I have a hand-me-down SS20. I'm running SuSE 7.3. The machine is used as my home server (actually, more like just a router.) I'm willing to spend some money upgrading it so that it becomes a more acceptable workstation for when my family is using "my" i386 PC. But I'm dazed and confused about all the different choices and options and don't want to buy something that doesn't work or speed things up.
I'm told that xwindows runs slow because my SS20 has only 8 bit graphics and that I could increase the apparent speed by upgrading the frame buffer. I also read that perhaps I could "tweak" the system and maybe either get more video memory or reconfigure my RAM (128MB) and allocate some to video. The idea of getting a second CPU sounds neat, but I'm not really sure what speed CPU I currently have. I've already upgraded to a larger hard drive, though I'm not sure if I got one any faster than what I used to have. (Had to find that SCA scsi adapter.) Here is all the information I could find inspecting the insides: Graphics - besides some video built into the motherboard (which I don't use) is an add-in board with a LSI chip L1A7625 FS DAA, C49307.5 IQNNC9430. The board also has what appears to be 8 memory chips on it: HM538123J-8 B0005990. There is another chip labeled Bt458LPJ135 RAMDAC 505-9424 CPU - A sticker on the CPU module reads: 5012707000179 01Rev51 36-94. When the machine is turned on, I see the message 1 X 390Z55 Serial # 3638673 ROM Rev. 2.15 Memory - I have 128MB. There are 8 slots: J0201, J0202, J0203, J0301, J0302, J0303, J0304, and J0305. There are also two smaller slots, labeled J0407 and J0406, that are also labeled VSIMM support. There are RAM sticks with 18 chips on it in both J0201 and J0304. There are RAM sticks with 9 chips in J0301 and J0305. There are no sticks in the VSIMM support slots. Any thoughts, comments, or advice are greatly appreciated. Below are my dmesg boot-up messages: dmesg|more PROMLIB: Sun Boot Prom Version 3 Revision 2 Linux version 2.2.20 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 12 11:03:05 GMT 2001 ARCH: SUN4M TYPE: Sun4m SparcStation10/20 Ethernet address: 8:0:20:23:17:92 Boot time fixup v1.6. 4/Mar/98 Jakub Jelinek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). Patching kernel for srmmu[TI Viking/MXCC]/iommu [0]: v[f0000000,f1000000](1000000) p[00000000] [1]: v[f1000000,f2000000](1000000) p[02000000] [2]: v[f2000000,f3000000](1000000) p[0c000000] [3]: v[f3000000,f4000000](1000000) p[0e000000] [4]: v[f4000000,f5000000](1000000) p[10000000] [5]: v[f5000000,f6000000](1000000) p[12000000] [6]: v[f6000000,f7000000](1000000) p[1c000000] [7]: v[f7000000,f7f49000](f49000) p[1e000000] Found CPU 0 <node=ffd67150,mid=8> Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Power off control detected. Console: colour dummy device 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 49.86 BogoMIPS Memory: 125472k available (1292k kernel code, 3448k data, 128k init) [f0000000,f8000000] Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) Inode hash table entries: 16384 (128k), inode-max: 16292 VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX IOMMU: impl 1 vers 1 page table at f7e40000 of size 262144 bytes sbus0: Clock 20.0 MHz dma0: Revision 2 dma1: Revision 2 dma2: ESC Revision 1 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) IPVS: Connection hash table configured (size=4096, memory=32Kbytes) Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd v 1.5 Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x54 fb0: cgsix at e.20000000 TEC Rev 4 CPU sparc Rev b [TurboGX] Sparc Zilog8530 serial driver version 1.41.2.9 tty00 at 0xffede004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty01 at 0xffede000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty02 at 0xffedb004 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 tty03 at 0xffedb000 (irq = 44) is a Zilog8530 Sun TYPE 5 keyboard detected without keyclick pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver version 1.00 RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 120000K size loop: registered device at major 7 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12 raid5: measuring checksumming speed raid5: trying high-speed SPARC checksum routine SPARC : 61.722 MB/sec 8regs : 38.100 MB/sec 32regs : 38.100 MB/sec using fastest function: SPARC (61.722 MB/sec) esp0: IRQ 36 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) esp1: IRQ 53 SCSI ID 7 Clk 40MHz CCF=8 TOut 167 NCR53C9XF(espfast) ESP: Total of 2 ESP hosts found, 2 actually in use. scsi0 : Sparc ESP100A-FAST scsi1 : Sparc ESP236-FAST scsi : 2 hosts. Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-4XCS Rev: 1.01 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: WDIGTL Model: WDE4360 CLAR04 Rev: 1.21 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0 Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST34371N Rev: 0280 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 4, lun 0 scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 2 SCSI disks total. esp0: target 2 asynchronous Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11 esp0: target 3 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496884 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB] esp0: target 4 [period 100ns offset 15 10.00MHz FAST SCSI-II] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 8496960 [4148 MB] [4.1 GB] sunlance.c:v1.12 11/Mar/99 Miguel de Icaza ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: LANCE 08:00:20:23:17:92 eth0: using auto-carrier-detection. eth1: LANCE 08:00:20:23:17:92 Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sda5 sdb: sdb1 sdb2 sdb3 md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4104 autodetecting RAID arrays autorun ... ... autorun DONE. VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Adding Swap: 132920k swap-space (priority 42) eth0: Carrier Lost, trying TPE IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver eth1: no IPv6 routers present eth0: no IPv6 routers present eth1: no IPv6 routers present eth0: no IPv6 routers present Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED]) sunmouse: Successfully adjusted to 1200 baud. audio0 at 0xfd02c000 (irq 57) is DBRI(e)+CS4215(2) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
