Linux-Hardware Digest #243, Volume #10 Sat, 15 May 99 20:14:23 EDT
Contents:
Adaptec 2940UW PCI problem (Fred Horan)
Re: RH5.1 won't install!!!!!! PLEASE HELP ("Derry Goberdhansingh")
TK50 Tape on Linux?? ("Brian R. Hunt")
InkJet printer help. (Dae)
Re: ATI Rage Fury ("Carlo Leorini")
Re: ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP video for linux? ("Carlo Leorini")
Re: 3Com cards address reported wrong (Frank Sweetser)
Re: STB 128 and RedHat
Re: Cloning a Linux box (gus)
Re: Who makes the best cases?? ("Darin")
Re: making linux go away (Chris Lee)
Re: SUN Keyboard (Frank Hahn)
Re: RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Eicon.Diva Pro (Christophe Lambin)
Re: Yamaha OPL3 SAX Help ("C. E. Scheetz")
Re: making linux go away (Hubertus A. Haniel)
Re: NTFS and Linux ("vicente")
Re: Problems with Stealth 4000 & Redhat 5.1 (Tom)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fred Horan)
Subject: Adaptec 2940UW PCI problem
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 15:51:55 -0400
I installed RedHat v5.2 and ran into a problem with an adaptec 2940UW pci
board. At bootup I get the following message:
scsi: aborting command due to timeout: pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,
test unit ready 00 00 00 00 00
SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
This message comes up continually with long pauses on the order of a minute
Additional NOTES:
1. RedHat is actually installed on an IDE drive with 1.2GB
2. There are three SCSI devices on the computer:
Seagate ST19171W 9GB internal drive
Ricoh CD-RW MP 6200S
ZIP 100
TIA,
Fred Horan
--
Fred Horan
Ithaca NY
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Derry Goberdhansingh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH5.1 won't install!!!!!! PLEASE HELP
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:30:58 -0400
Never mind, I realized that someone had cracked the cd.
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From: "Brian R. Hunt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TK50 Tape on Linux??
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 13:34:17 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have an old Digital TK50Z tape drive which I need to get working with
Linux. Am using Slackware + kernel 2.0.27 with SCSI tape compiled in.
Linux recognizes the drive as /dev/nst0 on boot up but will not detect
a loaded tape or respond to other mt commands. Question is:
1. Does anyone have this combination (TK50+Linux) working?
2. Where can I get a TK50 SCSI command/message definitions?
Any suggestions appreciated.
Thanks,
Brian
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From: Dae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: InkJet printer help.
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 16:53:14 -0400
I'm looking for an Ink Jet printer that uses separate ink cartridges for
color (I'm tired of having to replace a good color cartridge on my Epson
cause one color has run out.) that is low cost. (Wish I could find one
under $200) I'm looking at the Canon BJC-6000. Does anyone know if this
will work with Linux? If so, do you like the speed and output?
BTW, is there another color Inkjet that uses separate cartridges for the
colors that you might recommand?
TIA - Dae
Phat Fish Website
http://www.attach.net/users/webster
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From: "Carlo Leorini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 22:53:35 +0200
Hello,
Yes, http://ruff.cs.jmu.edu/~beetle/ragefury.htm : they are right!
It WORKS !
But there is 2 littles imprecisions.
1) When they say:
tar zxvf ...
mv XF68_FBDev.libc6 /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev
you must add:
chmod +x /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev
2) The XF86Config they give seems to be bad.
The best thing is to use the XF86Config you made with Xconfigurator, even
with a wrong server, but with good mouse, monitor, and so on.
Then you must add these lines:
# Frame Buffer server
Section "Screen"
Driver "FBDev"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
Subsection "Display"
Modes "default"
EndSubsection
EndSection
To make these line, start from another server (vga, svga...), and modify the
Driver line, and respect the names of your Device and your Monitor. Also,
the subsection Display should only contains Modes "defaut".
I succedeed with Red Hat 6.0 : kernel 2.2.5.
Of course you cannot zoom (does it matter).
If you want another resolution than 1024x768 you must choose something else
than VGA=791 in /etc/lilo.conf
Let me know, if you succeed. (and other values than 791, i want 1152x864,
which is ok on a good 17").
Good Bye and good luck !
Squire Earle a �crit dans le message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I cannot get X windows to work with my ATI Rage Fury 32Meg video card.
>Can somebody email me detailed instructions on how to set this up?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Squire
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From: "Carlo Leorini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP video for linux?
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 23:01:14 +0200
Hello,
I get this answer from Metrolink:
"""""
Sorry, Metro-X does not support the ATI Rage128 at this time. It is not
the same as the Rage II or Rage IIc, and it cannot be used with Metro-X.
We may support this chipset in the future, but there is no target date
available yet.
Thank you!
+--------------------------------+
| Metro Link Technical Support |
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
+--------------------------------+
"""""
Vinh Le a �crit dans le message ...
>ATI wrote to Graham Parkinson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) in response to
>ATI Rage Fury 32 MB driver request:
>
>: MetroLink, Inc
>: http://www.metrolink.com/products/metrox/cardlist.html
>
>I believe MetroLink's support is listed under ATI Rage II.
>
>: Xi Graphics Incorporated
>: http://www.xig.com/board/ati.html
>
>Xi Graphics definately supports it by name, but the support table doesn't
>indicate overlay support, which is what I need for a 3D package
>called Houdini. :(
>
>XFree86 doesn't have support listed yet.
>
>I'm in the process of assembling my own Linux box and thought this
>card would be perfect for a few years, as it seems to be the bleeding
>edge at this point. I guess it's so bleeding edge that drivers are
>still being worked on.
>
>Vinh
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--
>---
>Vinh Le
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com cards address reported wrong
Date: 15 May 1999 15:54:26 -0400
David Lisle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My 3com card which is 3c905B works fine when I boot to windows 98
> but when I boot ot linux the cards I/O is different and the
> hardware address shows up as ff ff ff ff ff ff
> the cards IRQ is the same as for windows
>
> eth0: 3c905 at 0xc000 tag 1, 10baseT port, address ff ff ff ff ff ff,
> IRQ 5
>
> Windows 98 reports that it is using a different hardware address. What
> is going on here?
> Can anybody help? The hardware address reported by linux cannot possibly
> be right. This
> is all on an ASUS pentium II motherboard.
1) as someone else sugested, try making sure the card is not in PnP mode.
there are dos utils for this on 3com's web site, and linux utils at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux
2) win98 sometimes "hides" cards, moving them to bizzare io addresses that
aren't normally probed, and stores the new locations in the registry.
this has the effect of hiding the card from all other os's. a full,
cold reboot should fix this if this is the case.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: STB 128 and RedHat
Date: 15 May 1999 21:13:28 GMT
In article <ZUj%2.15487$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Terry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> Hi there, I started installing RedHat Linux 5.2 yesturday, and it went
|> flawlessly, except (suprise suprise) XWindows. I got it working, but only
|> with the VGA16 Server. I have an STB Velocity 128 with the Riva chipset,
|> and it is apparently supported via the SVGA. However, when I use that, it
|> says Device found, but it had problems. If the entire message would be of
|> help I can recreate it I'm sure. I'm currently d/l 6.0 (almost done) in
|> hopes of better support, but if anyone could offer some advice I'd
|> appreciate it
these cards work fine under RedHat 5.9 and 6.0, which contain the
3.3.3.1 version of the XFree86 SVGA server. didn't own this card when i
was running 5.2, so i can't say whether it worked or not.
--
"and make no [tuba]. we're already in [Baghdad]."
-Plonq
Seuss Navy - 'Biting 73rd' Mormon Stronghold, Mesa Sector
"no sneetch out of reach" Sol-3' 32.8437,-117.2187
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:05:38 +0100
Assuming the hardwars *is* identical, you could always plug the clone's
Harddisk in to the "master" computer, then assuming the master is disk
hda, and the clone is hdb, you could *probably* do:
dd < /dev/hda > /dev/hdb
e2fsck /dev/hdb1 ....
It is a bit risky, so a better way to do it would be to set up the clone
disk partitions to be close on the master, and then do ....
hang on. The best idea would be to build a system correctly. then remove
it's drive and use it as the master source. Install this in the "cloning
machine" (transmogrifyer). Install the clone's disk as well.
Assuming there are three disks in the cloning machine now, the machine's
root filesystem, the master disk, and the clone disk.
you should probably be able to do the:
dd < /dev/hdb > /dev/hdc
... followed by e2fsck
This will probably sort out lilo as well ;-)
try it, I guess.
So, since you only have two disks, I would mount a "rescue" system
(normally a kernel with a root filesystem in ramdisk)
check that you have dd available.
Then copy the disks
gus
mark wrote:
>
> I have two PC's with identical hardware. One is running Redhat 5.2. I
> want to be able to make the other box an exact copy of the first without
> having to install everything from scratch.
>
> Q. Whats the best way of doing this? Is there any s/w out there like Drive
> Image for windows that will work under Linux? (I know Drive Image will copy
> a linux disk but I want to run everything off the linux box).
>
> Many Thanks
>
> Mark Doutre
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Darin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who makes the best cases??
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 21:23:05 GMT
I like PC Power and Cooling cases.
http://www.pcpowercooling.com/index.html
Darin Sugioka
Jete Software Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7hhqhb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> It seems that I am forever opening my Linux boxes to upgrade one thing or
> another. I would just love to have a computer case like the Mac G3,
> where it just splits open in half allowing easy access to all of the
> components.
>
> I doubt that there is anything like that available in the PC market, and
so
> far all of the PC cases that I have ever seen (including Enlights) seemed
> like cheap crap.
>
> Does anyone make a good PC case?? Or at least who makes the best of the
> current field of cases (I hope that it isn't Enlight).
>
> -- Norman
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From: Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 14:43:00 -0700
Umm... I hate to tell you this, Scott, but lots of companies now are running
linux-only businesses... and a LOT of the major apps that business corporations
use are being ported to linux. EG: Oracle, DB2, Corel WordPerfect (just because
it helps with end-user productivity) StarOffice (which can read and write to M$
formats) and in the event that there ISN'T the type of program that you're
looking for under linux, there is almost a guarantee that there's at least a
win3.1 version. In that case it's a simple matter to install Wabi and/or use
Wine to run the "Windows-Only" apps that businesses need. Also.... IMHO
businesses that are smaller should be using linux simple because of the low
overhead and cost of running a linux-only business. And why does asking "why do
you want to remove linux?" make someone a freak? If somebody asks "Why do you
want to remove Windows?" do you think that they are a freak? Just a bit to
think about.... no hard feelings.
Scott L wrote:
> maybe to actually run 90% of the applications he needs to that wont run on
> Linux ? its remarks like this one below that gives linux users the name of
> freaks - get a grip would you - theres no way to run a linux only business
> environment unless you use very FEW apps
> THEVENIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: SUN Keyboard
Date: 15 May 1999 21:59:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 14 May 1999 18:04:55 -0700, Gerald Willmann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 14 May 1999, Loic Lagadec wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know if it's possible to replace pc-keyboards by SUN
>>keyboards under Linux.? (to keep the left 10 function keys)
>>Any feed back would be highly appreciated.
>
>Loic: probably not the answer you expected, but why not get an older Sun
>(IPXs are rather cheap these days, a colleague just bought one for $ 150)
>and run Linux on it. Will work with a Sun keyboard for sure :)
>
Somebody just asked this question in one of the Sun hardware and
the Linux hardware newsgroups just a day or so ago. If you search
http://www.deja.com, 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 $130.00.
There may be others.
Frank Hahn
--
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all.
-- Ogden Nash
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 18:05:02 -0400
One question is whether your IDE interface is capable of accessing this
large a drive. The newer EIDE will, but I'm not sure about the limitations
of the older IDE. If the interface will support this drive, then RH5.1 will
most likely also.
You'll probably have to go into Linux fdisk's 'expert' mode and set the
geometry to the correct value before it will let you create partitions above
cylinder 1024.
Darin wrote in message <7Bj%2.13365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Basically want to add a Maxtor 17GB IDE HD to a RedHat 5.1 system. The
>motherboard's BIOS doesn't support it directly. hda1 is a WD 424MB drive,
>hdb2 is Maxtor 540MB drive, and hdc is NEC 6x4 Disc changer all drives are
>IDE. I want to make hdc the Maxtor 17Gb or hdd doesn't really matter.
>
>My question is will RedHat 5.1 see all 17GB i don't care if it is multiple
>partitions. In fact will probably have at least 3 or 4.
>
>Please respond via e-mail also if possible.
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Christophe Lambin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eicon.Diva Pro
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 00:08:15 +0200
Hi,
Ironically, this so-called 'high-end' card is not supported under Linux.
The much cheaper Diva2.0 card, however, is supported.
I've got the Pro as well, and I guess we'll just have to wait until
someone writes a driver for it.
Regards,
Christophe
root wrote:
> Hi all out there,
> A friend bought a Eicon Diva 2.0 Pro ISDN-card and now he want to use
> Linux.
> Is there anyway to use this Card.
> Thanx
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From: "C. E. Scheetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha OPL3 SAX Help
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 07:27:53 +0000
If you give me more info I could probably help you out. This soundcard is an utter
headache to set up. The most important thing IMO is getting the latest isapnptools
and using the configure script that comes with it. Doing the pnpdump -configure; or
whatever. Make sure that you set up the SB logical device to 0x230 or 0x240, it
seems that if you set it to 0x220, the kernel wants to use that (which is 8 bit
only) rather than the Microshaft Sound System that lurks at 0x530 (which is the one
you want to use with this card). This card forces an either/or situation with these
two logical devices.
If you want the whole scoop - read on.
this is how my isapnp is configed:
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0230)) #soundblaster logical device
(IO 1 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x0530)) #Microshaft Sound System
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388)) #OPL3 Synthesizer
(IO 3 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0330)) #401 Midi
(IO 4 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0370)) #OPL3-SA3
(INT 0 (IRQ 9 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
just make sure that you do a full pnpdump and uncomment out lines like these, also
if you read the docs with isapnp, you would know to uncomment out (ACT Y) - which
activates your selections
now on to the conf.modules
alias sound opl3sa2
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options opl3sa2 io=0x370 mss_io=0x530 irq=9 dma=1 dma2=3
Well, that's how I did it. I even have the joystick port and the ide controller
working.
But thats another story. Hope this helps.
C. E. Scheetz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
JaZZman wrote:
> "C. E. Scheetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >JaZZman wrote:
> >
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Brown-Bayliss) wrote:
> >> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Brown-Bayliss) wrote:
> >> >> >Hi, has anyone got a working solution that a newbie could follow? =20
> >> >> >
> >> >> Yes use a kernel before 2.1.32.. or less than 16Mb in your system..
> >> >> The problem is the 1 DMA channel limit of the newer kernels if you have m=
> >> >> ore
> >> >> than 16Mb in your computer. the older kernels do not have that problem.
> >> >
> >> >Could I not add another DMA channel? If so, what steps do I need to re-
> >> >compile?
> >> >
> >
> >Not true - I am using mine with kernel 2.2.6. Redhats sound config likes to set
> >up the dma like this:
> >dma=0,3
> >
> >It works if you configure the dma like this:
> >dma=0 dma2=3
> >
>
> I tried that but not with any luck.. hmm.. but this gives us some hope:))
> >Chris Scheetz
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> I tried it as the How-to describes but nothing.. keep getting the error "to
> >> many DMA channels needed"
> >>
> >> >Thanks
> >> >
> >> >--
> >> >Rob
> >> >
> >> >http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~bayliss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hubertus A. Haniel)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 23:33:36 GMT
I hate to tell you this Chris but only very small companies run a
Linux only enviroment, big companies tend to run Solaris and even
bigger ones will go for AIX. Depending on their need and what they can
afford. And I find it very hard to belive that there are Unix only
places.
Chris Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Umm... I hate to tell you this, Scott, but lots of companies now are running
>linux-only businesses... and a LOT of the major apps that business corporations
>use are being ported to linux. EG: Oracle, DB2, Corel WordPerfect (just because
>it helps with end-user productivity) StarOffice (which can read and write to M$
>formats) and in the event that there ISN'T the type of program that you're
>looking for under linux, there is almost a guarantee that there's at least a
>win3.1 version. In that case it's a simple matter to install Wabi and/or use
>Wine to run the "Windows-Only" apps that businesses need. Also.... IMHO
>businesses that are smaller should be using linux simple because of the low
>overhead and cost of running a linux-only business. And why does asking "why do
>you want to remove linux?" make someone a freak? If somebody asks "Why do you
>want to remove Windows?" do you think that they are a freak? Just a bit to
>think about.... no hard feelings.
>
>Scott L wrote:
>
>> maybe to actually run 90% of the applications he needs to that wont run on
>> Linux ? its remarks like this one below that gives linux users the name of
>> freaks - get a grip would you - theres no way to run a linux only business
>> environment unless you use very FEW apps
>> THEVENIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
=====================================================================
Hubertus Alexander Haniel ,,, http://www.haniel.demon.co.uk
Greenhithe, Kent, UK (o o) ICQ UIN: 1470384
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From: "vicente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NTFS and Linux
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 00:15:46 +0200
Yes, with kernel 2.2 Linux can access NTFS, but not vice-versa.
Pawe� Sierzputowski escribi� en mensaje <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I've RedHat 5.2 and WinNT on the other partition. There is a way to see
>NTFS partition on Linux and vice-versa.
>Please help me.
>pawels.
>
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with Stealth 4000 & Redhat 5.1
Date: 15 May 1999 22:30:55 GMT
Mister Homicidal wrote:
> I'm a Linux newbie (but not a UNIX newbie) with a problem...
>
> Just installed RedHat 5.1 on a VIA MVP3 K6 system with a Diamond
> Stealth 3D 4000 AGP card. Ran Xconfigurator, it found the VIRGE
> chipset, and installed support for it for X-Windows. I'm trying to run
> it at 1024x768x16
>
> When I use X-Windows, I get two desktops side by side, and each is
> compressed horizontally, like the display is actually 2048x768. Also,
> when I try to move a window, the fonts get corrupted and I have to
> refresh the display.
>
> I've scanned this newsgroup, and the general recommendation seems to
> be to use the SVGA server instead. The question is, how do you get
> Xconfigurator to do that, or is there a config file you need to edit?
>
> Thanks for helping a newbie who's down on his luck....
Hmmm... have same hardware - using xf86config and specifing SVGA I now
have my desktop in 240x300 mode ( way big - no good) but... Doom runs fine.
one suggestion I got was to try the cntl-alt-+and - to shift modes, but no
joy there. There has to be a desktop specific control I have wrong, but I
haven't figured it out yet
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