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Linux-Hardware Digest #162, Volume #9 Tue, 12 Jan 99 18:13:37 EST
Contents:
DirecPC support (Fraser Campbell)
Netgear FA310TX NIC ("James Knoch Jr.")
Cardbus Network Adapter Support???? ("David Lancia, Jr.")
Cyrix 6X86 166+ ("David Guillot")
Re: Support for Montego? (John Ericson)
D-Link DFE-530TX network card supported? (John Ericson)
Re: Is Suse 5.3 libc5 or glibcx? (Rick Moen)
Re: Again: XFree86 and Graphics Chips issues (Rick Moen)
Re: 82C931 and DTCT436E (Christoph Lorenz)
sound device settings for recording/playback/editing apps? (oak)
Re: HP Kayak XA: make soundcard work? (Alex Kiefer)
Re: Linux on Pentium Pro? (Steven M. Gallo)
Re: /usr volume out of space ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Drivers for Riva TNT ("Patryn")
Re: graphics card supported? sorry, wrote too soon (Dan LaMee)
Re: SCSI Cheap/Supported? (Joe Linington)
Zip 250 Parallel Port ("Damian T. Herrick")
Re: Linux lock's up computer completly. (Joe Linington)
Re: Linux on Pentium Pro? ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Software RAID on a Pentium 233? ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Helios Trust (/thrust) (Morten Lund)
Re: replacing boot drive (Erwin de Beus)
Q: Soundcard with SPDIF I/O ("am")
graphics card supported? (Dan LaMee)
Re: Large IDE drives (Mike Jackson)
Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC (Michael Meissner)
Re: P55T2P4 and AMD K6-2-350 (Phil Houstoun)
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From: Fraser Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DirecPC support
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 12:47:03 -0500
Does anyone know if there are drivers for DirecPC (satellite Internet)
available. Besides those from Helius.
--
Sincerely,
Fraser Campbell
P.S. Please CC in email
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 01:13:03 -0600
From: "James Knoch Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear FA310TX NIC
anyone have any experience with this card in Linux? I'm thinking about
buying a couple for my computers at home to setup a Linux/WinNT Lan so I
can proxy through my ISDN internal TA card.
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From: "David Lancia, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cardbus Network Adapter Support????
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 11:57:05 -0500
in an attempt to start using Linux i tried to install Redhat over the
network onto my notebok but the pcmcia drivers wont recognize my Cardbus
Network Card (AmbiCom 10/100)
i dont want to bother with Linux if i cant get the network to work so could
someone let me know if Linux will recognize Cardbus Network Adapters
i have no experience with Linux and very little with Unix in general so any
help would be greatly appreciated
thanks
David
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From: "David Guillot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cyrix 6X86 166+
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:51:17 +0100
Novice dans le monde libre de Linux, je me trouve confronté à des problèmes
sans fin de plantage hard (clavier out). J'ai fais et refais des
installations rien n'y fait quelque soit le WM sachant que cela se produit
sous XWindow. Ma config matérielle est la suivante : Cyrix 6X86 166+, 64mo
Ram, Carte vidéo Matrox mystique 4mo, Ecran Smile 1706, disque dur Seagate 2
Go dédié exclusivement à Linux...
Je penche pour un conflit avec le processeur et recherche âme charitable
pouvant guider ces premiers pas. Un grand merci.
Novice in the free Linux's World I 've a lot of problems in the X mode. My
Pc is crashing and my keyboard is out. My config is the following :
Cyrix 6X86 166+, 64mo Ram, Carte vidéo Matrox mystique 4mo, Ecran Smile
1706, DD Seagate 2 Go just for Linux...
If you can help this poor guy, thanks a lot...('xcuse my bad english)
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From: John Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Support for Montego?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:00:21 +0100
Inte än, men det är på väg. Se www.opensound.com för mera info. =)
Under construction. See www.opensound.com for more info.
Henrik Karlsson wrote:
>
> Does Linux support the TB Montego soundcard yet?
>
> --
> /H
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/ John
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From: John Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link DFE-530TX network card supported?
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 21:20:56 +0100
Im thinking of buying a new network card to my Linux computer, and now I
wonder if there is any support for this card:
D-Link DFE-530TX PCI Fast Ethernet, 10/100
Since it is a D-Link, I suppose it should work.
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/ John
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From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Is Suse 5.3 libc5 or glibcx?
Date: 12 Jan 1999 07:45:25 GMT
[Followups snipped. This has nothing to do with hardware support.]
In comp.os.linux.setup Michael Green~ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is Suse 5.3 libc5 or glibcx based? I'm asking because I need to
: download the correct XBF to support my graphics card (Diamond SII, G460)
Define "based". SuSE 5.3 includes both libc versions. Many of its
dynamically-linked binaries still invoke "libc.so.5" (libc5), and
are only gradually and conservatively being tested against libc6
and recompiled to do so.
Given that 5.3 _does_ include both libs, you can use either XBF
version -- but might as well get the glibc2 aka libc6 version.
By the way, you could have checked by inspecting your own system
directly:
locate libc.so.5 | more
locate libc.so.6 | more
--
Cheers, The cynics among us might say: "We laugh,
Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now!
rick (at) linuxmafia.com MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis
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From: Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Again: XFree86 and Graphics Chips issues
Date: 12 Jan 1999 08:52:43 GMT
[Followups snipped]
In comp.os.linux.setup [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: It seems my original post did not draw much attention....
That might have been because of your overbroad cross-post list.
Sometimes, one can justify posting to _two_ groups provided one
sets Followup-To to just one of them. _Three_, though, begins
to seem a lot like spam.
: In short, I am looking for chipset/graphics card suggestions/comments
: to work with XFree86/Linux.[...]
: The card has to be PCI, I do NOT play games, but I will watch TV/VCD etc.
: OpenGL acceleration will be a major benefit, since I am going to be some
: development there.
How about _you_ do the research into cutting-edge hardware and
software required, and then post it to one or more of these newsgroups?
(Or do you think "the Linux community" is just a source for free
technical support?)
VCD support:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/9710.3/0201.html
http://www.mpegtv.com/player.html
OpenGL:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/3Dfx-HOWTO.html
http://www.metrolink.com/products/opengl/
http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~billh/bp/MesaFAQ.html
http://www.ssc.com/lg/issue15/gm.html
http://www.landfield.com/faqs/x-faq/part5/section-11.html
--
Cheers, The cynics among us might say: "We laugh,
Rick Moen monkeyboys -- Linux IS the mainstream UNIX now!
rick (at) linuxmafia.com MuaHaHaHa!" but that would be rude. -- Jim Dennis
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Subject: Re: 82C931 and DTCT436E
From: Christoph Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Jan 1999 09:39:17 +0100
Andreas Jung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi
>
> if you receive any information on the 82C931 please let me know.
> I do not get my sound card running as well
I have got a 82C931 (OPTi931) based PnP card. Unfortunately, this card
cannot be initialized with the usual isapnp-utils, so I have to go the way
via Loadlin (initializing this crappy card under DOS, then booting Linux)
The card itself has to run as "MSS" card.
Regarding the DTC436 - It's nothing but a worthless piece of junk.
If you ever manage to get this thing running under Linux, it would't be
of any use. It works interruptless on the ISA bus and therefor uses
way too much CPU time.
Ciao
Christoph
> Sebastien schrieb:
> >
> > Hi
> > I am looking for any information about using sound card based
> > on 82C931 and SCSI-2 card with DTCT436E (bundled with scanner).
> >
> > Seb.
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound device settings for recording/playback/editing apps?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 09:37:29 GMT
I have a proaudiospectrum16 (SB16 compatible) and I'm having a heck of
a time getting a basic sound editor to work. Can anyone recommend at
the very least just a basic sound editor that can export wav files?
I've already tried a few Slab, multitrack, and a couple others, but
none have allowed me to record. I guess to get going I'd have to know
what type of settings I should use - slab for example asks about
duplex/halfduplex/read/write....what should be the basic settings for
a card like that. /dev/audio seems to give me sound when I direct
sound to it and I have /dev/mixer....I just don't know what
combination of all these settings I should use. I'm able to record
with a utility called yarec but that's about it - I want to be able
to edit the sound files too.
Thanks,
-Tony
========================================================
Abbreviate - af 2 millenia, a btr wy t rd n wri.
http://www.eskimo.com/~oak/abr/
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From: Alex Kiefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Kayak XA: make soundcard work?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:56:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James wrote:
> In article <77d97t$hv7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>
> I cannot recommend the HP Kayak XA-S for a linux workstation for the
> following reasons:
>
> 2. The NCR SCSI/AMD Ether combo card requires us to use a 1.2.122 kernel.
>Note that I don't say "or later"
It works just fine with 2.0.35 (S.u.S.E. 5.3 distrubution). It uses the PCnet/PCI II
79C71A (NE2100 clone) driver. I
was unable to tget it to work under RedHat 5.2.
> 3. The Soundcard is weird. I tried to make it work. I am good at messing with
>stuff and
> making it work, but I failed with the Aztech pnp soundcard. Tossed it. BUT there
>are
> weird connectors on the Kayak, making mystery. But at least my creative card works.
I have not tried the sound yet.
I keep having problems with the video in the X Window system. It keeps totally locking
up, and I have to hit the
reset button.
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steven M. Gallo)
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium Pro?
Date: 12 Jan 1999 20:43:45 GMT
>On Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:14:10 -0600, "Jim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>Will Linux run on a Pentium Pro machine? How about a dual Pentium Pro?
>>What would be the advantages or disadvantages of running Linux on a Pentium
>>Pro/dual machine?
>>Also, will Linux run on a plain dual Pentium machine? If so, does the the
>>cpu have to be Pentium, or can you dual an AMD?
>>
>>Thanks for any information anyone can provide.
>>
>>Jim Williams
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Jim,
I have Linux running on a dual PPro 166 (RedHat 4.2 - 5.2). I haven't had
any problems at all and it moves along quite nicely. You only have to
uncomment the SMP = 1 line in the makefile, install the image & re-run lilo,
then reboot. you'll get a message that 2 processors were detected and can
get information on them from /proc/cpuinfo.
Steve
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: /usr volume out of space
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 19:50:18 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm out of space on my /usr volume (200MB) so I can't install the
> kernel source files to recompile the kernel to add masquerading
> support. My /home volume has plenty of space free (over 200MB). Is
> there a good way to borrow a bit of space from /home and give it to
> /usr without deleting partitions and reinstalling Redhat 5.2?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Paul Bartz
>
Make a symlink:
mkdir /home/src
ln -s /home/src /usr/src
Then use /usr/src/linux (now on /home) for un-rpm-ing the kernel sources and
compiling.
Success,
Rene Uittenbogaard
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From: "Patryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for Riva TNT
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:47:57 +0100
Thank you very much.
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From: Dan LaMee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: graphics card supported? sorry, wrote too soon
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:20:36 GMT
Just checked the Red Hat compatibility list...it is supported. I would be
interested to know if anyone if is using this chip and how it is working.
Dan
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From: Joe Linington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Cheap/Supported?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:20:24 -0500
Tim Holmes wrote:
> Blake Sobiloff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> :>
> :> So, is there some inexpensive interface card I can buy that is
> :> supported in Linux?
>
> : I'd double-check the supported hardware list, but Adaptec's AHA-1502B is
> : an ISA card that does Fast SCSI II and costs about $60.
>
> I saw one at CompUSA by SIIG called AP-20 PCI . This was for $60. Sounds
> good if it works. Anybody get this to work with Linux? It may be an
> Advansys...
>
> Tim Holmes
I have a Siig AP-10 for my sony SDT-5000 Dat drive but I am still looking for
someone who knows how to get it running.. Keep looking here for my messages
and you might get to see. I am considering approaching Siig themselves as
they provide support for other flavours of Unix with the cards.
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From: "Damian T. Herrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Zip 250 Parallel Port
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 16:52:05 -0500
Here's one for you. I'm getting ready to wipe away an old Win95 machine and
put Red Hat 5.2 on it, so I can do data processing from home. I have a Zip
250, and have looked over the howto's for zip installs etc, and haven't seen
any mention of the 250. The 100 install doesn't seem hard, but I am
wondering if anyone has run into any trouble with the newer Zip format. If
you have let me know, otherwise I'll just see what I can do this weekend and
be back to let you know next week. Thanks.
Damian
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From: Joe Linington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux lock's up computer completly.
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:24:07 -0500
Frank Sweetser wrote:
> Erwin Jansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I seem to have a serious problem. Whenever I try to boot linux I
> > experience fatal lock-ups. After the lock-up I need to turn of my
> > computer in order to restart the system. (reset switch doesn't bring the
> > system back to life). Mostly the lock-ups occur just during a forced
> > check of my hd or during a compilation of the kernel. It even happened
> > when I tried to gzip -d a file. I once got a stack dump during a check of
> > the hd.
>
> sounds like flaky hardware, probably the memory or cpu.
> http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11
>
> --
> Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu fsweetser at blee.net | PGP key available
> paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.0pre5ac1 i586 | at public servers
> There's certainly precedent for that already too. (Not claiming it's
> *good* precedent, mind you. :-)
> -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Flaky hardware sounds about right but maybe the motherboard. The ALI chipset has
been reported to have alot of problems under Linux.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium Pro?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:36:46 -0600
>Will Linux run on a Pentium Pro machine? How about a dual Pentium Pro?
>What would be the advantages or disadvantages of running Linux on a Pentium
>Pro/dual machine?
Linux will run on the Pentium Pro - the fact that GCC supports P6
architecture optimization makes Linux running on Penitum Pro's and Pentium
II's wonderful. Since Linux is completely a 32-bit operating system,
running Linux on a Pentium Pro will not have the problems that running
Windows 95/98 on a Pentium Pro (with 16-bit slow register accessibility,
etc.)
>Also, will Linux run on a plain dual Pentium machine? If so, does the the
>cpu have to be Pentium, or can you dual an AMD?
Linux will run on a dual Pentium machine provided you enable SMP support.
To do this, you must uncomment the SMP=1 in the Makefile for the Linux
kernel.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Software RAID on a Pentium 233?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 15:29:05 -0600
>>It really depends on what you have planned for the server. If you want it
>>to be a file server (and rarely log into the machine at the console) -
then
>>a Pentium 233 is an excellent processor. A dual-processor configuration
>>wouldn't necessarily help because of modern UDMA chipsets and the fact
that
>>the bottleneck is almost always at the ethernet card level. If you plan
on
>>using the machine to do many different tasks, consider a faster processor:
>>K6-300 is an excellent inexpensive card that can do the job quite nicely.
>
>This will be a file server for other machines in a small network (5 to 10
>Windows machines and 2 other Linux machines) running at 100 Mbit. It will
also
>serve as an X workstation for me (which is why I was considering a dual
>processor).
>
>I'm hoping that loading programs (like Microsoft Word) will be faster when
>loaded from the Linux file server since the Windows machines are older and
not
>using SCSI or Ultra DMA IDE drives. Am I being realistic?
Sort of - I think. The only machines that will truly benefit from the
increased bandwidth are the two machines that are on the 100Mbit pipe. The
10Mbit pipes has a theoretical maximum 1,000KB/s - still slower than
physical drive to memory on even older machines. And, the theoretical
maximum is rarely ever reached - even on small networks.
The secondary processor won't necessary do much good in this case. What
would _really_ help is if you had a really nice speedy primary processor and
a really nice speedy video card. If the video subsystem can handle most of
the rendering within the card itself without fetching for geometry metrics
from the main processor - CPU load as a result will be negligible. A second
processor truly benefits when your applications utilize threading across
more than one processor. While the kernel itself is good at distributing
jobs, most applications that you run are not, thus the secondary processor
would be nothing but an expensive paper weight.
If you need to use the server and want to minimize the effects of YOU using
the console - I would seriously invest in a fast, cheap processor (AMD K6-2
350) and a fast, cheap video card (nVidia Riva 128 or the TNT). You can get
a really nice nVidia Riva 128 card for about $50-60. The processor is only
about $125.
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From: Morten Lund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Helios Trust (/thrust)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:37:02 +0100
More specific:
A-trend makes the card (www.a-trend.dk)
The correct name is: Helios Voodoo Rush
Morten Lund wrote:
> Hello...
>
> before I go out bying a new graphic-card for my PC, I would like to know
> if I can use it under Linux... Unfortunately I don't have many datas on
> the, but what I do know is the name of Card: Helios Trust. Its an
> ordinary graphic card, but it alsoo have a 3DFX chip, so it will be
> voodoo compatible. it contains 6Mb of RAM pr. default, and it has an
> TV-out Interface.
>
> Does anyone know this Card, and is it supported by X. If yes, is it also
> supported by Redhat 5.1 with X version 3.3.2???
>
> Morten Lund
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From: Erwin de Beus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: replacing boot drive
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:53:24 +0100
Lars Oeschey wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> for quite a while i get the following error message on a linux box:
> kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:22, sector 2616, absolute sector
> 211461
> kernel: scsi1: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 2, lun 0, CDB: Read (6) 03
> 3a 05 02 00
>
> I assume that disk is bad, unfortunately this is the boot disk. Is there
> a way to replicate the disk to a new one, replace it with the new one
> without installing Linux new?
>
Yes, this can be done.
Connect a new disk to your computer. Let's assume it will be known as
/dev/sdb (the real name depends on how many scsi disk you have
connected). Be carefull if you have more disks connected. I would
suggest doing a full backup of your system and powering down all drives
except your boot drive and the new disk. If you blow away your data with
this excercise, well it's not my fault...... Don't say I didn't warn you
that this can be a dangerous operation if you don't excactly know what
you are doing. Read the SCSI-howto for more details on SCSI disks.
Start fdisk on your old bootdisk to look at the partition table (fdisk
/dev/sda). Next, start fdisk with 'fdisk /dev/sdb' to create a
partion table on the new disk. I think you found a swap partion and an
ext2 partion on the old disk. Create those partitions on your new disk
using fdisk and make sure that they are at least as big as the old ones
(if you get a larger disk, you can make them bigger.).
Do mkswap on any new swap partitions (if you made one) and run mke2fs on
the new ext2 partition(s).
To copy the root filesystem to a new partion do something like
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt (assuming the new root
is the first partition on your new drive)
find / -xdev -depth -print | cpio -pdvm /mnt (this will copy anything
that is on your / partition)
run lilo with the -r option like lilo -r /mnt
umount /mnt
You can repeat this process for any other partition on your faulty disk.
The lilo command should only be use on your root partition.
eg to copy home to /dev/sdb2
mount /dev/sdb2
find /home -xdev -depth -print|cpio -pdvm /mnt
umount /mnt
Good luck.
Erwin de Beus
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From: "am" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Soundcard with SPDIF I/O
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 23:02:24 +0100
hi all,
I'm looking for a high quality soundcard with SPDIF coax I/O for
Linux. So far, I've only found the TB Fiji, which seems to be supported
in RH 5.2. Does anyone have any experience with this setup (stability++) ?
Do I have other options?
thanks,
andreas.
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From: Dan LaMee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphics card supported?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 13:15:11 GMT
Thanks for the response to my last question about the hardware selection
I was looking at. Since then I've decided not to build another computer,
but use my old one (a Pentium 233MHz MMX) and upgrade it. I've got a S3
Trio 64V+ video card and am trying to find out if it's supported or not.
I know the S3 Trio 64 is supported as it is listed on the compatible
card list on the xfree86.org website. Is my card compatible with full
range of color depths. Thanks for the info.
Dan
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From: Mike Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.llinux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,alt.linux
Subject: Re: Large IDE drives
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:50:05 GMT
I think that if you make the boot partition in the first 1024 cylinders
you're ok. But I'm not
100% sure, so check the help files on lilo, linux shouldn't care what size
the drive is. Or
another route is to have a 1-2 meg dos partition that boots and loads linux
from dos (like
the autoboot.bat on redhat's install cd, in the dosutils directory).
Nick Wise wrote:
> I recently purchased a second computer to fool around with and was
> planning on putting Linux on it. The problem I have is that it has a
> 6.4 GB IDE hard disk. With the large number of cylinders and the fact
> that the partiotions do not end on "proper" boundaries, I cannot use
> LILO. Has there been a fix for this? I looked, but was unable to find
> one. It has been a while since I last installed Linux, and I don't have
> a completely up-to-date version. I was using the BARE bootdisk. Is
> there a different one I should use or a more current version?
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Nick Wise
>
> remove .no.spam to reply.
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--mikej
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is coordinator @ qualimetrics, inc.
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http://www.qualimetrics.com
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC
Date: 12 Jan 1999 14:02:32 -0500
"James Knoch Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> anyone have any experience with this card in Linux? I'm thinking about
> buying a couple for my computers at home to setup a Linux/WinNT Lan so I
> can proxy through my ISDN internal TA card.
The older FA310TX cards that had the real DEC Tulip chip in it work real fine.
However, when the DEC fab line was sold to Intel, all of the Tulip vendors
switched to clone chips, such as Lite-On, and there have been various
complaints since then. You can pick up newer drivers from the Tulip web pages:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
According the the tulip mailing list, the newer drivers fix some problems, but
some problems with clones remain (for example, the real DEC chips can do full
100 Mbits, while the clones can't get the bits to/from the wire that fast).
The tulip mailing list is at:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: Phil Houstoun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: P55T2P4 and AMD K6-2-350
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 08:35:50 -0500
Billy Boy wrote:
> Hello Roy,
> my board is rev. 3.0, CPU is k6-2-350 (CXT core) 2.2V . The system runs
> solid at
> 5x75MHz = 375 MHz and BIOS settings at 60ns .Try to run the CPU with a
> little bit higher voltage than the recommended 2.2V (max 2.4V).Use a huge
> fan and thermal grease. Somtimes this helps to get the system work stable.
>
> for 2.2V you had to set jumpers 2.5 & 2.7
> for 2.3V you had to set jumpers 2.5 & 2.8
> for 2.4V you had to set jumpers 2.7 & 2.8
>
> I'm not responsible for any damage that may result from using
> this information.
>
> Regards
> Billy
By 'stable' do you mean you've managed to do repeated kernel compiles at this
setting? BTW, I'm running at 2.3v (didn't want to use the max just yet).
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