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Ärende: new guy in Linux
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->  WC> If I had USB 2.0 or 2.1 which I don't and the upgrade cards I've 
->  WC> looked
->  WC> at say nothing about supporting Linux.  

-> The only problem I encountered with usb1.1 was on one machine with a 80G
drive
-> on a usb ide adapter.  It worked okay on a different machine using usb1.1
-> except that one has intel chipsets while the other has with the problem has
via
-> chipsets.  Also I have an external sata/usb case/adapter and partitioned a
300G
-> sata drive so that the first 32G could be formatted to fat32 and tested the
usb
-> connection on the neighbour's win98 box with usb1.1 which could 'see' that
-> partition and read/write to it.  The rest I split into three ext3 partitions
-> and plugged it into an external sata port on the linux box and it can 'see',
-> read/write to all the partitions and also can fdisk that entire drive, all
-> 300G's.  I also transferred a fully bloated iso over to the fat32 partition
-> using the sata interface and the transfer speed was unreal.  I have yet to
see
-> anything that fast.  Also that iso could be successfully burned using either
-> linux (cdrecord) or whatever my neighbour uses on win98 (I forget at the
-> moment, I think Nero) and was bootable later (a slackware-10.2 install cd). 
-> After witnessing that I discovered I don't need a burner and would rather
spend
-> time working out how to install to a target drive using a bash scripted
-> installation scheme straight from any loop mounted iso.  :-)

I may try one of those upgrade USB's.
After all if the BIOS allows one to shut off the existing ports
which mine does and the I/O card uses standart port designations
I see no problem.

Shut off in the BIOS Linux never the less detects them and they're
available.

->  WC> OH yeah, solved my DVD audio glitch problem with another application,
->  WC> VideoLan which can play from a LAN or DVD.

-> Same with mplayer.                               

Tried to invoke it in console but no go, perhaps Knoppix hasn't got it.
Wonder if this unit will boot to DVD as all the later large Kboppix
releases are on DVD

->  WC> The audio glitch isn't present in that application and it allows
->  WC> all sortsd of customization like aspect ratio and much much more.
->  WC> Full screen and a good reason to collapse the tool bar
->  WC> at the bottom of the screen :-)

-> I prefer mplayer to be quite honest but liked videolan last time I looked at
-> it.  I give mplayer the edge simply because of mga_vid (works on both the
-> console and x) and mencoder with the xvidcore libs and lame dependancies. 
That
-> works awesome and produces phenomenal mpeg4's.  I have yet to see anything
-> better.
              
Copied and saved to try later.

->  WC> I've got it going in GUI with fine performance, console mode will
->  WC> require more RTFM and HowTos.

-> It isn't hard.  All you need to do is get it booting to a framebuffer
console
-> and then the rest will fall into place nicely.  I think the matroxfb is the
-> best, especially with mga_vid.  Way better then anything else I have
-> encountered no matter what OS.  Even my neighbour agrees and is what sold
him
-> on linux to start with.    

Right now a friend is blown away this 1999 system rescued from a
dumpster tossed as obsolete performs as well his purchased last
year with that other O.S.

->  WC> They're making power supplies up to and over 500 watts these days.
->  WC> Think I saw one at 650W.

-> Yeah me too.  I like some of the new cabling schemes where you can add
exactly
-> what is needed.  However that isn't going to quite help out wrt the
clustering
-> idea but I already know where I can get what I do need for that.  However,
-> first things first so that idea is on hold until I can afford to take care
of
-> it.  In the meantime I will get one going and take it from there as I can
use a
-> regular AT or ATX ps for that.  I am in no rush.
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