Linux-Hardware Digest #361, Volume #12 Mon, 28 Feb 00 09:13:07 EST
Contents:
Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14 (Larry Morley)
Lexmark Z51 (Bernd Gliss)
Re: Sound card help! (Rolf Magnus)
Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: firewire... (Michael Reiche)
Ghostscript =?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Deskjet 895cxi (Klaus Hoedl / Infracor)
Re: AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test (Jeff McWilliams)
Re: fips error message (Patricia)
port stubbornly refusing to accept the proper irq (Ingvar Langlet)
Poweroff with abit bp6? (Robert Ulmer)
Re: FLOOPY HELP !!!! (Francisco De La Cruz)
SMP benchmarks ??? ("Philip Payne")
Re: Mouse USB help. ("Ian Hahl")
Re: Tyan 1854S motherboard..is it good (Michael Hofmann)
Need recommendations for scanners under Linux ("Dirk Jennerjahn")
Re: a VERY stupid question!! (Helge Hafting)
Re: Need recommendations for scanners under Linux (Tommy Andersson)
Re: Unreliable Iomega ZIP - RedHat 6.0 team ? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux sucks (Johnny Ingblom)
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility -- Please Help! ("Max Silakov")
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? ("Ex-Patriot")
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From: Larry Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 04:22:52 -0500
Hi,
Just built 2.2.14 from the sources on top of a RH 5.2 distribution. It
works
except for a few minor glitches. Not exactly the smoothest trip going,
but
I think I made it unscathed...
One that I can't figure out is gpm triggering a '... used obsolete
/dev/cua0 -
update software to use /dev/ttyS0' from kernel source file tty_io.c
Well, I did "update" gpm (downloaded and installed v.1.14 - Im not
convinced
it's any different from what was already there), and the source code
definitely uses ttyS0 explicitly. The error message comes from
tty_open() in
tty_io when .type is TTY_DRIVER_TYPE_SERIAL and .subtype is SERIAL_TYPE_
CALLOUT; tty_io.c is set to generate this message 5 times and then shut
up.
I finally figured out why - gpm uses /dev/mouse by default, which was
a link to /dev/cua0 under RH 5.2. A "ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse" fixed
it. But, can anyone give me a little more insight as to what this
message
means, if anything else is affected, why this change was made etc.?
Also noted a few other oddities while I was doing this. If anyone is
trying
something similar and has any questions, feel free; I may have run up
against it.
Tomorrow I may update my glibc if I feel like causing myself some more
grief
:)
Thanks in advance,
Larry
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From: Bernd Gliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Lexmark Z51
Date: 28 Feb 2000 10:21:02 +0100
Hi everyone out there,
does anyone know of a Linux driver for the Lexmark Z51 deskjet
printer?
Thanks for replies, Bernd Gliss
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From: Rolf Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card help!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:03:51 +0100
Reply-To: "Rolf Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
John E. Maynus wrote...
>I'm so new to Linux I'm clueless as to how I unzip this file and to wher
>e. The readme file on the site said
>tar xvzf au88xx*.tar.gz
>change to the driver dir & become root:
>cd au88xx*
>su
>then to type
>install10
(that's not "install 10", it's "make install10")
Well, where exactly is your problem?
>Also told me to disable PnP in BIOS, do I disable it for good or just till
I
>get card working? Cause I still use Windows and thats a PnP OS.
Does your Windows have trouble when this option is disabled?
>Tried that but no help, said no such dir. Help if anyone can!!!!
You should really be more specific.
Rolf Magnus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Odd cua0 vs. ttyS0 bug from gpm w/kernel 2.2.14
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:30:36 GMT
In comp.os.linux.development.system Larry Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| I finally figured out why - gpm uses /dev/mouse by default, which was
| a link to /dev/cua0 under RH 5.2. A "ln -s /dev/ttys0 /dev/mouse" fixed
| it. But, can anyone give me a little more insight as to what this
| message
| means, if anything else is affected, why this change was made etc.?
Separate serial port devices for different behaviours is gone. One device
can perform all serial port behaviours when properly configured. This is
a change to finally clean up the leftovers from when different devices
we needed. Just use ttyS0, ttyS1, etc, and be happy.
| Also noted a few other oddities while I was doing this. If anyone is
| trying
| something similar and has any questions, feel free; I may have run up
| against it.
I **always** install new systems from scratch. Leftovers from upgrades
can sometimes make a real mess. Other times, they may make things work
that, say due to a hard drive failure, won't work when you do have to
re-install from scratch. By doing at first what you would do again later,
you can improve your odds at reproducibility.
| Tomorrow I may update my glibc if I feel like causing myself some more
| grief
| :)
Be sure your rescue disk is handy.
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From: Michael Reiche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: firewire...
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 10:00:16 +0100
Alexandre Carlotti wrote:
>
> Hi all of you...
>
> I would like to know if something is done nowadays on linux for firewire
> (ieee 1394)...
>
> I know there is a nice web site saying all the projects which are in
> progress but I have stop LINUX for a while and I m coming back slowly and I
> can't remind me this URL...please if you see what I m talking about....
>
> Thanks
>
> Alex
Hello Alex,
I bet this the web site:
http://eclipt.uni-klu.ac.at/ieee1394/
/Reiche
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From: Klaus Hoedl / Infracor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ghostscript =?iso-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Deskjet 895cxi
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:39:18 +0100
Hallo,
kennt jemand eine GUTE und genaue Config f�r den hpdj Treiber von Ghostscript
5.50 unter Suse Linux.?
Mit 300x300 sieht's ziemlich bescheiden aus..
Ich hab mit dem Winnt-Treibet eine PCL Datei auf Disk geschrieben, und unter
Linux ein proggy names pclscan oder so �hnlich laufen lasse. Das analysiert das
PCL File und gibt eine passende Parameterliste f�r Aladdin Ghostscript hpdj aus.
Das hat dann aber �berhaupt nicht funktioniert!!
Hat jemand ein Druckergebnis, das von der Qualit�t zumindest mit der WinnNT
"normal" Option vergleichbar ist??
Danke im voraus
Klaus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:36:08 GMT
Hmm, that sounds like a possible memory problem.
I have a 466 but currently no drives to hook up to it and test.
What MegaRAID firmware does your card contain? If it is not the latest
then you may want to try flashing to the latest firmware.
The latest is GH6D.
You may also want to get the latest MegaRAID driver. www.ami.com has
copies and I think they're up to 1.04 Oops - scratch that, it's 1.07 on
their web site. You may want to try compiling a new Kernel with the 1.07
driver.
Jeff
--
Jeff McWilliams - Advanced Development Engineer, ACE Technologies
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Patricia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.questions,comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: fips error message
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:18:06 +0100
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, GJS wrote:
>Hello
>
>I've been attempting a nondestructive partition of my hard drive w/
>fips. It is running windows 98. First I defragged the drive. Then I
>ran fips. The partitioning fails because fips says that there is a
>hidden file like "image.imx" or a file ending in *.fil in the last
>cylinder of the drive that will be the windows partition. It says to go
>into the root directory on DOS and delete these hidden files. I have no
>idea how to go to the last cylinder of a hard drive, so I just opened
>windows and removed any files *.imx or *.fil. I defragged again as
>well. This does not work.
>
>So, is there any solution? If not, what else is out there that will
>(hopefully free) accomplish the same thing as fips?
>
>If there is no other way round, should I do a backup of my system and
>then destructive reformat of my hard drive, plop the backup into the
>new, smaller partition for windows, and then linux in the remainder?
>Will that work out?
>
>Feedback is appreciated!!
Hello
Boot from a bootdisk.
at the dosprompt type
dir /a:h /s
to find the hidden files
type
attrib -r -s -h *.*
del *.imx
del *.fil
del *.idx
Also you must uninstall the windows swapfile.
rerun defrag
rerun fips
Good luck
--
HTH :)
Patricia
http://www.crosswinds.net/~beginnerslinux
Red Hat Linux release 6.0 (Hedwig)
Kernel 2.2.5-15
12:28pm up 5 days, 14:02, 2 users, load average: 1.17, 1.19, 1.18
Mon Feb 28 12:28:30 CET 2000
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From: Ingvar Langlet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: port stubbornly refusing to accept the proper irq
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:45:48 GMT
Stockholm 2000-02-28
Dear Linux Hardware community.
I find it difficult to set the correct IRQ for up an internal US
Robotics
modem for Linux. My distribution is Slackware. In the hardware i have
put
the irq jumper in place for irq 5. It works correctly on COM 3 and IRQ 5
with Netscape under Window$ 3.11 with the M$ dialer my internet provider
proscribes.
My distribution is Slackware 4.0. In /etc/rc.d/rc.serial I have
commented
out line 47
# These are the standard COM1 through COM4 devices
#
# If you have an internal modeme with a Rockwell Chipset, add a
"skip_test"
# to the /dev/ttyS3 line below. (It's not added by default because it
will
# screw up people with 8514 displays).
#
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS0 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS1 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
#${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS2 ${AUTO_IRQ} skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS3 ${AUTO_IRQ} autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
and uncommented line 154 and in it changed the irq to 5
# These are the standard COM1 through COM4 devices
#
#${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS0 uart 16450 port 0x3F8 irq 4 ${STD_FLAGS}
#${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS1 uart 16450 port 0x2F8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS}
${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS2 uart 16450 port 0x3E8 irq 5 ${STD_FLAGS}
#${SETSERIAL} /dev/ttyS3 uart 16450 port 0x2E8 irq 3 ${STD_FLAGS}.
setserial /dev/ttyS2
still yields
UART:16550A, PORT:0X03e8, IRQ:4.
Because in man setserial it is claimed "setserial is a program
designed to set and/or report the configuration information associated
with a serial port." I tried to set /dev/ttyS2 to irq 5 by
setserial /dev/ttyS2 irq_5 and got
Invalid flag: irq_5
and by
setserial /dev/ttyS2 port_0x03e8 irq_5 and got
Invalid flag: port_0x03e8
and it seem that I cant use setserial to force my stupid port 0x03e8
to accept 5 as its irq.
>From this I conclude that I must have overlooked something in the
Modem-HOWTO or in man setserial. Would you please tell me how I can
force my disobedient port to accept the irq I decide for it.
Yours
Ingvar Langlet
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From: Robert Ulmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Poweroff with abit bp6?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:43:54 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello is it possible to use the abit bp6 poweroff function with linux
and smp?
I've tried to compile APM into the kernel and to add
a
append="apm=smp-power-off"
into my lilo.conf file.
that wasn't enough!
Greetings Robert
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From: Francisco De La Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FLOOPY HELP !!!!
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 07:28:28 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi...i tried to access my A:/ drive from RH6.1 but i get an error
> message " to many devices mounted"... i have no clue what that means, any
> suggestions for fixing this problem? ( i'm a newbie so i need specs on how-
> to)
>
> thanks in advance,
> Y.L
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
This might also mean that your floppy has been mounted by default when the sys
boots.
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From: "Philip Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMP benchmarks ???
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:32:25 +0100
Hi,
Can anyone tell me from practical experience if Linux (2.2 kernel) makes
effective use of 4 CPU machines, or point me to some useful benchmarks that
have been done to test this?
And does anyone have good experiences of Linux running on Dell SMP machines?
(I'm based in Europe where the specialist Linux vendors such as VALinux and
PenguinComputing don't seem to be operating.)
I need to buy some hardware to do some fairly-intensive Web serving (dynamic
web pages, with an Oracle database), and if possible I'd like to run it all
on one machine to minimise the adminstration.
Any help really appreciated.
Regards,
Philip Payne
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From: "Ian Hahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Mouse USB help.
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 23:36:51 +1100
Try:
http://www.dynamine.net/linux-usb/HOWTO/
-Ian
"Kevin Walter Rogovin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED].
..
> Hi All,
>
> I recently got a USB Logitech mouse, and had wanted to know if it
> was posiible to use it under LINUX, specifically RedHat V6.0.... I was
> hoping to use it as a USB device, rather than setting up the mouse as a
> ps/2 mouse... I was under the impression that if a mouse could be used as
> USB, or ps/2, one should go for USB (atleast for Win9x) so I was wondering
> if I could get the mouse to work under Linux/Xfree86 using the USB
> interface... anyone know if this is possible, and if so how? Thanks in
> advance.
>
> -Kevin ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Tyan 1854S motherboard..is it good
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:35:22 +0100
Ray wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 07:27:30 +0100, Michael Hofmann wrote:
> >Chetan Ahuja wrote:
> >> I would welcome any suggestions/advice etc on this topic. Is the
> >> Tyan board OK. If not.. why. Any personal experiences. Any other
> >> recommended boards satisfying the above criteria...
> >
> >Just a thought.... I don't know this particular board but, if it's ATX
> >_and_ has an Award BIOS, stay away from it. The Award BIOS is broken and
> >doesn't poweroff at shutdown. TYAN also doesn't answer my emails
> >regarding this issue. I'm using the S1590S board. No more TYAN for me.
>
> Well, FWIW Award BIOS is the most popular out there and many Award based
> systems do in fact poweroff just fine.
True, but IIRC BIOS companies like Award (which has been bought by
Phoenix btw) deliver something like a standardized BIOS that has to be
adapted to a specific hardware on a motherboard. So it's TYAN's duty to
make sure the powerdown cycle is implemented properly. On the S1590S
this is not the case. The specs call for real mode before powerdown.
TYAN's BIOS doesn't do this, that's why there is a real mode patch for
Linux. Other MoBo manufacturers have provided updated BIOS's to correct
this problem.
TYAN doesn't care about this, they don't care to answer emails regarding
this issue, hence I don't care to buy TYAN products in the future.
I prefer Linux-aware and customer-oriented companies.
Michael
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From: "Dirk Jennerjahn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need recommendations for scanners under Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:39:40 +0100
I thought to buy this AGFA 1236S-SCSI-scanner.
Please tell me about your experiences!
Thanx :)
Dirk
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From: Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a VERY stupid question!!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:43:07 +0100
Hamada wrote:
>
> 2. Is Windows better than Linux in ANY aspect... Is there any
> thing i can do in Windows and cannot do in Linux??
Quite a few windows applications will only run under windows.
Of course you don't need windows apps these days, most of
what we computers for can be done with linux.
Helge Hafting
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From: Tommy Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need recommendations for scanners under Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:17:01 GMT
Dirk Jennerjahn wrote:
> I thought to buy this AGFA 1236S-SCSI-scanner.
> Please tell me about your experiences!
>
> Thanx :)
> Dirk
Hi,
I recommend that you check "http://www.mostang.com/sane/"
to be sure there is a driver for your scanner. I just (yesterday)
installed a scanner myself, and it were painless. Since there are
lots of HP drivers , I bought a HP Scanjet 6300C. I downloaded
the sane driver, compiled and tested -- and it worked immediately.
/Tommy Andersson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Unreliable Iomega ZIP - RedHat 6.0 team ?
Date: 28 Feb 2000 08:25:28 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:01:22 GMT, Francisco Alcrudo S�nchez
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have two internal Iomega Zips installed, one in my home computer
>running
>Red Hat Linux 6.0 (Hedwig) and the other in my office computer running
>Red Hat Linux 6.1.
>
>Everything goes fine at work (System 6.1) but everytime I write a file
>to the ZIP
>at home (System 6.0) the written file seems corrupted (well the first
>few lines
The drivers for ZIPs in kernels <= 2.2.5 were a little flaky. If you're
running kernel 2.2.5 at home, upgrade and things will go much better. I
ran afoul of this a while back, but never lost anything important... oddly
enough, Linux always liked the ZIP disk just fine; WinNT didn't like it
though...
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Johnny Ingblom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:49:14 -0500
That kind of reminds me of some of the customers that my company deals with daily. We
are
mainly a business oriented networking solutions company. We also sell complete
workstations to those that need them. Many people expect us to keep our prices in line
with Gateway and Dell. Which of course we don't. there wouldnt be any point in
trying to
do that. We can service what we sell, and we dont suggest a reload everytime their
system
has a hiccup.
One such person (a gateway customer) was having a terrible time getting a system to
run.
Gateway kept putting him off, suggesting he do a system restore etc. Finally, this
person
ended up sending the system back. A month after all his problems began, he finally
had a
new replacement system on his desk. One that actually ran. And after all this he was
just ranting and raving about how great GW's tech support was! Those are the same
people
that rant and rave about how MS is 'supported'. If thats what I have to go through to
get
support, Ill take Linux.
Brian
Vincent Fox wrote:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Susan C. Korpi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>writes:
>
> *snip*
>
> >> By comparison, can you name me many major enterprises running Linux
> >> Workstations on Linux Servers.
> >>
> >> If Linux suits your work then by all means use it. I have RH 6.1 running
> >> well but it is only to play with.
> >>
> >> Dick
>
> >Ah, so now I understand. Real work is what Mr. Brown does, and play is
> >what the rest of us do. Major corporations are those with which he
> >deals and all of them are Microsoft users.
>
> My perspective is simpler.
>
> Many claim they use MS because it is "supported".
> Yet when I start to ask them about their experiences with
> MS Tech Support they talk about how terrible it is.
>
> I buy Z because it is supported.
> Yet Z Tech Support is very slow and poor.
>
> Somehow they fail to see the flaw there.
>
> On the other hand many of the people I deal with on
> UNIX issues understand the underlying systems and
> quickly come up with a REAL solution, not "reboot".
>
> --
> "Who needs horror movies when we have Microsoft"?
> -- Christine Comaford, PC Week, 27/9/95
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From: "Max Silakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: TNT2 Clock Utility -- Please Help!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:49:37 +0300
Hi!
Actually - you don't need to write such utility for Linux - here is more
elegant way -
test how far you can overclock you TNT (under windows), remember core/memory
clocks.
Use VERY COOL program "TNT Bios Editor" (get it from
http://www.chat.ru/~vicovico/) and flash these new setting into the bios of
your videocard!
That is - no need to use any stupid overclocking programs,
Works under any O/S and so on.
BTW,
Why do you want to overclock you card under Linux?
I mean - for what reason? - Currently available X Servers with HW
Acceleration are to slow (due to their nature - beta status - and weak HW
Acceleration support in Xfree 86 3.xxxx - no DIRECT rendering
infrastructure) and overclocking will not help a lot. Better wait for XFree
86 4.0 release (or Nvidia+SGI own release of RECENTLY-PROMISED HW
Accelerated X Server).
And 2D works fine without any overclocking :-)))
It's just a question :-)) Mine card is overclocked (via bios) in Linux also
:-))))
--
Best Regards,
Max Silakov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �������/�������� � �������� ���������:
news:88kntc$q8k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello-
>
> I'd like to write a simple utility for Linux that will allow me to
> adjust the core and memory clock speeds of my TNT2 card. There is no
> such utility for Linux that I'm aware of. My question is, where can I
> get the info on the TNT2 that will allow me to access the core/memory
> clock speeds? Is there a whitepaper (or something similar) somewhere
> that would help me out? Thanks.
>
> -Matt
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Ex-Patriot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 15:07:30 +0200
If the computer was being used for a dedicated DNS server, would you still
go with a single Atholon or a Dual PII 450 2mb cache?
Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> John Jensen wrote:
> >
> > I've been out browsing web pages considering my next workstation. I
> > notice that Xeon 400 MHz with 1MB cache sell for around $300, while
Athlon
> > 800 MHz sell for about twice that. I wonder, for a moderately priced
"big
> > dog", if dual 400MHz/1Mb/Xeon's are the way to go over even a 800 MHz
> > Athlon. I'd guess that the 1Mb caches would go a long way to make the
> > typical workstation mix of applications (Linux/X11/Gnome) go fast.
> >
> It is a common misconception that a larger cache will result in an
improved
> performance. Actually, it's all Intel's marketing. Your Xeon will only be
> marginally faster than a Celeron-400. I have run some tests on a dual Xeon
at
> work and they were very disappointing. A uniprocessor at twice the
frequency is
> always better than dual, therefore get an Athlon, if you can afford it, or
a
> dual Celeron (possibly overclocked) if you can't.
> --
>
>
> Vladimir
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