Linux-Hardware Digest #593, Volume #9 Sun, 7 Mar 99 17:13:56 EST
Contents:
Linux w/ ARO-1130U2 RAIDPort (on L440GX+) ("Dan")
Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence? (angelo genovese)
Re: Linux and a 8088 (GBP)
A *** URGENT COMPILING URGENT *** ("BARBIER Laurent")
Re: I SEE NO REPLYS TO THIS GROUP ???? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Modem Mystery? (Chris Mahmood)
Re: Creative Labs dxr2 (Steve)
modutils for 2.2.2 (yhauser)
Re: Unrecognized CD-ROM (Daryl Lee)
Linux Prosignia 486 and SCSI setup problem ("Charles Pratt")
Re: MS Intellimouse (houghi)
Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ? ("Wayne")
Re: MS Intellimouse (Matt Willis)
Re: Backup software (Michael Perry)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! (Chris Mahmood)
Re: please help with avance als100+ sound device (Joe Ringer)
Is there something I could use besides chat? ("xXxDanExXx")
Re: midi (Froodybox)
Re: Adding an LS-120 to a working Slackware - Help? (Grant Guenther)
Re: A *** URGENT COMPILING URGENT *** (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Zoom modem and Linux (Chris Vine)
Re: linux 2.2.2, lpdPLP and lp0 (Matthias Juchem)
Re: Adding an LS-120 to a working Slackware - Help? (Rich Grise)
Problem mounting SCSI (Plextor) CD-ROM... help? (slack3.6) (Jay Ashworth)
Re: mice with scrolling wheels (David Utidjian)
Sound support in 2.2.2 (Jolt)
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux w/ ARO-1130U2 RAIDPort (on L440GX+)
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 03:49:36 GMT
I'd like to use hardware RAID with my Linux webserver. The new Intel board
L440GX+ has dual channel SCSI onboard (AIC-7896), and supports a 0 channel
add-on board called the ARO-1130 RAIDPort from Adaptec. This will give me
striping and mirroring etc. I've ordered the system, but realized I had
better make sure there are drivers available.
Will Linux support this configuration? Thanks much!
--
DReed - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: angelo genovese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 13:50:37 -0500
Wildman, the Cuberstalker wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:26:18 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I installed Linux last weekend onto my master drive, which went smoothly
> >enough; however, after the install was complete my slave hard drive (an 11
> >month old Western Digital Caviar 5.1 AC35100L) went south.
> >
> >It now reports S.M.A.R.T. status as bad on boot up, and scandisk can't
> >read/repair the "end" of the drive.
> >
> >Does this seem like an extremely unfortunately timed coincidence, or could
> >any part of a Linux install cause something like this?
> >
> >I'm sure it's the former, but thought it's worth asking, just in case...so
> >I don't fry another drive. <g>
> >
>
> I must be the luckiest SOB on the planet. I never have a problem with my WD
> HD, but everyone I know has a horror story about theirs.
> Yeah, just a coincidence.
>
> --
> The Wildman ICQ# 32609427
> Fight spam - http://www.spamfree.org
> Five is a sufficiently close approximation to infinity.
yea it's probably a coincedence, cause Ive got exactly the same drive and Its
never given me any problems either
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From: GBP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and a 8088
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:06:44 -0500
Linux uses the 386 or higher, thats just the way it is. The 386 was a
gaint leap over the 286 and has instructions that make linuxs multi
tasking work as well as it does.
Linux has been ported to several chips like PowerPC but not to 286... a
286 port would be difficult and pointless...
IF you look im sure you can get a nice 386 or 486 mainboard and cpu and
ram for like $15-$40... not so bad is it?
Blake Thompson wrote:
>
> Hey guys, I thought I'd run this one through the group and see if anyone
> had any ideas. I've got this old Compaq portable which I believe to be an
> 8088 (but it could be a 286). Anyway, my question is what micro
> distribution to put on it. I've checked out LOAF, Tom's, muLinux,
> DOSLinux, etc, etc. They all seem to require a 386 w/ 4MB RAM.
> I've got a 20 MB Hard Drive to work with, so it doesn't _necessarily_ have
> to fit on a floppy, but the micro-distributions seem to have the least
> stringent system requirements.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on a compatible release?
>
> Blake
>
> Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (Do not reply directly to the above address, remove non-lowercase letters
> for valid address)
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From: "BARBIER Laurent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A *** URGENT COMPILING URGENT ***
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:39:25 +0100
I can't compile a program, I haven't got 'XMKMF', where and how I could find
it?
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I SEE NO REPLYS TO THIS GROUP ????
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:17:31 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom Muir wrote:
> Perhaps the problem lies with the new image of Unix. I decided to give red
> hat 5.2 a try. I read the initial installation instructions. Essentially it
> said install boot disk, follow menu and linux will be installed. Only it
> just isn't that simple. The idea that this OS can be installed like DOS or
> Windows is being suggested but it just isn't. The level of supported
> hardware is also misleading. Compaq servers on which I'm trying to install
> RedHat must be amongst the most common servers for netware but there is no
> mention of support or lack of support for this platform in the
> documentation.
well, compaq has a long tradition of reinventing the wheel whenever
they they can. I suppose it's just common sense not to expect their
hardware to work. You're right though, Redhat is not nec. helping by
trying to make the install 'too easy'. Have you ever tried to install
NT? I imagine that this sort of install is what redhat is aiming for,
which is terrible.
-ckm
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Mystery?
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:21:05 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Now, to ask a really lame question... can you clarify "disable the onboard
> port that the internal modem is occupying?" As in, check the BIOS and make
> sure it isn't being used by a comm port somewhere? Or is it something else?
this seems to be one of the mysteries with PC's. An external uses a
serial port, an internal modem replaces a serial port.
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Subject: Re: Creative Labs dxr2
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 20:24:58 GMT
Kevin,
I run an AIWP AGP card and a dxr2 board and haven't had any hardware
clashes with it although for Linux it is quite useless as I haven't
found any way of using the card in the OS, just Yuk95.
Steve
On Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:08:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin) wrote:
>Does this MPEG decoder cause problems with the ATI All in Wonder Card
>configuration to set up Xwindows?
>
>It is the only thing that I can think of why my monitor goes black
>after typing startx
>(see ATI All IN WONDER thread....)
>
>
>HELP!!
>
>Kevin.
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From: yhauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: modutils for 2.2.2
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 16:21:49 +0100
I've installed kernel 2.2.2 successfully just for module support (marked
ENABLE LOADABLE MODULE SUPPORT and KERNEL MODULE LOADER). My modutils
are 2.1.85 - they run with my old kernel 2.0.33, but they fail with
2.2.2.
Can anybody give me a hint?! yves
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Lee)
Subject: Re: Unrecognized CD-ROM
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 21:34:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Daryl Lee wrote:
>>> I am trying to install RH 5.2 on my old Packard Bell, which has a
>>> Soundblaster/Panasonic CD-ROM. This is on the list in RedHat's
>>> installation process, but the autoprobe hangs. How do I determine the
>>> IO Base, IRQ, and Label info it asks for? Any help appreciated.
I have researched everything I can find on this problem, and still
can't get around it. The CDROM HOWTO describes configuring the SBPCD
driver (which is what is picked for my CDROM), and supplying the
string "0x230,SoundBlaster" to it. I try this and other candidates
for the port address, and still nothing works. I use 0x220, because
that's what the SoundBlaster CONFIG program thinks its IO address is,
and I use 0x630, because that's suggested by the parameters supplied
to CDMKE.SYS, the DOS driver. No dice.
Has anyone here successfully installed RH 5.2 using such a
configuration? Has anyone succeeded with some other distribution,
such as maybe Caldera? Should I give up and be happy with Bill Gates?
Daryl O. Lee
Atlanta, Georgia
"Life is where you get your answers questioned." -- Moyers
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From: "Charles Pratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Prosignia 486 and SCSI setup problem
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 20:44:06 -0800
Hello I would like help resolving a problem I was given a server 486
Prosignia with 2.5 GB of Fast SCSI Drive. unfortunately when it comes to
getting the NCR 53c710 to work with the setup in Redhat 5.2 it does not
recognize the SCSI controller.
I am installing off a EIDE CD ROM but I really feel this is not the problem.
I have tried every mod. in all the FAQ's I could find for SCSI controllers
and no go.
I have also found that I am not the only one posing the Question in the
Group
Any help would be appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (houghi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: MS Intellimouse
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:19:07 GMT
On Sat, 6 Mar 1999 10:59:57 -0000, "Lee Luchford"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm considering buying an MS intellimouse to use in Linux. I know that there
>are various hacks to use the wheel for scrolling in X windows but what I
>need to know is does the wheel act like a third mouse button when you press
>it. I don't want to buy it and find out that it is effectively a 2 button
>mouse
Same question, but for the Logitech.
houghi - delete uh something, like, uh well uh, my return adres is not ok.
--
I am back, and I STILL don't like HTML on Usenet
> http://www.ping.be/houghi/nohtml
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From: "Wayne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Windows & Linux File Transfer ?
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:21:35 -0600
One thing I have noted has been omitted. You should type mkdir /mnt/win and
then you can type mount -t vfat /dev/hd?? /mnt/win
(?? being drive and partition number i.e. hda1 for Drive C and partion 1)
Now you can type, cd /mnt/win and you will see your 32bit FAT partition.
Wayne
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From: Matt Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: MS Intellimouse
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:34:47 +0000
My intellimouse has 5 buttons. Two are synthetic buttonpresses for
the scrolling behaviour.
left button = button 1
right button = button 2
wheel (click) = button 3
And with a few lines in my XF86Config file, see
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
wheel (down) = button 4
wheel (up) = button 5
The only thing that is kind of annoying is that I sometimes press too
hard when scrolling the wheel, and end up pasting gobs of text
somewhere.
- Matt Willis
Lee Luchford wrote:
>
> I'm considering buying an MS intellimouse to use in Linux. I know that there
> are various hacks to use the wheel for scrolling in X windows but what I
> need to know is does the wheel act like a third mouse button when you press
> it. I don't want to buy it and find out that it is effectively a 2 button
> mouse
> Thanks
> Lee
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Perry)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Backup software
Date: 7 Mar 1999 14:48:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 05:27:42 GMT, Rick Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone recommend a backup/restore program for Linux (RH 5.2) and
>X? I have a Seagate STT28000n SCSI Travan tape drive GUI based program
>to use with it. I've tried Knox's ARKEIA but it seems to buggy and the
>backup utility that comes with KDE doesn't support my drive.
>
>Thanks
>Rick Knight
>([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>
How about taper? You can find it at rpm sites like Rufus. I used it with
my Exabyte 8700lt scsi device with no problems. I have also used bru and
had no real problems.
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Michael Perry
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 12:23:30 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
you can't and won't be able to for some time. From what i've read,
Creative won't release any info, even under NDA. My question to you
is, why did you buy this card and show support for hostile attitudes
like that?
-ckm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Ringer)
Subject: Re: please help with avance als100+ sound device
Date: 7 Mar 1999 15:40:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 4 Mar 1999 23:33:28 -0500, Ian Fiske wrote:
>hi,
>i just bought redhat 5.2 the other day and i finally got my video working
>ok, but i still can't get my sound to work right. i have an avance als100+
>isa pnp sound card. are there any drivers for it or anything? has anyone
>had any luck with this card in linux?
This may help:
http://www.erols.com/jringer3/als100.htm
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Joe |
|It all boils down to freedom. A shrink-wrap
|agreement is, at best, a mild form of bribery
|and at its worst, nothing short of slavery.
|--Walter Dunz
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From: "xXxDanExXx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there something I could use besides chat?
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 09:46:02 -0500
I just FINALLY got my modem setup. In minicom, it connects just fine.
However, if I try to use chat, it doesn't do crap. Can anyone give me a
hand with it? Here's the commands I've been using:
chat "" ATDT2920390 CONNECT "" Username:lorddane Password:guess
Also, as an entire script, I've used:
pppd /dev/modem 57600 connect '/usr/sbin/chat "" ATDT2920390 CONNECT'
noipdefault defaultroute lorddane guess
Also, how would I setup the primary and secondary DNS? And, again, why
won't it even INIT my modem? I've even tried that ppp config thing in
XWindows, too. Doesn't do anything. Am I setting minicom up wrong or
something?
DanE
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Froodybox)
Subject: Re: midi
Date: 7 Mar 1999 15:43:26 GMT
>P.S. cat /dev/sndstat returns:
>
>OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
>Load type: Driver loaded as a module
>Kernel: Linux esp�ndola 2.2.1 #1 dom fev 21 17:53:01 EST 1999 i686
>Config options: 0
>
>Installed drivers:
>
>Card config:
>
>Audio devices:
>0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.11) (DUPLEX)
>
>Synth devices:
>0: Yamaha OPL3
>
>Midi devices:
>0: Sound Blaster 16
>
>Timers:
>0: System clock
>
>Mixers:
>0: Sound Blaster
Yeah, I have the same problem with my AWE64. xplaymidi shows that something is
being played, but no audio comes out. It works with neither the AWE32 driver
nor the OPL3 driver. The PCM sound works great though...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: Adding an LS-120 to a working Slackware - Help?
Date: 7 Mar 1999 13:01:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 06 Mar 1999 15:59:37 -0600, Rich Grise
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>But in the boot sequence, it reports the LS-120 as/dev/hdd, (plus as an
>ATAPI CDROM drive, which is kind of confusing to the newcomer!)
>BTW, it's slackware 3.3.0, with kernel bare.i v. 2.0.30 .
When 2.0.30 was current, ATAPI disk drives were still quite novel, and
the kernel did not support them, in fact it tried to treat them as
CD-ROMs.
You should really upgrade to more recent kernel. Perhaps upgrading to
Slackware 3.6 is the easiest path.
==========================================================================
Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
==========================================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: A *** URGENT COMPILING URGENT ***
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 10:57:12 GMT
"BARBIER Laurent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I can't compile a program, I haven't got 'XMKMF', where and how I could find
>it?
xmkmf is part of the X development package, IIRC . It creates
a Makefile from out of an imakefile, as shipped with third-party
software.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Vine)
Subject: Re: Zoom modem and Linux
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 15:52:38 GMT
On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 00:46:38 GMT, "Jonathan D. Oman"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The new 56k modem has the Lucent chipset. I went to their site the other
>night, and downloaded their documentation on the AT command set. They
>mentioned a +V90=x command to put it into V90 mode. Tried it, but the modem
>gave me an error! Also, they did not have the +MS=.... command, and when I
>tried to use it, I got an error. You would think that if it has a Lucent
>chipset, it would understand the Lucent AT command set!
>
I have the Zoom 56K dual mode, and my initialisation string is
AT&FS95=44. That will connect in V90 with my provider at around 40K
ok. I have used both kppp and a standard chat script to dial in, and
both work fine. I set the modem/computer speed to 115200 bits/sec.
I hope this helps: it may not, as I didn't have to do anything special
to get it to work.
Chris.
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From: Matthias Juchem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux 2.2.2, lpdPLP and lp0
Date: Sun, 7 Mar 1999 16:49:46 +0100
To you all who wrote me:
Bob's hint worked. I simply added that line to /etc/conf.modules, restarted the
daemon and my printer started printing immediately.
To Bob:
Thank you for helping.
Matt
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On 7 Mar 1999, it was written:
> >lpdPLP is running fine, using lp0, but when receiving a print job it says:
> >lp: Print_open: cannot open /dev/lp0: Operation not supported by device
> >
> >Modules parport, parport_pc and lp are loaded.
> >
>Have you added the following to /etc/conf.modules?
>
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
>Bob T.
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Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 07:54:05 -0800
From: Rich Grise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adding an LS-120 to a working Slackware - Help?
Grant Guenther wrote:
>
> You should really upgrade to more recent kernel. Perhaps upgrading to
> Slackware 3.6 is the easiest path.
>
> > Grant R. Guenther
--
Thanks! That's precisely what I needed to know!
That's today's mission! (I think I'll be able to find a kernel
and read the README and stuff.)
Rich
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From: Jay Ashworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem mounting SCSI (Plextor) CD-ROM... help? (slack3.6)
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 14:38:11 -0700
Using the Slackware 3.6 dist with an unmodified SCSI.S kernel image.
I've got the Adpatec 1520 controller. On it, I have internally the
Plextor CD-ROM, and externally a JVC burner. I had the same
configuration working previously with a 3.4 distribution, but I wanted
to start over and allocate more space for Linux (just learning - was
previously on a 750 meg partition). The resulting messages on boot are:
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-32TS Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
Vendor: JVC Model: XR-W2010 Rev: 2.05
Type: WORM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
However, when I try to actually mount the CD-ROM device (using: mount -t
iso9660 /dev/sr0 /cdrom) I get: (I thought that in the past, there was a
line in /etc/fstab and /etc/mtab that indicated i was mounting the
cdrom... it's no longer there)
mount: Too many symbolic links encountered
I've no idea where I should begin looking... suggestions?
Thanks,
--
Jay Ashworth
http://www.wasatch.com/~rumor/
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two or three or four at once dancing attendance on him."
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Lucky Rahvin. 'Course... he DID get balefired.
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From: David Utidjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice with scrolling wheels
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 11:22:15 -0500
Neil Zanella wrote:
> Hello,
> I was wondering whether Linux supports any of the scrolling wheels that come
> with some mice and whether the Linux version of netscape supports
> such wheels.
>
The answer(s) are: Yes and Yes.
It has good support in RH5.2 and XFree86 3.3.2 or greater... See:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
You will find all the skinny on "wheeled rodents"
-David Utidjian-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jolt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound support in 2.2.2
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 1999 17:19:39 +0100
Is there any update in the 2.2.2 kernel version to support more
soundcards?
I have a Turtle Beach Montego card and in RedHat 5.2 and it's not
working.
Jolt
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