Linux-Hardware Digest #8
Linux-Hardware Digest #8, Volume #10 Mon, 12 Apr 99 20:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (Mark Nielsen)
Re: Compiling for x86 CPUs (Was: ... seperate "i686" tree for Redhat ...) (StatiK)
Re: With dual-processor system, is SCSI a must or is Ultra-DMA enough? (Johan
Kullstam)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
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Re: Scanning temp. freezes system w/ ISA scsi card (Bill)
Linux on an Austin notebook? (Craig McCluskey)
New user: Vidio server Intel 740 (Roger Doulis)
Re: ES 1371 on Intel 440BX motherboard (Harry McGregor)
Re: 2.2.x/2.2.5 kernel no like ATAPI CDR(W) or Acer 8x CD (Brian Walker)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Nielsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
Date: 12 Apr 1999 15:06:57 -0400
>The problem is that I can't find any of these being sold anywhere. The
>closest model number I can find is 1787, and I can't find any technical
>details that tell if this one would probably be compatible, too. I'm curious
>if anyone else out there has had any success with this model.
>
>Also, if you know of another 56K modem that works well with linux, I wouldn't
>mind hearing about that, either.
Well, I try not to plug my company when responding to questions, but...
I sell a $50 egenric modem Internal ISA that you can jumper.
I also sell USR internal for $84.
An external one for less than $100.
If you use an external one, just attach it to one of your serial ports.
MArk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (StatiK)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Compiling for x86 CPUs (Was: ... seperate "i686" tree for Redhat ...)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:02:32 GMT
Buy another Pro / P][ and get rid of the dx2!!
StatiK
On 12 Apr 1999 14:28:40 +0200, Urs Thuermann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> -mcpu=i686 makes the compiler schedule for a i686 core. it uses only
>> the i386 instruction set.
>>
>> -march=i686 enables usage of i686 instructions like cmov (which did
>> not exist on i[345]86. it also implies cpu=i686.
>>
>> if you compile with -mcpu=i686, then yes, it would work with any of
>> intels 32bit x86 cpus. however, by using -march=i686 you will
>> introduce new op-codes which are not implemented on previous
>> processors.
>>
>> based by my own experience with compiling various things with egcs
>> on a pentiumpro, it is not very important for performance no matter
>> what the cpu or arch settings are so long as you avoid pentium.
>
>
>Could someone give some more details about this whole story, please?
>I seem to have problems with this issue since a few days.
>
>I have a Pentium II running in my server machine (which has only a
>Herkules Video card and an Atari ST attached to the serial port) and a
>i486dx2 in my diskless client running Linux and X11.
>
>Both machines run the same 2.0.36 kernel image, the diskless machine
>has its own /tftpboot dir on the server and shares the /usr with the
>server (it mounts /usr read-only, though).
>
>I run egcs-1.1.2 and gcc-2.7.2.3 which have both configured themselves
>as a i686-pc-linux-gnu native compiler. What kind of code will these
>produce if called without any -m... option? How should I invoke egcs
>and gcc-2.7.2.3 to compile with maximum performance on i686 but with
>the constraint that the code should also be executable on i486?
>
>
>
>The problem I am observing is this: With egcs configured as described
>above I compiled the glibc-2.1. When I copy /lib/lib*2.1.so and the
>other glibc-2.1 files to the diskless' /tftpboot directory, the
>diskless i486 won't boot anymore. The statically linked /sbin/init
>seems ok, but (at least) the agetty's die immediately with an SIGILL
>(illegal instruction). So I assume, glibc-2.1 is compiled in a way by
>egcs so that it only runs on i686. This may, however, also be caused
>by glibc itself. glibc-2.1 configured itself as i686-pc-linux-gnu
>also, and obviously has code for this case, which is i686-specific,
>e.g. in glibc-2.1/sysdeps/libm-i387/i686/s_fdim.S there are
>fcomi/fucomi instructions. I think I read in this thread that th
Linux-Hardware Digest #8
Linux-Hardware Digest #8, Volume #9 Tue, 22 Dec 98 01:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI card (Henrik Carlqvist)
Linux w/z PCMCIA *Ethernet+DigitalCam* ("Sven Burgener")
Re: SCSI Seagate TapeStore 8GB not coming close to 4 GB (Bruce Barnett)
Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2 (Dan Nguyen)
Dell Ultra ATA controller? (Chris Deiss)
Re: My PnP soundcard hates my PnP modem ("Nate Cull")
Compatible tape backup systems? (Bruce Barnett)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Bruce Barnett)
Re: Modem Initialisation under RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Connectix VC and Linux (Christian Brideau)
Re: d-link pcmcia ethernet adapter??? (Raj Singh)
help with SCSI/Samba (Raj Singh)
Xfree and old toshiba (Sir Merdaillon 1er)
Re: OPTi931 sound chip supported? (Shmulevich Mikhail)
Networking Question (Paul Triolo)
Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2 (Eugen Dueck)
Re: NVidia TNT performance ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Creative SBLIVE & Linux (Jan-Bart de Vreede)
Re: Linksys Ether16 LAN Card and Artisoft AE-2 or AE-3 (JunkDTectr)
Re: printing with HP 870cSE (Geoff Allsup)
Re: ISDN cards on LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mouse won't work properly! (Jonathan Wurtz)
Re: Turtle Beach Montego AGP sound card ("Alan Davies")
From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI card
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1998 19:11:59 +0100
Mircea wrote:
>
> Get the ALSA drivers. I can't remember the address,
It's at http://alsa.jcu.cz/
regards Henrik
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From: "Sven Burgener" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux w/z PCMCIA *Ethernet+DigitalCam*
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 18:51:04 +0100
Hello there,
have you had any experience in using Linux on a notebook with PCMCIA cards.
One of them being a Ethernet card **which works fine** and the other one is
of my Sony PDR-2 digital camera.
If so, suggest any FAQs / HOWTOs / READMEs??
Thank u!!
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From: Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Seagate TapeStore 8GB not coming close to 4 GB
Date: 22 Dec 1998 01:30:15 GMT
Ed Soniat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am not able to get anywhere near the advertised data on this drive.
> If I tar to it it gets an error and stops, no mention of eot.
> If I dumpt 0 to it it asks for a new tape even tought the partition
> has much less 250Meg on it
Doesn't Linux have the equivalent of the dump/restore utilities of
BSD?
These have always been much faster that tar. Besides, it supports
incremental backups, uses the raw disk for performance, and has a
better interactive restore. I'd be disappointed if it didn't have dump/restore.
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.1.131 & PS/2
Date: 21 Dec 1998 19:03:03 GMT
Eugen Dueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I patched my 2.1.116 kernel up to 2.1.131 and after that my ps / 2
: (logitech oem) mouse doesn't run, neither with gpm nor under X.
: How can I fix this?
If you don't know what your doing perhaps you shouldn't be using the
development kernels. But it sounds like you may have forgotten to
compile support for you PS/2 mouse.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Deiss)
Subject: Dell Ultra ATA controller?
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:35:49 -0800
I'm considering buying a Dell Dimension XPS R, and I'm wondering if anyone
has successfully installed Linux on one of these systems.
In particular I read on the RedHat 5.2 hardware compatibility list that
some Ultra ATA controllers are not supported. I then noticed that some
Dell's have an 'Enhanced EIDE S.M.A.R.T. II Ultra DMA' blah blah blah HD
controller. I'm not sure this even applies to the Dimension series . . .
Any know compatibilities/incompatibilities?
TIA,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Nate Cull")
Subject: Re: My PnP soundcard hates my PnP modem
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:52:54 -0800
>I tryed recompiling my kerenl with sound support as a module. Everything is
okay until I type "make
>module".
What distribution are you using? If you're running Red Hat 5.x, you do NOT
need to recompile your
kernel, it already has pretty much everything (including sound support)
modular. Ignore the old HOWTOs
that mention recompiling, they're just a red herring. (I don't know
