Linux-Hardware Digest #615, Volume #13 Fri, 22 Sep 00 10:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux driver for D-Link DFE-550TX? (Christoph Bartelmus)
Re: 4004 (Peter)
Xeon and Red Hat Linux 6.2 (Ernst du Plooy)
HP Colorado (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Agust=ED=20Vil=E0?= i Armengou)
unable to mount ("Xavier Houppertz")
CD-R/RW Ricoh MP7063A-DP or Philips CDRW 404 with Linux ? (Martin Wieczorek)
Re: unable to mount (Eric)
Re: Possible IRQ conflict ? (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: iomega zip250 ATAPI drivers and kernel 2.2.17: Problem... (James Richard Tyrer)
tekram 315U and SuSE? (Tom Robert)
Re: tekram 315U and SuSE? ("Andrew E. Schulman")
scsi timeout ("Helge Smebye")
18Go U2WSCSI impossible under linux ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCMCIA Modem ("Peter T. Breuer")
Modem PCI (no winmodem) en Linux (Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy)
Re: Modem PCI (no winmodem) en Linux (Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy)
Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices? (Kirill)
Upgrading 2.2.14->2.2.17 loses my /dev/hdd ("Andrew P. Billyard")
How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card ("Andrew Werden")
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (-ljl-)
Re: Unable to run XWindows (Peter T. Breuer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Bartelmus)
Subject: Re: Linux driver for D-Link DFE-550TX?
Date: 21 Sep 2000 15:29:00 +0200
Hi!
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
> I have had zero luck finding a Linux driver for the D-Link DFE-550TX
> 10/100 Ethernet PCI NIC.
You will find one here: http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html
The driver distributed with the current kernel won't work.
Christoph
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4004
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:37:04 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:02:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>>My mate's teacher made a 5Kb disk by spraying the platter of a record
>>player with iron oxide based rust proofing paint. The hand wound
>>read/write head worked well. It just took a while to wind the handle
>>that moved the head to the next track.
>
>I can't decide whether to believe that or not; it's just imaginable
>enough that it doesn't seem _completely_ impossible. But seems rather
>like Mr Spock building a computer out of rocks; that is, something
>that works on TV, but not usually in real life :-)
>
It worked as a "proof of concept" but not necessarily as "something
you could live with".
Sort of like Ford fitting Firestone tires to their Explorer.
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 08:51:16 +0200
From: Ernst du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xeon and Red Hat Linux 6.2
Hi everyone,
We recently bought a Compaq computer with 4 x Xeon 700/2M processors and
2GB RAM installed. I configured Red Hat Linux 6.2 and everything is
working fine except that the System Info tool under GNOME utilities
reports all 4 processors, but with no cache.
I�m not sure if Linux doesn�t pick up the 2M cache per processor or
weather the System Info tool reports the wrong amount of cache.
Anyone know how to check/fix this?
Thanks
Ernst
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:53:56 +0200
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Agust=ED=20Vil=E0?= i Armengou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Colorado
Hi all.
I have been using HP Colorado 8MB drives with SuSE 6.3 without major
problems.
Now, I try to use this tapes with SuSE 6.4 and I can't.
The OS detects the tape, but when I try to use it, it says that the
device is busy.
SuSE pretends to charge me 180$ per hour to solve this problem.
Anybody can help me, please ?
Many thanks in advance.
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From: "Xavier Houppertz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: unable to mount
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:12:19 +0200
Hi there,
My linux Redhat system is running with 2 SCSI HDD of 4 GB each.
There is currently one partition mounted on sda (sda1:2gb) none on sdb
i am trying to mount the rest of th 2 gb partition on /usr/local/src/test
and the second disc as a whole on /usr/local/src/test2
i use fdisk to partition the disk and then reboot but i always get the same
error message when i try to mount any of those (sda3, sda5, sdb1) which is :
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
or too many mounted file systems
here follows the partition of fdisk :
/dev/sda1 1 450 1966919 83 Linux native
/dev/sda2 451 520 305970 82 Linux swap
/dev/sda3 521 1020 2185500 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 521 1020 2185469 83 Linux native
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
1 00 1 1 0 140 62 449 62 3933838 83
2 00 0 1 450 140 62 519 3933900 611940 82
3 00 0 1 520 140 62 1019 4545840 4371000 05
4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
5 00 1 1 520 140 62 1019 62 4370938 83
extended partitions
Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
3 00 0 1 520 140 62 1019 4545840 4371000 05
5 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
Why ??? can anybody help me ?
thanks,
Xav.
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From: Martin Wieczorek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-R/RW Ricoh MP7063A-DP or Philips CDRW 404 with Linux ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:29:14 +0200
Hello,
Has anybody some expieriences using the CD-R/RW Ricoh MP7063A-DP or the Philips
CDRW 404 with Linux ?
Thanks for answers
Martin
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to mount
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:46:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Xavier Houppertz wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> My linux Redhat system is running with 2 SCSI HDD of 4 GB each.
> There is currently one partition mounted on sda (sda1:2gb) none on sdb
> i am trying to mount the rest of th 2 gb partition on /usr/local/src/test
> and the second disc as a whole on /usr/local/src/test2
>
> i use fdisk to partition the disk and then reboot but i always get the same
> error message when i try to mount any of those (sda3, sda5, sdb1) which is :
Do these partitions even contain a FS?
fdisk (in linux) does NOT format the partitions.
You need to run mkfs for that. (Be carefull with that tool, it will
destroy all data on the partition you run it on)
Eric
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda5,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> here follows the partition of fdisk :
>
> /dev/sda1 1 450 1966919 83 Linux native
> /dev/sda2 451 520 305970 82 Linux swap
> /dev/sda3 521 1020 2185500 5 Extended
> /dev/sda5 521 1020 2185469 83 Linux native
>
> Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
> 1 00 1 1 0 140 62 449 62 3933838 83
> 2 00 0 1 450 140 62 519 3933900 611940 82
> 3 00 0 1 520 140 62 1019 4545840 4371000 05
> 4 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 5 00 1 1 520 140 62 1019 62 4370938 83
>
> extended partitions
> Nr AF Hd Sec Cyl Hd Sec Cyl Start Size ID
> 3 00 0 1 520 140 62 1019 4545840 4371000 05
> 5 00 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
>
> Why ??? can anybody help me ?
>
> thanks,
>
> Xav.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Possible IRQ conflict ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:10:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I installed gentus linux on my ABIT BE-6 board
> machine. now my networkcard (RTL8139) does not
> work. Booting my PC shows that IRQ 11 is used for
> the HPT366 card AND my networkcard.
>
> Is this a possible conflict for Linux ?
>
> I cannot change these settings (win200 works
> well). ANy suggestions to get the networkcard up?
>
> Thanks
>
> Carel
Are they both PnP PCI Cards?
If so, there shouldn't be a problem.
If there is, use the BIOS setup to change the interrupts.
MS Windows should figure it out if you change them.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iomega zip250 ATAPI drivers and kernel 2.2.17: Problem...
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:19:48 GMT
Stephen Day wrote:
> I've just downloaded the linux drivers for my internal zip250 drive from the
> iomega web site. Unfortunately they are written for kernel version 2.2.14
> and won't load on my machine which is running 2.2.17. Does anyone know of a
> workaround for this (apart from reverting to 2.2.14 ;-))?
>
> Cheers,
> Steve
The Kernel v. 2.2.16 comes with the driver included. So, 2.2.17 should be OK.
It is called something like "ide floppy". Be sure to enable this when you
rebuild your Kernel.
But, (scared you, didn't I?) before you do this, install the drive and exec:
cat /proc/ide/hd?/driver
<--- replace "?" with your drive letter. This is usually d -- meaning
that the Zip is the slave on the second ide port.
If the answer is:
ide-floppy version x.x
it is already installed.
JRT
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From: Tom Robert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: tekram 315U and SuSE?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:58:47 +0200
Hi!
Has anybody some experience with that scsi-controller tekram 315 and
SUSE Linux?
the driver is still in alpha status. before I buy a more expensive one
please tell me if
this is a working combination.
It is for a little Pentium90 Router. I just got SCSI harddrives so I
need a cheap controller.
thanks
Tom
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tekram 315U and SuSE?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 07:24:33 -0400
> Has anybody some experience with that scsi-controller tekram 315 and
> SUSE Linux?
> the driver is still in alpha status. before I buy a more expensive one
> please tell me if
> this is a working combination.
I have a Tekram DC395UW, which uses the same driver. It works fine for me,
although the driver maintainer told me that some people have problems with
it. That was 6 months ago-- not sure if things have changed since.
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From: "Helge Smebye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi timeout
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:25:03 +0200
Hi
I have ben running redhat 6.0 on my pentium 90 for at least one year.
Yesterday I wanted to install 6.2. Instead of doing a uppgrade, I did a
reinstall and repartioned the disks (one quanum fireball 3 Gb and one
quantum empire 1Gb). After the repartion of the disk I get timouts during
boot. I am not able to get the system up and running.
I created a boot disckett during install, and when I use this to boot
everyting seems to work fine....
On the 1Gb disc i created
/ partision of 120Mb
swap 60
/home 830Mb
/boot 10Mb
On the 3Gb disc i created
swap 60Mb
/usr 3Gb
Could someone give me a hint in what the problem could be.
PS How do I set the scsi parameters by hand ?
- helge
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 18Go U2WSCSI impossible under linux ?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 11:24:11 GMT
Hello there,
Got a big problem to format my 2 IBM HDD U3W SCSI under linux debian
2.2.17.
During install, if i try to create a one and only big 18Go partition,
got this error message at initialisation of inode 88:
88/137 Kmem_alloc : bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=buffer_head)
89/137 Kmem_alloc : bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=buffer_head)
91/137 : kernel panic : freelist corrupted
I can install a stable system on the firsts 10Go of the drives but i
can t use the rest !!!
When trying to create partition among inodes 88, got this error message
when writing partition table :
via cfdisk : device busy for revalidation (usage 7)
via fdisk : error 16 : device or ressource busy
It's the same problem with 2940U2W or DC390U2W, either U2W terminated
cable or SE cable on port UW
But it work fine under windows !!!
I don t understand anything ... :(
any idea ? plz... i've tried everything i know !
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Modem
Date: 22 Sep 2000 10:27:52 GMT
Ohanesian Raffi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am a new linux user and really have no idea what I am doing. I am
: learning though. I am trying to install a PCMCIA modem. No luck. Does
There is nothing to install. Stick it in the slot and that's that. By
definition, pcmcia cards announce themselves to the cardmanager, which
will look it up in its database and load the right driver.
: anyone know where I can find a step by step on how to install the modem?
Read the PCMCIA-HOWTO.
: PCMCIA modem is a Megahertz 3CCM156B on Redhat Linux
Any modem will be a serial device. It doesn't matter what it's called.
Peter
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From: Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem PCI (no winmodem) en Linux
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:00:57 +0200
�Alguien sabe de alg�n modem PCI que no sea winmodem y donde puedo
comprarlo?. Al menos 3Com tiene uno (Performance Pro PCI FaxModem
3CP5610A), pero no lo encuentro en ning�n lado.
Muchas gracias.
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From: Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem PCI (no winmodem) en Linux
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 16:06:31 +0200
Jose Antonio Becerra Permuy wrote:
> �Alguien sabe de alg�n modem PCI que no sea winmodem y donde puedo
> comprarlo?. Al menos 3Com tiene uno (Performance Pro PCI FaxModem
> 3CP5610A), pero no lo encuentro en ning�n lado.
> Muchas gracias.
Sorry. I have send this message to comp.os.linux.hardware instead of
es.comp.os.linux :-(
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From: Kirill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 15:19:42 +0200
Nisi wrote:
> Tom of tomshardware.com just did a review of 10 boards for the Duron. Here
> is the link:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/index.html
>
> He only tested them under Windows, but he does give alot if info in terms of
> features and stability. However, like with all new hardware, make sure that
> the motherboards chipset is supported by your kernel/distro, and if not
> upgrade.
>
I've seen the issue. They're all based on VIA KT133, a (relativelty) new
chipset. I don't think there is a patch for it. In any case, RH doesn't tend to
support all the AMD-related stuff.
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Upgrading 2.2.14->2.2.17 loses my /dev/hdd
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 12:36:50 GMT
I just upgraded my kernel from 2.2.14-05 to 2.2.17 (actually, to 2.4 but
had too many troubles, so I went to 2.2.17 - the problem below applies
also to the 2.4 kernel), so that the kernel could recognize my
machine's (AMD K6-2/500 on an AMD P5a-b board) IDE controller
(Ali15x3). I also used the patch ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch to
recognize the Ali15x3 chipset. My last harddrive, /dev/hdd, is no
longer recognized. This is an old Western Digital 202 Mb drive which I
use as a monthly backup storage device. Currently, my dmesg reads
[snip]
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: chipset revision 193
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xb000-0xb007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xb008-0xb00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, ATA DISK drive
hdb: M1606TA, ATA DISK drive
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
hdc: ATAPI CD-ROM DRIVE 40X MAXIMUM, ATAPI CDROM drive
> hdd: WDC AC2200F, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DJNA-351520, 14664MB w/430kB Cache, CHS=29795/16/63,
UDMA(33)
hdb: M1606TA, 1039MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=2111/16/63, DMA
> hdd: WDC AC2200F, 202MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=989/12/35
hdc: ATAPI 40X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, (U)DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
[snip]
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
hdb: hdb1
hdd:hdd: lost interrupt
unknown partition table
[snip]
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,0)
[snip]
I used to be able to mount /dev/hdd1 with "mount /dev/hdd1 /backups"
but now mount returns with "mount:
/dev/hdd1 is not a valid block device". However, if I boot up with
2.2.14, I can still access this drive.
Any suggestions?
Cheers,
Andrew
PS: hdparm /dev/hdd produces:
/dev/hdd:
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 = 989/12/35, sectors = 415380, start = 0
if this helps any.....
--
Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrew Werden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:26:33 GMT
I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT 4.0.
Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO). It
neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
Any idea how I can get my network card working?
/Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:18:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:58:16 GMT, Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >
> >
> >Thanks for all your help.
> >
> >I can now use the tape drive if I manually load the aic7xxx and st
> >modules.
> >
> >But even though I have the 'alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx' line in
> >/etc/conf.modules, the module is not automatically loaded on re-boot.
> >
> >Do I have to use '/sbin/mkinitrd' to generate a new ramdisk image?
> >
> >Thanks again,
> >- Harshal
> >
> >
> >
> >Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> >Before you buy.
>
> Yes.
> --
> Dick Freedman
>
I recently acquired an Exabyte Mammoth tape drive for my Red Hat 6.2
Linux machine. It replaces an old
Exabyte 8200 drive. I can read the old 8200 tapes on the Mammoth, but
I can't write anything to the
special Mammoth tapes. I have ExaTape 170mAME tapes.
After I read the 8200 tape, it told me I had to clean the drive, which
I did. When I try to write a tape using
dd of=/dev/nst0 if=<some big file>
I get an I/O error. If I do a "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" I get a normal
status message back except it doesn't
like the density setting.
I sent email to Exabyte and they acknowledged my message, but haven't
gotten back to me for two weeks.
I searched this newsgroup and found a few people who were having the
same problem, but no solutions.
Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:39:19 GMT
In article <8qfm5p$oq3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 13:58:16 GMT, Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > >Thanks for all your help.
...
> I recently acquired an Exabyte Mammoth tape drive for my Red Hat 6.2
> Linux machine. It replaces an old Exabyte 8200 drive. I can read
> the old 8200 tapes on the Mammoth, but I can't write anything to the
> special Mammoth tapes. I have ExaTape 170mAME tapes.
>
> After I read the 8200 tape, it told me I had to clean the drive,
> which I did. When I try to write a tape using
>
> dd of=/dev/nst0 if=<some big file>
>
> I get an I/O error. If I do a "mt -f /dev/nst0 status" I get a
> normal status message back except it doesn't like the density
> setting.
>
> I sent email to Exabyte and they acknowledged my message, but haven't
> gotten back to me for two weeks.
>
> I searched this newsgroup and found a few people who were having the
> same problem, but no solutions.
>
> Any ideas? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Have looked at this page:
http://www.exabyte.com/suppserv/techsupp/8mm/misc/in0181.html
I only have an old DAT; no 8mm :-(
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: Re: Unable to run XWindows
Date: 21 Sep 2000 18:17:21 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: hangs there after displaying the usual text mesages and then the screen
: goes blank. I cannot use CTL+ALT+DEL or CTL+ALT+BKSPC to exit Linux or
: XWindows. One other thing that I noticed was that Windows 98 detected
: the display card as standard PCI VGA, but when I installed the Matrox
: display drivers, it worked fine.
: So what could be wrong here.
Show us the output from X -probeonly (or whatever your server is) and we may
be able to guess.
Peter
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