Linux-Hardware Digest #455, Volume #12 Sat, 11 Mar 00 08:13:05 EST
Contents:
which ups brand? (Martin Brown)
Re: which ups brand? (GarbMan)
45E13652 Linux in scientific community... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4E4F2BD2 Linux in scientific community... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keyboard does not wok with Compaq Proliant 400 ("Javier Enjamio")
mp3 hardware ("Lars Hansen")
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Allan)
Re: Sis video card ("Jason Byrne")
vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) ("Ali A. Dadkhah")
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Dale Pontius)
Fried System (Ken Rogers)
Linux and TYAN S1854 ("steve")
Diamond SupraExpress 56iV Pro modem ("Matt Hatcher")
Re: Trouble with RAID controller (Michael Tempsch)
Re: which ups brand? (Jean-David Beyer)
Re: 1: Xvidtune, 2: fix freq monitor (Anita Lewis)
Does Soundblaster work right on SMP machine? (Jean-David Beyer)
bttv locks machine SOLID (James Sleeman)
Re: Bogomips miss caclulated? ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Re: Ultra66 RH6.1 installs, but LILO hangs (Neil Koozer)
Re: Hecules Terminator Beast (Savage 3d) (Uwe Malzahn)
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Subject: which ups brand?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown)
Date: 11 Mar 2000 07:36:29 GMT
So, which ups brand has the best hardware with the best linux support?
Thanx
--
- Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
PGP key id#: E87466BB keyserver: certserver.pgp.com
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From: GarbMan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which ups brand?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:57:57 -0600
Martin Brown wrote:
>
> So, which ups brand has the best hardware with the best linux support?
>
> Thanx
> --
> - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
>
> PGP key id#: E87466BB keyserver: certserver.pgp.com
My vote goes to APC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 45E13652 Linux in scientific community...
Date: Sat,11 Mar 2000 02:00:48+2000
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 4E4F2BD2 Linux in scientific community...
Date: Sat,11 Mar 2000 02:00:48+2000
http://209.218.86.64/index.html
What is Linux ?: New advanced operating system for businesses , that provides
all kinds of networking, printing and thousands of other applications,
typical Linux applications are less expensive and higher quality than the
ones for Microsoft Windows , Linux rapidly spreading and about to become
single unified operating system for all personal computers by year 2003.
Now new technical illustration and diagramming program for Linux is available !!!
===================================================================================
h t t p : / / w w w . l i n u x c a d . c o m
Linux CAD is the Auto CAD and the Visio for Linux for all practical purposes it
implements
all major features of AutoCAD and Visio in such a way that new users (who had ACAD
experience before)
do not need any additional training to start working with Linux CAD ).
Linux CAD can be used in:
Organizational charts ,
Business process diagramms,
Information network and computer system diagrams,
--> Software Development Flowcharting ,
--> Entity Relationship Diagramming,
Network planning,
System Administration Diagramming and you actually can start
your sysadmin tasks from inside Linux CAD,
--> Mechanical Engineering drafting,
PCB and schematic design ( easily integrated with routing programs ),
Geographicsl Information Systems,
Any kind of drafting where integration with database is important,
Floor plans for buildings and facilities,
--> Architectural Drafting,
Front end for programmable rendering systems like OpenGL,
--> Front end for any software that may require graphics editor functions,
Can be used to replace ACAD in every application later is used !!!
Can be used to replace Visio diagramming tool in every application later is
used !!!
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any kinds of diagramms with Linux CAD , Linux CAD makes a truly consumer
oriented OS out of Linux !!!
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From: "Javier Enjamio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Keyboard does not wok with Compaq Proliant 400
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 09:47:28 +0100
Wiht Compaq Proliant 400 and the redhat version 5.2, almost always in the
boot-up the keyboard does not work.
Can anybody help me?
Many thanks and best regards.
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From: "Lars Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mp3 hardware
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 09:32:01 +0100
I am planning to rebuilding a 66mhz into a mp3player, but it needs
hardware acceleration. Any ideas?
It only has ISAports
Lars Hansen
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From: Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:48:00 +1300
Rolf Magnus wrote:
> Atle wrote...
>
> >Does anyone run Linux on anything other than the 2 Celeron Abit board?
> >Please tell me about it!
>
> Dual P-II 400 MHz on an Asus P2B-DS with on-board Ultra2-SCSI. Very
> reliable, no problems. You can also get a Slot-1 board and plug adaptors
> with Celerons in. You can also mix CPUs with different clock multipliers.
>
> >And: What is rthe most powerful x86-based Linux machine available today?
> >Is there a 2xP3 or 2xAthlon being tested anywhere?
Won't be dual athlons, I didn't think AMD had the SMP support in them either.
> Perhaps a 4xXeon or something. But I don't exactly know if the P-III-Xeons
> also support more than 2 CPUs.
I've seen some 4xXEON systems at work. Some of the bigger Unisys "PC based"
machines go to 8x or 10x
My home machine is dual Celeron 400's on a second-hand GB 686DLX. Rather
flakey, but that is probably the board.
NT4: Keyboard and mouse lock up after random interval, machine requires power
removed totally.
Win2k: Same as above, network driver can often go funny too. Tried several
NIC's with same result.
Linux 2.2: Motors along BUT network driver crashes and starts looping with
errors. Several NIC's tried with similar results. NOTE: Kernel reports
different MTRR values on the CPU's.
I have not yet found anyone interested in helping to track down my problem
with the tulip and boomerang drivers. It's probably something nastier,
triggered by the hardware doing strange things.
Linux 2.3: .50 kernel won't even boot, SMP code starts looping and spraying
out the same error. Could be the bios is screwing things up. No surprise, GB
don't seem capable of getting the idea that something is wrong with their SMP,
especially on an older board. The BIOS has trouble even detecting both CPU's,
sometimes a few reboots are needed...
Win98: Runs fine. Using it right now.
SMP appears to be the problem. Oh well, it was worth the money for the
on-board SCSI. My next dual-CPU board will NOT be a GB, I'll give ABIT or ASUS
a go.
Allan.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sis video card
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 01:09:00 -0800
check out www.sis.com.tw - they list drivers for Linux (xsis.rpm or
xsis.tgz)
You didn't mention a model.. but I have SiS 620 working...
Also... try getting the most recent (3.3.6) XFree86
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From: "Ali A. Dadkhah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 03:20:37 -0600
Hi,
I am getting following message repeatedly on my console. In addition
every few houres, some items
are being removed from my control pannel or some applications stuck. Is
ther any thing that I can
do to prevent this from repeating?
vfs: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 22:30:44 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
NTK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, you guys will be glad I was wrong. That is I was wrong about the
> support for R128Pro chipset in XFree86 4.0.
>
> I just downloaded its source was looking at the file and it's there.
> XFree86 4.0 supports R128Pro chipset.
>
> Now, All we have to do is install it, which I have never done. Well,
> let's give it a go.
>
Are you sure about that? I looked at the release today, too. I saw
the 'r128' driver, but saw nothing there about the 'pro' variation.
Just hopped over to a mirror to check...
http://www.rge.com/pub/X/XFree86/4.0/doc/HTML/r1284.html
lists the 'reported working' cards:
Rage Fury AGP 32MB
XPERT 128 AGP 16MB
XPERT 99 AGP 8MB
Nor was there anything about the 'pro' variation in the rest of the
document. Rage 128 is on the 'underway' section in the DRI document.
Perhaps the 'pro' is supported. I suspect it'll be necessary to look
at the source to be sure. I'd presume support is forthcoming. It may
be possible to get support now through the framebuffer driver.
Dale Pontius
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From: Ken Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fried System
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 00:02:58 -1000
According to ajam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a machine booting both Linux and NT. The power-on switch in
the
> machine is one of these ones that does not really click. You just
push
> the damned thing really deep, and as the internal spring pushes the
> button out, the thing turns on. I've been meaning to change the box,
> but I've been procrastinating about it. Either way, Yesterday I
turned
> on the machine, and it did not turned on. It instead started making
> this strange sound; possibly by the power supply fan.
I lost a machine in a similar fashion a few weeks ago. I was
re-organizing some of my machines and was going to put windows on a
machine that had previously running as a Linux server. After being
off for several days, I powered it up to the sound of sparks and the
smell of burning components. Turns out every component in the box was
fried with the exception of RAM. I did a post-mortem and discovered
that the fan in the power supply has seized. I wonder if this caused
a short inside the PS which caused it to overvoltage on the outputs.
Or perhaps the machine decided that death was better than windows...
-p.
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From: "steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and TYAN S1854
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:08:49 -0000
Whilst trying to install mandrake 7.02 (also red hat 6.0 and mandrake 6.0)
i get the following problem:
once booted from CD the first screens show, i presume, the detection of
hardware. When it get to detecting ide0 and ide1 the system hange for a
while and then returns with messages, along the lines of ,process timed out
and ide0 and ide1 not detected. If i then continue with the installation i
get to the point that the Linux partition needs formatting and surprise
surprise there isn't one. I've tried the fips/fdisk route, without success.
I have the following:
Tyan 1854 motherboard
pentium PIII-600
128 meg ram
IMB 13.Gb HDD
MATROX G400max
SB 1024 soundcard
NE2000 comp. ethernet card
Anyone have any ideas, PLEASE.
Steve
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From: "Matt Hatcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond SupraExpress 56iV Pro modem
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 10:35:35 -0000
I've been running Slackware Linux for a while now but have never needed to
actually get my modem up and running - now that I do I am in grave doubts
that it'll actually work. I've checked the list at /~gromitkc and yup - my
modem is there under HCF and has two big question marks next to it.
Is there _any_ likelyhood that I'll be able to get it to work (I've tried -
the kernel won't acknowledge it) or should I just buy another cheap one that
definitely will?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Tempsch)
Subject: Re: Trouble with RAID controller
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 11:50:17 GMT
In article <8aco3u$o5r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In article <0enba8.54i.ln@localhost>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Tempsch) wrote:
>> Intel L440GX+ w/ 4 550MHz Xeon processors, 4G RAM, 6 18G SCSI-disks on
>> an Amaquest CTL-95U2 RAID controller.
>
> Lucky dog...
:-) Unfortunataly not to keep though...
>> This controller is currently config'ed to show these disks as 2 normal
>> SCSI disks (~8G and ~78G) using RAID 5. Win2000 came with the system,
>> installed on the first 4G of the first (8G) disk and sees both disks
>> correctly. Decided to make a test installation of RH6.1 (not my
>> decision...) on the remaining 4G... No real problems but the second
>> disk (78G) is not found by Linux, not by fdisk, nor at boot time.
>> The first is correctly seen as /dev/sda...
>
> /dev/sdb does not exist? Strange...
The device/mountpoint does exist in the /dev directory but at boot
there's no mention of sdb and doing 'fdisk /dev/sdb' returns
Unable to open /dev/sdb
>> I saw the kernel option 'Probe all LUNs', but the kernel that I made
>> with that option on wouldn't work (probably something else I missed)
> that's for when I single SCSI target has multipe "targets", like a
> CD-ROM changer or some such. Doesn't apply to the controller as a
> whole.
Hmmm... but the controller is set to emulate 2 devices, the Amibios at
boot finds the devices and list them like
HBA ID LUN
================
1 0 0
1 0 1
>> Would reconfiguring the controller to act like one disk be a
>> reasonable option?
>
> That might fix things, but then again maybe not.
My thought too...
> Recompile the kernel and make sure you allow as much ram as possible. I
> think the toggle is for 2GB or 4GB max.
The toggle I found says 1 or 2G (2.2.12)
> What is listed in /proc/scsi and /proc/partitions? Maybe /proc/pci or
> /proc/bus/pci (wherever it is now).
I'm not currently at the machine, but IIRC /proc/scsi/ had 0, 1 and 2
(the controller has three channels) but there was only any interesting
stuff in '1' (various numbers which for 0 and 2 were all 0) which I'd
presume is correct given the bios reporting of both 'disks' being on
HBA 1.
/Michael
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which ups brand?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 07:11:39 -0500
Martin Brown wrote:
> So, which ups brand has the best hardware with the best linux support?
>
> Thanx
> --
> - Martin J. Brown, Jr. -
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
>
> PGP key id#: E87466BB keyserver: certserver.pgp.com
I had an APC Back-UPS 400 on my old machine for about three years. It was
about time for a new battery, and APC had a good trade-in deal, so I
upgraded to a Smart-UPS 420. My new machine has an APC Smart-UPS 1000.
These work fine with the genpowerd program or you can download APC's
fancy PowerChute program. I have used both. I run the PowerChute now
because it can do some automatic testing that genpowerd does not, and has
a gee-whiz graphical control panel that I run sometimes when I get bored.
Of course, I never tried any other UPS boxen, so I cannot make a
comparison.
The APC Smart-UPS 420 worked very well for me last summer when the local
power substation blew out 1/2 of its transformer capacity. Power sagged,
and went on and off like a yoyo for about three days. The machine coasted
through the short (< 5 minutes) drops, and powered down and came back up
correctly, for each of these "oppotrunities." I am very satisfied with
APC products.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
/V\
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\
Registered Linux User 85642. ^^-^^
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: 1: Xvidtune, 2: fix freq monitor
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:21:04 GMT
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:30:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Thanks,
>
>I am going to save some BNC connector by salvaging a VGA cable from a
>broken VGA monitor and solder the ends to the HP 98785A(FF monitor).
>
>BTW, I need to be in console mode to login and startx. How can I go
>around this problem?
>
>Can I start the xserver 1st thing and login?
>
>Tim Foo
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
I don't know anything about what you are doing with the cable, but to
start linux in X, you edit /etc/inittab.
Change the 3 to a 5 in this:
id:3:initdefault:
Above that line in my inittab is a list of numbers that could be
used. They are not the same in every distribution. I use RedHat; so 5 is
the number for X11 in mine.
Anita
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From: Jean-David Beyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Soundblaster work right on SMP machine?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 07:21:18 -0500
I have a VA Linux Systems StartX-MP machine with a Soundblaster card
and 2 CPU's. I am unable to get this board to work correctly most of
the time, though I think the board itself is OK. It runs VA Linux
Systems version of Red Hat 6.0.
1.) I can play music CD-ROMs correctly.
2.) The UMP plug-in for Netscape pretends to run, but the sound
output is very choppy: gaps and such.
3.) The real-audio player, either as a plug-in to Netscape, or
stand-alone, does not work correctly. It puts out a few pops, but
that is all.
4.) dmesg says this (many times): "Sound: DMA (output) timed out -
IRQ/DRQ config error?" I have no doubt they are right. Anyone know
the correct way to run sndconfig? I made it work just fine on my
other single-processor machine running Red Hat Linux 6.0.
--
Jean-David Beyer .~.
/V\
Shrewsbury, New Jersey /( )\
Registered Linux User 85642. ^^-^^
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From: James Sleeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bttv locks machine SOLID
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:43:51 +1200
I'm trying to get an Askey/Dynalink CPH061 tv/capture card running via
bttv/video4linux, latest versions of bttv (0.7.21), latest i2c (2.4.5)
(patched the kernel source) and kernel 2.2.14. I have all modules loading
correctly (and they
report what I expect (see the verbose output from bttv below)) but as soon
as I try and get anything to actually use bttv it locks my machine solid,
for example, I try and run xawtv and bang, the machine freezes, same for
broadcast 2000. I'm using an up-to-date debian potato by the way, I have an
S3Virge/Dx 4meg PCI video card and have tried it with both SVGA and s3v
XF86 servers.
Any ideas anybody ??
Here is verbose output from loading the bttv module...
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer sudo: boffin : TTY=ttyp1 ; PWD=/usr/home/boffin
; USER=root ; COMMAND=/sbin/insmod bttv card=24 verbose=2
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: driver version 0.7.21 loaded
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: using 2 buffers with 2080k (4160k
total) for capture
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0,
devfn: 104, irq: 12, memory: 0xf4001000.
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found.
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: gpio: out_enable=0x0,
data=0xffffff, in=0x0
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: Adapter: bt848 #0 scl: 1
sda: 1 -- testing...
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:1 scl: 1 sda: 0
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:2 scl: 1 sda: 1
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:3 scl: 0 sda: 1
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o:4 scl: 1 sda: 1
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-algo-bit.o: bt848 #0 passed test.
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: adapter bt848 #0 registered
as adapter 0.
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: model: BT878(Askey/Typhoon/Anubis
Magic TView CPH051/061 (bt878))
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for MSP34xx @
0x80... not found
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA8425 @
0x82... not found
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9840 @
0x84... not found
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA985x @
0xb6... not found
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: driver i2c TV tuner driver
registered.
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: tuner: chip found @ 0x60
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: bttv0: i2c attach [Temic PAL]
Mar 11 21:07:08 mortimer kernel: i2c-core.o: client [Temic PAL] registered
to adapter [bt848 #0](pos. 0).
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bogomips miss caclulated?
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 12:44:06 GMT
Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my dual celeron 355/550 (1101 BM) is pretty nice.
My dual PIII/500 gives me 999.42 BogoMIPS.
Greg
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ultra66 RH6.1 installs, but LILO hangs
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 04:47:24 -0800
John in SD wrote:
>
> On Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:41:41 -0700, John Noble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >So I've made some progress with my Promise Ultra66 and RedHat 6.1.
> >I'm able to get the install done with the ide2=addr,adrr ide3=addr,addr
> >trick, but
> >then I run into trouble with LILO. When I try to boot off the first
> >Ultra66 drive, LILO hangs at "LI".
>
> The boot hang at "LI" means that the first stage loader, one sector,
> took control; finished; and is trying to pass control to the second
> stage loader. The second stage loader never received control.
>
> /boot must be in a separate partition with versions of LILO at 21 and
> below.
>
> If your BIOS supports the new int 0x13 EDD packet call interface, then
> LILO 21.3 will be of help. It was announced 3/8/00 on
> comp.os.linux.announce.
> ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo or
> ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo
> The latter site has a more recent version of the 'disk.com' utility
> which probes your BIOS for the prescence of the EDD interface.
>
> --John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Since "LI" is not related to the 1024 problem, it may be that the
extended bios calls won't help. My boot loader, nuni, boots from the
Ultra66 just fine. There is no chance for a geometry mismatch because
nuni doesn't use geometry or cylinders. I'm running on the Ultra66
right now, but just in ordinary udma33 mode. You can find nuni by going
to freshmeat.net and putting nuni in the search box.
Neil.
> >
> >I've got 2 Ultra66 drives on this system. The first with Win98 and the
> >other specifically for Linux. I put all my partitions on the second
> >drive (/boot, /, all of it) and then install LILO on the MBR of the
> >Win98 drive. I've added the ide2=addr,addr ide3=addr,addr to the append
> >of the lilo.conf, but to no avail. I have not installed and new
> >kernels/patches for Ultra66 support. I figure I shouldn't have to just
> >to get LILO to boot the system right?
> >I'm pretty sure /boot is under the 1024 cylinder limit, but it's on a
> >different drive than where LILO is installed (LILO is on the MBR of the
> >win98 drive, /boot is on the other drive) should this matter?
> >I took the lilo.conf that the RH 6.1 installer created and tired adding
> >"linear" and "bios=0x80" to the global section, but that did not help.
> >If this is a disk geometry problem, how can I tell if it is and any
> >ideas how I would solve it?
> >
> >Should I use another loader (maybe ChooseOs)?
> >
> >Any clues here to any of this?
> >
> >Thanks
> >pulling out my hair
> >-John
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: Hecules Terminator Beast (Savage 3d)
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 13:45:23 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi has anyone had any succes in getting a Hercules Taermiantor Beast AGP
> card working with Red Hat 6.1. If So is there any chance that you could
> post your XF86Config for me.
>
Had a bit trouble first, but then found a new Xserver on the net that works
really good. Try
http://www.s3p.co.uk/
and look for the s3savage-1.0-10.tar.gz
Cheers
Uwe
> If there are some urls that anyone thinks might help me Id be really
> gratefull.
>
> Thanks
>
> Rob Wilson
>
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