Linux-Hardware Digest #523, Volume #9 Sun, 28 Feb 99 01:13:39 EST
Contents:
Re: Can't find 2 GIG on HD. ("Charles Sullivan")
Re: Digital Cameras (Gerald Willmann)
hard drive ERRORS? ("W. Scott Grant")
Re: Booting without a keyboard (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Printer problem with form feed (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Re: Booting without a keyboard (Andries Brouwer)
Re: Help: Viper550 with AMD K6-2 and Linux... (Hilaire Fernandes)
Re: Hardware to recommend? (Hilaire Fernandes)
Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX (Hilaire Fernandes)
Re: CDROM:can't mount ("W. Scott Grant")
I want to build a junk machine (Chris Morgan)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Peter F. Curran)
Re: Hard Drive Write Errors with Red Hat 5.2 ("W. Scott Grant")
Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s....... (Ben Goble Lakewood Colorado)
Digital Cameras ("The Infernal One")
Driver for Kingston EtheRX VP 10/100 NIC??? (Moray)
Linux SMP & GX Chipset (Supermicro P6DGU) (Gianni Mariani)
Re: installing linux on iomega jaz (DaveinSJ)
Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s....... (werring)
Ollivetti JP 350S Printer with linux (werring)
Sound question (Joel Andrews)
Re: Digital Cameras ("The Infernal One")
Low Memory Slackware Install (Rod Roark)
Ibm thinkpad 720c with linux, is it Possible? ("MastaKillah")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Stephe)
Re: Digital Cameras (David Fox)
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From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't find 2 GIG on HD.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:39:51 -0500
For Dan:
Your bios evidently has LBA enabled, which means the _logical_
number of c/h/s will be (approx)1250/255/63. The Linux kernel
(v2.0.xx) and fdisk will ordinarily max out at 1024 cylinders and refuse to
allow partitions above that point.
Go into the 'expert' menu of Linux fdisk and change the number of
cylinders to the exact LBA value. Then when you return to the main
menu, fdisk will allow you to create partitions up to that limit. If you
don't know the exact number of LBA cylinders, download the free DOS
program PARTINFO.EXE from the QualComm website (publishers of
the Partition Magic software).
For Shawh:
The kernel in RH5.2 will accept the "hda=c/h/s" parameter, but only
so long as the number of heads is 16 or less. You can use the
non-LBA values (as you have) for a drive which is used only for Linux.
But in Dan's case, using the non-LBA values would constrain his FAT32
partition to around 500 Meg max if he intends to boot using LILO
in the MBR.
See the LargeDisk mini HOWTO for more details.
(Note: the newer kernel v2.2.0 or greater together with fdisk v2.9i
appears to eliminate the hassle and confusion with large disks.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Dan Woicke wrote:
>>
>> I bought a new 10 Gig Maxtor Hard drive to do my first Linux install.
>> First, I used the utility which came with the hard drive to create 2 5
>> Gig windows partitions (D: and E: drives). I then started the Red Hat
>> install and came up on Disk Druid. I deleted the second 5 Gig partition
>> (the E: drive) but the "available" disk space field only jumped up 3
>> Gig. I decided to continue the install and made 4 logical partitions
>> (under 1 3 gig extended partition) which filled up the 3 Gig. The table
>> now looks like this:
>> device cylinder range type
>> /dev/hdb1 1-648 Windows FAT32
>> /dev/hdb2 649-1024 extended
>> /dev/hdb5 649-700 logical
>> /dev/hdb6 701-900 logical
>> /dev/hdb7 901-975 logical
>> /dev/hdb8 976-1000 logical
>>
>> Everything seems to be working fine in Linux except I cannot recover the
>> lost 2 Gig of drive space. I run fdisk in Linux and attempt to add a new
>> primary partition and it comes back and says no available sectors. I
>> then ran fdisk in DOS and it shows 2 Gig of "available" sectors.
>> However, when I choose to add a primary or extended partition, it claims
>> that they are already there and won't allow me to add. It seems that I
>> lost everything above the 1024 cylinder (through appox. 1250). At this
>> point I would not mind to just capture it as a 2 Gig windows E: drive.
>> Thanks in advance for the assistance.
>> Dan
>
>
>I would be interested to know what cylinder/head/sector settings are in
>your BIOS, and what they are in Linux (you can see them at startup,
>maybe with dmesg, not sure). I have two 10gig drives, and when I ran
>RedHat 5.2 install, it chose to see the first drive as having 1024
>cylinders, I think to avoid LILO problems. I restarted the install,
>having looked at what it set the second drive to (which included the
>full disk, not just 8mg of it) and when the boot: prompt came up I told
>it 'linux hda=19650,16,63' which is 'linux hda=cyls,heads,sectors' and
>then it was quite happy to let me see the whole disk.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:24:41 -0800
"The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone either know or have good source information on
> which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
use a Sony Mavica, works with floppy disks and therefore absolutely no
problem under linux (well, you have to mount and umount the floppies :)
Gerald
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From: "W. Scott Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard drive ERRORS?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:40:14 -0800
Does anyone know what this message means
hdc: read_intr: status=0x49 {DriveReady DataRequest Error}
hdc: read_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
hdc: read_intr: status=0x59 {DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error }
hdc: read_intr: error=0x40 {Uncorrectable Error }, LBAsect=1770483,
sector 1638435
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:02, sector 1638435
Is the hard drive failing? I have search dejanews and not found anything
that gave me an answer.
Any ideas?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Booting without a keyboard
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:58:44 GMT
Phil Snowdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:: >
:: >I don't want to have to plug in a keyboard everytime the system is
:: >rebooted. System keyboard entry in bios is disabled. Any Ideas?
::
:: You need to change the bios defaults on your box so that
:: the post does not halt on errors. If the bios setup
:: does not offer such an option you are going to have to
:: put a dummy in the keyboard socket.
::
: All of the bios settings are set to ignore errors, not to wait on "F1"
: etc.
: The bios post seems quite happy, as does LILO, which loads linux off
: hda1. its only after loading and before uncompressing that everything
: stops. Are there any boot parameters that would be useful, or would
: using an uncompressed kernel help?
There is a problem in the Linux boot code, namely the loop
! This routine checks that the keyboard command queue is empty
! (after emptying the output buffers)
!
! No timeout is used - if this hangs there is something wrong with
! the machine, and we probably couldn't proceed anyway.
empty_8042:
call delay
in al,#0x64 ! 8042 status port
test al,#1 ! output buffer?
jz no_output
call delay
in al,#0x60 ! read it
jmp empty_8042
no_output:
test al,#2 ! is input buffer full?
jnz empty_8042 ! yes - loop
ret
in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/setup.S or so.
Sometimes, in case of a missing keyboard, this hangs forever.
Delete this loop, or insert a timeout.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Reckhard (jester))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Printer problem with form feed
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:00:08 GMT
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:02:52 +0100, "Frank Stiller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>My printer (HP Deskjet 895 Cxi) always prints another blank page after he
>did the normal print job. I think, this is a form feed based on linux. My
>printer is connected with my server where linux is installed. On my computer
>Win98 is installed and the RAW data is send to the server and the server
>send the data directly to the printer port. Someone says, that you can
>deactivate the form feed option in linux, but where?
In /etc/printcap, disable the input filter for the printer. The
options are separated by colons and in my printcap, on several lines
linked by the Unix 'soft-line-break'-character "\", so I just put a
hash mark in front of the line starting with ":if=/usr/lib/apsfilt..."
and that was enough.
Tobias / jester
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andries Brouwer)
Subject: Re: Booting without a keyboard
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:05:22 GMT
Rudy Zijlsta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: I am configuring a system to work as a bridge, using the (still
: experimental) bridge code in the kernel.
:
: This is working quite well, and because the system is at a location where
: keyboard and monitor are quite a nuisance, I am running without both.
: Basically an "embedded" system.
:
: Problem: I need the keyboard to boot
: -1- bios does not check for keyboard (Yes, I verified)
: -2- keyboard is not needed for fast A20 switching (once its up, I unplug
: the keyboard, which is a definite irritation, It means it wont boot after a
: power failure....)
: -3- Linus has mentioned that in the 2.1.1xxx kernels there was a problem
: with booting without keyboard, I just can't remember where I read that. It
: was solved though in the 2.2.x series kernel.
: -4- I am using kernel 2.2.1
: -5- What is the configuration option I am missing???
:
: Rudy Zijlstra
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try and see whether the hang is in
! No timeout is used - if this hangs there is something wrong with
! the machine, and we probably couldn't proceed anyway.
empty_8042:
call delay
in al,#0x64 ! 8042 status port
test al,#1 ! output buffer?
jz no_output
call delay
in al,#0x60 ! read it
jmp empty_8042
no_output:
test al,#2 ! is input buffer full?
jnz empty_8042 ! yes - loop
ret
(in arch/i386/boot/setup.S).
Adding a timeout may solve your problems.
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From: Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Viper550 with AMD K6-2 and Linux...
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:44:51 +0800
> Does Intel pay you for this?
>
> BTW: I have asus P5A + riva TNT + k6 with no problem and very good
> performance
>
I've 25 AMDK6 with i430TX motheboard chipset and Linux won't install at
all in this computer. I never get such problems with intel chip from
i386 up to PentiumII.
I also won't suggest to anybody using any kind of AMD K6.
Maybe you are lucky, the right motherboard with the right AMDK6 :)
AMDK6 : Linux may work or may not ! Everyone can try at its own risk:-)
Me I don't get the choice, and it doesn"t work.
--
Hilaire Fernandes
Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
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From: Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware to recommend?
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:47:59 +0800
JT wrote:
>
> I am wanting to set-up relatively low cost system (around $550 excluding
> monitor) and need some advise as to all components:
>
> motherboard
> CPU
Don't use AMDK6.
If you are lucky you can intall Linux if not your are on your own.
Actually I have 25 K6AMD and I can't install at all Linux (reset when I
try installing)
--
Hilaire Fernandes
Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
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From: Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs. Cyrix vs. Pentium MMX
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 12:01:14 +0800
Greg H. wrote:
>
> BCD User ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> > I am going to upgrade my CPU and am wondering if there is any
> > performance data regarding the big three CPU's. I suppose AMD's 3-DNow
> > is essentially useless for Linux, but is that true for MMX instructions
> > as well? I am moving from a pentium 100. Motherboard is Super 7. Tom's
> > Hardware guide only gives 95 and NT performance data.
>
> As far as I know, Linux currently does _not_ take advantage of the
> MMX instruction set.
>
Don't use AMDK6 if you don't want to mess in crasy problems.
About the MMX support I may suggest you looking in the Bogomips howto.
I enclose twos rate speed for Pentium200 with and without MMX
Pentium/200 81.92 bogomips
Pentium MMX/200 400.59 bogomips
Interprete yourself but read the howto!
--
Hilaire Fernandes
Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
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From: "W. Scott Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM:can't mount
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:05:21 -0800
go into /dev and do a ls -l -a cdrom and see if it has a link to /dev/hdd
you also must make sure that you mount it do a mount point such as
/mnt/cdrom......So the command would look like
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
or
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
I have a couple of linux boxes that don't show the cdrom with bootup...ie
they are not bootable cdroms, but I can mount them. I suspect that is your
case....
Zack Kluczenko wrote:
> I installed Linux 5.2 using my Sony CDU-711 (IDE) and the autoboot
> command. Autoboot found the CDROM with no problem and the install went
> correctly. Now, when I boot Linux it does not show up as anything (i.e.
> hba, hdb, hdc, or hdd) and when I try to run the mount command for the
> IDE device where it should be located I get an error. Do Sony drives
> need special command lines at boot? I wouldn't imagine so being that it
> worked fine during installation during autoboot.
>
> Please email a response to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I want to build a junk machine
Date: 28 Feb 1999 00:16:19 -0500
Hi Everyone,
This is definitely in the "for those with too much time on their
hands".
I've got some bits spare and I want to build a cheap machine
("junkie") to be my software lab. Since my current machine runs all
the time and has my webserver, shell accounts for friends etc it's
quite upsetting when I break things badly on it.
What I've got is :
Pentium Classic, 75MHz. Not overclockable even to 90MHz.
64MB junk no-name non parity RAM in 4 72 pin 70 ns SIMMS.
Totally crap Samtron 15" SVGA high-res monitor (1024x768@60Hz).
1 MB Avance Logic PCI graphics card (ALG2303-ALG1300/1)
Aztech Waverider Pro32-3d soundcard (some kind of Soundblaster
clone)
Adaptech 8-bit non-interrupt driven (I think) SCSI adaptor (AVA-1502AE)
As you can see, it's all junk, total crap, real garbage
(particularly that SCSI card). However it all works with Linux (to
some degree) and it's all here in my apartment.
What I'd like are suggestions to allow me to a) make a machine out
of these bits and b) network it to my real machine (mihalis) which
is a little (not much) better. Obviously it's not worth spending
lots of money on other bits to reuse these seeing as performance
wont be critical, I just want the good value basic stuff.
The minimum then is :
Socket 7 motherboard, tower case, power supply, floppy drive, hard
disk, keyboard, mouse.
Also eventually it would need
PCI network card, "decent" SCSI card
although I might postpone those bits for the time being.
The ultimate aim is get a hub so I can network junkie, mihalis and
also my old NeXT cube together over simple UTP but that will be a
way off!
I've spent a bit of time looking at various sites but most of the
package deals make you buy a cpu. Conversely if you just add up all
the bits as separate purchases, it starts to come out rather
uncompetitive even without a cpu.
I would love to hear any and all suggestions (individual components
on up to web sites you think I should get the whole kit and caboodle
at).
Thanks,
Chris
--
Chris Morgan <mihalis at ix.netcom.com http://mihalis.net
http://www.netcom.com/~mihalis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 22:22:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore) writes:
>On Sat, 27 Feb 1999 14:52:29 GMT,
> Peter F. Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I think I can explain the fuss. People don't _want_ to be tracked
>> on the Internet. They only wish to provide identification info
>> to those sites they want to do business with.
>
>That's true.
>
>> It is the proposed _use_ of the PSN, not the PSN itself which
>> is so objectionable.
>
>No, that's what the MEDIA is reporting as the use. It's completely
>useless for that.
[snip]
In this case, it is Intel's _own_ media who are claiming the
PSN as an online security enhancement. Otherwise I agree with
what you say. (Yes, I know that the random number generator IS
a good security enhancement. I wonder if there has been some
miscommunication in Intel between the engineers and marketers.)
Perhaps the PSN will only be used to tie software to computers,
but I don't think the majority of consumers _want_ that.
You'll be forced to maintain an ongoing relationship with a
software maker, whereas before you could just buy software
off the shelf anonymously. (You give the company your PSN
and they give you a software serial number tailored for your
machine.)
It prevents transfer of ownership of software without the
manufacturer's knowledge, and makes upgrading hardware a
hassle. What if a company goes out of business? I don't
like it one bit. I sure as hell aren't going to put up with
it for a crappy $40 game.... (The only MS platform software
I use.)
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
dough knot male: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use address in Organization line, finger
for PGP key. Antispaam test in progress.
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From: "W. Scott Grant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard Drive Write Errors with Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:20:26 -0800
For what it is worth I don't think this is a Redhat 5.1 problem I have the same
thing on a 5.1 and a SUSE system....I haven't found the answer yest, but will
advice you if I do...please email me if you find the answer...
Prentice Bisbal wrote:
> I recently put together a new system for myself using a Tyan S1590S
> Trinity 100AT Motherboard and AMD K6-2/350. The Hard drive is A Maxtor
> DiamondMax 5.76GB Drive (Model No. 90576D4). Since I put the system
> together,
> I've been having problems using the hard drive under Linux.
>
> After the install, I get write errors when ever I write decent-sized
> amounts of data do the disk. For example, when I try to install KDE-1.1
> RPMS I get the following errors:
>
> hda: write_intr: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error}
> hda: write_intr: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError}
>
> The action (installing rpms, etc.) will complete, usually producing this
> error a few more times, and things will (appear to) work fine. When I
> reboot, fsck will choke forcing me to run it manually. fsck will then
> find many errrors - enough to classify my filesystem as "trashed."
>
> Even when I don't write alot of data to disk or see this error
> reported,
> after 3 or 4 reboots I'll still get fsck errors requiring manual
> intervention,
> resulting in a trashed filesystem.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas how to fix this? I've booted up by typing
> "linux hda=11166/16/63" but had the same problem. Should I select
> "normal" (non-lba) mode in my BIOS? Does Kernel 2.2 have better support
> for newer/larger UDMA drives? If so, how do I work around these problems
> until I get a 2.2.x kernel installed?
>
> Here are some pertinent specs for my system:
> Tyan Trinity S1590S Trinity 100AT Motherboard
> - VIA Apollo MVP3 AGP Chipset
> (has onboard dual channel PCI IDE PIO, IDE DMA and IDE UltraDMA/33)
> - Award BIOS, w/ latest BIOS update (v1.14) from Tyan website.
> AMD K6-2/350 MHz processor
> Maxtor DiamondMax (DM 2880 family) Drive (90576D4)
> - 5.7 GB
> - Actual c/h/s = 11166/16/63
> - UDMA 33
>
> Thanks in Advance
> ---
> Prentice Bisbal
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Princeton Plasma Physics Lab
> http://www.pppl.gov
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From: Ben Goble Lakewood Colorado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s.......
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 20:16:29 -0700
Peter Worcester wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to Linux (actually have been away from Unix for 7-9 years, last
> experience was HP-UX)
>
> I recently bought Red Hat 5.2 and installed it just fine on my spare
> machine. There are a couple og things I can't get working. In particular the
> modem and PPP connection. This machine and modem works with NT4 on another
> partition. The system recognizes the modem and it comes up with cu0 - cu3
> (com1 - com4) and I try pointing all of them to dev/modem with no luck. Then
> I went through the PPP connectivlity in deatil and can't get that to dial my
> ISP.
> Can someone point me to where I can find some pretyy deatiled setup
> instructions or give me some tips on how I might go about troubleshooting
> this problem ?
>
> I don't really know where to start. I would think I need to make sure that
> the modem dials out first then go for the PPP connectivity.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. Could someone volunteer and good FAq
> sites or web sites to help me get started with Linux.
Have you set up the modem using the 'Control Panel' in X?
Better yet, do a Web search for ezppp which will make the
set-up relatively pain free.
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From: "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Digital Cameras
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:18:10 -0800
Does anyone either know or have good source information on
which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] moray ibm net (Moray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Driver for Kingston EtheRX VP 10/100 NIC???
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:47:46 GMT
I'm looking for a driver that supports the Kingston EtheRX VP
10/100 PCI ethernet card. I'm trying to get it to work under RedHat
5.2 I've tried the generic NE2000-PCI drivers with no luck, any other
suggestions??
TIA for your input.
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From: Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux SMP & GX Chipset (Supermicro P6DGU)
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 05:19:09 GMT
In particular I'm interested in knowing if anyone has tested a
Supermicro P6DGU
motherboard and Linux in SMP ?
Is there any real advantage of using the GX chipset over the BX chipset
?
I'm looking at putting together a Dual 500MHz PentiumII and 512MB of ECC
SDRAM
with a load of disks running servers.
I was thinking of using the ASUS P2B-DS but it seems like Supermicro is
ahead with
the GX chipset but I don't see any performance numbers for either.
Thx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DaveinSJ)
Subject: Re: installing linux on iomega jaz
Date: 28 Feb 1999 05:37:17 GMT
Can you do it from a SParq 1.g b drive as
well?
It's parrell port
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From: werring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Modem/PPP ?'s.......
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:28:26 +0100
I would recommend the PPP-Howto document. It should be on your system or on
your Red Hat CD.
For linking your modem to /dev/modem try the program "modemtool". If your modem
works, then
the simplest way to connect to your ISP is with the program EzPPP. I don't know
the url, but you
can find it with an search-engine on the internet.
Good luck
Roeland.
Peter Worcester wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm new to Linux (actually have been away from Unix for 7-9 years, last
> experience was HP-UX)
>
> I recently bought Red Hat 5.2 and installed it just fine on my spare
> machine. There are a couple og things I can't get working. In particular the
> modem and PPP connection. This machine and modem works with NT4 on another
> partition. The system recognizes the modem and it comes up with cu0 - cu3
> (com1 - com4) and I try pointing all of them to dev/modem with no luck. Then
> I went through the PPP connectivlity in deatil and can't get that to dial my
> ISP.
> Can someone point me to where I can find some pretyy deatiled setup
> instructions or give me some tips on how I might go about troubleshooting
> this problem ?
>
> I don't really know where to start. I would think I need to make sure that
> the modem dials out first then go for the PPP connectivity.
>
> Any thoughts would be appreciated. Could someone volunteer and good FAq
> sites or web sites to help me get started with Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance
> Peter
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From: werring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ollivetti JP 350S Printer with linux
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:31:47 +0100
I'm trying to setup my Ollivetti JP 350S printer in linux (Caldera). It
should be compatible with the HP Deskjet 500, but this doesn't work. So
does anyone know how to set it up, or where I can find some drivers?
Thanx in advantage,
Roeland Werring
Holland
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From: Joel Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound question
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 19:24:32 +0400
I have an ISA PnP Sound Blaster AWE 64 Vaule card, I am running RedHat
5.0, with Linux kernel 2.0.24 ?
The sndconfig picks the card up and it works, but the sound seems
distorted... Its the same when I play games, or Audio cd's.. It sounds
like the channel is being over-driven... Is it RedHat, or the kernel?
If i upgraded to RH 5.2, would that make a difference?
email me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks!
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From: "The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:32:56 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try http://www.gphoto.org/gphoto/cameras.html
Wow, this GPhoto program sounds very promising. Is it well
usable in its current version (0.2) or is it more like a
beta?
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Low Memory Slackware Install
Date: 27 Feb 1999 23:36:33 GMT
I was going to post a question here about how to install Slackware
on an old 386 laptop with only 6MB RAM. However I figured it out
and decided to offer the answer instead!
Details at http://www.sunsetsystems.com/tip-lowmem.html.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: "MastaKillah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ibm thinkpad 720c with linux, is it Possible?
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:40:23 -0500
Hi, i have a Ibm thinkpad 720c laptop, i have been working with it for a
good 5 hours, no luck....
i think i need the hard drive parameters, no luck in finding them....
does anybody have expereience with this?
Thank you,
MastaKillah
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From: Stephe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 00:46:39 -0500
Grant Leslie wrote:
>
> Enabled/disabled doesn't matter, the basic fact is that it
> exists at all. Future versions of certain web sites might not even allow
> access with out the ID enabled, some future software might not install
> without the ID enabled, forcing people to have it enabled.
>
>
That's the problem as like the cookies, they will require it to
get support at certain websites or to get logged onto their
system for news etc. I don't like the idea of people keeping up
with what I'm doing..
--
Stephe
Having fun with linux
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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.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras
Date: 27 Feb 1999 21:49:24 -0800
"The Infernal One" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone either know or have good source information on
> which digital cameras support linux? TIA.
Olympus DL-600 works fine using the photopc package. Many other
models use the exact same chipsets and software. (Sure does eat
batteries though.)
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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