Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #740
From: Digestifier <[email-masked]>
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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 94 16:17:28 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #740, Volume #2                Sun, 11 Sep 94 16:17:28 EDT

Contents:
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Jim Sun)
  NEC 210/SB16 SCSI2 Problem (James C Crump III)
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Erik Olson)
  Re: Looking for small emacs-like editor source (David Marchand)
  Re: When can a new  system-admin-guide be expected?? (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
  Re: Linux Doom comments. (Greg Patten)
  Need Linux CD in San Jose, CA,  (Johnathan Corgan)
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? ("Jae W. Chang")
  Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file (Olav Kvittem)
  Multi-plyr Linux Doom Great ("Jae W. Chang")
  Disable disk buffers? (Lars Buhl Nielsen)
  Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router (Mihail S. Iotov)
  Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Olav Kvittem)
  Kernel Updates????? (Nathan T. Wild)
  Re: 320x200 X resolution? (Christopher M. May)
  Linux DOOM pixel doubling fixed. (Mr Robert J Logan)
  Re: Which is the best Linux CD package? Of 2, Trans-Am... (Jeff Kesselman)
  Setting details to 'low' dosn't work (was Re: DOOM and Linux) (Olli Vinberg)
  Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree? (Steven J. Esbrandt)
  Re: Biz.comp.linux* (Dan Busarow)
  480x360 Res works for me. (Daniel L Moore)
  How do you record MIDI ??? (Simon de Hartog)
  DOOM question (Simon de Hartog)
  Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ?? (Jeremy Bettis)

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From: [email-masked] (Jim Sun)
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:33:03 GMT

Warning: There are quite a few sets of numbers floating around that has >200Hz
        vertical scan rate or <20 kHz horizontal scan rate; either case could
        damage your monitor.  So check your monitor's spec, and do a little
        arithmatics before you try.

Here's my 320x240 setup:
"320x240"     12   320  376   416  456  240 243 247 270
It gives 26.3kHz H-rate, and 97.5 V-rate.

My card suppors icd... programable clock; my monitor is Idek VM 17.

Jim

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From: [email-masked] (James C Crump III)
Subject: NEC 210/SB16 SCSI2 Problem
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 16:33:39 GMT

Looks like there was a problem with my first post.  To summarize I need to know
how to disable parity checking in the driver for the AHA 1510/1520 series of
SCSI adapters.  I'm using an NEC 210 cdrom and it does not support parity
checking and the SB16-SCSI2 has no jumper means to disable it.  Can anyone 
help??

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From: [email-masked] (Erik Olson)
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 16:37:30 GMT

Remember that even if you can get the refresh rates for 320x200 on your
monitor, it's going to look really ugly!  Remember CGA?  That's 320x200.

When you use the normal PC VGA mode of 320x200, it's really 640x400 but with
each pixel doubled in both directions.
This is the key here.  Would be nice to have XFree hook
into that particular VGA (MCGA) mode (ho ho ho), but now we can't expect
the Xfree team to write something that has no purpose other than Doom,
can we?

   - Erik
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From: [email-masked] (David Marchand)
Subject: Re: Looking for small emacs-like editor source
Date: 10 Sep 1994 23:29:38 -0500

For a simple, intuitive, easy-to-use editor try joe - Joe's own editor. It
can be found at ftp.std.com in src/editors/joe1.0.12.tar.Z. Make files for
most unix's are included. I compiled it for a 386bsd system just fine and I
really am not a c programmer.

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From: [email-masked] (Mark 'Enry' Komarinski)
Subject: Re: When can a new  system-admin-guide be expected??
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:06:59 GMT

Johan Wideberg ([email-masked]) wrote:
: Is there anyone who knows when a new version of the System Administrators 
: Guide is due out?

Get a subscription to Linux Journal - there's a monthly sysadmin article
written by yrs truly.

I'd also suggest getting the O'Reilley _Essential System Administration_
book.  It's a great help.

--
- Mark Komarinski - [email-masked]

"You can do anything you want until someone complains.  Then you're screwed."
-Heard in reference to the FCC.

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From: [email-masked] (Greg Patten)
Subject: Re: Linux Doom comments.
Date: 11 Sep 1994 14:31:31 +1000

In <[email-masked]> [email-masked] writes:

>First of all, thanks Dave. 

I'm with him. Excellent work.

>I have some problems also with the sound: I have been said that there is 
>no music only effects (to confirm) In fact, I just hear garbage.

It says 16bit soundcard in the README. Is yours 16bit?

>When using the Ctrl-Key (FIRE) at the same time than the arrows, I switch 
>to the other rooms (screens). The only way out of this is to run Olwm instead
>of fvwm or others mwm like.

Rubbish. Just unmap (ie. comment the mappings out)them in your .fvwmrc 
or system.fvwmrc.

>The network part seems to not be compatible with SGIxdoom. Hope it will be
>in the future.

To my amazement a 2 player game over SLIP worked really well.

Cheers,
-- 
Greg Patten                                              Melbourne, Australia
[email-masked]       For information on APANA mail [email-masked]
  or check out <a href="http://loose.apana.org.au/">The loose home page</a>

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From: [email-masked] (Johnathan Corgan)
Subject: Need Linux CD in San Jose, CA, 
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 04:20:42 GMT

I'm looking for the "Linux Developer's Resource" CD title, preferably 
from a source in San Jose, Ca., USA, or close by.  A place I could pick it 
up in person is preferable over mail-order.

Thanks!

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From: "Jae W. Chang" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:26:19 -0400

[email-masked] (Jim Sun) writes:
> Warning: There are quite a few sets of numbers floating around that has >200Hz
>         vertical scan rate or <20 kHz horizontal scan rate; either case could
>         damage your monitor.  So check your monitor's spec, and do a little
>         arithmatics before you try.
> 
> Here's my 320x240 setup:
> "320x240"     12   320  376   416  456  240 243 247 270
> It gives 26.3kHz H-rate, and 97.5 V-rate.
> 
> My card suppors icd... programable clock; my monitor is Idek VM 17.

Not many people will be able to use this set because of the extremely
low dot clock. The ATI Mach64's only go as low as 25. Correct me if
I'm wrong, though.

Jae

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[email-masked] 

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From: [email-masked] (Olav Kvittem)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Does Linux save boot msgs to a file
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:58:28 GMT

In article <[email-masked]> [email-masked] (Andreas Helke) writes:

   : >\>Does Linux save the msgs it spews out at boot time, to a file ? These msgs
   : >\>whiz by so fast, it's practically impossible to note everything that's
   : >\>happening. Any info would be appreciated.
   : >
   : >Yes, you can view it with the dmesg program:

   Most linux distributions are already configured to write the boot messages
   to /var/adm/syslog.

You can also scroll the console window backwards with 'Shift PgUp'.

Olav
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From: "Jae W. Chang" <[email-masked]>
Subject: Multi-plyr Linux Doom Great
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 13:39:41 -0400

The setting:

My friend w/ a p590 linux system via a direct ethernet connection to
the net in Seattle, WA.

Me and my 486dx2 16Megs linux system via a slip connection to the net
in Pittsburgh, PA.

We were very dubious about doom running over the internet and over a
slip line AND even past a firewall on one end across the country like
this; however, it worked amazingly enough. It was slow and jerky but
still playable - 3 hours of mindless fun on account of it. I'd
recommend against ftp'ing anything big on a slip while playing doom,
however.

Amazing. I haven't even seen my friend in Seattle for like 6 months,
but now I can blast him away in the virtual doom world.

Jae

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From: [email-masked] (Lars Buhl Nielsen)
Subject: Disable disk buffers?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:53:51 GMT

I have noticed that the disk buffers seem to take up quite
a lot of ram (2-3M out of 8M). This is while my computer
is swaping a lot (X emacs and gcc).
So now i would like to disable the buffers as i have
a build-in diskcache on my hd controler and it seem
more logic that it caches the files i wanna load instead
of cacheing the swapping.
Or how to limit the number of buffers to ie. 500k.

/Lars Nielsen

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From: [email-masked] (Mihail S. Iotov)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Is 2 MB enough for an ISDN router
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:52:16 GMT

Has anyone tried running linux with 2 MB to use it as a router only ?
I imagine for ISDN traffic even 386SX16 will be enough, but question is
about the memory. I have no 2MB PC at hand to check.

Thanks.

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From: [email-masked] (Olav Kvittem)
Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:09:57 GMT

From: [email-masked] (Robert Kroes)
...
   I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used
   to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice...

   Why? So I can make use of an alpha network driver to perform an NFS install
   and save copying 100+ MB of Slackware 2.0 on to floppies :-)

I have exactly the same need !

   I've formatted a diskette with "fdformat", 
   added my kernel with "dd if=/zImage of=/dev/fd0", 
   created a ramdisk with "rdev -r /dev/fd0 1440", 
   and changed the root file system with "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/ram" (I think :-)

   The bit I can't work out is how to tweak it so it asks for the ROOT disk, 
   and copies that filesystem to the ramdisk, after the kernel has loaded...

Done the same thing execept that I did  "rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/fd0".
After boot the system ask for the  root diskette, but when I insert it
I get errormessages like 'IO-error on /dev/fd0' and 'could not read
masterblock'. 

   Please don't tell me this requires a specially modified kernel :-)

   Any and all hints gratefully accepted (email especially appreciated since
   this *ensures* I can't miss your response :-)

You havent't found a solution - have you ?

Olav

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From: [email-masked] (Nathan T. Wild)
Subject: Kernel Updates?????
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:58:29 GMT

I am using Slackware Linux with kernel release 1.0.9.  I went hunting for
kernel updates and all I found were patches 0 through 9, does this mean I
have the latest release of the stable kernel???  I notice that there is
v1.1 kernels and patches but these are refered to as "Development Kernels"
 This is scarey!  Are the 1.1.x kernels stable enough to be worth using???

--
Later:
     Nate...

========================================================================
| Nathan T. Wild       | Retail Systems        | (204) 631-7378  VOX   |
| [email-masked] | Codville Distributors | (204) 694-5139  FAX   |
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From: [email-masked] (Christopher M. May)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: 320x200 X resolution?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 17:51:33 GMT

Andreas Matthias ([email-masked]) wrote:

: :     So.... 320x200 resolution anyone? :)
: : I'll post if I figure out how to do it.

: I have one that's working here (ET4000 with 17'' AOC monitor), but it
: occupies only about half of the screen in vertical direction. I did
: not find out how to make it bigger vertically. Perhaps someone else
: can continue with this:

: **********************************************************************
: ModeDB
: # name        clock   horizontal timing     vertical timing      flags

:  "320x200"     25      320  360  424   440    200  200  240  250
: **********************************************************************

: btw: Could it be that fvwm gets confused with this resolution? It
: seems not to scroll correctly in the vertical direction.

: Ciao,

: Andreas

: --
: Andreas Matthias <[email-masked]>

: Zehntenstr.9 
: D-37120 Bovenden

: Voice: +49/551/81377

You need a lower dot clock frequency in my opinion.  I had the same 
problem with higher dot clocks.  I used a 12Mhz dot clock frequency
in the modedb line I posted earlier.

320x240    12   320 352 392 424       240 243 247 252

--

-Chris May, Computer Science, University of MA, Amherst
-       Technical Assistant, P.C. Maintenance Lab

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From: [email-masked] (Mr Robert J Logan)
Subject: Linux DOOM pixel doubling fixed.
Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:21:21 GMT

It appears that Dave Taylor has fixed the pixel doubling
and tripling problems in the release for Linux - its
available on sunsite in /pub/Linux/Incoming/linxdoom.tgz

On my 486/66 16 Megs - ATI Mach32 PCI card it is very smooth
at normal - very smooth at double pixel, and good enough
at triple pixel.

Excellent work by iD and Dave Taylor - this will get my
purchase of DOOM II easily.

bert

--
===========================================
 Linux - you cant buy more powerful relief
===========================================

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From: [email-masked] (Jeff Kesselman)
Subject: Re: Which is the best Linux CD package? Of 2, Trans-Am...
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 18:06:45 GMT

Just another set of experiences:

I have installed both the SUmmer94 and Fall94 Yygdrasil and found them 
simple and easy.  Of the two, though, the latest is much better for a 
beginner as they have streamlined and improved the installation a bit.

I don't really understand the other posters problem with X.  Doesn't your 
card emulate a basic standard vga?  There is a standard vga driver in the 
yygdrasil release that aught to let you get X up and running on ANYTHING 
that is really a VGA of somekind...  You coudl then use X for your 
configuring.  The Summer94 was a bit of a pain in that I don't like to 
run X myself, as i have a slow machine (386-33, origial Oak stock vga.)
The fall94 yygdrasil however explains hwo to do all the most important 
stuff from the command line.

Granted I have a little Sparc admin experience (not alot, just a little) 
but i on the whole found it easy to work with.  Note that that there IS 
one major problem in teh currnet Fall94 Yygdrasil release-- apparently 
the kernel in this release has a broken sony-cd driver (it dies witha  
null pointer refernce if you have a sony-interface cd in your machine.)  
I assume Yygdrasil is going to correct this soon...

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From: [email-masked] (Olli Vinberg)
Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
Subject: Setting details to 'low' dosn't work (was Re: DOOM and Linux)
Date: 11 Sep 1994 21:34:11 +0300
Reply-To: Olli Vinberg <[email-masked]>

In article <[email-masked]>,
Andreas Matthias <[email-masked]> wrote:
>
>It is even fine on a 386/40 with 8MB, if the image details are
>set to LOW in the OPTIONS menu. As the screen resolution I used
>a homemade 320x200 with the SVGA XFree server on an ISA ET4000.

Yep, runs great, But setting detail-level to low makes the picture
squeeze to half width. I'm using a cirrus 5428 card for VL-bus and the
SVGA-server (Xfree 2.1). Has anyone else experienced this?

>I suggest "wasting" the ftp time, even if you don't have a
>pentium ;-)

It's not as much the wasted bandwidth, but lost sleep. :)

-- 
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Olli Vinberg                \  Our OS who art in CPU, UNIX be thy name.
[email-masked]        \  Thy programs run, thy syscalls done,
http://www.helsinki.fi/~vinberg \  in kernel as it is in user!

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From: [email-masked] (Steven J. Esbrandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: Whats the best _CHEAP_ ISA video card for Linux/Xfree?
Date: 11 Sep 1994 18:45:40 GMT

: : Very well that the ATI Mach32/Ultra/Ultra Pro are advocated for, but could
: : someone give me hints for the best    performance/price    ratios ?

  I am planning to buy a new video card to replace my Trident crud very soon. I
was planning to buy an EISA Mach32 (w/2M vram), but this discussion has sparked
my interest in the newer S3 cards and others. I am not looking for cheap cards-
I'm willing to pay a bit for performance. I simply want something that is fast
and pretty well supported. What I'd like to know is this: how does the ATI
Mach 32 compare to the other cards?  How many xstones do these cards get?
Also, where does the mach 64 fit in, in terms of perrformance and support?

==================
Steven J. Esbrandt
[email-masked]

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Crossposted-To: biz.config
From: [email-masked] (Dan Busarow)
Subject: Re: Biz.comp.linux*
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 1994 18:55:35 GMT

[Followups changed to biz.config]

Steve Wicke ([email-masked]) wrote:
>                            I would 
> like to open a group that would allow people like myself, Yggdrasil, 
> Info-magic to post ads. These ads would be for the person who wants to 
> try things like Linux but does not want to have to deal with hunting for 
> help with their problems.

biz != ads.  (is this the new RTFM for biz? How about BNA? :)

Here's a short clip from the biz FAQ.

   Subject: What is considered good net.etiquette on biz.*?

   [ ... ]

    -- "So, where do I place my blatant commercial ads?"  From time to time,
       an "ads" hierarchy has been proposed.  If you need such, create it!
       You may also find that certain biz newsgroups may tolerate private
       ads to some extent - check their charters and monitor their content.

I've mailed a copy of the FAQ to you.

>                     Also it would give a place for vendors to have 
> a forum to discuss problems with product and current sales.

*This* is a valid reason for a biz group.  It is in fact the reason
biz exists.  But since the comp.os.linux.* groups already seem to
permit this it's not a reason to form a new hierarchy.  IMO, of course.

Dan
-- 
   Dan Busarow               [email-masked]                 uunet!cedb!dan
   DPC SYSTEMS                Monrovia, CA                  (818) 305-5733

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From: [email-masked] (Daniel L Moore   )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: 480x360 Res works for me.
Date: 10 Sep 1994 01:55:57 GMT

Here's a Xconfig line that works for my CrystalScan 1572FS monitor.

"480x360" 25  480 496 504 664  360 360 368 377

It'll will probably work with other monitors that have the following
specs: 

   Horizontal Scan Freq: 30 - 64 kHz
   Vertical Scan Freq: 50 - 100 Hz
   Bandwidth: 80 MHz

Also note that the dot clock is 25MHz for your video card.

DOOM runs fine, now to find solutions to the ctrl, alt - arrow keys
combinations, (my window manager takes over), and getting the sound
to work, probably need to upgrade my driver.
-- 
*******************************************************************************
* Daniel L. Moore                                           [email-masked] *
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign    --     College of Engineering *
*******************************************************************************

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From: [email-masked] (Simon de Hartog)
Subject: How do you record MIDI ???
Date: 11 Sep 1994 19:20:31 +0100

Hi,

I,ve got a SB16 with MIDI-interface, an electronic keyboard
( CASIO CPS-300 ) and a drum-computer also with MIDI ( Roland R-5
human rythm composer ) but I can't record MIDI from those devices under 
LINUX. Could somebody PLEASE help me ?

Simon.

P.S. Does anybody also know how to play MIDI on those devices ?

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From: [email-masked] (Simon de Hartog)
Subject: DOOM question
Date: 11 Sep 1994 19:24:05 +0100

WHAT ON EARTH IS DOOM ? I know it's a Wolfenstein like (seek and destroy)
game, but I don't think that is ment here.

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From: [email-masked] (Jeremy Bettis)
Crossposted-To: alt.games.doom
Subject: Re: DOOM, X, Linux, 320x200 video mode ??
Date: 11 Sep 1994 05:51:45 GMT

Someone writes (I got lost with all the quoting):

>  2. There is significant delay between action and sound.  i.e. I
>     can fire my gun and then turn halfway around before the gun
>     sound comes through my speakers.

Really, I have the opposate problem.  I can file my gun and have the sound
play right away but the gun does not fire for some time.

I have a SB16 and a ET4000 video card.  This only happens when the system is
under moderate load though.  When I play doom normally I kill all processes
excepy for the bare minimum.

How can I run doom w/o a window manager though.. I haven't been able to yet.
--
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Running Linux -- The Free Unix for i386/i486/Pentium machines. Ask me how.

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