Linux-Hardware Digest #507, Volume #9 Fri, 26 Feb 99 15:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster Live! (Bradley Yen)
Re: linux on Compaq ProLiant 1600 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Scanners? (Bryan J. Maloney)
Re: Printing under Linux (brian moore)
Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards (David Hinds)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) (GBP)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Robert Krawitz)
Problems with Yamaha 4416s CDRW w/ Adaptec 1460 under Linux
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI modems in linux? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) (GBP)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ("~The Seventh Sign~")
Re: ATX Power Off problem ("~The Seventh Sign~")
Re: Gateway ALR 7200 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Problems with Yamaha 4416s CDRW w/ Adaptec 1460 under Linux -- SOLVED
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error (Patrick Mueller)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) ("David A. Frantz")
Future Domain TM-830 & TMC-850 ("Georges Chalhoub")
Re: configuring Viper 550 for xwindows ("rob")
Re: color printing with HP deskjet 600 ? (Grant Taylor)
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From: Bradley Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:32:28 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well... if you want sound support, you need to take the SB Live! out and
put in some other soundcard (that Linux supports). There are no SB Live!
drivers available. However CL says they're working on some drivers, but
who knows when they'll become available.
I've also got an SB Live! Value, and wish it would work with Linux.
Seems to be quite a few other people who have the same card and wish it
would work too.
Anyone know if I can have two soundcards in my machine... SB Live! Value
and SB AWE64 (or what would you recommend)?
Andreas Schmid wrote:
> Hi there,
> does anyone run a Soundblaster Live ! Value ? And how do you configure
> it?
> Thanks !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux on Compaq ProLiant 1600
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:21:53 GMT
Hi
I feel this would help you.
>1. The On-board SCSI isn't supported.
Select the NCRC8xx driver during installation when it prompts for SCSI driver.
Dont forget to select "Linear Addressing mode" at the end.
> 2. The Smart2 RAID controllers are not supported out-of-box. (there are
> drivers though)
This you have to install on Embedded SCSI controller and then apply patch as
per the instruction given in web site
http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html
>3. Compaq servers (mine at least) do not support fixed IDE disk boots.
Can you brief about the problem you faced doing this.
Regards
1.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jeff Lapsley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have Redhat 5.2 on a Proliant 7000. Problems?
>
> 1. The On-board SCSI isn't supported.
> 2. The Smart2 RAID controllers are not supported out-of-box. (there are
> drivers though)
> 3. Compaq servers (mine at least) do not support fixed IDE disk boots.
>
> I used boot floppies to install to the IDE, then installed the RAID drivers
> and switched the system to the array. I now use a boot floppy to point to
> the root on the array. Working great so far.
>
> Jeff
>
> gemelburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >No, but I am interested in anything you find out as we have a compaq
> proliant
> >and are getting interested in Linux!
> >
> >Peter Baars
> >
> >"Christian B. Westermann" wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible to run Linux on a Compaq ProLiant 1600? Has anybody
> >> already installed Linux on a Compaq ProLiant, or is it some kind of
> >> difficult to install it because there are to many problems coming with
> >> it?
> >> I'm grateful for every hint I can get.
> >> Thank you in advance.
> >> Chris
> >> --
> >> ====================================================================
> >> Ch. B. Westermann
> >>
> >> University of Bern
> >> Physikalisches Institut
> >> Sidlerstrasse 5 phone: +41(0)31 6314417
> >> 3012 Bern fax: +41(0)31 6314405
> >> Switzerland email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >>
> http://phimcasymir.unibe.ch/casymir/cas_SS.html
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan J. Maloney)
Subject: Scanners?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 12:06:45 -0500
I'm wanting to get a scanner, to prevent incompatibility problems, what
should I avoid and what could I get?
My wife wants to scan artwork at high resolution in 24-bit color. I want
to scan obscure Italian and German rapier and wrestling manuals that use
Fraktur and all kinds of unusual abbreviations (like an m-tilde
combination to stand for "em"), thus I would also want to be able to train
any OCR software to recognize such things. Oh, and OCR output I should be
in something other than plain text, so the wierd characters are preserved.
--
To women contemplating marriage: The question you should ask is not
"How much do I love him?" The real question is "How much can I
tolerate him?"
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/bjm10/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printing under Linux
Date: 26 Feb 1999 17:39:55 GMT
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 03:41:41 -0800,
jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Instead of converting your image to PostScript, and
> > then having Ghostscript convert it to PCL (or whatever your printer
> > wants), it converts the image to PCL directly.
>
> When I said PDL, I meant PDL and not PCL....they letters are close on
> the keyboard and alphabet, don't know if you thought I made a mistake or
> not, but I didn't.
Considering I wasn't following up to your post, the above is irrelevant.
> PDL stands for Page Description Language, which PCL is ONE of hundreds.
> Only some printers use PCL, which is a more common standard PDL like
> PS,...but not THAT common. If you have a printer that uses some other
> PDL and not PCL...like Canon (who also makes a standard PDL
> CaPCL...which my canon doesn't use :P) this plugin will not help
> you....you will need gs unless there is one that covers your printer's
> PDL.
Yes, but if your printer is one of the ones supported directly by the
aforementioned plugin, Ghostscript will only deteriorate the image
quality.
PCL is "THAT" common. It's used for virtually every HP printer made in
the past several years (excepting their WinPrinters and PS printers) and
HP has even managed to license it to several other makers.
Perhaps I should have added a second "(or whatever your printer wants)"
to the sentence, but that would be redundant.
If you insist on being pedantic, PCL is not a page description language.
It is a printer control language, hence its name (and its
functionality).
--
Brian Moore | "The Zen nature of a spammer resembles
Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | a cockroach, except that the cockroach
Usenet Vandal | is higher up on the evolutionary chain."
Netscum, Bane of Elves. Peter Olson, Delphi Postmaster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Hinds)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Raw writing to PCMCIA SRAM cards
Date: 26 Feb 1999 17:34:51 GMT
Mark Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
:
: Seriously though, I take it I would could just copy my program to the memory
: card ie. "dd if=test.bin of=/dev/mem0c0c" or is there a nice pre-made
: program that will do it for me ?
What, "dd" isn't nice enough??
-- Dave
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From: GBP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 13:27:37 -0500
>
> the only chips i hear of that can be is celeron but besides that.... the
> chip is not made to be over clocked..... if it was supposed to be over
> clocked it would RUN at THAT SPEED not 50-100 MHz slower
Its called multi tier pricing, and this isnt the only industry that does
it. I means packaging essentially the same product two ways (or more)
one for poorer people, one for richer. Some people will always want the
better product and a are willing to pay more, since money is no object.
So company X can jack the price on widgets up 25% and call them super
widjets. But other people just can't afford the super widgets, and
company X wants to sell to them too, even though they cant pay as much.
So they sell "budget widgets". Both are just widgets made in the same
plant. They dont want people to buy super widgets to know this, or they
wont pay extra, so they create the fiction that bugjet widgets are
somehow inferior. Lots of people will still buy the "inferior" budget
widgets, beacuse they want widgets and thats what they can afford. They
wish they could get super widgets but that doesnt stop them... budget
widgets are better than non at all right???
In this case intel used 18 micron technology to make Celerons .. so they
can run hotter than the older inferior 25 micron P2's. They are
essentially dumping the celerons on the market at no profit to hurt AMD
their only real threat. They intend to make all their money on the
"high end" PII's even though the P2's are almost exactly the same they
cost 2-4 times more!! The P2 is the "super widget". They developed the
18 micron manufacturing plants to make the upcoming P3 and beyond, but
since the design wasnt ready yet they knocked off some Celerons while
they were waiting.
Personally i dont feel comfortable overclocking. But i can say that i
should be almost impossible to melt a celeron due to the 18 micron
design, and low offical clock speeds. The fast that Intel has been
trying to devolope mechanisms to stop overclocking almost proves that
its possible... For example due to design you cant run a celeron 300A
at say 366, you have to go all the way up to 1.5x at 450mhz.. which
actually works for a lot of people i hear! The P2-450 is like $500 a
celeron 300A at 450 is $95 :) So lets say you burn one, your still $300
ahead if the second one works, the odds are on the hacker's side here.
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 26 Feb 1999 13:45:36 -0500
"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Robert Krawitz wrote in message ...
> >I think this is a tad unfair. I'm disappointed that Linus doesn't
> >want to enable large memory addressing on the x86.
>
> As with any general purpose operateing system there are trade offs, one
> outstanding feature of Linux is the freedom to transform it into something
> that suits your purposes. The reallity is that there is nothing to be
> gained by trying to use a special capability of the XEON just to fillfull
> the special needs of a few users. This is especially the case when the
> Chip and Chip SETs are not suited for the application. I firmly believe
> that if you really need 64 bit addressing to main memory then you need to
> look at a 64 bit system.
Well, Xeon boxes seem to be awfully popular these days. And again:
there's a lot of software (even for Linux) that only runs on x86.
Folks who want to use Oracle don't have the option of getting an Alpha.
> >Job mixes that are more memory/IO than computation intensive (which is
> >the case for a lot of commercial data processing) would benefit
> >greatly from the availability of large memory on commodity hardware.
>
> Why would anyone do commercial data processing in large pools of main
> memory? Seems awfully risky. Actually large memory systems and heavy
> computation base apps go hand in hand.
Example: something that's trying to join a stream of transactions to
accounts. Database (and non-database) joins can always use all the
memory they can get their grubby little paws on.
Actually, on further thought Linus's last message on the topic
suggested using the extra RAM as a ramdisk. If the machine then
swapped to the ramdisk, things would work reasonably well.
[Disclaimer: that I'm not a disinterested observer: I work for Torrent
Systems: http://www.torrent.com/. However, this posting is completely
my own opinion, and does not reflect any official company policy.]
--
Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
--Eric Crampton
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Crossposted-To: linux.dev.scsi,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Problems with Yamaha 4416s CDRW w/ Adaptec 1460 under Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 18:51:50 GMT
I'm trying to connect a Yamaha 4416s CDRW through an Adaptec 1460
PCMCIA SCSI controller to my laptop (WinBook XL) running RedHat Linux.
This is my first experience with PCMCIA and SCSI under linux, but I
think I have gotten everything set up properly. I have a 3CCOM 3C589D
ethernet card functioning flawlessly and I can access a SCSI zip drive.
However, I'm getting some bizarre problems with the Yamaha CDRW. When
I boot with the CDR drive off, Linux comes up fine. When I boot with
the drive on, it "hangs" while the CDR is being probed. The following
message appears before the "hang":
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW4416S Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
It will sit like this until I power down the CDR, at which point the
following message appears and the bootup continues:
scsi0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries.
SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
If I do this, however, the PCMCIA card services package unloads all
support for the Adaptec card.
I have found numerous messages on Deja-News of people have similar
problems with the 152x ISA card with several devices, but the Yam
4416s seems to have similar problems quite frequently. Unfortunately,
I was unable to locate any *solutions* to the problem.
If anyone has experienced a similar problem, how did you solve it?
Any suggestions at all would be appreciated at this point. Also, if
you *have* gotten the Yam 4416s working with the 152x driver, with out
without fiddling with it, I'd like to hear that under some
circumstances it can be made to work.
-p.
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modems in linux?
Date: 26 Feb 1999 11:08:12 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luiz Alexandre de Araujo Guerra) writes:
> I have bought a Lucent 1646 56K V.90 PCI modem given. It doesn't have
> jumpers. I have read the
> serial and modem HOWTOs but I have not been able to make the thing
> work.
> Can anyone help?
this is a winmodem. this modem will never work in linux. read the
return policy from the place from which you got it. i recommend
getting an external.
--
johan kullstam
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From: GBP <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:00:46 -0500
Michael Creasy wrote:
>
> If this is the case can someone tell me why my K6-2 350 when overclocked
> to 400 crashes linux on boot, it has a huge fan on it.
>
Its because of the way chips are made. Tehy are made from 1.5 foot
diameter wafers then cut, then tested. The company doesnt say "ok these
are going to be p2-350's and these here will be p2-400's" what they do
is they make them the best they can and then cross their fingers. Lets
say a batch has 12 dies (chips) a typical yiled might be something like
this:
defective
p2-388
p2-478
defective
p2-312
defective
p2-444
p2-451
defective
defective
p2-398
p2-377
they test them to see, first if they work, second how fast they work.
Now intel has these chips:
p2-312
p2-377
p2-388
p2-398
p2-444
p2-451
p2-478
otherwise known as
p2-300
p2-350
p2-350
p2-350
p2-400
p2-450
p2-450
Now technically speaking all these chips cost the same to make, but they
arent going to charge you the same amoung of money-- some are better
than others.
Say intel has lots of 350s and just a few 300's. Now lets say their are
a lot of people that just want the cheapest p2 they can get for their
budget pcs-- which makes sense. inetl sells p2-300s for $100 and p2-350
for $125 (fake numbers). A lot of people say , i dont care if its only
$25 more i want the slowest one, its only going to be about 15% faster
anyway... So they have lots of orders for 300's but few for 350s. They
take lots of those 350s and mark them as 300s! So you can "over clock'
then safely... because intel "under clocked" before.
__BUT__ One of those things really was a p2-300 wasnt it-- a p2-312
actaully. And when you over clock that one it will burn out or crash.
There MUST be some p2-300's that really are only 300's or intel would
just sell p2-350's as their slowest chip... One the other hand most
300's are really going to be faster than 300 because the average is
probably around 375.
gbp
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From: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:07:31 -0500
Reply-To: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
You might also try my sig!
--
~The �eventh �ign ~
Protect privacy, boycott Intel: http://www.bigbrotherinside.org
Boycott Swintel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
:track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
:turned on and off by software. Following some links I found the
:www.fightdivx.com website and noticed that they have a Intel Boycott
:page with links, quotes and info on why you should boycott the
:invasion of privacy Pentium III chips. Just like everyone suspected,
:the ID number can be taken without a customers knowledge. Just like
:cellular phone fraud, once someone has your unique ID number, they
:could pose as you on the internet. Do not be fooled by reports that
:this problem is fixed because Intel disabled this feature by software
:on their up coming chips. Information is power. They want to know
:your surfing and buying habits. That is what this is all about. Here
:is the link to the page with the boycott info and links.
:
:http://www.fightdivx.com/intelboycott.htm
:
:Also you will find a Boycott Intel screen saver and banner on their
:page above. Spread it around.
:
:
:
:
:Take the Pentium III Boycott Survey
:http://mail.infotrieve.com/isurvey/index.cfm?vendorid=6045&formid=F0006045
:
:
:
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From: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATX Power Off problem
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:11:58 -0500
Reply-To: "~The Seventh Sign~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
The Hardware you need to use if it is a temporary outage is a UPS system.
It is a power backup for computers.
They are pricey.
--
~The �eventh �ign ~
Protect privacy, boycott Intel: http://www.bigbrotherinside.org
star <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3TEhWT$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:Hi everyone!
:
:I have a dual-CPU motherboard with ATX power and it's been used
:as a Linux server. I am using 2.0.36 kernel (the new 2.2.1 doesn't
:recognize the 2 CPU's) with SMP just fine.
:
:One big problem is that whenever we have a power loss
:and when the power is back, the server doesn't power on. I have to
:go right ahead to the machine and press the power button to wake it up.
:
:I have play with the BIOS setup and it doesn't have any item
:concerning this problem.
:
:This is a big headache to me because I want it to be a 24-hour ready
:server.
:
:Is there any software or hardware solution to this problem
:or should I drop this motherboard away?
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gateway ALR 7200
Date: 26 Feb 1999 13:26:26 -0500
"David A. Chrisman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have searched a while and can't find the answer to my question so I
> thought I would ask it here. The group I work with is buying a Gateway ALR
> 7200 computer and we want to run Linux on it. Is there anyone out there
> already running Linux on these systems?
i am running linux on an ALR revolution quad6. it works well (except
for minor annoyance of scsi card not reseting after reboot - i am not
sure that isn't an adaptec problem rather than either linux or the
ALR).
--
johan kullstam
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Crossposted-To: linux.dev.scsi,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Problems with Yamaha 4416s CDRW w/ Adaptec 1460 under Linux -- SOLVED
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:15:23 GMT
Previously, I wrote:
> I'm trying to connect a Yamaha 4416s CDRW through an Adaptec 1460
> PCMCIA SCSI controller to my laptop (WinBook XL) running RedHat Linux.
I've just SOLVED this problem. I needed to push the reset delay up
from the default value of 100ms. all the way up to 500ms.
-p.
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From: Patrick Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:25:51 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello, TIA for your help -- nothing like having a hardware problem you can't
figure out... :)
I am trying to install RedHat 5.2 on a system I inherited. It is a (gasp!)
Packard Bell Model 3960CD; a P60 with 40MB RAM. I have disconnected the
proprietary CDROM, and hooked up a spare IDE (Panasonic 24x, I don't have the
model number here). They are both on the PCI IDE port: the 4.3GB HD as master,
the CD as slave. [I should add that I also upgraded the 400MB HD to the 4.3GB].
The problem happens during the booting of the kernel on the RedHat boot disk.
Doing a 'strings' on the boot image, it looks like it is using kernel v2.036,
and I'm not sure what the "SYSLINUX" refers to; is that a RedHat component?
Here's the relevant output:
- SYSLINUX 1.40 1998-05-07
- BOOT_IMAGE=07 Linux 2.0
The kernel loads fine w/ only the HD, but once the CD is attached to the chain,
the crash occurs. I have also tried a different CDROM (Creative 32x), but it
still crashes. Unfortunately, the other IDE connector is so badly placed, that
it and the floppy connector cannot both be used at the same time; so I can't
test if the "PCI IDE" connector is bad.
The only other thing I can think of is to see if the RedHat install supports the
proprietary CD which originally came w/ the box (I think it was a Panasonic).
Unfortunately, I pulled that out and left that in another state; who knew I'd be
longing for a *proprietary* CDROM! So I can't try that (without having it
shipped to me, which is a possibility).
Anyway, here's the guts of the problem -- I hope there's a guru out there who
can help me with this. The dump goes like this:
ide0: buggy cmd640b interface on PCI(type 2) config=0x3e
ide1: not serialized, secondary interface not responding
cmd640: drive 0 timings/prefetch(on) preserved, clocks=2/3/3
cmd640: drive 1 timings/prefetch(on) preserved, clocks=4/16/17
divide error: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0016f2d5>]
EFLAGS: 0010246
<dump of the registers>
Code: f7 74 24 0c 89 c1 66 89 4b 20 8b 7e 78 80 4b 0c 40 0f b6 43
I am checking w/ PBell, to see if there is a BIOS upgrade I can get to see if
that will help, but I am not confident that they offer much support (especially
for a relatively old box like this P60).
Thanks again!! (Also, please cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] because my news reader is
a pain to use).
-- Patrick
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:42:00 -0500
Bugs Bunny wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Yair Paz wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Bugs Bunny wrote:
>>> you can overclock it it will run hotter and finally burn out like all
>chips
>>> that are over clocked it is a gamble
>>>
>>> do it aown risk
>>Bulls. some chips are meant to beoverclocked - the P2-300 for example,
>>in the last 6 months of it's manufacture, it was made with a P2-350 core
>>hard wired to be 300. you can easily un-wire it (OK , not so easily). or
>>the Celeron 300A which overclocks to 450 w/o a glitch just by changing
>>the FSB speed, or the K6-2 300 which can overclock to 375 w/o additional
>>cooling, or any P5 MMX chips which can usually be overclocked to about
>>20% more, if you have the right board, w/o needing for extra hardware
>>(coolants) or voltage tweeking. nowdays, you can even overclock
>>HardDisks.
>>Oded
>
>the only chips i hear of that can be is celeron but besides that.... the
>chip is not made to be over clocked..... if it was supposed to be over
>clocked it would RUN at THAT SPEED not 50-100 MHz slower
Actually this is not true at all it would mean that Intel had no plans for
upgrading the chip or improving the process. Without going to the advance
processess in the first place for the Celeron, Intel would not have had the
oportunity to quickly add the on chip cache that makes the new Celerons such
standouts.
Economics come into play as the "faster" processes are also the processes
that produce the smaller dies. This means of course more Celerons per
wafer which means cheap. Since the product was initially targeted at the
low end of the market there is no reason to believe that the Celeron wasn't
designed from the beginning to run faster. Intel just tried to rake a
little money in from the sucker market.
Dave
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From: "Georges Chalhoub" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Future Domain TM-830 & TMC-850
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:52:54 -0500
Hi,
Please could you tell me where can I find a Linux driver for one of the
above?
Thank you
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From: "rob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: configuring Viper 550 for xwindows
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:57:05 -0700
I did this just this morning. I had to go to xfree86.org to get
version 3.3.3.1 - besides the vga16 server, you need the svga
server too. With this new version (3.3.3.1) of xfree86 the
TNT chip appears in the list of display adaptors that XF86Setup
presents. Also I think I remember reading that 24 bpp won't work
with the TNT chip so I'm using 32 bpp. But the good news is
that it seems to work just great.
rob.
Alvin Lie wrote in message <7b2ffb$10m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>can anyone give me some help with configuring my viper 550 card for
xwindows
>in linux?
>i'm totally new with linux.
>
>Thanx.
>
>Alvin
>
>
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: color printing with HP deskjet 600 ?
Date: 25 Feb 1999 12:37:33 -0500
Michael Brunsteiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i did some graphics using GIMP ... now i'd like to print that
> stuff; for my printer (HP deskjt 600) however there seems to exist
> no driver that supports color printing ... (i use apsfilter and
> ghostscript)
> printing works with the djet500 backend, but only for grayscale
> images, moreover these images seem to be converted to postscript
> before printing, which results in quite poor printing quality
> is there any tool for printing color images (e.g. jpeg's) directly
> with a HP deskjet 600 ??
Ghostscript supports the DeskJet 600 perfectly according the the notes
in the Printing HOWTO's compatibility listing:
Monochrome 600x600, color 300x300
Can use cdj500, cdj550 driver as well for color support
Must specify to get 600x600 resolution
Refill: Cartridge, either color or monochrome
I suspect that the third-party "hpdj" PCL3 driver will work well for
this printer, too. ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj.html
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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