Linux-Hardware Digest #198, Volume #10 Mon, 10 May 99 03:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: MPU-401 Roland Sound Card Problem (David Ripton)
Re: Alps Printer Drivers (killbill)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Jim Richardson)
SCSI Hardware Problem? ("Albert Wiersch")
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (wbg)
serial hardware handshaking
Re: SB 128 PCI (Joshua Martin)
Re: in search of low profile computer cases (Jim Harvey)
Getting Lilo to modify active partition (Matthew Pound)
Emachines 333id (Yiupun Michael Kwong)
Re: ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP video for linux? ("Graham Parkinson")
Re: Linux install on >8.4gb hard disk? Possible? (Daniel Schnell)
Re: Tough Question About Linux(Thank you from Bill) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
could anyone help me with d-link de660 ethernet card? ("tony")
Re: PS/2 Mouse help! (Len Huppe)
asus and scsi (Kari Laine)
Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough? ("William
Taylor")
Re: voodoo 3 under linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: MPU-401 Roland Sound Card Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 15:29:22 GMT
In article <7g9ruu$99m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jean-Yves Levesque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a real MPU-401 sound card (Roland SCC-15). I load the mpu401
>driver as a module. However, all software complain there is no synth.
>
>From car /dev/sndstat, there is no synth device shown. Is there another
>driver I need to load in order to kmake that work? By the way, I have
>tried the other mpu401 driver and it does not even compile on RH 5.2
I have an SCC-1. The mpu401 driver works. I have it compiled
statically into the kernel (with IRQ 9 and IO 330h, the defaults)
rather than as a module.
I also have a SB16. 2 out of 3 MIDI players use the SB16 for
MIDI (ick!) even when I try to tell them to use the SCC-1.
kmid does it right, and even lets me switch between /dev/midixx
devices on the fly. Try kmid if you haven't already.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alps Printer Drivers
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 02:46:53 GMT
The only Alps printer I ever messed with was an old 24 pin unit. It was a
decent printer.
As I recall, it could be configured via dip switches for hardware emulation
of a an epson LQ800, which I think has ghostscript support. Worth a try, dig
up a manual and check hardware emulation modes.
(sorry if this post looks funny, I am posting from my palm pilot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: 10 May 1999 03:39:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 09 May 1999 15:47:27 GMT,
Murphy, in the persona of <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
brought forth the following words...:
>On 6 May 1999 13:39:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
>wrote this little gem:
>
>>>When he says MAC addresses, he doesn't mean MACintosh, he means MAC
>>>address, as in ethernet address, the address that IP addresses are
>>>finally translated to. And he is right, since MAC addresses are more or
>>>less unique. A site could theoretically track these just as they could
>>>do with the hostid on a Solaris machine, or the Processor# in a PIII.
>>
>>Oops.
>>Anyways, IP addresses are dynamically assigned when you dial up from home,
>>so who cares (although a netmask 255.0.0.0 would be good).
>
>MAC addresses are the actual identifier of the Ethernet card, not the
>IP address of your machine. In fact these numbers are so unique that
>there is software out there that uses them as a means of registration.
>
>>That is, this would be jungles of methods and and contra-methods which enable
>>or disable PSN, where only brave [hackers] are able to overcome PSN in their
>>computers. Do we want to face all that in a year or two, or do we just keep the
>>voice up trying to avoid PSNs completely?
>
>Cry me a f'n river. If you don't like this PSN, then don't buy Intel.
>Personally, I could give a rat's ass about whether or not software
>distributes the serial number of my CPU. At worst, it'll have no
>effect on me, at best, if my machine ever gets stolen, I may be able
>to recover it.
>
Except of course, if you upgrade your machine, you lose the s/w and have
to reregister, and "prove" you bought the s/w in the first place. (again)
Or if you buy a new machine, or if you have to repair your machine in
a few ways.
A really poor licensing scheme, one that won't make it in the general mkt.
Kinda like being told that the audio cd you just bought, can't be played in
either your car, or home, but only one of them.
--
Jim Richardson
www.eskimo.com/~warlock
All hail Eris
"Linux, where do you want to go tomorrow?"
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From: "Albert Wiersch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI Hardware Problem?
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:11:54 -0500
Help! My SCSI drive started giving me an error.
Current error sd08:02: sense key Medium Error
It is a Micropolis Tomahawk 3391NS.
Is my drive fried or can I repair it? Please send a reply to me by email to
make sure I get it.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wbg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: 10 May 1999 03:49:27 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Can be had at ftp://ftp.cc.gatech.edu
: David
: Cokey de Percin wrote:
: > Dave Smith wrote:
: > >
: > > James Stafford wrote:
: > > >
: > > > Bill Unruh wrote:
: > > >
: > > > > >Where is everyone getting RH6.0? I thought it wasn't available
: > > > > >until the
: > > > > >10th May....
: > > > >
: > > > > Nope been out at least a week by now.
: > > > > www.redhat.com and all its mirrors. The pressing shops probably will
: > > > > not be shipping for another week however.
: > > >
: > > > I was just at Fry's today and they had it there for$79.00 !!!
: > > > That's more than I paid for Winblows, more worth it... but still!!!
: > > >
: > > > jamess
: > >
: > > cheapbytes.com $7.14 (US) delivered in two days
: >
: > Best Buy for 64.95
Brewster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) adds:
CompUSA shrinkwrapped at the front counter for $79.99 . . . .
Brewster
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial hardware handshaking
Date: 10 May 1999 03:32:37 GMT
How can I control the DTR and RTS lines from linux.
I am able to recieve bytes in raw mode but have not
found a way to control my hardware handshaking lines.
I have a device that requires me to strobe the DTR line
each time I need to get data from it.
Thank You
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From: Joshua Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB 128 PCI
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:27:59 -0700
Nothin special...
Just compiled 2.2.7 with sound support and support for the ess 1370 then
put
this line in my /etc/conf.modules
alias sound es1370
thats it.
--Joshua Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Giulio Altini wrote:
>
> Joshua Martin wrote:
> > Claude,
> >
> > I have a SoundBlaste pci 128 and have had it running with no problems
> > using the oss stuff built into the kernel.
> >
> > I prefer the alsa driver because it uses more of the cards features and
> > has a better audio quality. You might look into it to see if this takes
> > care of the problem.
> >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org
> >
> > -Joshua Martin
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >
> > Claude Chaudet wrote:
> > >
> > > I can't configure my SB 128 PCI.
> > >
> > > I compiled sound and es1370 as modules. these modules load at startup,
> no
> > > problem. I have some sound (mp3, vaw etc.) but :
> > > - When I launch mpg123, it is impossible to do anything else
> under
> > > X (console works but X hangs...)
> > > - I can't setup volume. Mixers (gnome, xmixer etc.) don't work.
> > >
> > > And, I don't know if this is related, but the gnome CD player doesn't
> see
> > > my CDs while xcdplay does (but plays nothing).
> > >
> > > Does anybody know any trick for configuring my soud card properly ?
> > > I saw there were drivers for it (but not free). Do they work well ?
> > >
> > > Claude.
> Would you be so kind to tell me how you configured your oss stuff and
> under what kernel of linux?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Giulio Altini
>
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From: Jim Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in search of low profile computer cases
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 01:55:00 +0000
Michael Hirsch wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of a low profile computer case? I'm trying to make
> myself a box that isn't quite so chunky. Ideally, I would be able to
> find a case that would look at home in a stereo cabinet.
>
> I imagine I would probably need a custom motherboard, too, so the
> expansion cards wouldn't stick up too high.
>
> Anyone know of something like this?
Linux System labs has NLX hardware in custom Linux assemblys. I saw one
at a user group
meeting in Detroit, they are a little bit bigger than a lunchbox.
Picture at
http://www.lsl.com/catalog/hardware/index.htm
--
Jim Harvey, Naperville, Ill. Amiga person - Linux person - WB8NBS/9
This message came from Netscape running on a LINUX machine!
He who dies with the most software wins.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Pound)
Subject: Getting Lilo to modify active partition
Date: 10 May 1999 04:24:59 GMT
I am trying to get lilo to boot linux, win95, and dos 6.20. This
is my lilo.conf file i am using.
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hdb2
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
other=/dev/hda2
label=win
I want to find a way to set the active partition flag (one byte
changed from 00 to 80) set through lilo at boot time. Both /dev/hda1 and
hda2 are both primary dos partitions, so if i manually set the active
flag, they work properly. Is there some sort of file i can make that will
do this? Example, using loader=dos.b ? If so, how would one make this
dos.b file?
Any suggestions would be good.
Thanx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yiupun Michael Kwong)
Subject: Emachines 333id
Date: 5 May 1999 09:37:47 -0700
I'm considering buying the etower 333id. Does anyone know if Linux is
compatible with the ATI Rage Pro Video chipset and the DVD ROM used in
those machines?
Thanks for your help.
Mike K.
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From: "Graham Parkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP video for linux?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:03:01 GMT
I have one of these cards, as far as I know there is no real driver
available yet
pity -
I emailed ATI and they sent the following blurb but there appear to be no
drivers:
A large number of ATI graphics products are installed and are well regarded
in the UNIX community although ATI does not offer drivers or technical
support for any form of UNIX. ATI has achieved this by working closely with
O/S and X-Windows vendors. Over the years, ATI has provided thousands of
dollars worth of products, technical documentation and in-depth technical
assistance in order to assist with the development of drivers for our
products.
These drivers are developed, tested, distributed and supported by these
vendors and therefore, ATI cannot directly influence if or when drivers for
our latest hardware are made available nor can ATI make any representations
about the compatibility of our products in an UNIX environment.
NOTE: ATI 3D Rage based products are fairly recent additions to our product
line, which means driver support for these cards may not yet be available.
We hope the following list of UNIX related web sites will help you with the
configuration of your ATI product.
If you do not see your specific ATI card listed on the appropriate UNIX web
site, please check with your respective operating system authors for
availability of the drivers.
Apple Computers (NeXT)
http://enterprise.apple.com/NeXTanswers/
MetroLink, Inc
http://www.metrolink.com/products/metrox/cardlist.html
QNX Software Systems Ltd.
http://www.qnx.com/product/photon/photon.html#supported_hardware
SCO
http://wdb1.sco.com/chwp/owa/hch_search_form
SunSoft, Inc
http://access1.sun.com
XFree86
http://www.xfree86.org
Xi Graphics Incorporated
http://www.xig.com/board/ati.html
> ----------
> From: Graham Parkinson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Sunday, April 25, 1999 8:08 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: ATI Rage 128 Linux Drivers
>
> Hello
>
> I am setting up a Linux work station with an ATI 128 Rage video card
> but I notice that this card is not supported for Linux.
>
> Since my application is scientific computing with most 3-d software
> (for
> data visualisation)
> running under unix Linux support is vital to using the ATI card which
> appears to be the best
> available for a X86 computer.
>
> Although I have a Rage Fury on my home computer already I would be
> interested in buying
> one for my work computer as well if Linux support were to be forthcoming.
> (Currently using and Old Diamond Video Card)
>
> Can you send me any information on the possibility of Linux support
> becoming available or any
> commercial X drivers for the Rage Fury. I notice that Matrox has assisted
> XFREE86 in developing
> a driver for their recent M200 video board which I also used before
> replacing it with the ATI Fury.
Martha H Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I notice prices dropping on the ATI Rage Fury 32 MB AGP video card, and
> for versatility, I'd like to use it in a machine that principally runs
> linux. Can current linuxes, esp Slackware, use this card?
>
> Thanks -- Martha Adams
>
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From: Daniel Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux install on >8.4gb hard disk? Possible?
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 13:56:26 +0200
Jon Haugsand wrote:
> * Daniel Schnell
> > you have to be aware of that LILO needs its files under the first 512 MB of the
> > harddisk. So there your root filesystem has to be. Do not forget to toggle the
> > bootable flag of /dev/hda1.
>
> Are you sure about this? Can't you mark your disk as a LBA in the bios
> setup? (Don't most bioses have this as the default?)
>
Okay to be exact: all parts of lilo have to be within the first 1024 cylinders. It
depends on how many (sectors * heads) units your drive has (SuSE Linux 6.0
handbook). For my drive I compute: 255 heads, 63 sectors = 16065 units = 8032kBytes.
8032kBytes * 1024 = 8 GBytes for my boundary. But I dont know what kind of ide-drive
you have, and so 512Megs are a safe bet :). And I have made a rule for myself always
to give my root fs the first primary partition.
Daniel.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Tough Question About Linux(Thank you from Bill)
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:10:57 GMT
To all those sincerely interested in advancing Linux and answering my msg
below, I sincerely thank you. It was a good reflection on the Linux
community as a whole.
Bill Case
In article <7h3c9d$rd1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> From: Bill Case
> President
> BCConsulting
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 618.654.3650
> "All's Well That Ends Well"
>
> I have a consulting company here in Highland, IL. We are following Linux
> very closely. We have a question regarding the newly released OpenLinux
> 2.2 which just recently hit the retail channel. StarOffice 5.0 is included
> with the package. Is this the "full" StarOffice 5.0 or just a limited
> "personal edition"?
>
> We are looking for the best way to introduce this (Linux) into our
> organization and our clients. We are very impressed with the reviews but
> are concerned about a few things. Caldera uses KDE as the Gui and Redhat
> uses GNOME. Without actually using them, it's impossible to tell which is
> best and more importantly if one will become a standard. We have relied
> on the reviews and they seem to be mixed as to which Gui is best and will
> subsequently become the standard. Can you share your input on this?
>
> We also have questions about Linux in general. The issues are hardware
> compatibility. If your answers are what we expect, we will purchase
> OpenLinux 2.2 and install it on a test system that has Win95B and use the
> dual boot capability. The test system has a HP820 CES deskjet printer and
> a Umax Astra 610p (parallel port connection). The system itself (CTX
> 233mhz Pentium II) has a Soundblaster compatible sound card, Cirrus Logic
> 546X AGP Video Card-4 meg video, 96 meg memory, Tatung 24x CD-Rom
> and a 4.3gig Quantum Eide Hard drive. It also has a 56k V.90 modem
> with the Lucent chipset (believe-not sure-this could be known as a
> Winmodem).
>
> Can we expect OpenLinux 2.2 to recognize all these peripherals so that they
> will be functional? Do not believe that there is anything extraordinary in
> this configuration, but feel it would be the best test system for us.
>
> Thank You and the concept you put together with this package looks great.
> We look forward to hearing from you very soon as we would like to steer
> our client base (and ourselves) away from Windows 9x and NT.
>
> Best Regards
> Bill Case
>
> This msg was sent to Caldera days ago and we have not received any response.
> Any help would be appreciated. If you don't mind, please include an email to
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
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From: "tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: could anyone help me with d-link de660 ethernet card?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 12:50:34 +0800
could anyone help me with d-link de660 ethernet card?
I install redhat 5.2 in my computer,what should i do
to let my network card work?
[situation]
when I press "lsmod"
Module Pages used by
pcnet_cs 2 0
ds 2 [pcnet_cs] 2
i82365 5 2
pcmcia_core 9 [pcnet_cs ds i82365] 0
does it mean that the module work properly?
then I press "cardctl config"
socket 0:
not configured
socket 1:
Interface type is memory and I/O
IRQ 3 is exclusive, level mode, enabled
Fuction 0:
config register base =0x0400
option = 0x60, status=0000, copy=0000
I/O window1 :0x0320 to 0x032f, 8 bit
I/O window2 :0x0330 to 0x033f, 16 bit
does it mean any message I should know?
but there is something i don't understand
that when i press "dmesg"
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.5
kernel build:2.0.36 unknown
.......
Intel PCIC probe:
Cirrus PD6729 PCI at port 0x3e0 ofs 0x00, 2 sockets
.......
ISA irqs (default) =3,4,5,7,9,10,11,12 status change on irq 11
...
...
...
eth0:NE2000 Compatible:port 0x320,irq 3,hw_addr 00:80:C8:86:74:8D
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
does id mean it found an ethernet card?
but when I press"ifconfig"
it doesn't have eth0 this item,only have lo this item?
So what should exactly do to let my network wrok?
In dos prompt,I use utility to test my card
It shows IRQ=11 IO=0x300 Hardware address as the same above
PS:Could anyone tall me what exctly should I do
,cause I have read Pcmcia HOWTO for many times.
But I still can't get it work?
E-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Len Huppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PS/2 Mouse help!
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 21:12:37 -0500
Try changing the device name for your mouse to /dev/psaux. Both GPM and
xf86config will recognize that as the proper device name for a PS/2 mouse
port.
> I'm running Slackware Linux and I can't get it to work with my PS/2
> mouse. It will work with a serial mouse, but unfortunately the serial
> mouse is on loan and has to go back. If anybody can help me, let me know
> cuz I really need to get that mouse working!
> Thanx.
> -Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Laine)
Subject: asus and scsi
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:25:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have following questions concerning asus and scsi.
I recently bought a computer which has ASUS P2B-DS motherboard and I
have problems with it. First question is about the different
SCSI-ports onboard. I have little difficulties to understand these new
SCSI stuff.
It has Adaptec 7890 scsi adapter. There is three SCSI-ports onboard:
1. 68-Pin Wide SCSI Connector
2. 50-Pin SCSI Connector
3. 68-Pin Ultra2 SCSI Connector
How are these related to each other:
1. Are they three different buses each terminated at the controller
end?
2. I have used two of them and devices seems to use numbers on one bus
so it seems it is just three connectors connected to same bus - is
this correct? If so how there can be three connectors to same bus and
how should termination be made?
3. There is also Adaptec AIC-3860 Chip on board. What is the function
of this and it's use can be selected? It seems to control LVD-mode
versus SE-Mode settings - what are these?
4. Under linux it reports the channel speed is 40M/sec. I thought that
with Ultra2 you should get 80M/sec speeds. I have following disks
Seagate ST118273LW and IBM DNES-318350W. From the documentation of
both they should be able to use 80M/sec speeds. Does the use of 50-Pin
SCSI connector for CD-Rom slow the whole bus down? How do I meter the
channel speed under Windows NT?
5. What are the cable length limitations for Ultra2 bus?
I am gratefully thankfull for any information you can provide me.
Best Regards
Kari Laine
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From: "William Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough?
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 06:27:22 GMT
I agree. I think SCSI is faster for most NT and Linux uses, and it is
definitely more responsive, but UDMA IDE is very, very close in terms of
performance for a single user workstation.
The kicker for me was that a WD Expert 18GB Ultra66 7200rpm IDE disk is $340
compared to $6-800 for a U2W SCSI version of the same disk (Western
Digital).
I got the IDE version and it is much faster than my older IBM 9LP UW SCSI
disk. hdparm rates it at 18MB/s from the disk and 208MB/s from the drive's
cache.
Oddly, RedHat 6 doesn't ship with DMA enabled on the default single cpu or
SMP kernels. I had to rebuild to get DMA working.
David Morgan wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On 20 Apr 1999 03:33:52 GMT, Highbit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>i guess it depends alot on what the system is intended for. if its
>>just crunching numbers, screw scsi, but if your talking NFS server,
>>or high traffic web -- get the scsi, it doesnt even have to be
>>anything steller, my 1991 micropolis grim reaper specials even perform
>>much better than an ide can.
>>
>
>Hi-
>By no means am I an expert on this. Tons of folks talk that SCSI is
>way to go for performance, and I've agreed, but when I start
>compairing performace at storagereview.com of say ibm or maxtor 7200
>RPM drives against some good 7200 SCSI drives, AND I take into account
>UDMA and I read the UDMA comments in
>http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-7.html , in some
>cases, a good UDMA drive works well, in combination with enough RAM
>(and a fairly new motherboard that supports UDMA, BX chipset for
>example).
>
> Now, NFS with large writes and reads would break that model, and RAID
>would provide much better reliability as well. (not to mention the
>many other features of scsi). But for the mony limited folks....
>
>Are the numbers at storage review all wet? I know they don't compair
>linux, but my guess is that threadmarks are not that far off.
>
>(for example, at storagereview.com, database, compaire an ibm Deskstar
>14GXP and Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 2500 against a seagate barracuda and
>cheta scsi drives.)
>
>Interesting stuff to me!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: voodoo 3 under linux
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 23:17:51 -0700
On Sun, 9 May 1999 19:29:55 -0400, Bradley M Keryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 9 May 1999, Eric Lee Green wrote:
>
>> On 08 May 1999 20:12:32 +0100, Bruce Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>> >"Aziem Chawdhary" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> >> Does Voodoo 3 run under Linux...
>> >
>> >Yes. 2D only at present.
>>
>> Err, the Mesa OpenGL libraries have support for 3d under the Voodoo 3
>> under Linux.. About the only good thing about the Voodoo 3, in fact --
>> otherwise, the latest nVidia and ATI 3d cards make the Voodoo 3 look
>> pathetic.
>>
>
>Would you please bless us with a link to a version of Glide that supports
>the Voodoo 3? Neither www.3dfx.com nor glide.xxedgexx.com seem to have one
>at this time, so without further proof I'm inclined not to believe you
>(although I think V3 support will be there soon).
If you're willing to use less of your card than what is there
than an earlier version of glide should fit the bill. If you're
interested in a 3.x version of glide then perhaps you should
bribe Daryll with pizza vouchers or somesuch.
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