Linux-Hardware Digest #132, Volume #11 Mon, 30 Aug 99 00:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: RISC&CISC (Michael Wellman)
Re: Sound Blaster Live - How do you Activate a sound card ("Obs")
Re: hp colorado 8gb drive (J. Scott Berg)
Re: 128 bits? I don't think so... (Doug Mast)
Pci128 Sound and Mandrake 6.0 problem (Ron Venema)
Re: Flashpath and Linux? (Joe Pfeiffer)
Re: 128 bits? I don't think so... (Christopher B. Browne)
linux/apache server (Brain Fisher)
ESS Maestro Drivers Page ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI Caching IDE controller (Michael Lasevich)
Re: PCI Caching IDE controller (Michael Lasevich)
Need driver for a Cirrus Logic based modem. ("Jonathan Taylor")
Re: Flashpath and Linux? (Peter Teuben)
Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 Hardware Compatibility Questions ("Tyler Leeds")
Re: Concern: Do SCSI Target mode drivers exist for Linux (Chris Chiappa)
Re: Help, HP Ethernet card and RH 6.0 (Howard Mann)
Re: oen picasso p2 video card woes (Howard Mann)
Creative CDROM, SUSE 6.2, KDE , and fvwm2 (Michael Green~)
Re: Buying new Linux Box; any hardware recommendations? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual Celeron (Minh Giang)
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From: Michael Wellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: RISC&CISC
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:15:55 GMT
RISC/CISC refer to CPU architectures. Intel/AMD/Cyrix =3D CISC. =20
Alpha/PPC/Sparc =3D RISC.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 8/29/99, 2:31:00 PM, thaar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding=20
RISC&CISC:
> what are the defferences between RISC & CISC arch.'s?
> can linux installed on RISC arch.?
> thanks in advance
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From: "Obs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live - How do you Activate a sound card
Date: 29 Aug 1999 21:13:59 -0500
The driver beta0.3 from Creative Labs now works with RedHat6.0 out of box
kernel. After I recompiled the kernel, it doesn't work anymore. So you can
try that if yours is a standard kernel.
cjh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> There's a driver on Creative's developer site, but I couldn't get it to
work
> with RH6. It said it was the wrong kernel version, but it does support
> 2.2.5. I just put a cheap Ensoniq in there till someone writes a better
> driver.
>
> Reagan wrote:
>
> > Hi People,
> > I recently installed Linux 6.0, and have been getting along with it
> > relatively nicely with one major exception. I can't get any sound. I
> > can't even find where to add a sound card driver or change settings. My
> > computer has a Sound Blaster Live (Value) card on it. It wasn't listed
on
> > Linux's compatibility list, but c'mon... its Sound Blaster... I thought
> > for sure some one would have a driver for Live! or that at least one of
> > the sound blaster drivers would work.
> >
> > My question is... how do I install a driver for my Sound Blaster, and
> > where do I find one for Live! if it exists. Has anyone else tried to
use
> > Live! with linux?
> >
> > Reagan
> >
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> > http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Scott Berg)
Subject: Re: hp colorado 8gb drive
Date: 30 Aug 1999 02:05:07 GMT
In article <YKgw3.9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Sandvik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This drive is 8gb compressed 4gb uncompressed, compression is software
>compression, I'm wondering what people have been getting for amount of data
>and using what compression technique plain old tar or something better if so
>please let me know what you use. Thanks in advance for any help.
Be careful with compression. If there's a 1-bit error on the tape,
you lose everything after the error, at least if you do your
compression with compress or gzip. bzip2 allows some error recovery,
but it is slow enough that you would probably degrade your backup
performance significantly. This may be not as much of an issue if the
tape format has some form of ecc, but I'm not sure if it does or not.
Anyone know how tapes with hardware compression deal with this issue?
--
J. Scott Berg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3025 E. Amy Ln. (812) 339-8368
Bloomington, IN 47408-4220
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Mast)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: 128 bits? I don't think so...
Date: 30 Aug 1999 01:22:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 02:50:34 GMT, Christopher B. Browne
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I think this is the last move - 64 bits is big enough for everyone.
> >><chuckle>
> >
> There's very little value in greater than 64 bit addressing unless you
> actually plan to address more than 4 billion GB of data. And that is a
> *ferociously* large number; the only folks that could be touching that
> kind of bulk would be those doing heavy duty high energy physics.
Oh, there are lots of other applications for huge storage. Problems
like direct numerical simulation of atmospheric dynamics are far beyond
the capabilities of today's machines. 4 billion GB is only enough
to store a million-cubed 3D array of single-precision real numbers;
many large problems of interest will require more than that. With
storage capacities much larger than 64 bits (and processing speed
to match), all sorts of new applications for computer simulation
will arise. For example, it would be very useful to simulate all the
biological functions of a human, down to the intracellular level.
64 bits won't cover that.
> And even with applications that require those sorts of quantities of
> data, access times on Very, Very Very Large Disk Arrays are such that
> it is likely that segmented addressing wouldn't hurt performance overly
> much...
Access times, like CPU times, are much faster than they used to be.
50 years ago, access times of present disks would have been unimaginable.
If speeds double every 18 months (like Moore's law for CPU's),
then we'll gain a factor of 2^64 in less than 100 years.
Doug.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Venema)
Subject: Pci128 Sound and Mandrake 6.0 problem
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:06:31 GMT
Hi all, I am having a problem installing a Sound Blaster Pci128 sound
card in Mandrake 6.0. Can anyone tell me how to get this beast to
work? I tried to run sndconfig and it came up with this error message:
sox: Sun/Next/Dec header doesn't start with magic word try the `.ul`
file with `-t ul -r 8000 filename`
I don't have a clue what all this means.
Btw sndconfig identifies the card as Audio Pci 128.
I also tried the other Creative drivers with no luck.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
RV
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital
Subject: Re: Flashpath and Linux?
Date: 29 Aug 1999 20:04:59 -0600
Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> At some point in the past flashpath (vs. smartmedia) seemed to loose the
> battle, as their maximum capacity was limited. I believe that is not true
> anymore, I have seen at least 32MB flashcards. I still would prefer the
> smartmedia, since they can operate much cheaper inside a PCMCIA adaptor (which
> should work much easier in linux).
I'm missing something here -- flashpath is the adapter that lets you
use smartmedia in your floppy drive. How could they lose the battle
vs. smartmedia? Do you mean compact flash?
I've seen references to the effect that there is a pcmcia-smartmedia
adapter that does have a working driver under Linux... but for the
price of that adapter (and my desktop machine has no pcmcia slots and
is out of slots on the motherboard), I'll stick to serial until
flashpath works...
--
Joseph J. Pfeiffer, Jr., Ph.D. Phone -- (505) 646-1605
Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B. Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: 128 bits? I don't think so...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:31:43 GMT
On 30 Aug 1999 01:22:38 GMT, Doug Mast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
>On Sun, 29 Aug 1999 02:50:34 GMT, Christopher B. Browne
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >>I think this is the last move - 64 bits is big enough for everyone.
>> >><chuckle>
>> >
>> There's very little value in greater than 64 bit addressing unless you
>> actually plan to address more than 4 billion GB of data. And that is a
>> *ferociously* large number; the only folks that could be touching that
>> kind of bulk would be those doing heavy duty high energy physics.
>
>Oh, there are lots of other applications for huge storage. Problems
>like direct numerical simulation of atmospheric dynamics are far beyond
>the capabilities of today's machines. 4 billion GB is only enough
>to store a million-cubed 3D array of single-precision real numbers;
>many large problems of interest will require more than that. With
>storage capacities much larger than 64 bits (and processing speed
>to match), all sorts of new applications for computer simulation
>will arise. For example, it would be very useful to simulate all the
>biological functions of a human, down to the intracellular level.
>64 bits won't cover that.
Fair enough.
That still doesn't differ with the point that consumer video games
are not, at this point, one of those applications.
In order for 64 bits to "not be enough," you pretty much need to have
the billions of GB of storage online, which rules out video games being
an example of something requiring >64 bit addressing...
>> And even with applications that require those sorts of quantities of
>> data, access times on Very, Very Very Large Disk Arrays are such that
>> it is likely that segmented addressing wouldn't hurt performance overly
>> much...
>
>Access times, like CPU times, are much faster than they used to be.
>50 years ago, access times of present disks would have been unimaginable.
>If speeds double every 18 months (like Moore's law for CPU's),
>then we'll gain a factor of 2^64 in less than 100 years.
Based on that 18 month factor, the period of time between the inadequacy
of 32 bits and the inadequacy of 64 bits would represent a period of
approximately 20 years.
Considering that the inadequacy of 32 bits is only now starting to
seriously bite people in contexts other than the "woo-woo Really,
Really Huge" applications, I'd hazard the guess that 64 bits doesn't
have greatly less than 20 useful years left to it.
Estimations based on exponential growth factors are obviously imprecise;
I would nonetheless suggest that 64 bits still has a *few* useful years
left to it...
--
"Anyone who says you can have a lot of widely dispersed people hack
away on a complicated piece of code and avoid total anarchy has never
managed a software project." Andrew Tanenbaum, 1992.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Brain Fisher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: linux/apache server
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:31:00 GMT
I have been appointed to set up a community ISP for a town pop.5,000 and
would like to know some really basic stuff. Experienced with HW, windows
('ugh') and Internet.(earn an existance creating Web Sites in wider area)
Can someone please guide me on some vey basic stuff such as minimum PC
specs. any other hardware & software required. Linux technicalities not
required at this stage. Have a distribution and quite sure 'I will need a
little help from my friends' (cyberfriends) in the future.
thanks brianF
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: ESS Maestro Drivers Page
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 02:25:08 GMT
I just found a page that contains a development on the ESS Maestro
Sound Drivers.
The page is:
http://people.redhat.com/zab/maestro/
Testers are required, So sign up!!!!!!!!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Michael Lasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: PCI Caching IDE controller
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:31:36 -0700
Greetings, all:
I need help in tracking down some information on a PCI caching IDE
controller. I recenty bought it at a surplus store w/o any manuals. I
thought it would be nice to speed up my linux server w/ 16 MB hardware
cache and in today's internet world finding documentation should take a
few minutes tops... little did I know...:( Here's some info about the
board:
It is a PCI card with 4 30pin SIMM sockets.
The model number written on the card is:
INF168 Rev 1.02
PCI IDE HDD/CDROM
Accelerator
On what appears to be a BIOS chip on a paper label:
INF168
Ver 1.11
(C)1995 (256K)
On one of the other chips:
InfoMedia
FORSYNTHIA-B
A A 9996.2
9516
There are LOTS of jumpers (which are most of what I really want to know
about in this card)
When I put it into the computer, the BIOS reads:
INF168 PCI IDE peripheral Accelerator, BIOS Ver. 1.11
Copyright (C) 1994-1995 InfoMedia Technolog, Inc.
All Rights Reserved
PCI Plug & Play Compliance
Then it counts (correctly) the memory on 30 pin SIMMs.
It does not seem to recognize HDD greater then 2 gig (then again, nether
does the on-board IDE in my computer)
When I boot using Linux RH6.0 boot disk I get following messages from
the kernel about this card(I think):
<4>RZ1000: IDE Controller on PCI bus 00 dev 08
<4>RZ1000: device not capable of full native PCI mode
<4>RZ1000: Device disabled (BIOS)
In my searches on the internet I found no "InfoMedia Technology" company
that would produce any computer hardware.
If anyone has manuals or can point me in the right direction, I would
greately appreciate it.
-Michael
michael at cooper dot edu
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From: Michael Lasevich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: PCI Caching IDE controller
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 19:47:17 -0700
On second look, I think the RZ1000 messages are refering to the on-board
PCI IDE controller, not this card.
Michael Lasevich wrote:
>
> Greetings, all:
>
> I need help in tracking down some information on a PCI caching IDE
> controller. I recenty bought it at a surplus store w/o any manuals. I
> thought it would be nice to speed up my linux server w/ 16 MB hardware
> cache and in today's internet world finding documentation should take a
> few minutes tops... little did I know...:( Here's some info about the
> board:
>
> It is a PCI card with 4 30pin SIMM sockets.
>
> The model number written on the card is:
>
> INF168 Rev 1.02
> PCI IDE HDD/CDROM
> Accelerator
>
> On what appears to be a BIOS chip on a paper label:
> INF168
> Ver 1.11
> (C)1995 (256K)
>
> On one of the other chips:
> InfoMedia
> FORSYNTHIA-B
> A A 9996.2
> 9516
>
> There are LOTS of jumpers (which are most of what I really want to know
> about in this card)
> When I put it into the computer, the BIOS reads:
>
> INF168 PCI IDE peripheral Accelerator, BIOS Ver. 1.11
> Copyright (C) 1994-1995 InfoMedia Technolog, Inc.
> All Rights Reserved
> PCI Plug & Play Compliance
>
> Then it counts (correctly) the memory on 30 pin SIMMs.
> It does not seem to recognize HDD greater then 2 gig (then again, nether
> does the on-board IDE in my computer)
>
> When I boot using Linux RH6.0 boot disk I get following messages from
> the kernel about this card(I think):
>
> <4>RZ1000: IDE Controller on PCI bus 00 dev 08
> <4>RZ1000: device not capable of full native PCI mode
> <4>RZ1000: Device disabled (BIOS)
>
> In my searches on the internet I found no "InfoMedia Technology" company
> that would produce any computer hardware.
>
> If anyone has manuals or can point me in the right direction, I would
> greately appreciate it.
>
> -Michael
> michael at cooper dot edu
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From: "Jonathan Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need driver for a Cirrus Logic based modem.
Date: Sat, 28 Aug 1999 14:09:13 -0600
I need a driver for a Idema 56k modem with a Cirrus Logic chipset. I will
be running it under Caldera 2.2. If you have the location of mass
quantities of Linux drivers or technical documentation please share this
info.
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital
Subject: Re: Flashpath and Linux?
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 22:51:49 -0400
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >
> > At some point in the past flashpath (vs. smartmedia) seemed to loose the
> > battle, as their maximum capacity was limited. I believe that is not true
> > anymore, I have seen at least 32MB flashcards. I still would prefer the
> > smartmedia, since they can operate much cheaper inside a PCMCIA adaptor (which
> > should work much easier in linux).
>
> I'm missing something here -- flashpath is the adapter that lets you
> use smartmedia in your floppy drive. How could they lose the battle
> vs. smartmedia? Do you mean compact flash?
oops, yes, i did mean to say compact flash.
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From: "Tyler Leeds" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 Hardware Compatibility Questions
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:24:29 -0300
Yes all of that is compatable with openlinux 2.2 except possibly with your
modem if it is a winmodem (look on the box if it requires anything over a
486 66Mhz then
it is it won't be compatable if though it is a standard modem then
there will be no problem you will not have sound support working out of
the box though it will
require adding some modules and possibly re compiling the kernel
Jorge Padron wrote in message <7q7irj$qfo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>*** NEWBIE: No experience with Linux whatsoever ***
>
>I'm planning to purchase Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 to install it on my home
>computer. I currently run Windows 98SE (quite ~unstable~ I most say) and I
>have an old hard drive that I made available to give Linux a try -- I am
>planiing to dual boot Windows 98SE and Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 >>>>> IS THIS
>POSSIBLE? <<<<<<<<
>
>The problem I have is that I'm not sure if my hardware is going to be
>compatible with Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 -- here's the list of stuff I have in
>my system. Would anybody please let me know whether this is going to work
at
>all?
>
>+ ABUT BH6 motherboard with Intel Celeron 300Mhz
>
>+ 128MB 100Mhz RAM
>
>+ Two Maxtor IDE hard drives: Windows 98SE will stay on the first hard
drive
>and I'll install OpenLinux 2.2 on the second drive.
>
>+ Toshiba ATAPI CD-ROM
>
>+ Matrox Millenium G200 AGP 8MB video card
>
>+ No network card
>
>+ 3COM USR Courier V.Everything internal modem (I'm using the default
>settings: are the default settings Plug and Play? Will this work or do I
>need to manually set the IRQ, COM port, etc.?)
>
>+ Creative SoundBlaster Live! Value sound card (I'm using the default
>settings: are the default settings Plug and Play? Will this work or do I
>need to manually set the IRQ, etc.?)
>
>
>My main problem is that all my devices (video, sound, modem) are using the
>default settings the way they come out-of-the-box, which I believe are in
>"plug-and-play" mode. Can I just go ahead and install Caldera OpenLinux 2.2
>like that without doing anyhting and expect everything to work fine,
>including my modem and sound? Or should instead open my computer case and
>and manually set all IRQ, COM ports, etc? I would very much prefer -not-
to
>have to touch anything inside my computer if at all possible.
>
>Thank you in advance for your input,
>
>J. Padron
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Chiappa)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Concern: Do SCSI Target mode drivers exist for Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 03:01:41 GMT
On Fri, 27 Aug 1999 13:00:48 GMT, Ingmar Graesslin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have following question:
>Does Linux support SCSI target mode drivers and if yes for which SCSI
>adapters ?
I believe someone did some work on this with the Adaptec controllers at one
point, but it's never really been a mass-appeal type thing. With 100Mb
ether so cheap, using it as a network doesn't have much attraction and the
number of people who need this sort of thing for failover situations and the
like is very small. There's a "Linux High-availability" project somewhere,
you might try tracking them down.
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help, HP Ethernet card and RH 6.0
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 03:31:04 GMT
James A. Stockel wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I just installed RH 6.0 on an HP Pavillion with an
> HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 ethernet card. The card could not be identified
> by the installation autoprobe, so I had to install with no networking.
>
> Does anyone know how I can get this card configured?
>
I believe this is an Accton Adapter. The RTL8139.c driver
works for this card.
Use this info. to establish support for the card using conventional
methods per the Ethernet- HOWTO
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: oen picasso p2 video card woes
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 03:31:05 GMT
gary kalmik wrote:
>
> Does any have a oen picasso p2 video card
> i can't find any thing on it and don't know where to go
> to get any thing on i have looked where ever one has
> told me to but having no luck.
>
Using a search engine I found the OEN website and determined
that the videocard uses the 3DLabs Permedia 2v chipset.
This chipset is supported by XFree86, 3.3.4.
Visit http://www.xfree86.org for more information.
Configure X in the standard fashion, stipulating the 3DLabs
x-server.
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Green~)
Subject: Creative CDROM, SUSE 6.2, KDE , and fvwm2
Date: 30 Aug 1999 02:59:55 GMT
My basic problme is this:
When I try to install a package wtihin YAST, YAST mounts my cdrom to /var/adm/mnt
but when it prompts me to put antoher CDROM to actually load the package(s) the CDROM
will not open. When I run the CDROM player software within KDE it will not open the
CDROM either, but it
knows that it's there. Aparaenlty between the time that I do my search fro whatever
package I'm looking for
and the time that I'm prompted to install the correct CDROM, YAST umounts the CDROM, I
guess!
But here's what's really funny, when I switch over to fvwm2, I don't experience this
problem.
I thought that maybe it had something to do with what was wrote in the SUSE Install
manual on page
51 that states that the kernel searches for IDE devices in this order:
IDE prot 1: master
IDE prot 1: slave
IDE port 2: master
IDE port 2: slave
And that if devices are not hooked up in this order, the kernel will hick up and your
CDROM
is likely to hang while being read. Before I read this, my HD was the only device on
IDE port 2, and the
CDROM is the only device on IDE port 2. Both are masters. Thus what I did was make
the CDROM a slave on
port 1. But I still experienced the same simptoms. Then I loaded the kernel that
supposedly handles
problematic IDE chipsets. Still the same problem. Then I logged off and logged back
in, but this time
using the fvwm2 window manager. The problem was gone!!!
I was then able to install my packages, and if I needed to install a different CDROm
than what was already
in the cdrom drive, I was able to open it :) Now what I want to know is why is this
happening, and how do I
fix it so that things works the same under KDE (which I prefrer) and fvwm2. If you'd
like, please send me a
emial. Another questions I have is whey doesn't the kernel support my previsous
hardware setup, which
has better performance, seeing that you only have one device being serviced by each
IDE port, instaed of two
deviceds on a single IDE port. Thanks for your feedeback in anticipation.
Please forgive the misspelled words. I'm downloading about 25MB over my modem and
trying to have a PPP
session at the same time over netnews. Going back and editing in vi with a slow
connection, sucks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Buying new Linux Box; any hardware recommendations?
Date: 29 Aug 1999 20:19:00 PDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William H. Fissell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi, y'all
>
>My 486-50 is getting creaky, and I have to buy a new Linux box.
>
Your 486-50 is getting creaky?? What does that make my
486DLC-40???
I hear you, I'll be plunking down some bucks for a new machine
this week too.
- Processor: AMD K6-2/3d 450Mhz, about $75.00.
Pentiums are more $$$, and Celeron's are Slower.
And I don't trust over-clocking.
- Motherboard: Epox. (forgot the exact model number).
I have been warned off of anything with an ALI chip set.
-Modems: Watch out for win-modems. Almost anything
built on a PCI card will be a winmodem. Althought I
keep hearing roumors of a PCI based real modem. Also,
Winmodems also come on ISA cards, so that isn't always
a good indicator. Best bet is to find the web page that
lists all the compatible modems. I don't remember the URL
but it had "Gromotik" in it. (anyone???).
- Printer: Watch out, there are 'win-printers' too. IE the
HP-722/712 and most Lexmarks. Look for one that is
compatible with Win 3.1 (if they list it) or DOS. But
not DOS with Windows.
- Sound card: It apears that SB Live isn't yet supported.
But for what you are doing you could just plop in a SB16
and be happy.
-Video: Check the Xfree86 web site for a list of supported
video cards.
17" monitors are cheap now. This may be a good excuse
to get one if you don't have one already. Go Ahead and
spring the extra bucks for a Trinatron tube.
>Any suggestions for what's out there? I have about $1200 to spend. I use
>it for text, *minor* programming, and some spreadsheet stuff. I have
>been pretty much out of the loop for a few years, so I have no sense of
>what hardware is going to get me the best linux bang for my buck.
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>Bill
>
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Just my $0.02 worth.
Hope this helps,
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From: Minh Giang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1999 23:36:24 -0400
Hi,
I'm also trying to build a dual celeron on the Abit BP6, but when trying
to intall RH 6.0, it does see my UDMA-66 Harddrive on the 66-IDE port. What's
the trick? Any help or hint will be great
TIA
Minh
James wrote:
> Hey Mike.
>
> I recenly build a dual Celeron box using an Abit BP6 board and two Celeron
> 366. They have both been running solid at 550, even up against kernel
> compiles, all night set@home, etc. Some other responses suggested you
> check out some vendors that offer pretested CPUs. I did this, and it
> worked out for me.. but: Make sure you find out the testing policy of the
> vendor. See what kind of torture they level on the number cruncher before
> deeming it stable. Since you seem hungry for good info sources, check out
> comp.periphs.mainboard.abit for info on the board. There's alot of OC'ing
> info flying around there also. As for vendors that sell pretested CPU's,
> you may want to check out www.pricewatch.com and www.sysopt.com for
> current pointers to good prices/good companies.
>
> Jim
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