Linux-Hardware Digest #471, Volume #10 Sat, 12 Jun 99 08:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Re: large disk linux/win98 dual boot help?? ("Tomas Perez")
Re: Astra 1200S and Adaptec 2906 ? ("LHD Administrator")
modem problems ("Wil Harper")
Token Ring Card , Laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Free Sex Links 4689 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How do I use an on-board NIC? (Mike Frisch)
Re: Ensoniq 1371 ("Jeffrey S. Kline")
Re: modem problems (DarkProphet)
ET4000/W32p Problem. (Maniac)
WANTED : S3 LC2X VGA driver for Red Hat 6.0 ("kss")
Winfast s430, Intel EtherExpress pro/10 (Xaendiss)
Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant ("Tony Platt")
window resolution (alpine)
Recompiling the kernel and Video4Linux (Akkula)
Re: Installing Linux on a SGI Indy. (bryan)
S3 4MB AGP Driver for PhatLinux (Mohamad Termizi)
Re: MCA and Linux ?!? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: How do I compile drivers? (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: stealth II s220 (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: Which UPS (Rob Clark)
Re: Celeron or PII? (Angelin Everaerts)
Re: Red Hat on a Dell Dimension ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Help: trying to compile for ali 15xx chipset? (Simone Piccardi)
Re: Spontaneous REBOOT during install of RH6.0 (Swietanowski Artur)
Processor temp on ASUS P2B/P5A (Mauk van der Laan)
ragefury redhat 6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is Adaptec RAID 133 supported on Linux ? (Robert Herzog)
Re: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (Gerben Welter)
Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Tomas Perez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: large disk linux/win98 dual boot help??
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:24:42 +0200
> (2) my bios is old 1994 AMI that has limitation of 2.1G, so I
> installed maxblast (EZBIOS) and installed win98 into 8.4G.
AFAIK the 2.1Gb limit is not a BIOS limitation. It is the Microsoft
filesystem used prior to FAT32 (Win95b, Win98) which doesn't support logical
drives bigger than 2.1Gb, forcing you to split a large drive in 2.1Gb
portions. You shouldn't need to use EZ.
(AFAIK again), EZ installs itself in the MBR, so if you put LILO over it
afterwards it's no surprise something breaks.
Not sure about the second point tough...
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From: "LHD Administrator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Astra 1200S and Adaptec 2906 ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 15:53:41 -0400
The 2906 should be supported by the aic7xxx.c driver. The scanner is
probably supported by the scanner project software.
>For nearly all of my hardware I have found driver for Linux
>with one exeption, my Astras 1200S with his Adaptec 2906 SCSI PCI
>
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From: "Wil Harper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem problems
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:13:38 -0500
I have just recently moved into the world of Linux and so far I like it
except that I have a generic 33.6 modem that I am attemting to install and
cannot seem to get it to work. I have tried setserial and the control-panel
and still nothing....please help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Token Ring Card , Laptop
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:52:08 GMT
Hi !
I use a Thinkpad 760 ED with a PCMCIA-Token-Ring-Adapter (Token Ring
Auto 16/4 or Token Ring Turbo 16/4).
As OS I use Suse Linux 6.1 (selfmade kernel (2.2.5) with TR-support)
with Pcmcia-Tools version 3.0.11.
The Pcmcia-Tools work fine if I use my normal Ethernet-Card or my
Modem-Card. If I insert one of the two Token-Ring-Cards it is getting
funny.
cardctl detects my Token-Ring Card. If I go for
ifconfig tr0 up
my system hangs. Than I have to shutdown my system.
Does anybody know why my system hangs when I execute ifconfig ?
netstat confirms Token-Ring-Support.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Kind Regards
Florian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Free Sex Links 4689
Date: 12 Jun 1999 06:52:15 GMT
For the nastiest sex pictures visit:
http://freespace.virgin.net/efrwer.werewrd/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: How do I use an on-board NIC?
Date: 11 Jun 1999 19:59:54 GMT
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:21:45 GMT, GTE News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just got an el-cheap-o PC. It seems to have everything build onto the
>motherboard, including the NIC. It works fine with Win98, but how can I get
>Linux to see the NIC? It's not any brand listed in the list of Linux NICs
>supported by the kernel. Do I need to use "ifconfig" and give the i/o
>address, irq, hardware address, and stuff like that?
You will have to determine which chipset it uses and find out if that is
supported by Linux. If it is not, you'll have to get a regular NIC
instead.
"ifconfig" only works on supported cards.
Mike.,
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: "Jeffrey S. Kline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq 1371
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 03:25:19 -0500
Those cards do not have bass and treble controls and many don't either. Some
of the older cards did such as original SB16, some old Turtle Beach, among
others.
The controls show up there by default even if there is no functionality in
the card. Some newer mixers can be set to not show them but they don't seem
to know much about the host cards abilities and can't adjust to that.
Something I think will be addressed in later versions of the drivers and
such.
If you arent getting bass response, then I wonder if you don't have
something wrong with the card or if it works ok under Windoz, then you maybe
have to try different address's and or IRQ. This card is operable at several
different combinations albeit, you have to try them manually which can be a
pain.
Jeff
Chuck Cusack wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I just got a new Creative Ensoniq 1371, and just installed RedHat 6.0
>I am getting no bass response from my CD player, although mp3s
>have good bass.
>Also, the mixers say that bass and treble aren't supported, so it looks
>like
>I can't adjust it, like I could with my old SB16
>So, is the card WORSE than a 7 year or SB16?
>Is there something I can do to get the bass increased?
>I can go back to the old card, but its an ISA, and I'm low on slots, so
>I would
>rather have the new one. However, if it's just a cheap and not so good
>card,
>I may have to switch.
>Otherwise, Suggestions for a decent $20-30 sound card with bass/treble
>supported?
>
>Thanks
>Chuck.
>+-------------------------------------------------+
>| Charles A. Cusack |
>| Graduate Student |
>| Department of Computer Science and Engineering |
>| University of Nebraska-Lincoln |
>| |
>| e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
>+-------------------------------------------------+
>
>
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From: DarkProphet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem problems
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 03:45:58 -0500
Wil Harper wrote:
> I have just recently moved into the world of Linux and so far I like it
> except that I have a generic 33.6 modem that I am attemting to install and
> cannot seem to get it to work. I have tried setserial and the control-panel
> and still nothing....please help
Assuming its not a winmodem, you'll need to know one thing before you can setup
your modem in linux. You need to know what COM port your modem is configured to
use (you can find this in Windows Control Panel->System->Modem in
Windows95/98
You then need to tell linux to use this COM port to talk to the modem
Windows COM port Linux COM port
============= ===========
COM1 /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/cua0 (depends on
your Linux distribution)
COM2 /dev/ttyS1 or /dev/cua1
COM3 /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/cua2
COM4 /dev/ttyS3 or /dev/cua3
Now that you know what COM port Linux needs to use for your modem, you'll
probably want to take a look at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Modem-HOWTO-2.html
Good Luck
-Chad Plaster
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From: Maniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ET4000/W32p Problem.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:50:04 +1000
I am having problems configuring my vidcard with XFree86.
The way it acts at anything above 8bpp(256 color), is like it is
addressing the video memory badly or something. In fact, after a soft
reboot into Win95 (dual-boot setup) it showed the background dumped on
the screen. It looked like somesort of memory dump, the way it was
muddled up and all.
I tried what it said in README.tseng, but it still doesn't work
properly, I even went as far a forcing the memory address.... but I am
not sure I got it right... it definately seems like something is wrong
with the autodetection ...prehaps
the computer specs are :-
486DX4-100
Gigabyte Motherboard(VLB)
ET4000/W32p 2MB Rev. D
16MB ram
Caldera OpenLinux 1.3
XFree86 3.3.2
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From: "kss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WANTED : S3 LC2X VGA driver for Red Hat 6.0
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 18:26:08 +0900
Hi All,
Does anybody knows where can I get the driver from the net ?
< VGA Chip : S3 LC2X 86C362 >
< Chip Bios : S3 86C362 Trio3D2X Video Bios Version 2.0B.09 >
- KSS
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From: Xaendiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Winfast s430, Intel EtherExpress pro/10
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:21:06 +0200
hi,
I've just bought an old machine (P120) to dedicate it to linux.
It's got the two above mentionned cards, but I've got some problems with
them:
1) The winfast s430 (S3) card.
When I start X, the S3-server deletes the 800x600 and the 1024x768
modes because
"no dot-clock defined for mode 800x600" (the same for 1024x768)
"mode 800x600 deleted" (the same for 1024x768)
I looked at my xf86config under the section for the monitor and
there are modelines
defined for the two resolutions. My card has got 2MB of memory and
for now I'm only
able to work at 640x480, which isn't the coolest resolution to work.
Has anyone an idea why the server acts like this ?
2) The EtherExpress Pro/10 card.
I tried to recompile the kernel but this card is grayed out in the
kernel configuration panel.
I use make xconfig (in 640x480 resolution mode, it's a little bit
tricky to use) to configure
the kernel.
Any ideas about the two probs are welcome.
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:13:09 +1000
>Does this apply for Proliant 1000 as well, as I
>would like to install Linux RH6 or Caldera 2.2?
>Any experience or hints appreciated.
It should install directly onto the raid, but you will have to put in
another scsi controller for the CDrom drive. As the one in a 1000 isn't
supported by Linux at all.
It is a ncr 53x7 controller but linux only knows to look for this controller
on a PCI bus. Which the proliant 1000 don't have.
But yes the controller and the Proliant 1000 run under Linux
I should know, I have one going here at present <grin>
Altho I only use 5.2
Tony
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From: alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: window resolution
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:28:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have run the xf86config
and set the window sizes to 640X480 on all of the color depths
the monitor supports this size
when i start the xserver
it defaults to 320X240 or something like that
I have tried using the virtual desktop and not using it
I am using the s3v server
under the active servers and all of that works fine
i Just cant seem to change the screen resolution to make it go to
640X480
and I have tried the alt ctl + -
that does nothing???
and it defaults to 8 bit color depth/
any way to change this
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From: Akkula <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recompiling the kernel and Video4Linux
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 10:45:00 +0100
two questions really.
1. How do i recompile my kernel to 2.2.4 ?
2. How do i get my hauppage WinTV card to work under Linux?
Please email replies.
Thanks
AK
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on a SGI Indy.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:28:06 GMT
AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello,
: Has anyone ever installed Linux on an SGI machine? I've got several Indy
: machines that I'd like to use for something other than a dust collector
: :)
: If there is any documentation online please refer me to the URL.
www.linux.sgi.com
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: Mohamad Termizi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 4MB AGP Driver for PhatLinux
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:41:23 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
Does anybody knows where can I get the driver from the net?
TIA
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MCA and Linux ?!?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 03:24:14 -0700
i remember seeing something about trying to support MCA machines around a
year ago, but I don't know the status of it.
-ckm
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I compile drivers?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 03:41:44 -0700
could you please keep this MS-Mime crap out of this group?
-ckm
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stealth II s220
Date: 10 Jun 1999 03:38:42 -0700
get XFree 3.3.1 and read 'rendition.txt' -- performance is pretty bad though.
You may want to buy a new card or a commercial X server.
-ckm
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Subject: Re: Which UPS
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 11:35:30 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Merryweather Management Systems Ltd. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone have a recommendation for a relatively inexpensive UPS
>that can be connected to a Linux box? The UPS is not really intended
Best Power (www.bestpower.com) directly supports Linux.
Also, APC has announced they will be supporting Linux soon, although both
SamrtUPS Tools and apcupsd work well.
The UPS-HOWTO at http://www.newbielinux.com is a little out of date.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Angelin Everaerts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:41:22 +0200
bryan wrote:
[]
> celeron, you -are- following the specs - sort of. the cpu is the same
> basic part they use in the p2-450 - it just has a different cache part
> inside. and that cache part can usually work very well at 450.
>
I got the feeling to: all Cel's and PII(I) are actualy one and the same, if not for
minor differences.But where is the proof?
It's quit understandable that major breakthru's in designing micro-technology don't
happen daily, monthly, even yearly.At the core of a chip there will be the same
circuitry, or at least parts of a circuitry which stays unchanged there for a number
of products.
I remember the 'history' of IBM 386's (LS, ALS, whatever, can't remember anymore)
they where in fact 486!
Did they make an error when building the damned things, was there a problem in the
state-of-the-art machinery?We will never know but fact is that the 486 where
defective, cripled so to speak.
IBM did not trashed them, but instead pronounced them 386.In a stroke of genius they
thought: well, if we cutoff the FPU and with the not cripled parts working we will
have a finetuned 386.Thus making profits out of nasty failure.
As a bonus they payed Intel royalties for a 386, which, i am sure, is not as pricy as
the 486 (courtesy between sharks ...)
>
> raising the voltage from 2.0 to 2.2 is 10%. that's the margin that's
> allowed by the specs, too, I believe. and almost no celeron won't o/c
> at 2.2 v.
> again, I used to turn my nose up at overclockers. 'silly gamers', I
> used to say. not anymore. on -some- chips (the 300a was a one-time
> 'gift' from intel) you are actually staying within the region of
> stability even when you o/c. its just that intel won't admit they
> designed such a great cost/performance item. they'd lose sales of
> their extremely expensive (overpriced) p2 and p3 chips.
>
And what to think of a Pentium with a FPU-instruction that calculated wrong, or have
we forgotten?
To be quit honest, the discussion of the processor being a Celeron or Pentium or AMD
for that matter, is , well not stupid ofcourse, but surely academic
It is as if we where discussing: would it be better to put a rocketmotor in our cars
or a jetmotor, and what brand should it be?
We all are in need of a faster system, we don't need cars, we need airplanes.Whence
came overclocking.
The vast research/upgrading on IC's these days are on suchs things as 'graphical
power'.Sometimes coming up with stupid solutions as putting MMX in a processor.With
MMX-instructions we had chips which are especially interesting if you are playing
games, but else ...?And what about AGP-video cards?You won't benefit now, but ...
later?
If you have a system designed and setup to play(games ...), and you play games on it,
as is the case for M$-operating systems, you will benefit.Linux on the other hand is
not really a gameplatform, even if its overall speed and stability is major to
anything from M$.
And sometimes M$ is strugling to overcome designproblems.Because they had to
sacrifice speed to controlabillity in there GUI, games would suffer ... if they
didn't have DirectX(6.1 now is it :-D :-D)
Just look at the system requirements asked by the new games and look at the
requirements for every other program.The difference is huged.
Graphics have to be getting faster and more and more detailed ... more like, let's
say, playstation?
Now start woundering why Intel is changing their specs in order to counter those
graphical demands ...
Well, anyway,
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat on a Dell Dimension
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 06:01:11 -0500
Sam Choi wrote:
> Has anyone tried or heard of people installing Red Hat on a
> Dell Dimension (desktop model as opposed to the server model).
>
> The Dell rep tried to persuade me to the much more expensive
> server line, warning that Dell would not support Linux on
> a desktop model. But the server line is over $700 more for
> the same configuration.
>
> I'm planning a 500mhz PIII, 384 Meg RAM, and 22 gig HD.
>
> (It's an institutional purchase, so I want to go with a
> know brand. It's my head of I go with a generic PC and
> something goes wrong).
Dell has been putting unsupported hardware on their recent Dimensions.
See the thread named "Linux with the Dell Dimension series" in this same
newsgroup for a bit more detail. (First post was June 4.)
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Simone Piccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: trying to compile for ali 15xx chipset?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 12:13:32 +0200
You have to say Y at one of the first menus, when it's asking for
experimental options (or something like, I dont' remember exactly). I
did this and I've the sopport compiled and working on my 2.2.9.
Bye
--
Simone Piccardi
Microsoft is NOT the answer. Microsoft is the Question.
The answer is: "NO!"
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Spontaneous REBOOT during install of RH6.0
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:23:18 +0200
Bjorn Heijligers wrote:
> For the last 3 days i tried to install RH6.0 on my computer.
> But eachtime when i have selected all packages and it starts
> it's copying the packages it SPONTANEOUSLY REBOOTS after about 10 sec.
<snip>
> Celeron 300A clocked at 450 CPU
Why don't you try to install after disabling the overclocking?
Windoze never pushed the limits of this overclocked CPU, so who
knows if it's really stable.
Multiple RPM installation may be a fairy CPU intensive job, since
there are the preinstall/postinstall scripts, the files in the
packages are compressed, etc. Installing a large RPM may saturate
my P120 if allowed. I don't know about Celeron 300A @ 450, but
maybe too. In fact, a long, full speed transfer of data from
the IDE CD to IDE HDD already makes the P120 sweat.
> 12.7 GB Quantum Fireball EX Harddisk
Another possible source of problems could be allocating the
Linux root partition so that it end after cylinder 1024. I don't
know the details, but many people reported problems caused by
such setup. Search the group (or DejaNews) for more info.
> Hercules Dynamite TNT videocard
> Soundblaster live value
> Livevideo Flyvideo '98 tvcard
> Aopen 40x Cdrom player
>
> I know my box is quite full, but that should not warrant this kind of
> behaviour!
If all else fails, perhaps you could try instaling w/o the sound and
video cards, and then add them one by one. If either one is PnP and
BIOS is either misconfigured, or RH 6.0 installation kernel has some
problems with recognizing them, you may get all kinds of strange
results.
HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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: Mauk van der Laan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Processor temp on ASUS P2B/P5A
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:23:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Modern ASUS motherboards have a chip that reads the CPU temperature and
fan rotation speed. Does anybody know to use this under Linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ragefury redhat 6.0
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:32:50 GMT
i have posted what i thought was a link to this information but after
checking i found the link to be dead so i will just copy it from the
printout that i made of it. i wish the link was good so the author
could get the proper credit but here is how to set up this card using
the frame buffer driver
first dont worry about setting up X during the install
When you first login as root edit your /etc/lilo.conf file. add the line
VGA=791
under the read-only line of the linux section,then exit and save then
type lilo -v
now reboot and you should have a resolution of 1024x768 and a neat
little penguin in the upper left corner. login as root and type the
following
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -Uvh XFree86-FBDev-3.3.3.1-49.i386.rpm
cd /etc/X11
rm X
ln -s /usr/X11R86/bin/X11R6/bin/XF86_FBDev /etc/X11/X
now you need to edit the XF86Config file,delete all the modelines(i
just remarked them out by placeing # infront of each line).now add this
to the area that has the different screen and server info
Section "Screen"
Driver "FBDev"
Device "My Video Card"
Monitor "My Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "default"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Thats it if you do this you should ba able to run XWindows at 1025x768
hope this helps someone
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From: Robert Herzog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Adaptec RAID 133 supported on Linux ?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:50:50 +0200
Hello,
I want to build a server with a powerful and fast hardware RAID
controller.
I have the choice between Vortex and Adaptec controllers, specially the
Adaptec 133 controller.
Is this already supported and operational on linux ,
Can somebody recommend excellent hadware raid solutions ? (I know that
at least SuSE builds its Hypercube server around a Vortex GTD6528
controller with 64 megabyte memory).
Thanks for comments,
Robert Herzog
([EMAIL PROTECTED] is my preferred email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerben Welter)
Subject: Re: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:57:34 GMT
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:57:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've rebuilt the kernel to accomodate some new hardware, but
>when I run lilo to tell it where the new kernel image is, I
>get the message:
>
> geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (1135 > 1023)
>
>This message appears even if I run lilo on the old lilo.conf
>file as well. In any case, the new image is not pointed to and
>when I reboot only the old image is accessible.
>
>How can I get around this problem? I'm desperate.
Your new kernel image is probably located somewhere above the 1024th
cylinder (1135?) Lilo can only access data below the 1024th cylinder.
You probably created one big partition. Now you see why it is usefull
to create separate partitions. Atleast create a small partition for /
or /boot so that your kernels stay below that 1024 limit.
Grtz Gerben.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:44:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I have just decided to change my os to linux. I was wondering
> if anyone know if the ATI Rage Fury 128 video card is compatible with
> RedHat or any other flavor. (RH6 is what I have). If so, is there
> drivers somewhere I can get or are the included? Thanks for any help.
>
> Phil
> i see that the link i posted is dead so i copied the info from my
printout you can see it in my post "ragefury redhat 6.0" hope this will
help
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