Linux-Hardware Digest #480, Volume #12 Tue, 14 Mar 00 20:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Johan Kullstam)
RTL8029 Ethernet / IRQ frustrations??? (Matt Francis)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Tony Houghton)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? ("Wayne Monteath")
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Jonathan Buzzard)
matrox video cards and red hat 6.1 ("Space Oddity")
test ("Andi")
Re: Excessive hard drive paging (John Loukidels)
Epson Stylus 800+ printer anyone? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: Two net cards (Frank Hahn)
X11 config for Daewoo CMC2000M? ("TJ Snider")
Re: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0) (Andy Pryer)
Re: linux in notebook (jgrain)
agp video trouble in redhat (Cece)
Re: linux in notebook (Brian Hub)
Trident blade 3d AGP trouble (Cece)
Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to (Michael Aye)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Tony Houghton)
Re: Getting Geforce DDR to work (Ferdinand Badescu)
Re: RH6.1 install to RAID (Cokey de Percin)
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Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:12:07 GMT
willbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 3/13/00 13:04:20 GMT, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >if you care, irqtune can rearrange the priorities.
> ^^^^^^^
>
>
> 1. would you kindly post a web site that has irqtune?
sure thing. irqtune can be found at
<URL:http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/>
btw i use freshmeat to find software
<URL:http://freshmeat.net/>
put "irqtune" (or whatever you're looking for) in the find window and
punch return. hopepage, ftp-sites &c. it's *so* good.
> 2. for *CURRENT* pc's...
>
> do you (or anyone else) know if there is any difference
> in the "data rate" capabilities (and/or bandwidth)
> of irq 3-or-4 vs. irq 9-thru-15???
the irq's don't transmit data as such. they just yank the cpu over to
a handler subroutine. since data transfer is done by dma or copying
shared regions or what-have-you, which interrupt got you there is
irrelevant.
hope this helps.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Matt Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RTL8029 Ethernet / IRQ frustrations???
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:15:06 GMT
Hello All...
I am trying to get a linux box up and running and communicating with the
rest of the world, but I am having a problem with my card *I think*.
How do I find the resource settings in Linux??? I'm using an old
computer with lots of shared architecture crap, and I don't know where
to start.
Thanks in advance,
Matt
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Mar 2000 20:16:01 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't avoid butting in here. You have obviously *never* used a mouse
> that uses the Honeywell motion sensing mechanism. To anyone who has
> they are simply the best way of sensing the motion of a mouse and it's
> mechanical. They don't need a mouse mat and never need cleaning. One day
> when the patent runs out all mice will be made like this.
>
> Basically they method is to use two axially inclined disks. These are
> sealed so no dirt can get inside. The only maintanence is to occasionaly
> scrape the muck of the glide pads and disks (refered to as feet).
>
> It would appear that Honeywell have sold the patent on to KeyTronic
> and is avaliable as the LifeTime mouse in North America or the KT Mouse
> in Europe. For details see
>
> http://www.keytronic.com/products/mouse.htm
>
> Unfortunately I can't find anyone in the U.K. that sells them. So far I
> have tried Insight, SMC Direct, Dabs Direct, Watford Electronics, Simply,
> Inmac, Action, MicroWarehouse, Global Direct, Tech Direct and
> Software Warehouse. If anyone knows of a U.K. supplier please let me know,
> I am would dearly love to purchase one of these mice.
Microsoft have a new type of mouse called IntelliEye which uses optical
tracking but will work on just about any surface. I'm a bit worried that
they don't say any surface outright, "almost any" could mean something
like any as long as it's got a certain type of pattern and is scrubbed
clean every 5 minutes. They also only seem to be available in
right-handed contour, and I'd rather have a normal middle button than a
wheel.
Maybe John Winters could import a few of these Honeywell ones. Then
again, I'm not sure I'm that fussy about mice any more, my Pilot on the
novelty frog mousemat (for some reason this has one of the best plastic
surfaces I've tried, it's considerably more matt than most) is more than
adequate for mostly console use with the odd bit of X and gpm.
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From: "Wayne Monteath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
Crossposted-To:
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:26:50 GMT
And of what possible use is irqtune to anyone running anything other than
Linux (or a variant thereof)?
Or have I missed something important here?
Wayne Monteath
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> willbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 3/13/00 13:04:20 GMT, Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >if you care, irqtune can rearrange the priorities.
> > ^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> > 1. would you kindly post a web site that has irqtune?
>
> sure thing. irqtune can be found at
>
> <URL:http://www.best.com/~cae/irqtune/>
>
> btw i use freshmeat to find software
>
> <URL:http://freshmeat.net/>
>
> put "irqtune" (or whatever you're looking for) in the find window and
> punch return. hopepage, ftp-sites &c. it's *so* good.
>
> > 2. for *CURRENT* pc's...
> >
> > do you (or anyone else) know if there is any difference
> > in the "data rate" capabilities (and/or bandwidth)
> > of irq 3-or-4 vs. irq 9-thru-15???
>
> the irq's don't transmit data as such. they just yank the cpu over to
> a handler subroutine. since data transfer is done by dma or copying
> shared regions or what-have-you, which interrupt got you there is
> irrelevant.
>
> hope this helps.
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:00:21 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> [SNIP]
>> >
>> > The mice themselves were solidly made, comfortable in the hand, had
>> > nice, big buttons, and just worked - I didn't get interested in mouse
>> > quality until I moved onto things like Suns and PCs with inferior
>> > mice. But a good optical mouse beats a good mechanical mouse any day.
>>
>> I can't avoid butting in here. You have obviously *never* used a mouse
>> that uses the Honeywell motion sensing mechanism. To anyone who has
>> they are simply the best way of sensing the motion of a mouse and it's
>> mechanical. They don't need a mouse mat and never need cleaning. One day
>> when the patent runs out all mice will be made like this.
>>
>> Basically they method is to use two axially inclined disks. These are
>> sealed so no dirt can get inside. The only maintanence is to occasionaly
>> scrape the muck of the glide pads and disks (refered to as feet).
>>
>> It would appear that Honeywell have sold the patent on to KeyTronic
>> and is avaliable as the LifeTime mouse in North America or the KT Mouse
>> in Europe. For details see
>
> It may be heresy to mention it but Microsoft makes an optical mouse
> without rollers that works very well. It has a scroll wheel and can be
> set up as a three button mouse.
>
Which misses the point. The Honeywell motion sensing method is better
than *any* other method, including that used in Microsoft and Sun optical
mice and any type of mouse with a ball.
JAB.
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Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: "Space Oddity" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: matrox video cards and red hat 6.1
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 23:28:31 -0000
trawling around on this newsgroup ive noticed that a lot of people are
having problems getting their graphics card to work properly with x windows.
I am having exactly the same problem with my matrox mystique video card.
Once i have run xconfigurator, and specified my monitor etc, its will refuse
to let me run this card at 800 x 600 even though if recognises the card.
Does anybody have any suggestions.
(i am running red hat 6.1)
E-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if possible.
Thanks
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From: "Andi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: test
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 14:06:35 +0100
asdfasdf
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Loukidels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Excessive hard drive paging
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:11:30 GMT
I have this same issue on my brand x box at home. It doesn't bother
me. Should I be more concerned?
On 14 Mar 2000 00:57:26 GMT, Steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Mar 2000 14:51:24 -0500, Doug Bible wrote:
>>I have set up numerous linux systems and have not run across a system
>>with such excessive hard drive paging. I have installed linux on a Dell
>>Precision 610. This system is has an Adaptec 7890 controller with a
>>Seagate drive (model ST39102LW). About every 5-10 seconds I heard the
>>drive accessing. To see if I have some process running that is trying
>>to access the drive I went through and shutdown/killed every process
>>viewable using 'ps'. Having nothing left but those processes necessary
>>for the system to even run, the drive access persisted. I get the
>>feeling that it is something on the kernel level that is causing this to
>>occur. I even recompiled to a newer kernel with no avail.
>>
>>My main question is this: Is there an application that would allow me
>>to monitor the processes (even at the kernel level) that are accessing
>>the hard drive? Any assistance would be appreciated, for this is
>>driving me nuts having to sit and listen to this machine. If there is
>>no help for me, my last course of action would be to get extra long
>>keyboard/mouse/video cables and put the thing in the closet :)
>>
>>Doug Bible
>
>This sounds asthough it could be a million things, suppose you've already
>checked all the cron jobs, checked that sendmail isn't constantly trying
>to send those unsent messages / constantly polling the server to check
>for new mail. Is it able to see all of it's memory, have you got a 1K swap
>partition, is it updating one of the log files every few seconds, does it do
>this on the console or only in X but like I said I'm sure you've checked
>all of that stuff, you sound asthough you know what you're doing.
>
>Let us know the outcome.
>--
>Cheers
>Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
>
>web http://www.ndirect.co.uk/~sjlen/
>
>or http://start.at/zero-pps
>
> 11:50pm up 10:28, 6 users, load average: 1.12, 1.21, 1.18
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John Loukidelis
I am not your lawyer; this is not legal advice
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Subject: Epson Stylus 800+ printer anyone?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:17:57 +0100
I'd like to hear from people who are using an Epson Stylus 800+ ink jet
printer (no color version) with Linux, e.g. which setting you're using
etc.
Thanks.
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Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: Two net cards
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:04:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 08:49:57 +0200, Valerrij Kovzan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have two cards (NE2000 and DE305). DE305 is configured in jumperless mode
>like (NE2000). So they need only one module ne. But I can't run two cards
>simultaneously. Each card could work separatly. If there is in default
>module list 'ne' module presented it could find NE2000 card but fail
>autoprobing DE305 (as NE2000) actually it can work if I describe DE305 in
>'modules.conf' file :
>alias ne eth0
>options ne io=0x320
>First thing I'v tried is to make entries in modules.conf:
>alias ne eth0
>alias ne eth1
>options eth0 io=0x300
>options eth1 io=0x320
>Second thing, sending parameters using lilo:
>boot: linux ether=0,0x300,eth0 ether=0,0x320,eth1
>
This is what I had to do to get two network cards recognized.
I at first had the driver compiled into the kernel and had to
go back and compile it as a module. In the /etc/modules.conf
file I had to add:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300,0x240
After that, they were both recognized.
I have a Slackware system running Kernel 2.0.36.
I also use loadlin to start the system from MS DOS. I have
the following line in a DOS bat file to start Linux with:
c:\loadlin\loadlin c:\loadlin/zimage root=/dev/hda2 ro hdc=cdrom ro
ether,5,0x300,eth0 ether,11,0x240,eth1
The above is all one line. Whether this was required or not, I'm not
sure. I have not taken the time to try and boot without the ether
parameters.
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X11 config for Daewoo CMC2000M?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:19:20 GMT
Hi,
I'm having trouble configuring my monitor correctly, can anyone tell me what
the modelines should be for a CMC2000M?
Failing direct information, does anyone know where I might be able to locate
the specs for this 20 inch monitor? I got it cheap, but the flicker is
driving me batty!
Can anyone help me? Daewoo doesn't seem to have any archival information on
supporting old monitors...
Thanks,
TJ - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andy Pryer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:05:34 GMT
In article <Udbz4.12545$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Coffin) wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have a IDE attached CDROM on IDE1. Whenever I do a DMESG LOG the log
is
> full of the message:
>
> VFS: Disk change detected on devide ide1(22,0)
>
> All other messages appear to have 'rolled off' because this is the
only
> message in there (unless I do a DMESG right after booting the system).
This
> occurs when there is no CD in the drive (I'm not positive, but I'm
pretty sure
> that this does NOT occur when there is a CD in the drive).
Hi Mike,
I've experienced exactly the same problem, this it what causes it.
I'm assuming that you use KDE ? Well, I do, and as part of the KDE
startup when you login, a program called 'autorun' is started. this
works in a similar way to 'auto insert notification' in Windows, it
checks to see if a CD is present, and then mounts it.
Trouble is, when there is no CD, you get the above error messages. You
can stop 'autorun' from starting by commenting out the line in the
/usr/bin/startkde. A better solution would probably be to remove the
execute permission in the autorun executable, since this is what the
script checks for.
Hope that helps !
Andy
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From: jgrain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.security.firewalls,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux in notebook
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:23:27 +0000
check the laptop howto out - gives you pointers
most installation problems are only with the latest hardware, but if you
know how to find, dowload, extract & install modules & recompile the kernel
then this shouldnt present a problem.
"Bass���v" wrote:
> is there anything need to pay attention when install linux in notebook ?
> for excmple touchpad etc....
>
> --
> Bass said :
> I'm here ....... why....?....
> I'm "WAITING" ...... here
> For what ?
> I'm waiing ..... for you ..... so
> If You Come Here ......
> you can play me
> I promise. ( woo !I'm coming !! )
>
> PS : Hope Everybody LOVE "Bass" !!!!!
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From: Cece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: agp video trouble in redhat
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:30:30 GMT
I know I posted this before, but I forgot to mention that when I try to
start x, it either freezes (and I must shutdown cold) or if IU leave just
the interlace mode I could use with my old card, it gives an error no
valid modes found. Xconfigurator, when probing, says no valid modes at 8,
16 or 24 found!
MY orignal letter was:
I had been running 2 hard disks, one with Windows 98, the other with
Redhat 5.2. I just got a new machine, and took my drives to put in it.
This ATX mothrboard came with a trident 3d blade AGP graphics card.
Nothing I do can make Linux work in X. I found that this card is on the
unsupported list. I guess i don't know these ATX machines well, as I
thought I could just switch cards back to my old Trident #D IMAGE 975.
Well, I found you can't just do it. I don't know if this board must have
an AGP display, or could I put in a pci display? I saw a setting or two in
the BIOS. Does anyone know if this is possible? Or better yet, Has anyone
been able to get this card to work? My monitor is also a bit of a problem.
I was only able to get it before in an Interlaced mode, but now-nothing.
It's a Gateway 17 inch EV-700 (like a crystalscan 17)
I appreiate any help! Thanks,
Cece
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From: Brian Hub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.security.firewalls,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: linux in notebook
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:28:34 +0100
"Bass���v" wrote:
> is there anything need to pay attention when install linux in notebook ?
> for excmple touchpad etc....
>
> --
> Bass said :
> I'm here ....... why....?....
> I'm "WAITING" ...... here
> For what ?
> I'm waiing ..... for you ..... so
> If You Come Here ......
> you can play me
> I promise. ( woo !I'm coming !! )
>
> PS : Hope Everybody LOVE "Bass" !!!!!
Depends on the laptop...check the HowTo...or just try :), works great on my
TP600
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From: Cece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident blade 3d AGP trouble
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 00:30:29 GMT
Hi. I had been running 2 hard disks, one with Windows 98, the other with
Redhat 5.2. I just got a new machine, and took my drives to put in it.
This ATX mothrboard came with a trident 3d blade AGP graphics card.
Nothing I do can make Linux work in X. I found that this card is on the
unsupported list. I guess i don't know these ATX machines well, as I
thought I could just switch cards back to my old Trident #D IMAGE 975.
Well, I found you can't just do it. I don't know if this board must have
an AGP display, or could I put in a pci display? I saw a setting or two in
the BIOS. Does anyone know if this is possible? Or better yet, Has anyone
been able to get this card to work? My monitor is also a bit of a problem.
I was only able to get it before in an Interlaced mode, but now-nothing.
It's a Gateway 17 inch EV-700 (like a crystalscan 17)
I appreiate any help! Thanks,
Cece
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From: Michael Aye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: Re: Is there more than 1 person in the world that can get an HPT366 to
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:41:54 +0100
Hi there...
Artur Kucharski wrote:
> David Stringer wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone help ?
> >
> > My current configuration is:
> > -Abit BE6 motherboard with a built in HPT366 controll
> > -18.2 GB Quantum Fireball KA
> > -The disk is partioned like so:
> > 1: 2 gb fat 32.
> > 2: 4 gb fat 32
> > 3: 16mb ext2 (/boot, this is within the first 1024 cylenders)
> > 4: 3.8 gb ext2 (/)
> > 5: 256 swap
> ^^^^^^^^^^
Please correct me if i am wrong, but i thought, Linux could only handle SWAP
partitions with size not bigger as 128MB, or is this only valid for DEBIAN Linux?
Regards,
Michael
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Mar 2000 00:49:24 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which misses the point. The Honeywell motion sensing method is better
> than *any* other method, including that used in Microsoft and Sun optical
> mice and any type of mouse with a ball.
Ah, but Microsoft's is different from Sun's. It claims to work on almost
any surface, so you don't have to put up with those awful metal mats and
felt mouse feet which keep ending up virtually welded together. I don't
remember the old Suns I used at Uni having a particularly bad problem
with this (ISTR the mats were some sort of laminate, not metal, ICBW),
so I had fond memories of the Sun ones and when I found out about a
cheapish Atari/Amiga optical mouse I bought one and made and adaptor for
my Acorn. It suffered badly from "sticking", and was also overly
sensitive to being used at an angle to the pad, so it went back; it also
suffered from very occasional phantom button presses when I wasn't
touching it, so that made a good excuse for the supplier ;). The Mouse
Systems PS/2 mouse I bought later was OK with the angle thing (as was
the old Sun), but did have the stickiness problem, so that had to go
back too, after much arguing with the supplier.
The MS IntelliEye should not have those problems in theory, I've no idea
how effective it is in practice though.
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From: Ferdinand Badescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Geforce DDR to work
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 16:48:36 -0800
Darryl Lunn wrote:
> I am having the same prob ..... yes I am a newbie also ....
> I have downloaded the drivers .... this will sound stupid .... but where do
> I put the files from the driver archive ?????
> Please help me (us) :)
> Darryl
> s barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:l0hw4.51925$Gl6.32395@news2-hme0...
> > Im a newbie to Linux, and I'd really like to learn more about this
> > potentially Windows-arsekicking software, but my nieve foolishness betrays
> > me, and I'd REALLY appreciate any help that you experts could impart.
> > When installing Linux I cant seem to get my video card to work properly. I
> > enter the Xconfiguration program, but it detects a 'problem with my video
> > memory', forcing me to configure it manually.
> > After choosing the relevant options (8+ RAM, Non-listed chipset, 15"
> Monitor
> > w/50-90 v-refresh, 1024X728@70Hz) It EITHER:
> > Presents me with a dialogue box saying 'Can you see this dialogue
> > box?'.......Of course I say YES, but then it loads linux in a ludicrously
> > low resolutions..I cant see the bottom of windows, etc!
> > States there was a problem probing my card OR a problem with my video
> > cards memory. I load into linux and, yet agin, ive got a very low res. Ive
> > tried setting it up completely manually, but even when I select just one
> > resolution from the menu, it refuses to dispay it.
> > Do I need drivers to let Linux access my card's SVGA abilities, or am
> I
> > doing something tragically wrong here? Ive tried loading 'Xconfigurator'
> > from the 'execute command' menu on right-clicking on the menu, but it does
> > nothing!
> > Ive exhausted all possible solutions as far as I can see, is there
> > something vital I'm missing?
> > Help!
> >
> >
Folks,
In order to get your graphics card to work in X, you must have an X server
version that supports the graphics chip. For GeForce DDR GPU you will need to
get one of the latest versions of XFree86's X server, which is either ver 3.3.6
or ver 4.0. XFree86 recommends ver.3.3.6 beacuse it's a stable version, whereas
ver 4.0 is still in work (although it does a great job for me!)
Hope this will help you.
Ferdi.
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- Lecturer -
Physics & Astronomy Dept.
Univ. of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-4575
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH6.1 install to RAID
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 01:06:41 GMT
David Trimmell wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> The more I look into installing RH6.1 on a HP Netserver LM with a EISA
> RAID array, the less I like it. RH claims that they do not support a
> root install onto RAID :-(. I have found a great deal of info regarding
> RAID, but is there a easy step by step guide for installing to a RAID
> system for a relative newbee? I hope I am not forced to go the
> Micro$oft route, but I know how to install NT Server on this thing,
> only wish I could get Linux on it!
>
> Anyone care to help?
>
> Thanks,
Well, I don't know how much I can help except to say that AFAIK there's
no problem installing onto >hardware< raid which is what I believe you
have. I just installed RH 6.1 on a Mylex Acceleraid setup for Raid 5
and it installed just fine. The point is that hardware Raid looks like
a single large drive to whatever OS is being installed. I would suggest
that you make a separate /boot partion first and then /, as you'll have
the dreaded 1024 Lilo problem otherwise.
As for step by step, I just booted, jumped into the cards Raid bios, set
things up, rebooted and installed as usual. If your card does not have
onboard setup, you should be able to do it from DOS.
Best
Cokey
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