Linux-Hardware Digest #222, Volume #10 Wed, 12 May 99 23:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2? (Andrew Comech)
Presario 1260 & RedHat v5.2? ("Steve Snyder")
Floppy Tape (Dustin Oprea)
Re: Which SCSI Controller??? (Mogley)
Re: SUN Keyboard -> PC (erich not devnull)
SOLVED -- Re: HP Deskjet 600C and Caldera 1.3 Linux. (theAman)
Re: Nvidia Riva TNT AGP card ? (Jerry Normandin)
Need help! Hauppauge WinTV (Model 400 NTSC) Eprom overwritten (Sevket Gumustekin)
Re: Microsoft IntelliMouse (jason)
Re: tty00 or ttyS0? Confused... (Andrew Comech)
Re: Which SCSI Controller??? (bryan)
Re: CD-RW's for Linux (Jerry Normandin)
Drivers for specialised hardware (Rajarshi Bandyopadhyay)
Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee AGP Problems! ("Brian")
Re: Change target no. on boot disk. (Robert Nichols)
Voice/answer Under Linux? ("Matt Vrablik")
Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin his linux
box ? (Andrew Comech)
Plug and Play ("Robert Schapiro")
Re: Change target no. on boot disk. (Eric and Catherine Thompson)
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (bryan)
Re: SCSI Problem (bryan)
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (bryan)
Re: Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee AGP Problems! (Ward)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: What is the best modem to use with RedHat 5.2?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 19:47:01 -0500
On Wed, 12 May 1999 22:58:12 GMT, killbill wrote:
>In article <7hcduc$f65$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > On Wed, 12 May 1999 12:48:14 GMT, killbill wrote:
>> > >In article <7hae78$hrl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > >The Creative Labs Modem Blaster (despite it's silly name) offers a
>> V.90
>> > >PCI modem with jumpers to override the PNP voodoo, great
>> documentation,
>> > >is readily available, and probably retails at around $70.
>>
>> > Are you _sure_ this is a PCI modem? I am pretty sure you are talking
>> > about ISA modem...
>> > ...
>> > All available PCI modems do not work with Linux; I hope everything
>> > what's known about PCI modems vs. Linux is at
>
>You are correct, it is indeed ISA. I humbly apologize to the community
>at large, and hope I caused no confusion...
>I would still highly recommend this modem, however. Certianly not the
>best, but one of the top options for Linux when all things are
>considered.
>
>Thanks for the correction, and thanks for the great resource.
Hi again, thanks for clarifying everything..
Actually, I think you are confusing me with Rob; he keeps "nonmodems
are not modems" database: http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
I am only supporting a list of a few dealers who sell the least
controversial models (i.e. when it seems that the chance of making a
mistake and getting a nonmodem are very slim) for the most appealing
price..
Anyways,
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Presario 1260 & RedHat v5.2?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 18:48:15 -0400 (EST)
Reply-To: "Steve Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm about to install RedHat v5.2 (then update the kernel to 2.2.x) on my
Compaq Presario 1260 laptop. Are there any gotchas I should be aware of?
In particular, this system has a Neomagic 128XD video controller. Under
Win9x, the controller can drive the LCD screen at 800x600x16bpp. Any
problems with XFree86 v3.3.3?
Thank you.
***** Steve Snyder *****
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From: Dustin Oprea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy Tape
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:00:39 GMT
OK, I've installed ftape and its tools. What now?
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From: Mogley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which SCSI Controller???
Date: 13 May 1999 00:32:39 GMT
I've heard from dealers and read in 3 or 4 articles IBM scsi disks are the
way to go. Basically, dealers NEVER have IBM scsi disks returned; an
exageration of course, just trying to make a point. I've also seen a few
reviews on hardware web pages that IBM's high RPM drives( 7200rpm and
10,000 rpm), run cooler than seagates.
I'm about to get a tekram390 scsi card for and old seagate st15150n, i
think thats the part number, its a barracuda iv. It utilizes the
amd53c974a chip.
Has anybody had any experience with this scsi adapter, or know anything
about the chip.
thx,
mogley
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From: erich not devnull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SUN Keyboard -> PC
Date: 13 May 1999 00:41:00 GMT
Daniel Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> verily spake, saying:
+ does someone know how to connect a SUN Keyboard to a LINUX-ix86 System?
The only solution I've seen is to use a very expensive multimachine
switch thingie that can take SUN keyboard input.
But if you find something reasonably priced ($100USD or less) let me know.
--
Erich | Screamin' Meany Habanero Lollipop: This lollipop is
at wreck.org | rediculously hot and not recommended for children ...
| or cry-babies.
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From: theAman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup;
Subject: SOLVED -- Re: HP Deskjet 600C and Caldera 1.3 Linux.
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:48:07 GMT
Fixed. Thanks for everybody's help.
The problem was that LISA had disabled lp on boot -- it was set to
install it on /dev/lp0, but the hardware was wanting to put it at
/dev/lp1. Synchronizing the two resolved it. (I used the hp550 driver
-- NOT the 1-bit version).
Next stop: I'm going to dump this winmodem, and tackle that ;). Ah, the
life of the newbie...
later,
theAman
**** What? No, Signature? The Devil, You Say!!! ****
In article <7fqg6e$ctc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
theAman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Okay, I've been beating my head against the wall long enough on this.
>
> I can't seem to get the system to gain proper access to the printer
under
> Linux (Caldera 1.3 distribution). Here's what I've done:
>
> I used lisa to create a cdj550 parallel printer on /dev/lp1 using
lpd.
> (tried Lprng, but got 'connection refused' messages when I
> tried to cat file > /dev/lp1)
> I used printtool in X to create a printer that shows up in printcap
like so:
> ## PRINTOOL3## LOCAL cdj550 300x300 letter {} DeskJet550 3 1
> ps:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps:\
> :mx#0:sh:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/ps/filter:\
>
> I try to print, using:
> cat file_name > /dev/lp1
> the printer generates a form feed. sometimes I get one
page of
> stair-stepped text, other times not.
> in either case the form-feed light goes into a cycle of
double-
> blinking.
> printtool ascii test
> printtool says test page printed, but printer does
nothing
> running lpq results in
> Printer: ps
> queue: 1 printable job
> server: pid 999 active
> unspooler: pid 1000 active
> status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Permission
denied',
> sleeping 10 at 11:23:24
> rank: Owner/ID Class Job Files Size
Time
> active root A 998
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-
> printfilters/testpage.asc
745 11:34
>
> The status.ps file for the printer contains 66 attempts to open the
printer,
> resulting in 66 messages:
> Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Permission denied', sleeping 10 at
11:23:24
>
> I can empty the queue using lpq as root, but that's about it.
>
> My lpr.perms file has the lines
> accept service=c server user=root
> reject service=c
> accept service=m samehost sameuser
> accept service=m server user=root
> reject service=m
> default accept
>
> I've gone through the printer*-howto's, and a boatload of man pages,
as well
> as tried things folks have suggested on various usenet groups. This
printer
> prints with no problems when I boot to WinNT 4.0 SP3.
>
> thanks,
> theaman
>
> --
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>
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From: Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia Riva TNT AGP card ?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:20:32 -0400
Yep this card works, I use this on my Desktop
at Brown University. I've got a Dell Demension 400
there and it's got the same graphics card.
You need to download the latest and greatest Xfree86!
Download all the source and compile it!
Ray wrote:
>
> I've installed Redhat 5.2 for a freind who had this card and am unable to
> get X working except as a VGA x server.
> The closest in it's card list is RIVA 128 but this doesn't work. Neither
> does the standard Svga server !.
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get this card to work please ?
>
> thanks
>
> Ray.
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From: Sevket Gumustekin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help! Hauppauge WinTV (Model 400 NTSC) Eprom overwritten
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:17:49 -0400
I do not remember how and when I did this. But it appears to be the
case.
"readee" tool in the bttv-0.6.4 package returns nothing but a series of
0x00's.
The tuner is not working. Composite input from a VCR seems to be working
(tested using xtvscreen).
The problem surfaced after I upgraded to the newest kernel (2.2.7?) and
also after I took the card back from my friend who tried it in his Win
95
machine.
I also have Win NT4 in this machine. The Win TV application is not
starting
giving a memory write error with the latest NT drivers.
Does anybody have a backup tvee.h for this card?
I would appreciate any help.
Sevket
PS:
Please email/CC your comments to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I do not follow this list regularly.
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft IntelliMouse
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:19:46 -0400
Hi Douglas,
I don't know how to fix your problem, but I have the same mouse (maybe a different
revision), so I'll show you my config. Try stripping down your XF86Config to what
you see here -- maybe one of the extra parameters you have is screwing things up.
Also, I can't remember, but some versions of the Intellimouse might not be usable
this way. Check http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ for more info.
Anyway, here is my config:
XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse" # points to /dev/psaux
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
in /etc/rc.d/rc.local (for Redhat):
echo "starting imwheel..."
/usr/local/bin/imwheel -k > /dev/null 2>&1
(I'm running imwheel 0.9.5)
The reason why I start imwheel from a startup script is that I found that
if I start it every time I log into X, for some reason it changes its behavior
after some random amount of time. For example, scrolling in netscape would
scroll by several lines at first, but if I stayed logged into X long enough,
it would suddenly switch to scrolling by single lines. Putting it in my boot
scripts has somehow automagically made it remain consistent. :-)
Good luck,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: tty00 or ttyS0? Confused...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 19:58:52 -0500
On Wed, 12 May 1999 22:31:23 GMT, Brad Pepers wrote:
>Robin Munn wrote:
>>
>> While configuring a modem in a Linux box at work, I ran into an
>> interesting problem / conflict / *something* with respect to the serial
>> ports. I have two modems connected to this computer; one is an external
>> modem plugged into COM1 (/dev/ttyS0 -- old DOS habits die hard) and the
>> other one is an internal modem jumpered to use COM3 (ttyS2) and IRQ 5.
>> I also have a line in /etc/rc.boot/0setserial that sets ttyS2 to use IRQ
>> 5. The external modem is using the default of IRQ 4 (I assume -- I don't
>> know how to check this). Anyway, the last few bootup messages (the ones
>> I can see with dmesg) say:
>>
>> Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
>> tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq 4) is a 16450
>> tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq 4) is a 16550A
>>
>> And the output from the /etc/rc.boot/0setserial boot script is:
>>
>> Configuring serial ports...done.
>> /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq 4) is a 16450
>> /dev/ttyS2 at 0x03e8 (irq 5) is a 16550A
>
>I have no idea why the kernel gives tty00 as the device but I do know
>the IRQ problem. Probing for the correct IRQ for COM3/4 was sometimes
>causing other hardware to crash to it was disabled and the kernel just
>uses IRQ 4/3 for them and assumes you will use setserial yourself to
>get it right later. This way if the auto probing is failing you don't
>end up with an unbootable system and you can just hard-code the IRQ in
>the setserial call.
I got curious about this tty00 thing and checked what I have
during the boot-up (I usually have the monitor turned off).
Guess what (this is Debian 2.1 "slink" with kernel 2.2.5):
Linux version 2.2.5 (root@Port) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) ...
...
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
(ttyS2 is a modem and its IRQ is certainly changed to 5...)
Needless to say I only have ttyS0 ttyS1 ... in /dev/.
What is this extra `0' standing for?..
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which SCSI Controller???
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:00:44 GMT
Mogley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
: I've heard from dealers and read in 3 or 4 articles IBM scsi disks are the
: way to go. Basically, dealers NEVER have IBM scsi disks returned; an
: exageration of course, just trying to make a point. I've also seen a few
: reviews on hardware web pages that IBM's high RPM drives( 7200rpm and
: 10,000 rpm), run cooler than seagates.
:
: I'm about to get a tekram390 scsi card for and old seagate st15150n, i
: think thats the part number, its a barracuda iv. It utilizes the
: amd53c974a chip.
:
: Has anybody had any experience with this scsi adapter, or know anything
: about the chip.
I'm using the 390 u2w tekram card with a 10k rpm 9gig ibm drive.
works very well ;-)
:
: thx,
: mogley
: ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
: http://www.searchlinux.com
--
Bryan
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From: Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-RW's for Linux
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 20:12:10 -0400
Jerry Replies:
Het I bought a 7200 from Staples for $189.00 and they work with
Linux extremely well! I was reluctant at forst because I've been mostly
a SCSI user, but the low price caught my attention.
Here's what you do...
make sure you compile the kernel for scsi emulation.
and there is an excellent program out there called gcombust.
Download the latest cdrecord and all the other tools, read the howto.
The 7200 is a great buy. I've been putting togehter my own distribution
of Linux with it and my own release for School File servers and the
CDROM
burner is great. It's real easy to create a bootable CD with it.
killbill wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> donald-martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I am considering buying an HP 7200 CD-RW, but I see on their website
> > that they only have software for Win 98 & NT. I am reluctant to buy
> > unless I can be sure it'll work with linux. Anyone using it? or any
> > other CD-RW's? Your feedback is appreciated.
>
> The short answer:
> =================
> Yes, it appears to be supported.
>
> The long answer:
> ================
> The tool you will likely be using to write your CDR and CDRW disks will
> be cdrecord.
>
> Look for it on www.freshmeat.net, or go direct to:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/c
> drecord.html
>
> There are great links from that page as to supported drives, and
> information about getting your Linux system to work with the drive. You
> have to rebuild your kernal with SCSI emulation for now if you are using
> an ATAPI drive, this requirement will likely go away in the near
> future. You do not need any kernal patches for any reasonably up to
> date kernal source.
>
> Once you get it installed and get it working, take a peak at:
> http://w3.one.net/~bilshell/backburner/backburner.html
> for some software that will allow you to capture and play back any
> streams to a CDR or CDRW disk, effectively allowing you to make
> compressed file system archives or compressed disk images of any
> partition or disk.
>
> Ahhh the freedom of a backed up system.... I am FEARLESS :)!
>
> --
> Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> --"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
> it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
> of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
>
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From: Rajarshi Bandyopadhyay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Drivers for specialised hardware
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 07:49:37 +0530
Hi
I am working on a project involving specialised H/W , eg , nudaq
PCI-9118 high-speed data acquisition card with linux. Is there any place
where drivers of such specialised hardware are archived? Also, if anyone
is acquainted with this card, could that person pls get in touch with
me?
TIA
Raj
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee AGP Problems!
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 21:15:10 -0500
I have d/l the Xserver from Daryll Strauss's page to my root directory in
windows (hda1).
Now I need to copy it from there to hdb3 and them use rpm to update. Any
information
would be much appreciated!
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Nichols)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Change target no. on boot disk.
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:13:21 GMT
In article <A8j_2.1702$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Soccer_no_15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:I used to have 3 disks in the system, the 1st two disks (sda & sdb) are
:for DOS and the 3rd disk (external - sdc) is for Linux, after the
:kernel is built, I 'dd' the zImage to floppy so that when I want to get
:on Linux, I power the external disk and boot the kernel from floppy
:(so that my son won't crash Linux file systems).
:Now, I'm building another system for my son, I pull one of the DOS disks
:out (Linux now is sdb), eventhou, I replace every "sdc*" to "sdb*" in
:/etc/fstab, Linux still won't boot, complaining "can't mount root fs/par-
:tition. What else do I have to do? Please help, I don't want to lose
:all the data in the Linux drive!
The kernel can't very well consult /etc/fstab prior to mounting the root
file system, now can it? You need to use 'rdev' to patch the root
partition info in the kernel image on the floppy:
rdev -r /dev/fd0 /dev/sdb{whatever}
See `man rdev` for details.
--
Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PGP public key 1024/9A9C7955
Key fingerprint = 2F E5 82 F8 5D 06 A2 59 20 65 44 68 87 EC A7 D7
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From: "Matt Vrablik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voice/answer Under Linux?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:22:38 +0000
Hi, I've noticed kde has a simple voice answer program under development, as
a frontend to the 'mgetty' package. I'm interested in installing and
running a voice/modem card under linux as an answering machine. My question
is: does anyone know which modem cards *with voice* are supported? I know
the rockwell chipset is a safe choice, but is that enough to go on?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin
his linux box ?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 12 May 1999 20:01:07 -0500
On Tue, 11 May 1999 09:28:17 -0700, Charles Morley wrote:
>
>
>Jan Johansson wrote:
>>
>> >It would be good if 3Com would label its retail packaging clearly,
>> >so we could know at point-of-sale which modems in its product line are
>> >Microsoft-only.
>>
>> They do. They say "winmodem" or "sportster winmodem" on the box.
>
>They also say(mine did) on the back of the box: for windows only
This is not easy to read the back of the box when ordering over the
phone or internet, though..
a.
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
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From: "Robert Schapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plug and Play
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:39:34 GMT
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From: Eric and Catherine Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Change target no. on boot disk.
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:37:53 GMT
He can't "man rdev" very well if he can't mount the linux partition, now
can he?
;)
If your boot disk was created such that it pauses and waits for
additional options (I think it stops with "boot: "), then you should
be able to specify the partition to boot, e.g., "mount root=/dev/sdb3"
eric
Robert Nichols wrote:
>
> In article <A8j_2.1702$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Soccer_no_15 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :I used to have 3 disks in the system, the 1st two disks (sda & sdb) are
> :for DOS and the 3rd disk (external - sdc) is for Linux, after the
> :kernel is built, I 'dd' the zImage to floppy so that when I want to get
> :on Linux, I power the external disk and boot the kernel from floppy
> :(so that my son won't crash Linux file systems).
> :Now, I'm building another system for my son, I pull one of the DOS disks
> :out (Linux now is sdb), eventhou, I replace every "sdc*" to "sdb*" in
> :/etc/fstab, Linux still won't boot, complaining "can't mount root fs/par-
> :tition. What else do I have to do? Please help, I don't want to lose
> :all the data in the Linux drive!
>
> The kernel can't very well consult /etc/fstab prior to mounting the root
> file system, now can it? You need to use 'rdev' to patch the root
> partition info in the kernel image on the floppy:
>
> rdev -r /dev/fd0 /dev/sdb{whatever}
>
> See `man rdev` for details.
>
> --
> Bob Nichols [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> PGP public key 1024/9A9C7955
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:04:59 GMT
just to confuse folks <g>, I got a tyan 1832dl board today and I'll
see if my 2 300a celerys will run smp just like my asus boards do.
if it works, I'll have 3 systems at home that run dual celerys at
450*2. lets see - 450*2*3 = 2700mhz. wow - almost 3GHz of computing
;-) ;-)
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 2) 300a slot 1 chips (modified) running in an asus p2bd. two systems
: built like this and both are running fine.
: I say go for asus - it costs more, but their bx boards are tops.
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: : I am putting together a PPG Celeron-based dual Linux system (using MSI
: : slot-1 adapters). I would like to overclock the system a little bit, so
: : control over the bus frequency is needed (also control over 66/100
: : override setting with Celeron). Can somebody with a similar system
: : recommend and/or share their motherboard experiences. The economics for
: : such a system are excellent now with 400+ Celerons well under $200 a
: : piece.
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:49:59 GMT
doesn't that card have both narrow and wide busses?
can't you connect the scanner to the narrow bus and all else (that is wide) to the
wide bus?
and only lvd stuff to the lvd bus.
Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Tony wrote:
: >
: > Try dropping the speed of the divice id (scanner ) down to 10/mb/s
: >
: > As I don't think it will like running at 40mb/s
: >
: > Tony
: Thanks for the suggestion, but I've tried that. I tried that with Wide
: Negotiation on and off. I've been working on this for the past 2 weeks
: and am tempted to just pick up another card, which I don't really want
: to spend the $$$ on.
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:53:51 GMT
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: just to confuse folks <g>, I got a tyan 1832dl board today and I'll
: see if my 2 300a celerys will run smp just like my asus boards do.
the tyan boots (at least) with a single cel300a connected. so far so good.
I must admit that ami has come a LONG way in their bios. I may have to eat my words
;-)
there are LOTS of knobs-for-nerds in that bios. too many, maybe. but
I can see why integrators might choose this board. lots of control.
I can also see why the asus is more popular; less to mess up.
but it did let me force the cel300a to 100mhz. wasn't stable (at 2.0v) but it did
post and at least -start- the kernel build.
I'll post again when I have the 300a's both working in SMP mode on this board.
one thing that annoys me, though; my board didn't come with a slot-1
terminator. both my asus p2bd boards came with cpu terminators, for
when you run the dual board in single cpu mode (just one plugged in).
why would you do this, you ask? maybe one cpu broke. maybe you want
to burn in in single-cpu mode for a while. maybe you need to debug
some smp issues. at any rate, not having that terminator ('fake cpu')
card is annoying. fortunately, I have a few extras from my asus
board...
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From: Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Labs Voodoo Banshee AGP Problems!
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:47:19 +1000
Brian wrote:
> I have d/l the Xserver from Daryll Strauss's page to my root directory in
> windows (hda1).
> Now I need to copy it from there to hdb3 and them use rpm to update. Any
> information
> would be much appreciated!
>
> Brian
Create a directory /mnt/msdos, then
as root, #mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/msdos
then you'll find your Windows disk root directory
in /mnt/msdos, and you can go from there.
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