is a rootdisks/lowmem.txt file that
is just what you need to read.
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Dave M. Belk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 01:24:41 -0600
Does anyone have linux working with the ASUS P2B-S motherboard, which
has the onboard Adaptec SCSI controller?
Is there any chance that I'll get linux to treat my DVD like an
IDE CDROM?
When I used the recent updated boot disk from Red Hat 5.2, it did not
recognize my DVD, and it did not find my SCSI controller.
Hope someone can give me good news on this.
Thanks,
Dave Belk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Svga Brand new Monitor 22627
Date: Monday, 04 Jan 1999 20:50:35 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello I have some 36bit 600x1200 scanners that i want to sell. Along with vidoe cards
netwoking few other things
you can see the list of things i have at
http://members.xoom.com/RajLamba/comp.htm
copy and paste the address.
You are welcome to make an offer to me on any of those prices I will try my best to do
whatever i can for you
Thank you.
Raj
?-c
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From: Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video capture
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 17:00:06 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have any recommendations on video capture cards or
graphics cards with video capture capability? Ideally I'd like to
do simple video editing of home movies &c. Is the video capture
capability of the All-in-wonder card supported? Is it any good?
How about Matrox Marvel?
Any input is welcome.
Feel free to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED], with the
x's removed.
Thanks!
Dale
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From: Dale Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3c905B running DHCP in Red Hat 5.1
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 1999 18:46:03 -0800
Greetings,
My problems with the 3C905B seem to have been fixed with the 2.0.36
kernel. The updated driver must have found its way into the new kernel
source. :) :)
"Edgar J. Zaragoza" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to bring my 3com 3c905B ethernet card up to run
> with DHCP in Red Hat 5.1. However, in /var/log/messages, I
> am seeing an entry by the dhcp client daemon saying "no
> DHCPOFFER messages".
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printers for OS/2 and Linux
Date: 04 Jan 1999 18:53:34 PST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well now, I thought of this. But color _is_ important to me
as well as reasonably good photo quality. You just can't get
that with an older printer.
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> That is the short list. The final cut will depend heavily on what
>> Linux support is available.
>
>For the love of Adobe, just get a printer that's PostScript compatible.
>It works so much more beautifully. Pricing is right for older printers
>(which will work fine). If you need color, you might be out of luck at
>the low end cost, but you just can't beat just shoving raw PS to a
>printer instead of tranforming it w/ gs.
>
>
>
>--
>J. S. Jensen
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.paramin.com
>
>
--
Just my $0.02 worth.
Hope this helps,
Gordon
PS:
To reply: replace 'X.bleeb' with 'greeder'.
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need advice on what network cards to buy
Date: 04 Jan 1999 22:54:30 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mars) writes:
> I will be buying another computer and want to network my existing one.
> The new box will mainly be running linux (debian 2.0 kernel 2.0.36)
> and the old box will be running win95.
>
> I want to use thinnet network (10base2) because I don't want to buy a
> hub for a 10baseT network.
>
> I will be using the linux box as a gateway/router/proxy for a modem
> connection to my ISP (via ip masqarading (sp?)) and in a not so
> distant future i'll be getting (hopefully) a cable modem connection
> with rogers@home.
>
> Having said that what is a good, cheap or mid priced NIC card that I
> could use with linux with this set up. Should I go with 3com cards
> (just for the brand name?) or some generic cheapo one.
I like Kingston cards.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap file size with large amounts of RAM
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 00:33:06 -0600
>Hi there. Just wandering what a sensible swap file size should be for me.
>I have 192MB of RAM and currently a 30MB swap file. I don't do any really
>intensive work in Linux, so I can't see the swap file ever being needed
>really. Would it be a sensible move to get rid of it, most guides say to
>double RAM to get swap file size, which would be ridiculous for me ....
>
>Under NT I have a 203MB page file, which I don't really need all of, but
>it's what it's happiest with and I DO run very intensive apps under
Windows.
>Any recommendations for the Linux side of things ??
The general rule of thumb (that I often use) is:
if ( mem < 32M ) then SWP >= ( mem * 2 ) or SWP <= ( mem * 3 )
if ( mem >= 64M ) or ( mem <= 96M ) then SWP = ( mem * 2 / 3 )
if ( mem > 96M ) or ( mem < 128M ) then SWP = ( mem )
if ( mem > 128M ) or ( mem <= 256M ) then SWP = ( mem * 1 / 3 )
if ( mem > 256M ) then SWP = ( 32M )
It's _always_ good to have a swap file. Linux (like many modern OSes)
manages its file cache very liberally. So just in case you have a huge load
set aside for buffers/cache - a swap file is great to offset that extra
requirement.
If you find yourself doing practically nothing with 192MB of RAM - then
don't bother with the doubling RAM to get proper swap space size. Try my
formula - if you don't like it - drop the swap file down. If you're
wondering if Linux will choke with a small swap space - it won't, unless you
eat up all your available memory.
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From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem Dial-up Problem
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 01:56:29 -0600
> >>Second: modems have a lot of very specialized hardware on them that
> >>costs a fair bit.
>
> I woudl be surprised if the CPU/firmware cost more than about 25 cents.
> Most of the modem cost is the packaging I suspect.
Doesn't explain the $40 difference between Winmodems and Real Modems
that I see at Best Buy. There's $40 of difference *somewhere* -- I
can't imagine they save $40/modem in technical support costs.
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Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 02:27:13 -0500
From: Brian Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: i740 video card 8mb agp in 256 colours?
Have you added DefaultColorDepth to your XF86Config file? That worked
for me. I have a Starfighter i740 card.
Fx Fraipont wrote:
>
> I have a 8mb A-Trend agp video card; after installing linux, I could
> only get it to work in vga 16.
> Then I installed the XBF_i740 server succesfully, and it now works, but
> I still can only get a 8bit display (256c in 1024x728). I have tried
> just about everything. Any ideas?
> Thanks
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From: jisong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:09:04 GMT
hi,
thanks for your input... i just went to
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/XFree86/3.3.3/binaries/ and it seems like alot to download
for modem connection so i got the patch 3.3.2==>3.3.3, would that work (i'm
running redhat 5.2)? if it does, how do i install it? do i just replace a
current dir with the new one? thanks again for your help =8]
David Fox wrote:
> "diener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I don't believe the G200 is supported under redhat except as vga16; You'll
> > need a 3rd party driver from Xi or Scitech or SUSE's release of X86_Com
> > 3.3.3 (which is a bear to compile if you're not a linux expert--I'm not, so
> > I use the SciTech beta which works okay--not great, but okay.) Go to Matrox
> > site (www.matrox.com) then drivers, then 3rd party drivers for info.
>
> Not correct. Get XFree86-3.3.3 binaries from redhat update site.
> --
> David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
> UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Graham Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: 29 Dec 1998 18:01:01 +0000
In comp.os.linux.advocacy, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Thompson) writes:
> I think this will be the real test. As Microsoft trys to move
> people to WinNT v5/Win2000/Whatever will they further compromise
> NT by allowing direct hardware access for devices like Winmodems
> or will they leave this part of NT alone and force the hardware
> manufacturers to continue to provide "real" modems and such...
Or will the WinModem manufacturers have to write and provide 32bit
drivers. Proper drivers, that is, not the configuration (inf) files
which MS is confusingly calling modem drivers.
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From: "Gary J Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 08:14:29 -0000
I got RedHat 5.2 to recognise the SCSI controller on my P2B-S Bios revision
1006. No problems, and yes you can use a IDE DVD ROM drive to install it
from if you can't get it to see you SCSI. That's what I had to do with 5.1
Dunno if it might be a bios thing.... but just out of completeness sake my
HD is ID0 and my CDROM is ID3.
Hope this sheds some light....... Gary.
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From: Michel Catudal <[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
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 03:28:17 +0000
THE DUNGEONS OF DOOOOOOOOOOM wrote:
>
> 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 !!!
The only logical solution is to repartition your 7.5G hard drive.
Toss that old shit and buy partition magic. You'll find it to
be the best buy you will have done in years. If you could afford
to buy a 7.5G I'm sure you can afford the $50 or so for partition
magic and $1.99 for RedHAT 5.2.
--
Tann� du plantage avec Ti-Mou?
Alors essayez donc Linux ou OS/2
http://www.netonecom.net/~bbcat/
We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson)
Subject: Re: Create Bootable disk with LS-120 drive?
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:16:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave DeGear) wrote:
>I just installed RedHat 5.2 yesterday and tried to create a bootable disk
>during the installation. My only 3.5" disk drive is a LS-120 by Imation
Same problem, as far as I can figure, the problem is with the way the program
that creates the boot disk looks for the floppy drive. Normally the floppy is
/dev/fd0 but with a LS-120 Atapi drive the floppy is actually /dev/hd(b,c,d..)
depending on where you have it installed. I would guess, I haven't checked to
closely, that the bootdisk creation program sends the format command to
/dev/fd0 and since there is none it errors out.
>and it wouldn't create the diskette. Is there a way to create a bootable
>diskette using this drive? Please be very explicit in your instructions
>because this is only Day 2 for me running Linux. :-)
>
One way would be to
1 - create a bootable DOS floppy
2 - mount the floppy under Linux
a - mkdir /mnt/floppy - may exist
b - mount -t fat /dev/hd(b,c,d) /mnt/floppy - (b,c,d) use only 1
depending on where you LS-120 is located(shows during boot)
3 - cp /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36(something else here) /mnt/floppy
4 - put the RH5.2 disk in the cdrom drive
5 - cp /mnt/cdrom/Dosutils/loadlin.exe /mnt/floppy/loadlin.exe
6 - In DOS/Windows setup a *.bat file with a line like this
c:\LOADLIN\LOADLIN.EXE c:\loadlin\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
substitute your Linux partition for the one I have in here. To find it, if you
don't know, run fdisk and do a <p> then find the Linux partition.
This only one idea. There are probably better ones around.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:01:53 +0000
From: Hashi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ZIP Drive mount
hi,
re:
---
> I have a beginner question.
> How do you mount an Internal ZIP drive?
---
provided you've installed everything correctly (i.e. connected it up
and your kernel has been compiled appropriately) it's merely a matter
of mounting one of the /dev/hd? (with knowing more about your hard
disk config etc i can't tell you what letter ? will take) into a
directory.
the normal place to mount such devices is in /mnt/ directory,
preferable in a meaningful sub directory (e.g. /mnt/zipdrive) that way
you can also mount other devices into other meaningful subdirectories
in /mnt/.
to mount a device (make sure you have a pre existing sub directory):
mount /dev/hd? /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat
hope this is of some help,
Hashi.
ps.
* i no longer own a zip drive, i was converted to the way of the
parallel port LS120, so i'm not the best person to ask further
questions to.
* a very good source of information for such things is:
http://www.linux-howto.com
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gettyin uugetty to work to allow dialin
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:10:11 -0500
i had more luck with mgetty
Gary Lebowitz wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Help anyone. I have Bullet 33.6 modem and am having devil of a time
>trying to get my machine to accept dialins. Read Modem HOTO and followed
>instructions to a T. Modem answers but get no CONNECT XXX and cannot
>login remotely. Tried all sorts of AT tweaking and nothing helps. Can
>somone put me out of my misery?
>
>Regards,
>
>Gary Lebowitz
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Hudson)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live
Date: 5 Jan 1999 00:25:06 -0600
Reply-To: *
On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 01:36:07 GMT, Joe Tham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The OSS drivers should have Live! support soon....
>
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Is there any way to get a sb live to work under RH 5.2?
Yes there is... think dos emulation.....
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From: Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LaserPrinter suggestions, please
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:35:05 +0100
I am planning to buy a new LaserPrinter for homeuse.
What I need is a laserprinter working with Linux and Windows (sorry, I
have to use it for a few things) with good grayscail printing and good
overall printing. Postscript (if I am right, every postscript printer
works with Linux?) would be nice but is not a must.
My limit is somewhere at $700.
I searched a while and found some printers which sound interesting:
- Kyocera FS-800
- Brother HL-1070
- Brother HL-1050
Any opinions on these printers (ease of use, overall printing costs,
failures, limitations) or other printer suggestions are very welcome.
Thanks in advance,
Norbert
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From: Richard Griswold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xwave 192 PCI Soundcard
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:58:47 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm thinking about buying a PCI soundcard. I found an Xwave 192 with a
Yamaha S-YXG50 chip for a good price. Will this card work under Linux
(RedHat 5.1)? If not, what would be a good PCI soundcard that doesn't
cost much?
Thanks.
--
Richard Griswold - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse --- middle button broken
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr. Joel M. Hoffman)
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 01:50:15 GMT
>> My old Dexxa serial mouse finally died, and so I bought a new (serial)
>> Logitech mouse to replace it. I bought the Logitech FirstMouse+.
>> Under X, I can move the cursor, and buttons 1 and 3 work, but the
>> middle button is dead. Any ideas why?
>>
>> In my XF86Config I still have the mouse listed as "microsoft." I
>> tried "logitech" (which is what I thought would work) but then nothing
>> worked at all.
>If the former mouse was a two button mouse it might be that you have to
>coment out
The former mouse was a three button mouse, and it worked just fine. I
thought I could just swap one three-button mouse for another. Guess I
was wrong....
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