Linux-Hardware Digest #424, Volume #9 Sun, 14 Feb 99 01:13:42 EST
Contents:
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (Trane Francks)
Re: Question about modem (Bill Unruh)
Re: STB velocity 128 card ???? (K Lee)
Re: URGENT: Dead Pixels on Active Matrix Laptops ("Ian Payne")
Re: Maximum Disk Size in 486 ("James Richardson")
Compaq Deskpro 6000 and PCI BIOS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Is linux able to handle 2 video cards ? (Ben Russo)
Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem (Jeremiah)
Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem (BoogerLord)
Re: need dat backup machine (Michael Meissner)
Re: How Can I install the new XFree86 3.3.3? (please help) (Michael Meissner)
Re: X Servers (scott b)
Maximum Disk Size in 486 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3Com NIC won't initialize at bootup (scott b)
External Modems ("Nik Alston")
Re: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2 (dmalcolm)
[Q] Color printing under linux (Vachi)
Re: New k6-2 system advice ("David A. Frantz")
Need driver for SMC Elite16 Ethernet Card (Ralph E Wagner)
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From: Trane Francks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 03:46:51 GMT
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Allen wrote:
[ snip ]
> any built-in SCSI controller on a Supermicro P6DOF board, but I'll not
> likely ever use most of the ISA slots for anything but a modem, a
[ snip ]
Realizing that this post was a follow-up to a lighthearted
post, I still would like to take this opportunity to point
out probably the biggest benefit of using an external modem
over an internal modem. In the event that an internal modem
has to be reset, you need to toggle the power on the system;
an external modem has its own power switch that can be flipped
without affecting the rest of the system.
This is important, especially for mission-critical servers.
For the rest of us, powering off a system plays havok with our
system's uptime. ;-)
trane (184 days, 16 hours, 17 minutes and still counting)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.pc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Question about modem
Date: 14 Feb 1999 04:31:40 GMT
In <7a04kj$g0t$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Chan, Siu-Kei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Would anyone can tell me how to shut the squeeze noise of my modem during
>the dial-up process. My modem is the Diamond SupraExpress 33.6.
>Please inform me by e-mail. Thanks!!
Squeeze noise?? Do you mean the dialing and the connection noise?
There is a command for you modem which will tell it to be quiet. Look in
your modem manual ATM0 is one pretty common command.
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From: K Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB velocity 128 card ????
Date: 31 Jan 1999 05:22:49 GMT
I have the card and it works just fine in XFree86 3.3.3...I had to tweak a
little bit in 3.3.2 with the config file, but with 3.3.3, I'm getting
RGB weight of 888, whereas I had 555 before.
Steve
mrushton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have an STB Velocity128 AGP card 4MB. Has anyone had any luck in getting
: one to work with Linux ????
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
From: "Ian Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: URGENT: Dead Pixels on Active Matrix Laptops
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 21:38:04 GMT
>This laptop is still under the 30 day return policy, and I would like to
>know if it's worth it to return it, and ask for another one, or is it true
>that the standard is 3 or 4 dead pixels in a square inch before it's
>considered bad?
Many companies don't consider a single dead pixel a defect, they require
some minimum, say 5, before they consider a screen defective.
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From: "James Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maximum Disk Size in 486
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 22:37:03 -0600
It isn't the 486 architecture that does not support large hard drives, it's
the BIOS. Many late-model 486's BIOS's can handle the large drives.
I know there was some software for dos/windows (OnTrack, I think) as for
Linux-type software available, I'm afraid I just don't know.
James T. Richardson, Jr.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7a5ip1$ito$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am currently running redhat 5.2 on a 500 meg drive in a 486. I would like
>more disk space but am not sure what my options are. I believe that the 486
>architecture does not recognize drives larger than 500 or so megs under
dos. I
>am not sure what to expect or if it is advisable to just pop in a new
gigabyte
>plus drive. If someone could be kind enough to drop me a quick note i'd
>appreciate it. TIA.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compaq Deskpro 6000 and PCI BIOS
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 20:59:16 GMT
Hello all, OK, I think I've read all the readme's and Howto's before
coming here so I am desperate for any help. I need to get my onboard
NetFlex-3 PCI Ethernet card working in Linux. Everything else works great
with this RedHat 5.2 installation. I have a Compaq DeskPro 6000 with a
Pentium Pro 200, Adaptec 2940U PCI SCSI Host adapter with a 2 2GB seagate
hard drives, an IDE CD-ROM, 96MB RAM and a RedHat 5.2 Install CD. Currently I
have my 1st HD setup with 2 Partitions, NTFS for the c: drive and FAT for the
d: drive, both approximately 1GB each. On the second drive, I have a 24MB DOS
partition, a 47MB Swap partition (sdb2) and a 1947MB Linux root partition
(sdb1). Neither Linux, nor the Redhat Installer will recognize the
onboard PCI ethernet card. It is a NetFlex-3 PCI card. From what I've read,
this is because the PCI bios on this model is stored in Hi-MEM and is
inaccessible by Linux. Fair enough, I can find the Compaq movepci.exe file,
load it on a DOS bootable floppy and go. Problem is, hoe to get Linux
to boot from here so that I can take advantage of this change? Using
loadlin, I have gotten the error "Idle task could not sleep" which seems to
have a resolution and is posted all over the web in German. All I THINK I
need to do now is boot into Linux from this point and do an insmod and
ifconfig to get the card going. Is there an easier way to do all this? Am I
on the right track? Th kernel I'm using is copied right off the Linux root
partition and boots the machine fine from the NT boot.ini file. Any help
anyone could give me would be very appreciated. Thanks in advance. --Dave
Reuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ben Russo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Is linux able to handle 2 video cards ?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:45:21 -0500
William Burrow wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:11:41 +0100,
> Damien Ercole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm actually wondering if linux is able to handle 2 video cards
> >connected on the PC..
> >I've actually a viper v550 on the AGP bus, but as this card doesn't have
> >any TV output
> >i want to buy a cheaper one (on PCI bus) to be able to watch my DVD on
> >my TV ......
> >so anyone can tell me if booting with 2 video cards will crash the
> >system ?
>
> Wild guess city, but since the cards on separate buses, perhaps you can get
> away with installing both cards. Watch they don't try to use the same
> memory buffer, and if they use interrupts, who knows what cruft hardware
> designers put together to share IRQs across buses. Only broken PCI stuff
> uses IRQs anyway.
>
> Just run two separate X servers if you must, too bad if you don't have
> everything on one desktop. Look into GGI for potential stuff (ggi.org).
>
I had two Matrox Millenium cards, two monitors and Metro-X.
I could run X on both monitors, but it worked like 2 desktops of
a "pager" like KDE or FVWM or Window Maker have.
I could not run 2 seperate X sessions! I couldn't run a console on one
and X on the other! I wanted to be able to run X -query to another
machine on one monitor and X locally on the other... Couldn't do it.
I even called Metro-X and they said it could be done but that they
didn't
have any plans to do it.
As far as I know X11R6 has no restrictions on the number of X Displays
you can have on one box (i.e. 10.10.10.10:0 10.10.10.10:1
10.10.10.10:n....)
But XFree86 has no provisions for handling this.
-Ben.
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From: Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 23:46:23 -0500
BoogerLord wrote:
> I ran sndconfig from root & it auto-detected the
> Ensoniq Audio PCI w/no input from me- I did the
> Creative Labs upgrade on the card (from Ensoniq's
> old site) before I ever loaded Linux, don't know if that
> would make a difference...
I didn't do the upgrade (hadn't even heard about it 'til now),
but sndconfig auto-detected my Ensoniq (1370) with no problems.
It played the sample fine too... it's just that the drivers with
RH 5.2 suck... :(
> >Even though there are no specific drivers to support this (it IS
> >Soundblaster compatible)
? there are specific drivers for the 1370 and 1371 chipsets...
as I said, though... they aren't so good.
Brian
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BoogerLord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Ensoniq soundcard problem
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 03:54:51 GMT
Mark,
I ran sndconfig from root & it auto-detected the
Ensoniq Audio PCI w/no input from me- I did the
Creative Labs upgrade on the card (from Ensoniq's
old site) before I ever loaded Linux, don't know if that
would make a difference...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:40:30 -0500, "Mark Smith"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone out there able to get Red Hat 5.2 to recognize your Ensonic Audio PCI
>card? Even though there are no specific drivers to support this (it IS
>Soundblaster compatible) the kernel doesn't even recognize a sound device at
>boot-time.
>
>
>
>
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need dat backup machine
Date: 12 Feb 1999 09:42:19 -0500
"dominick smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> looking for suggestions on good dat backup system 4 gig to 8 gig
> suggestions appreciated, thanks for now
I would have to say, don't go for the cheaper WangDat 3800 DAT tape drive. I
got one, and its somewhat finicky. I had to send the first back becuase a tape
got jammed in it. The second unit will hang when trying to read DDS-2 tapes
with hardware compression and block sizes > 8192 (it can write the tapes fine).
I also seem to have DDS-2 tapes go bad more frequently after a few uses than my
old Archive DDS-1 drive (dunno whether it is the WangDAT or DDS-2 tapes in
general). HP and Sony are the two big names in DAT tapes (and of course are
more expensive than WangDat and Seagate).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How Can I install the new XFree86 3.3.3? (please help)
Date: 12 Feb 1999 09:45:24 -0500
"Juan Miguel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I install the new XFree86 with the RPM. All it�s ok. But when I want to
> execute the new XFree86 linux open the old XFree. My question is: how I can
> execute the new XFree86?
If you rerun Xconfigurator, it should set up the links, otherwise make sure
that /usr/X11/bin/X is a symlink to Xwrapper and /etc/X11/X is a symlink to
your new X server.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 14:47:18 -0800
From: scott b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X Servers
Derek,
I have the same chip (Sierra Screamin 3D) and I still haven't been able to find
anything more than you have. How many colors can you get at 640x480? I'm stuck
at 16. I was just curious.
If I find something in my continued search, I'll email you.
Scott
Derek Lakin wrote:
> Does anyone know of any X Servers (e.g. XFree86) that support the Rendition
> Verite 1000 chipset (as used in the Creative Labs 3D Blaster PCI) at a
> resolution of 800x600 or higher?
>
> I've tried using version 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 and still can;t get above
> 640x480.
>
> Derek.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Maximum Disk Size in 486
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:17:42 GMT
I am currently running redhat 5.2 on a 500 meg drive in a 486. I would like
more disk space but am not sure what my options are. I believe that the 486
architecture does not recognize drives larger than 500 or so megs under dos. I
am not sure what to expect or if it is advisable to just pop in a new gigabyte
plus drive. If someone could be kind enough to drop me a quick note i'd
appreciate it. TIA.
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:00:43 -0800
From: scott b <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Com NIC won't initialize at bootup
I just recently installed Caldera Open Linux 1.3. During the
installation process, Linux found my device at eth0. I used LISA to
enter the configs but nothing happened. I noticed everytime I boot up it
trys starting eth0 but it fails to initialize. I know the card is good
because it works when I boot up to Win32.
Any Suggestions?? It's driving me crazy
-Scott
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From: "Nik Alston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: External Modems
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 13:18:12 -0000
Can I assume that ALL external modems will work fine with Linux, as they
cannot be classed as winModems ????
nik
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Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:21:37 -0600
From: dmalcolm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI for Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.3.2
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
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Don't know about the others but Slackware comes with several boot images that
can be used to make a set of boot & root disks. The boot images are on the CD
in bootdsks.144 and can be installed on a dos formated floppy using rawrite.exe
(don't just copy the file onto the floppy). 'rawrite' will also make a root
floppy. The best root floppy image is usually color.gz in the rootdsks
directory.
For the boot disk select one that supports scsi and in your case probably
aha2x4x.s would be best.
This will let you boot and find your scsi drive. The Slackware setup program
will let you tell it the target installation partition.
Hope this helps.
Dan Malcolm
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Wildasinn wrote:
> Hi all!
> Debian2.0,Slackware3.6,FreeBSD3.0,NetBSD-1.32
> seem to be doing the same thing during installation.
> they're all saying "No SCSI attached!!!"
>
> Why is it that only Redhat5.2 was able to see my SCSI drive
> during installation?
>
> All the other installers gave me one choice only --/dev/hda1
> (Linux via Debian & Slackware) or /dev/wd0 (*BSD)-- or
> nothing at all if the UDMA drive was unplugged. It's been
> a few days, but I think I had to trick Redhat also, by making
> the bios select scsi first and removing the ribbon from the
> IDE drive. Anyway SCSI first returns 0, then the SCSI Drive
> and Card appear to do some sort of download of driver info,
> so that the Redhat installer eventually sees the SCSI drive.
> Looks like Redhat has a longer probe time than the other
> installers. So what should I do?
>
> I was really surprised about Debian since I've had 2.0 running
> on a m68k macintosh for quite a while with SCSI disk chains.
> Tho this one is a 2940U2W scsi card with matching transfer speed
> IBM drive.
>
> These other installers appear to probe the
> system without looking at a BIOS selection, which for my
> box can switch preferences between IDE and SCSI, which
> looks similar to load order choice for floppy, CDROM, and C
> drive, etc...
>
> So is the only way to get these other OSes up is to unplug
> PnP settings for the SCSI card? Or is there some other tweak
> to solve this? By the way, only Redhat5.2 had a working
> fips20, fdisk programs for FAT32 partitions. Changed the
> unused paritions to FAT16, then tried them with Linux native,
> but no go with that either.
>
> Any help is appreciated!
>
> Brian Wildasinn
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> notes: Asus p2b 440bx PII350, Adaptec SCSI Card 2940U2W;
> Win98 & Redhat dual booting with Win98 requiring first priority
> in LILO to avoid hanging the MBR. Basically I;'ve got a 4Gig
> drive with equal parititions for each OS.
>
> Here's some of the /var/log/messages:
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using
> exception 16 error reporting.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.0.36
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT
> 1998
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial
> options enabled
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks
> of 4096K size
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0
> function 33
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc800-0xc807
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc808-0xc80f
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: WDC AC310100B, 9671MB w/512kB Cache,
> CHS=1232/255/63, UDMA
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdb: VerH, ATAPI CDROM drive
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hdc: NEC CD-ROM DRIVE:253, ATAPI CDROM
> drive
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : detected total.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Partition check:
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: hda: hda1
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
> adapter> found at PCI 12/0
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 32/255
> SCBs
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 407
> instructions downloaded
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x
> (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.2/3.2.4
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host
> adapter>
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-34560D
> Rev: DC1B
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Type: Direct-Access
> ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel
> 0, id 1, lun 0
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: (scsi0:0:1:0) Synchronous at 80.0
> Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes.
> Sectors= 8925000 [4357 MB] [4.4 GB]
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9
> >
> Feb 8 15:20:25 localhost kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem)
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From: Vachi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] Color printing under linux
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 06:38:58 +0900
Hi everybody,
I would like to ask how to print out color pictures.
I have Canon BJ-240 which could print color image under
Windows but I can't get it to do so under linux.
I am using aps-filter version 4.91 and it made my
printcap as follow:
ascii|lp1|bj200-a4-ascii-mono|bj200 ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-mono:\
:lf=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp2|bj200-a4-auto-mono|bj200 auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono:\
:lf=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp3|bj200-a4-ascii-color|bj200 ascii color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-color:\
:lf=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-color/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-ascii-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-ascii-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp4|bj200-a4-auto-color|bj200 auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-color:\
:lf=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-color/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/bj200-a4-auto-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp5|bj200-a4-raw|bj200 auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/usr/spool/bj200-raw:\
:lf=/usr/spool/bj200-raw/log:\
:af=/usr/spool/bj200-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/aps-4.91/filter/aps-bj200-a4-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
I thought that by using lp4, it should be able to
print color image, but still it becomes bw color. Did
I misunderstand anything? I tried printing some PS doc
that contained color pic and web pages. The result is
always the same no matter I specify printer or not.
I will appreciate any advice. It is a pain to go back
to windows everytime to print something color :-(
Vachi
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New k6-2 system advice
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:31:52 -0500
Trane Francks wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Pauper9 wrote:
>>
>> OK. NOT all internal pnp modems are Losemodems. My MultiTech
MT5634ZPX-ISA is a
>> pnp and not a losermodem. Same as it is for their PCI model. I'm not
saying
>> that I have the greatest piece of hardware, but that one really has to be
>> careful when picking up an analog modem.
>
>FWIW, I think internal modems are to be avoided at all costs.
>I don't want to toggle the power on a system in the event that
>the modem needs a reset -- no matter how infrequently that
>may be.
Personally I wouldn't put another external modem into any single user
system. Just complicates everything when it comes time to debug. Things
such as loose cables or flakey power supplies. The bigger problem is
finding internal hardware that still allows manual configuration. You have
to wonder about a manufacture that can't afford $1 to install jumper
headers.
>
>> BTW - since when is $100 for setup and $50 a month affordable for net
>> access???? I live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area where both DSL and
cable
>> modem ISPs live. I can NOT afford to pay these prices for access, in
fact, I am
>
>Man, I dream of pricing like that. I pay 35,000 yen/year for
>an unlimited port connection. On top of that, my phone bill
>for my data-only line runs me about another 15,000 yen/month.
>That works out to close to US$2,000/year for 'net access.
>
>OUCH.
I feel your pain. This must be the primary reason that the economy is so
bad in Japan, evrything priced to high vs the rest of the world. I
consider MY $20 month ISP fee combined with a $16 a month phone bill to
much.
Dave
>
>trane
>--
>//------------------------------------------------------------
>// Trane Francks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tokyo, Japan
>// Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
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From: Ralph E Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Need driver for SMC Elite16 Ethernet Card
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 04:57:02 GMT
Just installed RedHat5.2, but it doesn't recognize my SMC Elite16 NIC.
Does
anyone out there know of a driver for this or some way to get RH to
detect it?
Ralph E Wagner
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