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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: Fri, 23 Sep 94 08:13:14 EDT
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Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #805
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Linux-Misc Digest #805, Volume #2 Fri, 23 Sep 94 08:13:14 EDT
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Contents:
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SURVEY: Graphics card benchmarks under XFree86 (23 Sep 94) (Farrell McKay)
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Market survey: high-performance networking (Erann Gat)
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Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support (Chris Bitmead)
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Re: ext2 QUESTIONS (Unix answers) (Esther Heller)
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Re: Word Processor for Linux? (Philip Brown)
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Support for MediaVision Memphis (Bob Collie)
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Re: OpenStep on GNU or Linux? (David Jeske)
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Re: SB16 MCD and Mitsumi problem - Help (James CE Johnson)
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From: fbm@thumbtack.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (Farrell McKay)
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Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix,comp.benchmarks,comp.os.linux.help,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
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Subject: SURVEY: Graphics card benchmarks under XFree86 (23 Sep 94)
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 09:26:59 GMT
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Archive-name: xfree86-benchmarks
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Version: $Id: index.post,v 1.28 1994/09/15 05:29:29 fbm Exp fbm $
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These are the latest results from a survey of xbench results under XFree86.
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The idea of the survey is to compile a comprehensive set of benchmark results,
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obtained by running xbench against all the main 386/486/586 graphics cards,
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and thereby place the graphics cards in an approximate performance ranking.
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Ideally all the results should be gathered using the same host machine,
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on the same day of the week, while wearing the same socks and jocks.
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Unfortunately no-one has yet come forward with such a database (although
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such databases are rumoured to exist). This survey is the next best thing.
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The summary results below distill the essence of the survey into single line
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entries. The entries are grouped by XFree86 release number, and ranked
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in decreasing 'xstone' order (last column) within each group.
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Ranking by xstones is a bit arbitrary. It is instructive to examine
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all the other columns too.
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The xbench survey has a home on the World Wide Web, at
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http://thumbtack.bevc.blacksburg.va.us/xbench/
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If you have acess to a Web browser, check it out! It is at least
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6 x 10^24 times better than this plain old Usenet posting, in lots of ways.
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New additions to this database are always welcome - especially entries for
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the latest servers or for unlisted graphics cards. If you use XFree86,
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you can contribute to this survey. Grab a copy of xbench, make sure it
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has the GraphicsExposures patch (see below), run it on your machine,
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fill in the blank form provided below, and mail it back to me.
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Please do not send the raw xbench output - just fill in the blank form!
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I will collate and post the results as they become available. XBench is
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available by ftp from hundreds of archive sites around the world.
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Check out archie for your nearest site.
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>>>>>> IT IS IMPORTANT TO USE THE CORRECT VERSION OF XBENCH. <<<<<<
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The correct version is the one with the "GraphicsExposures" patch.
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Check for this by looking at your source code - you should find calls to
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XSetGraphicsExposures(......, False);
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in the four files bitmapcpy.c complex1.c screencpy.c and scroll.c
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Some sites known to carry the patched version of xbench are:
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ftp.physics.su.oz.au:/xbench/xbench.tar.gz
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ftp.iastate.edu:/pub/netbsd/misc/xbench.tar.gz
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mcsun.eu.net:/os/linux/BETA/X_S3/xbench.tar.gz
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mcsun.eu.net:/os/linux/BETA/X_S3/xbench.tar.Z
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ftp.th-darmstadt.de:/pub/X11/other/xbench.tar.Z
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xbench.tar.gz file length=88785, /bin/sum=48788, /usr/5bin/sum=31503
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xbench.tar.Z file length=156750, /bin/sum=21120, /usr/5bin/sum=40999
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To run the benchmark,
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1. If possible, switch into one of the more common display resolutions
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before starting, e.g. 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 etc.
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2. Kill off (i.e. exit from) all other programs on your machine,
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including your window manager! The only running program you
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should need is a single window from which to start xbench.
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XBench is a benchmark program. If it has to compete for
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memory or CPU, its results will suffer.
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3. Read the XBench README file and edit the script.run file.
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4. xset s off (turn off the screen saver)
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5. xbench < script.run > results/YOURFILE
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6. go have a coffee
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7. awk -f scripts/xstones.awk < results/YOURFILE
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Farrell.
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--
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Farrell McKay. Email: fbm@thumbtack.bevc.blacksburg.va.us (PGP key avail)
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========================= Blank Form ===========================================
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CPU : (386/486 SX/DX etc)
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CPU Clock Speed : (MHz)
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M'board Memory : (MBytes)
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Card Vendor + Model :
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Card Bus : (ISA/EISA/VLB/PCI)
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Chipset :
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Video Memory : (MBytes)
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Memory Type : (DRAM/VRAM)
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Memory Speed : (ns)
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Clock Chip :
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RAMDAC :
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Operating system :
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XFree86 release : (e.g. 2.1.1)
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XFree86 server : (e.g. XF86_SVGA)
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Physical resoln :
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Virtual resoln :
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Dot-clock : (MHz)
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XBench lines :
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XBench fills :
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XBench blits :
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XBench arcs :
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XBench text :
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XBench complex :
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XBench xstones :
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>>>>>>>> Did you use the patched version of XBench ?? (Yes/No) <<<<<<<<
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XBench ftp'd from :
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Submitted by :
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Date stamp :
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========================= Summary Results ======================================
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--- Hware --- XFree Res Dot Px Display card Bus ln fl blt arc txt cplx xst
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CPU-Clk Mem Server P V Clk Sz Type --------- 000s -----------
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=============================== XFree86 2.1.1 =================================
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486DX2-66 16 S3 N N 75 8 #9 GXE Level 12 V 442 80 65 6232 187 156 129
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486DX-33 16 S3 E E 110 8 Actix Ultra+ I 323 68 59 2761 148 138 108
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486DX-50 16 S3 N N 80 8 ELSA Winner 1000 I 303 63 54 3865 155 128 103
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486DX-50 16 S3 C C 110 8 Metheus 928-4M V 310 67 50 3208 148 127 102
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486DX-50 16 Mach32 N N 75 8 ATI Ultra Pro V 335 65 56 2845 142 84 101
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486DX2-66 16 S3 N N 75 8 Diamond Stealth 24 V 340 54 45 5541 132 106 89
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486SX-25 16 S3 P M 36 8 Spea V7 Mirage I 186 48 41 639 113 101 76
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486DX2-66 20 S3 C C 135 8 #9 GXE Level 11 V 283 61 52 3345 56 121 74
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486DX-33 16 S3 N N 72 8 Miro Crystal 10SD V 248 44 36 2256 104 87 71
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486DX-33 8 S3 N N 75 8 Actix Grph Eng. 32 I 205 42 38 1504 101 89 70
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486DX2-66 8 S3 N N 45 8 Generic S3-805 V 265 45 39 2259 66 95 67
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486DX2-66 16 Mach32 c C 80 8 ATI Graphics Ultra V 271 36 31 3597 88 59 60
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486DX2-66 32 SVGA K K 80 8 Generic Cirrus clg V 143 28 22 1862 281 44 51
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486DX2-66 4 SVGA N N 75 8 VIA C.Logic clgd54 V 149 26 22 2097 238 42 49
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486DX2-50 8 SVGA N H 75 8 Genoa 8500VL-28 V 113 23 23 1464 197 36 46
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486DX2-66 20 SVGA D D 80 8 Generic Cirrus clg V 133 24 17 1708 254 40 42
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386AM-40 8 Mach32 N N 65 8 ATI Graphics Ultra I 101 23 20 501 53 35 36
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386DX-25 8 SVGA P L 36 8 Hercules Dynamite I 33 8 5 230 23 19 12
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=============================== XFree86 2.1 =================================
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486DX2-66 32 S3 N N 77 8 STB Pegasus V 453 80 66 4318 195 156 131
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486DX2-66 32 S3 N N 67 8 STB Pegasus V 461 79 66 4154 191 141 129
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486DX2-66 32 S3 C C 125 8 STB Pegasus V 440 80 62 4240 193 153 127
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Pnt-66 32 S3 N N 85 8 ELSA Winner 2000 V 494 75 57 6275 205 145 123
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486DX2-66 16 S3 A A 185 8 #9 GXE Level 16 V 430 73 56 6833 182 139 117
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486DX2-66 16 S3 F C 85 8 Spea V7 Mercury V 472 69 55 4287 171 136 113
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486DX2-66 24 S3 C C 135 8 Spea V7 Mercury V 422 65 55 3404 162 132 109
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486DX2-66 20 S3 N N 65 8 #9 GXE Level 11 I 374 65 55 4873 168 129 108
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486DX2-66 8 S3 N L 75 8 Emca VGA-928-P P 370 64 55 3193 150 126 106
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486DX-33 8 S3 C C 108 8 Spea V7 Mercury I 329 65 55 255 146 133 104
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486DX2-66 16 S3 I I 96 8 ELSA Winner 1000 P 312 62 52 2907 148 128 101
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486DX2-66 20 Mach32 H H 80 8 ATI Ultra Pro I 311 61 53 4336 144 133 100
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486DX2-66 16 S3 H H 110 8 ELSA Winner 1000 P 298 60 52 2769 146 128 100
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486DX-33 8 Mach32 O O 65 8 ATI Ultra XLR V 296 62 54 2723 129 83 95
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486DX2-66 20 Mach32 N N 75 8 ATI Ultra Pro V 325 55 47 3437 129 75 88
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486DX2-66 20 Mach32 H H 80 8 ATI Ultra Pro V 323 56 48 3682 118 77 88
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486SX-33 16 S3 n N 45 8 VGA805-V from Uppe V 231 53 47 726 131 107 87
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486DX-50 16 Mach32 C C 135 8 ATI Ultra Pro E 269 54 47 3038 123 74 85
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486DX2-66 8 S3 N N 72 8 Actix Grph Eng. 32 V 328 48 40 3821 137 95 82
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486DX-33 16 Mach8 N N 65 8 ATI Ultra (Mach8) I 255 47 42 4071 115 98 79
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486DX-33 16 Mach32 N B 80 8 ATI Ultra Pro I 207 51 43 1600 106 61 76
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486DX-33 16 S3 H H 62 8 ELSA Winner 1000 E 269 57 51 1720 50 130 69
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Pnt-66 32 S3 C C 102 8 #9 GXE Level 12 P 389 72 61 4504 38 146 69
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486DX-50 16 SVGA n N 45 8 STB Horizon VGA I 128 28 28 1767 224 55 56
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486DX2-50 16 SVGA P H 45 8 ICL ValuePlus CL54 I 102 27 25 1131 145 38 48
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486DX2-66 20 VGA256 N N 65 8 Cirrus Logic clgd5 V 61 28 20 1545 228 45 44
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486DX-33 8 SVGA N N 65 8 Genoa Phantom 8900 V 131 28 12 2167 116 42 36
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486DX2-66 32 SVGA N N 75 8 Generic Cirrus clg V 110 18 13 1474 229 30 33
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486DX2-66 8 SVGA N N 75 8 Actix ProStar VL V 107 17 12 1563 205 27 30
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486DX2-66 32 SVGA K K 80 8 Generic Cirrus clg V 102 16 12 1317 209 28 30
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486DX2-50 16 SVGA H H 80 8 ICL ValuePlus CL54 I 76 14 12 880 140 20 26
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486DX2-66 8 SVGA P N 36 8 Octek AVGA-20H I 80 11 5 891 54 17 14
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486DX2-66 24 SVGA N N 65 8 Generic ET4000 I 91 8 3 1040 75 12 11
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486SX-25 20 SVGA N L 45 8 STB PowerGraph I 67 8 4 416 52 14 11
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486DX2-66 8 VGA16 Q P 26 8 Hedaka HED-622 I 20 3 3 471 7 7 5
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386DX-25 8 SVGA P P 36 8 Trident TVGA 8900B I 18 2 1 156 12 2 3
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=============================== XFree86 2.0 =================================
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486DX2-66 16 S3 N N 74 8 Diamond Stealth Pr V 451 92 78 3234 198 150 145
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486DX2-66 16 S3 H H 85 8 #9 GXE Level 12 V 412 81 65 2872 196 157 130
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486DX2-66 16 S3 N N 75 8 #9 GXE Level 12 V 468 80 64 4070 190 153 128
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486DX-33 16 S3 N N 74 8 Diamond Stealth Pr V 278 83 75 2015 155 142 123
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486DX-33 16 S3 N N 75 8 Diamond Stealth Pr V 348 76 66 2733 166 155 121
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486DX-50 8 S3 N N 72 8 #9 GXE Level 11 V 395 71 62 3363 164 141 117
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486SX-33 16 S3 C C 110 8 Actix Ultra+ I 293 73 62 3776 158 137 114
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486DX-50 16 S3 N N 75 8 ELSA Winner 1000 E 316 64 55 2760 160 128 105
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486SLC2-66 16 S3 N N 45 8 STB PowerGraph VL- V 282 60 50 1310 153 118 98
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486DX-33 16 S3 N N 75 8 Orchid Fahrnht. VA V 266 48 40 2380 121 95 79
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Pnt-60 16 Mach32 N N 75 8 ATI AX0 P 207 45 38 3438 126 68 73
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486DX2-66 8 Mach32 G G 80 8 ATI AX0 P 183 39 34 3393 110 65 65
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386DX-40 8 S3 N N 75 8 Generic S3-801 I 153 36 31 1153 84 72 57
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486DX-50 16 SVGA Q L 25 8 ColorDesigner A3 V 126 23 12 1575 111 44 34
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486DX-50 16 SVGA n N 45 8 STB Horizon VGA I 131 20 12 1551 130 47 33
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386DX-40 8 S3 J J 95 8 Generic S3-801 I 122 23 20 1096 25 47 31
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486DX-50 16 SVGA n L 45 8 ColorDesigner A3 V 115 18 10 1559 110 38 29
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386DX-40 4 SVGA n G 45 8 Tseng Labs ET4000/ V 65 16 11 989 38 30 26
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386DX-40 4 SVGA N G 72 8 Tseng Labs ET4000/ V 63 15 10 952 35 25 21
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486DX2-50 16 SVGA P N 50 8 Diamond Speedstar I 76 16 7 927 61 39 21
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486DX2-50 20 SVGA N N 85 8 Cirrus Logic clgd5 I 86 13 6 1203 68 33 18
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486DX-33 8 SVGA N N 65 8 Diamond Speedstar+ I 87 9 4 1325 84 14 13
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486DX2-66 8 SVGA P L 75 8 Octek AVGA-20H I 79 3 2 917 60 5 6
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486SX-25 4 SVGA? Q Q 75 8 Sager NP840 notebo V 53 3 2 327 30 4 5
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Key to Physical and Virtual resolutions (lower case=interlaced mode)
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A = 1600x1200
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B = 1536x1024
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C = 1280x1024
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D = 1200x910
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E = 1200x900
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F = 1192x900
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G = 1152x910
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H = 1152x900
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I = 1152x816
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J = 1152x800
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K = 1056x832
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L = 1024x1024
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M = 1024x900
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N = 1024x768
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O = 1024x767
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P = 800x600
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Q = 640x480
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From: gat@indra.caltech.edu (Erann Gat)
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Subject: Market survey: high-performance networking
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Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 14:57:41 -0800
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Someone asked recently about ATM adapters for Linux. I am involved with a
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little startup company that is developing a new low-cost (<$1000)
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high-performance (>200 Mb/s) LAN. We are using Linux to do the system
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development, and I'd like to find out if there is a market for such a
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beast in the Linux community. Does anyone have any interest in a
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high-speed
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LAN with a Linux device driver?
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E.
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--
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Erann Gat
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gat@indra.caltech.edu
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From: chrisb@wombat.cssc-syd.tansu.com.au (Chris Bitmead)
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Crossposted-To: gnu.misc.discuss
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Subject: Re: Linux is a GNU system and the DWARF support
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Date: 23 Sep 94 14:48:23
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In article <35huou$4ks@nkosi.well.com> gonzo@magnet.mednet.net (Patrick J. Volkerding) writes:
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>In article <35h334$g83@gandalf.rutgers.edu>,
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>Juana Moreno <madrid@gandalf.rutgers.edu> wrote:
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>>I like your idea. If you release something under this anti-GPL license,
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>>please let me know. I will take it, make a few modifications, sell it
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>>AND use the modified version along with GPL-ed programs. And if you
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>>really want to enforce your license, you'll need to make your wording as
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>>much or even more bizarre than the GPL one. So, just hire a good lawyer and
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>>do it, please. Maybe even someone could write an anti-(anti-GPL) license?
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>
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>This little blurb from the "file" source is about the closest I've even
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>seen. I'll reproduce part of it here for everyone's enlightenment:
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>>This software is not subject to and may not be made subject to any
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>>license of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T Inc.),
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>>UNIX System Laboratories (USL Inc.), Novell Inc., Sun Microsystems
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>>Inc., Digital Equipment Inc., Lotus Development Inc., the Regents of
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>>the University of California, The X Consortium or MIT, or The Free
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>>Software Foundation.
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>
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>Clearly there are people out there who aren't big fans of the GPL, and I
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>guess if I released something under a different (less restrictive?) license
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>and someone changed it a little and then GPLed it, I'm not sure how I'd
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>like it. FWIW, I have GPLed some of my own software before, but I think the
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>author has the right to say "derivatives of this software must *never*
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>be GPLed" just like the FSF says "derivatives of GPLed software must
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>*always* be GPLed".
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If you did this then I would just make a minor modification to the GPL,
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and call it say the "APL" and put you software under that.
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From: eoh@raster.kodak.com (Esther Heller)
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Subject: Re: ext2 QUESTIONS (Unix answers)
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Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:42:06 GMT
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Reply-To: eoh@raster.kodak.com
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>I have a few questions and can't seem to find the answers to them:
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>
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> 1. I know that mke2fs reserves 5% of the disk space for the super user.
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> I even know how to set it to 0%. What I don't know is why 5% is
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> reserved in the first place? Does it hurt to set it to 0?
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>
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> 2. What is the purpose of the lost+found directory?
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> 3. Why does ext2 have a bunch of options that don't do anything yet?
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>
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>Thanks for your time.
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>
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>Michael.
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>
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>P.S. I have a hard copy of the ext2 FAQ in front of me. Please no cute
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> replies to read the FAQ ;-)
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You don't include a mail address so I can answer privately...
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Your questions are basically Unix, not Linux.
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1. The reserved 5% of disc space gives you a very small amount of elbow
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room to get in and clean up things when your file system fills up for
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whatever reason. If the reason is some program merrily and unexpectedly
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writing a huge file of trash you will be grateful for the system stopping
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it before you don't even have enough space to look for it. As someone
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who has cleaned out file systems at 103% capacity, leave it on _all_
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partitions. Trust me on this one!
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2. There is a file system repair program called fsck that sometimes
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encounters a file that it can't figure out where belongs. Lost+found
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is a container that exists on all partitionss to dump them in. It should
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normally be empty, but I have had repair files land there that were perfectly
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human recognisable and useable. Yet another Unix perk. Fsck is what
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you use to fix things after a hard disc crash or someone pulled the power
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on a live file system, a truely amazing feature.
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3. Don't know but would assume someone has kindly arranged for future
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features. I don't know the program but would look for a README file
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that came with it or for comments in the source since you say it isn't
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in the FAQ.
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Esther Heller eoh@raster.kodak.com Of course my opinions are my own!
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Interested in: Statistics, software QA, sewing, organic gardening, Hardanger,
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knitting, thread crochet, classical music, scratch cooking, woodworking...
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The 20th century version of the Proverbs 31 woman.
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From: philb@cats.ucsc.edu (Philip Brown)
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Subject: Re: Word Processor for Linux?
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Date: 22 Sep 1994 16:15:12 GMT
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In article <35cd9h$8cm@superb.csc.ti.com>,
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Tony Cureington <tony@einstein.tsd.itg.ti.com> wrote:
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> I downloaded andrew last weekend and had it running in just a couple of
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>hours...
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>most of my time was spent reading the README's....I was very impressed!
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>To answere your
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>#2 quiestion below.....Yes, they do have just the WP part of andrew
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>available....this
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>was done by Terry Gliedt......Thanks Terry!
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Yeah, but I have a sparcstation, so I want a SOURCE distribution of such
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:->
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but I am told that the authors are actually getting around to doing this
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themselves, so perhaps there's hope.
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Philip Brown, author of "kdrill", and "xmandel"
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philb@cats.ucsc.edu philb@soda.csua.berkeley.edu
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From: collieb@iia.org (Bob Collie)
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Subject: Support for MediaVision Memphis
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 00:43:03 GMT
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Hello!
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I just was offered MediaVision's Memphis sound card/SCSI adapter combo
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for an excelent price. Could someone let me know if this card is
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supported in the Linux kernel (1.0.9) and Slackware (2.0))
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Thanks!
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Bob Collie
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collieb@iia.org
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From: jeske@ux4.cso.uiuc.edu (David Jeske)
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.next.advocacy
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Subject: Re: OpenStep on GNU or Linux?
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Date: 23 Sep 1994 07:35:23 GMT
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dlj0@Lehigh.EDU (DAVID L. JOHNSON) writes:
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>They blew it from the beginning by not going with X. They didn't care about
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>compatibility, and paid the price. I don't see them changing heart. It
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>would be GREAT to see an X/NextStep combination (not an X emulator under NS),
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>but we'll have to wait and see.
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I don't think it is this simple at all. There are alot of compromises
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NeXT could have made to make their system more "standard". They "could" have
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used C++, they "could" have used X, they could have used more standard
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hardware. But then they would not be NeXT. Go run Solaris with a C++
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development environment and X. Granted, NeXT needs to have open solutions
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to make it. However, there are ALOT of reasons that NeXT didn't use X
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which to them were more important than the reasons TO use X.
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Obviously, they have changed positions to try to make a bigger mark.
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OpenStep is going to be available on Solaris (on X) and the next
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version of NEXTSTEP is going to be OpenStep too. Therefore, you'll be
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able to do your NEXTSTEP stuff on a X machine.
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GNUSTEP (from what I understand) is just a project to get a GNU OpenStep
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compliant environment written. It will not be severly dependent on a given
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operating system, although it may require a certain lowest common denomenator.
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Also, someone mentioned something about "OpenStep" on "Windows 2000".
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There was actually some talk of plans for an "OpenStep" for Windows 95.
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Who knows if anything will actually come of it.
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--
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David Jeske(N9LCA)/CompEng Student at Univ of Ill at Cham-Urbana/NeXT Programmer
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CoCreator of the GTalk Chat Software System - online at (708)998-0008
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jeske@uiuc.edu (NeXTMail accepted)
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From: jcej@tragus.atl.ga.us (James CE Johnson)
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Subject: Re: SB16 MCD and Mitsumi problem - Help
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Date: Fri, 23 Sep 1994 02:59:33 GMT
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Raymond Ho writes:
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> I have a Mitsumi FX001D controlled by a Sound Blaster 16 MCD. The
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> SB16 is their latest revision with the Mitsumi CD IO port set at
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> 0x230. The only options I have are 230, 250, 270 and 290, while with
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> the older board, the IO port can be set starting at 0x300. I was
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> trying to install the Yggdrasil Linux, the boot diskette insists on
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> looking for a Sony CD ROM drive, I guest it sees the IO port of 0x230
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> being set, I believe that is where the Sony default. Can I use the
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> boot command to tell LILO that I have a Mitsumi CD at 0x230 and IRQ
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> 11?
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I think you've got one the same SB16/MCD that I have. Does it seem
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to have a serious lack of jumpers? If so then you've got the newer
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version. I called tech support on this and the deal is that the
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address of the CD will be 0x10 greater than the address of the SB.
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You have no choice in the matter.
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At the LILO prompt, try 'mcd=0xAAA,III' where 'AAA' is your CD's address
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and 'III' is it's IRQ. Once you get it all up and going, recompile
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the kernel to get rid of the Sony driver (unless you really do have
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a Sony CD:)
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[soapbox on]
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Evidently this is some great new "feature" that some standards group
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is trying to enforce. Personally, I'd rather that the cards allow
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you to choose ANY address (in the HW range of course) and ANY IRQ
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and ANY DMA. That way, you have to work really hard to get a conflict.
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With all the stuff I've got in my box, there is exactly ONE way to
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configure it. If I had more flexibility on a couple of cards then
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I might have more choices. As it stands, I can't add anything else
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because of conflicts.
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[soapbox off]
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Later,
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J
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