Anyone - help !
How can i start X4.0.1 on a Hercules Monochrome card ? There is no hga driver and the fbdev driver wants 8bpp or more. The plain vga driver only talks to vga devices.
And apt-get dist-upgrade uninstalled xserver-mono and xserver-fbdev which conflict with 4.0.1...
If you have matrox with utah-glx or Hercules mono DO NOT apt-get yet.
I did (having both cards) and:
- XF86_SVGA no longer works so: bye bye 3d...
- XF86_Mono and fbdev are gone and X4 doesn't seem to have ANY hercules suport at all
- xf86cfg DIES with SIGILL
- xf86config generates the same'ol fscked up config-file (now for 4.x versions)
- empty man pages... lots of them... had to "strings input/wacom.so" driver to get some hints.
... and those dates are near 2039... maybe those darn nasa scientists should upgrade their systems to a 64bit architecture now... And we wont have problems in the next <bignum> years:)
unfortunatelly *bsds and even linux don't work well on a 286. You have to choose between minix|coherent|xenix|other_odd_16bit_port for a almost-semi-usable un*x clone, ka9q|jnos for a small'n'strange router or win3.1 (together with w3.11 being the best versions of their windows product line in my oppinion) to do something useful (like editing with word 2 or word 6).
I do hate m$ but win3.1 and word2|6 make a good software for the price at which you can buy them now (like... 10bucks ?). And they do help make good use of old hardware.
Go to the unsupported xanim codecs page and read why you can not play sorenson video in linux. And send a polite mail to Sorenson asking them why they do not support anything else than mac and win.
Maybe a gazilion polite e-mails from the/. ppl which will make their e-mail server crash'n'burn will be a good proof that un*x has a large enough market for their technology.
Because it was the first movie|animation player for unix|linux and it was the only one available for free for a loooong period of time. It deserves our respect. I do install-it every time i find-it packaged in a distribution even if i use-it very seldom.
An xanim has his strenghts - it's the only one that can play.fli|.flc files and old quicktime ones. And is available on most unices not only on linux and freebsd (like avifile).
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Just kick you monitor a bit 'till the image is a little bit fuzzy and voila. Instant Hardware FSAA !!!
(and this is true - my 17" fell off the truck at unload and now at 1152x864 the image is a liiitle fuzzy (like a.2 AntiAliasing) All the X fonts look now gorgeous)
No, the bad thing is that ma' and pa' will buy that "lunix[1] thingie" and pop-it into their win9x without even reading the text on the package (manuals, what are those ?) and waiting for an autostart window to pop up and mindlessly clicking next next next until they will wipe all their windows partitions, will install all the mandrake and the result will be an "broken windows" which does not show the nice logo at startup and asks them about some "sername" and "passwor" and the start button looks funny but all their icons and games and documents are gone from the screen and they can't find from where to "start the internet"
This "lunix thingie" is a virus or something - will they conclude as the pc is send back to the vendor because "windows don't work"
[1]lunix really exists and it's a micro-unix-like OS for commodore 64 & 128.
'cause the 3D rendering engine in the Hubble telescope is not that new and fast and it doesn't have the latest OpenGL drivers. They should install an in da' Hub and overclock the CPU to 1Ghz (as the temperature of the outer space is way lower than any peltier could provide - some wild overclocking can be made there)
:)
We should also ban the public use of those nasty space words like: "moon", "black hole" or even "venus" 'cause it makes a link to nudity. Those scientists are a menace for the peaceful society.
:)
The Bad thing about the nano-stuff is that being that small i presume is very fragile. What use does an 1mmsq factory if it breaks at the smallest shaking. Or am i wrong ?
Is this Andrew FS in any way related to that Andrew utils i vaguely remember from my slackware youth to be installed in/usr/andrew/ ? Something like an Editor and an mail-reader which were on one of the yggdrassill cds... [Dave, my mind is going, I can feel it...]
New floppyes sucks.
Thats why i still keep my 5.25" drive. I have over 100 disks with old software and saves and stuff. Some of them were used exensivly (like 2 years as the boot disk on a pc without harddrive) They still are readable - i have found only ONE bad sector in all of them after 5 years of then gathering dust near a speaker. And that floppy was a cheap bulgarian noname. Those damn fscking 3.5" floppyes usually don't make-it to the other room with all the data on them. PLEASE someone in the US, buy some "Life Waranty" floppyes that will fail AND SUE THE HELL OUT OF THE FSCKIN' floppy manufacturers. They deserve-it.
They actually are merging only their legal departaments to better fight the m$ lawyers and the m$'s [upcoming] patent for a "electronic device that offers home entertainment though interactive controlling of moving images displayed on a screen":)
A friend of mine with the leader of an philarmonica (big name) tried all the compressing schemes, rates and encoders (available in early 1999)(with hq equippment) and the best quality for classical music was obtained with a 256kb rate in BladeEnc. The sample was recorded on-stage with a full orchestra and in the 256kbps mp3 the leader finally said: yes, _all_ the instruments sound as they should. (by all he mant all the 7 fscking violins he could dintinctivly recognize - at 128 the violin's sounds were scrambled together - said him)
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Anyone - help ! ...
How can i start X4.0.1 on a Hercules Monochrome card ? There is no hga driver and the fbdev driver wants 8bpp or more. The plain vga driver only talks to vga devices.
And apt-get dist-upgrade uninstalled xserver-mono and xserver-fbdev which conflict with 4.0.1
help meee!!!
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YES !
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If you have matrox with utah-glx or Hercules mono DO NOT apt-get yet.
I did (having both cards) and:
- XF86_SVGA no longer works so: bye bye 3d
- XF86_Mono and fbdev are gone and X4 doesn't seem to have ANY hercules suport at all
- xf86cfg DIES with SIGILL
- xf86config generates the same'ol fscked up config-file (now for 4.x versions)
- empty man pages... lots of them... had to "strings input/wacom.so" driver to get some hints.
however - for 2d X4.0.1 on my g400 is smoother...
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... and those dates are near 2039 ... maybe those darn nasa scientists should upgrade their systems to a 64bit architecture now ... And we wont have problems in the next <bignum> years :)
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I managed to get an almost three week uptime on an w95 (keyboard-less, monitor-less, vnc driven) used only for icq and wingate.
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You must be one of the G0D5 ! ...
We, the >1000 ones bow before you
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unfortunatelly *bsds and even linux don't work well on a 286. You have to choose between minix|coherent|xenix|other_odd_16bit_port for a almost-semi-usable un*x clone, ka9q|jnos for a small'n'strange router or win3.1 (together with w3.11 being the best versions of their windows product line in my oppinion) to do something useful (like editing with word 2 or word 6).
I do hate m$ but win3.1 and word2|6 make a good software for the price at which you can buy them now (like... 10bucks ?). And they do help make good use of old hardware.
--
Go to the unsupported xanim codecs page and read why you can not play sorenson video in linux. And send a polite mail to Sorenson asking them why they do not support anything else than mac and win.
/. ppl which will make their e-mail server crash'n'burn will be a good proof that un*x has a large enough market for their technology.
Maybe a gazilion polite e-mails from the
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> Why did it make it to slashdot...?
.fli|.flc files and old quicktime ones. And is available on most unices not only on linux and freebsd (like avifile).
Because it was the first movie|animation player for unix|linux and it was the only one available for free for a loooong period of time. It deserves our respect. I do install-it every time i find-it packaged in a distribution even if i use-it very seldom.
An xanim has his strenghts - it's the only one that can play
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Just kick you monitor a bit 'till the image is a little bit fuzzy and voila. Instant Hardware FSAA !!!
.2 AntiAliasing) All the X fonts look now gorgeous)
(and this is true - my 17" fell off the truck at unload and now at 1152x864 the image is a liiitle fuzzy (like a
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They will send all their 500000 customers an modified version of "i love you" which instead on deleting jpgs will send the bookmark files to them :)
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No, the bad thing is that ma' and pa' will buy that "lunix[1] thingie" and pop-it into their win9x without even reading the text on the package (manuals, what are those ?) and waiting for an autostart window to pop up and mindlessly clicking next next next until they will wipe all their windows partitions, will install all the mandrake and the result will be an "broken windows" which does not show the nice logo at startup and asks them about some "sername" and "passwor" and the start button looks funny but all their icons and games and documents are gone from the screen and they can't find from where to "start the internet"
This "lunix thingie" is a virus or something - will they conclude as the pc is send back to the vendor because "windows don't work"
[1]lunix really exists and it's a micro-unix-like OS for commodore 64 & 128.
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you mean - like - we are supposed to READ the articles linked ? No way - you can't read some huge text and still do a First Post...
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'cause the 3D rendering engine in the Hubble telescope is not that new and fast and it doesn't have the latest OpenGL drivers. They should install an in da' Hub and overclock the CPU to 1Ghz (as the temperature of the outer space is way lower than any peltier could provide - some wild overclocking can be made there)
:)
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We should also ban the public use of those nasty space words like: "moon", "black hole" or even "venus" 'cause it makes a link to nudity. Those scientists are a menace for the peaceful society.
:)
--
The Bad thing about the nano-stuff is that being that small i presume is very fragile. What use does an 1mmsq factory if it breaks at the smallest shaking. Or am i wrong ?
--
Is this Andrew FS in any way related to that Andrew utils i vaguely remember from my slackware youth to be installed in /usr/andrew/ ? Something like an Editor and an mail-reader which were on one of the yggdrassill cds... [Dave, my mind is going, I can feel it ...]
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Well written microkernels (like QNX) work o-k. Bloated almost-backward-compatible proprietary monsters (like MS w* products) will not :)
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... from where do we get old Sparcs from ? In Europe.
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And maybe Damian will code the much sought Perfect::Moderation perl module :)
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New floppyes sucks.
Thats why i still keep my 5.25" drive. I have over 100 disks with old software and saves and stuff. Some of them were used exensivly (like 2 years as the boot disk on a pc without harddrive) They still are readable - i have found only ONE bad sector in all of them after 5 years of then gathering dust near a speaker. And that floppy was a cheap bulgarian noname. Those damn fscking 3.5" floppyes usually don't make-it to the other room with all the data on them. PLEASE someone in the US, buy some "Life Waranty" floppyes that will fail AND SUE THE HELL OUT OF THE FSCKIN' floppy manufacturers. They deserve-it.
--
They actually are merging only their legal departaments to better fight the m$ lawyers and the m$'s [upcoming] patent for a "electronic device that offers home entertainment though interactive controlling of moving images displayed on a screen" :)
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> I wonder if it at least uses some kind of compression?
:)
I wonder if the NASA engineers ever clicked on that annoying banner trat stated: "Your connection speed is not optimized" ?
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> I want my music in .gz format, not .mp3 !
.bz2 offers better sound quality at a lower bitrate :)
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A friend of mine with the leader of an philarmonica (big name) tried all the compressing schemes, rates and encoders (available in early 1999)(with hq equippment) and the best quality for classical music was obtained with a 256kb rate in BladeEnc. The sample was recorded on-stage with a full orchestra and in the 256kbps mp3 the leader finally said: yes, _all_ the instruments sound as they should. (by all he mant all the 7 fscking violins he could dintinctivly recognize - at 128 the violin's sounds were scrambled together - said him)
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