Linux-Hardware Digest #414, Volume #10 Fri, 4 Jun 99 22:13:39 EDT
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Linux with the Dell Dimension Series ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Laptop APM (Mohd H Misnan)
magneto optical drive (waco)
Re: Linux program to exercise Dual-CPU system? (mumford)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux with the Dell Dimension Series
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 23:30:23 GMT
Hi all,
I am new to the Linux hardware bit and would very
much appreciate some advice. I am looking to buy
the Linux Diemsion Series Pentium III box as advertised
on their home page. My budget is $2000 and with the
components that they have recommended for this series
of machine is comes to a nice 1857 dollars, within
budget. How do I check if the components are compatible
with Linux? It does not say on their web page. I am
interested in getting the whole multimedia stuff. Are
these things supported by Linux? I would be interested
in installing Linux, but I am in a hurry to get a machine
and if it would be too expensive to do so or take too
long, I could forget about it.
Many Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: Laptop APM
Date: 4 Jun 1999 15:15:37 GMT
On Wed, 02 Jun 1999 19:39:42 +0100, Shamsuddin, Amir (EXCHANGE:MDN05:7E24)
wrote:
>Mark Swope wrote:
>
>> It might help if you stated which laptop you have, just to see if
>> anyone has a working system.
>
>It's a rebadged Mitac 6133
>Celeron 333 / 96Mb / 4Gb / CD-Rom / PCMCIA modem / 13.3TFT
>I'll post chipset makes/model/numbers when I get back home to it.
I've rebadged Mitac 5033 which work well with APM on 2.2.X kernels, I got the
same problem when I was on 2.0.X kernels. Anyway, have you checked Mitac website
for BIOS updates? May be you need to update the BIOS to have this supported.
>The error was when booting the new kernel. It starts up normally, priting the
>usual lines, then It hangs between printing a line about "hda" and where it
>would print a line about "hdc", which is a cdrom. I'll transcribe it and post
>it later.
Mine was stuck at the fd0 line last time.
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From: waco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: magneto optical drive
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 20:38:05 -0400
I have a Sony SMO-C301-00 magneto optical drive SCSI. I'd like to use
it in Linux...can someone tell me how?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mumford)
Subject: Re: Linux program to exercise Dual-CPU system?
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 16:28:39 GMT
A while ago, Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> begot:
>mumford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[snip]
>> Anyway, less risky way of doing the same test is to use 'make -j 2' or -j 4,
>> replacing the number with the number of CPUs you have.
>
>I seem to get the best performance (maximizing cpu usage) by using "-j 6" on
>dual processor boxen.
The smp.txt actually recommends #of CPUS + 1 (3 in our case). I have yet to
find the optimal value for my system. I'll give 6 a try for a while.
>> Also, changing the MAKE definition in linux/Makefile is not necessary. Just
>> doing 'make -j 2 zImage' is sufficient. Make will pass its parameters to its
>> children.
>
>Not always. I use:
>
>make -j 6 MAKE="make -j 6" bzImage
Really?
linux# time bash -c "make -j6 bzImage && make -j6 modules"
[output snipped]
324.99user 25.41system 3:13.26elapsed 181%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1033540482major+-1327296488minor)pagefaults 0swaps
linux# MAKE="make -j6" time bash -c "make -j6 bzImage && make -j6 modules"
[output snipped]
323.79user 25.34system 3:14.43elapsed 179%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (1033540496major+-302914344minor)pagefaults 0swaps
No significant difference one way or the other.
>> If you visit the SIG-11 FAQ (http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11) page, you'll see
>> a little script that does 100 kernel compiles. That's what I used to test
>> my dual celery system.
>
>Yow! When I want to beat up on them for testing, I generally fire
>up the multithreaded rc5 client and then start a couple of concurrent
>emacs-20.x compiles.
The kernel compiles aren't concurrent. The test is designed to get your
CPU hot fairly quickly, then crunch away at that temperature for a long
time. It's a good sig-11 test, and I actually did manage to hang my dual
system the first time I tried it... then I put some thermal grease between
the CPU and the heatsink and haven't been able to hang it since.
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