Linux-Hardware Digest #27, Volume #10 Wed, 14 Apr 99 21:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux supported printers (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
Re: x11amp crashing... (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
insmod ppa.o and Zip drive (Joe M.)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
help! mouse vs GA-5SMM ("Stephen Lim")
EPSON Stylus Color 400 (Jens Wagner)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Christopher
Browne)
Re: STB Desktop TV Card. (jedi)
Re: aureal soundcard ("Matthew Wilby")
Re: PCI modem, shows as serial dev in /proc/pci (Allen)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Wayne Kovsky)
Re: X terminal? ("Carl R. Friend")
more then 64MB Ram ("peter-h")
Re: Go Linux! (Dominic Leland)
Re: Need hardware for homebuilt vision system. Pointers? (root)
Re: $PATH (Marin)
Re: more then 64MB Ram (Stijn Opheide)
Re: SB PCI64 and SLab! ("Alan W. Jurgensen")
Pablo graphics tablet for XInput (Bruce R Miller)
Re: Go Linux! (David Ripton)
Re: Netgear ISA EA201c NIC (Allen)
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux supported printers
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:56:05 +0000
Douglas wrote:
> Where can I find a more complete list of printers that are known to work,
> even if they aren't on the standard list?
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Tonny
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x11amp crashing...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:04:29 +0000
dpc wrote:
> Pardon me, but how did you get your AWE64 set up?
You don't need to think about setup if you buy the OSS-driver. It takes care
of the time-consuming setup. I bougt it because I couldn't make my kernel
support sound on my AWE64Value.
--
Tonny
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From: "Charles R. Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:30:33 GMT
westprog wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Charles R. Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Chris Welch wrote:
> > >
> > > In comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > >
> > > > This is the reason for case-sensitive operating systems, file systems and
> > > > programming languages. Nobody really wants a system that can't recognise
> > > > "MyFileName" as the same as "MyFilename", but it saved a few cycles back
> in
> > > > the valve age.
> > >
> > > Nobody as in a whole lot of people? That irks me most about Dos. "bob" and
> > > "Bob" are the same thing. My question is why _wouldn't_ you want it? It
> > > doesn't hurt anything. If you want "MyFileName" then type that.
>
> One of the first things we learn when we are being taught to read is that
> Bob, BOB, and bob are the same word. This is quite a major conceptual
> breakthrough, and it takes a lot of hard work. There are very good reasons
> for this, based on hundreds of years of experience. For example "My car is
> nice. I love my car." We don't even have to think about whether "My" and "my"
> are equivalent, and that the capital "M" is there for readability. It is only
> in the strange world of Unix that we have to unlearn this.
>
One of the second things I learned was that Bob ( a noun) and bob (a
verb) were not the same word. BOB was contex sensitive. I had to parse
the whole sentence to see if it was used as a noun or verb. I also
learned that Polish(n) and polish(verb) weren't even pronounced alike.
> > > Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
> > > mediocre minds - Albert Einstein
> > The reason for using case sensitivity in an OS is that the ASCII
> > character has 256 distinct characters and 't' is not the same character
> > as 'T'.
>
> In other words, the Unix OS is too lazy to do a one-line conversion that every
> other OS I know does as a matter of routine. It forces the user to conform to
> its method of coding characters.
>
It has nothing to do with lazyness. it has to do with using as much of
the character set as possible to help reduce cost and create
maintainable programs.
> > It is not good for the OS to decide that when I typed
> > MyFirstProgram.java that Myfirs~1.jav is a better name.
> > The worst thing about windows is that if I enter a file name bob.java,
> > explorer automatically changes that to Bob.jav.
> [rest of horrors of Windows file system deleted]
>
> Well duh - Windows short file names are crap. We all knew that. Do you really
> need the ability to have two files, one called MyfirstProgram.java and another
> called MyFirstProgram.java?
Mostly when someone else wrote them and I now have to put them on my
system for some maintenance function. But also note that some
programming languages ( C and Java for example) are case sensitive. So
if I refer to a file it has to have the same name in the program and in
the language. The hardest part of making sure my Java programs run under
Windows is making sure windows will understand the class names.
>
> J.
>
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<http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
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From: Joe M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: insmod ppa.o and Zip drive
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:58:46 GMT
Hi, I installed Oracle 8.05 at work and I wanted to do it at home but I
haven't been able to get my zip drive to work on my system at home. The
facts: 1.Linux version 2.0.36 2.The zip drive is attached and there is a zip
disk in it (formatted FAT) 3.No printer configured.
Below is part of dmesg:
******************************************************** Memory: sized by
int13 0e801h Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1
virtual console (max 63) pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at
0x000fada0 pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfb220
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb250 Probing PCI hardware.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.04 BogoMIPS Memory: 79300k/81920k available
(748k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1488k data) Swansea University Computer
Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux
NET3.035. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP
Protocols: IGMP, ICMP, UDP, TCP Linux IP multicast router 0.07. VFS:
Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initializedChecking 386/387 coupling... Ok,
fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled. alias mapping IDT readonly
... ... done Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.7.2.3) #1 Tue Oct 13 22:17:11 EDT 1998 Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2 Serial
driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4)
is a 16550A tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver
v1.09 Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size ide: i82371 PIIX
(Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007 ide1: BM-DMA
at 0xf008-0xf00f hda: ST31220A, 1033MB w/256kB Cache, CHSR4/64/63 hdb:
ST31220A, 1033MB w/256kB Cache, CHSR4/64/63 hdc: ST31220A, 1033MB w/256kB
Cache, CHS 99/16/63 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at
0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a
post-1991 82077 md driver 0.36.3 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8 scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 > hdc: [PTBL] [524/64/63] hdc1 hdc2 < hdc5 > VFS:
Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. sysctl: ip forwarding off Swansea
University Computer Society IPX 0.34 for NET3.035 IPX Portions Copyright �
1995 Caldera, Inc. Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035 eth0: 3c509 at 0x300
tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 20 af cf f6 fd, IRQ 10. 3c509.c:1.16 2/3/98
[EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses. ppa:
Version 1.42 ppa: Probing port 03bc ppa: Probing port 0378 ppa: SPP port
present ppa: PS/2 bidirectional port present ppa: EPP 1.7 ppa: Probing port
0278 scsi : 0 hosts.
****************************************************************************
When I try "insmod ppa" it reports ->
/lib/modules/preffered/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy.
Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Joe
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From: "Charles R. Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:45:34 GMT
Martin Ozolins wrote:
>
> Matthias Warkus wrote in message ...
> >It was the 13 Apr 1999 12:50:09 -0500...
> >..and Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> In article <7ev7uv$m12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >
> >> >One of the first things we learn when we are being taught to read is
> that
> >> >Bob, BOB, and bob are the same word.
> >>
> >> Well, there is your problem. I learned instead that there is a correct
> >> place for capitals and that misusing them is a mistake.
> >
> >I suppose all these silly things can only happen in languages where
> >capitals are a rare occurence. Real languages capitalise nouns.
> >
> Name one besides German.
> >
> >mawa
> >--
> >We handle four billion calls a year, for everyone from presidents and
> >kings to the scum of the earth. So your call doesn't go through once
> >in a while, or you get billed for a call or two you didn't make. We
> >don't care. We don't have to, we're the phone company. -- Lily Tomlin
How many real languages do you need :)
What is the rule in Esperanto? I haven't used it for a while but I
recall it capitalised nouns. Correct me if I'm wrong.
--
Russ Lyttle, PE
<http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
Thank you Melissa!
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From: "Stephen Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help! mouse vs GA-5SMM
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:27:13 +0800
Hi,
I just installed Red Hat 5.9 in GA-5SMM M/B but I got problems - my PS/2
mouse cannot work. Could someone help me? I list the hardware as follows:
M/B - GA-5SMM (SiS 530 + SiS 5595)
CPU - K6/350
SDRAM - 128MB
K/B - PS/2 2-button mouse by Logitech
40x IDE CD drive
I tried to type "gpm -t ps2" in console but it does not work. I find that
the system is halt very often after entering BIOS modes. I am not sure it's
M/B problems or what?
Any suggestion is appreciated.
Stephen Lim
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jens Wagner)
Subject: EPSON Stylus Color 400
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:20:17 +0200
Hey,
I'm working under SuSE Linux 6.0 and want to use this printer. My first
tries in configuring apsfilter failed (the Test print page was nonsens).
What do I have to do???
Thanks a lot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:55:25 GMT
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:46:08 -0100, Jerry
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>No problem - you have full access to all the Linux source code - just go
>for it - its a simple, if tedious, bit of C code.
No need.
The issue is *not* a kernel issue; it is a shell issue.
Just pick a shell that provides configurable globbing, and configure it
to be aware of the desired globbing policy. zsh and Bash are both
likely quite able to cope with this...
--
Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you
into super-edit-debug-compile mode? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc
on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/unixshells.html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Subject: Re: STB Desktop TV Card.
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:45:32 -0700
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 12:31:46 -0400, S Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>All,
>
>Thx for the suggestions.
>
>I can now see TV with the card but there is no SOUND. Do we have sound
>support for this card.
There is no 'sound support' per se. Just make sure the audio
out of the TV card is going line in on your soundcard and
set the properties for the line in channel.
>
>This card has a BT878, audio TDA9850 chip and a Phillips tuner.
--
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while you discuss this invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: "Matthew Wilby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aureal soundcard
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:36:36 +0100
Far as I know Linux, be it SuSE, Redhat or otherwise doesn't support it yet.
Maybe in the future?
Stijn Opheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know how to configure a 'Vortex Aureal A3D soundcard' in
> redhat 5.2 . I already tried some standard soundcards in sndconfig but
> it didn't work.
> Perhaps i have to compile a kernel, or install redhat 6.0, i don't know
> (i'm a newbie).
>
> I hope someone can help me
>
> greets,
>
> Stijn.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: PCI modem, shows as serial dev in /proc/pci
Date: 14 Apr 1999 19:50:41 GMT
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 02:05:03 -0700, Greg McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lets see what we get...
>(OK--- I'll probably take it back tomorrow, as I have way too many
>projects already...)
>Modem: Creative Modem Blaster Flash 56K PCI.
>Docs indicate STRONGLY that it is a REAL HW modem--
>(from docs)
>"Compression,line control,and error correction are implemented in
>hardware. Therefore
>no special drivers or libraries are needed....."
>Sounds a lot like a HW modem to me...
Sounds like a software modem to me... Keep in mind that Softmodems are SO
common in systems today, that they are not likey to think of a softmodem as a
"special driver" anymore... I'd guess 'till proven otherwise that they're
reffering to hardware compression? And I know of NO other instance of this
model modem working under Linux (yet?)
>
>Here's what shows up in /proc/pci:
...snip...
> Bus 0, device 10, function 0:
> Serial controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 1).
If you cannot a 16550A or compatible, then you probably have a problem...
Save your reciept in case you need to return it?
> Vendor id=127a. Device id=1005.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master
Why IRQ 10? Are your built-in ports enabled but not doing anything but sucking
up resources?
>Capable. Latency=64.
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe8000000 [0xe8000000].
Something else you may wish to consider too... Even thought this could
be a HW modem, Linux also doesn't support modems that use the higher shared
memory addresses, so from what I've seen from your post, it still won't likely
work?
...snip...
>
>Attempting (lameley) to use setserial, I tried :
>
>setserial -av /dev/ttyS3 irq 10 uart 16550A
>(What's the I/o port for a PCI device???)
>
>It gave the fscking thing one of the std serial i/o ports...
>/dev/ttyS3, Line 3, UART: 16650, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 10
> Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
> closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
> Flags: spd_normal
>
>As this is a PCI device, I suspect something else will be needed.
>Needless to say, It don't work yet.
>
>Does this need kernel help or can it be done thru other available
>means???
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:55:48 -0600
From: Wayne Kovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: sndconfig - PnP problems
Thomas Keats wrote:
> AWE64 problem persists, could there have been too high a temperature in the case
> from no fan in the powersupply? could it have toasted the AWE64??
That is a possibility, but a very remote one, I think, Thomas; I doubt
seriously that the AWE64 succumbed to a heat problem in the case. I
think it is probably a configuration problem.
--
Wayne Kovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Colorado Software Summit (A Java Programming Conference)
http://www.SoftwareSummit.com
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From: "Carl R. Friend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: X terminal?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:13:01 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> The traffic issue stems from the fact that many X terminals did boot
> entirely off the network. So, a terminal might download a 15MB
> (approx size of my HP terminal's OS) OS file from the boot server.
Fifteen megs? My, that _is_ a bit on the obese side. My old IBM
X-station 130 loads a 284k secondary loader then a 595k X server
via TFTP when it boots. Other than that, it only loads an occasional
font file and handles the X protocol.
> Now, many terminals can/do have their OSs loaded into a
> flashdisk on the machine, eliminating that problem.
That only speeds up the boot process and does nothing for the
continual traffic between X-client and X-server (which is not _that_
intensive, really).
For large applications it makes more sense to pass only the graphics
bits between client and server than pass a 20 Mo code bit across the
network each time it gets invoked.
I like X terminals.
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| Minicomputer Collector / Enthusiast | Massachusetts, USA |
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From: "peter-h" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: more then 64MB Ram
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:32:15 +0200
hi guys,
how can i use more then 64MB of Ram ?
i have 128MB of Ram installed, what must i do
thanks for helping
Peter
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From: Dominic Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Go Linux!
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 17:52:50 GMT
I have a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 w/4MB RAM. Under Win9x I can only get
800x600 (even both my monitor and card are supposed to support 1024x768).
Under Linux, I can get 1024x768.
Dominic Leland
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.ai,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need hardware for homebuilt vision system. Pointers?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 16:06:51 -0400
You might want order a free catalog from Jameco Electronics
(http://www.jameco.com), they've got stuff that you could either use or at
least give you ideas to start.
Randy Crawford wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to roll my own Linux-based vision system, and I need some sort of
> camera that will integrate with a pentium PC running Linux (or windows,
> if absolutely necessary).
>
> I'm looking for pointers to both hardware (camera and I/O card) as well
> as references of related research or hobbyist experiences.
>
> The application will be viewing a subject that moves frequently (backyard
> birds), identifying them and targeting them (for non-violent purposes :-).
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --
> Randy Crawford
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Joyce Kilmer was thinking about central Illinois.
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 15:54:01 +0200
From: Marin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: $PATH
�ystein Skundberg wrote:
>
> "J. Benjamin Hale" wrote:
> >
> > Where is my $PATH variable? How can I set it?
> >
> > --
> >
> In ~/.bash_profile, I think (If you're using bash).
>
> You can specify multiple folders in a colon-separated list, like this:
> PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/home/bin:/usr/local/bin:/this_dir:/that_dir
> etc..
>
> �S
for all users set it in /etc/profile, only for you before
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From: Stijn Opheide <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: more then 64MB Ram
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:42:46 +0200
in liloconf you add the line:
append="mem=128M"
greets,
Stijn.
peter-h wrote:
>
> hi guys,
>
> how can i use more then 64MB of Ram ?
> i have 128MB of Ram installed, what must i do
>
> thanks for helping
>
> Peter
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From: "Alan W. Jurgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB PCI64 and SLab!
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:54:03 -0500
Hi Yall,
Ive Got the Create Version of AudioPCI Card, es1371...
Cant Figure out how to load these as modules..?
I can do a modprobe es1371 and it appears to load with minimal
complaint...
but cat /dev/sndstat doesn't give any info...
HELP
thankx!!!! alman
Jochen Henneberg wrote:
>
> Black Widow wrote:
> >
> > How did you get linux to recognise the SB PCI64? It can't even see it on
> > mine.
> > TIA.
> > --
> > Have fun!
> >
> > Black Widow �{:-)>
>
> Kernel 2.2.4 support the ensonique chipset on the pci64 card. Try out
> the test mentioned in the kernel help. It's a driver calles 1370 or
> 1371, you must find out which chipset is on your card. Then it should
> work nice!
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jochen Henneberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Technical University Hamburg-Harburg
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>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce R Miller)
Subject: Pablo graphics tablet for XInput
Date: 14 Apr 1999 22:58:05 GMT
Hi folks;
Does anybody know if the Pablo graphics tablet (from KidBoard)
can be used with linux/XFree86 ?
I looked abit in the docs, but didn't find drivers explicitly
for it;
Are there xinput drivers for it, or is it compatible with
wacom, or some other, graphics tablet?
Thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Go Linux!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 19:45:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dominic Leland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Diamond Stealth 3D 3000 w/4MB RAM. Under Win9x I can only get
>800x600 (even both my monitor and card are supposed to support 1024x768).
>Under Linux, I can get 1024x768.
You probably have a bad Windows .INF file for your monitor. Annoying,
but easy to fix.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Netgear ISA EA201c NIC
Date: 14 Apr 1999 19:50:44 GMT
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 16:01:16 GMT, "J. R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Allen wrote:
>>
>> It still won't boot after taking out the NIC?
>
>That's right.
>
>> I guess at that point,
>> best thing to do is to dump the CMOS memory, and remove all cards or drive
>> connectors except video card, and start re-booting from there, adding parts
>> one at a time, 'till you find out which one won't allow you to continue.
>
>Well, I'm afraid I can't leave out the I/O card, either, as it contains
>both
>the floppy and the HD controllers. ;-)
>
You don't need the I/O or any drives for now, just the video card at first, to
see if the CPU, RAM, motherboard, and video card still work. If nothing at this
stage, then remove the RAM and reboot. THAT should produce much beeping, and if
not, remove the video card, replace RAM and reboot. If no beeps at this stage,
then it is either your CPU, or more likely your motherboard. If you did get a
bios banner before, and a few beeps, then reboot with a keyboard. Add the I/O
card next, without anything plugged into it, and then the floppy drive(s), hard
drive(s), and additional cards one at a time, rebooting after each one, 'till it
either works, or you find the component that causes it not to do so.
Symptoms suggest the possibility of damage from static discharge too?
>But seriously, this is the first time this old ('92 vintage) Gateway '486
>did something like this, despite of many hardware reconfigs in the
>meantime.
>I still need to do more testing along the lines you suggested, but I'm
>afraid
>the problem might be in the motherboard, as I have already tried a
>different
>I/O card to no avail. I have two IDE HDs and both show gibberish when
>doing
>the dir on them in the DOS partition. The Linux partition is also giving
>up on boot. The BIOS looks good though.
>
>From the fact that this happened after I put in thet new NIC, may indicate
>that
>either the NIC was somehow bad and shorted something on the MoBo, or the
>great
>force that had to be used to seat the card in the edge connector broke
>some
>traces in the MoBo. For that's one thing I always hated about this
>ISA-bus
>PC: the excessive force required to press those cards in the edge
>connectors.
>PCI slots are just so much smoother when inserting a card in them!
>
>Anyway, thanks for the empathy,
>Joe
Allen
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onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
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