Linux-Hardware Digest #26, Volume #9 Fri, 25 Dec 98 19:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux sees just 64Mb out of 128Mb of memory (Ahmed Abukmail)
Re: Celeron 300a and SMP (Mike Thoreson)
Re: Compatible tape backup systems? (L Gentzsch)
Re: How to config my ATI-RageII chip to 16bit or 24bit color? (Michael Gee)
Installing RedHat 5.2 onto a Jaz drive ("kalpesh chauhan")
ATAPI CD-ROM Problems ("Aleksandar Mihajlovic")
Re: Problem with ASUS P5A-B mainboard ("RABasham")
Re: Cirrus CLM Data Fax Voice Modem + Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I NEED HELP, XF86FREE 3.3.3 AND PERMEDIA 2, REDHAT 5.2. (ESPAÑOL) ("Angel Luis
Fernández Blanco")
Is my hardware compatible? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDRW drives (Felipe)
Re: Fibre Channel and Linux? (Gary Momarison)
Re: How can I get linux to see my 3 G harddrive if the bios doesn't have LBA
support? (Gary Momarison)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: (Q) Tape Drive and so on... (Gary Momarison)
Will linux run on this system? (David Boozer)
Re: Old dumb terminals + Linux (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Will linux run on this system? (Raymond Lillard)
IDE CD ReWriter in Linux ("Matthew P. Inger")
Yet another modem question (I)
Re: 3DFX voodoo AGP 16mb with redhat 5.2 help (Andri Saar)
Re: Linux not detecting new processor ! :( (Andri Saar)
Re: TV Tuner For Linux (Andri Saar)
Re: Conflict with X-Windows and Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card ("Jim Orfanakos")
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From: Ahmed Abukmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sees just 64Mb out of 128Mb of memory
Date: 25 Dec 1998 16:34:46 GMT
Sergey Gribov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Gateway SOLO 9100 laptop with 128Mb of memory.
> I've installed last Slackware linux on it (kernel 2.0.35). Most of the
> things seems to
> work fine (X, network etc.), but the starnge thing is, that it sees just
> 64Mb out of
> 128Mb... :(
> In startup messages and when I run 'top' it says, that I have just 64Mb
> installed.
> Anyone knows how to fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
I have RH 5.1 running, I added the following line to my /etc/lilo.conf to
recognize the 128 MB.
append="mem=128M"
======Here is my lilo.conf file, Linux is on hda6
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.35-1
label=linux
root=/dev/hda6
append="mem=128M"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
=======
Good Luck.
Ahmed
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From: Mike Thoreson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron 300a and SMP
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:35:36 +0900
Jasper Janssen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Anyone know anything about getting celeron 300a's to Multi-process?
> I've heard some rumors that despite Intel blockage, it may be
> possible.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jasper
Check out this web page http://bxboards.com/dual.htm Be advised if you
attempt this successfull or not, you will have voided the warranty on
the CPU. It requires modification to the CPU module itself.
Mike
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From: L Gentzsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compatible tape backup systems?
Date: 25 Dec 1998 17:30:11 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frank Miles wrote:
>
> In article <75mv6g$ffl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Bruce Barnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I have a IBM Thinkpad 385XD running Redhat 5.1.
> >I'm looking for a backup system, and was thinking of a low-cost tape
> >system. I have two questions.
> >
> > Which tape drive is suitable, without being too expensive?
> > A parallel port system around $300 seems to fit the bill.
> > I saw a HP Colorado tape unit for $279 at CompUSA.
>
> Parallel port systems are mostly supported, I think. Not as well
> as direct floppy-controlled drives. Have you checked the ftape
> home page, or the ftape mailing list? Not all drives work; I have
> an old Colorado 'Jumbo 1400'. It seems to have fallen through the
> cracks. Some of the newer drives (e.g. Ditto) take a lot of
> resources to work properly, and will only work on the fastest machines.
>
> > Where is dump/restore? I've search my system, and I didn't
> > find it. Is there an optional package that has this? (dump is
> > much better than tar). I don't need compression, because I'm
> > backing up a 1GB partition.
>
> You didn't say anything about your distribution. If you are running
> Debian, look for the package 'dump'. It should be in the utils
> section. Sorry, don't know about RH or Slackware or SUSE or Caldera...
>
> -frank
Frank,
Appreciate the floppy-controlled tape drive information! As a Linux
newbie, I didn't want to ask regarding my Seagate 3200. Thanx!
Len
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From: Michael Gee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to config my ATI-RageII chip to 16bit or 24bit color?
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:52:19 +0000
Wah Wai Tan wrote:
> I have managed to relink the X program point to XF86_Mach32, but when I
> run my netscape under the X-window I still get the 16-colors. How to I
> configure it to 64K or 1.6 million color? Thanks for any help. Merry
> X'mas and a Happy New Year!
>
> With Best Regards,
>
> Johnny
Alternatively, edit the file /etc/X11/XF86Config and add a line...
DefaultColorDepth xx
in the accelerated 'Screen' section`.
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From: "kalpesh chauhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing RedHat 5.2 onto a Jaz drive
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:03:25 -0000
Can anyone help with regards to installing Linux onto a Jaz Drive?? I have
freed up 150 MB on my Toshiba Libretto 50CT internal drive, enough for a
swap file and /boot, but I want to store the main bulk of the install onto a
Jaz cartridge. Running fips does not recognise the drive, and nor does the
Linux install procedure when you choose custom install.
Anyone manage to install Linux onto a Jaz drive??
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From: "Aleksandar Mihajlovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI CD-ROM Problems
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 12:47:04 -0700
Hi
I started to play with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and used my old Compaq Deskpro XE
466 (486 DXZ 66 MHz), but I can't install OS because installation does not
recognize my IDE ATAPI CD-ROM unit. I looked into some documentation, tried
to input
hdb=cdrom (response Could not find kernel image: hdb=cdro.m)
or
ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14
before installation (boot prompt) without success.
Under DOS I have Cyberdrive driver version 1.94 with base address 1F0
drive version is IDE CE-ROM TW12OD2.30
and device driver name is CD003
and everything works fine.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Alex
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From: "RABasham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with ASUS P5A-B mainboard
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:47:21 -0500
You might want to check the BIOS for an upgrade.
http://www.asus.com/downloads.asp#BIOS
Good luck!
Rex B.
Robert Svagera wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
:Half a year ago I changed the motherboard of my PC to an ASUS P5A-B.
:Since then I encounter a strange behaviour from time to time that
:I never have seen with my old 486: Especially in times of high process
:activity the power and message LED start blinking and speaker gives
:a constant tone. Sometimes it stops doing this after some time,
:sometimes it continues to the next reboot. During this phase
:Linux seems to work without any problem. Currently I am using
:Debian/Slink and kernel 2.0.35.
:
:Thank you for any hint,
:Robert
:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Cirrus CLM Data Fax Voice Modem + Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 20:41:11 GMT
I am sorry I dont speak Finnish... Is it a Win Modem ... How can you tell?
Thanks
Hasnain
In article <75rsff$nh9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Mika Hintsala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi-Terve
>
> Jos se modeemi vaatii ajurin windowsissa niin se on ns. "WinModem" ja tukea
> sille ei ole (ainakaan vielä).
> Toivotaan että Rockwell, Cirrus ym. PCI modeemi valmistaja julkasevat
> speksit niin että ajuri voidaan koodata.
> Itsekkin omistaan ns. "winmodeemin" :(
>
> ps. sorry if i spoke wrong language but it seemed to be right choice,
> because Seppo is finnish...sorry :)
>
> Seppo Räty wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >
> > I have a computer with a Cirrus CLM Data Fax Voice Modem - it says
> >Cirrus Logic PCI or something in the Win98...
> >
> > Does Linux support this one or should I change the modem if I want
> >to get
> >connected in a robust way - that is; without Win98 ?
> >
> > It is a PCI card and the modem appears as COM4 in Windows.
> >
> > Any experience in setting up this is appreciated,
> >
> > timo räty
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: "Angel Luis Fernández Blanco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I NEED HELP, XF86FREE 3.3.3 AND PERMEDIA 2, REDHAT 5.2. (ESPAÑOL)
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 10:40:19 +0100
Tengo un problema con la tarjeta de video Winfast ls 2300 Agp.
Al configurar las XFree 333 entro en X window y el escritorio aparenta estar
en perfecto estado, pero, todo se ejecuta con lentitud.
Mi ordenador es un PII 300 con 64 Mg.
Sabe alguien algo a cerca de mi problema, y como solucionarlo?
Gracias.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is my hardware compatible?
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 13:38:16 GMT
Hi all! I have a Ciryx 6x86 133 mhz, 32 mb of ram, 3.2 gb hard disk, Creative
sound Blaster 16 PnP, Trident 9440 Video adapter, and a 33.6 K Boca external
modem. Is this compatible with Linux?
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Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1998 11:42:42 -0200
From: Felipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDRW drives
Yes, it's possible to copy audio cd, buy a yamaha 4260, it has an SCSI
interface, so its easier to install and faster to use
Edward J.M. Colbert wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am thinking of purchasing a CDRW drive for use as a backup device. I
> currently use a Colorado Jumbo 250 drive and ftape, but it is slow and
> not often reliable, not to mention that the tapes aren't transportable
> to work.
>
> A second use of a CDRW drive I thought of was to use it to create audio
> CDs that I could play in my CD player on my stereo. Is this possible?
> Would I need to purchase commercial software for Linux to do this? Is
> it possible to copy audio CDs with a CDRW drive?
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Ed Colbert
> please cc me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fibre Channel and Linux?
Date: 25 Dec 1998 13:33:32 -0800
Srcan Osmanagich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does the Linux support FC adapter cards like Emulex LC7000 or any FC
> adapter card for that matter?
> Couldn't find any reference about Linux and fibre channel?
Search for "fiber" (not "fibre") in Gary's Encyclopedia at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/ethernet.html and
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/disk-drives.html
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How can I get linux to see my 3 G harddrive if the bios doesn't have LBA
support?
Date: 25 Dec 1998 13:45:40 -0800
"F.Z." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Has anyone installed Linux in a large harddrive such as 2 or 3 G on old 486
> machine that doesn't have LBA support? What did you do to get it to work?
I used a 2 GB disk on a 1990 486 with no problems. 4095 cyl, 16 heads.
I didn't do anything except use Type 47 (User defined) drive type.
Of course, LILO booting needs its files in the first 1024 cyls.
No "appends" in /etc/lilo.conf or boot command. It just worked.
AMI BIOS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Mikesell)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 24 Dec 1998 09:16:58 -0600
In article <75rqqs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kyler Laird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Is samba usable over modem lines?
>
>It's much more reasonable than NFS.
>
>>Ssh does its own port redirection,
>>so what is the advantage of the above over:
>> ssh -C -L137:remote:137 -L139:remote:139 remote
>>then running the smb client against your local host and being transparently
>>passed to the remote?
>
>no need to authenticate again
Oh, the clients I use do this transparently so I wouldn't have considered
it an issue.
Les Mikesell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (Q) Tape Drive and so on...
Date: 25 Dec 1998 13:53:18 -0800
Shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am looking for Data Management on Linux with backups/Archive.
> So do you have any experiences to use Tape Drive for backup/archive
> solution on Linux with Databases?
> If possible, please advise your cases.
> For the saving time of Backing up, I would like to use the faster
> transfer rate Tape Drives.
>
> I will try to use Oracle8 Beta and/or Sybase.
> If you have any experiences about other application with Tape Drive,
> let me know for my information, please.
Check out the backup page of Gary's Encyclopedia at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/backup.html
Sounds like you want one of the commercial offerings.
The Spectra Logic one explicitly mentions RDBMS backup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Boozer)
Subject: Will linux run on this system?
Date: 25 Dec 1998 21:57:26 GMT
I'm planning on putting together the following system:
ASUS P2B Pentium II 233-450 Intel 440BX chipset Motherboard
Intel Pentium II 350 MHz (100 MHz) CPU
128 MB SDRAM
8.4 GB Maxtor UltraDMA EIDE4 9.5ms 512k Hard Drive
Teac 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
Toshiba 32X CD ROM
Matrox G200 Millennium II AGP 8MB Graphics Card
I want to be sure this will run linux happily; does anyone have any
comments or suggetions on the above configuration? In particular, should
I consider some other video cards? Thanks,
- David Boozer
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old dumb terminals + Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:09:22 +0100
scytale wrote:
> I'm trying to use an old dumb terminal (Wyse 60 style)
> When I try to use JOE of just VI the terminal goes
> crazy and displays a lot of junk.
Did you try something like "setenv TERM vt100" or "export TERM=vt100"?
Most terminals are able to handle vt100.
regards Henrik
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Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:11:18 -0800
From: Raymond Lillard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Will linux run on this system?
David Boozer wrote:
> I'm planning on putting together the following system:
>
> ASUS P2B Pentium II 233-450 Intel 440BX chipset Motherboard
> Intel Pentium II 350 MHz (100 MHz) CPU
> 128 MB SDRAM
> 8.4 GB Maxtor UltraDMA EIDE4 9.5ms 512k Hard Drive
I would suggest getting 2ea 4GB drives. It puts more data
the heads and allows you to have a spare kernel to boot from
during/after emergencies. It also allows you to create two
swap partitions.
> Teac 1.44 MB 3.5" Floppy Drive
> Toshiba 32X CD ROM
> Matrox G200 Millennium II AGP 8MB Graphics Card
I have an ASUS P2B-S (internal SCSI) and an ATI Xpert@Play98
which is running perfectly. It even will boot from the SCSI
CDROM (RH-5.2) into the install procedure.
I have been using ASUS boards for several years and have
found them to be reliable. I think the system you describe
will serve you well.
RAy
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From: "Matthew P. Inger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE CD ReWriter in Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:11:31 -0500
Anyone successfully get an IDE CD Writer to work under linux. All the
stuff I found through
linux.org and supplemental links refers to CD Writers that are
SCSI devices. My CDWriter is
under /dev/hdc device. Will the mkisofs and cdwrite programs work this
way?
Please respond by e-mail as well.
Matt Inger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: I <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Yet another modem question
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 15:03:32 -0800
Yes, its another newbie modem question.
Has anyone had success using a Modem Blaster model# DI5601 with Linux? I
got the stupid thing for Christmas, and I'd prefer not to return unless
necessary. My searches of the web and newsgroups indicate it _might_
work, but I could find no conclusive answer.
-Ian
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:34:34 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3DFX voodoo AGP 16mb with redhat 5.2 help
louis wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> 3DFX voodoo AGP 16mb with redhat 5.2 help,
> anyone know how to install the video card or to configur it please help
>
> louis
Banshee?
Forget about that card. Not supported.
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:32:00 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux not detecting new processor ! :(
Manoj Bhatti wrote:
>
> Is my kernel still thinking it is a 75MHz processor
> or is it just the /proc/cpuinfo file. Would I have
> to compile and install a new kernel. ??
If you configured your motherboard correctly, then there should be
pentium 75+ (note the plus).
I don't think you need to recompile the kernel. Look if BogoMips rised,
though. AFAIK it wo't show the megahetrz there anyway (just say it's 75+
and that's all).
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:43:22 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV Tuner For Linux
Shay Ohayon wrote:
> I want to ask a question : What is the best suitable TV-Tuner card
> for Linux ? (with the biggest support, and the lowest cost).
I have heard only good about a SpeedCom+ TV tuner. It has also a IR
remote, but that isn't supported under Linux. Everything else is.
A Big Fat Note: DON't buy ATI TV-tuner! It isn't supported by Linux and
thanks to ignorance of ATI it will not be in the near future.
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From: "Jim Orfanakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Conflict with X-Windows and Linksys EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 18:53:47 -0500
Thanks. I went to the site you listed and printed it out.
Two problems:
1) My directory structure is a little different from the one you
listed...There is no "drivers" directory. I have
/usr/src/linux/include/net.
2) When I try to compile...the `make config' command generates the
following error:
make: *** No rule to make target `config'. Stop.
Thanks.
Dale Miracle wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Jim Orfanakos wrote:
>
>> I have tried messing with the card and the NIC settings to no avail.
>>
>> Yesterday I downloaded a new LINUX tulip.c driver from the LinkSys web
site
>> but (sine I am a newbie) I am not sure how to re-compile the kernel to
>> activate the new driver.
>>
>
>Copy the tulip.c to the /usr/src/linux/drivers/net directory. cp tulip.c
>/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/ or you can use mv which is move, same as it
is in
>dos.
>from the /usr/src/linux directory you should be able to recompile your
kernel
>with the new file. Here is a link to a how-to that explains how to do
that.
>ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/howto/Kernel-HOWTO
>
>
>
>--
>Dale Miracle "No matter where you go, there you are",
>System Administrator Oliver's Law of Location
>The Edge of Insanity "Real funny Scotty, now beam down my
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] clothes"
> "I've gone to look for my self, if I return before I get
> back keep me here."
>
>
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