Linux-Misc Digest #277, Volume #24 Wed, 26 Apr 00 14:13:21 EDT
Contents:
device drivers, socket programming in C++
Managing memory allocated to processes (Avdi Grimm)
Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux? (Jim)
Re: Suse 6.4? (Boris Epstein)
Apche ASP port (Boris Epstein)
Re: How to downgrade 56K modem to v.34? (Brent Willcox)
Can the root users see any user's password ?? where ? ("Benson Lei")
Re: When is ldconfig run? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit (John Brock)
boot/mount root filesystem with cdrom (Linus Tolduso)
Re: Installing Linux over Win98 (David Bell)
Re: HOT HD ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Floppy format problem. ("Gene Heskett")
Re: HOT HD ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Floppy format problem. ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Can the root users see any user's password ?? where ? (David Efflandt)
Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit (Trevor Hemsley)
Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux? (EBE)
Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux? (EBE)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: device drivers, socket programming in C++
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 02:30:21 GMT
Hi,
I am developing a network device driver.Int it there is master driver
mmodule and 4 slave modules. master scheudle the slaves.there are options
in device struct for indicating master/slave. But i dont know how to their
mechanism for their insmods. should both master and slave should be
developed as separate modules if so , then how to make them slave.
Second problem I am facing is socket progmming in c++.
what pakages should be there so that i can do socket progming in c++.
though I have downloaded socket++ package but i am unable to install it.
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From: Avdi Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Managing memory allocated to processes
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:39:33 -0400
Recently I've had a problem with my linux machine where the disk starts
thrashing and it rapidly degenerates into an unresponsive state where
the disk is constantly accessing. If I catch it quick enough, I can
reboot with ctl-alt-del; otherwise it's the reset button. The symptoms
seem to point to a memory leak on a massive scale, where a process is
rapidly filling all available real and virtual memory. It seems to be
associated with running StarOffice, but I could be wrong.
I have two questions:
1. How can I find out which process is causing this, keeping in mind
that once the problem has started it's just a few minutes or seconds
until complete system unusability.
2. How can I prevent this from happening? Is there a way to limit the
resources any single process is allowed to use?
Thanks,
Avdi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim)
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 02:42:15 GMT
That sounds right. I'm hearing complaints on comp.os.linux.portable
about XFree86 not supporting the video card adequately except possibly
in the newest release(s). XFree86 3.3.6 is supposed to be adequate,
but some say it isn't ...
Jim
remove "attack" for email
In article <8e58c3$fjd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>Nope. We have it running on several Gateway Solos here.
>
>Well, scratch that. We had to install a version that supported the
>NeoMagic chipset. But aside from that, no worries.
>
>--J
>
>In comp.os.linux.setup Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Has anyone encountered any abnormal difficulties setting up Linux on the
>: above Gateway notebook model, particularly with the XF86Config setup?
>
>: Jim
>: remove "attack" for email
>
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From: Boris Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Suse 6.4?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:47:01 -0400
Hi there,
You can get SuSE6.4 at
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/evaluation-6.4.iso
I have yet to try it myself.
NTK wrote:
>
> Has anyone got Suse6.4 and how does it look?
> I am running Mandrake7, but I would like to try Suse6.4 out.
> Where can I download ISO image of Suse6.4?
>
> thanks.
>
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From: Boris Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apche ASP port
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 22:50:54 -0400
Hello everyone,
I am just wondering if anyone has gotten the ASP extension to the Apache
WWW server to work and can comment on the experience.
Thanks a lot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Willcox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How to downgrade 56K modem to v.34?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:00:18 GMT
On 19 Apr 2000 17:23:45 GMT, Kenny Zhu Qili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have tried at-v90dt8686554 as a dialing string but it doesn't work. My modem
>doesn't dial at all. This modem doesn't come with any detailed manual (That's usual
>windows way). Is there any way I can find out it's complete set of commands?
>
>Kenny
Every modem does it a different way. Do you know what type of chip
set is on the modem? (there's three main makers, Rockwell/Conextant, US
Robotics/3com, and Lucent)
Take a look at the largest chip on your modem, and write that down.
Then go to http://808hi.com/56k/ This is
V.Richard's modem pages, and he answers just about every possible
question you could have about modems.
If that site is down, try http://808news.com/56k/
Good Luck!
-bw-
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From: "Benson Lei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can the root users see any user's password ?? where ?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 11:02:48 -0700
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Subject: Re: When is ldconfig run?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:16:02 GMT
On Tue, 25 Apr 2000 14:06:23 -0500, Leonard Evens wrote:
>In principle /sbin/ldconfig should be run when booting. But
>I can't find anywhere in any initialization script where it
>is run. Can anyone enlighten me further?
As you can see by my signature, I'm running SuSE 6.4, upgraded from SuSE 6.0,
and I also use 6.2. I only ever run ldconfig after compiling / installing new
libraries, and don't notice any problems otherwise.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit
Date: 25 Apr 2000 23:17:56 -0400
Actually I guess it's pretty clear from the document that the EDD is
supposed to be suitable for SCSI; my main concern is whether any of the
SCSI vendors are actually going to *do* anything about it. At what
point does that 7.8GB SCSI booting limit become so uncomfortable for
the vendors that they feel compelled to address it. And even if it's
technically feasible, adding a new interface to SCSI seems like a
pretty big step politically.
As I understand it right now there is no well defined SCSI software
interface that works for all SCSI cards, which is why you need drivers
written to each card, and why there is no guarantee that everything
will work properly if you detach a SCSI drive from a PC with one
vendor's card and attach it to a PC with a SCSI card from a different
vendor.
I use OS/2, and OS/2 has a fairly long list of SCSI cards that it
supports. There is no such list for EIDE, and no need for one, because
there is only *one* EIDE interface, so you only need one EIDE driver
per operating system. This certainly seems preferable to the SCSI
situation! It seems to me that if all the vendors got together and
added the EDD interface to their cards then SCSI would have the same
kind of unity that EIDE has now.
I would think this would be a Good Thing, but if it hasn't happened yet
then maybe there is some reason -- either technical or political -- why
it can't happen. This is what I am trying to understand here. As I
said before, it's possible that I have completely misunderstood the
whole situation, but you don't learn if you don't ask!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John,
>
>The whole point of the BIOS is to insulate the user/programmer from
>the details of the hardware. The EDD interface is perfectly suited to
>a SCSI implementation, IMHO. Why SCSI vendors would no implement it
>is probably due more to economics -- programmers cost money -- than
>any difficulties implementing the standard.
>On 24 Apr 2000 19:50:46 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock) wrote:
>
>>Thanks for the URL; it's an interesting document. I notice though that
>>it's over two years old. So there has been plenty of time for SCSI
>>card vendors to have implemented the interface if it is their intention
>>to do so. Do you have any particular reason to think that they ever
>>will, other then a general expectation that they will put aside their
>>differences and act in the customer's best interest? :-( I'm also a
>>little dubious about whether it can really be that easy to transfer an
>>EIDE interface to SCSI; are you sure this is actually do-able?
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>John,
>>>
>>>The EDD packet call interface is so straightforward that I would
>>>expect SCSI vendors to begin implementing it. SCSI-2 uses 32-bit,
>>>0-based addressing, and that is exactly what the standard is set up
>>>for. (Actually the standard uses 64-bit addressing, but disks aren't
>>>THAT big yet.)
>>>
>>>The EDD standard is available from:
>>>
>>> http://www.phoenix.com/products/specs.html
>>>On 24 Apr 2000 13:57:43 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock) wrote:
>>>
>>>>I assume that you are talking about the Int 13 Extensions to the EIDE
>>>>interface. Is that correct? If so, what about SCSI? My Adaptec SCSI
>>>>card has two modes; in one mode 1024cyl = 1GB, in the other mode
>>>>1024cyl = 7.8GB (or something like that). Since SCSI is not as
>>>>standardized as EIDE, and every vendor seems to do things in a slightly
>>>>different and incompatible way, is there any hope that LILO can be
>>>>patched to boot from above the 1024th cylinder on a SCSI disk? Or have
>>>>I totally misunderstood everything? :-)
>>>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>>>Joerg Baumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>>>I have written a patch for lilo.
>>>>>Now you can access up to 2 Terrabytes of harddisk with lilo, if your
>>>>>BIOS has EDD or EBD extensions (should be present in recent BIOSes since
>>>>>1998)
>>>>>Please, test it and report bugs to me.
>>>>>You can find the files under
>>>>>http://www.rommel.stw.uni-erlangen.de/~jgbauman/lilo/
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From: Linus Tolduso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.comp.periphs.cdr
Subject: boot/mount root filesystem with cdrom
Date: 25 Apr 2000 23:31:15 EDT
My floppy controller, it seems is broken on one of my linux machines.
Read and Write functions are ok in both windows and linux, but when it
comes to booting, the floppy just hangs. Strange huh? I haven't tried
re-flashing bios or anything that radical yet, but I really only need to
boot linux so I'd like to use a burnable (re-writeable) cdrom in the
floppy's stead. I have a I have a CD-writer on another machine and
plenty media (write-only and re-writable).
I prefer not to install LILO on this machine, because my kids use it
also. Here's what I've tried so far, but I don't think it is applicable.
All I want to do is replace a boot-floppy (which boots the kernel and
then mount's the root partition call it /dev/hda3 for now) with a
boot-cd. The motherboard's BIOS supports the CD-ROM device as bootable
(a-la- 'El Torito spec).
I read the rather dated README.eltorito (Slackware 7.0) but wasn't sure
how or whether I needed to edit the boot catalog which I created on my
hard drive's filesystem like this:
dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.catalog bs=1024 count=2
I then created a empty directory "boot-cd". I then created the "boot"
sub-directory in it and the put the files "boot.img" (i.e. the kernel)
and "boot.catalog" in it.
Then simply executed mkisofs -b boot/boot.img -c boot/boot/catalog -o
boot.iso .
from the boot-cd directory.
This seems like it should be a fairly simple task, but it is not turning
out that way.
I used mkisofs to create an isofile containing only the kernel I wanted
to boot. I then used rdev on the image to set the root device and root
flags on
this image (file), but that didn't work when I burnt the CD.
Any other thoughts?
TIA,
Linus
(personal replies maybe directed to the listed e-mail by replacing the
'a' in my e-mail with 'y')
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux over Win98
Date: 26 Apr 2000 03:35:40 GMT
>You might also look into RedHat's new "partitionless" installation.
>You install it in a FAT partition and boot from a floppy. It
>is slow but it should give you an idea of how RedHat works.
>
I believe Mandrake has something similar to this called Lnx4win.
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Date: 25 Apr 2000 21:1:36 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to David C.;
DC> "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> A 12 volt fan normally carries a label claiming it might draw 280
>> milliamps, or .28 amps. I've never measured one that actually drew
>> that much. At any rate, 12*.28=3.36 watts. Not all of that is
>> instant heat mind you, but some of that input energy will be used to
>> create the turbulance that moves the air around, delaying its total
>> conversion to heat by several seconds. 1=1 however if the observation
>> continues long enough.
DC> Of course, this is only applicable if your fan is in a sealed box.
All thats required is for the system to come to a 'stable' condition.
Sealed or not has nothing to do with it other than it will run hotter if
sealed because then all cooling is by black body radiation. You put so
much heat in, and eventually that exact amount of heat will come back
out. The method it uses to get out is moot other than how well it works
will control the temperature rise above ambient. Its called the law of
conservation of energy. And that basic physical law is billions of
years older than you or I.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 25 Apr 2000 21:37:32 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy format problem.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Charles Sullivan;
[huge snip]
CS> You are most likely correct about this. I went rooting through my
CS> archives and found the data sheet on my old Teac 1.2M drive - it says the
CS> same thing as the specs for the newer one, i.e., 360K is read-only. I
CS> also found the old IBM-AT Users Guide which says that a 360K diskette
CS> written with the 1.2M drive will thereafter only be readable on the 1.2M
CS> drive.
I just spent a few minutes rummaging here, but that binder has
apparently gone to long term storage in the basement.
So it's probable that the (later) BIOSes (or DOS?) solved the
CS> problem by writing a double track - the FD controller looks like a pretty
CS> dumb card in itself.
Bad idea, see my reply to a David C. for why.
CS> It'd be interesting to determine whether the Linux FD driver does the
CS> same thing. It's academic for me at this point as I no longer have a
CS> 360K-only drive, but it's nice to know what's going on.
I'm in that same boat, my linux box has only a 1.44 3.5" floppy, and of
course an ls120 which can also do those.
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 25 Apr 2000 21:40:52 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOT HD
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Jerry Peters;
JP> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> That was from an old power supply. It draws 0.4A (12V*0.4A=4.8W), I
>> believe that equal amount of heat is generated from the power supply as
>> well. So 4.8W from the fan and 4.8W from the power supply. The fan is
>> very noisy too, that's the main reason I disconnected it.
JP> Your calculation iw just plain wrong. First, most of the power is
JP> converted into mechanical motion, some amount is lost to resistance in
JP> the motor coils and switching circuits, but if it were all converted into
JP> heat, the fan would not rotate. Second, 4.8W from the power supply does
JP> not imply that the power supply disipates 4.8 watts. These are switching
JP> supplies, IIRC the heat output is not just a linear function of the ouput
JP> current.
With modern switchers, maybe 3/4ths of a watt in the psu, certainly not
more. And a 400 ma fan is truely a hog these days.
[...]
Cheers, Gene
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Date: 25 Apr 2000 21:33:1 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Floppy format problem.
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to David C.;
Lemme do some creative snipping here...
>>> Overall, trying to make a 360k diskette in a 1.2 megger will have to
>>> deal with the fact that its probably can only be read in that same
>>> drive, no real 360k drive, with its wider heads, would ever give you
>>> an error free read.
>>>
>>> Did I mention its a bad idea? The only snowballs chance of making it
>>> work is if you started with a bulk erased diskette, one erased by one
>>> of those $30 tape erasers they sell at radio shack. You could
>>> probably put that disk in a real 360k drive and read it, but if you
>>> ever wrote to it, and then tried to re-write that same area again in
>>> the QD drive, at least that file would be trashed forever.
>>
>> It turns out that using fd0h360 (as suggested by David C) instead
>> of fd0d360 works, and if I then use:
>> mkfs -t msdos /dev/fd0h360
>> I get a diskette which is compatible with DOS/Win 98.
If its bulk erased first I'd think...
>> What you've dscribed out would have merit were it not for the fact
>> that the usual 1.2 Meg drives are designed to at least read 360K
>> double density floppies, and I was able to successfully format one
>> under DOS/Win 98 (dual boot on the same box). The drives change speed
>> and data rate depending on the density.
>>
>> What is undoubtedly true is that this diskette will be unreadable in a
>> standard 360K double density drive with its wider heads. I think my
>> 10 year-old drive, a Teac FD55GFR-142, had some sort of dual heads
Humm, lemme see if I have any data on the FGR-142, I've got quite a
binder full of teac stuffs on the top shelf. Ooops, darn, I don't spot
it immediately, it may have gone to the basement with another computer I
unplugged the last time about a year ago. I know I have data on the F
and on the G, but wasn't aware they ever made what sounds like a
composite of the two. Dual heads? Interesting.
>> which allowed writing either wide or narrow tracks, but I can't find
>> the specs for it on Teac's website. (I'm pretty sure I used 360K
>> floppies to move files back and forth between one of the antiques I
>> used to play with and the PC with the Teac -142.) The specs for the
>> new one, FD55GFR-7193, don't mention this. I trashed my last antique
>> with a double density 5.25" drive about 5 years ago so can't check it
>> out.
I know the feeling well except mine are in the basement, and could be
brought back to life in less than an hour. But don't count the
excavation time in that hour please.
DC> If I remember correctly from my DOS days....
DC> A 360K disk in a 1.2M drive is written by double-writing the tracks.
DC> That is, the head writes two adjacent identical tracks for each track
DC> written by the software. This way, the result is wide enough for a 360K
DC> drive to read.
It might be a method to experiment with, but in terms of writing 2
identical adjacent tracks such that they look like one to the wider
head, is a once in a blue moon success story, and can't be any other
when you throw in the inevitable wibbles in the motor speed which would
cause severe phasing errors between the 2 tracks when applied out in the
real world. Those drives often had a bit of slippage in the disk
clamping, and such unwanted slippage is the primary reason the 3.5"
drives pin drive the disk. At least the disks speed wibbles are
synchronized when the disk is re-inserted, so the only thing that
changes is the physical wavelength of the magnetic domain on the media.
DC> The effect isn't perfect, however, and some 360K drives do have problems
DC> reading disks that are formatted in 1.2M drives, but it works most of
DC> the time. (I never had a problem with 360K drives reading disks
DC> formatted in my Teac 1.2M drive, but I have had problems with 360K disks
DC> formatted in an old IBM PC/AT.)
DC> I'm not sure if all this is done by the drive and controller (after
DC> receiving some kind of mode-setting command) or by software, though. I
DC> suspect there's a strong hardware component to this, since every BIOS
DC> chip made (since the introduction of 1.2M drives) has had support for
DC> this mode.
Yes, its hardware. IIRC the use of lines that were (on other platforms)
used for disk ready lines became sufficiently cross-dressed to be used
as hardware control switches. The one impediment to swapping drives
around after the plug styles are compensated for.
DC> As for spindle speed and data rate, the drives were designed for this
DC> capability. The software has merely to program the controller and drive
DC> through well-known I/O ports.
Later drives were spindle speed and write currant controlled. The data
rate is the exclusive domain of the FDC chip itself. All of the ones
I've had from the old Mitsubishi 4853 (what a piece if crap that was) on
up were all configured via flea jumpers only. The 4853 was so poorly
shielded it couldn't run in the same room with a color monitor.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Subject: Re: Can the root users see any user's password ?? where ?
Date: 26 Apr 2000 03:54:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Benson Lei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> nothing but a subject
Root can read any file, but system passwords are crypted, so root can only
see the crypted passwords. Whether they are in /etc/passwd or somewhere
else depends upon the level of security (shadows passwords, etc.).
Although, root may not know your password unless you listed it somewhere
when signing up for the account, if someone forgets their password,
root could always delete a password or change it to something else.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trevor Hemsley)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: lilo without 1024 cyl. limit
Date: 26 Apr 2000 04:00:59 GMT
On Wed, 26 Apr 2000 03:17:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Brock) wrote:
> Actually I guess it's pretty clear from the document that the EDD is
> supposed to be suitable for SCSI; my main concern is whether any of the
> SCSI vendors are actually going to *do* anything about it. At what
> point does that 7.8GB SCSI booting limit become so uncomfortable for
> the vendors that they feel compelled to address it. And even if it's
> technically feasible, adding a new interface to SCSI seems like a
> pretty big step politically.
There's an option in the Adaptec 2940UW BIOS to enable INT 13
Extensions which should be the implementation of what you're looking
for here. It's been there since at least BIOS 1.25 - so at least 3 or
4 years. If an o/s were to implement support for INT 13 Extensions
then you'd be able to boot from outside the 8GB limit.
> I use OS/2, and OS/2 has a fairly long list of SCSI cards that it
> supports. There is no such list for EIDE, and no need for one, because
> there is only *one* EIDE interface, so you only need one EIDE driver
> per operating system. This certainly seems preferable to the SCSI
> situation! It seems to me that if all the vendors got together and
> added the EDD interface to their cards then SCSI would have the same
> kind of unity that EIDE has now.
Actually if you look at the list of IDE controllers supported by the
DANIS506.ADD driver you'll see that there is more than one IDE
interface, and the IBM supplied drivers don't fully support most of
them - only the Intel ones.
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Trevor Hemsley, Brighton, UK.
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From: EBE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:05:29 +1000
Have a look at this page, it may be useful.
http://website.lineone.net/~a.rix/rh6-solo9150.html
I have a Gateway 9150XL that I put RH6.0 on last year.
The biggest trick was to install XFree86 using the SVGA driver and
making it boot to text mode not grahpics. Then I found a xf86config
file that a kind person (I forget who) made available on the net. That
file and the article that referenced it, proved to be the answer to all
my problems.
The above reference is not the one I used but looks just as good.
Good luck!
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> Nope. We have it running on several Gateway Solos here.
>
> Well, scratch that. We had to install a version that supported the
> NeoMagic chipset. But aside from that, no worries.
>
> --J
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Has anyone encountered any abnormal difficulties setting up Linux on the
> : above Gateway notebook model, particularly with the XF86Config setup?
>
> : Jim
> : remove "attack" for email
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From: EBE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.gateway2000,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Gateway Solo 9300CL and Linux?
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2000 14:11:43 +1000
Further to previous posting, check out
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> Nope. We have it running on several Gateway Solos here.
>
> Well, scratch that. We had to install a version that supported the
> NeoMagic chipset. But aside from that, no worries.
>
> --J
>
> In comp.os.linux.setup Jim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Has anyone encountered any abnormal difficulties setting up Linux on the
> : above Gateway notebook model, particularly with the XF86Config setup?
>
> : Jim
> : remove "attack" for email
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