Linux-Hardware Digest #342, Volume #12 Fri, 25 Feb 00 13:13:09 EST
Contents:
USB modem ???????? (#LAW KAI MAN#)
Legacy 150x Tape Drive ("Ray Slakinski")
simple PCI videocard (best one????) (Huib Wouters)
Re: Geforce Annihilator (David Ripton)
Re: Redhat6.1 & Win modem or Linux's Dirty little Secret? A ? and a rant! (David
Ripton)
Re: Help please - linux install on Compaq 386dx - 20 ("Mojo B. Nichols")
Re: Re: Linux sucks ("Larry Ebbitt ")
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system (Peter Stein)
Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) (JT)
Second Drive (Brian Donaldson)
Re: Q: How good is Linux when the computer is suddenly loses power ? (J Bland)
Re: a VERY stupid question!! (J Bland)
Re: Re: Linux sucks (J Bland)
Re: Hardware problems. (Dances With Crows)
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From: #LAW KAI MAN# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB modem ????????
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:23:26 +0800
any 1 can help to make aztech USB modem work in Redhat 6.1 ?
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From: "Ray Slakinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Legacy 150x Tape Drive
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:22:18 -0500
I have an old Legacy 150x tape drive system, with a controler that I believe
to be SCSI, but that aside I was attempting to find out if at all there
would be a way to get this to operate under the linux OS
Thanks in advance
RayS
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From: Huib Wouters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: simple PCI videocard (best one????)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:34:57 +0100
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I'm upgrading an old computer to use it as a simple internet computer.
Now I am looking for a simple PCI videocard. Not too expensive because
this old P-100 is not able to deliver a proper data rate to a modern
video card.
Going to a computer shop nereby there are basically two options:
1. Hercules Dynamite 4MB (Dynamite 1 I asume ?????)
2. SiS 6325 3D 4MB
any advise on which one is the best (linux or XF86 support, 2D fill
rate, 3D MESA).
Thanks
Huib
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Geforce Annihilator
Date: 25 Feb 2000 16:34:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8962r2$9l1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
P. Frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I�ve found a driver for my very new Geforce-Annihilator Graphic-Card.
>But how can I install the File "nvidia-X-GLX-335-i386-dyn.tar.gz" ?
cd /usr/tmp
tar xvfz /FULL_PATH_TO/nvidia-X-GLX-335-i386-dyn.tar.gz
(This will extract the tarball into a new directory off
/usr/tmp. x is extract, v is verbose, f means the next
argument is a file to use, z means to run gzip.)
cd nvidia-X-GLX-335-i386-dyn
su
(enter your root password at prompt)
(You need to be root to have permission to copy the Nvidia X
server over your old X server.)
./riva-install
(Hit enter at prompts)
exit
(to stop being root and go back to your normal user id)
You may need to rerun XF86Setup or XConfigurator to
configure your graphics card and monitor.
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David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Redhat6.1 & Win modem or Linux's Dirty little Secret? A ? and a rant!
Date: 25 Feb 2000 16:54:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dick Wisan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>I got stung with the Winmodem on an IBM Thinkpad. Cheerful young man
>at IBM's support number says, no hope. Only way is disable the
>Winmodem & get a modem for the PCMCIA port.
>
>Just one question. Browsing dealers & manufacturers web sites, it
>looks as though a lot of PCMCIA cards are or are just like Winmodems.
>Are they all, or are there actual, hardware modems for the PCMCIA port?
You can buy real hardware PCMCIA modems. They cost a bit more than
software modems. They also work better. (Not just in terms of
compatibility; software modems steal CPU cycles, making them unfit
for tasks like online gaming.)
>Would a normal modem require a special driver?
No. Real modems speak a standard, well-defined interface. PCMCIA
is also a standard, well-defined interface. So a random, real,
PCMCIA modem should just stinking work.
But if you want to make sure, buy a model that several other people
are using successfully under Linux.
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David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: "Mojo B. Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help please - linux install on Compaq 386dx - 20
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:39:24 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Aikens wrote:
> First let me say that I'm a novice at this stuff, so please go easy on
> me with the terminology please.
>
> I have a Compaq 386dx - 20 with 6 Mb ram and a 180 Mb hard drive, 3 1/2
> floppy drive and a plasma display. I have disabled the internal 1200
> modem and have connected a trantor cdint339 scsi adaptor for the cdrom
> . I have a serial mouse connected.
>
Wow you're brave. I have Compaq 486 something a rather and a IDE cdrom. I
installed RH 6.? with out any problems. It actually works quite well, even
gnome enlightenment comes up. Also more reliable then my pentium running
Windoze. It's been up 30 some odd days. Windoze has crashed more then I can
shake a stick at. It may not be fast but I'm proud of the little guy. It
lets you do all the basic Unix stuff. Okay enough bragging.
>
> I would like to instal linux so that I can play around with it and
> possibly become proficient enough to make an intelligent choice as to a
> larger system. I have not used UNIX before, but plan on trying to learn
> it.
>
> I attempted to instal linux slackware 1.3.18 (posix) by partitioning the
> hd with dos fdisk as 155 mb linux native, 10 mb dos partition, 10 mb
> linux swap. then used linux fdisk to change the system as appropiate. I
> xcopied the "A" disks for minimum instillation onto the root directory
> of the 10 mb dos partition. I then ran setup from two slakware disks (
> boot & ramdisk). When setup asked me for the directory on the hard drive
> for the installation "A" disks, I typed in " \ " and it came back with
> the message that the install disks could not be located and ended setup.
> On the next attempt, there was an error that the filesystem was" read
> only" and the setup ends. I used xt2fs for the filesystem.
>
> My questions:
> 1) what should I enter when setup asks for the
> directory for the slakware disks?
In unix directories are not "\" they are "/". Keep in mind I've never
installed slackware maybe "missing" alot of the process your going through.
>
>
> 2) Why am I getting a "read only" message from
> setup after the 2 nd setup attempt? Do I need permission or
> something? How do i change permission?
chmod is the command for changing permissions. chmod +rwx /directory/name
changes the permission of /directory/name to Readable Writeable eXecutable
. But personally I would start over you really shouldn't be having
permission problems (again maybe it's the slackware install I don't know).
I also got rid of all dos partitions and went with only linux. You don't
have much space so I would use it all. I guess you don't have the room to
install all the workstation apps so you'll have to pick and choose what you
want. That's kind of tough to do especially if you have no idea of what to
keep. You might try the workstation just to see the list of apps that it
comes with. Then whittle it down best you can pick the really large
applications first (they probably wouldn't have worked that well anyway).
>
>
> 3) I have the trantor cdint339 scsi driver that
> works in DOS, is there a way I can integrate it into linux? or is there
> an updated version with new drivers availible. I got hold of red hat ver
> 5.1 but it doesn't include the driver as far as I can tell from the
> website that lists the hardware compatable.
>
If you can't see you cdrom you must be installing from floppies. I hear
that's pretty tough (well for us novices anyway). I understand that the
primary reason for having scsi is speed, but on a a 386 with 6mb of ram I
wouldn't think that you'd ever take advantage of the performance gains.
Maybe a good aproach is to buy a cheap basic cdrom (make sure it's
supported) and save the one you have for a faster computer. Hopefully a
driver will be available by then. Just a thought. The Red Hat 6.?? install
from the cdrom was a piece of cake although it did take several hours.
Also if you were planning on learning the basics of unix using only the
shell, I think you'll out grow it very quickly. Getting a better system
that will allow you to take advantage of a window manager and other stuff is
well worth it. Yes I do use a window manager with my 486, but you have to
be patient and trust that the app picked is going to come up I also have to
be careful about which ones to pick. The games work fine, but I don't trust
linuxconf. I primarly like the window manager because I can have serveral
shells opened at once. I find it easier to learn stuff since I can man (man
is unix help pages) what ever I'm working on. Once you do get it up try man
man at the shell prompt. I don't know how well a window manager will work
on a 386 with that little of memory. I have a whopping 16 mb of ram.
I also bought a new hd for it so I have lots of space so you can install
everything and then play around with all this great stuff and learn more
eventual I'll put it in a newer computer. The only problem I encounter is
that it is not compatible with the bios. My work around is that I have to
boot from disk. After that though it works fine for linux and I'm curious
how long I can keep the box up, so I don't plan on rebooting alot.
Eventually I plan on making it a mission critical database server:-) Well
good luck to you, I hope my inspirational 486 story has helped in some
way. Sorry I don't have any real answers for you.
Mojo
>
> Thanks in advance, please post replys to the newsgroup.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
From: "Larry Ebbitt " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 11:59:55 -0500 (EST)
Reply-To: "Larry Ebbitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Re: Linux sucks
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:36:45 GMT, Nickolaus Dekay wrote:
>I was under the impression that IBM would rather support their own AIX...
No, they are leaping on the Linux bandwagon as fast at their wingtips
will move.
Larry - Atlanta - IBM Global Services
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: 25 Feb 2000 17:00:07 GMT
In article <_2lt4.738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenneth Crudup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In <88t2kv$788$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/23/00
>at 05:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>
>>>As for why you are getting Win2K with Linux and OS/2 available to
>>>you .... :-)
>
>In article <38b467d5$2$ovryyvat$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>
>>There's some professional stuff that will only run in Win32, though.
>
>One word: "Vmware". I'm naming my first child after it. 30 days is
>free, so make sure your app runs on it, then it's $100 if you buy it.
>They're even coming up with an OS/2 version.
I tried OS2 with their 2.0 BETA, unfortunately I have to report that it
is unusable in its present form. What completely torpedoes it at this
point is its speed. Molasses going uphill on a cold winter day?
No, slower. At least they're trying. I am a little miffed though that
they would waste my time with something that is clearly unusable.
OTOH, the accolades for VMware with WIN98 as a guest OS are well deserved.
2.0 graphics performance with the DGA extensions is disappointing, but
within the realm of being usable. Overall it definitely is a breakthrough
product.
Peter Stein
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From: JT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:00:41 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jordan)
wrote:
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>There is a market for a real, paper book. People will pay for it.
>Right now, I find the one most lacking is a "Linux for Windows Users."
>I'm surprised no one has written one yet. (And if there are any
>aspiring authors out there, e-mail me -- I can almost guarantee
>getting it published.)
There is one like that on the market already. I think it's call ...
"...Linux Made Easy...". It's one of those Made Easy series of books.
As uaual, the Linux users ripped it to shreads on Amazon, since the
book was more about using GNOME Desktop , not the super-duper HOWTO
on fixing arcane problems books they have some to accustomed to. I
thought it's aperfectly good intro to using Linux with GNOME for mom
and pop Windows users, who may not have the inclination to delve into
the guts of Linux.
>
=========snipped=======
>If Linux is going to take over the desktop, it's going to have to
>address the needs of the masses, not just the geeks.
>
My mother uses email and StarOffice on Linux; she has no desire to
learn to do Linux sys admin or setting ipchains rules for firewalls,
and I don't see there is anything wrong with that. It' all comes down
to what you want to do on Linux, and that depends on a killer app.
>
>NOTICE: The e-mail address is deliberately incorrect.
>Delete "xnospam" from the username.
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Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 12:10:08 -0500
From: Brian Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Second Drive
How do I setup linux on a second drive as a server setup. I have
redhat 6.0 and mandrake7.0. Will linux boot from a second drive without a
boot disk?
Brian Donaldson
Computer Engineering Student
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.development
Subject: Re: Q: How good is Linux when the computer is suddenly loses power ?
Date: 25 Feb 2000 12:17:47 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:36:35 GMT, Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Markus Wandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> (I have since gotten a longer power cord, eliminating the accidental
>> powerdowns!)
>
>Does that work the same way that a longer garden hose means you have a
>little more water around when the main gets shut off?
>
Maybe the shortness of the cable was causing the powerdowns by being pulled
out of the socket or hanging around in vulnerable places; with a longer
cable you have more freedom to move equipment and can route it around the
office/room better and keep it out the way.
Some of my equipment is right at the end of their 'tether' and a good tug on
a Case or monitor would power them down (if this sounds annoying then tell
my HOD to release funds to GET SOME PROPER EQUIPMENT.)
Shrike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: a VERY stupid question!!
Date: 25 Feb 2000 16:06:37 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:15:25 -0500, Gregory M. Hebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Edward Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Actually, Windows users don't know Linux but Linux users know Windows.
>>
>> I still need Windows for
>>
>> 1. Multi-file downloads with Outlook Express.
>
> Are you talking about attachments? If so, use metamail.
>Save the entire email to a file and then execute the following:
>
> metamail -w saved_email_file
>
>Metamail will find all the attachments and give you the option
>of saving them. It will also automatically decode any attachment
>and save it in its binary format (text attachments will be saved
>as text, of course).
> I haven't used a distribution yet that didn't include metamail.
>
Also for attachments, pine handles them well, and kmail does them very well
indeed IME. Email attachements shouldn't be a reason to stick with Windows,
in fact the clients they use here at Liv uni don't handle them very well on
Windows and *Linux* is making life easier here.
Shrike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Re: Linux sucks
Date: 25 Feb 2000 16:08:16 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:36:45 GMT, Nickolaus Dekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:18:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) wrote:
>
>>I am responding to 'major companies not supporting linux'. IBM most
>>certainly supports Linux. They have ported a number of their high end
>>apps, and also offer technical support. Is IBM major? Frigging right. I
>>don't know the original poster, but it is obvious this is an uninformed
>>opinion, or he used a poor choice of words and meant something else. I
>>used IBM only as an example. SGI (Silicon Graphics), Intel, Corel,
>>Oracle, Inprise are some other big names actively involved in Linux. Are
>>these major? Do they support Linux? Yes.
>
>I was under the impression that IBM would rather support their own AIX...
>
It doesn't matter what they'd *rather* support, the fact is they support
*both*, heavily; seems to be they're pushing Linux for some stuff and AIX for
others.
Nothing wrong with diversifying.
Shrike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Hardware problems.
Date: 25 Feb 2000 12:20:35 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 17:13:23 -0500, Jake <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
> Now, I got RedHat Linux 6.1 installed. How do I get my US Robotics
>56K modem working?
If it's one of those internal LoseModems, you probably can't get it
working. http://www.linmodems.org and see what they say; there's a small
chance. If it's an external that plugs into the serial port, no
problem--just start up kppp (or GNOME's equivalent) and go.
>How do I get my SoundBlaster working?
Which make and model of Soundblaster is this? The older ones can be
configured by entering "sndconfig" as root. The newer ones, like the
AWE64 and Live, take a little more work. Post the exact make and model
and someone can give you more info.
>get the entire viewable area of the screen to fit inside the boundaries
>of the monitor, in other words, the screen is bigger than the monitor.
>When I want to see certain parts of the screen, I have to move the mouse
>to the top, bottom, left, or right, and then the screen shifts in that
>direction. How do I get it all to fit on the screen?
Sounds like your X is not configured correctly. Here's what the
relevant portion of my /etc/X11/XF86Config looks like:
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "MY_GRAPHICS_CARD"
Monitor "MY_MONITOR"
DefaultColorDepth 32 # put 32 or 16 here!
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection
The key is to put the resolution you want as the *first* one on the
"Modes" line. The other key is to make sure the resolution you spend most
of your time in is the largest resolution listed anywhere. You should
edit the file by hand; Xconfigurator doesn't seem to do the Right Thing.
--
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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