Linux-Hardware Digest #253, Volume #9 Sat, 23 Jan 99 22:13:57 EST
Contents:
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 (David Fox)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Chris Ebenezer)
Need someone help!!! ("BBQ")
Re: S3 Trio 3D ("al")
sgi indy (Eric Melville)
FIC VA503+ & NCR810a (Gregor Zych)
Re: IRQ 5 Freeze on Sound Card ("Carlos M. Fern�nandez")
Re: HP Jet Direct ("Wayne Buhrman")
Re: printing to Apple Laserwriter pro 630 ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: Genius Sound Maker - partial success only (David Usherwood)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (jedi)
Multifunction-PCMCIA-Card (SCSI & Ethernet 10/100) ?? (Hans Heering)
hj�lp!! ("Lamer�n")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
Creative labs 3D blaster Banshee HILFE HILFE ("Devil")
I need a 3com driver for Linux ("Stefan Mennes")
Re: stupid question(s) of the week: testing the sound driver(s) (?) (Neil Zanella)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Michael Carley)
fdisk and MBR ("Agent 004")
Re: Red Hat installation problem - newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mystique video mode (Nicolas Kisselhoff)
compaq ap200 keyboard lock-up on boot (Joseph Martin)
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI - 1371 - MIDI Problems (Jeff Messner)
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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)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.intel,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.arch,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450
Date: 23 Jan 1999 16:54:35 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Simon Kinahan wrote:
> >
> > If you were right, you might have a point, but you aren't, so you
> > don't. My AMD K6-2 300 (and every equivalent machine I have seen)
> > gives just under 300 bogomips. AMD chips have superior integer
> > performance to Intel ones under some circumstances, but generally
> > poorer floating point.
>
> Sorry, you are the one who is wrong.
Why do you call someone wrong when they are right?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Chris Ebenezer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 16:18:44 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: more easily. I seriously doubt, however, that German can be read
: faster than any other language. Did it ever even occur to you that
Yes, but on the other hand, German would be easier to scan for nouns.
Not having had experience with reading text in which nouns are
'emphasised' in such a manner, i wouldn't be able to speculate on the
positive or negative effects of this.
The human eye can probably search through text for lexical delimiters
faster than it can for syntactical or grammatical delimiters - if you
ignore extremes.
Maybe the period and capitalization and their relative sizes have
evolved more or less because the start of a sentence is more important
than its end. Sure, use of both is redundant, but then there is so much
other redundancy in languages I'm not sure that it's worth getting
worked up about it.
--
chris
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From: "BBQ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need someone help!!!
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:29:44 +0800
Dear all,
While I try to mount my IDE CD-ROM with
"mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /cdrom "under Redhat5.2,
I get an error "The kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device
(maybe 'insomd driver' ?"
I also try"mount /mnt/cdrom " but same result...
what' wrong...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "al" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,at.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: S3 Trio 3D
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 10:55:31 +1100
to be 100% sure which server to use you may need to check the number on the
chip itself
for xfree86 have a look at the xfree web site and also the how-tos
www.uni-paderborn.de/mirrors/xfree86/
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/mirrors/xfree86/3.3.3.1/index.html for docs on
XFree86 v 3.3.3.1
http://www.uni-paderborn.de/mirrors/xfree86/3.3.3.1/S3.html info for S3
chipset users
www.linux-howto.com
according to the info on the above sites you chipset is supported by the S3
server(if the trio3d is the same as trio32 or trio64)
linux isn't windows so you can't expect to be spoon fed and there are
shitloads of sites on how to configure hardware for linux/xfree
taken from info on S3 server
S3 764 (Trio64)
SPEA Mirage P64 (BIOS 5.xx)
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM
#9 GXE64 Trio64
8/15/16/24 bpp
Note: The Trio64 has a builtin RAMDAC and clockchip, so the server should
work with all Trio64 cards, and there is no need to specify the RAMDAC or
clockchip in the XF86Config file.
S3 732 (Trio32)
Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM SE
8/15/16/24 bpp
Note: The Trio32 has a builtin RAMDAC and clockchip, so the server should
work with all Trio32 cards, and there is no need to specify the RAMDAC or
clockchip in the XF86Config file.
tusi wrote in message ...
>Hallo everyboby there,
>I was running several windows plattform! shit or what can you say!
>Now I installed RedHat Linux 5.2. I can not run xwindows. Means I can not
>configure my videocard.
>It's a EON Tronics made with S3 chip (michel angelo DA 113) according to
the
>manual it got a S3 Trio 3D chip. But I don't find anything like that in S3s
>web page. Is it the S3 ViRGE/GX2 ? which xfree86 should I install to get
>this work?
>I'm new to Linux!!!! please help me!
>sathees
>
>
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From: Eric Melville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sgi indy
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 01:41:25 GMT
anyone have any hope at all for getting linux onto an sgi indy machine?
it's currently got an old version of IRIX, which i want to rid my life
of permanently.
-E
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From: Gregor Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FIC VA503+ & NCR810a
Date: 22 Jan 1999 17:33:47 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Did anybody use this combination successfully? I want to
purchase a VA503+ MB and heard that they do not work well together.
Did anybody see similiar behaviour with this combination or can it be
considered a exception.
Ciao & TIA
Gregor
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From: "Carlos M. Fern�nandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ 5 Freeze on Sound Card
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:43:02 -0500
The problem is not a "locked" IRQ, but the absence of a device that uses
said IRQ. In your case, I believe you have a Plug'n'Pray card, so I
suppose you had rebooted from Windows into Linux, and the soundcard kept
its settings the way Windows told it. Then, after shutdown and restart,
the settings were cleared, so your card was practically absent from the
system, for all that the sounddriver cares.
Your solution would probably be to use isapnptools as a quick turnaround.
Its extremely easy to use, so I doubt you will have any problems with it.
PnP4kernel might work too, but that takes a bit more effort.
Hope that helps.
Victor H. Auerbach wrote:
> I am using Red Hat Linux 5.1 updated to v. 2.0.36 on a Dell 450. The
> hard drive has Windows 98 below and Linux in the upper reaches. Using
> 'make xconfig' I was able to use the Sound Blaster default to bring up
> my sound card (Crystal 3D 64 V Intergrated Sound).
>
> Upon booting (as read in /var/log/dmesg) there were two lines which
> read:
>
> Sound initialization started
> <Sound Blaster Pro (3.2)> at 0x220 irq 5 dma 1,5
>
> and I had full sound, CDROM etc., for a few days. Then, inexplicably,
> the second line, upon a reboot, changed to:
>
> s.b. Interupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled.
>
> Sound still works in Windows and Windows tells me that only the sound
> card uses IRQ 5. I have removed all system sounds in Linux and cleaned
> up the files. Nothing helps. Recompiling the kernel without sound and
> then with sound again does nothing.
>
> Does anyone know of a way to unlock a locked interupt test, or any
> other workaround for this problem?
>
> Thanks,
--
Carlos M. Fern�ndez, NP3IP.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://members.tripod.com/~drag_on/
"Mira que te mando que te esfuerces y seas valiente; no temas ni desmayes,
porque Jehov� tu Dios estar� contigo en dondequiera que vayas," Josu� 1:9
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From: "Wayne Buhrman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Jet Direct
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:00:26 -0500
Roland Exler wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Rich Jamieson wrote:
>
>> I'm thinking of getting a HP 895Cxi - which is described as having an
option
>> for "HP Jet Direct Connectivity"
>>
>> Anyone used the Jet direct with linux - any problems ?
>
>We use a HP8500 Color Laserjet Printer (Postscript) on our Network which
has
>the HP Jet Direct built in. It works without Problems printing using it
Linux
>and Win NT.
>
>You'll need an entry like this in /etc/printcap using the IP you assigned
the
>printer.
>
>lp:postscript:\
> :lp=/dev/null:sh:\
> :sd=/var/spool/PS_600dpi:\
> :rm=???.???.???.???:rp=raw:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
>
>If the printer does not support postscript, it's a little more tricky, as
you
>have to convert your jobs prior to sending it to the printer.
>
>Roland
>
>--
>Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Dipl.Ing. Roland Exler
>Institute of Measurement Technology Phone: (+43) 732 / 2468 - 9774
>Altenbergerstr. 69, FAX: (+43) 732 / 2468 - 9233
>A-4040 Linz EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
I am using an HP 4000N printer (i.e., Jet Direct built in) on my LAN and can
did not have any problems printing from linux. I used a script similar to
what was described above.
Good Luck.
Wayne Buhrman
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printing to Apple Laserwriter pro 630
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:20:20 +0000
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
I'm using an Apple Laserwriter 12/640ps with RedHat 5.2. Here is the secret,
go into your BIOS setup and turn off plug and play OS. When I did that
to make my modem work it also fixed the printer.
<p>Josh
<br>
<p>Tony Perring wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have a similar problem. Apple laserwriter 2g postscript
printer that works
<br>fine in 98
<br>the printer is on com 2. All I get in my SuSE 5.2 system is a blinking
<br>"ready to print" light. I have found no useable info on configuring
this
<br>port for a printer. Help would be greatly appreciated.
<br>tp.
<br>Tony Dahbura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<br><a href="news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>...
<br>>I cannot figure out how to setup a print queue in RH 5.2 to print
to a
<br>>parallel attached Laserwriter pro 630.
<br>>
<br>>Any help would be appreciated it.
<br>>
<br>>Thanks,
<br>>Tony
<br>>
<br>></blockquote>
</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Usherwood)
Subject: Re: Genius Sound Maker - partial success only
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:45:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David
Usherwood) wrote:
>I have bought a cheapo PNP sound card (as per title) and am fighting with
>bringing it up under SUSE 5.2.
>
>The internal synth is initialising, and some KDE tools can talk to it. But the
>sound (/dev/dsp etc) isn't.
>
>The log shows:
>sb: Interrupt test on IRQ5 failed - device disabled
>
>/dev/sndstat shows no audio or mixer devices.
>The Sound Blaster is at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,0
>
>Can someone advise what might be going wrong?
>
>
>
>
An update:
I downloaded OSS-free and it appears to have detected and enabled all the
relevant devices. I say 'appears' because I am finding it quite hard to work
out how to talk to each one, and what applications to use. But 'cat
endoftheworld>/dev/dsp' worked, and the Jazz sequencer drove an external Midi
device, but not the internal synth. Propose to try one of the id games next.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.modems
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 08:59:16 -0800
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:38:14 +0100, Toon Moene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Chris Lee wrote:
>
>> Funny. My V.90 56k external modem works just fine when I unplug it from my
>> pc and connect it to the RS-232 port on my Amiga 3000 that I bought around
>> '93 or so.
>
>Funny you think of it as a plus. For me this signals that we have far
>too long been the victims of the phone company for providing Internet
>access.
...which brings us to another connector that you could
plug into just about anything...
--
Herding Humans ~ Herding Cats
Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Hans Heering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multifunction-PCMCIA-Card (SCSI & Ethernet 10/100) ??
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:10:57 +0100
Hallo Linux-People
I'm using a 233 MHz Notebook of the type "NONAME" with 64 MB RAM,
2 PCMCIA-Slots type 2 and USB. This notebook is running Linux Kernel-
Version 2.0.34.
To connect a SCSI-DAT-(or Tape-)Streamer or a SCSI-Scanner I need
an appropriate SCSI-Adapter on base PCMCIA.
Who of you have a suggestion, which one of the MULTIFUNCTION card
works, so that I can connect
1. the named SCSI devices and
2. a network on base Ethernet 10/100 Mbit
and will be supported by the Linux drivers ?
I would be appreciated about any hint !
Hans
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From: "Lamer�n" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hj�lp!!
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 02:54:26 +0100
Jag har ett problem som jag inte har n�gon vuxen att prata med om.
�r det �verhuvudtaget m�jligt att f� ig�ng X Window (XFree86),
med mitt sugande ATI Rage Pro Turbo AGP 4Mb,
som Siemens svetsat fast p� mitt moderkort?
RedHat 5.0 kanske �r av intresse?
K�r jag SuperProbe f�r jag veta att det �r ATI unknown chipset,
0 kbytes memory och n�nting typ:signatur data : 333f003c(please report)
K�r jag startX f�r jag d�remot veta att det �r en ATI Mach 64 video adapter
detekted,IBM RGB 514 or similar RAMDAC och programmeble clock generator
detekted och att det �r 4Mb videoram.
Men inte satan startar det.
Vad �r fel, jag orkar inte vara vaken m�nga dygn till?
/Lamer�n
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jari Aalto+mail.emacs)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 19:08:29 +0200
Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ... I use two spaces after sentence-ending punctuation.
Which is some odd relict that somebody still seems to believe is needed...
jari
Tips for Writers and Designers ...
About the Author
Hi. I'm David Siegel, author of Web Wonk. I am a type
designer, typographer, writer, and web-site designer. I
received a Master's degree in Digital Typography from
Stanford University in 1986, where I studied under
Donald Knuth and Charles Bigelow. I spent a year at
Pixar, then I started working for myself, designing
typefaces like Tekton and Graphite, both of which are
available from Adobe Systems. I also have a series of
typefaces based on the lettering of Frank Lloyd Wright,
marketed by AGFA and Monotype corporations. I also
do web site design for companies. My company is called
Verso, located in Palo Alto and San Francisco.
"Two spaces aft the end of line"
http://www.dsiegel.com/tips
http://www.dsiegel.com/tips/wonk6/horizontal.html
...Putting two spaces between sentences is an old secretary's myth.
While it won't affect your web pages, it makes your e-mail and
word-processor documents harder to read. One of the first things
you learn in a good typography class is that a word space should be
about the width of the letter "i." The extra space breaks the
natural rhythm of the sentences. You don't do it in your
handwriting, we never do it in books and newspapers, why should it
be right for your word processor or your e-mail? It isn't. Even if
you are using a fixed-width font, the period itself has quite a bit
of white space, enough to distinguish it and the following word
space from a regular word space. More space makes the sentences
float apart, making life difficult for the reader, no matter what
your typing teacher taught you. Since we typographers are very
picky about such things, if a larger space were helpful, we would
use it.
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From: "Devil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative labs 3D blaster Banshee HILFE HILFE
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 03:35:44 +0100
kann mir wer sagen wie ich die grafikkarte unter Linux S.u.S.E. 5.3
zum laufen bekomme
bitte helft mir !!!!!!!
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From: "Stefan Mennes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I need a 3com driver for Linux
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:26:05 +0100
I own a Laptop running RedHat Linux, kernel 2.0.36 on a i686
But I can't find a driver for my netwerk-credit-card.
I need a driver for: 3c562D / 3c563D (non global / global)
If you have the driver, or if you have hints were to get it,
Please Reply, or send me an Email. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thanx in advance.
Stefan.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stupid question(s) of the week: testing the sound driver(s) (?)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:59:12 -0330
Hello,
I have just configured my ISA Creative SoundBlaster 16 WavEffects
for kernel 2.0.36 and recompiled the kernel and then the modules.
I configured the sound section with make menuconfig using the new method.
The relevant section of /usr/src/linux/.config for the card is:
#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=y
# CONFIG_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SB=y
# CONFIG_ADLIB is not set
# CONFIG_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_UART6850 is not set
# CONFIG_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_GUS16 is not set
# CONFIG_GUSMAX is not set
# CONFIG_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_MAUI is not set
CONFIG_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_MIDI=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y
SBC_BASE=220
SBC_IRQ=7
SBC_DMA=1
SB_DMA2=5
SB_MPU_BASE=0
SB_MPU_IRQ=-1
DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536
# CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND is not set
I don't know if this is right.
Now I issue a:
$ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Sat Jan 23 05:44:48 NST 1999 root,
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #1 Sat Jan 23 05:27:15 NST 1999 i586
unknown)
Kernel: Linux localhost.localdomain 2.0.36 #1 Sat Jan 23 05:46:10 NST
1999 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5
(SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
... it seems like the drivers are there.
Now I have a device /dev/dsp with:
$ ls -l /dev/dsp
crw-rw--w- 1 root sys 14, 3 Apr 25 1995 /dev/dsp
but when I issue the following command I get:
$ cat /usr/lib/games/xboing/sounds/wzzz2.au > /dev/dsp
bash: /dev/dsp: Device not configured
What is wrong here?
Must I use isapnptools?
Thanks,
Neil Zanella
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From: Michael Carley<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 16:45:23 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> and a .signature? but, no, of all the rules I break, only capitalization
> really _gets_ to some people. this is all quite amusing.
Maybe because it's the only whose breaking causes problems?
--
``Permitt not your schollars to ramble abroad, especially lett them not
soe much as peepe into a tavern or tipleing house'' (Provost Loftus).
My return address has the user name reversed.
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From: "Agent 004" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk and MBR
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:30:25 -0500
I have had to format my 540 seagate hard drive again. This time I am having
a doozie of a time. Somebody told me I had to fdisk my "MBR"
but that doesn't seem to help.!!! When I reinstall Caldera 1.3 it still only
boots to " Li" not the LILO that used to come up....
what gives?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Many thanks for direct replies.....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Red Hat installation problem - newbie
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 02:32:49 GMT
In article <77jhf8$rk8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am currently battling to install Linux on my laptop. Due to current
> business/ support applications, I need to be able to dual boot Windows 98 and
> NT - I would like to also be able to boot Linux. In order to do the above I
> have a small DOS partition, I am informed that I need this because NT can't
> read the Windows 98 FAT 32 filesystem and Windows 98 can't read an NTFS.
I have a Tripple-Boot system that I just got working but mine's a little
weirder because NT is solely on my second hard drive and LILO boots it with a
logical drive swap. (LILO boots all three.) I don't have a small dos
partition first, but I suppose that is one way to do it. How big is the
disk? I don't have experience in this, but I am told even Linux can't boot
above 8GB on the disk.
> When I try to partition my disk for Linux, it only lets me add one other
> partition, 3Gb in size, which I thought would be great for my Linux area. But
> apparently Linux wants a swap partition as well, and for some reason my system
> won't let me have more than four, [C: for DOS, d: for Win98, e: for NT 4.0, /
> for Linux]. I have 128Mb of RAM and had planned on just using filesystem swap,
> and hence would not need an additional swap partition. Are there any solutions
> or do I go Linux-less or trash my machine.
I know linux LIKES a swap disk, but I have never tried installing one without
it to know that it wouldn't work. Does it say you need one or just that it
wants one? You should be able to create a swap FILE in your linux partition
if you need swap space (but I think you can only do that after you've
installed the system). I was thinking you might be able to put linux and its
swap partition in an extended partition but just remembered that you can't
boot from those. (Is this correct?) The limit of four is imposed by the PC
itself. NO PC disk (SCSI or IDE) can have more than 4 _primary_ partitions.
(I'm not sure what aspect of the PC imposes this, however.)
How big is your DOS partition and how are you booting NT and 98 now? NT's
boot loader? Another boot loader? Were you planning to use LILO or have NT
boot linux?
Sorry I don't have many answers, after all, but maybe this info will help.
>
> Thanks in advance (hopefully),
>
> David
>
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"Down for the Count - The reason Dracula's wife bought a goose farm!"
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From: Nicolas Kisselhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mystique video mode
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 16:11:33 +0100
Hubert Toullec wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm a new user user to Linux and I have just installed Red Hat 5.2.
>
> I use a 17"" monitor with an old(?) MGA Matrox Mystique video card with 4Mo
> video ram.
>
> The largest resolution I can set with XConfiguator is 1024x768. Under W98, I
> use the 1152x864 resolution.
>
> So whenever I switch from one to another, I have to modify the monitor
> settings.
>
> Please, can anyone tell me how to get my Matrox mystique Card to work at
> 1152x864.
>
> Many thanks
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Salut Hubert,
Pour utiliser une mode video donner il faut qu'il appraisse dans le
fichier /etc/X11/XF86Config � la rubrique "screen" que tu utilises, il y
en a plusieures. Pour d�terminer celle que tu utilises, regarde le non
de la carte video de la section.
Tu doit avoir :
Modes "1024x768"
ajoute � la suite "1152x864", tu auras donc :
Modes "1024x768" "1152x864"
Sauve le fichier, puis stratx, l� tu es encore en "1024x768", tape :
ctrl-alt + (pav� num) et �a passe en "1152x864".
Si l'�cran d�lire retape ctrl-alt + (pav� num) pour que �a revienne en
"1024x768".
Si l'�cran d�lire c'est qu'il ne supporte pas les fr�quences que lui
propose linux ou le nombre de couleur (param�tre depth de la section
screen), il faudra en d�terminer d'autres.
Qu'elle est la marque de ton vieux moniteur ?
A propos, souhaiterais-tu faire partie d'une mailing-list ?
A bient�t, Nicolas.
PS : r�ponds-moi directement pas au forum.
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 11:18:42 -0600
From: Joseph Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: compaq ap200 keyboard lock-up on boot
Hi there.
I have a Compaq AP200 server to set up for Linux, and some sticky
points have been found:
1) Keyboard dies during early kernel start. The keyboard identifies
itself as a DeLL QuietKey, 101+ with the two extra Windows95 keys.
I boot the kernel from a LILO prompt. Never has the keyboard failed
to work at this time. I type in the name of the kernel to start,
and it starts.
Sometimes, upon booting the 2.0.35 kernel, the keyboard dies early
on in the kernel initialization. It seems to coincide with an
inordinate amount of time spent in the kernel initialization early
on. At first it would happen after a message that 16 RAM disks
were being made. The system would pause, and I try the Caps-lock
key, and it would be dead.
I removed the RAM disk support, and problem went away for a few
reboots. Today it happened again, after the message for the RTC
initialization, the pause, no Caps-lock, no keyboard.
I removed the RTC support. It still happened, but this time after
the message for serial port initialization: the long pause, no Caps
lock, no keyboard.
I have noticed that if I hit the Caps-lock key twice before typing
in the kernel label (on and then off), then the problem seems to
go away. I just tried it a few times. That is interesting, since
it is the Caps-lock key that I use to see if the keyboard hasn't
died during startup.
The indication of a failure is that near the beginning of the kernel
init, there is a pause of about 3 seconds, maybe more. Every time
this has happened, the keyboard is dead. No errors are given about
the keyboard, but the /proc/interrupts shows no activity on IRQ 1,
labeled for keyboard, and there doesn't seem to be anything else on
the IRQ.
I have diff'ed the dmesg output from a failed start and an OK start,
and they are identical.
Any ideas? It looks like an interrupt problem or maybe a keyboard
initialization problem.
2) The video card is an AGP (on the PCI bus) Elsa Gloria Synergy,
which uses a Texas Instruments TVP4020 chip. I haven't seen
any support for this chip and SuperProbe reports unknown SVGA.
I see references to TVP30xx chips in XF86_{Mach64,S3,SVGA} and
SuperProbe, and yet when I look at the XFree86 site, I see no
mention of any TVP chips.
Does anyone know how much work it will take to support the TVP4020
on AGP? If there is no work underway, what can I do to make some
progress?
Please let me know if you can help on either of these.
Thanks,
Joseph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jeff Messner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI - 1371 - MIDI Problems
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:45:21 -0500
Jean-Yves, Russ -
I recently contacted Thomas Sailer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) who wrote the drivers
for the 1370 and 1371 soundcards. He first recommended that I upgrade to kernel
2.2.x, adding that he hasn't "had any time to backport the driver again" and
that "your version [in RH 5.2 kernel 2.0.36] is known to have some bugs."
Also, he said that the sndstat device is not supported by his drivers.
I wonder how I'll get around this sndstat limitation, since my favorite
audio-recording program "SoundStudio" seems to need that device to not return an
error message before it will start up.
-Jeff Messner
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