Linux-Hardware Digest #715, Volume #14 Wed, 2 May 01 09:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard ("D. Stimits")
Deskjet 950 C - printing software ? (Alexander Eisenhuth)
Re: No sound on Redhat (Kristjan Runarsson)
Re: Matrox G450 in Intel LX motherboard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Canon BJC 2000SP Printer Driver (Yohanes Andi Santoso)
Re: $200 graphics card (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: video playback improvement question ("uncle freddy")
Re: Dell Dimension 8100 ("Timmy")
Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected ("Earl")
Best Linux 2000R3 Gfx card problems ("Michael H. Tørving")
Re: Deskjet 950 C - printing software ? (serafim)
Re: mouse wheel (Tim Dijkstra)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (Martha H Adams)
Re: video playback improvement question (olgnuby)
Re: A (hopefully helpful ! ) suggestion for Linux installs ... an auto-generated
inventory file (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Re: Error with fips (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Low power boxen? (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: video playback improvement question ("uncle freddy")
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 02:32:53 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH7.1 kernel fails on dual Asus motherboard
Hannu wrote:
>
> Yes, the "noapic" option got the box going. Works very well, still
> uses both processors.
> Thanks for your help!
> Hannu
You will find the system is still not as responsive as a full SMP system
when it is doing a lot of hardware operations. A good sample of that is
a 100 Mbit/sec network card and using the hard drive at the same time
(such as copying large files across the network). Many things will
appear the same even without APIC support, such as compiling or running
threaded general apps. With the APIC active, it would be possible for
one cpu to handle a large hard drive operation while nothing else gets
starved out for hardware irq's.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Some of the i840 chipset boards have problems with the IO-APIC (I don't
> >know if the Asus board is i840 or other, concept might still apply). Try
> >the kernel argument "noapic". For example, at the LILO prompt, to test,
> >you can hit the "tab" key to get a list of images it can boot...assume
> >one is called "linux", you could then type:
> >linux noapic
> >
> >If that works, then it means only cpu will be able to handle hardware
> >irq's, and thus only one cpu will handle hardware such as drive
> >controllers, network cards, sound, or video cards, but otherwise it will
> >work with both cpus. In the past I've found out that some i840 boards
> >contain up to three of these broken IO-APIC's, while others might have
> >only 1. The ones with only 1 seem to do ok, mostly; the ones with 3 are
> >a real problem. It seems that all i840 chipset boards that have 64 bit
> >pci busses have several of the bad IO-APIC's, at least one tied to the
> >64 bit bus...which means pci activity there risks failure.
> >
> >D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alexander Eisenhuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deskjet 950 C - printing software ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:29:44 +0200
Hallo,
is there anybody using HP Deskjet 950 C under Linux ? I also appreciate any hint
to other printing software than GS
regards
alexander
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From: Kristjan Runarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound on Redhat
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 11:09:11 +0200
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a soundblaster audiopci 64, redhat recognized it as Ensoniq audiopci
> 1370, I test this with sndconfig, but no sound on the test. I go back into
> sndconfig and change the card selection to Creative/Ensoniq Audiopci
> (ES1371 because if has (sb audiopci 64) in brackets but when I try to test
> this configuration I get an error message of:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: init_module: Device or resource busy
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: ismod
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0 failed
> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: ismod sound-slot-o failed
>
> I have no clue on what this means, all I know is that Redhat says they
> support my soundcard but I dont get any sound. I someone has answers. Im a
> greenhorn to linux so please be kind! Thanks
>
Hmmmmmmmmm......
Here comes a nugget from the allmos dried up fountain of my wisdom. I have a
soundblaster SB64 bulk and it works wonderfully just the way it is
autodetected by sndconfig. The joke is that I had a similar experience with
the thing as you did, no sound. For quite a while I sat cussing like a sailor
in front of my PC fighting an intense desire to throw the PC out the window.
Then out of sheer desperation I upped the Volume and presto! The thing is that
at least on my ole broken down Pentium III the WAV file sndconfig plays is
REALLY muffeled. I had to max out the volume of my loudspeakers inbuilt
amplifier to hear the message clearly, something about "pronouncing linux as
linux".
Have you tried playing a CD? Or a WAV/MP3 file after the SB has been
autodetected as an Ensoniq 1370?? I know this sounds a bit stupid but it might
be that the card is autodetected right but you have to increase the volume on
your speakers or start Xwindows and up the master volume with the volume
control panel and then play a CD. If I remember correctly I could not hear the
message with the default volume settings because the noise of the fan in my
computer drowned out the sound, it was that low. And because all I ever tried
was sndconfigs test message I did not realize the sound worked all along.
Cheers
KR
P.S Let me know if you suceed. I'm interested in hardware nightmares like this
one.
P.P.S If you want to play audio CD's make shure there is a cable from your CD
Rom drive to the SB64 otherwise no cigar.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I have a soundblaster audiopci 64, redhat recognized
it as Ensoniq audiopci
<br>1370, I test this with sndconfig, but no sound on the test. I go back
into
<br>sndconfig and change the card selection to Creative/Ensoniq Audiopci
<br>(ES1371 because if has (sb audiopci 64) in brackets but when I try
to test
<br>this configuration I get an error message of:
<p>/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: init_module: Device or resource
busy
<br>/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: ismod
<br>/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0 failed
<br>/lib/modules/2.2.16-22/misc/es1370.0: ismod sound-slot-o failed
<p>I have no clue on what this means, all I know is that Redhat says they
<br>support my soundcard but I dont get any sound. I someone has answers.
Im a
<br>greenhorn to linux so please be kind! Thanks
<br><a href="http://www.help.com/";></a> </blockquote>
Hmmmmmmmmm......
<p>Here comes a nugget from the allmos dried up fountain of my wisdom.
I have a soundblaster SB64 bulk and it works wonderfully just the way it
is autodetected by sndconfig. The joke is that I had a similar experience
with the thing as you did, no sound. For quite a while I sat cussing like
a sailor in front of my PC fighting an intense desire to throw the PC out
the window. Then out of sheer desperation I upped the Volume and presto!
The thing is that at least on my ole broken down Pentium III the WAV file
sndconfig plays is REALLY muffeled. I had to max out the volume of my loudspeakers
inbuilt amplifier to hear the message clearly, something about "pronouncing
linux as linux".
<p>Have you tried playing a CD? Or a WAV/MP3 file after the SB has been
autodetected as an Ensoniq 1370?? I know this sounds a bit stupid but it
might be that the card is autodetected right but you have to increase
the volume on your speakers or start Xwindows and up the master volume
with the volume control panel and then play a CD. If I remember correctly
I could not hear the message with the default volume settings because the
noise of the fan in my computer drowned out the sound, it was that low.
And because all I ever tried was sndconfigs test message I did not realize
the sound worked all along.
<p>Cheers
<br>KR
<p>P.S Let me know if you suceed. I'm interested in hardware nightmares
like this one.
<p>P.P.S If you want to play audio CD's make shure there is a cable from
your CD Rom drive to the SB64 otherwise no cigar.</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Matrox G450 in Intel LX motherboard
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Date: 2 May 2001 11:23:07 +0100
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Chris Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Can 2x cards go in 1x slots?
> FWIW, I could not get an AGP G400 to work in my 233Mhz Pentium-II that uses an
> LX motherboard (which as you say, only supports 1x AGP slots). So I would
> imagine the answer is no.
I have exactly the same setup, and it works fine. So the answer would be yes...
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Yohanes Andi Santoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJC 2000SP Printer Driver
Date: 2 May 2001 20:09:04 +1100
Hi,
Does anyone know where can I get driver for my printer.
My printer is Canon BJC 2000SP and I am using red hat 7.0.
I know that redhat 7.1 have the printer driver that i need, how can I
upgrade only the printer configuration utilities from red hat 7.1 to red hat
7.0.
Thanks
Andi Santoso Lim
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: $200 graphics card
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:11:47 GMT
Michael wrote:
>
> I would say that the de facto standard these days is a nVidia GeForce 2 (MX,
> GTS, Ultra, etc.) card.
Yeah, but that's a gamer's card. The question was for a card more suited
for a non-gamer who wants to run a game every once in a while. So you
should focus on 2D quality instead of 3D. The Geforce is a nice card,
and it holds it's ground regarding 2D. But resolution and refresh rate
aren't everything regarding 2D. Almost any card can get the
resolution/refresh/colordepth yuo want nowadays. The more important
things are becoming contrast, color purity, and sharpness, which
ofcourse largely depend on the screen too, but still need a good 2D card
to bring them out to acceptable levels.
> -----------------------------------
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ome.com...
> > On Mon, 30 Apr 2001 11:22:42 GMT, Joeri Sebrechts
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >Michael wrote:
> > >>
> > >> need help selecting a graphics card for a new system i am building. I
> don't
> > >> run games, but kids might play a few.
> > >> SYSTEM:
> > >> athlon 1.2
> > >> iwill kk266
> > >> 512 mb pc-133 micron
> > >> 30 gb maxtor ata/100
> > >> 10.2 gb maxtor ata/33
> > >> sound= turtle beach (probably)
> > >> thanks michael
> > >
> > >I'm particularly fond of Matrox's gear (I have a G400, but it would be a
> > >G450 nowadays). Decent cards, well supported both in Windows and linux.
> > >Superb 2D quality, and good enough 3D-wise to at least play the most
> > >recent games with (although there are obviously other cards you can get
> > >much better framerates and resolutions with, but the G450 has pretty
> > >cool 3D effects that you don't see on the framerate gushers)
> > >And although they're not cheap, they also don't cost piles of money.
> >
> > you took the words out of my mouth. I've been using matrox graphics cards
> > since when I ran OS/2. Superb quality.
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From: "uncle freddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video playback improvement question
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:28:18 GMT
In article <azIH6.203860$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "olgnuby"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cheap as memory is now, I think I'd venture a little on that direction
> to see what kind of results you get .
I am not touching swap so that isn't the problem, this is also on an
unloaded system too. hm. 192 megs should be more than enough for video ...
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From: "Timmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Dimension 8100
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:31:59 +0100
Thanks for the reply. I have just bought "The Complete Reference to Linux,
4th Edidition" by Osbourne/McGraww Hill and it came with RedHat 7 Publishers
Edition and Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. I know these are not the latest
versions and I was thinking of getting SuSE Linux Professional Edition V7.1
from Jungle.com - the add says "SuSE Linux 7.1 Professional is the complete
Linux package, comprising more than 2000 programs on DVD and CD", I thought
this was a good package but then again I'm very new to this - any opinions?
Also the modem I have is a Conexant Hardware modem. It's chipset reference
is RHP56D/SP - R6789-51 (and on the hardware IC 11235-14). It is listed as a
harware modem but on query it says HCF V.90 56k.... and I thought the HCF
prefix meant it wasn't hardware - can anyone shed any light on this. I would
like to keep this modem as I have tried a few modems in this machine and
this one gives outstanding performance. If it it not Linux compatible, what
is the best one to get?
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From: "Earl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 10:51:17 GMT
You have some serious issues here... and it is hard to figure out what it
could be...
1) either you are extremely unlucky....
2) your power supply is to low...
3) your motherboard is semi-defective...
4) you lack enough cooling....
My recommendation is to dump one harddrive completely, and maybe even the
DVD drive as well. Go to Best Buys and buy one of those nifty cooling units
and install. Buy a quality APC or UPS battery backup/surge controller.
And, replace the IDE/ATA cable that you are using.
Best of luck...
"William Tang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear Internet friends,
>
> I have a big problem: IBM DTLA 305020 harddisk (20GB) of 6 months old
> crashed and IBM DTLA 305040 ( new 40GB of one week old) crashed also. I
> expect the new maxtor DiamondMax 40GB 7200rpm shall also crash soon.
>
> Can anybody make a suggestion to solve this problem? I really need some
> help. The system configuration is as follows: asus a7v KT133 (rev 1.01,
> 5 pci slots), tbird 700MH, 256MB SDRAM + 256MB SDRAM (the second unit
> added two months ago), matrox G400, DVD drive of the brand DBV
> (connected to secondary slave ide), Plextor burnproof (connected to
> secondary master ide).
>
> The story: about 6 months ago (oct 2000) I bought the system with only
> 20GB harddisk of IBM connected to ide primary master (ata66), running
> redhat 6.2 and w98. Everythings looked stable after I had some problems
> with motherboard. The vendor replaced the motherboard, power supply,
> cpu. ATA100 was not used because redhat 6.2 didn't support it.
>
> 4 weeks ago I bought a IBM 40GB drive and installed in the system
> connected to primary slave ata66 mode. I have tried to install w2000 but
> w2k failed to identify all the hardware and get into conflict. I gave
> that up.
>
> But soon the 20GB drive made noise like something hitting or folding
> the metal plates and I got also errors at the same moment from redhat
> (ide hda timeout; LBA bad sectors) under normal operation. The errors
> occured more frequently till the whole drive failed. IBM drive software
> DFT identified the drive as defective nr=0x77 and 0x70. Soon I
> reconfigured the new 40GB IBM drive as master but running redhat7.1 and
> w98 (w2k also failed to install) on the promise ata100 connector (asus
> motherboard can support 8 ide devices nl. 4 ide ata66 and 4 ide ata100).
> The crash of the 20GB is considered as bad luck. But the same errors
> happened again on the 40GB IBM drive after one week operation. I contact
> IBM without satifactory result yet (Response (ref 109-930-638-6)). 28
> april I bought a Maxtor DiamondMax 7200rpm 40GB drive in the hope that
> the problem lay on IBM design (physically the drive should not be
> damaged by the controlling software within a week). Neither the BIOS nor
> IBM DFT software can even identify the 40GB IBM drive because the drive
> was stuck at power-on (neither in ata66 nor in ata100 mode). After
> installing the maxtor drive (using ata100) I re-install redhat 7.1
> without problem and w2k gets to be installed by solving the multiple-irq
> assigning problem (acpi seems to be the cause). Yesterday I heard the
> noise again!! That terrifies me.
>
> Has anyone this experience? What should I do? If any additional
> information needed, please reply directy to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks
> in advance.
>
> Yours sincerely,
> William Tang.
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From: "Michael H. Tørving" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best Linux 2000R3 Gfx card problems
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 13:12:19 +0200
Hi.
I have problems installing or rather choosing a gfx card driver that matches
the gfx card that i have.
The list of supported gfx cards does not include the one that i have which
is ATI Radeon, 64MB DDR, AGP, Video in/out
with the following specs :
Bus type : AGP 2x/4x
Graphic processor : 183 Mhz ATI RADEON GPU
Pixel Fill Rate : 586 Mpix/sec
Ram type : 183 MHz 64 MB DDR SDRAM
RAMDAC : 350 MHz
Texel Fill Rate : 1,1 Gtex/sec
Connectiontype : VGA DB15, TV-out, Video-in
Triangles : 30 millioner/sec
It does however include a lot of other drivers for ATI cards so if anybody
out there have any ideers as to what other driver that I might be able to
install instead to get it working please let me know.
Best Regards
Michael H. T.
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From: serafim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Deskjet 950 C - printing software ?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:06:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alexander Eisenhuth wrote:
>
> Hallo,
>
> is there anybody using HP Deskjet 950 C under Linux ? I also appreciate any hint
> to other printing software than GS
>
No, but I saw that when installing cups, the Deskjet 950C was supported
by cups (that supports my HP Deskjet 720C as well). Most distributions
include cups nowadays, I think.
If you don't have cups installed then take a look at
http://www.cups.org/
/Serafim
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From: Tim Dijkstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mouse wheel
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 14:18:26 +0200
"E. Carrillo" wrote:
>
> I got a quick question, Is there a way to enable the mouse wheel to scroll
> the windows in KDE 2 or linux in general? I'm using a standard PS/2 mouse
> with a scrolling wheel and I really want to use it in linux. I got SuSe
> 7.1, if that's important to determine if the wheel will work or not.
> Thanks.
Maybe the following page is a good startingpoint to figure that out:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
grtjs Tim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martha H Adams)
Subject: Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 12:17:45 GMT
I think you want to listen to Nils and the others; however, before you do
anything, find all your hardware setup options and *write down what they
are*. Then try restoring your machine to its original configuration and
CPU and see if that returns it to its previous OK state. (Was it *really*
OK?) Now review your hardware setup notes and see if you really got them
right.
Now, check around and see if you are missing something. I'd especially
checkout that new AMD CPU's cooling. Did it come with a fan on it? Take
off the fan and see what lies between the bottom of the fan's aluminum
sink and the top of the CPU. If you find a piece of paper in there, well,
take out the paper and cleanup things thoroughly; put in some heatsink
paste, and reassemble. (Not much heatsink paste is needed, the sink and
the CPU top should go together with about zero space in between.)
When you have got your new CPU back into the motherboard, start up things
and see if the fan is actually working. You might be surprised.
My thinking about the CPU and cooling, rises from your comment the board
seemed to work OK with its previous CPU. Seems to me, that's a strong
pointer at the new CPU. By the way, you didn't say where you got it: is
there any chance it has a strange history and is itself somehow defective?
Cheers -- Martha Adams
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From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video playback improvement question
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 07:21:45 -0500
uncle freddy wrote:
>
> In article <azIH6.203860$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "olgnuby"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Cheap as memory is now, I think I'd venture a little on that direction
> > to see what kind of results you get .
>
> I am not touching swap so that isn't the problem, this is also on an
> unloaded system too. hm. 192 megs should be more than enough for video ...
Sounds like it should. I'm not sure how much of a part it plays in the
process, but what is your agpart setting in your bios. Or what agp
aperture size and mode do you use and how do you have your kernel
configured in that area. I know on my MMX system, if I used anything
less than the max 256 MB setting and went less than 4x on the mode, I'd
notice a general system slowdown and video crashes and directx failures
under Win98. As I say, I'm just an end user old fart hobbyist and don't
rally have an adequate understanding of all the vesa pass through stuff,
other than it does seem to have an affect.
Shooting in the dark. ;-)
Charlie
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Subject: Re: A (hopefully helpful ! ) suggestion for Linux installs ... an
auto-generated inventory file
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:37:46 GMT
>>>>> "Andy" == Andy Elvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Andy> The idea would be that a user installing Linux could first
Andy> run an ultra-cool "soup-to-nuts" utility in Win9x (or in Dos
Andy> for that matter) which did a **complete** system inventory of
Andy> what was on the system - processor, monitor , whether the
Andy> system is UDMA (mutter, mutter ) .... everything. This could be
Andy> saved as (say) an XML "inventory file" in Win9x. ( or Dos.
Andy> Whatever .... :-)
Neither dos, Win9x, NT.x, or Win2K can detect all hardware correctly.
Hardware detection will always be a problem. Best way to install I
have found it is to make a custom install disk for wried hardware you
have. However, I will gladly admit that many users will never do this.
Why develop for dos/win? This development should be done in Linux,
anyway.
Sorry I went over my 2 cents limitation. That's about 1 cent worth
now.
Later,
Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Error with fips
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:59:17 GMT
"Francis Noel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fips error: "last cylinder is not
> free ... hidden file like image.idx or mirorsav.fill
>
> I am run on windows ME and y have system restore activate.
>
> What is image.idx or mirorsav.fil ?
Files commonly put at the *end* of a FAT partition, rather
than at the beginning. Notice that it says "like", so
the file in question in your case may not be one of those
two files. There are ways to find out the name of the file,
which may help you figure out what app stored it there,
but I don't know of an _easy_ way that doesn't require any
particular software. If all else fails, you can examine
the system areas of the filesystem using DEBUG and find
out, if you know what you're doing.
If you use the Windoze "Defrag Disk" utility, it'll show
you three kinds of data: data that belongs at the beginning
of the drive, data that belongs in the middle, and data
that belongs at the end. However, by this it means beginning,
middle, and end, respectively, of the used space, and it still
leaves the blank space at the very end IIUC. However, there
are some applications (mostly lowlevel stuff) that put
certain files at the VERY end, for one reason or another.
ISTR that on my old ITT XTRA (running PC-DOS 3.3) there were
a couple of files that were always at the very end of the
drive and the defrag utility I was using (Central Point's
"Compress Disk") showed them as "files that will not be
moved". I never paid attention to what they were or which
app had put them there (at the time I only had vague notions
about the way a filesystem really works), but I had a very
old Norton (4.5) on that PC, so that could have been
responsible, although I'm guessing there. I think
mirrorsav.fil may have been one of the two files; it sounds
very familiar.
Obviously, if you have some application storing data
in a fixed position at the tail end of the partition,
the last cylinder will never be free. In theory it
is possible to move said data, but the application
that put it there might not work properly then.
Sorry I can't help you with fips; don't know anything
about that.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: Low power boxen?
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:43:22 GMT
"Bastiaan Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cool! I don't know the prices of these, but I know they're quite good,
> small and consume about 800 mW on a 5V battery, rising to 2W at full cpu
> load:
> http://wearables.stanford.edu/diy.html
>
> Small enough?
When the size of the PC is dwarfed by the size of the smallest
available input devices, even mice, somebody's being silly.
Yeah, yeah, speech I/O, I know. Let me know when speech
input gains wide support among applications.
- jonadab
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From: "uncle freddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video playback improvement question
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 13:04:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "olgnuby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> uncle freddy wrote:
>>
>> In article <azIH6.203860$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "olgnuby"
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> > Cheap as memory is now, I think I'd venture a little on that
>> > direction to see what kind of results you get .
>>
>> I am not touching swap so that isn't the problem, this is also on an
>> unloaded system too. hm. 192 megs should be more than enough for video
>> ...
>
> Sounds like it should. I'm not sure how much of a part it plays in the
> process, but what is your agpart setting in your bios. Or what agp
> aperture size and mode do you use and how do you have your kernel
> configured in that area. I know on my MMX system, if I used anything
> less than the max 256 MB setting and went less than 4x on the mode, I'd
> notice a general system slowdown and video crashes and directx failures
> under Win98. As I say, I'm just an end user old fart hobbyist and don't
> rally have an adequate understanding of all the vesa pass through stuff,
> other than it does seem to have an affect.
my motherboard only supports AGP 1.0 (2X top speed) and the voodoo3
driver doesn't have an AGPMode option to set the speed as far as I can
tell ... I changed the aperature to 256M since I was rebooting to the 2.4.4
kernel anyway and it doesn't seem very much faster if at all (I just ran
gears for a quick benchmark: 3.6 fps full screen, 1028x1024 16bpp same as
before)
anyone know any pages with videotweaking tips for linux? I have no
windows machines to test this card in or anything so I don't even know if
my hardware is ok for thsi but it seems like it should be, I mean 450Mhz,
192M system mem, 16M of video mem *shrug*
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