Linux-Misc Digest #157, Volume #19 Tue, 23 Feb 99 23:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Windows/linux connectivity? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing PATCH GTK+-1.1.15-1.1.16 (Jason Clifford)
Parallel port programming ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (Andy Smith)
realplayer netscape (Tamas Antal)
Re: Partition Magic? ("Hoyt")
Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2 (Tim Kelley)
AGP Graphics card? (David Buckley)
Re: Chat Program (fernando)
Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux (bill davidsen)
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) (John Hasler)
Re: WP8 question (Walter Strong)
Re: Creating animated GIFs under Linux (Scott Johnston)
Re: Multiple cpu's (Dan Nguyen)
Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused (Werner Kliewer)
Re: Consumer Poll Says Microsoft Is Good For Consumers ("Mark Harrison")
Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?) ("Keith G. Murphy")
Re: Linux on a 486DX 33 ISA system (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Re: Web based Telnet client? ("Keith G. Murphy")
Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ???? (Stephan Schulz)
Re: DVD (Gordon Vrdoljak)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Windows/linux connectivity?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 16:11:25 GMT
In article <7ar6b5$br7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"A. Vos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to 'look'at my Linux machine from my Windows 98 machine in a GUI way.
> Telnet works, that's no problem but is is character based.
> Is there a way in which you can 'explore' your Linux machine from a windows
> machine?
>
> Arno
>
>
If you can see your Linux box in Network Neighborhood, then you can explore
it...
B
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Installing PATCH GTK+-1.1.15-1.1.16
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:40:04 +0000
On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, sabunimjw wrote:
> Also if anyone knows of a "Learn Linux in 21 Days" book or I settle
> for "Learn Linux in a Year" book. Just something to make me feel less
> helpless in my quest to escape the "Microsoft Strong Hold"!
Learn Linux in 24 hours published by SAMS.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Parallel port programming
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 15:25:01 GMT
Does anyone know of a device I can insert between my parallel port and my
scanner that will allow me to see the commands being sent to my scanner?
The software that came with the scanner only runs under Windows and the
manufacturer won't publish the technical details.
Thanks,
--AM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Smith)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: 24 Feb 1999 02:03:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Will this thread never die? ;-)
-Andy-
--Andy Smith ------ reply to: ----------------
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" Everybody knows that the dice are loaded,
Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed;
Everybody knows that the war is over,
Everybody knows that the good guys lost..."
-Leonard Cohen-
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From: Tamas Antal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: realplayer netscape
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:49:22 -0500
Hi,
I am a little disappointed with this linux version of realplayer. It's
not even unable to use presets but unable to play anything unless I
write the URL to "open location".
My question: How can I achieve that it starts playing when I click to
the address in netscape? (of course I set the application in netscape,
so netscape starts rvplayer but then nothing happens) I tried with
Netscape 4.07, 4.08, 4.5.
Thanks,
Tamas
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From: "Hoyt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Partition Magic?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 17:05:01 GMT
>What is the recomended Boot/partition Manager for multi OS'?
I run two versions of Linux, Windows 98 and BeOS on the same machine. I am
very happy with BeOS bootman. Easy to set up and change. Doesn't take up a
separate partition like the OS/2 bootmanager. Prettier and easie to
configure than lilo. I use loadlin to go straight to Be or Linux from
Windows without a reboot back through bootman.
Hoyt
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From: Tim Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 5.0 -> 5.2
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:10:43 -0600
Natanael Copa wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> finally i got a linux destribution. RedHat 5.0....
>
> What is the main difference between RedHat 5.0 and RedHat 5.2?
> Is there som easy way to update my RedHat without buying a new CD?
The differences are huge ... definitely get 5.2; www.cheapbytes.com has
it for a couple of dollars.
You can use the 5.2 cd to upgrade from 5.0 -> 5.2, but I have not tried
this and I don't have any idea how well it works.
--
Tim Kelley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
504.243.4682
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From: David Buckley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: AGP Graphics card?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:14:05 +0000
I currently have an SiS 6326 AGP card. It runs X ok, but not as well as
my old ViRGE dose. I want to upgrade, has anyone any suggestions on
what card to get? Unfortunately I have to run Windoze, for reasons that
have to many buts in for the moment. Any suggestions, I`d like to get a
Savage 3D, but there aren't any drivers yet. I'm going to be using it
for a lot of graphics so any suggestions should account for 8mb+ of
memory (4mb just don't cut it any more)
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From: fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Chat Program
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:13:21 +0500
Chat to talk with other people ?
BitchX, ircII, Xirc, ...
Chat to talk with a serial device (modem, etc) ?
chat
sabunimjw wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a CHAT program for Linux?
>
> Jw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux
Date: 23 Feb 1999 22:44:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alex Nichol <alexn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| bill davidsen wrote:
|
| >On a very related issue, before motherboards had IDE, we used to buy
| >ISA/EIDE/VESA IDE controllers. Now since Linux will support up to four
| >controllers, is there anyone still making controllers, obviously for
| >the PCI bus these days, which can be used to add the other two?
|
| Yes. I just installed a Promise UltraDMA 33, PCI board (it was about
| 50 UKP with tax, - so probably $50 or $60). It supports four devices
| on one IRQ (it chose 9), and leaves the m'board controllers available.
Now that sounds like a great feature. I'll have to look for a source to
buy these, unless someone happens to post one (hint!). There's always a
lack of IRQs.
| It has an internal BIOS which makes it the booting devices for DOS,
| and hde to hdh for Linux, leaving the m'board as hda to hdd
| I have four hard drives on it, two CDs on hda and hdb, and a HP 8100
| CD-RW on hdc
Hopefully that can be disabled, as long as the mobo devices are
available and Linux sees the devices I don't need to boot from it, and
your next comment suggests that there may be reasons not to do so.
| Only problem is that lilo will not run to install (though the one made
| on the boot floppy by the SuSE install works) - I am using a win98
| config.sys menu to set an environment variable, then run loadlin from
| the autoexec.bat if it is set. Marginally more clumsy, but works well
| without any interaction of the systems.
Fortunately none of my interesting machines have any MS code installed,
but I'm sure if I diddle with it a bit I can get it to boot without.
Thanks for all the info.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be
changed regularly and for the same reason.
--Ted Symons(?)
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 01:12:02 GMT
Graffiti writes:
> Geesh, why is it I'm seeing more and more people reply to plonks, and
> with the *plonk* removed?
Isn't that just what you expect from a troll?
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler)
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Strong)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: WP8 question
Date: 22 Feb 1999 16:24:11 GMT
A Dark Elf ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: How do you disable the red undelining stuff that appears when you type a
: mistake?
In WP8 it's "tools" -> "proofread" -> "off"
That should do it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Johnston)
Subject: Re: Creating animated GIFs under Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 01:15:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Is there a free tool for Linux that allows you to compose (rather than just
>view with xv) animated gif files.
One way is to use ivtools flipbook, which allows you to draw and view
a multi-frame graphic, then export through a filter that uses
ghostscript and gifmerge to construct the animated gif. Details at:
http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/flipbook.html
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple cpu's
Date: 24 Feb 1999 03:10:39 GMT
Mike Redan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: should be cool. I've never done it myself..but I've heard its pretty easy.
: AFAIK all ya gotta do is recomile yer kernel with SMP support. the new
: kernel 2.2.x comes with SMP installed by default.
Never, ever take default settings for kernel installations. There is
a high chance that more things will break.
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: KDE? Gnome? ... confused
From: Werner Kliewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 18:00:38 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Polhemus wrote:
> Is there ANY WAY for a rank novice to catch up on this jargon? You have to
> remember that you've got folks like me, coming from the other PC GUIs (where
> you really didn't have a choice, you got the GUI you were stuck with--yeah, pun
> intended).
>
> For instance, up till just a few days ago, I thought X Windows was a GUI, then
> discovered that, no, it is an "environment" on top of which you can run any of
> several window managers/desktop environments, etc. So, then, you can use KDE or
> GNOME or AfterStep (which I assume from the name, is a "NextStep" clone). Now
> you're saying "AfterStep" with and without Gnome...
>
> To me, it's a mass of confusion. Anyone got a website handy that explains this
> sort of thing to us newbies?
Here is my abbreviated attempt to clear it up in terms you will understand.
All computers operate with a number of layers of software. Here are some parallels
between Linux and DOS/Windows, including Win9x, and in most ways, WinNT.
The bottom layer is the kernel. It has 2 tasks, which are to actually talks to the
hardware and to manage the programs that want to use that hardware. In linux it is
called "the kernel". In DOS/Win machines, this would be a combination of your BIOS and
IO.SYS files.
By itself, the kernel cannot do much, so a bunch of utilities are created to actually
manage the hardware. We call these commands and they are found in your DOS or
Windows/Command directory on DOS/Win machines and in /sbin and /bin on your Linux
machine.
Your computer can boot, do useful work, and shut down using only these two layers, but
most of the time, a human wants to get in there and give extra instructions, make
ad-hoc decisions etc. The first solution to this was a "job control language" that you
fed into computers that did not have a terminal. Later, when people wanted to work at
teletypes and terminal, a command line interface was developed. Both of these are
examples of "shells". The main function of a shell is to allow humans to interact with
the computer to make decisions on things they have not already programmed into a
permanent program. In DOS/Win machines, command.com provided the "shell". On Linux you
have a number of choices, but RedHat Linux ships with bash as the default shell. Most
shells, including command.com and bash have some built-in commands and some logic so
that you can do what is called "shell programming". .bat files are an example of shell
programming.
Then Xerox invented the GUI. It comes in two parts, which may or may not be tightly
coupled.
The first part provides the program calls that allow programs to create and destroy
and
resize and move windows, it also reads some sort of pointer input (often a mouse) and
feeds the input from that and the keyboard back to the programs. The UNIX and
therefore
Linux version of this, as invented by Xerox (hence the name) and since enhanced over
about 20-30 years is called X-Windows. The Win/DOS name for this is Windows (start by
running the command win) in both Win3.x and Win9x.
The next piece is the Window Manager. It is the thing that creates scroll bars, title
bars, grab handles and the little corner controls and menus you find on almost every
window you will see. This is the piece (like a shell at the command prompt level) that
allows a human to interact with the windowing programs. It allows the human to use a
pointer or the keyboard to send the instructions on where you want the windows, how
big
you want them, what shape, Whether you want the window maximized, normal or iconized.
It also provides the "look and feel" of the GUI environment, by determining what
windows, scroll bars etc. look like, and where icons go when a window is minimized.
Examples of Window Managers include Program Manager and the Norton Desktop for Windows
on Win3.x machines, Explorer on Win9x machines and a whole raft of options in the UNIX
world.
In the beginning there were only two UNIX Window Managers, OpenLook from Sun and Motif
from just about everybody else. They gave you a system similar to Program Manager or
Explorer, with a single screen full of windows. The Linux clone of Motif is called
Lesstif. There have been a few others.
Then HP came out with VUE (Visual User Environment) there may have been others. It
gave
you a configurable number of virtual screens of Motif, plus a control panel at the
bottom called the Dashboard. Remember the Dashboard for Windows (3.x)? That was HP's
port of the same idea to Win3.x, another Window Manager for DOS/Win machines. Anyway,
somehow a bunch of UNIX vendors got together, perhaps under the threat of NT and
formed
a group called Common Operating Systems Environment (pronounced cosy). The first thing
COSE did was borrow VUE from HP, and with some input and arm-twisting from the other
members of COSE, came out with CDE, the Common Desktop Environment. It looks almost
exactly like VUE, and has all the same pieces, but of course the reside in different
directories, and some of them function slightly differently. But this is now the
standard Window manager on many of the big versions of UNIX, including HP/UX, AIX
(IBM)
and I believe they even got SUN into the act.
There is at least one version of genuine CDE available for Linux, from Tri-Teal
Associates, and marketed by RedHat, among others. But the Linux community being what
it
is, they don't want to pay for anything, so they came up with KDE, which is the free
clone of CDE. GNOME is obviously the Free Software Foundation's variant of a similar
concept, but executed quite differently. In the same way that there are users who love
FVWM95 because it disguises their desktop to look like Win95, others hate it, because
it reminds them of Win95. Some people love KDE because it looks familiar to them from
their UNIX workstations at work, and other hate it because it looks too much like IBM
or HP or some other large evil corporation. My impression so far is that GNOME and KDE
do pretty much the same things, but look completely different. Now I am hearing that
"Themes" (you have seen them on Win95) can completely change the look and feel of the
same Window Manager, from one machine to another. If so, it may be possible to make
GNOME and KDE look exactly the same, or completely different. I have not tried either
one enough to know the definitive answer.
I have left out big parts of the history, and other sides of the story that I am not
familiar with, but the way the components fit together still applies. As with all
things UNIX, X-Windows, and CDE/KDE/GNOME are much more customizable than any DOS/Win
Window Manager ever was. Historically, most of the customization is done by editing
text files with obscure resource names and values in them. Hopefully the KDE and GNOME
projects are addressing this as well.
To be technical, VUE and CDE are "Desktop Environments" that use Motif under the
covers. This probably applies to KDE and GNOME as well. However, they can be thought
of
as independent Window Managers because you never run Motif directly, and I am not sure
the executables that make up Motif (or Lesstif) are still independent modules. The
look
and feel of the individual windows in CDE on HP and IBM is from Motif, and the style
of
control is similar. It is possible that Sun is using an OpenLook based version of CDE.
I have not seen it recently.
Werner Kliewer
Manitoba Public Insurance
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From: "Mark Harrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 21:23:29 +0800
(massive trimming... hope I got the attributions right...)
Kinkster wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Tue, 16 Feb 1999 17:28:07 -0800, "Sam Felton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>With _very_ few exceptions, every place outside the US and Canada that I
>>have been, has little or no emission control standards. Take a walkabout
in
>>Pu Dong in Shanghai, or Oxford Circus in London, and you'll see very
quickly
>>what I mean.
>
>The fly in the ointment is that the SUV's and the trucks that I've
>complained about are _exempt_ from the emission standards that apply
>to cars. One of those V8 trucks or SUV's can spew more emissions per
>mile than probably 20 - 30 (guesstimate) cars do. Our emission
>standards for cars is pretty good , for the highly popular gas
>guzzling land yacht SUV's and Trucks it's not so good.
You have *no*idea* what you are talking about! You should see the
*incredible* amount of emissions vehicles in other places produce.
There's a joke over here about a guy from Beijing who visits
Los Angeles... the punchline is something like "it's so uncrowded,
the traffic is so good, and the air is so clean."
FWIW,
Mark.
=====================================================================
Mark Harrison
AsiaInfo Computer Networks http://usai.asiainfo.com:8080/
Beijing, China / Santa Clara, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.advocacy,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Best Free Unix? (why FreeBSD?)
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:48:23 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nando Augusto 95r wrote:
>
> http://advisor.gartner.com/n_inbox/hotcontent/hc_2121999_3.html#h8
That's an interesting article. This, in particular, sounded odd to me:
"A third gray area involves putting a value on what can be considered a
significant enhancement to Linux.
For example, if someone were to write an amazingly efficient
heterogeneous file system for Linux, couldn't
that person charge for the file system? Maybe, maybe not, is the answer
because if it is deemed to be
part of the Linux OS, anyone who uses it gets the right to the source
code, so what amount of money
can be considered low enough to discourage piracy? If a vendor decides
not to pass the code back to the community for free but charge for it or
hold it, that vendor may receive the cold shoulder from the
Linux community."
Now, what's the basis for that part about "if it is deemed to be part of
the Linux OS, anyone who uses it gets the right to the source code"?
What's that based on, if anything? I've seen no mention of Linux or an
OS in the GPL...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr Paul Kinsler)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 486DX 33 ISA system
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 17:24:34 +0000 (GMT)
Curtis Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But, how does Linux run (especially X) on a 486DX/33 with 8MB of RAM?
> Anyone run it on this type of system? I am not expecting the machine
> to work so quickly that I will throw out my P200, but is the speed
> acceptable? Thanks for any input.
I run linux on a '386 with 4M ram and 80M HD; so running it is
no problem -- you just have to install only the stuff you need.
X should run, I have it going on similar '486 with 16M ram;
but it's a little slow ... this maybe due to my non-accelerated
video card though ... it isn't due to a ram shortage.
--
==============================+==============================
Dr. Paul Kinsler
Institute of Microwaves and Photonics
University of Leeds (ph) +44-113-2332089
Leeds LS2 9JT (fax)+44-113-2332032
United Kingdom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WEB: http://www.ee.leeds.ac.uk/staff/pk/P.Kinsler.html
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From: "Keith G. Murphy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Web based Telnet client?
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 12:05:59 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rob Dover wrote:
>
> Here is the problem. I am on one side of a firewall (which I have no control
> over) that does not allow any telnet sessions to cross over. I administer a
> Linux box that lives outside the firewall. It has both Telnet clients and an
> Apache Web server running. I would like to link those 2 functions together
> so that I can access the Telnet client through the web. If possible I would
> like to be able to both administer the Linux box as well as use it to telnet
> out to other machines.
> Has this been done? Is it even possible?
Well, there's Perl modules that will let you do Telnet protocol, so you
could have a link that fires up a Perl script. How could you do
*input*, though, from the browser? You'd have to use HTML forms there,
and... Yuck. Might be doable, though, if *very* slow. Don't count on
good VT100 emulation though! ;-)
I'd be interested in knowing what you come up with!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephan Schulz)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Going from Win 98 and Office 97 to Linux and ????
Date: 23 Feb 1999 15:18:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>Sniper wrote:
>>
>> Ok, heres the deal, got a Toshiba 310 CDT, currently running Windows
>> 98, office 97, agent, Outlook 98 etc etc.
[...]
>I don't know if it's available but there doesn't seem to be any power
>manager for the laptop, that means keeping one eye on a clock and
>guessing how much juice you got left before the screen goes black and
>you loose everything you were working on.
Use /proc/apm if you are a fanatic, or the apm/xapm programs. Of
course you need a kernel compiled for APM support.
>>
>> I'm seriously thinking about going over to Linux, but, every document
>> I produce, must be portable over to office.
>>
>> 1. Is red had 5.2 a good choice for a Toshoba laptop, or will I have
>> problems with drivers, Infra red USB etc.
In my experience, Toshiba notebooks work extremely well with Linux.
>You can forget about the USB, as far as I know the only thing that
>supports it at this time is Windoz 98. Even my NT 4 (service pack 4) box
>doesn't support it.
There are some rumors about USB patches on the net. Apparently, this
is one of the first features to go into the 2.3.* line.
>> 2. What can I use application wise that's not going to involve a huge
>> leap from Office ? and provide backwards compatibility with Word and
>> Excel 97 ?
Hmm, I use emacs and LaTeX ;-)
Star Office seems to be pretty compatible with MS-Bloatware (even up
to the bloat).
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From: Gordon Vrdoljak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: DVD
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 10:22:41 -0800
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Hello Mathew,
Any expected release date for a test version of the player? I think it is
going to be immensely popular once released.
Thanks.
matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
> I am working on a project to bring DVD playback support to Linux. Right
> now my project is focused around the DVD add-on card for the Matrox G200
> series cards. http://pulsar.doobie.org (It is down now, but will be up
> later today.)
>
> I was contacted by the head guy at Sigma Designs. They are very
> interested in having their card supported under Linux. At first it seemed
> like we were going to have a joint project, but I have not heard back
> from them in several weeks. The last message I recieved was that they
> were looking into doing the driver themselves. (That is bad, because it
> probably won't abide by the V4L2 API and they'll have to make a release
> for every kernel version.)
>
> The support for reading DVD movies off of DVD drives is still in heavy
> development. My initial goal is to read an MPEG-II off the hard drive and
> have it displayed out the TV-Out module, then loop it into my TV card.
> This way I don't have to debug an application and a driver at the same
> time.
>
> -Matt
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Damien Ercole wrote:
>
> > Hi all .....
> > I have a Hollywood+ mpeg II decoder card and I was
> > wondering if there is anyway to use it under linux
> > to play DVD movies ?
> > I went on SigmaDesign site (the Hollywood card
> > manufacturer) and I tried to find some kind of driver for
> > linux but they don't have anything (except for windows)
> > Can any one tell me if a driver exists for linux ?
> >
> > Thanx
> >
> > Damien
> >
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Any comments appreciated. Please send them to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
as well as this newsgroup.
Gordon Vrdoljak.
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Hello Mathew,
<BR>Any expected release date for a test version of the player? I
think it is
<BR>going to be immensely popular once released.
<BR>Thanks.
<BR>
<BR>
<P>matthew.r.pavlovich.1 wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>I am working on a project to bring DVD playback support
to Linux. Right
<BR>now my project is focused around the DVD add-on card for the Matrox
G200
<BR>series cards. <A HREF="http://pulsar.doobie.org">http://pulsar.doobie.org</A>
(It is down now, but will be up
<BR>later today.)
<P>I was contacted by the head guy at Sigma Designs. They are very
<BR>interested in having their card supported under Linux. At first
it seemed
<BR>like we were going to have a joint project, but I have not heard
back
<BR>from them in several weeks. The last message I recieved was that
they
<BR>were looking into doing the driver themselves. (That is bad,
because it
<BR>probably won't abide by the V4L2 API and they'll have to make a release
<BR>for every kernel version.)
<P>The support for reading DVD movies off of DVD drives is still in heavy
<BR>development. My initial goal is to read an MPEG-II off the hard
drive and
<BR>have it displayed out the TV-Out module, then loop it into my TV card.
<BR>This way I don't have to debug an application and a driver at the same
<BR>time.
<P>-Matt
<P>On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, Damien Ercole wrote:
<P>> Hi all .....
<BR>> I have a Hollywood+ mpeg II decoder card and I was
<BR>> wondering if there is anyway to use it under linux
<BR>> to play DVD movies ?
<BR>> I went on SigmaDesign site (the Hollywood card
<BR>> manufacturer) and I tried to find some kind of driver for
<BR>> linux but they don't have anything (except for windows)
<BR>> Can any one tell me if a driver exists for linux ?
<BR>>
<BR>>
Thanx
<BR>>
<BR>>
Damien
<BR>></BLOCKQUOTE>
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