From: Digestifier To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 23:13:28 EDT Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #754 Linux-Misc Digest #754, Volume #2 Tue, 13 Sep 94 23:13:28 EDT Contents: Re: Sounddriver for Spea Media FX ? (Hannu Savolainen) Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Ken Latta) Re: Yggdrasil FTP site (Bill Zettler) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Rob Janssen) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Rob Janssen) Re: Linux DOOM is very impressive! (Robert W. Brewer) Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem (Vassili Leonov) f2c libf2c.a missing (Uli Uphoff) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Cornelius Krasel) Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (J.J. Paijmans) Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? (Jeff Epler) iBCS and WP51 (JPENNY@DELPHI.COM) term: cannot connect to socket (Cyrill Vatomsky) OpenGL (Jared Jacobs) SLIP/DIP dialback query (Chris Peckham) Re: DOOM and Linux (Ped Xing) Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Jim Harkins) Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? (Steve VanDevender) Re: Q: Reading from a ext2fs partition from DOS? (Steve DuChene) AHA1542 Problems (Stephan Duhl) Sounddriver for Spea Media FX ? (Stephan Duhl) Re: The snatchability factor (WordPerfect) (Richard J. Wyble) Re: Linux DOOM is very impressive! (Rene Baart) configuration compatibility (Florence Pagani) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: hannu@voxware.pp.fi (Hannu Savolainen) Subject: Re: Sounddriver for Spea Media FX ? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 19:09:49 GMT duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Duhl) writes: >-- >Hi all, >i have a Soundcard Spea media FX. >Is there a sounddriver for this card under Linux (i haven't found one). >Has someone install that card under Linux ? The driver for Spea Media FX and other Ensoniq SoundScape based cards is under construction. Some kind of (ALPHA) driver should be available within a month or two. Announcements will be sent to the SOUND channel. To join send a message to linux-activists-request@niksula.hut.fi. Include just a line containing "X-Mn-Admin: join SOUND" to the message. Hannu -- ============================= Hannu Savolainen hannu@voxware.pp.fi "Don't use Windows since there is a door!" ------------------------------ From: Ken Latta Crossposted-To: biz.config Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux* Date: Tue, 13 Sep 94 12:51:18 PDT In article <354fbn$3pk@relay.tor.hookup.net>, writes: > Spire Technologies (spire@teleport.com) wrote: > : In iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk (Alan Cox) writes: > > : >In article <34sqeo$hd6@kelly.teleport.com> spire@teleport.com (Steve Wicke) writes: > : >>The reasoning I have for wanting to start a biz.* heirachy for linux is > : >>that there are commercial vendors now addresses the need for > : >>professional Linux support. Professional support costs money...ie; is > : >>commercial and people on the net (including myself) have a tendacy to be > : >>a little snide towards commercial posts in non commercial areas. I would > > : >Well I'd certain back the idea. > > : >Alan > : > : Thanks.... > > I agree that biz.comp.linux is a good Idea. > -- > /-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -\ > | Keith A Bergen - (416) 442-2238 (Voice) Southam Inc. | > | bergen@southam.COM (416) 442-2036 (Fax) 1450 Don Mills Road, Toronto | > \-------------------------------------------------------------------------- -/ I think there is a good chance that I might wish to use such a channel myself sometime in the future. I suspect there are quite a few others entertaining similar thoughts. Count me in! __________________________________________________________________________ Ken Latta klatta@pkdla5.syntex.com UNIX Systems Consultant I do not and cannot speak for Syntex or Roche or the firm that pretends to be my employer. __________________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: wrz@bzettler.dnai.com (Bill Zettler) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: Re: Yggdrasil FTP site Date: 13 Sep 1994 00:08:37 GMT In article , jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman) writes: |> In article <1994Sep12.113107.8707@rdr.com> eruck@rdr.com writes: |> > |> >Is there a problem with the ftp site at Yggdrasil, I keep getting an unknown |> >host from ftp.yggdrasil.com? |> |> Interesting, so do I. Thats the site they list in their Fall94 release |> docs. Maybe their name server has forgotten them (that used to happen to |> us at work on occasion.) |> |> My Sum94 release has it hard coded into /etc/hosts as 192.216.244.52 which is also the same as the primary yggdrasil.com. Anonymous ftp works fine. ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:31:33 GMT In <3506cb$jdu@panix3.panix.com> stimpson@panix.com (S. Joel Katz) writes: >In rrward@netcom.com (Richard Ward) writes: >>I really hope that you are kidding. I'd hate to think that our fine >>educational system is producing people so stupid as to think that reducing the >>length of cable between an amplifier and the speakers would have an observable >>effect. Think about it: sound travels through the air about 730 miles per >>hour at sea-level, electronic signals travel through wire at close to the >>speed of light (roughly 186,000 miles per _second_). If you were to make >>_any_ adjustments to the speaker placement, you'd be better off putting on >>headphones (though the difference would still be virtually unobservable). > I really hope that you are kidding. I'd hate to think that our >fine educational system is producing people so stupid as the think that >electrons net velocity down a cable is anywhere close to the speed of >light. With all those electrons refusing to travel straight and bumping >into each other, you are lucky if you get 1/10 C. Actually, it is much, much less than that! Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom From: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org (Rob Janssen) Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Reply-To: pe1chl@rabo.nl Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:35:57 GMT In <352bnj$pk6@news.u.washington.edu> tzs@u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes: >David Nagy wrote: >> Jeez, everybody should get a clue... All this doubletalk about >>electron drift when it's OBVIOUS that the problem is that his speakers >>are too far away from his head... The speed of sound, remember? And you >>guys are worried about the speed of electrons, sheesh. >Another solution is for him to get a longer video cable. But then he'll >need shorter arms, unless he can play with his tongue... No, no, no... just coil it on the floor. But you should be careful not to use a long keyboard cable! I have seen keyboard cables in use on some systems that are incredibly long... You can imagine the problems *that* will give! Rob -- ========================================================================= | Rob Janssen | AMPRnet: rob@pe1chl.ampr.org | | e-mail: pe1chl@rabo.nl | AX.25 BBS: PE1CHL@PI8UTR.#UTR.NLD.EU | ========================================================================= ------------------------------ From: rbrewer@rwb114.rh.psu.edu (Robert W. Brewer) Subject: Re: Linux DOOM is very impressive! Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:24:35 GMT Reply-To: rbrewer@psu.edu LinuxXDoom ran rather slowly on my machine also until I turned off the sound. Now it flies quite well. I don't have a sound card. -Rob -- Robert W. Brewer rbrewer@psu.edu ------------------------------ From: vassili@cs.sunysb.edu (Vassili Leonov) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions Subject: Re: PPP/IP Forwarding Problem Date: 13 Sep 1994 20:29:07 GMT jbarrett@onramp.net wrote: :I'm running Linux 1.1.49 and attempting to configure it as a router between my :local Ethernet and my Internet provider. I've posted on this before but maybe I if you just have an ethernet network and one box on it is connected to an Internet provider (you used some bad language like M#%&@$@ft there - so I'm not quite sure) then you need two things to do it proper: - make sure your kernel on SLIP/PPP machine is configured as ROUTING packets (make config) - make sure that other machines have route add default gw your_slip_hostname metric 1 somewhere in their rc.inet1 Sooo.... It's basic networking - why blame Linux on that... Read some good books on that though.... Has nothing to do with Linux development... Vassili. ------------------------------ From: hj000up@fire4-bb.uni-duisburg.de (Uli Uphoff) Subject: f2c libf2c.a missing Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:40:25 GMT Hi, yesterday I tried to compile one of my FORTRAN programs with the f2c translator using the -g option, but the f77 script which is from the Slackware 2.0 package f2c.tgz complains about a missing libf2c.a . The f2c.tgz package contains only a shared library and libf2c.sa. I tried to find the sources for this particular f2c version, but I did not find any sources for libf2c.a Any hints ? Greetings Uli -- ============================================================================= Ulrich Uphoff Tel.: +49 203 379 3029 Universitaet Duisburg Fax : +49 202 379 3087 Verbrennung & Gasdynamik Lotharstr. 1 e-mail: hj000up@vug.uni-duisburg.de 47057 Duisburg 1 ============================================================================= ------------------------------ From: krasel@alf.biochem.mpg.de (Cornelius Krasel) Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:40:40 GMT Mr. Paul David Walker (pdwalker@HK.Super.NET) wrote: : And you must not also overlook the thick-skull factor. It is a fact that sound : travels slower through thick skulls than through air (duhhh...huh?) That's untrue. In fact, sound travels faster through denser material. Just my $0.02, --Cornelius. -- /* Cornelius Krasel, Abt. Lohse, Genzentrum, D-82152 Martinsried, Germany */ /* email: krasel@alf.biochem.mpg.de fax: +49 89 8578 3795 */ /* "People are DNA's way of making more DNA." (Edward O. Wilson, 1975) */ ------------------------------ From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans) Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs Date: 13 Sep 1994 07:24:57 GMT In article <353819$n61@u.cc.utah.edu> terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) writes: >In article <350b6b$nqm@news.cais.com> harrison@cais2.cais.com (Harrison Picot) writes: >] In article <34rkbt$23m@kubds1.kub.nl>, J.J. Paijmans wrote: >] >And it is so bloody stupid... Linux offers a new way to boost >] >WP-sales, which is a BIG seller, and all they can do is wave with >] >] If WP is going to give away software, why not give it to those of >] us that paid for the development? Like me, I have bought it, DOS ... > >The assumption that J.J. is making is that geeks use Linux and geeks >have input on what software a company buys. > >This is somewhat farcical, in its assumptions: > Terry, You probably have your quotes confused. As I am a very satisfied Linux-user myself, I can't call other Linux-users 'geeks' can I? Check the indents, please. Paai. (J.J.). -- Copyright Hans Paijmans 1994. Niets hierboven mag geheel of gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het oorspronkelijk is geplaatst. Nothing of the above may be cited outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted. ------------------------------ From: jepler@herbie.unl.edu (Jeff Epler) Subject: Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? Date: 13 Sep 1994 15:24:21 GMT stevev@efn.org (Steve VanDevender) writes: >You can't just copy your DOS Doom default.cfg to your Linux >.doomrc. There are different options in the Linux .doomrc and >the keycodes are completely different. >At least for ASCII-character keys, you can just put the ASCII >code for the character generated by the key as the code for the >key in your .doomrc. I haven't figured out how the >shift/control/function keycodes work yet. If anyone figures out the codes for (numpad) end and pgdn, let me know. I am very adjusted to using those keys to strafe, and can't seem to play any other way. BTW The unregistered WAD runs great in 320x200, but pixel doubling makes it crawl. I'm learning to squint. 8 meg 386-40, isa graphics, 128k cache. Jeff -- ____ "And if I smile please tell me some bad news \BI/ before I laugh and act like a fool" \/ -The Who "Behind Blue Eyes" IRC: Synger Running Linux 1.1 -- Free Unix for 386+ machines ------------------------------ From: jpenny@news.delphi.com (JPENNY@DELPHI.COM) Subject: iBCS and WP51 Date: 14 Sep 1994 00:30:03 -0000 What preview modes are supported? Does VGA work? Also, does WP50 work...I suspect so, but think that I need to work harder with keymaps. Thanks to a lot of people for a real good system. ------------------------------ From: cyrillv@netcom.com (Cyrill Vatomsky) Subject: term: cannot connect to socket Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 14:49:07 GMT I grabbed this new package with term binaries and other software compiled with term support, but something does not work right. When I try to start term, I get a message "Failed to connect to /usr/local/lib/term/private/socket. I am pretty vague about term internals and how it works. What should I do? It did work before, when I compiled term 204 from source, what gives? -- ======================================================================== Cyrill Vatomsky | Home : 1(408)479-1528 | | Gets : 1(408)464-0556 | | Fax : 1(408)464-0558 | | Internet : cyrillv@netcom.com | ======================================================================== ------------------------------ From: jjacobs@etsd.ml.com (Jared Jacobs) Subject: OpenGL Reply-To: jjacobs@etsd.ml.com Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 13:31:18 GMT Does anyone out there know of an OpenGL port to Linux? I'd be willing to test an alpha or beta version if the authors want feedback. Please let me know, Thanks, Jared ------------------------------ From: cdp@hertz.njit.edu (Chris Peckham) Subject: SLIP/DIP dialback query Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 20:47:43 GMT I have dip running on a linux system. I would like to use SLIP over a modem configured for dialback. Here is what I would like to see: local - start dip up and make the call remote - ring ring; answers and asks for username, password, and access code; then hangs up local - wait for the call remote - call me back and prompt for username and password local - pick up the phone and give appropriate username and password remote - respond with terminal server prompt local - select slip and away we go ! Here is what is happening: local - start dip up and make the call remote - ring ring; answers and asks for username, password, and access code; then hangs up local - EXIT DIP WITH ERROR remote - call me back Does anyone have a sample dip configuration file that will do what I want ? -- Chris Peckham < cdp@hertz.njit.edu > | There are moments when everything New Jersey Institute of Technology | turns out right. Don't let them Computing Services, Sr. Systems Prgmr | alarm you; they pass. 201.596.8176 ABD/ECE | -- Jules Renard ------------------------------ From: pplummer@sdcc8.ucsd.edu (Ped Xing) Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom Subject: Re: DOOM and Linux Date: 13 Sep 94 16:52:27 GMT >Are you sure? I construed that line to mean that Linux took a >performance hit, rather than meaning the modes didn't work at all. > >If they didn't work, and he knew it, why'd he leave them in? Why mention >them in the README? > >Logic indicates ... > >-- Chris > Once again, a new version has been posted to sunsite which fixes the problem. So problem is moot anyway. (Fixes it for -2 and -3 anyway). In anycase it's pretty silly to run the doubling or tripling modes because this really mauls performance. It's so much easier to use the cntrl-alt-+ hot key to switch it (the X server)to a more appropriate video mode. People have been posting Xconfig info for various low rez modes. Has anyone got music going? I'm running it on my 1.1.33 kernel on a 486/66 with 16M ram. I've got the 2.9 sound driver and a pro audio spectrum 16. Otherwise everything works great...smooth motion and good effects sound. But no music. I don't know whether it's supposed to work or not. Later... pat -- Patrick Plummer email: pplummer@ucsd.edu (UC, San Diego) root@penny.lu.edu "UNIX is the answer... as long as you phrase the question very ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom From: jharkins@netcom.com (Jim Harkins) Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 17:54:50 GMT In article , Richard Ward wrote: >Let's not forget that large headed people will hear a definite lag due to the >extra length of their auditory system. You wouldn't believe how long it can >take sound to get through the ears of extremely large headed people! We also must remember the speed of sound through fat is greatly reduced. You wouldn't believe how long it can take sound to get through the ears of extremely fat headed people! Takes some people years to make the link to libclue.a! Truly amazing. jim -- "I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers." Jim Harkins jharkins@netcom.com San Diego, CA. ------------------------------ From: stevev@efn.org (Steve VanDevender) Subject: Re: Doom settings ??? .doomrc copied from DOS??? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 08:16:49 GMT You can't just copy your DOS Doom default.cfg to your Linux .doomrc. There are different options in the Linux .doomrc and the keycodes are completely different. At least for ASCII-character keys, you can just put the ASCII code for the character generated by the key as the code for the key in your .doomrc. I haven't figured out how the shift/control/function keycodes work yet. ------------------------------ From: s0017210@cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene) Subject: Re: Q: Reading from a ext2fs partition from DOS? Date: 13 Sep 1994 09:09:29 GMT Won Hong (jesse@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) wrote: : Hi, sorry if this is a stupid question, didn't really do any searching : for this yet, but I haven't seen anything on c.o.l.announce. : Just wondering if there is a DOS program you can use to be able to : read the Linux ext2fs partitions, guess it would be something like : the mscdex thing to read iso9660 format. It would just be nice to : be able to access things on all my drives in either operating system. : Thanks in advance. : Jesse Hong. : jesse@mit.edu Everytime I see this come up I wonder what someone is thinking when they say they want to do this? DOS does not have any means of restricting access to the filesystem (oh, like /etc/passwd!) to prevent someone with a DOS program like this from accessing my system files as root! I really don't think this is a real swift idea here. -- | Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu | Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng. |------------------------------------------------------------------- | Friends don't let friends do DOS ------------------------------ From: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Duhl) Subject: AHA1542 Problems Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:27:12 GMT -- Hi all, i have a adaptec 1542 CF at adress 0x330. Now i have get a soundcard (spea media fx), which want that adress too. Any attempt to change the adress of aha 1542 to 0x2XX or 0x1XX doesn't work. DOS runs as normal, but linux doesn't boot any more! (Many game under DOS assume that at 0x330 is a Wave-Table-Adr! ) has someone a solution ?? so long Stephan. ======================================================================= Stephan Duhl email: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern ------------------------------ From: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de (Stephan Duhl) Subject: Sounddriver for Spea Media FX ? Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 15:31:20 GMT -- Hi all, i have a Soundcard Spea media FX. Is there a sounddriver for this card under Linux (i haven't found one). Has someone install that card under Linux ? so long Stephan. ======================================================================= Stephan Duhl email: duhl@informatik.uni-kl.de University of Kaiserslautern ------------------------------ Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware From: rwyble@alcm.org (Richard J. Wyble) Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (WordPerfect) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 1994 14:49:15 GMT In article <3548li$2on@hpsystem1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> stolz@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Eckehard Stolz) writes: > >- I would love to see WP for Linux at a reasonable price "Reasonable" is a relative term which everyone must interpret for their situation. We purchased WordPerfect (SCO Unix version5.1) from WordPerfect for $99 U.S. dollars earlier this year. This is a single-user license and the price is based upon already owning version 5.1 for other platforms. This appears a most reasonable price. -- Richard J. Wyble PO Box 16575 rwyble@alcm.org Worcester MA 01601 ------------------------------ From: baart@Simplex.NL (Rene Baart) Subject: Re: Linux DOOM is very impressive! Date: 13 Sep 1994 21:16:58 GMT Corey Brenner (brennerc@saucer.cc.umr.edu) wrote: : Jim Sun (jsun@athena.mit.edu) wrote: : : mark@taylor.infi.net (Mark A. Davis) : : >baart@Simplex.NL (Rene Baart) writes: : : >>I just ran DOOM on my 386/40 with a cheap (ISA) Cirrus VGA card. : : >>I expected horrible performance, but it's only : : >>a little bit jumpy, like a DOS game over a slow modem line. : : I hope Rene (the first poster) meant a tongue-in-cheek joke. I can't imagine : : what 386-40 running linuxxdoom is like. My current 486-25/75 with 16Mhz ISA : : (Stealth24) runs the dos version of doom about three times as fast my : : old 386-40 using the same card (on 10MHz ISA). Running linuxxdoom with the : : 486-75, I can get smooth motion only at third smallest (yeah, now we are counting : : from innermost out, instead of from full-screen and inward) screen setting; Just to clarify: I did not joke about the performance on my 386. It seems that there are quite some differences in performance between systems that should be comparable at first sight. Maybe this has got to do with the amount of support that XFree has for a particular chipset? Anyway, LinuxDOOM is fast becoming a very popular benchmark now ... ;-) -- Rene Baart | Amstelveen, The Netherlands | baart@simplex.nl ------------------------------ From: pagani@euterpe.cert.fr (Florence Pagani) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help Subject: configuration compatibility Date: 13 Sep 1994 09:03:02 GMT Hi all, I posted last week an article dealing with laptop and notebook compatibilities with LINUX. Thanks to all persons who gave me a response. Now, I would like to buy a precise system. (I give the configuration below). It is a notebook. I would like to make sure it will be compatible with LINUX. Have you got an idea about it ??? Any suggestion is welcome. --------------------------------------------- CPU : Intel 486 DX2 50 (OK) FPU : Integre Architecture BUS: ISA RAM : 8 Mb Motherboard : Compal (???) BIOS : Evergreen (???) Controllers : Winbound W8376 (???) (floppy,hard disk) Harddrive : IDE Seagate (405 Mb) (???) Video cards : Chips Technology VGA (???) Monitor : ecran LCD, STN (Max 1024 * 768) ---------------------------------------------- Can I buy it without problem ? Thanks in advance, Florence. -- _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ Florence PAGANI email: pagani@cert.fr _/ _/ ONERA-CERT tel: (33) 62 25 26 42 _/ _/ DERI _/ _/ 2, avenue E. Belin _/ _/ 31055 Toulouse cedex fax: (33) 62 25 25 93 _/ _/ FRANCE _/ _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ------------------------------ ** 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 ******************************