Linux-Hardware Digest #168, Volume #9 Wed, 13 Jan 99 10:16:39 EST
Contents:
Re: Help, AMD General Protection Fault (Sven Ullmann)
Re: Linux on Pentium Pro? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: To ISA or not to ISA? ("karlo")
How about th e intel 740 AGP with 8 Meg 100Mhz ram???? ("karlo")
Re: New graphics card + XFree86 issues ("William E. Rushman")
Re: pppd dies unexpectedly??? (Tom Gelhausen)
Re: Accton MPX card !!! (Dr R Paskaramoorthy)
Re: Really weird problem with G200. (Jeanrenaud Laurent)
Re: Really weird problem with G200. (Jeanrenaud Laurent)
SCSI Drive Problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Info about Linux driver coding ("Benjamin GOLINVAUX")
Dell XPS CrystalSound (was Re: Dell Ultra ATA controller?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Jim G)
DEC ALpha and VME I/O Surplus Hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A Call To Arms (gus)
Thinkpad 755 MWave sound supported? ("PSchork")
Re: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems? (Dave Campbell)
Re: Iomega DITTO MAX woes (Bruce Barnett)
Re: Help..no vid driver for Cyrix-GX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: To ISA or not to ISA? (Randy Roberts)
Software RAID5 questions (Roland Kamke)
Re: Zip 250 Parallel Port (Kyle Dansie)
Re: Ensoniq PCI linux (Tower)
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From: Sven Ullmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, AMD General Protection Fault
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:15:50 +0100
Hi,
I had the same problems with a K62-350 and DFI-Motherboard.
The Problem was a wrong jumper-Setting on the motherboard.
So go to the AMD-Homepage to the motherboard section and find
out your correct Jumper-Settings for your processor and motherboard.
After that all should work fine.
Sven
Hrvoje Vulin schrieb:
> On Fri, 08 Jan 1999 14:49:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> :Please help, I just installed RH Linux 5.2 in a AMD K6-2 300MHz, 64 MB SDRAM
> :(pc100) with FIC-VA+503 motherboard (no overclocked here), 6.4 Gg disk.
> :
>
> I also have K6-2 300, but my problems are even bigger. Sometimes it just
> freezes, sometimes it says "unable to handle kernel paging request...",
> and sometimes it hangs during boot.
> My motherboard is IWILL XA-100 rev 1.1 with aladdin V chipset, and that
> is the problem. Linux can't reckognize the chipset, and then it all
> starts... (this occurs with 2.0.* (tried from 34-36), 2.1.* (tried from
> 126-132), and 2.2.*-pre*)...
>
> The CPU itself is great, the memory is OK (2 months of continuous use
> with win* without a crash), but it simply can't reckognize the
> chipset... (I also tried changing the memory)
>
> Unfortunately, we will have to wait for some good soul to write the
> drivers...
>
> --
> Dug studij - garancija kvalitete, by Jakov
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> by HV
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on Pentium Pro?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 20:05:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have Slackware running on a Pro-180. No problem. There was even a
switch for Pentium Pro processor choice when I recompiled the system.
Martin
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]
>
>
>
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From: "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To ISA or not to ISA?
Date: 13 Jan 1999 01:20:25 GMT
I would agree go for the a) option, ISA modem, PCI network.
I do not know why you need a PCI modem for?? unless you have no ISA ports
or have no serial ports for an external modem.
karlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
<77go2m$oil$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Randy Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : slot 3-Lucent 56k v.90 (winmodem DOH! Not supported in Linux?!)
>
> Every pice of hardware prefixed by "win" is very likely to be _not_
> supported under Linux ...
>
>
>
> : Which would you go for, a) ISA modem, PCI ethernet, or b) ISA ethernet,
> : PCI modem?
>
> a), of cource!
>
> Why the hell you would require a transfer-rate of 133MB/sec when your
> modem only can deliver 7KB/sec ??? (Ok, 14KB/sec fullduplex)
>
> And even 10MBit-Ethernet cards will need more bandwidth in
> fullduplex-mode than ISA can deliver ...
>
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From: "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How about th e intel 740 AGP with 8 Meg 100Mhz ram????
Date: 13 Jan 1999 00:53:01 GMT
Is this card any good??? I have heard that it is supported in
Xfree863.3.3.3.3
thanks karlo
Matthew Hyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I am buying a new machine that will run Linux and Win95.
>
> I need a fast video card under Win95 for doing Desk Top Publishing but
> would also like to use this card under linux (not ness at full speed).
>
> What is the best/fastest AGP video cards currently supported under Linux
> (Red Hat 5.2).
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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From: "William E. Rushman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New graphics card + XFree86 issues
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 17:24:31 -0800
I found this info useful:
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/
Cheers,
Ed
William E. Rushman
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.primenet.com/~rshmnw
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7707j2$rne$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
(text ommitted, see original message)
>the XFree86 card/server list). How is support on XFree (3.3.2.2 or later)
for
>these cards? It seems that the Riva128 is to be used with the SVGA server,
>how much of a drawback is this? How do these cards perform in general? If I
(more omitted text)
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From: Tom Gelhausen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: pppd dies unexpectedly???
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:23:11 +0100
Did you make sure that the kernel is able to insmod ppp automatically? I had
problems with that (same error message). Try to insmod manually and restart kppp...
Sebastien Caille wrote:
>
> joris dallaire wrote:
> >
> > Hello fellow Linuxians,
> > I'm trying to log on ISP using kppp; the modem connects but when kppp
> > invoques pppd, a get a message saying <pppd died unexpectedly!>. I thing
> > it's a problem of misconfiguration of pppd, but what are the conf files
> > for it?
> >
> > Can someone send me samples of working conf files for pppd? Help greatly
> > apppreciated. Thank u
> > --
> > Joris Dallaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ICQ:14881544 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > http://www3.sympatico.ca/joris.dallaire/
> > ................................................................
>
> If you use a 2.1 or 2.2 kernel with pppd version 2.2.0f, have a look in
> linux/Documentation/networking/ppp.txt
>
> The error message I had in /var/log/messages was something like
> 'ppp0 : ioctl (SIOCADDRT) : network is down'
>
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ||
> >>>>>>>>> mmmmmmmooooooooooooooooooing >>>>
> crash >|
> aie le
> mur ||
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From: Dr R Paskaramoorthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accton MPX card !!!
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:28:30 -0200
Bernard Varaine wrote:
>
> I cannot mamage to have this ISA card recognised by the Kernel.
>
> ahve tried latest kernel, isapnp etc.. but no luck
>
> any of you had experience with this kind of card ?
>
> regards
>
> Bernard
Bernard,
try ne2000 pci for this card. I just now did an FTP installation of
RH5.2 using the above setting.
Hope this helps.
RP
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From: Jeanrenaud Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,de.comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Really weird problem with G200.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 11:57:53 +0100
Hello,
For the two colors icons on Netscape, i have resolved the same problem. He comes
when the depth color are in 24 bits mode.
Try to turn your depth color to 16 or 32 bits.
Sorry for my very bad english!!!
Lolo.
Tabman a �crit :
>
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From: Jeanrenaud Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,de.comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Really weird problem with G200.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:01:54 +0100
Hello,
(Cette fois ci en fran�ais)
A propos du probl�me des icones de Netscape en noir et blanc, j'ai remarqu�
qu'il aparaissait uniquement quand la G200 �tait en en mode 24 bits. Essaye de
la faire passer en 16 ou 32 bits. Chez moi cela a r�solu le probl�me.
Laurent
Tabman a �crit :
> Hi folks.
>
> I have this really strange problem with my Millennium G200 running in Linux.
> The icons in Netscape Navigator ( the ones on the toolbar, etc. Even the
> Netscape icon in the top right corner ) are in black and white, but
> everything else is in perfect colour ! Even Navigator's start up page, which
> shows the Netscape logo, displays everything correctly ! No joke. It's just
> the icons.
>
> Also, when I play a MPEG in xanim, the MPEG is played in a screwed up way.
> It looks almost like playing a 4:2:2 Y'PrPb clip as though it were an RGB
> clip. That is to say, the clip is played as though xanim thinks the frames
> are larger than they actually are, and that the colourspace is RGB when it's
> in fact in Y'PrPb. As a result, the frames are tiled ( 3 frames
> side-by-side. The height seems OK, though ) , and show up in black and white
> with a very low resolution.
>
> I know the MPEG is OK because I run the same MPEG on my old machine, and
> it runs OK ( I mounted my new system's partition via NFS on my old machine,
> and then ran xanim with the version of the MPEG that's on the new system's
> partition. )
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI Drive Problem
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 12:37:00 GMT
Hi,
I having a SCSI Sence Key 02 not ready error now. Anyone knows what's is Sence
key error?
--Gary
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From: "Benjamin GOLINVAUX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,be.comp.os.linux,fido.belg.linux,fr.comp.os.linux,fr.misc.bavardages.linux,linux.debian,linux.debian.admintool,linux.debian.devel,linux.debian.doc,linux.debian.faq,linux.debian.french,linux
Subject: Info about Linux driver coding
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 14:31:18 +0100
Hi all...
I am looking for information on how drivers work under linux (particular.
audio drivers) and how to write them...
(how to write an interrupt handler, when it is called, how are the processes
scheduled, ...)
Any book or web resource would be greatly appreciated... Please note that
I've never done any kernel programming...
Thanks
Benjamin GOLINVAUX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dell XPS CrystalSound (was Re: Dell Ultra ATA controller?)
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:41:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Deiss wrote:
>
> > I'm considering buying a Dell Dimension XPS R, and I'm wondering if anyone
> > has successfully installed Linux on one of these systems.
> >
> > In particular I read on the RedHat 5.2 hardware compatibility list that
> > some Ultra ATA controllers are not supported. I then noticed that some
> > Dell's have an 'Enhanced EIDE S.M.A.R.T. II Ultra DMA' blah blah blah HD
> > controller. I'm not sure this even applies to the Dimension series . . .
> >
> > Any know compatibilities/incompatibilities?
> >
> > TIA,
> > Chris
>
> Chris,
>
> I'm writing this under Caldera 1.3 on a 3 week old XPS R 450. Installation
> was no problem, everything worked fine. The sole problem I'm having is
> getting the integrated Crystal sound to fire up. Everything else is fine.
>
> Steve
>
>
Steve,
Did you ever get this to work? I have an XPS R400 and I haven't been able
to get the sound working on it either. I'd love to get some pointers on
this.
-joachim
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Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim G)
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:57:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Nic Holbrook" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a creative modemblaster k56flex that I got for free. It is a
>pci/internal modem. I can't seem to get linux to even talk to it at all.
>Is this a winmodem, and am I wasting my time? Is the pci thing going to be
>a prob? I need a little push in the right direction.
There are only a few 56KBPS chip sets (virtually all 56k modems use one of
these few) - I suspect that the ones on your modem are either in the Lucent
164x family or the rockwell winmodem family. The web site
<www.modemblaster.com> gives nothing about the technology actually
used on the card nor how to use the cards with Linux (this is of course,
a big surprise to me).
Once you identify the chip set used for your modem, you can search the
internet to see if anyone has a driver for that chip set. I suspect that
there isn't one.
If your modem has a lucent chip set and you are handy with reverse
engineering and know something about the internals of win nt, you might
be able to use the Lucent win NT driver and the ISAPNP driver from
Win NT to design a PNP Linux driver for your modem. I reccomend these
Win NT drivers because win NT is not very PNP capable out of the box - you
need to install the isapnp driver and a win NT (not win 9x) driver. For a
long time lucent only had win 9x drivers. Recently they added Win NT
drivers, but they hid them in the win 9x install package! If I hadn't know
both the win 9x and the win NT driver architecture, I would never have found
them. Many modem makers strip out the win NT drivers from the lucent
driver SDK and only ship the win 9x drivers.
Good luck with your modem. I suspect you will find it will work well
with win 9x, may not work with win NT and probably will never work
with Linux.
Jim G.
P.S. I haven't seen your card, but I would expect that it contains a PCI
interface chip, a modem DSP chip and few tele interface components.
The driver has to talk to the DSP chip through PCI chip - it
generally uses a proprietary protocol. The driver impliments the
hayes protocol interface that comm program expect. The driver
may also do some of the compression and error controll.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.forsale.computers,comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.vms
Subject: DEC ALpha and VME I/O Surplus Hardware
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 07:31:13 GMT
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- PMC to PCMCIA cards
- Flash Disks
- AUI to BNC and AUI to UTP transceivers
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Re: A Call To Arms
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 10:02:46 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PHIL SMITH wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Anderson wrote:
> >Why not market to that sector that is *growing* the fastest?
[Much Snipped]
>
> Most Linux users want free software, after all, that's spirit of it to
> begin with, open and free. I just don't think the market is willing
> to spend enough money to lure a lot of commercial developers. Yes, I
> know the list of commercial developers is growing for Linux, but for
> every one, there are probably hundreds for Windows.
>
> Just my humble opinion...
>
> Phil
My humble opinion is that *if* someone like the producers of Quake etc.
is open to producing their product for Linux, and it outperforms the
same game on a Win** platform, then some strategic marketing will do a
wonder for the linux community.
Although I have not really purchased Linux software (I have purchased
SuSE 5.3, but not any other "applications") I believe that the gaming
community who love living at the bleeding edge of technology will adopt
Linux as a real games platform. This will provide an image of Linux as
"The best games platform" and the OS will get a lot of exposure. Perhaps
not a good way of doing it!
The point though, is that commercially avilable applications are better
than no applications. If there is a commercial application, it will not
be long until the free one follows anyway.
Just my $0.01.
gus
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Reply-To: "PSchork" <pschork at jps.net>
From: "PSchork" <pschork at jps.net>
Subject: Thinkpad 755 MWave sound supported?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:36:40 -0800
Does anyone know if RH 5.2 supports MWave sound hardware in some of the
older Thinkpads?
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From: Dave Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux v2.1.132 and 2940U/UW Scsi boot problems?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:22:00 -0700
On 8 Jan 1999, M Sweger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Has anybody gotten Linux v2.1.132 working with the Scsi 2940U/UW Dual
> adapter with SCSI Bios v1.33S2 and a 9.1Gig Western Digital hard drive?
> Presently, I'm using DosLinux (the latest) and on bootup, the SCSI card
> seems to be recognized for SCSIDs configurations (such as terminations)
> and interrupts, but hangs forever and never sees the 9.1Gig WD hard drive
> on SCSID0. Are there still problems with the 2940 SCSI driver?
> The SCSI card has the AIC 7895 chipset too.
>
>
snip
I had the same problem with a 2940UW I bought about 6-7 weeks ago. What
ever the current 2.1 series kernel was at that time wouldn't boot with the
scsi card in, got into an endless timeout-reset loop. I wrung my hands
for about 2 weeks then upped the kernel to 2.1.34 and have had nothing but
joy since. I'm not really sure about what kernel versions did and didn't
work with the 2940UW, but the point is a move up to the latest (2.2pre5 as
of now) may be all you need.
Dave Campbell
Raytheon Missile Systems Co.
Tucson AZ, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
520-794-4879
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.tape,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Iomega DITTO MAX woes
Date: 13 Jan 1999 03:07:46 GMT
Thanks for the help. I am getting closer.
I can load the ftape, ztape, and bpck-fdc modules.
However, when I try to do anything with the device:
mt -f /dev/ftape status
/dev/ftape: Device not configured
It's rft0. I tried other devices as well (dft0, etc.)
Also, when I execute in the ftape/modules directory, i.e.:
insmod ./ftape.o ft_fdc_driver=bpck-fdc,none,none,none ft_tracings=3,3,3,3,3
insmod ./zftape.o ft_major_device_number=27
insmod ./bpck-fdc.o
The system log shows:
kernel: ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98
kernel:
kernel: (c) 1993-1996 Bas Laarhoven
kernel: (c) 1995-1996 Kai Harrekilde-Petersen
kernel: (c) 1996-1998 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kernel:
kernel: QIC-117 driver for QIC-40/80/3010/3020/Ditto 2GB/MAX floppy tape drives.
kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36
kernel: installing QIC-117 floppy tape hardware drive ...
kernel: ftape_init @ 0x020441b0.
kernel: zftape for ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98
kernel: (c) 1996, 1997 Claus-Justus Heine ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
kernel: vfs interface for ftape floppy tape driver.
kernel: Support for QIC-113 compatible volume table.
kernel: Compiled for Linux version 2.0.36 with versioned symbols
kernel: [000] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - zft_init @ 0x0207698c.
kernel: [001] zftape-init.c (zft_init) - installing zftape VFS interface for ftape
driver ....
kernel: bpck-fdc.c: bpck_fdc_register @ 0x0201f3a8
kernel: [002] fdc-io.c (fdc_register_R3448e164) - Probing for bpck-fdc tape drive
slot 0.
kernel: [003] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_probe) - Bpck parallel port tape drive
interface for ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98.
kernel: [004] bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_query_proto) - Got 0xf8, expected either 0xc0
or 0x40.
kernel: [005] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_probe) - Bpck parallel port tape drive
interface for ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98.
kernel: [006] bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_query_proto) - Got 0xf8, expected either 0xc0
or 0x40.
kernel: [007] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_probe) - Bpck parallel port tape drive
interface for ftape v4.03-pre-2 11/05/98.
kernel: [008] 0 fdc-parport.h (ft_parport_claim) - Unable to grab address 0x03bc
for <NULL>.
kernel: [009] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_grab) - ft_parport_claim(fdc, &bpck->parinfo)
failed: -16.
kernel: [010] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_probe) - bpck_fdc_grab(fdc) failed: -16.
kernel: [011] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_detect) - can't find bpck interface for ftape id
0.
kernel: [012] 0 bpck-fdc.c (bpck_fdc_detect) - ft_parport_probe(fdc, &bpck->parinfo)
failed: -6.
This is obviously an error, but I'm not sure what to do to fix it.
Any clues? Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help..no vid driver for Cyrix-GX
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 03:07:41 GMT
In article <77987c$pnk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"AllenF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Apparently Linux 5.2 doesn't have video drivers
> for the Cyrix 233mhz-MediaGX-MMX processor.
> This cpu has onboard/integreted video and audio. There
> is no video card.
> Am I going too have to replace my cpu and MB
> with something linux supports or is there a
> driver out there somewhere?
>
> Appreciate any help.
>
>
SuSE (www.suse.com) has developed a video driver for the Cyrix MediaGX CPU (it
also supports the SiS 5598 and 6296(?) chipsets with built-in video). It is
available at their web site and is included in their distribution from version
5.3 onward. I believe they've also contributed this Xserver to the Xfree86
group (www.xfree86.org) and you can also get it there. You also might be
interested to know that Alan Cox of Linux kernel-development fame has, among
others, a Cyrix MediaGX-based PC on his desk (www.uk.linux.org).
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From: Randy Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To ISA or not to ISA?
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 18:51:41 -0800
Thank you for the responses...looks like option a) wins, and never should have
been in doubt, to say the least :), doh?! Great question "Why do you need PCI
modems?" Sounds like, from these responses, they are a waste of a PCI slot.
karlo wrote:
> I would agree go for the a) option, ISA modem, PCI network.
>
> I do not know why you need a PCI modem for?? unless you have no ISA ports
> or have no serial ports for an external modem.
>
> karlo
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
> <77go2m$oil$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Randy Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > : slot 3-Lucent 56k v.90 (winmodem DOH! Not supported in Linux?!)
> >
> > Every pice of hardware prefixed by "win" is very likely to be _not_
> > supported under Linux ...
> >
> >
> >
> > : Which would you go for, a) ISA modem, PCI ethernet, or b) ISA ethernet,
> > : PCI modem?
> >
> > a), of cource!
> >
> > Why the hell you would require a transfer-rate of 133MB/sec when your
> > modem only can deliver 7KB/sec ??? (Ok, 14KB/sec fullduplex)
> >
> > And even 10MBit-Ethernet cards will need more bandwidth in
> > fullduplex-mode than ISA can deliver ...
> >
> > --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roland Kamke)
Subject: Software RAID5 questions
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 10:02:03 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I used mdutils version 0.41-4 (SuSE 5.3, kernel 2.0.35) on a software
RAID5 consisting of 3 SCSI disks (/dev/sd[abc]6) so far.
Are there any tools for recovering the RAID after a disk failure?
I simulated a failure by unplugging power supply of the 2nd disk (sdb6)
and booted the system.
Two disks were reported to be present: First disk sda (OK), and third
disk as sdb (WRONG, should be sdc). (Is there a way how to change
this??)
Is there a way to recover the RAID content as it was before this crash
now? How to do so?
Do I have to change my config file before running ckraid?
Which actions do I have to take after ckraid?
Is there a newer mdtools version available? (Perhaps part of the SuSE
6.0 distribution?)
Reading the Software-RAID Howto (v0.51) I wonder what the exact
difference between disk and power failure is. Is disk power cut off (as
described above) not a disk failure?
Thanx for your help
. . . Roland
Roland Kamke
Adacom GmbH
Gotenring 19
50679 Cologne
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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:51:13 -0700
From: Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Zip 250 Parallel Port
The ZIP250 works fine in Linux. Just load the IMM driver, same as the
Zip Plus.
I am in the process of updating the HOWTO now.
http://www.njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive-4.html#ss4.8
Cheers,
Kyle
--
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Linux Rules Iomega Zip Drive Mini - HOWTO
-
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
or
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tower)
Subject: Re: Ensoniq PCI linux
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 04:50:42 GMT
The Ensoniq Sounscape is an ISA card, and is *much* different from the
Ensoniq Audio PCI. The soundscape driver will not work with that
card.
On Sat, 09 Jan 1999 09:35:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>HElp :-) ! First, excuse me for my english ( I'm french ) I beguin linux (
>I have the slackware 3.5 ) and I can't Configure my ensoniq soundscape pci
>card. When I try to use X11amp ( for example, it's a MP client ), he says "
>unable to open the audio device" and " unable to reset the audio device "
>
>Please help me
>
>
>
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