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Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 09:13:13 EDT Contents: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com ("J.Teo") Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Mike N) Re: ProSavage PM133 (Tim Roberts) Re: Framegrabber recommendations? (Louis Boyd) Re: how to use MOD (Magneto Optical) drive under redhat 7.0? ("Dave Stanton") Re: Onboard video and eMachines ("larry") Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Kenneth Rørvik) Webcam ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Georg Acher) Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter (Martin Strasser) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? ("C. Newport") Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Buffalo LPC4-TX pcmcia nic (Nick De Roeck) Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (Harri Haataja) ELSA Microlink Modem ("sfer") Re: digital camera (Jef Peeraer) Re: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a. JE) (Kenneth Rørvik) Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem (Jonadab the Unsightly One) where are the modem settings held? ("stevek") From: "J.Teo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:18:10 GMT > There are a lot of cool things happening in Linux, and Sun is right to > realise it should get involved and make use of these things. After all > the Linux sparc port has been around a while and people like me are > scooping up old Sun equipment to run it on because we know it's going to > be much better than on a PC, and much cheaper than Solaris! Would you be kind enough to explain to me why buying old Sun equipment and putting Linux on it would make it cheaper than Solaris? -- From: Mike N <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 05:28:49 GMT On Mon, 07 May 2001 01:03:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown) wrote: >On Mon, 07 May 2001 01:28:28 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>... >>As for your question about why they didn't start producing Cobalts with >>sparc processors, well maybe the writing is on the wall for the >>traditional sparc OS[...blah blah] > >the reason is because intel hardware is cheaper, and one of the main >selling points about cobalt boxes is that they are CHEAP. I recently spoke to a fellow at ISPCON whose title at Sun/Cobalt is "Evangelism Manager" (Kick ass title IMHO!) His take is that the switch to x86 hardware is due to the more readily available base of code for the x86 arch. The MIPS arch. while very good performing has to have the code ported to it which costs time and money in the development department. So why reinvent the wheel? So the descision was made to go to X86. Sigh. > >[yes, I know they used to be MIPS based. same reason; they got a good > deal on the processor they needed. but now it is more cost-effective > to use intel hardware] Mike N -- From: Tim Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: jaring.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x Subject: Re: ProSavage PM133 Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:30:44 -0700 "goolias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi,all >For those having problems with ProSavage PM133 >( Pro Savage KM133 is for Athlon system ) built in VGA in Via >chipset, goto download driver from www.s3graphics.com >( I can't find this url registered in google, however it really exist ) >it's s3savage-1.0-13.tar.gz, those listed in s3 nextmill site doesn't work >for me until this driver ( in s3 nextmill it was in earlier version 1.0-6 ) The most recent version is 1.1.15, and is downloadable from http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html. >However, I can get it start in 640x480 16 bppmode only, I can get it work >in 800x600 16 bpp. You should be able to get whatever fits in the memory you've allocated to graphics. -- - Tim Roberts, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- From: Louis Boyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Framegrabber recommendations? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 06:14:44 + Steve Snyder wrote: > > Hello. > > I am looking for hardware/software advice for a framegrabber in Linux. > While I am very familiar with Linux, I know roughl
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Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #13 Mon, 16 Oct 00 09:13:06 EDT Contents: Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) (John) Re: IRQ conflicts? (John) Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) (Henrik Sorensen) Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) (Henrik Sorensen) Re: A decent tape drvie? (System V) Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!! ("Unknown User") Re: PCI bus problem with ASUS A7V? (kept) Re: RedHat6.2 (or other) on Asus A7V Athlon system (kept) Re: Athlon TB 750 + Asus A7V with RH6.2 (kept) Re: optical mouse for RedHat? (Simone Contini) dds3 streamer density code (achim) Re: Help with winmodem (M. Buchenrieder) Voodoo 3 2000 DRI Drivers / XF86Config (Neil Watson) Re: Voodoo 3 2000 DRI Drivers / XF86Config (Kenneth Rørvik) linux box ("Minotaur") Proxim Symphony and RH7? ("John Brooks") Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (James Knott) HP35480A scsi tape drive config ("Guy Smith") Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (Lew Pitcher) From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) Date: 16 Oct 2000 12:47:13 +0800 Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You tried to access an IDE disk 3 times simultaneously. IDE is a > piss-poor technology for multiple access on the same bus or disk. Not three. Six - 3 input files, 3 output files. The tests force the drive to seek; copying one file to another causes a lot less seeking that copying three files simultaneously. -- -- From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: IRQ conflicts? Date: 16 Oct 2000 13:09:59 +0800 jdbow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying, thus far in vain, to pinpoint why my system hangs (really, > the power switch doesn't even work) periodically in X. Might the shared > IRQ shown below (between my network card and Video card) be the > problem? More importantly, how do I change it? I have (I think) freed > up IRQs from 4 to 15 in my BIOS, yet IRQ 11 seems to want to be shared. > My /proc/pci follows: You don't say what kernel. Shared PCI interrupts is supposed not to be a problem. /proc/interrupts would be more useful. You may be able to rearrange interrupts by either a BIOS setting or by moving the network card to another slot. -- -- From: Henrik Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:35:44 +0200 Thanks for your comments. Greg Leblanc wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Henrik Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi! > You tried to access an IDE disk 3 times simultaneously. IDE is a > piss-poor technology for multiple access on the same bus or disk. You are probably right, but if I can schedule 3 sequential processes that completes faster, than the 3 simultaneous one, then I would expect the kernel to be able to do so as well. > > > The tests I did was not very scientific, but copied a 1GB file > multiple > > times. > > The happy test command was: > > time cp filea.1GB fileb.1GB, result real: 118s, 2GB/118s=17MB/s > > The unhappy test was (at 3 different command prompts): > > time cp filea.1GB filec.1GB, result real: 16.0s > > time cp filea.1GB filed.1GB, result real: 16.6s > > time cp filea.1GB filee.1GB, result real: 16.9s > > avg result for 3 processes: 6GB/990s=6.2MB/s ;- > > You must do math a little differently than I do. Where does that 990 > seconds come from? My calculations yield 495 seconds (assuming that > those are supposed to be 160,166,169), for a throughput of about > 12MB/sec. Sorry, it should have read 16m0s,16m6s and 16m9s avg=965s, and the rate 6.3MB/s, still depressing. thanks -- From: Henrik Sorensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ide/udma66: does not scale. (suse 7.0 Linux 2.2.16) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 09:40:06 +0200 Thanks for your comments. Mark Hahn wrote: > > >> The joy would not end as my udma 66 controller delivered 17MB/s with > > current disks deliver ~25-35 MB/s. Which version of Linux, drivers and disks? > > You tried to access an IDE disk 3 times simultaneously. IDE is a > > piss-poor technology for multiple access on the same bus or disk. > > this is nonsense, since Linux schedules IDE activity. > IDE is a superlatively cost-effective "technology". This was one of mine points. Since I can run 3 sequential jobs faster than the 3 simultaneous ones, then this leaves some room for improvement of the kernel IDE scheduler. Henrik -- From: [EMAIL PROTEC
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Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:14:40 EDT Contents: Re: HOT HD (Charlie Brown) FS: toshiba 430CDT and ZipDrive $480 and FDC settlement of $100! (Chris T) Re: Best printer for linux box? (John Hong) Setting up a Sound card / Setting up a standart modem in Corel LINUX ("Boomer") Re: Web Camera (Dave Edick) AMD K6 II 350 MHZ bug? ("Peter Buchmann") Re: dec rz 25 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Floppy format problem. ("Gene Heskett") Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? (CaT) Re: AMD K6 II 350 MHZ bug? (Wolfgang Fritz) Re: What is the most IDE drives a box can have? (h0l0gRaM) Re: SB 128PCI setup (h0l0gRaM) paride useage ("Glenn Robinson") insmod and 3c509 (Bob) Motorola SM56 WinModem support under Linux? ("Saso Trendafilov") Help PLEASE (Soteropoulos Demetris) Re: Sound Card Help: Essolo ES1938 (niels) gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen ("Stephan Weber") Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen ("Martin") Re: Motorola SM56 WinModem support under Linux? (Rob Clark) Re: need help with a modem config (Conexant) (Jeff Hall) Daemon ("Ian") Guillemot Xentor 16 MB (Harry Schindler) =?utf-8?Q?Re:_gesplittete_Partition_wieder_zu_einer_zusammenf=C3=BCgen?= (Ulli Rain) ATT: Pls help again: Problems ("eliz154") Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use - Zoomair? (David Usherwood) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown) Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage Subject: Re: HOT HD Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 04:50:42 GMT On Mon, 24 Apr 2000 03:01:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger) shocked the world by writing: >On Sun, 23 Apr 2000 16:59:31 GMT, Charlie Brown wrote: >>>Any HDD over 6GiB is reccomended to sit in a 5 1/4" bay with a HDD cooling >>>unit. HDD coolers are relatively inexpensive, and could save you lots of >>>trouble and expense somewhere down the road. >> >>Who, exactly, is this recommended by? >>Not the drive makers. > >Anybody who's ever touched the bottom of an over-heated drive, or had drive >componants fuse together? Does that mean, as you said above, that all >6 gig drives do that? I don't think so. > >I believe I've even seen some provisos in drive warranties that mandate the >use of sufficient cooling mechanisms. Your case just might have good enough >airflow, and your operating environment is likely cool enough. I have no problem with *some* drives needing extra cooling. It's the "Any HDD over 6GiB is reccomended to sit in a 5 1/4" bay with a HDD cooling unit" statement that I'm questioning. > >Or, you could just have cool-running drives. > >-- >Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/ >[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately) >Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.2.14 -- From: Chris T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.laptops,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.portables Subject: FS: toshiba 430CDT and ZipDrive $480 and FDC settlement of $100! Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 01:01:52 -0700 I have my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with an active matrix LCD for sale. The CPU is a Pentium running at 120mhz, it has the CD-ROM attachment and the Floppy Disk attachment. The condition is fair because of a small crack near one of the hinges (I think this a common problem) and there are a couple of stickers on the case (a CRYSTAL METHOD and a SWITCH BLADE SYMPHONY). I still have the original manuals as I'm the original owner. Also included is a PC-Card FaxModem rated at 56k Flex. I will not erase the HD which has MS OFFICE 97 PRO, running MS Windows 98, MS MONEY 99 and more! You will be responsible to delete those Apps. I will include a very nice laptop bag which the Satellite Pro fits very well in and an external mouse (when you don't want to use the trackpoint) NEW PRICE $480 (need the cash for taxes). Also as a recent addition I will include my Zip Drive as well because I realized that I won't need it after the sale. Also after going to Toshiba's web site to update the drivers I notice a settlement from the FDC that entitles Toshiba laptops owners towards $100 free on Toshiba products this is the web site for more details: http://www.csd.toshiba.com/cgi-bin/tais/support/notices/fdcsettlement.jsp E-mail me for more info (one the laptop NOT the legal settlement I am not a lawyer) or if you wish to buy the laptop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or I prefer [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong) Subject: Re: Be
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Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #10 Sun, 11 Jul 99 18:13:59 EDT Contents: Re: question aboot windows partition (Joceli Mayer) ACAD for Linux ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ACAD for Linux ... ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HELP!!! Anyone??? Someone??? Please??? ("Randy") Memory not found past 64MB (AMD K6-3, AGP Video, M598 Super Socket 7) (Ben Greear) Anyone know about Linux support of Castlewood's ORB? (EIDE I/F) (Jenni G) Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Brian Hartman) Re: Internal Modem (Glitch) Re: Memory not found past 64MB (AMD K6-3, AGP Video, M598 Super Socket (Ben Greear) 7895 SCSI Driver SMP Safe? (Jim Battin) Init fails to load (Aaron Tomb) Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy (Barry Samuels) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (David T. Wang) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (David T. Wang) Linksys Parascsi Plus Linux Drivers (Prime Number) OverClocking ("ChenthilWhelan") Re: HELP!!! Anyone??? Someone??? Please??? (Richard Nilsson) Viper 770 ("Peter Nugter") From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: question aboot windows partition Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 11:59:48 -0700 Brian Devlin wrote: > Is there a way to see the long filesnames on my windows partition. > > Thanks > Patrick Devlin mount your dos/win partition using "vfat" as "mount -t vfat /dev/ /mnt/win" This should work -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ACAD for Linux ... Date: Sat,10 Jul 1999 19:21:33+2000 Look at this web page to learn more about ACAD for Linux !!! http://209.218.86.64/linux.html If you know someone who can be interested in that please tell him or her about this web page. Thank you for your time. -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ACAD for Linux ... Date: Sat,10 Jul 1999 19:21:33+2000 Look at this web page to learn more about ACAD for Linux !!! http://209.218.86.64/linux.html If you know someone who can be interested in that please tell him or her about this web page. Thank you for your time. -- From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x Subject: HELP!!! Anyone??? Someone??? Please??? Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 22:15:35 -0400 Okay... I can't take this anymore... I cannot seem to get anything to work with the resolution in Xwindows... I have a Diamond SpeedStar A50 8MB AGP video card, it has a SiS6326 AGP Controller... I have an Impression 50 Plus 15in. (13.8in. viewable)... Horizontal Sync rates are 30-55 KHz... Vertical Sync rates are 50-120 the Max resolution is 1024 dotsX768 line (at 60Hz)... I'd love to be able to have 800x600 res. with at least 256 color... Supposedly, the A50 uses the SVGA driver, but the only driver that I can get to work to the point where I don't have any display problems is VGA16... with 16 color and a resolution of 640x480... put I have to scroll around on the screen to see everything... If ANYONE out there knows how to help me in any way, please let me know... my email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks, Randy -- From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Memory not found past 64MB (AMD K6-3, AGP Video, M598 Super Socket 7) Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1999 19:49:50 GMT Just got a new computer, and having some issues. The specs are: AMD K6-3 @ 450Mhz 128MB PC100 RAM (I have another 64M stick I put in at one time too.) M598 Super Socket 7 Motherboard, with builtin SiS AGP 5595 Video. (8M of RAM) Winbond w89c840 ethernet card I first installed RH 6.0, which comes with the 2.2.5-15 kernel. I also tried the latest 2.2.10 kernel. The problem is that, while the BIOS seems to detect the memory just fine, top never shows more than 64M being available. This remains the same, whether or not I have just the 128MB RAM stick in, or both the 128 and the 64M stick in. I tried forcing the kernel to use 192 (with both sticks in) using a lilo.conf that looks like this: [greear@grok greear]$ more /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b prompt timeout=50 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15 label=orig root=/dev/hda1 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.10 label=dev root=/dev/hda1 append="mem=192M" read-only [greear@grok greear]$ When I tried booting the 'dev' kernel with these options, I got a kernel dump that completely froze the system (had to power cycle). If that pr
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Linux-Hardware Digest #737, Volume #9Fri, 19 Mar 99 13:13:30 EST Contents: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat) (jedi) Re: ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP (long, XF86config included) (Mircea) Canon Digital Camera ("John E. Hagensieker") fighting with X ("Kabal") Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Guess Who) Re: SiS 5597/5598 video (M.K. Christopher) Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat) (Jeff Szarka) Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Sessionfalls flat) (jedi) Re: lost "RPM" (Allen) Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Ed Falis) Re: SiS 5597/5598 video (Ken Oster) Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Richard Steiner) STB Velocity 128 Video Card ("John") Re: 3c905b-TX with Mandrake 5.3 (or any Linux2.2) ("H Brett Bolen") But, but...I have an Internal IDE Zip Drive... (Thomas Lepkowski) Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Steve) Re: Xcdroast, hp7200i IDE not mounting problem (Thomas Zajic) Re: Need advice on video card and monitor for Linux-X (QSC) Re: need help installing legecy sb16 on RH 5.2 (2.0.36) (David Pace) Re: Zenith laptop video chipset woes (long) (Cory Seligman) Re: lost "RPM" (David McKinney) Re: buying a linux box -- advice? (Brad Harris) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi) Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat) Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 07:43:11 -0800 On 19 Mar 1999 07:42:51 GMT, Jeff Szarka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:03:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi) >wrote: > >:On 14 Mar 1999 12:21:03 -0600, Jeff Szarka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >:>On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 16:43:45 +, Michael McConnell >:><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >:> >:>:On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Don wrote: >:>: >:>:> Gerhard Traeger wrote: >:>:> > >:>:> > On 14 Mar 1999 01:49:07 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka) wrote: >:>:> > >:>:> > > Problem: I want to change my resolution. >:>:> > >:>:> > > Linux: >:>:> > > Edit config files and god know's what else >:>:> > >:>:> > He? >:>:> > Where´ve you got this one? >:>:> > Changing spatial resolution for X-servers is done by pressing >:>:> > ++ or ++ >:>:> >:>:> I saw this and just thought I would add that it doesnt work for me. And >:>:> I still got a lot of stuff that doesnt work in the linux windows. After >:>:> 4 installs, I did get it to basically work, but it wont do anything once >:>:> you start it. I probably need to edit about 40 files to fix each >:>:> problem. >:>: >:>:If your XF86Config file is set up only for one resolution it won't work. If, >:>:like mine and Gerhard's setups where multiple resolutions have been >:>:configured, it works really well. Though, I have to admit I only use it to >:>:simulate full-screen on my TV card. >:> >:> >:>So.I still have to edit files? >: >: No, you'll just have to rerun the configuration applet, >: much like you would have to do under Windows. The one >: in Windows is just prettier. >: > >Funny thing about that, when I set more then one resolution it makes a >virtual desktop, which I hate..so..Looks like more editing >huh? While you might not happen to like this particular solution, it certainly does prevent the sort of icon rearrangements that happen with explorer under a resswitch. [deletia] -- "I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die ||| while you discuss this a invasion in committe."/ | \ In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com -- From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP (long, XF86config included) Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:44:58 GMT ATI Xp@P 8M AGP, in Slackware 3.6, kernel 2.2.2, X-3.3.2. Here's my xf86config (the relevant part only): Section "Device" Identifier "Primary Card" VendorName "Unknown" BoardName "ATI Xpert@Play PCI and AGP, 3D Rage Pro" Ramdac "internal" Chipset "mach64" VideoRam8192 EndSection Section "Screen" Driver "Accel&q