Linux-Hardware Digest #185, Volume #10 Sat, 8 May 99 10:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: WinPrinters... Re: Winmodems and Linux (David Steuber)
scsi =ncr 53c400 scanner=microtek ll (3 pass) system=i486 help? ("Ron")
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Tesla Coil)
Jaz 2gb external scsi and Linux (Ralph Alvy)
Proview PnP monitor (Kenneth Pinyan)
Modem Sharing - can it be done?? (PC --> Linux) (J.Pallister)
Re: Fibre Channel for Linux? (Eric Lee Green)
WTB 72 pin Parity ("Tony")
Re: Help with sound driver startup (Eric Lee Green)
Re: in search of low profile computer cases (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Linux on SGI????? (bryan)
Re: RAM 128 MB ("Nuno Pinhal")
HP Deskjet 500C ("Oliver J. Haas")
Printing (Christian Nake)
Newbie: How access files on floppy with linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Eric Lee Green)
Re: How good is a Riva TNT for svgalib? (Vagelis Blathras)
Re: RAM 128 MB (Eric Lee Green)
Re: s3 Trio3d ("Alan Sims")
Re: DFP digital LCD monitor, Matrox card, framebuffer/X woes (Roland Schmehl)
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (James Stafford)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (brian moore)
Re: Home-made serial interface for UPS (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Linux on a Notebook? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: How to distinguish ECC memory? ("John Howland")
Solution: linux drivers for a D-Link DFE-530 TX 10/100 mbits NIC ("Mathieu Imrazene")
Re: Closed caption w/ bttv? (Alex Taylor)
Glide Wrappers (Thomas Kochak)
System Recommendations (Matt Tyler)
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: WinPrinters... Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: 07 May 1999 23:00:14 -0400
It's not unlike needing a new computer every two years, according to
GW2K.
I wonder how the USB printer interface will change over time...
--
David Steuber | s/trashcan/david/ if you wish to reply by mail
I know it all. I just can't remember it all at once.
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi =ncr 53c400 scanner=microtek ll (3 pass) system=i486 help?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 22:29:58 -0700
I have redhat 5.2 k 2.0.36 running on an old i486 box. I want to hook up my
old microtek ll (3-pass) scanner to it with a NCR 53C400 SCSI card, then use
the SANE driver for it. If anyone has any experience with these components
please give me some tips on configuration etc. and/or a heads up on problems
I may run into.
thanks
Ron
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From: Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 21:31:32 -0500
On 6 May 1999 Brian Moore replied to Andrew Comech:
>> At the same time, PSN is close to 100% in more than 50% cases (all intel
>> users who did not know how to disable PSN).
>
> Neither is 100% identification. (Think shared machines: quite common at
> many businesses.)
Think also, by the time PSNs are on a substantial enough percentage of
machines for projects utilizing them to be widely effective, the Pentium
III will be entering the secondary market. The result will be something
like being able to buy used automotive license plates at a thrift shop, with
the police relying on records of which you had on your vehicle during your
last traffic stop.
I expect PSN nuisance-to-utility will exceed that questioned of MS Word
macros in the aftermath of Melissa. Internet sites will request PSNs for
purposes they are simply believed to serve. The CDA decisions held that
credit card adult verification schemes are too flawed for law, but their use
persists quite as if meaningful. Talk City is planning to do a PSN-secured
kids-only chat room. Haven't these people heard that elementary students
are increasingly accessing the internet via public access terminals at schools
and public libraries? Those will provide one PSN to multiple kids *and* adults.
Ludicrous plan, but will probably steam ahead for sake of "we're concerned
for the welfare of your kids" advertising bullshit.
Tell me whether this is technically possible (and I post it for warning, not
to distribute bomb designs): Remember the Cherynobyl virus? Checking
against the system clock...how old-fashioned. Why be so indiscriminate
with your victims when it becomes possible to torpedo specific machines
by checking against their PSN? Replicates on unaffected carrier systems.
Too rare a disease to be noticed and put into scanware. Targetted system
is whacked upon being identified; attack code erased until opportunity for
reentry. Logical troubleshooting will rule out a virus in the absence of any
local evidence of an epidemic, and after seemingly random crashes, maybe
conclude (correctly in a sense) that it is a manufacturing flaw in the CPU.
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From: Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jaz 2gb external scsi and Linux
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 06:18:58 GMT
I have an Adaptec 2940UW installed, with a Jaz 2gb external scsi device
attached. I also have a parallel port Zip drive attached to the para port.
Using a RedHat 5.2 Linux.
My system doesn't seem to notice the Jaz drive under Linux, though it works
fine under NT, OS/2 and DR-DOS. My Zip drive works fine as /dev/sda4. fdisk
finds nothing to open when I try it with /dev/sdb, /dev/sdc, etc.
Here's my conf.modules file contents:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias sd sd
I recently put the sd module in there, thinking that would help things, but it
didn't. I'm very very new to Linux, so probably don't really understand
something very fundamental here. I'm also just as new to scsi devices, having
only used IDE devices until a couple weeks ago.
--
Ralph
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From: Kenneth Pinyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proview PnP monitor
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:53:52 -0700
My new 17" PX-765 apparently doesn't like anything above 640x480 while
in X, and Proview is stammering regarding whether this W9X-ready (read:
only works under Bill's) can be adapted to accept higher res. rates
without doing the PnP thang somehow. Seems DDC requires a boot-time
initialization from the OS to the monitor and some handshaking
thereafter...
Anyone out there in Linux-Land know of some resources where I can learn
how to coax my Trident 9685-based video card to send the appropriate
signals? Is there some DDC 'language' standard, or is it generally
proprietary? Hurry up and wait for Proview to develop a 'solution?'
Thanx for any replies --
Ken Pinyan
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Subject: Modem Sharing - can it be done?? (PC --> Linux)
From: J.Pallister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 3 May 1999 12:49:46 -0400
Can you share a modem on a linux box so that it may be accessed by a PC
running windows NT 4.0? If yes, how do you do it? I have a 3com/USR 56k
modem configured on my Linux box (redhat 5.2) and I need to dial out from
my PC.
Any help would be appreciated.
J.Pallister
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Fibre Channel for Linux?
Date: 8 May 1999 03:08:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 05 May 1999 23:46:56 -0400, Patrick Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Patrick Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> > I am looking to do massive bandwidth file serving around our office and
>> > 100BaseT just isn't fast enough for Uncompressed video files
>> > (20-25MB/s). We cuurently have all of our NT systems running through an
>> > 8 port FC switch but I need to get my RedHat 5.0 box onto that as well.
>
>The problem with that is I have no other ATM hardware and I already own an
>Ancor 8 port Fibre Channel switch. Given my druthers (BTW if anyone sees them
>let me know), I would like to use hardware I already own.
There is something called the "Global Filesystem" project at some
cold-country university (U. of Minnesota?). They have fibre channel
drivers for Linux for several fibre channel cards. However, I do not know
whether there is a TCP-over-FC driver for Linux.
You might want to try Hotbot/Webcrawler/etc. to see if you can track down the
Global Filesystem Project guys.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green
One database programmer/system administrator for hire, see web site above
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.ads.forsale.computers.used,aus.ads.wanted,aus.computers.linux
Subject: WTB 72 pin Parity
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 13:13:15 +1000
I am after some 72pin simms
Full parity ECC
To go in an old Compaq box
Anyone got some of these they want to sell??
prefer 8, 16 ,32 meg
But will consider all sizes
PS must be Full parity and ECC !!!
Thanks
Tony Platt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Help with sound driver startup
Date: 8 May 1999 03:12:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 07 May 1999 09:43:24 +0200, Janos Ero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To start my ALSA sound driver I have to type
>/sbin/modprobe snd-audiopci
>/sbin/modprobe snd-pcm1-oss
>
>I can do this only as root.
>
>I tried to install an automatic
>activation in /etc/rc.d/rc3.d
>and another in /etc/rc.d/init.d
>but it failed. It did not install
>the driver but even caused strange
>ststem behavior. (once the network
>connection disappeared!)
>
>Question: what should I do to
>automatize the installation?
What distribution of Linux?
I ran the "alsaconf" script on my Red Hat 6.0 system here at home and it
put a bunch of stuff in my /etc/conf.modules that made the modules
auto-insert when the system booted. I think it'll work that way on Red
Hat 5.2 also, though I don't have a 5.2 system to try it on. Anyhow, I
just made sure I had 'sound' enabled in 'linuxconf', and it worked.
"alsaconf" is available from the ALSA home page at
http://www.alsa-project.org .
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green
One database programmer/system administrator for hire, see web site above
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: in search of low profile computer cases
Date: 8 May 1999 03:16:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 05 May 1999 08:56:17 -0400, Michael Hirsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know of a low profile computer case? I'm trying to make
>myself a box that isn't quite so chunky. Ideally, I would be able to
>find a case that would look at home in a stereo cabinet.
California PC Products (do a Yahoo search for their web site) has a
2U rack case, but it won't fit in a stereo cabinet (it is MUCH too
long!).
The other possibility is to go to http://www.netier.com and get one of
their "thin clients". They work fine with Linux (Linux Hardware
Solutions sold them). They're no speed demon, but they're small, and they'll
run all of your Intel-based Linux software (unlike the NetWinder). If
you want more info, just drop me some EMAIL.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green
One database programmer/system administrator for hire, see web site above
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on SGI?????
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 03:47:06 GMT
start at www.linux.sgi.com
Scott Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I was recently given an SGI Indigo box without a floppy drive. There is
: a network card and a hard drive. The hard drive was formated!. I can
: only boot up the on board BIOS and get the SGI menu. The machine is
: plugged into our NT Lan. I'm a newbie to Linux, so no laughing! My dumb
: question is this.
: 1. Is it possible to install Linux on this machine from the NT LAN
: server. I'm sure this is the hard way, but I do not have access to SGI
: SCSI floppy. Im out sure if the TCP/IP layer is active at this point in
: the boot sequence to even ping the server???? HELP?
: 2. Will Linux even run on this machine?
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Bryan
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From: "Nuno Pinhal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM 128 MB
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 08:34:58 +0100
u must pass mem=128M to the kernel
:)
rAtOOn
Tux escreveu na mensagem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I know this was posted awhile ago on this list somewhere concerning having
>more than 64 MB of RAM. I just recently upgrade my RAM fm 64 MB to 128 MB.
>Window95/NT seems to be able to see the 128 MB of RAM, but for some reason
>RH5.2 Linux can only see 64 MB. Can someone either re-post the email
>concerning this problem or please help? Of all the books I've been reading
>on Linux I can't seem to find the area concerning RAM.
>
>Thanks in Advance.
>
>
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From: "Oliver J. Haas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Deskjet 500C
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 12:56:56 +0200
Does anybody know how to handle SuSE linux together with a HP Deskjet 500C.
In case you have knowlage - please give me your EMail. I�ll explain you my
issue - Thanx
Kennt sich jemand mit dem SuSE und dem HP Deskjet 500C aus - wenn ja - bitte
an mich schreiben - ich hab ein Problem!
Oliver J. Haas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christian Nake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Printing
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 13:11:06 +0200
Hi,
I'm using an EPSON LQ 100 with SuSE 6.1. I have installed the apsfilter
for the printer.
Whenever I print graphics directly to /dev/lp0 it will be shifted
downwards so that about 20 mm of it will be printed on the next paper.
Resolution and quality is OK.
How is it possible to center grafics on the paper? The problem does also
appear with software that prints directly, eg MuPAD.
Thanks for Help,
Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Newbie: How access files on floppy with linux?
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 03:49:39 GMT
I've installed debian 2.1 and don't know how to copy files from floppies into
my debian system.
My debian system is NOT connected to the internet so i need to be able to
transfer files from my win95 pc to my debian pc using floppies until I get
around to connecting my debian pc to the internet.
I've downloaded mtools but since I don't know how to copy the mtools files
from the floppy, I'm stuck!!!
My debian pc is up and running, I just can't do this: $ mount /dev/fd0 (or
ano other fdx) because permission is denied. Says only the root can do that.
I tried chaning to root and get permission denied. $ ls -a /dev/fp0 is blank
and the the floppy disk drive doesn't even light up on. This indicates that
the drive is not mounted properly in linux, though I boot from a linux
floppy.
Any ideas what i need to do (besides get a good book)?
Thanks for your help.
Andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: 8 May 1999 12:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 04 May 1999 10:10:29 -0700, Victoria Welch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sound for the SB PCI128 *again* didn't work. sndconfig gets to the
>point where
>it wants to play a test sound and hangs (same as 5.0, 5.1, 5.2 and 5.9).
I suggest using the ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture) drivers.
Your SB 128 will only barely work with the included OSS/LITE drivers in
the first place (I find that the DMA keeps getting messed up and the
sound that's playing suddenly turns into scratches and hisses).
Try http://www.alsa-project.org . Works great with my ESS1371-based card!
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green
One database programmer/system administrator for hire, see web site above
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From: Vagelis Blathras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.svgalib,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How good is a Riva TNT for svgalib?
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 11:27:05 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Are you talking about NORMAL svgalib or LibGGI+KGI?
>
> Robert
I am talking about normal (plain) svgalib. I do not have LibGGI , etc etc....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: RAM 128 MB
Date: 8 May 1999 12:28:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 7 May 1999 23:56:35 -0700, Tux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know this was posted awhile ago on this list somewhere concerning having
>more than 64 MB of RAM. I just recently upgrade my RAM fm 64 MB to 128 MB.
>Window95/NT seems to be able to see the 128 MB of RAM, but for some reason
>RH5.2 Linux can only see 64 MB. Can someone either re-post the email
>concerning this problem or please help? Of all the books I've been reading
>on Linux I can't seem to find the area concerning RAM.
Upgrade to the release 2.0.36-3 kernel package from updates.redhat.com.
If it still refuses to see your memory, put this statement right under
the "image=" statement in your /etc/lilo.conf:
append="mem=128m"
Then run /sbin/lilo
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~e_l_green
One database programmer/system administrator for hire, see web site above
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From: "Alan Sims" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: s3 Trio3d
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 08:51:16 GMT
Hi John. I had the same problem. I extensively tried every possibility, but
i could never get a greater color depth. I went and tried three other
cards,(Matrox G200, RIVA 128zx, & RIVA TNT). The TNT card was the only one
that did what I wanted (24bit at resolutions up to 1280x1024). I ended up
buying this card.
John Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, all:
>
> I have a IBM 300 PL PC. It has a s3 Trio 3D video card built in on the
> mother
> board. I am trying to install RH6.0. However, the video is only
> VGA16. NT and Win95
> can get higher colors. I am wondering if anyone can get a better color
> than VGA16. I
> did check out the video card support for XFree86. For that type of
> card, it did say
> XFREE_VGA16. Does it mean I cannot have better color than VGA16? I
> have not tried other options.
>
> Thanks
>
> John Wang.
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From: Roland Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DFP digital LCD monitor, Matrox card, framebuffer/X woes
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 14:50:19 +0200
>
> Hi!
>
> Use Modes "default" (or something similar, see the
> XF86FBDev-documentation available from xfree.org).
>
> Marc Mutz
Hi Marc,
sorry, I can't find the original question to this answer.
Since I want to get a digital IBM flat panel, the T55D featuring a
P&D connector, running under Linux, my question is: Is it possible
anyhow and when, which combination of graphics card (ATI, Matrox, ...)
and X-server do I have to use?
Thank you,
Roland Schmehl
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 02:00:58 -0700
Bill Unruh wrote:
> In <7go4ns$4oq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Where is everyone getting RH6.0? I thought it wasn't available until the
> >10th May....
>
> Nope been out at least a week by now.
> www.redhat.com and all its mirrors. The pressing shops probably will not
> be shipping for another week however.
I was just at Fry's today and they had it there for$79.00 !!! That's more than I
paid for Winblows, more worth it... but still!!!
jamess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: 8 May 1999 04:47:49 GMT
On Fri, 07 May 1999 21:31:32 -0500,
Tesla Coil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The CDA decisions held that
> credit card adult verification schemes are too flawed for law, but their use
> persists quite as if meaningful.
Um, the use of credit cards as proof of age has little to do with proof
of age, and much to do with "we're charging you ten bucks to ensure this
card is real".
> Tell me whether this is technically possible (and I post it for warning, not
> to distribute bomb designs): Remember the Cherynobyl virus? Checking
> against the system clock...how old-fashioned. Why be so indiscriminate
> with your victims when it becomes possible to torpedo specific machines
> by checking against their PSN? Replicates on unaffected carrier systems.
> Too rare a disease to be noticed and put into scanware. Targetted system
> is whacked upon being identified; attack code erased until opportunity for
> reentry. Logical troubleshooting will rule out a virus in the absence of any
> local evidence of an epidemic, and after seemingly random crashes, maybe
> conclude (correctly in a sense) that it is a manufacturing flaw in the CPU.
Not logical.
Most viruses are detected long before they do damage: they're detected
because they change other software.
So the targetted virus would be caught just as any other.
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Home-made serial interface for UPS
Date: 07 May 1999 08:03:32 -0700
the was a site whose URL i misplaced that had pinouts for every
device you could think of as well as schematics for things like
ups's -- i searched for it again about a year but couldn't find it.
Anyway, I'll look for it again if you do...
-ckm
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a Notebook?
Date: 07 May 1999 08:00:12 -0700
see http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ -- that should be
a start.
-ckm
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From: "John Howland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Subject: Re: How to distinguish ECC memory?
Date: Fri, 7 May 1999 09:39:38 -0700
ECC memory will also have an odd number of chips on the DIMM.
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Pat Crean wrote in message <37330f3e.0@news>...
>I'd probably try the obvious --- enable ecc in your cmos setup ---- if you
>can boot after doing so, then you've got ecc memory, otherwise, you don't
>(actually, you should fail the POST memory test if you tell the system
>you're using ecc ram and don't actually have it installed). Visually, you
>should be able to tell by the fact that ecc ram is 72 bits wide, vs 64 bits
>for non-ecc.
>
>
>Tango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just bought a new computer with a single 128MB ECC module (CL2). I
>> have doubts that it is really ECC. Is there a way that I can tell
>> between ECC and non-ECC memory? A program that can detect that, or by
>> physicaly looking?
>>
>> Thank you,
>> E.
>
>
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From: "Mathieu Imrazene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Solution: linux drivers for a D-Link DFE-530 TX 10/100 mbits NIC
Date: Sat, 8 May 1999 11:26:18 +0200
You have to use the VIA-RHINE module to get this card work.
Thanks to Stephen Ritter for having tell me the solution !
Mahieu Imrazene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Re: Closed caption w/ bttv?
Date: 8 May 1999 13:23:52 GMT
On Tue, 4 May 1999 20:54:23, Nick Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I recently got bttv and xawtv working with a STB TV PCI card and kernel 2.2.7.
> Now I am wondering if there is an application available that will display
> closed caption text. I have tried alevt, but I cannot get it to do anything
> other than show the help pages - it seems designed for Teletext which I don't
> think is used in the U.S.
I'd like to second this request...
> I will gladly even write a simple CC reader myself if there is any info on
> accessing /dev/vbi.
I assume display of CCs is a function of the TV application and not the tuner,
right? CMIIW, but closed-captioning should be just part of the signal which
comes in through the tuner, right?
So it certainly be feasible - I'm just surprised there doesn't seem to be
such a program out there already. I'd be happy to learn otherwise, of
course... Especially since I've started collecting LaserDiscs which have
subtitles implemented in CC text - and my WinTV is my only TV.
This would actually be a good opportunity to address some of CC's
annoying limitations - like ugly fonts, and black backgrounds.
Shouldn't it be possible to have CC text display over the image with
transparent backgrounds, like subtitles? (I think there were some
TVs which did this once upon a time, but I've never seen any.)
Maybe even a different approach, like having a child window which displays
the CC text without obscuring the TV picture. Probably easier to
implement at first, too.
Have you tried posting this question on the Linux Vision mailing list?
I've been meaning too myself, actually... But you might get some more
likely responses.
=================================================================
Alex Taylor BA - CIS - University of Guelph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
=================================================================
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: 3dfx.glide.linux
Subject: Glide Wrappers
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 23:57:49 -0500
Is there such a thing as a Glide Wrapper for linux?
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From: Matt Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System Recommendations
Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 22:27:50 -0500
Hello everyone,
This might not be the best group to post this to but here goes. I
am seeking recommendations/advice about a new computer system, on which
I will run Linux and (ahh) Win98(to play a few games not yet available
on Linux). I am trying to choose between an AMD K6-2(400)/Super 7
solution and a Celeron 300a/Slot 1 solution. I was also thinking about
a RIVA TNT card for video. I really would like to hear opinions about
the best retailers around the net (cheapest, best value). I would like
to say thanks in advance to everyone that responds. Any other
suggestions/comments are welcome and greatly appreciated. Thanks again.
Matt Tyler
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