Linux-Hardware Digest #741, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 12:14:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: running Intel Solaris8 + ClearCase4.0 ("David H. Mabo")
Sound&Windowmanager (Berrie Giebels)
Re: Compact Flash Reader???? (Christopher Browne)
Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem (Steve Martin)
Re: Completely new to Linux (mopi)
Re: XFree86 4 (Dances With Crows)
Modem ("Brian")
LCD Monitor using Linux (TDogg)
Re: HOT HD ("Gene Heskett")
Is thare any one doing stuff with thie SA-1100? (semaphor)
Maximum number of IRQs? (Chris Rankin)
HELP - Using PCNet LAN module with RH 6.2 (Guy Davis)
Re: Corel Linux ("Robert M. Taylor, Jr.")
Re: Maximum number of IRQs? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Corel Linux (jeff)
Determining negotiated speed & duplex for 3c59x ethernet device (Jason J Hinze)
sound distorted! (John Culleton)
Re: Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor (Valentin Guillen)
Re: direcpc satellite driver (ostracus)
Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux (Nick Brok)
Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd (Adam Schuetze)
UPS automated shutdown and restart with ATX power supply (Walter Francis)
Re: Linux on Inspiron ("Eric Zucker")
Re: Sound: CS4236 (Slawomir Siwek)
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From: "David H. Mabo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Re: running Intel Solaris8 + ClearCase4.0
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:04:55 GMT
This was posted to an HP News group. But why not look at a lower end
HP, like the A or D. Do you really need that much hardware. I will be
glad to quote you an A if you send me the specs.
Jason Hong wrote:
>
> I am trying to configure 4 ClearCase4.0 vobs server on Intel platforms.
> Solaris 8 will be running on Intel server with ClearCase4.0.
>
> Now, I need to find out adequate Compaq servers which provides stability
> and performance. HP and Sun servers are too expensive compared to Intel
> platforms even though I love to have those hardware. I looked at HP L-2000
> which will cost $50,000 for each, and it is beyond my budget.
>
> Here is my question?
>
> 1. How is Solaris8 stable on Compaq servers? My candidate for the server
> is Compaq ProLiant 8500, and I am not sure how Solaris 8 handles 8 Xeons.
>
> 2. What will be the other best OS for ClearCase other than Solaris?
>
> 3. If Solaris 8 is not enough stable, my back door will be installing
> RedHat 6.2 on the servers and running ClearCase. Has anyone run ClearCase
> on Linux?
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Jason Hong, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Anything But MicroSoft CoPyLeFt@
> A penguin is the Computer.
> Systems Administrator for Solaris, HP-UX, Linux and Auspex
--
David H. Mabo, CPCM
Certified HP Technical Professional
Adaptix Corp. - Cincinnati, Ohio
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From: Berrie Giebels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound&Windowmanager
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:09:41 -0700
Hi there,
The following happens to me: if I don't run the Enlightenment window manager, I have
sound through my soundcard (CD player). If I run my WM, I still have sound with my
RealPlayer
but xmms and any CDplayer won't work... Does anyone have an idea of what's going on?
Thanks
Berrie, who uses RH6.1 with gnome&enlightenment...
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Remove the needles to reply/Enlever les aiguilles pour repondre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Compact Flash Reader????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 00:58:44 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Buzz would say:
>I have been looking for info about compact flash readers. I haven't been
>able to find one that says it is runnable under Linux. I am going to be
>using it with mu Nikon CP800. I guess I will be using the wife's machine
>until I find one. I would rather have an external one that I can switch
>between machines. Thanks in advance for the help!
Efforts are ongoing to support USB-based units, but it doesn't seem to
be There Yet. I'm looking forward to it too...
--
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on
planes---why can't they make the whole plane out of the same
substance?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/hardware.html>
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: voodoo 2000 video card problem
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:00:51 -0400
Doc Shipley wrote:
>
> > > The Voodoo3 is only supported in XFree86 v3.3.5 and later.
> >
> > Not quite true... it's supported by the SVGA driver in
> > 3.3.3, as that's what I'm running right now.
>
> Unpatched, with 3D?
No, but that was not the statement that was made. As you can see
above, the statement was simply that the card was "not supported"
before 3.3.5. It is supported in 3.3.3.
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From: mopi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Completely new to Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:04:19 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Like a few others here I started with a 486/33 200MB disk and 8MB of
ram (impressive spec at the time I might add) and Slackware 2.x iirc
It will work but X if it works will be very slow and honestly I think
StarOffice is asking too much - bit like asking same PC to run recent
version of MS Office - having said that if its all you have just try
it - the none X stuff will give you plenty to try out (perl, bash,
gcc) and you can run a webserver
On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 15:51:27 GMT, "Gez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hello group
>I am completely new to Linux but some of the info I obtained from the
>various websites make it appealing to me. My question is, would Linux
>(Mandrake, for example) run on my old and currently unused IBM 486 SX-25
>with 8 megs of RAM? Would it run well on this system? I don't have a modem
>or sound card and don't need them on the old PC, so PnP issues/installing
>certain kinds of hardware wouldn't be a problem. The benefit to me of
>installing Linux is that I could begin to learn programming languages on it
>(I believe they come with Linux distributions), and I could install
>StarOffice for my mother who wants to learn how to use a computer.
>Thank you very much for any info,
>from a long-time Windows user,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: XFree86 4
Date: 24 Apr 2000 21:29:46 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 18:41:14 -0500, Chad Wills
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I see there is a beta XFree86 4 available. Has anyone tried it with a TNT2
>and Quake3? What was the performance compared to Win9X or NT4/Win2K?
3D support for the TNT2 is *NOT AVAILABLE* under Xfree86 4.0 AFAIK.
nVidia are being evil about releasing specs for the hardware, so we will
see 3D support for this card whenever they get around to it (read: never,
unless you use their pre-alpha hacked-up binaries that are already
available for 3.3.5.)
2D is a bit faster under 4.0, but not enough to get excited about
IMHO. 2D with 4.0 actually seemed faster than under Lose98 using the
extremely unscientific "display content in moving windows, then display a
large window and drag it really fast all over the screen" method of
benchmarking. YMMV.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem
Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2000 00:23:21 +0800
I would like to ask "Is modem using Rockwell HCF chip a winmodem?"
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From: TDogg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LCD Monitor using Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 01:30:03 GMT
I recently installed Win Linux 2000 and Corel Linux on my computer
with a NVIDA TNT2 PRO video card, using a LCD display monitor but I am
having trouble getting a display on my monitor under Linux. Is there a
solution to this problem? I
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Date: 24 Apr 2000 21:15:33 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Edward Lee;
EL> Actually, bigger drives are sometimes cooler, because they have newer
EL> chips with lower powers. In some cases (no prunch intended),
EL> disconecting the fan leads to lower overall temperature. The fan itself
EL> makes approx. 10W of heat.
The fan makes 10 watts of heat? Can you hear it in the next county?
Are the blades actually rated for the rpm or do they need an explosion
shield?
Seriously,
A 12 volt fan normally carries a label claiming it might draw 280
milliamps, or .28 amps. I've never measured one that actually drew that
much. At any rate, 12*.28=3.36 watts. Not all of that is instant heat
mind you, but some of that input energy will be used to create the
turbulance that moves the air around, delaying its total conversion to
heat by several seconds. 1=1 however if the observation continues long
enough.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 400mhz
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |This Space for rent
RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
© 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: semaphor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is thare any one doing stuff with thie SA-1100?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:47:27 +1000
I recently stumbled accross the LART project (as many people did thanks
to slashdot) and am now wondering howmany other projects out thare are
using the SA-1100 chip?
Thare are some NC's out thare but not much else. How about some
portable applications, if you think an IBM laptop battery lasts a long
time imagine a laptop running on the SA-1100! perhaps with a
DiskOnChip, it would last for a while.
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From: Chris Rankin <au.com.zipworld@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Maximum number of IRQs?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:23:38 +1000
Hi,
I have been checking out my current Linux box, to see if I have room for
a new parallel port. A quick inspection of the motherboard reveals one
spare PCI slot and two spare ISA slots. However, then I looked at the
IRQ table in /proc:
$ cat /proc/interrupts
CPU0
0: 135019743 XT-PIC timer
1: 234431 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
3: 14761860 XT-PIC serial
5: 861 XT-PIC soundblaster
7: 0 XT-PIC parport0
8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
10: 30 XT-PIC Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet
12: 4506246 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 1414398 XT-PIC ide0
15: 95082 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
Now IRQ 4 is for the serial port and IRQ 11 seems to be reserved for the
USB ports (and is therefore waiting for Linux 2.4). This seems to leave
me with only IRQs 6 and 9, and I'm fairly sure that IRQ 6 is reserved
for something too. In other words, I only seem to have IRQ 9 left! Now I
don't have a lot of cards on my current motherboard, partly because it
only has 3 PCI slots in the first place (plus an integrated sound chip)
and yet it looks like I've filled the IRQ table up pretty well anyway.
Is this normal, or am I missing something here? I have seen motherboards
with 5 or 6 PCI slots - do people not use keyboards and mice with these
machines, or something? Or do machines come with more IRQs these days,
say 32?
Thanks for any insights here,
Cheers,
Chris.
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From: Guy Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP - Using PCNet LAN module with RH 6.2
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 02:37:17 GMT
I recently got hold of a cheap Celeron 466 PC. I have installed RH 6.2
and everything is working except for the built-in LAN module. It is
labelled as a PCNet HT2001 9936 Lan Module V1.2. This is an on-board
module, not PCI.
Does anyone know how to get Linux to recognize this NIC? I have been
looking at the pcnet32 and lance network drivers, but I don't know what
arguements to pass them. (Or even if they are the right driver for this
NIC)
Thanks.
Guy Davis
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From: "Robert M. Taylor, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:11:33 GMT
Did you get a boot diskette? SuSE seems to work best booting from the
boot diskettes rather than running windows during the install. I don't
think I ever ran any version of windows during an install of Linux. It
should reboot with a Lilo prompt. If this is not happening, the install
did not work.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I purchased Corel Linux Deluxe to install on my current system so that I
> can have dual boot between Win 98 and Linux, however when I try to install
> Linux, it goes to the screen prior to the license agreement and then it
> spits out the CD and reboots the computer automatically. Does anybody
> know why it is doing this? In my computer system it seems to have no
> problems with the setup. I think it might be hardware imcompatibility,
> does anybody else have a suggestion?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
=====================================================
Bob Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
SuSE Linux 6.3 on a Celeron 466
bob@Peregrine:~>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Maximum number of IRQs?
Date: 24 Apr 2000 23:23:02 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:23:38 +1000, Chris Rankin
<<8e2s2u$mhq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi,
>I have been checking out my current Linux box, to see if I have room for
>a new parallel port. A quick inspection of the motherboard reveals one
>spare PCI slot and two spare ISA slots. However, then I looked at the
>IRQ table in /proc:
> 0: 135019743 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 234431 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 3: 14761860 XT-PIC serial
> 5: 861 XT-PIC soundblaster
> 7: 0 XT-PIC parport0
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 30 XT-PIC Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 Ethernet
> 12: 4506246 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 1414398 XT-PIC ide0
> 15: 95082 XT-PIC ide1
IRQ 6 is universally used for the floppy controller. IRQ 4 is usually
used for ttyS0, but you *might* be able to disable that serial port in the
BIOS and assign your parallel card that IRQ--though the 2nd parallel port
usually uses IRQ 5. IRQ 9 is also a possibility, I'd think. PCI cards
and devices are capable of sharing IRQs, though it doesn't always
work. Finally, you can run a parallel port in polling mode as a last
resort, so it doesn't suck up an IRQ. This might affect performance
negatively, of course, but it's actually the default mode for a parport
under Linux....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Corel Linux
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:51:46 GMT
I had similar poblem with download version. At around 40% installation, it spits
out
cd and reboots the system. But suprisely it can boot to login prompt. I tried to
reload again, it went through a little far but stop around 45% and reboot the
system
again..
"Robert M. Taylor, Jr." wrote:
> Did you get a boot diskette? SuSE seems to work best booting from the
> boot diskettes rather than running windows during the install. I don't
> think I ever ran any version of windows during an install of Linux. It
> should reboot with a Lilo prompt. If this is not happening, the install
> did not work.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I purchased Corel Linux Deluxe to install on my current system so that I
> > can have dual boot between Win 98 and Linux, however when I try to install
> > Linux, it goes to the screen prior to the license agreement and then it
> > spits out the CD and reboots the computer automatically. Does anybody
> > know why it is doing this? In my computer system it seems to have no
> > problems with the setup. I think it might be hardware imcompatibility,
> > does anybody else have a suggestion?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Bob Taylor
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> SuSE Linux 6.3 on a Celeron 466
>
> bob@Peregrine:~>
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From: Jason J Hinze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Determining negotiated speed & duplex for 3c59x ethernet device
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:03:50 -0500
Hello,
I have been trying to find a way to determine the speed
and duplex settings negotiated by the 3c59x driver on x86
machines running linux, kernel version 2.2.12 (from the
RedHat 6.1 distribution).
I've sniffed around in /proc, but can't seem to find any
relevant info.
I've also examined the 3c59x.c source file, but,
unfortunately, it was beyond my ability to comprehend.
I can look at the ethernet switch, to see what it thinks the
negotiated settings are, but I would really like to find out
what the 3c59x driver thinks.
BTW, I'd love to know how to determine negotiated settings
for the acenic driver as well.
Thanks,
Jason J Hinze
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: sound distorted!
From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 21:01:30 -0700
I can send sound samples to /dev/audio and /dev/dsp OK as
described in the Sound-HOWTO. I can play midi files or cdroms OK.
But when I attempt to use either system sounds under KDE or
REalplay 7 clips I get horribly distorted sound. Here is my
/dev/sndstat:OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver compiled into kernel
Kernel: Linux john 2.2.13 #6 Mon Apr 24 23:33:02 EDT 2000 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 26: MPU-401 (UART)
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 29: Sound Blaster PnP
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,1
(SB MPU-401 at 0x330 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster (8 BIT/MONO ONLY) (2.01)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL2
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
Here is the pertinent part of dmesg:
Sound initialization started
<Sound Blaster (8 BIT/MONO ONLY) (2.01)> at 0x220 irq 7 dma 1,1
<Yamaha OPL2> at 0x388
Sound initialization complete
I have recompiled the kernel, inspected dmesg etc. What could be
causing the distortion?
The OS is Linux Slackware 7. The card is an Orchid Gamewave 32
which emulates Soundblaster.
John Culleton
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Trouble with XF86Config offtime and ViewSonic monitor
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 22:11:00 -0600
Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
> I can't tell if this is an XFree86 problem or a ViewSonic problem.
Mark,
I don't know which it is, but be sure you check to see what your machine
bios settings are set at, before you attempt to diagnose the software or
the monitor. The bios settings for things like the hard drive spindown,
etc, may be the culprit. I don't know how to enter your bios, but
whichever way, be sure to check also the settings for Plug and Play OS
and monitor shutdown, and others in your bios. Then go on to check
settings for the monitor in the Xconfig file, and maybe even the
monitor. You could check the behavior of the monitor at someone else's
home or business, and maybe check you computer with another monitor.
You would have to reconfigure X if you're going to try another monitor,
unless it's the same model.
Good Luck,
Valentin
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From: ostracus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: direcpc satellite driver
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 23:15:36 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JE Young) wrote:
> Does anyone know of a linux driver for the DirecPC satellite receiver?
> It is now running on an M$ NT4 WS system, but I am trying to wean myself
> from M$$$$$$$$$$$$.
http://www.helius.com/products/nedpc.html
Is a place to start.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Brok)
Subject: Re: BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 06:52:19 GMT
In article <8e1vq8$u1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Andreas Maunz wrote:
>Sorry for me posting in German to this NG :-)
>
>Fehler:
>In der Zeile 'insmod i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0' kriege ich
>folgende Meldung:
>'insmod: i2c: no module by that name found'.
>
Sie muessen die modulen instalieren von i2c im kernel
You must install i2c in kernel
>Der restliche Skript (insmod videodev, insmod tuner, insmod msp3400,
>insmod bttv) läuft problemlos...
I hope this will help you.
--
Greetings,
Nick Brok
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From: Adam Schuetze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Netscape froze my machine - now bios doesn't see my hdd
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 07:15:18 GMT
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> Not diatribe, but lesson.
> If you feel it necessary touse foullanguage do it elsewhere. You got
> a perfectly valid lesson in correct thinking, for which you ought to
> say thank you. If you can't distinguish between advice and
> "diatribes" then that is YOUR problem, and you should correct
> yourself.
I must admit that I let a knee-jerk reaction take control of my response.
I do apologize for swearing, it was not acceptable.
What I objected to, was his condescending manner. I don't agree that it was
`perfectly valid lesson.' It's one thing to say `gee, shouldn't you consider other
causes for your crash' than to say `hey dumbass! don't you know anything? get a
clue!' which is essentially what he was saying. His attitude was lame.
Unfortunately, I responded in an equally poor manner.
Fine. He was right. But then so were the other people who replied, and told me
that I should look to hardware problems. At least they didn't try to make me feel
like a dumbass.
> : Duh. Of course I assumed the software killed my machine.
>
> Then duh, you just learned not to make assumptions without causal
> chain, didn't you? Associating an effect with an event is called
> "superstition" and it is what the last 4 centuries of scientific
> rationalism have been about eliminating. If you have learned nothing
> from them, tnen be ashamed. Superstition in connection with computers,
> or anything else at all, willget you nowhere.
I sure don't claim to be a guru in software and hardware bugs. However, from my
(I'll agree, limited) experience, I have never had a single hardware failure. I've
got hard drives that are 15 years old; they still work. However, I've used software
that crashes over and over. Given this history, I didn't have much reason to think
hardware was the problem. When software causes your problems 100% of the time, one
doesn't think of the hardware when the machine crashes once more. It's not
superstition. It's called `going from past performance.'
In hindsight, I agree that I did not look at the entire spectrum of possible sources
of the problem. Shoot, I thougt I had just lost my entire hard disk drive. I was
not thinking straight.
> : Hardware has become very stable, while software has become more and more
>
> Apparantly you also don't know everything about hardware and software ...
> hardware bugs are every bit as numerous as software. I would estimate
> that 30% of new computers I receive arrive with an evident fault in
> one of their major components (pci bus, memory system, disk, network
> card, serial bus, cpu, ...). About 30% more have a hidden fault. ALL
> of them have known or unknown hardware bugs.
I never claimed to know everything about hardware and software. Your comments seem
to be tailored towards hardware bugs that are readily apparent upon equipment
delivery, unless I'm missing your meaning. This doesn't really apply to me; the
hardware in question has a history of providing fault-free service, for over a
year. In my mind, surely a hardware bug would have manifested itself in that time,
many times over?
On a side note, these hardware bugs you refer to, are these design flaws, or
manufacturing flaws, or both?
> : Anyway, it turns out I was wrong. It was a dirty IDE cable connector. But I
>
> One usually is if one hypothesises wildly.
Why is it `wildly.' Consider my situation. Hardware that has worked flawlessly for
over a year. Suddenly the machine freezes, and when I reboot, the hard drive simply
doesn't appear to exist under the bios. Panic sets in.
In hindsight, I can see your point, but then I didn't have your experience to call
upon when the problem occured. We all have to use the resources that are available
to us.
> User applications cannot corrupt file systems, if you don't run as root.
> (modulo indirect sabotage by root ..). A kernel bug that did so would
> be possible, and be known, thanks to the large number of beta testers
> out there.
I was running as root.
Anyway, I appreciate you writing. I was royally angry at that guy when I posted,
and I needed someone to set me straight. I don't completely agree with you on all
points, but thats not such a bad thing.
Regards,
Adam
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UPS automated shutdown and restart with ATX power supply
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 03:37:01 -0400
I have my APC Best-UPS working, power failures and power restored all
work fine, but if the machine shuts down and halts it won't come back on
without pushing the power botton on the front of the machine.
I have a VIA 503+ motherboard, is there any way to get it to turn on
automatically when the power comes back on?
Thanks!
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Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 6.0
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From: "Eric Zucker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.laptop,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux on Inspiron
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 09:54:32 +0200
The monitor refresh rate does not apply to LCDs as is does to CRT screens.
LCD, especially TFT do not flicker, as there is a uniform light source
behind the LCD panel. Usualy they refresh at 60Hz and this is fine.
Dual scan LCDs do show a little vibration if you look up close. It's nowhere
as unpleasant as flicker on a CRT, where the beam of electrons sweeping
across the tube illuminates the phospors to create the image. There used to
be long persistence CRTs in which the phosphors stayed lit much longer, of
course each time you moved something on the screen it showed a drag that
lasted a 1/2 second. Not very useful for games and DVDs.
I agree that 1024*768 is comfortable for a 17" CRT, 1280*1024 is a little
high unless you get a premium (ie Trinitron) screen, sometimes an
intermediary resolution of 1152*960 is acceptable.
Also a 15" LCD has about the same display surface as a 17" CRT.
Henrik Carlqvist wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Which is easier to useon the eyes, the 1400x1050 15" screen or the
>> 1280x1024 15.4" screen? Since my external monitor (NEC 6FG) may not
>> handle the 1400x1050 mode, I'd probably run it in 1280x1024 mode.
>
>I wouldn't use a higher resolution than 1024x768 even on a 17" monitor.
>
>When it comes to being nice to the eyes you must also consider refresh
>rate. This gets even more important with big monitors as the eye is more
>sensitive to flickering at the edge of your view. A refresh rate of 85
>Hz is considered flicker free, but I would recommend a refresh rate of
>100 Hz.
>
>regards Henrik
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From: Slawomir Siwek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound: CS4236
Date: 25 Apr 2000 07:57:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Benjamin R Haskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> napisał(a):
> I am running a Linux 2.2.14 kernel with OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130 compiled
> directly into the kernel, and cannot get my CS4236B audio working
> properly.
My config file is simply.
I run it as module: /sbin/modprobe cs4232 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=5
It is cs4236 but module is cs4232.
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Sławomir Siwek.
Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne SA
To co przed @ to pułapka na spamerów.
Linuser #126048
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