[ILUG] q's on X, modems

[adam beecher]

Got a MRi Mr. Modem external. Also had another one recommended, something that
sounds like a Honda. It'll come to me. Anyway, the performance seems ok - much
better than the Dell-installed 36.6 winmodem anyway. If you're going dual-boot,
the drivers on Win95 get a bit confused and keep trying to uninstall/reinstall
themselves, but that might have been caused by the Winmodem. I took the winmodem
out (it buzzed rather annoyingly), and then nicked me da's 98 CD, so I don't
know which was the cure. One important point - the driver/chipset conflicts with
Logitech $anything. They sent me details on how to fix it - tinkering in the
registry - but I tried all their suggestions, plus a few other bits and bobs, to
no avail. So if you've got a Logitech mouse, and you want more than two buttons,
forget about it. In Windows that is, the third button works perfectly in Linux
(RedHat).

Hayes Accura. That's the other one that was recommended. See, told you it
sounded like a Honda! :)

adam


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ilug-admin at linux.ie [mailto:ilug-admin at linux.ie]On Behalf Of
> michael conry
> Sent: 25 May 2000 17:10
> To: ilug
> Subject: [ILUG] q's on X, modems
>
>
> Finally bought a home pc, dell in the end. no problems yet :-).
> SuSE 6.3 install went like a dream (maybe since i stayed up all night),
> amazing how neat fips was with partition split. Anyway... questions
> 1) I have nVidia TNT2 M64 video card. X 3.3.5, and the nVidia Open GL
> drivers. Seems ok. Ran xracer, (as root, getting ahead of myself ;-),
> which hung machine... disk churning (over 10 mins) kbd and mouse locked,
> couldn't ctrl-alt-del/backspace out, couldn't change to a different
> console. Reset the machine. IS there a better way to recover from this
> kind of thing???? (seems risky shutting down w/o even umounting). Also,
> any ways to reduce chance of hangs?
> 2) Does anyone have any advice on modems? Diamond external gets good
> mentions, IR£89 on shelf in Dixons (cheaper uk, but delivery dear).
> Peats have a genius ext something or other (website unclear) £69.99 on
> web site. Compustore seems bit off the wall in terms of costs. What are
> issues (apart from external good, winmodem bad), any recommendations
> from people who have bought already (suppliers and models).
> Thanks very much in  advance
> mick
>
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