Linux-Hardware Digest #411, Volume #12 Mon, 6 Mar 00 09:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI? (Philipp Maier)
Newbie: HP scanner setup (Mark Hamilton)
Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow? ("Erwin R�egg")
Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow? (Dances With Crows)
Looking for Win Lucent modem driver for LINUX ("money lady")
Re: Thunder Sound Vortex2 (Rolf Magnus)
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive (M. Buchenrieder)
Problems with directory listings on ZIP-Drive (Martin Schichl)
Re: OnStream DI30 Tape Drive ("J.E.J. op den Brouw")
3COM INTERNAL ADSL ADAPTER WHEN WILL BE SUPPORTED IN LINUX?. (jose galvez)
Re: CPU Over clocking (Rolf Magnus)
Linux & CD-R Changers - Supported? (Craig McFarlane)
Re: Xircom CE3-10/100, ThinkPad 600x, Slackware 7.0 (Hamid Misnan)
SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (Bruce McKenzie)
OfficeJet 720 (Ralph)
Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: CD Writer failed after install!! (Frank Swasey)
Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem (Atle)
Re: Adding a second Hard Drive in Linux [HELP!!!] (joe umiker)
best graphics card? (Dan Law)
Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100? (Pete Rossi)
Is the onboard sound for TX-ProII motherboards supported? (Daniel Seagraves)
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From: Philipp Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Awe64 PCI?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 10:02:34 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bo B wrote:
>
> Is there a SB Awe64 PCI version on the market? (ES1371 chip??)
IMHO yes.
And it is supported, at least I have tested it under SuSE Linux
(IIRC)...
PM
--
Sylt, SuSE Linux, Maerklin mini-club, Psion Serie 5mx Pro & GPS:
http://www.philipp-maier.de
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From: Mark Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: HP scanner setup
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 22:47:54 +1300
Hi All,
Am running Caldera Openlinux 2.3. Have a Hewlett Packard Scanjet 4p SCSI
scanner (working with the original HP SCSI card). I am tearing my hair
out trying to make it work on my system......I have SANE, but don't seem
to be able to make it do anything, in fact it doesn't even seem to
recognise the scsi card (although the kernel has g_NCR5380 support
compiled in)....I am at a bit of a loss as to where to go....tried
reading the SCSI how to...just confused the hell out of me......I would
appreciate any help I can get.....it is the last thing (apart from my
girlfriend) keeping me tied to windows......Thanks in advance
Mark
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From: "Erwin R�egg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 10:43:30 +0100
Hello
I think 32 MB RAM is not enough to run KDE (and Netscape, and ...). I
installed SuSE on a P133 with 32 MB, it was slow. Now I have 128 MB
and it works fine. You still have to wait 5 - 10 seconds to start
StarOffice. But that is reasonable.
Regards
--
Erwin Rueegg
Adresse: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Geelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> G'day all
>
> My weekend project was to install Corel Linux (based on Debian,
with a
> KDE-based interface) on my kids' computer (didn't risk doing my
machine
> in case of crashes!) I chose to install it in a 1GB DOS/Windows
> partition, leaving the other 1.5 GB for Windoze so the kids can
still
> play their games. The machine is a P133 overclocked to 166, with 32
M of
> RAM.
>
> The Linux is horrifyingly slow: click on an icon to open a window
and
> then go away for 5-10 minutes while it opens - forget about
actually
> doing anything on it.
>
> I guess I'll uninstall this install tonight, 'cos it's completely
> useless. I can then decide to do a proper dual-boot installation,
which
> should improve the performance, or forget the whole project, or try
> another distribution, or... But I wanted to check first whether
there
> are people successfully running Linux at reasonable speeds on
machines
> of this size. It should be possible, shouldn't it?
>
> All responses, posted or mailed, will be very helpful.
>
> Thanx,
>
> David
>
> --
> Dr David R Geelan
> Edith Cowan University, 2 Bradford St, Mt Lawley WA 6050
> Ph. 08 9370 6728, Fax 08 9370 6700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://alpha7.curtin.edu.au/~rgeeland/bravus.htm
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: System reqs - is P166 too small/slow?
Date: 06 Mar 2000 04:49:38 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 05 Mar 2000 21:08:35 +0800, David Geelan
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>My weekend project was to install Corel Linux (based on Debian, with a
>KDE-based interface) on my kids' computer (didn't risk doing my machine
>in case of crashes!) I chose to install it in a 1GB DOS/Windows
>partition, leaving the other 1.5 GB for Windoze so the kids can still
>play their games. The machine is a P133 overclocked to 166, with 32 M of
>RAM.
>The Linux is horrifyingly slow: click on an icon to open a window and
>then go away for 5-10 minutes while it opens - forget about actually
>doing anything on it.
If you installed this using the UMSDOS filesystem, then it's going to be
slow, but not *that* slow. This sounds like you forgot to put in a swap
partition. With only 32M of RAM, you need a swap partition of at least
64M.
I installed SuSE 6.1 on a PPro 200 with 32M and forgot to make a swap
partition; results were similar to what you describe. Adding swap made
the system run a lot faster. And the person who said that a P133 is too
slow for KDE and Netscape is awfully impatient--KDE+Netscape are usable,
if sluggish, on a 486/66 with 32M and enough swapspace!
--
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 \
===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
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Reply-To: "money lady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "money lady" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Win Lucent modem driver for LINUX
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 23:02:28 +1300
Hi
Can someone please help me?? I am looking for an easy to under setup for a
driver for my Win LT modem to operate under Corel LINUX.
I am reasonably new to LINUX, need this driver in order to use my modem in
LINUX.
If you know a site where i can get it, or if you have the driver, i would
really be greatful to you if you could send the link or driver files to this
e-mail address.
Thanks
Carla
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rolf Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thunder Sound Vortex2
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 11:09:22 +0100
Reply-To: "Rolf Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Young4ert wrote...
>Is the Thunder Sound with the Vortex2 fully supported under Linux?
http://linux.aureal.com
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 13:08:00 +0100
Thord Nilson wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Atle wrote:
>
> > "Lee Sau Dan ~{@nJX6X~}" wrote:
> > >
> > > >>>>> "Atle" == Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > Atle> Personally, I would prefer to have 16x150Mhz Pentiums
> > > Atle> instead of one 700Mhz Athlon, because a multiprocessor
> > > Atle> system should be a lot more stable if done right. One
> > > Atle> processor hangs and corrupts its kernel, 15 are still alive,
> > > Atle> and one of them restarts the dead one ...
>
> > This is too bad, assuming that the OS is healthy - that the offending
> > program only runs on the downed processor. It would be very difficult to
> > confuse a processor running a sound kernel (this was the case on the
> > systems I refer to).
> > >
> Yes, but remember all the cpu:s are sharing the same memory. So if one
> cpu goes bad and corrupts its kernel, it has also corrupted the other
> cpu's kernel.
> Then there is also only one bus to the memory, so if the crashed
> processor/bus arbiter manages to lock the bus, the system is also dead.
>
> My experience from dual cpu PC:s with Linux is that reliability is worse
> than for a single cpu system. If one processor locks up, the whole system
> locks up. I have newer seen any console message like...
> "CPU 1 out of order, continiuing with only CPU 0" in linux.
> Fot the SMP DEC-10:s (from the middle/late 1970:s) you could see this,
> but then it was the hardware that was mostly unreliable.
Sorry - I was assuming each processor could be set up with its own meory
and window to the bus. Strange how one always assumes that the systems
are sensibly built, after all, professionals build them :-)
Why on earth don't they do this any more? Or rather: Why don't they do
it for PCI-bus systems? The PCI-bus was made with this in mind, one of
the things a great 'effort' was put into was making sure there was bus
mastering support ...
Where can I find a description of the memory-cache-CPU setup ?
And thanks to those who have provided comment on this thread, you have
uncovered big black holes in my knowledge, partly filled them in, and
forced me to realize that I need a BIG BOOK to replace my Second Edition
'Indispensable' - it stops after describing the Pentium.
Is there an Nth edition of this book? HP Messner - Indispensable PC
Harware Book? Or something else, that just describes this SMP-thing?
Atle
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 07:39:10 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>You are absolutly correct, I found the website for Legacy (www.legacy.ca)
>and well, it is an 8bit non-scsi card that comes as a microchannel or ISA
>card. The only drivers that I see available on there website is for
>dos/windows 3.1, so this is a really old device.
If they provided the manual on the site, the first thing to do is
checking for the jumper settings of the card to find out the actual
I/O address and IRQ values.
>I would still love to get this working under linux though. If something is
>not out yet that would support it, what would be the first steps one should
>take to get it supported?
The Linux tpqic02 driver might be able to support it. There's a
runtime configuration suite for the driver module, IIRC, but it does
have to be downloaded separately. Check the kernel sources in
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char .
I once had a drive like that (oldish Tandberg model) that I got
working with it.
Michael
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From: Martin Schichl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.system
Subject: Problems with directory listings on ZIP-Drive
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:56:42 +0100
Hi!
I have problems using my internal iomega ZIP-Drive
(250MB, ATAPI)
When mounting a just newly (DOS-)formatted Zip-Disk in my ZIP-drive
the contents of the previosly mounted Zip-Disk shows up, and I have no
chance,
to get something on the Disk ....
... in other words: Linux remembers the content of the first Zip-Disk
ever mounted on
the box ... and does not refresh :-(((
my entry in /etc/fstab:
/dev/hdb4 /zip-drive vfat
noauto,rw,users,nosuid,sync,mode=0777 0 0
Anyone got similar problem anfd has a solution??
Martin
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From: "J.E.J. op den Brouw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OnStream DI30 Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:57:25 +0100
Hmmm. I have the same problem but when I write the tape with tar.
Didn't try dd though.
mt commands work fine.
Tape unit is out of the door now. Can you keep me posted on this
subject?
Sami Shaaban wrote:
>
> I recently purchased an OnStream DI30 tape drive and tried using it with
> Amanda on a Linux system (with the 2.2.14 kernel compiled with the patch
> needed to make this drive work). The drive works fine if tar is writing
> to it, but to does not seem to work with dd. After getting restore
> errors with Amanda's amrestore and amrecover commands, I tried reading
> with dd, which didn't work, then I tried writing to a new tape with the
> following simple dd command:
>
> dd -of=/dev/nht0 -if=./somefile -bs=32k
>
> with the following output:
>
> dd: /dev/nht0: invalid argument
> 0+1 records in
> 0+0 records out
>
> My guess is that the DI30 driver just isn't ready for prime time and
> that I should just return this drive for one that is supported. If
> anyone has any experience with this, I would love to know before mailing
> this drive back. Otherwise, hopefully my message will serve as a
> warning for those considering purchase of this drive for use with Linux.
--
--jesse
======================================================================
J. op den brouw Johanna Westerdijkplein 75
Haagse Hogeschool 2521 EN DEN HAAG
Sector Techniek The Netherlands
Opleiding Elektrotechniek +31-70-4458936
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Linux - because reboots are for hardware changes
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From: jose galvez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3COM INTERNAL ADSL ADAPTER WHEN WILL BE SUPPORTED IN LINUX?.
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 11:38:08 GMT
Thanks in advance.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rolf Magnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU Over clocking
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 13:09:47 +0100
Reply-To: "Rolf Magnus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
LordCompaq wrote...
>I have a couple processor cards for a compaq proliant server. They run
>486DX/50 chips. The chips can be removed. What would happen if I put in a
>dx4/100 chip or the like. Do you think it might work?
>I know that the DX/? is a factor of a multiplier of the processor bus, in
>this case 50MHz. Is anyone aware of a DX2/100 or something like that?
I don't know why intel did this, but the number is not the factor. The DX4
don't have a multipier of 4, but 3. The 486DX/50 have a multiplier of one,
so the external clock would be 50 Mhz. Another problem is that afaik, the
DX4/100 needs another Voltage (3.3V?) while the DX/50 needs 5 Volts. When I
upgraded my old 486DX33, I had two options: get an adaptor for the voltage
difference and plug a dx4/100 cpu in or get a Cyrix 486DX2/80 cpu. The
latter was very cheap and I wanted it only for a few months, so I got the
Cyrix one (But it's slow). Yesterday, I installed the Suse Linux Cebit
Edition on it...
Also, you could look on the board if you find a jumper to set the external
clock rate.
>I have
>been tempted to put a DX2/66 chip in the thing to see what happens, but I
am
>not sure as this chip has a bus speed of 33MHz. I dont know what would
>happen if I tried to run it at 50MHz. I guess I might end up with a 100MHz
>board?
You could try it, but I don't think it will work. I heared about DX2/66 CPUs
at 40x2 Mhz, but not at 50x2. My DX/33 cpu worked at 40 Mhz, but refused to
boot at 50Mhz.
Rolf Magnus
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From: Craig McFarlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux & CD-R Changers - Supported?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 23:44:46 +1100
TWIMC,
I'm considering a CD-R changer (like the Pioneer 6-CD model) for
automating archives on a Linux box.
Has anyone got this to work? Or are the drivers just a dream away?
cya
Craig.
--
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Delaney & Morgan Computing Fax: +61 3 9878-3910
ACN 058 140 702 PO Box 84 Forest Hill Vic 3131 AUSTRALIA
"My opinions had better be those of the management, or they're FIRED!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamid Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Xircom CE3-10/100, ThinkPad 600x, Slackware 7.0
Date: 6 Mar 2000 12:52:27 GMT
On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:59:54 -0800, Peter Liqun Na wrote:
>env:
>tp 600x 2645-7eu, Xircom CE3-10/100, slackware 7.0
>
>Problem:
>Slackware 7.0 locked up sometimes, especially when very high speed
>download(over 800K/s) or when long time inactive(over one hour).
>
>stupid solution:-) pull it out and plug in again,
>then '/etc/pc*/network stop eth0;
> /etc/pc*/network start eth0;
> /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1'
>everything back.
>
>got this Xircom CE3 card long time ago(the early of 1997 or the end of
>1996). so don't have much docs.
>
>guess:
>
>i82365.o's timing option? cycle_time=? The default is 210 ns(4.77 MHz).
>how much expected? don't want to try one by one:-)
>
>recompiled kernel, apmd added?
>
>irq, memory ... setting?
>
>download newest pcmcia-cs?
>
>or ......
I've been using CE3 10/100 for quite sometimes now and I've no problem
whatsoever with it. Currently I'm using pcmcia-cs-3.1.10 but the card has been
working long before that.
--
|Mohd Hamid Misnan | ABAPer for hire! | AMD-Linux & iMac Bondi Blue RevB |
|http://geocities.com/siberlepak | [EMAIL PROTECTED]/alumni.uop.edu |
- The computer revolution is over. The computers won.
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From: Bruce McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:12:38 GMT
I thought I'd throw out a request for opinions about which of these
types of hard drives were thought best by Linux users before I go and
put a machine together for myself. Any takers?
Cheers!
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From: Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OfficeJet 720
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 14:24:41 -0800
I have a HP Officejet 720 All-in-One Printer/fax/scanner/copier.
Anyone have any info on support of Officejet in Linux?
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI? IDE? Opinions please
Date: 6 Mar 2000 13:47:36 GMT
Bruce McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought I'd throw out a request for opinions about which of these
> types of hard drives were thought best by Linux users before I go and
> put a machine together for myself. Any takers?
Oh boy, here we go again. We just had a thread on this about a month
ago -- check deja. As with anything, it comes down to what you are
going to use the machine for. SCSI gets you reliably fast data transfer,
uses much less CPU than IDE, and allows you many more devices/bus. It
is also expensive as hell. IDE is cheaper and still gets you good data
transfer speeds.
Personally, unless you've got money to burn, for a home system I'd go
with IDE HDs and SCSI peripherals (especially CD-burners, if you're going
to go there). That way you aren't paying *much* more $/GB for your
main storage, and you can add a large number of peripherals that
will work reliably and won't suck your CPU cycles.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Swasey)
Subject: Re: CD Writer failed after install!!
Date: 6 Mar 2000 13:54:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jim Tench" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Any ideas why this is not a valid block device?. I thought it would just be
> treated like any other IDE CDROM for reading .
If the other two responses don't get it working for you, you'll need to
make sure that /dev/cdrom is actually pointing at the /dev/hdX device which
really is the CDRom.
The easiest way is (as root):
dmesg | less # Look for a message identifying the cdrom
ls -l /dev/cdrom # Make sure it is a symbolic link to the hdX dmesg reported
If /dev/cdrom is NOT a symlink to the correct hdX device, then you can
use the following commands to fix it:
rm -f /dev/cdrom
ln -s /dev/hdX /dev/cdrom
where hdX is the hd device dmesg said was a cdrom. On my own system that
device is /dev/hdc so my /dev/cdrom looks like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 8 Feb 7 15:25 /dev/cdrom -> /dev/hdc
Good Luck,
--
Frank Swasey
Systems Programmer
University of Vermont
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: not sloooow, but sluggish linux modem
Date: Sun, 05 Mar 2000 16:02:44 +0100
Ellen Koinz wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> J.R. Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> If I download a small file, I
> > get good speed because the whole thing can transfer during the "fast
> > phase", but for larger files, I can barely maintain 2.8 KB/s because of the
> > cyclical behavior of the modem speed.
> >
>
> Sounds to me as if your serial port isn't set to operate at hi speed.
>
If it weren't for the statement about Windows doing OK - I would have
attributed this to the same thing I had: Phone lines that are not
capable of transferring data. If the phone system is bad, things like
this can sneak in - A couple of years ago, I was able to transmit up to
19200 b/s, then it fell, week after week, until I could not even get a
300b/s transfer to go OK.
After a couple of years (this is a Belgacom negative commercial as
promised) a technician came by and gave me a phone line all by myself,
and from then on, I could do 56kbs OK. One of the technicians that came
to visit during the perid I was off-line, had an apparatus that he
hooked directly to the phone output, he could read it and say: It is
surprising that you can even talk on this line. I since wondered what he
was measuring - Ohm, Volt, what?
I would imagine that a very high resistance would mean a bad connection
somewhere - the same as a low voltage.
In theory, I could have performed this test myself, had I known what to
measure and what values to look for ... does anybody know how to quickly
test the phone lines with a multimeter?
Atle
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Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:04:24 +0000
From: joe umiker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a second Hard Drive in Linux [HELP!!!]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> You say the system finds both drives OK. Can you give more detail?
>
> The drives may have switched places and there being no MBR on the new
> one which is now (for some reason) primary master, the BIOS is trying
> to do a network boot. Remove your network card with both drives in
> and see if you get the DHCP message now. This probably still won't
> fix the drives problem.
>
> Unplug the first drive and leave only the 2nd in, and try that. It
> should give a message about there being no OS to boot. Try doing an
> install of RH on the 2nd and see if it at least gets to the point
> where you can partition the drive.
>
> What are your intentions as to which IDE address you want the drives
> to be at?
>
> primary master?
> primary slave?
> secondary master?
> secondary slave?
>
> Do you have any other IDE devices like CDROM?
>
> On Mon, 06 Mar 2000 04:08:01 GMT CADMAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> | I'm very new to Linux, but I decieded to build a computer and put it
> | on it anyway. I have installed Red Hat 6.1 on a PII with a 13 gig
> | Hard drive and everything went fine. It's up and running with a
> | connection to the internet.
> |
> | I made hda have three partitions when I installed from scratch.
> | One was "swap", another was "/" and the last was "/usr"
> |
> |
> | I now want to add a second Hard Drive to the system, should be no
> | problem..... wrong!!! I have the CMOS fine, the system finds both
> | drives OK but I don't get the standard LILO: prompt during boot.
> |
> | It seem to say something like
> | DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 D0 B7 1D F6 B9
> | DHCP..../ <--- Twerley Bar goes for ~30 sec.
> |
> | Next message says
> |
> | DHCP MAC ADDR: 00 D0 B7 1D F6 B9
> | PXE-E51: No DHCP or BOOTP offers received
> | Invalid Partition table_
> |
> | I don't know why the "DHCP" message comes up I am not using DHCP.
> | If I unplug the second drive and re-boot, everything is fine again.
> |
> | I think it has somthing to do with LILO not able to find the booting
> | drive "hda"
> |
> | Can anyone help me??
>
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Make sure you are setting your jumpers correctly. You probably mixed up your
master and slave settings.
Joe Umiker
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From: Dan Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: best graphics card?
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 13:53:35 +0000
Can anyone recommend a graphics card supported by Linux (well, XFree86)
that would have a high quality mpeg decoder that can be used in DVD
playback on a pc monitor? I would probably use Windows for DVD playing -
I have until now anyway (although I do have the LiVID development
stuff). I already have a player with a PCI mpeg decoder card and,
separately, a voodoo 3 graphics card, but I see that new AGP graphics
cards exist that have decoders built in that would probably provide
cleaner playback, such as ATI and Diamond.
My current drive/decoder is a Jammin DVD II and the picture quality is
VERY poor, in part because of the series VGA connection, and in part
because the decoder is just weak... My computer is a PIII 450 running RH
6.1. Also, all of my DVDs are region 1 & I live in the UK, just to make
the problem more difficult... Any suggestions would be much
appreciated... I posted several messages similar to this one over the
past few weeks (to 5 other groups) with no response so far... I don't
really want to buy a new graphics card & then find out I got the wrong
one... Don't know who to ask...
Many thanks for any help!
-Dan Law
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Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Rossi)
Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2000 14:04:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Francisco de Borja Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi.....
>I'm looking for information on the current status
>(supported/unsupported) for two mainboards on linux:
>
>ASUS P2B-D
> and
>TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100
>
>Are there any known problems with these boards?
>(configuration would be something like
> 2x500PIII, Ati Rage Fury, 256Mb RAM)
>What mainboar is better, ASUS P2B-D or
>TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100?
>
>Thanks in advance......
I have been trying for several weeks now to get a Cyclades 8 port serial
PCI card to work with the TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100 motherboard and a 2.2 Kernel.
The system hangs as soon as the Cyclades driver starts. The Cyclades
card works OK with other motherboards..
Except for this one issue, the S1832DL runs fine.
BTW, I have been in contact with both VA Linux (supplier of the motherboard)
and Cyclades and neither has been much help. Each thinks it is the
other's problem.
---
Pete Rossi - WA3NNA
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From: Daniel Seagraves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the onboard sound for TX-ProII motherboards supported?
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2000 09:07:53 -0600
Stuck with a TX-ProII MB at work, it's got onboard sound.
The controller (appears to be) a SoundPro HT1869V+
Is this supported?
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