Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #14Wed, 20 Dec 00 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux? (Bob Marcan)
Re: Who is happy with their linux/xwindows hardware? ("Kilian A. Foth")
Re: Hard disk partition problem (Richard Kimber)
Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 (Richard Kimber)
Problems with promise u 66 (Wolfgang Schmidt)
Re: AT LAAAST !!! YIPPEEE! (Jerra)
Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux! (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: PCMCIA, winmodems(gag), and Acer TravelMate (Joe Merlino)
Re: PCMCIA, winmodems(gag), and Acer TravelMate (Brian Delaney)
Adding Memory to an A-Trend ATC-6240v Motherboard (mike)
ATI Rage Mobility-AGP2x on Dell 7500 (Inspiron) Redhat Linux v7.x... (MWencek)
CPU temp (ekk)
3Com 3CCFE575CT PCMCIA on Dell Inspiron 7500 (MWencek)
Re: Zoom / Lucent winmodem with mandrake 7.1 (bob)
Re: Installing ISA modem (Colin Alie)
SCSI errors... (Colin Alie)
Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux! (John Travis)
MyLinux PDA Project Site... (Rob Wehrli)
From: Bob Marcan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:12:11 +0100
Carlos wrote:
Suppose the memory that holds the kernel segment that responds to memory
errors goes bad? ("Kernel panic: Error in error handler!") When you
set up a system to report faults, it is best to make sure the faults
being detected can't bugger the reporting system--which means in this
case, putting the ECC error handler in ROM.
Well, that is certainly a possible way to detect errors ;-)
Now, ECC memory can detect and CORRECT a number of bits (I think that on
64bits it could correct 2 erroneous bits and detect 4, but don't quote me
on this...). Lets say that a chip has one bad bit (or a bad "row" of
bits not in the same word) then it could detect and correct the problem
(so that there is no kernel panic) but still report it to root so that
he/she knows that there is a bad chip...
Carlos
In early days (80s) memory boards were not so stable.
VMS disables physical memory page (512B) and report to errlog.
Also the command SHOW SYSTEM shows the offending page.
Today: i got original additional 128MB ECC RAM for my Compaq AP200.
NT simply crashes from time to time, on Linux this part of memory
was mainly used as cache and i got corrupted data.
Hm.
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Astertel:+386 (1) 5894-329
Nade Ovcakove 1 fax:+386 (1) 5894-201
1000 Ljubljana, Sloveniahttp://www.aster.si
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From: "Kilian A. Foth" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Who is happy with their linux/xwindows hardware?
Date: 20 Dec 2000 12:15:25 GMT
Dan Hull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to run linux with xwindows, possibly a multi-monitor setup. Is
there anyone with a fairly recent mass-market, mainly off-the-shelf pc which
they are happy with as a platform for this software? Do you do dual boot or
pure linux?
Any advice about an readily available, fairly trouble-free linux platform,
especially one that can be extended to multi-monitor mode, I'd much
appreciate.
My box is a totally off-the-shelf Fujitsu Pentium III, and both SuSE
7.0 and Win98SE use all of the hardware without complaint, even the
cheap on-chip soundblaster. Multihead setup is reputed to be easy
under X11 (not that I've ever done it). About Win I have no
clue.
--
``The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.''
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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From: Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hard disk partition problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:41:15 +
Mark Post wrote:
On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:31:25 +, Richard Kimber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Mark Post wrote:
-snip-
Based on the device numbers sda5 and sda6, I would guess that you have
one
extended partition, with several logical partitions within it. The
extended partition is most likely partition #4, which means that the
first, second, etc. logical partitions within it would be /dev/sda5,
/dev/sda6, etc.
Mark Post
Hmmmn. Interesting. That could certainly explain it. Though I didn't
realise that the extended partition within which the logical partitions
fit gets its own device.
That's because it doesn't. It's just that device names are keyed off
partition numbers (in a general sense). 1hda1 2hda2 6hda6.
The _physical_ (primary/extended) partitions are numbered 1 through 4.
The logical partitions are numbered 5 and up (just in case you define the
maximum number of primary partitions). Since you can't really access an
extended partition, only the
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #13Sun, 18 Jun 00 13:13:16 EDT
Contents:
mount ("cOn")
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Re: ext2 filesystem. (Dances With Crows)
Re: Great ZIP problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: soundblaster pci 128 in linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cordless Mouse Problem (gbass)
Logitech Cordless Wheelmouse Problem (gbass)
Re: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Books (H Dziardziel)
ATi Rage 128 PRO AGP 4x ("Ralf K. Wiegand")
Re: Can't use "setserial" command to setup modem. (H Dziardziel)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (JEDIDIAH)
Motorola VoiceSurfr 56K under Corel Linux? ("Steven")
Re: soundblaster pci 128 in linux? (Andreas Tretow)
Re: Hardware Problems? (Steve Martin)
From: "cOn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: mount
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:14:08 +0500
Reply-To: "cOn" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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hi,
does anyone know how to mount a win98 partition on RH 5.2?
I tried both the=20
mount -t msdos /dev/hd* /mnt
and
mount -t vfat /dev/hd* /mnt
although it works but i want to get rid of this error, which occurs =
everytime i access the mounted fs:
fat_clusters_flush:did not find calid FSINFO signature. Found 0x0 =
offset=3D0x1e0
thanx,
cOn
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on RH=20
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DIVFONT face=3DArialand/FONT/DIV
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Date: 18 Jun 2000 09:58:08 -0400
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:42:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SECURITY
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Prevent anyone displaying on X remotely (man xauth)
No man page or xauth required:
xhost -
will do.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem.
Date: 18 Jun 2000 10:00:59 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:30:47 GMT, B
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shouted forth into the ether:
i recently put a 210 Mb hdd in it (in addition to my 540 Mb hdd) and it
already had the MS fat filesystem on it, and it runs REALLY slow (like the
dox say) and i want to know how to make it user the ext2 filesystem.
fdisk it, then mke2fs it. Simple as that.
number 2)
i have a yamaha Opl-SAx sound card and was wondering how to use the on board
ide controller for it (i couldnt find it in all the options when i compiled
the kernel, and i cant find any docs on it)
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt for starters. Keep in mind that even
if you do manage to get it working, it will be very slow.
number 3)
i cant get apache (v 1.3) to look for user dirctories. i have made a
'public_html' directory on the user i wanted to test it with, but i get
"Forbidden" error, no matter ,who owns the files/directory, or what chmod
values i set on them
In httpd.conf, what's the value of ServerName? It should match your
machine's fully qualified domain name if you have one, your IP address if
you're connected to the Net but have no FQDN, or "localhost" if you're not
connected. (Found that out the hard way, I did. Apache apparently
converts the http://whatever/~myhome to http://ServerName/~myhome when it
does lookups for ~s.)
number 4)
when i boot to my compiled kernel, the computer do
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #10Mon, 19 Apr 99 09:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (GAZZA)
Newbie--3c509b can't recognize ("Kevin")
Creative Banshee pci ("Tony")
Re: Programmers are gods ("Nostril Of Happiness")
From: GAZZA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:01:18 +0800
westprog wrote:
Firstly, GAZZA, thank you for remaining polite and debating the
issues (e.g. not accusing me of inane rants, etc.); it seems that
case sensitivity is a sensitive issue for some people. Your tabloid
image seems to be a gross misrepresentation.
My "tabloid image"? Err...perhaps you mean that "Gazza" is the
nickname of the soccer player Paul Gascoyne (sp?). In all fairness,
I'm not that personage; my name is Gary, and Gazza is just a
"short" name for it. (Like "Tel" for "Terry"; maybe you either have
to be English or a Minder fan).
In any case, though, you haven't been rude. We have a disagreement,
but I have never seen arguments won through descent to personal
insults. Besides, you do make it easier for me to understand your
position - even if I still don't actually agree with it.
This could be useful, indeed. The trouble is that now you have
"Object" and "object", which mean different things - if you fail
to press the shift key at the right time, you get a valid
symbol in the wrong place.
No, you don't. You get an INvalid symbol in the wrong place. This
distinction is very important; the compiler (or a good GUI) will
spot this INSTANTLY.
I was trying to think of an instance where a class definition and
instantiation could be confused by the compiler, but I couldn't
think of it.
Actually, you've got me there. Even in Fortran, where (IIRC) you
can happily use commands as variables (ie there are no "reserved
words"), the compiler can't get confused.
So case sensitivity doesn't really buy you anything here from a
compiler perspective (although I maintain it is still a handy
thing to be able to declare a variable object of type Object).
I profess to a certain ignorance here - in a language like Delphi
(which I don't know, but I've heard is basically OO Pascal and
presumably has the same case insensitivity of Pascal), is it
possible to "overload" on class names and variable identifiers?
(It's certainly not possible in the "C family", but due to case
sensitivity it's less necessary).
This leads to confusion if you are discussing the code with
someone - "Object" sounds quite similar to "object", and it looks
very alike when written on a whiteboard.
I don't tend to write up code on whiteboards, just designs. When I
want to discuss code, I get a printout. Is my methodolody in this
respect so very unusual?
Not unusual, but not universal. I often find myself discussing class
definitions with colleagues, or writing brief code fragments on a
whiteboard, where my handwriting makes Object and object very easy
to confuse.
I accept the point, then. My handwriting is probably worse than
yours, which is a large reason I avoid writing code "freehand". ;-)
I don't think that it is up to the compiler to force "natural
looking" code; that is appropriate for an editor.
Well, we disagree. Fair enough.
The C standard enforces on very limited instance of coding
standards; i.e. not having the same variable written in two
different ways; it prevents a lot of other standards. For example,
it isn't possible to write your keywords in uppercase, or with
an initial uppercase letter.
This would be a feature of any language, however, if we look
outside the case for a moment. If you compare the way to write
"Hello World" to the screen in various languages, you'll instantly
note that there are always subtle differences in context. It's not
unreasonable to want a language where YOU specify what the command
to display "Hello World" looks like - and indeed you can, if you
create a function that does that and encapsulates the details away.
For example, you could create a standard include file with a bunch
of #defines to use uppercase keywords.
Although I must be honest - such a procedure is fraught with danger,
and really cannot be advised. I accept that this is a limitation
of case sensitive languages - albeit one that I don't find oppressive
(I tend to write Pascal with all lower case keywords, too).
The problem I have is that case is used, as it should be, to make
the text representation of a program more readable. This has, in
case-sensitive langua
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #9 Wed, 30 Dec 98 18:13:36 EST
Contents:
Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am stuck
in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! (THE DUNGEONS OF
DOOM)
Damaged ext2 filesystem (Miikka-Markus Alhonen)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOM)
Re: Linux Laptop (=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Wieser)
Re: LS120 (garv)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I haveCox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SOHELP !!! (Mantikor)
Re: Viking External Modem Works! (Nathan Zalman)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (Phillip Deackes)
Re: ATX Power Supplies and Linux - RedHat 5.2 (garv)
Re: Micro Star mother board MS-5169 (garv)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have (Michael)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Graham Murray)
Re: RC.INET (Josef Elias Norgan)
Re: COMPUTERCRAFT archives of Linux USENET groups (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Can run a AMD K6-2 300 with a ASUS TX 97 X MB ??
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! (Rick Moen)
Re: kernel panic! ("Exiguus DeBartolo")
AWE64 or PCI128? ("Tim Gajewski, KU4IY")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:46:46 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
P.S:
PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
USED TO RH LINUX. ALSO, PLEASE DO NOT TELL ME HOW
