Linux Hardware

Graphics cards for Linux
I'm planning on putting together a new workstation, and would like to here some opinions on graphics cards. It will be a reasonably powerful machine (i7-860, most likely), and I'd like a fairly powerful graphics card to go with it (though I'm not aiming for extremes here). Support for two screens is a priorit... 2 Feb 2010 15:11

Dual NIC 8139too card, eth1 IRQ=0
Just got a neat little miniPCI dual-NIC card. It's two realtek 8100c chipsets on a single card. I can bring up eth0 (IRQ 6) without difficulty, but eth1 is troublesome. When I cold boot, the BIOS complains about a "PCI IRQ routing table error", and after linux is up, dmesg shows that the kernel can see both NICs,... 21 Jan 2010 18:02

? Recommend PC for learning RHEL ?
Hey. I'm a generally experience Unix/Solaris sysadmin; I've been messing w/ Linux off & on for a few years and I took a 4-day RHEL admin course about 2 years ago at a time when I couldn't do anything with it outside the class (long story). Right now, I'm looking for a good & inexpensive system to purchase for ... 17 Jan 2010 18:24

Did I kill a motherboard?
I think I killed a motherboard. In fact, if I'm right, I've actually killed two. But...I'm not sure this makes sense. I've two systems built around Supermicro P4SCI motherboards. One died a while back. It would no longer power up, so I thought the power supply dead. I replaced it, but that had no impact. ... 17 Jan 2010 00:51

How can you get the speed of a mobo's FSB?
How can you get the speed of a mobo's FSB? I have searched for quite a long time and I can not find that piece of info. I remember on Windows they have a simple call to get tha info, that the BIOS (and perhaps the OS, too) must know Thanks lbrtchx ... 16 Jan 2010 04:06

Looking for advice on building a 64-bit music system
After not having bought a new computer system for 5 or more years, I'm now trying to figure out what kind of new system will best fit my needs. Any advice on this will be greatly appreciated - and hopefully others will also learn some useful things from the resulting threads. Here's what I'm looking for: ... 2 Feb 2010 15:11

Linux friendly Laptops and Netbooks??
Last week I got a new Asus EeePC 1005HA. My goal was to install Debian on it which some users claim is the best distro for a netbook. Yes, I did read their wiki, printed instructions and on and on. A week later, I could only get wired network working. Later I tried Slackware and Fedora, where only the wired... 23 Jan 2010 12:03

High CPU usages and sometimes hard crashes in my Debian/Linux.
Hello, The last few weeks, I noticed my old Linux/Debian box (2.6.30-2) keeps getting random and rare high CPU due to Xorg and sometimes crashes. My box, even via SSH2, felt slow. I checked the processes and saw: $ w 11:53:37 up 6 days, 4:19, 3 users, load average: 6.26, 6.04, 6.19 USER TTY FR... 19 Jan 2010 15:46

500 GB Maxtor OneTouch 4 misfunctioning . . .
~ I have a 500 GB Maxtor OneTouch 4 external USB powered mini drive that is missfunctioning. Even though I mount it rw, it apparently resets itself to ro and I have also noticed that when the drive is idle for a while it starts to missfunction, but not when I keep it busy transferring data ~ Most problems with... 10 Jan 2010 08:33

Re (3): UPS with earth leakage device.
In article <4b462ad0$0$280$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>, ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam(a)netcabo.pt> wrote: Em Quinta 07 Janeiro 2010 08:27, no.top.post(a)gmail.com escreveu: In article <4b44e3c5$0$275$14726298(a)news.sunsite.dk>, ArameFarpado <a-farpado.spam(a)netcabo.pt> wrote: Em Quarta 06 Janeir... 9 Jan 2010 23:58