Linux-Hardware Digest #337, Volume #12 Thu, 24 Feb 00 22:13:05 EST
Contents:
internal DSL modems - are they supported by Linux? (Roberto De Leo)
Re: internal DSL modems - are they supported by Linux? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Cheap rock solid video board (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Supported Video Cards/Chipsets ("Flux")
Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Linux distributions on CD for sparc? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Are there real, hardware PCMCIA modems? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: SMP monitoring utility? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Abit BP6 & 2 Celeron 533s, Usefull setup? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (C. Newport)
Fujitsu HD performance (Elder Vieira Costa)
Re: Max Concurrent processes? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: misconfigured BIOS (Kenneth Crudup)
--- NEED HELP --- COM/Xi Digiboard drivers for Linux 2.0 or 2.2 (Wayne Veilleux)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: HELP!! Can't install Linux with SCSI HD.!! (newsreader99)
Re: upgrading kernel? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Trident based cards? (Josh)
Re: Tekram DC-390F or AdvanSys ASB3940UW-00 - opinions? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Zip-100 under Linux.... ("Sake")
Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help! ("Maskim Xul")
Re: Linux distributions on CD for sparc? (James Riggs)
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From: Roberto De Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: internal DSL modems - are they supported by Linux?
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:08:21 +0100
Hi,
does anybody have some experience with internal ADSL modem under Linux?
In the ``ADSL HOWTO for Linux Systems'' it says that they are not
supported
but the date of the howto is April 1999, I hope something changed since
then.
Otherwise I'd better hurry up to change my internal modem with an
external one...
Thanks,
Roberto De Leo
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: internal DSL modems - are they supported by Linux?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:20:42 GMT
On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:08:21 +0100, Roberto De Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>does anybody have some experience with internal ADSL modem under Linux?
>In the ``ADSL HOWTO for Linux Systems'' it says that they are not
>supported but the date of the howto is April 1999, I hope something
>changed since then. Otherwise I'd better hurry up to change my
>internal modem with an external one...
Get the external. I believe there is support for the Diamond card, but
nothing else now. Efficient is doing drivers, but several months off.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Cheap rock solid video board
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:16:32 GMT
>> Phoenix Maxi-Gamer AGP. It's a 3Dfx Voodoo Banshee, and
>> I paid $60 for a 16MB SGRAM version last August.
In article <88vfsc$8f1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>I don't think my board has AGP. At least the manual doesn't say it does.
>How can I tell?
Not sure, w/o opening it up. Do you know your chipset type?
>Doesn't this card require a 2D card?
Nope.
-Kenny
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Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: "Flux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Supported Video Cards/Chipsets
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:21:30 -0500
I had to manually edit my XF86Config file to get my S3 card working. More
specifically I had to add the RamDac and ClockChip directives in the config
file. Then I had to edit the "Screen' sections to get me up and running in
16 bit color depth (older card; sorry I can't get any higher than that
;-) ).
If you install the X11 Documentation, there is a README.S3 that should give
all the necessary information to get your card working. Depending on what
distribtuion you are installing, you should be able to configure the card
for X after installing the system. If not, just choose a basic X
configuration and don't probe the card or test X until after the install and
after you've edited the XF86Config.
Good luck,
Flux.
Clive Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to run linux at work but currently not able to do because
> of video card/X problems.
> I have a IBM 300PL with an S3 Trio3D graphics card. I recently tried
> XFree86 3.3.6 but still no luck with X (fails during the install
> process).
>
> I would like some suggestions for a video card that is well supported by
> XFree86.
>
> Any help will be much appreciated.
>
>
> Clive...
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:27:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>Is it possible to use APM and SMP.
In a limited way, yes.
>I need it for CPU-idle calls
This might not be what you think it is. The kernel will *still* do the
HLT (halt) instruction when idle; this is independent of APM. However,
if you have a machine that *has* APM enabled, the "IDLE" call merely
further lowers the machine's power usage. As I'd imagine any machine
with 2 CPUs is a desktop, you can live w/o this APM feature.
>and Poweroff on shutdown.
That's easy:
add
apm=smp-power-off
To your /etc/lilo.conf with the "append=" statement. man lilo.
Note, that I *have* to run my SMP box (Abit BP-6) with APM
support enabled, as my machine will occasionally generate an
APM BIOS callback, which crashes my box if unhandled. I could
just disable all APM in the BIOS, but since enabling APM in
the kernel takes care of it, I do that to gain the rewards.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Subject: Re: Linux distributions on CD for sparc?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:28:16 GMT
In article <88uddf$50u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>Are there any distributions on CD (Red Hat, Caldera, etc)
>for the sparc platform?
If you have a fast connection and a CD-burner, you can get the
ISO images off the RedHat site and it's mirrors.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Subject: Re: Are there real, hardware PCMCIA modems?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:36:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dick Wisan) says:
>or are there actual, hardware modems for the PCMCIA port?
Yes.
>If there are, could you name some?
I have a Megahertz, a 3Com, and a Viking(?) that work well
as a standard PCMCIA serial port. Of course, all of these are
at least 2 years old.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:39:06 GMT
In <88t2kv$788$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/23/00
at 05:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
>>As for why you are getting Win2K with Linux and OS/2 available to
>>you .... :-)
In article <38b467d5$2$ovryyvat$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>There's some professional stuff that will only run in Win32, though.
One word: "Vmware". I'm naming my first child after it. 30 days is
free, so make sure your app runs on it, then it's $100 if you buy it.
They're even coming up with an OS/2 version.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:44:13 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:27:05 GMT, Kenneth Crudup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>says:
>
>>Is it possible to use APM and SMP.
>
>In a limited way, yes.
>
>>I need it for CPU-idle calls
>
>This might not be what you think it is. The kernel will *still* do the
>HLT (halt) instruction when idle; this is independent of APM. However,
>if you have a machine that *has* APM enabled, the "IDLE" call merely
>further lowers the machine's power usage. As I'd imagine any machine
>with 2 CPUs is a desktop, you can live w/o this APM feature.
>
>>and Poweroff on shutdown.
>
>That's easy:
>add
>
> apm=smp-power-off
>
>To your /etc/lilo.conf with the "append=" statement. man lilo.
>
>Note, that I *have* to run my SMP box (Abit BP-6) with APM
>support enabled, as my machine will occasionally generate an
>APM BIOS callback, which crashes my box if unhandled. I could
>just disable all APM in the BIOS, but since enabling APM in
>the kernel takes care of it, I do that to gain the rewards.
Are you doing anything more than:
CONFIG_APM=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK is not set
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE is not set
# CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT is not set
# CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS is not set
# CONFIG_APM_REAL_MODE_POWER_OFF is not set
And, you have APM on in BIOS too? I though that was a taboo?
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: SMP monitoring utility?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:45:13 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>I have a dual ppro running redhat 6.1 and I'm looking
>for a console utility that will show some stats for each
>cpu independently.
"xosview".
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Subject: Re: Abit BP6 & 2 Celeron 533s, Usefull setup?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:48:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"M. Valkier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>Abit BP6
>2 x Celeron 533Mc
>256 Mb PC100
>... is this combination as powerful as lets say a PII-450?
Nah, it's nowhere close.
... the BP-6 *blows* it away!
I do have to warn you though about a few caveats:
- buy some good fans for your CPUs
- get a good 300W PS
- buy a 486 fan and some heatsink goop for your BX chip
- run a kernel no earlier than 2.2.14pre13
I used to have random lockups with this machine, but now, it's as stable
as a rock.
-Kenny, running two 400s at 515
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advanced Power Management and SMP?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:51:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>And, you have APM on in BIOS too? I though that was a taboo?
Nope, always had it on. I prefer it.
>Are you doing anything more than:
$ fgrep APM /usr/src/linux/.config
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_USER_SUSPEND=y
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_DISPLAY_BLANK=y
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_MULTIPLE_SUSPEND is not set
# CONFIG_APM_IGNORE_SUSPEND_BOUNCE is not set
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_APM_ALLOW_INTS=y
$
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. Newport)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: 25 Feb 2000 01:29:03 -0000
Jonathan Buzzard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: >
: > As we ship these things to power stations, who will break them anyway,
: > it's not a false economy, as they'll break the expensive ones too.
: > At 96p, we can afford to ship several spares with the system so that
: > they don't bother us with support calls for broken mice.
: >
: > Most of the mice get broken due to atmospheric muck clogging up the
: > optical sensors. You just wouldn't beleive how dirty some power
: > stations are. Tip: When going on site to fix something, always
: > wear your oldest, tattiest clothes, esp. to Didcot.
: >
: Have you considered getting suitably IP rated mice for this enviroment?
: They are avaliable you know. I would not be surprised if the keyboards
: pack in as well.
The optical mice which require a special cross-hatched pad are much
better in dirty situations. A quick wipeover of the pad with a screen
wipe usually solves the problem.
Unfortunately such critters are somewhat scarce nowadays, although
they are still an option for Sun kit.
: --
: Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: Elder Vieira Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Fujitsu HD performance
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:15:11 -0300
I have a 13GB Fujitsu HD and a PC-Chips M571 V7 main board with AMD's
K6-II-266, kernel 2.2.14, RedHat 6.1. I am getting around 8MB/s transfer
rate when I test the HD with hdparm (hdparm -t /dev/hdd) whereas with an
older 6.3 Maxtor drive (/dev/hda) I get around 12MB/s (50% faster even
though its older). No other devices were attached to IDE busses when I
ran the tests. An DMA transfer is surely working as I got 5MB/s when I
turned it off (hdparm -d 0 /dev/hdd). Has somebody got any hint about
how to improve the performance? Am I missing something.
Thanks and regards
Elder (yes, this is my given name 8-).
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Subject: Re: Max Concurrent processes?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:01:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>From top on dual processor board:
> 74 processes: 71 sleeping, 3 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
>Is this right or is top pulling on my leg?
I don't see why not:
64 processes: 58 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 5 stopped
... and that's on a slow day.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 20:59:13 -0500
In <_2lt4.738$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/24/00
at 08:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup) said:
>One word: "Vmware". I'm naming my first child after it. 30 days is free,
>so make sure your app runs on it, then it's $100 if you buy it. They're
>even coming up with an OS/2 version.
Yeah, I've heard of VMWare and I'll probably experiment with OS/2 in Linux
first and see how it goes from there. I may try running Win98 in Linux as
well. I've even seen some type of a 'Unix' running in a virtual machine
on Windows NT Workstation 4.0 -- more info will be available soon as we
will be purchasing some of these systems in the near future. But I won't
get a chance to "play" like I would at home. Also, I can't afford a home
system. At circa $30,000 a pop I'd rather buy a car, pay off the house,
etc.
But having VMWare doesn't preclude having the software on the harddrive,
does it? This isn't like IBM's Win-OS/2 running in a virtual machine on
OS/2 -- at least not like fullpack OS/2. This sounds more like the
so-called "Redbox" or "Red Spine" edition of OS/2 Warp 3, aka "Warp for
Windows."
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Subject: Re: misconfigured BIOS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:11:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>A few years ago I have also read that it's possible to extract the BIOS
>chip on a running system (after the flash program & data are loaded),
>insert the faulty chip and flash it.
I have (had to ... <grumble>) do(ne) this once on my ABit BP-6. It
does work, but you have to know what TF you're doing.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: Wayne Veilleux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: --- NEED HELP --- COM/Xi Digiboard drivers for Linux 2.0 or 2.2
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:12:22 -0500
Hi:
I would like to know if someone is using the COM/Xi
Digiboard card with the Linux kernel version 2.2.X
If yes, PLEASE I would like to be in touch with you.
Thanks
--
================== Linuxez=vous les uns les autres =================
Wayne Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +1 514 540-8275
Ingenieur de reseaux WayComm Fax: +1 450 649-2419
============ Hiroshima 45 == Chernobyl 86 == Windows 95 ============
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:15:01 GMT
In article <38b5e333$3$ovryyvat$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>Also, I can't afford a home system. At circa $30,000 a pop
>I'd rather buy a car, pay off the house, etc.
What costs $30 grand?
>But having VMWare doesn't preclude having the software on the harddrive,
>does it?
Nope. In fact, it's best to run VMware's copy of Windows on one of their
"fake" IDE disks that are really bitmap representations on disks that
are linux ext2 files.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (newsreader99)
Crossposted-To:
hk.comp.pc,alt.os.linux,hk.comp.hacker,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: HELP!! Can't install Linux with SCSI HD.!!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:52:22
It might help if you give more accurate info, like what distribution you
were using and when you start to have problem.
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:>From:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Subject: HELP!! Can't install Linux with SCSI HD.!!>Date:
Thu, 24 Feb 2000 23:04:57 +0800
>Hello all,
>Could you give me a hand ?
>i always message that " ExT2-fs warning: checktime reached, running
> e2fsck is recommended"
> " VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) "
>Why ?? and my computer can be install win95 with no problem.
>SCSI card : AHA-1542CF
>HD : compaq 510MB x3
>
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Subject: Re: upgrading kernel?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:16:34 GMT
In article <aMLp4.48718$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sean Knox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>I know that regarding patch level, if I have say patch level 14 of 2.2
>kernel and want to upgrade to patch level 19, i need every subsequent patch.
No, you don't. Just get the real kernel.
>Does the same hold true for minor number? If I wanted to upgrade my kernel
>from 2.2.12 to kernel 2.3.1, do I have to get every patch for 2.2, then go
>to 2.3?
Again, just get the kernel you want. Save yourself the headache.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trident based cards?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:30:27 GMT
I'm running Mandrake 6.1 on a P133/64mb, monitor= 30-69khz Hor and 50-120hz
vert. that can do 1280x1024 at 60hz. after messing w/ Xconfigurator and
xf86config, I've got it running at 1024x768 w/ no virtual screen, however,
if I restart the X server, it defaults to 600x800 w/ a 1024x768 virtual
screen. I'll just keep it here, as this is a good setting for me. I also
have a problem w/ small dashes left on the screen when I close a window.
They erase, but are annoying.
Harvey Bodine wrote:
>
> Hi Josh,
>
> Have you been able to get this Trident card to run at all under Linux? I
> tried to setup RedHat 6.0 using this card with a decent monitor (31-86
> Khz hor), (50-120 Hz vert) and have been unable to get it to work well
> at all.
>
> I've run xf86config too many times to count with various variations on
> the TGUI9680 theme and monitor settings, including disabling or
> re-ordering the video resolution order of usage. No matter what I do, it
> simply will not come up in a mode that yields a visible screen. Only by
> working my way through Ctl-Alt-+ do I get a screen that works. Even
> then, I cannot get better than 800x600 with a 1024x768 scrollable area.
> I REALLY don't want a scrollable area and disabling virtual screens
> doesn't work. It would also be nice to get a viewable screen from
> boot-up, but at this point I'm probably going to remove the card, toss
> it, and put in an old ATI card I have around.
>
> Does any of this sound familiar to you?
>
> Harvey Bodine
>
> P.S. The system has dual-boot via lilo and the card runs flawlessly at
> 1024x768 under Win95. I also have the exact same monitor model on a
> custom Sparcstation running at 1280x1024, so I'm really at a loss.
>
> Josh wrote:
> >
> > I'm running an older box w/ a Trident TGUI 9680 2mb card. Though my
> > graphics aren't particularly FAST, this has been a very reliable card,
i"m
> > not sure of where to find another one or how to bump the memory up to
8mb.
> > I know that Linux supports a ton of Trident chipsets, only I can't find
any
> > of these cards "on the shelf". Anyone know which cards use the Trident
> > chipsets?
> >
> > --
> > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > http://www.help.com/
--
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http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390F or AdvanSys ASB3940UW-00 - opinions?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 02:48:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic) says:
>Tekram DC-390F
>AdvanSys ASB3940UW
>Big question: which one should I get?
Yes. :-)
I used to have 'em both in my machine at one time. Interchangeable.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: "Sake" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.iomega.zip.jaz,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Zip-100 under Linux....
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 21:58:49 -0500
Werner Kliewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <890u0g$22i5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Generic wrote:
> > From: "Generic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Newsgroups:
alt.iomega.zip.jaz,comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.install
> > Subject: Zip-100 under Linux....
> > Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 17:22:31 +0200
> >
> > Does anyone know how to mount an IDE Zip-100 drive under Linux? I use
the
> > latest Redhat distribution. Yet it recognises it at startup, I can't
figure
> > out how to use it after. (no hdb, hdb1 or fd1 did work)
> > Thanks in advance, Aris.
> >
>
> You need to mount hdb4, since Zip disks are factory formatted to use the
> fourth partition entry to describe the data partition. This of course
assumes
> that hdb is the Zip drive. Also, unless you want to repartition and
reformat
> the disk, remember the fstype is vfat.
>
Really ??? /dev/hdb1 works fine for me.
> Sent using Virtual Access 5.01 - download your freeware copy now
> http://www.atlantic-coast.com/downloads/vasetup.exe
>
>
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From: "Maskim Xul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 03:09:19 GMT
i have the exact same dilema running Mandrake 6.0 with my Yamaha Opl3sax...
which works just fine in winblows.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:891tm1$mkl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> If anyone can help me I would be most appreciative.
>
> Here's my dilemna. I have a Creative Labs Sound Blaster 16. Linux will
> not recognize it, however it is listed as one of the "supported"
> soundcards. When I try to configure it in Lothar it says "resource
> busy/unavailable". I then downloaded all the tech specs on the
> soundblaster card and tried to manually configure it. I tried a bunch of
> combinations using different DMA, I/O, and IRQ settings. Again,
> "resource busy/unavailable". Also during the boot, when listing all
> services started, the two services for sound fail. I don't get it. My
> sound card works fine in windoze, but not Linux. I am running Mandrake
> 7.0. I am seriously bummed and have no clue on how to proceed.
>
> I really could use any ideas you may have. Please help!
>
> Regards,
> Tom
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Riggs)
Subject: Re: Linux distributions on CD for sparc?
Date: 25 Feb 2000 03:09:35 GMT
Debian also has a sparc diso. I am running it on my sparc 5 now.
I downloaded the ISO image from one of the mirror sites and
burned it. Worked great. Bottable CD and all.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 01:28:16 GMT, Kenneth Crudup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <88uddf$50u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>
>>Are there any distributions on CD (Red Hat, Caldera, etc)
>>for the sparc platform?
>
>If you have a fast connection and a CD-burner, you can get the
>ISO images off the RedHat site and it's mirrors.
>
> -Kenny
>
>--
>Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
>Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
>Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
>Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
--
----
James E. Riggs
venohm at mindspring dot com
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