Linux-Hardware Digest #420, Volume #13 Mon, 14 Aug 00 15:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Sparq 1GB drive on linux (Richard)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: Not all memory detected under linux ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: sound module error (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
MS Intellimous not detected ("Andy Robinson")
Diamond Monster 3d II ("Andy Robinson")
Re: sound card (Naren Devaiah)
Re: Printing to an HP4050N ("J.W. Fox")
Re: Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card (Gareth Williams)
DMA not available on UDMA drives, DMA chipset?! (Chris Harshman)
Re: Caldera and SCO, was Linux on AMD (Tony Lawrence)
Are there any that will work with the Intel i810? ("Jeff D. Hamann")
hardware q.s about mp3players... ("David Magnusson")
Re: Using Promise Technology's Bios upgrade and ATA-66 boards with Linux ("Terje
Bjerkelia")
joysticks and cs461x/cs4280 ("Rich Rudnick")
networking two computers using ppp and serial connections (Peter Bismuti)
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From: Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sparq 1GB drive on linux
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:21:19 GMT
Has anyone had any luck in getting these to work? I'm interested in
using one as a backup solution for a small office server. It's an
internal IDE drive, so I'm guessing there would be no problem setting it
up, but was interested in any experiences people had with this setup.
All information will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Rich
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:43:23 -0700
"David C." wrote:
>
> blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > Exactly. Isn't that the main advantage and reason to use opensource
> > stuff? ;-)
> >
> > If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why not
> > just stick with Windoz?
>
> The world isn't black and white. You may find it hard to believe, but
> there actually exist people who don't want to build everything by hand,
> and yet don't want to run Windows.
>
There's a very easy solution for that too. :-)
Open/Free-BSD. ;-)
cd to the ports tree,
Just pick the app you want.
eg: cd /usr/ports/mysql123.tar.gz
make ; make install ; make clean
That's it. Everything will be build from source. All dependency files fetched, MD5
checked, patched, build, make, install all done automatically, and custom tailord,
configured to YOUR machine; WITHOUT any baby sitting.
And you can CVS to updated the source everynight automatically.
Or do a make world to update the whole system.
No pain, no mess. Start it. Go out, go to bed. Find something else to do. ;-)
.RPM sucks big time, anyway.
> -- David
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSzzzzz!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female deer.)
RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: 14 Aug 2000 17:36:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I seem to be having the same RAM problem where Linux only detects a
: very small amount (14M). I tried the Linux mem=128M and I get
: "Kernal panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
: In Swapper task - not syncing"
: The BIOS detects the RAM. I haven't tried the RAM in another machine.
: Could I have bad RAM?
You could. Or you could have a memory hole configured at 14M in your
bios. Very common in 486s with isa video cards. Check.
Peter
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 10:45:51 -0700
Tony Lawrence wrote:
>
> "David C." wrote:
> >
> > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > Exactly. Isn't that the main advantage and reason to use opensource
> > > stuff? ;-)
> > >
> > > If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why not
> > > just stick with Windoz?
> >
> > The world isn't black and white. You may find it hard to believe, but
> > there actually exist people who don't want to build everything by hand,
> > and yet don't want to run Windows.
>
> Even people who can build by hand sometimes just want dumb
> and simple, at least to start with.
>
> For example, after many years of having a SCO machine as my
> personal desktop, I'm about to switch to Linux (I've been
> running a few Linux boxes here for a few years but they have
> not been my main desktop).
>
> I want as little work as possible when I do that.
> Basically, I want to install the dist, configure it as
> painlessly as possible and be up and running with 99%
> functionality as quickly as possible. Lazy? You betcha.
> I'm definitely going with something as user friendly as
> possible, probably Caldera since they've bought SCO and I
> expect some of the mannerisms I'm used to will find their
> way into the product sooner rather than later.
>
Don't bet too much on Caldera. It's broke, and probably will drag SCO down with
it.
> --
> Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
> job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com/Linux/
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSzzzzz!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female deer.)
RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: sound module error
Date: 14 Aug 2000 17:59:38 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 12:29:21 -0400, Eugene Y Lee wrote:
>I was looking through /var/log/messages and got the following error.
>Aug 14 12:14:33 eyl modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-slot-0
>Aug 14 12:14:33 eyl modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
>sound-service-0-3
>I do not have anything related to sound in my conf.modules and I do not
>have sound setup on my linux box. Any one know why it's doing this and
>how I can disable it?
Yep, something (possibly KDE?) is attempting to access sound, so the
kernel module loader attempts to locate sound-slot-0. Until you have
sound working, this will fail, naturally.
You can fix this by adding the following lines to /etc/conf.modules :
alias sound-slot-0 off
alias sound-service-0-3 off
When you do get sound working (it's usually not that hard; post the
exact make and model of your card here or use "sndconfig" if you have
RedHat/Mandrake) you might change those to:
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
(these services seem to be ALSA-specific; leave them at "off" if you
decide to use the OSS stuff instead. OSS is easier to set up, but
doesn't work on a few cards, and ALSA is sometimes more featureful.)
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:02:26 -0700
Craig Bingman wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, blowfish <..> wrote:
> >If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why
> >not just stick with Windoz?
> >--
> >- Alex / blowfish.-
>
> Maybe it is their first experience with linux. Maybe they are just sick
> of using an operating system that falls apart when its web browser crashes.
> There are as many reasons for starting with a stock distribution of linux
> and keeping it relatively simple at first as there are disgruntled
> Microsoft Windows users.
>
> If you have an interest in Linux becoming truly mainstream, then this
> attitude is really counterproductive.
>
> Craig
>
You know what?
Actually it's very easy to show a newbie how to build from source.
I showed my cousin how to do it twice (spent a total of just a little over an
hour.) And she was able to do it.
Her computer experience was limited to the Mac before her husband bought a pc a
month ago. She has never even installed a single app by herself in her life.
After she seen me doing it twice, she tried and succeeded on her first try, and
her command was "Oh! That's easy." And she managed to install SuSE 6.4 all by
herself from scratch.
The problem is all the media and "guru" hypes that make everyday people turn away
from *nix. Because they have to show off how superiour they are. Shits. They're
lamers. They insists on using the dragged vi and emacs, and such ancient,
counter-productive tools.
Those who insists on using vi and emacs have too much free time on their hands,
and nothing to do with their life. :-0
If I want to make my computing life miserable. I'll stay with Windoz, vi and emacs
on *nix.
But non of my *nix boxes even have vi or emacs installed. These are the first
things I trash from any *nix boxes under my control.
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < New Primary E-Mail Address
> http://fpage1.ba.best.com/~cbingman
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSzzzzz!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female deer.)
RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: 14 Aug 2000 18:04:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000 17:17:34 +0100, Stroller wrote:
>I'm new to Linux, but just about to configure a setup like this for a cable
>modeem (sorry - I have a French flatmate). I haven't started yet, but was
>lucky enough to stumble upon this thread.
>
>I've got a modern Realtek super-cheapo imitation-NE2000 10/100mbit 10-baseT
>PCI card for my home LAN & have just bought 2nd-hand an apparently ancient
>3Com Etherlink III ISA 3C509B which has the 10-base2 connector to fit the
>cable modeem. Any idea which will install as eth0...? Is there any way to
>force the ISA card to eth0..? Is that necessary...?
In /etc/conf.modules :
alias eth0 3c509
options 3c509 irq=X
alias eth1 rtl8139 # change to "ne2k-pci" if this is an 8019/8029...
options eth1 XXXX # whatever it needs
It is certainly not necessary to force your gateway card to be eth0
unless you want it to be. BTW, those ancient 3c509s are pretty solid
cards, and yours just might perform better than the NE2K clone despite
its being ISA!
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:06:45 -0700
Craig Bingman wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, blowfish <..> wrote:
> >If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why
> >not just stick with Windoz?
> >--
> >- Alex / blowfish.-
>
> Maybe it is their first experience with linux. Maybe they are just sick
> of using an operating system that falls apart when its web browser crashes.
> There are as many reasons for starting with a stock distribution of linux
> and keeping it relatively simple at first as there are disgruntled
> Microsoft Windows users.
>
Do you think Linux distro like Redhat really any better than Windoz?
R = Repair / Rebuild
E = Everyday... or
D = Die
H = Have
A = A
T = Turkey
Linux like Redhat is total junks. No wonder RH is now tring to get into the
appliances business, like cell phone. It's not going to last as an OS hack.
> If you have an interest in Linux becoming truly mainstream, then this
> attitude is really counterproductive.
>
> Craig
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] < New Primary E-Mail Address
> http://fpage1.ba.best.com/~cbingman
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer user.
(Have Fun with geek's culture:-Version
2.4-pre-release99999-test-1234567.pre-beta5000.)
- If Vi is God's editor. Then, God must have too much free time on his hands,
lives a very dull and unproductive life; so he needs Vi to waste his time.
But Vi was still too fast. So God created EMACS on the 8th day - which takes
Eight Months to load, And Counting Still...
- The UN-GEEK CODE:(?What is a geek?)-#!?+++??++++|$????+++++?????+++!!!!???+++---
geek + vi | ~/emacs ==>ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!!!!!!!!!!.......:P~
newbies + Windoz | C:\LOOKOUT
EXPRESS==>_the_horrors_the_horrrrrrrroOOOOORRRRRRRRRSSSSzzzzz!!! :-|
- My SAS (Sing-A-Song) Fingerprint -v.i007.bond: Doe1(-a deer, a female deer.)
RaY2(- a drop of golden sun.)
Me3(- A name, I call myself.) FAr4(- A long, long way to run.) Sew5(-A needle
pulling thread.)
lA6(-A note to follow sew.) TeA7(-A drink with jam and bread.) That will bring
us back to DOe-oh-oh-oh.
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From: "Andy Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MS Intellimous not detected
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:11:11 -0400
I have the serial Intellimouse, and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4 never
detected it, even during the install. Actually, it froze right at the
language selection screen and I had to reboot and hook up a cheap 2-button
mouse. I'm running a dual boot win98 & caldera box, and need some help in
how to figure this. Any and all suggestions are welcome, thanks!
Andy
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From: "Andy Robinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Monster 3d II
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:16:44 -0400
Me again with another question!
I got an 8 MB monster 3d II and I noticed that Linux doesn't have a support.
It's running with an S3 Virge POS and so I don't even know if Linux will
support a secondary video card. If it will, anyone have any idea where I
can get drivers? Any idea if there is any drivers in the works for it? I'd
really like to try some 3D games under Linux but if that doesn't work, then
Im pretty much shot in the foot. Thanks a lot!
Andy
(dual boot Windows 98 with Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4)
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From: Naren Devaiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound card
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:12:49 -0700
Reply-To: naren_at_cs.pdx.edu
Look at http://linux.aureal.com for linux drivers for the Vortex cards...
-Naren
Mike wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I came into a similar problem when I tried to set up my sound card. I
> recommend that you download a program called ISAPnP Tools. It is
> available at www.freshmeat.net, or any other Linux download site. Just
> download the file (in .tar.gz format), use tar to extract, and follow the
> instructions indicated in the readme file.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> -Mike
>
> >
> > I have Apackard bell with an AUREAL VORTEX PCI 3D and soundblaster
> > emulation.Asindicated i did disabled the plug and play on the bios and
> also
> > got the configuration problem.Card reconized but lothar doesnt find it
> and
> > with all parameters IRQ DMA etc.impossible to work.No sound at all on
> > startup exept the beepsound regular.Also tried soundblaster no way to
> work
> > with either.
> > Iff anyone has the similar problem arf me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Thanks anyway for support.
> >
> >
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
Opinions expressed are my own an no one else's!
(s/_at_/@/ to reply via email)
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Subject: Re: Printing to an HP4050N
From: "J.W. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 18:34:59 GMT
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Don,
Give your 4050TN an IP address and netmask from the front control
panel of the printer and then go into printtool and define the
following:
Names: lp
Spool Directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp
File Limit in Kb: 0
Remote Host: IP address of printer or DNS name
Remote Queue: RAW
Input Filter: if this is true postscript printer, you can leave blank
Save entry and then restart lpd. From commmand prompt you can then do
a ls -l | lpr and voila - you should have print output
- --
J.W. Fox
Systems Engineer
KTLN Computing Systems
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From: Gareth Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:28:53 +0100
Eric Shasteen wrote:
>
> I know that this card is not officially supported, but, does anyone know
> of any work arounds ??
>
> Thanks,
> Eric
Yup,
Yer man Robert Brinson is right. I'm using a TB Montego II with the
driver from linux.aureal.com and it has worked fine with every distro
I've tried (RH, Definite, Mandrake, SuSE). BTW, if you're using SuSE
you'll need to add a couple of lines to the /etc/modules.conf file to
keep the settings on your next boot. SuSE's online help has an article
explaining all (search for "aureal" in the online support database).
Shouldn't need to do anything fancy with other distros.
--
Greetings from Queen Maud Land
Gareth Williams, Penguophile
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DMA not available on UDMA drives, DMA chipset?!
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:41:22 -0700
I'm building a system using the following:
Asus P2B motherboard (i440BX chipset)
(2) Maxtor 7200 RPM Ultra/66 20GB IDE drives
ArcoIDE DupliDisk PCI hardware RAID1 board
I am unable to enable DMA transfers on the hard drives. The system is
running RedHat 6.2, RedHat kernel 2.2.16-3smp. Is there something in
the DupliDisk that prevents DMA mode? When running the same
motherboard, same kernel, and one of the Maxtors, DMA mode is
available. The BIOS is set for AUTO on all the DMA/UDMA modes, etc.,
etc.
Many thanks in advance to anyone who can offer a suggestion!
Output from the relevant commands:
[root@server1 /root]# dmesg | more
<snip>
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: DupliDisk IDE RAID-1 Adapter, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI 48X CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
<snip>
[root@server1 /root]# hdparm -vi /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
multcount = 0 (off)
I/O support = 0 (default 16-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 0 (off)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
nowerr = 0 (off)
readonly = 0 (off)
readahead = 8 (on)
geometry = 2490/255/63, sectors = 40017600, start = 0
Model=DupliDisk IDE RAID-1 Adapter, FwRev=DAC10SC0, SerialNo=0123456789
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16,
MultSect=off
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=3, DMA=no
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=40017600
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:150,w/IORDY:180}, PIO modes: mode3
[root@server1 /root]# hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
setting using_dma to 1 (on)
HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted
using_dma = 0 (off)
[root@server1 /root]# hdparm -t /dev/hda
/dev/hda:
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 16.01 seconds = 4.00 MB/sec
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From: Tony Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco.misc
Subject: Re: Caldera and SCO, was Linux on AMD
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 14:45:31 -0400
blowfish wrote:
> Don't bet too much on Caldera. It's broke, and probably will drag SCO down with
> it.
I doubt that SCO (as an OS, not necessarily the company)
needs any assistance in reaching its own demise, at least on
the OSR5 side anyway :-)
Seriously, I doubt Caldera has any more (and probably less)
intention than SCO had of keeping OSR5 going very long
anyway. Unixware may be a different story, but I'm not 100%
convinced that even that can stand the onslaught of Linux
forever (forever as a technical computer term meaning 5
years or so). OSR5 is, of course, a tremendous revenue
stream, but the structure of the deal has that revenue going
to SCO, so I don't see where Caldera has any incentive
anyway. Not that they'll kill it; but I bet it just fades
away into the sunset..
One things for sure- this sale is NOT going to help quell
the apprehensions of current OSR5 customers and app vendors
who have been wondering whether to move to NT/Linux/Unixware
or whatever- this sale increases the FUD by several hundred
percent and will no doubt help that sunset into fast-forward
mode.
However, I think the purchase could mean very good things
for Caldera- they pick up a lot of engineering talent, and
of course source code for things Linux currently doesn't
have - though who knows how much of that can be turned into
Open Source- much of it may be entangled by existing
licenses and contracts, and the agreement of sale also says
something about SCO maintaining its "intellectual property"-
if that's source they've developed then what value is it to
Caldera? I dunno- and yet somebody from Caldera made some
noise to the effect that OSR5 source would be available-
maybe talking through his hat or mis-quoted; we'll see.
One thing that's supposedly important is SCO's large network
of dealers and distributors, but, as one very small part of
that network, I can tell you that now that SCO is sold,
those of us who had been moving toward Linux anyway are just
going to move that much faster, and there's no compelling
reason for us to pay any more attention to Caldera than
anyone else- UNLESS they do something that makes the
transition for our existing customers easier- but it's
already pretty darn easy so I'm not sure that's a big
benefit anyway.
As to being broken, I have had contrary and in fact quite
complimentary reports from other folks, and some industry
mags seem to think that RH and Caldera are the ones to bet
on, so I'm at least going to give it a whirl- S'ok if you
are right, though, cause I've got more than one box here and
can play with it thoroughly before I go live :-)
--
Tony Lawrence ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCO/Linux articles, help, book reviews, tests,
job listings and more : http://www.pcunix.com
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From: "Jeff D. Hamann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Are there any that will work with the Intel i810?
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 11:52:47 -0700
I know crossposting is bad etiquette, but then so is an OS that's a pain in
the neck.
I just purchased a MB with the i810 chipset, thinking that it would be nice
to have all the peripherals on the MB, and have had nothing but problems
running X. I've tried downloading the latest release of XFree86 4.0.1 and
still get bad results. I'm tired of wasting time trying to get the machine
to run linux and don't want to spend anymore time downloading source files,
tarballs, and rpm's trying to get a windowing environment. Let's not even
talk about recompiling the kernel for the Linksys LNE100TX ethernet card.
Where can I download, or even purchase at this point, a version of linux
that will handle the i810 onboard video correctly? MUST HAVE GOOD DIRECTIONS
FOR INSTALLING AND TROUBLESHOOTING.
Argh.
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Jeff D. Hamann
280 Peavy Hall
Department of Forest Resources
Oregon State University
Corvallis, Oregon 97331-8566 USA
541-740-5988
541-737-2375
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From: "David Magnusson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware q.s about mp3players...
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 20:53:11 +0200
Hi!
So, does anyone know anything about my portable mp3player Yepp (Samsung) and
linux? Nothing on samsungs homepage, ofcause... I'd really like to get rid
of my windows 98 patch number 49.3... But, then, I don't want to loose my
mp3player at the same time...
Please reply, if you know anything!
I also have a palm pilot, but I guess that will work, at least under redhat,
right?
/David
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From: "Terje Bjerkelia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using Promise Technology's Bios upgrade and ATA-66 boards with Linux
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 21:03:00 +0200
"James Knowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've tried both the patch and the 2.4 kernels, but I can't get it to
work.
> > The boot stops after PDC20267 is found,
> > Any help help will be highly appreciated, I'm going nuts here :-)
>
> Unfortunately I'm not a lot of help. I can just throw out guesses here.
> Can you boot with the HD not attached? What else do you have compiled in
> the kernel? I had the same symptom, but tried with a stripped-down
> kernel without a lot of fluff and it worked fine. I guess that something
> else in the kernel is mucking with things. I didn't have time to
> determine what it was.
In fact you solved the problem. Using the 5test kernel, stripped down the
kernel as you said, and voila, the system booted up.
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From: "Rich Rudnick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: joysticks and cs461x/cs4280
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 19:04:04 GMT
has anyone gotten a joystick to operate with a cs4280? Specifically,
joy-gravis.o using a blackhawk digital on a 2.2.15-mdk kernel running on an
emachine 466is with onboard cirrus logic 4280 chip :-), although any
experience would be appreciated!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: networking two computers using ppp and serial connections
Date: 14 Aug 2000 18:53:32 GMT
I heard you can network two computers by using a serial cable and
running PPP. Has anyone done this? Can you point me to documentation
and/or briefly explain the hardware and configuration steps I'll need
to get it running? How's the performance?
Thanks
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