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From: Digestifier <Linux-Misc-Request@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>
To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Reply-To: Linux-Misc@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 94 22:13:16 EDT
Subject: Linux-Misc Digest #802
Linux-Misc Digest #802, Volume #2 Thu, 22 Sep 94 22:13:16 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mitsumi FX001D on SoundBlaster 16 MCD ? (Kees de Bruin)
Re: C++ fabs() not defined in g++??? (Stephen Gourdie)
Re: Linux & Netware. (Joao de Souza)
How to setup SLIP using dip for dynamic IP assignment? (Shan Zhu)
Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help. (Pekka J Taipale)
SB16 MCD and Mitsumi problem - Help (Raymond Ho)
Re: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev (Russell Nelson)
Re: PLIP config problem....Crynwr Drivers (Russell Nelson)
Distibutions??? What are the differences!!! (Barry Kominik)
Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Onno Roep)
Re: Royal Computers - How are hey in general and with Linux? (david forehand)
Is PROMISE SCSI Supported? (Jennifer Griffin)
Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS (Ian McCloghrie)
GCC (templates) on Linux (Michael J. Callahan)
Re: perfmeter no connect (again?) (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
Notebooks: _Backups?_ (Brian M Berry)
Xscreensaver / xdm (Benjamin Alman)
Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk! (Onno Roep)
Re: Does Linux support ATI Mach64 card in non-accelerated mode (Eric F. Sorton)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: bruin@tasking.nl (Kees de Bruin)
Subject: Re: Mitsumi FX001D on SoundBlaster 16 MCD ?
Reply-To: bruin@tasking.nl (Kees de Bruin)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 13:18:05 GMT
Thomas Niederreiter writes:
> Hi!
> Supports the linux-kernel this combination?
Yes, just make sure that the correct IRQ is set in the file mcd.h in the
include/linux directory.
Regards,
--
Kees de Bruin bruin@tasking.nl
Tasking Software B.V. Tel. +31-33-55 85 84
Lead, Follow, or get the Hell out of the way...
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: steve@stevegd.equinox.gen.nz (Stephen Gourdie)
Subject: Re: C++ fabs() not defined in g++???
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 06:44:30 GMT
Andreas Schwab (schwab@ls5.informatik.uni-dortmund.de) wrote:
: In article <1994Sep17.192808.5582@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca>, anibal@ee470.ee.mcgill.ca (Anibal Jodorcovsky) writes:
: |> This is the test.cc program:
: |> #include <iostream.h>
: |> #include <stdlib.h>
: |> #include <math.h>
: |> main()
: |> {
: |> float a, b;
: |> a = 1.1;
: |> b = -2.2;
: |> cout << "a = " << a << " :: fabs(a) = " << fabs(a) << endl;
: |> cout << "b = " << b << " :: fabs(b) = " << fabs(b) << endl;
: |> return 0;
: |> }
: |> and when trying to compile gives this error:
: |> /tmp/cca035731.o: Undefined symbol _fabs referenced from text segment
: |> /tmp/cca035731.o: Undefined symbol _fabs referenced from text segment
: Add -lm to the link command. On the Sun fabs() is probably a macro
compiling the above with the command line
g++ -lm -o test test.cc
I get the following errors
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol endl(ostream &) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol _fabs referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol _cout referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(char const *) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(float) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(char const *) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(double) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(ostream &(*)(ostream &)) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol endl(ostream &) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol _fabs referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol _cout referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(char const *) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(float) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(char const *) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(double) referenced from text segment
/tmp/cca056921.o: Undefined symbol ostream::operator<<(ostream &(*)(ostream &)) referenced from text segment
This occures with all floating point functions as defined in math.h.
Any sugestions?
Steve (steve@stevegd.equinox.gen.nz)
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: jdsouza@nywork2.undp.org (Joao de Souza)
Subject: Re: Linux & Netware.
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 1994 17:09:07 GMT
I (jdsouza@undp.org) wrote:
: Hi all.
: I am running on a Novell Netware / IBM Token Ring network,
: and I was hoping (sp?) to start running Linux on at least one of
: our machines as a test. So the question is: Does Linux support
: Netware and Token Rings?
So far, I got the following answers:
Netware - 2 yes, 2 no, 1 DOSEMU
Token Ring - 1 no, 1 no idea, 1 don't think so, 2 in beta stage
Plus two others who requested more info about how I am trying
to set it up. I guess this was the right answer, so I will
first try to get a beter idea of what I need, then I will ask
for help again.
Thanks to all who responded.
--
########################################
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# Statistical Assistant #
# Information Manager Assistant #
# Regional Bureau for Latin America #
# and the Caribbean #
# United Nations Development Programme #
# #
# jdsouza@undp.org #
# joao.de.souza@undp.org #
# rblac@undp.org #
########################################
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From: shanzhu@eesun1.tamu.edu (Shan Zhu)
Subject: How to setup SLIP using dip for dynamic IP assignment?
Date: 22 Sep 1994 04:10:21 GMT
Hi, there,
Does anyone know how to use dip to setup SLIP for a remote server that
uses dynamic IP address assignment? The sample.dip file doesn't work
for me. The dip version I am using is 3.7.7. If you already made your
SLIP work (with dynamic IP address assignment), could you drop me some
tips or send me your dip script file through email? I really appreciate
your help.
Thanks in advance
--shan
------------------------------
From: pjt@snakemail.hut.fi (Pekka J Taipale)
Subject: Re: Is Linux faster than Os/2? Please help.
Date: 22 Sep 1994 05:55:42 GMT
In article <35pjhk$g8r@progress.progress.com> tomb@bedford.progress.COM (Tom Barringer) writes:
>The X documentation recommends a minimum of 16Mb memory (combination of
>RAM plus swap space) to run well. I understand that Emacs is also a
>memory hog, and I expect that LaTeX is similar, so you probably want to
>bump that up significantly.
Well, not necessarily - depends on what you want to do, as always. I
have 16M RAM and I think it's generally just fine for Linux, and I'm a
not-so-light user. Other operating systems supporting X may of course
use more memory for running the same things.
Right now I have X, emacses, xterms, Kermit and various little things
like xload and xclock running. The "free" programs says this:
# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 15296 14508 788 11456 5140
Swap: 5872 0 5872
#
So, you could still do this in 12M quite comfortably. Having multiple
copies of Emacs doesn't take much more memory per se. Running GNUS
in the emacses does take memory (the listing above includes a GNUS
session to a moderate-size local NNTP server).
--
Pekka.Taipale@hut.fi
------------------------------
From: rayho@ix.netcom.com (Raymond Ho)
Subject: SB16 MCD and Mitsumi problem - Help
Date: 22 Sep 1994 03:24:47 GMT
I have a Mitsumi FX001D controlled by a Sound Blaster 16 MCD. The
SB16 is their latest revision with the Mitsumi CD IO port set at 0x230.
The only options I have are 230, 250, 270 and 290, while with the older
board, the IO port can be set starting at 0x300. I was trying to install
the Yggdrasil Linux, the boot diskette insists on looking for a Sony CD
ROM drive, I guest it sees the IO port of 0x230 being set, I believe
that is where the Sony default. Can I use the boot command to tell
LILO that I have a Mitsumi CD at 0x230 and IRQ 11?
Thanks...
------------------------------
From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Subject: Re: Contrib. $s for Linux Dev
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:28:32 GMT
In article <35kjik$d46@panix2.panix.com> rhockens@panix.com (Ralph Hockens) writes:
Question is, where ought one contribute money to best support the
ongoing development of Linux and Linux-related software,
documentation, and the like?
Buy printed manuals from the Free Software Foundation. I don't
remember their address, etc, but you can ask gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu for
more information.
--
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key
11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it?
Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.
------------------------------
From: nelson@crynwr.crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Subject: Re: PLIP config problem....Crynwr Drivers
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:30:14 GMT
In article <35ks1n$bn7@crl.crl.com> cfrancis@crl.com (Christopher L Francis) writes:
I apologize in advance for posting something off-topic, but....
I am attempting to set up a PLIP connection between my Linux box
and a 286. I got a good cable (2 actually) which conforms to the
specs, have got my Linux box configured and rebuild the kernel.
However, on the DOS (ugh!) box, I am attempting to use the Crynwr
plip driver on irq 5, soft io addr 0x7e, hardware io addr 0x278,
ethernet id 31:32:37:2e:31:2e. Each type I try to ping my linux box,
i get "cannot resolve host's hardware address". Any suggestions or
places to refer me to?
Hmmm, sounds like a bug in plip.com to me. The first byte of an
Ethernet address should never be odd, unless it's being sent to a
multicast group.
--
-russ <nelson@crynwr.com> http://www.crynwr.com/crynwr/nelson.html
Crynwr Software | Crynwr Software sells packet driver support | ask4 PGP key
11 Grant St. | +1 315 268 1925 (9201 FAX) | What is thee doing about it?
Potsdam, NY 13676 | LPF member - ask me about the harm software patents do.
------------------------------
From: pp000458@interramp.com (Barry Kominik)
Subject: Distibutions??? What are the differences!!!
Date: 22 Sep 1994 14:20:11 GMT
Can some please explain to me what are the differences in the
distributions for Linux. I see SLS, SlackWare, Yggdrasil and the
Linux Quarterly.
I have quite a bit of UNIX experience and am not scared to play. What
distribution should I get?
Thanks,
Barry
------------------------------
From: onno@dutian.twi.tudelft.nl (Onno Roep)
Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1994 07:55:14 GMT
srvance@unix.secs.oakland.edu (Stephen Vance) writes:
>In article onno@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl (Onno Roep) writes:
>>ckelly@empros.com (Colin Kelly) writes:
>>
>>>In article domen.uninett.no (Olav Kvittem) writes:
>>>|> From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes)
>>>|> ...
>>>|> I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used
>>>|> to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice...
>>>|>
>>
>>Well I read about this problem earlier and I posted in short how I did it.
>>So again the story but more extensive.
>>It's a few weeks ago so maybe the story is not complete and reposts are needed.
>>
>>1: take a existing bootfloppy is easy because there is space left
>> for another kernel. You can mount it with mount /dev/fd0 /fd0
>> You can even remove the old kernel on the floppy if there is a
>> space problem.
>>
>> From scratch it is more complicated and at last the same problem
>> must be solved. At least you have to do something like:
>> mkfs /dev/fd0 and you have an emty floppy then mount it etc.
>> But almost everything on a slackware bootdisk is needed.
>> (You must create the devices in /dev create /bin /etc and more )
>>
>>2: make a kernel on your harddisk system
>> copy the kernel to the root of the floppy (/fd0)
>> now the kernel is on a bootflop , the only problem is how to boot
>> from the new kernel
>>
>>3: edit /fd0/etc/lilo.conf and add the kernel just added
>>
>>4: run lilo -r /fd0 lilo with change root to /fd0
>> will change the bootrec on the floppy and add the kernel.
>> This command is essential to solve the problem!!!
>>
>>5: reboot with the changed bootfloppy. You should be able to
>> choose your kernel at the lilo prompt.
>>
>>
>>
>>I hope I didn't forget anything, success!
>Only one thing: having this new kernel prompt for the root disk involves
>a patch to linux/drivers/block/ramdisk.c.
>Steve
I can't remember that I patched ramdisk.c and my memory is not so bad!
So there are at least 2 possibilities left:
I used kernel 1.1.49 maybe this was patched. Otherwise I solved the problem
by defining RAMDISK=0 in the lilo.config file without knowing anything about
ramdisk.c (sounds as music). By the way where is the story about the patch?
Onno.
------------------------------
From: forehand@cauchy.sosc.osshe.edu (david forehand)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Royal Computers - How are hey in general and with Linux?
Date: 22 Sep 1994 21:25:41 GMT
: In article <35fhje$9dg@pluto.njcc.com>,
: Brian Kramer <bjkramer@pluto.njcc.com> wrote:
: >
: >Has anyone had experience with Royal Electronics in Industry, CA?
I ordered a Royal P90 about one month ago. I was told the system would
ship on the following Friday. It did not. It fianally shipped 6 days
later. When I got the machine, they sent me DRAM instead of VRAM on the
video, and no mouse ($9 cheapo, but it's the point). Then came the big
run-around that the invoice said DRAM, not VRAM. They told me I could
upgrade to VRAM for like $100 or so. Anyways... after two weeks they
replaced the video card (ATI GPT OEM) and gave me a mouse. System is FAST,
good quality, and I haven't had a problem *YET*. (Didn't order a monitor
with it though).
Make sure you specify what hardware you want (they were selling SuperMicro,
I requested Intel)!
--
*--------------------------------------*
| forehand@cauchy.sosc.osshe.edu |
Life begins at | David Forehand | Gigabyte for your
100 MHz! | Health Future SysAdmin | thoughts...?
| P54c-100/8 Megs/1.2 Gig/ATI GPT |
*--------------------------------------*
------------------------------
From: losteye@dsm1.dsmnet.com (Jennifer Griffin)
Subject: Is PROMISE SCSI Supported?
Date: 22 Sep 1994 21:19:05 GMT
Reply-To: losteye@dsm1.dsmnet.com
I am putting together a PC to run Linux on and was wondering if drivers are
available for the following cards:
-PROMISE VESA Local Bus card with
7 SCSI/2 IDE/2 FDD(up to 2.88M)/2 Serial/1 Parallel/1 Game Port
For $129 from MicroXperts
-Tseng ET-4000 W32i with 1MB
For $139 from MicroXperts
Any responses will be greatly appreciated. If anyone knows of a place
that has better, I would like to know.
Thanks,
Carl
haywoodc@iastate.edu
losteye@dsmnet.com
It's all fun and games 'til someone loses an eye.
Jennifer Griffin & Carl Haywood
losteye@dsmnet.com
------------------------------
From: ianm@qualcomm.com (Ian McCloghrie)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: How to use a host as a router - READ THIS
Date: 20 Sep 1994 09:47:10 -0700
jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth) writes:
>Now, since we know that IP addresses must be unique, it follows that it is
>not correct practice to assign the same address to two different
>interfaces on the same machine.
This is common practice (and, in fact, required by many TCP/IP protocl
stacks). Whether or not it is "correct" is unclear. It's quite
possible to implement routing using the same IP address on two
interfaces, if one of them is a point-to-point link (namely,
a slip line). The idea of every physical network having its own
IP network is ideologically pure. Ideological purity, while clean
and elegant, is often discarded in favour of optimizations. Given
the current state of the IP address space, it could easily be argued
that wasting an entire network on a 2-host point-to-point slip line
is incorrect behaviour :)
Keep in mind that BSD is just the most prevalent TCP/IP
implementation, and not the definition of the protocols.
--
____
\bi/ Ian McCloghrie | FLUG: FurryMUCK Linux User's Group
\/ email: ian@ucsd.edu | Card Carrying Member, UCSD Secret Islandia Club
GCS (!)d-(--) p c++ l++(+++) u+ e- m+ s+/+ n+(-) h- f+ !g w+ t+ r y*
The above represents my personal opinions and not necessarily those
of my employer, Qualcomm Inc.
------------------------------
From: mikec@peach.america.net (Michael J. Callahan)
Subject: GCC (templates) on Linux
Date: 22 Sep 1994 10:16:37 -0400
Is the version of GCC which handles templates available for Linux yet?
Where can I pick it up?
TIA, and best regards...
|\/|ike C <INTERNET> mikec@america.net
<PHONE NET> office (404)483-9777
<MAIL NET> 8388 Lake Dr., Lithonia GA, 30058-5724, USA, World
===========
std disclaimer - the above represents my opinions only, and do not reflect
those of my employer, my dog, ex-wife, tennis team, etc...
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
From: koppenas@tick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de (Andreas Koppenhoefer)
Subject: Re: perfmeter no connect (again?)
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 09:00:36 GMT
In article <357do3INNoh6@mickey.eng.gulfaero.com> bmccarth@gulfaero.com (Bill McCarthy) writes:
Dunno if this is an oldie, but..... am running Ygg Sum '94 and
using fvwm for a window mngr. When I call perfmeter, it comes up
and I can access the selection window, but I get the message:
'lost connection'. This happens when I use xview and olvwm as well.
No biggie, but I'd like to see how it works, as compared to xload and
xosview. Anyone have any suggestions/pointers/hacks/etc? TIA.
I had similar problems and finally found in
/usr/src/linux/driver/net/dummy.c
a solution. You can read at the beginning...
/* dummy.c: a dummy net driver
The purpose of this driver is to provide a device to point a
route through, but not to actually transmit packets.
Why? If you have a machine whose only connection is an occasional
PPP/SLIP/PLIP link, you can only connect to your own hostname
when the link is up. Otherwise you have to use localhost.
This isn't very consistent.
One solution is to set up a dummy link using PPP/SLIP/PLIP,
but this seems (to me) too much overhead for too little gain.
This driver provides a small alternative. Thus you can do
[when not running slip]
ifconfig dummy slip.addr.ess.here up
[to go to slip]
ifconfig dummy down
dip whatever
This was written by looking at Donald Becker's skeleton driver
and the loopback driver. I then threw away anything that didn't
apply! Thanks to Alan Cox for the key clue on what to do with
misguided packets.
Nick Holloway, 27th May 1994
[I tweaked this explanation a little but thats all]
Alan Cox, 30th May 1994
*/
I've reconfigured my kernel (1.1.50) including 'Dummy net driver
support' and added
ifconfig dummy slip.addr.ess.here up
route add slip.addr.ess.here gw localhost metric 1
to some /etc/rc.d/* file.
Andreas
PS: I'm running Slackware 2.0 if that matters.
--
Andreas Koppenhoefer, Student der Universitaet Stuttgart, BR Deutschland
prefered languages: German, English, C, perl ("Just another Perl hacker,")
SMTP: koppenh@trick.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de
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phone: +49 711 696378 and +49 711 694111 (19-22h MEZ=GMT+1)
------------------------------
From: berry@ee.cornell.edu (Brian M Berry)
Subject: Notebooks: _Backups?_
Date: 21 Sep 1994 22:10:10 GMT
I'm running Slack 2.0 on a ZDS notebook, and have completely moved in.
With each day that passes by, I get more nervous about losing information
(due to my own mischief, of course :-). So far, I've been backing up
irreplaceable items (home directories, etc) via multi-volume floppy tarfiles.
Does anyone know of a method, say, a via a parallel port backup device
of some kind, to make larger-scale backups? Even though this would
likely require non-existant software/kernel features, I am interested
enough in this to code myself.
Please enlighten me...(!!)
Cheers!
//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Brian Michael Berry berry@ee.cornell.edu
Graduate Student/Electrical Engineering (607) 256-2747
Cornell University/Ithaca, NY
------------------------------
From: alman@strangiato.res.wpi.edu (Benjamin Alman)
Crossposted-To: wpi.system.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Xscreensaver / xdm
Date: 23 Sep 1994 00:18:09 GMT
Reply-To: alman@strangiato.Res.WPI.EDU
I am running xscreensaver as an 'extra' program under X.. it works very
well.. it has many options, but I just switched to xdm... I'm running
linux 1.1.50 and Xfree86 2.1.1 ... I wanted to run xscreensaver under xdm
so that it would blank the screen, etc.. while the xdm login prompt was
up there... and I added it to the /usr/X386/lib/X11/xdm/Xsetup_0 file (I
have added xv w/background .gif to this file, it does that correctly)..
but under xdm, xscreensaver quits with the error message:
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server
Error: Can't open display: :0
(I _am_ using display :0.0 .. I'm not TOO dumb...) can anyone email any
suggestions to me? thanks!
--
______ _____
`/ \_____/ __)' From: Ben Alman [][][] [] [] [][][] []
| / Internet: alman@wpi.edu O O [] [] [] [] []
| I===::====::==============================|H=H] [] [] [] [][][] [][][]
| I===::====::==============================|H=H] [] [] [] [] [] []
| o o _____ \_ Running Linux 1.1.50 O O [] [][][] [][][] [] []
\______/ \____) and XFree386-2.1.1 Why Are We Here? Because...
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From: onno@dutiag.twi.tudelft.nl (Onno Roep)
Subject: Re: Installing a new kernel on the Slackware Boot disk!
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 1994 16:29:08 GMT
ckelly@empros.com (Colin Kelly) writes:
>In article <OAK.94Sep11200957@domen.uninett.no>, oak@domen.uninett.no (Olav Kvittem) writes:
>|> From: robert@plasma.apana.org.au (Robert Kroes)
>|> ...
>|> I would like to know how I can create a Slackware boot disk (the one used
>|> to install Linux from scratch) and install a kernel of my choice...
>|>
>|> Why? So I can make use of an alpha network driver to perform an NFS install
>|> and save copying 100+ MB of Slackware 2.0 on to floppies :-)
>|>
>|> I have exactly the same need !
>I don't know if this is an answer for your problem, but we've had no problems
>installing via NFS using the net.gz bootdisk. This may only work well over
>ethernet.
>On the other hand, you could install the A and N series from floppy to get the
>network capabilities, then continue setup once you get a connection open.
>--
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>* Colin R. Kelly * Linux. *
>* ckelly@empros.com * *
>* crkelly@mermaid.micro.umn.edu * It's not just for breakfast anymore. *
>=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Well I read about this problem earlier and I posted in short how I did it.
So again the story but more extensive.
It's a few weeks ago so maybe the story is not complete and reposts are needed.
1: take a existing bootfloppy is easy because there is space left
for another kernel. You can mount it with mount /dev/fd0 /fd0
You can even remove the old kernel on the floppy if there is a
space problem.
From scratch it is more complicated and at last the same problem
must be solved. At least you have to do something like:
mkfs /dev/fd0 and you have an emty floppy then mount it etc.
But almost everything on a slackware bootdisk is needed.
(You must create the devices in /dev create /bin /etc and more )
2: make a kernel on your harddisk system
copy the kernel to the root of the floppy (/fd0)
now the kernel is on a bootflop , the only problem is how to boot
from the new kernel
3: edit /fd0/etc/lilo.conf and add the kernel just added
4: run lilo -r /fd0 lilo with change root to /fd0
will change the bootrec on the floppy and add the kernel.
This command is essential to solve the problem!!!
5: reboot with the changed bootfloppy. You should be able to
choose your kernel at the lilo prompt.
I hope I didn't forget anything, success!
Onno
email: O.Roep@twi.tudelft.nl
------------------------------
From: eric@news.db.erau.edu (Eric F. Sorton)
Subject: Re: Does Linux support ATI Mach64 card in non-accelerated mode
Date: 22 Sep 1994 22:21:04 GMT
Hayim Hendeles (hayim@quark.la.locus.com) wrote:
: I am considering purchasing an ATI MACH 64 graphics card. However, as
: Linux does not yet have support for this card yet (I know there is
: an Alpha driver available for those willing to be on the bleeding
: edge of technology), I am wondering if I can use this card under
: Linux in non-accelerated mode (e.g. as a Mach32 or whatever which
: is supported). This will get me by for the meanwhile until Linux
: can take advantage of the features of this new card.
The alpha driver is fairly stable. It is not an acclerated
driver though. I have been using it for a few weeks without
any problems.
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