Linux-Setup Digest #498, Volume #20 Thu, 25 Jan 01 07:13:04 EST
Contents:
dualboot RH and Win2000 from HDD ("Tom")
Re: >64M RAM chestnut - ? new twist (moonie;))
Re: Best modem for linx? (Graham Wilson)
Display power management on a laptop (Martin Shepherd)
Re: RAID 1 (moonie;))
graphic card installation problem ("Amir Kunst")
setting up linux for @home att network ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support (moonie;))
Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370? (moonie;))
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (D Karels)
setting ulimit for non-interactive user (J. Ganjs)
Re: kernel bloody 2.4!! ("Adam Short")
Question about SCSI Symantec scanner card... (Guy Parry)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization? (Martin Gregorie)
Re: dualboot RH and Win2000 from HDD (Eric)
Re: partition sector mess (Eric)
Re: bootsect.lnx doesn't work (Eric)
Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0 (Eric)
MESH 850 (UK) OK for Linux? (Chris Parker)
Resolution on a laptop (Jesper Petersen)
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From: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dualboot RH and Win2000 from HDD
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:57:14 +0800
Reply-To: "Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I am a newbie for Linux. I install win2k and Redhat7.0 on the same hard
disk.
There are three partitions for my Redhat:
/hdc3(/);
/hdc5(urs);
/hdc3(swap);
and I install LILO in /hdc3, which is 2400 MB and locates from 8.5 GB to
10.7 GB of my hard disk; My first and second partitions are C: and D:, they
are 3.84 GB and 4.87 GB respectively. Can I boot my Redhat from hard disk?
How can I do?
Any information will be grateful, for I really don't what to boot from
floppy.
Regards!
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: >64M RAM chestnut - ? new twist
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 03:52:25 -0500
On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, David wrote:
>I know this is an old question. No doubt I am making a simple mistake
>but I have done my best with web search results.
>
>Basic situation same as for old postings - BIOS correctly reports 128M
>RAM, free reports only ~64M under the word "total". However,
>(a) I am using kernel 2.2.16-22 (RH7) which ? is not supposed to require
>editing of lilo.conf
>(b) I have edited lilo.conf with
> append="mem=128M"
>under the label=linux line with no effect.
>
>Have I mucked up the syntax?
>Am I looking at the right number with free?
>
>If this is an often-answered question I apologise but the only remedy I
>could find was the above, and only with older kernels.
>
>David
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/ramdetect.html
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
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From: Graham Wilson <graham01~[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best modem for linx?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:54:50 -0800
Tina Carter wrote:
>
> Anyone can give me name of good linux modem ? "external ones" and do they
> come with documents as well?
>
> Thanks.....
I use a USR Sportster fax/data modem 56k. It's an ISA device with
jumpers on it so you can configure the actual card to be
non-Plug-'n-Pray. I found all the documentation I needed at the USR
website. If you follow the instructions for Win3.1, everything goes
well.
I think any external modem should work, too. G.
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From: Martin Shepherd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Display power management on a laptop
Date: 25 Jan 2001 01:04:50 -0800
Having managed to get the gnome screensaver to switch off my screen
after a few minutes of activity, I found myself without any way to
switch it back on without power cycling the whole laptop. I had hoped
that hitting keyboard keys would do the trick, since it was supposedly
only the screen that was off, not the keyboard/CPU.
I'm using a Sony Viao PCG-Z505LS. In general, how does one get the
darn thing out of a suspend state? I have tried momentarily sliding
the power switch, but this doesn't seem to do anything.
Martin Shepherd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: RAID 1
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:04:25 -0500
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, H.A.J. van Niekerk wrote:
>Hi,
>
>After a fatal harddiskcrash 3 days ago, I reinstalled RH 6.2. All is
>working fine again, but I'd like to avoid this in the future by creating
>a RAID 1 configuration. However, I can't find a HOWTO on this subject.
>Can somebody help me out please??
>
>Thanks,
>
>Huub
Lots of howto's at www.linuxdoc.org, it DOES have one on RAID! RAID is farily
easy to do in Linux. linuxdoc should answer all of your questions.
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Amir Kunst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: graphic card installation problem
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:07:57 +0200
Hi,
I can't find the graphic card I have on my machine it's a Intel 810 chipset
and also I have no clue on how to install it when I get it.
Also the generic driver doesn't work when I try to run the 'xinit' the error
I get is: unexpected signal 2.
I try to change the graphical adapter using Xconfigurator I receive an error
'Server doesn't exist, can't continue try to use
../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 (I get this message on any driver I try to
use).
Please Help
Amir
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setting up linux for @home att network
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:08:12 GMT
from what I understand , @home att cable requires a special name to be
given to the computer - which allows it to contact @home's dhcp server
and get the IP address
On Linux, how
a) do I configure the name for the machine
b) how do I configure it to act as a dhcp client
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: State of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 support
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:23:14 -0500
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Rich Carreiro wrote:
>What is the state (both in 2.2.18 and 2.4.x) of UDMA/66 and UDMA/100
>support, both in terms of integrated motherboard controllers and
>add-on cards (if there is any difference)? I've not been in the
>market for new iron in over 5 years, so I've gotten a bit behind on
>exactly what Linux is supporting these days. I have gone to
>www.linux-ide.org, but didn't find that terribly enlightening - lots
>of utilities and patches, but not much clear documentation on what
>*is* supported.
>
>And if UDMA/66 and UDMA/100 are not supported, does that mean the
>controllers just won't run at those speeds (but will still do
>UDMA/33)? Or does it mean Linux won't even see those controllers?
>
>I'm starting to see more machines/motherboards boasting about
>UDMA/100 support and I want to make sure I don't buy something
>that Linux won't work with.
>
>Thanks!
>--
>Rich Carreiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have been using ATA/66 for over a year with a vt686 controller chip (VIA).
Linux had support for ATA/100 before Windows! Most of the newer distributions
shouldn't have much trouble with ATA/66 or ATA/100 (do some research on the
chipset you are interested in though, to see if there are any problems)
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: moonie;) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Can I use RAID 0 for HPT370?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 04:25:46 -0500
On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Jason Ng wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I would like to know if I can use RAID 0 for my machine in Linux.
>My controller is HPT370. When I boot Linux Mandrake 7.2 from CD ROM, it does
>detect my chipset but it fails to detect my Windows 2000 partition which is
>using RAID 0.
>Can anyone kindly help me solve the problem?
>Thanks.
>
>Regards,
>Jason
The reason for this is that the HPT370 uses Software RAID, the software is in
Windows, therefore Linux isn't using it. You can set up RAID (for Linux
partitions) on any drives that Linux can see. I don't believe it is going to
be possible to see the Windows RAID partitions because (I have no doubt) the
windows software does things differently than the Linux software (superblock
kind of thing).
--
moonie ;)
Registered Linux User #175104
(Registered at: http://counter.li.org)
KDE2
Kernel 2.4.0-test5
XFree86 4.0 Nvidia .94 drivers
RAID 0 Striped
Test-Pilots-R-Us ;)
ICQ #83003404
AIM mooniesdl3
MSN [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: D Karels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:30:21 +0100
Eric,
I've read the information about the /boot should be entirely below cyl. 1024.
But this was not my problem at that time. The problem was that DiskDruid would
not create the Linux Native partition. While fdisk does (problem solved).
I'm not all that familiour with lilo and stuff. But it seems that LILO versions
are available which can boot from cylinders 1024+. Otherwise I will try to
substitute my windows 2000 multi boot by lilo, which should also be possible.
i.e.: install LILO on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hdb6.
As I said, I'm not an expert with this and the part about the NTFS partitions is
something I read somewhere. And as I have had problems installing LILO before,
which was also in combination with (maybe not caused by) NTFS partitions, it
seemed reasonable to me that it had something to do with that. Okay, so I was
wrong!!!
Thanks for the info!!
Dennis.
Eric wrote:
>
> > Though I already managed to install RedHat Linux 6.2 on the fourth + fifth
> > partition of my secondairy harddisk. It just seems that DiskDruid does not allow
> > the creation of a NATIVE partition in the situation I'm having (BUG??), but
> > fdisk has no problem with it what so ever. Also, instead of the 'KDE'
> > installation method I used the previous times, this time I used the custom
> > installation method, because I did not want LILO to install on the MBR, but on
> > the partition I'm installing LINUX to.
> > Now Linux is working fine. The only problem I now have, is that I can only boot
> > into linux using a floppy disk. I did copy the LILO bootsector and added it to
> > windows 2000 boot loader, but all that will happen is the letters 'LI' appear in
> > the up left corner of the screen and that's it.
> > I do know the solution to this problem, but that solution is another problem.
> > This problem is caused by the fact that I'm using NTFS on all my non-linux
> > partitions (including the active boot partition). This can be fixed by changing
> > the 'lineair' option to 'lba32' in the lilo.conf file. But when I start LILO
> > now, I get the error that /dev/hdb6 is not on the primairy disk and that the
> > sector number is over 1023. Does anybody know if this can be fixed by installing
> > lilo to another partition? Say the second partition on the primairy hard disk??
> >
>
> Read my previous posting better.
> NTFS has nothing to do with it.
>
> Eric
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Dennis Karels
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From: J. Ganjs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: setting ulimit for non-interactive user
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:22:03 +0100
Hello,
on a linux 2.2.16 system I want to limit the number of processes, a certain
user can run. With an interactive user, I could achieve this by running
"ulimit -u xxxx" in the users' .profile or .bashrc. But in this case, the user
is non-interactive and the processes I want to limit are spawned by an apache
webserver via suExec mechanism - no .profile / no .bashrc.
How can this be solved?
J. Ganjs
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From: "Adam Short" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel bloody 2.4!!
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:28:20 -0000
I'm using Grub to boot the kernel. I don't know if that makes any
difference.
Tore Haustveit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Adam Short wrote:
> >
> > I have posted this to other newsgroups to no effect. I've been told I
need
> > the kgcc package, which I downloaded last night. That didn't work. The
> > kernel compiled fine but wouldn't boot. I've also been told I need
glibc2.2
> > which has proven impossible to compile (at least for me), although I
have
> > found a solution to this I hope. I've also been told I need the latest
> > kernel utils, thats all very well too, but I've no idea when I'm
supposed to
> > install them. Can someone help a bewildered person like me upgrade his
> > system? I've been running linux for about 4 years now and this is the
> > nastiest upgrade I've ever come across.
> Are you using LILO or LOADLIN to boot the kernel? I had to use LILO to
> boot the
> 2.4 kernel. My 2.4 kernel bzImage is 1064400bytes, the 2.4-test12 kernel
> bzImage
> was 1023234bytes and booted fine with LOADLIN.
>
> -Tore
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From: Guy Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question about SCSI Symantec scanner card...
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:32:55 +1100
I have a Symantec SYM 53C416 SCSI scanner card, but during bootup
I get the following message:
Setting up ISA PNP devices: Board 1 has Identity 62 ff ff ff ff
61 41 89 4d: SLI4161 Serial No - 1[checksum 62]
Board 2 has Identity fd 0a 51 2a cf 2b 00 8c 0e: CTL 002b Serial
No 173091535 [checksum fd]
/etc/isapnp.conf: 49 -- Fatal -IO range check attempted while
device activated
/etc/isapnp.conf: 49 -- Fatal -Error occurred executing request
'<IORESCHECK>' --- further action aborted
I have 2 PNP cards. Board 2 is a 16-bit Sound Blaster. Although
I couldn't play the test sound during installation my sounds all work
ok, so I'm guessing this message is about the SCSI card(?)
I recompiled my kernel to add generic SCSI support and tried
again with my scanner switched on, but still the same message. Could
it be something simple in isapnp.conf? I notice that 'device supports
I/O range check register' is commented out...
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie)
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:46:19 GMT
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:21:27 GMT, Mike Loiterman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes that is correct...3c9059.o
>
In that case its possible that linux-conf has set up entries in
conf.modules that 3c9059.o cannot read.
In my setup (RH6.2 with 3c509.o) this was the case. Linux-conf added
two lines to conf.modules. both starting with 'alias eth0'. The
solution (from RH support) was to edit the 'alias eth0' prefix off the
second line (leaving something looking like 'options blah blah') and
then to append that to the first line. The vi 'J' command does exactly
the right thing here.
This fixed the problem for me, but YMMV.
>In article <3a6ee7bf.16580829@news>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Gregorie) wrote:
>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 04:33:35 GMT, Mike Loiterman
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Doesn't anyone know how to fix this problem?!
>> >
>> What driver is shown in the eth0 section of the linuxconf display?
>>
>> I use a 3C509B and the driver is named 3c509.o, so I'd expect
>> something like 3c905.o for your card.
>>
>> >In article <94ke2d$45c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > Mike Loiterman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> I THINK i have done this. Remind me once more how do it. I did it
>> >> through the kernelconfg untility. Selected eth0 and than 3509.
>> >>
>> >> In article <g9ib6.25731$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> >> "Jet Set Willy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> > "Mike Loiterman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>> >> > news:94i76u$8i0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >> > > I'm trying to get Linux to recognize my 3com 3905b NIC, but
>when I
>> >> try
>> >> > > to restart the network it says Briging up interface lo: ok
>> >Bringing
>> >> up
>> >> > > interface eth0: Delaying eth0 initoialization [FAILED]. What
>does
>> >> this
>> >> > > mean?
>> >> >
>> >> > Warning - could be a stupid newbie answer !
>> >> >
>> >> > I used to get this with my Mandrake 7.1 machine (same NIC)
>> >> > when you I went to netconf (I think) the system did not seem to
>> >> > recognise that it was a 3C509 card - once I told it to use that
>> >> > module all was well
>> >> >
>> >> > JSW
>> >> >
>> >> >
>> >>
>> >> Sent via Deja.com
>> >> http://www.deja.com/
>> >>
>> >
>> >
>> >Sent via Deja.com
>> >http://www.deja.com/
>>
>> --
>> gregorie | Martin Gregorie
>> @logica | Logica Ltd
>> com | +44 020 76379111
>>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com
>http://www.deja.com/
--
gregorie | Martin Gregorie
@logica | Logica Ltd
com | +44 020 76379111
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dualboot RH and Win2000 from HDD
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:08:35 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tom wrote:
>
> I am a newbie for Linux. I install win2k and Redhat7.0 on the same hard
> disk.
> There are three partitions for my Redhat:
> /hdc3(/);
> /hdc5(urs);
> /hdc3(swap);
very unlikely.
if both / and swap are on hdc3, your system wont work for a very long
time
> and I install LILO in /hdc3, which is 2400 MB and locates from 8.5 GB to
> 10.7 GB of my hard disk; My first and second partitions are C: and D:, they
> are 3.84 GB and 4.87 GB respectively. Can I boot my Redhat from hard disk?
> How can I do?
read the NTloader+linux howto.
Don't forget to add the lba32 option to the lilo.conf file.
Alternatively you can put LILO in the MBR as your main bootloader.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: partition sector mess
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:15:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> newbie wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to figure out the best way to fix my mess-of-a partition
> > table. In the process of configuring my RH 6.2 box (30G drive) to
> > dual-boot with W95, I ended up with only 12G visible. I've included the
> > info that partition magic gave me after I checked what I ended up with.
> > Can I simply remove the partitions and start over,
>
Really messy output.
Try `fdisk -l /dev/hd[a-d]`
(If linux boots that is ofcourse)
>
> > or do I need to do a
> > low-level format on the disk?
>
> In general, you can NOT low-level format an IDE hard disk.
>
Perhaps not, but
`cp /dev/zero /dev/hdXXX`
Would be a very thorough cleaning-up
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bootsect.lnx doesn't work
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:16:45 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott Zhang wrote:
>
> I installed RH7.0 with windows2000. The Lilo is available at /hdc3, in order
> to dual boot, I do:
> #dd if=/dev/hdc3/ of=/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> #cp /bootsect.lnx /dos /**/dos is a FAT partiton that shared by windows and
> linux**/
> then, in windos2000 I copy bootsect.lnx to C: and add a line at the end of
> the boot file fo win2k---boot.ini as following:
> c:\bootsect.lnx="linux"
> After this I reboot my pc, there is a message asking me choose OS, I choose
> linux and ENTER, unfortunately, there is nothing happening but the cursor
> stays at the corner of screen. What's wrong with this?
> I try to open bootsect.lnx using MS-DOS using "type bootsect.lnx", there is
> nothing in it but several lines of "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"?!
>
Then aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
you obviously haven't got the LILO code.
rerun `/sbin/lilo -v`
And try again
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux 6.2 with Windows 2000/NT 4.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:24:16 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
D Karels wrote:
>
> Eric,
>
> I've read the information about the /boot should be entirely below cyl. 1024.
> But this was not my problem at that time. The problem was that DiskDruid would
> not create the Linux Native partition.
Yes it was exactly your problem,
where do you think /boot is?
correct, in the / (root) partition. This is the one you keep calling
"the Linux Native partition"
> While fdisk does (problem solved).
fdisk doesn't *care*
entirely different issue
> I'm not all that familiour with lilo and stuff. But it seems that LILO versions
very true, but DiskDruid is not aware of that!
> are available which can boot from cylinders 1024+. Otherwise I will try to
> substitute my windows 2000 multi boot by lilo, which should also be possible.
> i.e.: install LILO on /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hdb6.
Wouldn't do that. You can put in the MBR (/dev/hda) but don't touch
hda1.
The NT bootcode is there (I suspect, I'm no NT guru).
> As I said, I'm not an expert with this and the part about the NTFS partitions is
> something I read somewhere. And as I have had problems installing LILO before,
> which was also in combination with (maybe not caused by) NTFS partitions, it
> seemed reasonable to me that it had something to do with that. Okay, so I was
> wrong!!!
Don't be offended please.
Eric
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From: Chris Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MESH 850 (UK) OK for Linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:39:14 +0000
The March 2001 issue of Personal Computer World (UK magazine) has a
great review of the MESH 850. The spec is:
AMD Duron @ 850 MHz
128 MB SDRAM
30 GB HD
17" Philips FST monitor
32 MB nVIDIA GeForce2 MX graphics card
16x DVD-ROM
Creative Labs Soundblaster PCI 128
56k modem
all for �856 inc. VAT.
There are also options for an AMD Athlon 900 MHz processor and a CD-RW.
Would this be a suitable machine to install Linux on?
--
Chris
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From: Jesper Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resolution on a laptop
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:47:49 GMT
Hello
During my install of Storm Linux 2000 on my laptop I chose a display
resolution, my display works with 1024*768 but when I chose that the
displaytest made a too large picture, that didn't fit the screen. Does anybody
know why? It worked fine as I chose a smaller resolution.
Thanks
Jesper
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