Linux-Misc Digest #599, Volume #18 Wed, 13 Jan 99 12:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: Kernel 2.2.0 and Gnome..anyone know how long? (David Steuber)
Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X (Paul Wickham)
Re: does the Diamond SupraExpress 56i Modem do linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Backgroup graphic on xterm ? ("T.E.Dickey")
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers (Ketil Z Malde)
Re: Errors after running a c file,please help ("David Z. Maze")
Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X (Chris Menzel)
Resolution, Monitors, Other stuff Help needed please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Which version (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (BKX)
Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X (Patrick O'Neil)
Re: Question on ghostscript drivers (Bob Tennent)
Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case (Thomas Womack)
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.0 and Gnome..anyone know how long?
Date: 12 Jan 1999 23:50:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob) writes:
-> ps . Does anyone know hwere I can get a feature list of kernel 2.2
-> enhancements over 2.0?
See http://www.kernel.org
If you want to download the latest kernel (2.2.0-pre6?), use a real
ftp client for best results. The file is over 10MB. The tar ball
includes a list of changes.
Some things:
SMP no longer experimental
Video4Linux
Faster (haven't benchmarked it myself)
IPv6 support
New drivers
New character sets
New kernel modules
--
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-- Secret Service Agent Richard Gill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Wickham)
Subject: Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X
Date: 13 Jan 1999 12:01:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Jan 1999 08:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does redhat 5.2 support this new(er) card from matrox??
Yes, if you get the new matrox X server from suse. I dl'ed the server and it
works fine (g200 +8MB RAM)
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: does the Diamond SupraExpress 56i Modem do linux?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:49:30 GMT
In article <77akjl$kff$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is my Diamond SupraExpress 56i Modem a WinModem? Diamond won't answer my
> questions.
>
> If it is, what would be a good, hassle free modem to buy for RedHat 5.2?
>
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While I was researching modems for linux, I came away with the impression
that SupraExpress was OK...the SupraMax is a winmodem. If you have a
winmodem icon in control panel and no jumpers on the card (to set com and
irq, disabling PnP) then it's definitely a winmodem. I ended up getting a
Cardinal Connecta 3440 which works fine. Someone recently said Egghead has
them for $40, I got mine through EBay. Good Luck Keith Brilhart
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From: "T.E.Dickey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Backgroup graphic on xterm ?
Date: 13 Jan 1999 11:53:40 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Jeff Kay <jkay> wrote:
> This cant be done on Xterm ( I pretty sure anyway ), What you want is either
> rxvt, aterm or Eterm...
> I would recommend aterm or Eterm because you can aslo have transparent or
> transparent tinted windows too...
But they're not "transparent" - they only mimic the screen background.
That's like calling a chameleon "transparent".
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Thomas E. Dickey
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Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers
From: Ketil Z Malde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Jan 1999 16:46:12 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson) writes:
> Funnilly enough, my wife and I have Identical Fujitsu C340 laptops (great
[...]
> These are identical machines, the only differance being the pcmcia ethernet
> card in mine, and the use of os. Yet hers gets hotter, and the fan runs more
> often than mine, even when mine is on almost continuously.
Linux does hlt, stopping the CPU, when it's idle, which should help
significantly in conserving power and reducing heat.
~kzm
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From: "David Z. Maze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Errors after running a c file,please help
Date: 13 Jan 1999 10:25:29 -0500
Pavlos Parissis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
PP> Hi,
PP> In order to set up my sound card i have to compile and run a small c
PP> file which is attachment.
PP> I compile the file without problems with this command
PP> gcc -O3 OPTi82C931.c -o OPTi82C931
PP>
PP> then i run it and the below messages appeared:
PP> /root/OPTi82C931.c: /bin: is a directory
It looks like you're trying to run the C file, not the compiled
binary. This gets interpreted by the shell, which in turn has no idea
*what* to do with it. Try running './OPTi82C931' instead. (And do be
careful what you do as root...)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Menzel)
Subject: Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X
Date: 13 Jan 1999 09:49:06 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 13 Jan 1999 12:01:01 GMT, Paul Wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> On 13 Jan 1999 08:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >does redhat 5.2 support this new(er) card from matrox??
>
> Yes, if you get the new matrox X server from suse. I dl'ed the server and it
> works fine (g200 +8MB RAM)
Or just get the XFree86 3.3.3-1 update and use the SVGA server. The
RPMs are at
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/updates/5.2/i386/.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Resolution, Monitors, Other stuff Help needed please
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:14:39 GMT
Please Help,
I have a Gateway notebook with a neomagic graphics card, I have at last
managed to get xwindows to start, with a resolution of about 1200 * 1000 or
nearest correct resolution, Although when in this mode any backgrounds seem
very dotty ie bad resolution or only 256 colours running or less, yet when I
have to run Windows 98 I am quite capable of running the same resolution with
16 million colours, what is the command to change this, any suggestions
welcomed.
Thanks
Toby Coleridge
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which version
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:10:22 -0700
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999, Chris Welch wrote:
Whoa nellie! Redhat has been among the front of the crowd in switching to
glibc (libc6). It has libc5 AS WELL AS glibc (for backward
compatibility). Redhat is also one of the easiest distributions to
install. Depending on what you are after (getting into the nitty gritty
from day 1 by trying to figure out how to install linux with a lot of work
or wanting to get a system installed and running right off the bat and
THEN learning the animal) you should make a decision on that criterion.
Redhat is very easy to install. I don't know firsthand but I believe from
my reading that debian isn't too bad, and neither is Caldera's OpenLinux.
I use RH (I preferred the apps supplied in it at the time vs those of
Caldera's offering then. I am now quite happy with it).
> Vasilis Serghi wrote:
> >
> > Hi all, I'm getting very anti Win 95 at the moment, and have been
> > considering getting a Lynux OS. This whole thing is very new to me. I
> > understand that there are different variants of the Unix OS, such as
> > S.U.S.E and Red Hat etc. I bought a mag which had the SUSE OS on the
[...]
> Debian 2.0
>
> Red Hat still uses libc5 and not 6 (so I hear), so it's not moving along
> with the crowd. Personally, Debian 2 is easier to install than Windows
> ever was. It's US$2.95.
patrick
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Bushnell, BSG)
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case
Date: 13 Jan 1999 11:27:34 -0500
"Netnerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am not and never have been a Microsoft employee.
Then why did your post refer to Microsoft in the first person?
"Finally, we are looking forward with great enthusiasm to putting our
witnesses on the stand," for example.
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BKX)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 16:05:42 GMT
On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 05:57:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <76tk66$gf4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Alot of people wrote: Linux Rules, Linux Sux, Linux will win, MS will win.
>
>Well, I skipped most of them because I've been spending the last week getting
>situated in school for my first semester here, and I don't care to read 300
>posts that effectively can be summed up in the second line of this post.
>
>I will have my say on the subject though.(and most of it may have been said
>already)
>
>Bill Gates is indeed a genius. Bill Gates is THE Man, if I could be like
>anybody when I 'grow up', it would be Bill.
I don't know about you but I would hate being hated by everyone.
>
>Bill Gates is the Ultimate Businessman. Period, you cannot argue that
>point(well, maybe you can point out some other businessmen who were better.)
>Anyone who makes in the billions by selling Windows to the world like he did
>cannot be beaten in business. Windows is the ultimate in commercial
>software. You MUST have it. In order to use the latest software for
>computers today, you must have it. Never has so much demand for one man's
>product been so great in the history of the world. Only a Genius could have
>pulled that off.
What planet did you come from? I don't need Windows to run the latest
softwore. All I need is Linux and a Linux-compatible modem. After
that I download the latest software. Nothing you get for Windows is
ever the latest. EVER. PERIOD.
As far as demand goes, demand comes from people being as stupid as you
are. If every one was as smart as I am (IQ == 153) they'd be using
Linux.
>
> Now then Bill Gates came away from Harvard with infinitely more business
>sense than computer sense, as nothing he's written has been original or even
>better than average, and nothing his company has written has improved over
>the previous versions. (Who found Dos 3.2 difficult to configure? Yeah
>there were the Memory limitations, but it wasn't difficult to configure new
>hardware, or new software, unless you had Memory hog Software, which ten
>years ago was what, 512k?) And yet he's managed to sell SHIT for ten years
>straight, and lead the Market doing it. As I said, the man is a Genius.
Gee, if I were Harvard, I'd change my name. DOS 3.2 was easy to
configure because there was NOTHING to configure. The shit they sell
now is sold solely because DOS 3.2 wasn't half-bad and people got
hooked. But as far as being a genious, my IQ is still higher than
Gates. Maybe I should be named KING OF THE WORLD.
>
>Now...Windows blows, we all know it(I have a split-partition so I can play
>games, and not much else with Windows). Windows leads the market, we all know
>that too. Deal with it, Windows will only be 'king' as long as there is a
>market for it, once people stop spending money on it, Windows will
>crash(Well..Windows crashing is a given, but I mean in a Business Market.)
>Windows can be stopped when people stop buying it.
There is no market for Windows, everyone uses it because it's there.
If a totally new were given the choice between an OS that crashes 5
times an hour and one that doesn't, we all know what they'd choose.
>
>Linux However, cannot be stopped in normal business terms. Redhat? Yes.
>SUSE? Yes. Other commercial versions? Yes. But Linux itself isn't
>commercial, and cannot be crushed by an inferior commercial product, or a
>company that relies 100% on the sale of its products to survive. So, how can
>Microsoft possibly make Linux fight for survival?
>
Shows how much you know. Linux is as commercial as every other UNIX
and you know it. Just because one lone company didn't create doesn't
make it non-commercial and non-competitive.
>
>Linux cannot win out over all, though, and this is where MS comes in.(It's
>either MS or Apple, folks..or maybe OS/2, but OS/2 takes a little bit of
>thought and effort to install and use). MS shovels shit to the lowest common
>denomonator. The Folks that sent their first E-mail through AOL, and think
>they were soooo Cyberpunk, the folks that had trouble when their 'coffee cup
>holder' couldn't support the weight of their coffee mug, or people who think
>that a Virus is going to be GUI and announce itself before it hits them, or
>the people who buy the latest and greatest and fastest computers, most
>expensive so that their kids can do 'homework' using that great Grolier
>Multimedia Encyclopedia, (which had what..maybe 1k of actual information per
>topic, and millions of wasted k on grainy pictures and half-second sound
>bites? God, I'm glad I didn't pay for that disk).
>
Wouldn't you much rather have an OS impervious to virii? BTW, you
spelled disc wrong. (Grolier's comes on a CD not a floppy.)
>Linux will never be popular among most computer users
We have yet to see that, now, don't we?
>
>because thanks to MS, 90% of computer users are people who should never have
>been allowed to buy them in the first place. Thanks to Bill Gates' Business
>Saavvy(SP?), he will always have a market with them by playing 'hey, we're
>normal people doing this' and feelgood commercials set to Rolling Stones
>music.
>
>
>Start that paragraph over...Linux cannot win out as the premiere OS, because
>it requires a bit of thought and effort to use it. Linux is where DOS was
>before Windows 3.0 came out(Socially speaking, that is) it's still for the
>'geeks'. It is beyond the Common User.
That problem, too, is being solved. There are lots of distributions
that are making themselves easier to configure. And for all of us
intelligent people, there will still be Stampede and Debian.
>
>Let it stay there. Let Windows have their market...in reality, Linux doesn't
>even begin to threaten it, because 90% of MS users would die if they couldn't
>install and configure it with a mouse, and call a toll number and be put on
>hold for several hours while the MS Tech support guy looks up the answer to a
>yes-or-no question. If Linux ever did win out as the Common Man's OS, how
>bad do you think it would have become? Each version of Windows was dumbed
>down from the last, do you really want Linux to be dumbed down enough to beat
>any version of MS Windows?
Why should we let them keep the market? And as far getting bad like
Windows, I think not. The people who make it would never let it get
that bad in the first place. Just ask Linus.
>
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From: Patrick O'Neil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: matrox mill. g200 card + support in X
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 09:14:34 -0700
On 13 Jan 1999, Paul Wickham wrote:
> On 13 Jan 1999 08:30:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >does redhat 5.2 support this new(er) card from matrox??
>
> Yes, if you get the new matrox X server from suse. I dl'ed the server and it
> works fine (g200 +8MB RAM)
Err...not anymore is this necessary. Me thinks that the latest XFree86-
3.3.3, available from RH and everywhere else, for that matter, has this
capability incorporated in it. There is no longer a need to go to
SuSE for it.
patrick
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From: r d t@q u c i s.q u e e n s u.c a (Bob Tennent)
Subject: Re: Question on ghostscript drivers
Date: 13 Jan 1999 15:29:51 GMT
On 13 Jan 1999 14:02:13 GMT, Timothy Cullip wrote:
>I'm trying to set up ghostscript to be able to print postscript
>files to an Epson printer and am having trouble getting it
>just perfect.
>
>I have an Epson Stylus Photo (it doesn't say 700, what is the
>difference between this and the Photo 700?) and am trying to use
>the uniprint driver which takes *.upp files to specify the printer's
>characteristics.
>
>Unfortunately there isn't a .upp file for this model and I can't
>seem to get proper output using the other stc*.upp files.
>
>The closest I can come is that the stc500ph.upp works great if
>I want to print at 720x720 resolution, but it takes too long
>(about 5 minutes to print a page).
>
>I would like to print at 360x360 and can come close to correct
>with the stc500p - the color printing looks perfect, but the
>black/greyscale printing has horizontal strips missing.
>
>Does anyone know if the stc600*.upp files (especially the stc600pl.upp
>for 360x360dpi) will work on the newer model 640?
>
I've successfully used stc600pl, stc600p and stc600ih on a Stylus 640.
Bob T.
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From: Thomas Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Statement of Bill Neukom As Government Rests Its Case
Date: 13 Jan 1999 16:43:45 GMT
In gnu.misc.discuss David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
: "Netnerd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > David Steuber wrote in message ...
: > >Netnerd, I gotta ask you one question. Why would a Microsoft
: > >spokesperson use such a silly pseudonim? You represent your company
: > >poorly. Or is this like a football game for you? You aren't really a
: > >Microsoft employee, it is just your favorite teem?
: >
: >
: > I am not and never have been a Microsoft employee.
: >
: > I don't even go to their seminars.
: But you are a housepet of them? Or how should one understand that you
: use "we" when referring to Microsoft, as in the following drivel:
Um, he's posting *unmodified testimony* given by the first defence witness
in the MS antitrust case. It even says so in the title!
Tom
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