Linux-Misc Digest #433, Volume #24 Thu, 11 May 00 02:13:03 EDT
Contents:
Re: AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux? ("Jason Baker")
Re: mkisofs syntax question (JEDIDIAH)
Re: device conflict ("David ..")
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Christopher Browne)
ASUS Notebook and SCSI PCMCIA Adaptec APA 1460B Controller. (Antonio Chiarottino)
Re: lilo/lilo.con and lba32 command ("David St.Clair")
Re: ATI 128 Rage Expert 99 ("David St.Clair")
Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk (Salvador Peralta)
Re: /dev (Dances With Crows)
restricting access (Hugo Bouckaert)
Re: device conflict ("Lonni J. Friedman")
Re: Can a-term/xterm/rxvt use .ttf fonts? (Tomalak)
error on fd0 after kernel compile (Allen Unrau)
Re: error on fd0 after kernel compile (Allen Unrau)
advice on dualboot with win98 ("Confused")
UPS advise?? ("Matt")
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From: "Jason Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD/Intel... what's faster on Linux?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 14:12:24 +1000
Ok.
Taking this thought a little further for a PIIIe the FSB is 133MHz.
So I need a Motherboard that supports this speed plus 133MHz RAM (PC133).
The Athlon is a 200MHz FSB so how do you best take advantage of this higher
FSB?
-Do you need DDR RAM (orDDRAM?? whatever the acronym is) at 100MHz to
use the 200MHz FSB?
-Do you use ordinary (read PC100) ram and have two banks of it and write
half the word
to each bank in the same manner as one of the RAID configurations?
(obviously, something the motherboard handles
-Is there a special way that the Athlon M/B's are configured different
to Pentium M/B's?
-Is there a M/B that best suits Dual Athlon CPU's and takes advantage of
the higher FSB speed?
-Is the secondary cache in the Athlon on die and running at the fully
clock speed?
To keep this relevant to the linux misc newsgroup, the reason I ask is that
I would like to setup a Linux server
to facilitate several dumb terminals (converted PC's) as per the Linux
terminal server project. I plan on using
a 100Mbit network, and would like each terminal to use KDE. Since KDE would
most likely (from what I've read)
be the most taxing (on both network and Server) UI I want to make sure I get
the best server (bang for buck)
that I can. From what I know the Athlon gives the best performance for the
price. But PIIIe's seems to be faster
if you can blanketly says that. Since I think a major factor of the speed of
a PC is the FSB (and HDD) the Athlon
seems to have an advantage.
If I have made any technical mistakes please tell me.
Jason
Torsten Evers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi !
>
> David Efflandt wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 May 2000 22:34:42 +0200, Sebastian Breier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > >Hi!
> > >I have a discussion here with a friend...
> > >I say AMD has the faster processors, he says Intel has the faster
> > >processors.
> Depends on which processor familiy we are talking about, as david stated
> already and of course of which function of the processor we are talking
> (integer calculations, memory access, floating point or what ?).
>
> > >Now we know that the Intel support in Linux is much better than AMD's,
> > >but...
> Hu ? I don't know such a general statement and I wouldn't sign it.
>
> > >Compared on a Linux Machine, what would be better?
> > >AMD or Intel processor? (Same clockspeed, and standard RAM [that
> > >means, no Rimm for Intel, because that would give the Intel chip an
> > >unfair advantage and would be much more expensive]).
> > You are both right, or both wrong, depending upon how you look at it.
The
> > older AMD K6 processors did not have an efficient fpu. For example when
I
> > upgraded from P200 MMX (P180@66MHz) to Evergreen AMD K6-2/400, fpu
> > calculations only improved 15%. A mobile PIII 500 is twice as fast, but
> > has faster RAM, video and hd. On the other hand I do not know how the
> > Athlons compare with their psudo 200 MHz front side bus.
> Oh, it isn't pseudo. It depends on the point of view. When looking at
> the measurable speed (e.g. with an oscilloscope), it would be 100 Mhz.
> It would be better if AMD would call it 100 Mhz FSB DDR (double data
> rate) or if they like it better FSB 2x :-)
>
> When looking at the speed on the processor bus itself ( I mean on the
> die itself ), the 200 Mhz are absolutely correct.
>
> But, answering the original question: The AMD Athlon processor is in
> most disciplines faster than the Pentium III due to it's faster FPU more
> parallel design etc. Compared with the Pentium IIIe (!! note the
> difference !!) it is less easy to say which one is quicker. Looking at
> office benchmarks the Athlon is faster, looking at game benchmarks, the
> PIIIe is faster. But all these differnces are very small compared to the
> difference in the price for the two competitors.
>
> Bye,
> Torsten
>
>
> --
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> EBH-interdata GbR Fax : ++49-39322-9016
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> D-39590 Tangermuende
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Subject: Re: mkisofs syntax question
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:13:18 GMT
On 10 May 2000 21:03:31 EDT, Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 11 May 2000 00:12:13 GMT, JEDIDIAH
><<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>> I would like to invoke mkisofs in a manner similar to:
>>
>>mkisofs -options -o somefile.img /usr/local/foo /usr/local/bar
>>
>> such that the results would be equivalent to:
>>
>>mkisofs -options -o somefile.img /tmp/staging_area
>>
>> where /tmp/staging_area contains:
>>
>> @foo -> /usr/local/foo
>> @bar -> /usr/local/bar.
>>
>> The syntax I am currently using probes all of the directories
>> given on the commandline and 'flattens' out everything such
>> that every directory in /usr/local/foo and /usr/local/bar are
>> in the root of the iso filesystem.
>
>mkisofs -options -o crud.iso /foo/=/usr/local/foo/ /bar/=/usr/local/bar/
It worked like a charm. Thanks.
[deletia]
--
In what language does 'open' mean 'execute the evil contents of' |||
a document? --Les Mikesell / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: device conflict
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 23:13:52 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When trying to install a modem driver, I get Device or resource busy. How
> can I find out what is conflicting?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
cat /proc/ioports
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/devices
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:32:32 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
>What do you know about Scientology, Chris?
Nothing that particularly fits this newsgroup.
Do you represent Scientology in some manner? Your approach of subtly
implicating that the German government has no right to make any dictums,
based on their "intolerance," is a most _wonderful_ way of causing people
to associate the present government with that at the time of WWII without
ever actually mentioning any of the "key words" that would cause anyone
to forcibly conclude a "Godwinning" (or "Godlosing") of the thread.
You merely _implied_ some association between the present German
government and the Nazis, as opposed to coming out and saying that
anti-Scientology legislation indicates that they _are_ Nazis.
I'm happy to see the thread end, and don't care to "win" any argument
here, so I'll call a spade a spade; you did a _good_ job of implying
the current government to be just another fascist government without
actually coming out and saying it.
Point: Salvador Peralta.
>My PoV is that it world government, especially the German government,
>should be tolerant of diversity. What I know of Scientology deals less
>with religion and religiosity than it does with organizational
>principles.
>
>Government should never actively promote intolerance
Never?
Ah. So governments should not promote intolerance towards child
molestation? They should be tolerant towards wife beating?
I think not... It is quite clear that there _are_ things that governments
should be _quite_ intolerant about.
It seems reasonable for governments to be intolerant about those that
commit serious crimes. That's pretty much what "prosecution" is about,
namely an indication that the government won't tolerate the crime.
>Christopher Browne wrote:
>>
>> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
>> >Unfortunately, the article had nothing to do with m$ being a security
>> >risk from the software standpoint and everything to do with m$
>> >incorporating some of scientology's philosophies into their corporate
>> >model. The german government has already given us enough intolerance
>> >for the next 2 centuries, IMHO. Let's not applaud them for giving us
>> >more.
>>
>> Unfortunately, anything I can see of Scientology's behaviour seems to
>> me to be Rather Frightening.
>>
>> It is not at all obvious that being unwilling to tolerate Scientology
>> connections represents a move towards evil.
--
Rules of the Evil Overlord #155. "If I know of any heroes in the land,
I will not under any circumstance kill their mentors, teachers, and/or
best friends." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
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From: Antonio Chiarottino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS Notebook and SCSI PCMCIA Adaptec APA 1460B Controller.
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 04:35:36 GMT
I am going to by an ASUS L7251V Notebook, and since I will need a SCSI
controller for external devices, the suggestion they give me for that is
the Adaptec APA 1460B as PCMCIA SCSI Controller.
Anybody knows if it is supported by the Linux Kernel, and in case which
is the appropriate kernel to use? I intend to install Slackware 7.0.
Thank you in advance.
Antonio
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From: "David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo/lilo.con and lba32 command
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:23:37 -0400
You don't need the "lba32" command if you have the newest version. Just
type "lilo -L" and it will load above the 1024 cylinder level.
michel wrote:
> Anybody know Where we may put the "lba32" command line in lilo.conf to
> recognize large Hard drive ?
>
> Thanks
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From: "David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI 128 Rage Expert 99
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:25:41 -0400
The configuration program that comes with XFree 4.0 doesn't configure the
card correctly. You must manually edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config
Change "vga" to "r128"
David St.Clair
Mariusz Pagowski wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having problem starting x with ATI 128 Rage Expert 99
> 32mb, AGP card (RH6.1, Optiquest q95).
> I tried both xfree86.3.3.6 and 4.0.
> I attach the log fro 4.0. For 3.3.6 message reads
> execve fails for /usr/X11R6/bin/X (errno2).
> xf86config fails on the X -probeonly.
> Thanks for any suggestions/help.
> Mariusz
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Name: XFree86.0.log
> XFree86.0.log Type: Plain Text (TEXT/PLAIN)
> Encoding: BASE64
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From: Salvador Peralta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: German Govt says Microsoft a security risk
Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 21:52:39 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I don't represent Scientology. You called it frightening, and I am
asking what you know about it. As for German government, I believe that
they are promoting intolerance in this stance. Their position on M$ has
nothing to do with the product, and everything to do with paranoid
intolerance of an alternative world view. Given the history of the
country, that is one government that I do not like seeing actively
promoting intolerance.
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
> >What do you know about Scientology, Chris?
>
> Nothing that particularly fits this newsgroup.
>
> Do you represent Scientology in some manner? Your approach of subtly
> implicating that the German government has no right to make any dictums,
> based on their "intolerance," is a most _wonderful_ way of causing people
> to associate the present government with that at the time of WWII without
> ever actually mentioning any of the "key words" that would cause anyone
> to forcibly conclude a "Godwinning" (or "Godlosing") of the thread.
>
> You merely _implied_ some association between the present German
> government and the Nazis, as opposed to coming out and saying that
> anti-Scientology legislation indicates that they _are_ Nazis.
>
> I'm happy to see the thread end, and don't care to "win" any argument
> here, so I'll call a spade a spade; you did a _good_ job of implying
> the current government to be just another fascist government without
> actually coming out and saying it.
>
> Point: Salvador Peralta.
>
> >My PoV is that it world government, especially the German government,
> >should be tolerant of diversity. What I know of Scientology deals less
> >with religion and religiosity than it does with organizational
> >principles.
> >
> >Government should never actively promote intolerance
>
> Never?
>
> Ah. So governments should not promote intolerance towards child
> molestation? They should be tolerant towards wife beating?
>
> I think not... It is quite clear that there _are_ things that governments
> should be _quite_ intolerant about.
>
> It seems reasonable for governments to be intolerant about those that
> commit serious crimes. That's pretty much what "prosecution" is about,
> namely an indication that the government won't tolerate the crime.
>
> >Christopher Browne wrote:
> >>
> >> Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Salvador Peralta would say:
> >> >Unfortunately, the article had nothing to do with m$ being a security
> >> >risk from the software standpoint and everything to do with m$
> >> >incorporating some of scientology's philosophies into their corporate
> >> >model. The german government has already given us enough intolerance
> >> >for the next 2 centuries, IMHO. Let's not applaud them for giving us
> >> >more.
> >>
> >> Unfortunately, anything I can see of Scientology's behaviour seems to
> >> me to be Rather Frightening.
> >>
> >> It is not at all obvious that being unwilling to tolerate Scientology
> >> connections represents a move towards evil.
> --
> Rules of the Evil Overlord #155. "If I know of any heroes in the land,
> I will not under any circumstance kill their mentors, teachers, and/or
> best friends." <http://www.eviloverlord.com/>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - - <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>
--
Salvador Peralta
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.la-online.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: /dev
Date: 11 May 2000 00:58:00 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 10 May 2000 21:30:04 -0500, Andrew M. Lewis
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>While this thread is still up, I could use some help: I deleted the three
>character devices for lp0, lp1, and lp2 from /dev. Big mistake. How do I go
>about re-creating them? Anyone know what is required in the mknod command?
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt
# mknod /dev/lp0 c 6 0
# mknod /dev/lp1 c 6 1
# mknod /dev/lp2 c 6 2
HTH, HAND, DDTA.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Hugo Bouckaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.list,linux.redhat.list
Subject: restricting access
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 12:56:53 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
Is there a way to restrict access to a particular machine based on the
ethernet card addresses of machines trying to make the connection? The
machine I want to limit access to runs linux RedHat 6.0.
I would like to limit access to this machine so only computers with
specified ethernet card addresses can make a connection. The limitation
should apply to ssh, telnet, rlogin, ftp and also pop3 and smtp mail
services.
As ssh, telnet and rlogin are overlapping services, I could disable
telnet and rlogin (on the machine I want to protect) and only develop
this system for ssh. That leaves such a system to be implemented for ssh
and mail services. Does anyone know how this can be implemented?
Any help (and if possible, pointers to detailed instruction pages) would
be most appreciated.
Thanks very much.
Hugo
--
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Tel: +(61 8) 9380 2878 / Fax: +(61 8) 9380 1089
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / Web: http://www.cs.uwa.edu.au/~hugo
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From: "Lonni J. Friedman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: device conflict
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 00:45:56 -0400
cat /proc/interrupts
modems don't use drivers in linux, so i have no clue what it is you're
trying to do.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When trying to install a modem driver, I get Device or resource busy. How
> can I find out what is conflicting?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomalak)
Subject: Re: Can a-term/xterm/rxvt use .ttf fonts?
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 05:22:58 GMT
You'll need to set up a true type font server first. Check out:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Font-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.3
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On Wed, 10 May 2000 12:03:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked:
: The question says it all, which one can use .ttf fonts with ease,
:i just d/loaded webfonts.exe and I want to play with the fonts there
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From: Allen Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,alt.os.mandrake
Subject: error on fd0 after kernel compile
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 05:53:04 GMT
Hello all...
I am experiencing an annoying problem after compiling and installing a
custom kernel. When I try to mount a floppy, I get the following error
message: "/dev/fd0 wrong major or minor version number". If I reboot and
pick my old kernel, it works fine. Obviously, something is wrong with
the new kernel. I have double-checked and ensured that I am compiling
support for floppy drives into the kernel. What else could it be?
thanks
allen
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From: Allen Unrau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general,alt.os.mandrake
Subject: Re: error on fd0 after kernel compile
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 05:54:59 GMT
Oops - forgot to mention that this is happening on both RedHat 6.2 and
Mandrake 7.
Allen Unrau wrote:
>
> Hello all...
>
> I am experiencing an annoying problem after compiling and installing a
> custom kernel. When I try to mount a floppy, I get the following error
> message: "/dev/fd0 wrong major or minor version number". If I reboot and
> pick my old kernel, it works fine. Obviously, something is wrong with
> the new kernel. I have double-checked and ensured that I am compiling
> support for floppy drives into the kernel. What else could it be?
>
> thanks
> allen
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From: "Confused" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: advice on dualboot with win98
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 06:05:10 GMT
sorry if this is the zillionith time this question has been asked. i've done
some prelim searches on the subject and haven't been able to find all the
answers/advice i need yet, anyways:
currently have a 13GB hd with a primary partition, (FAT32), with Win98se and
an extended partition with Win2k Pro, (50/50 split with 6GB each). got 64MB
ram and running a 233MMX, (don't laugh, it's cheap!). want to ditch the
Win2k, (just had to play with it for work), and start adventures with linux.
i think, (feel free to offer suggestions..pleaseee), i've narrowed my distro
choice to BigSlack.
questions...
can i just dump win2k, format extended partition and install bigslack there?
what are my options for dualboot instead of bootdisk?
is it possible to do all this without royally screwing good ole win98?
anything else i should consider?
thanx in advance
confused
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From: "Matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: UPS advise??
Date: Thu, 11 May 2000 06:09:25 GMT
I'm looking to get a small UPS for my home linux server. I don't want to
spend a lot of money, around $120 max would be the ideal. When I lose
power, which is rare, it is seldom for more than 5 minutes. I would only
need a unit that would keep the server running (without monitor or anything
else) for approx ten minutes until either the power came back or an
automatic shutdown could be performed. A unit with USB capability would be
nice. Does anyone have a UPS running with linux or any advise of what to
get? Smart UPS? Features supported?
Thanks
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