Linux-Misc Digest #694, Volume #18 Tue, 19 Jan 99 18:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux and mail client for Exchange (Raymond Doetjes)
Re: Anti-Linux FUD (Laurie Brown)
shutdown -r =?iso-8859-1?Q?won=B4t?= reboot (frank)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. (Paul E Larson)
Re: Which is the best colour printer for Linux? ("Anthony W. Youngman")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (David A. Rogers)
Re: WOW LotusNotes on Linux (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Re: CPU/mobo temperature monitors? (Gary Momarison)
Re: Star Trek window manager? (Ross Vandegrift)
Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class. ("Bill Leeper")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Andrew Comech)
Re: 128 bit Netscape 4.08 built against glibc (John Girash)
Re: Thoughts on file organization ("J. S. Jensen")
Re: ? on poorly described -r & -R options of cp. (John Brock)
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? ("M. Wimmer")
Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives. ("Patrick D. Rockwell")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Problems running XFree86 after installing Redhat Linux 5.2 (TS Stahl)
Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives. ("Patrick D. Rockwell")
Re: A few questions ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: My partition choice (James Youngman)
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and mail client for Exchange
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:38:06 +0100
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Which mailbox protocolls do run on your Exchange server????
Otherwise just enable POP3 or IMAP4 on your exchange server. There is no
M$ mailclient on Linux (yet).
Raymond
Gene Senyszyn wrote:
> I'm in the process of covertly adding Linux onto my (normally) NT
> Workstation at work, so that I can show it can do all the things we
> need it to do for a workstation....
>
> Where I'm having a problem, is we run MS Exchange Server 5.0 on our
> network, and POP3 is not set up. Is there a mail client that I can
> use to connect to it?
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From: Laurie Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.destroy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,alt.conspiracy.microsoft,comp.os.linux.x,gnu.misc.discuss,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Anti-Linux FUD
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:50:49 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jim Frost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> } > Also, the manual I got with RH 5.0 and RH 5.1 both give good ideas
> } > as to partitioning.
> }
> } I don't agree; it gives a lot of suggestions, but they aren't
> particularly good
> } ones, and the fact that it has to go into such detail indicates a
> relatively
> } poor installer in the first place.
>
> Solaris will auto set the partitions acroding to what it thinks are good
> ideas with what disc space you have and what you've chosen to install.
>
> I've never yet done such an install without customising Solaris' scheme;
> usually by deleting all and setting them from scratch.
>
> I'd agree that the reasoning behind partitioning can be a little obscure
> for the newbie - it's tripped me up more than once - but it isn't so
> difficult that it can't be done.
Quite. I screwed up my first installation, learnt, hit the net and read
a few articles in dejanews, re-visited and set up my disks properly,
with an understanding of what's what. It ain't rocket science...
Cheers, Laurie.
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From: frank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shutdown -r =?iso-8859-1?Q?won=B4t?= reboot
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:29:56 +0100
the computer will halt at
�please stand by while rebooting the system�
i suppose this must be something hardware related because i�ve installed
linux on, well, maybe 10 different PCs or so and never before ran into
the problem. only on this machine.
what exactly does the -r flag do? how would i go about trying to
solvethis problem?
cheers
frank
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson)
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 17:17:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi) wrote:
>On 19 Jan 1999 01:38:15 -0800, Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> Eric> oh... and in the first place DOS was designed to _sell_ not
>> Eric> to work. IBM got too impatient and decided to 1. go with the
>> Eric> shit 8088 processors that that Intel were selling them for a
>> Eric> 'better deal' and 2. go with Billy boy's "QDOS" excuse for
>> Eric> an operating system that was stolen from Seattle Computer
>> Eric> Products anyway. Then came the whole thing about IBM
>>
>>I don't have a jones for Microsoft but I do might irritated at the
>>perpetuation of this falsehood. Gates did not steal the OS in any
>>way. If you can't make a case without resorting to falsehood, you
>>don't have a case to make.
>
> He most certainly did and it was ajudicated as such.
>
You of course have some , excuse me kind posters for using this nasty word,
PROOF. Interesting article with some guy named Tim Paterson who worked
for Microsoft(at least in 97') - http://www.forbes.com/asap/97/1201/070.htm
you might find it interesting.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Which is the best colour printer for Linux?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:12:29 +0000
Reply-To: "Anthony W. Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <77vaad$5kj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Adamson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>In uk.comp.os.linux Phillip Deackes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: Is there an affordable colour postsript printer? Would postcript
>: printers necessarily give better quality printing? Is there any printer
>: manufacturer actually considering producing a Linux printer driver?
>
>If you get a colour postscript printer, then the quality will be all down
>to the printer - there won't be any OS dependencies or ghostscript
>colour-isn't-quite-right problems, as you just send postscript to the
>printer, and it deals with it.
>
>Whether there are any affordable ones rather depends on your defenition of
>affordable. You won't pay less than four figures for one though.
>
Hang on ... I think you can get postscript chips for an inkjet. 200 for
the printer, 200 for the chip ...
But yes. Postscript is normal on high-end colour printers and they ARE
expensive. We run two colour lasers, and if we bought the WinPrinter
version it's still about GBP2000.
The other thing to watch out for is media quality. Lasers produce
relatively crap photo output. What you really want is dye sublimation.
With consumables alone at maybe $10 per page ...
--
Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
Trousers with a single hole in their waistband are topologically equivalent
to a doughnut. These sugarcoated trousers have yet to catch on at fast-food
outlets! (SuperStrings by F. David Peat)
If replying by e-mail please mail wol. Anything else may get missed amongst
the spam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 19 Jan 1999 16:22:55 GMT
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 06:27:00 GMT, Joseph H Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
speaketh saying:
>In article <36a42292.0@calwebnnrp>, Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I am interested in a "soft-touch" keyboard for a Linux workstation that has
>>one Control key on the home row - by the "A" key or "Caps lock" key, instead
>>of 2 Control keys on the bottom like on Windows keyboards. I would like to
>>hear someone recommend a keyboard with these specifications.
>
>Remap the caps-lock key into the Ctrl key. Take a look at 'loadmap' and
>/usr/lib/kbd/keytables/emacs.map
As well as modmap for X11.
Cheers,
dar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.H.M. Dassen (Ray))
Subject: Re: WOW LotusNotes on Linux
Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:13:16 GMT
Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>IBM has made a 360 turn. After 1 year of saying no to porting LotusNotes to
>Linux they finally agreed and will have a port available before the end of
>this year.
It's not so much IBM as Lotus that made a 180 turn. Lotus, though part of
IBM, still seems to be fairly independent. While IBM was active on Linux
(DB2, AFS) (and is by now even trying to produce Open Source software
(Jikes, Secure Mailer)), Lotus didn't want to accept the new reality.
Check out e.g. http://slashdot.org/articles/98/10/08/2235239.shtml and
http://slashdot.org/articles/9805261353200.shtml .
HTH,
Ray
--
ART A friend of mine in Tulsa, Okla., when I was about eleven years old.
I'd be interested to hear from him. There are so many pseudos around taking
his name in vain.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU/mobo temperature monitors?
Date: 19 Jan 1999 09:08:33 -0800
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ...
> >
> > Does anyone know of any linux apps which can monitor a motherboard's
> >temperature? (or maybe a bizarre perl mod?) I have a mini tower with alot
> >of 7200 rpm drives and a cdr which I'd like to keep an eye on. Thanks.
Look for "Linux System Hardware Monitoring" in
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/hardware.html
and maybe http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/hardware-misc.html#sensors
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: Ross Vandegrift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Star Trek window manager?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 16:18:29 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If there is one, I'd like to put it into my collection. So, I ask the people
> who really are insiders with respect to window managers: is there?
Being a window manager buff, you ought to check out www.themes.org - I'm
sure someone with too much time has made one...
--
Ross Vandegrift | Eric J. Fenderson
alt.binaries.punk: for those of us too
punk to pay money for the music.
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From: "Bill Leeper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux is not even in Windows 9X's class.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 13:42:54 -0800
Let's just say that if you knew C/PM you would have no problems running the
first version of DOS and leave it that. Another good reason to try Linux as
the code is open to everyone.
--
Bill Leeper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Tremblay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Eric> oh... and in the first place DOS was designed to _sell_ not
> Eric> to work. IBM got too impatient and decided to 1. go with the
> Eric> shit 8088 processors that that Intel were selling them for a
> Eric> 'better deal' and 2. go with Billy boy's "QDOS" excuse for
> Eric> an operating system that was stolen from Seattle Computer
> Eric> Products anyway. Then came the whole thing about IBM
>
>I don't have a jones for Microsoft but I do might irritated at the
>perpetuation of this falsehood. Gates did not steal the OS in any
>way. If you can't make a case without resorting to falsehood, you
>don't have a case to make.
>
>
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Date: 19 Jan 1999 17:10:49 -0500
Steve O'Hara Smith wrote:
<snipped: blah-blah-blah, FreeBSD v. Linux stuff...>
>As the original poster pointed out it saves you the
>bother of chasing down patches :)
jesus freaking christ...
never mind patches!!! these are only for those guys
who want to contribute to checking things which
are to be/not to be included into later kernels.
Linux works just fine if you do not even know what
the word PATCH means. I myself only used this patching
once, when I got interested in enabling Ultra DMA
thing of the hard drive. And -- this doubled buffered
disk reads, to 12.50 MB/sec (my HDD == Quantum EX, 6.4MB).
Perhaps L. Torvalds decided he liked this too and
included UDMA support into 2.2.0 kernel.
Are you BSD addicts sure you have had UDMA support for
on-board IDE chipsets (I've got MVP3 based PA-2013)
right off the cuff?
Honestly, it seems that some BSD addicts spend too
much energy to prove their right for existence.
Did anybody argue they've got this right, or are they
trying to persuade themselves?
Best,
Andrew
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From: John Girash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 128 bit Netscape 4.08 built against glibc
Date: 19 Jan 1999 20:28:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Michael.Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Believe when I see it. Yet to find a version of Netscape than can
: access http://www.michael.creasy.com without dying!!
?huh? NS3.04 navigates the site like a charm (albeit slowly) for me.
(followsup only to colm)
jg
--
"don't listen when you're told / about the best days in your life : Spirit of
a useless old expression, it means / passing time until you die." : the West
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From: "J. S. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thoughts on file organization
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:45:58 -0700
Rick Glunt wrote:
> One area I am having trouble with when working with Linux (and UNIX in
> general) is that when installing a new application I am never sure where the
> new files should be put..some are in /etc some are in /local, etc.
This should be dependent on who will be using the application.
Ghostview/script, Netscape, will probably be used by all users, however, are not
exactly /system/ binaries, thus should reside for everyone to use in /usr/local
> Can anyone give me an overview of the method to Linux file organization?
You can probably get/read a good Unix book that will explain fs structure. /etc
has config files, /bin has basic binaries, /sbin has system binaries mostly used
at boot-time and system related stuff, /usr is where most user type applications
will reside, and /var is where variable length files (those that are deleted,
appended, et al) are kept. /var is usually its own separate partition because
it is the most vulnerable area for fs corruption.
> Where should a new app be installed?
If /you/ are using it alone as your-user, then you should install it in you home
directory. Most unix people will re-create the etc/bin/var structure in their
home dir.
> Where is a good place to put the downloaded source?
~username/usr/src or ~username/src
Again, this depends. If it is kernel/system related, put it in /usr/src, if it
is user-global, put it in /usr/local/src
> Why can't Linux have a directories called 'diald' created when I install
> diald?
You CAN! The only problem is you want to place the final binary into a common
directory that is accessable by your PATH variable, and you don't want to
continually add directories to that path. Plus, in the Windoze world, there are
associated DLLs that must exist w/ the application. Rarely are shared objects
(dlls) required for many applications, and if they are, they can generally be
statically compiled into the binary.
> I love Linux thus far, I'm just a little confused!
When I have to set up NT machines, I to this day still create the Unix fs
structure. Keep using Linux, and you will too.
--
J. S. Jensen
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.Paramin.COM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock)
Subject: Re: ? on poorly described -r & -R options of cp.
Date: 19 Jan 1999 11:12:16 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Fawcett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Terry Husie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> From the "cp" man page:
>>
>> -r Copy directories recursively, copying all non-
>> directories as if they were regular files.
>> -R, --recursive
>> Copy directories recursively.
>>
>> So, what's that last phrase of -r supposed to mean?
>> What's the difference between -r and -R, in English?
>Almost all GNU utilities man pages, including cp's, mention that the full
>docs are available as info files (some even say that the man page is
>obsolete). The fileutils info page has a more complete explanation:
>
>`-r'
> Copy directories recursively, copying any non-directories and
> non-symbolic links (that is, FIFOs and special files) as if they
> were regular files. This means trying to read the data in each
> source file and writing it to the destination. Thus, with this
> option, `cp' may well hang indefinitely reading a FIFO, unless
> something else happens to be writing it.
>
>For a more graphic demonstration, try:
>cp -R /dev mydev
>then:
>cp -r /dev mydev
Does this mean that I could use cp -Rp to back up (or clone) a
partition? In OS/2 I can use the command "COPY /H/O/T/S/E/R/V" to copy
a complete file system to a directory on another partition. Although I
can't boot and run the copy I *can* copy it back to its original
location and completely restore my system to its previous state. This
has been very useful on OS/2, but I had been under the impression that
with Linux (and Unix in general) you needed special tools, because of
all the different kinds of special files. (Even tar and zip don't
work, although I understand cpio does). So does the -R option handle
all the special files properly?
--
John Brock
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "M. Wimmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 22:52:29 +0100
Anthony W. Youngman schrieb in Nachricht ...
>I began with Slack (installing on a 386 with floppies - slack is VERY
>MUCH the best under those circumstances :-), moved on to RH4.2, and am
>now very happy with SuSE5.2. Currently waiting for SuSE 6.1, which I
>assume will be available very shortly after kernel 2.2. SuSE 6.0 is out
>now, but I believe only in German. As I think the original poster was
>from Austria that is probably fine.
Yes, that is true! Maybe I should have mentioned, that a german version
would be prefered. Please also try to explain abbreviations (like
IMHO,....).
>I agree with the comments about YaST (German over-engineering and all
>that as I remember another poster say :-)
>--
>Anthony W. Youngman - wol at thewolery dot demon dot co dot uk
>Trousers with a single hole in their waistband are topologically equivalent
>to a doughnut. These sugarcoated trousers have yet to catch on at fast-food
>outlets! (SuperStrings by F. David Peat)
>
>If replying by e-mail please mail wol. Anything else may get missed amongst
>the spam.
>
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From: "Patrick D. Rockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.abbs,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:13:25 -0800
John Thompson wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Patrick D. Rockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>
> >I'm planning to set up a multi platform system with Dos 6.22, Windows
> >95, OS2 Warp, and Linux. I
> >have a T1000 tape drive, but I'm planning to get a Colorado 4/8 Gb tape
> >drive (part number C4386B). I
> >know that Dos and Windows 95 work with it. What about Linux? Is there a
> >Linux driver which will
> >work with the tape drive that I'm planning to get? Is there a drive
> >which will work with all four OS's?
> >
> >In particular, I'm planning to get Redhat Linux, but if there is another
> >better Linux out there which will
> >work with the Colorado 4/8 Gb tape drive, please let me know.
>
> Supposedly floppy-based tape drives will work in linux with the
> ftape support but I had trouble getting my Jumbo 350 to function
> in linux. I had a FC-20 accelerator card installed which may
> have contributed to the problem, even though I tried all the
> suggestions for enabling accelerator card support with ftape. I
> ended up getting SCSI drive which works quite nicely. YMMV.
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Well, the Colorado 4/8 Gb drive is IDE/ATAPI controlled, and there is a product called
BRU
2000 which according to the people that I called at Enhanced Software Technologies, it
should
work with this tape drive, even if I have to call for technical support. I discovvered
BRU
2000 on the Redhat Linux page at http://www.redhat.com .
--
Patrick D. Rockwell
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 19 Jan 1999 12:07:15 -0500
Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am interested in a "soft-touch" keyboard for a Linux workstation that has
> one Control key on the home row - by the "A" key or "Caps lock" key, instead
> of 2 Control keys on the bottom like on Windows keyboards. I would like to
> hear someone recommend a keyboard with these specifications.
it's hard to find a keyboard with the keys labelled as such theses
days. on the other hand, it is very easy to remap the keys. in X use
xmodmap to swap caps lock and control. in console mode, there is a
keyboard map file (in /usr/lib/kbd/ somewhere i believe. hack the
`us' keymap to swap caps lock and control).
> The reason I am asking is because I find Emacs infinitely easier to use with
> a Control key on the home row, and practically unusable for a long time with
> Windows 95/PC type keyboards. Of course, that is just my opinion and I
> realize others differ. Still, I'd like to hear suggestions.
i too use emacs. i even remapped the keys on windows nt since i use
emacs at work too.
--
johan kullstam
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From: TS Stahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems running XFree86 after installing Redhat Linux 5.2
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 10:43:02 -0600
RH5.2 overwrites your versions of configuration files. Check the TMP directory
for a file that is created during the install to see what files have been
overwritten. I suspect that your X files (no pun intended) have been
overwritten with fresh versions. Check the two for compatibility before
restoring your older version.
Steve Sanyal wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed Redhat Linux 5.2 on my PC which is configured as follows:
>
> Primary Master: Windows NT and DOS
> Primary Slave: Linux
> Secondary Master: CD-ROM
>
> I have 128 MB of RAM, and made my swap file 127 MB.
>
> I made a swap partition and a root partition on my primary slave, and I
> installed all of Linux there. The command shell appears to be okay. I can
> boot and log into the system. However, my problems surface as soon as I run
> my Xfree86 program. The program is unusable for me thus far for two
> reasons:
>
> 1) the mouse pointer moves in a very choppy manner - it only moves once
> every several seconds, and is impossible to control.
> 2) the display appears to be only in 16 or 256 colours ( I can't tell
> which), but the contents of the desktop do not fit the screen. I need to
> scroll (which is difficult to do given that the mouse does not work
> properly).
>
> I set my options to what I believe were correct using Xconfigurator and the
> mouseconfig programs. I have a Logitech 3-button serial mouse, which I
> purchased several years ago when I had a 386. I have tried using the
> following mouse settings:
>
> - Logitech Mouse (3 button, serial, old c7 type)
> - Generic 3 button mouse (serial)
> - Microsoft compatible mouse (serial)
>
> None of these seem to make any difference.
>
> As for the display - I have an ATI Mach 64 PCI PC2TV Rage II, which is
> detected. However, when the card is probed, the amount of memory is not
> detected properly - I get an error. I've set it to 4 megs as that is the
> amount of memory I have on my card.
>
> My monitor is an Acerview 76e, which is not listed in this program. I have
> chosen the custom setting, which says you should be able to set your own
> refresh rates, but I only get a range of rates, which does not exactly match
> that of my monitor. However, I chose rates that fell within my monitor's
> ranges.
>
> Can anyone give me some advice as to how I can get this properly configured?
>
> Regards
>
> Steve
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From: "Patrick D. Rockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux compatiblity with Colorado tape drives.
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 14:25:35 -0800
John Thompson wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Patrick D. Rockwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>
> >I'm planning to set up a multi platform system with Dos 6.22, Windows
> >95, OS2 Warp, and Linux. I
> >have a T1000 tape drive, but I'm planning to get a Colorado 4/8 Gb tape
> >drive (part number C4386B). I
> >know that Dos and Windows 95 work with it. What about Linux? Is there a
> >Linux driver which will
> >work with the tape drive that I'm planning to get? Is there a drive
> >which will work with all four OS's?
> >
> >In particular, I'm planning to get Redhat Linux, but if there is another
> >better Linux out there which will
> >work with the Colorado 4/8 Gb tape drive, please let me know.
>
> Supposedly floppy-based tape drives will work in linux with the
> ftape support but I had trouble getting my Jumbo 350 to function
> in linux. I had a FC-20 accelerator card installed which may
> have contributed to the problem, even though I tried all the
> suggestions for enabling accelerator card support with ftape. I
> ended up getting SCSI drive which works quite nicely. YMMV.
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Well, the Colorado 4/8 Gb drive is IDE/ATAPI controlled, and there is a product called
BRU
2000 which according to the people that I called at Enhanced Software Technologies, it
should
work with this tape drive, even if I have to call for technical support. I discovvered
BRU
2000 on the Redhat Linux page at http://www.redhat.com .
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A few questions
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 09:17:27 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <780fq0$j8m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently installed Slackware 3.4 and now I have a few questions:
>1. How can I use my floppy drive without mounting it after every disk
change?
If the floppy is formatted with FAT12 then you can use the mtools (see "man
mdir" for example). If the floppy is using ext2fs or any other file system
no chance.
>2. How do I run a stand-alone system without network with a minimum use of
>memory?
???? What do you mean?
- recompile the kernel with only the necessary drivers
- disable all unneeded deamons
- disable all but one terminal
- ...
>3. I have a NEC P2200 printer. Is there a driver for that printer?
Does it work with OS/2, DOS, NT? Then it'll work with Linux.
>4. I have a Iomega Zip drive that should work via the parallel port (fine
in
>Windows 95). How do I use that in Linux?
Have you checked the Zip Drive and ZIP install MINI Howtos at e.g.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini
jue
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: My partition choice
Date: 18 Jan 1999 19:59:55 +0000
DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 17 Jan 1999, Ilya wrote:
>
> > Thanks for clarifying - the machine will have 256MB of RAM eventually, and
> > 128MB when I get it. I guess I will have to have several swap partitions.
> > I am interested in a server-type machine. I don't know exactly what I will
> > be doing with it, but it is conceivable I might end up doing RAM-intensive
> > work.
>
> As a general rule of thumb, swap space should be approximately twice your
> physical memory.
That "general rule of thumb" is completely inappropriate and hasn't
been valid since some time in the eighties.
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