Linux-Hardware Digest #287
Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #14Fri, 2 Feb 01 05:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2?? ("songbird")
Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2?? (MCheu)
ProAudio Sound on Notebook (MCheu)
[drm:drm_release] *ERROR* (Dirk Engel)
Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!! ("Jeffrey S. Mulliken")
Re: video *capture* card advice? (Tim)
what is amodem AMR ("Davide")
Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash (Oz Dror)
Re: Please help: Linux 2.2.18 SMP Crash (Oz Dror)
Cluster SIZE for ext2... ("Radix")
Re: Heeelllp Mr. Wizard!!! ("Tauno Voipio")
Help: Emerson UPS Accupower Gold ("RvdB")
Re: NE 2000 Compatible card problems. (Tim Moore)
sound chip under 2.4.0 (Tsoi Kuen Hung)
Red Hat & i815e (Andrey)
Re: 755 thinkpad & linux. (Paul Rubin)
Re: cdrecorder goldstar problem (gianni)
Re: ASUS Support (Gunther Piez)
NETWORK PROBLEM ("Gehendra Acharya")
From: "songbird" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2??
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:37:20 -0500
"Bege" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> how do I get my soundcard TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice to work i Redhat
> 6.2? sndconfig says it's not supported. Where do I get drivers?
last site i knew of for drivers was linux.aureal.com, but as i
just went to find the driver it's not up. so i went looking (at
freshmeat.net (and typed aureal in the search box).
it looks like this might work, but i have no idea if it will in fact
work for you.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
and this is the original drivers that used to be at linux.aureal.com,
but i don't know how stable they are.
http://www.linuxvoodoo.com/drivers/cards/sound/drivers/au88xx-1.0.5.tar.gz
good luck, (i don't run Redhat and i've not tried to mess with either
of these on my system, yet)
songbird
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice in Redhat 6.2??
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:30:10 -0500
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001 22:30:01 +0100, "Bege"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>how do I get my soundcard TurtleBeach Montego A3D 64 voice to work i Redhat
>6.2? sndconfig says it's not supported. Where do I get drivers?
>
Grab the latest Aureal driver from
http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal
I think the latest one is 1.1.1 (maybe 1.1.2?)
just read the readme file first though, as you have to select the make
switch differently depending on which aureal chipset you have (Not
sure which one is in the Montego...)
You'll need OSS driver support in the kernel (which assuming you
didn't modify or change the one that came with RH6.2, it should be).
You won't need to reboot, it should just work after install if it
works at all. I've noticed that it sometimes spews an error message
after the install, but the sound works anyways, so test it with
something like XMMS first before thinking the install went bad.
Also, there's not supposed to be any MIDI support in the driver. I
say supposed, because some people have reported that they've gotten it
working (I'm not one of them though).
MCheu
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.misc
Subject: ProAudio Sound on Notebook
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 01:57:51 -0500
Anyone know what chipset the ProAudio Sound on a Compaq 1200XL-304
notebook uses?
They call it the "JBL Pro Audio Bass Reflex", but unfortunately, it
seems that their customer support people don't have any idea what this
is. The response was that this was a "PCI sound subsystem", which
doesn't tell me much. I tried doing a web search, and found some
info, but it seems that they may have used different chipsets going
under the name "ProAudio Sound Bass Reflex" in earlier models.
ESS1869
ESS Solo 1
VIA 686
"PCI sound blaster Pro Compatible"
Not certain, but that last one might apply to all 3 since they all
have some sort of sb emulation ability. So it seems that it might be
any of these or something totally different.
If anyone here has a 304 and has installed Linux on it, please let me
know what audio chipset you set it up as.
Thanks
MCheu
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From: Dirk Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: [drm:drm_release] *ERROR*
Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 08:12:55 +0100
Hello,
my Rage 128 stops working under OpenGL after a few seconds (i.e.
xlock-mesa -mode gears). In xterm I get "Error: Rage 128 timed out ...
exiting".
Syslog: "Kernel: [drm:drm_release] *ERROR* Process 788 dead, freeing
lock for context 3"
Does anyone know what to do?
Linux-Hardware Digest #287
Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #13 Mon, 24 Jul 00 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: SMP Computer (Michael Meding)
ATI Rage Pro -- dog slow, please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2 (Anthony Ewell)
Re: Optical Mouse Recommendation (Steffen Kluge)
Re: DMA on AMD Irongate? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: UPS suggestions? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem (Guust Flater)
Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem (Guust Flater)
Re: UDMA/66 HPT 366 (Kenneth Rørvik)
Re: M$ IntelliMouse (sideband)
Re: Change boot parameters LILO ("Ken Crofts")
network problem ("Baumann Reto")
VT82C686A south bridge (epox EP-7KXA built on sound card) ("Marco Bertotto")
Problems with SCSI card (RH 6.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: REALMAGIC PLUS TVput is B&W only !! ("Ofer Perl")
Re: DSL DRIVERS??? (M)
Re: Change boot parameters LILO (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: SCSI timing out? (Rick Stuart)
I740 ("Gregor Nosko")
From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP Computer
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:52:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The stuff about intel in comparison to amd is nonsense.
For the rest:
It pretty much depends on what you want. If you have only a couple of
big non threaded applications which you normally won't run
simultaneously then you are better of with a 1ghz processor than two
times 550. As a rule of thumb if you have well scaling os'es and well
scaling programs you gain between 60 and 80 percent for the first
additional additional processor.
And think of the fact that the memory bus is limited in bandwith which
is that the two processors share the 1.06 gb/s max (that was it for
pc100 -- right ?)
Threaded applications are not as common as one might think in the linux
world, and the couple of times you do a compile job where you do the
make -j2 or -jsomething doesn't pay.
So why not go for an AMD or Intel around 900mhz, they are not as
expensive (especially the amd's) and you do not have to pay for the
exorbitant high motherboard prices for dual.
You have a lot of fiddling around if you use it for gaming for example.
Not all the soundcards drivers are smp safe. And this goes on and on.
For server use that's another story but for daily home use, at least for
now I wouldn't recommend it.
Regards
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATI Rage Pro -- dog slow, please help!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 05:41:34 GMT
Hi,
I'm running XFree 3.3.6 (default mandrake 7.1 install) on a P3-650,
128MB ram, and an ATI Rage Pro PCI card (not fury or 128, it's a year
or two old). resolution is 1280x1024x32bit, and it's really slw..
screen redraws, fills, etc., just take forever. but by comparison,
it's nice and zippy in windows. what's wrong? i though the mach64
server was supposed to be accellerated. is that just not so??
greg
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:55:22 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2
Hi Chris,
Ouch!
The only thing I can susgest is to upgrade the scsi bios
on your 2940 card.
Good luck,
--Tony
Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'll check it out...
>
> However, using Slackware Linux and Winblows, I could access everything no
> problem.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Chris
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> >Just a wild guess, but it sounds like a termination problem.
> >
> >Here are some tips:
> >
> > 1) turn all of your terminators off on your peripherals and use
> > an "active" terminator at the end of your cable. (Yeh, active
> > terminators cost more, but the passive ones have stopped
> > working for years now.)
> >
> > 2) put your scsi card's bios into "automatic" termination
> >
> > 3) while you are in your scsi card's bios, use the "scan bus" utility
> > to check for all your devices
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > --Tony
> >
> > Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card to work under properly
> > > under RedHat 6.2 (using aic7xxx module). Redhat detected the card just
> > > fine, the module is loaded at boot, however, when I access the drives, I
> > > keep getting an interruption. I noticed once that the SCSI bus was
> > > getting reset.
> > >
> > > Anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanx!
> >
Linux-Hardware Digest #287
Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #11 Sun, 19 Sep 99 01:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: Running Oracle 805 on Linux ("R. Nightingale")
Radio card - SF16-FMR (Darren Poulson)
Re: cd writers (Carl Fink)
New Linux Modem - What to buy (Eric)
Re: USB and Linux (John Thompson)
Re: aha142b and 2.0.35: cdrom not detected (Jose A. Garcia)
Re: New Linux Modem - What to buy (Bruce Tennant)
HELP!! Lost filesystem; Bad superblock! ("Ryan T. Rhea")
Compaq Deskpro 5133/5200 ("Christopher Cox")
Iwill 2935UW, will it work?? (Dae)
Re: New Linux Modem - What to buy (Mike Frisch)
Re: Setting up a V.90 K56Flex HSP PCI Modem with Linux (David Cooley)
Re: Need an honest appraisal of CPU performance ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Looking for a m/b with onboard periphs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Looking for a m/b with onboard periphs (David Cooley)
Re: SBLive on Mandrake 6.1?? ("Quarath")
Re: Crystal Sound Card Drivers (Clif Norton)
From: "R. Nightingale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.misc
Subject: Re: Running Oracle 805 on Linux
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 01:54:30 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ilEE3.407$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
> I've been charted to design a web site..Like most web sites, it will
> have a bunch of web servers fronting some application servers and one
> database (Oracle) server.
That's a good idea. You HTTP server could be servicing a lot of
traffic--causing undue response interference with your Oracle application.
> Now I would like to have 3 or 4 e-machines Celeron
> systems running Linux as my web servers, feeding into a load balancing
> switch such as a Foundry ServerIron or an Alteon AceDirector.
My sister has an e-machine desktop. What an unrealiable piece of crap. The
running joke is not being able to turn off the "autoboot" feature. For not
a whole lot more, you could get a Dell or a Gateway. At least they have
human beings on the tech support line.
> On the back
> end, I would like to stay with Linux as far as possible -- I will be
having
> things like chat servers and mail servers, and I cannot see why Linux
won't
> work here.
>
> The thing that's keeping me up at nights though is Oracle. I'd really
> like to run it on Linux, but I don't know how strong Oracle's committment
is
> to Linux. For that matter, I do not know if Linux can scale to running a
> gigantic database server -- we're very small right now but expect to grow
> rapidly (obviously ;) I expect the database to be up in the
> multi-hundred-gigabyte range in the next few months. This isn't going to
be
> one of those inactive database servers, folks are going to be inserting,
> deleting, and updating records all the time. Its come down to Linux/Intel
> because its cost effective (we're tight on $$$) vs Solaris/Sparc because
> Sun/Oracle have such a tight relationship. I'm equally familiar w/ Linux
and
> Solaris BTW. I'd like to stay w/ RedHat 5.2, since its a release behind.
>
I regularly consult with companies that have 10s of GB of data on Oracle.
Most of my Oracle work is on AIX, HPUX, and WindowsNT. You might get away
in the short-run using Linux on cheap PCs, but look forward to some heavy
iron when you get serious. Silicon Graphics is supporting Linux on their
1400L server. Compaq is discountinuing WindowsNT development on their Alpha
servers in favor of OpenVMS, Unix and Linux. Sun is even introducing
something called Hot Desk that has NO operating system. You can find out
"what's shipping" in each OS/Hardware combination at the supported platforms
site (http://platforms.oracle.com/linux).
What's nice about Oracle is that if you do change your mind about the
hardware or the OS, you can migrate your database to the new server fairly
painlessly.
Once you get above 40 GB, you are going to want systems that have multiple
processors and fast data channels. You are going to want some reliable
hardware. The only thing I've seen on the e-machines web site
(http://www.emachines.com/) was a page of directions on how to ship the
machines back to the factory.
-rn
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From: Darren Poulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Radio card - SF16-FMR
Date: Sun, 19 Sep 1999 03:50:00 +0100
I've got myself an SF16-FMR radio card which works under windows, but this
isn't exactly ideal!
I've tried the sf16 driver from the kernel, but I can't get any sound out of it
whatsoever.
Has anyone else had any luck with a card like this, or can anyone offer me any
tips?
TIA
Darren
Reply by mail please <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Linux-Hardware Digest #287
Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 02:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which modem to take (elmer smeckert)
the HZ macro.. err. (maybe a trivia question) ("Vladimir G. Stanishev")
HELP!! X problems:ATI Rage LT Pro on Compaq 1675 Laptop (Chris Bower)
Addressing SCSI Controllers?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Addressing SCSI Controllers?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: i'm killed 3 cd-rom drives!!! ("Terry Fielder")
PS/2 mouse problems with 2.2.x (Stefan Mueller)
Re: [Q] Dual CPU or double speed single ? Help me to chose please. ("Jose M. Urena")
Re: SB PCI64V (Legacy driver) ("Jose M. Urena")
Re: Help with modem setup (elmer smeckert)
Re: Is emachine's 400i good for Linux ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: Building a small linux box (Allen Ahoffman)
Re: How to SILENCE a MODEM? (elmer smeckert)
Re: modem trouble = IRQ Conflict. (elmer smeckert)
accurate timer - HELP! (Dorin-Ioan Marinca)
how's this for a cheap webserver? (Lyn A Headley)
Re: Dual SCSI Adapter device assignment help? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:56:22 -0700
From: elmer smeckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which modem to take
Roy;
The best source of information for this kind of thing is the
manufacturer.
3Com is on the web and you should be able to find the specs for their modems
on their site. That will be the best source of information.
By the way, another "bad" term to watch for is "RPI" or Rockwel Protocol
Interface."
That is the heart of the Win Modem.
Best wishes.
Roy Goodman wrote:
> I'm looking seriously at a particular laptop which comes with a choice of
> modems and am having trouble getting a straight answer as to whether the
> modems that are offered are WinModems or will work under Linux. I've
> looked at the "Winmodems are not Modems" page and its list of usable and
> unusable modems, and some of these have question marks.
>
> The three modems are:
> Psion Gold Card Global 56Kflex PCMCIA
>
> 3COM Megahertz 56K Global Modem PC Card: model # cc1560i, which has a
> question mark next to it
>
> 3COM 10/100 LAN+56K Modem CardBus PC Card: model #3ccfem656
>
> If nobody has installed one of these, what should I be looking for in the
> documentation for these modems?
>
> Thanks
--
Y los otros animales de la granja tambien se reian de ella.
La vaca que decia "Oink" se sentia muy triste.
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From: "Vladimir G. Stanishev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: the HZ macro.. err. (maybe a trivia question)
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:28:13 -0400
Why would changing the value of HZ change the cpu MHz rate reported by
/proc/cpuinfo? and the bogomips?
here is what I get.
HZ 100
cpuMHz :333.424832
bogomips: 665.19
HZ 1000
cpu: 333.48414
bogomips: 659.46
HZ 1
cpu: 334.168017
bogomips. 604.16
HZ 5
cpu: 343.540026
bogomips: 409.60
HZ 10
cpu: 350.060023
bogomips: 819.20
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From: Chris Bower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP!! X problems:ATI Rage LT Pro on Compaq 1675 Laptop
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 23:33:50 -0500
Help!
Is there any way to get an ATI Rage LT Pro working with X on a laptop?
I've tried everything and have had no success...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Addressing SCSI Controllers??
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 04:42:03 GMT
I have two SCSI Controllers in a Dell 410 Wkstn.
One is an onboard controller aic7890/aic7880 and
the other is an Adaptec 2940AU. Both use the
AIC7XXX driver. Apparently, because of a shared
interrupt on the onboard controller, the second of
two SCSI drives I have connected to this
controller cannot be seen if any device is
connected to the secondary port. I have relocated
all of the devices on the secondary controller to
my 2940AU and they function correctly their. I
can see both disks on the on board controller.
The only problem is that Linux is recognizing the
adapters in the reverse order from what I would
like. The 2940AU is SCSI0 and the onboard
controller is SCSI1. This results in
inconvienient addressing for my SCSI disks. The
JAZ drive and the zip drive I have connected to
the 2940AU are /dev/sda and /dev/sdb respectively.
The two hard drives are /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd.
This would be OK, except the BIOS apparently only
recognizes two boot drives and as a result, LILO
will not boot from the partitions on either drive.
I can boot successfully from diskette but would
like to boot directly from Sys. Commander.
Is there some way that I can get Linux to reverse
the detection order for the two SCSI controllers?
I have investigated devfs, but don't understand it
well enough to tr
Linux-Hardware Digest #287
Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #9Thu, 28 Jan 99 03:13:31 EST
Contents:
Forsale Computer Parts Liquidation (PC'S & PARTS)
Re: Dell XPS R with Linux? Sound card compatibility? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem volume (Jerry Lapham)
Re: linux and k6 chip ("Mark Murray")
Re: Don't post in HTML, it's bad manners (Jose Urena)
Re: Fried system...maybe ("thui")
Re: Netgear FA310TX NIC (Mark Butler)
Re: HELP! Need Monitor (NEC D171) specs. HFreq and VFreq. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ESS-Solo 1 sound cards? (Tabman)
Linux and VME? ("Rodney M. Bates")
Snowblind Rio code ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cheapest Linux "Hardmodem"? Less than $55.95? (David Fox)
Re: Cheapest Linux "Hardmodem"? Less than $55.95? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E
Larson))
Re: Cheapest Linux "Hardmodem"? Less than $55.95? ("SVS")
Re: LINUX PPP on a SPARC10 (James Carlson)
Newbie Soundblaster Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3C905 Problems: Card Does Not Function Under 2.2.0! (Owen Lloyd)
Re: How to add new Video Driver to earlier version of XFree86 (Owen Lloyd)
Re: Ethernet card for DELL Latitude CPi ("Charles D. DeVault")
Re: Lightnux, the slim Linux (Scott Johnson)
SB AudioPCI 64v and Redhat 5.1 ("Tom Gilbert")
From: PC'S & PARTS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Forsale Computer Parts Liquidation
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 04:17:21 GMT
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewListedItems&userid=pcs-parts
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dell XPS R with Linux? Sound card compatibility?
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 17:34:11 GMT
In article <78ad5l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Devin Redlich) wrote:
> In article <785lhg$316$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >I'm looking into the Linux compatibility of the Dell XPS R line (specifically
> >with RedHat 5.2), and have gotten a lot of answers, but I'm not certain of
the
> >sound card. It looks like the options are:
> >
> >o Turtle Beach Montego II A3D 320 Voice PCI Audio Card (apparently a driver
is
> >in the works for the Montego?)
> >o Turtle Beach Montego A3D 64-Voice PCI Audio Card
> >o Integrated Crystal Wavetable
> >
> >Does anyone have experience with any of these? Is support available?
>
> I can only comment on the Montego, and this card is not currently supported
> in any way, shape, or form. Opensound (http://www.opensound.com) is
> working on a driver (which will cost you a little money), and they claim
> it'll be ready around april or so.
>
FYI last July after I got the XPS 400 I looked at Opensound and they were
saying they expected a driver in August (98). At this rate it could take
forever. The moral of the story is if you want sound in Linux on your
XPS 400 you may want to switch cards.
= Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network
http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham)
Subject: Re: Modem volume
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 22:52:29 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/27/99
at 12:04 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben) said:
> While I am able to dial-up in Linux with no hassles, I am unable to turn
> off the dialing tone (no volume control on my modem). Redhat 5.2 lists
> my modem init string as ATZ, and the dialing commnad as ATDT. The modem
> manual lists the volume string as M0. However, knowing this has not
> enabled me to turn it off. Could someone please help me with sending the
> string to the modem.
Try initializing with ATM0 instead of ATZ.
-Jerry
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Jerry Lapham, Monroe, OH
E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Written Tuesday, January 26, 1999 - 10:52 PM (EST)
MR/2 Ice tag: ...as kosher as a ham and cheese sandwich.
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From: "Mark Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux and k6 chip
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:35:30 -0500
>Larry wrote:
>
>> hello one and all I was going to try and still am to build my own linux
box
>> with the k6 300 chip and I am seeing good and bad luck here,was just
>> wondering if I am going or making the right move with the k6
>> chip?,larry
>
Larry,
I've been running a K6-2 300 (Overclocked to 336MHz by running the front
side bus at 112MHz) for over 6 mos. This chip has been as solid as I could
ever hope for. I've re-compliled the kernel several times (while continuing
to surf and do other stuff) and it never even hiccups.
Despite the fact that I'm
