Linux-Hardware Digest #634, Volume #9 Thu, 11 Mar 99 22:13:38 EST
Contents:
Linux pc as hardware raid ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony Ord)
Configuring ESS1370 with Kernel 2.2.3 (Asaf Gery)
Re: FS: DECSystem 5400 (Paul Thompson)
SiS 5597/5598 video ("H. van Walen")
[Q] Recommended supported scsi card (Jason Hong)
Re: 3c509 and ne2000 in linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and a 8088 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!! (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: CDs brennen... (Joern Smock)
Re: A more complete and well-formed question. (Bryan J. Maloney)
Re: A more complete and well-formed question. (Bryan J. Maloney)
Re: [Q] Recommended supported scsi card (Peter Pan)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed ("James Giles")
Re: motherboard with on-board scsi ("Andreas Hofmann")
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (DaZZa)
HOW TO UNINSTALL LILO , and boot with a floppy disk ? ("Fr�d�ric Dumont")
DE-660 & pcnet_reset_8390 error (Bernie Ott)
MATROX mystique G200 problems ("Fr�d�ric Dumont")
Re: Does anyone know a web site which obviously mensions about AGP video card
compatibility for Linux? (MG Measures)
Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!! ("James Kosin")
Re: Linux DSL (Michael Meissner)
Re: problems with sound on Acer Extensa 386T notebook (Axel Morgner)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux pc as hardware raid
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:24:58 +0000
Hello,
I tried the linux software raid merging two hard disks (one ide and one scsi!): it is
very good,
they doubled performance (using bonnie).
I also have an "old" pentium pc.
I would like to use it as an hardware raid solution connected with scsi to my main
computer.
I have seen that there are some people making a tcp over scsi driver. That can be a
solution.
But I would like to simulate a scsi hard disk with the pentium pc.
Does someone is already working on it?
Does someone would like to work on it with me?
Is it a good idea? I think so, but If you don't think so please tell me (no flame,
just technical
considerations)
Thank You in advance for any reply.
Mario Giammarco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:21:42 GMT
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 19:15:45 -0600, Xerophyte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Also consider that Intel announced a product which conceivably could invade
>privacy.
>
>Caere and Mircosoft (Office2000) both want users to register their products
>or else they don't get a key code to make the product work after 20 days.
Crack it. M$ will be laughed out of court if you bought it, then they
try to claim piracy. At least in this country.
>The us government knows more about its citizens than other governments know
>their citizens. (not just name/address/such)
>
>Bank companies need to look only at a credit card tally and see who we're
>buying from.
The local petrol station - ooh! - informative.
>These anti-Intel folk are shortsighted idiots! Intel's "crime" is not
>worthy of this bullshit yet they don't seem to mind all these other direct
>violations of our privacy.
Intel's little stunt appears to be immutable if you buy their product.
People are therefore suggesting you don't. This will have the
side-effect of ensuring no one ever tries to pull anything similar.
That is all.
Regards
Anthony
--
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| And when our worlds |
| They fall apart |
| When the walls come tumbling in |
| Though we may deserve it |
| It will be worth it - Depeche Mode |
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From: Asaf Gery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring ESS1370 with Kernel 2.2.3
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 02:16:44 +0200
Hello you all,
I need help is configuring ESS1370 on my linux. I have RedHat 5.2. FIrst
I have tried to install the sound card using 'sndconfig' tool (while the
kernel was still 2.0.36-0.7), it did recognize the card but when tried
to make the testing sound, its reply was "could not open /dev/dsp".
/dev/dsp has 'r-wr-w--w' persmissions, so it doesn't sound logic... So
I have looked in this new group, and have found out that I should
upgrade my kernell to 2.2 (which I did). Now I have kernel 2.2.3 , with
ess1370 compiled as module, and I have no idea how should I make it
work? Can any one assist me? step by step?
I have passed most of the how-to's, also read the documenatation and
also man pages about modprboe etc. The more I read the more confused
I got...
I will appreciate any help, or refference to page where the instructions
are simple and clear, even to a newbie like me...
TIA,
Asaf.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Thompson)
Crossposted-To:
misc.forsale.computers.workstation,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: FS: DECSystem 5400
Date: 12 Mar 1999 00:33:20 GMT
The 5400 also has only one MIPS CPU, at 20MHz.
The 5500 had multiple CPU's possibly faster.
Paul
In article <7c9eis$k42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Zane H. Healy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.vms Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The following system is located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449 and is up
>> for immediate sale:
>
>> Digital DECSystem 5400
>> 2 MIPS R3000 processors at 30MHz
>>
>> Currently running Ultrix 4.3 for RISC
>> Can run VMS 7.1, if anyone is interested in
>> that sort of thing. =)
>
> Um, no it can not run OpenVMS 7.1, this is a R3000 based system, that means
> it only runs UNIX.
>
> Zane
>
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From: "H. van Walen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SiS 5597/5598 video
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:16:43 +0100
When installing RH5.2 I couldn't find a video driver for SiS 5597/5598 with
4Mb shared memory. So I use the generic VGA instead.
Is there a better solution, so that I can use a resolution of say 1000x800?
Thank you!
Hans van Walen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: [Q] Recommended supported scsi card
Date: 12 Mar 1999 01:08:42 GMT
I am using NCR53C810 on my Asus TX97X motherboard and am using RedHat5.2.
I want to buy Ultra Scsi card which will cost less than Adaptec since
Adaptec looks quite expensive compared to others.
Please advise me for resonable Ultra scsi card.
Has anybody tried Ultra scsi card from Diamond which is called FirePort(?)?
Thank you,
Jason
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3c509 and ne2000 in linux
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:32:37 GMT
In article <7c6ks8$pfm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
eugene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can't get my 2 nics to work at the same in linux :(
> when i use only 1 nic at a time linux sees them but not 2 together.
>
> i included both 3c509 and ne2000 drivers support in kernel (2.0.34)
>
> when i boot linux with with only one card installed linux finds both of
> them with the same parameters: io=0x300 and irq=5 (10 works fine also).
>
> i've added the following append to my lilo:
> append="ether=5,0x300,eth0 ether=11,0x210,eth1"
where eth0 is supposed to be ne200 and eth1 3c509B-TO
> the 11 and 0x210 numbers i got from windows (but they don't seem to work in
> linux)
>
> i've also tried to use another 3c509 instead of ne2000 but with no success.
just to add to my post...
both 3c509 cards are 3c509B. the one i'm trying to get to work with ne2000 is
3c509B-TO. pnp is disabled on both of them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Linux and a 8088
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 04:31:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 20:07:41 -0800, Paul Hovnanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>> Blake Thompson wrote:
>> >
>> > Hey guys, I thought I'd run this one through the group and see if anyone
>> > had any ideas. I've got this old Compaq portable which I believe to be an
>> > 8088 (but it could be a 286). Anyway, my question is what micro
>> > distribution to put on it. I've checked out LOAF, Tom's, muLinux,
>> > DOSLinux, etc, etc. They all seem to require a 386 w/ 4MB RAM.
>> > I've got a 20 MB Hard Drive to work with, so it doesn't _necessarily_ have
>> > to fit on a floppy, but the micro-distributions seem to have the least
>> > stringent system requirements.
>
>Well, if you have too much time on your hands, anything is possible:
>
IIRC, Linux can't be run natively on anything less than an 80386.
If you really want a unix clone on an 8088 or 80286, and you can't hack
Linux down to that level, try Minix. Ask on news:comp.os.minix about
support.
Lew Pitcher
Joat-in-training
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 15:10:06 +0000
James,
Sounds like there is some corrupton on you disk. Just your first
problem is enough to stop as its major. What differences did it
report?
I would fsck your drives and see what happens. Boot into init 1.
Boot linux and at the linux prompt enter linux single or linux 1. Read
the man page about fsck.
If you keep getting crc errors its probably hardware.
d
James Kosin wrote:
>
> OK,
>
> When I "cp" a file then do a "diff" on the same file... They come up
> different!!!!!
>
> If I download a file and try to "un-tar and un-gzip" a file gzip reports a
> crc error in the file. I can reset my system and sometimes it reports no
> problems at all!!! This usually happens with LARGE files like source for
> the kernel!
>
> Even if it reports no problems at all if I do a "tar dzf linux-2.2.2.tar.gz"
> I get statements saying that the Data differs for certain files!!! The
> files are usually different at different times after trying to untar &
> ungzip the files!
>
> At one point... without any parameters in the append statement in lilo.conf
> file I would get errors [especailly with the new kernel] kinda like the NT
> BLUE SCREEN only sometimes I could continue with this one. Ooops...
> Sometimes NOT because it was in the INTERUPT HANDLER. and would give
> another statement saying it could not because it was trying to stop an
> interupt handler...
>
> My only guess for now is the problem is with the HD controller and Linux and
> the HD. These errrors always happen durring disk activity!
>
> Any help will be recieved and tried in a timely fashion.
>
> Thanks,
> James Kosin
>
> David Kirkpatrick wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >James,
> > What problems are you having? Please give as much detail as you can.
> >I've had some problems here but got through them. The worse was drive
> >problems with corruption and lots of problems during install. The
> >install problems were mostly my fault with getting the partitions wrong
> >and the loads would screw up but those got squared away. I kept having
> >problems with the disk - loads went south, corruptions - lets of
> >problmes over a few weeks. I finally tracked it down to the vendor
> >incorrectly giving me bad information about setting the switches on my
> >motherboard. After that things have gone very well. By the way diags
> >ran fine on this system. The problems showed up when the system was
> >taxes like a load. So it would load after failures then I thought I
> >would be off and running but a few days later fail - usually under
> >load. But it got fixed.
> > So whats wrong?
> >d
> >
> >James Kosin wrote:
> >>
> >> Anyone.... Please HELP.
> >>
> >> I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can run
> >> diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works great
> >> on Windows 98.
> >>
> >> The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
> >> I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
> >> 2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
> >>
> >> Anyone have any good suggestions???
> >>
> >> My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> James Kosin
> >
> >--
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From: Joern Smock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDs brennen...
Date: 12 Mar 1999 01:02:37 GMT
Alexander Schliebner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hallo Leute,
hi
> ich habe einen SCSI-CD-Brenner (CD-Recordable/CD-Rewritable) Philips
> CDD3660, versuche Daten- und Audio-CDs zu brennen und habe nur Probleme.
I also have and problems. But not *just* problems.
> Ich bin auf Linux noch ziemlich unerfahren. Mit cdrecord hat er mir
`he`, the penguin, or `he', the computer?
(snip)
> Auch wenn ich eine Gr=F6=DFe f=FCr den fifo angebe, f=E4hrt er ihn
> st=E4n= dig runter bis auf Null. Schlimmer ist aber - glaub ich -
> das Problem beim Schlie=DFen der CD.
what does `Gr=F6=DFe f=FCr den fifo angebe, f=E4hrt er ihn st=E4n='
mean? (I just see "=F6" and such).
> Wer kann mir einen Tip geben? Was kann ich jetzt noch versuchen?
>
> Gru=DF, Alex
(1) read Linux HOWTOs about hardware and your setup
(2) consult the web (DejaNews or so) about Philips CD-R/CD-RW
(3) consult the web: Philips, Audio, CD-R, CD-RW, CD
(4) read the manpage/info-file/doc for `cdrecord
(5) try other programs to access the scsi device
(6) try to do it in another OS
(7) try to explain in english
Joern
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan J. Maloney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: A more complete and well-formed question.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:35:26 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> of course, who cares what i think---probably the best solution would
> to buy a second disk and see if he's willing to dedicate the time to
> get linux to do what he wants.
I want something that will do what I want without having to spend a lot of
time to make it do those things.
--
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] (Bryan J. Maloney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: A more complete and well-formed question.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 20:34:17 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've run Linux for quite sometimes (since 0.99pre actually) and I just
> got myself an iMac running MacOS 8.5.1. I've never got so many crashes
> on Linux compared to MacOS and Lose95/98. May be as suggested by others,
> get Mac and run LinuxPPC on it but on the very first place, why do you
> buy a Mac when you can get equivalent PC based Linux system for less.
But will the Mac with Linux do all that I want to do in Linux only, or
will I have to still use the Mac OS to do those other things?
--
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: Peter Pan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Q] Recommended supported scsi card
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 19:36:32 -0600
Jason Hong wrote:
> I am using NCR53C810 on my Asus TX97X motherboard and am using RedHat5.2.
>
> I want to buy Ultra Scsi card which will cost less than Adaptec since
> Adaptec looks quite expensive compared to others.
>
> Please advise me for resonable Ultra scsi card.
> Has anybody tried Ultra scsi card from Diamond which is called FirePort(?)?
>
> Thank you,
> Jason
Make sure you go to www.redhat.com and check out the list of compaitible
hardware
before you buy any. Not all SCSI card are compatible.
pp
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From: "James Giles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 12 Mar 1999 01:41:56 GMT
Jeffrey J. Potoff wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
... [turnaround not throughput is important]
>I don't agree at all. Let's take the simple case where you have 2 jobs
>that need to run. You can buy 1 533MhZ 21164 Alpha and run both jobs
>on the same processor or buy 1 450MhZ dual PII and run each job on
>a separate processor. The boxes are also roughly the same price these
>days. The Alpha is 1.5x as fast (at least for our code)
>as the 450 MhZ PII per CPU. So, my two jobs will finish *faster* on the
>PII (since the Alpha loaded with 2 jobs will run each job half as fast).
I'm not going to address the different CPUs. I'm not buying any soon, so
I can't reasonably compare their specs. However, I will still maintain that
tunraround is a more important measure than throughput. Consider the
simple (and very common) case where I have several jobs that need
to run, but I can't start the second until I know the results of the first,
I can't run the third before the second is done, etc.. The guy in the next
cubical down the hall is in the same predicament, so is the next and the
next....
>In a more extreme case (say our research group) we have *THOUSANDS* of
>simulations to run. Anything we can do to increase the rate at which
>jobs finish is important. Sometimes that means faster CPUs (Alpha)
>and sometimes that means more of them (Intel). More CPUs means that my
>code doesn't sit in a queue waiting to execute or has to split time on
>a CPU with another job.
The fact that you have thousands of simulations to run doesn't necessarily
mean that throughput should be increased at the expense of turnaround. Your
thousands of cases might all be stacked as part of dependent sequences of
simulations on the part of your users or teams of users. All these people
are twiddling their thumbs while the code runs. All they each care about
is turnaround. That's the measure of performance that should be optimized.
To the extent that throughput is correlated to tunraround, it is a useful
measure. To the extent that it sometimes *isn't* correlated, turnaround
is usually the important one.
--
J. Giles
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From: "Andreas Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: motherboard with on-board scsi
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:57:43 +0100
Chaintech 6BTS
onboard AIC-7880
4 DIMM Slots
cheaper than ASUS, Linux runs fine
Andreas
J�rgen Persson schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Any recommendations for a good motherboard with on-board scsi.
>
>Chipset: Intel BX
>Kernel: 2.2.3
>Dist.: Redhat 5.2
>
>I was thinking of AOpen AX6B+ but heard there was some problems.
>
>--
>J�rgen Persson
>Sysadmin, TLTH
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From: DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:08:55 +1100
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Anthony Ord wrote:
> Intel's little stunt appears to be immutable if you buy their product.
Microsoft have apparently duplicated Intel's little stunt with WindoZe 98
and Office97.
Apparently, if you use these two products in conjunction with each other,
every single Word document and Excel spreadsheet you create will have a 32
bit number encoded into the document which contains
Your WindoZe registration code
Your Word registration code
Various sundry bits of hardware information including your NIC MAC address
Microsoft's response was "Oops, we put it in for testing purposes, and
forgot to take it out. Silly us'.
> People are therefore suggesting you don't. This will have the
> side-effect of ensuring no one ever tries to pull anything similar.
> That is all.
Obviously, the hue and cry against Intel didn't convince Microsoft not to
try and pull something similar.
DaZZa
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From: "Fr�d�ric Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HOW TO UNINSTALL LILO , and boot with a floppy disk ?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:12:44 +0100
Does someone as the solution of my title ??
( in french in the text )
Thank you
Merci beaucoup.
fred
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From: Bernie Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: DE-660 & pcnet_reset_8390 error
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:35:23 GMT
A previous post on this subject got little response. Here's another
post.
I've got a laptop with a D-LINK DE-660 pcmcia network card.
I've got RedHat 5.2 installed.
I had this card working for a few hours one night about 2 weeks ago, but
have not had any luck since. It works fine under Windows 98.
I'm getting the following error:
pcnet_reset_8390(): did not complete
I'm getting to high-toned beeps, indicating a successful install.
Anytime I reinstall Linux, I have to go in to /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
and
add my hardware address to one of the lines, otherwise I get an error
message
about not being able to determine my Hardware Address.
I've tried using the Card Services 3.05, 3.08, and 3.09.
The 3.09 version is where I had luck a few weeks ago.
Please help. I've seen references to people using this successfully,
but can't find docs or even a site that explains what this error message
means.
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From: "Fr�d�ric Dumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MATROX mystique G200 problems
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 13:10:48 +0100
excuse me first for my bad english. ( i'm french)
How can i use my MATROX mystique G200 with Linux red hat 5.2 ?
When i call "startx &", i got a message that explain that the card i use is
unknown .
In the installation, that i try many times, i finally select the SVGA
parameters, but it fails.
And now, i will see if LINUX is a real "FRIENDS-OS"
THANK YOU
MERCI BEAUCOUP
VIVE LINUX
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From: MG Measures <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anyone know a web site which obviously mensions about AGP video card
compatibility for Linux?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 01:21:58 GMT
I had a real problem getting my i740 8mb AGP card to go :-(
However, after quite a bit of digging I found an Xserver that supported
the i740 chipset. Its a binary only release called
XBF-i740-glibc-1.0.0-1.i386 available as both an rpm and tgz.
You can download it from a few places one ftp site is
http://ftp.eecs.umich.edu/pub/linux/redhat/redhat/XBF/
you should also get the xf86config distribution in the same directory as
this is an updated xf86config that lets you select your card without
neededing to edit the XF86Config file directly.
Hope that helps ...
On Sun, 7 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone know a web site which obviously mensions about
> AGP video card compatibility for Linux?
>
> I am going to buy a cheao PC.
> That PC uses intel i740 8mb AGP video card.
> I checked redhat.com and linux howto.com,but I found
> no mentionings about AGP cards.
> Some people on #Linux on some IRC server kindly told me that
> some AGP are supported,and some are not.
> and they told me that they turned off the AGP feture in
> order to use AGP card on Linux kernel.
>
> I need more information in order to decide I can buy that
> intel i740 8mb AGP card for Linuxor not.
>
>
> thanks
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 21:48:16 GMT
Dear David Kirkpatrick,
The crc errors are not with the disk. fsck works fine and will report
no problems usually. When I get one of the bad errors!!! It usually
finds stuff associated with the logfiles and files I happen to be
un-tarring at the time as being corrupt. It hasn't seemed to affect
other areas of the disk. When I'm doing a build of the kernel it will
come up with SILLY errors that don't exist in the source code.
unless I happen to catch it while the file is still in memory
cached ] Other times it will crash with little errors that point to a
temporary file type error with the assembler not understanding the
register %ax and other stuff. I've even seen the cpp broken pipe
error.
I will get my system back to the point where I got the BAD errors and
see if I can track down where in the code it comes into problems. I'm
beginning to understand the methodology to reading the error reports.
Thanks,
James Kosin
David Kirkpatrick wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|James,
| Sounds like there is some corrupton on you disk. Just your first
|problem is enough to stop as its major. What differences did it
|report?
| I would fsck your drives and see what happens. Boot into init 1.
|Boot linux and at the linux prompt enter linux single or linux 1.
Read
|the man page about fsck.
|If you keep getting crc errors its probably hardware.
|d
|James Kosin wrote:
|>
|> OK,
|>
|> When I "cp" a file then do a "diff" on the same file... They come
up
|> different!!!!!
|>
|> If I download a file and try to "un-tar and un-gzip" a file gzip
reports a
|> crc error in the file. I can reset my system and sometimes it
reports no
|> problems at all!!! This usually happens with LARGE files like
source for
|> the kernel!
|>
|> Even if it reports no problems at all if I do a "tar dzf
linux-2.2.2.tar.gz"
|> I get statements saying that the Data differs for certain files!!!
The
|> files are usually different at different times after trying to
untar &
|> ungzip the files!
|>
|> At one point... without any parameters in the append statement in
lilo.conf
|> file I would get errors [especailly with the new kernel] kinda
like the NT
|> BLUE SCREEN only sometimes I could continue with this one.
Ooops...
|> Sometimes NOT because it was in the INTERUPT HANDLER. and would
give
|> another statement saying it could not because it was trying to stop
an
|> interupt handler...
|>
|> My only guess for now is the problem is with the HD controller and
Linux and
|> the HD. These errrors always happen durring disk activity!
|>
|> Any help will be recieved and tried in a timely fashion.
|>
|> Thanks,
|> James Kosin
|>
|> David Kirkpatrick wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|> >James,
|> > What problems are you having? Please give as much detail as you
can.
|> >I've had some problems here but got through them. The worse was
drive
|> >problems with corruption and lots of problems during install. The
|> >install problems were mostly my fault with getting the partitions
wrong
|> >and the loads would screw up but those got squared away. I kept
having
|> >problems with the disk - loads went south, corruptions - lets of
|> >problmes over a few weeks. I finally tracked it down to the
vendor
|> >incorrectly giving me bad information about setting the switches
on my
|> >motherboard. After that things have gone very well. By the way
diags
|> >ran fine on this system. The problems showed up when the system
was
|> >taxes like a load. So it would load after failures then I thought
I
|> >would be off and running but a few days later fail - usually under
|> >load. But it got fixed.
|> > So whats wrong?
|> >d
|> >
|> >James Kosin wrote:
|> >>
|> >> Anyone.... Please HELP.
|> >>
|> >> I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can
run
|> >> diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works
great
|> >> on Windows 98.
|> >>
|> >> The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
|> >> I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
|> >> 2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
|> >>
|> >> Anyone have any good suggestions???
|> >>
|> >> My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
|> >>
|> >> Thanks,
|> >> James Kosin
|> >
|> >--
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Subject: Re: Linux DSL
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Mar 1999 21:31:01 -0500
Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BL wrote:
> > but after all those charades, we finally got it going. 1.5meg-6meg in and
> > 384k out. nice... ;-) and $200/mo is reasonable enough for this kind of b/w.
>
> Two hundred dollars a month?!? Holy s*&t! That's expensive!
>
> We can get it for CDN$65/month including modem rental! ($100 - $200
> installation fee, though)
I dunno, I was just quoted $441/month for dual channel centrix ISDN (128k), and
a $3k installation charge (my town isn't yet listed on the DSL future
availability list, and there is no cable where I live). Be thankful it is
cheap where you live.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PO Box 98, Ayer Massachusetts, USA 01432-0098
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From: Axel Morgner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.dev.laptop,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: Re: problems with sound on Acer Extensa 386T notebook
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 03:20:51 +0100
Hi,
> I have a big problem with my Acer Extensa 368T notebook. It apparently
> comes with an Yamaha OPL3-SAx onboard sound chip, and I generally CAN
> play sound (.au, mp3 etc.).
Acer told me that it's a YMF715 chip onboard.
>
> I tried
>
> - several kernel versions (2.0.3x -> 2.2.2)
Not exactly correct, it works with kernel versions up to 2.0.35. IMHO it
is a kernel problem, probably something in the OSS structure. I didn't
try ALSA sound driver yet, maybe it works, too.
For me I solved the problem by falling back to a kernel prior to 2.0.36
(e.g. 2.0.32 did fine). Anybody an idea about getting rid of it using
latest kernel?
-Axel.
--
This is Linux country ...
... on a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot.
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