Linux-Hardware Digest #672, Volume #10 Mon, 5 Jul 99 06:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP Laserjet series II (Chad Page)
Re: Info about AMD K6 sig11 bug ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (George Macdonald)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Bud (the original))
Re: Summary and Clarification (Celeron, what's the catch?) ("FM")
Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC (Mike Frisch)
Re: Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128 ("christiano presutti")
PS/2 model 56 and Linux ("ITTOLUM")
Re: Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128 ("Thorsten Heit")
LCD (Christelle Van-Den-Broucke)
Re: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mouse problems (Mohd H Misnan)
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From: Chad Page <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet series II
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.hp.hardware
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 08:17:11 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware James Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm having a problem printing more than 2 pages on my laserjet series II
> using Linux Redhat 5.2 and magicfilter.
> I end up with a half completed second page and get an "error 20" on the
> front panel.
> As I purchased the printer secondhand without manuals, could someone let
> me know what this error code means, and also, any information regarding
> success with linux, magicfilter and a laserjet.
Get 2MB more memory, or better yet a LaserJet 3 motherboard with a
2-4MB memory board, if you can get one (the printers _look_ different but the
engines are identical, and it is upgradable...) for better performance.
If neither of those is possible, set it to 150dpi, which oughta
fit in the standard 512K.
- Chad
> Regards,
> James
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Info about AMD K6 sig11 bug
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 03:03:06 -0500
Raymond wrote:
> Hello,
> Where can I find more information about the AMD K6 sig11 bug, which
> is mentioned by the Linux kernel stuff?
http://wwwatnf.atnf.csiro.au/people/rgooch/linux/docs/kernel-list-faq.html#s8-6
http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/
If you have a high-speed K6-III and you get signal 4 and/or signal 11 when
compiling the kernel, the problem is probably overheating. I had that, so
I replaced my CPU fan with a bigger one, mounted it with thermal grease,
put in a hard-drive cooling fan for the sole purpose of drawing more air
in through the front of my case, and the problem went away.
Another guy reported similar results here a couple of weeks ago. He had a
novel way of testing it before running to the parts store: he took the
case off his system, put a big room fan blowing directly onto the
motherboard, and tried again at compiling the kernel, and that showed him
that his was an overheating problem too.
See also http://www1.amd.com/products/cpg/thermals/. I couldn't find any
of the fans listed there short of mail order, so I just tried my luck with
a Vantec fan (no part number) that was the biggest fan/sink combo any of
the local stores had, and it has worked fine.
OTOH, if you have a really old K6, I think some of them had an incurable
problem and merited a factory exchange. (This is mentioned in one or more
of the links above.)
Good luck,
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 08:22:59 GMT
Nobody?:-) There are many smaller models in the ~4K equation size - many
of them quite difficult numerically.
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 20:36:29 -0400, "Suleyman Karabuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>George,
>
>The model was a MIP with 50 binary, 37725 linear variables with 26310 linear
>constraints. You may be right in that smaller models may run better on the
>Celeron but nobody solves smaller models anyway.
>
>> What size of LP model were you running on CPLEX? Was it LP or MIP? I'd
>> expect the performance comparison of CPLEX to vary with the size of the
>> model. Small models of say 2K or 3K equations, where the working set is
>> mainly in the 128KB L2 cache, should perform better on a Celeron, medium
>> sized models (up to 10K or so equations??) should show an advantage to the
>> PII but with very large models, which overflow the PII L2 cache, I'd
>expect
>> to see the comparison start to level out again.
>>
>> Rgds, George Macdonald
>>
>> "Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who,
>me??
>
>
Rgds, George Macdonald
"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bud (the original))
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 06:58:57 GMT
On Sun, 4 Jul 1999 22:40:21 -0700, "Dean Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:I saw in another post that someone claimed Abit is using a Promise
:controller chip to add two more IDE channels with UDMA/66 support. In
:other words, it apparently has two UDMA/33 and two UDMA/66 channels...
Yep, that's what it looks like on their webpage. Not bad!
Now, if we could only get a Super-7 MB like that.
:)
TO reply via e-mail, change the I in the address to an A.
CA antispam laws went into effect Jan 1, 1999.
Violators may be liable for both fines AND jail time for spamming this account.
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From: "FM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Summary and Clarification (Celeron, what's the catch?)
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:35:16 -0400
-> An overwhelming consensus against buying a computer from
college
I might or might not have much choice regarding this issue.
This college has strict computer-ownership requirements and
it will be a hassle to fit a new system into them. I have
recently checked Dell's website and the price was fairly
similar (Dell's definitely overpriced, at least as far as I
know). Although I'm sure I can get a better deal outside, I
might be eligible for financial aid if I buy one from
college. (I'm still waiting for the mail package which
should have all this relevent information including prices).
-> Celeron's performance (favors comparably against PII/PIII
for price/performance although trails slightly behind in
some areas)
I guess Celeron suffices for my purposes.
-> Get K6-3/K7/*
Well I don't think I really have any choice, if I buy one
from college. I'll look into K6-2/3 if I get to choose my
own system. I have neither the bucks nor the time for K7,
having already ordered a small laptop.
-> Celeron 300a has a shorter cache latency than a Celeron
466 (Chris Robato Yao)
Somehow I didn't quite understand how this is the case. So
for CPU's, 300@450 is fastr than genuine 450? Or is this a
particular case for Celerons?
Thanks a lot for all the replies.
Dan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homebuiltalt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.be.help,comp.sys.be.misc,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC
Date: 4 Jul 1999 15:01:45 GMT
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 09:05:40 GMT, Richard Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think he's suggesting that only SCSI CD-ROM drives were supported by
>OS/2 2.1, which might have been true.
Nope, I used a proprietary interfaced Panasonic CR-562b 2x CD-ROM
(connected to a SoundBlaster 16) in OS/2 2.1.
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: "christiano presutti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:29:46 +0200
ciao enrico,
speakinig in english for respect to other readers, actually basic english.
your card is not yet supported by xfreee86, so you need to use
framebuffering to use your card.
this mean your processor will make calculations instead of the card
processor: slower but you can run a reasonable resolution and colordepth.
for setting up your system, follow instruction at this address:
http://www.0wned.org/~cain/ragefury.htm
Check periodically:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/README3.html
or
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/
to look for a new release of xfree86.
christo.
Enrico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7lnk13$jmk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everybody
>
> I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
> Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset
like
> Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
> I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
> Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
> doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???
>
> Sorry for my school english
> Thanks a lot
>
> P.S.
> Please answer in Newsgroup
>
>
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From: "ITTOLUM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS/2 model 56 and Linux
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:24:17 +0200
Hello,
I try to install Linux (Slackware 3, Kernel 2.x.x) on an old PS/2 model
56,
i use the IBMMCA kernel and during boot i pass ibmmcascsi=7 parameter
(found in howto)
BUT
linux kernel doesn't find SCSI adaptater
What can i do ?
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From: "Thorsten Heit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128
Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 11:20:15 +0200
> I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
> Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset
like
> Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
> I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
> Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
> doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???
If you're using an Rage128 chip you should stop gpm; otherwise your system
can hang if you switch to another virtual console or try to start X...
(don't know why Linux hangs but that trick works).
The actual version of XFree86 doesn't support that chip. You have to use a
commercial X server like Accelerated-X from XiGraphics (www.xig.com).
Otherwise you have to use the standard VGA resolution 640x480/16 colors
w/60 Hz....
I've read some postings about people running the XFree86-Mach64 server
together with a Rage128 chipset but I don't know what they have done to
get this combination running...
Thorsten
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From: Christelle Van-Den-Broucke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LCD
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 10:53:30 +0200
Do you know how to connect a LCD DMC40218 on the printer port?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi,linux.dev.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Crash/Reboot with Adaptec 3940UW
Date: 5 Jul 1999 07:40:53 GMT
your attention to presentation and details is excellent. i'm no expert to look
into your problems but just happen to know that 3940uw has several different
assemblies with different chips operating in different manners requiring
different drivers. to make life easier for all, perhaps you can first check
whether you've got the right set of drivers.
Jeffrey Veiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>*********************************************************************
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>
>
>Calling all SCSI experts:
>
>I have a bit of a challenge with an Adaptec 3940UW SCSI card. To start off,
>here's the specs:
>
> Tyan Trinity 1590 Motherboard v1.16
> AMD K6 233MHz CPU
> 128M SDRAM
> Windows 98 loaded on a Western Digital 4G EIDE drive (4 part VFAT)
> Redhat 6 loaded on Seagate Cheetah (3 part VFAT, 4 part ext2, 1 part swap)
> See below for more info
>
>
>The Problem:
>
> I was happily computing along, backing up my laptop to the /home partition
> on the above machine (hostname = fuzzy) using rdist when fuzzy restarted.
> This happened three times before I decided to do something else and work
> on why later. The next day (I don't remember what i was doing), fuzzy
> was rebooting into linux and needed to fsck the / partition (sda5). As
> it was trying to fsck, it crashed/rebooted with no errors. Every reboot
> has the same result. The only major change to the system was a
> motherboard BIOS update.
>
>
>Things I tried:
>
> o Booting from Slackware 3.5 SCSI boot/rescue root floppies and running
> fsck on sda5.
>
> o Booting from Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot/rescue root floppies and running
> fsck on sda5.
>
> o When booting/rooting from floppy, I can mount sda5 but if I poke
> around too much (cd's & ls's), it eventually crashes/reboots.
>
> o I can fsck the other ext2 sda* partitions, but poking around too much
> eventually crashes/reboots (tar'ing each partition causes a crash).
>
> o Tar'ing a CD from either CD-ROM drive doesn't cause a crash.
>
> o Setting Bus A termination to Disabled and Bus B termination to Enabled.
>
> o I booted with aic7xxx=panic_on_abort,verbose and it still rebooted.
>
> o I downgraded the motherboard BIOS to the original version and it still
> crashes.
>
> o Windows 98 (scarily enough) works fine. I did a thorough scandisk on
> all EIDE & SCSI partitions with no problem. Both CD-ROM's work fine.
>
> o The cheetah was repartitioned and installed with Redhat 6 a few weeks ago
> and except when I had to turn off wide negotiation on the CD-ROM and Zip
> drives, has been working fine.
>
>At this point, I'm at a loss as to what to try next. Possibilities include
>hardware failure on either the SCSI Card or Seagate Cheetah or a SCSI BIOS
>mis-configuration, but then why does Windows 98 work? (No really, why
>does Windows 98 work? :-) )
>
>Any assistance would be gratefully appreciated!
>
>Please contact me if there are any further questions via internet mail at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you very much!
>
>Jeffrey Veiss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 13 Lynn Court
>Network Engineer/System Administrator Somerville, NJ 08876
>Sir Veiss, Inc. (908) 431-1318
>
>----------------------------------------
>Here's some other useful info:
>
>Significant IRQ's:
>
> 3 COM2
> 4 COM1
> 5 IDE Creative Labs AWE32
> 7 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
>10 PCI Adaptec AHA-3940 Ultra/Ultra Wide v1.25
>11 PCI 3Com Fast Ethernet
>14 Enhanced IDE Bus
>15 USB
>NA PCI Creative Labs Voodoo 2
>NA AGP ATI All-In-Wonder Pro 8M
>
>(Parallel and 2nd IDE ports turned on in the CMOS)
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>Adaptec AHA-3940UW BIOS Settings:
>
>A:
> ID 0: Seagate Cheetah ST19101W Ultra 9G Internal (Terminated)
> ID 5: External Iomega Zip Drive (Terminated)
> SCSI Bus Interface Definitions
> Host Adapter SCSI ID............... 7
> SCSI Parity Checking............... Enabled
> Host Adapter SCSI Termination...... Automatic
> Additional Options
> Boot Device Options
> Boot Channel.................... B First
> Boot Target ID.................. 0
> Boot LUN Number................. 0
> SCSI Device Configuration
> Initiate Sync Negotation........ yes to all id's
> Maximum Sync Xfer Rate.......... 40 for all except 20 for id 5
> Enable Disconnection............ yes for all id's
> Initiate Wide Negotiation....... no for all id's except 0 & 7
> Send Start Unit Command......... no for all id's
> Include in BIOS Scan............ yes for all id's
> Advanced Configuration Options
> Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initalization....... Enabled
> Channel A BIOS........................... Enabled
> Support Removable Disks as Fixed Disks... Boot Only
> Extended Translation for DOS Drives >1G.. Enabled
> Channel A Display <Ctrl-A> Msg........... Enabled
> Multiple LUN Support..................... Disabled
> BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROM......... Disabled
> BIOS Support for Int13 Extensions........ Enabled
> Support for Ultra SCSI Speed............. Enabled
>
>B:
> ID 2: Plextor 8plex CD-ROM Drive
> ID 4: Plextor 4/12 CD Writer (Terminated)
> SCSI Bus Interface Definitions
> Host Adapter SCSI ID............... 7
> SCSI Parity Checking............... Enabled
> Host Adapter SCSI Termination...... Automatic
> Additional Options
> Boot Device Options
> Boot Channel.................... B First
> Boot Target ID.................. 0
> Boot LUN Number................. 0
> SCSI Device Configuration
> Initiate Sync Negotation........ yes to all id's
> Maximum Sync Xfer Rate.......... 20 for all id's
> Enable Disconnection............ yes for all id's
> Initiate Wide Negotiation....... no for all id's
> Send Start Unit Command......... no for all id's
> Include in BIOS Scan............ yes for all id's
> Advanced Configuration Options
> Reset SCSI Bus at IC Initalization....... Enabled
> Channel A BIOS........................... Enabled
> Support Removable Disks as Fixed Disks... Boot Only
> Extended Translation for DOS Drives >1G.. Enabled
> Channel A Display <Ctrl-A> Msg........... Enabled
> Multiple LUN Support..................... Disabled
> BIOS Support for Bootable CD-ROM......... Enabled
> BIOS Support for Int13 Extensions........ Enabled
> Support for Ultra SCSI Speed............. Disabled
>
> - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
>
>dmesg output (whilst booting with Slackware 4.0 aic7xxx boot disk):
>
>Linux version 2.2.6 (root@zap) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #14 Tue Apr 27 15:06:58 CDT 1999
>Detected 233865908 Hz processor.
>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>Calibrating delay loop... 466.94 BogoMIPS
>Memory: 127752k/131072k available (1280k kernel code, 408k reserved, 1576k data, 56k
>init)
>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
>CPU: AMD AMD-K6tm w/ multimedia extensions stepping 02
>Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exceptoin 16 error reporting.
>Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb4d0
>PCI: Using configuration type 1
>PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>PCI: 00:38 [1106/0586]: Work around ISA DMA hangs (00)
>Activating ISA DMA hang workarounds.
>Linux NET 4.0 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, IGMP
>Initializing RT netlink socket
>Starting kswapd v 1.5
>Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
>Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
>ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
>Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
>RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 49152K size
>loop: registered device at major 7
>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe400-0xe407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
>hda: WDC AC24300L, ATA DISK drive
>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>hda: WDC AC24300L, 4112MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA
>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
>md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>linear personality registered
>raid0 personality registered
>(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-394X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 4/0
>(scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
>(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
>(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
>(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
>(scsi0) during machine bootup.
>(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
>(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
>(scsi1) <Adaptec AHA-394X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 5/0
>(scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
>(scsi1) Warning - detected auto-termination
>(scsi1) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
>(scsi1) If not, then please properly set the device termination
>(scsi1) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
>(scsi1) during machine bootup.
>(scsi1) Cables present (Int-50 NO, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 NO)
>(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
>scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AHA-394X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
>scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
> <Adaptec AHA-394X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
>scsi : 2 hosts.
> Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST19101W Rev: 0014
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
> Vendor: IOMEGA Model: ZIP 100 Rev: D.09
> Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-ROM PX-8XCS Rev: 1.03
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
> Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R PX-R412C Rev: 1.06
> Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi1, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
>scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms 2 SCSI disks total.
>(scsi1:0:2:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
>(scsi1:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 12x/12x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda caddy
>(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
>SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17783240 [8683 MB] [8.7 GB]
>SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 196608 [96 MB] [0.1 GB]
>sdb: Write Protect is off
>Partition check:
> sda: sda1 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 sda10 sda11 sda12 >
> sdb: sdb4
> hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
>VFS: Insert root floppy disk to be loaded into RAM disk and press ENTER
>VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>Freeing unused kernel memory: 56k freed
>UMSDOS dentry-pre 0.84 (compatibility level 0.4, fast msdos)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: mouse problems
Date: 5 Jul 1999 07:58:04 GMT
On 5 Jul 1999 00:05:54 GMT, Moumtaiz NASSER wrote:
>i have just installed Linux and everything want as planned however i do not
>have any control over my mouse it just sits in the middle of the screen. I
>have a microsoft mouse (serial). Can anyone help i don't know what to do
>--
1. Check if you've gpm running, there may be a conflict between your gpm and X
over mouse control. If you don't want to have mouse support on your text console
terminal, disable it. If you're running RedHat 6.0, use 'ntsysv' to disable gpm
service (it will be disabled on your next rebook), running gpm -k will kill the
gpm for the current session.
2. Check your /etc/X11/XF86Config, use microsoft protocol..
..
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
3. If you wanted gpm to run alongside with your X, use the following.. run gpm
with -R to act as a repeater. In your XF86Config.. use the following:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "MouseSystems"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
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