Linux-Hardware Digest #121, Volume #9 Wed, 6 Jan 99 21:13:55 EST
Contents:
Re: video in XWindows -- Help! (Nico Kadel-Garcia)
Help ... Sun Microsystems monitors, can they be used with PCs? ("Luis Ochoa")
Re: euro support in kernel 2.0 (Mike Werner)
Accel videocard (Kamil Toman)
Re: Help ... Sun Microsystems monitors, can they be used with PCs? ("John Nuttall")
Xserver Banshee (waco)
Re: Internal K56Flex/V.90 internal modems (Yan Seiner)
Re: Intermittently SLOW 486 Machines ("Martin Doehring")
maxiSound home studio pro 64 ("Tony Perring")
SoundBlaster PCI64 Setup in RH 5.2 ("The Nikora Foundation")
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (BL)
Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem (Dan Anderson)
Re: ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD ("Dave M. Belk")
Re: Logitech mouse --- middle button broken (Dale Pontius)
Re: Ether16 LAN Card and Ethernet 5-Port Workgroup Hub ("Alan D. Wilcox")
PLEASE STOP POSTING REPLIES TO ALL MY POSTS !!! (DG)
Re: Slackware 3.6 can't mount My CDROM! (Harry McGregor)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have ("George J.
Potvin")
Re: netcomm Inmodem 33.6 (Rob Clark)
Re: euro support in kernel 2.0 (Rob van der Putten)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (Phillip Deackes)
Re: Linux drivers for IOMEGA zip drive (Stephen Richard FREELAND)
Is the i740 slow? (Rod Roark)
Re: flat panel monitors (RonaldKriemann)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nico Kadel-Garcia)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: video in XWindows -- Help!
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 22:53:30 GMT
On Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:52:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I installed Linux and everything went okay. I'm using LILO to dual boot to
>Win98 and that works fine too. I'm having trouble with XWindows though. I
>can't seem to configure the video card correctly. After playing with
>configyrations using xf86config, i got something. The resolution is huge, a
>small menu takes up the entire screen. Also the mouse doesn't work. I have
>a Microsoft mouse with the roller in the middle. I tried Microsoft
>compatible and generic PS/2, neither worked but one let me use the arrow
>keys to control the cursor. Anyway, the video problem. This is what I get
>when XWindows simply won't load.
>I'm not sure how to answer the monitor questions it asks me. I there a way
>to find out that stuff in Win98? I just make my best guess.
Don't worry that for now: just pick "generic multisync" and leave it
alone.
>My video card is an AGP Starfighter w 8mb of video RAM. This is on a
Here is your problem. The Starfighter is an i740 based card. It can
work in SVGA mode, but the defaults then selected by the X configuration
tools really, really suck. And programming the XF86Config file by
hand is not for the faint of heart, although the various X configuration
seem to almost mandate that you use it.
Hop on over to to ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/XBF/, which has the RedHat
development drivers mirrored. Grab the libc6 RPM for your system,
install them, grab the xf86config tarball, install that. While you're
there, also grab the Xconfigurator from
ftp://rufus.w3.org/linux/redhat/redhat-5.2.
Then pull this bit of deceitfulness, to confuse the Xconfigurator into
using appropriate options for the card:
Make sure that you *delete* the XFree86 SVGA drivers (rpm -e
XFree86-SVGA). Make a symbolic link from the X drivers for the 740
(something like /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86-XBF-i740) to the location of the
SVGA driver, /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86-SVGA. Then run Xconfigurator and
select the SVGA driver. Do not use the "probe" option, tell it that
you have 8 Meg of RAM, etc. etc. This should give you some reasonable
options for screen resolution and color depth.
You may need to make minor editing changes in /etc/X11/XF86Config after
this, but it should be basically OK.
------------------------------
From: "Luis Ochoa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help ... Sun Microsystems monitors, can they be used with PCs?
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 17:38:54 -0500
To anyone which can help ... thanks ahead of time.
Is there a way to use Sun monitors with PCs?
My group here at NIH is moving from Sun systems to PCs running NT and Linux,
I thought that the 21" monitors might be used on the new PC systems.
Maybe a special adapter is need for the PCs?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: euro support in kernel 2.0
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 17:55:58 -0500
ftp://ftp.freshmeat.net/pub/euro-patch/
It exists. Contains replacement keymaps, fonts for both console and
X11, and some docs. 66kb download, so it's even small.
--
Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"
ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
AIM Screen Name Reznaeous |
'91 GS500E |
Morgantown WV |
=====BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK=====
Version: 3.1
GU d-@ s:+ a- C++>$ UL++ P+ L+++ E W++ N++ !o w--- O- !M V-- PS+ PE+
Y+ R+ !tv b+++(++++) DI+ D--- G e*>++ h! r++ y++++
======END GEEK CODE BLOCK======
------------------------------
From: Kamil Toman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accel videocard
Date: 6 Jan 1999 10:20:45 GMT
I'm about to buy a new monitor and I'll probably have to change my old Trio64
1meg videocard. I'd like to have st. working fine and _accelerated_ with X and
(if possible) in SVGAlib programs (and maybe SVGATextMode). The videocard
should be about 4+ MB. What do you suggest? PCI or AGP? Whatever well
supported (the cheaper the better).
Thanx.
Kamil Toman
------------------------------
From: "John Nuttall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help ... Sun Microsystems monitors, can they be used with PCs?
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 23:19:36 -0000
Hi
as far as i know as long as it's a multi synced monitor it should be
ok - i currently use a 21" SGI based monitor on my PC
try asking this question on comp.os.sun.hardware
cheers john
Luis Ochoa wrote in message <770osk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>To anyone which can help ... thanks ahead of time.
>
>Is there a way to use Sun monitors with PCs?
>My group here at NIH is moving from Sun systems to PCs running NT and
Linux,
>I thought that the 21" monitors might be used on the new PC systems.
>Maybe a special adapter is need for the PCs?
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: waco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xserver Banshee
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 05:39:38 -0500
Is there a 3dFX Banshee Xserver out there yet.....
VGA16 is messing all of kilter on my moniter.....
S,
------------------------------
From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal K56Flex/V.90 internal modems
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:11:21 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a US Robotics V.90 and a hayes Accura (both are external). The
USR modem consistently connects much faster and is in general much more
reliable than the Accura. The USR typically connects at 50666 baud; the
Accura can barely manage mid 40K; oftern low 40K.
Both run on Linux, but as I said, both are external. You can pick up a
serial card for a few bucks and use an external.
Yan
Clifton wrote:
>
> I am intending to install Linux into my current machine and need to find and
> internal 56K modem that will function under NT and Linux during the dualboot
> transition phase. I don't have any available physical serial ports for an
> external modem so internal is a must. Since we can start from scratch, I'd
> appreciate any input towards making a good choice.
>
> I have read that the Hayes ACCURA 56K is compatible with Linux and a good
> choice.
>
> Can anyone recommend an internal modem that supports K56Flex and V.90 which
> will run under NT and Linux? Could you tell me the Australian model number
> of the modem you reccomend (most important).
>
> Thanks in advance,
------------------------------
From: "Martin Doehring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Intermittently SLOW 486 Machines
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 18:28:04 -0500
I had this problem with one of my 486 machines, it is an M-Tech R407
motherboard with an AMD DX4/100 installed. It would randomly switch between
acting normal and like a 10 Mhz machine, in fact, it acted just as if I
would randomly hit the turbo button (clue 1). I would run it under DOS
running the Landmark program, and could watch it speed up and slow down.
I was able to get an upgrade BIOS for the machine and with the new BIOS, it
worked fine, the only problem is that the new BIOS only saw 128K of cache,
while the older (buggy) one saw 256K! From these two things, I assume that
there is some problem with the cache which the newer BIOS sees and so
disables the buggy part while the older one just didn't see it.
note to clue one: some motherboards implemented the turbo button as
disabling the cache, the first clue that this might be a cache problem.
martin
------------------------------
From: "Tony Perring" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: maxiSound home studio pro 64
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 00:01:05 -0000
Hi!
can anyone help me out with kernel - sound and isapnp.conf settings for the
maxiSound home studio pro 64 card? Thanks in advance.
Tony.
------------------------------
From: "The Nikora Foundation" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster PCI64 Setup in RH 5.2
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:24:47 GMT
Any help on configuring a Soundblaster PCI 64 on RH 5.2. RH recognizes it
as an Esoniq PCI 64/128 but any irq or dma that I configure...no ah ah.
Under Win95, there are 2 sets of irq's and dma's. One for DOS based
applications and ones that Windows itself utilizes. I've tried both to no
avail. Has anyone done it? I know that there are alot of these cards out
there.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
------------------------------
From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36
Date: 7 Jan 1999 00:25:09 GMT
Reply-To: no.spambots.please
Byron A Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <76qd3r$2jq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, BL <no.spambots.please> wrote:
: -Larry D Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: -: I have been running a K2-350 at 400 for 2 weeks continuous without any
: -: problems (NNTP/WWW server on the internet).. I think the key is getting a
: -: solid motherboard. And it's much faster than a Pentium II or Celeron.
: -
: -I once thought so. then I did a test with 2 100mhz systems (as close as I
: -could get, with parts on hand). I have:
: -
: -k6-2/300 128meg sdram
: -p2-350 128meg sdram
: -
: -both at 100mhz bus.
: -
: -I did a 2.0.36 kernel compile with same options and the p2 system came in at
: -under 3 minutes. the k6 system came in at well over 3 minutes.
: -
: -the difference was pretty significant - but I don't have the exact numbers
: -handy. and both systems used the same kind of 7200 disk (udma).
: Did I miss something here or is the P2 really being clocked 50 Mhz faster
: than the K6-2? If so then I figure it would be no big deal that the P2 was
: faster.
: Clock both at the same speed and run the test again.
I agree that both weren't the same clock speed, but my point was that the
minor speed diff between them should not count for the very large diff in
build times.
one build was closer to 2.5minutes and the other was closer to 3.5minutes. I
forget the exact figures, but I was quite shocked at the time.
I would expect 10 seconds or so deviation (in that order of magnatude) but not
a whole minute.
--
AntiSpam: For email, change all 'zeros' to the letter 'o' .
My first name (backwards) is nayrB. No bulk/junk email, please.
WARNING: PLEASE post followups - email replies may bounce to this address...
------------------------------
From: Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 16:24:31 -0800
Reply-To: Dan Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try running
mke2fs -c -S
Then run
e2fsck
That works sometimes (not always).
For more information, see man 8 mke2fs, man mke2fs
-
Dan Anderson, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, San Diego, California, US
On Sun, 3 Jan 1999, Miikka-Markus Alhonen wrote:
> James Youngman wrote:
> > You may be able to use the "-b 8193" option to e2fsck in order to fix
> I tried that but it didn't work. e2fsck now reported this:
> e2fsck 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> e2fsck: Bad magic number in super-block while trying to open /dev/hda3
> . . .
> So, how can I find out where would there be an undamaged version of the
> superblock, or how can I build a new one without destroying all the data
> which still exists there?
> -- Miikka-Markus Alhonen <http://www.info.tampere.fi/~yphmiial/>
------------------------------
From: "Dave M. Belk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-S Motherbd, SONY DVD
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 07:01:58 -0600
Thanks, I spoke too soon about not recognizing the SCSI. If I tell the
installation program that I have a SCSI CDROM, which I don't, it does
find the SCSI controller and correctly identifies the disks on it.
I still can't get it to recognize the Sony DVD that is on the IDE
controller. I put in the "linux hda=cdrom" statement and it seems to
make no difference. Looking at the messages (Ctrl-Alt-F3 or F4) it
finds an ATAPI device type 17 on hda, which it says is unrecognized.
Any ideas on this.
Davy
Gary J Sanderson wrote:
>
> 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.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Logitech mouse --- middle button broken
Date: 6 Jan 1999 13:26:20 GMT
In article <76ubod$6g9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I have a Logitech FirstMouse (no +, sorry) and here is my XF86Config Pointers
> section entry:
>
I sent the guy my "pointer" section last night from home. But for
completeness, here it is:
******************************************************************
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Auto"
Device "/dev/mouse"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
******************************************************************
This worked last night, and the wheel scrolls Netscape, etc. Of
course there was .Xdefaults stuff done for that.
Dale Pontius
------------------------------
From: "Alan D. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ether16 LAN Card and Ethernet 5-Port Workgroup Hub
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:31:05 -0500
Mike,
I assume you're referring to Linksys Ether16 ...
Here's *part* of the solution: I called the company and fussed: they
said to turn off the plug-n-play (I didn't think it'd go on, but it
does).
Do this:
Boot DOS. On the Utility disk, run the setup program. Select the
adr/irq you want. I used 0x300 and irq 10. Now it's not PnP anymore.
They said use the NE2000 driver with Linux. They said their board runs
Linux, but they didn't provide the driver. Thanks, Linksys! 'ne.o' is
the NE2000 driver in the RedHat 5.2 package, so that's what I used.
*NOW I NEED HELP* --- ne.o gets errors when I try loading it up.
Typical messages about 'unresolved symbol ei_open' etc. Looks like
it's not compiled right or something. How can I rebuild it or get
a new copy? (The board itself works fine under Win-NT4.)
What to do?
Alan ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Mike Zizek wrote:
>
snip
>
> I have a P100 and installed a Either16 Lan Card to connect to Ethernet
> 5-Port Workgroup Hub. I have installed the card, connected it to the HUB
> (get green lights) 10BaseT port. However, when I try to configure the PC for
> LAN connection, it cannot find the card. I have tried automatic
> configuration, manual configuration with all the suggested I/O (280,300,320
> and 3240), IRQ (3,5,310,11) and everything that I can think of including
> NE2000 Compatible setting. Still no luck.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions I would greatly appreciated it. Thanking you
> in advance.
>
> Mike Z.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DG)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PLEASE STOP POSTING REPLIES TO ALL MY POSTS !!!
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:25:26 GMT
I won't reply to any of your posts under "Want to do direct ..." or
"please help...", or any of my other posts if you all will stop
replying first. Terminating my account will not stop me since I like
any other human being can always change ISPs.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry McGregor)
Subject: Re: Slackware 3.6 can't mount My CDROM!
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:29:06 GMT
Try doing just a mount /dev/hdc /cdrom (let it try to auto detect the
CD).
Harry
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 10:32:27 +0800, "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>When I enter the command : " mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom "
>The Slackware 3.6 show us: "the kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a
>block device
> (maybe 'insmod driver'?)
>How I can solve this problem ?
>Thanks
>Wayne
>
>
------------------------------
From: "George J. Potvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:28:10 GMT
Guys, how about we drop this thread and quit wasting the bandwidth in four different
NG's? Ok? Use e-mail if you must but their are a lot of people that have dialups that
charge for connect time. You're costing them money and this has gotten terrribly
off-topic.
George J. Potvin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Fuzzball wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > In article <76scch$egk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > In article <368e843f.9078609@news>,
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DG) wrote:
> > > > AH SHUT YOUR FARTFACE UP !!! YOU AIN'T GOT NO RIGHT TO TELL ME HOW TO
> > > > GROW UP SO STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE, POOPKNOCKER !!!
> > >
> > > Doesn't you mom need to use her computer back yet? She is really gonna be
> > > mad when she finds out all the time you have wasted, crying like a baby
> > > because your too stupid to figure out an FTP install. I know exactly how to
> > > do it, for any recent red hat version. I sure as hell am not gonna help
> > you
> > > out though, moron. You should just quit, after all it didn't work easy the
> > > first time, why bother trying again. I think this philosophy will go very
> > > far with you in life. If it's not easy just cry because you deserve a free
> > > ride.
> > >
> > > Sure I can help.
> > > Whats Your Username?
> > >
> >
> > He doesn't have a mom. She dumped him at birth. You see it in nature, the
> > mother abandons its child and nobody knows why, until the child grows up.
> > Mothers have a sense about these kind of things early on.
> >
> > -Davester
> >
> > --
>
> Why do you fight evil with evil? This sort of thing happens all over
> usenet, while I don't agree with the original posters attitude, I don't
> believe in attacking a person, who obviously expects you to attack him
> or her. I think it is best to ignore messages like this.
------------------------------
Subject: Re: netcomm Inmodem 33.6
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 14:20:36 GMT
In article <0FFk2.20$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ochre small <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone out there have any hints on how to get this plug&pray nightmare
>working with linux?
>I am running RH5.2 on a P166 dualboot with win95 until I can get the modem
>and then PPP working under linux .
>Any advice appreciated.
This modem is supposed to have jumpers, according to the Netcomm website.
It would be a lot easier to disable PnP and set the jumpers for a plain
vanilla address/IRQ pair.
http://www.sirius.com.au/netcomm/support/manuals/IN3410/IN3410UG.pdf
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
------------------------------
From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: euro support in kernel 2.0
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1999 14:26:16 +0100
Hi there
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Colin Ling wrote:
> Does anyone know if there is a patch for the Euro support in kernel 2.0 and
> will it be supported in 2.2?
You should get an ISO-8859-15 patch. AFAIK it doesn't exist.
Regards,
Rob
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phillip Deackes)
Subject: Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36
Date: 1 Jan 1999 15:26:24 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phillip Deackes wrote:
>After reading the article you replied to I decided to have a go
>over-clocking my AMD K6-2 to 4 x 95 MHz. My machine recognised it as a
>AMD 266 then corrupted the screen, not allowing me to boot. I thought
>'what the hell' and tried re-instating the MB speed to 100 MHz. I
>switched on to be greeted with the usual AMD message, but this time
>showing a 400 MHz CPU and my system booted perfectly. The BogoMips
>rating is 801.18 and Linux booted perfectly. I have been using it for a
>couple of hours with no errors, and Windows NT also boots and runs
>perfectly.
>
>Naturally I will not be surprised if I experience system crashes,
>freezes etc., but so far (touch wood) everything is well. My machine
>stays on overnight so tomorrow morning will tell . . .
As an update to my own post I ought to add that the CPU in question is
an AMD K-2 350 MHz.
I have been running at 400 MHz since I posted the original message a
couple of days ago, and I have compiled the kernel five or six times
without errors.
--
Phillip Deackes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Debian Linux v.2.0
------------------------------
From: Stephen Richard FREELAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux drivers for IOMEGA zip drive
Date: 6 Jan 1999 14:33:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc J�rgen Exner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>In article <753i7a$3kd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
:> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark O Thomas) wrote:
:>>
:>> Where can I find drivers for the Zip and Jaz drives?
: You don't need any.
: It's just another drive and all drivers you need are the standard drivers
: as for any other HD.
Um, wrong.
Could be your kernel already has the right driver in there, but it
is *definitely* not your run-of-the-mill IDE hard drive code.
My own ZIP uses the ATAPI-floppy driver. Others uses SCSI drivers,
and there are even weirder setups for the parallel versions of the ZIP.
Don't know about Jaz, but I wouldn't imagine they use standard hard drive
code either. . SNF .
--
Steve 'Nephtes' Freeland | Okay, so maybe I'm a tiny itty little
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | bit of a minimalist.
------------------------------
From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the i740 slow?
Date: 1 Jan 1999 16:35:09 GMT
I'm testing an 8MB Intel740-based video card made by something called
DCS Multimedia World. With a 32 bit color depth it's really slow, as
evidenced by simply dragging a window around on the screen; just
normal-speed dragging causes the window to continue moving long after
the mouse has been released.
I'm using the driver developed by Precision Insight and Red Hat,
downloaded from ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/pi/XBF/. The
system is a P-II/350 with 128M SDRAM running Red Hat 5.2.
My question is, is the i740 in general slow, or is it just this cheapo
card? Does anyone have experience with other implementations such as
the Diamond Stealth II/G460 AGP?
Thanks for any input....
-- Rod
------------------------------
From: RonaldKriemann<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: flat panel monitors
Date: 06 Jan 1999 18:48:07 +0100
Kazin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Adam Husik wrote:
> >
> > I was in Computer City today (needed an ethernet cable immediately) and I
> > was surprised to see that there are more and more flat panel monitors out
> > for under $1,000. Does anyone have one working well with Linux and can
> > comment about the resolution/performance in X? I could really use some more
> > space on my desktop and buying a bigger desk isn't really viable :)
> > This could make for a pretty neat looking Linux system.
>
> They ought to work just like laptop displays, they have fixed
> frequencies, and usually fixed sizes. Shouldn't be hard to make work at
> all.
The question is: has the display a digital or an analog input. In the
latter case it is no problem (but the display-quality not as it could be).
But the digital TFT's (the one's, we are interested in) are not such an easy
thing because they are mostly bundled with a graphiccard and these cards
are not supported (except those with old chipsets).
But there are also some good news:
We have here a IBM T55D TFT-Display with a Matrox G200 (digital) card
working in Vesa-Framebuffer-Mode and it is absolutly perfect :) .
> Though I like the one my old boss had, a 21" NEC running at 1280x1024.
> VERY nice. $6000 though...
>
Ever looked at the new SGI TFT display (I think 1900x1200).
>
RGDS
Ronald
--
Indifference will certainly be the downfall of mankind,
but who cares ?
Ronald Kriemann Dept. of Computer Science,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Kiel, Germany
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
