Linux-Hardware Digest #559, Volume #13 Mon, 11 Sep 00 15:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Re: Davicom drivers and Mandrake (redhat) linux ??? ("Pat Parsons")
is discarded. (Ben Branch)
Re: Help Needed Configuring Remote Printer on SUSE 6.4 ("Tom Millington")
Console locking? (Tom Law)
Re: mobile rack dangers?, ata33/66 ("Robert A. Barr")
Re: AD/DA converter for Linux (Leonardo Herzenberg)
Adaptec ARO raidport add-in cards (James Lothian)
Re: Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128 (Rob van der Putten)
Re: Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem (Mile Davidovic)
Should I upgrade my system or buy new? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redhat Beta and Wacom Graphire USB (Joseph Bullen)
Re: Poor hde performance ~ 1.84MB/sec (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Should I upgrade my system or buy new? (Mark A. Odell)
Re: Kernel question (Juan Pablo Hierro =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvarez?=)
Re: AD/DA converter for Linux (Chuck)
Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support (Duane)
Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support (Duane)
Re: Will the real NIC vendor please stand up? (Duane)
Re: Redhat Beta and Wacom Graphire USB (Andrey Vlasov)
Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2 ("Simple Simon")
Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System? (William W.)
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From: "Pat Parsons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Davicom drivers and Mandrake (redhat) linux ???
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:24:33 -0700
Plus , just in case you don't know , you will have to compile the driver.
"Michael Perry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 08 Sep 2000 17:43:25 +0100, David Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >You will find the driver and full instructions on the CD that came with
> >the motherboard.
> >
> >Hope this helps,
> >Dave.
> >
> >
> >peter wrote:
> >
> >> I'm using Mandrake 7.1 and everyone is saying that the Davicom lan
> >> (dm9102) on my Amptron 599lmr (PCCHIPS) should be auto-detected...and
> >> that it can also be setup with netconf, the only problem I have with
> >> the netconf command is that I don't know what the name of the driver
> >> is, the file is "dmfe" but nothing like that is listed in the Kernel
> >> Module setting.
> >>
> >> Can someone help me setup this lan, step by step.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Peter
> >
> My issue with my motherboard with an integrated davicom card is that the
> drivers are way old! On my redhat 6.2 box, all I did was to use linuxconf
> to basically add a line to /etc/conf.modules which says "alias eth0 dmfe".
> This produced a working eth0 for me on the next reboot. The drivers which
I
> found with redhat 6.2, installed as modules, were much newer than the ones
> which came on cd. In fact, the cd drivers would not even install on a 2.2
> kernel.
>
> Try simply writing an alias command in /etc/conf.modules like "alias eth0
> dmfe".
>
>
> --
> Michael Perry
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ------------------
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From: Ben Branch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is discarded.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:15:56 -0400
Carlos Fernandez wrote:
>
> I've had redhat linux and windows98 installed on the computer for about a
> year now. The only two things that are keeping me from erasing windows98
> from my computer right now are:
>
> 1. Cant find the correct drivers for the HP882C deskjet. Has anyone had
> any luck with this particular printer? I've been trying to find an answer
> for this question since 1999. The how-to documents are reeally not helping
> me much since I don't know a lick of programing under linux.
>
The right thing to do is to follow the links to the cdj880 driver.
If you're in a hurry, I've found that the 882C functions adequately
(don't try to print photo-quality stuff) if you tell the software
that it's one of the 600 series, HP600 I think (you can try to
print an experimental page after switching the definition.)
--
Ben Branch "In a world that moves at Web speed, time cannot
[EMAIL PROTECTED] be sacrified for better quality, lower cost, or
614-860-4790 even better decisions" -- Rule #2 for Staying
CB 3B-350 Competitive, Jon Roth, Nortel CEO.
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From: "Tom Millington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help Needed Configuring Remote Printer on SUSE 6.4
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 15:49:07 +0100
Thanks everyone
I got it going by going to the SUSE site and downloading the latest boot
disk and creating a new one: it works! (a bit erratic to start with, though)
Regards
Tom
"Tom Millington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8pa42n$aqn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am a newbie trying to put Linux on another server, namely an old P133
> (Altos) that has 3 x 4.5Gb SCSI hard drives and a SCSI CDROM. The machine
is
> currently loaded with an old copy of SCO UNIX. I have tried to use the
Linux
> boot floppy but neither the hard drives nor the CD are seen - in other
words
> it says I have no hard drives or CD player.
>
> Where do I go from here? Help! I am a newbie so simple steps please.
>
> Many thanks
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Tom Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Console locking?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:10:40 -0400
[I posted a question about this last week, but phrased it
differently...)]
When I boot up my Redhat 6.0 linux system, I type in "linux" at the
"LILO Boot:" prompt, as usual (the word "linux" appears on the
display). Yet, when it finishes booting, and gets to the "login:"
prompt, my keyboard won't work (no output on the display)!
I notice in "/var/log/secure" the following line:
"pam_console[573]: console file lock already in place
/var/lock/console.lock". This line appeared last Thursday and my
bootup problems began Friday. I dunno if it's related. There IS no
/var/lock/console.lock file, currently; but there is an empty
/var/lock/console directory.
I CAN telnet into the system from another PC, and reboot (with "init
6"), but it doesn't fix the problem...
I'll greatly appreciate any suggestions! [In case you haven't
surmised it already, I am a newbie.]
--
=======================================
Tom Law
WP Law, Inc
Lexington, SC, USA
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From: "Robert A. Barr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: mobile rack dangers?, ata33/66
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:14:37 -0500
QZ wrote:
> So who makes a cartridge that is plastic with a fan or metal? I am
> considering eiware's Hot Data Shuttle cartridge and Hot Shadow software, but
Try http://www.computergate.com
Their selection is pretty wide. This might complicate rather than simplify your
search, but they also have a catalog that explains everything pretty well.
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From: Leonardo Herzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AD/DA converter for Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:36:58 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> Hi,
> can someone point me to some information on AD/DA cards/software
> for use under linux (i486 system)
>
> Thanks a lot
> Uwe Sydow
>
Try National Instruments:
http://www.ni.com/
Leo
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From: James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec ARO raidport add-in cards
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:42:56 +0100
Hi folks. Is anybody out there working on a driver for the Adaptec
ARO-1130 family of raidport add-in cards, or the AAA-130 PCI
raid controllers, which I suspect are very similar?
Assuming that nobody is currently looking at this,
a) does anybody know enough about these cards to be able
to estimate how hard it would be to write a driver for them, and
b) any suggestions as to who at Adaptec to contact about getting
documentation for them, and
c) what adaptec's attitude to this is likely to be?
Grateful for any suggestions.
James Lothian
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From: Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with Soundblaster PCI 128
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:46:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there
Rob van der Putten wrote:
> I'm having a problem with the same card.
> Do you have a ES1373 chip too?
> Occording to some, current drivers work with ES1370 and ES1371, not with
> the ES1373. Is this correct?
> And if so, what should one do about it.
OK, this is what I found;
- When you buy a Creative labs soundblaster PCI 128 they actually sell
you an Ensoniq card.
- More recent models use an ES1373 rather then an ES1371 chip.
The hardware compatibility and sound howto's don't mention this at all.
I installed the ALSA drivers for this card. This didn't help either.
Only after I donwloaded the latest sources from the ALSA site,
http://www.alsa-project.org/ and had a (kernel) hacker tweak the lot,
did it work (partially).
My advice is _NOT_ to buy any card using the 1373 until the ALSA people
really get it right.
In fact, i'm considering buying a new card. Sugestions?
Regards,
Rob
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mile Davidovic)
Subject: Re: Motorola SM56 PCI Speakerphone Modem
Date: 11 Sep 2000 16:06:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 Sep 2000 16:48:34 GMT, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My PCI modem didn't work in Red Hat Linux,kernel 2.2.14;
>does it winmodem?
>if it does,
>have any solution to make it work in linux?
>
>thanks in advance,
>
>--
Yes it is 100% winmodem, Motorola doesn't support this modem any more.
They will not develop driver for Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Should I upgrade my system or buy new?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 16:22:22 GMT
Here is my situation. I have been running (albeit slowly) Redhat 6.1 on
the following system.
Intel Pentium 166mhz
I430VX MB with intel chipset
128MB EDO RAM (4 72pin SIMMS)
Diamond Stealth 64 Video Card
I dream someday of KDE 2, koffice, etc as my main system (no more dual
boot). It runs pretty slowly now, and I can imagine it will run slower
in the future as software bloats.
I am fairly proficient with things technical, so installing new
components myself wouldn't scare me. So questions I have are:
1. Is the motherboard worth keeping? Would a faster CPU help at all? I
suppose that if I get a new motherboard (and, consequently CPU), I'll
have to get new RAM as well (but maybe not?).
2. Should I scrap the whole motherboard/CPU/RAM/(and videocard?) combo
and go new? I like the case (full tower 6 x 5.25" drive bays). The
hard drives are solid, as is the network card.
Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
Thanks
JPK
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Bullen)
Subject: Redhat Beta and Wacom Graphire USB
Date: 11 Sep 2000 16:41:43 GMT
Hiya folks...
Bit of a problem here... I'm trying to get my USB Wacom Graphire graphics
tablet set up on a system running the RedHat 6.9 Beta (ie rawhide)
I don't really care about getting it working in the console, just X 4.0.1,
but it's not going well at all. Has anyone gotten one of these things
working under Redhat 6.9? If so, PLEASE fill me in as I'm stumped.
The one thing I can tell is that if I cat /dev/input/mouse0 then it
responds to the tablet, but no matter how much I tinker with the
XF86Config-4 I can't get it working.
Any tips?
--
Joseph Bullen, B.Sc. Computer Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Poor hde performance ~ 1.84MB/sec
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 09:47:06 -0700
Hi there,
try next command
hdparm -c 1 -d 1 -m 8 -u 1 -A 1 /dev/hda
and may be it will improve performance. In my case I get 24-25MB/sec on
Promise UDMA100 and Maxstor 20GB disk. On DMA33 with Fujitsu I get
14-15MB/sec.
Andrey
"Warren L. Rutledge" wrote:
> I just purchased a new Maxtor 40GB hd and a CMD648 PCI ATA66 controller
> for my PC. I have managed to get the drive installed, but the
> performance is terrible. I have used hdparm to set -c1 -d1 for the drive
> and it is now using CPU, but the throughput does not change at all.
>
> I would definitely appreciate any help!
>
> Here's the info on the card from /proc/pci
>
> IDE interface: CMD Unknown device (rev 1).
> Vendor id=1095. Device id=648. Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back
> capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=2.Max
> Lat=4. I/O at 0x7800 [0x7801]. I/O at 0x7c00 [0x7c01]. I/O at 0x8000
> [0x8001]. I/O at 0x8400 [0x8401]. I/O at 0x8800 [0x8801].
>
> Here's the output from hdparm
> /dev/hde:
> multcount = 0 (off) I/O support = 1 (32-bit) unmaskirq = 0
> (off) using_dma = 1 (on) keepsettings = 1 (on) nowerr = 0
> (off) readonly = 0 (off) readahead = 8 (on) geometry =
> 4982/255/63, sectors = 80041248, start = 0
>
> If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know.
>
> Thanks! Warren
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Subject: Re: Should I upgrade my system or buy new?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark A. Odell)
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 17:20:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <8pj0r6$lnp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>Here is my situation. I have been running (albeit slowly) Redhat 6.1 on
>the following system.
>
>Intel Pentium 166mhz
>I430VX MB with intel chipset
>128MB EDO RAM (4 72pin SIMMS)
Upgrade. From the Intel VX430 Data Sheet:
"Cacheability of the entire memory space in first level cache is supported
For the second level cache, only the lower 64 Mbytes of main memory are
cacheable (only main memory controlled by the TVX DRAM interface is
cached)."
Thus, your system slows down considerable after using up more than 64MB. This
chipset is weak and and a P166 is certainly no barn-burner. This system would
be fine as a little server for home but I'd recommend an upgrade if you want
to use it for real work.
--
Warmest regards.
Optimize only if it runs too slowly or does not fit, spaces instead of tabs.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juan Pablo Hierro =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C1lvarez?=)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Kernel question
Date: 11 Sep 2000 17:43:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:40:12 +1000, Greg Goossens wrote:
>I have a question regarding a problem I have that I need to find a
>simple solution for I am hoping that someone has a neat workaround for
>this.
>
>I need to setup an IBM Netfinity 6000 with Redhat 6.2 but the kernel in
>the ISO image I have is a 2.2.14 kernel and the only kernel that
>supports the RAID adapter is a 2.2.16-3 kernel. I can install redhat
>using the device driver provided from IBM but when I reboot after the
>initial install the system hangs. As I have said IBM say I need the
>2.2.16-3 kernel.
>
>Is the solution as simple as getting another release of redhat that has
>the correct kernel in the original install (if possible ) or do I have
>to build a redhat install on another disk upgrade that kernel and
>somehow move the entire load to another disk using dd of a similar util.
>
>
May you boot from a floppy?
If so, put 2.2.16-3 in one (/usr/doc/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO) and instruct it
to load the root filesystem from the hard disk (man rdev) in read only
way.
The system will boot (there is a script which will turn the system into
r/w after checking it) and you will be able to copy the kernel from the
floppy into /boot, edit lilo.conf, run lilo and so on.
Try to boot in single mode the first time because you will not have
probably the modules for 2.2.16-3 (/lib/modules/2.2.16-3/*) and you
will have lo load them now. I imagine the raid support will be in the
kernel, not as a module (recompile it?).
By the way, have you tried the official IBM or RedHat support? Maybe,
they could provide you with a customized copy of the install CDROM.
- --
Juan Hierro
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From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AD/DA converter for Linux
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 13:59:05 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check out the Comedi project @ http://stm.lbl.gov/comedi
-Chuck
Uwe Sydow wrote:
Hi,
> can someone point me to some information on AD/DA cards/software
> for use under linux (i486 system)
>
> Thanks a lot
> Uwe Sydow
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:27:43 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Assuming you don't want to recompile the kernel, add a line to your
> > Linux boot section of lilo.conf similar to:
> >
> > append="hdc=ide-scsi"
> >
> > Run /sbin/lilo and reboot.
> >
> >
> > In RH 6.2 (which now calls the file modules.conf), that no longer
> > appears to work, and I have not found a combination that does. So
> > instead, I put into /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
> >
> > modprobe ide-scsi
> >
> > Works fine for me.
> >
> ...
>
> this is a copy of my lilo.conf file.
>
> boot=/dev/fd0
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> prompt
> image=/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda4
> append="hdb=ide-scsi"
>
> DO I HAVE SOMETHING WRONG????
I would suggest a couple of possibilities. One is, if at all possible,
put your CDROM drives on their own IDE cable. I assume you have a disk
drive or some other device at hda? There is a small possibility that the
ide-scsi driver is having conflicts somehow. If you have a CDROM in
addition to the CDRW, run them both with the ide-scsi driver.
Also, try typing "modprobe ide-scsi" manually, and see if it gives any
messages; it should just return to a prompt. Then try the "cdrecord
-scanbus" again. If that doesn't give any useful info, execute "dmesg"
(after running the modprobe and cdrecord commands) and post the results.
That gives a lot of useful info for determining what might be happening.
While you can go the compiled kernel route, it is definitely not
neccesary with RH 6.2. Also, I recently retried putting "alias
scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi" into /etc/modules.conf, and what I see is
that if I first run "cdrecord -scanbus" once after a reboot, everything
works fine. Until I do that, things like mounting of CDs doesn't work. I
guess I have some more experiments to run one of these days, unless
someone else can give me a hint on what the reason for this is.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:35:59 -0700
Chris Rankin wrote:
>
> To use my IDE CD-Writer with cdrecord, I have done the following:
> - compiled IDE CD-ROM support as modules (ide-cd.o, cdrom.o)
> - compiled SCSI CD-ROM support as modules (sr_mod.o, should I want it.
> Probably redundant.)
> - compiled generic SCSI support as modules (sg.o)
> - compiled SCSI emulation for IDE as modules (ide-scsi.o)
>
> Then I put this line in my modules.conf file:
> # CD-Writer
> pre-install sg modprobe -k ide-scsi
>
> This approach probably requires that the ide-cd module be unloaded
> before the SCSI emulation is loaded, but I'm still playing with it. I
> don't need any parameters in my lilo.conf before "cdrecord --scanbus"
> gives me the following output:
I would suggest two changes. You don't need the ide-cd driver at all, so
you can just say no to that in the kernel configuration. Leaving it as a
module does not hurt anything, but you are never using it. Also, if you
compile ide-scsi and sr into the kernel, rather than as modules, you do
not need any commands in modules.conf either. I am pretty sure you do
need the sr driver.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will the real NIC vendor please stand up?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 10:41:13 -0700
Steve Wolfe wrote:
>
> > I recently bought a Compaq Presario 17XL2 ("build your own") laptop. It
> came
> > with what they call a Compaq MiniPCI Combo 56k modem and 10/100 ethernet
> > card. I'm trying to get the NIC to work in Linux (Mandrake 7.1), but it's
> > not recognized by the kernel. There's no mention of it during bootup or
> in
> > dmesg, and /proc/pci says:
> >
> > Bus 0, device 9, function 0: Ethernet controller: Unknown vendor Unknown
> > device (rev 8). Vendor id=14f1. Device id=1803. Medium devsel. Fast
> > back-to-back capable. BIST capable. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=160.
> > Min Gnt=20.Max Lat=40. I/O at 0x1400 [0x1401]. Non-prefetchable 32 bit
> memory
> > at 0xf4000000 [0xf4000000].
> >
> > I cannot figure out exactly what this thing is because I'm getting
> > conflicting information.
> >
> > I called Compaq technical support, and the guy I talked to said it was an
> > Intel product,
>
> Either he's wrong, or Compaq's done some serious screwing around with the
> hardware. Intel's vendor ID is 8086 (1F96). I'm sorry that I don't have
> more useful information.
A very minor nitpick, of absolutely no importance :-) Intels vendor ID
is 8086 hex, so it is not equivalent to 1F96 (which as far as I know has
not been assigned).
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat Beta and Wacom Graphire USB
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 11:27:22 -0700
Hi Joseph,
you can look how they connect it in X11 3.3.3.1/4.0 and may be it will works
for X11 4.0.1 or at least you will get start point. Check
http://www.xfree.org for tablets as well as they could point there what you
need to do to properly configure it.
Andrey
Joseph Bullen wrote:
> Hiya folks...
> Bit of a problem here... I'm trying to get my USB Wacom Graphire graphics
> tablet set up on a system running the RedHat 6.9 Beta (ie rawhide)
>
> I don't really care about getting it working in the console, just X 4.0.1,
> but it's not going well at all. Has anyone gotten one of these things
> working under Redhat 6.9? If so, PLEASE fill me in as I'm stumped.
>
> The one thing I can tell is that if I cat /dev/input/mouse0 then it
> responds to the tablet, but no matter how much I tinker with the
> XF86Config-4 I can't get it working.
>
> Any tips?
>
> --
> Joseph Bullen, B.Sc. Computer Science
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Simple Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 18:38:36 GMT
Hi!
Forgive the crossposing but I'm not sure where to start with this.
I've just installed RedHat 6.2 into my PC and have some issues and
questions. Hopefully I can get some help here. First of all, my hardware
configuration:
- Celron 400
- Abit BH6 mainboard
- 192 Meg PC133 ram
- Maxtor 6.4 Gig HD (4 gig Win2000, 1.8 gig Linux, 128 meg swap)
- 36x CDRom
- HP 8100 CD ReWriter
- ATI Expert 98 AGP video card, 8 meg
- KDS 19" monitor
- Diamond MX300 soundcard (Diamond support sux in all respects, avoid)
- LinkSys 10/100 PCI network card
Linux starts up on the KDE desktop. 1024x768 at 16 bit colour.
KDE on this computer is slower than my 486 running Win95 with 16meg of
ram!!! Checking my memory usage in Linux shows that I have a whopping 13 meg
of ram to work with, not the 192 meg I would expect. How can I speed up the
computer? I assume that Linux is not seeing all 192 meg of ram that I have.
Also, The MX300 soundcard is based on Aureal chips. Is there any way I can
get this working in RH6.2?
The HP8100 is an IDE ReWriter. Is it a simple task to get this working in
RH6.2?
Finally, I have the Windows 2000 boot menu choosing between Win2k and RH6.2.
How can I get rid of the LILO prompt when I choose LINUX? Are there any
reasons to keep LILO since the Win2k menu works? LILO is not on the MBR -
it's at the beginning of the LINUX partition (hda2).
Thanks for any info that you can provide!
SS
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William W.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Opinions: An Adequate Starter System?
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 19:08:45 GMT
In our last episode (Mon, 11 Sep 2000 05:52:31 GMT),
the artist formerly known as Bento Loewenstein said:
>On Sat, 20 May 100 03:35:11 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>Also, any suggestions on the best Linux distribution for the neophyte?
>>That is, no brains required installation, works well enough the first
>>time, tweeking and fiddling can wait until later. I am considering
>>Debian, but the Stormix distro seems better, install and setup-wise.
>
>Avoid Debian and Slacware if you're new to Linux. This distros are suposed
>to be used by experienced users. They're extremelly hard to install and
>configure, and most of the administrative tasks are done by hand.
Don't lie before you try. While Debian and Slackware don't meet the
criteria of "no brains required installation," they're not hard to
install, nor is must of the administrivia done by hand. Debian,
certainly, pretty much runs itself post-install.
To the original poster, I would ask: is "no brains required
installation" really what you want? If ease of installation is the
priority for you, I understand that Corel Linux may possibly be the best
choice. But I would think that you can learn more from having do to at
least some work yourself and encountering a few bumps along the way
(perhaps having to start from scratch a few times in the process) than
you will by just having a distribution magically install itself. If its
not imperative to get a working Linux distribution up and running as
quickly as possible, why not try it the "hard" way? It's really not that
hard anyway; installing Debian Linux 2.2 is, in my estimation, certainly
no harder than installing Windows 95 under similar circumstances.
Slackware wasn't that hard the last time I tried either, and that was in
1997 installing off of floppy disks. I can only assume it's gotten even
easier.
Assuming you plan to use the system more often than you plan to install
it, I wouldn't put too much emphasis on the initial hurdle of getting
the system installed. As long as it's easy enough to install, it
shouldn't matter whether it's the easiest; and pretty much all of them
are easy enough if you're willing to devote an hour or so and read the
prompts before you say OK.
BTW, I'd suggest installing and testing several distributions in order
to get the feel for the one that best suits you.
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