Linux-Hardware Digest #717, Volume #10 Fri, 9 Jul 99 19:13:24 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI controller/device advice ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Shice Beoney)
Re: HP DeskJet610C works? ("Phillip Call")
Recompile kernel, RH 5.0 (William Horton)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Recompiling kernel in Redhat 5.0. I get "No rule to make target "menuconfig". or
"xconfig" or "config. (William Horton)
Re: Win95 -> Linux via null-modem .... help! ("Ronald Brigman")
Recompile Kernel in Redhat 5.0 (William Horton)
Re: 3c905b driver for Linux Redhat 6.0 (rm)
Looking for an ISDN card for my LRP router.. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (chrisv)
Re: problem with swap (Marc Mutz)
Re: How much space for each partition? (Marc Mutz)
Can't Recompile RH 5.0. I get "no rule to make target "menuconfig." (William Horton)
creative labs webcam 1 ("J.Janssen")
Re: CD ROM mount problems... (Joceli Mayer)
RH 6.0 SPARC with cg6 video (Jonathan Swaby)
Re: Tekram DC-390F SCSI Card ? (Bryan)
Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) (Anon)
Re: FWD: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud (Anon)
Re: No DMA with ALI IDE chipset (Asus P5A) (Joceli Mayer)
Re: Video Card Recommendation? (Michael Wellman)
Re: Viper 770 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
dial tone (Rui Coelho)
Re: Tekram DC-390F SCSI Card ? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Non-Windows digital cameras? ("Chris Kuhi")
Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) ("Chris Kuhi")
Why cant I mount my cdrom? (Devon Taylor)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI controller/device advice
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 9 Jul 1999 19:21:02 GMT
In <7m4tid$ik3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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|Phil Brutsche wrote:
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|| On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Dave wrote:
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|| > Thanks for the advice! I've also heard a _lot_ of people recommending
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|| > IBM drives.
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|I'll recommend them, too. I'm planning on purchasing the 9.1GB 9LP...
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|| > I'm still trying to decide between the Quantum Atlas III drive and the
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|IBM
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|| > Ultrastar 9ES though. The Ultrastar looks excellent, and about the same
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|| > price as the Quantum drives. However it only has a 512KB buffer, as
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|| > opposed to the Quantum's 1MB. The IBM drives with 1MB (such as the 9LP)
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|| > appear to be about $200 more.
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|| > Is the extra 512KB buffer worth it to go Quantum for the price? Or is
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|| > performance increase negligible?
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|Actually, if you head over to http://www.storagereview.com they did a
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|comparison review of two almost identical IDE drives (make/manuf. escapes
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|me) from the same manufacturer, where the only thing different was an
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|increased cache.
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|The performance did not change ONE BIT.
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|I'm going to have to poke around to see if the 9ES would be sufficient...
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|The storagereview site also allows you to do lots of side by side
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|comparisons of drives they've reviewed. It's a fun thing to do.
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|ttfn.
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|chris.
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|------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
| http://www.searchlinux.com
How effective the drive's on board cache will be is determined by
YOUR data access characteristics, most tests do not use
YOUR data access characteristics; so, draw your own conclusions...
Large cache helps when most data access is sequential, so that the
read ahead of full/multiple tracks will actually bring in what you
need next. Also, a larger cache allows things that will will be
re-read frequently to stay in the cache. This is especially useful
in a multi-tasking environment where competing tasks might cause
the smaller cache to thrash.
What's it mean?
Want your compiles to fly? Buy the drive with the larger cache.
Buy more than one and spread the I/O across them. Go SCSI.
BTW, IBM's drives are always a good bet if you can get a good price.
I just moved to 3 IBM UltraStar 9 lzx drives (9.1 gb, U2W SCSI 10k rpm,
4mb cache) and they fly! First job they got was compiling the smp
kernel for the machine they're installed in... now the whole thing flys!
Go Linux! ...and OS/2... :)
Guido
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shice Beoney)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:22:21 GMT
On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:41:05 -0500 in comp.os.linux.setup,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hobbyistİ) uttered the following profound gem of
wisdom:
>On Fri, 9 Jul 1999 10:53:45 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] scrawled these
>sagacious words ...
>
>: On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 11:08:35 -0400, Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>: >I can't and won't defend M$ product support. However, the sources of support are
>far more numerous for M$ than for Linux. Besides the
>: >Usenet newsgroups, there are countless articles in mainstream computer magazines
>catered to solving problems in both Windows and its apps.
>: >My experience of Linux is that you're limited essentially to Usenet and chat
>groups. (Again, there are notable exceptions to this rule, but
>: >not many). My argument continues to be that if you're not paying for the product,
>the programmer has no reason to support it, other than the
>: >kindness of his/her own heart.
>:
>: What is a magazine but an overpriced Web Page commited to paper
>: with far too many banner ads? Most of the popular computer press
>: is a joke, especially Ziff Davis.
>:
>: [detetia]
>
>
>It's really amazing how these linux shortcomings are rationalised in
>these ridiculous ways.
>
>Hey linux is hard to install and configure => Well you shouldn't be doing
>that by yourself. A trained professional should be doing it so your
>difficulties are irrelevant.
It took me an hour and a half to install RedHat. Then about a week of
playing with it in my spare time to get it working the way I wanted.
Now that I've gone through it once, I could probably do the
install/configuration inside of 2 hours. I didn't have any problems
that I couldn't solve with RTFM, a few dejanews searches, and the
comp.os.linux.* NGs. I don't have a single bit of formal training. So
either I'm some kind of genius computer prodigy, or Linux isn't nearly
as hard to install as some make it out to be, and while I'd like to
believe the former, I'm pretty sure it's the latter.
>Hey, Linux lacks some spiffiness in it's appearance. It looks so dusky
>and dry.... => You microsoft weenies seem to love the glitzy appearance
>that gives you that warm and fuzzy feeling .... blah, blah, blah. {I
>don't know about you, but I like when my car looks good and also
>functions well. The fact that it functions well, doesn't mean that it's
>looks are unimportant. A car dealer with that viewpoint will soon be out
>of business. The same goes for a proposed desktop OS.}
Gee, by that logic, Sun should be out of business and Apache should be
one of the least-used web servers on the market. Is Outlook Express a
better newsreader than Forte Agent because it's "prettier"? Hell, by
that argument, the MacOS is better than windows. Not to mention NeXt
and probably Amiga as well.
<snip>
--
"Ma cheri... Wait, she'll hate that, she hateth it when I write in
French. I usually conduct my correthpondence in fag, but it'th amazing
how often they're the thame thing!" -Scott Thompson as Buddy Cole the
drag queen, The Kids In The Hall
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From: "Phillip Call" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet610C works?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:44:21 -0400
ph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:01beca0e$01a81c60$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I was going to buy a deskjet 695C (fully supported under linux), but it
has
> been replaced by dj610C. Well, this could be a good thing (price 30% less
> ...) but i can't get any compatibility information for linux use. If
> someone knows...
> Thanks
Try looking at http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ .
Regards,
Phillip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Horton)
Subject: Recompile kernel, RH 5.0
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:29:17 GMT
I get: "No rule to make target "menuconfig."
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:22:03 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Bud (the original) wrote:
>
<snipped double quoted>
> The extra cache does LOTS for performance with multiple programs
> running, and the K6-3 has 256K, not 128K.
>
prove!?
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Horton)
Subject: Recompiling kernel in Redhat 5.0. I get "No rule to make target "menuconfig".
or "xconfig" or "config.
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 18:58:26 GMT
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From: "Ronald Brigman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Win95 -> Linux via null-modem .... help!
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 15:09:55 -0500
On the Win95 machine go to Add/remove programs, Windows Setup, Then select
Communications and add "Direct Cable Connection".
After installing this you should be able to use a serial cable.
Ron Brigman
Network Systems NEC, USA Inc.
Any opinions expressed are my own and not necessarily those of my employer.
Pankaj Pant wrote in message ...
>
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to hook up my 486 (win95) to a K6-II running Linux via a null-
>modem. I've followed the steps in an article in the Linux Gazette issue 41.
>
>http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue41/smyth.html
>
>I won't put in all the detail here ... but here's my problem. I can connect
>through Hyperterm to the Linux m/c ... so the link is working.
>
>However, the only reason for doing all this is that I want to be able
>to run netscape and other x-apps on the 486. So as mentioned in the
>above article I created a user called ppp95 and set it's shell to
>point to pppd. Finally I put a .ppprc in /home/ppp95 with the
>following lines:
>
>connect '/usr/sbin/chat -v ATH OK AT OK ATE0V1 OK ATX3 OK ATDT CONNECT'
>-detach
>modem
>crtscts
>lock
>:192.168.100.4
>
>After this I start Dial-up Networking on the 486 and log in as ppp95.
>However after saying "dialing" for a few seconds it quits saying that
>the modem is not responding. I'm using "Standard 28800 Modem" to connect.
>
>On the linux side, I can see (in /var/log/messages) that it receives
>ATH, AT and ATE0V1 and then dies waiting for ATX3 ....
>
>So, my question is: what should I try next? I'm completely lost. I've tried
>reading all the HOWTO's, but I either can't find anything relevant or don't
>understand the jargon (I'm pretty new to all this).
>
>I'm hoping that some kind soul can bail me out of this one.
>Thanks in advance. - Pankaj.
>
>PS: If you need more details regarding the setup, please see the link
> above. I've tried to follow it as closely as possible.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Horton)
Subject: Recompile Kernel in Redhat 5.0
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 18:50:18 GMT
I get "No rule to make target "menuconfig'. Stop. Same for xconfig or
config. I need help. The books are no help. - Bill
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From: .@.com (rm)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.dcom.lans.ethernet,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: 3c905b driver for Linux Redhat 6.0
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 18:51:46 GMT
Reply-To: .@.com
have you tried ftp.3com.com??
"Daniel Domain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi there,
> Can anyone tell me where can I find and how to load and
>configure te driver and configure TCP/IP?
> Thank you.
>Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Looking for an ISDN card for my LRP router..
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:07:37 GMT
Hello All,
I am looking to install an ISDN interface card in my linux based router
(LRP 2.9.4) to access the net. I will be ripping out my old modem and I
will not have to do the chat/ppp stuff anymore. My ISP will dial my
router and make the connection. They suggest an Ascendpipeline 75
(becuase that is what they know how to setup and configure). What is
ya'lls suggestions? I have a couple weeks before my purchase.
THanks for your advice,
Scott
--
Scott Boss
Atlanta Perl Mongers Fearless Leader
website: http://atlanta.pm.org
community: http://www.dejanews.com/~apm
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chrisv)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:52:59 GMT
On Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:08:05 +0200, Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The quickness of the AMD over the celeron stems from its L1 cache being
>twice as big.
While I agree with most your technical comments, this last one is not
correct. The larger L1 of the K6-3 doesn't get you any huge leap in
performance, just like the larger L2 doesn't.
The K6-3 has a larger L1. It has a larger L2. It has L3. It has
what some people think is a slightly faster integer core.
It is the sum of these advantages which together combine to allow the
K6-3 to be somewhat faster than the Celeron in most tasks.
And of course these advantages certainly do not take you from
"instant" to "a second or so" as one poster claimed.... Ridiculous.
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:47:01 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem with swap
assuming your swap device is /dev/sda2 try the following:
swapoff /dev/sda2
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/sda2 bs=512
for i in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do
dd if=/dev/sda2 bs=512 | md5sum
done
mkswap -c /dev/sda2
swapon /dev/sda2
If the checksums differ or mkswap reports bad blocks, then you have a
problem with your hd (or your cabling or your memory)
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
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Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 20:32:38 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.linux,alt.linux.sux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: How much space for each partition?
TURBO1010 wrote:
>
> From what I heard, redhat and suse are the only ones that actually support
> the promise 33 udma. I don't like redhat, and I'm seriously considering
> dumping Caldera Because of this problem.
>
Actually, someone told a lie. You may say that SuSE and Red Hat support
the Promise out of the box, but _any_ linux distro does support any
hardware that any other distro supports, because the Linux is always
more or less the same. Red Hat developed a driver for hardware X? Well,
good. If I need it, I download it from their site and install it on my
Debian system right away...
Marc
--
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marc.mutz.com/
University of Bielefeld, Dep. of Mathematics / Dep. of Physics
PGP-keyID's: 0xd46ce9ab (RSA), 0x7ae55b9e (DSS/DH)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Horton)
Subject: Can't Recompile RH 5.0. I get "no rule to make target "menuconfig."
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 19:22:59 GMT
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From: "J.Janssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creative labs webcam 1
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 19:34:27 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to find a driver to install the Creative Labs Webcam 1 under
linux. Does anyone have more information about it.
Regards,
Klaas Toonen
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD ROM mount problems...
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:30:40 -0700
It seems you really need to change the fstab to accomodate your mount point
for your cdrom.
If you don't wanna do it, for any reason, try, logged as root:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
if it doesn't work try
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
after that, take yor time and read "man mount", that helps !
good mountings ;)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Swaby)
Subject: RH 6.0 SPARC with cg6 video
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 21:05:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a SPARC station 2 with a cg6 single slot video card and
a SUN 19" GDM-1962B. I am running RedHat 6.0 with the new updates.
Both my console and X windows overfill the screen. I have tried
playing with the limited monitor adjustments, but that did not help.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks
Jonathan Swaby
Computer Services Specialist IV
Student Affairs
Georgia Institute
Of Technology
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390F SCSI Card ?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 21:40:09 GMT
Richard Bumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In linux, older kernels (before 2.0.3x) needed some help from files on
: the TekrAm site, but the current 53C8xx driver gives you support right
: out of the box.
except for ONE minor nit - the disk activity led doesn't work ;-(
it does under 'doze - I know I have mine hooked up ok - but under the linux
driver, the led display is not operational. anyone know why?
--
Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: Anon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:28:39 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can boot from SCSI based on the BIOS, but the ide disk still shows
up as disk0 under NT and as the boot disk under linux. You would need to
put you linux boot partition on the SCSI disk as usual but tell LILO to
install on the MBR of the IDE disk.
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>
> Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> >>
>
> [...]
>
> >> Rubbish. What do you think the "SCSI" option in the motherboard's
> >> BIOS is supposed to do ?
> >>
> >Then, I was told the wrong info by a Linux hardware vendor.
>
> It's only true if your BIOS doesn't support booting from SCSI.
>
> >I've SCSI
> >boxes and IDE boxes, but not mixing HDDs.
>
> Basically , most of today's PC BIOSes do offer an option to be booting
> from SCSI (if present) with IDE drives present. This, however, may or
> may not work, depending on the BIOS versions used (or, to be more precise,
> depending on the manufacturer-dependant implementation). My brother
> tried it with an all-cheapo Pentium board without luck - the SCSI
> drive (hanging off of an oldish-but-working 1542CF) would always
> get addressed as "D:", never as "C:". Tried it with the same HD and
> the same card in one of my boxes - worked like a charm. So there.
>
> Michael
> --
> Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
> Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
> Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Anon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 16:25:19 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why on earth would Intel care!? Selling two celerons is better than
selling one. A person who has to go celeron for SMP more than likely
could not afford PII/III SMP in the first place so it is not like Intel
would be forcing them to the more expensive CPU. They would just be
losing the sale of 1 cpu.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : If you want an inexpensive dual (SMP) Celeron system. Do it now.
>
> Yep, though I suppose all the 300As are safe because Intel had
> stopped making them a long long time ago. Anyway, with the BP6
> mobo coming out, this should be the perfect time for building
> Celeron SMP systems. Also please take a look at the Celeron SMP
> petition here:
>
> http://www.cpureview.com/smp_petition.html
>
> -- Chuan-kai Lin
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No DMA with ALI IDE chipset (Asus P5A)
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 14:38:37 -0700
Try frist:
/sbin/hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda
/sbin/hdparm -k 1 /dev/hda
I noticed a performance increase from 7MB/s to 10 MB/s using hdparm -t
/dev/hda benchmark.
I have a Asus p5a-b with ali chipset which is also not support for dma/udma
purposes.
If you get your system working with that patches, please, let me know.
I'll appreciate very much if you send your results, either good or bad.
As usual, make a good backup before try ......
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From: Michael Wellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Video Card Recommendation?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 23:00:06 GMT
A TNT or TNT2 card might be what your looking for but you'll have to=20
get the drivers from nVidea's sight. I'v got a Creative Labs graphics=20
blaster (TNT based card) coming in the mail from shopping.com for=20
around $75.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 7/8/99, 6:26:21 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flash) wrote regarding=20
Video Card Recommendation?:
> Hi, I m finally getting around to replacing my 2Mb video card, and I=20
am
> looking for a recommendation.
> This is what I run on the machine
> Windowmaker 0.60.0 on XFree86
> RH Linux 5.2, kernel 2.2.x
> Viewsonic 19" Monitor
> Pentium 200
> 64Mb RAM
> PCI Bus only.
> I would like to get the most out of my new, beautiful Viewsonic G790, =
and
> increase my resolution to maybe 1280x1024, 24bit color.
> I would like to stick to around $150.
> If anyone can give me a good recommendation for a card that is very
> XFree86-friendly, PCI, and will support high refresh rates and
> resolutions, I would be most grateful.
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Viper 770
Date: 9 Jul 1999 19:26:38 GMT
Peter Nugter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone tell me if and where a L inux driver for the Viper 770 is
: available?
have a look at www.nvidia.com. at ther driver-pages, there is
an alpha-stage driver for linux (including hw-accalerated
glx-driver). I recently tested it: Quake3Arena runns rather
well, but with fvwm95, there sometimes stay some line-fragments.
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From: Rui Coelho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dial tone
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 23:34:13 +0100
I want that my modem does not wait for dial tone in the kppp.
I Want help please ...........
My modem is a Diamond SuperExpress 56e pro.
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Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390F SCSI Card ?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Jul 1999 18:50:46 -0400
Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Richard Bumby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : In linux, older kernels (before 2.0.3x) needed some help from files on
> : the TekrAm site, but the current 53C8xx driver gives you support right
> : out of the box.
>
> except for ONE minor nit - the disk activity led doesn't work ;-(
>
> it does under 'doze - I know I have mine hooked up ok - but under the linux
> driver, the led display is not operational. anyone know why?
Back when I had TekRam scsi controllers as my main scsi, the led display worked
for me using 2.2.x kernels. I vaguely remember real old drivers not supporting
the LED.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: "Chris Kuhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: rec.photo.digital,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Non-Windows digital cameras?
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 21:13:49 +0200
Ken schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>What's a good digital camera for use on systems other than Windows?
>
>I'm looking for something to produce images on the web. I mostly use
>OS/2, but also use Linux, and less frequently NT4 and Win98. I can see
>having a Mac in the future.
>
>My concerns are hardware compatibility and file format interoperability.
>Memory card cameras would be ok if they use a standard card for which a
>reader is available on various platforms, and the card stores images in
>a standard format and filesystem. A floppy-based camera has the
>advantage of very high portability, but the disadvantage of very little
>storage.
>
Well, I just borrowed a Nikon Digital Camera from my work which uses
Flashcards. Ours had a pcmcia adapter for the flash cards which appears to
a laptop as a removable IDE controller. All I had to do was compile the
kernel to support removable IDE controllers, and the card was available as
/dev/hde1, which I mounted with '-t vfat'. Absolutely transparent, and a
hell of a lot quicker (and compacter) than a floppy. Of course this isn't a
great option if you don't have a laptop :(
chris
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From: "Chris Kuhi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system)
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 20:55:43 +0200
>On 07 Jul 1999 20:41:13 GMT, JeremyDunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Summary: Linux-only system boots ok from SCSI drive. Added IDE drive to
the
>>system. Now, can't boot from SCSI. Linux on SCSI still runs fine if I
boot
>>from floppy. IDE drive partitioned, formatted, and works normally under
Linux.
> [snip]
>>Any ideas?
>>- Jeremy
>
I had exactly the same problem once.
The problem is that with both IDE and SCSI present LILO (and therefore
Linux) maps the IDE drives first unless you tell it specifically otherwise.
A nice description of the LILO parameters to use is here:
http://www.suse.de/Support/sdb_e/ke_eide-scsi.html
Don't worry that it's a SuSE site the solution applies to any Linux.
Chris Kuhi
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From: Devon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why cant I mount my cdrom?
Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 18:05:05 -0400
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Here are the specifics:
Source Mount Point FsType Partition Type Status
/dev/hda10 / ext2 Linux(83)
mounted
/dev/hda5 /boot ext2
" mounted
/dev/hda6 /usr ext2
" mounted
/dev/hda9 /usr/local ext2
" mounted
/dev/hda0 /mnt/floppy ext2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom ISO9660
none /dev/pts
devpts mounted
I am in Linuxconf, running Red Hat 6.0
I see where is says cdrom, I press the button that says mount.
It says do you want to mount this device, I press yes button.
Save all changes, exit.
Boot into user, using KDE gui, I click on cdrom (with cd already
inside), and it prompts that only root can mount device! Why is it not
accepting my changes in root? I saved whenever I exit, and Activate
changes. Its not that. Please help someone. I need my tunes!
-Devon
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Here are the specifics:
<BR><B><U>Source </U></B>
<B><U>Mount Point</U></B> <B><U>FsType</U></B>
<B><U>Partition Type</U></B> <B><U>Status</U></B>
<BR>/dev/hda10
/
ext2
Linux(83) mounted
<BR>/dev/hda5
/boot
ext2
"
mounted
<BR>/dev/hda6
/usr
ext2
"
mounted
<BR>/dev/hda9
/usr/local
ext2
"
mounted
<BR>/dev/hda0
/mnt/floppy
ext2
<BR>/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
ISO9660
<BR>none
/dev/pts
devpts
mounted
<P>I am in Linuxconf, running Red Hat 6.0
<BR>I see where is says cdrom, I press the button that says mount.
<BR>It says do you want to mount this device, I press yes button.
<BR>Save all changes, exit.
<BR>Boot into user, using KDE gui, I click on cdrom (with cd already inside),
and it prompts that only root can mount device! Why is it not accepting
my changes in root? I saved whenever I exit, and Activate changes. Its
not that. Please help someone. I need my tunes!
<P>-Devon</HTML>
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