Linux-Hardware Digest #363, Volume #9 Fri, 5 Feb 99 21:13:41 EST
Contents:
Re: New k6-2 system advice (Rod Roark)
Re: xwindow setup problem ("ericjong")
Re: Any word on Tyan Thunder 100 MB? (Scott Sharkey)
Re: Redhat 5.2 over NT (Rod Roark)
Re: Laptop Linux for a Beginner (Ruairi McFarlane)
HP 1100 laser printer ("Gary S. Mackay")
Video Capture Board & Camera (Fritz Reichmann)
HELP pls:memory above 16 meg on Compaq Presario 833 ("binaryhead")
Re: USB PC Cameras and Linux (Brian Hall)
Re: Can not load the CD driver (Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.)
Chat With Inventor of Linux (kwitcher)
Re: Help with TV tuner. ("Manish Laad")
Re: Linux for IBM RS6000/590 (Cokey de Percin)
Re: U-DMA 33, U-SCSI or UW-SCSI (Carsten Cimander)
Re: SurfBoard 1000 Cable Modem ("Jim Orfanakos")
Re: Help with TV tuner. (Miguel Cruz)
Why won't sndconfig run? ("David Ayers")
Re: High end laptop for linux - suggestions? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can not load the CD driver ("ADS1 Weissmann.W")
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New k6-2 system advice
Date: 5 Feb 1999 23:41:59 GMT
Darren Shaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>AMD K6-2 400
>EPOX ATX Motherboard
This is fine. But be sure to also price the Celeron 333 and
above, these are very good buys and generally outperform
K6-2's at the same CPU speeds.
>1MB Level 2 Cache
>2 USB PORTS
>128M 16x64-PC100 168pin DIMM, 100MHz SDRAM
>7.6 Quantum hard drive
>Fujitsu 1.44 floppy drive
>Acer 36x CD-ROM drive
Fine.
>Daytek 17" SVGA monitor .26dp
I'm not familiar with this one. Don't skimp on the monitor,
you'll be sorry.
>ATX Mid tower case with 250 Watts power supply
>104k windows 98 keyboard
>Acer PCI Internal 56k voice/fax/modem
AOpen (Acer) makes a Linux-friendly ISA modem, the FM56-ITU.
Their FM56EX external is also cheap and decent. In either
case you will likely want to get the flash firmware upgrade
from their web site.
>3 Cooling Fans (CPU, Tower & Power Supply)
>Juster SW 3000, 500Watts Subwoofer W/ Satellite
>MATROX MILLENNIUM G200 8MB AGP
>Sound Blaster PCI 64 sound card
Be careful with the sound card, many "compatibles" aren't.
I use the CL Vibra 16 and Awe64 successfully.
>Logitech Mouseman (3 button)
-- Rod
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From: "ericjong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,hk.comp.os.unix,hk.comp.software,hk.ge
Subject: Re: xwindow setup problem
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 22:52:40 +0800
Excuse me... after i mount my hda1 under linux, the downloaded files become
"xfsetu~1.rpm" etc... can i perform rpm -U of such files? I can only got a
lot of message said i confict with a lot of things! Can anybody help me
too! Thanks!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:799tcd$bi3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>i was using REDHAT 5.2 with a SIS6326 display card
>
>i also download the following file
>
>XFree86-SVGA-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-XF86Setup-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>zgv-3_0-6_i386.rpm
>XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-VGA16-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-libs-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3_3_3-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>svgalib-1_3_0-3_i386.rpm
>XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>libc-5_3_12-28_i386.rpm
>svgalib-devel-1_3_0-3_i386.rpm
>Xconfigurator-3_89-1_i386.rpm
>XFree86-xfs-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
>
>command : > rpm -Uvh ___(the filename)___
>
>i can see the display card name SIS6326 in the display card listing
>
>after setup i also cannot to start the Xwindow
>
>anybody can help me? Pls email me or drop a reply.
>
>Urgent, thx (sorry for cross post)
>
>
>
>
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Subject: Re: Any word on Tyan Thunder 100 MB?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Sharkey)
Date: 5 Feb 99 15:08:34 GMT
I can't talk much about the Tyan motherboards, though I have
seen some online vendors using them. If you're looking for a
nicely configured Linux machine, my company builds them for you,
and we guarantee compatibility. Take a look at http://linux.lanshark.com
for more details.
-Scott
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.2 over NT
Date: 5 Feb 1999 23:56:25 GMT
eric malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>right now i am running windows nt4.0 workstation.. i just downloaded
>redhat 5.2 .. this sounds stupid. but i know nothing about linux.. how
>do i get this installed? please help. i want to get rid of NT i hate it!
>i hate windows! i also need to know where to get drivers for a 3c905b-TX
>network card..
Welcome! But you have a lot of reading to do. Start with
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX-3.html.
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
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From: Ruairi McFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: Laptop Linux for a Beginner
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:06:55 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"John P. Raynor" wrote:
>
> I have to admit that I am currently rather ignorant regarding Linux, but I
> would like to change that, so I've been seriously considering getting a
> laptop, installing Linux on it, and learning by doing. I have, however,
> gotten the distinct impression that Linux and laptops are not always the
> best of friends, and that great care in selecting the latter is essential.
> I am, furthermore, also on a very tight budget. Can anyone suggest an
> older laptop (a 486, or perhaps a 386) that is fully Linux-compatible, and
> that won't give a beginner too much frustrating compatibility and
> configuration-fiddling trouble? Thanks!
> - J. Raynor
Hi there,
I found some web pages and such off of http://www.linux.org/
Here is some specific sites with info including a list of laptops!
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
I have a NEC VERSA 2405CD which supports boot from CD-ROM. Most laptops
do support this. This made installing Redhat easy as the only floppy I
needed was the SUPP for the PCMCIA support.
Sorry to say but there will always be fiddling! But once it's done, it
works! It ran great on my laptop and kept it cooler and it was faster!
Version 5.2 of Redhat is much better than 5.
For a good reseller of used laptops check out http://www.computerpark.com/
I'm thinking of getting a better laptop than the one I have from here
but will have to see if the newer one is better than the one I have.
Good luck!
PS: the computerpark.com site is canadian! this means cheap prices for
you! ;)
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Ruairi McFarlane (the Mac Guy!)
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Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 09:44:44 -0500
From: "Gary S. Mackay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP 1100 laser printer
I just picked up a new HP 1100 laser printer. I'd like to connect it to
my RedHat 5.2 box so everyone on the network can print to it. What
special hoops do I have to jump through to make this work? Ghostscript?
APSfilter?
- Gary
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From: Fritz Reichmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Capture Board & Camera
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:06:57 +0100
Hello
I�d like to have a live video feed with live sound from a camera into
WWW. For the beginning the camera should be a simple one with that I can
experiment, later I might want to use a good one. I would favour to use
Linux as supporting OS on a Intel based PC.
My questions:
- Do you have advice on what video capture board is of good quality (I�d
like it to handle S-Video i.e. SVHS) and is supported by linux drivers ?
Are these stable ? Do you have any experience and advices on it ?
- What software is available for linux to produce a live video and sound
feed into WWW ? My dream is to have something like a small live TV with
sound which can be watched with a browser (at best without too many
extra plugins).
- Another problem is to be solved: The feed will hopefully later be
watched by many people. Is there experience on how to serve something
like possibly 1000 people with such a web server ?
And, eh, the hole thing is not about naked people ;-)
Thanks in advance,
Fritz Reichmann
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From: "binaryhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP pls:memory above 16 meg on Compaq Presario 833
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:17:26 -0500
HELP pls:memory above 16 meg on Compaq Presario 833
I have a 4 meg sim and two 8 meg sims and then there is the other 4 meg on
board. However linux can only see 16 megs ???
I know that the extra 8 meg simm is good, since it's from a simular system
(compaq too)
any one has simular experience ???
how to get linux to run with all the ram ???
tia
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From: Brian Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.dcameras,comp.dcom.videoconf,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: USB PC Cameras and Linux
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 17:18:27 -0700
David Steuber wrote:
>
> "Hue Jass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
OK, provide an email address & I'll be happy to send a request. Perhaps
one of the Linux USB web sites should collect the appropriate addresses
for these manufacturers and set up a petition site.
> Please ask logitech to provide specs. Everyone. But be polite!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne D. Hoxsie Jr.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,at.linux
Subject: Re: Can not load the CD driver
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 15:38:34 GMT
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In article <e_vu2.1862$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Fenton Mok wrote:
>Dear sir,
>
>I have tried to fixed this for a long time but didn't succeed, hope that
>someone may help me out here.
>
>Recently, I decided to install a Linux (slackware 3.0) into my old
>computer. The install process (from CD) was easy and I encountered no
>problem. However, after the installation, I couldn't mount the CDROM! I
>typed the following:
>
>mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sbpcd /cdrom
>
>and the system replied:
>
>mount: /dev/sbpcd is not a block
>
>Now I have no idea what should I do next, hope that you can help me out. My
>CDROM is: TEAC 55A (panasonic compactible), @ 360h, connected to a ISA
>panasonic interface card.
>
>After then, I have try and look at the /proc/filesystems file,
>minix
>iso9660
>ext2
>..
>..
>..
>iso9660
>..
>
>However, when I looked at the proc/devices file
>it does not contain the spbcd as a block devices. it only contained the
>following block device
>2 fd
>3 ide0
>33 ramdisk
Your driver may be a module. Try: "modprobe sbpcd"
Otherwise, it probably isn't compiled into your kernel.
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From: kwitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Chat With Inventor of Linux
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 16:01:46 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tuesday, February 9th -- 7:30 PM -- Live chat with Linus Torvalds,
inventor of Linux, on MSNBC. Linus is the patron saint of
"anti-Microsoft" forces in the computer industry. Linux, which is free,
is the first genuine alternative to Microsoft Windows since the
Macintosh. http://www.msnbc.com/chat/default.asp
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From: "Manish Laad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with TV tuner.
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 16:41:15 -0800
Can you tell me where I can find the driver and the application for the
Hauppage card? Also is the driver and application free?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Manish Laad
Ralph Pickering wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Salutations.
>
>I have a Hauppauge WinTV PCI card and Redhat Linux 5.1 with a 2.2.0 SMP
>kernel. I have the bttv driver compiled in (not as a module), and on
>boot it picks up the correct model of card. dmessg |less has the
>following...
>
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for IBM RS6000/590
Date: 6 Feb 1999 00:54:17 GMT
Ulrich Fox wrote:
>
> Hello,
> is anybody aware of LINUX for an IBM RS6000/590 (no PowerPC) ?
> TIA
Nope, dosen't exist AFAIK. The new pci bussed ones seem to work
fine, but the old Power2 stuff will not.
Best
Cokey
PS Let me know if you're going to junk that box :-)
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: U-DMA 33, U-SCSI or UW-SCSI
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:56:04 +0100
Reply-To:
Hi,
in my opinion it depends on the hardware you want to connect to your unix
box.
I.e. there are not only harddisks but also CD-ROMs, CD-(Re)Writer,
Scanner, DAT-Drives....
If you want to install a Scanner to parallel port you might fail as there
is no driver for your Scanner.
I think DAT-drives do not exist for the parallel Port or for the (E)IDE
port.
To get started with a CD-Writer could be evem worse on an (E)IDE port,
too.
Not enough with that: you can connect up to 7 devices to a
S(ingle)E(ended) Narrow (50 pins) SCSI controller
(i.e. SCSI 1 and SCSI 2) and upto 15 devices to a S(ingle)E(ended) Wide
(68 pins) controller.
these devices can be a mixture of Harddisks, CD-ROMs, CD-(Re)Writer,
DAT-Tapes, Scanners all connected
to at the same time to the controller in a chain ... and the slow CD-ROM
does to brake down the fast discs. Every member
of the chain runs at its max. speed. :-)
The best: the scsi controller only needs ONE (!) interrupt whereas the
(E)IDE wastes one per channel.
list of features:
legend: SCSI = SCSI(2) (normal)
U-SCSI = Ultra-SCSI
W-SCSI = Wide-SCSI
UW-SCSI = Wide-Ultra-SCSI (yeah, that is the correct name!)
U2W-SCSI = Wide-Ultra2-SCSI
SE = single ended
LVD = low voltage differential
EIDE-U = Ultra-DMA2
SCSI U-SCSI W-SCSI EIDE UW-SCSI EIDE-U U2W-SCSI
========================================================================
pins: 50 50 68 40 68 40 68
signals: SE SE SE SE SE SE LVD
bits: 8 8 16 8 16 8 16
clock: 10 MHz 20 MHz 10 MHz 33MHz 20 MHz 66MHz 40 MHz
max transfer: 10 MB/s 20 MB/s 20 MB/s 33MB/s 40 MB/s 66MB/s 80 MB/s
max devices 7 7 15 4 15 4 15
Hoping to have confused you,
Carsten.
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Remco wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Question:
> What is, at this moment, the best disk interface, to use under Linux.
> Is the main advantage of SCSI still the fact that is utilizes the
> processor much less then IDE does ? Is this advantage only theoretical
> with todays fast systems, or does it make a big difference ?
> Looking at throughput speed, the "theoretical" speed of IDE, 33 Mb/s
> wins from the U-SCSI, 10 Mb/s ? and UW-SCSI 20 Mb/s ?
> The pricing of IDE equipment certainly beats the SCSI stuff.
>
> In other words, is it still a smart thing to stick with SCSI under
> Linux, or can I just as well step over to IDE ? And Why ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Remco
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jim Orfanakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: SurfBoard 1000 Cable Modem
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 19:59:42 -0500
I figured it out....
I was using tar -xvf (note the minus sign). I worked a lot with various
commercial UNIX systems. When I left the minus sign out it worked fine.
Thanks.
Jim Orfanakos wrote in message ...
>Thanks. I have tried giving the name, as well as tried just to view the
>contents of the file with the 't' option...no luck.
>
>danno (nospam_noway) (Dan) <@itn.net> wrote in message
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Jim,
>>
>>try: tar xvf sb1000-1_1_2.tar
>>
>>The filename must be on the argument line.
>>
>>Dan
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 2 Feb 1999 18:00:26 -0500, "Jim Orfanakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>wrote:
>>
>>>I have a Surfboard 1000 Cable modem. This is a hybrid system where I use
>my
>>>modem for the uplink and the cable modem for the downlink.
>>>
>>>1) Has anyone got this working in Linux?
>>>
>>>2) I downloaded from my ISP's web site the Linux drivers. The file
>>>"sb1000-1_1_2.tar.gz" will uncompress with gzunzip...but I cannot un-tar
>the
>>>file. When I "tar -xvt" or any one of those options...the tar process
>>>hangs.
>>
>>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz)
Subject: Re: Help with TV tuner.
Date: 6 Feb 1999 01:41:51 GMT
Manish Laad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can you tell me where I can find the driver and the application for the
> Hauppage card? Also is the driver and application free?
...and what's the cheapest that people have seen the card (the stereo
one, preferably) for?
miguel
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From: "David Ayers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why won't sndconfig run?
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:32:43 -0600
When I boot RedHat 5.2 on my digital HiNote laptop, it won't activate sound,
giving me this boot message: "SB: Can't allocate IRQ 2." Should be IRQ 5,
which is free. Anyway, I try to run sndconfig and get a frozen sndconfig
intro screen. My questions: Is the boot problem likely to be related to the
"broken" sndconfig? Or should I concentrate on trying to get sndconfig to
work first? How?
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: High end laptop for linux - suggestions?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:48:05 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: > >Alasdair McAndrew wrote:
: > >
: > >> G'Day there,
: > >>
: > >> I'm looking to acquire a laptop to replace my AST Ascentia 910N (on which
: > >> linux runs extremely well). I'm looking for one with a good sized TFT
: > screen:
: > >> 13.3" or 14.1".
: > >>
: > >> I've narrowed my search down to a few models:
: > >>
: > >> Compaq Armada 1700
: > >> Dell Inspiron 3500
: > >> Gateway 2000 9100/5150LS
: > >> Toshiba Tecra 8000
: > >> NEC Versa LX
: > >> IBM Thinkpad 380/600/700
: > >>
: > >> All look pretty good on specs; can anyone provide me with some
: > comparisons as
: > >> a user? I like a laptop to have fairly solid construction, and a good
: > >> keyboard -- some laptops seem to have very lightweight plastic-feeling
: > >> keyboards which I don't like the feel of at all. And of course *all*
: > aspects
: > >> of the laptop: sound, APM, etc, must work flawlessly under linux (I won't
: > be
: > >> putting any version of MS Windows on the machine).
: > >>
: > >> If anyone has any comments or advice, I'd be delighted to hear them!
: > >>
: > >> cheers,
: > >> Alasdair
: I agree. And as it is standard IBM stuff, you can replace the hard
: drive if (like me) you have to keep an NT partition for people too
: stupid to not send all documents as Word97. Works flawlessly with Xi
: CDE and X, sound works great, very fast, takes a lot of RAM (comes with
: 32MB, I added two 64MB DIMMs and now they have 128MB DIMMs), and the
: MWave stuff is supposdly running around at IBM right now and should be
: released "soon" (there are lots of people using RedHat at IBM, they are
: gearing up to support 24/7 for a fee at IBM, and so on. And IBM support
: and the warranty is great. Worth the cash.
Hey btc,
How did you get sound to work? Did you use OSS or ALSA? By the way,
I think this is a fabulous laptop machine. The screen's great and the
APM support is great, too. I've gone for weeks without rebooting - I
just eject my Ethernet card and hibernate (Function F12). Try doing
that under Windows and you'll have to reboot anyway. Now all I need
is the MWave stuff...
Thanks,
Charles Wright
http://zoinks.ne.mediaone.net
: btc
: --
: UNIX: Functionality is its own sufficient beauty.
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From: "ADS1 Weissmann.W" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,at.linux
Subject: Re: Can not load the CD driver
Date: 5 Feb 99 16:35:57 GMT
looks to me like /dev/sbpcd ist not a device file. check the file ...
In at.linux Fenton Mok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have tried to fixed this for a long time but didn't succeed, hope that
> someone may help me out here.
> Recently, I decided to install a Linux (slackware 3.0) into my old
> computer. The install process (from CD) was easy and I encountered no
> problem. However, after the installation, I couldn't mount the CDROM! I
> typed the following:
> mount -r -t iso9660 /dev/sbpcd /cdrom
> and the system replied:
> mount: /dev/sbpcd is not a block
> However, when I looked at the proc/devices file
> it does not contain the spbcd as a block devices. it only contained the
> following block device
> 2 fd
> 3 ide0
> 33 ramdisk
i'm not quite familiar with the proc-stuff. what does proc/devices contain?
the majors for the devicefiles or the devices files that are used for
accesssing the driver?
wilfried
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