Linux-Hardware Digest #978, Volume #10 Tue, 10 Aug 99 20:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Chad Page)
Re: soundblaster pci 128: (Stoney)
Re: Soundblaster midi (Phil Craxford)
RedHat 6.0 and USB modem ???? does it work (Markus)
SBLive Value (root)
Re: Zip drive Doesn't Work - Sounds like a broken record (Tim Clapp)
Re: Anybody using DLINK DFE530 NIC under RH6.0 ?? (Eric Frey)
Re: LS-120 (Huub van Niekerk)
new (old) box with RedHat6.0 and Oracle8 Opinion ? ("Christian Bruno")
Re: monitor video timings (QuestionExchange)
Re: Ricoh 7040A 4x/4x/20x IDE in (QuestionExchange)
Re: Audio problems with AVerMedia TVCapture98 ("R.K.Aa")
For Sale : Intel P120 PC + Canon Printer (Microserf)
Re: Memory Price Increase, why? (Chad Page)
PCI modems that work with LINUX!! (Leonard)
Re: Problems with a K6 system:Exact same problem (Chad Page)
Support PCMCIA cards? (jay)
Re: using setserial to change irq on serial port (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Re: Recommend a MoBo (Chad Page)
Re: any good place to buy ATX case? (Marcus Lauer)
Problems with #9 Revolution T2R card (Andrew Chang)
Re: 486 and monochrome - no output (Ohad Somjen)
Re: #@$%&%( WINMODEMS are a pain in the A#$^& (FS)
Re: Clock showing Feb 6, 2033 ("Brian")
Help - gigabyte GA-5AA m/board & Linux problems (PM)
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From: Chad Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:09:29 GMT
K. Bruner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Aug 1999 20:48:47 +0200, Aernoudt Bottemanne said something like:
> Is it a straight SB PCI 64, or is it one of the weird cards, like the 64D
> that OEMs like Gateway stick in their machines?
It dosen't matter which one - the 64D uses the 1373 chip which
has the same PCI ID as the ES1371 which has a Linux driver. Since
you can build both the 1370 and 1371 drivers in the same kernel image
(or as modules) this is no problem at all. :)
- Chad
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From: Stoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundblaster pci 128:
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:58:14 -0400
Steverl wrote:
>
> I can't figure this one out either. I only get one of my speakers to
> work when playing cd's with rh6.0. It works just fine with win98
> unfortunately. Any help would be appreciated.
> steverl
Hi,
Only thought that occurs to me is that you might want to run a good
mixer program like gmix (gnome) or kmix (KDE) to see if the
channels are unchained on the CD audio.
Good luck,
Stoney
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From: Phil Craxford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster midi
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:30:44 GMT
I have to jion the club on this one as well.
I'm having the same problem with my SB
AWE 64
and RH 6.0 If and answer has been posted can
someone send it to me.
Thanks.
Phil
Toronto, Ontario
miga wrote:
> I have EXACTLY the same problem with my SB32
PnP... everything
> works fine... except for awe_wave.o
>
> Any hint?
>
> Miguel
>
> Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
> > I am fairly new to linux, finally have almost
everything working and
> > very happy with it. I just finished a recompile of my
kernel to fix a
> > bug with the zip drive. I am now getting an error at boot with my
> > Soundblaster midi driver, i have set up everything in the kernel
> > correctly, as
far as i can tell, but it won't load the awe_wave.o
> > driver. here is the error
message
> >
> > Loading sound module [ OK ]
>
> Loading midi module
> > No AWE synth device is found
> > sound: Device or resource
busy
> > post-install /lib/modules/2.3.2/misc/awe_wave.o faile!
d
> >
> > [FAILED]
> >
> > i know there is an AWE sytth device on the card, it is a
Soundblaster
> > AWE64.
> > any help with this would be appreciated
> >
> > also i am
getting errors at boot time taht don't seemt o effect
> > anything, i am running the
2.3.3 kernel and it keeps telling me that
> > system.map has the wrong kernel version,
is this a bug in 2.3.3? if you
> > notice the path for awe_wave.o l;ists the kernel
as 2.3.2... i thought
> > that might be the bug
> >
> > one other thing, i would like
to set up the ftp server, stupid me when i
> > installed the sytem i overlooked that,
but i don't see anywhere that i
> > can download it, and i can't find a deamon on my
system to run... how do
> > i set this up?
> >
> > Thank you for all your help
> >
> >
Mike
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus)
Subject: RedHat 6.0 and USB modem ???? does it work
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:38:18 +0200
Hello,
Have anyone gotten a external USB modem to work with Linux?
My modem is totally dead under Linux, and as far as I have
researched, I don't find any signs of it being a winmoden, HSP,
whatever....
but the question is, are USN modems supported under Linux?
Thanks alot in advance, I really would appriciate any answer.
,markus
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Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 16:28:03 -0500
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SBLive Value
I'm running on SuSE 6.1. I downloaded the latest driver for the live
from soundblasters website. SuSE wouldn't let me do the auto install,
so I did it manually. After much tinkering, I finally got something to
happen (though not good). After running "modprobe emu10k1" I get the
following error:
/lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/emu10k1.o was compiled for kernel version
2.2.5-15 while this kernel is version 2.2.7.
/lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/emu10k1.o: insmod
/lib/modules/2.2.7/misc/emu10k1.o failed
/lib/modules/2.2.7/emu10k1.o: insmod emu10k1 failed
I guess it's telling me that the driver is incompatible with my kernel.
Does anyone know of a work-around for this?
Thanks in advance
BreadFan
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From: Tim Clapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip drive Doesn't Work - Sounds like a broken record
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:26:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Hill wrote:
>
> Running RedHat 5.0 (hurricane) on a 486. Using Iomega 100 Zip drive
> connected with a SCSI Adaptec 1502 adapter.
>
> I set-up the proper settings by re-compiling the kernel. When I boot up
> I can successfully see the scsi device.
> Dmesg indicates scsi found = 1 and recognizes the adapter I have.
>
> so... when I
>
> 'mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos'
>
> the error message says
>
> " the kernel did not recognize /dev/sda4 as a block device
> (maybe insmod driver ?) "
Did you compile the scsi as a module. In that case you will have to tell
kerneld which module to use. In English that means you need to add
something like:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
to /etc/conf.modules (replacing aic7xxx with whatever module your SCSI
card uses. There is a Red Hat tool in the control-panel (kernelcfg) if
you prefer the GUI. I think you may need to restart kerneld as well. (If
you've upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel, kerneld is built in).
Tim.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Frey)
Subject: Re: Anybody using DLINK DFE530 NIC under RH6.0 ??
Date: 10 Aug 1999 21:22:26 GMT
Scott Marlowe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "BERTHIAUME, ERIC" wrote:
: > Anybody using Dlink dfe-530 nic under rh6.0 ... as you can guess i'm
: > having a hard time getting that card to work.
: >
: It is a via-rhine chipset card, not NE2000
Note that the dfe-530tx+ uses the rtl8139 chipset (at least thats the
driver that works for me) and seems to be very different from the
dfe-530tx.
=======================================================================
Eric C. Frey
Department of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Radiology
The University of North Carolina
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From: Huub van Niekerk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,redhat.config
Subject: Re: LS-120
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 20:33:39 +0200
Yes, it does!!! I have one as /dev/hdd (e.g. 2nd IDE, slave). No driver
needed. Just create under the /mount directory the /LS120 subdirectory. Then
in /etc/fstab add a line containing "/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 msdos
noauto,rw 0 0" and all you have to do is: mount /dev/hdd and cd /mnt/ls120.
Don't worry about the message about the blocks and sizes you'll probably get.
Good luck,
Huub
dinh_dat wrote:
> Does Linux support LS-120? I have one work well under Window but I don't
>
> know how to make it work under Linux? Can anybody help? Thanks in advance.
>
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From: "Christian Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new (old) box with RedHat6.0 and Oracle8 Opinion ?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 19:24:19 +0200
hi
i plan to install a RedHat 6.0 on a Pentium 75 platform with 32 or 64Mo of
ram
i got Oracle 8.0.5 and i want to install Oracle Server on this box
will Linux support such a load with this amount of memory ? or will it die ?
(i dont mind if "performance" is not present)
is there someone here who already tried such an installation ?
thanks
Christian
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: monitor video timings
Date: 10 Aug 1999 18:46:18 GMT
> Hi, I am returning to Linux (Red-Hat 6.0) after a couple of
> years in the Windows wilderness.. and I seem a little rusty as
> expected. I have managed to setup most things OK but my
> monitor video timings just don't seem to obey the rules of
> logic. Has anyone here had any luck setting up a 17" Daewoo
> CMC-1707B to use 1024x768 (24bpp) at 85MHz (as in Windowz :-).
> If so, can you please share them with the group. Thanks in
> advance, Alex Arana
<SARCASM> Wow...85Mhz! Personally, my monitor's horizontal
refresh rate maxes out at 85 hz..that makes yours one million
times faster! </SARCASM> Since you didn't supply any specific
error messages, then I can only give you general advice. For
any monitor, check the monitor's manual (or Sony's web site if
you don't have the manual) for the horizontal and vertical
refresh rates. Run xf86config and enter them when prompted.
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From: QuestionExchange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ricoh 7040A 4x/4x/20x IDE in
Date: 10 Aug 1999 18:47:35 GMT
> Hi All, Does somebody know if the CD-RW drive Ricoh 7040A
> 4x/4x/20x IDE int. is supported by Linux (I use SuSe 6.1)?
> Thanks a lot, Thorsten -- +---------------------------------
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Hi there. I had a Ricoh CDRW in a clients machine and it
picked it up without a problem. The Linux driver uses ATAPI
for IDE CD-ROMs so there should not be any problems with ANY
IDE driven CDR/W's Henti
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio problems with AVerMedia TVCapture98
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:50:49 +0200
Jaume Grané Mora wrote:
>
> I can't hear the audio with my AVerMedia TVCapture98. I'm using a 2.2.10
> kernel, the latest bbtv drivers I found (0.6.4e) and XawTV 2.46. It's
> not the line-in of my SoundBlaster, I'm sure.
>
> Any idea? Does anybody succeeded in that question? Help!
The way i fixed the sound-riddle in xawtv was to insert "mixer" as
mixer-device in the .xawtv init file. That forced an error, listing the
possible sound devices. After that i just tested them one by one - till
i had found the right device.
("mixer = mixer" to force the error, and "mixer = vol" worked in my case
- may be different in yours.)
K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Microserf)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: For Sale : Intel P120 PC + Canon Printer
Date: 10 Aug 1999 23:07:49 GMT
I would like to sell the following PC
Intel Pentium - 120
EDO 8MB RAM
1.2 GB IDE HD
3.5" HD Floppy
PCI Accelerated Video Card (1 MB VRAM)
CD-ROM
15" Monitor
Canon BubbleJet Printer 250.
Asking : $400 + Shipping.
Prefer buyers in the San Diego Area.
sb
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From: Chad Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Price Increase, why?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:24:08 GMT
There was a power outage in Taiwan a week or two ago, and it
takes a while for the fabs to ramp back up after being shut down.
(In other words, prices on a lot of _other_ things like TFT panels might
go up too.)
- Chad
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was told it was because Micron stopped making chips.
> Eric
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius) wrote:
>> In article <7ofh2u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby) writes:
>> >
>> > Does anyone know what has caused the price of memory to up the last
> few
>> > weeks? I know this is not uncommon for such a product but I have
> not really
>> > heard what caused this. Short supply? Another plant blowup? Just
> wondering.
>> >
>> > I was looking at picking up a 128M DIMM PC100 for one of my Linux
> boxes
>> > which went from about $78 a few weeks ago to about $109 the last
> few days.
>> >
>> In case you haven't noticed, the DRAM business has been downright
>> BRUTAL for years now. Suppliers have been continually failing to
>> make any reasonable amount of money, and been having to invest a
>> billion bucks a fab for the chance to fail to make any money.
>>
>> So there's been a bit of a shakeout. Some number of DRAM suppliers
>> have dropped out.
>>
>> Supply drops, demand stays roughly constant, prices rise.
>>
>> Dale Pontius
>> DEPontius AT usa DOT net
>>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PCI modems that work with LINUX!!
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 18:42:40 GMT
Ref: PCI modem issues...
:
:There are many PCI modems out there that are win-modem
:based...HOWEVER, there are some new ones just coming
:out that will work on LINUX...example:
:
:The Lucent (Venus) based chips on Multitec, IBM and Actiontec
:PCI modems will work with LINUX. I have the Actiontec (Call Waiting)
:PCI modem and it works...the Lucent (Formerly an AT&T affiliate)
:chipset is a full blown, real modem...with all chips on the card to
:control everything..no need for any MS$ code in your system.
:
:BTW the Actiontec (Call Waiting) modem cost $99 at places
:like Circuit City...but, remember, it is a full control chipset
:modem!
:
:It works because it emulates a UART (16550A), that is what your
:external serial modem sees as it talks to your serial port. When
:you assign your comm port via the Setserial command...example,
:as indicated in the enclosure, the "ttyX" parameter set at "tty3"
:would be the equivalent of assigning comm 4 to the internal
:port address (the first one) from the PCI info form the
:PCI query of your LINUX system.
:
:Anyway, by insuring you have the LUcent chipset mentioned
:and following the info below...it will work. However, there
:are some PCI full blown modems out there that do not
:emulate the UART and will not work! So check around,
:there are some outstanding PCI modems out there that
:will work...and a lot that will never work and depend on
:a MS OS!
:
:Leonard...
:
:Actiontec is at:
http://www.actiontec.com
:
:look for info on the PCI (Call Waiting modem)...it has a note
:on the front of the box that it is LINUX compatible as well
:as MS, IBM OS2, etc.
:
:____________________________________________________
:
:The following from the Red-Hat site regarding PCI modems on LINUX:
:Downloaded 8/10/99...10:30 am...Tuesday....Hope this helps!
:Leonard...
:
:
:Lucent Venus based PCI modem emulate a complete serial UART and are
:able to work under Linux because of this.
:
:The Actiontec PM-6500-LKI is an implementation of this chipset that
:has been tested to work with Red Hat Linux version 5.2
:
:Here is how you get a Venus based PCI modem to work under Linux:
:
:I) Physically install the modem. If you cannot do this or are unsure,
:please consult a qualified computer technician.
:
:II) Login to your system as "root".
:
:III) Determine the resources used by the modem. To do this, look at
:your /proc pci file with a comamand something like this:
:
:"less /proc/pci".
:
:IV) Look for an entry that has vendor id=11c1 and a device id=480.
:Note the IRQ that this device uses as well as the first I/O
:address that is listed.
:
:V) Use the IRQ and I/O address obtained in step IV to set up the
:serial port that the modem uses with a command like this:
:
:"setserial /dev/ttySx uart 16550A port y irq z"
:
:where x is the serial device you want to use, y is the I/O address and
:z is the IRQ.
:
:VI) You will want this command to execute each time that your machine
:boots, so you will want to put the command that you
:typed in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or in /etc/rc.d/rc.serial
:
:You will probably also want to make a symbolic link from your serial
:device to /dev/modem with a command like this:
:
:"ln -s /dev/ttySx /dev/modem"
:
:where x is the serial device that you choose (like in step V) for your
:modem.
:
:That should do it.
:
:The test conditions for this are as follows:
:
:OS: RedHat Linux 5.2 Boxed CD with Linux kernel 2.0.36
:
:______________________________________________________
:
:Under the later distributions there is a neat little Icon that shows
:all PCI devices attached to the system and all the pertinent
:info to put in the Setserial command you need. Also, you'll
:have to change the write permissions on the file. It is write
:protected. I'm referring to the etc/rc.d/rc.local files.
:
:I found this PCI info in the Mandrake 6.0 distribution of RH.
:I'm pretty sure it's in all R.H. 6.0 editions...I don't think it
:was there under 5.2...at least, not under a Icon!
:
:Leonard..
:
:__________________________________________________
:
:On Mon, 09 Aug 1999 23:30:50 GMT, Justin Bishop
:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
::I own an internal PCI, hardware reliant (not a WinModem), Creative Labs
::Soundblaster Modem...i know this modem is made by Rockwell...i got all the
::info correct, the kppp response tells me that it cannot access the
::modem...what is going on? one response earlier said that all rockwell pci
::internal modems will not work at all in linux...is this true? am i just SOL
::or is there something i can do? thanks for your help!
::p.s I'm running kernel 2.2.9 in linux mandrake6.0
::
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From: Chad Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with a K6 system:Exact same problem
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:36:55 GMT
If heat isn't a problem, then either (a) the motherboard is marginal
(it wouldn't happen to be from the PC Chips group, would it? ;), (b) the
RAM is marginal (not likely if you can UC it with stablitity) or most likely
the CPU is either remarked or otherwise just not up to running at 450mhz.
AMD has had problems in the past building K6's (they don't scale nearly
as well as the Athlon. :) and maybe this was just one of the weaker ones.
Also check your voltage, it has to be 2.4v for it to work most likely.
- Chad
Gerry Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have the exact same problem!!! I have an AMD K6-2 450 and "make"
> always crashes or gives error messges when compiling the kernel. I've
> tried with the 2.2.9 kernel, the 2.2.5 kernel and the 2.2.10 kernel in
> Redhat and Mandrake and accepting the default values. I have a large
> fan, 125 megabytes of swap and 128 mb. of RAM. As far as I know the
> 2.2.x series removed the 128 megabyte barrier for the swap partition.
> Cooling is not a problem. I am currently trying to compile the same
> kernel on two computers (AMD and Intel Pentium 233). Wish you luck. I
> will post results soon. Maybe a processor bug????
> Sincerely
> Gerry Chu
> <Thought provoking quote goes here>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jay)
Subject: Support PCMCIA cards?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:38:37 GMT
Getting a laptop in a week or so, and purposely ordered
it without a network card or a modem (winmodem, and unsupported
network card were included).
What are some good modem and ethernet pc-cards that are
compatible with linux? I believe that the netgear 410tx will work,
but I have no idea about which modem to choose.
Thanks for any help.
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: using setserial to change irq on serial port
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 02:12:45 +0300
Jan Cernohorsky wrote:
>
> I have a SuSE 6.2 Linux installation on a dual processor PII 300 box. The
> modem is ISA and on COM3. In the standard setting the irq on the port in
> question would like to be irq 4. It needs to be 5. I have tried to use
>
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq 5
>
> (as root), but it comes back with
> "Operation not permitted"
Could it be because /dev/ttyS2 is in use by some other process? See if
"setserial /dev/ttyS3" works. "ps axw | grep tty" or "ls /var/lock"
could help.
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From: Chad Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend a MoBo
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 22:27:19 GMT
A Celeron-466 is a bit slower than a P3/450 because of the clock
multiplier effects caused by the C466 using a 66mhz bus. Still, two 466's
on an Abit BP6 is a LOT less than two P3/450 CPUs. (And less than one
P3/600 CPU. :)
The best-performing Celeron solution would be a dual 333 or 366
overclocked to 500 or 550. Although not a guaranteed success, it would
give you a lower clock multipler and therefore better performance. Also
the BP6 allows you to adjust voltages individually.
(And if you're using an app which benefits from SMP, such a rig
would outrun even an Athlon 650. :)
- Chad
Scott Marlowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Pearce wrote:
>> I am planning on doing a hardware upgrade shortly and would like some
>> feedback regarding motherboards. I plan on using either an Intel PII
>> or PIII running at 450Mhz, 96-128MB of RAM, all IDE/ATAPI interfaces
>> (2 harddrives, a CD-ROM, and a ZIP). The CD-ROM, ZIP, harddrive
>> (6.4GB...3years old), and floppy drive from my current system will be
>> transferred to the new system. Everything else will be new.
>>
>> I will be running LInux Mandrake 6.0 and Windows NT 4.0 in a dual-boot
>> configuration. Mandrake for me, NT for the other users.
>>
> You should really really look at the Celeron CPU. You can run dual
> Celerons-466s for less than a single PIII 450, and each CPU is already a
> bit faster than the single PIII 450 would be. Plus you've got
> redundancy, if one should die, just pull it out and keep going. Not that
> I've ever seen one die, but hey.
> Seriously, with the Coppermine and AMD K7 coming out, PIIIs will be
> tumbling in price, and you could spend the $450 or so a PIII450 and mobo
> goes for on a dual 466 Celeron. Intel may advertise them as suitable for
> home use, but the fact is, they are every bit the match of the PIII when
> running Linux and NT.
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any good place to buy ATX case?
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 17:45:47 -0700
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, leon wrote:
>i want to buy a new case with
>4 big drive(5'1/2 inch, for cdrom&hd w/ moveable pack)
>and 2 small drive(3'1/2 inch, for floppy drive)
>i have seen the price is $ 200(no transformer)
>and $290-310(w/ transformer 300W)
>any suggestion?
That sound pretty expensive. I just bought a SuperPower Zephyr KS-210XP
case which fits these specs - ATX, 4 5-1/4" bays, 2 3-1/2" bays, plus one
internal 3-1/2" bay, 300W power supply. It costs $66 at The Chip Merchant
(www.thechipmerchant.com), plus about $30 for shippng and tax. I'm very happy
with it, although I'm using it with a Baby AT board, which causes some slight
problems. There's a review of this case at Ars-Technica
(www.arstechnica.com/reviews/3q99/zephyr-1.html). See if this case fits your
needs.
Marcus Lauer
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From: Andrew Chang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problems with #9 Revolution T2R card
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 13:52:12 -0500
Hi, I just installed Mandrake 6.0, but it did not recognize
the above video card. in Mandrake, i chose #9 Imagine 128
T2R driver since there is no driver for the Revolution T2R.
there is a driver for AGP Revolution T2R.
thanks for any info.
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From: Ohad Somjen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 and monochrome - no output
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 21:59:27 +0300
hi,
i compiled the kernel for 486,
the kernel for my PII does boot and show
some messages, but then panics because of
wrong architecture.
Ohad.
On 10 Aug 1999, Alex Yung wrote:
> Ohad Somjen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : i just installed RH6.0 on an old 486DX66 w/8MB ram
> : and 500+ disk
>
> : everything works fine except for the fact
> : that when i boot my custom kernel or a kernel
> : that i built on my PII-233/192MB i see
> : (i use lilo)
>
> : loading kernel.....
> : uncompressing .................. ok now booting
>
> : and then nothing
>
> : the "disply" adapter is an old monochrome that has also
> : a parallel port built on it.
>
> : the strange thing is that i have output from the kernel-2.2.5-22
> : that came with the cd ( i upgraded from kernel-2.2.5-15)
>
> : TIA,
> : Ohad
>
> : ps - please cc my email
>
> Did you optimize your kernel for Pentium class cpu or 386?
>
>
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From: FS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: #@$%&%( WINMODEMS are a pain in the A#$^&
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:33:07 GMT
More of the new motherboards still use isa than ones that don't, but indeed you
speed the motherboard if you convert everything to PCI...I can't do this because
I have several hundred dollars of network equipment and such (5 10mbit cards)
invested in my machines. But indeed I have seen generic PCI 56k modems.
Lee Sharp wrote:
> Mikael wrote in message <8rcr3.860$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
> |What if someone has important equipment (ISA) on his/her old computer and
> |needs to move it to a new machine what should that person do if there are
> no
> |ISA slots on the newer computer's motherboard?
>
> Get new hardware, or keep the old machine. I don't not want to pay in
> money or performance to support everyone else's legacy hardware. At some
> point, a standard dies.
>
> Lee
>
> --
> SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
> necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. * Black
> holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual, not
> as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
> solely responsible for my words.
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: Clock showing Feb 6, 2033
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 12:04:00 -0700
Hi Greg:
Greg Martin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
<snipped for brevity>
>There's lots of Linux groups out there Brian. That wuld seem the best
>place to ask.
>Regards,
>Greg Martin.
I have determined this is a harware problem, not an OS problem.
Best regards,
Brian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PM)
Subject: Help - gigabyte GA-5AA m/board & Linux problems
Date: Tue, 10 Aug 1999 23:15:04 GMT
Hi,
TIA for any help.
Recently replaced motherboard with Giga-byte GA-5AA, with ALi Aladdin
V AGPset and IBM 333Mh CPU.
Have now got it working (in a manner of speasking ) with Win 95, after
downloading a bootdisk from www.bootdisk.com which enabled me to read
the CD-rom and so install windows.
I haven't been able to use a boot disk ot cd-rom to start up the
system so that I can get a system going.
Any advice, please?
I was planning on removing evry piece of MS over the next week -
please, someone, tell me I can.
Paul
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