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Linux Configuration Files for Bjarne

Here are various configuration files used on my Pentium III desktop computer. Bjarne is a 667 MHz Pentium III machine with 128 MB of PC133 RAM, an ATI Xpert 2000 AGP video adapter and an Adaptec 29160 Ultra160 SCSI host bus adapter. The hard drive is a 40 MB/sec lvd scsi drive and it has an IDE CDROM. There is a 3Com 3C905 10/100 ethernet card and 15" TTX monitor. The motherboard is an ASUS P3V4X.

It's not the most optimal configuration but the parts are what was available when I needed it in a hurry.

It's a multiboot machine, I also have Windows NT4 and Windows 98 on it. I use GNU Grub for my boot loader. I'd like to also put BeOS 5 Pro on it but but BeOS doesn't support the Adaptec 29160, so it will have to wait until I can put an IDE drive in too. When I do I'll probably also put FreeBSD and Solaris for Intel on it as well.

My Linux distro is SlackWare but with the 2.4 series kernels on it.

The Config Files

The files all have a ".txt" extension to make sure they get the right mime type, you'll need to rename them after you download them.

Don't use my configuration files blindly, read them carefully and edit them to suit your needs.

I say the files are for use with different linux kernel versions, but that's not really the right way to express it. You can use my XF86Config files for X on top of different kernel versions, it's just that I'll get around to updating all the files here about as often as I update my kernels, which will depend mostly on how much I use this particular machine.

• For use with Linux kernel 2.4.9 on Slackware 8
  • XF86Config - works with XFree86 4.1.0, an ATI XPert 2000 video card and a KDS VS-190 19" monitor. Note that this monitor is capable of both high resolution and high refresh rate; you should use caution when using this config on another monitor. I advise starting at 640 by 480 and working up a step at a time. The DRI worked both with the precompiled modules from the Slackware 8 install (with kernel 2.4.5) as well as under 2.4.9 where I'm using modules compiled from the DRI CVS. I get about 660 FPS from glxgears.
  • .config for the Linux kernel build. Enables the Rage128 framebuffer and compiles in PPP statically. The DRI modules are not enabled because I built them out of CVS from http://dri.sourceforge.net/
  • menu.lst for GNU Grub boot menu. Chain loads to Windows NT boot menu, uses Rage128 framebuffer at high resolution and uses Sun console font. Note that you will probably need to specific a different root partition than I do. Note also that Grub numbers its partitions starting at 0 but linux starts at 1. Also this is for a SCSI drive.
• For use with Linux kernel 2.4.1:
  • XF86Config - works with XFree86 4.0.2, an ATI Xpert 2000 video adapter and TTX-1557 15" monitor. DRI is enabled but doesn't seem to work for me.