Linux-Hardware Digest #163, Volume #11 Thu, 2 Sep 99 08:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Stanislav Kelman)
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cheap video card (Roger Traywick)
Re: 3COM Ethernet Card PROBLEM... (Jason Harmon)
Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk (Len Brown)
SCSI II LVD Hard Drive ("Sara")
Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Yotam Medini)
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS (Paul)
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? ("Ron")
Is there a Digital Soundcard for Linux? (Stefan Lewandowski)
Re: Promise EIDE 2300+ Setup? ("David J. M. Karlsen")
Dynalink ISPH64 and SuSE Linux 6.1 ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: help mounting Zip drive ("Henrik Stokseth")
Re: Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP (Kjell Petersen)
Beowulf computer parts - cheap! (M. Oesterwinter)
Re: Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI reset (J.M. van der Kolk)
Re: LCD display (Mark Cooperstein)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stanislav Kelman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy
Subject: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 00:43:52 -0400
Hello there!
How come Linux lags behind BeOS in hardware support? There are supposedly
tens of thousands of Linux developers who are now backed by a number of
multi-billion companies? Be, Inc., which is a relatively tiny company,
somehow managed to get good "out-of-the-box" support for TNT2, Voodoo3 and
SB Live! way before Linux. I don't even believe that any of the current
major Linux distros support any of the above hardware.
With TNT2 and Voodoo3 being pretty much the most popular chips on modern
home systems (and the only ones offered by, say, Dell or Gateway),
wouldn't you agree that their support should be a high priority? If so,
what is the time frame on this?
Regards,
Stan
P.S. I am not looking to start another OS war. I just want to run some
alternative OS's on the new dual-Celery computer that I am putting
together in the meantime.
"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world
are the ones who do." --Macintosh ad campaign
___________________________________________________________________
***** You can find a crazy person at http://www.LetItBe.org *****
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:17:27 GMT
In article <7qhrph$heg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <7qgbqv$cec$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello, I am in the process of configuring and setting up some Linux
> > servers for my company, [snip]
> >
> > The question is this... software or hardware based RAID? And what
> > are the hardware requirements?
>
> I think that setting up software raid in Linux for a company is a
> very bad idea at this time. I have done a kernel patch in kernel
> 2.2.11 to stripe a couple of drives together as an experiment, but
> no way would I do this on a machine used for business.
>
> Depending upon how dead in the water your company would be if the
> RAID array has problems, I'd recommend finding a company that does
> this professionally. You need to decide how fault tolerant the
> system needs to be, and provide for a backup mechanism that is fast
> enough so that you're not backing up during high-usage times.
>
> I know, this isn't exactly the question that you asked, but I felt
> strongly about this and wanted to make sure you had taken these
> factors into account. There's just so many factors to take into
> account when choosing a RAID+backup solution that I'd personally
> stick with proven SCSI hardware, known redundancy, hot-swapping
> of bad disks and fast tape backup. You may find that backing up
> 250Gb of data requires a very expensive tape drive, like digital
> linear tape. Scary to get it wrong!
Well I would rather use Linux for our fileserver than Netware or NT.
From what I have read it seems that there are somewhat reliable RAID
drivers for Linux (in 2.2.x at least), reliable enough that many people
seem to be using them and various distributions such as Red Hat
advertise it as one of its key features. But if software RAID support
is not as stable as you seem to be implying then thats something Linux
needs if its going to be considered a legitimate player in the
fileserver arena.
Anyway the 250gb RAID I mentioned was just the scratch/temporary
filesystem, no backups will be kept of that one and if it fails i'll
just rebuild it, no problem really. It will be a RAID0, just striping.
The RAID that needs backups is the main file server, ~50gb, and I'll
be using RAID5 for that one and I will be keeping backups with multiple
tapes on my DDS3 drive just in case of multiple disk failures.
> As a note, there is a mail archive for linux kernel RAID that's
> worth looking into:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-raid%40vger.rutgers.edu/
>
> Good luck with your storage quest.
>
> - Leo
Thanks for the info, i'll post a message there.
Introvert
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From: Roger Traywick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cheap video card
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 22:01:57 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 14:37:38 -0500, David Meybohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Thrifty bastard seeks cheap yet not crappy video card supported by
>XFree86. Looking for PCI, ~4-8MB display mem. 3d need not apply.
>Suggestions? thanx
>
>
LOL! I have had good luck with the trident tgui 9680.
I've also had very good luck with the nvidea riva 128. The nvidea
riva has taken a gigantic tumble in price in the last year or so and
you pick these up for inder $30.00. It's a first class performer.
A work of caution -- some companies have their products built in the
3rd-world. Poor manufacturing can take the performace and longevity
of a great product and turn it into crap......
Roger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Harmon)
Subject: Re: 3COM Ethernet Card PROBLEM...
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 07:37:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 31 Aug 1999 22:08:08 GMT, Russ Johnson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> "Delaying eth0 initialization"
>> "Bringing up network interface eth0"
>> I looked at /proc/pci and the card is there as an unknown card from
>> 3com at the correct IRQ and I/O.
>
>Try changing the slot the nic is plugged into. This helped a machine I was
>working with.
That worked! Changing the slot made the motherboard change the IRQ
from 11 (shared w/ video card) to 3, which was unused...I guess either
Linux or the driver was confused about the sharing IRQs, though it
shouldn't be.
Also, make sure you have the absolute latest drivers from
ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/3c59x.c I have v0.99L,
and it works. The latest stable kernel (2.2.12 at the moment) comes
with v0.99H...
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From: Len Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unusable space on 13.6GB hard-disk
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 08:31:04 GMT
Thanks to everybody who tried to help. The problem has now gone away
because I installed a newer Linux version (RH 6.0, kernel 2.2.5-22), which
"correctly" sees the disk as 1684 cylinders instead of 1024. The previous
kernel was 2.0.36.
I had already tried specifying 1684 cylinders via fdisk in the old system,
which seemed to accept it, but even after a reboot fdisk saw only 1024
again (yes, I did save the new settings before quitting fdisk).
The new system's fdisk warns that there are thousands of unallocated
sectors, and that several partitions overlap, even though the reported
cylinder numbers do not overlap and all cylinders are supposed to be in
use. Is this an accident just waiting to happen?
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From: "Sara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI II LVD Hard Drive
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 02:09:38 -0700
I've bought a Seagate SCSI II LVD hard drive hooked up to an Adaptec 2940
(SCSI II capable) controller card. I installed Red Hat 6.0 and Apache on
this machine. However, whenever I boot up, a bunch of text scrolls (which
is normal) and on one of the lines it says something like 40 MB/Sec. Now I
know that SCSI II LVD drives should be going at 80 Meg/Sec.
My question is, how do I tell if my hard drive is going at 40 or 80
megs/sec? And if it's going only at 40, how do I make it go 80 meg/sec??
Sara
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From: Yotam Medini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP
Date: 02 Sep 1999 03:02:10 -0700
Hello Linux experts
Please help me configure my (Linux 2.2.9-19mdk) box to
use my adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card.
I browsed thru dejanews and tried lots of combinations.
+ Jumer-3 on/off. By the way, when off, I still saw
it as Pnp, IRQ 10, on the BIOS message (just before lilo:).
+ lilo,conf with append lines:
"hdd=ide-scsi aha152x=0x140,10,7,1"
"hdd=ide-scsi aha152x=0x340,10,7,1"
"hdd=ide-scsi aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
...
+ Also compiled drivers/scsi/aha152x.c with
CFLAGS_aha152x.o = -DSKIP_BIOSTEST -DSETUP0="{0x340,10,7,1}"
CFLAGS_aha152x.o = -DSKIP_BIOSTEST -DSETUP0="{0x140,10,7,1}"
But whatever I did , so far I always end up with boot messages like:
========================================================================
...
aha152x: processing commandline:
aha152x: <NULL>
aha152x: invalid line (controller=1)
ok
detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=10, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled,
parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
aha152x: IRQ 10 possibly wrong. Please verify.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: MATSHITA Model: CD-R CW-7582 Rev: 1.10
...
========================================================================
Also I have:
celini:2> cat /proc/pci | grep -i irq
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64.
Slow devsel. IRQ 5. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11.
celini:3> cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 9997 XT-PIC timer
1: 242 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
5: 0 XT-PIC es1371
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
11: 2 XT-PIC eth0
12: 582 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 3437 XT-PIC ide0
15: 42 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
--
Thanks in advance!
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< Yotam Medini [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blueneptune.com/~yotam/ >
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From: Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 11:13:27 +0100
I thought Linux did support the hardware you mention? And it does
support a lot more hardware than Be at present in general I think. I'm
using a Voodoo3 in X with no problems anyway.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stanislav Kelman) wrote:
>How come Linux lags behind BeOS in hardware support? There are supposedly
>tens of thousands of Linux developers who are now backed by a number of
>multi-billion companies? Be, Inc., which is a relatively tiny company,
>somehow managed to get good "out-of-the-box" support for TNT2, Voodoo3 and
>SB Live! way before Linux. I don't even believe that any of the current
>major Linux distros support any of the above hardware.
>
>With TNT2 and Voodoo3 being pretty much the most popular chips on modern
>home systems (and the only ones offered by, say, Dell or Gateway),
>wouldn't you agree that their support should be a high priority? If so,
>what is the time frame on this?
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From: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x?
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:19:18 +0200
Reply-To: "Ron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Well,
I've had it working, but from the moment i got termination right, I get
errors from cdrecord (which is the best, I'm told) like "drive not
supported"
which is not true, since it is on the supported drive list. Sent an email to
cdrecord's developer hoping he can help me out.
Soon as I've figured it all out, I'll do a posting...
In the mean-time, if anybody else got tips, I'm eager...
Ron
Michael Coburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering purchasing a Yamaha CRW6416 for use in a Linux box. Has
> anybody had any experience with this drive under Linux? Does it work at
> all? Any known issues?
>
> Cheers,
>
> mc.
>
> PS. Please email as well as post answers.
>
> --
> Michael Coburn Applications Specialist
>
> Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd.
> Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Intelligent Agent Systems
> http://www.agent-software.com +613 9349 5055 (ph)/+613 9349 5088
> (fax)
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From: Stefan Lewandowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a Digital Soundcard for Linux?
Date: 02 Sep 1999 13:16:41 +0200
Hello,
what I'm looking for is the possibility to digitally transfer music from DAT to
PC. The soundcards that I'm aware of are not supported by linux (like soundblaster
live - at least the s/pdif interface isn't supported) or cost >>$300.
Only thing I need is an optical (not coax) digital input, no need for digital out
(which is more common on cheap soundcards), and is has to be supported by linux. (I
have a shitty soundchip on board, that would be sufficient for me for controlling
what has been recorded). And the signals shouldn't be modified in any way like with
the soundblaster live!
Is there any cheap possibility to do that? The whole thing shouldn't cost more than
$100. Any help is greatly appreciated. Or let me know the cheapest possibility
that's available and supported by linux. If there's a cheap solution for win,
please let me know, too :)
Thanks and have a nice day,
Stefan.
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From: "David J. M. Karlsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Promise EIDE 2300+ Setup?
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:32:20 +0200
Roger Ehrlich wrote:
> I'm wanting to install RedHat Linux v4.1 on a i486DX2-66 system. The
> motherboard BIOS
> does not support EIDE only IDE (1 channel).
>
> I have a Promise EIDE 2300+ Vesa LB controller card with onboard BIOS
> that I'd like to use
> with my 1.6GB hard drive.
>
> I could not find info on this card in the Linux Hardware Compatibility
> HOWTO file.
>
> Anyone experienced in using this card?
Jup, I've got a very similar setup at home, working like a charm! :)
Though, I use only the Promise as controller. Got a 50MB (!)(hdc),
1275MB(hdd), 2100MB(hda) and a 540MB(hdb) disk connected.
> Will RedHat Linux work with this card in using its EIDE BIOS to
> supercede the IDE BIOS on
> the motherboard? Do I need a particular driver?
>
> How about installing Linux using this card with its EIDE BIOS active
> right from the start?
I would suggest to deactivate the internal IDE-controller, and use the
Promise - works for me.
--
David J. M. Karlsen [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -*- LAB: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -*-
http://cmr.no
fon: [+47] 55 57 43 29 -*- fax: [+47] 55 57 40 41
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From: "Henrik Stokseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dynalink ISPH64 and SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:45:39 GMT
hi! i've had some troubles getting my dynalink isdn card to work with linux.
first let me explain: i am using the asuscom drivers. and they seem to work
ok. i am not using dynalink's patch for kernel 2.0.33 as it won't work.
however i get the message 'NO CARRIER' from the log window.
hmm. it works great under win98. so my guess is that the only thing i need
to configure is the B-channel. i've had simmilar problems under win98, but i
only sent the ISDN card (or to be correct, the driver...) the command ATB4,
then it worked. the ASUSCOM driver won't accept this command.
also the asuscom driver seems to run with bundled B-channels as default.
(128k), that's the problem i think. what do i do to change it?
any ideas? has anyone successfully setup an dynalink card under linux?
any help would be greatly appreciated. *hint, hint*
Sincerely Henrik Stokseth. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(remove NOSPAM. to use)
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From: "Henrik Stokseth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help mounting Zip drive
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 10:50:53 GMT
Kenaniah wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Yes. A zip disk will appear to be partitioned in linux. You will have to
>mount partition 4. My zip is as follows:
>
>halite:/~# mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /zip
that would work for a paralell port zip drive, for an atapi, use /dev/hda4
instead. also make sure paralell port is beeing supported by kernel, if not
then recompile with paralell (su-)port enabled. :-)
Sincerely Henrik Stokseth. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(remove NOSPAM. to use)
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From: Kjell Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec AVA-1505, wrong IRQ 10, PnP
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:50:26 +0200
On 2 Sep 1999, Yotam Medini wrote:
> The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
> that has been posted to comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.hardware as well.
>
>
> Hello Linux experts
>
> Please help me configure my (Linux 2.2.9-19mdk) box to
> use my adaptec AVA-1505 SCSI card.
>
<...>
> But whatever I did , so far I always end up with boot messages like:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> aha152x: processing commandline:
> aha152x: <NULL>
> aha152x: invalid line (controller=1)
> ok
> detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=10, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled,
>parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> aha152x: IRQ 10 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
> scsi : 1 host.
I had some similar problems with my Adaptec AVA1502AE card :
aha152x: processing commandline: ok
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=9, SCSI ID=7,
reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=500,
extended translation=disabled
aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
aha152x: IRQ 9 possibly wrong. Please verify.
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
One big difference though, is that my card is an ISA non-PnP...
Anyway : I couldn't find anywhere (/proc/interrupts /proc/pci dmesg)
that IRQ 9 was occupied. My solution was to free IRQ 10 from the USB
controller, which is an option in my BIOS setup ("Preassign IRQ to USB" or
something like that), and use that IRQ instead. Worked at once !
I never got to know why IRQ 9 wouldn't work...
Our outputs differ in the first lines, and I've got a feeling that your
problem is related to the fact that your card is PnP. Sorry I can't be of
any more help at this time.
Kjell ;^)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Oesterwinter)
Subject: Beowulf computer parts - cheap!
Date: 2 Sep 1999 10:14:42 GMT
Build a beowulf super computer:
Forsale on ebay. Ends today at 2:28 PM PDT.
5 Dual Pentium 2 Motherboards with Adaptec UW SCSI - capable of running
celerons
5 SCSI harddrives
1 3d Graphics Board
1 Redhat Linux CD
Current price is $68 on ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=151706410
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J.M. van der Kolk)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI reset
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 11:11:17 GMT
What did you change, did you change some BIOS settings?
On Wed, 01 Sep 1999 20:22:00 GMT, Wolfram Saringer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a severe problem with an Asus Motherboard (P2B-S)
>
>with an onboard Adaptec 2940U2W controller.
>
>The errorlog fills up with lines like the following:
>
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684250,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 57 82 8b 00 00 f4 00
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684251,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 57 83 7f 00 00 f4 00
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684252,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 11, lun 0 Write (10) 00 00 57 84 73 00 00 f4 00
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684258,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 10, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 26 31 c5 00 00 02 00
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684259,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 10, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 26 31 c7 00 00 02 00
>Sep 1 02:13:09 sonne kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 1684260,
>scsi0, channel 0, id 10, lun 0 Read (10) 00 00 26 31 c9 00 00 02 00
>Sep 1 02:13:11 sonne kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 1684251) timed out - resetting
>Sep 1 02:13:11 sonne kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
>Sep 1 02:13:14 sonne kernel: (scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
>Sep 1 02:13:14 sonne kernel: (scsi0:0:10:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
>Sep 1 02:13:14 sonne kernel: (scsi0:0:11:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
>Sep 1 02:13:39 sonne kernel: (scsi0:0:13:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
>
>So far, the computer did not hang or reboot on these occasion,
>
>but I nevertheless want this resolved, as performance is
>
>limited...
>
>Any hints ?
>
>Wolfram.
>
>--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Re: LCD display
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 1999 12:58:35 GMT
In article <01bef50a$2f2cdd20$LocalHost@bogusz>, "Bogusz"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>I intend to use linux for industrial purposes. For this reason I need to
>have
>LCD display. How to handle this (graphics card, special adaptor)? What kind
>of display to use? Drivers? ...
>Every advice is welcome.
>
>Thanks in advance.
Here are two URL's that might help:
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/#free_x
http://www.xig.com/
The first URL details how to setup a Dell Laptop LCD display with Xfree86.
The instructions are very valuable even if you don't have a Dell computer. You
must use a modified version of the ATI Mach64 server to do this. The second
URL is for Xi-Graphics INC who makes a commercial Accellerated-X display
server. It is pretty bulletproof and easy to install, however a bit pricey
costing $200.00 US for the Laptop version. You will need the laptop version,
even if you're using a desktop computer *if* you're using a LCD digital
display with one of the digital PCI/AGP display adapters. Probably, you can
use the stock Xfree86 server *if* you are using an analog LCD display, which
seem to be more common then the digital one's. This is because the analog
display units mimic a CRT even though they don't have any scanning cathode ray
guns in them.
Mark
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