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Linux-Activists Digest #641, Volume #2           Fri, 14 Aug 92 21:30:14 EDT

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  Re: Modem dial-in procedures needed (James L. Paul)

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Linux-Activists Digest #636, Volume #2           Fri, 14 Aug 92 20:15:20 EDT

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  Re: Diamond Speed Star SVGA card (Kevin Cummings)
  Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions (Drew Eckhardt)

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From: [e-mail] (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: Diamond Speed Star SVGA card
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 21:48:05 GMT

In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Matthew A. Lewis) writes:
| anyone got this to work with X under Linux????

Yes, but not me, I don't have one.

| And also, is it true that the Diamond Stealth card won't work 'cuz
| it has that new S3 chip???

Yeup, that's also true.  I do own one of these, but I haven't tried.
I've been trying to figure out how Diamond selects the clocks for the
different video modes.  No luck yet.  If I have time this weekend, I'll
play around with DEBUG under DOS, and try and see what the bleep the VBIOS
is doing for mode selection.

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From: [e-mail] (Drew Eckhardt)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux w/o destroying existing partitions
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 23:35:59 GMT

In article <[e-mail]> [e-mail] (Ing-Tsau Chiu) writes:
|Wonder if there's any way to install Linux w/o destroying existing
|partitions.  (Sorry if this is an faq.)

Yes.  You must non-destructively repartition the disk.
Basically, this involves shortening a DOS partition
(both in the DOS boot record, and in the partition table),
after defragmenting it and getting all of the used stuff out of
the way, and making a new Linux partition in the old space.

Watch out for logical sector size != 512 bytes, like on
Disk Manager partitions.

It's a little messy, and unless you can be REAL comfortable
with the structures involved, you probably don't want to do it.


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IBM for AIX (appropriately called Aches by those having to administer it), but neither is as bad as AT&T.  Boycott AT&T, and let them know how you feel.


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From: [e-mail] (James L. Paul)
Subject: Re: Modem dial-in procedures needed
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 22:38:54 GMT

On a slightly different topic, I ran into a not-so-obvious (at least to
me :) problem. I have my inittab set up for 19200 bps getty. If I turn
this off and kill the getty to use the modem for outdialing (as I often
do) I have to be sure to use the modem at 19200 before re-enabling the
getty.

Otherwise, if the last AT command to the modem was not at my getty speed,
incoming calls will connect but not communicate with getty, since the
modem's DTE speed doesn't match the getty speed. (A user connects, sends
a <cr> or anything to get the login prompt, but gets nothing, since getty
is is listening at 19200 and the modem is talking at the last AT command
speed. (Say, 2400.)

I solved this by setting things up so I always talk to the modem from my
terminal software (xcomm) at the getty speed. This way, the modem is
never remains inadvertently on the wrong DTE speed.

I haven't dug out my modem manual yet to see if I can set the DTE speed
to a non-changing value. (I know the DCE speed can, but I doubt the
serial port DTE speed can.) Obviously, my solution above requires hardware
flow control, since the DTE speed is faster than the modem can handle.


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