Linux-Misc Digest #404, Volume #25 Thu, 10 Aug 00 14:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on AMD
Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship. (Phillip Lord)
Re: booting Linux after installing Windows (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Off topic question about colors ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Why does Gettyps change port permission? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: those damn ^M characters from win files... (Grant Edwards)
Re: using ramdisk for /tmp and /var (-ljl-)
/usr/local/bin/perl5 (Rick Goyette)
Re: X and the Diamond S540... (The Darkener)
Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X (Hammer)
Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X (Hammer)
Query: Terrible Samba performance Linux->Win98 (Tom Roberts)
Help! Include files are missing (Christoph Lechner)
Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5 (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X (The Darkener)
Re: Help! Include files are missing (Andreas Kahari)
Re: Linux on AMD (J Bland)
Re: Deleted Linux (Fdisk)! Can't access partition!! (The Darkener)
uil + wml = headache ("Melvin M. Meadlin II")
uil + wml = headache ("Melvin M. Meadlin II")
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:06:53 -0400
I use linux for 2D things only, and haven't bothered to put in the openGL
stuff, nor have i told X that there are not one but two voodoo2 video cards
in it in addition to the G200 that it is using currently. ( that g200 is
just great! ) I don't have any linux games, nor do I need any 3d modelling
tools ( yet) , which require 3d support.
My 3D invloment is limited to three or four games, all of which were written
only for the windows market, and work very well on the Voodoo2 cards ,
except for one that seems not to like the new 3dfx drivers ( which I needed
because the processor is now a 700 mhz tbird ) namely, Falcon 4.0, patch
1.08 .
True, for linux only, a currently inexpensive TNTU would be great.
Unfortunately, with windows and those games , I would much better go with a
geForce or an MX. I am loathe to use the former because my mb has the
irongate chipset. GigaByte has told me that one of their GeForce boards
works well with my model. But I'm holding out for when the MX model drops
further , and the drivers become available for X. Till then, I am with G200+
2 Voodoo2's.
How do I choose a VC ?
1) find those that are compatable with the MB chipset
2) then from those,
a) find the ones that have X support,
OR
b)wait till the support arrives.
I am in stage 2 b right now.
Regards,
joseph
SYS info :
AMD TBird 700 mhz w/ 256 cache
GigaByte GA7IXE with f4c bios
300 W PS.
128MB pc 100 generic ram ( chips are -7 or something , which is the min
requirement on the amd site. )
ne2000 ISA in non pnp mode.
SB 16 compatable (ISA)
Millenium G200 agp sgram 250mhz ramdac
2 x maxigamer voodoo2 12 MB in SLI .
8 gb quantum bigfoot
* hda1 : /boot, RH 6.0 no frickin' updates
hda2: w2k ntfs bootable
hda3: win98 fat32 bootable
hda4 : extended
6.4 gb quantum LCT ( 4 gigs on this is devoted to my "games" partition )
32X cdrom . ( 2 years and still running )
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From: Phillip Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
Subject: Re: FWD: Red Hat's CFO abandoning ship.
Date: 10 Aug 2000 17:21:01 +0100
>>>>> "blowfish" == blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
blowfish> Sorry. But I don't talk to machine of any kind.
blowfish> Do you write a piece of source code, when you want to tell
blowfish> your mother/wife/girlfriend/ something. Or do you just
blowfish> write to them in plain English ( or whatever *human*
blowfish> language that you use.
blowfish> Or do you compile your source code into binaries, then
blowfish> install it in a machine, then your
blowfish> mother/wife/girlfriend/whoever can read what you want to
blowfish> say?
I am glad that I do not have to modify your source code. You
are under the mistaken impression that I have spent much time trying
to beat out of first year computer programmers, namely that the
purpose of source code is for computers to read. Its absolutely is
not. If it were we would make it easier for computers to read.
The purpose of source code is to communicate to another
human (or to yourself at a later date) what you have told the computer
to do. Its for this reason that meaningful variables names are
important. And also commenting. There are several import rules for
commenting. One of which is "do not say the same thing in comments as
you do in the program". Comments of the sort "increment x by 1" are
pointless for instance. In other words program code, and comments are
both forms of speech.
Phil
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Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 18:32:31 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: booting Linux after installing Windows
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> hi,
> I had a linux redhat 6.2 machine and I installed Windows. Now I'm not
> getting the Lilo prompt. Is there anyway that I can boot the vmlinuz
> image through a boot disk? Once I can acccess the linux partitions in my
> computer , I can rewrite lilo using /sbin/lilo.
> Thanks in avance
> Sandy
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
3 options:
Use the installation boot-disk if you have a boxed set, and type rescue
at startup.
Use the rescue disk you made during installation process.
Use the redhat CD to boot and type rescue at startup.
NOTE: Did you create windows partitions BEFORE starting Windows setup?
If not, well, then Windows has overwritten your partitions anyway.
--
Bartek kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: 10 Aug 2000 16:25:13 GMT
Kirk R. Wythers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
: (emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
: return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
:g/
/s///
Why not use dos2unix?
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Off topic question about colors
Date: 10 Aug 2000 16:19:19 GMT
John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: '[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: ': Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
: ':> John Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ':> : I got X server to run 16 bit color. Had been runing 8. My question is I
: ':> : don't know what the 8,16,24 bit translate to. I am used to 256 65k and or
: ':> I think you'd better leave your university then, before you're thrown
: ':> out. An 11 year old would answer that question in an IQ test on sight.
: ': Oh, I don't know... He could be doing Phylosophy and Art...
: 'Turns out he's not a student, but on the staff (grounds staff, if I
: 'recall)? I really should have deduced that - bayesian logic said he was
: 'not capable of being an academic student but I dismally failed to
: 'consider a large enough set of possibilities. He wasn't an academic or
: 'technical user at all! I don't think my assessment was inaccurate, but
: 'he was offended, so apologies .. I had this vision of ucdavis (which is
: 'a good place) being fooled by falsified SAT scores ...
: ': (The perfect combination for getting a job where you can use the immortal
: ': line "Do you want fries with that?")
: 'Hmmm ... no work available in cake shops? I believe you need minimum
: 'SAT scores in all areas anyway.
: ': :)
: 'Peter
: As I told you, out of the public eye, that I was not as proficent in
: computer as you. Since you have chosen to belittle me not once, but three
: times, I will only say one thing. Your parents named you well. You are
Goodness gracious me! What makes you think you are being belittled! As
far as I know, I respect you to the normal degree. I have nothing but
admiration for what you do, and as it happens, I forgot to applaud your
evident literary skills, which I meant to do. Very articulate.
I don't _think_ you mentioned your assessment of your computer
proficiency in your email, but perhaps you did. Surely it's irrelevant,
however? No .. reviewing the mail, I don't see any direct references.
: the biggest peter (tool) I have met so far in this news group.
: Others have either offered help, or passed up my post.
: To them I will just say;
: thank you for the knowledge. Jesus!! what an arrogant fuck!!
What precisely is it you think is being belittled (or, conversely, being
aggrandized)? I'm somewhat puzzled. Can you elaborate? It's all very
well to spout off like this, but I really don't know what the trigger
is, so it seems rather strange to me ... tell me, what fact are you
disputing?
: The next time your daddy sends you money for your education, remember how
: he EARNED it. Not by being a complete ass, I'm sure. After you leave the
: safety of school, the real world awaits. By day three someone will hand
: you your head for lunch. That ticket I would buy.
Peter
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why does Gettyps change port permission?
Date: 10 Aug 2000 16:24:34 GMT
Paul Wickham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Ummmm... yeah, but I am using getty ps as I can't figure out how to stop
Sorry, I cancelled this post as soon as I noticed that you were using
getty_ps and mot mgetty. It shouldn't have got to you. I don't know
why I read mgetty. Perhaps because a dim memory tells me that mgetty
sprang from the loins of getty_ps (and/or ugetty).
: mgetty trying to init the modem every few minutes, and I want to use auto
: answer on the modem....
No, you really, really don't.
The modem should not be in autoanswer mode. The getty's job is to put
it into answer mode when it receives a ring on the line, if it's configured
to answer.
You should be using mgetty to control the modem. It's infinitely
better. I wasn't aware that getty_ps was even maintained these days. Is
it ... hmmm?
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards)
Subject: Re: those damn ^M characters from win files...
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:53:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kirk R. Wythers wrote:
>Can anyone suggest a utility or better yet an option in an editor
>(emacs, xemacs, vi, whatever...) that can search for and remove the
>return characters (^M) from windows files? I'd appreciate it. Thanks,
$ tr -d '\r' <infile >outfile
--
Grant Edwards grante Yow! I didn't order
at any WOO-WOO... Maybe a
visi.com YUBBA... But no WOO-WOO!
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: using ramdisk for /tmp and /var
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:46:58 GMT
In article <8msg27$9cu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am on a project putting embedded Linux on a ARM-based
> target. We are going to boot from flash with a flash
> file system, but we want to use a ramdisk for our /tmp
> and /var directories.
I'm not an expert on this so I'll give a short answer.
Rescue disk can run entirely in RAM and never touch the HD.
This answers the questions like can it be done.
Take a look at "resque_disk-2.0.22": (on most archives)
http://www.phystech.com/download/
It contains a running rescue system and documentation to
guide one in building their own; it will fit on a standard
1.44 diskette. I've used resque to install Linux on a tape
to a new HD. I'd be suprised if the answers are not therein.
Hope this is of utility.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Goyette)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: /usr/local/bin/perl5
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 11:53:15 -0500
what is the difference between /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5, and
where do I get /usr/local/bin/perl5?
--
R. J. Goyette
Argonne National Laboratory
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X and the Diamond S540...
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:09:04 GMT
The refresh rate you specified in setup may be too high, or just not
understood by your monitor. Try going into XF86Config and specify the most
specific as possible specs for your monitor and video card. (The most
important ones are your vertical/horizontal refresh rate for your monitor.
Be *very* careful with this. If you specify something too high, you could
fry your monitor permenantly. I did this once; I learned the hard way. =)
You should be able to find the right specs in your monitor manual.
/dev/null wrote:
> I just installed Corel Linux which uses a gui setup (just fine in 16bit
> color). Corel defaults to running KDM after the machine starts. I've
> got a Diamond S540 and when KDM loads I get a blank screen followed by
> something like a PowerSave shutdown of the monitor. Switching Virtual
> Terminals, turns the monitor back on and gives me a character login
> prompt. The same thing happens to X if I user startx form the command
> prompt.
>
> Could someone provide some insight on this? I'm fairly baffled at this
> point and don't really know where to start.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
--
- The Darkener
"I believe I have opened up an entirely new arena of experimentation,
which I like to call... Monkey Tourture"
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:59:46 GMT
In article <8mud95$osh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> By the way... I did mention that I could install the rpm's from a
> command line in an xterm. Hmmm...reread my post and it might not have
> been clear, but that's what I meant in my 2nd paragraph.
>
> I don't mind using the command line....just figured that what I was
> asking for should be included in X, or else it would seem kinda
> pointless to have programs that install RPM's within X.
I'm just a dumb rookie, but I do a 'setuid root gnorpm' to do it that
way if I want to. That makes the X prog have the root permissions.
Launching an X app as 'su' does not give that app root permissions.
Never has, never will, as I understand it.
If you're freaked out about setuid, as some are, try "Super"... it uses
setuid in a safer manner.
Anyway, turns out I've become used to using the command line rpm, so I
don't even use gnorpm anymore. I do use setuid for other things
though, it's convenient as hell, although a security risk if your not
intelligent about it.
-=hammer
--
MC
"I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can" - Bob Dylan
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From: Hammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 16:59:46 GMT
In article <8mud95$osh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks.
>
> By the way... I did mention that I could install the rpm's from a
> command line in an xterm. Hmmm...reread my post and it might not have
> been clear, but that's what I meant in my 2nd paragraph.
>
> I don't mind using the command line....just figured that what I was
> asking for should be included in X, or else it would seem kinda
> pointless to have programs that install RPM's within X.
I'm just a dumb rookie, but I do a 'setuid root gnorpm' to do it that
way if I want to. That makes the X prog have the root permissions.
Launching an X app as 'su' does not give that app root permissions.
Never has, never will, as I understand it.
If you're freaked out about setuid, as some are, try "Super"... it uses
setuid in a safer manner.
Anyway, turns out I've become used to using the command line rpm, so I
don't even use gnorpm anymore. I do use setuid for other things
though, it's convenient as hell, although a security risk if your not
intelligent about it.
-=hammer
--
MC
"I've been trying to get as far away from myself as I can" - Bob Dylan
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Before you buy.
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From: Tom Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Query: Terrible Samba performance Linux->Win98
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 12:05:04 -0500
I recently removed Windows 98 from one of my PCs and replaced it with
Linux (Red Hat 6.2). Before doing that I of course had to copy all
files I wanted to keep from its Windows disk to another; the only such
files were ~100 megabyte .zip files (backups), and I simply used the
destination Win98 box to do the copying (via Windows networking, of
course).
The other PC is called Fred; Lucy is the PC which is changing
Win98=>Linux. The backups (Lucy/Win98->Fred/Win98) copied over my
10BaseT network with an average rate of about 250 kByte/sec, measured
using the System Monitor on Fred and watching File-system bytes
written. While disappointing (theoretical maximum is about 4 times
that rate; the Ethernet is otherwise idle as are both Fred and Lucy),
this is what it is.
I then did a complete install of Linux (Red Hat 6.2) onto Lucy, and
got both networking and Samba working; Fred can mount a user's home
from Lucy. I created a 10 mB file in my home and copied it to Fred
in the same manner as before. This time the average rate is only about
80 kByte/sec. THAT'S TERRIBLE!!! This poor performance makes using
Linux as a local disk server almost useless.
Note that during these copies, Lucy/Win98 (the source) claimed its
CPU is busy about 70%; Lucy/Linux (also the source) claimed about 5%
(or less). For both copies, Fred/Win98 (the destination, doing the
copy) claimed its CPU is 100% busy. On Fred, the disk-writing rate
was steady at 250 kB/sec for Win98->Win98, but alternated each second
between 125 kB/sec and 62 kB/sec for Linux->Win98.
Do other people get better performance than this from Linux? Is this
bottleneck likely to be the network interfaces (Lucy's is an ISA card
using the driver ne.o)? Is this likely to be Samba? Or is it likely to
be my IDE hard drive performance? How can I tune this better?
But most importantly: How can Linux hope to succeed if it gives poorer
performance _AS_A_SERVER_ than Win98??? Remember, this comparison used
exactly the same hardware:
Fred: Micron PC, Pentium 166 MHz, PCI network card.
Lucy: Compaq PC, Pentium 233 MHz, ISA network card.
Both have IDE drives only; Fred's destination is 8.6 GB
(~50% full), Lucy's source is 4.1 GB (~80% full on Win98,
~20% full on Linux); all drives were checked and defragmented
just before these copies were performed. Under Linux, pings
Lucy->Fred->Lucy take an average of 0.8 ms, and a "flood
ping" gets about 1000 packets per second.
Tom Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Christoph Lechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Include files are missing
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:16:44 +0200
Hallo !
On my SUSE 6.2 Linux there are all the include files in "netinet" such as
"netinet/tcp_ip.h" missing! How can I add them ?
Regards
- C. Lechner
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: /usr/local/bin/perl5
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 10 Aug 2000 19:16:06 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rick Goyette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>what is the difference between /usr/bin/perl and /usr/local/bin/perl5, and
>where do I get /usr/local/bin/perl5?
>
>--
>R. J. Goyette
>Argonne National Laboratory
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
In GNU/Linux, the '/usr/local/' hierarchy is used for locally install
software, i.e. software that is not available in the GNU/Linux
distribution being used at the site (such as a newer/older/other
version of Perl or a commercial C++ compiler or whatever).
The '/usr/bin/' hierarchy contains executable files that are part of
the GNU/Linux distribution being used at the site. If your GNU/Linux
installation is up-to-date, the command 'perl' in this directory is
probably the latest version of Perl available for the distribution
that you are using.
If you're asking this because you have acquired a Perl script that
needs '/usr/local/bin/perl5' to execute, then I would opt for changing
the first line in the script from
#!/usr/local/bin/perl5
to
#!/usr/bin/perl
since that's where most systems keep their Perl executable.
I hope that helped. If not, ask a system administrator at ANL or come
back here.
/A
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quick questions : installing RPM's in X
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:16:43 GMT
gnorpm. Pretty cool graphical RPM installer/configurator. You still have
to run it as root though (you have to be root for any type of rpm
installation iirc)
Michael wrote:
> Hi.
> I am wondering how someone installs RPM in Gnome (redhat 6.2).
> From the command line, I can su in as root (because I am not normally
> root) and install an rpm.
> From X I can't change my login without logging out of X, and logging
> back into the system as root. When I am logged in as a normal user...I
> get permission denied errors when trying to install an RPM
>
> I tried, from within X, to open a terminal window and su in as root from
> there...but that didn't give me root permissions in X (which I can
> understand...just thought I would try it. (It did allow me to install
> the RPM from the terminal window...but that isn't using the X
> functionality to install an RPM )).
>
> I figure there must be an easier way to install RPM's when using X ,
> other than logging out and logging back in.
> I'm checking out a few websites now for some info.
>
> Anybody have a quick answer to this problem
>
> Thanks.
>
> Michael
--
- The Darkener
"I believe I have opened up an entirely new arena of experimentation,
which I like to call... Monkey Tourture"
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Subject: Re: Help! Include files are missing
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Kahari)
Date: 10 Aug 2000 19:20:11 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Christoph Lechner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hallo !
>
>On my SUSE 6.2 Linux there are all the include files in "netinet" such as
>"netinet/tcp_ip.h" missing! How can I add them ?
>
>Regards
>- C. Lechner
>
I'm sorry that I'm not a SUSE user and that I can't give you an exact
answer, but in Debian GNU/Linux these header files are located in the
'libc6-dev' package. Try looking for the development package for libc6
in your package system, and install it.
/A
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: 10 Aug 2000 17:17:39 GMT
>If you will be exclusively using Linux on that hardware, a less
>expensive video card may be just fine. I'm using a Riva TNT card on
>mine and it works great.
>
>AFAIK, XFree86/Mesa still doesn't support hardware 3D acceleration, so
>all the new features of the latest boards won't gain you very much. In
>terms of 2D performance (Which definitely affects XFree86), IMO, most
>modern boards perform equally well.
>
>(If hardware accelerated OpenGL is available for Linux, I'd love to
>know. A pointer to a web site for a non-commercial offering would be
>greatly appreciated.)
http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/
http://linux.3dfx.com/
http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf
Not saying it's easy to set up some of these (3dfx is pretty easy on SuSE
though it's fullscreen only) but all 3dfx chipsets, nvidia TNTs, ATi Rages,
Matrox G200/400 are supported pretty well, and there's developing support
for a few others like S3 ViRGE etc.
Your TNT is probably the 'best' supported atm, with Nvidias closed source
binaries on X4 being very close in performance to those on Windows.
So, that's a little more than no 3D accleration at all. My Voodoo3 3000 goes
like a greased pig under SuSE 6.4, thankyou.
Frinky
--
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http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ Condensed Matter Group
Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
"And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!"
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From: The Darkener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deleted Linux (Fdisk)! Can't access partition!!
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 17:30:43 GMT
I love reading these kinds of thank you responses. =) It makes it all worthwhile
helping complete strangers! =) (even though I wasn't the one that helped) hehe..
Raviprasad wrote:
> 'Hope this helps' did you say? It did more than that it saved my skin and calmed my
>rabid nerves! I ran fdisk /mbr and lo! LILO's gone my 2GB is visible again. Thanks to
>you i have everything in perfect order and yes I *wanted* to delete Linux.
> It was 'interestingly' informative to read that bit on restoring Linux which sadly
>I have no way of trying for i've neither the CD nor the cylinder numbers.
>
> Anyways thankyou for all the help.
> Have a nice day. Bye
> Ravi
>
> Dirk Reckmann wrote:
> >
> >
> > Raviprasad wrote:
> >
> > >I deleted Linux partition using fdisk. I know nothing of Linux and so
> > >didn't want it.
> >
> > You didn't want Linux, or you didn't want delete Linux?
> >
> > If you *wanted* to delete Linux, you have to invoke "fdisk /mbr" (on a
> > DOS Prompt) to remove LILO. Then you can create a new partition on
> > your 2 gigs, again using fdisk, this time without parameters. I think,
> > you have to create first an extended partition, after that something
> > like a "logical drive in the extended partition".
> >
> > If you didn't want to delete Linux, it's more complicated. You could
> > boot from your installation CD of your distro in rescue mode (most
> > distros have this feature, I suppose). Start _Linux_ fdisk (an
> > alternativ is using cfdisk, included in most distros, means
> > "comfortable fdisk" - and that's what it is!), and recreate the
> > partition with exact the same settings, i.e. same entry in the
> > partition table, same size and location (if you know the starting and
> > ending cylinders of your ex-Linux partition, that would be great
> > here). Change the partition type to linux (0x83), and with a little
> > bit of luck, everything is visible on your hdd again.
> >
> > Hope this helps.
> >
> > Dirk
> >
> >
>
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which I like to call... Monkey Tourture"
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From: "Melvin M. Meadlin II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: uil + wml = headache
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:03:59 -0700
Anyone know were to get the *complete* source to the uil and wml compilers for
OpenMotif? I downloaded the source for OpenMotif, but the sources for uil and
wml were not complete.... Could someone please help. We need these compilers
for a project we are working on at work.
If you don't know where the source is, could you at point me in the direction of
the binaries for RedHat 6.1 (x86).
Thanks in advance.
________________________________________
Melvin M. Meadlin II
661.277.5555
CSC
Attn: Melvin M. Meadlin II
P.O. Box 446 Bldg. 1408
Edwards, CA 93523
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From: "Melvin M. Meadlin II" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: uil + wml = headache
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 10:10:19 -0700
Anyone know were to get the *complete* source to the uil and wml compilers for
OpenMotif? I downloaded the source for OpenMotif, but the sources for uil and
wml were not complete.... Could someone please help. We need these compilers
for a project we are working on at work.
If you don't know where the source is, could you at point me in the direction of
the binaries for RedHat 6.1 (x86).
Thanks in advance.
________________________________________
Melvin M. Meadlin II
661.277.5555
CSC
Attn: Melvin M. Meadlin II
P.O. Box 446 Bldg. 1408
Edwards, CA 93523
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