From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 16:17:28 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #740 Linux-Misc Digest #740, Volume #2 Sun, 11 Sep 94 16:17:28 EDT Contents: Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Jim Sun) NEC 210/SB16 SCSI2 Problem (James C Crump III) Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Erik Olson) Re: Looking for small emacs-like editor source (David Marchand) Re: When can a new system-admin-guide be expected?? (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski) Re: Linux Doom comments. (Greg Patten) Need Linux CD in San Jose, CA, (Johnathan Corgan) Re: 320x200 X resolution? ("Jae W. Chang") Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file (Olav Kvittem) Multi-plyr Linux Doom Great ("Jae W. Chang") Disable disk buffers? (Lars Buhl Nielsen) Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router (Mihail S. Iotov) Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Olav Kvittem) Kernel Updates????? (Nathan T. Wild) Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Christopher M. May) Linux DOOM pixel doubling fixed. (Mr Robert J Logan) Re: Which is the best Linux CD package? Of 2, Trans-Am... (Jeff Kesselman) Setting details to 'low' dosn't work (was Re: DOOM and Linux) (Olli Vinberg) Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (Steven J. Esbrandt) Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Dan Busarow) 480x360 Res works for me. (Daniel L Moore) How do you record MIDI ??? (Simon de Hartog) DOOM question (Simon de Hartog) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Jeremy Bettis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: jsun@mit.edu (Jim Sun) Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution? Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:33:03 GMT Warning: There are quite a few sets of numbers floating around that has >200Hz vertical scan rate or <20 kHz horizontal scan rate; either case could damage your monitor. So check your monitor's spec, and do a little arithmatics before you try. Here's my 320x240 setup: "320x240" 12 320 376 416 456 240 243 247 270 It gives 26.3kHz H-rate, and 97.5 V-rate. My card suppors icd... programable clock; my monitor is Idek VM 17. Jim ------------------------------ From: jcrump@netcom.com (James C Crump III) Subject: NEC 210/SB16 SCSI2 Problem Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 16:33:39 GMT Looks like there was a problem with my first post. To summarize I need to know how to disable parity checking in the driver for the AHA 1510/1520 series of SCSI adapters. I'm using an NEC 210 cdrom and it does not support parity checking and the SB16-SCSI2 has no jumper means to disable it. Can anyone help?? ------------------------------ From: olson@phys.washington.edu (Erik Olson) Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution? Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:37:30 GMT Remember that even if you can get the refresh rates for 320x200 on your monitor, it's going to look really ugly! Remember CGA? That's 320x200. When you use the normal PC VGA mode of 320x200, it's really 640x400 but with each pixel doubled in both directions. This is the key here. Would be nice to have XFree hook into that particular VGA (MCGA) mode (ho ho ho), but now we can't expect the Xfree team to write something that has no purpose other than Doom, can we? - Erik -- --- Erik D. Olson The Thes-o-meter: olson@phys.washington.edu 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 A B C D E F G at home, of course! o | - | / / | - - - | / X ------------------------------ From: davidmd@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (David Marchand) Subject: Re: Looking for small emacs-like editor source Date: 10 Sep 1994 23:29:38 -0500 For a simple, intuitive, easy-to-use editor try joe - Joe's own editor. It can be found at ftp.std.com in src/editors/joe1.0.12.tar.Z. Make files for most unix's are included. I compiled it for a 386bsd system just fine and I really am not a c programmer. ------------------------------ From: komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski) Subject: Re: When can a new system-admin-guide be expected?? Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:06:59 GMT Johan Wideberg (wideberg@obelix.cica.es) wrote: : Is there anyone who knows when a new version of the System Administrators : Guide is due out? Get a subscription to Linux Journal - there's a monthly sysadmin article written by yrs truly. I'd also suggest getting the O'Reilley _Essential System Administration_ book. It's a great help. -- - Mark Komarinski - komarimf@craft.camp.clarkson.edu "You can do anything you want until someone complains. Then you're screwed." -Heard in reference to the FCC. ------------------------------ From: greg@loose.apana.org.au (Greg Patten) Subject: Re: Linux Doom comments. Date: 11 Sep 1994 14:31:31 +1000 In <34rb0m$d57@gazette.bcm.tmc.edu> chrisp@dirac.bcm.tmc.edu writes: >First of all, thanks Dave. I'm with him. Excellent work. >I have some problems also with the sound: I have been said that there is >no music only effects (to confirm) In fact, I just hear garbage. It says 16bit soundcard in the README. Is yours 16bit? >When using the Ctrl-Key (FIRE) at the same time than the arrows, I switch >to the other rooms (screens). The only way out of this is to run Olwm instead >of fvwm or others mwm like. Rubbish. Just unmap (ie. comment the mappings out)them in your .fvwmrc or system.fvwmrc. >The network part seems to not be compatible with SGIxdoom. Hope it will be >in the future. To my amazement a 2 player game over SLIP worked really well. Cheers, -- Greg Patten Melbourne, Australia greg@loose.apana.org.au For information on APANA mail info@apana.org.au or check out The loose home page ------------------------------ From: jcorgan@netcom.com (Johnathan Corgan) Subject: Need Linux CD in San Jose, CA, Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 04:20:42 GMT I'm looking for the "Linux Developer's Resource" CD title, preferably from a source in San Jose, Ca., USA, or close by. A place I could pick it up in person is preferable over mail-order. Thanks! ------------------------------ From: "Jae W. Chang" Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution? Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:26:19 -0400 jsun@mit.edu (Jim Sun) writes: > Warning: There are quite a few sets of numbers floating around that has >200Hz > vertical scan rate or <20 kHz horizontal scan rate; either case could > damage your monitor. So check your monitor's spec, and do a little > arithmatics before you try. > > Here's my 320x240 setup: > "320x240" 12 320 376 416 456 240 243 247 270 > It gives 26.3kHz H-rate, and 97.5 V-rate. > > My card suppors icd... programable clock; my monitor is Idek VM 17. Not many people will be able to use this set because of the extremely low dot clock. The ATI Mach64's only go as low as 25. Correct me if I'm wrong, though. Jae ========================== jae+@cmu.edu ------------------------------ From: oak@domen.uninett.no (Olav Kvittem) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:58:28 GMT In article <34im9h$hv6@sun0.urz.uni-heidelberg.de> andreas@orion.mgen.uni-heidelberg.de (Andreas Helke) writes: : >\>Does Linux save the msgs it spews out at boot time, to a file ? These msgs : >\>whiz by so fast, it's practically impossible to note everything that's : >\>happening. Any info would be appreciated. : > : >Yes, you can view it with the dmesg program: Most linux distributions are already configured to write the boot messages to /var/adm/syslog. You can also scroll the console window backwards with 'Shift PgUp'. Olav -- Olav Kvittem : UNINETT A/S RFC Address Olav.Kvittem@uninett.no OR Address C=no;ADMD=" ";PRMD=uninett; O=uninett;S=Kvittem;G=Olav Postal Address Box 6883 N-7002 Trondheim Phone +47-7-596981 +47-7-596450(FAX) Description Network Manager "Networking needs neat working - Nettverk er nette verk !" ------------------------------ From: "Jae W. Chang" Subject: Multi-plyr Linux Doom Great Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:39:41 -0400 The setting: My friend w/ a p590 linux system via a direct ethernet connection to the net in Seattle, WA. Me and my 486dx2 16Megs linux system via a slip connection to the net in Pittsburgh, PA. We were very dubious about doom running over the internet and over a slip line AND even past a firewall on one end across the country like this; however, it worked amazingly enough. It was slow and jerky but still playable - 3 hours of mindless fun on account of it. I'd recommend against ftp'ing anything big on a slip while playing doom, however. Amazing. I haven't even seen my friend in Seattle for like 6 months, but now I can blast him away in the virtual doom world. Jae ========================== jae+@cmu.edu ------------------------------ From: wiking@daimi.aau.dk (Lars Buhl Nielsen) Subject: Disable disk buffers? Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:53:51 GMT I have noticed that the disk buffers seem to take up quite a lot of ram (2-3M out of 8M). This is while my computer is swaping a lot (X emacs and gcc). So now i would like to disable the buffers as i have a build-in diskcache on my hd controler and it seem more logic that it caches the files i wanna load instead of cacheing the swapping. Or how to limit the number of buffers to ie. 500k. /Lars Nielsen ------------------------------ From: iotov@cco.caltech.edu (Mihail S. Iotov) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:52:16 GMT Has anyone tried running linux with 2 MB to use it as a router only ? I imagine for ISDN traffic even 386SX16 will be enough, but question is about the memory. I have no 2MB PC at hand to check. Thanks. ------------------------------ From: oak@domen.uninett.no (Olav Kvittem) Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:09:57 GMT From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes) ... I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice... Why? So I can make use of an alpha network driver to perform an NFS install and save copying 100+ MB of Slackware 2.0 on to floppies :-) I have exactly the same need ! I've formatted a diskette with "fdformat", added my kernel with "dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0", created a ramdisk with "rdev -r /dev/fd0 1440", and changed the root file system with "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/ram" (I think :-) The bit I can't work out is how to tweak it so it asks for the ROOT disk, and copies that filesystem to the ramdisk, after the kernel has loaded... Done the same thing execept that I did "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0". After boot the system ask for the root diskette, but when I insert it I get errormessages like 'IO-error on /dev/fd0' and 'could not read masterblock'. Please don't tell me this requires a specially modified kernel :-) Any and all hints gratefully accepted (email especially appreciated since this *ensures* I can't miss your response :-) You havent't found a solution - have you ? Olav -- Olav Kvittem : UNINETT A/S RFC Address Olav.Kvittem@uninett.no OR Address C=no;ADMD=" ";PRMD=uninett; O=uninett;S=Kvittem;G=Olav Postal Address Box 6883 N-7002 Trondheim Phone +47-7-596981 +47-7-596450(FAX) Description Network Manager "Networking needs neat working - Nettverk er nette verk !" ------------------------------ From: natewild@mbnet.mb.ca (Nathan T. Wild) Subject: Kernel Updates????? Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:58:29 GMT I am using Slackware Linux with kernel release 1.0.9. I went hunting for kernel updates and all I found were patches 0 through 9, does this mean I have the latest release of the stable kernel??? I notice that there is v1.1 kernels and patches but these are refered to as "Development Kernels" This is scarey! Are the 1.1.x kernels stable enough to be worth using??? -- Later: Nate... ======================================================================== | Nathan T. Wild | Retail Systems | (204) 631-7378 VOX | | natewild@mbnet.mb.ca | Codville Distributors | (204) 694-5139 FAX | ======================================================================== ------------------------------ From: cmay@titan.ucs.umass.edu (Christopher M. May) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution? Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:51:33 GMT Andreas Matthias (andy@titan.central.de) wrote: : : So.... 320x200 resolution anyone? :) : : I'll post if I figure out how to do it. : I have one that's working here (ET4000 with 17'' AOC monitor), but it : occupies only about half of the screen in vertical direction. I did : not find out how to make it bigger vertically. Perhaps someone else : can continue with this: : ********************************************************************** : ModeDB : # name clock horizontal timing vertical timing flags : "320x200" 25 320 360 424 440 200 200 240 250 : ********************************************************************** : btw: Could it be that fvwm gets confused with this resolution? It : seems not to scroll correctly in the vertical direction. : Ciao, : Andreas : -- : Andreas Matthias : Zehntenstr.9 : D-37120 Bovenden : Voice: +49/551/81377 You need a lower dot clock frequency in my opinion. I had the same problem with higher dot clocks. I used a 12Mhz dot clock frequency in the modedb line I posted earlier. 320x240 12 320 352 392 424 240 243 247 252 -- -Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst - Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab ------------------------------ From: rjl2@stirling.ac.uk (Mr Robert J Logan) Subject: Linux DOOM pixel doubling fixed. Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:21:21 GMT It appears that Dave Taylor has fixed the pixel doubling and tripling problems in the release for Linux - its available on sunsite in /pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz On my 486/66 16 Megs - ATI Mach32 PCI card it is very smooth at normal - very smooth at double pixel, and good enough at triple pixel. Excellent work by iD and Dave Taylor - this will get my purchase of DOOM II easily. bert -- =========================================== Linux - you cant buy more powerful relief =========================================== ------------------------------ From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) Subject: Re: Which is the best Linux CD package? Of 2, Trans-Am... Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 18:06:45 GMT Just another set of experiences: I have installed both the SUmmer94 and Fall94 Yygdrasil and found them simple and easy. Of the two, though, the latest is much better for a beginner as they have streamlined and improved the installation a bit. I don't really understand the other posters problem with X. Doesn't your card emulate a basic standard vga? There is a standard vga driver in the yygdrasil release that aught to let you get X up and running on ANYTHING that is really a VGA of somekind... You coudl then use X for your configuring. The Summer94 was a bit of a pain in that I don't like to run X myself, as i have a slow machine (386-33, origial Oak stock vga.) The fall94 yygdrasil however explains hwo to do all the most important stuff from the command line. Granted I have a little Sparc admin experience (not alot, just a little) but i on the whole found it easy to work with. Note that that there IS one major problem in teh currnet Fall94 Yygdrasil release-- apparently the kernel in this release has a broken sony-cd driver (it dies witha null pointer refernce if you have a sony-interface cd in your machine.) I assume Yygdrasil is going to correct this soon... ------------------------------ From: vinberg@cc.Helsinki.FI (Olli Vinberg) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Setting details to 'low' dosn't work (was Re: DOOM and Linux) Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:34:11 +0300 Reply-To: Olli Vinberg In article <1994Sep11.023944.5259@titan.central.de>, Andreas Matthias wrote: > >It is even fine on a 386/40 with 8MB, if the image details are >set to LOW in the OPTIONS menu. As the screen resolution I used >a homemade 320x200 with the SVGA XFree server on an ISA ET4000. Yep, runs great, But setting detail-level to low makes the picture squeeze to half width. I'm using a cirrus 5428 card for VL-bus and the SVGA-server (Xfree 2.1). Has anyone else experienced this? >I suggest "wasting" the ftp time, even if you don't have a >pentium ;-) It's not as much the wasted bandwidth, but lost sleep. :) -- ======================================================================= Olli Vinberg \ Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name. vinberg@cc.helsinki.fi \ Thy programs run, thy syscalls done, http://www.helsinki.fi/~vinberg \ in kernel as it is in user! ------------------------------ From: sesbra1@umbc.edu (Steven J. Esbrandt) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin Subject: Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:45:40 GMT : : Very well that the ATI Mach32/Ultra/Ultra Pro are advocated for, but could : : someone give me hints for the best performance/price ratios ? I am planning to buy a new video card to replace my Trident crud very soon. I was planning to buy an EISA Mach32 (w/2M vram), but this discussion has sparked my interest in the newer S3 cards and others. I am not looking for cheap cards- I'm willing to pay a bit for performance. I simply want something that is fast and pretty well supported. What I'd like to know is this: how does the ATI Mach 32 compare to the other cards? How many xstones do these cards get? Also, where does the mach 64 fit in, in terms of perrformance and support? ================== Steven J. Esbrandt sesbra1@umbc.edu ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: biz.config From: dan@dpcsys.com (Dan Busarow) Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux* Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 18:55:35 GMT [Followups changed to biz.config] Steve Wicke (spire@teleport.com) wrote: > I would > like to open a group that would allow people like myself, Yggdrasil, > Info-magic to post ads. These ads would be for the person who wants to > try things like Linux but does not want to have to deal with hunting for > help with their problems. biz != ads. (is this the new RTFM for biz? How about BNA? :) Here's a short clip from the biz FAQ. Subject: What is considered good net.etiquette on biz.*? [ ... ] -- "So, where do I place my blatant commercial ads?" From time to time, an "ads" hierarchy has been proposed. If you need such, create it! You may also find that certain biz newsgroups may tolerate private ads to some extent - check their charters and monitor their content. I've mailed a copy of the FAQ to you. > Also it would give a place for vendors to have > a forum to discuss problems with product and current sales. *This* is a valid reason for a biz group. It is in fact the reason biz exists. But since the comp.os.linux.* groups already seem to permit this it's not a reason to form a new hierarchy. IMO, of course. Dan -- Dan Busarow dan@dpcsys.com uunet!cedb!dan DPC SYSTEMS Monrovia, CA (818) 305-5733 ------------------------------ From: mooredan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel L Moore ) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development Subject: 480x360 Res works for me. Date: 10 Sep 1994 01:55:57 GMT Here's a Xconfig line that works for my CrystalScan 1572FS monitor. "480x360" 25 480 496 504 664 360 360 368 377 It'll will probably work with other monitors that have the following specs: Horizontal Scan Freq: 30 - 64 kHz Vertical Scan Freq: 50 - 100 Hz Bandwidth: 80 MHz Also note that the dot clock is 25MHz for your video card. DOOM runs fine, now to find solutions to the ctrl, alt - arrow keys combinations, (my window manager takes over), and getting the sound to work, probably need to upgrade my driver. -- ******************************************************************************* * Daniel L. Moore mooredan@uiuc.edu * * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign -- College of Engineering * ******************************************************************************* ------------------------------ From: hartogjr@kwetal.comcons.nl (Simon de Hartog) Subject: How do you record MIDI ??? Date: 11 Sep 1994 19:20:31 +0100 Hi, I,ve got a SB16 with MIDI-interface, an electronic keyboard ( CASIO CPS-300 ) and a drum-computer also with MIDI ( Roland R-5 human rythm composer ) but I can't record MIDI from those devices under LINUX. Could somebody PLEASE help me ? Simon. P.S. Does anybody also know how to play MIDI on those devices ? ------------------------------ From: hartogjr@kwetal.comcons.nl (Simon de Hartog) Subject: DOOM question Date: 11 Sep 1994 19:24:05 +0100 WHAT ON EARTH IS DOOM ? I know it's a Wolfenstein like (seek and destroy) game, but I don't think that is ment here. ------------------------------ From: jbettis@cse.unl.edu (Jeremy Bettis) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Date: 11 Sep 1994 05:51:45 GMT Someone writes (I got lost with all the quoting): > 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. Really, I have the opposate problem. I can file my gun and have the sound play right away but the gun does not fire for some time. I have a SB16 and a ET4000 video card. This only happens when the system is under moderate load though. When I play doom normally I kill all processes excepy for the bare minimum. How can I run doom w/o a window manager though.. I haven't been able to yet. -- Jeremy Bettis -*- PGP Public key available -*- University of Nebraska INET: jbettis@cse.unl.edu "Those who stand in the middle of the UUCP: jeremy@tddi.UUCP,jeremy@hksys.com road are often hit by passing cars." Running Linux -- The Free Unix for i386/i486/Pentium machines. 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