Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #262
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To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU
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Date:     Tue, 14 Jun 94 01:13:08 EDT

Linux-Misc Digest #262, Volume #2                Tue, 14 Jun 94 01:13:08 EDT

Contents:
  Linux Installation Counts? (Joseph Kruckenberg)
  1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy?? (Cyrill Vatomsky)
  Re: Multiport Bored and Linux (Was: future of Unixware) (Bernard Fouche)
  Chain booting Linux? (BAdelsman)
  Re: How do I delete a linux partition? (Nicholas Hall)
  telnetting to non-standard ports (Nicholas Hall)
  Re: 1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy?? (Cyrill Vatomsky)
  Re: future of Unixware (Leslie Mikesell)
  PCI Chipsets? URGENT! (Paul Quinn)
  Re: HELP: INTEL EtherExpress (Drew Eckhardt)
  Re: Linux Installation Counts? (Pookow1)
  Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller (Warner Losh)
  Re: Novell - More News (Marc Fraioli)
  Communication with printer [Q] (Jae-Gwang Lee)
  NIHCL port---anyone? (Pieter de Visser)
  Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller (Pat O'Shaughnessey P855)
  Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller (Drew Eckhardt)
  Re: telnetting to non-standard ports (Andrew Anderson)
  Re: What is a good _LARGE_ tape backup for Linux? (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
  What other notebooks does Linux run on well? (Grant Taylor)
  Re: Suggestions: Tape drives?
  Need recommendation for SVGA card (Alex Ramos)

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From: kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu (Joseph Kruckenberg)
Subject: Linux Installation Counts?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 20:39:10 GMT

Just wondering if anyone has recently estimated how many installations
of Linux there are. The INFO-SHEET FAQ says that Harald Alvestrand
posts tallies to c.o.linux.misc, but I can't find anything posted by
him. Can anyone give me an idea of how many installs there are at
home/work/both?

Thanks.
Pete Kruckenberg
kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu


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From: cyrillv@netcom.com (Cyrill Vatomsky)
Subject: 1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy??
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 20:57:01 GMT

I just compiled v1.1.19 (without any problems), but I can not use
my modem any more. Modem is (has been since Slackware 1.1.2) configured
for cua0. Internal on irq 4. Busmouse on irq 5.

I have not changed anythig in my setup. I tried to grep include/linux
for irq , but have not found anything for irq 4. 

What can be causing the problem?

I can not start any comm programms and cat >/dev/modem gives me
device busy message. Booting with old v1.1 kernel works fine. 

I also tried setserial but got device busy message too.
Thanks
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Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware
From: bernard@cpio1.frmug.fr.net (Bernard Fouche)
Subject: Re: Multiport Bored and Linux (Was: future of Unixware)
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 13:47:58 GMT

In article <rick.771073998@digibd>,
Rick Richardson <rick@digibd.digibd.com> wrote:
>[bits deleted]
>I estimate the size of the PC multiport
>serial market at $200M, or about 2 million ports/year.  70% of
>that is Unix (all flavors), or 1.4 million ports/year.  I don't
>know what the breakdown is after that, but lets be conservative:
>[some conservative figures deleted]
>       -Linux 0%               0 ports/year

My company bought about 10 boards from digiboard to use them over ISC
and Dell Unix.  ISC has been bought by Sun, Dell Unix has been dropped
by Dell, we do not want to develop under SCO, etc. There is now only
Unixware that seems serious enough. But for how long ?

Linux seems to be very near to be stable enough to run business
applications on it. The only reason that we do not plan to quickly
move to Linux is the lack of support from hardware manufacturers (like
Digiboard) and major sofware house (that sells RDBMS).

==========================================================================
Email                 : bernard@cpio1.frmug.fr.net
Postal Mail           : CPIO S.A., 4 Rue Beaubourg, 75004 Paris, France

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From: badelsman@aol.com (BAdelsman)
Subject: Chain booting Linux?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 19:16:04 -0400

I have Linux installed on the third disk in my system (I have 2 IDE,
1 SCSI).  OS/2 boot manager can only do boots from the first two
disks, hence it won't boot Linux.

However, I think I can still use boot manager, if I simply chain from
a partition on one of the first two IDE drives.  Here's what I'd like
to do:
a) Create a small partition on the second IDE drive (about 2M in
size)
b) Copy my floppy disk boot image into that partition
c) Set up boot manager to boot that partition

Would this work?  I'm a bit fuzzy on how to get the partition built
correct from floppy?  Do I just use 'dd' to write the boot image from
the floppy to that partition?

Any assistance would be appreciated.  E-mail prefered:
badelsman@aol.com

Thanks,
Bruce Adelsman
Rochester, MN

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From: nrh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nicholas Hall)
Subject: Re: How do I delete a linux partition?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 23:04:46 GMT

In article <Cr98JD.5zt@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> bcrwhims@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten Whimster) writes:
>In article <1994Jun10.034014.21301@cc.usu.edu>,  <ronb@cc.usu.edu> wrote:
>>      I was running linux on a 120 MB partition on my hard drive, but now
>>need to clear it... I'll be puting Unix on a second drive.  I used fips to
>>split the main partition, but it will not allow me to delete the linux
>>partitions and expand the DOS partition to reclaim the space.  Any ideas?
>
>I don't think you can expand a DOS partition. Try using fdisk to make
>an extended partition with logical drives in it.

That depends.......

If you used fips to create the partition and haven't formatted it, then
you *should* be able to use another tool that comes with fips called
restorrb to recreate the partition.  This is because fips does not adjust
the size of the file allocation table (a smaller partition has a smaller
file allocation table) when it changes the partition size, the problem being
that you can't expand a small partition with a small partition table, because
there won't be room in the table for file entries.  If the partition hasn't 
been formatted (format adjusts the file allocation table) then the restorrb 
tool, which basically restores your original root and boot sectors should take 
your harddisk back to the previous state (BTW you must save your boot/root 
sectors as fips allows you to do .....).  

First delete the linux partition with fdisk, then recreate a dos partition
of that size.  Then restore your boot/root sectors off the floppy.

Basically all the data in the first partition will still be there, the second 
one being deleted.

If you didn't repartition with fips or have since reformatted the partition
then I'm afraid that the only course of action is to delete the partition
with fdisk.  Either way you need backups of your second partition cos both
methods end up with it being deleted.

Hope this helps - mail me if you need any more!

Nick.

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From: nrh@dcs.ed.ac.uk (Nicholas Hall)
Subject: telnetting to non-standard ports
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 23:12:26 GMT

Hi,
        I'm running slackware 1.2.0 and need to telnet to a non-standard
port to test a program I have installed.  Unfortunately when I telnet to
the port (I have no network card, and have tcp/ip installed for loopback
only) I get:  Connection refused.

If this is a faq could somebody direct me to it .... if not, has anyone any
ideas?  Do I have to change /etc/services ?

Thanks,

Nick.
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From: cyrillv@netcom.com (Cyrill Vatomsky)
Subject: Re: 1.1.19 cua0 - device is busy??
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 21:22:34 GMT

Cyrill Vatomsky (cyrillv@netcom.com) wrote:
: I just compiled v1.1.19 (without any problems), but I can not use
: my modem any more. Modem is (has been since Slackware 1.1.2) configured
: for cua0. Internal on irq 4. Busmouse on irq 5.

: I have not changed anythig in my setup. I tried to grep include/linux
: for irq , but have not found anything for irq 4. 

: What can be causing the problem?

: I can not start any comm programms and cat >/dev/modem gives me
: device busy message. Booting with old v1.1 kernel works fine. 

: I also tried setserial but got device busy message too.
: Thanks
: -- 

Well, I guess I found the problem - at least in my case.
I had the same port mentioned in inittab as a dial-up line.
I just commented it out and it works now. Though for those that 
need to use the same line for dial-out and -up ...?
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From: les@MCS.COM (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.unixware,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: future of Unixware
Date: 13 Jun 1994 16:47:44 -0500

In article <2ti2hv$pps@apollo.west.oic.com>,
Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.west.oic.com> wrote:

>:It's less expensive.  You probably aren't going to relocate your modem
>:bank very often and if you do, the computer will probably move too.
>:A terminal server might be more reliable but I prefer to keep spares
>:for critical equipment anyway and you can get the intelligent board
>:and it's spare for about the same price as a single terminal server.

>    Actually, I much prefer the terminal server approach.  The modem bank
>    is connected directly to the terminal server along with all the other
>    serial services, and you run an ethernet from the server to the host(s).
>
>    Much LESS wiring is required, and what wiring there is is more localized.

In this respect there is almost no difference between using a terminal
server and something like the Digiboard CX board with up to 128 ports
in 16 port concentrators that can be daisy chained up to 1000 feet from
the host.  I'd expect this to be somewhat more efficient than a
terminal server too, since it's on a shared-memory EISA card and you
don't have to push everything through the tcp stack.  But mostly it's
just cheaper as long as you always want the ports on the same host.
However, like I said, I like to have spares, and you can switch the
whole mess over to an alternate machine by moving one or two cables.

Les Mikesell
  les@mcs.com

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: p_quinn@ECE.Concordia.CA (Paul Quinn)
Subject: PCI Chipsets? URGENT!
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 21:02:19 GMT


I need to know the exact differences between the Saturn and the Neptune
chipsets?  Is the Saturn really buggy?  What are the major problems
with it?  If I can only get a Saturn, should I still buy PCI?



--
________
Paul Quinn
p_quinn@ece.concordia.ca
Computer Science: Systems Architecture
Concordia University
Montreal, QC, CANADA
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From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: HELP: INTEL EtherExpress
Date: 13 Jun 1994 23:53:59 GMT

In article <1994Jun13.155650.12917@wnsnews.com>,
Jay Vaughan <jayv@wnsnews.com> wrote:
>
>Has anyone gotten Linux up and running with an Intel EtherExpress network
>card?  I want to use Linux on our network as a gateway to the Internet,
>and all of our PC's have Intel EtherExpress cards in them.  Since I don't
>want to be spending money on another card, I'd really like it if someone
>that has already gotten this card working could send me e-mail as to how
>they did it - or if an experienced Linux'er could direct me as to how I
>should go about getting this card to work, generally speaking.

I installed the board, configured it for address 0x320, IRQ10, BNC 
interface, no memory mapping, using the softset.exe program under DOS.

Under Linux, I removed the # prefixing the configuration 
option in config.in, ran make config; make; copied the kernel
image into /boot/question, told LILO to reboot with that image 
using the -R flag, and did a shutdown -r. 

Linux rebooted, and saw the card.  After I was up multiuser,
I edited /etc/hosts, made an entry for my machine, and added 
my network to /etc/networks (Some versions of Linux determine host/net
routes by the networks and hosts file).

I then did a 

ifconfig eth0 <my hostname>

(my machine name.  Broadcast and netmask were set correctly since 
we aren't subnetted)

and a 

route add <my netname> eth0

At that point, I could access the other machines on my net.   If 
I were on the internet, I'd also have needed to add a default route
to my router.

+ The ether express board is reasonably quick.  With a fast machine on the 
        other end, if there are no timeouts, I get 830-840K/sec with
        FTP, about 950K/sec with tcpspray.

- When I have a Very (megabyte per second) fast machine on the other
        end, and have simulatenous two-way traffic, I get transmit
        timeouts.  Supposedly adding delay loops after all in/out
        calls fixes this, but I haven't screwed with it yet.

        (There's no problem with my sluggish 60Mhz pentium running
        SCO, only on the RS6000).

- Promiscuous mode is unsupported.  

-- 
Drew Eckhardt drew@Colorado.EDU
1970 Landcruiser FJ40 w/350 Chevy power
1982 Yamaha XV920J Virago

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From: pookow1@aol.com (Pookow1)
Subject: Re: Linux Installation Counts?
Date: 13 Jun 1994 19:48:00 -0400

In article <2tig5e$305@magus.cs.utah.edu>, kruckenb@sal.cs.utah.edu
(Joseph Kruckenberg) writes:

If you get any count on this, I would be interested in know. I would
like to see 
how it compares to Solaris X86 and SCO.

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 23:54:57 GMT

In article <2thr2e$9dr@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> bgc@eos.ncsu.edu (BRYAN
GARNETT COPE) writes: 
>When I attempt to boot the LINUX install disk, the SCSI devices
>are not recognized. Because of this, I am unable to fdisk of
>install the kernel. 

You need to move the UltraStore from the default 0x330 to 0x340 when
booting the default kernels because the ethernet card probes scramble
the UltraStor's brain.  I have my turbo switch hooked up so I can boot
default kernels, and FreeBSD (which seems to want the card at 0x330,
at least early versions did).  If you don't have ethernet enabled,
then you'll be able to keep the card at 0x330.

There is small chance that you do have a ethernet card at 0x330, which
could also be the problem, but I've seen this situation once, while
the one I described above about 100 times.

Warner

P.S.  Can someone add this to the SCSI HowTo?  I haven't kept up on
the how to author's address over the last 9 months.
-- 
Warner Losh             imp@boulder.parcplace.COM       ParcPlace Boulder
"... but I can't promote you to "Prima Donna" unless you demonstrate a few
 more serious personality disorders"

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From: mjf@clark.net (Marc Fraioli)
Subject: Re: Novell - More News
Date: 14 Jun 1994 00:20:42 GMT
Reply-To: mjf@clark.net

In article 94Jun13164709@flores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de, cow@flores.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Oliver Wahl) writes:
>
>Just caught this snippet from PowerPC Newsline:
>
[...]
>
>Torvalds also says that Novell is developing a new windows manager
>for Corsair called Looking Glass: "I haven't seen it, but from what I
>know it's great, better than the Common Desktop Environment. It seems
>a solid product, and they will probably do some documentation. I

Actually, Looking Glass already exists.  It's a Motif-based desktop
manager for Unix.  I think the company that sells it is called Visix.
Novell is probably licensing it.

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mjf@clark.net         |    - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick,
                      |    Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, U.S. Civil War


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From: jaegwanl@monashee.sfu.ca (Jae-Gwang Lee)
Subject: Communication with printer [Q]
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 00:20:02 GMT


Hello netters, 

May be this is not exact linx question but since I am using linux I am
posting my question here. Excuse me please. 

I have a matrix printer and I wonder how can I communicate with printer 
directly.  Let's say my monitor is turned off but my keyboard and system is
on and I like to use my printer like typewriter.  Is it possible ? 
I think it is but I don't have enough technique for such trick. 
Thank you.    

JG LEE (jaegwanl@monashee.sfu.ca)

 

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From: pieterdv@knoware.nl (Pieter de Visser)
Subject: NIHCL port---anyone?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 00:38:32 GMT


Has anyone ported NIHCL to Linux? I seem to remember an article, a couple
of months ago, saying just that. However, I'm not able to find that
article, nor the resulting port. I started porting it myself, but encountered
more problems than I care for.

Pieter

pieterdv@runner.knoware.nl


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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: shags@brtph896.bnr.ca (Pat O'Shaughnessey P855)
Subject: Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 01:54:27 GMT

in article <2tito8$ed7@csnews.cs.colorado.edu> drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt) writes:
>
>In article <CrD13M.3Bp@boulder.parcplace.com>,
>
>It's allready in the SCSI HOWTO, under the Common Problems subsection
>of section 3.12 (Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f) - 
>
>2.  Using an Ultrastor at address 0x330 may cause the system to hang
>        when the sound drivers are autoprobing.
>
>        Please use a different address.
>
>3.  Various other drivers do unsafe probes at various addresses, if you
>        are having problems with detection or the system is hanging at 
>        boot time, please try a different address.
>
>        0x340 is recommended as an address that is known to work.

Has anyone had the problem that I described in an earlier post?  (sorry to
keep posting the query)?  Now that my 34F recognizes the drives, (after
moving the address to 0x340), it still hangs during the boot sequence, and
displays the following:

scsi0: reseting for 2nd half of retries.
US14F: reset: called

I haven't seen this problem described anywhere.

Thanks in advance,

patrick
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From: drew@kinglear.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Linux and UltraStor 34F SCSI Controller
Date: 14 Jun 1994 00:31:04 GMT

In article <CrD13M.3Bp@boulder.parcplace.com>,
Warner Losh <imp@boulder.parcplace.com> wrote:
>In article <2thr2e$9dr@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> bgc@eos.ncsu.edu (BRYAN
>GARNETT COPE) writes: 
>>When I attempt to boot the LINUX install disk, the SCSI devices
>>are not recognized. Because of this, I am unable to fdisk of
>>install the kernel. 
>
>You need to move the UltraStore from the default 0x330 to 0x340 when
>booting the default kernels because the ethernet card probes scramble
>the UltraStor's brain.  I have my turbo switch hooked up so I can boot
>default kernels, and FreeBSD (which seems to want the card at 0x330,
>at least early versions did).  If you don't have ethernet enabled,
>then you'll be able to keep the card at 0x330.

It's allready in the SCSI HOWTO, under the Common Problems subsection
of section 3.12 (Ultrastor 14f, 24f, and 34f) - 

2.  Using an Ultrastor at address 0x330 may cause the system to hang
        when the sound drivers are autoprobing.

        Please use a different address.

3.  Various other drivers do unsafe probes at various addresses, if you
        are having problems with detection or the system is hanging at 
        boot time, please try a different address.

        0x340 is recommended as an address that is known to work.


-- 
Drew Eckhardt drew@Colorado.EDU
1970 Landcruiser FJ40 w/350 Chevy power
1982 Yamaha XV920J Virago

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From: andersoa@news.db.erau.edu (Andrew Anderson)
Subject: Re: telnetting to non-standard ports
Date: 14 Jun 1994 00:43:00 GMT

Nicholas Hall (nrh@dcs.ed.ac.uk) wrote:
: Hi,
:       I'm running slackware 1.2.0 and need to telnet to a non-standard
: port to test a program I have installed.  Unfortunately when I telnet to
: the port (I have no network card, and have tcp/ip installed for loopback
: only) I get:  Connection refused.

: If this is a faq could somebody direct me to it .... if not, has anyone any
: ideas?  Do I have to change /etc/services ?

I had to modify /etc/services when I installed gopher (I don't know why it
wasn't in there to begin with), so I think this would be a good place to 
start.  You didn't say what kind of program you're running, so you might
need to activate the rpc stuff in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet2 also.

Andrew
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: mah@ka4ybr.com (Mark A. Horton KA4YBR)
Subject: Re: What is a good _LARGE_ tape backup for Linux?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 01:32:28 GMT

Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@merengue.oit.unc.edu) wrote:

: In article <2tfdpm$7h0@bronze.coil.com> bradb@bronze.coil.com (Brad Block) writes:

:    I need a tape backup to backup my 1.8gig Quantum HD weekly.  What Tape 
:    drive will fit 1.8gigs?

: I asked about 4mm DAT drives for Linux, specifically the WangDAT
: drives, and was told that both the 2GB and 4GB models work very well.
: Now I'm just trying to save up the money for a 4GB internal model.
: Insight sells a kit w/ a FD1680 card for $900 for the 3GB and $1100
: for the 4GB model.

: With a 2GB DAT drive, you will need a 90m DAT tape to back up your
: 1.8GB drive.  I have been pleased with tapes from "The DAT Store" in,
: I think, Cupertino, CA.  (at work, we've ordered a few hundred from
: them, and of the 100+ we've used so far, none have been bad.  And
: these are only audio-grade tapes, at that...)  I have no affiliation
: with them; just a satisfied customer.

: michaelkjohnson

I use an Exabyte 8200 2.3 GB external I bought used... they are available
for less than $600. now... the place to look is in :
        misc.forsale.computers....
particularly in :
        misc.forsale.computers.workstations
for some really good deals... I've seen NEW 4mm DAT drives going for
aroung $395.00  Of course, you'll need a SCSI Host Adapter also... I'd
stick with a real Adaptec 1540/42 here... there have been problem
reports with some of the other types.

One of the nice things about the 8mm format is that you can get the 8mm
video tapes for around 4 bucks each - a lot less than other media costs!

-- Mark

p.s. a local used equipment dealer here in Atlanta has an external EXB-8200
for sale for $450.00!  That's a really good price!

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P.O. Box 747 Decatur GA US 30031-0747         mah@ka4ybr.com
+1.404.371.0291                     33 45 31 N / 084 16 59 W

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From: gtaylor@god.ext.tufts.edu (Grant Taylor)
Subject: What other notebooks does Linux run on well?
Date: Mon, 13 Jun 1994 20:07:03 GMT
Reply-To: gtaylor@cs.tufts.edu

A friend of mine is interested in getting Linux up on a notebook.
I've read the Hardware-HOWTO, and its notebook section is kind of
sketchy, and none of them looks like the sort he wants to buy.

I'd like to know of anyone running Linux on a Notebook which has at
least a half-gig drive, a nice color screen of 10 inches or more, and
which works perfectly with linux - ie, no goofy powersaving
interactions, XFree is happy with the screen, any internal pointer
device works, etc.  A 486/33 is the probable cpu, faster variants
would of course do just as well.

Other interesting features worth knowing about are PCMCIA support.  In
particular ethernet and a 144 modem would be very nice.  A detachable
floppy would probably be preferred.

The idea is to get as high-end a linux portable as possible.

I will of course forward any useful information to the hardware-howto
guy, and summarize if anyone wants me to.

-grant

-- 
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@cs.tufts.edu - http://www.cs.tufts.edu/~gtaylor/

  --> Read the Linux Printing-HOWTO -- get it from the URL above or <--
        ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO

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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jwest@jwest.ecen.okstate.edu ()
Subject: Re: Suggestions: Tape drives?
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 1994 02:09:51 GMT

In article <2tig58$mqa@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> hsuc@egr.msu.edu writes:
>
>Some questions:
>1.) If I have 2 IDE drives and 2 floppies, can I still hook
>up a tape drive through the floppy controller?

Yes.

>2.) Is it worth it to consider a SCSI tape drive?  I am afraid
>that I may eventually need a third disk drive.  Using SCSI now
>would give me that option later.

Strongly recommended. I have a Colorado Jumbo 250 left over from the DOS
days, and really wish I had gone SCSI in the first place. The Colorado
is functional, but slow, noisy, and of limited capacity (250 MB with
compression is the advertised claim, really only 125 MB physical). The
tapes are expensive too, and having to boot dos to format them is a royal
pain.

Jim
________________
Jim West
Associate Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Oklahoma State University
jwest@master.ceat.okstate.edu

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From: ramos@engr.latech.edu (Alex Ramos)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Need recommendation for SVGA card
Date: 14 Jun 1994 01:18:19 GMT

Which ISA video card would give me the best quality 1024x768x256
resolution, under Linux/XFree86, for the least cost?  What is the
general opinion on the Trident SVGA cards (those you can find with 1M
for $58.00).

Thanks,
--
Alex Ramos (ramos@engr.latech.edu) * http://info.latech.edu/~ramos/
Louisiana Tech University, BSEE/Sr * These opinions are probably mine

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