Using SuSE 7.3 and downloading the standalone usb library I was able to get the 0.5 release example programs from Sourceforge working. Note that all this work has been done reverse engineering from the USB stream.
I'm not happy with Intel. This is a discontinued product and they still will not release anything about this device. Get a clue, Intel!
We have 3 soyo dragon plus motherboards at work which I believe use this chipset. I have a soyo dragon at home. All running SuSE 7.3 2.4.10 kernel with no problem. Well no problem booting anyway. We have some flakiness we haven't figured out with the dragon plus boards.
This author really missed the boat. I can't believe he worked at Red Hat and didn't understand that Open Source software is written because people want to write it. Not because they feel a need to make Linux win some war in some abstract sense. I'm not surprised he does not work at Red Hat anymore with a lack of understanding of Open Source shown in this article.
On to a winning day for Linux at work. I am an IS manager for a fairly large semi-conductor company. I use a Linux Dell laptop for all my work. Today I watched my guys install 5 new Linux Athlon workstations and remove 5 Suns workstations from design engineer's desks. The 5 Athlons have 3 times the RAM, 10 times the disk and 1000 more CPU Hz than the Suns and cost about one 1/5 as much as Suns cost. Almost all of the design software needed is now supported in Linux. Within a year 100% is predicted to be. Due to the industry downturn we haven't bought a Sun in recent memory, but more Linux boxes keep showing up due to their much better value. Did I mention that most software runs at least twice as fast on a 1.4GHz Athlon than a 440MHz UltrasparcII?
I also approved a dual 1.2GHz Athlon from Penguin Computing to replace an aging Sun E450 to run SAS statistical software. This dual system should run SAS about twice as fast as our 4 processor Sun. And the icing on the cake is our SAS license is about $20K less per year on the Linux server.
Interesting development number 3. Due to the increase in MS license costs, the director of IS is interested in a proposal to use Linux on a pilot desktop project to replace Windows.
So it doesn't matter what an out of touch commentator says. Linux will continue to move in where MS and Sun screw up by not beating the overall value of Linux.
I have seen sales person's laptops that barely function thanks to a "popular" antivirus companies products. I have a similarly configured laptop running Linux that drives circles around theirs (and even when I boot into Win2k with no viri checking). One sales guy keeps sending his in for repair because it is soooo slooow. And these are new 800 MHz laptops.
The missing link's theory is that the time lost to running anti virus software is greater than the time lost to virus.
Case number two. I help support the computers and network in a marginally funded private school. Most of the desktops are 100 MHz Pentiums. Running anti-virus software makes these already slow machines unusable.
In about 6 months on the Internet the school has not lost computer availability (knock on wood).
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Using SuSE 7.3 and downloading the standalone usb library I was able to get the 0.5 release example programs from Sourceforge working. Note that all this work has been done reverse engineering from the USB stream.
I'm not happy with Intel. This is a discontinued product and they still will not release anything about this device. Get a clue, Intel!
We have 3 soyo dragon plus motherboards at work which I believe use this chipset. I have a soyo dragon at home. All running SuSE 7.3 2.4.10 kernel with no problem. Well no problem booting anyway. We have some flakiness we haven't figured out with the dragon plus boards.
This author really missed the boat. I can't believe he worked at Red Hat and didn't understand that Open Source software is written because people want to write it. Not because they feel a need to make Linux win some war in some abstract sense. I'm not surprised he does not work at Red Hat anymore with a lack of understanding of Open Source shown in this article.
On to a winning day for Linux at work. I am an IS manager for a fairly large semi-conductor company. I use a Linux Dell laptop for all my work. Today I watched my guys install 5 new Linux Athlon workstations and remove 5 Suns workstations from design engineer's desks. The 5 Athlons have 3 times the RAM, 10 times the disk and 1000 more CPU Hz than the Suns and cost about one 1/5 as much as Suns cost. Almost all of the design software needed is now supported in Linux. Within a year 100% is predicted to be. Due to the industry downturn we haven't bought a Sun in recent memory, but more Linux boxes keep showing up due to their much better value. Did I mention that most software runs at least twice as fast on a 1.4GHz Athlon than a 440MHz UltrasparcII?
I also approved a dual 1.2GHz Athlon from Penguin Computing to replace an aging Sun E450 to run SAS statistical software. This dual system should run SAS about twice as fast as our 4 processor Sun. And the icing on the cake is our SAS license is about $20K less per year on the Linux server.
Interesting development number 3. Due to the increase in MS license costs, the director of IS is interested in a proposal to use Linux on a pilot desktop project to replace Windows.
So it doesn't matter what an out of touch commentator says. Linux will continue to move in where MS and Sun screw up by not beating the overall value of Linux.
I have seen sales person's laptops that barely function thanks to a "popular" antivirus companies products. I have a similarly configured laptop running Linux that drives circles around theirs (and even when I boot into Win2k with no viri checking). One sales guy keeps sending his in for repair because it is soooo slooow. And these are new 800 MHz laptops.
The missing link's theory is that the time lost to running anti virus software is greater than the time lost to virus.
Case number two. I help support the computers and network in a marginally funded private school. Most of the desktops are 100 MHz Pentiums. Running anti-virus software makes these already slow machines unusable.
In about 6 months on the Internet the school has not lost computer availability (knock on wood).
You might check out the linux laptop page for the Dell. It has a couple of methods for X setup, one that might work for you.
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http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/#xse