Linux-Hardware Digest #821, Volume #13 Tue, 31 Oct 00 20:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Promise Ultra100 (Brian M Briones)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (Albert A Arendsen)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (Albert A Arendsen)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (Albert A Arendsen)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (Adam K Kirchhoff)
soundblaster 16PnP problems ("Highlander")
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Mounting a LS120 ("cbmitch")
Re: Turtle Beach drivers? (Santa Cruz)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Eric Bourland")
Re: Netgear FA311 with Redhat 7.0 ("Eric Bourland")
Another disk bootable ("Daniel Gélinas")
RedHat 7, Voodoo 5 5500, Aureal SQ2500, ABIT KT7-RAID, Unreal Tournament slow!
("MaxOCP")
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... ("Steve Wolfe")
Re: Symbios 53C1010 problem.. (Cheong Kwon-Hee)
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From: Brian M Briones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra100
Date: 31 Oct 2000 23:07:38 GMT
anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: grab kernel 2.2.17 and apply the 2.2.17 udma patch. Then recompile with udma
: support enabled and yes to 366 support. I was told 366/370 support is 366
: support in kernel. Use hdparm to check and enable udma 5 and make sure dma
: is enabled. By the way, 370 raid version does not appear to run properly.
For which version of the Linux installation is this? I'm currently having
problems getting the OS to recognize either my hard drives or the Promise
Ultra100 controller that they are both attached to. FYI one of the drives
is Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 30 30GB HDD, and the other is a 8.4GB Fujitsu
HDD. Last thing, the installation I'm trying to perform is using the
Caldera eDesktop 2.4 cd-rom which I was given to at a computer expo. Any
help that I can get will be greatly appreciated.
-Brian
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Brian M. Briones
E-mail: (primary)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(university)[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ #/Nickname: 16331096/Decepticon
Webpage: http://www.hgea.org/~brianb/template.html
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Dilbert: In the year that we've dated, Liz, you've often mentioned
various problems in your life. I have compiled those problems into a
list of requirements and developed a comprehensive set of solutions.
Liz: How thoughtful. I didn't even know I was broken.
Dilbert: No, no, not broken... Just a bit buggy.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 16:56:34 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Has anyone told you that you're a real prick?
Yes, but not as big as some of the people who work for hardware companies
that still marginalize the linux community. By pretending to be concerned
about the issue while not really championing the cause from within the
organization, he does us a greater disservice than he would do by igoring
the requests.
>Based on all his postings, I for one am confident that Mr. Arendsen has
>done what he can...
Which is basically to say that while he is a representative of the company,
he can't do anything but say that he's done what he can. That helps the
situation how? All it does for me is make me want to buy a Nvidia card
or whatever.
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From: Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:58:21 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> So I ask you, mister Arendsen. Have you actually brought up the topic to
> anyone at S3/Diamond, or do you just post to Usenet saying you wish you could?
> Is that your idea of doing something about a problem, wishing?
I bring it up constantly. As I said previously, a steady drop can hollow
out a stone. Over half of our tech support crew runs Linux at home
either as some sort of server or, like me, exclusively. We're constantly
pushing. But sometimes we do feel like ants trying to move a mountain :(
> Radios used to always come with schematics.
Cars too...
--
Albert Arendsen --- aka --- Reyn Eaglestorm
>>>>> The Gods have a sense of humour <<<<<
>>>>> So be sure you don't lose yours <<<<<
http://home.student.utwente.nl/a.a.arendsen
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From: Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:01:30 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >They could, they should, and if I had any say in it, they would. But, as
> >I have already said previously, companies aren't democracies. I will
> >continue to send up reports of inferior Linux support, and I hope
> >they're going to do something with that
>
> To whom do you send these reports?
>
> It sounds like we should skip you, and discuss this with someone who
> doesn't have to wish for authority to make suggestions.
Hmmmokay, so then you reach our supervisor, or our product specialist.
The supervisor doesn't know anything about Linux, the product specialist
can't be bothered to learn anything about Linux because he's so
pro-Windows. (You oughta witness the discussions we have about operating
system philosphies over some beers after work).
Honestly, you have more chance with us, because we actually understand
your problem, and can instruct our supervisors to forward it farther
upwards :)
--
Albert Arendsen --- aka --- Reyn Eaglestorm
>>>>> The Gods have a sense of humour <<<<<
>>>>> So be sure you don't lose yours <<<<<
http://home.student.utwente.nl/a.a.arendsen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:07:02 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>Has anyone told you that you're a real prick?
> Yes, but not as big as some of the people who work for hardware companies
> that still marginalize the linux community. By pretending to be concerned
> about the issue while not really championing the cause from within the
> organization, he does us a greater disservice than he would do by igoring
> the requests.
>>Based on all his postings, I for one am confident that Mr. Arendsen has
>>done what he can...
> Which is basically to say that while he is a representative of the company,
> he can't do anything but say that he's done what he can. That helps the
> situation how? All it does for me is make me want to buy a Nvidia card
> or whatever.
Well that really shows your dedication to supporting companies that
support linux...
Insulting someone, on your side, from a company you'd like
info/heko/drivers from isn't a good tactic.
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:10:21 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Insulting someone, on your side, from a company you'd like
> info/heko/drivers from isn't a good tactic.
> Adam
heko --> help
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From: Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:10:29 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Has anyone told you that you're a real prick?
>
> Yes, but not as big as some of the people who work for hardware companies
> that still marginalize the linux community. By pretending to be concerned
> about the issue while not really championing the cause from within the
> organization, he does us a greater disservice than he would do by igoring
> the requests.
_ofcourse_ the marginalise the Linux community. The Linux community is a
rag tag collection of geeks spread thin across the world. There is no
"Linux CEO" that the top dogs can talk with as with Microsoft CEOs, for
example. It's the businessmen that make the policies, and businessmen
like to talk with other businessmen, not with geeks.
Diamond has always been completely inefficient at writing drivers for
Windows - would you expect them to do better with drivers for Linux?
Take the Viper II. Onboard T&L, lots of nice goodies. Yes, it has
onboard hardware T&L, but at first it wasn't enabled in the bios, and
then the drivers didn't work properly. I could tell you more, but that
would break my NDA...
> >Based on all his postings, I for one am confident that Mr. Arendsen has
> >done what he can...
>
> Which is basically to say that while he is a representative of the company,
> he can't do anything but say that he's done what he can. That helps the
> situation how? All it does for me is make me want to buy a Nvidia card
> or whatever.
No, ofcourse that doesn't help the situation now. Can you think of
anything, ANYthing, that COULD help the situation NOW? When you have a
suggestion that is actually practically viable, I'll listen with open
ears, because I'd like nothing more than to smack S3/DMM around from
here all the way to Tokyo for their poor excuses for Linux drivers.
--
Albert Arendsen --- aka --- Reyn Eaglestorm
>>>>> The Gods have a sense of humour <<<<<
>>>>> So be sure you don't lose yours <<<<<
http://home.student.utwente.nl/a.a.arendsen
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
From: Adam K Kirchhoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:12:21 GMT
On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, James wrote:
> In article <nbIL5.80612$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write:
> >Wow... You really are a prick...
>
> I haven't always been. I used to be a DMM customer. Spec'd S3V for
> workstations for a fairly big crew. Bought diamond cards for my home
> computers repeatedly, in part based on XFree86 support. Now I'm just
> annoyed, and feeling rather disenfranchised by a company that I used
> to be a customer of. Reading Albert's messages just gets my back up.
> The bottom line is that nobody at Diamond cares about anything besides
> closed driver support, and *only* for windows, and can't be bothered by
> the suggestion that there may be a problem with that.
>
> You call me a prick, but I'm only telling it like I see it. I do happen
> to be in the market for a video card, and Albert's comments have helped
> me make the decision not to buy a diamond card. What's more, it makes
> me realize that Diamond is *happy* that I'm not buying their card, and
> that attitude helps me decide not to invest in their stock also.
>
>
>
Well, I'm not contesting your decision concerning DMM (I've made the same
decsision about DMM) but I don't feel that's a good reaon to be rude to
Albert when it's obvious from his posts that he's on your side.
Adam
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From: "Highlander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: soundblaster 16PnP problems
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:14:26 GMT
Hi i'm having problems getting my soundblaster 16PnP (It says CT2950 on the
card) working in Red hat 6.0. I have run Isapnp and it detects the card fine
but either it is not running on startup or i have missed something because
when i do
cat /dev/sndstat
there is nothing there just the headers.... no cards detected and I have
compiled the kernel with sound support enabled (module if that matters) the
modules are loaded but still no sound
any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Robin murray
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:17:24 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <G8JL5.80948$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well that really shows your dedication to supporting companies that
>support linux...
I thought it was more like, reminding a company that DOESN'T support linux
that they need to. They used to. Now they don't. When I buy the next
video card, it will be from a company that supports linux, not one that
has reps who say "I wish my company supported linux but they don't and
there's nothing I can do about it." That is not the same thing.
>Insulting someone, on your side, from a company you'd like
>info/heko/drivers from isn't a good tactic.
Agreed. But the whole thread sure gets my back up.
And you're defending Diamond as a "company that supports Linux"
in the midst of a thread about their product for which no Linux
support is possible! Where are you coming from on that? How can
you call diamond a "company that supports linux" when they display
this attitude?
And I don't mean to insult anyone, but if someone says they've done
something that they haven't, I feel a need to call him on it.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:28:28 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I bring it up constantly. As I said previously, a steady drop can hollow
>out a stone. Over half of our tech support crew runs Linux at home
>either as some sort of server or, like me, exclusively. We're constantly
>pushing. But sometimes we do feel like ants trying to move a mountain :(
How do I communicate my decision to buy a competitor's card based on this
problem? How would that information ever reach someone in a senior chair
of a marketing role?
I used to be a repeat Diamond customer, and recommended the cards to
everyone, back in the S3/S3V days. Now, I can do no such thing, and I
cannot buy one because of this defect. And I do see it as a defect.
I've been called out in the n.g. for insulting you; I don't mean to
insult you personally, but I am attempting to speak as a former customer
(and until this morning, a potential return customer), to a company who's
lost my business. It stinks for me, and it should really stink for someone
whose job it is to maximize market saturation. Your company's marketing
department is dismissing the entire non-windows segment of the pc world.
Maybe it doesn't matter to them, but it should.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:36:34 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Diamond has always been completely inefficient at writing drivers for
>Windows - would you expect them to do better with drivers for Linux?
Let's back up here just a bit.
I don't expect anybody to write any drivers for anything.
The point of this conversation is that a company is intentionally
making it impossible for drivers to be written for any system other than
the ones they choose to develop for.
If it were not for this restriction, drivers for other systems could
be written by the people who are developing those systems, as is being
done for many of your competitors' products.
I'm not dissing Diamond for not writing drivers, that's too fine a point.
They've explicitly prevented any user support for their devices. Why?
>No, ofcourse that doesn't help the situation now. Can you think of
>anything, ANYthing, that COULD help the situation NOW?
Yes. Diamond produces an open specification for the devices in question,
with permission granted to create software drivers to use the devices.
I don't understand what's so hard about that.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:41:43 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> Albert A Arendsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >They could, they should, and if I had any say in it, they would. But, as
>> >I have already said previously, companies aren't democracies. I will
>> >continue to send up reports of inferior Linux support, and I hope
>> >they're going to do something with that
>>
>> To whom do you send these reports?
>>
>> It sounds like we should skip you, and discuss this with someone who
>> doesn't have to wish for authority to make suggestions.
>
>Hmmmokay, so then you reach our supervisor, or our product specialist.
Well, I personally would be a poor choice for the meeting.
I'm thinking, maybe someone from one of your OEM's could *educate* these
people... Do your cards end up in Dell boxes? (they bundle w/ linux you know)...
It wouldn't be hard. Give a presentation of a well-configured multimedia pc
running linux (or whatever alternative os), with one of your competitor's
video cards. Then show how it works with your card (e.g., it doesn't).
Then explain why.
My guess is that Diamond doesn't really own all the IP in their products
and that this NDA business is being propogated from the vendor of one of
their chips. Is that so?
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From: "cbmitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mounting a LS120
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:42:07 GMT
What is the command line to mount a LS120? I am on IDE1, secondary device
I am trying mount -t msdos /dev/hda2 /ls120
I made a directory on the root called ls120. This is not working. any
tips?
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach drivers? (Santa Cruz)
Date: 31 Oct 2000 17:47:23 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Van Holder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm planning on getting a new PC at the end of the month and wanted to
>get a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz sound card for it (it seems like a great
>card). Unfortunately, an e-mail to their techies revealed that there was
>no Linux driver, nor were they planning to create one.
They don't need to create one.
If the spec's are open, then the ALSA folks and the 4front folks
will create drivers. I bought a santa cruz on good faith that there
would be open driver development in the vein of all the other cs4***
chips, even if it might take a few months.
>So what I wanted to know was whether there are any drivers being
>developed for this card (or its Cirrus DSP's).
They'd better not have turned proprietary/nondisclosable specs on us.
My blood pressure is too high from this crap with Diamond and from
Creative turning their back on ViA chipset compatability to deal
with that from voyetra/TB today.
PLEASE someone tell me that cs4630 support won't be impossible due
to closed specs.
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:46:00 -0700
> _ofcourse_ the marginalise the Linux community. The Linux community is a
> rag tag collection of geeks spread thin across the world. There is no
> "Linux CEO" that the top dogs can talk with as with Microsoft CEOs, for
> example. It's the businessmen that make the policies, and businessmen
> like to talk with other businessmen, not with geeks.
Well, that's not the only way that business works. Yes, having high-level
meetings with CEO's and things like that get business. But when it gets
down to it, there's only one factor that can turn a businessman's head:
Money.
If a company sees that they will make enough money by supporting Linux,
they will. If they can't see that there's money in it, they won't. One of
the problems is that although many people do purchase from companies that
support Linux, how do the hardware vendors know that? They may just think
that the other company does well because it has the "Super-hot new cool
technology bundle", or whatever they're hyping.
When you buy a piece of hardware because it has Linux support, email the
company and thank them. Then email the vendors of the other products you
turned down for lack of support, and politely let them know that you did so.
They'll look at the number of requests, and see if it's cost-effective to
support Linux. If enough people have made requests, they'll most likely do
it.
> Diamond has always been completely inefficient at writing drivers for
> Windows - would you expect them to do better with drivers for Linux?
Amen. : )
steve
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From: "Eric Bourland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:48:05 GMT
Clifton,
Respectfully, I don't agree with you. I have been trying for weeks to
install a Netgear FA-311 card in Linux. I have read all kinds of HOW-TOs,
been to scyld.com, and researched the matter at various web sites ... but I
am unable to understand the instructions offered in any of these places.
Don't get me wrong, I am very grateful that instructions are there, but I am
having a devil of a time understanding something as basic as getting my
Linux operating system to work with my network interface card. Arctic Storm
is right -- in many places, Linux instructions are incomprehensible.
Kind regards,
Eric Bourland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Arctic Storm wrote:
> > LinkSys should have given us a working binary files with detailed
> > step-by-step installation instructions. LinkSys wants us to *download*
the
> > necessary files/drivers, but without the drivers, I can't get on the
> > internet to download them. The old catch 22; without experience, can't
get
> > a job, but without a job, can't get experience.
>
> Yet somehow you got on the Internet to bitch.
>
> > I went to the tulip web site http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html ,
but
> > the instructions there were so poor and ambiguous that an average user
could
> > never follow.
>
> It appears a lot of average users have already followed them quite nicely.
>
> > The web site leaves you wondering if there are multiple ways
> > of installing the driver, or one way, but different steps.
>
> Only if you decline to read it and instead just scan for the download
link.
>
> > Do I do either "Using the Source RPM Package" or "Installing the
Individual
> > Drivers", or do I do both? What does it mean to install "individual"
> > drivers? I have *one* card, which needs *one* driver! What do you mean
by
> > individual?!
>
> I bet your kid sister could tell you if you had her read the site.
>
> > There's also the section, "Building updated drivers into the kernel".
Do I
> > do this in addition to the above instrucitons, or is this something
> > separate?!
>
> I bet your kid sister could tell you if you had her read the site.
>
> > I went to the web site http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html , but
this
> > web site also has poor instructions, and refers you to somewhere else to
> > learn how to install modules.
>
> The instructions are all there, but you have to read them to know that.
>
> --
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From: "Eric Bourland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 with Redhat 7.0
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:51:38 GMT
I am having a hell of a time with the Netgear FA-311 too. Please let me know
if you find out anything.
Kind regards,
Eric Bourland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Chris Oldenburg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Has anyone had any luck compiling a driver for or just getting a
> Netgear FA311 card to work in Redhat 7.0? If so, exactly how did you
> do it? I'm desperate.
>
> Chris Oldenburg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Daniel Gélinas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Another disk bootable
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 00:55:57 GMT
Hi!
I want to know what's the best method
to make a copie of a root disk to another
disk and make it bootable.
Actually, I use cpio with scsi disks and lilo.
When I trie to boot from the disk copied
with cpio, I have the message:
"Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fd on 08:02"
Please help...!
Thank you
Daniel Gelinas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "MaxOCP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "MaxOCP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.mainboards.abit,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install
Subject: RedHat 7, Voodoo 5 5500, Aureal SQ2500, ABIT KT7-RAID, Unreal Tournament slow!
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 01:00:40 GMT
Hi, after some effort I got my system running fairly well with RedHat 7. The
only problem that I noticed is that Unreal Tournament is insanely slow! The
video at the beginning and the main menu are responding as if it was running
on an m6800! :) I could not even get into the game without it crashing.
Interestingly, the sound does not seem to work at all when the game is on.
(no music or effects, although is does appear to be running) The soundcard
is working though because xmms is working fine with the mp3s. I know that
the 3dfx Voodoo 5 linux drivers are very limited, but I was running the game
at 640x480, low quality everything, and it was far from responsive...
My system can definitely handle it:
Athlon SocketA 800
ABIT KT7-RAID
128MBs PC133 RAM
Voodoo 5 5500 AGP
Aureal Vortex2 SQ2500 Sound Card
I'm using the latest KT7-RAID bios, the latest Voodoo 5 linux drivers, and
the latest Aureal drivers. Everything seems to be working just fine.
(although that is the first big game that I have tried on it... but all of
the "standard" Linux applications are working great) The Linux partition is
on my Maxtor drive on the first HPT370 controller IDE. Everything seems to
be working fine there... although I had to "downgrade" my kernel from
2.2.16-22 to 2.2.16, and then add the HPT370 ide controller patch. No
problems there...
Any ideas of what I could be missing that could help out this sluggish
performance?
Thanks
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From: "Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:48:37 -0700
> How do I communicate my decision to buy a competitor's card based on this
> problem? How would that information ever reach someone in a senior chair
> of a marketing role?
Most companies have a feedback mechanism. And believe it or not, that
feedback mechanism usually works, at least to some extent. If the feedback
chain isn't working, then the company will be out of business before too
long.
One solitary letter to "feedback" isn't going to change things. A letter
per day isn't going to. When the peons that read the feedback see that one
message in a million is a request for Linux drivers, they won't pay
attention to it. But when the numbers start getting greater, they will.
> I used to be a repeat Diamond customer, and recommended the cards to
> everyone, back in the S3/S3V days.
Sheesh. I never saw a system with an S3 that didn't have problems. I
avoided them like the plague. I'm glad that you had a better experience
than I did. ; )
steve
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From: Cheong Kwon-Hee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Symbios 53C1010 problem..
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 10:09:32 +0900
According to your message, you tried to add sym53c8xx.o to the
installation disk.. How?
In the installation disk, scsi drivers are included in initrd.img as
modules.cgz .
Insufficient disk space may be solved by deleting some scsi drivers that
is not used frequently like ISA SCSI controllers, and modifying
module-info, pcitable.. After that, remake boot.img .
Is it acceptable? In similar way, driver disk may be made.
I tried the above.. It doesn't work well. Mmmmm
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
>
> One step further !
>
> I downloaded the driver from Symbios and a disk doctor called "tomsrtbt-1.7.185"
> from an FTP-server. I modifeid the disk doctor and included the Symbios driver,
> dd'd to a floppy disk and it worked, my SCSI-disk was recognized !
>
> But then I still don't have an installation disk of course.........
>
> So I found an IDE-drive, added it to my PC and decided to install Linux on this
> IDE-drive. Now I could also use "insmod sym53c8xx" to load the right driver
> module and again the SCSI-disk is found properly.
>
> I also could run "cfdisk" and partition the SCSI-drive.
>
> But I would still like to run the installation procedure.......
>
> Then I tried to add the sym53c8xx.o file to (a copy of) the installation disk,
> but there is not enough disk space......
>
> The driver disk seems to be the best way to go; I downloaded the driver disk
> from Qlogic so I could analyze it and perhaps modify it to work with the Symbios
> driver, but that doesn't seem to be obvious unfortunately.
>
> I am stuck for now, so how can we fix this chicken-and-egg problem??
>
> Jan Humme.
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