On Tue, 4 May 1999, Matthew Sachs wrote:
>
> I have an XPS-T 500 with Debian Potato. If you get it with the Montego
II
> instead of the Montego I, there aren't any drivers yet. The Monetgo I
has
> beta drivers through http://www.opensound.com .
>
> I have a TNT video card in mine, and of course it works fine - just
make
> sure you're using the latest XFree86. Riva has announced Linux support
> (2d and 3d) for the TNT 2, and according to what I've heard those
drivers
> should work with the TNT 1 as well, so it looks like we'll even have 3d
> support for the video card.
>
> The mouse gave me a tiny bit of trouble. Make sure you tell X and gpm
> that it's an imps2 mouse (at least, for the Logitech MouseMan Wheel.)
>
> I've had some difficulties with the tape drive. Does anyone know of
any
> good backup programs that work with IDE-TAPE? Everything seems to
either
> work with SCSI tape drives or FTAPE only. I'm about to try BURT...
>
If all else fails, try tar -c[v]zf <tape device> <directory to back up>.
If you need to control block sizes or tape length, see man tar. :-)
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