Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 00:14:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Chris
Campbell")
Re: SCSI Problem (Mykool)
Re: SUN Keyboard -> PC (Frank Hahn)
Re: Gnome Help ! (Related Question) (Antaine)
mouse, gpm and X ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2 (Brandon)
Re: Need specs for older monitor (Sam Goldwasser)
Re: TNT + QUAKE3 + LINUX = NOPE
Re: Onstream Tape Drives (Frank Hahn)
Re: QIC Tape Drives (Frank Miles)
Re: Which cards support TV out?
Re: Video ("sven the hairy")
Question: Dell Inspiron 7000 w/ 3com 10/100 56K Combo Card? (simonson)
Re: dump and tape capacity ("parkercj")
Re: PCI modems in linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Rage Fury ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sony DDU-220E (Len Huppe)
Re: Viper 330 - What's better for XF86? (Jimmie Mayfield)
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From: "Chris Campbell" <[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, 13 May 1999 22:05:57 -0400
Sure. And then we'd have the Packard Bell of all OS's ;c)
Chris
Tempman1 wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>I agree that all OSes are somewhat idiotic. Almost everything is built by
one one
>vendor sent to the customer as a giant piece of code.
>
>I would be nice if an OS could be broken into several major components that
>follow the specifications. Each component could then be developed by a
different
>company. Finally, all the components could be stitched together to form an
OS.
>This is the way hardware is built. Why not software too?
>
>Tempman1
>
>
>
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From: Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:14:04 -0400
Mykool wrote:
>
> To everyone who has offered help and advice, I thank you. My problems
> have been solved. After two weeks of cussing, working, thinking, and
> bleeding (you don't really work on a computer unless you bleed :)), I
> got my scanner working. I changed some of my configuration around and
> bingo it worked. I've heard that Umax scanners don't work on the
> 2940U2W, but thankfully mine is working fine. Once again, thanks for
> the help and advice.
>
> --
> Michael Barnhill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
> ICQ 13526262
At the suggestion of someone, here is how I "fixed" the problem I had.
Hope this will help someone in the future.
I got a converter to give me an external connector for the 50-pin
connector on the card (Adaptec 2940U2W). The converter is connected
inside the SCSI physical chain, so I took the terminator off of the
scanner (Umax 1220S). In the SCSI configuration, I set the transfer
rate to 10 mb/s and disabled wide negotiation. The scanner was
detected.
In windows, you must install the VistaScan software before you install
EZ-SCSI. When you install EZ-SCSI, do not install the scanner module.
I haven't tried scanning with SANE yet because I do all of my scanning
and printing from Windows. Maybe one day I'll take some time and learn
how to use SANE :)
I hope this can help someone in the future.
--
Michael Barnhill
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
ICQ 13526262
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: SUN Keyboard -> PC
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:14:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 May 1999 00:41:00 GMT, erich not devnull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Daniel Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> verily spake, saying:
>>does someone know how to connect a SUN Keyboard to a LINUX-ix86 System?
>
>The only solution I've seen is to use a very expensive multimachine
>switch thingie that can take SUN keyboard input.
>
>But if you find something reasonably priced ($100USD or less) let me know.
>
Somebody just asked this question in one of the Sun hardware
newsgroups earlier. If you search http://www.dejanews.com
for my email address, you should find out more information that
I posted earlier.
A cable company, http://www.ultraspec.com offers a small unit
for connecting Sun type 5C keyboards to a PC. It costs US 130.00.
I believe Sun or Sun Express offers something also.
There may be others.
Another option is to see if Sun makes a keyboard for use with a
PC directly.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antaine)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Gnome Help ! (Related Question)
Date: 11 May 1999 19:35:07 GMT
David Tabachnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Antaine wrote:
>> > #!/bin/bash
>> > gnome-session
>>
>> I have that in my .xinitrc in the root directory and when
>> I "startx" as root it cranks up two sessions. The first
>> screen comes up, it sits there a second, then the screen
>> I use comes up. I've tried everything from altering the
>> Xclients file to leaving the Xclients file and commenting
>> out "gnome-session" in .xinitrc. When I do the later GNOME
>> won't start at all. Any help is greatly appreciated.
> I think the first screen is Enlightenment starting up...
> the only thing to do is, change a window manager.
Thanks. That's a distinct possibility. I'll look into it.
> --
> -------------------------------------------------
> David Tabachnikov
> Second Horizon
> http://gulfan.bc.ca/shorizon/index.htm
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> UIN 3600179
> -------------------------------------------------
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mouse, gpm and X
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:17:28 -0500
I have a crumpy $5 mouse which you may try to pry from my cold, dead hands
some day. When I first installed linux, a friend told me I would not get
the mouse to work with X unless I loaded gpm as a repeater.
I came to find out his mouse was a bus mouse, and according to the docs
could not possibly work without gpm. And I've had a few quirky little
things happen with the mouse, so I decided to try doing things without
gpm loaded.
Long and short of it: no way. With gpm, all is well. Without gpm, no magic
incantation makes the mouse work in X. This has now become a matter of honor,
and I shall not rest until I get it working without gpm. So... suggestions?
Kernels tried: 2.0.35, 2.2.2, 2.2.6, 2.2.7
Mouse is a Mouse Systems compatible as far as gpm and Windoze are concerned
Relevant from XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/gpmdata" # this works
# Device "/dev/mouse" # this doesn't
BaudRate 1200
Buttons 3
# Emulate3Timeout 50
ClearDTR # doesn't matter
ClearRTS # ditto
EndSection
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| WA9PDM | -- Jim Nitchals, founder, FREE |
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:43:16 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: "Drive Size To Big" When Installing RedHat 5.2
diahedrial wrote:
>
> Try creating a "/boot" partition first, and make sure it's below
> the 8Gig level of the drive or else Linux won't be able to boot.
> IMO, use fdisk, it's more versitile. If you have win98 installed
> and using more than 8Gig of the drive, you will need to reduce
> the size of it's partition, using FIPS or partition magic or some
> program like that. 20MB is plenty of space for the "/boot" partition
> and Linux should be able to use the rest of your drive, it just
> needs to have the kernel located below the 8gig level of the drive,
> it's a limit of the BIOS.Hope this get's you going...
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi.. I have a 12.7G QF EX hard drive and apparently Red Hats Disk Druid &
> > Fdisk wont allow me to create a linux native partition. Ive seeked help from
> > teachers at Tafe and students & also looked through the linux webpages but to
> > no avail. I understand with RedHat 5.2 you have to create two partitions but
> > it wont let me create the first. In the Disk Druid partitions screen I can
> > see my Win98 partition which occupies the whole hdd besides the 1gig
> > partition i have reserved for linux which I am supposed to delete then
> > replace with the linux native partition but when I go to create it It says
> > the drive is to big. It seems to be that Disk Druid is going on the size of
> > the whole hard drive and not the partition reserved for linux alone. Ive also
> > removed Windows and setup a linux partition without 98 but it still wont
> > create it on the disk. The main error is that it says "Drive size to big" (or
> > similar).
> >
> > I would appreciate any information as Im sure that someone has accomplished it
> > without messing around with the cylinders and so forth in FDisk,
Fdisk allows you to specify sizes in Megabytes too
> and there
> > would have to be some high end servers out there running big hard drives with
> > linux installed on them...
> > So any help would be greatly appreciated..
> > Aaron H
> > (all replys please send to [EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> > Once again Thanx......:)
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, Virii
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Goldwasser)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: Need specs for older monitor
Date: 14 May 1999 02:07:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Watchman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hey all. I have a Daewoo CMC-1414AV 14" SVGA monitor that I need to find
> out the specs for (ie. horizontal sync, vertical sync, vertical refresh
> etc).
I don't know how close this model is but:
DAEWOO CMC-1414BA
Maximum horizontal scan rate: 58 kHz
Maximum vertical refresh rate: 90 Hz
Screen size: 14"
Maximum refresh rate at 1024x768:
Maximum refresh rate at 1280x1024:
You can check these sites for monitor information:
<li><A HREF="http://www.mindspring.com/~nunez/info/monitors/ (Computer
Shopper)
<li><A HREF="http://www.griffintechnology.com/">Griffin Technology</a>
<li><A HREF="http://www.hercules.com/monitors/mdb.htm">Hercules</a>
<li><A HREF="http://www.monitorworld.com/">Monitor World</a>
<li><A HREF="http://www.monitorsolution.com/Monitorsdata/">Rasterstone</a>
<li><A HREF="http://hawks.ha.md.us/hardware/monitor.html">Table of monitor
specs</a>
--- sam | Sci.Electronics.Repair FAQ Home Page: http://www.repairfaq.org/
Repair | Main Table of Contents: http://www.repairfaq.org/REPAIR/
+Lasers | Sam's Laser FAQ: http://plop.phys.cwru.edu/repairfaq/sam/lasersam.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: TNT + QUAKE3 + LINUX = NOPE
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:53:07 -0700
On 13 May 1999 18:04:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jeff Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: 1. Creative Labs TNT
>
>bad chioce :-) nvidia is not willing to support Linux.
>AFAIK, Creative Labs employed somebody to programm
>linux-drivers for their sound-device, but not for GFX-Cards.
>
>
>
>: Apparently, the game for linux is only running under
>: 3DFX Chipsets at present.
>
>That is not apparently - that is well-documented (never read
>a README-file: it may harm :-)
>
>
>
>: Is there really no way around this?
>
>Yes: choosing a product from a company, that is supporting
>linux slightly better (i.e. giving out glide-sources to one
>person under NDA)
>
>
>
>: How does this relate to linux and
>: opengl and tnt chipsets?
>: Are they (pause, gasp) the same? =)
>
>OpenGL is a 3D-API (something like M$s' Direct3D, but much better).
>Its implementation may be hardware accelerated or not.
>
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Onstream Tape Drives
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 02:14:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 12 May 1999 20:26:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <7hc6pa$gs4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess) wrote:
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> >OnStream does have plans to support our drives on Linux servers.
>> >Currently, we are working with Ehnahced Software Technologies, Inc.
>> >as part of their Linux Tape Certification program to develop and test
>> >support for our drives with BRU for Linux. Availability of drivers
>
>How about generic support for Linux? Why limit it to support for one
>back up application? I would like to just beable to use tar.
>
I went to their web site just to see what I could find. It looks
as if they have both an IDE and a SCSI version. I can see the
IDE version requiring a driver but would'nt the SCSI version
work after being connected?
--
Frank Hahn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: QIC Tape Drives
Date: 13 May 1999 14:59:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Gillespie, Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I need to buy a tape drive for backup, and I'm looking at buying a
>1360MB QIC cartridge drive, floppy interface, from CDW. Before coming
>to this decision, I searched dejanews.com for advice on tape drives,
>and didn't come up with much information. I did see that someone said
>to stay away from QIC drives.
>
>How's my choice? Does it work well with Linux (Debian 2.1, Linux 2.0.36)?
>Are there any hardware problems?
Which tape drive is this? I've had good luck with some floppy/QIC drives,
but one model (Colorado/HP 1GB drive) never worked properly.
Also-- hope you get a really outstanding price for this. You can get
2GB or larger QIC drives quite cheaply, and the cost of the media is
likely to exceed the cost of the drive. You may want to think about
how long you might be using this device, about the size of the HD's
that you'll be backing up, and the speed (or lack thereof) of the
backup. At least the 2GB drive that I have uses and "accelerated"
card that emulates the floppy controller but accelerates the data
transfer by nearly 4x.
Good luck...
-frank
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Which cards support TV out?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 08:16:38 -0700
On Thu, 13 May 1999 03:29:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Hirsch
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>If I want to use my TV as my display, which card would you recommend?
>>Do any of them work? TV input would be nice, but is not essential.
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>Check out the ATI line of cards, the Rage LT Pro series, I think.
STAY AWAY from ATI cards. While they support this functionality,
they are less well documented than other cards: like the Banshee
series of chipsets/cards from 3Dfx.
You can download the programming specs for those badboys (banshee/
voodoo3) yourself.
I believe I saw TV out in there somewhere, so anyone willing to
do the work should be able to put it into the Banshee Xserver.
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From: "sven the hairy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:30:51 -0700
Thanks for the help Mike and Remco.
I was loaned a Diamond A50, which is supported on the svga Xserver, but I
can't seem to get it to work at all. I've been trying to edit the config by
hand (which hasn't worked). The weird thing is that I can't get XF86Setup to
work with it. It starts a graphical display, but all I get is a grey screen
with a large vertical black bar. I can use the arrow keys to move the bar
around, but I can't seem to do anything else. I've installed linux on a
couple of laptops, and XF86Setup worked perfect. It seems like a decent card
(8meg), I put it in a windows box and got good results. It couldn't handle
1200x1600 though.
I think I'll play with the A50 for a while before I try to buy one.
sven the hairy wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What would be a good graphics card for Linux? In windows, I like 1600x1200
>with 32bits of color. I do a lot of graphic work, and so good colour is
>important. I'm not any kind of expert on graphics hardware to begin with,
so
>it's a bit of a struggle for me. Any pointers you could provide would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>
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From: simonson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Question: Dell Inspiron 7000 w/ 3com 10/100 56K Combo Card?
Date: 14 May 1999 01:41:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm considering acquiring a Dell Inspiron 7000 and would likely
run Linux and/or Solaris on it.
My question is what the hardware configuration should be with regards
to a modem and a network interface card. Based on the little
information I have been able to find, it would seem that a 3com 10/100
56K combo card might be the best approach. I would be interested in
hearing opinions on and/or experiences with this.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Jonathan Simonson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "parkercj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dump and tape capacity
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:04:25 -0700
Try this:
/usr/sbin/dump -dsbfu 54000 26000 126 <non-rewinding device name> <
filesystem to dump>
Remember "Command Capacity Density Blocksize Device Filesystem" ... the u
is to update the /etc/dumpdates file!
Cheers
CJ
Thomas Rink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> we're trying to set up a backup system with a HP C1537A SCSI DDS-3
streamer
> using the `dump' program. The problem is that a tape is full after
> only about 40 MB have been written to it! I tried out the `d' switch
> to pass the bit density to `dump' (342 MBit / inch for DDS-3), but it
> tells me that this setting is invalid. The command line (without
specifying
> the bit density) looks like this:
>
> salomon:~ # dump 0uf /dev/st0 /usr
> DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Tue May 11 10:14:59 1999
> DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch
> DUMP: Dumping /dev/hda9 (/usr) to /dev/st0
> DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files]
> DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories]
> DUMP: estimated 561213 tape blocks on 14.43 tape(s).
> ^^^^^ this is about 40 MB / tape!
>
> salomon:~ # df -k
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> ...
> /dev/hda9 606846 515540 59959 90% /usr
> ...
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated!!
>
> -- Thomas
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: 13 May 1999 20:10:20 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew
Comech) writes:
>Hi,
>You got it kind-of wrong...
Nope, I think I'm on the right track. But I didn't make the
distinction between controlerless and softmodems. I tended
to bundle them into the same group. Technicly they should
be separate.
Also, DSP modems may or may not be controlerless. It
all depends on the 'smarts' that are programed into the DSP.
Not all DSP modems need to be loaded at boot time.
Flash ROM can be loaded once, then only needs to be
reloaded for software updates and bug fixes. Can
you see the attraction of the DSP based modem?
(for the manufacturer anyway).
On the otherhand Flash memory costs more than RAM.
So it can be left off and all memory funtions handled
by RAM. That kind would have to be reloaded at boot
time.
And now risking the ire of the group. --no snippage--
>
>On 12 May 1999 19:56:55 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Let me add my two cents worth here. I have been
>>shopping out a new Linux system (see thread "Newbi vs Linux:
>>Comment on this system"). What i have found is that there
>>are at least three kinds of modems out there (not two).
>>THere is the usual "Real modem" This modem looks
>>like a UART (or serial port) to the system. This type of
>>modem need _NOTHING_ to work with any system. It
>>doesn't matter every OS knows how to send charecters
>>out (and get them in) to a serial port. Windows may
>>install an INI file for these modems, but in most case
>>it is just an ASCII text file containing the init string for
>>the modem. A veryation of this type is the Plug and Play
>>modem. Plug and play simply sets the hardware parameters,
>>such as IO address and interupt.
>
>....somewhere on the software level... it is not that you could
>live without special software (which is ISAPNP tools).
>
>And running ISAPNP tools is what you do _before_ you can specify
>modem's address and irq to the kernel, using setserial.
>
>>After PnP has done it's
>>thing, the modem acts like any other real modem.
>>
>>The second type of modem is the well known and dispised
>>Win-Modem or HSP (Host Signal Processing) Modem. THese
>>modems are pretty well useless since they require that
>>the CPU do a lot of the processing work done by the
>>controler chip on a real modem. There is also no standard
>>(that I could discover) for the hardware interface to these
>>modems.
>
>Let me make this more precise... There are two _different_ things:
>the first thing (formerly known as a winmodem) is a controllerless
>modem, aka HCF (host-controlled family) modem.
>The other thing (which is much less of a modem) is a softmodem,
>aka HSP (Host Signal Processing) modem.
>The link to read is
>http://www.aopenusa.com/tech/faq/modem/general.htm#Controllerless Modem
>
>This is common to call both families `winmodems', but manufactures
>and dealers do not usually use this term.
>("Is is a winmodem?" "No, it's a brand new HSP modem!" ;-)
>
>>A third type of modem is the cause of much confusion.
>>It appears to be a real modem because it has a controler,
>>but it only seems to work with windows. I call this a
>>DSP based modem. Althought I realize that is bad choice
>>of terms. What we have here is a modem that has a
>>controler, but it is based on a generic DSP chip.
>>THe DSP handles many of the tasks that the driver of
>>a HSP (or Win-modem) would have to handle. But
>>the hardware interface to the system is not standard,
>>in other words, it doesn't look like a UART. The
>>keyword to look for here is "Virtual UART" or
>>"Virtual 16550". Now what does that mean? I'll try
>>to tell you. I'm a bit hazy on the programing aspects.
>>What happens is that a vertual device driver is written
>>for windows that places protection on certian IO addresses,
>>specificly, the IO addresses for the chosen com port
>>for the modem. Now, normaly a UART would live at those
>>addresses, But this type of modem has no UART. Now
>>when a program attempts to access the non-existing
>>UART at the protected IO addresses, it causes a trap
>>to accoure. The trap causes the virtual device driver
>>to kick in. The function of the UART is then emulated
>>in software. As far as an application is concerned,
>>there is a UART at that address (except that the
>>responce time may be a bit off), but in reality there
>>is none. Thus the "Virtual UART". This modem
>>isn't a winmodem or HSP modem per-se, but it
>>won't work in Linux either.
>
>I do not know anything about DSP modems, but this is
>what other people write (in particular, there is no controller):
>====================================================================
>From http://www.analog.com/industry/ras/tech_info/faq.html#4
>
> Q. What software is provided with the ADSP-21mod870?
>
> A. The ADSP-21mod870 is bundled with K56flex/V.34 software. This software
> implements both the data pump and controller functions. Included is a
> software interface which describes how the systems host processor talks
> to the modem. There is also an example of some host code written in C.
>
>That is, there is no hardware-based controller...
>====================================================================
>From http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.5
>
> MWave and DSP Modems
>
> Such modems use DSP's (Digital Signal Processors) which are programmed
> by algorithms which must be
> downloaded from the hard disk to the DSP's memory just before using the
> modem. Unfortunately, the
> downloading is done by Dos/Windows programs so one can't do it from Linux.
> Ordinary modems that work
> with Linux often have a DSP too (and may mention this on the packaging),
> but the program that runs
> it is stored inside the modem. This is not "DSP modem" in the sense of this
> section and should work
> OK under Linux.
>
> If a DSP modem modem simulates a serial port, then it is usable with Linux
> which communicates with
> modems via the serial port. If you also have Dos/Windows on the same PC
> you may be able to use the
> modem: First start Dos/Windows (make sure the modem gets initialized) and
> then without turning off
> the computer, go into Linux. One way to do this is to press CTRL-ALT-DEL.
> An example of a DSP modem
> is IBM's Aptiva MWAVE.
>
>Best,
>a.
>--
>Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
>http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
--
Just my $0.02 worth.
Hope this helps,
Gordon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 17:47:27 GMT
Go to http://www.0wned.org/~cain/ragefury.htm
There you will find info on how to make your Rage 128 board work under X with
the Frame Buffer device. However you are required to update to Linux 2.2
beforehand.
Ted
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremy Shinall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I just installed Red Hat 5.2 on my system running at 374MHz (Celeron
> 300A overclocked using 4.5 x 83MHz). I have an ATI Rage Fury AGP video
> running the Rage 128GL chipset with 32 MB RAM. RH installed just fine,
> but when I type 'startx' the screen blinks then returns an error that no
> screens were found. I've tried just about EVERY setting in Xconfigurator
> for the type of card, chipset, and whether to probe or not. Nothing
> helps. Any ideas?
>
> Jeremy Shinall
>
>
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From: Len Huppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sony DDU-220E
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 22:51:25 -0500
Linux does not yet have support for DVD drives. There may be work under way
to provide support, but I am not aware of any development projects. FreeBSD
is the only Unix flavor that I know of that has support for DVD drives.
good luck
Ernst de Haan wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a Sony DVD drive, model DDU-220E (ATAPI). Does anyone know how to
> get this thing working> I've written to Sony, but they don;t have a
> clue. Anyone working on this? I'd be willing to help. Any pointers?
>
> GreetinX++, Ernst
>
> --
> Ernst de Haan
> Chief Technical Officer
> Tector i.o.
>
> "Come to me all who are weary and burdened,
> and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jimmie Mayfield)
Subject: Re: Viper 330 - What's better for XF86?
Date: 14 May 1999 00:53:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 May 1999 00:08:33 -0500, doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a Diamond Viper 330 adapter running the SVGA server. I really want to
>be able to run at least 1280x1024 under XF86, which SVGA server apparently
>will not do.
I'm running a Viper 330 at 1280x1024 in 16-bit color using the SVGA server
from XF3.3.3
Jimmie
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