Linux-Hardware Digest #745, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 14:14:11 EST
Contents:
HELP!- Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (1371) MIDI (mvrao)
Another MO question... (Vincent Lai)
Re: Does Encore n/w card support linux (Kishore)
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive (Brett W. McCoy)
Adaptec Ethernet Cards (Nate Bennett)
Re: Linux and 486 (Drake Diedrich)
Re: GNOME ... ? START ME UP! ("Alien")
Re: optra e+ ("T. Tjioe")
TNT video card and Linux 5.2 redhat (Elbert Clarke)
Re: PPro 200 w/ 256K vs. Celeron 333A (BL)
Re: HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86 ("Alien")
WindowMaker upgrade's broken my themes..... ("Gary J Sanderson")
Teles 16.3c ISDN card + kernel 2.0.36 (JALinuxUser)
Re: Running CD-Rom of Soundcard (Paul Mc Kenna)
Re: No hassle sound card for Redhat (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC
[Student])
Linux + RS485 (Sebastien HUET)
ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?! ("Andrew Roberts")
D-Link DFE-530TX Anybody? ("Minh Doan")
Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (david parsons)
Re: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?! ("Andrew Roberts")
home lan/server advice (Willow)
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From: mvrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP!- Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (1371) MIDI
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:01 GMT
The sound is working (incl recording). But MIDI is not working at all. I
get the error /dev/sequencer not supported with playmidi.
So I moved /dev/sequencer and linked it to /dev/dsp. Now I get the error
no sound card found when I do playmidi ! Sound (.wav files) still work.
I am using the 1371 driver that comes with linux (RH 5.2)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vincent Lai)
Subject: Another MO question...
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:03 GMT
I am using Fujitsu slim FN640 turbo MO and RH5.2 Kernal 2.0.36.
Now I can mount my MO ... but I face another problem ...
Can I use 640 MB MO block size 2048 to boot up my Linux??
If Yes, how can I do that...?
Thx.
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From: Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does Encore n/w card support linux
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:04 GMT
Of course it does
Kishore wrote:
> Hi Folks,
> I fear,
>
> Does Encore ethernet card support linux?
> If so can you guide for a place to get the drivers.
> And Is it easy to load on Cyrix does it have any problems?
> Thanks for the input.
> -Kishore
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brett W. McCoy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:54:07 -0500, Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, there are several reasons I want to move it. First of all, it works
>perfectly, second of all, the drive that it's currently on is slow and very
>old and I don't really trust it anymore. That and I don't really have room
>in the case for it with these new drives. I suppose I could do it that way,
>but like I said, it's a server so I don't really want it down that long... I
>was hoping I could prepare the second disk, reboot and have it ready to go
>in a few minutes...
At the very least, you will need to create a swap partition and such.
And there's the issue of the boot partition... I'd do a minimal
installation, then move your old system over (i.e., /etc, /home, etc.)
partition by partition. Make sure you make a good back up of everything
first!
--
Brett W. McCoy
http://www.lan2wan.com/~bmccoy/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nate Bennett)
Subject: Adaptec Ethernet Cards
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if there is or will be any future support for Adaptec
Mult-port ethernet cards? If you dont' know what is is I'm talking
about take a look at
http://www.adaptec.com/products/solutions/fastethernet.html
It looks like it would be a very good way to increase one's ethernet
bandwidth or even multi-homing a Linux box w/o having to use several
ethernet cards.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Drake Diedrich)
Subject: Re: Linux and 486
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Mar 1999 15:57:41 GMT, Geoff Short <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>:
>: I think not. An old ISA nic card on a 486 will be damned lucky to do
>: 200KB/sec in the configuration you discribe. Expect some serious slowdowns
I've been using an old 486DX2/66 with a pair of c. 1990 Western
Digital cards (since bought by SMC) for a couple of years and get from
700-800 Kbps throughput with heavy filtering. Not all ISA cards are
equal. I suspect NE2000's would have been much slower, especially with
two of them running. WD's are memory mapped while NE2000's are I/O
port devices and require more cycles to copy into and out of.
Look for memcpy_toio() and memcpy_fromio() in the source or a message
like: "eth0: 3c503 - 8kB RAM, 8kB shared mem window at 0xcc000-0xcdfff."
in syslog to determine whether your card is memory mapped.
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From: "Alien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GNOME ... ? START ME UP!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:16 GMT
At /etc/X11/xinit/Xclients I add a case for Gnome to start gnome-session.
At /root, edit file ".wm_style" and change it from FVWM95 to Gnome. then
save it and run startx. That's it.
Alien
Jim Smith 撰寫於文章 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Igor Raznatovic wrote:
>
>> I just intsalled GNOME on my Red Hat 5.2 box. Problem is I cant start it
>> up. Somebody in a chat room told me to put panel in xinitrc or to type it
in
>> xterm. I tried and I was not satisfied...why? That is not the full
desktop.
>> Then I found out about gnome-session. A document on Gnome site said to
>> include it in xinitrc and I did. But I got only plain ol' X (without a
>> window manager as I set it up). I typed in xterm gnome-session and this
is
>> what I got:
>>
>> Priority 00 : Starting Id = default0
>> Priority 00 : Cloning Id = default0
>> Priority 00 : Registering Id = (null)
>> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
>> [root@igor bin]# ICE default IO error handler doing on exit(), pid = 285,
>> errno= 2
>>
>> Give me a hint...It 's not that I know a lot about it...
>
>Don't feel like your alone. I get essentially the same thing.
>
>SESSION_MANAGER=local/localhost.localdomain:/tmp/.ICE-unix/417,tcp/localhos
t.localdomain:1037
>
>Priority 00 : Starting Id = default0
>Priority 00 : Cloning Id = default0
>Priority 00 : Registering Id = (null)
>Segmentation fault
>
>It doesn't help to start it in the .xinitrc. Still no go.
>
>I'm running a P60,, 80M, RH5.2, kernel 2.2.3, Enlightenment WM.
>
>Jim
>
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From: "T. Tjioe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: optra e+
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:18 GMT
Todd L. Cohen wrote in message <7c45mi$b7o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>printer and I'm having a hard time finding one that 1) works well with
>linux and 2) is relativly cheap (under $400 or so)
The E+ is a PCL printer, and should function fine with a generic PCL printer
description, like the HP laserjet //. I think with any *NIX derivation,
it's better to go with an inexpensive PostScript printer though.
You may want to look at the new Lexmark Optra E310, which has full PS Level
2 emulation, 8ppm, USB and parallel ports as standard. - MSRP is $400.
Street price should be slightly lower. This printer replaces the Ep, which
was essentially the E+ with a special PostScript 2 emulation SIMM inside. I
know a kid at school that has one of these running under Linux too. You
might still be able to find the Ep at a good price online.
My Optra RT+ worked perfectly under Caldera, and Irix 5.3 - in the
Postscript emulation mode.
Cya,
-T
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clarkson University
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From: elbertc**@home.com (Elbert Clarke)
Subject: TNT video card and Linux 5.2 redhat
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:52:55 GMT
Reply-To: elbertc**@home.com
Hi,
Anyone have redhat linux 5.2 and the diamond viper 550 card (TNT
based) and successfully upgraded XFree86 to ver 3.3.3.1?
I'm having one hell of a time with this... due in part to my lack of
knowledge of linux and poor documentation.
Brief details.. I've downloaded the files from the XFree86.org site
and have run their suggested method for updating...
Either the documention is lacking??? or I've screwed up somewhere...
I cant star XFree now.. I get a msg the says "couldn't determine where
you have Xfree86 installed. If you have XFree86 properly installed,
set the XWINHOME environment variable to point to the parent dir of
the XFree86 bin dir.
Well how the hell do you do this and I wonder if this will be the
magic cure? Not sure if I'll be "playing" around with this OS much
longer if I have to jump through so many hurdles to get my hardware to
work properly.
Anyone upgraded their ver of XFree86 to the 3.3.3.1 ver with this card
and had it work ok... If so what did you do? any editing of files
to go along with this? Better instructions would be appreciated from
one who has not had any experience with unix or linux.
I've started reading one the "thick" books dealing with Linux but so
far the solution has not "appeared"
--
Elbert Clarke
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: PPro 200 w/ 256K vs. Celeron 333A
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:09 GMT
if you can hack the celeron to SMP and even overclock it, it can BLOW AWAY the
p-pro.
my work system (previous job) was the 512k ppro200 with 256meg edo ram.
my home system is a dual celeron 300a o/c at 450. the compile time on the
recent kernel (keeping build options the same on both systems) was:
single ppro 200/512k = 8 minutes
dual cel 450/128k = 2 minutes
single cel 450/128k = 4 minutes
so the celeron system is about twice as fast as the ppro, doing the same
kernel build.
I was shocked how long the 2.2 kernel took to build on the ppro. and that
chip alone was about $1k and the mobo was about $600 or so, just 2 yrs ago ;-)
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: All things other than the CPU being equal, which is faster under a 32 bit
: operating system (Linux):
: Pentium Pro 200 with 256K cache (overclocked to 233Mhz)
: or
: Celeron 333A with 128K cache (overclocked to 375Mhz)
: The PPro is on a SuperMicro P6SAS with 72MB EDO (soon to be 104MB), and the
: Celery is on an Abit BH6 with 160MB of PC100 SDRAM. The BH6 has faster
: memory speed, but I'm not sure if it makes up for the larger cache and 32
: bit optimization of the PPro. My main concern is compile speed.
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From: "Alien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP! Mouse not working in Xfree86
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:19 GMT
I have a same MS 2-button PS2 mouse like yours. While I was installing the
RH5.2, I use the wrong protocol. After installing, I have to run
mouseconfig to select the right protocol--Generic Mouse (PS2) for it. If
you run stratx immediately, the mouse wouldn't work. I have to re-run
XConfigurator to setup the X-windows again. Then the mouse would work. You
may want to try this.
jsf
Josh Miller 撰寫於文章 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Have you tried editing the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config in the mouse
section...
>the line
># Emulate3Buttons
>You may need to just remove the hash mark. worked for me on one of my mice.
You could also be using
>the wrong mouse protocol... but who knows.
>
>Med Bennett wrote:
>>
>> I am having problems similar to that described by Chad Dale in an
>> earlier post. When I start Xfree86, the mouse cursor starts in the
>> middle of the screen, but any movement of the mouse causes the cursor to
>> jump to the upper left corner and stay there, or twitch slightly, but
>> it's basically useless. I have a very standard Microsoft 2-button PS/2
>> mouse (v. 2.0A) attached to a Dell P133, 48MB RAM. I've tried various
>> mouse settings via mouseconfig to no avail. When I kill X with
>> Ctrl-Alt-Bksp, I see on the screen the message "Warning: /dev/mouse
>> unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device)".
>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions -
>>
>> Med Bennett
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From: "Gary J Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WindowMaker upgrade's broken my themes.....
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:51:55 GMT
Since upgrading to the new version of WindowMaker my background images don't
update when I change to a different theme. I've checked that libjpeg's
installed which it is, so what am I missing?
Also when I try and run wmakerconf it dumps out with a 'sigsev caught' error
and mentioning something like 'no crontab for user xxxx' not sure of the
<exact> terminology (I'm having to use my Windoze box at the mo).
Please help, Gary.
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From: JALinuxUser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Teles 16.3c ISDN card + kernel 2.0.36
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:25 GMT
Hi,
Wonder if any of u can help me out with a little problem i'm
having with my Teles ISDN card & Linux...
I can't seem to get the kernel to recognize the interrupt
i've set for the card... here's the details..
I'm using kernel 2.0.36 and a Teles 16.3c ISA PnP card...
Here's the relevant section of my /usr/src/linux/.config :-
=========================================
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_ISDN=m
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_PPP_VJ=y
CONFIG_ISDN_MPP=y
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_ISDN_DRV_HISAX=m
CONFIG_HISAX_EURO=y
CONFIG_HISAX_16_0=y
CONFIG_HISAX_16_3=y
CONFIG_HISAX_TELES3C=y
CONFIG_HISAX_TELESPCI=y
CONFIG_HISAX_S0BOX=y
=========================================
I've compiled the ISDN subsystem as a module and also the HiSax drivers
for Teles 16xx all as modules.
Booted up with the new kernel
Here's my /etc/isapnp.conf file :-
=========================================
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
(CONFIGURE TAG2620/209717183 (LD 0
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x0300))
(INT 0 (IRQ 10 (MODE +E)))
(NAME "TAG2620/209717183[0]{TELES.S0/16.3c Plug&Play}")
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
=========================================
Did an "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" and got the following :-
========================================= lspci not found, so PCI resource
conflict not checked Board 1 has Identity bd 0c 80 07 bf 20 26 27 50:
TAG2620 Serial No 209717183 [checksum bd] TAG2620/209717183[0]{TELES.S0/16.3c
Plug&Play}: Port 0x300; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
=========================================
OK.. no problem so far... then i did the modprobe hisax like this and
got the results as follows:-
=========================================
# modprobe hisax type=14 protocol=2 irq=10 io=0x300
ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.44.2.9/1.41.2.11/1.48.2.27/none/none loaded
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 1
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 2
Teles 16.3c: IRQ(10) getting no interrupts during init 3
HiSax: Card Teles 16.3c not installed !
Initialization of hisax failed
ISDN-subsystem unloaded
=========================================
Something's not right here... can't pinpoint exactly where it is... tried
putting the card to another PC but got the same results... MAYBE it could
be the card being faulty OR something else... hope u can help out here..
Thanx ;) ;)
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From: Paul Mc Kenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Running CD-Rom of Soundcard
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Your CD-ROM may not even be an IDE device. Is there actually a master/slave/cable
> select jumper on it? Don't forget that the Sony/Panasonic(? one of those might be
> Mitsumi, I don't remember) CD-ROM interfaces also use 40-pin connectors. What speed
> is your CD-ROM? Generally speaking, if it's 4x or less, there's a good possibility
> that it's a proprietary interface and you're just wasting mental clock cycles. :-)
I am sure that the drive is IDE. Up until this 486, I have never used a CD which didn't
attach to the IDE controller. Also the sound card connector is marked IDE. And as I
said, this drive was working with this sound card under windows 95. ( I think the drive
was originally attached to an old Pentium I had)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James McBoyle - Sun Ireland - SunSoft ELC
[Student])
Subject: Re: No hassle sound card for Redhat
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article ln@localhost, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller) writes:
>I have an old Pro Audio Spectrum 16 (PAS16) in my system that I have not been
>able to get to run. So, I want to get a new sound card.
>
>I don't have many requirements for the sound card, since I don't play any
>games on the machine. Just something to make some noise every once in a
>while, like while using TiK (AIM client in Tcl/Tk).
>
>However, one of the requirements that I have is that the card just plug in,
>configure the kernel appropriately, compile, load and boot. That is, I don't
>want to fiddle with PnP sound cards, and I'm out of PCI slots, so it has to be
>ISA. Any recommendations?
>
>On the other hand, if you know how to configure the PAS16 to run with the
>2.0.36 kernel on Redhat 5.1, I'll be happy to listen to recommendations.
>
Have you tried using the OSS (Open Sound System) utility from 4Front
Technologies? (http://www.4front-tech.com) It sits in the background and
handles any sound calls instead of the kernel having to do so. It supports
the PAS16, although they do say you can't have more than one in your system,
and I'm sure the 20 US dollar registration would be cheaper than getting a new
sound card :-) Before you ask, no I don't work for them, but am a very happy
customer of theirs (happy because I _really_ don't want to recompile a very
nicely working kernel<g>) The OSS is shareware, so you can even try it to see
if it fits your system before having to shell out any cash (works for 20
minutes before needing re-initialisation ( ./soundoff then ./soundon )
Anyway, I hope this helps.
Have Fun
Jim
--
James McBoyle
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
...the Goddess could not spend all Her time persuading the Kings and Queens of
the world of the idiocy of war. Therefore She invented tacticians...
(Diane Duane, The Door into Shadow)
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From: Sebastien HUET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux + RS485
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:33 GMT
-- I am looking for experience using linux + rs485/422 --
someone ?
Regards.
Seb
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From: "Andrew Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:35 GMT
I have installed Redhat Linux 5.2 And everything is (appears :-) ) to be
working fine exvcept my graphics card under X-Windows
It is an ATI Xpert@Play PCI 4MB and even when I select Xpert@Play from the
list of cards on installation (and select my Samsung SyncMaster 3Ne from the
list) I have to manually choose screen modes and do select all relevent
ones. However the system will only boot into 640x480 no matter what. It
tells me there is no setting info for 1024x768 and 800x600 or something.
Does anyone know how to install this card under said version of Linux. As
it is a popular card I would have thought this was a common problem. Any
help would be appreciated. I don't mind reinstalling the whole of Linux as
it only take s afew minutes.
An email reply would be appreciated if possible, and in case you need to
know the full machine spec is:
K6 300 on a Tekram board with 512K cache
64Mb SDRAM
3.5Gb IDE UDMA Drive (450Mb partition for Linux and 50Mb partition for swap)
Internal 24x CD-Rom
Internal IDE Zip drive
ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 (Haven't a clue where to start on that but not
bothered about sound anyway :-) )
ISA Rockwell Chipset v90 modem
Realtek network card
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From: "Minh Doan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link DFE-530TX Anybody?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:21 GMT
Just wondering if anybody who uses the D-Link DFE-530TX 10/100 Fast Ethernet
adapter with RedHat (I have 5.2) could tell me how they set it up?
I can't seem to find it among the network adapters cards available.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Migrating RH Linux 5.2 to new hard drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Greg Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hey fellow Linux users! I'm going to be moving my current RedHat 5.2 Linux
> server to a new hard drive. Everything in the system is going to be the
Simple. Setup the new drive with fdisk, etc and mount it under /mnt.
Mount all the partitions there, just like it'd be if you booted
up.. you know, /mnt /mnt/usr or whatever you like. Then do
cd /
find . | grep -v /mnt | grep -v /proc | cpio -dpmu /mnt
You should be able to edit your lilo.conf to point to the new drive,
then run lilo, then boot the new drive. This has worked for me, but I
may have left something out, so check the man pages and THINK before
you act.
robert
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http://www.linuxwizard.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> "David A. Frantz" wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Robert;
>> >
>> > Robert Krawitz wrote in message ...
>> > >"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > >
>> > >> Try this site http://humbolt.geo.uu.nl/Linux-MM/more_than_1GB.html to
>> > gets a
>> > >> little info on the current I386 capability. Nothing specific on XEON
>> > >> there, well at least I didn't find anything. Sounds like your trying
>> > to
>> > >> apply a low end (Yes I mean the XEON) PC chip to a project that requires
>> > a
>> > >> 64 bit CPU. You may want to consider an Alpha, or a POWERPC box from
>> > IBM.
>> > >
>> > >I think this is a tad unfair. I'm disappointed that Linus doesn't
>> > >want to enable large memory addressing on the x86.
>
>i can understand linus completely. do you remember 16 bit segment
>hell?
How long does it take to fill up a 64k code+data segment? Now
how long does it take to fill up a 4gb code+data segment? I'm
sure that one of the days we'll see programs that are larger
than this, but it may not be for a couple of year yet. If we
can live with a maximum of 4gb of space per program (that's 4
times the current limitation, 2 times if you do kernel hacks)
the kernel will be the only entity that needs to worry about
segment+offset addresses.
segment+offset addresses are a bit of a pain, but if you're
programming in a higher level language they certainly aren't more of
a pain than the 68ks separate address and data registers were.
>> There are multiple reasons for and against going with an Alpha or PPC
>> vs. Intel... on of which is *all* the other hardware is Intel x86 based
>> and having *binary* compatibility is important.
>
>who cares about binary compatibility? just recompile!
And recertify. So you'll lose three months doing the certification,
but your competitors will gladly stand down and not take advantage
of you being out of the market.
____
david parsons \bi/ And I have a lovely bridge in Portland, Oregon, that
\/ I'd like to sell. It's being refurbished, and it's
priced to move!
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From: "Andrew Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert under Linux only does 640 x 480 ?!?!
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:45 GMT
Forgot to give my email address!
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Sorry you just can't hit reply, I'm using someone else's setup to access
NG's.
Andrew Roberts wrote in message <7clb36$52a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have installed Redhat Linux 5.2 And everything is (appears :-) ) to be
>working fine exvcept my graphics card under X-Windows
>
>It is an ATI Xpert@Play PCI 4MB and even when I select Xpert@Play from the
>list of cards on installation (and select my Samsung SyncMaster 3Ne from
the
>list) I have to manually choose screen modes and do select all relevent
>ones. However the system will only boot into 640x480 no matter what. It
>tells me there is no setting info for 1024x768 and 800x600 or something.
>Does anyone know how to install this card under said version of Linux. As
>it is a popular card I would have thought this was a common problem. Any
>help would be appreciated. I don't mind reinstalling the whole of Linux as
>it only take s afew minutes.
>
>An email reply would be appreciated if possible, and in case you need to
>know the full machine spec is:
>
>K6 300 on a Tekram board with 512K cache
>64Mb SDRAM
>3.5Gb IDE UDMA Drive (450Mb partition for Linux and 50Mb partition for
swap)
>Internal 24x CD-Rom
>Internal IDE Zip drive
>ISA Soundblaster AWE 64 (Haven't a clue where to start on that but not
>bothered about sound anyway :-) )
>ISA Rockwell Chipset v90 modem
>Realtek network card
>
>
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From: Willow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: home lan/server advice
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:53:43 GMT
In thinking about possible upgrades to my home computer, I've come to
the decision that I want to build a second computer. I will use one as a
workstation (which will dualboot win95, I'll need it for school ): and
one as a server. The server will be responsible for: IP Masquerading for
the workstation over my DSL line, Low volume web hosting, Mail
Serving (which would include NFS mounting /var/spool on the
workstation), and running an Xserver for the workstation. Right now,
I have the following:
Intel P233/MMX, 96 Mb EDO RAM, 4.5 Gb UltraWide SCSI Hard drive, SCSI
CD-R, 4.3 Gb IDE Hard drive, 24x IDE CD-ROM, Soundblaster AWE 64, S3
video w/ 4Mb.
I plan to purchase enough parts to build a bare-bones SCSI system, most
likely with an inexpensive Celeron for now. Now for the questions :)
1) Am I correct to assume that on-board SCSI will be faster than a PCI
card? If so, can someone recommend a good one, I'd prefer to go ahead
and spring for Ultra 2 Wide.
2) What hardware should I use for which machine? I can swap hardware
between the new and old machines to get the best arrangement. The CD-R
needs to be in the workstation, but other than that, I'm open. The
workstation will be primarily used for: Audio playing, mixing,
cd-burning, etc, Web surfing, and light developement work. Should the
faster CPU/disk system be the workstation, or the server (since it will
be running some apps which are displayed on the workstation)? In
otherwords, will the faster equipment benefit me more running X,
Netscape and a few other big apps or to be displayed ont the
workstation, or on the workstation, running audio applications and
displaying X.
I'll appreciate any advice offered. This will be my first experience
managing more than 1 desktop PC, so I'm not sure of how to best
distribute loads on the machines.
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