Linux-Hardware Digest #276, Volume #10 Wed, 19 May 99 23:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: strange message about my Pentium200 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Linux and VIA MVP3 or ALI V ("Matt Goheen")
Re: Problem with SCSI-Controller (Jeff McWilliams)
EPSON Stylus Color 900 Driver? (Michael Maechtel)
Re: HP 8100i IDE CDRW problems. (Brad Pepers)
Re: Dell Laptop Hard Drive (Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING)
Re: Linux modem list. (Andrew Comech)
Re: Modem connection speed (Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING)
Re: mouse, gpm and X (Steffen Kluge)
Re: Compaq Laptop Modem (James Lee)
Re: Viper 550 AGP (Jim Henderson)
Re: AGP only at 8bpp?! (Frank Sweetser)
Re: HD badblocks (**Nick Brown)
Syquest and Printer (MIke borden)
Re: Build or buy? (David Fox)
Re: Build or buy? (David Fox)
Re: HP 8100i CD-RW IDE problems. (William Cattell)
Re: 4 port pci serial card recommendation (Brian Servis)
Re: Diamond Viper V550 AAGP 2x under Xfree86 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Laptop recommendations? (Joshua Martin)
Re: G200 or TNT? (damn, I hate asking questions like this) (Daniel Bonds)
Boot Freeze Problems ("Thomas%Schneider.net")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: strange message about my Pentium200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:01:53 GMT
On 19 May 1999 06:27:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong) wrote:
>
>From my 'dmesg'
>
>Linux version 2.2.9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
>1999
>0314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #3 Tue May 18 18:57:21 PDT 1999
>Detected 200458893 Hz processor.
>Console: colour VGA+ 132x25
>Calibrating delay loop... 80.08 BogoMIPS
>Memory: 63040k/65536k available (872k kernel code, 412k reserved, 868k data,
>40k
> init)
>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
>CPU: Intel Pentium 75 - 200 stepping 0c
>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0510
>PCI: Using configuration type 1
>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>
>
>I am not sure what mean Pentium with F0 0F bug.
>
>Does that mean I have a bug on my Pentium200 chip?
Yes, sort of.
Intel built and distributed a large number of their Pentium chips before
someone detected that a certain instruction combination (F0 0F) could put the
processor into a hard halt that took a power down/up cycle to reset. Intel
later corrected the chip design to avoid this hardware bug, but there were
all these Pentium chips still out there that have this bug in them. The
Linux kernel determines whether or not your Pentium chip has the bug, and
enables an 'intercept' that bypasses it when found.
>I have current hardwares on RedHat6.0.
>
>Pentium 200 + Asus TX-97X + Toshiba 64M Ram + Matrox Card
>
>Thank you,
>Jason
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
Toronto Dominion Bank
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: "Matt Goheen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and VIA MVP3 or ALI V
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:04:05 -0400
> if you have a choice between a FIC 2013 (VIA) and a MicroStar 6159 which
> would you choose. why?
I'd choose the FIC. Why? Because I've already got one working:
FIC PA-2013
IWill SIDE-2935 UW SCSI
IBM Deskstar 4.3Gb LVD SCSI (in SE mode)
AMD K6-2/350
[ ...various other stuff... ]
Seems to work fine so far....hasn't seen very heavy use yet.
- Matt Goheen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: Problem with SCSI-Controller
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 12:09:14 GMT
Matthias,
Are you trying to boot from a hard disk that's attached to the
SCSI card? If so, you don't want to build the NCR53c8xx driver
as a module. You want it as part of the kernel. If you're using
Make Menuconfig when building a new Kernel, it should have a '*' in
front of it instead of an 'M'. If you're running make config I think
you type 'Y' instead of 'M', and in make XConfig you select a different
check box.
Hope this helps.
Jeff
--
Jeff McWilliams - Advanced Development Engineer, ACE Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: EPSON Stylus Color 900 Driver?
From: Michael Maechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 May 1999 13:25:18 +0200
Hi,
does anyone have experiences with this printer and linux?
Is it possible to use uniprint with this device?
Thanks in advance
Mike
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From: Brad Pepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 8100i IDE CDRW problems.
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 06:05:28 GMT
Brian L Rachford wrote:
>
> Yes; but you may find it easier to work with "make xconfig" if
> you've never compiled a kernel before. The problem is that the
> default 2.0.36 kernel that is shipped with RedHat 5.2 assumes
> that all IDE devices should be treated as IDE devices (hmm...).
> This is fine for CD-ROM's, but for writing CD's the system needs
> to emulate some SCSI commands, and that emulation is not compiled
> into the kernel. Worse yet, if both IDE CD-ROM support and SCSI
> emulation are in the kernel, the IDE part overrides the SCSI
> emulation. Thus, you have to recompile the kernel to get rid of
> IDE CD-ROM support and to put in SCSI emulation. From "make
> xconfig", you need to mark various features "Y" or "N" as indicated
> in the CD-Writing HOW-TO. Once you save and exit from xconfig, type
> "make dep", "make clean", "make boot", and follow the usual
> instructions for installing a new kernel, including NOT DELETING
> THE OLD KERNEL. This is the safety valve in the whole kernel
> compilation process, if the new kernel doesn't work right, you
> can always boot from the old kernel.
I don't think the part about needing to disable the IDE CD-ROM support
is true anymore. My system has an IDE CD-ROM and an IDE CD-RW (HP 8100)
so I want both the regular IDE CD-ROM support as well as the new IDE-
SCSI stuff which is what I enabled. I've used both the original CD-ROM
drive and the CD-RW to write CD-R's and CD-RW's and all is working well.
I think how it works is that if you have both IDE CD-ROM and IDE-SCSI
support compiled in, the IDE CD-ROM will override the IDE-SCSI which
you can then get around by adding the "hdd=ide-scsi" lilo boot option
which will force it back to ide-scsi.
--
Brad Pepers
Linux Canada Inc. Home of Linux products in Canada!
http://www.linuxcanada.com Proud supporter of Cyclades, Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hat, and Caldera.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Dell Laptop Hard Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:47:23 GMT
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen Thomas
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Hardware: Dell Latitude XPi Pentium 75 8 MB RAM 400 MB HD PCMCIA.
[...]
| hda: ST9420AG, ATA DISK drive
| hdb: %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%, ATAPI UNKNOWN type 10 drive
This (the % stuff) could be a bad or loose cable. Had this problem on
an Intel chipset motherboard on a homebrew machine.
| ide0 at 0x1f0-0xf7,0x3f6 on irq 14
| hda: ST9420AG, 401MB w/120kb Cache, CHS=988/16/52
| Partition Check:
| hda:hda: status error: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest
|
| }
| hda: drive not ready for command
| ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0xd1, count=1
| ide0: ewawr: master: ECC circuitry error
This definitely looks and smells like a hardware problem.
| I ran the system tools for the laptop and everything checks out OK.
| Next I formatted the drive with DOS and it ran that OK. Finally
| I booted the RH6.0 rescue disk, fdisked it, and ran mke2fs on /dev/hda1
| and everything seemed OK. It only misbehaves when I try to install the
| OS.
Not sure what the significance of this is.
| Next I pulled down a debian install disk and tried that. The
| machine loads the kernel and then reboots itself.
My Dell Latitude XPi (a 120MHz model with 40M RAM) did this when I
tried to install Slackware 3.5 (duh horruh! duh horruh!) with a boot
disk that didn't have APM support.
| I thinking maybe there is some weird interaction between the IDE
| interface and the motherboard that is sensitive to anything stronger
| than DOS.
Not sure what Dell did differently on the older models, but everything
I see seems to point to hardware trouble of some type.
--
Shawn K. Quinn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Linux modem list.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 19 May 1999 21:41:41 -0500
On Wed, 19 May 1999 21:16:28 -0400, Matt Goheen wrote:
>I think they meant USB, not USR. Mind slip....
>Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andrew Comech
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | On 06 May 1999 09:19:43 -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>> | >if it says *external* on the box, i am 99.9% sure it will work.
>> |
>> | <loud>
>> | EXCEPT FOR EXTERNAL MODEMS WITH USR INTERFACE
>> | </loud>
>> |
>> | There are more and more of these bastards; not just 0.1%.
>>
>> Is there a FAQ on this somewhere? I've never heard of this proprietary
>> USR interface before (unless you're talking about parallel port
>> modems, and I thought those really didn't take off all that well).
Good guess...
I was certainly talking about _USB_ interface; thank you Matt for
correcting.
I just got this particular finger dicease when instead of US...B
one types USR; this is after discussions whether USR modems are
so good that might even be worth what they cost ;-)
a.
--
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http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shawn K. Quinn - NO SOLICITING)
Subject: Re: Modem connection speed
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 00:55:41 GMT
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I am a slow learner (having used Linux at home on and off for 4 years
| ... ;-), and eventually decided to use Linux on my home network as a
| gateway
[...]
| This weekend (in fact at 2am this morning) I finally got to the stage
| where (nearly) everything works. I have PPP, IP_Forwarding,
| Masquerading, etc all set up, but I am consistently getting poorer
| connection speeds through my externel USRobotics Sportser Flash upgraded
| to x2 than I get when it is attached to my Windows machine.
|
| Setserial shows the serial port at 115200baud (spd_normal ... should it
| be spd_hi?),
Actually it should be spd_vhi (and minor nitpick: it's bps not baud,
in certain places there is a big difference).
| and the modem is at AT&F1 (default factory settings for hardware
| flow control)
Sounds good, and pppd is using crtscts right?
| with a couple of modifications such as E1, V1, and such (nothing set
| with floor and ceiling connection speeds). My modem will never
| connect at more than 33600, and often at 19200, but on the Windows
| machine it will conect at normally always around 44000.
|
| What have I missed?
It is an external modem, right? If so make sure it's in the same place
with about the same amount of phone cable going to the outlet. If
nothing else you might want to try that Category 5 "Internet enhanced"
phone cable they sell at computer stores.
The only other thing I can think of is maybe you were using ATZ on the
Windows box and not realizing it?
--
Shawn K. Quinn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: mouse, gpm and X
Date: 20 May 1999 01:38:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>For some strange reason it does work. No I don't use /dev/gpmdata as my mouse
>driver, if I do the mouse just goes crazy, so I went back to /dev/mouse.
You don't use /dev/gpmdata as mouse driver but as mouse
*device*. This works as soon as you run gpm in repeater mode
(-R). In that case gpm takes the input from whatever kind of
mouse connected to the real mouse device and presents it in
MouseSystems protocol on the gpmdata fifo. You configure X to
use /dev/gpmdata as mouse device and MouseSystems as protocol.
>From that on X will never have to worry again what kind of mouse
is actually connected to your box and where. This is all handled
by gpm -R. If the mouse is working on the console it will be
working in X.
>I did
>not feel like having to type gpm -k every time I wanted to start X, would
>forget most of the time, so I put it in startx. After all startx is just a
>script/wrapper, whatever. So answer me this please, if I take the gpm -k out of
>startx then when I start X I have mouse trouble, why? If I totally disable gpm
>then I can't use the cut and paste features in the shell.
With gpm -R there is no killing, no wrappers, no device access conflict
because X doesn't access the mouse device anymore. It reads from the
fifo it *thinks* is a mouse device. This has proved to be the most
robust way of sharing a mouse between VC and X for me.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: James Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Compaq Laptop Modem
Date: 19 May 1999 08:07:58 -0500
In comp.os.linux.setup Bob Sully <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi all-
: I'm trying to set up PPP on my Compaq laptop, which has an
: integrated 56K modem. Initially, it was set to some odd memory addresses
: (it has two, now set to 2F8 and 1400h, IRQ3). I can't get Linux to operate
: it, even as root - it keeps coming back with "Modem is busy", even as root.
: Any ideas? It works with Windoze. Thanks.
could be a winmodem.
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Viper 550 AGP
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:44:53 -0600
Download XFree86 3.3.3.1 - the support for the Viper 550 is in there.
(I have one, and it works GREAT! <g>)
Jim
Scu News wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get the Diaomond Viper 550 (Nvidia TNT Chipset) AGP
> Card to run X under Redhat 5.2? I can't even get it to run in the simplest
> VGA mode. Also, does anyone know of any 3D drivers for it?
> Thanks
> Cam
--
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Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: AGP only at 8bpp?!
Date: 19 May 1999 09:14:26 -0400
KrayZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where can I find the XBF_i740 server???
> I'm searching at XFree86 FTP I I don't find it!!!
http://precisioninsight.com/
--
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paramount.ind.wpi.edu RedHat 5.2 kernel 2.2.5 i586 | at public servers
The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and
bigotry at worst.
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD badblocks
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 14:37:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It's not common for an IDE drive to have a lot of bad blocks after two
months, but it does happen. You should able to get it replaced under
warranty, but be prepared to run a Windows-based disk check utility to
show the supplier, who won't have heard of e2fsck.
Jorge JUAN CHICO wrote:
>
> So many badblocks in an IDE drive is not common, is it?
> The drive shouldn't hang due to bad blocks, should it?
> Should I contact the vendor and ask for a replacement? (drive is two
> months old)
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Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:04:54 -0500
From: MIke borden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Syquest and Printer
Ok, I've gotten to where I can insert the modules for my syquest drive
and mount and everything. The only thing is that when I do do that my
printer will not print. I will do lpr filename and it acts like it will
print but it doesn't. I want to know if I'm supposed to remove the
modules for the syquest and reinsert the printer or they supposed to
work together with our removing the modules.
Thanks.
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Build or buy?
Date: 19 May 1999 06:21:11 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> My enthusiasm was somewhat abated when I started pricing out individual
> components and estimating the amount of *time* involved in setting up a
> custom system compared to just plunking down $3000 for a loaded Dell.
I'll take the other side and say that you will probably be quite happy
with the Dell, I have three home-builds at home and I'm sitting in
front of a Dell running Linux now and it is fine, BUT.....
> P.S. Here's a quote from Dell on a monster system priced at $2578 that
> got me thinking about whether I really want to bother building my
> own...
> Modem:
> 3ComŽ USRobotics V.90* PCI Telephony WinModem
> for Sound
You MUST insist they send you a real modem, not this piece of crap.
Dell is supposed to be a Linux-friendly company now...
> Sound Card:
> Turtle Beach Montego II A3D320V Sound
> Card,FactoryInstall
This won't work either.
> TV TUNER:
> STB PCI TV/FM Tuner
I'd look into this too.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Build or buy?
Date: 19 May 1999 06:24:06 -0700
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> : In my experience, I can build a server or workstation for over
> : $1000 less than a similar Dell PowerEdge Server or Dell Precision
> : Workstation. This is more than "marginally" less expensive than
> : a Dell and seems to make the 3 hours of building time more
> : than worth the effort.
>
> true. when I started my current job, I was told to pick out a dell
> from their web page. I did a cost analysis and I came in $1k cheaper
> on a $5k system, figuring I would have no M$ tax and no wasted
> cards/components. with a prebuilt and THEN customized system, there's
> usually wasted stuff.
I have not found this to be the case. Dells come with really nice
monitors and video cards. When I build myself these items kill me.
I'd like to see some hard figures if anyone has the time.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: William Cattell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CD-RW IDE problems.
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:26:51 GMT
I have tyhe same drive. On the boot options line under lilo I have
"hdc=ide-scsi" and everything is working great. I'm running a 2.2.6
kernel though.
You'll need to make sure your kernel has IDE-SCSI emulation and SCSI CD
support compiled in (I had to recompile mine to get them in there).
Bill
Alex Waltrip wrote:
>
> I noticed below that Glenn had successfully installed and is running linux with his
>HP 8100i CD-RWon
> a machine similar to mine.. I too have a HP 8100i CD-RW drive but have not been so
>successful. I
> have installed cdrecord 1.6.1 and xcdroast. When I do a 'cdrecord -scanbus' it
>lists my scsi
> devices but not the IDE CD-RW even though I use 'append="hda=ide-scsi"' in my
>lilo.conf.
> Xcdroast sees the IDE in the "SCSI-IDE" info section but does not think it is
>capable of writing.
> According to all the HOWTO's I've read and README.ATAPI, it says since I'm running a
>very recent
> kernel (2.0.36-3) all I need to do is the 'append="hda=ide-scsi"' in lilo.conf. Is
>this all you had
> to do Glenn?
> Also, is 'ide-scsi' the name of a driver? If so then how can I tell if it is part
>of my kernel?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Glenn Merkel wrote:
>
> > I have a ASUS P5A motherboard, Samsung 64MB PC100 CAS2 Memory, Quantum
> > 10GB HD, Voodoo3 Video Card, SB PCI 128 Sound Card, CL Encore 2X DVD-ROM
> > drive, HP 8100i CD-RW Drive, and a AMD K6-3 400 CPU.
> >
> > I'm currently dual-booting Windows 98 and Linux, until I receive my Beta
> > 3 release of NT 2000. Then I'm going to try triple-booting, since NT
> > will be able to recognize the FAT32 drive like Linux can.
> >
> > Anyway... the system runs great, except for a lack of Linux drivers for
> > the Voodoo3, and my inexperience with Linux. Installed using Red Hat
> > 6.0, downloaded from the web, btw.
> >
> > And as far as thermal grease with your fan, etc. What a load of crap.
> > I fell for that with my Celeron 366MHz, when I thought maybe I could run
> > at 550MHz thanks to Sharky Extreme and other sites. Well, despite a $70
> > fan and grease... I didn't get jack except a high priced fan that
> > doesn't do much more than my retail one did. My K6-3 400MHz has a
> > CompUSA fan & heatsink that cost $15... and while it was overpriced, it
> > seems to get the job done.
> >
> > Just my $.02.
> >
> > Glenn
>
> --
> Alex P. Waltrip
> EIS Lockheed Martin Denver
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 port pci serial card recommendation
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 21:35:35 -0500
Brian wrote:
>
> Hi Brian:
>
> I have to go along with Bryan on this point.
>
> RocketPort PCI Quad/DB25 4 ports with RS-232 fan-out cables;
> DB25 male 95860-4 $445
>
Yikes, way more than I wan't to spend. Time to look at other
options.
> I use an old BOCA IOAT66 six port ISA card that appears to
> function nicely in Linux kernel 2.0.36 with a little
> hand-holding from some nice folks on the Linux newsgroups. I
> bought that at auction at eBay for $30 including 4
> cable-sets (4 modem and 4 terminal).
That is more like it. Sounds like you got a great deal.
>
> By the way, what is your application?
>
Well, I just got a PalmIIIx and need another serial port for it.
I currently have an internal isa 56k modem(ttyS3), isa sb16, and
isa ne2000 10base2 clone. And on my two on board serial ports I
have a second pointing device(my main is a ps2 mouse) on ttyS0
and a UPS on ttyS1. I could probably find a cheap 10base2 pci
card. I really only need one more serial port.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper V550 AAGP 2x under Xfree86
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 02:12:31 GMT
Hi scott,
I just installed redhat 6.0 where the viper v550 seems to be
supported. no trouble yet.
good luck,
sander
On Wed, 19 May 1999 18:49:49 -0400, Scott Robson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi everyone!
>
>Has anyone set this up with Xfree86? Run well? Any pit-falls I should
>know of before trying it?
>
>Thanx in Advance
>
>Scott
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From: Joshua Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 23:39:06 -0700
Check out this site:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
They have about 100-150 different laptops and peoples experiences with
them. Anyway it helped me make up my mind. I just bought the umax
action book 333t
--Joshua Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
igor vilensky wrote:
>
> i'm a recreational macuser,that is to say double-click, no command line type
> of guy, who wants to grow up and learn linux
> i would like to get an inexpensive/moderately priced laptop pc (i have not
> been able to install linuxppc on my performa 6400, so it's time to buy new
> computer, i guess) and run linux on it, perhaps dual linux/windows,
> i read that certain components should be avoided because their manufacturers
> keep their interface configuration proprietory(whatever that is),
> also, that one should avoid a winmodem(which is what?)
> please, advise me how to proceed
> thanks,
> igor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Bonds)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: G200 or TNT? (damn, I hate asking questions like this)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1999 13:50:18 GMT
Thanks to everyone for the suggestions. I think I might end up
sticking with the Mill G200 as it seems to be well supported in X
(which was my main concern) in addition to being known for good 2D
(the part I already knew). Heck, I think I saw it one
www.killerapp.com for ~$70, so that'll work for me.
Just to fill in some gaps, in case anyone cares :-), the "old" system
is a P133, but that might get a cheap upgrade (Celeron or K6)
depending on how processor intensive my Linux use turns out to be. I'm
mainly looking for a good high res (19" monitor with *at least*
1280x1024) X card with 3D accel being a bonus, but not really a
factor.
It's amazing how much better the newsgroup response is here than in
some of the other OS newsgroups. Still can't get my '98 system to
defrag. :-)
Thanks again,
Daniel
dbonds at bbnow.net
On Tue, 18 May 1999 19:23:31 -0700, Marcus Lauer
> Here are some arguments for the G200. Comments would be appreciated,
>especially if I'm blatantly wrong (though be gentle, eh?)
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From: "Thomas%Schneider.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.alpha,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,redhat.general,redhat.config
Subject: Boot Freeze Problems
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:49:21 +0200
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I have been reading several messages of people experiencing boot
problems on Alphas and haven't really found a cure for this. I am trying
to use redhat 6.0 or suse6.1-axp on an Alpha 2000 4/200 and I am
currently going through these freezes too.
My observations are as following :
1.) Kernel versions 2.0.3x boot ok. No freezing behaviour. ( I have
installed rh 5.2, but have no support for the mylex - that's why I
upgrade).
2.) Kernel version 2.2.x, no matter whether coming from Suse or Redhat
freeze the machine completely, and the only way out is to switch the
bloody thing off or reset.
I experimented with different kernel sizes, different kernels and so
on...
No success so far.
So far I have not been able to boot anything except the 2.0.3x's.
Help would be appreciated, because this becomes a nightmare.
The supplier with the best hint to make it work wins the race.
Best regards
Thomas Schneider
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