Antlinux

Here's links to the QEMU content on this site:

• Using Multiple Disk Images with QEMU

Someday, this page and the other related pages will be converted to a Drupal 'book', which would make page navigation much easier.

So I'm looking at files in /var/spool, and I notice that there's a few faxes in /var/spool/fax/incoming. "Hmm", I thought, "who would send me faxes?" It turns out that since my modem is configured to receive faxes (I use it primarily for PPP access to my server if my DSL goes down), there are fax spammers out there who hunt for phone lines with fax machines connected to them. I know, I know, old news. Here comes the fun part...

I found this project on InventGeek about how to build an alpha radiation visualizer. The alpha radiation coming from a smoke detector emitter element hits the CCD of a USB webcam in "random order", thereby creating entropy!

Portaboom is a standalone mini distribution of Linux. PortaBoom's current goal is to allow people to play the game of Doom on any Intel machine with a CD ROM drive, regardless of what operating system is installed on the hard drive. Eventually, I'd also like to also be able to add other games and application software using a modular packaging system, which would let you choose what applications you want to run.

QEMU by default lets you use 4 "hard drives", or simulated devices, as hd[a-d], with the virtual CD-ROM taking up hdc if you start the emulator with a CD-ROM image.

Here's another way to get more disk drives, use QEMU disk images (created with qemu-img) as USB disks. Why would you want more than 4 disks you ask? It would make a great setup for testing/learning/playing with LVM and/or disk mirroring/concatenation.

Running Linux on the IBM T-40 Laptop

Links:
http://www.thunk.org/tytso/linux/t40.html
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/walter/geek/linux-t40.html
http://www.newt.com/debian/thinkpad-t40p/
http://www.nuclearelephant.com/papers/t30.html - getting an IBM T30 working with OpenGL, the T30 has an ATI chipset.

• Build a Linux boot image for the stinkpad
• Use LumpBox to install the system into the NTFS partition
• Add memtest/freedos images?
• Use GRUB to boot Linux/Windows
• See if the "howto fix a machine with grub issues" entry is still in the old Devilduck wiki

16Nov2001 - Another note from Andrew Wai <andrew {at} wild.com.hk>: As far as I know DRI on some PCI based ati chipsets are supported so agpgart is not actually necessary for DRI support. The r128.o module can load without agpgart.o on my laptop but is not used, even when trying to load dri support in XF86Config, ie glxinfo reports 'direct rendering: no'.

15Nov2001 - I've been working unsuccesfully to get AGP working with this laptop. I've said in the past that this laptop uses the Rage 128 video chipset from ATI, but myself and Andrew Wai <andrew {at} wild.com.hk> have both been unsuccessful in getting the agpgart.o module to load, which is what you need loaded before you try to load the r128.o module for the video card. Other than that, everything is running fine with the new install. All the packages are up to date, which is real nice.