by e.. » Thu, 04 Feb 1999 04:00:00
I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
http://www.e4me.com
I checked out the etower 266 and compared it to the Hardware How-To's for both
Linux and XFree86 all looks ok (except maybe the modem, trying to find out
more info), but I wanted to know if anyone here has actually installed Linux
on one of these things and how it works for you.
~ELH~
by Eric Sandee » Thu, 04 Feb 1999 04:00:00
> I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
> http://www.e4me.com
> I checked out the etower 266 and compared it to the Hardware How-To's for both
> Linux and XFree86 all looks ok (except maybe the modem, trying to find out
> more info), but I wanted to know if anyone here has actually installed Linux
> on one of these things and how it works for you.
> ~ELH~
by ehow.. » Fri, 05 Feb 1999 04:00:00
~ELH~
>>I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
>>http://www.e4me.com
by Mac » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00
The only problems with the e-machine is that it has locked up hard, so hard that I
had to unplug it to re-boot, 4 times in the last 2 weeks.
and the fan makes a very loud sound for 15 seconds when the box is bumped. My
friend's first machine had a bad cd-rom drive.
Still having trouble getting X to work with anything other than the VGA style
adapter.
Any success stories with X & emachine?
> I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
> http://www.e4me.com
> I checked out the etower 266 and compared it to the Hardware How-To's for both
> Linux and XFree86 all looks ok (except maybe the modem, trying to find out
> more info), but I wanted to know if anyone here has actually installed Linux
> on one of these things and how it works for you.
> ~ELH~
by Rober » Tue, 09 Feb 1999 04:00:00
Rob
>The only problems with the e-machine is that it has locked up hard, so hard that I
>had to unplug it to re-boot, 4 times in the last 2 weeks.
>and the fan makes a very loud sound for 15 seconds when the box is bumped. My
>friend's first machine had a bad cd-rom drive.
>Still having trouble getting X to work with anything other than the VGA style
>adapter.
>Any success stories with X & emachine?
>> W'sup to all,
>> I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
>> http://www.e4me.com
>> I checked out the etower 266 and compared it to the Hardware How-To's for both
>> Linux and XFree86 all looks ok (except maybe the modem, trying to find out
>> more info), but I wanted to know if anyone here has actually installed Linux
>> on one of these things and how it works for you.
>> ~ELH~
by Wolfgang Reissnegg » Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:00:00
I'm running linux 2.2.1 on an etower 266 and have no problems so far.
For X I'm running the SVGA server (version 3.3.3) which works fine at
16bpp. I think there should be some support for the ATI Rage AGP but I
haven't tried yet. Sound works fine with the Crystal driver and I have no
problems with printing.
I installed a PCI ethernet card which works fine so far. I didn't have to
touch BIOS settings.
The only thing that does not work is the INITIO SCSI card. But this is not a
hardware problem. Any help, hints or tips appreciated there!
And, oh yes, the modem is a winmodem. I've got one for sale now ;-)
Wolfgang
>Rob
>>I have a etower 300k (AMD K2-300) installed with Red Hat 5.2. My friend has two or
>>three installed...
>>My strategy was to get the hardware configured under Win98 and then install Linux.
>>Before installing Linux on my emachine,
>>I needed to pull the modem and the sound cards because there was a shortage of
>>IRQ's. I then
>>installed two network cards and got them working under Win98. My friend installed
>>Linux.
>>We had trouble with the system recognizing one of the network cards so we turned
>>scripted it to
>>turn on after booting. We're using the system as a router/firewall/proxy/web
>>server.
>>The only problems with the e-machine is that it has locked up hard, so hard that I
>>had to unplug it to re-boot, 4 times in the last 2 weeks.
>>and the fan makes a very loud sound for 15 seconds when the box is bumped. My
>>friend's first machine had a bad cd-rom drive.
>>Still having trouble getting X to work with anything other than the VGA style
>>adapter.
>>Any success stories with X & emachine?
>>> W'sup to all,
>>> I was wondering if anyone here has played w/ Linux on one of those e-machines?
>>> http://www.e4me.com
>>> I checked out the etower 266 and compared it to the Hardware How-To's for both
>>> Linux and XFree86 all looks ok (except maybe the modem, trying to find out
>>> more info), but I wanted to know if anyone here has actually installed Linux
>>> on one of these things and how it works for you.
>>> ~ELH~
by ehow.. » Wed, 10 Feb 1999 04:00:00
Please keep me posted...I'm looking at buying in within the next couple of weeksQuote:> Uh-oh.....hope I'm not in for a big headache. I just bought an etower 333i
> (celeron 333....should I have gotten the AMD? well, that's another question)...
> after reading the specs on it it seemed it would be linux-friendly, except I
> can only hope the modem is not a winmodem (haven't opened box yet to see). I'll
> let you guys know once I start setting it up.
> Rob
~ELH~
by ehow.. » Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:00:00
Cool...this is what I wanted to hear. Sounds pretty encouraging.Quote:> Hi,
> I'm running linux 2.2.1 on an etower 266 and have no problems so far.
I'm down with that...I had to deal w/ 8bpp on my laptop for so long untilQuote:> For X I'm running the SVGA server (version 3.3.3) which works fine at
> 16bpp. I think there should be some support for the ATI Rage AGP but I
> haven't tried yet. Sound works fine with the Crystal driver and I have no
> problems with printing.
This is cool...especially since I'll be building a little network and tunnelingQuote:> I installed a PCI ethernet card which works fine so far. I didn't have to
> touch BIOS settings.
ISDN all the way...it's only like $120 (US Dollars) installed and $40 a mo. inQuote:> The only thing that does not work is the INITIO SCSI card. But this is not a
> hardware problem. Any help, hints or tips appreciated there!
> And, oh yes, the modem is a winmodem. I've got one for sale now ;-)
~ELH~
by Marco La Casci » Thu, 11 Feb 1999 04:00:00
Any clarification will be greatly appreciated.
-- Marco
by Jeff D. Robertso » Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:00:00
> Any clarification will be greatly appreciated.
> -- Marco
1. Linux on e-machine 366si - Watch Out!
I've installed RH6.0 on my new e-machine and had
some problems with it.
Installation was fine, but while I was setting it
up, it froze. Eventually, I decided to run fsck
and found that some of the disk sectors were bad.
My first thought was to do a low-level format so
that these sectors get marked as 'bad'. After
going to Samsung's website, I found that there is
_no_ low level formatting once it leaves the
factory. The best bet was downloading cleanhdd.exe
(which, BTW, is only fully downloadable from their
non-english page ,Japanese?, Korean?) which
re-sets the drive back to factory settings, but
doesn't mark any bad sectors.
Without adding/replacing the HD, I don't know of
any alternatives.
Too bad....
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