Linux-Hardware Digest #372, Volume #12 Tue, 29 Feb 00 13:13:06 EST
Contents:
RH6.0 can't recognize my complete RAM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AMD and LINUX (LOIC B)
LINUX JUST HANGS (Mailer)
Re: AMD and LINUX (Lien-Fei Chu)
Re: ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig (Michael J Porter)
Re: heating linux (Michael J Porter)
Re: Diamond Viper 2 Video card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Wireless Network (Jerome Corre)
Re: Diamond Viper 2 Video card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SBlive + ALSA (Ferdinand Badescu)
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? (Michael J Porter)
Re: PCI Graphics card recommendation! ("Phil Frisbie, Jr.")
4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Re: Linux sucks (JEDIDIAH)
Re: AMD and LINUX ("Sixman9")
DELL and WinModems (Bruce Neylon)
Re: Partitions partitions partitions ("Sixman9")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RH6.0 can't recognize my complete RAM
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:58:51 GMT
Hi,
I have successfully installed RH6.0 on an Intel 400MHz platform. I have
a RAM of 128MB but running "cat /proc/meminfo" tells me that I have a
RAM of
64MB. What can I do to make Linux recognize my full 128MB RAM? Any help
would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Francis.
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From: LOIC B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD and LINUX
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:36:51 -0800
Hi,
Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and
I would like to know if it is possible to use linux without
problem with an AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux
could you recomand to me.
Thanks a lot.
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From: Mailer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LINUX JUST HANGS
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:00:34 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have a redhat linux box but once every week it FREEZES. Can anyone
help.
dmesg does not reveal anything.
You can ping the machine but that is about all you can do.
Thanks.
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From: Lien-Fei Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:08:41 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AMD is great for Linux too. I use AMD K6-2 300 with 128mb of ram and it is good enough
for me. You will not have any problem with K6-3 either...
As far as K7.... I have no idea...
Good luck.
Alex.
LOIC B wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and
> I would like to know if it is possible to use linux without
> problem with an AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux
> could you recomand to me.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael J Porter)
Subject: Re: ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig
Date: 29 Feb 2000 12:01:03 -0500
I bought a Maxtor one time that had a jumper installed which forced
the drive to act like an 8gb drive. Removed the jumper and things
worked much better.
Mike
////
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
LouAlbano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>All right. This is really upsetting me now.
=>
=>I have a Maxtor 40 gig 904096u8 hard drive. I am running an Asus p55t2p4
=>mobo (socket 7, HX chipset). This motherboard has a 32gig limit.
=>
=>I bought a promise ultra66 controller card, thinking this will solve my
=>problem. Needless to say it did not. The kernel sees the drive, but
=>thinks it's 8 gig. The kernel knows what type of drive it is, but not the
=>correct size.
=>
=>I have tried these things:
=>
=>I passed the kernel the settings it wanted to see the drive
=>(ide2=0xe000,0xd802) as it shows in the how to.
=>
=>I installed the hedrick patches for kernel 2.2.13. Again I had drive
=>visiblity (without passing the kernel anything) and again only 8 gigs.
=>
=>I upgraded the Promise controller bios.
=>
=>I upgraded LILO to the latest version.
=>
=>I tried the 2.2.14 patches with the 2.2.14 kernel. I couldn't get the
=>machine to boot. No dice here.
=>
=>I attached my 20 gig drive to it, and it seen 20 gig.
=>
=>I tried passing the kernel this: "hde = 4978,255,63". Still 8 gigs.
=>
=>Anyone know anything about this?
=>
=>
=>Thanks
=>
=>ft
=>
=>
=>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael J Porter)
Subject: Re: heating linux
Date: 29 Feb 2000 12:06:33 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>Unrot13 this;
=>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
=>
=>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Robert Hampf;
=>
=> RH> Robert W. Cunningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
=> RH>:
=> RH>: My PC pulls just under 2A of current (1.89A), which means I'm
=> RH>: dissipating about 200 watts. Since I have a Cyrix processor and
=> RH>: couple of older SCSI disk drives you can fry eggs on, my power
=> RH>: consumption may not be typical. I expect most other systems
=> RH>: would consume something closer to
=> RH>: 100 watts.
=>
=> RH> For some time I have wondered how much spare power I've got in my
=> RH> box. How would you measure this on a Linux-only system. I
=> RH> suppose you have to do more than measure the AC current as there
=> RH> are some different DC voltages that all have to suffice.
=>
=> RH> Now I've got a Celeron 400, 3 IDE disks, 2 SCSI disks, 1 CD-ROM
=> RH> and 1 CD-RW. Everything is at most a year old. My power supply
=> RH> gives me
=> RH> 300W. How many disks would you let me add?
=>
=> RH> rh
=>
=>My educated guess is that you'll have plenty of power on the 5 volt
=>lines yet, but starting hungry drives might cause a momentary lag in the
=>+12 volt motor line. That said I'm running 3 drives totalling 12 gigs on
=>a 200 watter here, and 3 drives totalling 18 gigs in the linux box on
=>the next desk, which has a 300 watt supply of rather elderly vintage.
=>Between the internal, and the upfront, that skyscraper tower has room
=>for 12 or more drives. All of which is not germain to the question.
For SCSI drives, there may be a jumper you can use to delay the
spinup until the first command. The BIOS will step through
sequentially and cause each drive to start one at a time.
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper 2 Video card
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:08:03 GMT
I recently "installed" a Diamond Viper 2 into
my HP. I have yet to get it to work correctly.
It continuosly locks up while I attempt to play
any game. My OS is Windows 98 and it's running on
a Pentium II MMX 433. I've installed all of the
new drivers and spoken with Hewlett Packard, both
to no avail. I've been waiting 3 days for a
return from "Customer Care" at www.diamondmm.com
about my problem. Somehow I don't think it'll
they'll be of any help either.
If anyone has any advice, please send it my
way....thanx.
--Salesmunn
In article
<4bsl4.5072$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"scott bearden"
<stbearden(deletethispart)@home.com> wrote:
> I cant seem to get my Diamond Viper 2 video card
to work. I am using
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and it has a server for
the S3 chipset, but I guess it
> doesnt support the S3 Savage 2000, only older
S3's. I've tried a couple of
> them and it no workie workie. Please help me I
am new at this.
>
>
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From: Jerome Corre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Wireless Network
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:14:32 GMT
Dear all,
I just started investigating the use of wireless network for a small
group of computers. I have noticed several products (especially Luccent
Wavelan turbo 11Mbs PC card).
What I don't really understand is the use of the "access point" (it
just seems to be a box with a Wavelan turbo card plugged in it!). What
I would like to know is what are the differences between
1- using only wireless network card (1 on each PC in the group). It's
what they call "ad-hoc" network.
2- using a wireless network card on each PC and an access point?
Also is it possible to use a PC with two network cards: 1 wireless, and
one wired. and use it as a router between the wireless group and the
wired network. so that everybody in the wireless group can access
internet or be accessed via telnet?
as anybody got experience with the above configurations?
thanks in advance for any help,
regards,
Jerome
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper 2 Video card
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:11:25 GMT
I recently "installed" a Diamond Viper 2 into
my HP. I have yet to get it to work correctly.
It continuosly locks up while I attempt to play
any game. My OS is Windows 98 and it's running on
a Pentium II MMX 433. I've installed all of the
new drivers and spoken with Hewlett Packard, both
to no avail. I've been waiting 3 days for a
return from "Customer Care" at www.diamondmm.com
about my problem. Somehow I don't think it'll
they'll be of any help either.
If anyone has any advice, please send it my
way....thanx.
--Salesmunn
In article <4bsl4.5072$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"scott bearden" <stbearden(deletethispart)@home.com> wrote:
> I cant seem to get my Diamond Viper 2 video card to work. I am using
> Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 and it has a server for the S3 chipset, but I
guess it
> doesnt support the S3 Savage 2000, only older S3's. I've tried a
couple of
> them and it no workie workie. Please help me I am new at this.
>
>
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From: Ferdinand Badescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBlive + ALSA
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 09:20:22 -0800
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wica wrote:
> Hello can some1 give me please a exmple of the file /etc/conf.modules
> White in it the correct settings for the SBLive
>
> Thnx wica
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alias sound emu10k1
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
alias eth0 tulip
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
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alias sound emu10k1
pre-install emu10k1 insmod soundcore
post-remove emu10k1 rmmod soundcore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael J Porter)
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 12:26:58 -0500
In article <WFRu4.1406$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>
=>try running 2x the instances of seti@home per cpu. run that for more
=>than 2 months straight. then come back and talk to me about
=>reliability. I've known NO ONE to be able to run 4 seti's on a dual
=>BX system for more than a few weeks without a lockup.
Seems to work fine for me. It's unlikely that the power would stay
on for 2 months straight, or I wouldn't want to reboot for some
other reason. But, I've never come home to a locked up machine.
This is running the ASUS P2BDU (I think I got that right: 440BX,
2xPIII/500, 7890 AIC SCSI). Decent number of fans in a SuperMicro
tower case (the one that costs about $160 US.), but nothing
excessive.
Dual CPUs are nice. It's hard for me to say how much nicer, since
I don't have any "fast" single processor machines. But, I can say
that it runs whatever I throw at it, and interactive performance
doesn't suffer until the machine begins to page heavily. Two
setis, two BladeEncs, two grips: one playing, one copying. Running
some of the demo Mesa programs at the same time (gears?) would work
and generate a frame rate of about 30, but there would be noticable
pauses when the machine paged (the grip and BladeEncs use the same
drive the swap file is on).
What would be the point of running 4 setis on a dual processor
machine?
Mike
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From: "Phil Frisbie, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.graphics.api.opengl
Subject: Re: PCI Graphics card recommendation!
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:31:28 GMT
Brian wrote:
>
> Try a Matrox Mystique 220 or Matrox Millenium II or III - lots available on
> the used market so inexpensive AND all work very well with X Windows, Linux
> framebuffer and WinDoze.
The Millenium series are good 2D cards, but the have VERY poor OpenGL
performance.
Phil Frisbie, Jr.
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:21:14 +0100
Could someone point me to a 4 Celeron motherboard that Linux will
support?
Please email me if you know of a powerful multiprocessor board ...
Atle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:37:40 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 04:58:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 20:04:44 GMT, the Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(JEDIDIAH) screamed:
>
>>>The real problem -- and it will become more apparent as the years go
>>>by -- is the attempt by capitalist corporations to invade and colonize
>>>the CopyLeft/ GNU Public License/ 'Free Software'[sic] phenomenon, in
>>>an attempt to control it for gain, as they do in every other area of
>>>economic activity. It's about (potential, here) money.
>>
>> I don't really care about the source. I view it primarily
>> as a means to an end, a tool with which market balance can
>> be restored. As long as products are perfectly replacable
>> source isn't that valuable.
>
>The attitude of a 'consumer'.
Yup. There tend to be a lot of us littering free markets.
>You WILL care if Linux gets swallowed-up; but since that's not
>likely(?), some other economic imperative impinging on your
>'lifestyle' will have to be what stirs you out of your complacency...
Free Software is not like the Bill of Rights. It's a useful
means to and end but not really necessary in the presense of
a healthy market and mature software engineering. It's more
a bandaid that covers up other problem.
>
>
>> However, in an atmosphere of vendorlock, source can be
>> VERY useful. It need not even be copyleft source either.
>
>And pray tell, where would this mythical source be from, if not
>CopyLeft..?
...any BSDers that are lurking about can deal with you now...
[deletia]
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From: "Sixman9" <sixman9@[RemoveThis]yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: 29 Feb 2000 17:58:09 GMT
Yep, my Toshiba 2060 Laptop with an AMD K6-2 366 is running smoothly (and
my D-Link network card works but NOT under NT4 SP6a!!!).
Lien-Fei Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> AMD is great for Linux too. I use AMD K6-2 300 with 128mb of ram and it
is good enough for me. You will not have any problem with K6-3 either...
> As far as K7.... I have no idea...
>
> Good luck.
>
> Alex.
>
>
> LOIC B wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and
> > I would like to know if it is possible to use linux without
> > problem with an AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux
> > could you recomand to me.
> >
> > Thanks a lot.
> >
> > * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find
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>
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From: Bruce Neylon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DELL and WinModems
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 12:28:29 -0500
Somebody may be interested in this. I bought a Dell computer last
November before I knew what a WinModem was. The modem that I got with
my system is a 3COM USRobotics V.90 PCI Telephony WinModem. I have
since found out about the incompatibility of WinModems and Linux, save
for the few WinModems that have work arounds. I contacted Dell and was
told that all Dell systems are shipped with WinModems. I was also told
that if I contact the original salesman that I worked with something
might be worked out. We'll see.
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From: "Sixman9" <sixman9@[RemoveThis]yahoo.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Partitions partitions partitions
Date: 29 Feb 2000 18:09:16 GMT
Yep, do it all the time. Just set up 1 primary partition for Win 98 using
Fdisk. Install Win98. Now install Linux. Tell linux to a second and third
partition for it root and swap. Put lilo on the same partition as your
Linux root (Not partition 1 where win98). At some point in the install you
should be able to chose which partition to boot up. Set it to the Linux
root. If you don't, don't worry. Just use a flopy to get to the dos prompt
and use fdisk to set your active partition (the Linux one).
When you crank up you should be met by Lilo. If you set up correctly you
can choose linux or Win98 (just type the name you gave each or hit enter
for the default). If you haven't configure lilo correctly, do panic. Start
up Linux as root, type 'linuxconf &' at the prompt and look for the lilo
configuration bit. Put the partition(s) that are missing in, give them
names, activate changes, quit and reboot. You should be able to get in
then.
By the way, you don't need partition magic (Lilo and Fips will do it all
for free).
Melissa Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<2QEu4.854$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> ok i tried for like 4 days to get win98se and linux on the same box but
> after i get linux RedHat 6.1 loded i go to install win98se and it gives
me
> the error "this drive is not currently configured for win89" then is
wants
> to config it but if i let it, it will whipe all my current partitions and
> files.....
>
> what can i do to run both win98 and RH6.1 on the same 13g HDD???
>
>
>
>
>
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