Linux-Hardware Digest #264, Volume #9 Mon, 25 Jan 99 09:15:27 EST
Contents:
Re: iMac vs PC ("news")
Re: Sound card side-effects (Bob)
Redhat 5.2 hangs with Trident 8900D card ("Raymond BLENKIRON")
Re: HELP: Computer reboots while loading kernel (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: aha1542cf not detected (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Strange Freeze - Linux 2.0.33 (SuSE release) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Getting soundcard work (Bob)
Re: Soundblaster AWE64 drivers (Bob)
Re: Rh 5.2 and SB AWE 32 PnP freezing (Antonio Sergio Ribeiro Gomes)
EBSA-285 / Strong ARM Support ("Bruce Martin")
Re: Cyrix 6X86 166+ ("Jim Orona III")
Re: SEE YA' LATER SUCKERS !!! HAHAHAHA !!! ("93")
Re: I need a Linux Guru for a printer problem.... (Brian D. May)
Re: How to send an EOF to the printer (HP DJet 682C/RH 5.1) (Brian D. May)
Re: Creative labs 3D blaster Banshee HILFE HILFE ("Jayasuthan")
Re: Tape Compatibility - DittoMax - NOT! ("Christopher Cox")
video card with dosemu graphical modes support
Re: Boot into Linux ("Jayasuthan")
any sucess on pci modem ("Jayasuthan")
Re: Mouse configuration (Phoenix)
Re: Zoom 56k Flex Modem PCI, Rockwell chipset (Rob Clark)
Re: 8.4 GB Disk config question (Simone Piccardi)
Tyan motherboard +memory problem (Lynn Winebarger)
X on AT&T/NCR Globalyst 520 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iMac vs PC
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 23:10:46 GMT
Boot from the CD :)
Mircea wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>...and where the heck do you insert a boot disk?...
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card side-effects
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:41:50 -0500
Daniel Bair wrote:
> Mike Grant wrote:
>
> > I have a Crystal based PnP sound card that works almost fine under
> > Linux. The first problem is that when my processor is really working
> > hard or when the CD-ROM is reading I can sometimes hear it in the
> > speakers. A kind of buzzing noise. I booted to Windoze and I do not
> > experience this side-effect. Any ideas about this?
> >
> > Also, there is a pop at the beginning and the end of any sound file i
> > play. It seems to me like this is because the sound card is pretty low
> > on the IRQ priority list, but again, there is no pop in Windoze, and it
> > is using the same IRQ settings. What do you think?
> >
> > Thanx.
> > Mike Grant
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hmmm. I am expierencing the same thing with my Yamaha OPL3-SAx (Crystal
> drivers)
> and my AMD Interwave (GUS drivers). Seems like the sound card is
> continously on
> and picking up interference from the system. It's very anoying.
> I hope someone has an answer for this.
>
> Daniel Bair
I don't know about the buzz, but the pops at either end of file are
mentioned
in the awe_drv doc. There is some adjustment to make.
I got awe drivers to play a couple of sounds, but I couldn't get the npmidi
plugin to work in netscape. I'm working on alsa now because csound
and all the effects and editing apps work with alsa. I have the linking
and configuring done, sb awe 32, tried amixer and aplay with demo.au,
no sound. Also as user and not root permission denied.
-Bob
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From: "Raymond BLENKIRON" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Redhat 5.2 hangs with Trident 8900D card
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:12:31 +1000
Linux hangs during boot process.
I had a Paradise (WD) video card with only 256K RAM.
Linux had no difficulty in booting to the prompt.
I decided to install Trident TVGA8900D - 1MB RAM (I see that this card is
supported)
The boot only gets as far as:
...
Trying to unmount old root .... okay
I don't get to see:
INIT: version 2.75 booting
Activating swap file
... (etc)
What do I need to do in order to use this card?
Cheers
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: HELP: Computer reboots while loading kernel
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:07:44 GMT
=?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F3n?= Ragnarsson <j o n r @ v o r t e x . i s> writes:
>Well, I'm giving up!
>I have tried 4-5 distros/versions of Linux and all of them fail
>to load on my machine!
>It gets as far as "Loading vmlinuz..." or thereabout, and
>then the machine reboots. I have tried RH 5-5.2, ancient Slackware
>and some others, but the problem perists.
>The machine is old 233MMX/FX chipset and with no fancy hardware.
[...]
This sort of problem has been reported for boards with the TX
chipset , and the solution was updating the FlashBIOS . If you
already tried the usual solutions (taking out cards, slowing down
memory access etc.), then you might perhaps want to give it a try.
>J�n R.
>jonr (at) vortex.is
Hey, I'm going to visit Iceland in July :)
Michael
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Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: aha1542cf not detected
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 08:18:41 GMT
Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>No, that's not it - the bios of the 1542cf specifically warns that irq9
>may not work on some computers (as opposed to other irqs that don't have
>this problem).
Many cards do not work correctly if set to IRQ9/2 .
>To the original poster: I had the same problem. Apparently, Linux cannot
>detect this card if the I/O address is set low, i.e. 0x130 or 0x134. As
>soon as I changed it to 0x334, it worked. If you cannot use that one,
>try 0x230 or 0x234, they might work too.
[...]
SCSI cards do not like getting autoprobed with incorrect values, therefor
the driver does only look at the default settings (0x330 or 0x334).
With your setup, you'll need an "append=.." statement in your lilo.conf
file to get it working. Following the BootPrompt-HOWTO, the correct
syntax should be
append="aha1542=0x130"
since the busoff/buson/dmaspeed parameters are optional.
Michael
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't mungle your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Strange Freeze - Linux 2.0.33 (SuSE release)
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 12:11:57 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Cornthwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
: DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS:
: Box 1 (September) and 2 (Rakshasa) are connected on a network.
: I am logged in to September from Rakshasa using rlogin. At
: the September prompt, i enter "shutdown -h now", everything
: proceeds as expected (machine shuts down), except that i am
: not logged out (i did not type "exit" or "logout"). So,
: September is now powered down, but i still have a frozen
: login prompt (for September) on my screen (Rakshasa).
[snip]
Don't know if this is normal, but ...
When I have to shutdown a machine over a remote connection, I
type:
"shutdown -h +1 &".
This gives you 1 minute to logout and close your rsh connection
cleanly, before the machine will go down.
Regards,
Friedhelm
--
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
===================================================================
Friedhelm Mehnert, Berliner Allee 42, 22850 Norderstedt, Germany
phone + fax: +49-40-5236562 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Getting soundcard work
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:51:57 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> What can I do with this setup ? : On my computer i have to sound cards
alsa can handle up to 8 sound cards.
-bob
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster AWE64 drivers
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:04:20 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> However, when I 'cat /dev/sndstat' it reports nothing under the installed
> drivers section, although the other sections have the correct information.
>
> Also I installed the audio multitrack program 'SLab' which was configured
> correctly to use /dev/audio (etc.) but when I try to record or play I get
> error messages. Why don't I have any installed drivers?
Try:
lsmod
-Bob
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From: Antonio Sergio Ribeiro Gomes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Rh 5.2 and SB AWE 32 PnP freezing
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 10:06:40 -0200
Al Kooz wrote:
> I installed RH 5.2 on my system (for the 100th time now) and I've been
> trying to get my SB AWE 32 PnP to work... I used sndconfig, and it seemed to
> detect it right. It played the sample and closed with no error message. Then
> I go start X and I'm perfectly able to play Audio Cd's... When I boot
> though, there's two error messages:
> - First it's the sfxload that can't be found (although it's
> there, I checked it)
> - Second, the awe_wave.o isn't able to be loaded it says that
> the resource
> or device is busy...
>
I have an SB-AWE card on my machine too. These boards normally don't work fine
with the standard kernel (2.0.x). You should do a patch on your kernel with
the SB AWE32/64 Sound Driver for Linux (load it as a module!) and install the
ISAPNP tool.
In the case of PnP/Kernel Problems .... the sndconfig tool only detects the
board but it does not configure it due PnP issues. Sometimes SB-AWE boards may
have some of its devices functioning, as the mixer, audio-in, and even the
midi-synth (not AWE mode). But several internal devices remain misconfigured.
Depending on your hardware and kernel configuration it won't work unless you do
it the right way (I suppose this is the case).
TIP Read carefully the documentation of the isapnp tool. You should understand
the
isapnp.conf file.
The AWEDRV can be found at:
http://bahamut.mm.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~iwai/awedrv/
And don't forget to take a look at:
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Marcus.Brinkmann/Soundblaster-AWE-HOWTO.txt
bye
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From: "Bruce Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EBSA-285 / Strong ARM Support
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:16:00 +0200
Hi All,
I need to install an OS on an EBSA-285 board, and was wondering if anybody
out there has done this? If you have, please mail me to let me know how easy
(or difficult!) it was, and if it is well supported..
Thanks,
Bruce
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From: "Jim Orona III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6X86 166+
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 06:56:57 -0500
Check here http://www.tux.org/~balsa/linux/cyrix/
for more stuff on Linux on Cyrix chips. I just ordered an IBM/Cyrix 6x86MX
300 for my RH 5.1 system.
I don't know if it will help the original problem with the system
crashing... I was just giving the link for the Cyrix specific information.
J. Orona
Sebastian T. Tkocz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:78hgt7$ri4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Hi,
>
>David Guillot wrote in message <77g25s$m8c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>>Novice in the free Linux's World I 've a lot of problems in the X mode. My
>>Pc is crashing and my keyboard is out. My config is the following :
>>Cyrix 6X86 166+, 64mo Ram, Carte vid�o Matrox mystique 4mo, Ecran Smile
>>1706, DD Seagate 2 Go just for Linux...
>>If you can help this poor guy, thanks a lot...('xcuse my bad english)
>
>
>I'm using 6x86 166+ w 64MB FPM/EDO and S3V graphics card at home, and it
>works
>fine. (I use RedHat 5.2 now.) The Cyrix 6x86 P166+ had some heat/cache
>problems
>prior to revision 2.7 (which I use) - if You have some older revision, You
>might try
>"cooling down" the processor by setting it's "suspend on halt" register.
>I've seen a linux
>program doing that, but all I remember is it's name: 6x86set.
>
>Sebastian T. Tkocz ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
>
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From: "93" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SEE YA' LATER SUCKERS !!! HAHAHAHA !!!
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 11:58:12 -0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <78a9m6$2n4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Edward S. Clark IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> This is correct. This person has much bigger problems than is lack of
>> computer skills. A future in the U.S. Postal Service maybe right up his
>> alley.
>
>No lets not send him there, they have enough obnoxius bozos who don't know
>how to do their job. They don't need any more. How about assigning him
the
>army's Iraqi leader removal team. They can't succeed anyway, we might was
>well use them to eliminate another problem. ;-)
Ah, you poor Americans. Your lot can't succeed, I'll grant you that. Never
heard of the Special Air Service? They get the job done [unless it's the El
Khaddafi car blowing up squad] :)
Damn, those guys were sitting in a tower block in Khafji while American
armoured divisions were pounding the hell out of it - this may be the best
place for young DG. He can shout all the insults he likes then and no-one'll
hear him.
"...MISSED ME!!!...STUFF A PIE IN YOUR FACE!!!...INCOMING!!!..."
CU, 93
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D. May)
Subject: Re: I need a Linux Guru for a printer problem....
Date: 25 Jan 1999 13:15:00 GMT
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9?= DELFOSSE ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
: I still cannot use my printer with Linux :-( (The printer is
: working well with Windows98 :-| )
: What I have:
: Red Hat 5.2
: Alladin Ghostscript 5.10
: Epson Stylus Color 740
For help setting up uniprint driver with ghostscript, check out
http://www.u.arizona.edu/~zdw/uniprint.html. I set up my Epson 640
following directions given and it worked just fine.
A note on device files for uniprint driver. I've tried a bunch of
them. The stc500 files seem to give the best colour mapping, but
don't do weaving (thus, they're slow and prone to banding). The
stc600 files do weaving, but have really bad colour mapping. I ended
up copying the colour transfer coefficients from the stc500 files into
stc600 files (stc500p.upp -> stc600pl.upp, stc500ph.upp ->
stc600p.upp) and got much better results on plain paper.
Good luck,
Brian
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Dalhousie University phone: (902) 494-7007 (work)
Halifax, Nova Scotia phone: (902) 462-3364 (home)
B3H 4J1 Canada fax: (902) 494-2885
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D. May)
Subject: Re: How to send an EOF to the printer (HP DJet 682C/RH 5.1)
Date: 25 Jan 1999 13:22:10 GMT
Carlos Amaya ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: By the way... the printer utility that comes with redhat (printtool)
: writes an empty postscript.cfg so I had to modify the Generic Postscript
: Printer file... I'd like to know if is there a site or something where I
: could get information on this kind of file because I've found it kind of
: obscure...
The printtool that comes with RedHat should (it did in my case) set up
the postscript.cfg file. I'm only vaguely remembering the steps, but
under the set up for the printer, I think you need to hit "select" for
the input filter to get the next window. Then you can select the
driver for ghostscript (from a list of printers), select a fix for
stair-stepping, select a fix for the EOF problem, and add any
additional commands for ghostscript.
Brian
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Department of Oceanography email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dalhousie University phone: (902) 494-7007 (work)
Halifax, Nova Scotia phone: (902) 462-3364 (home)
B3H 4J1 Canada fax: (902) 494-2885
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From: "Jayasuthan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative labs 3D blaster Banshee HILFE HILFE
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:22:34 +0800
I think you want to know where to get banshee for linux...
http://www.yahoo.com
TYPE:" Linux + BANSHEE"
Devil wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>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: "Christopher Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Compatibility - DittoMax - NOT!
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:28:32 GMT
> >Well the IOMEGA DittoMax is not friendly with ftape. Next attempt will
be
> >with the IOMEGA 2Gig Ditto Drive.
> >
> >Christopher Cox
>
> Are you using the latest version of ftape? (4.03 pre2)
>
Version from the header file indicates 2.03b
Just tried the Ditto 2Gig and while I can command the drive, I am unable to
write to the tape.
'print / -print | cpio -ocv >/dev/ftape'
Has anyone been able to use a ftape device successfully?
Regards
Christopher Cox
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: video card with dosemu graphical modes support
Date: 25 Jan 1999 14:57:12 +0200
Can anyone point out any pci video card which would support graphical modes in
dosemu? Or at least what chip set should it have? I have tried dosemu
0.66.7 from debian distribution with et4000 and s3 Trio64. Both work with X,
but fail to properly switch to graphical modes in dosemu.
Has anyone had any success in forcing dosemu to use graphical modes and if
yes then with what video hardware?
Martins Medens
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From: "Jayasuthan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot into Linux
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:29:04 +0800
I need to confirm this again.
You mean I need to place lilo boot sector file at root of partition.. let
say I have 2 Hard Disk... one is /dev/hda and the other is /dev/hdc and my
Linux is on /dev/hdc5 ..... then I need to place lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hdc1 <-- this is FAT16 partition and not /dev/hdc5
If this is ok pls do inform me.... Don't let me cry ... I have downloaded
more then 150Mbyte of Linux files...... don't burn it pls. Any way I try
to backup ,,,,.
Thank You,
suthan
Henrik Carlqvist wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>"Jayasuthan [VorHacker]" wrote:
>> Lilo ain't supporting big cylinder. Most of the time I been using
>> loadlin and it isn't easy to get into dos mode the use loadlin.
>> I heard that linux can be loaded from boot.ini...
>
>There is a way to edit boot.ini to make the NT boot loader start LILO,
>however, the partition with the kernel that LILO uses must still be
>bootable by BIOS.
>
>Lilo should be installed not in MBR, but in the beginning of your root
>partition, something like this in lilo.conf:
>
>boot = /dev/hdb1
>
>After editing lilo.conf you should run /sbin/lilo to install lilo there.
>Then copy the first 512 bytes of the linux partition to a file:
>
>dd if=/dev/hdb1 of=linux.bot bs=512 count=1
>
>Copy that file to C:\ and edit boot.ini to use C:\linux.bot for booting
>linux. The line looks just like the line using C:\ to boot dos except
>that you append this file.
>
>It was a long time since I did this, maybe I remember something wrong.
>
>regards Henrik
>--
>spammer strikeback:
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From: "Jayasuthan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: any sucess on pci modem
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 21:31:00 +0800
Just wondering.... I know that linux not supporting ... I just wondering
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Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:31:03 -0600
From: Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse configuration
Greg Bush wrote:
> I recently installed RedHat Linux 5.2 and I can't seem to get my mouse
> to work under either X or gpm. Windoze95 calls it a "Standard Serial
> Mouse" on COM1, so I have /dev/mouse linked to /dev/cua0. In my
> /etc/X11/XF86Config I've tried both MouseType="Microsoft" and
> MouseType="Intellimouse" and neither work. Is there any way (besides
> reinstalling) to get a list of pointer protocols and try each one until
> one works? Or does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in
> advance...
>
> Greg
Under RH you can just do mouseconfig , Its the same one used during
install.
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Subject: Re: Zoom 56k Flex Modem PCI, Rockwell chipset
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:34:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chad Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Oh yeah, it's that dual mode one. I apologize for poor specifications.
>
>Chad Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>Has anyone had any succcess with this modem in Linux? (Redhat 5.1
>>specifically?)
>>
>>I wonder if it's a winmodem, but no where on the box, nor zoomtel.com can I
>>find such a reference.
The Zoom 2925L is a winmodem. They don't call it a Winmodem because that
is a trademark of 3Com/USR:
http://207.244.125.74/data/56kpci.html
the giveaway is "PC host-based controller."
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Simone Piccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 8.4 GB Disk config question
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 14:27:42 +0100
Hi,
I had similar problem with a 12.7 Gb HD, but with 8.4 Gb you are near
the limit (read the Large Disks HOWTO for a better explaination).
The linux kernel give you what it read from the LBA addressing gave by
the bios, and for some bios this can reach at maximum a geometry of
C/H/S=1024,255,63; the real geometry can be totally different (this was
done to overcome the bios limitations on IDE disks addessing).
Linux can also read the real geometry from bios and find a number of
cylinders greather than 1024, but I was not capable to do this with my
HD (it depends on the bios capability, but I'm not sure, and all the
infos that I can find did not clarify me this).
In any case you can specify the geometry at bootstrap giving to lilo the
parameter:
hda=16383,16,63
and everythig should be OK (at least if you do not use DOS or Windows in
the same disk, I have a 24704,16,63 geometry and with this I my linux PC
is perfectly working).
You can also make this permanent using putting the line:
append="hda=16383,16,63"
in lilo.conf and running lilo.
Bye
Simone
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lynn Winebarger)
Subject: Tyan motherboard +memory problem
Date: 25 Jan 1999 13:40:34 GMT
Hi, guys. A couple of years ago I built a computer using the Tyan
Tomcat IIID motherboard. Of course, Tyan motherboards are finicky about
memory, but I didn't realize that then. Anyway, a couple of months ago
I was putting a board in, and when I turned the machine back on, the
memory was acting weird. After experimenting a while, I determined one
pair of SIMMs was bad, and removed them, taking me from 80M to 48M.
Anyhoo, I went to get some memory yesterday, and tried installing it
this morning, but apparently memory bank 2 (of banks 0,1,2, and 3) is
not working right, because it refuses to recognize memory that I put in
there, and I've tried about 4 different configurations (I've got 2 pairs
of 16 meg SIMMs and 1 pair of 8 meg SIMMs). I recall that when I had
the problem with the other memory, that sometimes the motherboard would
recognize what was in bank 2 and sometimes not (when the bad pair was in
there).
I also noticed, while I was replacing the case's fan, that the fan on
the CPU heatsink wasn't running(!). Which was kind of surprising to me,
since this machine has been running 24/7 for months (one of the reasons
I like linux ;) ). Could this have caused the problem (somewhat
conveniently, it seems) for one of the mem banks I happened to not be
using? (probably a "duh!" question)
Anyway, if anyone has any ideas on what is wrong, or better yet, what
I could do to fix it, I'd be grateful to hear them.
Thanks,
Lynn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: X on AT&T/NCR Globalyst 520
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 13:35:02 GMT
Hi all,
I am trying to install Linux and X on a Globalyst 520. I noticied it carries
a S3 Trio 64 (86c764) built-in video chip. What I don't know is the RAMDAC
chip name and the clock chip name. I need those but I don't have any
documentation on the machine. Can somebody help me out?
Greetz,
John-Luc
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