Linux-Hardware Digest #261, Volume #10 Tue, 18 May 99 07:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: Tiny Linux Boxes? (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Re: How do I move linux? (Brad Pepers)
Re: Kernal doesn't /dev/cdrom...block device? (Brian Seitz)
Re: Newby tries to install Soundblaster16 (**Nick Brown)
S3 86c362 AGP Videocard supported by X? ("Gijs")
Re: Creative 3D Blaster Banshee (Daniel)
Re: AGP only at 8bpp?! (Joshua Martin)
S3 86c362 AGP Videocard supported by X? ("Gijs")
Re: spin down scsi-discs (Eric DE VITO)
Re: Don't buy a Dynalink IS64PPH(+) (Ernst de Haan)
scsi dawi dc53c975 lockup (Arvid Walter)
Re: SB 128 again (Claude Chaudet)
Re: CMI8338 soundcard (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Lost ttyS4 and ttyS5 with kernea upgrade (Kasper Leonhardt)
Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work? (Bart Symons)
redhat ("RubenD")
Re: mouse, gpm and X (James Stafford)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Build or buy? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I move linux? (Dean Plude)
Re: AGP only at 8bpp?! (John Thompson)
Re: Device busy for aimslab radio on linux 2.2 (Sarantis Papanagnou)
Winmodem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: need A/D board for data acq. (Mircea)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (Keith)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Subject: Re: Tiny Linux Boxes?
Date: 18 May 1999 07:22:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7hj6dc$j2n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> In article <7h9frj$n42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Per Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> bryan wrote in message ...
>> >that name doesn't resolve. do you have an IP for them?
>>
>> Perhaps it should have been http://www.fireplug.com ?
>>
>> [snip]
>> >: Peat Bakke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >: > Heya,
>> >: >
>> >: > I'm trying to build a tiny Linux box to act as a router and
> gateway.
>> In
>> >: > theory, I could go the traditional route, spend $400 on hardware,
> and
>> have
>> >: > a functional machine .. but where's the style? ;)
>> >: >
>> >: > So, with price issues aside, how would I go about building the
> smallest
>> >: > Linux box I can with the following specs:
>> >: >
>> >: > 3 100Base-T ethernet cards
>> >: > 32MB RAM
>> >: > 1GB hard drive
>> >: > basic VGA output *
>> >: > a serial port
>> >: > a keyboard port *
>> >: >
>> >: > .. items with a * are only for the initial installation and
>> configuration
>> >: > purposes, and can be removed later. I'll have it configured to
> dump
>> >: > logging information over the serial port to my workstation.
>> >: >
>> >: > Can anyone help me?
>>
>> I'm not certain exactly what it is you're after, but I've got my
> old 486
>> running
>> as router/gateway/firewall. It's 16Mb, 486Dx2, 340Mb, no video, no
>> keyboard,
>> otherwise standard.
> ???????????????????????????????????????????????
>
> How did you managed to get ride of the video board. The BIOS setup
> doesn't allow me to do it. How can you run an old 486 mother board
> without a video board. I'll like to know that. Thanks in advance.
It's in the BIOS. Under the basic section, just specify 'none' to video,
save it to CMOS, and shut down to pull the video card.
Keven
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Science-Fiction Adventure
In Reavers' Deep
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From: Brad Pepers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I move linux?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 07:30:21 GMT
Zoran Cutura wrote:
>
> Rod Roark wrote:
> >
> > Millinium Man <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Is there a safe and easy way to move a working linux to another hard
> > >drive? I have an 850mb as a file and internet server and I want to
> > >move to a 2.1 Gb. Is there an easy way to migrate to the new drive?
> >
> > Yes. Make the new filesystem, mount it, and then copy everything to
> > it with cp -avx. Edit /etc/fstab to suit the new drive location.
> > You'll need a boot diskette for first-time booting.
> >
> > -- Rod
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> > http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I think cp is a ungood way of copying! cp can have problems with special
> files (i.e. devices) softlinks might not be copied as links ...
> Usually I'm using tar inthis way to copy a hole filesystem:
> $ cd /old/path
> $ tar cf - . | (cd /new/path; tar xf - )
Well I would think your method will have a problem with /proc in
that it will all get copied over when its not really supposed to!
The -x option in the above "cp -avx" takes care of that but your
right in that I'm not sure how well it handles symbolic links,
hard links, and special device files in /dev.
With utilities around now that can shrink/grow ext2 partitions (like
Partition Magic) I wonder what would happen if you created a partition
on the 2.1Gb drive that matched the number of blocks on the 850Mb
drive and then just used "dd" to copy the data over. Once its there
you would likely need to boot from a floppy and re-run lilo but what
else would break?
--
Brad Pepers
Linux Canada Inc. Home of Linux products in Canada!
http://www.linuxcanada.com Proud supporter of Cyclades, Red
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Hat, and Caldera.
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From: Brian Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernal doesn't /dev/cdrom...block device?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 07:52:06 +0000
"Timothy J. Bird" wrote:
>
> Esteemed Linux users,
>
> Whats up with this error message, kernal doesn't recognize /dev/cdrom as
> a block device?? All I did was flash my bios. It worked fine befor
> but now mount commands are ineffective.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Birdman
/dev/cdrom is just a symbolic link to the "real device" which is
something like /dev/hdx (where x is a letter) on an IDE system or
/dev/scdx (were x is a number) on a SCSI system. Try mounting these
instead and relinking after you find it ("ln -s /dev/whatever
/dev/cdrom").
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newby tries to install Soundblaster16
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:54:53 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is only one set of kernel sources. Start at www.linux.org and
follow the links.
Andreas Matthies wrote:
> I got sound yesterday by reading the documentation of this oss(free)-package
> from 4front and installing it and it works. It seems to me that this oss is
> comercial. When I configure the kernal with xconfig, I have to activate
> oss-support, cause there's no generic Soundblaster-support. Is this special
> for the SuSE6.1-kernal? Are there other (non commercial) drivers? What
> kernal-sources do I have to use?
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From: "Gijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 86c362 AGP Videocard supported by X?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:55:22 +0200
Does anyone know how to get the S3 86c362 AGP Video Card run with Xwindow.
Sax doesn't recognize this Card under SuSe? I can't even get it to run in
the simplest VGA mode.
Thanks,
Gijs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel)
Subject: Re: Creative 3D Blaster Banshee
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:36:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe Gaudron) wrote:
>"Blitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �crivait ("Blitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote):
>
>>
>>If anyone can please send me suggestions on configuring my 3D Blaster
>>Banshee video card with x-windows. Im running the standard 5.2 Distribution.
>>Im new at this so please dont flame me to much. Ive tried xf86config, &
>>XF86Setup with no luck.
>
>http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
>
>Works fine
>
>
>P. Gaudron
Does this mean that the 3D Blaster Banshee is not currently support?
And that the only driver for it is still beta software?
-Daniel
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From: Joshua Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: AGP only at 8bpp?!
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 00:24:54 -0700
I have an i740 and have had my card running at 32bpp.
(Dont take offence you didnt say if you tried this)
Try running startx with 'startx -- -bpp 16' (replace 16 with whatever
bpp). If this works place the following line in your
/etc/X11/XF86Config in the svga driver section
DefaultColorDepth 16 (replace 16 with whatever bpp)
The card wont do above 8bpp if you are trying to run 1600x11200.
Hope this helps...
--Joshua Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Koder wrote:
>
> JOe!
>
> I own an Intel i740 SVGA 3D AGP with 8MB card, on which I run the XFree86
> system. I can only get it as high as 8bpp (= 256 colors). I wonder why? On
> my former SVGA card, which was an S3 ViRGE 3D/DX with 4MB, I could easily
> get it to 24bpp (= true color)
>
> Someone at work just told me that this is due to the limitations in the
> KERNEL, that does not have full support for AGP. Is this true? Any advice?
>
> And yes, I AM using the right xserver!
>
> sincerely,
> Koder
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From: "Gijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 86c362 AGP Videocard supported by X?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:57:18 +0200
Does anyone know how to get the S3 86c362 AGP Video Card run with Xwindow.
Sax doesn't recognize this Card under SuSe? I can't even get it to run in
the simplest VGA mode.
Thanks,
Gijs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Re: spin down scsi-discs
Date: 18 May 1999 08:20:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Sommer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anybody know a way to spin down SCSI-discs by apm?
> I found an old version of scsi-idle that doesn�t work with my 2.2
> -kernel. I tried out scsi-stop ans scsi-start, these programs are doing
> what they are supposed to, but they don�t make much sense if the discs
> don�t spin up itself.
> Perhaps you know a proper way to spin down scsi-hds after a specified
> time and to spin up automatically.
>
> Martin Sommer
>
Please send an email to the comceptor of the scsi driver (mail in include files
of the sources). I tried to explain him that most people are concerned with
spinning down their SCSI disks (so do I !). I proposed him to add scsi-idle like
functionnality to the driver (as an option in the make config).
But his reply was disappointing. He think SCSI disks are not used for spinning down
and up and refused to patch the sources.
Personnaly I told him that I am forced like most people to keep specific versions
of the kernel (last is 2.0.36) compatible wih scsi-idle.
I really don't understand why he does not let at least the choice to spin down
to the user ! The disk in my computer is mine, not him's, and if I want to
take the risk to spin it down whenever I want I want to do it !
I have an eye on scsi.c : here are the guys to contact
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Last time I sent an email to eric Yougdale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
If you send an email like I did you can make me in copy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
and in the signature.
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IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ernst de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Don't buy a Dynalink IS64PPH(+)
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:55:28 +0200
Hi all
Dynalink Support has contacted me and affirmed me that drivers will
become available, and thet they are taking Linux serious. They tell me
Karsten Keil (and others) have worked on the Siemens driver, and that
they're talking to Karsten about the matter.
Just to let ya know. To be continued (This not the end. This is not the
beginning of the end. This is the end of the beginning =)
GreetinX++,
Ernst
Ernst de Haan wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Don't buy a Dynalink IS64PPH(+). The box states that there are Linux
> drivers available for this ISDN adapter, but that's not the case. I've
> contacted Dynalink, and they say they hope drivers will become available
> \:-| Hmmmm.
>
> The IS64PPH(+) is a PCI adapter that uses a Winbond chipset. If you'd
> want to buy an ISDN adapter, buy either one that has a Siemens chipset,
> or an AVM Fritz.
>
> GreetinX++, Ernst
>
> --
> Ernst de Haan
> Chief Technical Officer
> Tector i.o.
>
> "Come to me all who are weary and burdened,
> and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
--
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Chief Technical Officer
Tector i.o.
"Come to me all who are weary and burdened,
and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
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From: Arvid Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi dawi dc53c975 lockup
Date: 18 May 1999 09:09:44 GMT
Does anybody know why I get lockups since I use scsi ?
with modules loaded and without it locks up with high and with low
traffic after houres or minutes.
RedHat 6.0, Kernel 2.2.5 (for test only) 2.2.6 , scsi 53c875 (irq 11),
s3trio64, bt878, soundblaster (pci), ne2000, voddoo2 :-) ..., ps2-mouse
irq: 9, 11-15 full
live long and prosper,
asa.
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From: Claude Chaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB 128 again
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:43:56 +0200
>-->Try loading the oss emulation.
>-->snd-pcm1-oss
>-->
>-->This should take care of the problem
I did it but it solved nothing...
Claude.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~})
Subject: Re: CMI8338 soundcard
Date: 17 May 1999 00:06:48 +0800
>>>>> "konghoon" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
konghoon> Recently the vendor of CMI838 chip announced the driver
konghoon> for Linux. I just download the driver
konghoon> 'cmpci-1.1.tar.gz' from
konghoon> http://www.cmedia.com.tw/e_dload1.htm
Yes. That's encouraging news. Yet, the driver is by no means
complete. For example, cat /dev/sndstat doesn't work, although
/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer and /dev/audio function properly. I look forward
to the next version.
konghoon> but I can make the
konghoon> module for my CMI8338 soundcard since some of header
konghoon> files which are needed in cmpci.c are missing. There
konghoon> are no instructions about the version of kernel.
I also want to complain about this. The package should contain
information on what kernel version that piece of code works.
konghoon> I have
konghoon> used RedHat-5.2 with kernel-2.0.36 and I am wondering
konghoon> whether I upgrade my system to kernel-2.2.
I've compiled the module under kernel 2.2.5. It works.
I'll try kernel 2.2.9 later. I hope it will work.
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From: Kasper Leonhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lost ttyS4 and ttyS5 with kernea upgrade
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:53:10 GMT
Hi,
�
After upgrading from kernel 2.0.36 (Red Hat 5.2) to 2.3.2 I have lost
contact to /dev/ttyS4 and /dev/ttyS5. When trying communicating with
the devices i got the answer:
�
By the way, I also lost the connection to /dev/fd0 with the 2.3.2
kernel, that gave a problem with creating a bootdisk. But booting on
the 2.2.3 kernel boot disk i createt before the 2.3.2 kernel, I could
write a new bootdisk. For your information, with the 2.2.3 kernel,
there was no contact with the above tty's either. Normally I boot from
harddrive with NT-bootmanager.
�
With the 2.0.36 i used the /dev/cua4-5 device drivers, but they doesn't
work too.
�
Some hardware info:
/dev/ttyS0 and /dev/ttyS1 is on board mu Intel PII motherboard. IRQ3
and 4 /dev/ttyS2 to /dev/ttyS5 is on four port card with IRQ-sharing on
IRQ5 I have setup /etc/rc.d/serial (i forgot the exact location) all
ports with setserial bla.bla.bla
�
Any one have an idea?
�
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From: Bart Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 18:27:35 +0200
That's all very nice but I am experiencing these dreaded sig 11 problems. What do you
suggest I do
(other than switching to Intel and/or Windows)?
bryan wrote:
> if your cpu and ram REALLY work together (no sig 11 timing problems) then sure,
>linux will run fine.
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From: "RubenD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat
Date: 18 May 1999 01:27:11 PDT
Hi, In January I got attracted to linux and bought Redhat 5.2. Try to
install it and failed. That didn't discourage me and I try to go the easy
way and do the automatic setup on a hard drive, for that I had to remove my
win98 HD to avoid to get it erased by linux.
After that I got into a very weird sort of windows (xwindows) which was not
what I expected. So I decide to have my win98 disk in the same system, it
boot it fine a couple of time by going to the bios and choosing the Drive.
Next thing I know I got a message saying PANIC, couldn't mount drive,
system halt.
Tonite, I got a separate computer (old 486_133mhz) and I can't use the
cdrom to install linux, I got everything attached to a controller card, it
finds the HD but no the CD, any comments and motivational ideas?
Ruben
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse, gpm and X
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 02:16:21 -0700
Murni & Hamid wrote:
> James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Try this, go to /usr/X11R6/bin do a "vi startx" right up toward the top of
> > the file you see a command that starts something like "bin sh". Right
> > before this first command type "gpm -k" and save the file. I have a
> > LogiTech 3 button mouse and I was having all kinds of problems getting it
> > to work with all 3 buttons. I did the above fix and I haven't had a
> > problem since, all three buttons work in X and all. I do get an error
> > message when X first starts saying something like "gpm -k command not
> > found" but it still works. If you want to get technical you could write
> > the command the proper way (I'm a little lazy) just copy the first command
> > you see in the startx file and substitute the path name for gmp and put
> > "gpm -k" in there.
>
> The above is surely not the right way to get your mouse working in X.
> Surely your "gpm -k" doesn't work on your case since the command never
> get executed. "gpm -k" will actually (if its work) kill the gpm daemon.
> If you're using /dev/gpmdata as your device, the above will surely won't
> work. To disable gpm, for RH user, just issue 'ntsysv' and unselect the
> gpm entry, for others.. just search for gpm entry inside your rc.* or
> delete it from any runlevel directories that has gpm inside it.
>
> --
> Murni Mahmud & Family
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For some strange reason it does work. No I don't use /dev/gpmdata as my mouse
driver, if I do the mouse just goes crazy, so I went back to /dev/mouse. I did
not feel like having to type gpm -k every time I wanted to start X, would
forget most of the time, so I put it in startx. After all startx is just a
script/wrapper, whatever. So answer me this please, if I take the gpm -k out of
startx then when I start X I have mouse trouble, why? If I totally disable gpm
then I can't use the cut and paste features in the shell.
jamess
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:41:23 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Personally, I recomend against over-clocking for serious work.
> Pushing a 300a to 450 puts the chip *very* close to it's tolerances.
> This may be fine for games where a slipped bit or a lockup doesn't
> really hurt anything, but it is certainly *not* acceptable for
> scientific numerical compulations.
General serious work is one thing, and serious numerical computation
is another. I once wrote a large scale optimizer so robust
numerically, that a few bugs in the factorization got discovered
only by code instrumentation, as the 'driver' routine would recover
from nearly all numerical errors, as long as they were not too
frequent.
Infeasible primal-dual interior point methods are probably even
more robust by design (they are usually implemented with some
simplifications of the algorithm, supposedly required for
convergence, yet they do converge). Again, an algorithm with a few
(serious but non-lethal) bugs will simply converge more slowly.
There are some numerical applications where an occasional slipped
bit would create havoc, but these are not all, by any means.
All of the above discusses only the robustness w.r.t. errors in
the computation data. But obviously...
Performing numerical computation involves not only data, but also
code. Since *all* of the processing involves the processor's
interpretation of the code, I think that the chances of getting a
slipped bit there (i.e., getting the code misinterpreted) are bigger
than chances of misinterpretation of a result. And a mistake there
will in most cases be almost immediately lethal to the program (and
would not escape unnoticed).
Therefore I'd strongly suspect that a processor that behaves well
under general heavy load (like kernel compilation), will behave well
under any circumstances. After all, it still spends at least half of
it's time and effort on intepreting the code.
To summarize: I don't see 'scientific numerical computation' as
more susceptible to errors, than any other computation. As I pointed
out above, in some cases it is more robust than most other
computation.
Regards,
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Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:17:23 GMT
On Mon, 17 May 1999 15:42:42 -0400, "Zachary C. Whitley"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bang, bang, bang.............hey is this thing on or what?
>
>> I'm become so used to hearing my fans and
>> drives spinning, if I had a real quiet system, I would wonder what was wrong.
>
>Ahhh the beutiful bliss of white noise.
a total quit system is a dead system
and if you remove all cooling fans it would be a dead system 20
minutes later
when the cpu temp reachs above 65 C (it depends on the cpu type)
the intern cpu structur breaks down
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Build or buy?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:57:12 GMT
In article <7hq79m$6pa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> NOW (which is why I was instructed to go out and buy a new machine).
> What if I bought a bunch of parts and it took me 2-3 weeks to get them
> all working right? Such a delay would be _EXPENSIVE_.
For an experienced person, a couple of hours should be sufficient to
assemble a PC. But if you are not experienced and get into problems, you
may require weeks to correct it.
> Sound Card:
> Turtle Beach Montego II A3D320V Sound
> Card,FactoryInstall
You may have problems in using this sound card in Linux.
I found the following from linux-sound mailing list
"I have a Turtle-Beach Montego sound card, and as I know there is only
one
driver available for it by now: OSS-v3.9.1 which has several problems:
- DSP sounds ugly (Guess this is while the driver is in early
Beta-stages)
- Not many functions supported (yet ?).
- It's a commercial driver (I like to look at the source-code, and I
don't want
to pay for a badly written driver :-)
- OSS does not fully support my second Sound Card : a Crystal CS4237, so
I need
to be able to run OSS and ALSA together (not a good idea if at all
possible)"
Amit Kale
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From: Dean Plude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I move linux?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 03:40:52 -0400
Brad Pepers wrote:
>
> Zoran Cutura wrote:
> >
> > Rod Roark wrote:
[big clip]
why not just tar to make file from etc, boot ,usr ,opt , sbin , var
etc.... all BUT /proc
cp to new drive
OR do like me install rh ,mount old drive and use mc to copy and
overrite all
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: AGP only at 8bpp?!
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 21:28:30 -0600
Koder wrote:
>
> JOe!
>
> I own an Intel i740 SVGA 3D AGP with 8MB card, on which I run the XFree86
> system. I can only get it as high as 8bpp (= 256 colors). I wonder why? On
> my former SVGA card, which was an S3 ViRGE 3D/DX with 4MB, I could easily
> get it to 24bpp (= true color)
>
> Someone at work just told me that this is due to the limitations in the
> KERNEL, that does not have full support for AGP. Is this true? Any advice?
>
> And yes, I AM using the right xserver!
Which server are you using? I have an i740 8MB AGP card I'm
running at 65k colors using the XBF_i740 server.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sarantis Papanagnou)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Device busy for aimslab radio on linux 2.2
Date: 18 May 1999 10:44:48 GMT
Michael Bain ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Sound works fine for other things, a basic SB16. Try to load the radio
: driver via: insmod radio-aimslab
: and it replies with:
: /lib/modules/2.2.9/misc/radio-aimslab.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
Hello Michael,
You should try to build your kernel with AIMSLab RadioTrack support
in it. We had problems too with the module and it worked almost fine
after we built it in the kernel.
Now we have a "small" problem: we cannot tune the radio card to the
desired frequency/station. The card seems to ignore these commands
and it tries to scan a station sequentially starting from 88.000MHz
We use radiotrack-1.1 by G.J. le Grange in order to control it, but
we tried also radiod ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and another program by
Alberto Vignani, with the same results. The machine is running
2.2.6 kernel... anyone having seen this problem?
Thanks in advance
Sarandis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Winmodem
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 09:34:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got Zoltrix 56k V.90 (internal) modem. It's a Winmodem.
Does it works under Linux (RedHat 5.2) ?
Thanks,
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need A/D board for data acq.
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:07:35 -0400
I bet this will be the least it will take. Here's a few links:
http://obelix.chemie.fu-berlin.de/
http://www.rtlinux.org/~rtlinux/
MST
Les Schaffer wrote:
>
> I am looking for an A/D board for my linux box on which to do data
> acquisition stuff from various sensors and microcontroller projects.
>
> come to think of it, an i/o baord where i could put either analog or
> digital data would be even better. do such exist?
>
> can anyone suggest a decent board with linux drivers? i am willing to
> compile software if thats what it takes....
>
> many thanks
>
> les schaffer
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 08:57:54 GMT
With the present generation of Celeron processors you can use a PGA
processor in a Slot-1 adaptor which already contains the SMP
modification. I have a pair of Celeron 300A processors running quite
happily in my home machine. Just remember you need NT or Linux to take
advantage of the second processor.
I guess Intel will stop connecting the SMP pin from the die if dual-
Celeron machines become popular.
Just my opinions,
Keith.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [snip..]
> Hi
> A Celeron isn't capable of SMP. You'd have to go into a lot of extra
> work in order to get it done. this involves more than just a
> screwdriver.
>
> Bye
>
> Marc
>
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