Linux-Hardware Digest #572, Volume #13 Wed, 13 Sep 00 18:13:10 EDT
Contents:
VALinux Workstation review? ("Kevin M. Squire")
DLT autoloader and ARCserveIT 6.6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on a 386 (Arne Wichmann)
Re: Linux on a 386 (Edward Lee)
Linux with dual P90's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adobe can pick ANY CPU's serial number! (etty)
Massive "floating point exceptions" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IRQ's and DMA ("Ashutosh S. Rajekar")
To AMD Athlon and SBLive users (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire?= Colbert)
Re: And recommendations for a Duron MB? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Any Good MP3 Players For Linux? ("Marco R. Gazzetta")
Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO (KK Leung)
Click sound on CS4236B (Ivan Rojas)
MicroChannel workaround using Zip? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Massive "floating point exceptions" (Chuck)
problem ("Marius Andra")
NEED SIS6326AGP VIDEOCARD DRIVER FOR LINUX!!! ("jfd")
Re: Any Good MP3 Players For Linux? (Brian Langenberger)
Belkin USB Ethernet Adaptor F5U111 (Derek Sorensen)
Re: SCSI Tape Drive Question (Barry Wilkes)
Epson color 480 pb (Guillaume Thouvenin)
Re: MicroChannel workaround using Zip? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adobe can pick ANY CPU's serial number! (Gilles Pelletier)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (James Franklin)
Swap/memory problem? (Craig Jones)
Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird! (Tristan White)
Re: adding memory, linux doesn't see it... (Demian Gutierrez)
does the Biostar M7VKB work in Linux? (jtnews)
Re: microsoft wheel mouse problem (Demian Gutierrez)
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From: "Kevin M. Squire" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VALinux Workstation review?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:23:14 -0700
Hi,
Our group is currently looking for an inexpensive, low-to-mid-line
Linux workstation. I happen to like VALinux, although I know they focus
on servers. Can anyone point me to any reviews of their workstations?
In particular, I like their mid-line 420 workstation. Also, can anyone
point me to a recent comparison of different intel-based workstations
that
run Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Kevin
P.S. If you reply by e-mail, please fix the e-mail address.
--
Kevin Squire
Ph.D. Student
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DLT autoloader and ARCserveIT 6.6.1
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 16:35:50 GMT
Has any successfully installed ARCserveIT 6.6.1 advanced server with a
DLT autoloader under Linux? If so what type of autoloader do you have
and scsi adapter? please respond via [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arne Wichmann)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: 13 Sep 2000 16:50:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Dondelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz. teh machine only has
>> 1920Kb of memory so I run into problems when trying to install tinyLinux
>> or muLinux. Anyone know of a distro that can fit on such a weak machine.
>> Also, any ideas as to what the max memory one can put on a 386. Someone
>> gave me 2x8Mb SIMMs but the machine doesn't recognise them. On a
>> pc-newsgroup two people told me that since the 1920kb is on the
>> motherboard, trying to add 16Mb to it causes me to go over the 16Mb
>> total limit for a 386, can anyone verify this ?
[deletion]
>> Also, what , realistically, can I expect to run on a 386 ? I want ppp,
>> telnet, a skinny web-browser, and also to do some developement in
>> perl/mySQL ?
>
>hmpf I might just give it a try for a dial-up router, but don't even
>think of trying ssh connections for instance from that machine (the
>encryption stuff slowed down my P90 very noticably). X11, don't
>even try. You might want to use older kernel 2.0.x here, rather
>than 2.2 or even 2.4.
>I'd be quite surprised if this setup would be sufficient for
>Perl / MySQL stuff, certainly not with 2MB of RAM.
>With console apps only (w3m or links as browser for instance) it might
>be somewhat usable (I know a guy who used such a notebook for a while,
>as a stopgap - he was quite relieved to get something else ;-)).
Hm. I did such things. It all depends on your RAM. For X you want 16M RAM
(or you have to do some special tweaking). If you have that, it works OK,
though you should not use too high-powered applications (netscape,
enlightenment, emacs). Many other things work quite OK with 8MB (inclusive
Perl, I would doubt MySQL). Ssh will be quite slow, but usable for simple
things.
cu
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:18:31 -0700
"David C." wrote:
> Colm O'Gairbhith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz.
>
> A 386/sx has a 16-bit bus. So it can not handle more than 16M of RAM,
> regardless of what you install.
Huh? I thought the 8086 has 20 address bits. The 286 and 386 certainly
have more. However, the support chip sets probably won't handle DRAM over
1M anyway.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux with dual P90's
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:44:06 -0400 (EDT)
Want to run Linux on a PC (HP Vectra) having dual P90's.
At the front end are there any obvious red flags you can offer me.
Stuff like "it is impossible by definition for Linux to support dual
processor operation" is what I am looking for. I do not expect it to be
easy to get such a box running - but is it unreasonably difficult?
Many thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (etty)
Subject: Re: Adobe can pick ANY CPU's serial number!
Date: 13 Sep 2000 17:18:45 GMT
Reply-To: ettie (at) hushmail (dot) com
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gilles Pelletier) writes:
> My CPU is an AMD 486 DX-100. I thought only Pentium III CPUs and maybe
> some Celerons could be identified in this manner. Is Adobe sending a
Did you check if the numbers are correct ?
For the HD:
(as root)
hdparm -i /dev/hda
(or whatever you disk is).
This info is not available to a non-root user on my system. If acroreader
finds this out, I wonder how.
ettie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Massive "floating point exceptions"
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:42:07 GMT
On a pentium III (Katami) 500 MHz based pc there suddenly have
appeared massive software crashes with "floating point
exception". Already by booting the system there died 5 or 6 daemons
(e.g. nfsd, httpd, lpd), each one with the fault message "floating
point exception".
Basically, the computer is still booting, but is of no use. Almost
every X application crashes after a few actions, X itself often dies
only a few moments later with the fault message "signal 8" (floating
point exception again). Even bash also could be killed by a two-time
TAB (does anyone know, if the bash uses floating points somewhere? A
short scan through the code didn't bring anything to light)
The fact that confuses me mostly is that a MS Windows 98 installation
apparently runs without any impairment or problems.
No alterations were made on the pc before, neither hardware nor
software had been changed.
The processor fan is running well. I changed RAM without any positive
effect.
What makes me really doubtful is the following boot message:
Checking 386/387 coupling - OK, FPU using old IRQ 13 error reporting
I cannot remember this "using old ..." message in the past years at any
linux system. `cat /proc/cpuinfo` says
[...]
fpu ; yes
fpu_exception : no
[...]
One request: Could anyone with such a pentium III system by booting
his pc look after its 386/87 check. What does your pc say here? (If X
isn't started directly by booting the system, the boot messages could
be scrolled up before the first console switch with Shift-PgUp. Some
linux distributions store the boot messages in a file in /var/log.)
What says /proc/cpuinfo in such a system about fpu_exception?
One question: Did anyone made the experience that only a part of the
FPU dies although the processor still runs? Is there another
explanation that I am not able to see because of preconceived ideas or
a lack of wisdom? Why does the other OS still run?
rolf
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From: "Ashutosh S. Rajekar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRQ's and DMA
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 23:04:18 -0500
Hello,
I haven't found many documents that explain in detail the working of DMA
and Interrupt handling under Linux. Could anyone throw some light ???
Thanks,
======================
Ashutosh S. Rajekar
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Gr=E9goire?= Colbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: To AMD Athlon and SBLive users
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 19:58:36 +0200
Hello,
I have a Duron and a Sound Blaster Live Player (the cheap one =)). When
I load Seti@Home and plays an MP3, the music is somewhat saturated. If I
shut down the Seti client (which run with NICE 19 btw), the sound is
clear (perfectly). So this is not exactly a bug report because I know a
solution, but however, I'd like to know if this "cracking sound" is
related to the Duron's smaller internal cache or not. Can someone who
has an AMD Athlon and a Sound Blaster Live could tell me if this problem
also happens? I'd like to know if this is a hardware or software
problem, this could be interesting.
Thanks for answers...!
Gregus
PS : Please copy possible answers to gregus(guess =))linux-mandrake.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: And recommendations for a Duron MB?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:59:57 GMT
Corey Cossentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I personally have the Abit KT7-RAID... it runs great... you might want to get the
: non-RAID version (plain KT7) if you're trying to save money... I'm pretty sure
: Compuplus (www.compuplus.com) is selling them for just under $150...
I have the plain KT7 -> its super duper. My *only* complaint is that I
wish they would at least put the 2 ATA-100 slots on the board and just not
have the RAID stuff. On the KT7-RAID, even if you aren't using the RAID,
you still have all 4 IDE channels, whereas on the KT7 you only get 2.
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"Here's a nickel kid ... get yourself a real computer."
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From: "Marco R. Gazzetta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any Good MP3 Players For Linux?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:37:37 -0700
Hi, there,
After a long and unsuccessful debate with Creative Labs, I have given up
looking for a Linux driver for their Nomads.
Does anyone have any input (s)he might want to share about good MP3 players
that have Linux support? Personal preference would be a company that came
out with their own driver for Linux (i.e. I don't like the Rio approach too
much, reverse engineer because those guys won't give you any hints).
Thanks,
Marco
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From: KK Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise PDC20265 Ultra100 Controller on A7V: Can't LILO
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 02:42:27 +0800
I got a system here w/ ASUS A7V with an ATAPI CDROM, an IBM 30G and another
IBM 4G. Configuration as follows:
Primary IDE: CDROM (/dev/hda)
Secondary IDE: None
Primary ATA100: IBM 30G (/dev/hde)
Secondary ATA100: IBM 4G (/dev/hdc) -- Linux root
I can boot using floppy, passing boot parameters "ide1=0x9000,0x8802
ide2=0x9800,0x9402". However, LILO didn't work. It can install w/o error w/
the Linear parameter set, but when it boots, it stops at LI. If installed
w/o "Linear", it finishes with error claiming it doesnt know how to work
with the device.
Any hint what I should do?? I'm using 2.2.17 kernel.
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From: Ivan Rojas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Click sound on CS4236B
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:37:14 -0700
Hi all.
I am trying to figure out how can I eliminate a very anoying click sound
wenever I am trying to play any sound in my machine.
I'm running RedHat 6.2 on a PIII, 600MHz, 196 MB RAM.
I was loooking around and I found that modules are being loaded
(cs4232.o) /etc/conf.modules looks fine too. It seems to me that the
chipset is being activated/deactivated every single time something wants
to put a sound in the card.
Any ideas how/where to find a solution for this?
Thanks!
Ivan Rojas
Phoenix, AZ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: MicroChannel workaround using Zip?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:43:00 GMT
Hi,
I have a PC that suffers from having the
MicroChannel architecture. Linux doesn't support
it (even though IBM has finally joined the
Linux camp). But I am wondering, has anyone
succeeded in running Linux on an MCA machine
by storing Linux on a parallel port Zip drive?
Thank you.
uwuh
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From: Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Massive "floating point exceptions"
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 15:23:00 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't give you any advice, but here's hoping I have a related problem.
I'm running rtlinux under Red Hat, and while X doesn't hang
on me, I do get some unpredictable behavior that I'm more than
willing to believe is related to floating point exceptions.
While booting, where you get >>
> Checking 386/387 coupling - OK, FPU using old IRQ 13 error reporting
>
I get >>
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting
I'm sure 90% of you know where to find out what exception
16 is, but I have repeatedly failed.
my linux system. `cat /proc/cpuinfo` says
> [...]
> fpu ; yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> [...]
-Chuck
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From: "Marius Andra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:50:37 +0300
how can i get the als4000 sound card working under linux?
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From: "jfd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NEED SIS6326AGP VIDEOCARD DRIVER FOR LINUX!!!
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:34:13 GMT
pLEASE, HELP!!!
NEED SIS6326AGP VIDEOCARD DRIVER FOR LINUX!!!
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From: Brian Langenberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any Good MP3 Players For Linux?
Date: 13 Sep 2000 20:34:16 GMT
Marco R. Gazzetta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi, there,
: After a long and unsuccessful debate with Creative Labs, I have given up
: looking for a Linux driver for their Nomads.
: Does anyone have any input (s)he might want to share about good MP3 players
: that have Linux support? Personal preference would be a company that came
: out with their own driver for Linux (i.e. I don't like the Rio approach too
: much, reverse engineer because those guys won't give you any hints).
The only external mp3 players I've used are the Rio300 and Rio500.
While there are no "blessed" drivers for either, the
reverse-engineered ones not only work superbly but offer
features the official ones do not - such as downloading files
*from* the Rio rather than just uploading them.
But if you still don't want to use a Rio, your best bet would be
to invest in a CD burner and find an mp3 CD player.
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From: Derek Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Belkin USB Ethernet Adaptor F5U111
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:43:28 +0100
Hi,
I hope this is the right group ...
I'm trying to get networking working on my laptop (an Advent 7340DVD
with Mandrake 7.1 - kernel 2.2.15-4mdk). The only NIC I have available
is the above (i.e. a Belkin USB Ethernet Adaptor F5U111.
Linux detects the USB, and also recognises that there is "some" device
present, but declares it an "unknown device" and ignores it.
Is there any way I can get this adapter working? Alternatively, can
anyone suggest other adapters which will work with this distribution
"out of the box"? Either PCMCIA or USB. I'd prefer not to have to
recompile a new kernel, although I can do that if necessary.
Regards and TIA,
Derek Sorensen
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Subject: Re: SCSI Tape Drive Question
From: Barry Wilkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:50:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> New development:
>
> I just tried loading the aic7xxx.o module manually by doing a 'insmod /
> lib/modules/2.2.15mdk/scsi/aic7xxx.o' and got the following output:
>
<snip>
> The tape drive works now! However, what do all these errors mean?
> Should I be concerned about all this "invalid cur_addr"? Also, is this a
> kosher way of loading the driver? Is it ok just to put the insmod
> command in one of the startup scripts?
Mike,
I thought I should tell you that I had HUGE problems with getting my
Adaptec 2940 card to work with my HP Surestore tape drive, UNTIL I
gave up trying to use the kernel module and just compiled it into my
kernel. That was with an earlier version of kernel 2.2 to the one you
appear to be using.
I know that this is a different tape drive to the one you are using
and a different SCSI card, but the symptoms (driver not loaded at boot
time == tape desn't work, force loading of driver == tape works, but
get loads of errors) are the same.
My advice - recompile the kernel and include the driver as a
'monolithic' option.
Regards,
Barry Wilkes.
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From: Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson color 480 pb
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:07:45 -0400
Hi,
I tried to use use my epson stylus color 480 but when I use "lpr"
command, nothing happens. So, I went on the www.linuxprinting.org web
site. I found my printer in driver listing. I follwed the instructions
that told me to use stp driver. In the stp page, I use the automagic LPD
configuration generator and I followed the instructions provided by the
LPD documentation. Ghostscript drivers are available for my printer, I
installed lpdomatic, I modified /etc/printcap, I restarted lpd and when
I tried lpr -Pleffe doc.ps, I have no error message but nothing happens.
lpq -Pleffe gave me "no entries" as result.
less /var/spool/lpd/leffe/status :
leffe is ready and printing
Thanks for your help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MicroChannel workaround using Zip?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:04:53 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <8pohre$8q3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Hi,
>I have a PC that suffers from having the
>MicroChannel architecture. Linux doesn't support
>it (even though IBM has finally joined the
>Linux camp).
Eh? Pee-Cees with MCA are supported. Just because there is no booting
kernel on your favourite distribution CD doesn't mean it's not supported.
You may have problems with certain SCSI-controlers, yes, but MCA
as bus system is supported on PC-hardware (not on PPC).
Try those links (they once were working, unchecked):
http://www.dgmicro.com/mca/ (MCA Linux homepage)
http://members.aol.com/mcapage0/mcamafia.htm (THE MCA MAFIA)
http://chimera.acs.ttu.edu/~tapsa/mca/ (Linux on PS/2)
http://www.ghq.com/~jwhite/wilma/list.pl/lxi.913420016.19222.html (MCA Linux)
perhaps you'll find a working kernel or at least more info.
HTH,
Uli
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gilles Pelletier)
Subject: Re: Adobe can pick ANY CPU's serial number!
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:23:33 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (etty) �crivait/wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gilles Pelletier) writes:
>
>> My CPU is an AMD 486 DX-100. I thought only Pentium III CPUs and maybe
>> some Celerons could be identified in this manner. Is Adobe sending a
>
>Did you check if the numbers are correct ?
>For the HD:
>(as root)
>hdparm -i /dev/hda
>(or whatever you disk is).
>
>This info is not available to a non-root user on my system. If acroreader
>finds this out, I wonder how.
To tell you the truth, though I addressed my question to Linux
experts, I'm not a Linux user myself. I strongly suggest that you take
the Adobe ride yourself. It takes only a few minutes, and you'd have
better grounds to draw your conclusions.
GP
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Franklin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Sep 2000 16:26:38 -0600
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:44:22 +0200, Kasper Dupont wrote:
>Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > The speed for reading is as far as i remember:
>> >
>> > SPP: less than 200 kb/sec
>> > ECP under DOS: 300 kb/sec
>> > EPP under DOS: 400 kb/sec
>> > EPP under Linux: 500 kb/sec
>> >
>> > For some reasons many new computers come with the BIOS default
>> > set to SPP, does anyone have a very good explanation for that?
>>
>> I'm not sure about this, but perhaps because SPP is the oldest (is
>> it?) so the 'default' that is supported by all OSses, also broken
>> ones?
>> Wouldn't make sense, but ya never know ;-)
>
>Could make sense, but all software I have seen using
>SPP works fine even with the bios set to EPP. And I
>also think it would be a very strange choice to
>configure new computers for old broken software
>instead of configuring them for the new and more
>effective ones.
>
>--
>Kasper Dupont
I have my Compaq Presario 4660 set to ECP in the BIOS and run a Zip100 and
Epson Stylus Color 740 on the parallel port. It all works.
--
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From: Craig Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Swap/memory problem?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:33:58 GMT
I am running a PIII 600MHz intel system with 256Meg RAM and Linux
2.2.14-5.0. REdhat Linux 6.2
The interesting thing is in gtop, the third bar along shows the swap
that is being used. When I run a very large job in Matlab the swap
get's allocated (according to the length of the bar). This is fine (I
guess), but when I exit Matlab, I would have expected the swap to be
released and therefore the length of the red bar go back down.
Am I wrong in my expectations? Is there a bug in the kernel, or is this
just a case of me not understanding what the swap bar represents.
Any insights would be appreciated.
Craig.
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird!
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:43:42 -0400
Can you find someone who knows this parameter? I would like to use it.
Or... Do you know how to tell lilo to boot your system using a stripped
down kernel on a floppy.
Tristan
Eric Dondelinger wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > There has been a thread about this problem a week or so
> > ago. Apparently, the problem can be solved by recompiling
> > the kernel with the option _not_ to disable the processors
> > serial number. At least, that was the solution in the
> > previous thread IIRC.
>
> IIRC the same effect can be achieved through a bootprompt
> parameter, can't remember details though.
>
> Btw. SuSE 7 works fine on my KT7, no trouble whatsoever.
>
> Greets Eric
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From: Demian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding memory, linux doesn't see it...
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 17:55:56 -0400
You should use this:
append="mem=128M"
As your first line in the file /etc/lilo.conf
Then, type lilo (as root) and be sure it succeded.
Beware, if you have a mother board that uses shared memory for an "on board"
video adapter, you shoud reflect it at the mem= line.
For example, I use to own a 748MB with an SiS620 video adapter using 8MB of
system shared memory... and I had to set "mem=120" to avoid crashing.
If you have any throuble be more specific and write me to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Please forgive my english.
DMI: Demi�n Gutierrez
Russell Perkins wrote:
> tha D wrote:
> >
> > I've added 64MB of memory but I can't get Linux to recognize it. I have a
> > total of 131,072 MB of SDRAM (says my BIOS) and windows also sees 128MB, so
> > I at least know that I installed it correctly. I've tried inserting
> > "mem=128Mb" (and other sorts of combinations of "mb," "MB," "Mb") without
> > success. Please help me.
> >
> > Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> > TIA,
> > D
>
> My 64Meg didn't show up until I used mem=65535K.
> For some reason "M" was not getting recognized....
> --
>
> Russell Perkins
> http://personal.riverusers.com/~rperkins/
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From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: does the Biostar M7VKB work in Linux?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 21:59:59 GMT
Hi, does the Biostar M7VKB work in Linux?
I'm planning to build my own system.
I've sent an email to Biostar inquiring about this
and haven't gotten any responses.
My planned configuration for my system is at
http://geocities.com/jtnews_bellatlantic_net/
Any comments you have would also be welcome.
Please make sure that you send to my email address
directly too when you reply.
Thanks.
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From: Demian Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: microsoft wheel mouse problem
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 18:02:49 -0400
Song Pu wrote:
> I've just got a microsoft wheel mouse, does anybody know how to make the
> scroll wheel work as middle button? the package that I am using is
> RedHat 6.2 with KDE as my desktop.
> Thanks in advance.
I have a Genius Wheel Mouse (I believe is almost the same) I set it up as a
Microsoft Intellimouse (or something like that) The wheel does not work,
but I can use it as a third button. If you can set the wheel to work...
please mail to me.
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