Linux-Hardware Digest #329, Volume #9             Mon, 1 Feb 99 14:13:42 EST

Contents:
  Re: download 5.2 onto 3 1/2 disk (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC 
[Student])
  Re: Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, SCSI CRW4416S ("Jon M. Pearsall")
  Re: 3c905tx 10/100 Redhat 5.2 (FlyingDog)
  New NIC and video chips (Johnnie Peters)
  Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was  3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax 
modem software for use in warp4?)) ("�g�H")
  Re: two sound cards? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: OPL3-SAX  Sound oddities (Ken Power)
  Newbie Redhat 5.1 Setup Question ("Quinn")
  Re: 2.2.x PnP sound card (SB 16 / Vibra 16) (David A. Rogers)
  Recognizing the Sohoware Ethernet Network Card ("Nolan Louie")
  Setup of Dumb Terminal off Linux (David Kirkpatrick)
  Logitech Cordless Desktop: Need help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was  3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax 
modem software for use in warp4?)) (Chris Lee)
  Re: Sis5597 (RonaldKriemann)
  linux error ("Roberto")
  Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD ("J�rgen Exner")
  Soundblaster PCI128 and Redhat 5.2:  Duh! (Markus Wandel)
  Adaptec AIC-7890/60 and RedHat 5.2 boot/install solution (Stuart Nuttall)
  Please recommend a good inexpensive 56k modem for Linux (David A. Rogers)
  Headache, Panasonic KXL-808AN CDROM (Wenli Huang)
  Re: Nvidia chipset support under X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
  Re: Setup of Dumb Terminal off Linux (rc5god)
  Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals) (Bill Vermillion)

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC 
[Student])
Subject: Re: download 5.2 onto 3 1/2 disk
Date: 1 Feb 1999 13:55:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johnny) writes:
>Please don't flame. I'm a newbie with linux..I would like to put linux 5.2 on 
>a laptop that don't have a cd rom drive. Can you download redhat 5.2 on to 3 
>1/2 disk and install to a laptop????

Hiya,

yes you can d/l Linux onto floppies, I'm not sure about RedHat (haven't tried)
but I do know that both the Slakware and Debian distributions can be
downloaded onto floppy disks, so I would have thought RedHat would have also
done this.

Hope this helps.

Have Fun
Jim
--
James McBoyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

...the Goddess could not spend all Her time persuading the Kings and Queens of 
the world of the idiocy of war. Therefore She invented tacticians...
(Diane Duane, The Door into Shadow)



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From: "Jon M. Pearsall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,alt.cd-rom,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, SCSI CRW4416S
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 09:08:52 -0500

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>x-no-archive: yes
>
>Anyone have any experiences with the Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, or the Yahama
>SCSI CRW4416S?   I'm thinking of buying, so any opinions would be
>helpful.......


I just got my new 4416S last week.  I've burned about a dozen CDs so far, no
problems yet.  The 4X is great.



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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (FlyingDog)
Subject: Re: 3c905tx 10/100 Redhat 5.2
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:09:45 -0500

In article <36b0ee0d.0@oracle>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> 
> I have a 3c905TX card in one computer which doesn't like
> to be run on the 100MBPS hub.
> I have another 3c905TX card in another box wich works fine.
> 
> do I need to run something from the setup disks or what?
> 
> I thought this card auto sensed.
> 
The card can be set to autosense (the default), but it can also be set to 
work only with 10Mps or 100Mps. Run the 3c5x9cfg.exe program from the 
setup disks at a DOS box and check the card settings...

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From: Johnnie Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New NIC and video chips
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:19:20 -0700

Hi,

While trying to install RedHat 5.2 on a new machine I have ran into two
devices
that are not currently recognized.

The first is a new S3 video chip.  It reports as an S3 but the sub type
code
is a new one of 0x8904.  It installs find but the Xserver does not
recognize it.

The second is the ethernet controler the message I get is:

Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: VIA technologies unknown device (rev.6).
Vendor id=1106.  Device IO=3043
Medium devsel.  IRQ 11.  Master capable.  Latency =32 Min Gnt =118. Max
Lat
=152
I/O at OxcOOO.
Non-prefetchable 32 Bit memory at OxeOOOOOOO

I beleive I need a new driver or driver mod for the ethernet problem and
an
updated X server for the S3 chip.  I would appreciate any help I can
get.

Johnnie



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Crossposted-To: 
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc
From: "�g�H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was  3COM "support" (was: any voice 
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:39:31 GMT

In <794i0k$jvc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/01/99 
   at 03:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) said:

>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>> How would this help someone who's ISP didn't support X2?!?
>>
>>Did you shop for an ISP the same way you shop for modems? My ISP 
>>supported X2 right out of the gate.

>Why bother? I wasn't about to dump my ISP just because they choose not to 
>support X2.

Then who are you to bitch about X2 not being available? You choosed not to
find a better ISP.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: two sound cards?
Date: 31 Jan 1999 16:18:51 -0500

Tony Faradjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is it possible to have two sound cards in my PC? I want Win98 to use my TB
: Montego and Linux to use a Soundblaster. Will this work? It'd be great to
: know soon, since I'm supposed to buy the Soundblaster by tomorrow 10am...

Yes you can, provided that the TB Montego and SB will not retain it's
IRQ, base address and DMA settings upon a warm reboot.  Otherwise you
may have to configure the cards to use different addresses, IRQs, and
etc to avoid conflicts when you switch between the operating systems.

[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Power)
Subject: Re: OPL3-SAX  Sound oddities
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 14:28:06 GMT

Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:23:20 -0800, in comp.os.linux.hardware, Brian
Degenhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> managed to squeak:

    ~
    ~Cant get the sound card to work.  Well, it will play sounds that
are
    ~under a second just fine,
    ~but when I try to play any sound longer than that, it just clips
them at
    ~about a second every time.
    ~
    ~(READPORT 0x0203)
    ~(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
    ~(IDENTIFY *)
    ~
    ~# ANSI string -->OPL3-SA3 Sound<--
    ~
    ~# Logical device id YMH0021
    ~#
    ~(CONFIGURE YMH0800/-1 (LD 0
    ~
    ~
    ~ # Instead of (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220)), disable SB:
    ~ (IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))


I use the SAx, had similar problems using 2.0.3x, and with 2.2.0. When
I disable the SB support I no longer get the clipping problem. try
setting (IO 0(BASE 0x0220)) to (IO 0(BASE 0x0000)) that should disable
the SB support.  If it doesn't work...well I am sure someone else will
write with an explanation :)
================================
Ken Power
uncle_wiggly at bigfoot dot com
get that?
================================

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From: "Quinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Newbie Redhat 5.1 Setup Question
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:50:19 -0500

Newbie Redhat 5.1 Setup Question

I just read the first couple of chapters in a Que Distribution of Linux.

I have a PII400 with a 12GB HDD and a 540 MB HDD that is currently dual
booting with NT 4.0 Server and Windows 98.

The Drives are currently set up as follows:
 C: 2GB  (NT and Windows 98)
 D: 540MB Slave used for Backing up Downloaded Programs
 E: 2GB
 F: 2GB
 G: 4GB
 H: 2GB
 I: CDROM
(Initially I tried to install NT on drive e but I kept getting the BSOD so I
gave up and left it at c:  because when it was here it brought up the
selection to choose on boot-up.)

What I would like to do is to install Linux on drive F and have the NT
loader ask me which I want to boot into.

In preliminary testing Druid showed:

Primary: 2gb
Second: 540MB
Third: 10GB

What I am confused about is that it didn�t see the drives as separate
partitions but as a whole.  I stopped the installation at this point as I
use drives G and H for all of my application installs.

Should I just move the stuff on the 540MB to another partition and install
Linux on that?


Thank you for your time

Jason
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]






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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Subject: Re: 2.2.x PnP sound card (SB 16 / Vibra 16)
Date: 1 Feb 1999 16:05:06 GMT

On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 09:42:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> speaketh saying:
>I have a Soundblaster 16 PnP clone (detected as Vibra 16). I don't want to
>set up DOS / Win95 to find the settings for it. I thought the 2.2.x (2.2.1 in
>my case) kernel had some kind of extended support for these devices? I know
>that my network card has "stolen" IRQ 5, so I can't use standard settings.
>How can I find the IRQ from Linux? Do I have to set it up in the BIOS?
>
>I have checked the HOWTOs as usual, but I think a lot has changed in the 2.2
>kernel?
>

Don't know about the rest of the distributions, but Redhat 5.x comes with
sndconfig, a util to do just this.

Regards,
dar

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From: "Nolan Louie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recognizing the Sohoware Ethernet Network Card
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 11:09:56 -0600

Hi Linux-Gurus!

I'm new with Linux, totally frustrated with this situation, and I hope
somebody can help.

I've searched high and low for solutions to getting RedHat Linux to
recognize my NDC SOHOware Ethernet network card in my box
but can't seem to get anything. The NDC people recommend
looking on web but it seems like most drivers out there
are for big name network cards like Intel, 3Com, etc...

Any ideas what I can do? ANY help is appreciated!


Nolan



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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Setup of Dumb Terminal off Linux
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 12:07:41 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hi,
  I was looking into setting up an older b & w monitor terminal
to linux out of a spare serial port.  The Linux box has a serial
port with a 9 pin connector.  The monitor has as a 9 pin
connector but both are males.  My guess getting a gender
changer will not work.  What is the normal way to go about
setting up a second terminal to be the "console" monitor."?  Also
I would like this monitor to have a keyboard for commands.  
  I looked at the HOWTO's for this pin question but could not
figure it out from the info I found.
d
-- 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Logitech Cordless Desktop: Need help!
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 17:00:30 GMT

Hi,

I'm running Slackware 3.1 on a PPro200 machine.

I used to have a PS/2 mouse but now I bought a Logitech Cordless Desktop. The
keyboard is
working just fine but the mouse isn't. Perhaps answers to the following
questions could
clear things up for me.

Should I use the PS/2 (or PS/2-type?) connection or the serial one for the
mouse?
Will I have to recompile the kernel (which has PS/2 support compiled in)?
Where should /dev/mouse point?
What are the relevant lines from the Mouse Section in XF86Config?

Thank you very much in advance!

Pavel

PS: Can I use 2 mice at once? PPS: If the computer is on and X is running and
I switch mice, is there a way to restart the mouse driver without turning off
the computer or killing X?

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To: 
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was  3COM "support" (was: any voice 
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: 1 Feb 1999 15:42:12 GMT

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 13:38:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) wrote:
>> >Too fregging bad, I've had the joy of using X2 for almost a year... With
>> >free upgrades of course...
>
>> How would this help someone who's ISP didn't support X2?!?
>
>Did you shop for an ISP the same way you shop for modems? My ISP 
>supported X2 right out of the gate.

Why bother? I wasn't about to dump my ISP just because they choose not to 
support X2.



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From: RonaldKriemann<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sis5597
Date: 31 Jan 1999 10:23:54 +0100


Len Cuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone know where I can get the xsis.rpm and the xsuseconfig.tgz
> files ? I need them before I can get better than 300X320 out of X. I
> searched thru the Suse website as suggested but they seem to have
> vanished !
> Cheers,
>         Len

Use version 3.3.3(.1) of the SVGA-Xserver from Xfree86. It supports
the chip.

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

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From: "Roberto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux error
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 18:54:41 +0100

Dear people,
I have a little problem incontered trying install Red Hat Linux 5.2 on my HD
Western Digital AC26400 6GB.

After partition disk appear . . .  Fdisk Error - an error occurred reading
the partition table for the block device /tmp/hdd. The error was::
inmput/output error.

Then if I skip this step after file systemm creation when the system trying
to install packages, appear  . . . Error - mount failed: oparation not
supported by device.

Does anybody say me what can I do to complete installation of Linux on my
computer ?

Thaks everybody answer me !!!

Roberto




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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.dev.newbie,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD-ROM can not mount music CD
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 10:02:35 -0800

carl wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>today I bought a brand new CD-ROM. after I took out the old CD-ROM and
>install the new one into the computer.
>After boot up and log in as a supter usr, I try to mount CD-ROM with
>music CD inside.
>I get the following error message:
>" mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom, or too
>many mounted file systems"
>
>I have no problem when I try to mount CD-ROM with non-music CD inside.
>
>I have no problem using music CD in win95.
>
>so I suspect that it is linux configuration at fault here.


Well, not exactly.
You do not mount a CD-ROM (or a HD or a partition or ...). Instead you mount
a file system, that is stored on e.g. a CD-ROM, a HD, a partition or .....

An audio CD-ROM does not have a file system, therefore you can't mount it.

jue
--
J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience





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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Soundblaster PCI128 and Redhat 5.2:  Duh!
Date: 30 Jan 1999 21:27:02 GMT

So I've been agonizing a week over what sound card to buy, reading everything
there is to read on the net about Linux and sound cards, and could not get
an answer to the question:  Will a Soundblaster PCI128 work with Linux?
Well rather I got several conflicting vague answers.

Finally I decided to take the store up on their money-back guarantee and just
try it.

It PNP configured with no issues under Windows and showed all kinds of
"legacy support."  All the toys worked on the Windows side, as was to be
expected.

So I booted Linux.  No problem.  Ran "sndconfig."  It said I had an AudioPCI
card and proceeded to play the sample of Linus saying how to pronounce Linux.
It sounded a bit warbly, but, on to try stuff.  To wit...

- "play filename.au" works albeit with a bit of static (that may be in the
  samples for all I know) with the .au files that come with a full RedHat
  install.

- "play filename.wav" with the various wave files from the "Media" directory
   of Win95 works, and they sound fine (no 8-bit mono mu-law here.)

- Xgalaga has sound.

- The VICE Commodore 64 emulator sounds _exactly_ like a real 64, right down
  to SAM, the software speech synthesizer

- The Xmixer works, correctly adjusting master volume, PCM volume, auxiliary
  input volume (I plugged in a Walkman) and CD volume.

Also this card has an amplifier on it so you can plug any old speakers into
it, in my case a very good pair of small hi-fi speakers which, alas, mess up
the monitor if they get closer than two feet to it.

The MIDI player aspect of the card appears to be done in software under
Windows; certainly /dev/sequencer does not do anything under Linux.

I don't yet know anything about sound input yet, also I don't have a 
microphone, but from all appearances it seems that this card _is_ compatible
with Linux.

Except for VICE, all this is RedHat 5.2 straight off the CD.  The BIOS is
the latest AWARD BIOS for my ABIT BH6 motherboard, configured (as a guess)
to "not PNP operating system."  It works, I'm not complaining.

Markus

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Nuttall)
Subject: Adaptec AIC-7890/60 and RedHat 5.2 boot/install solution
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 18:01:24 GMT


Dear all,

For those of you who are still looking for a solution to the Ultra 2 Wide
problem, here's how to do it (it's pretty simply):

1) Put your RedHat 5.2 autoboot CD in the drive and select Expert
installation;
2) Boot from the CD-ROM drive and select your language and country;
3) Choose the CD-ROM installation source and do SCSI
4) Select the Adaptec xx/xx/2940 option (I can't remember what the other
models are)
5) Specify parameters, *don't choose AutoProbe*
6) enter aic7xxx=no_probe
7) continue your installation

Any (basic) questions, email me.


Stu

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Subject: Please recommend a good inexpensive 56k modem for Linux
Date: 1 Feb 1999 15:19:53 GMT

There are so many modems out there these days that don't work under Linux.
Some because they are Winmodems, and some because they are PCI.  Do PCI modems
with jumpers work under Linux?

I would appreciate a recommendation for a decent modem at a reasonable price.


Thanks,
dar

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From: Wenli Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Headache, Panasonic KXL-808AN CDROM
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 02:44:10 +0800

Dear all,

I am a newbie of Linux, I have installed Redhat 5.2 in my notebook,
everything is fine except the pcmcia CDROM, I use cardctl ident 
and the following informations are shown,

Socket 2:
 product info: "KME", "KXLC005", "00"
 manfid: 0x0032, 0x0704
 function: 8 (SCSI)

I've tried to load the qlogic_cs and ide_cs but failed to load the
CDROM, so, how can I do?

Thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Wenli Huang

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Nvidia chipset support under X
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 16:31:37 GMT

In article <79219f$2bq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
  "Jim Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've been looking around for a new graphics card and I was wondering if
> there is X support for the very latest Nvidia cards, specifically the
> Canopus Spectra 2500 or the Diamond Viper V550.  I've found support for the
> older versions of these cards, but no bang on these specific models just
> yet.  Anybody know about planned support??  The x11.org and xfree86 sites
> don't mention these cards directly.
>
> Also, to kind of swerve off on a tangent, I'm looking at a new video card.
> Does anyone have any recomendations.  I'd like to stick with the creative
> cards, since they're industry standard AND creative has hired a full time
> linux crew to write drivers.  But I also like the Diamond Monster cards.
> I'm looking for bleeding edge, here, with 3D audio and stuff like that.
>
> Well, thanks for putting up with my newbie pandering.  Take care
>

It's not the card that's important (in general), it's the chipset.  If those
cards are Riva TNT then they are supported under XFree86 3.3.3 and later. 
The Viper should work under this version, but I can't help you directly since
all I have is the STB Velocity 4400 (also Riva TNT).  BTW it works just fine.
 But you can't overclock it without adding some serious cooling; the little
tiny heatsink on mine gets HOT.

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (rc5god)
Subject: Re: Setup of Dumb Terminal off Linux
Date: 1 Feb 1999 18:39:48 GMT

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Kirkpatrick  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>  I was looking into setting up an older b & w monitor terminal
>to linux out of a spare serial port.  The Linux box has a serial
>port with a 9 pin connector.  The monitor has as a 9 pin
>connector but both are males.  My guess getting a gender
>changer will not work.  What is the normal way to go about
>setting up a second terminal to be the "console" monitor."?  Also
>I would like this monitor to have a keyboard for commands.  
>  I looked at the HOWTO's for this pin question but could not
>figure it out from the info I found.
>d
>-- 

If all it is is a monitor, its probably an old CGA Monitor, requiring a CGA card.


Tmack
-- 
blah
bleh


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Crossposted-To: 
comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.sys.hp.hpux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals)
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 1999 15:28:04 GMT

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard S. Shuford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>One source of terminals that has been often overlooked is
>Goodwill Industries.  This organization sometimes receives
>donations of older data-processing equipment, which it then
>offers for resale.

>Of course, Goodwill or similar organizations will not be able to
>tell you whether or not a given terminal could be used with Linux.
>So it will be your own responsibility to avoid EBCDIC-speaking 
>or otherwise incompatible terminal types.

If you do go that route, be sure to take along an RS-232 tester and
see that at least the some of the lights light up.  Of course is
the receive portion is bad you still don't know without something
to connect.  One of the most common ailments I've seen in terminals
is the transceivers being blown.

On things such as Wyse, you can send the board away for about $50
and get it fixed, send the terminal for about $85 for the same,
take it to a local shop and pay from $100 to $150, or
OR
you can spend about $2 bucks for a pair of the chips, and replace
them - they are the last chips before the RS-232 connector.
Depends on how good you are at soldering - 15 to 30 minutes.

Bill
-- 
Bill Vermillion   bv @ wjv.com 

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