Linux-Hardware Digest #38, Volume #10 Thu, 15 Apr 99 21:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: diamond monster fusion and x windows ("Sharjeel H. Shafiq")
2.2 Sound working on HP Omnibook 3000 (Edward Choh)
Re: 250MB ATAPI Zip? (Piniek aka Piotr Ingling)
FS: New & Sealed Jaz Traveller For Sale ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 2.2.5 Kernel is dead ("J. Benjamin Hale")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("James Ray
Kenney")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("James Ray
Kenney")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("James Ray
Kenney")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("James Ray
Kenney")
Symbios SCSI assert failure ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Brother MFC 4550 Printer (Douglas Cooper)
pentium motherboards with onboard ethernet? (Matt)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Charles R.
Lyttle")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
How good is an S3 Virge for Linux (SVGALIB) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Monitor flicker (Jim)
Inspiron7000:modem? ("Stephen Quinlan [C]")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
Re: Okidata 6e ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Adaptec 290x controller (Simone Piccardi)
Re: need help with modem setup in Redhat 5.2 ("Jan Johansson")
Re: cyrix (Edward Wang)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
Linux on SparcStation 2 (video card) (Richard Abraham)
Buffer hash error? ("Rick Kosbab")
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From: "Sharjeel H. Shafiq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: diamond monster fusion and x windows
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:41:31 -0500
Which xserver are you using? it looks like you are using the vga server.
try this web page: http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
it has instructions on how to get the voodoo card up and running.
My monster fusion pci works perfectly using this xserver.
good luck!
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Peter Roosakos wrote:
> I've got a diamond monster fusion AGP card and I can only get x windows to
> work if I set it up as a generic (8 bit color, 640x480, vga) VGA device. It
> will complain that it cannot do 16 bpp, even though the card has 16MB of
> RAM!! Any clues?
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
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From: Edward Choh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2.2 Sound working on HP Omnibook 3000
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 01:57:08 +0800
Hmm, has anyone got their sound working on a 2.2 kernel with the
Omnibook 3000? I tried what there was in the OB3000 faq but the sound
doesn't work properly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Piniek aka Piotr Ingling)
Subject: Re: 250MB ATAPI Zip?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:54:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dnia Wed, 14 Apr 1999 13:16:17 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou
Grinzo) napisa�(a):
>I've used both ATAPI and PP 100MB Zip drives with Linux, and
>found them to be a great combination. I see that the 250MB
>ATAPI Zip drives are now out (at least PC Connection's
>web site lists them as being in stock, for $169.95US).
>
>Can anyone comment on whether these work with RH 5.1? I'm
>guessing there will be no problems at all, but I'd like to
>know before I start exercising ye olde credit card....
AFAIK they work with the imm driver. There were some ZIP250 owners reporting
successes.
Piotr Ingling
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.iomega.zip.jazz,alt.iomega.zip.jaz,comp.periphs.scsi,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.sys.mac.hardware.storage
Subject: FS: New & Sealed Jaz Traveller For Sale
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:25:50 GMT
I'm selling 2 new units of Jaz Traveller. Products are sealed in
original retail box.
Visit Iomega for info and images
http://www.iomega.com/product/prodguide/jazguide/index3.html
References available upon request.
reply [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "J. Benjamin Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Kernel is dead
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:26:54 -0400
Try running lilo -v after a compile of the kernel. You may also want to add
both kernels into your lilo.conf so that you don't have to boot off of the
floppy to change things.
--
J. Benjamin Hale
85 SE 16th Avenue, F203
Gainesville FL 32601-0504
352/335-6532
David Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01be8752$24493c80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I compiled the 2.2.5 kernel on my system and now it is totall dead.. This
> is what I see:
>
> LILO boot: linux
> Loading Linux........
> Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
>
> Then the machine is dead as a can of spam. Never does another thing. If
I
> boot off of a floppy and change Lilo back to use my old 2.0.36 kernel it
> boots fine. I've tried recompiling the 2.2.5 kernel with different
options
> and still get the same thing. Any reason for this?
> --DavidM
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From: "James Ray Kenney" <[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 16:42:54 -0500
I am sorry about the multiple posts, but my newsreader kept giving me errors
saying that my message was not posted because the new text contained less
characters than the quoted text!!! It is obvious that it was lying!!!
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From: "James Ray Kenney" <[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 16:44:30 -0500
The message I was getting was:
Outlook Express could not post your message. Subject 'Re: All the current
OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)', Account:
'news.tdh.texas.gov', Server: 'news.tdh.texas.gov', Protocol: NNTP, Server
Response: '441 Article not posted -- more included text than new text',
Port: 119, Secure(SSL): No, Server Error: 441, Error Number: 0x800CCCA9
Yes I know.....No flames please, I am at work and have to use what programs
we are allowed to use.
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From: "James Ray Kenney" <[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 16:31:43 -0500
<snip>
> 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.
I was always under the impression that the "M" signified either: The start
of a sentence, A proper name, a Title, or an abbreviation(with some
exceptions... Like 'I').(Mabe more reasons, but that is all I can think of
right now.)
If you see:
Going to town. You think he/she is telling you they are going to town.
going to town. You usually think: Ohhh I need to look up to the prevous
line to see the first of the sentence.
Going to Town You think: TITLE as in movie or book title.
FYI You think: Oh, an abbreviation, for your
information.
Elmer Going You think: someone named Going, not that Elmer is going
somewhere.
Sorry about Snipping out so much text but our news server will not let you
post less text than is quoted!!!
<snip>
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From: "James Ray Kenney" <[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 16:28:00 -0500
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ev7uv$m12$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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.
I was always under the impression that the "M" signified either: The start
of a sentence, A proper name, a Title, or an abbreviation(with some
exceptions... Like 'I').(Mabe more reasons, but that is all I can think of
right now.)
If you see:
Going to town. You think he/she is telling you they are going to town.
going to town. You usually think: Ohhh I need to look up to the prevous
line to see the first of the sentence.
Going to Town You think: TITLE as in movie or book title.
FYI You think: Oh, an abbreviation, for your
information.
Elmer Going You think: someone named Going, not that Elmer
is going somewhere.
<snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Symbios SCSI assert failure
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:02:39 GMT
Hello- I have a very odd problem. I have a dual PII that I am trying to
install RH5.2 on for use as a mail server. When I use fdisk to set up my
paritions, I set them up and then when I write the table it sits there. On
virtual console 3 (or maybe 4, the one with output) it says over and over
again: assert failed (target == cmd->target) in ncrxxxpci.c (the file name
may not be right but it is the c file for the scsi card). Does anyone know
why this may be??? If you need any more info please let me know.
Jordan
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From: Douglas Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Brother MFC 4550 Printer
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:57:07 +0000
Can anyone out there help me. I have a Brother 4550 MFC printer and
can't get it to work under RedHat linux. I've tried it under RedHat
5.0 as well as 5.2 and the new starbuck (5.9). I have a Deskjet 694C
that works fine. Thanks for any help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt)
Subject: pentium motherboards with onboard ethernet?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:33:13 GMT
hi there everyone,
I was wondering if anyone knows of a pentium motherboard that has
onboard ethernet (preferably 100Mbit)?
thanks in advance
Matt
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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 23:35:24 GMT
Craig Kelley wrote:
>
> "Rob Eamon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > >This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem.
> >
> > I must strongly disagree. Issues with mixed-case filenames,
> > whitespace and filename length existed long before Windows
> > became popular.
> >
> > >Try to remember
> > >back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > >Did you miss the
> > >whitespace limitations?
> >
> > Yes. We worked around it, but whitespace would've been
> > very welcome.
> >
> > >Probably not. When Windows 3 was
> > >released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
> > >deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
> >
> > I think you're confusing when the solution was provided with
> > when the problem was identified. Again, the 'problem' existed
> > before Windows. In fact, there were tools that added long
> > filename support to DOS before Windows got the capability.
>
> When were we talking about long filename support? I'm not going to defend
> the braindead 8.3 limitation. It was inconvenient under DOS to have
> files named
>
> "BL AH.D T"
>
> Even if you could (which you couldn't) -- nobody would have done it.
>
> > >Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
> > >case for GUI work.
> >
> > Change that to "single-case names for CLI work" and "mixed-case
> > for application work" and I'll agree with you. Text-based applications
> > drove the need for mixed-case too, not just GUIs (e.g., WordPerfect,
> > WordStar, 1-2-3, Symphony, etc.).
>
> Okay, pedantic point noted; so we agree then?
>
> Can we *please* kill this thread now?
>
> --
> The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
> Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
You could have files with names like that under DOS. That was an easy
way to create files that stayed hidden and couldn't be accessed by the
"typical" user. The common utilities dir and del choked on them but
there were ways around that. Oh the fun and games of those (better
forgotten) days.
--
Russ Lyttle, PE
<http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
Thank you Melissa!
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From: "Rob Eamon" <[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 13:28:33 -0600
Craig Kelley wrote in message ...
[snip]
>
>Correct me if I'm wrong, but do "nontechnical users" ever type a
>filename after they create it? In my experience, they always go to
>the file manager or File->Open inside the app.
Then why is case-sensitivity important?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How good is an S3 Virge for Linux (SVGALIB)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:20:20 GMT
A while ago, I upgraded from my Cirrus Logic 5434 chip (1 MB) to
a S3 Virge (63C375 with 4MB RAM) having been told that my
graphics would be better. X windows is, but SVGALIB applications
eg. SVGALIB mame seem MUCH slower (MAME in particular runs at about 1/3
of the speed of the DOS counterpart, but previously ran as quickly). SVGALIB
(1.3.0) seems to suggest (when it detects the video card!) that it is not
well supported in SVGALIB.
Is this true?
I'm running kernel 2.2.5 (having previously been running 2.0.36) with RH 5.2
and a Cyrix 6x86 MII 300 MHz (PR), and have set (I think!) the ARR etc
for the linear frame buffer correctly.
But why is it so sloooow, compared both to windows and the previous card.
Can anyone help me out, or suggest a better card to upgrade to.
At the mo, I'm seriously considering a return to the naff 5434!
Mike
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From: Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor flicker
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:33:18 -0500
I just got a Graphics Blaster Riva TNT card (PCI) and am using XFree
3.3.3.1 with Slackware 3.6. The monitor flickers so badly it's not
viewable. First, how can I tell if 3.3.3.1 is actually installed?
Entering X --version gives me a screen full of drivers but no version
number. In XF86Setup there is a riva tnt card listed but none in the
list of chip sets. I'm still new to linux so I don't know if it's a bad
card or my incompetence that's causing the problem. Everything runs
fine with my Trident tgui9680 video card.
My system is a 400 mhz AMD K6-2, Asus P5 MB with 64 Meg PC100, Samsung
SyncMaster3 monitor.
TIA,
Jim
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From: "Stephen Quinlan [C]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Inspiron7000:modem?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 06:24:45 -0500
Hello to all,
I purchased a Dell Inspiron 7000 portable with the internal modem
before checking into what type it was - only to reveal :-| the
winmodem.
Does anyone have a recommendation for a high quality/performance (slot)
modem I should purchase for my machine?
any suggestions are greatful.
Stephen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
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 17:05:39 -0700
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:12:50 -0700, Martin Ozolins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Craig Kelley wrote in message ...
>>"Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>>> > > when using Linux I see that people more usually recurse to hyphens to
>>> > > separate complex names (e.g. gnome-session instead of GnomeSession)
>>> because
>>> > This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem. Try to remember
>>> > back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case? Did you miss the
>>> > whitespace limitations? Probably not. When Windows 3 was
>>> > released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
>>> > deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
>>> > Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
>>> > case for GUI work. When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
>>> > all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
>>> > programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
>>> > however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
>>> > descriptive.
>>>
>>> I din't know about most people, but I did miss large names and cases in
>>> FAT16 when I was programming because it sucks having a source file
>>> implementing MyClassWithABigName and having to call it MCLWABGN.CPP.
>That
>>> sucked deeply, with or without GUI. I could even see some people getting
>>> used to shorter names for their classes, or developing standards for
>>> abbreviation (the VC++ wizards would even help you!) so the filename is
>not
>>> so bad - which is having the tail to wag the dog.
>>
>>I never mentioned 8.3 filenames.
>>
>>I will not defend that crappy design.
>>
>Don't dump on it until you can write your file system to run in 128K.
That's ancient history.
IOW: it should have been fixed 14 years ago instead of just 4.
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Okidata 6e
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:03:58 GMT
FIXED!!
I am posting from my dejanews account. Easy to post this way.
Anyway I fixed it. Heres what I did (under Linux Kernel 2.2.5):
1. Reboot to windows. You need to make the printer go into HP LaserJet 4p
emulation mode, and the only way to do that is to go to DOS (if it has CDROM
and mouse support) or Windows. Since my DOS didn't have CDROM or mouse
support, and windows didn't have printer support at all, I opened the cdrom
through windows, and went to the "d:\dosop" directory, and ran the install
program, which opened a little dos box. Follow the intructions, and once you
finish. Then go to the "c:\op6eex" directory, and run the "op6eex.exe"
program. Try to print sample pages. If it worked, and you checked emulation
to be sure it is set to HP Laserjet, you can reboot to linux. If it didn't at
least you can call for support on a supported os.
2. Go to "/usr/src/linux", changed to root user ("su"), and typed "make
menuconfig":
Go to "General Setup".
Then to "Parallel port support" and types "M" (made it a module).
Then I typed "M" on on "PC-style hardware".
Go to "Plug and Play support" and actived both selections as modules.
Go to "Character devices" and made "Parallel printer support" plus "Support
IEEE1284 status readback" a module.
(NOTE:The Plug and play stuff and the "Support IEEE1284 status readback" is
optional for detecting the status of the printer.)
Now at the console type "make modules modules_install"
3. Now add the below to your /etc/conf.modules:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,auto,5
4. Type:
insmod parport
insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,auto,5
insmod lp
5. The below is just for setting up the printing software. It depends on
distrubution I think. For Redhat 5.1:
Type "printtool"
Click add, and hopefully it will tell you /dev/lp[some number] was detected.
Click "input filter select", and select "HP LasertJet 4/5/6 sereies".
Have it "EOF after each page".
Get out back to the main Print Tool dialog box by selecting ok for the 2
subdialogs.
Try to print a test page.
E-Mail me if this dind't work, or it is to hard to understand.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vincent Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am having troubles printing from the Okidata 6e printer. Now, I can
> get it to be probed by linux, so I know linux knows about it. I can
> get it to print, though not when I wan't it to. Like, sometime I might
> get a printer output all of the sudden from something I printed a half
> hour ago. The test pages (I am using redhat 5.1's printtool) some out,
> the usually not in full, and mized with other printer output. In the
> hundreds of pages that have come out, about 2 came out fine (one was a
> sample postscript page from redhat, so I know the printer must work
> fine. Ohh yes, the DOS output was reliable and good looking (when I
> clicked print in the dos setup util, the printer grumbled right away,
> and printed.)
> --------------
> Vincent Harvey
> http://www.mcs.net/~vharvey (don't go here now, still problems)
>
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From: Simone Piccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec 290x controller
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:23:27 +0200
Hi,
does anyone know if this controller (Adaptec 2902) is supported in
linux?
Thanks
--
Simone Piccardi
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux.dial-up,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: need help with modem setup in Redhat 5.2
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:00:40 +0200
This is a pnp modem, you must use pnpisatools to set it up.
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From: Edward Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cyrix
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:43:43 -0700
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I got cyrix 6x86MX 300. It is very unstable even at installation. One out
three I got luck and go through install. But after that I got "Signal 11
Error" when using gcc compiler. I got system hang when I try to build
initial kernel. Any suggestion on that?
Thanks in advance!
jason wrote:
> You don't give any useful information. What kinds of problems are you
> having? Major system instability? I have a Cyrix PR233MX that was very
> unstable. I underclocked it to 200Mhz and now all is well. Methinks I
> was sold a bogus chip. Maybe this will work for you? Or is instability
> not your problem?
>
> -jason
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Is anyone running Linux on a cyrix MediaGXtm?
> > Is that possible?
> > I'm having a lot of problems.
> > Thanks
> > Marcello
--
Tony Qiu
Systems Architect
LFP, Inc.
8484 Wilshire Blv. Suite 444, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Phone: 323-651-5400 ext. 7362 Fax: 323-782-0497
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I got cyrix 6x86MX 300. It is very unstable even at installation. One out
three I got luck and go through install. But after that I got "Signal 11
Error" when using gcc compiler. I got system hang when I try to build initial
kernel. Any suggestion on that?
<P>Thanks in advance!
<P>jason wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>You don't give any useful information. What
kinds of problems are you
<BR>having? Major system instability? I have a Cyrix PR233MX
that was very
<BR>unstable. I underclocked it to 200Mhz and now all is well.
Methinks I
<BR>was sold a bogus chip. Maybe this will work for you? Or
is instability
<BR>not your problem?
<P>-jason
<P>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<BR>>
<BR>> Is anyone running Linux on a cyrix MediaGXtm?
<BR>> Is that possible?
<BR>> I'm having a lot of problems.
<BR>> Thanks
<BR>> Marcello</BLOCKQUOTE>
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Tony Qiu
Systems Architect
LFP, Inc.
8484 Wilshire Blv. Suite 444, Beverly Hills, CA 90211
Phone: 323-651-5400 ext. 7362 Fax: 323-782-0497</PRE>
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From: "Rob Eamon" <[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 13:14:31 -0600
Charles R. Lyttle wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
[snip]
>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.
Excellent point but what's different here vs. being case-sensitive with
filenames is that the convention of using all caps to indicate shouting
is widely known. The convention of how MyFilename is different
from MyFileName is known only to the creator. Thus, anyone other
than the creator (and possibly their closest friends :-)) will have
no idea of how the file "Dogs" differs from the file "dogs" without
doing more investigation.
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From: Richard Abraham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on SparcStation 2 (video card)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 15:21:06 -0400
To Linux users:
I am trying to install Linux on a SparcStation 2. It has a monochrome
monitor.
After
ok boot cdrom
It comes up and says all I have to do is press enter to install. It
uncompresses the image and then fails with the message:
Could not find a known video card on this machine.
I'm not really planning to use this machine from its console, rather
through netword connections so I'm not too worried about the video
card.
Is there anyway to install RH 5.2 Linux on this machine despite the fact
it does not recognize the video card.
Thanks in advance.
Richard Abraham
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From: "Rick Kosbab" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Buffer hash error?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:08:11 -0400
when i tyred to intstall linux, i kept getting a kernal Panic: buffer hash
error 9(ithink) and i cant get past it, hers system specs in much detail:
System: Hombuilt,NickName: GameStar
MB: Asus P2B with 1008 bios upgrade APGset 440 BX intel chipset
Pros: 450 PIII
Ram: 128 Megs
WD 20.1 Gig
Vid: ATI Rage Fury 32meg APG
Soundcard: SoundBlaster Live!
DVD/CD: SoundBlaster PC-DVD 3rd gen Drive with mpeg2 card
E/Z base 10/100
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Rick Kosbab
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"You can fix ANYTHING with a large enouf hammer"
"Backups? We dont need no stiken Ba!@##$#==--- NO CARRIER
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