From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sat, 10 Sep 94 02:13:16 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #730 Linux-Misc Digest #730, Volume #2 Sat, 10 Sep 94 02:13:16 EDT Contents: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Bill C. Riemers) Re: DOOM (Re: 320x200 X resolution?) (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Re: DOOM (Re: 320x200 X resolution?) (Pat McManus) >>Cheap Ethernet Pocket adapter and driver source!<< (Dennis Director) Linux DOOM is out! (Caleb Epstein) Re: Digiboard on Linux (Daniel Brockhaus) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Mark A. Davis) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI v (Mark A. Davis) Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why??? (William Huang) DOOM linux with TERM support. (Christophe Person) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Martin Sohnius) Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help? (Tracy R. Reed) Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Pierre Uszynski) Xconfig for 320x200 or similar mode? (Benjamin Alman) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Bill C. Riemers) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Date: 09 Sep 1994 22:44:47 GMT Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu >>>>> "Hans" == Hans Peter Verne writes: Hans> Now that DOOM has been released for Linux w/X (Thanx, Hans> Dave!), how about a nice video mode for it ? David Taylor Hans> says: "I understand there's now a 320x200 mode. I'd Hans> recommend it." Hans> Anybody knows how to set up such a mode? It's standard VGA, Hans> as far as I know (which isn't very far...), but can it be Hans> run by any server ? What about dotclocks, vertical timing, Hans> horisontal timing, etc ? The regular files that came with Hans> Xfree86 didn't mention that low resolution..... :-( Hans> And now, how will I ever finish my ph.d. ?? I just downloaded a copy from sunsite.unc.edu. I've noticed two major problems: 1. Things are mirror immaged at block level. This makes most of the screen very difficult to view. As an example letter A in ammow appears as _ / \ ___|| || || ^--> i.e. half the leg of A is on the wrong side. This problem is only present if I use the -2, -3, or -4 option. 2. There is significant delay between action and sound. i.e. I can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun sound comes through my speakers. Also I can't figure out how to use the VGA mode instead, of the x mode. Hans> Followup-To: alt.games.doom Sorry, that is not one of the alt newsgroups carried by my site. In general it is not a good idea to use a Followup-To: line from an official newsgroup to an alt news group as you loss half of the readers. Bill ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development From: slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu (Sam Oscar Lantinga) Subject: Re: DOOM (Re: 320x200 X resolution?) Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 22:27:52 GMT : LINUX: An X version with 16-bit sound is running. It'll likely : perform like a dog on mortal systems, but it's very smooth on my : DX/2 66. At sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz. : May be moved. Remember: it was just for fun and is not supported. : Do not send e-mail to tech support, please. : Poor sunsite.... To help take the load off of sunsite, I have it temporarily on my machine dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/doom/lnxdoom.tgz Note that pixel doubling/tripling doesn't work, and sound only works with a 16 bit soundcard. (Anyone want to sell one cheap? *grin*) Enjoy! -Sam ------------------------------ From: mcmanus@cunnin.res.wpi.edu (Pat McManus) Subject: Re: DOOM (Re: 320x200 X resolution?) Date: 9 Sep 1994 23:22:49 GMT [note c.o.l.d eliminated from distribution] last time on comp.os.linux.development, slouken@cs.ucdavis.edu said.. >: LINUX: An X version with 16-bit sound is running. It'll likely >: perform like a dog on mortal systems, but it's very smooth on my >: DX/2 66. At sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz. >: May be moved. Remember: it was just for fun and is not supported. >: Do not send e-mail to tech support, please. > >: Poor sunsite.... > > To help take the load off of sunsite, I have it temporarily >on my machine dewdrop.water.ca.gov in /pub/doom/lnxdoom.tgz > i've done the same: ftp cunnin.res.wpi.edu /pub/linxdoom.tgz I'll keep it there about a week.. >Note that pixel doubling/tripling doesn't work, and sound only >works with a 16 bit soundcard. (Anyone want to sell one cheap? *grin*) the sounds are the same (with the 16bit..).. and in 640x480 the size is very playable.. nice to be able to get in a quick doom session without having to take the linux box off the net for it's ususal inet services.. -Pat -- Patrick R. McManus Computer Science 1996 NYSERNet, Inc. mcmanus@nysernet.org mcmanus@wpi.edu Check out the cunnin.res.wpi.edu gopher, web, and ftp servers. My loyalty is to the truth and my ideals; not to expediency or tradition. ------------------------------ From: dennis@cauchy.math.nwu.edu (Dennis Director) Subject: >>Cheap Ethernet Pocket adapter and driver source!<< Date: 9 Sep 1994 16:14:13 GMT I have recently purchased a "generic" pocket ethernet adapter for my notebook. It turns out to be an Accton EtherPocket-SP. It costs less than $100, the barrier I was waiting to see brocken. It works well from DOS on the parallel port of my notebook talking to my Linux machine. What would be very nice, is the ability to boot Linux on the notebook and use the pocket ethernet adapter from Linux. The nice people at Accton in Taiwan have sent me the complete assembly source of their packet driver for DOS. I don't know how compatible this is with other pocket adapters, but the information should all be there in the source. Porting the driver is too much for me for now. Anyone interested in getting a Linux driver to work for this? Seems like many people would like notebook connectivity for Linux for less than $100. Thanks, dennis@math.nwu.edu ------------------------------ From: cae@cae.ny.jpmorgan.com (Caleb Epstein) Subject: Linux DOOM is out! Date: 9 Sep 1994 15:13:24 GMT Reply-To: epstein_caleb@jpmorgan.com Just when I thought I might start getting some work done, Id releases the Linux port of DOOM! Here's an excerpt from "finger help@idsoftware.com": | LINUX: An X version with 16-bit sound is running. It'll likely | perform like a dog on mortal systems, but it's very smooth on my | DX/2 66. At sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz. | May be moved. Remember: it was just for fun and is not supported. | Do not send e-mail to tech support, please. I'm trying to grab the files m'self right now, but sunsite is *really* bogged down. I guess everyone else has the same idea. Good luck, and happy Linux-DOOMing! -- [ epstein_caleb@jpmorgan.com | Caleb Epstein | JP Morgan & Co. Incorporated ] ------------------------------ From: scar@joker.gerwin.net (Daniel Brockhaus) Subject: Re: Digiboard on Linux Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 13:21:55 GMT David Cabot (cabot@tct.com) wrote: > I need to know if anyone has written a DigiBoard driver for linux yet. Dumb DigiBoard cards are supported by the kernel, turn on BOCA support in drivers/char/serial.c and set the card to addresses 100h, 108h etc. Intelligent cards are being worked on as far as I know. I've no idea when (and if) a driver will be available. Bye, Daniel PS. Anyone patched the dumd driver to use the card's status register? Would speed things up a lot! =========================================================================== | Daniel Brockhaus | Deserves it! I Daresay he does. Many that live | | scar@joker.gerwin.net | deserve death. And some that die deserve life. | | | Can you give it to them? Then be not to eager | | GerWinNET Support Team | to deal out death in judgement! | =========================================================================== ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.unixware From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 12:05:04 GMT clark@ist.flinders.edu.au (Steven R. Clark) writes: >In article H02@novell.co.uk, msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes: >> Thomas Tonino (ttonino@bio.vu.nl) wrote: >> : As regarding the making availabele of a 'copy to illegaly copy' >> : wordperfect for Linux on Sunsite, I might want to call to your >They are definately NOT interested in allowing people to pirate their software. >They are also not interested in porting WP to Linux either. We have offered to >help .. official word is .. don't call us, we'll call you .. and we were willing >to pay for it too ... There is no need for a Linux port of WordPerfect for Unix. WordPerfect for Unix already runs under Linux using ICBS/COFF. Better to pester WordPerfect for aknowledgement and support of using the SCO version on Linux. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.unixware From: mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI v Date: Fri, 09 Sep 1994 12:07:13 GMT clark@ist.flinders.edu.au (Steven R. Clark) writes: >In article 4gr@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de, andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Helke) writes: >> Thomas Tonino (ttonino@bio.vu.nl) wrote: >> : As regarding the making availabele of a 'copy to illegaly copy' >> : wordperfect for Linux on Sunsite, I might want to call to your >> : attention that in the past Wordperfect Netherlands approach to >> : piracy has been something like 'It helps us sell'.... >> >> >> : So... maybe it would be a good idea... but it should look less official I think. >> >> I think the original idea was a unsuported but free version recompiled to be >> a linux only binary. This might indeed be a valuable marketing tool for the >> commercial unix versions. >Novell are not even interested in a commercial version of WP for Linux .. at least >they were not when we asked them. Again, there is no need for a Linux version of WP. The SCO version runs fine.... pester them for official support of running the SCO version under Linux IBCS/COFF (which is a possibility); don't bother worrying about a native Linux version because it WILL NOT HAPPEN. -- /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ | Mark A. Davis | Lake Taylor Hospital | Norfolk,VA (804)-461-5001x431 | | Director/SysAdmin | Information Systems | mark@taylor.infi.net | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/ ------------------------------ From: wyhuang@sdcc15.ucsd.edu (William Huang) Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: OS/2 vs. Unix Which one is better and why??? Date: 9 Sep 94 19:31:42 GMT My software runs better on Linux than on OS/2. Details: I installed all the gnu-stuff on OS/2. The code I ran had a core image of 4MBytes on SPARCs. On OS/2 it was 10MBytes (I'm not sure why I think it my be a lot of those gcc-lib/emx DLL's or something). That plus 8MBytes for the OS/2 system core and my computer was swapping like mad (I have only 16MBytes of RAM). (I'd appreciate it if an OS/2 expert can tell me if I'm doing something wrong). OS/2 is horrible when it starts swapping. I decided I could not do my work in OS/2 and installed Linux. The same program which required 4Mbytes on SPARC also took 4M on Linux, and the kernel overhead, after recompiling, was only approx 250k. On top of that, I did not have to convert my csh shell scripts to REXX. So now I'm more or less happy with Linux except I'm still complaining because Linux will not let me run matlab for windows, nor can I run Quicken while waiting for a process to complete in the background. Nothing is perfect I guess! But if I wanted to do my work on OS/2 I would have to go out and buy a lot more memory. ------------------------------ From: chrisp@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu (Christophe Person) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom,comp.os.linux.help Subject: DOOM linux with TERM support. Date: 9 Sep 1994 11:30:13 -0500 Like you all know, DOOM linux is out. But what about a DOOM linux version that run with TERM ? It would be less painfull that blocking your computer using the modem version. I don't know if it wouldn't be simpler to have a IHHD server supporting term instead. Opened discussion.... Also, is there any server on the internet that provide IHHD doom. I am probably not the only one who don't know anybody to play with (even with the net version) and would like to meet people from all over the world on the DOOM playground. Christophe Person Computational Neurobiology Lab Mail to me ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp,comp.sys.hp.apps,comp.sys.sun.apps,comp.windows.x,comp.windows.x.apps,comp.unix.unixware From: msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs Date: Fri, 9 Sep 1994 20:44:44 GMT Steven R. Clark (clark@ist.flinders.edu.au) wrote: : In article H02@novell.co.uk, msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes: : > Thomas Tonino (ttonino@bio.vu.nl) wrote: : > : As regarding the making availabele of a 'copy to illegaly copy' : > : wordperfect for Linux on Sunsite, I might want to call to your : > : attention that in the past Wordperfect Netherlands approach to : > : piracy has been something like 'It helps us sell'.... : > : > : So... maybe it would be a good idea... but it should look less official I think. : > : > I would have my doubts whether Novell-Wordperfect Inc. still has : > this attitude. Why don't you try? (But I would recommend a VERY good : > legal insurance policy first.) : > : They are definately NOT interested in allowing people to pirate their software. : They are also not interested in porting WP to Linux either. We have offered to : help .. official word is .. don't call us, we'll call you .. and we were willing : to pay for it too ... Over lunch today, I mentioned this thread to the guy who is in charge of software piracy issues for Novell-Wordperfect in Europe. His reaction was "forward the thread to me". (See above, re legal insurance.) BTW, I understand that WP 6 for UnixWare is in beta. -- +--------------------------------------------+ Martin Sohnius | "It doesn't matter whether the cat is | Novell Labs Europe | black or white, as long as it catches | Bracknell, England | mice." - Deng Xiaoping | +44-1344-724031 +--------------------------------------------+ (I speak for myself, not for Novell or anyone else.) ------------------------------ From: treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu (Tracy R. Reed) Subject: Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help? Date: 9 Sep 1994 23:39:32 GMT Sven Goldt (goldt@math.tu-berlin.de) wrote: : IMHO a math co wouldn't improve much, but more ram ! Definity, more RAM, definitly.... ============================================================================= Mr. Tracy Reed |Every artist is a cannibal.| Why did dad cry San Diego State Univ. |Every poet is a thief. | when I gave him Aerospace Engineering |All kill their inspiration | Willmaker 1.0? treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu |And sing about their grief.| treed@tbn-bbs.com |-U2 IRC-Maelcum /me smiles | ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: pierre@shell.portal.com (Pierre Uszynski) Crossposted-To: biz.config Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux* Date: 10 Sep 1994 05:14:49 GMT In dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) writes: >Steve Wicke (spire@teleport.com) wrote, in biz.config: >> I would like to create a set of groups called biz.comp.linux* for >> hardware, & software. Maybe we could just call it >> biz.comp.linux.services. What do you think? > >5 comp.os.linux groups [exist]. Why [...] a new hierarchy in biz? And so far, distribution, configuration and consulting businesses have been welcome to post there (within the usual limits of decency, and etiquette...), and get mentioned in the FAQs easily. It's just that these are groups where these limits are actually respected, as opposed to many others :-( I guess that it has to do with the principals of these businesses being net dwellers themselves :-) Pierre. pierre@shell.portal.com ------------------------------ From: alman@myhost.subdomain.domain (Benjamin Alman) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Xconfig for 320x200 or similar mode? Date: 10 Sep 1994 04:45:49 GMT Reply-To: alman@strangiato.Res.WPI.EDU Does anyone know how to get a 320x200 or similar resolution in XFree386 2.1.1 ??? I have an ATI GUP video card, and a CTX CPS-1560 monitor... my video stuff in my Xconfig is: accel chipset "mach32" option "hw_cursor" clocks 100 126 92 36 51 57 0 44 135 32 110 80 39 45 75 65 50 63 ... ... 46 18 25 28 0 22 67 16 55 40 19 23 37 33 modes "1024x767" "800x600" "640x480" biosbase 0xC0000 virtual 1024 767 viewport 0 0 modeDB "1024x767" 65 1024 1080 1222 1304 767 771 777 798 "800x600" 36 800 824 896 1024 600 601 603 625 "640x480" 25.175 640 644 760 800 480 491 493 525 25.175 640 672 768 800 480 490 492 525 any ideas????????? Please email me if possible.. thanks! -- ============================================================================= From: Ben Alman, Internet: alman@wpi.edu, My PC: alman@strangiato.res.wpi.edu Linux 1.1.49 + XFree386-2.1.1, Slackware 2.0 on an i486 DX/2-66 with 20mb RAM It's just the age, It's just a stage, We disengage, We turn the page... -Rush ------------------------------ From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Date: 10 Sep 1994 05:30:00 GMT Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu >>>>> "Tim" == Tim Smith writes: Tim> Bill C. Riemers wrote: >> 2. There is significant delay between action and sound. i.e. I >> can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun >> sound comes through my speakers. Tim> Get shorter speaker cables. Yea, Yea! Thats the ticket. What a great suggestion. Not! :-) :-) Last I check signals travel fairly fast through speaker wire. I suppose someone could get long enough cables for this to be a problem, but at that point I would be more worried about my floor caving in from tons of cable. Someone else pointed out the problem is that the sound is playing at way too slow of a speed. That is probably why the sound continues even after I quit the game. It sounds like, from other people's post, sound isn't working properly for anyone. If I turn off the speakers and drop the screen resolution it is playable, but not with anywhere near the quality I can get in DOS... From dos it takes the full screen and the sound works right. I guess I won't be ordering any of the other episodes if this is the best it gets. However, I'm still hoping there is a way to change the audio device defaults to get it to work right. Bill ------------------------------ ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: Linux-Misc-Request@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.misc) via: Internet: Linux-Misc@NEWS-DIGESTS.MIT.EDU Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: nic.funet.fi pub/OS/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Misc Digest ******************************