Linux-Hardware Digest #608, Volume #9 Tue, 9 Mar 99 13:13:40 EST
Contents:
Re: adaptec ava 1505, 1510 (Andrew Robinson)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Hasler)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (DanH)
SCSI BOOT Problem (Mike Cobb)
ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows (Sjonnie Jordaan)
Need driver for Intel 82558 ethernet interface (Tom and Eva McGuigan)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Johan Kullstam)
Having problems whlie updating and running RedHat Linux 5.2 (Prasanna Kumar Mishra)
Intel 430VX ("Mortimer, Ian (EXCHANGE:MDN03:4634)")
Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows (BL)
Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows (BL)
Re: Linux DSL (BL)
Re: unsupported sector size on SCSI Disk (Stuart R. Fuller)
printer problem (Digital Messiah)
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (Rick Onanian)
Re: newbie: RivaTnT support for xfree86 3.3.3 (Bradley Yen)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Compaq Prosignia - SCSI Controller ("Charles Pratt")
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (John Winters)
Speed..Speed..Speed (Jim Moser)
Re: Tone activated Tel Exchanges (Leonardo L Díaz)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (John Burton)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Robinson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: adaptec ava 1505, 1510
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 12:51:34 GMT
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 01:47:36 -0800, Taylor Wescoatt
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm unable to find drivers for either of these cards. Has anyone
>installed them successfully?
>
Use the Driver for the Adaptec 152x series, I found I needed to
disable parity as well. My card is located at IO 0x140, irq 10 so the
line to give to the kernel was:
aha152x=0x140,10,7,0
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From: John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 09:09:50 GMT
Brian Moore writes:
> (Again, much of this is due to their non-compete clause that they signed
> when they sold Xenix off to SCO, so it's unlikely to change.)
It'll change the moment they decide that buying out the agreement is a
worthwhile investment.
--
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From: DanH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:29:35 +0000
Robert Bentley wrote:
>
> All I want to know is what this has to do with linux , and this newsgroup
> Peyton Bay wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >childsplay wrote:
> >
Well, it is a good way to break the ice and wake people up about what M$
is doing and opening that there are "other" operating systems out there.
Dan
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From: Mike Cobb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI BOOT Problem
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 23:03:08 GMT
I have a machine with several SCSI LUN's (0-5 and 7) for the SCSI board.
The machine used to have an IDE drive as the primary boot disk. The IDE
drive died, and I added anoth SCSI drive as /dev/sda as the boot drive.
It ran fine before. Now the problem, I boot RedHat 5.2 from the floppy,
run fdisk to partition /dev/sda and the other SCSI drives. I have /,
/var, /tmp, /usr, /usr/local, /boot, etc etc as partitions also defined.
I run through the install, add everything, define the LAN, password etc.
Everything install's error free! I go to reboot the system and once the
post test completes it trys to find a boot device and pukes. I have the
MBR defined on /dev/sda. The boot partition is defined as active and the
system BIOS is configured to boot from <SCSI, A, C>.
Ok..........what am I doing wrong.
Regards
Mike
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From: Sjonnie Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:52:27 +0100
Can anyone tell me how to get my videocard running properly on Xwindows?
I'm new at this, so be patient.... :-)
I'm getting an image, but I can only get 400x300 image and the desktop
itself is 800x600
I'm running the Mandrake distribution of Linux with KDE installed.
Thanks in advance,
Michel Buis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom and Eva McGuigan)
Subject: Need driver for Intel 82558 ethernet interface
Date: 9 Mar 1999 13:46:07 GMT
I am trying to install Redhat 5.2 on a Compaq Professional Workstation
AP400. I can't get Linux to recognize the ethernet interface.
Compaq lists the interface as a Compaq NC3161 Fast Ethernet 10/100 WOL,
based on the Intell 82558 chipset. The I/O Address is listed as
autoconfigured.
Does anyone know how I can get Linux to recongize the interface?
Thanks,
Tom Mcguigan
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 09 Mar 1999 08:09:39 -0500
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Brian Moore writes:
> > (Again, much of this is due to their non-compete clause that they signed
> > when they sold Xenix off to SCO, so it's unlikely to change.)
>
> It'll change the moment they decide that buying out the agreement is a
> worthwhile investment.
yes, but as far as i can tell, microsoft are idealogically committed
to destroying unix. i can see bill gates taking off his shoe and
pounding it on the rostrum....
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: Prasanna Kumar Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Having problems whlie updating and running RedHat Linux 5.2
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 11:35:44 GMT
I had a very disappointing experience while updating and running RedHat
Linux 5.2. When I try to update, whenever it tries to scan (gives message
scanning for update....) it gives message 11 and unmonts the file system.
When i try to boot at a message comes " cant handle null pointer in kernel
..."and gives a lot of details which I am not able to understand them (it
gives some codes in hexadecimal form). This message also comes while I try
to give any command. But there is no fixed point where this comes.
While I run Xwindows , sometimes it gives error 111 or error 4.
I am having cyrix 233 processor and intel mother board. Linux partition is
413MB out of which 61 MB is for swapping. I have only selected packages
and have 70 MB free.
Please help me.
Prasanna.
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From: "Mortimer, Ian (EXCHANGE:MDN03:4634)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel 430VX
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:18:12 +0000
Hi all,
I am about to install Suse 6.0 on my P133 with a 430VX chipset. At the
moment I have 80 Mb RAM (2x8Mb + 2x32Mb).
I have recently heard that the VX chipset can't handle memory above 64Mb
very well ? (runs slower ???)
Is this right ? If so, am I going to notice an improvement in speed if
I drop down to 64Mb ?
Any suggestions / comments appreciated.
Ian.
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:09:40 GMT
did you tell it tht it was a mach64 chipset?
the braindead Dell that the company gave me on my desk is using integrated (on
the mobo) sound, ether and video. yuk! but it does come up in 1600x1200 mode
for me.
Sjonnie Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone tell me how to get my videocard running properly on Xwindows?
: I'm new at this, so be patient.... :-)
: I'm getting an image, but I can only get 400x300 image and the desktop
: itself is 800x600
: I'm running the Mandrake distribution of Linux with KDE installed.
: Thanks in advance,
: Michel Buis
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Pro Turbo + XWindows
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:10:20 GMT
also, in addition to the mach64 setting, did you tell xf86Setup about your
monitor's actual horiz and vert freq ranges?
Sjonnie Jordaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Can anyone tell me how to get my videocard running properly on Xwindows?
: I'm new at this, so be patient.... :-)
: I'm getting an image, but I can only get 400x300 image and the desktop
: itself is 800x600
: I'm running the Mandrake distribution of Linux with KDE installed.
: Thanks in advance,
: Michel Buis
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From: BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux DSL
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 15:08:30 GMT
just got dsl via pacbell here. I laughed at that tiny nic they force you to
buy. I already run the DEC tulip so I wasn't about to deinstall it at their
command ;-)
a word of advice about pacbell dsl installs: INSIST that you get your
allocated end station IP addrs BEFORE (!) the installer comes out. insist on
it. you have to call a group called 'provisioning'. just tell them that you
need the ip's before the tech comes out so that you can get up and running in
a minimum amount of time.
when the tech came out he had NO ip's for me and provisioning took well over a
hour (on hold!) to get them to reserve ip's for me. what a major drag.
and also be prepared to unhook all the phones in the house and reconnect them
one by one until the 'error light' comes on. if you have powered phone things
(caller id or ans machines, etc) then that could throw the line off a bit. we
had to go thru this exercise and one phone was somehow problematic so we left
it unconnected for now.
but after all those charades, we finally got it going. 1.5meg-6meg in and
384k out. nice... ;-) and $200/mo is reasonable enough for this kind of b/w.
we'll just see if pacbell can keep the net up - I'm not betting my life on it.
Michael Hazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Stavros C. Kassinos" wrote:
: >
: > Is anybody aware whether the DSL hardware used by PacBell for their DSL
: > service is compatible with Linux? My main concern is whether the
: > Ethernet card they use with their package is one for which Linux has
: > drivers. If anybody has experience with this I would appreciate some
: > enlightment...
: *Any* network card will work with Pacbell's ADSL service. They provide a
: Kingston 10/100BT card. I haven't installed that card as I use a Mac
: (with it's built-in enet) for my IP router. If you can't find drivers
: for the Kingston, then just go out and get a cheap 10BT card that is
: supported by available Linux drivers.
: Michael Hazarian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: unsupported sector size on SCSI Disk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:00:03 GMT
Fred Pan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm trying to install a new SCSI disk on my linux box and I'm getting a
: strange error.
:
: The following is the output of the dmesg command. It's saying the
: Seagate ST12400N has an unsupported sector size. Is there any place
: where this is setup? I can't seem to find where or how to fix this. Any
: info that would help solve this problem would be appreciated. Thanks
:
: -Fred Pan
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
:
:
: Configuring aha174x at IO:2c80, IRQ 11
: aha174x: Extended translation enabled.
: scsi0 : Adaptec 174x (EISA)
: scsi : 1 host.
: Vendor: HP Model: C3010 Rev: 0BA4
: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
: Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST12400N Rev: 8044
: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0
: Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 27871-XXX Rev: 3.89
: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
: scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
: SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 3912172 [1910 MB] [1.9
: GB]
: sdb : unsupported sector size 524.
: scsi : deleting disk entry.
If it's really a *new* disk, then I'd start by returning it to your dealer and
getting one that works right.
Stu
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From: Digital Messiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer problem
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 09:48:55 -0500
ok, i have a HP deskjet 600c printer. it works fine during test with
redhat 5.2. however, when i try to print anything else i get the error
message sh: /dev/lp1: permission Denied. I can't even print as root. I
know the printer works and the port is /dev/lp1. any ideas?
--
Scott Blair
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Rick Onanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 11:53:58 -0500
John Thompson wrote:
>
> DanH wrote:
>
> > Robert Bentley wrote:
> > >
> > > All I want to know is what this has to do with linux , and this newsgroup
> > > Peyton Bay wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > > >childsplay wrote:
>
> > Well, it is a good way to break the ice and wake people up about what M$
> > is doing and opening that there are "other" operating systems out there.
>
> But if they're reading in the "comp.os.linux..." newsgroups
> chances are they already know this...
I believe this was in response to the large amount of posts lately by
microsoft lovers who randomly come into a linux group and post something
like "Linux is just like Windows in safe mode!"...
Who cares...
> --
>
> -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
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From: Bradley Yen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie: RivaTnT support for xfree86 3.3.3
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:31:14 +0000
I'm using a Creative Labs Riva TNT Blaster on my Linux system. I'm using
Linux Mandrake distribution (basically Red Hat 5.2 + KDE 1.1). XFree86 3.3.3
should run be compatible with all the Riva TNT graphics cards. You'll be
running the SVGA server which is kind of the generic driver for all SVGA
cards/monitors. Hopefully there will be an update with a driver/server
special to the TNT cards which will make X go a lot faster.
Yes... just get any TNT card you want.
Felix Natter wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a new PC together and I'm planning on buying a RivaTnT
> card with 16Mb RAM. In the cardlist.html on www.xfree86.org they don't list
> all RivaTnT cards. I was wondering if it is indeed possible to run *any*
> card that uses the RivaTnT-chipset with an nVidia-driver, or similar.
> Suggestions on which card to buy would also be welcome!
> Thanks,
> Felix Natter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:00:02 GMT
brian moore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: >
: > Yes. And Your point, as related to "the last holdout from basing their
: > systems on Unix concepts is Microsoft" bit? Mind You, if You look deep
: > enough into NT architecture, You'll see.... VMS!
:
: VMS is based on Unix?
:
: Very interesting news indeed.
It might be interesting, but it is certainly wrong news. If you read the
paragraph above, it implies that the NT architecture is based on VMS.
Stu
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From: "Charles Pratt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq Prosignia - SCSI Controller
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 22:18:09 -0800
Hi,
This afternoon someone replied to me on how to install this on the Prosgnia
486. I will give it a try this week sometime. What he said was to change
the CD to Boot now I downloaded the compaq configuration floppies to do this
but I did not want to make this puppy non-funtional. so I installed XX on
it, slow, but it works, so now. I have a bootable OS. Now I will change
the hardware configs. to boot CD to see if it clicks.
The person who recomend this was someone from Neosoftsys. Thanks it is the
only thing I have not tried.
Charles Pratt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: 9 Mar 1999 17:33:16 -0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Phil Stevens <mudshark> wrote:
>On 9 Mar 1999 08:15:10 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Winters)
>wrote while drinking:
>
>
>>Which rather neatly demonstrates why US prices are no use in UK
>>newsgroup. There are so many variables to add on or knock off
>>(and H.M. C&E are so abysmal at calculating them right) that the
>>only meaningful price for a UK user is one quoted in GBP with all
>>the relevant taxes paid.
>
>Ahem. The following header was found on your followup:
>
>Newsgroups:
>comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
>
>The first three newsgroups are in the comp.* hierarchy, which was not
>exclusive to the UK last time I checked.
If you'd read the thread before leaping in with your foot in your mouth
you wouldn't have made that comment.
>Pay attention, please.
Exactly.
John
--
John Winters. Wallingford, Oxon, England.
The Linux Emporium - a source for Linux CDs in the UK
See <http://www.polo.demon.co.uk/emporium.html>
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From: Jim Moser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:53:07 GMT
Am currently running a K6-2 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of 100 Mhz
memory and considering
upgrading to a faster board and processor. I am pursuing a project which
will require scads of floating point
calculations on large arrays..the results of which are written back out
to disk..about 500 Mbytes worth.
So I'm looking at the new high end processors..PII/PIII and discover
this PII Xeon chip.
Does anyone have any experience with this chip? It very expensive..about
$900. A dual Xeon board from
SuperMicro with both processors runs over $2000. So how much faster is
this chip? Intel's web site
says it has a 512K L2 cache (even more expensive versions have 1Mb and
2Mb cache) which runs
at PROCESSOR SPEED .. 400 Mhz in this case. The comparable PII-400 chip
has a smaller(?) L2 cache
which runs at 1/2 chip speed. The comparable AMD K6-2 400 chip has a 1Mb
L2 cache but it is off chip
and accessed by the 100 Mhz bus.
So there you have it. Is the Xeon really worth double the PII price or
triple the K6-2 price?
As far as I can see.. the main difference is the L2 cache speed. Has
anybody seen any benchmarks
on this chip vis-a-via "comparable chips?
Jim M.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leonardo L Díaz)
Crossposted-To: uk.telecom,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Tone activated Tel Exchanges
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 17:39:46 GMT
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 10:07:48 +0000, Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Graham Shepherd wrote:
>
>> Matt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >
>> >Could someone mail me with the name of the software or hardware that is
>> >used
>> >by a telephone then the user is asked to enter a tone to activate a
>> >service.
>> >
>> >ie..
>> >
>> >ring, ring...
>> >Welcome..
>> >If you are using a tone telephone press star (*)"
>> >Press 1 to acivate service x...
>> >Matt
>> >
>> The autoanswer software is usualy part of the telephone switch software and
>> is supplied by the equipment manufacturer. If you're talking about software
>> to generate tones after dialling to one of these systems - I hope you're not
>> thinking of trying aht I think you are...
>>
>
> And what would that be ?
>
>Matt
War dialers? Old stuff by now. But I think the idea would be to
build your own messaging system under Linux. That could be perfect.
Free OS, low footprint, minimal resources.
But I will really be interested in getting to recognize those tones
from my machine. I remember reading many (too many) years ago in
Ciarcia's Circuit Cellar about the decoding chips. Has anybody stayed
up-todate on that? Is any card around with one of those chips that
will just tell me which button was pressed?
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Tue, 09 Mar 1999 14:57:05 GMT
brian moore wrote:
>
>
> I didn't think it needed an explanation, since it's clear that IBM is a
> Unix vendor despite also selling OS/400. (Heck, they also sell Windows
> on Aptivas.) Your argument is a red herring. May as well claim that
> Safeway doesn't sell apples because they have milk.
>
Ummm...true IBM has AIX, but they didn't start dealing with UNIX until
the late '80s and at that time they had so little experience
*supporting* it, they had to have a major hiring just to get some UNIX
types onboard. Prior to that they were *business* oriented (Ever wonder
why they are call Internamtional *Business* Machines ? ;-) and UNIX was
not widely used in business...
John
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