Linux-Hardware Digest #29, Volume #10 Thu, 15 Apr 99 02:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: Is this a Win Modem? ("Erik")
Re: EPSON Stylus Color 400 (Ed Wilts)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
Re: Installing Redhat with LS120 floptical ("The RZA")
[Fwd: RedHat on eTower 300K - possible???] (Rich Hogle)
Re: S3 Trio3D? (Karl Kahre)
Re: TNT change to 16bit color (ben)
Re: Linux, here I come... ("Martin Ozolins")
Re: Help!! High packet collisions!! (Stephen Carville)
Linux and PIII ("Mohit Muthanna (root@achilles)")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Christopher
Browne)
Re: need reccs for new motherboard and ultra wide scsi HW for Linux (Simon Karpen)
Re: Linux, here I come... (Fred Love)
Re: Linux, here I come... (Gary Momarison)
Re: Jaz Drive support? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Erik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:09:47 +0200
Bob Martin heeft geschreven in bericht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The fact that it requires a pentium and windows marks it has a winmodem.
>
>Frank Hahn wrote:
>
>> >Credence Ross wrote:
>> >> Ok, guys, help me out here. Apparently I don't have a firm grasp on
>> >> exactly what the distinguishing features of a 'win modem' are. I've
got
>> >> this new modem, and the cd that came with it says 'PCI 56K LT WIN
>> >> MODEM'. So right away, I am suspicious. I bought this in an on-line
>> >> auction (eBay), and here are the specs they listed:
>> >>
>> >> -Manufactured by Genica
>> >> -PCI bus
>> >> -Supports both K56 Flex and V.90
>> >> 56K protocols
>> >> -Supports voice features through a
>> >> telephone handset
>> >> -Includes Trio application suite on CD-ROM
>> >> -Lucent Technologies DSP chipset
>> >> (one of the best, if not THE best chipset)
>> >> -Requires Pentium-compatible 133MHz or faster CPU and Windows
>> >> '95, '98 or NT 4.0.
>> >>
>
If it walks like a duck and sounds like a duck (and the CD that came with
the duck sais it is in fact a duck and it's also a PCI-duck) my guess would
be it is a...
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EPSON Stylus Color 400
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 20:53:08 -0500
Jens Wagner wrote:
>
> 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???
I've got mine working with the Redhat Rawhide release. Make sure your
distribution has a fairly recent version of Ghostscript - I'm using
5.10. I used Redhat's Printool to configure the printer and my first
test page was successful. So...you should be able to make it work with
SuSE if you can make it work with Redhat. You may have to be persistent
but unfortunately I've never worked with SuSE and can't tell you how to
translate my environment to yours.
--
Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 03:43:04 GMT
Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
>
> Charles R. Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
> > Language os case semsitive. Just as pen and pin are pronounced slightly
> > differently, so are Bob and bob. Are you listening, JERRY? Post
> > something in all UC and you will get lots of flames about shouting.
> >
> PEOPLEOFTHEROMANEMPIERONCEWROTELIKETHISBUTTHEYQUITPRETTYSOONAFTERDISCOVERING
> CAPSANDSPACES
>
> You are confusing language rules with style and social conventions. These
> traits come and go as time passes, I suppose fonts and colors are the next
> thing to be considered "part of the language" because so much people are
> getting used so some conventions... compilers will reject source code that's
> not monospaced, and Unix's RTFTerm will require people to write directory
> names in blue (that's how they appear in my colored Linux ls) ;-) The
> point is: semantics is not case-dependent in human language. Look at your
> dictionary, how many groups of words with different meaning you'll find that
> are lexically identical except for the case? Tell to a (human) linguist
> that you've got a file named "file" and another named "File", and maybe one
> named "fIlE", all of them being totally different things, and you're forced
> to specify the exact case to get the correct data - and he'll laugh of this
> nonsense.
I'm not confusing language rules with sytle and convention. Language is
mostly style and convention. Written and spoken languages differ in many
ways. Semantics is not case dependent, but written English (and many
other languags) capture some of the semantic and non-semantic spoken
content on paper. But the main reason for using case sensitivity in
computer languages is the need to use a limited symbol space to
represent the program in a human readable form. That is where case
sensitivity comes in handy in computer languages : it expands the symbol
field and helps make code maintainable.
I have noticed an increasing reliance on color and font, especially by
the users of MS products. I keep getting mail messages from one person
who must have 50,000 different fonts and insists on using every one of
them in every message. Another insists on using font and background
color to add information to his Access and Excel displays. Which is ok
until you ask him to sort with font color and background color as keys.
I've used color to convey information in CAD drawings for years. It
helps sometimes, it hinders sometimes. Using color to make the display
more viewable, works fine. Using color to try to add information, does
not work (yet). I think switching to wide characters would add more
information than adding colors.
--
Russ Lyttle, PE
<http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
Thank you Melissa!
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From: "The RZA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Redhat with LS120 floptical
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:12:36 +0100
I have had this problem. If your working from a CD, try setting your BIOS to
boot from the CD. The version of 5.2 I have will boot completely from CD,
negating the need for the disks.
Dominic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7evjeg$150$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Folks,
>
> I'm having difficulty installing Redhat 5.2 from the two boot floppies -
it
> doesn't appear to detect the drive when asking for the supplemental disk,
> although it boots off the first (boot) disk initially.
>
> Any hints or suggestion gratefully received.
>
> Dom ;-)
>
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From: Rich Hogle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: RedHat on eTower 300K - possible???]
Date: 14 Apr 1999 23:12:56 GMT
I'm about to install a second system at the office to run RH (or is
something else better?) and was looking
at emachines' eTower 300k as an inexpensive platform to use to get
up and running. System will be networked with NT boxes.
Has anyone installed linux on one of these (or the other e-series)
boxes. Is it
possible? Any gotcha's?
TIA
Rich
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
From: Karl Kahre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio3D?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:41:41 GMT
Christian Hecht wrote:
> Dan Shechter schrieb:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I'm having trouble with an IBM workstation that come's ith a builtin
> > S3 Trio3D, which *seems* to be unsupported by XFree...
> >
> > SuperProbe & co. seem to not recognize the card, so If anyone has any
> > exprience with it, I'd be greatful for your help..
> >
> > Shechter.
>
> i KNOW there's a possibility with the frame buffer device; there was a
> message once in this newsgroup from somebody who got this working, but
> now it's gone and i can't find it. i have the hard print at home, but
> haven't tried it yet. Anyway, somewhere in the internet is a detailed
> configuration description for another card, but it is supposed to be
> working as well with this one.
> you're right - 16 color VGA is REALLY LOUSY, but there's no X server
> yet, and s3 trio 3d has a new chipset lacking downward compatibility.
>
> see ya,
>
> christoph ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )
Yes it does work with frame buffer device. The web site is
www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee. Basically you must have kernel 2.2.x and
compile in the frame buffer device support, specify VGA mode at boot-up
(or in lilo), use the FBDev driver from XFree, and have xf86config specify
the FBDev device with the proper specs from your monitor.
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From: ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: TNT change to 16bit color
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 18:17:30 -0500
Hi,
Have you tried "startx -- -bpp 16" or "startx -- -bpp 32"?
Better yet, I added "DefaultColorDepth 32" to my XF86Config under
"Screen".
I have a Velocity 4400 and it is setup as "Riva TNT". I think if you are
not using the right card setting, it won't set the ramdac or the dot
clock right and you won't be able to use more than 8 bit color.
Ben
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From: "Martin Ozolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Subject: Re: Linux, here I come...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:05:45 -0700
Fred Love wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ren� Fournier wrote:
>
>> But first, I need to repartition my hard drive, and before I accidentally
>> kill a wholelotta data, I like to ask y'all a few questions.
>>
>> First, I "think" I want four partitions on my 10gig drive (running a Dell
>> 350, 128MB RAM, ATI RagePro):
>>
>> 3GB: NT (work)
>> 2GB: Win98 (play)
>> 1GB: Linux/BeOS/Who-knows-what (learn)
>> 4GB: Data (me)
>>
>> Is this, in your opinion, a reasonable allocation of disk space? I'm only
>> using Win98 now, so I'm not sure what NT needs/wants for disk space. I
>> intend to put all my main apps (web design, graphics, 3D, Office) on the
NT
>> partition, and leave Win98 for games only. The data partition will be
just
>> for my docs and MP3s. The idea here is, if one partition/OS misbehaves,
I
>> can just format it and reinstall, without worrying about my data (right?
>> :-).
>>
>
>Sounds good to me. Just make sure that the Linux partition is within the
>first
>1024 cylinders of the hard disk. If the drive is mapped in MBA mode, the
>number
>of heads is quadrupled, and the number of cylinders is quartered.
>
If not it will remap your primary drive to 1024 heads, regardless of the
existing partitions or formats, kinda rudely. This happened to me when I
tried to install it on a separate drive completely.
>
>>
>> Now, I've heard of stories of people having problems installing Linux on
a
>> box which already has NT (and vice versa). Apparently something to do
with
>> primary and extended partitions, etc. I'm not sure. What would you guys,
in
>> your infinite technical wisdom, suggest I do to partition my drive as
above
>> and install these OSes? (And in which order?)
>>
>
>The problem is that NT will NOT come up if the NT partition appears AFTER
>the Linux partition, as it stops when it sees a partition of unknown type.
>So, make
>Linux your partition after the NT/Windows95 poartitions.
>
HUH??? It comes up fine on my HPFS, FAT32 Mixed bag.
>
>>
>> Presently, I have only Win98 (4gig) on my primary partion, and another
6gig
>> partition that's empty (and which can be resliced). I have 1gig of data
on
>> this drive which I can't backup (I live in Russia now, without
>> tape/zip/anything), so I'll need to shuffle that data from parition to
>> partition as I repartition my drive and install these OSes.
>>
>
>Look for the utility "fips". It does a great job of resizing partitions.
I
>do not
>think you can move data from one partition to the next, only shrink or
expand
>partitions. Another great product for resizing and moving partition data
is
>"Partition Magic"
>
>>
>> Any suggestions, advice, roadmaps, or guidelines would be much
appreciated.
>> Thanks!
>>
>> ...Rene
>
>Fred
>
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From: Stephen Carville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help!! High packet collisions!!
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:20:03 -0700
Raphael wrote:
>
> I am getting extremely high packet collisions on my 10bT network!! With
> Samba, it is so slow you won't believe it, while using FTP, it's better
> (at least I get a transfer rate of up to 250+bps/sec). BTW this goes
> both ways.
>
> What I did to troubleshoot (but didn't work)
> Changing NIC's
> Changing Cat5 cables.
> Switching OS on boxes
>
> I have 2 10BT networked boxes, one with win98 and the other with Linux.
> The Win box uses a DEC21041 NIC while the Linux box has 2 RealTek 8029
> PCI (NE2000 compat.) NICs, one for internal network and the other
> connected to cable modem. The hub is a 3ComTPO. I am suspecting that the
> collisions are due to the low quality of the NE2K NICs, but I don't
> understand why there is such a big difference between Samba and FTP
> performance. I have a laptop running Win/Linux as well, and that is fine
> with both protocols when talking to the Win98/DEC21041 machine, while
> it's acting weird with the Linux gateway/server as well.
>
> Can someone please give me some suggestions??
Make sure your NIC cards are set to half duplex -- lock 'em down. I don't
know about the RealTek cards but I have seen cards insist on using full
duplex even tho the far end does not negotiate (in which case, it is
supposed to default to half). Never use full duplex on a hub unless you
want to see _lots_ of collisions. It is impossible for a hub to support
full-duplex.
--
Stephen Carville
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
====================================================
It's all right to have geniuses build systems for use by idiots, but
the path from laboratory to marketplace needs to go through the
proving ground of prudent engineering.
Peter Coffee
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From: "Mohit Muthanna (root@achilles)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and PIII
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 00:25:14 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anybody know if Linux supports PIII and it's motherboards... what
about the new PnP cards... and the newer PCMCIA cards...
Or, let me know where I should start looking for this kind of
information...Thanks.
Pls. reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Mohit Muthanna - "Imagine a hypothetical situation..."
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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 23:55:23 GMT
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 14:29:21 GMT, westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If I am working with CORBA, for example, I will possibly be working with
>CORBA servers. Why should the shell intervene to perform file expansions if I
>am not dealing with files in the first place? If I want file expansion as
>provided by the shell - which is appropriate in the case of cp, rm and such
>commands - I can call a standard library to parse the input.
It is entirely possible for the shell to recognize that you are not
dealing with files.
>I do not suppose that any such scheme could be made to work sucessfully for
>Unix.
You suppose incorrectly, and misrecognize that the *correct* context is
not "for Unix," but rather "for a shell."
I use zsh's glob expansion scheme extensively to expand mailbox names
when working with MH mail commands. It can be made "MH-aware," and
correctly expand folder names much as, in context, it can expand
filenames.
That can be extended to other "subsystems" as desired...
--
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.zsh.org>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Karpen)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: need reccs for new motherboard and ultra wide scsi HW for Linux
Date: 15 Apr 1999 04:39:44 GMT
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 21:17:45 -0700, Earl Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now I need some new reccommendations from guys who are running
>Linux with ultra wide SCSI support. What motherboards
>and/or SCSI controllers are you using? What's the most
>popular ASUS board now? Or is Intel better? Who was able to bring
>up Linux with little or no problems on their hardware?
I've had no problems with Linux on any of the Asus P2B series
motherboards. Asus tests with Linux, and it shows. The boards are
100% rock solid (with ECC RAM and Intel processors running AT THEIR
RATED CLOCK SPEED)
For SCSI, the Adaptec 7890 on the P2B-S and P2B-LS is well supported.
I'm not sure about the ethernet on the P2B-L[S] though. (the P2B-DS
SCSI is fine too)
IF you don't want onboard SCSI, I've had zero problems with
Mylex/Buslogic BT-950 and BT-958 SCSI HBAs, as well as Adaptec
2940UW and 2940U2W cards (Asus versions recommended because of more
stable firmware though), or NCR Ultrawide SCSI (both ultrawide
and ultra2wide).
I STRONGLY recommend an Asus board for any Linux system you're
building.
--Simon
(who is currently sitting in front of a workstation with a P2B and
Buslogic SCSI, and posting through a news box with a P2B and both
Buslogic and Adaptec SCSI)
--
Simon Karpen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
#include <std_disclaimer.h> My opinions are my own.
Q: What is the difference between mechanical engineers and civil engineers?
A: Mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets.
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From: Fred Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Subject: Re: Linux, here I come...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:10:03 -0400
Ren� Fournier wrote:
> But first, I need to repartition my hard drive, and before I accidentally
> kill a wholelotta data, I like to ask y'all a few questions.
>
> First, I "think" I want four partitions on my 10gig drive (running a Dell
> 350, 128MB RAM, ATI RagePro):
>
> 3GB: NT (work)
> 2GB: Win98 (play)
> 1GB: Linux/BeOS/Who-knows-what (learn)
> 4GB: Data (me)
>
> Is this, in your opinion, a reasonable allocation of disk space? I'm only
> using Win98 now, so I'm not sure what NT needs/wants for disk space. I
> intend to put all my main apps (web design, graphics, 3D, Office) on the NT
> partition, and leave Win98 for games only. The data partition will be just
> for my docs and MP3s. The idea here is, if one partition/OS misbehaves, I
> can just format it and reinstall, without worrying about my data (right?
> :-).
>
Sounds good to me. Just make sure that the Linux partition is within the
first
1024 cylinders of the hard disk. If the drive is mapped in MBA mode, the
number
of heads is quadrupled, and the number of cylinders is quartered.
>
> Now, I've heard of stories of people having problems installing Linux on a
> box which already has NT (and vice versa). Apparently something to do with
> primary and extended partitions, etc. I'm not sure. What would you guys, in
> your infinite technical wisdom, suggest I do to partition my drive as above
> and install these OSes? (And in which order?)
>
The problem is that NT will NOT come up if the NT partition appears AFTER
the Linux partition, as it stops when it sees a partition of unknown type.
So, make
Linux your partition after the NT/Windows95 poartitions.
>
> Presently, I have only Win98 (4gig) on my primary partion, and another 6gig
> partition that's empty (and which can be resliced). I have 1gig of data on
> this drive which I can't backup (I live in Russia now, without
> tape/zip/anything), so I'll need to shuffle that data from parition to
> partition as I repartition my drive and install these OSes.
>
Look for the utility "fips". It does a great job of resizing partitions. I
do not
think you can move data from one partition to the next, only shrink or expand
partitions. Another great product for resizing and moving partition data is
"Partition Magic"
>
> Any suggestions, advice, roadmaps, or guidelines would be much appreciated.
> Thanks!
>
> ...Rene
Fred
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Subject: Re: Linux, here I come...
Date: 14 Apr 1999 17:28:43 -0700
"Ren=E9 Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> Any suggestions, advice, roadmaps, or guidelines would be much appreciate=
d.
You asked for it:
Don't use your computer until you're able to back up your data.
If you ignore that advice, don't play with partitioning until
you're able to back up your data.
Before ignoring that advice, toss some salt over your left shoulder.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Jaz Drive support?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 01:15:32 GMT
Yes, it's an external SCSI.
I have a cartridge in it that is currently setup for FAT, but I have another
that I'll use for Linux.
Which brings me to..., what device is this drive-type associated with, and
would I mount it in the usual filesystem manner? Also, can I just use the
fdomain loadable module to get access to it (like I do for the External SCSI
CD on the chain), or is there a better way?
Thanks,
Robert
In article <7evf4o$833$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen) wrote:
> Is it a SCSI Jaz?
> mark
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Robert Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I have Caldera OpenLinux 1.3, with the 2.0.35 (?) kernel, and it works
> >with no difficulty with my Adaptec 2920 SCSI card and SCSI CD-ROM
> >drive. However, my understanding was that special kernel support was
> >needed for a Jaz drive, which I have; has anyone gotten a Jaz drive
> >working and, if so, where do I get the code or binaries?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Robert H. Patterson
> >
>
> --
> Mark Nielsen "Where 98 has no meaning."
> www.tcu-inc.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Computer Underground, Inc. 614-485-0506
> computers, programming, networking, Perl, PHP, SQL, HTMl, Linux, Unix
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