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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:14:26 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #744
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Linux-Misc Digest #744, Volume #2 Mon, 12 Sep 94 09:14:26 EDT
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Contents:
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Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect. (Fred Brown)
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Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (Steven Buytaert)
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Re: 480x360 Res works for me. (Steve VanDevender)
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Re: How to use 14400bps with modem? (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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S3 boards with less than 1MB... (Robert Ashcroft)
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Re: How to use 14400bps with modem? (Michael Martin)
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Re: Video Drivers (Jeff Kesselman)
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Sunsite is down! Cause: Linuxdoom? (Steve DuChene)
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Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60 (Steven J. Esbrandt)
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Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses? (NightHawk)
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Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs (J.J. Paijmans)
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Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (David Nagy)
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SEARCH: Clock setting Programm for 24X (k.dittmann@wizzard.ping.de)
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Re: 480x360 Res works for me. (Mikael Nordqvist)
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Re: Linux DOOM for X released (Kai Petzke)
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Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help? (Kai Petzke)
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Re: Yggsdrasil Linux uses Their OWN filesystem? (Kai Petzke)
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Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help? (Harry C Pulley)
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Re: What port #'s does doom use? (was: DOOM linux with TERM support. (Bill C. Riemers)
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DOOM for Linux (Karl Keyte)
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From: brown@gumnut (Fred Brown)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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Subject: Re: Thanks ID and ddt - Linux DOOM is perfect.
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Date: 12 Sep 94 02:57:29 GMT
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Erik,
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Your P9000 card, is it a Diamond Viper ?
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Fred
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From: buytaert@imec.be (Steven Buytaert)
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Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 07:27:48 GMT
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J.J. Paijmans (paai@kub.nl) wrote:
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: In article <CvvqyK.Dqn@novell.co.uk> msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes:
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: ...
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: >
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: >Over lunch today, I mentioned this thread to the guy who is in charge of
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: >software piracy issues for Novell-Wordperfect in Europe. His reaction was
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: >"forward the thread to me". (See above, re legal insurance.)
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: >
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: >BTW, I understand that WP 6 for UnixWare is in beta.
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: >
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: >--
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: > +--------------------------------------------+
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: >Martin Sohnius | "It doesn't matter whether the cat is |
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: Martin not only accused me implicitly of software-piracy (see this
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: thread a few weeks ago), he now threatens to set his legal bloodhounds
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: on this thread. Obviously it is his right to do so but it effectively
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: portraits the horror that established firms feel when confronted with
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: new developments.
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Don't worry Paai,
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As I've read the doom announcement today, I learned a new expression
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and this guy fits the bill perfectly.
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"He sucks demon phalluses"
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Had to get that of my chest...
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[BTW, cleaned up the newsgroup line]
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Stef
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--
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Steven Buytaert
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WORK buytaert@imec.be
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HOME buytaert@innet.be
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'Imagination is more important than knowledge.'
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(A. Einstein)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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From: stevev@efn.org (Steve VanDevender)
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Subject: Re: 480x360 Res works for me.
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 05:39:36 GMT
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In article <34r3nd$ps1@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> mooredan@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Daniel L Moore ) writes:
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DOOM runs fine, now to find solutions to the ctrl, alt - arrow keys
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combinations, (my window manager takes over), and getting the sound
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to work, probably need to upgrade my driver.
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You can redefine all of the key commands. I haven't figured out
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what the keycodes are supposed to be for non-ASCII keys, but you
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can put the ASCII value of a normal key after the key_* tag in
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the .doomrc to use that key for a keyboard command; i.e. if you
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wanted to use the 'a' key for key_fire, then put 97 after the
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key_fire tag in your .doomrc.
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I upgraded my Linux 1.0.9 kernel with the Voxware 2.90
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distribution on sunsite (including the two provided patch files)
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and I get good sound. The only problem seems to be that I
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sometimes get "delayed echoes"; a fragment of the end of a sound
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will sometimes reoccur up to a couple of seconds after it
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originally finished.
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What I really miss is using the mouse. I switched to using the
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mouse some time ago during a period when I was doing a lot of
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intense deathmatch play, and while I have gotten a little better
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at using the keyboard in the Linux version, I tried running the
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DOS version again with the mouse and it was _so_ much easier to
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do things. I just can't seem to find the right layout for the
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key commands that lets me comfortably run, turn, strafe, and fire
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all at the same time even half as well as I can with the
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mouse/keyboard combination.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
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From: goer@quads.uchicago.edu (Richard L. Goerwitz)
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Subject: Re: How to use 14400bps with modem?
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Reply-To: goer@midway.uchicago.edu
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 03:15:33 GMT
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vilhuber@tigger.cs.colorado.edu (Jan Vilhuber) writes:
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>
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>Reeally what you should do is set the port speed to the highest possible
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>rate the the chip will support. If you have a UART 16550, then go ahead
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>and set it to 38400 (or even 56700??) Remember that a 14400 modem will do
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>compression and the such...
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>I run mine at 38400 with a UART 16550, and it works just fine.
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It appears to me that the 38400 mark is just a convention. You can
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have the serial driver reinterpret it as 57600 by using the spd_hi
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option with the setserial command. What you are doing, in this case,
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is sending data at 57600 bits per second to the modem, which compres-
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ses it, then sends it at 9600(+?) baud over the phone to another modem
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that decompresses it. V.42bis compression can achive a 4:1 ratio, so
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57600 is an ideal rate. You must enable rts/cts flowcontrol, though,
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I believe, since otherwise you can overflow the modem's buffers (if,
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say, it can't quite reach 4:1 compression, but is getting stuff in
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at the maximum rate of 57600).
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I might remind everyone reading this that I'm no guru (if that's not
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obvious). I just had this incredible brainstorm that maybe the FAQs,
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HOWTOs, and man pages might have something useful to say. I'm always
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the first to encourage old hands to be nice. But the crabby netters
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who go around screaming RTFM do have a point.
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--
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-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
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goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer
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From: rna@leland.Stanford.EDU (Robert Ashcroft)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: S3 boards with less than 1MB...
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Date: 11 Sep 1994 10:57:26 GMT
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Note followups...
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This weekend I took an apparently useless graphics board out of an old
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386 and put in a cheap ISA S3 board I picked up.
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Interestingly enough, the apparently useless graphics board is _also_ an
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S3 board.
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The one I pulled has the S3-911 chip on it, and a measely 256K of memory.
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It's expandable to 512K.
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Question: will XFree86 drive an S3 board with only half a meg? It sure
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won't drive one with 256K, but I am wondering if it is worthwhile scrounging
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the extra 256K of VRAM.
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Cheers,
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RNA
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P.S. the graphics transplant into the 386 went well, and I am now turning
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the machine over to my fellow students to let them pound on it as a
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linux-X-terminal... You can finger it at gsb-linux-352.stanford.edu
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(36.67.0.214) if you've got nothing better to do!
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From: mmart@starbase.neosoft.com (Michael Martin)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: How to use 14400bps with modem?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 03:44:13 GMT
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Steven M. Gallo (smgallo@cs.buffalo.edu) wrote:
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: In article <33tcak$hmp@due.uninett.no>,
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: Kristian Mowinckel <nfykw@alf.uib.no> wrote:
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: >Today my USRobotics Sportster 14400 FAX MODEM arrived.
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: >Now I use it at 9600 bps since 14400 is not an option offrered.
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: >(I use Seyon by the way.)
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: >How can I use 14400 bps?
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: >
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Tell Linux that the modem is 38400. This should work fine with a Sportster.
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The line speed is still 14400, but the serial port speed (computer to modem)
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is higher. This has to be in order to get any use out of compression. If you
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use minicom, be sure to set auto baud detect off, and ALWAYS use hardware
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flow control at these (relatively) high speeds.
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One word of caution - be SURE to power the sportster off before plugging/
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unplugging the power supply - I have had THREE of these modems fry this way.
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And I had one power supply decide to send a bunch more volts than usual one
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day - also fried the modem. IMHO, these cheap modems are just that - cheap.
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*---------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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*Michael L. Martin | A Law is not Just, just because it's a law. *
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*mmart@starbase.neosoft.com | *
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From: jeffpk@netcom.com (Jeff Kesselman)
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Subject: Re: Video Drivers
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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 1994 08:34:54 GMT
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In article <779034391snz@vissci.demon.co.uk> davidc@vissci.demon.co.uk writes:
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>Anyone know where I can get Diamond Viper SVGA Drivers for Linux ?
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>(P9000 Chipset I believe !)
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>Dave.
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I've been responding with what little I know about the Diamond situation via
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email to folk, but since it keeps comign up, I thought Ild make one
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public post. The following is from Yygdrasil's installation guide and
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Linux Bible.
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The basic problem with Diamond is that they use a propritary interface to the
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clocks, something that any X driver needs access to to set the board.
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They will only give this information under an NDA (non-disclosure agreement).
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The NDA, if signed, makes it impossible to publish source for any driver
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that might be written. This not only violates the GPL, but makes it
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really hard to include as a linux driver (I guess you COULD just provide
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a linkable object file, but that violates the entire way Linux is managed.)
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The overall reaction of the free-software community has been "fine, if
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you don't want to support us, then we won't waste any effort trying to
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support you." This is really quite reasonable given the above.
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The suggestion I've been giving others is to call Diamond and complain.
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Maybe if enough customers complain, they'll realize that they are losing
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business over this and reconsider.
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As I say, the above is my understanding, gelaned from the Yygdrasil
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position. Anyone who finds mistakes in the above feel free to correct me.
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jeffk@crystald.com
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(jeffpk@netcom.com)
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From: s0017210@cc.ysu.edu (Steve DuChene)
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Subject: Sunsite is down! Cause: Linuxdoom?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 03:57:40 GMT
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Well I have been trying unsuccessfully tonight to get to
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sunsite.unc.edu to download the fixed pixel doubling version
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of Linux Doom but all I got were weird messages after I
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connected. Any thing like dir, ls, or get produced an error
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message about unable to open port (150.2.22.81,20) already in
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use. So I just tried it a min. ago and now sunsite is off the
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net (i.e. ping returns 100% packet loss)! I wonder if the
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presence of Linux Doom on the server and all the connections I
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imagine have been made there to get it, have any thing to do
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with the crash? If someone wants a good indication of how many
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people are using Linux I would guess the ftp logs from sunsite
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for the past couple of days would be a good indication!
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--
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| Steven A. DuChene sduchene@cis.ysu.edu or s0017210@cc.ysu.edu
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| Youngstown State University | Computer Science / Math / Mech. Eng.
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|-------------------------------------------------------------------
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| Friends don't let friends do DOS
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From: sesbra1@umbc.edu (Steven J. Esbrandt)
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Subject: Re: 486dx4 vs Pentium 60
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 04:09:53 GMT
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: I don't quite understand this. I myself have a Pentium-90 w/ an IDE
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: controller on a PCI bus and this machine /flies/. I get around 8MB/sec
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: according to PC Magazines benchmark utilties (WinBench 4.0) with my HD's.
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: (One a WD 1.0G and Micropolis 1.7G).
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: Needless to say, I run linux (kernel 1.1.45).
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If you're running linux, then you should run unix benchmarks. Get iozone and
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run it with a sufficiently big file (I use around 80MB). This way you're sure
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to blow away the cache; you will also see what the performance of the machine
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is with the drive going. Another note: with those drives over 540MB, you must
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have an enhanced IDE controlleri, which is very similar to SCSI in terms of it's
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capabilities. Comparing SCSI to regular IDE is not the same thing as comparing
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it to enhanced IDE.
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==================
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Steven J. Esbrandt
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sesbra1@umbc.edu
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From: fsosi@j51.com (NightHawk)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin
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Subject: Re: Slow curses - is there a better/faster curses?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 07:31:44 -0400
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James Deibele (jamesd@teleport.com) wrote:
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: 48 hours ago I installed Slackware 2.0 and it was just about the easiest
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: install I've ever done in 10 years of mucking around with computers.
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: Color me impressed.
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: We are using Linux on a box for people to do remote development - we
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: want to compile and run apps on the Linux box. Exciting things like
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: accounting and other business tasks.
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: elvis is a pretty faithful implementation of vi although it's noticeably
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: slower in screen I/O than vi on a SPARC. And that's when I'm only the
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: user on the linux box and there's nothing else happening on it. And
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: with relatively small - 400-line - programs.
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I am using nvi 1.34 from BSD 4.4. It is fast and much more compatible
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with vi than elvis.
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: Console output under Linux was very quick and I'm sure X performance is
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: pretty good. But curses performance is a little sluggish and adding
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: lines near the bottom of the screen is a real killer - curses seems to
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: clear the screen with blank lines <then> adds the new text.
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: I know that curses and terminals are going the way of the dinosaur but
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: like the dinosaur they're going to take a long time to die. We were
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: looking at what it would cost to outfit our very small office with a
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: PC/Mac/Unix solution that ran under Windows, MacOS, and UNIX and decided
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: we could live with a curses interface.
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: But it would be nice if it were a little quicker. Is there a
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: replacement curses out there somewhere? I checked the FAQs, How-Tos,
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: and Meta-FAQ and didn't see a word about curses.
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There is a new curses from BSD 4.4 in libc 4.6.x. It is under beta testing
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now. I like it very much.
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NH
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: Thanks!
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: --
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: jamesd@teleport.com "Slowly cursing he deleted the word"
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: Full internet (ftp, telnet, irc, ppp) available. Voice: (503) 223-4245
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: Portland: (503) 220-1016 2400, N81. Login as "new" to setup an account.
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: Vancouver: (206) 260-0330 Salem: (503) 364-2028 FAX: (503) 223-4372
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From: paai@kub.nl (J.J. Paijmans)
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
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Subject: Re: The snatchability factor (was Re: WABI vs
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 07:33:55 GMT
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In article <350b6b$nqm@news.cais.com> harrison@cais2.cais.com (Harrison Picot) writes:
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>In article <34rkbt$23m@kubds1.kub.nl>, J.J. Paijmans <paai@kub.nl> wrote:
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>>In article <CvvqyK.Dqn@novell.co.uk> msohnius@novell.co.uk (Martin Sohnius) writes:
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>>...
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>>>
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>>>Over lunch today, I mentioned this thread to the guy who is in charge of
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>>>software piracy issues for Novell-Wordperfect in Europe. His reaction was
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>>>"forward the thread to me". (See above, re legal insurance.)
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>>>
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>>
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>>Martin not only accused me implicitly of software-piracy (see this
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>>thread a few weeks ago), he now threatens to set his legal bloodhounds
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>
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>If my memory serves, Martin suggested that you wouldn't be likely
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>candidate for a free review copy. He might be implying that you
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>wouldn't be likely to help sales. You don't need to expand on that
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>in a bad way, and then blame it on Martin.
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Well, I took Martin up on that, pointing out my interpretation of
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his words and adding that I was quite vexed by his words. If he had
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meant them differently, he would have said so, I guess.
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>
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>[snip]
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>>And it is so bloody stupid... Linux offers a new way to boost
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>>WP-sales, which is a BIG seller, and all they can do is wave with
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>
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>If WP is going to give away software, why not give it to those of
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>us that paid for the development? Like me, I have bought it, DOS
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Neither I nor anybody else (as far as I remember) asked for WP to
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give something away. All we have been doing is to speculate on
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the merits of free/illegal copies as sales-booster. Martin choose
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too pursue that line in the direction of waving lawyers around.
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>things to all people. You don't need to wack UW just because Novell
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>people don't want to give you their work for free.
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>
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See above. And yes, I still think it is in the interest of *any* sound
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software to generate free copies. If that makes me a target for Martin's
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legal eagle, well, so be it.
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Paai.
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--
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Copyright Hans Paijmans 1994. Niets hierboven mag geheel of
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gedeeltelijk worden geciteerd buiten de nieuwsgroep(en) waar het
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oorspronkelijk is geplaatst. Nothing of the above may be cited
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outside the newsgroups in which the message originally was posted.
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
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From: davenagy@netcom.com (David Nagy)
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Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 05:58:50 GMT
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Jeez, everybody should get a clue... All this doubletalk about
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electron drift when it's OBVIOUS that the problem is that his speakers
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are too far away from his head... The speed of sound, remember? And you
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guys are worried about the speed of electrons, sheesh. <g>
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I'm sure if he used headphones the problem would disappear. (As long as
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he didn't use one of those curly headphone cord extenders....)
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Dave Nagy
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 12:15:00 +0200
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From: k.dittmann@wizzard.ping.de
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Subject: SEARCH: Clock setting Programm for 24X
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## Nachricht vom 12.09.94 weitergeleitet
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## Ursprung : /comp/os/linux/admin
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## Ersteller: k.dittmann@wizzard.ping.de
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Hello...
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I'am searching for an Program named: CLOCK !
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This tool is designed, to change the clock settings of an Speedstar 24X
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Graphicsadapter.
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A few day's ago, some men post his Xconfig for an Speedstar 24X in this
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group. He also had the Clock program...
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Where can i get this ???
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---Kai
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###
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## CrossPoint v3.0 ##
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From: d91mn@efd.lth.se (Mikael Nordqvist)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
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Subject: Re: 480x360 Res works for me.
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 12:12:58 GMT
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In article <35035a$jsg@pcnet1.pcnet.com> paradox@pcnet.com (Paradox) writes:
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>Steve VanDevender (stevev@efn.org) wrote:
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> [ snip ]
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> Ok, who wants to make a linux-based wad editor now? ;)
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Check out Linux-DEU 5.21 on infant2.sphs.indiana.edu:/pub/doom/deu (fsp).
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Runs under svgalib. Version 6.0 will probably run under X.
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/Mikael
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--
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Mikael Nordqvist, student | d91mn@efd.lth.se | I'm not paraniod, it's just
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Lund Institute of Technology | mech@df.lth.se | that everyone is out to get me
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From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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Subject: Re: Linux DOOM for X released
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Date: 12 Sep 94 09:30:18 GMT
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peek@duncan.cs.utk.edu (Michael Peek) writes:
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>David Taylor (ddt@idcube.idsoftware.com) wrote:
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>: DOOM v1.666 for Linux using X is available at:
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>I wonder: If this is a specific Linux port, and no other ports are in the
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>works, it seems to me that the program would pick up a lot of speed if it
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>used the SVGALIB routines. It sure would be easier to see!
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This thing has already been discussed a lot in this group. The result
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was, that X can be quite fast, too, that X is more a unix standard
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(doom also runs on SGI and NextStep), and that X works over a network.
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Kai
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--
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Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get?
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Technical University of Berlin |
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Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek.
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wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de |
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From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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Subject: Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help?
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Date: 12 Sep 94 09:31:47 GMT
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cabot@tct.com (David Cabot) writes:
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>I'm pinching pennies and want more out my machine. Does Xfree86 and
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>ghostscript/view use much floating point math?
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XFree86 uses floating point only, when needed, like for drawing
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circles. Ghostscript uses it a lot view, so you should be able
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to speed it up with a coprocessor.
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Kai
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--
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Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get?
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Technical University of Berlin |
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Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek.
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wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de |
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From: wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai Petzke)
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Subject: Re: Yggsdrasil Linux uses Their OWN filesystem?
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Date: 12 Sep 94 09:33:03 GMT
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song@lisa.cs.purdue.edu (Chang Hyeon Song) writes:
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>Hi, netters.
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>I just bought this Linux CD-ROM, but I found out that Yggsdrasil uses
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>non-standard file system of their own.
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Well, they use the standard CD-ROM file system. However, all files
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in the /usr/src tree are compressed with gzip. Usually you do not
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need these files, unless you want to recompile part or all of the
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system. Then you have two choices:
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- Copy them to harddisk, and uncompress with gunzip.
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- Use the special libc provided to decompress these files on the
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fly when you access them.
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Kai
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>Does it cause any problem?
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No.
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Kai
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--
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Kai Petzke | How fast can computers get?
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Technical University of Berlin |
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Berlin, Germany | Sol 9, of course, on Star Trek.
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wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de |
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From: hpulley@uoguelph.ca (Harry C Pulley)
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Subject: Re: Will a math coprocessor REALLY help?
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 12:13:09 GMT
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Tracy R. Reed (treed@ucssun1.sdsu.edu) wrote:
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: Sven Goldt (goldt@math.tu-berlin.de) wrote:
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: : IMHO a math co wouldn't improve much, but more ram !
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: Definity, more RAM, definitly....
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It depends on what you do. I upgraded my 386-40 to a 486-33 this summer
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because I was doing a lot of work with neural nets. With only floating point
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emulation the nets took hours to complete on the 386-40; they complete in
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minutes or seconds on the 486-33 (Which has a built-in co-processor).
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In general, more RAM will help more. So will more disk space and a faster
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drive.
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Harry
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<:-{} hpulley@uoguelph.ca |This message released|It takes all kinds,
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\ Harry C. Pulley, IV |to the PUBLIC DOMAIN.|and to each his own.
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==================================+=====================|This thought in mind,
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Stay away from the DOS side, Luke!|Un*x don't play that.|I walk alone.
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From: bcr@k9.via.term.none (Bill C. Riemers)
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Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom,comp.os.linux.help
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Subject: Re: What port #'s does doom use? (was: DOOM linux with TERM support.
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Date: 12 Sep 1994 06:33:35 GMT
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Reply-To: bcr@physics.purdue.edu
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>>>>> "Bill" == Bill C Riemers <bcr@k9.via.term.none> writes:
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>>>>> "Christophe" == Christophe Person <chrisp@dirac.neusc.bcm.tmc.edu> writes:
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Christophe> Like you all know, DOOM linux is out. But what about
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Christophe> a DOOM linux version that run with TERM ? It would be
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Christophe> less painfull that blocking your computer using the
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Christophe> modem version. I don't know if it wouldn't be simpler
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Christophe> to have a IHHD server supporting term instead.
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Christophe> Opened discussion....
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Bill> If anyone knows what port number doom uses you could use
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Bill> tredir or tudpredir depending on which type of packets xdoom
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Bill> uses. If no one knows I could probably guess the right port
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Bill> # with a few hours of guessing, but like Christophe I don't
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Bill> know anyone to play with so I have no real motivation to
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I know it is bad form to followup on myself... But I figure I better
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head-off all the useless replies. It seems that the /proc file system
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lists ports being used, so now I know DOOM uses the 5029 udp port.
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Unfortunately, it acts as a daemon as well as a client. This means
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if you do something like:
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linuxxdoom -net 1 localhost
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DOOM will try to talk to itself. So tudpredir won't help. The obvious
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solution would be to recompile DOOM with -include termnet.h and -ltermnet.
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If someone at ID feels motivated and has term 2 installed this might
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happen, but I wouldn't hold my breath waiting. Another way
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to get term support would be to do zlibc type trick and patch your
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C library. However, I've been warned this trick is very risky so
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I haven't tried it with term.
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I'll continue to think about this and maybe I will think of another
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solution.
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Bill
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 1994 14:04:58 +0200
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From: kkeyte@esoc.bitnet (Karl Keyte)
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Reply-To: kkeyte@esoc.bitnet
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Subject: DOOM for Linux
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PLEASE let's keep doom traffic that isn't related to features of the Linux
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operating system (it is 'comp.os.linux...' after all) to one of the games
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groups. I can see DOOM posting getting out of proportion here - specially
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as the posters seem to be a little heavy-handed with the cross-posting.
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Karl
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