Linux-Hardware Digest #569, Volume #9 Fri, 5 Mar 99 03:13:56 EST
Contents:
ATX PwrOff on HALT w/SMP (Todd Schrubb)
ESS1788/ESS1868 Soundcard - new to linux user (Odessa131)
Re: RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error (M. Buchenrieder)
Network driver memory buffer strategies ("Mike Karliner")
Re: *intermittent* dead pixels, laptop (Paul Lloyd-Williams)
How do I install my ZIP drive with Linux RedHat 5.2 (Bernhard Rau)
Re: Microsecond resolution ("TBianco")
Re: How can i boot from system commander ("Larry Roberts")
Re: Which HP DeskJet to buy/not to buy? - quick advice needed, (Jason Clifford)
Re: Sound Blaster 128 PCI ??? (Markus Wandel)
Re: Backup software (Eric van Oorschot)
IBM PC300GL and second video controller (S3 Virge) (Miguel De Buf)
Re: 486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD (Robert Schiele)
Re: HP Deskjet 720C (Mathieu Sutter)
Re: How compatible is my Win9x system (newbie) (Matthew Kirkcaldie)
Re: i want to make driver for a NIC (Gerard van der Sel)
Re: Lots of ^[[21~ at boot time? (Pawel Sakowski)
Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM (John Burton)
Re: Linux on Mips Wince hardware? (Christopher B. Browne)
Re: Backup software (Michael Meissner)
Re: fireport 40 and Redhat . 5.2?? ("Richard Payne")
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From: Todd Schrubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATX PwrOff on HALT w/SMP
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 13:13:07 -0500
Hey folks...
I've got an ATX powersupply that I'd like to turn off automatically when
I halt the system. I also have SMP running and noticed in the doc. that
power management is turned off when SMP is turned on. Is there a way
to switch the pwr supply off with SMP. Not a biggy cause two processors
is a tad more improtant than having to reach down and push a button...
still I'm as lazy as the next guy... :)
Thanks,
Todd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Odessa131)
Subject: ESS1788/ESS1868 Soundcard - new to linux user
Date: 5 Mar 1999 05:17:04 GMT
Hello,
first of all, linux is like a breat of fresh air compared with Win95. I
actually know what's going on!!!
My problem is I can't get the sound to work. I run sndconfig-0.29 to set up
the card (ESS1868) and it detects it and tried to play a sound. This is what
it outputs:
lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
/etc/isapnp.conf:274 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 8 bytes
of IO at 201 (see /etc/isapnp.conf)
/etc/isapnp.conf:274 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
'<ISRESCHECK>' -- further action aborted
In the manuel mode:
lspci not found, so PCI resource conflict not checked
/etc/isapnp.conf:245 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating
DMA1 (see /etc/isapnp.conf)
/etc/isapnp.conf:245 -- Fatal - Error occured executing
request 'CHANNEL 1' -- further action aborted
Being intermediate error message interpreter (I own a compaq presario) I read
this as "cannot acces address 201 or DMA1 due to device conflicts" I don't know
what devices are conflicting tho, being that the 1788 chip is disabled in the
CMOS and the 1868 works fine in Win95.
The 1788 gives a similiar message.
I can't wait until I have to recompile my kernal to fix this :P
NOTE: never buy anything from Macmillan Software, they suck. I thought I was
getting redhat redhat, but i got the macmillian retarded redhat, that is in no
way connected to the real redhat. The only place it says Macmillan is in the
upper right, in a .1 micron by .11 micro square.
Thank you,
Tom H.
P.S. Why in the world are my numlock/capslock/scrolllock buttons flashing every
15 minutes?? (i'm in win95, that must be it)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: RedHat install crashes -- "buggy cmd640b" error
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 08:58:07 GMT
[Newsgroups: line trimmed, F'Up set to col.setup]
[...]
>In comp.os.linux.development.system
> Patrick Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
>: 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
The kernel used does have support for this chipset already.
>: divide error: 0000
[...]
This is a hardware error and probably unrelated to the CMD640b chipset
bug. I'd try swapping components (RAM and CPU) first.
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: "Mike Karliner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Network driver memory buffer strategies
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:01:55 -0800
Hi,
I'm trying to work out how to build a high performance
network driver. My question is, what are the tradeoffs
between using DMA , programmed I/O and straight
memory copies. Or, indeed, have I got the question
wrong? All illumination gratefully received.
MikeK.
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From: Paul Lloyd-Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.mac.portables
Subject: Re: *intermittent* dead pixels, laptop
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 11:29:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same problem on a new PB G3 300/192/8G 14.1" and couldn't agree
more. It's reassuring to know that I'm not the only person in the world that's
noticed this but I'd *really* like the problem to go away. Any further info very
gratefully received. Nice newsgroup, by the way...
Paul Lloyd-Williams
Departament de Qu�mica Org�nica
Universitat de Barcelona
> 1 Dead Pixel = 99.9998728434244791667 % Reliability
> 10 Dead Pixels = 99.9987284342447916667 % Reliability
>
> Strange how meaningless this fantastic accuracy is when _you're_ the one
> with the dead pixel, Eh ?
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From: Bernhard Rau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How do I install my ZIP drive with Linux RedHat 5.2
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:13:12 +0200
Hi there,
I just installed Linux, RedHat version 5.2 on my laptop and
connected an Iomega parallel Zip drive to it. For whatever reason, the
Zip drive is not detected during the boot process:
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
When trying to load the modular support for the drive, I'm getting the
following messages:
$ modprobe ppa
/lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Or
$ insmod /lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o
/lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
or
$ insmod /lib/modules/2.0.36-0.7/scsi/ppa.0
/lib/modules/preferred/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
(of course, since 'preferred' is just a symbolic link to '2.0.36-0.7').
Anyway, I wouldn't know why the device should be busy, but I have no
idea
how to check this. the command 'lsmod' gives the follwing result:
$ lsmod
pcnet_cs 2 1
8390 2 [pcnet_cs] 0
ds 2 [pcnet_cs] 2
i82365 5 2
pcmcia_core 9 [pcnet_cs ds i82365] 0
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 1 1 (autoclean)
vfat 4 1 (autoclean)
cs4232 1 0
uart401 2 [cs4232] 0
ad1848 4 [cs4232] 0
sound 15 [cs4232 uart401 ad1848] 0
soundcore 1 [sound] 5
soundlow 1 [sound] 0
Any idea what's going on? BTW, the Zip drive works just fine under
Win95
on this laptop, so I doubt that there is some hardware problem.
Well, any input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks a lot,
Bernhard
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From: "TBianco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsecond resolution
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:50:05 +0100
Timothy Babin ha scritto nel messaggio
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Is there anyway to get microsecond resolution
>from the linux kernel. I am trying to get
>packet captures using libpcap with microsecond
>resolution. The code supports it if the kernel
>gives that type of resolution, but how do I make
>sure the kernel is giving microsecond resolution?
>
>
>Tim
Not sure if the kernel can give microsec resolution.
For sure I know there are some real time kernel projects and/or patches that
can give it...
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From: "Larry Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.help,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How can i boot from system commander
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 10:55:58 -0500
When you install Linux, dont tell it to write the Lilo to the MBR,
Have it write it to the partition. ( root superblock i believe) Then boot
into system commander,go to add os , tell it to boot to partition,
and point it to the main partition, not the swap. If you call the company
that makes System Commander they can send you very good details
on how to do it. Linux will boot to an Lilo prompt. If you instructed it to
also boot another OS , you can do that there, or simply hit return
to load Lilo.
These might not be the clearest instructions in the world, but I am just
trying to give back so of the help that was provided me. Any techinical
terms mispoken are due to my newbie status with Linux.
Larry
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From: Jason Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which HP DeskJet to buy/not to buy? - quick advice needed,
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 11:44:32 +0000
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Daniele Bernardini wrote:
> I have the same printer and I'am having problems with black printing:
> too much ink. Gamma correction doesn't help... :(
Download ghostscript 5.50 or later which has an updated driver to make use
of the information that HP made publicly available for the DJ printers
years ago so that you can use enconomy mode.
Jason Clifford
Definite Linux Systems
http://definite.ukpost.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster 128 PCI ???
Date: 4 Mar 1999 12:26:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Douglas H. Steves wrote:
> The stock RH5.2 kernel supports the Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 (and
>hence, should support the SB64/128). However, the drivers aren't particularly
>good (I had some problems with warbly/distorted .au files and RealPlayer),
>so using either ALSA or kernel 2.2.x is advised (by me, FWIW).
Does the newer es1370 driver in 2.2 actually fix the warbly .au playback?
Does it fix the bizarre mixer behaviour?
Markus
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
From: Eric van Oorschot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup software
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 19:31:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shane Steven Sturrock) writes:
> I just gpt a new drive for my Alpha after my long serving SCSI-II
> died. I have partitioned it up and only one partition has anything
> that I can't replace, the rest is just stuff from installs etc which
> can be easily recovered. I have a JAZ 1GB drive which I have been
> using to transfer files and such around so I decided to use a spare
> disc as my backup so I could try out BRU2000 which came with my
> RH install discs. It works well with the drive, I needed to edit
> one of the tcl scripts for xbru to stop it trying to rewind the
> drive but otherwise it works well and I can pull any files or
> directories I need out of the archive. Using a 1GB disc is much
> faster than using a tape format and I can do weekly backups of just
> the stuff that has changed so that 1GB disc will keep me going for
> quite some time. I like the security of it verifying backups and
> so forth, I used to use tar all the time and will continue to do
> so in addition to BRU.
>
> --
> Dr. Shane Sturrock - http://nova.bru.ed.ac.uk/~sss
> Linux, a better WinNT than WinNT
I'm using an Iomega Ditto 2MB with ftape 4.02. It works reliable for
me. Before I bought the Iomega is used an Conner tapedrive (using
2120 tapes) and that also worked with ftape without problems. Both tapedrives
were connected parallel over the floppy drive.
--
Eric (H.M.G.) van Oorschot
Rotterdam
the Netherlands No HomePage http://www.xs4all.nl/~hmgvo
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From: Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM PC300GL and second video controller (S3 Virge)
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:38:39 +0100
Hi,
I have an IBM PC300GL and it comes with the S3Trio3D graphics card. I
was thinking of buying a cheap S3 Virge card and stick it in for X. I
can't find any info on disabling the onboard-S3Trio3D card.
Anyone tried this, and what do I have to do to disable the onboard video
controller ?
Thanks,
Miguel
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From: Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486DX2 - BIOS - Big HD
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 07:41:59 +0100
koivi wrote:
>
> Here is something a little interesting for you. I did the same thing. I
> have an old Zenith machine and scrapped the 212MB HDD for a 4GB drive.
> Of course the bios was much too old to support the drive, but instead of
> looking for updates and such, I just plugged it in and turned it on.
>
> First I booted with a DOS 6.22 bootdisk to see if there was any hope of
> seeing the whole drive - nope, only 500MB.
>
> I then started the installation of linux. When I used fdisk to make the
> partitions, the whole drive was recognized! I finished the install and
> rebooted thinking there would be a problem, but there wasn't! The damn
> thing is still running like that with the 4GB hdd and the old bios with
> no problems.
>
> Maybe you too could be this lucky. If not, all you loose is the time it
> took to find out.
>
> koivi
This is because the bios can only handle 1024 cylinders over int 13. As
linux, like every modern operating system, does not use int 13 but it's
own driver handling disk access, it is not bound to that limitation.
The only thing you must pay attention is that the kernel to be booted is
on that part of the disk that can be read by the bios.
Robert
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From: Mathieu Sutter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 720C
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:41:03 +0100
Mickey,
Thanks a lot for your answer.
Did you have a chance to get this ppa-0_8_6_tar.tar file? I get a checksum
error when I try to untar it.
Mathieu
Mickey Stein a �crit:
> it's not much of a problem although color support isn't yet there. i use
> one without any problems. check out the following url:
>
> "http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/"
>
> this handles the series of hp printers that talk ppa lingo. This guy who's
> written this driver seems to be very much into it and is (or so i hear)
> adding color support at some point too.
>
> Mick
--
Mathieu Sutter
EDS France, Delphi Europe SBU
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Kirkcaldie)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How compatible is my Win9x system (newbie)
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 06:09:48 GMT
In article <7bnd7l$92b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) wrote:
>>Generic 56k internal PCI modem
>one glaring exception... your Modem will most certainly
>not work at all under Linux.
I thought only WinModems caused Linux problems ... isn't that true? I've
certainly used an internal modem which worked under DOS and required no
driver; it just came up as COM3 and didn't use any CPU time. As I
understand it, any modem which involves CPU time and requires a driver
under Windows won't work; just because a modem is internal, doesn't mean
it fits into this category.
>PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how do you exit vi?)
:q!
(no, that's not a smiley, they're the keys you press to exit vi ...)
Matthew.
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From: Gerard van der Sel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i want to make driver for a NIC
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 14:27:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I just recently learned C. a while ago i got an EigerLabs PCMCIA 10/100 combo
> card for my CTX laptop. ($53, nice buy). Unfortunately, this card doesn't
> have a driver in the standard pcmcia-cs package. Also, I have done a
> considerable amount of searchng, and have been unable to find one. So,
> anyway, I understand c and pointers and linked lists and the whole bit. I
> just don't get how it all ties together. What I'm trying to say is that I
> understand the language, but I haven't done driver writing before for linux
> and I'm wondering how it's done. Most people I have talked to say it's
> relatively easy. So, if someone could fill me in I would appreciate it. I am
> willing to work as much as it takes to get this job done. HOWTOs, handwritten
> emails, IRC chats, whatever. Thanks.
>
> please reply to email.
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
read a book about device drivers. if you understand the hardware of the
PC and know a little of Linux read the book:
Linux device drivers from Alessandro Rubini.
ISBN: 1-56592-292-1 from O'Reilly
It is indeed simple to make a driver for Linux. With the book and the
examples it costs me 4 weeks to make a driver for my self designed IO
card.
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Gerard van der Sel
Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"De dinosaurussen hadden hun komeet, wij hebben de Windows computer" -
me
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From: Pawel Sakowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lots of ^[[21~ at boot time?
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 14:42:42 +0059
Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anybody experienced the following problem on a laptop at boot
> time / know how to stop it? I'm running Linux 2.2.1 on a Toshiba
> 4025 CDT laptop and when I boot I see the escape sequence ^[[21~
> all over my screen (along with the usual boot messages). Once in
> a while this seems to hang the machine, but usually the boot completes
> and I do not see these escape characters again.
I haven't experienced it myself, but it seems that your F10 key tends to get
stuck (^[[21~ is the code of F10).
--
"We are different"
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: RED HAT 5.2 INSTALLATION PROBLEM
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:53:55 GMT
JohnnyD wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Charles Gretton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a reply to Wrus:
> > Wrus wrote:
> >
> > > I am having a problem installing red hat 5.2 in computer labs. Most
> > > machines are fine, but about 1/3 of the newer machines crash early in
> > > the installation (step 1 or 2 - screen goes dark and system locks
> > > up). Our MIS department (Novell & NT folks) say that LINUX is just
> > > incompatible with new hardware. That sounds like rubbish to me;
> > > however, only machines with Pentium II processors have a problem! Is
> > > there any basis for the hardware argument? We are using removable
> > > hard drives and have brand new drives with nothing else on them. We
> > > boot from floppy and install from cd. A couple machines that didn't
> > > work did work when we used a different hard drive. We decided that
> > > the drives might be bad and replaced them all... no change! Even
> > > though some worked, our MIS rep sticks with the compatability
> > > argument explaining that the ones that do work are just "lucky" to be
> > > on the right side of the compatability border. I'm not buying it but
> > > have nothing to offer in return.
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any help or suggestions. Thanks in advance.
> > > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Wrus Kristiansen
> >
> > I actually know of a few people who had a similar problem. Some of the
> > new BIOS have a virus protection option. This prevents you from writing
> > to the boot sector of the hard drive and so LILO won't work. Try
> > disabling virus protection and see then if it works!
> >
> >
>
> zorjd adds:
> 1) Charles Gretton's above suggestion (virus protect=off) is good.
> 2) See also post from John Burton suggesting expert mode and force load.
> 3) Also - Avoid 'probing' during X-setup dialogue;
> just select some vanilla vga, it will be adequate until each
> respective machine's components-list can be verified as 'supported'
> particulary (here) the vga chipset.
>
> -snip-
>
> Your MIS folks have a point. Novell, MS, et al. pay good, expert
> people, full-time, to keep up with the ever-changing landscape of
> new chips & of course, necessary driver-writing; they are early-
> to-market with support for new hardware, and are likely to remain so.
Also, with the size of the market share MS Windows has, virtually
*every* hardware manufacturer has a Win95/98/NT driver available and
(hopefully) fully tested *before* the board hits the street. The Linux
driver developers typically have to wait until the hardware and the
technical docs are available *before* they can even begin work on the
driver. This can give Win95/98/NT a 6 month advantage for being able to
use bleeding edge technology.
>
> As for the Linux techies who, from around the world, on their own
> time, write this and other needed code, I defer to Aesop, whose
> Tortoise drawls: 'I may be slow, but I'm sure.'
>
> Linux' supported-hardware-list is huge, and like Topsy, 'just growed.'
>
> patience
> zorjd
>
> [ This sentance has three errers. ]
> [ This sentence refers to itself. ]
> [ This sentence does naught. ]
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
john
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Linux on Mips Wince hardware?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 13:56:48 GMT
On 4 Mar 1999 05:23:06 GMT, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>I was comparing the new compaq and the new palm pilot:
>
> Compaq aero 2100 palm V
>Ram MB 8/16 (24 max) 2
>resolution 320x240 color 160x160
>Size 5.27x3.34x.78 in 4.5" x 3.1" x 0.4"
>Cpu 70 Mhz mips 16 Mhz 68k
>Audio record/playback none
>expansion compact flash none
>Battery life 10 hours max [1] 20-30 ish real [2]
>Alarms led, chirp, vibrate beep
>backlight 2 levels on/off
>Misc. One handed scrolling (dial)
>
>[1] from compaq specs
>[2] from usenet posts
>
>Pretty amazing difference, 4-12 times the ram, 3 times the pixels, color,
>vibrate alarms, compact flash support etc.
>
>Seems like it would be easier with 16-24 mb ram+compact flash that it would
>be alot easier/direct then squeezing it into a 8 mb ram, no compact flash
>pilot.
>
>Anyone know of a project to get linux working on one of these things?
>
>Is this a bad idea to lend support to microsoft spec'd hardware?
>
>Thoughts?
Find yourself some specs for the hardware (notably LCD and BIOS
interfacing) and you may be able to get the kernel ported to run on
that one machine.
Unfortunately:
a) That only gets you to boot Linux on one machine. It won't help
with any other Wince models.
b) Getting enough specs will be extremely challenging, as the vendors
won't likely be of much assistance.
c) By the time you get the port done, that model likely won't be on
the market anymore. Which takes you back to a); the new model will
require the same process, and have these same problems.
d) Userland is a rather enormous challenge... Linux does not have
software for doing recognition of Grafitti-like input. There is no
PIM software that will happily work sans keyboard.
Linux for the Palm Computing platform is a "proof of concept" that is
most likely to be useful for embedded applications for which a simple
display, 4 buttons for input, and a serial port will prove enough.
There is merit to the notion of porting Linux to the most powerful of
the handheld machines, but *NOT,* at least as a "general purpose"
notion, the ones that lack keyboard...
--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
-- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Backup software
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 04 Mar 1999 09:07:56 -0500
Ed Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You might explore afio. It has a safer approach to recovering from corrupted
> media than tar. It is cpio like.
IMHO, afio's compression scheme sucks in that it spawns gzip as a separate
process for each and every file. It was a noticible slowdown. While it is
nice to have as an option to spawn a compression program for flexibility, you
do pay in performance by doing it that way. It would be better to build in the
default compression program. There is also the additional slowdown if you have
large files that compress to be larger thant 2 meg by default), in that it runs
the compression program twice (once to size the result, and once to actually
compress it).
Also by using the old cpio format by default, you lose if you have more than
64k hardlinks on a filesystem (think of backing up a news partition for
instance). It would be nice if afio also could grok the newer cpio file
formats (gnu's CRC in particular).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PO Box 98, Ayer Massachusetts, USA 01432-0098
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From: "Richard Payne" <payner at timken dot com>
Subject: Re: fireport 40 and Redhat . 5.2??
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 09:08:09 -0500
Yup, it's an NCR53c8xx type card (actually an NCR53c875-j I think,
at least I think that's what mine reports).
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Rich Payne
(Speaking for myself, not my employer)
payner at timken dot com
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http://www.alphalinux.org
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>Is the fireport 40 scsi controller compatible with Linux? I have heard it
>uses an NCR chipset but I do not know which one. If it is compatible
anyone
>outthere using one with/without success?
>
>scott
>
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