Linux-Hardware Digest #147, Volume #14 Mon, 8 Jan 01 15:13:08 EST
Contents:
Is Promise Ultra ATA100 controller supported? (alex)
faulty travan tape ("Andrew")
Re: Help! I lost 128MB :) (John Peach)
Re: Is Promise Ultra ATA100 controller supported? (Roel)
Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
raid1 disk cache? (quagly)
Re: HELP!!! Can't install RH 6.2! (Craig McCluskey)
has my cd-rom drive died? (Roger Michael Seip)
Re: Power down fails in 2.4, works in 2.2 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: ISA Ethernet (Craig McCluskey)
Seagate lvd problem (MONZ)
Vela CineView ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Cd Burning in Linux ("Andrew McIntosh")
Re: Cd Burning in Linux ("Jonathan Paul")
vodoo tv ("Jonathan Paul")
Kensington webcam driver available... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: dual xeon problems (ekk)
Re: Can't read CR-RW on DVD Drive (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Can't read CR-RW on DVD Drive (Julie Brandon)
kppp sticks on initialising modem (James)
Re: Drivers for the ATI Radeon 64mb DDR ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: ISA Ethernet ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Promise Ultra ATA100 controller supported?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:32:59 +0300
Hi!
I have Promise Ultra100 standalone (not onboard) ATA100 controller with
45 GB IBM DTLA hard disk.
Goal: want to make linux install and boot from that configuration.
Question: if it's supported at all and if yes how to install linux with
it? I tried RH7.0 - install script assumed there's no hdd at all :0/
Any idea will be helpful :0)
Alexander Komratov
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From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: faulty travan tape
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:33:17 +0100
Hi,
I have a tape device that used to work (and now it won't).
I highly suspect a hardware failure since it never has been properly cleaned
(and I also found a mushed-up tape once).
So, I've been trying various mt commands and they each fail (except status)
with:
/dev/st0: I/O error
tar also fails with I/O error
dump -B 4000000 -0uf /dev/nst0 /dev/sda1
EOT detected at beginning of the tape!
I am wondering whether it is normal that the mt error is prompted
"instantly". Am i right to think about replacing the drive, or could there
be anything else to do?
Thanks for your help,
Andrew.
Details:
kernel is Linux 2.0.34 #133
kernel supports scsi, scsi tapes and the aic7xxx.
bootlog:
(scsi0:0:2:0) Synchronous at 5.0Mhz, offset 15.
Vendor: CONNER Model: CTT8000-S Rev: 1.07
Type: Sequential-Access Ansi SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
scsi: detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total
mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 Tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 0 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (40010000):
BOT IM_REP_EN
I use Travan 4-8 Go QTR-4 tapes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Peach)
Subject: Re: Help! I lost 128MB :)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:35:12 GMT
In article <3kV56.1040$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Michael Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|>Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
|>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
|>> This has been reported many times:
|>>
|>> append = "mem=192M"
|>>
|>> put that line in your lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo, should fix the
|>> problem
|>Is this specific to 192MB or do other values fail? Either way I'm going to
|>take a little peep at the source.
If you bothered looking at deja or following this newsgroup for more
than a couple of hours, you'd know that this question has been asked
about twice a day for the last 7 or so years and surprisingly enough the
answer is always the same.......
|>
|>
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From: Roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is Promise Ultra ATA100 controller supported?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:48:24 +0100
alex wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I have Promise Ultra100 standalone (not onboard) ATA100 controller with
> 45 GB IBM DTLA hard disk.
>
> Goal: want to make linux install and boot from that configuration.
>
> Question: if it's supported at all and if yes how to install linux with
> it? I tried RH7.0 - install script assumed there's no hdd at all :0/
>
> Any idea will be helpful :0)
>
> Alexander Komratov
Hello
If you use the 2.4 kernel both standalone and onboard ata 100 are
supported, you can also download a special boot disk from the SuSe ftp
site.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:48:59 GMT
Sorry about the multiposted but I have to get this done.
Can you please help me out. I cant get it doing anything better then
800x600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:40:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered
into
> the Black Sun and said:
> >Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
> >I got a ATI Xpert 98 Video Card, NEC MultiSync XV17+ Screen and
Redhat
> >7.0 and the best I could get this config to do is 640x480?
> >Can someone please tell me the best I could get this going and how
>
> Don't multipost. You have multiposted this to this NG and c.o.l.misc
at
> the very least. If you *MUST*, cross-post-- i.e., put comp.foo.bar
> and comp.baz.barf in the Newsgroups: line. Multiposting is considered
> bad ettiquette.
>
> The Xpert98 uses a form of the Mach64 chipset, which has been
supported
> forever. What sort of errors do you get when you run Xconfigurator,
and
> have you tried XF86Setup or xf86config? Both of those seem to work
> better than Xconfigurator in many cases, but any of these will
probably
> do a better job than any automatic X configuration program that RH 7.0
> runs.
>
> >Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Please learn how to use the powerful searching facilities which the
> place you posted this from provides. http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml
> Asking for CC:s is also considered bad ettiquette, since you are in
> effect saying "My time is more important than yours."
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 16:48:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 04 Jan 2001 03:40:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered
into
> the Black Sun and said:
> >Please Help me with XPERT 98 Video card and Redhat 7.0
> >I got a ATI Xpert 98 Video Card, NEC MultiSync XV17+ Screen and
Redhat
> >7.0 and the best I could get this config to do is 640x480?
> >Can someone please tell me the best I could get this going and how
>
> Don't multipost. You have multiposted this to this NG and c.o.l.misc
at
> the very least. If you *MUST*, cross-post-- i.e., put comp.foo.bar
> and comp.baz.barf in the Newsgroups: line. Multiposting is considered
> bad ettiquette.
>
> The Xpert98 uses a form of the Mach64 chipset, which has been
supported
> forever. What sort of errors do you get when you run Xconfigurator,
and
> have you tried XF86Setup or xf86config? Both of those seem to work
> better than Xconfigurator in many cases, but any of these will
probably
> do a better job than any automatic X configuration program that RH 7.0
> runs.
>
> >Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Please learn how to use the powerful searching facilities which the
> place you posted this from provides. http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml
> Asking for CC:s is also considered bad ettiquette, since you are in
> effect saying "My time is more important than yours."
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us
to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin'
Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
>
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: raid1 disk cache?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:05:16 GMT
When I use software raid do I double by disk cache for the mirrored
partitions?
Or how does it work.
I don't think I know enough to ask this question in more detail.
Hopefully I can understand the answers.
thanks,
~quagly
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP!!! Can't install RH 6.2!
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:22:52 -0600
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
> Craig McCluskey wrote:
> > The problem is that I have never gotten any further. Most recently I
> > get the message that the install exited abnormally - recieved [sic]
> > signal 7. Yesterday, I got some error about reading headers with a
> > negative error number (which had about 10 digits, starting with a 2).
>
> It might be a bad floppy. Try to create new install floppies.
It turns out it was not the floppy. The problem occurred after the
system stopped using the floppy and was trying to run from the CD-ROM.
I pulled the CD-ROM drive out of the computer I'm now using and
connected it up to the 486. The install now goes smoothly nearly all the
way to the end. My problem now is that after loading several packages,
it just stops and sits there, not loading the remainder of what I have
selected. The computer is not crashed because it can still move the
mouse pointer around, but it just sits there for hours.
Any new ideas?
Thanks,
Craig
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From: Roger Michael Seip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: has my cd-rom drive died?
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:22:52 GMT
I am receiving the following errors when attempting to mount a cd-rom
in my drive:
kernel: hdc: tray open or drive not ready
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00, sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev 16:00, iso_blknum 16 blk 32
I am able to read cd-rom's while booted into Windows95, but I can't
seem to even mount a disc while under Linux (RH5.2). I'm under the
impression that Linux is much less tolerant of poor hardware
performance, so this situation leads me to think that perhaps my cd-rom
drive is failing. What actions can I take to determine if my hardware
is failing, or if I have misconfigured something under Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Roger
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Subject: Re: Power down fails in 2.4, works in 2.2
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 17:50:41 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <93cmqp$m1n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>My machine will not power down automatically in kernel 2.4.0-prerelease,
>and it did in 2.2.16 and previous.
>
>I have a Compaq Presario 1275 laptop. I have a RedHat 7.0 system and I
>compiled kernel 2.4.0-prerelease. I did compile in APM (not as a module)
>and have tried with both the "use real mode" option on and off. Kernel
>2.2.16 on this RedHat 7.0 system would power down without problems. Any
>clues?
Have you tried using ACPI instead of APM? Also, it is possible to swith on
the real mode option without actually saying "y" to APM... make sure APM is
really enabled. BTW, you might want to get 2.4.0 while you're at it... :)
With regards to the console/X switching problem; does your laptop have an
ATI rage based VGA card? I have a rage 128 on my desktop, and am
experiencing the same symptoms.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA Ethernet
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 11:50:56 -0600
Jeff Moore wrote:
>
> Please suggest a good ISA ethernet card.
I got a 3Com 3C515-TX ISA 10/100 NIC from eBay for $11.50 + $5.00
shipping. Works great.
Craig
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From: MONZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Seagate lvd problem
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:33:05 +0100
I have a problem getting a Buslogic Flashpoint 950 controller to spin up
a Seagate ST1971WC lvd disk with a LVD 80 pin -> UW 68 pin converter.
No matter how I set jumpers on the disk and converter, it won't spin up.
The converter only has these jumpers:
TPR: Terminator power
DLY: Delay spinup
REM: dunno about that
LED: External diskactivity led
SNC: Syncronize
ID0-3: SCSI id's
I only use SNC to force sync. operation.
With jumper ME on the disk, I can make it spin up at boot, but the
controller spinup protocol will time out without finding the disk.
>From the controller ctrl-B menu, I can scan the disk and verify it's set
for 40MB/s sync operation.
The disk shows up as a Compaq model; not surprising, since it came from
a Compaq diskarray rack.
The wierd thing is that I have another Seagate, same model, that works
fine using the same converter.
This disk shows up as a Seagate disk. It's about half a year older.
My guess is that the firmware in the one reporting to be a Compaq disk
differs in that it expects some interfacepins to be defined by the
controller subsystem.
Anyone on this?
--
Regards,
Mogens Valentin
Networking - Security - Programming
Linux configuration and troubleshooting
http://www.danbbs.dk/~monz - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Vela CineView
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:33:59 GMT
I recently came across the Vela website and noticed that they had MPEG-
2 decoding cards. The site claimed to support Linux but I could not
find drivers on the site (no code either). I also have had little luck
finding information about support for the CineView on Linux. I did
find it mentioned on a bttv site and it came up on a few Japanese
sites. It also came up on a few news sites siting a March 2000 article
in which Vela claims to support Linux.
Does anyone have one of these cards? Are there indeed drivers for it?
If so, are they specific to any one distribution? (Their site mentions
RedHad and there could be some compiler issues there).
Thanks
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From: "Andrew McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cd Burning in Linux
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 12:48:50 -0600
I have an Toshiba IDE Dvd/CD Burner combo drive in my Redhat 7 machine. I've
installed "cd record" but in the instructions it says that if you have a ide
drive you must update your kernel somehow. Are there any fairly easy ways to
get and IDE burner to work in redhat 7? Please send emails to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks.
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Reply-To: "Jonathan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jonathan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cd Burning in Linux
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:49:36 GMT
"Andrew McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:4_n66.931$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an Toshiba IDE Dvd/CD Burner combo drive in my Redhat 7 machine.
I've
> installed "cd record" but in the instructions it says that if you have a
ide
> drive you must update your kernel somehow. Are there any fairly easy ways
to
> get and IDE burner to work in redhat 7? Please send emails to
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Thanks.
>
>
You post to news groups and then read them, that is the entire concept ( for
those whoe don't get it)
the idea isn't to get every one to answer you personally. you know I happen
to have the same problem and I wanna know too!!
Think about it
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Reply-To: "Jonathan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Jonathan Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vodoo tv
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:01:36 GMT
can anyone tell me how to get my vodoo3 3500 tv tuner card working under Red
Hat?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kensington webcam driver available...
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 18:56:33 GMT
hi...
I just received the following regarding a driver for the Kensington
Webcam... from one of the sysadmins at eecs.harvard.edu - and I thought
others might be interested -
--- snip ---
Dear Folks--
If you're getting this, it means at one point (some of you, I regret,
quite a while ago) inquired about the linux driver for the kensington
video cam that I've mentioned on our webpage here
(http://webcam.eecs.harvard.edu). Apologies for not getting back to
you!
And apologies if you're getting this info for the second time.
I wanted to wait to make the tarball publicly available until I talked
with the authors of the driver; you can now download it and relevant
info
for compiling, installing, etc. from the webpage. Because it's not top
priority, most of the documentation consists of emails between Dmitry
and
myself which you'll have to interpret, alas, but things should be pretty
straightforward. There's also a basic FAQ which has a site-specific
barebones install guide at http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/webcamfaq.html.
For those of you who are wondering why the cam has been down so much
lately, it's because I've been poking at my kernel and the cam is, alas,
low priority. :)
Hope this helps, folks! Let me know if you have any questions.
--- end snip ---
(names/emails omitted as a 'spam' courtesy to the author)
- Jason
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon problems
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 13:59:11 -0500
Thanks for your help-
Memtest doesn't seem to crash, although the machine does hang before some of the
programs finish running - just like it always does when I have intensive processes
running. But, memtest itself does not crash.
Ken
jwk wrote:
> On Sun, 07 Jan 2001 14:51:17 -0500, ekk
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I apologize, but is there a universal way to determine if the memory is ECC?
> >I know that there are 2 512 MB SDRAM Toshiba PC100-222-620R modules, but I can't
> >find anything on the web about this memory being ECC. I am trying memtest right
> >now.
> >What am I looking for with memtest? Will the misc001 routine crash if it's bad
> >memory?
> >Ken
> >
> Well, let's put it this way:
>
> if memtest doesn't crash - you can be sure of nothing.
> if it does crash - you can be sure your memory isn't good.
>
> As for some way to determine if it's ecc memory, the only way I know is
> to get a program called ctspd that reads the spd-eprom on the dimms, if
> that exists. I have heard that sisoft sandra is also supposed to do
> this. Both are windows programs :-(
>
> Good luck,
> Jurriaan
> --
> What if Boeing were to copy Microsoft's habbits?
> 'What do you think, Ed, is our new 787 ready?' 'I haven't heard any
> reports from our beta-testers last month about unexpected crashes,
> so go ahead..'
> Seen on Usenet
>
> GNU/Linux 2.2.19pre6 SMP 2x999 bogomips load av: 0.01 0.04 0.00
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't read CR-RW on DVD Drive
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:13:47 +0100
Ian White wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> A quick question. I have Mandrake 7.2 and can't read a CD-Rw in the DVD
> drive - CDs, CD-Rs and DVDs are OK. Do I need to mount as another
> filesystem type, or tweak the kernel ?
>
> Any URLs etc would be welcome.
It might be that the CDRW uses UDF instead of ISO9660 as filesystem.
There is a UDF driver for linux on http://trylinux.com/projects/udf/ .
Before patching and building a new kernel , you probably want to check
if Mandrake allready provides this UDF driver as module. Juxt try a
"modprobe udf".
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: Can't read CR-RW on DVD Drive
Date: 8 Jan 2001 19:15:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001 14:06:08 GMT, lenny ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>> A quick question. I have Mandrake 7.2 and can't read a CD-Rw in the DVD
>> drive - CDs, CD-Rs and DVDs are OK. Do I need to mount as another
>> filesystem type, or tweak the kernel ?
>>
>> Any URLs etc would be welcome.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Ian
>>
>
>I have found that CD-RW's are not
>the easiest to read with any drive
>They have been very unreliable for me.
>I use them mainly for test burning
>then burn a good image on a CD-R
>once I am sure I have it right.
However, IIRC, due to technical issues with laser frequencies and laser gain
etc. many DVD drivers are more inclined to read CD-RW than CD-R (our Sony
DVP725S is an example, can read the former, but not the later.)
To the original poster -- are you sure that the drive itself in general can
read CD-RWs, does it work under Windows?
If so, then I suspect it's probably a packet-writing format CD -- dunno what
support there is for that under Linux.
Folks: If there's a version of the relevant backport of the packet-writing CD
format filesystem (UDF?) that can be popped into kernel v2.2.18 please do
tell, even if it's only for reading, as I'd love to be able to read such
disks!
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kppp sticks on initialising modem
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:30:11 -0000
Hi,
I have a US Robotics external 28,800 modem and I am trying to connect to
the internet using Kppp (The dialup program that comes with KDE.) Linux
recognises the modem and I can query it using the query option in kppp but
when I click connect the dialogue box says:
Please wait......Initialising modem.....
and it just stays on initialising and doesn't change, I eventually just
have to click cancel. I've tried adjusting the modem command set but to no
avail.
Does anyone have any ideas.
sincerely.
JL
My computer.
cyrix 266
64 MB RAM
SuSE 7.0
US Robotics Sportster 28,800 modem.
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for the ATI Radeon 64mb DDR
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 20:37:08 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know were you can get the drivers for the ATI Radeon for
> Redhat
> 6.2.
>
see http://www.xfree86.org/#currentrel, they claim XFree86 4.0.2 support for the
Radeon:
"Increased ATI support including: ATI Radeon driver adapter support added; Multi-head
configuration support
added; Non-Intel platform support improved."
Good luck,
Ruediger
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA Ethernet
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2001 19:55:07 GMT
Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Moore wrote:
>>
>> Please suggest a good ISA ethernet card.
> I got a 3Com 3C515-TX ISA 10/100 NIC from eBay for $11.50 + $5.00
> shipping. Works great.
And I bought a used 3c509b from a resale shop for 5 pounds ($8 ?).
The matrox millenium 2MB cost 17 pounds but I like 'em ...
Peter
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