Linux-Hardware Digest #135, Volume #10 Sun, 2 May 99 00:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: FIC 2013 Compatability (Andrew Comech)
Re: Riva TNT SDK (OpenGL) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Getting kppp to dial my ISP... ("Suvro")
Help Needed to Place /tmp in ram (Ken McCord)
Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Fat 32? (Roy Prowell III)
Re: Will Linux does work with my Diamond supra express modem? (Patrick Higgins)
cdrom (dams)
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: LinuxGT (A GUI Linux Distro) (Christopher B. Browne)
Voodoo1, modem, and sound problems (Patrick Higgins)
Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ? ("rob")
Iomega Ditto 2Gb ("Derek Turner")
Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here ("B & C Duffey")
Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here ("B & C Duffey")
Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: LinuxGT (A GUI Linux Distro) ("Rick Collette")
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Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: FIC 2013 Compatability
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 May 1999 19:02:49 -0500
On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:05:55 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I am considering building a new computer based on,
>FIC 2013 motherboard W/2MB cache
>AMD K6-2 400
>128 Mb RAM
>AGP Graphics card (not sure which one)
>This would have to run Windows but I plan on
>having 2 Hard Drives and running LINUX also.
>Are there any known compatability problems
>with this setup?
>Anything I should look out for?
FIC 2013 works great with 1MB of cache, so I wonder why it would
not with 2MB.
Another thing is, you only need 2MB of cache (which is extra $20)
for more than 256MB of RAM; are you sure you will ever buy this
much? (As far as I remember, you could use all that memory with
newer Slot-A motherboards.)
Cheese,
Andrew
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Riva TNT SDK (OpenGL)
Date: 1 May 1999 23:13:06 GMT
Jens Schwepe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I sent an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] two weeks ago, but they seem to
: ignore me :-(
They seem to ignore everybody ... (no smilie)
nvidia realy wants to fool us! Everytime when they have a new
product, they let us know that it is not unlikly, that there
will be a 3D-Linux-Driver for it ... that is sufficient for most
people to by Riva-Cards. recently there was a similar anouncement,
but i can't beleave it anymore ...
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From: "Suvro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Getting kppp to dial my ISP...
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 16:19:56 -0700
I have OpenLinux 1.3 successfully installed on my PC, and configured Kppp
for my ISP. I have a K56flex modem, and have tried speeds of 38.4K, 57.6K,
115.2K. The ISP dials, but never connects, and keeps dialing.
I have not had any such problems dialing in from Windoze 95.
What do I need to do to fix this? I have tried changing the initialization
string (recommended for my modem is AT&F). Nothing that I've tried so far
ever worked, and since I got my CD from the 'Complete idiot's guide to
Linux', i don't exactly qualify for Caldera's free e-mail support.
Hardware configuration:
Pentium-II/233, 32MB SDRAM, 7GB hard drive, No network card,
K56flex modem on Com 3 (Maker -- Wisecom 56000 internal fax modem) (It's
NOT a winmodem -- afaik, only USR and X2 guys make that.)
Thanks
==
suvro
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From: Ken McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Needed to Place /tmp in ram
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 19:57:50 -0400
Can someone post an example on how to set up /tmp into ram at boot?
Thanks,
Ken McCord
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 23:48:54 GMT
Can anyone who has downloaded the beta driver post them here? I can't seem
to access their ftp site. Thanks in advance!
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Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 17:43:43 -0700
From: Roy Prowell III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Fat 32?
I know this question has been asked a million times.
I was under the impression that mount -t vfat would mount a Fat 32
partition. Does anyone know if this is true? If not, what is the
command for mounting a Fat 32 partition? If it's not too much trouble,
please send a reply to my email address also. Thanks.
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From: Patrick Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will Linux does work with my Diamond supra express modem?
Date: Sat, 01 May 1999 18:30:59 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Assuming your modem isn't a winmodem then try doing a man isapnp.conf and
> man setserial for some help on setting up PNP modems.
>
> > I tried loading linux on an assembled P166 mhz, 5gb machine.
> > I was successful in loading upto xwindows, but couldn't configure my "56.6k
> > diamond supra express modem". I am able to dial upto my ISP but couldn't not
> > get the final connection. (Dialup works fine on win95 and nt).
I've been having the exact same problem, and it's not a PnP issue (I've
disabled the PnP features of my card). The modem is dialing just fine,
but when it connects, it negotiates (seemingly) normally at first, but
then enters an unterminating loop, until ultimately the remote host
hangs up.
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From: dams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 02:37:12 +0200
Hi everybody!
i a beginner in Linux and have a few questions:
1/ Is it normal that each time i want to read a cd i have to mount the
cdrom and umount it to open the tray in case i wish to read from
another cd?
2/ How do i mount scsi cdrom and the same for a cd burner?
3/ How do i burn cd's?
I know that the How-to files exists but i never found what i was looking
for easily described in my language?
ThanX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: LinuxGT (A GUI Linux Distro)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 01:22:59 GMT
On Sat, 01 May 1999 19:29:29 GMT, Rick Collette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
posted:
>Lou Grinzo wrote in message ...
>> (The SMP
>>issue is, IMO, going to be very important in the near
>>future. I think that Linux and falling hardware prices
>>could make desktop SMP a much more common thing in
>>the coming months.)
>
>I have to agree with you on this one.
I have to *disagree* with this one.
a) SMP requires the purchase of a special motherboard, and coordinated
purchase of CPUs.
Which costs more money, thus making it a more specialized product,
which further inflates price.
b) For SMP to be of value, you need to be running applications that
overpower a single CPU.
There are applications out there that swamp the ability of a Pentium
II 450, but not generally stuff that "average users" buy.
c) Applications that *do* eat CPU tend to have things offloaded to
specialized processors.
Graphics cards these days have 100 times more RAM onboard than the
amount of disk space I used to have with my Atari 400 system.
This may represent parallel processing, but it is *NOT* parallelism of
the "symmetric" variety.
d) WinModems.
Contrary to the argument that we need to offload processing from CPU
to other levels, people are buying boatloads of modems that move
processing from the modem to the main CPU.
e) I2O isn't popular yet.
If it was, that would be an indication that there was a market for
maximizing the CPU resources available for processing "CPU stuff."
f) Amdahl's Law.
Which basically says that all the parallelization in the world doesn't
let you get around the forcibly serial portions of processing.
This stuff should not be misinterpreted to be a claim that SMP is
*never* useful, or that SMP systems won't continue to be sold.
The really telling point is that SMP won't get "much more common"
unless the number of SMP motherboards flying out of places like ABit
and ASUS start being an increasing proportion of their product lines.
SMP starts "changing the world" when the count of boards being
displayed in Computer Shopper increases. I don't think it's likely to
increase past "niche" status in the coming months. I wouldn't be too
offended to see that opinion disproven, but six reasons up above
suggest otherwise.
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Patrick Higgins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo1, modem, and sound problems
Date: 01 May 1999 17:49:24 -0600
So I went out and bought a lot of hardware over the last two weeks,
and I haven't been able to get them all working concurrently.
The first of these is a Diamond Monster3d. I had it working just
fine the day I got it, but after much hardware and kernel fiddling
(described below), it now has a problem with texturing. Most of the
tests in the Glide SDK test directory work fine, except for test25 (the
one with the pretty background and the rotating blended triangle) with
a complaint about texturing:
could not allocate memory for texture file miro.3df
Quake2 also gives a complaint relating to a lack of texture memory.
Also, the shameless plug splash screen is dithered quite badly
and has a pinkish-purple plane rotating with the letters. I'm
assuming this dithering is occuring because of the (apparent) lack of
sufficient texturing memory.
The other tests which use texturing run, but their visual quality is
reduced.
The main changes I've made since I had the card working properly are:
1) Installation of an ATAPI cd burner.
This forced a recompile of the kernel, where I added support for the
SCSI adapter emulation. I'm still not sure of the full ramifications
of this change, but I think it's only affecting my two cdroms. I'm
still using my two harddrives as EIDE devices, without troubles.
2) I've put in and removed several ISA and PCI devices, but I've
ultimately ended up with a setup identical to the one I had when
the card was working, and it still doesn't work.
My current setup:
Hardware:
P-5 166
2 EIDE hds
1 atapi cdrom
1 atapi cd burner
1 isa sound blaster 64
1 isa us robotics sportster 28.8
1 pci matrox millenium
1 pci monster 3d
Software:
Redhat 5.2
Kernel 2.2.6
Glide_VG-2.46-1
Glide2x_SDK-2.1-3
Device3Dfx-2.0-1
I'd _really_ like to get this one working again. ;-)
The next piece of broken hardware is a Diamond Supra Express 56k
modem. This problem is kind of weird (to me, at least):
I've got the modem dialing correctly, but when it connects, it never
stops negotiating the connection (those annoying beeping and buzzing
noises) until ultimately the remote host hangs up. The negotiation
sounds normal at first, but then it enters a loop which continues
until the other side hangs up.
Anyone have any ideas? I've only tried connecting to one server, but
the server is supposed to support V.90. But even if it didn't,
shouldn't my modem fall back to a supported standard? Isn't that what
negotiation is for? Anyway, my 28.8 modem connects to the same server
without problems.
I also picked up a SoundBlaster WavEffects 16. I got it working
without trouble, but I was hoping to get it working with my SB 64 at
the same time. Since they're both PnP, I use modules so I can
initialize them with isapnp. However, it seems I can't insmod the sb
module twice to get them both working at the same time. Is there any
way to work around this?
Note to readers of news://news.3dfx.com/3dfx.glide.linux:
Sorry, this is the same article I posted on that newsgroup, and I
didn't cross-post it. As I noted on 3dfx.glide.linux, I just started
using GNUS today and I'm still learning it's features (like posting on
foreign groups mixed with cross-posting).
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From: "rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modem in his linux box ?
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 20:02:17 -0600
I have a USR Sportster 28.8 internal. No problems. Of
course you don't want to buy a 28.8 modem these days.
As for whether and external would be better, I've never
owned one so maybe I just don't know any better. But I
wouldn't want another little box and bundle of wires lying
around.
rob.
David Guyon Martin wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Do you have an internal modem working with linux ?
>
>Is there any trouble or dissadvantage ?
>
>What kind of modem is it: constructor, series, ... ?
>
>( I am about to buy one )
>
>Thanks,
>
>David
>
>( remove .nospam.please to reply by e-mail )
>
>
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From: "Derek Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Ditto 2Gb
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 23:14:32 +0100
How do I get linux (SuSE6) to see my Ditto tape?
what software (preferably KDE) is available to make backups?
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From: "B & C Duffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 22:36:46 -0400
I'll second this request :-)
Pleeeeease !!!!
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7gg3t5$n34$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anyone who has downloaded the beta driver post them here? I can't seem
>to access their ftp site. Thanks in advance!
>
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From: "B & C Duffey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please Post SBLive Linux Driver Here
Date: Sat, 1 May 1999 23:04:31 -0400
THANKS Denis !!!!!!!
Denis Laventure wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can anyone who has downloaded the beta driver post them here? I can't seem
> to access their ftp site. Thanks in advance!
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: "Rick Collette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: LinuxGT (A GUI Linux Distro)
Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 02:22:15 GMT
I need to clear myself on this one: SMP is supported. I think it's a good
idea to support it.
As far as video cards with more memory than the 400... heck.. I think I have
an old Diamond Stealth 3d with more memory than my 800 had... ;) (First bbs
I ran was on an 800, 810 disk drive, and a modem we had to build a ring
dectector for..) funny, all the people I know that started with Atari's (or
had them).. they all seem to have migrated to Linux.. ;P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 01:33:50 GMT
westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>In article <7g9pdc$h78$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> find | grep -i filenamewithoutcase
>This is an excellent example of why developers like Unix so much. It is fast
>and compact, and it will work as expected.
>It is also only suitable for a very small number of people. It is quite
>intuitive for programmers, engineers and scientists; it would be
>incomprehensible to artists and linguists.
While I think you have a valid point about UNIX command line shells in general,
I don't think it really applies to this example. If you ask a linguist to
come up with a way of finding a file, the instructions
List everything
Look for the file you want in that list
shouldn't be _too_ far off. And that translates 1:1 to the above line.
Of course, when doing slightly trickier stuff, you need a certain way
of thinking. But often the only thing stopping people from formulating
working algorithms is their conviction that they cannot do it. Second
in the list is a lack of training at watching oneself think (which
artists, psychologists and linguists shouldn't suffer from, if they are
any good ;-), and only then comes technical inability.
Bernie
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