Linux-Hardware Digest #934, Volume #9 Mon, 5 Apr 99 11:13:22 EDT
Contents:
Re: Asus 3400TV ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATAPI ZIP drive mounting problems (Erwan Cadic)
Re: Asus 3400TV (Tim Moore)
Re: Logitech First Mouse+ (Tim Moore)
Re: Celeron Multiplier Q: (Tim Moore)
Re: Kernel reports HD with 0K cache?? (Tim Moore)
Re: Question: Specify params for Promise card disables ethernet!? (Tim Moore)
How to? Creative 3DBlaster Exxtreme ("Lennart B. Jessen")
Re: Has anyone used the M571 motherboard from TigerDirect? (Allen)
Re: Trouble with Matrox Millenium G200 Video Card and Xconfigurator (Erwan Cadic)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (jedi)
Re: Kernel : Compile probs. (Michael Travis)
creative graphics blaster exxtreme ("Yiannis Demetriou")
Autoshutdown in ATX ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Re: Kernel : Compile probs. ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Re: Problem Booting Linux (Ishpeck)
Re: Any way to use Plug&Play with Linux? ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Re: Mandrake (Swietanowski Artur)
Diamond SupraExpress 56 i V Pro Internal Modem ("Christian Bryan")
Re: Zip drive for parallel port (Tim Moore)
Re: Large (1MB) writes (Dan Shechter)
Re: backup hardware and Linux (HAC)
Re: Asus Riva TNT on Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane) (Dan Shechter)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Asus 3400TV
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 17:12:31 +1000
Which server are u using Tim?
Regards
John
Becker679H wrote:
>
> I just got the Asus 3400 (no TV) working using XFree86 3.3.3.1. Yea!
>
> Tim.
--
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Erwan Cadic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI ZIP drive mounting problems
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 10:56:35 +0200
I had the same problem, it seems that the partition used for ZIP drives =
is something like /dev/hd?4 =
You could try to mount it as: mount /dev/hdd4 <mount-point>
If it does not work, try the other /dev/hdd devices
Erwan
Vic Russell a =E9crit :
> =
> I forgot to say that I'm using Win98 on my system as well and want to b=
e
> able to swap files. Any ideas on this please?
> =
> Kind regards,
> =
> Vic Russell
>
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:46:06 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus 3400TV
SVGA
> > I just got the Asus 3400 (no TV) working using XFree86 3.3.3.1. Yea!
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:58:42 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech First Mouse+
http://solaris1.mysolution.com/~jcatki/imwheel/
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/#rxvt
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:56:59 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron Multiplier Q:
No. External multipliers are ignored.
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:53:31 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel reports HD with 0K cache??
# hdparm -i /dev/hd?
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:49:25 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question: Specify params for Promise card disables ethernet!?
> this as it does with the Ultra33. Nevertheless, I can specify params at
> boot of the type ide2=0x6c00,0x7002 and it will recognize my drives on
> the card and initialize them. Great.
Note the specification of IRQ at the end. Worked for U/33 in 2.0.34.
append="\
ide2=0xd000,0xb806,10 \
ide3=0xb400,0xb006,10 \
"
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
From: "Lennart B. Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to? Creative 3DBlaster Exxtreme
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 11:21:43 +0200
Dear...
I need help for config. of my 3D card.
Data is:
Chipset 3Dlabs PERMEDIA 2 Chip
Memory 4Mbyte SGRAM
PCI 2.1 Compliant
Plug and Play
How do I get this into Linux (Red Hat 5.2)
My CPU: Acer 200MHz pentium, 88Mbyte RAM, Onboard disabled ATI graphics Chip
(Non 3D).
Using Lilo for (Win95) dualboot.
Lennart B. Jessen, Denmark ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Thank you!
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: Has anyone used the M571 motherboard from TigerDirect?
Date: 5 Apr 1999 08:15:51 GMT
On Sat, 03 Apr 1999 11:14:40 -0500, Quick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...snip...
>ps. IMHO stay away from "onboard" video. I haven't seen one yet that was
>worth S#%T. Think about it, mainboard and video for $79.95. What do you think
>that you will REALY get?
>Mark
As far as on board video is concerned, you will also have to consider that
nearly all on-board video nowadays is using the UMA--united memory architecture,
so the video will take away from the RAM useable by the operating system.
Having said that, it would still make a decent file server, or any other use
that doesn't really even need to have a full-time high-power graphics card...
Personally. I tend to avoid them, but most of my machines are built with the
idea that they may likely need to be available to play a networked game of Quake
or something, so I don't skimp on video for most, but I did throw together a
cheap file server from junk pile parts last week, and any video with vga 640 x
480 x 16 would 've worked fine for that, so it still depends on your usage.
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
------------------------------
From: Erwan Cadic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with Matrox Millenium G200 Video Card and Xconfigurator
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:00:41 +0200
You should upgrade to XFree 3.3.3.1. It is said in the README for the =
G200 cards that you should specify the amount of video RAM by hand as
the server is not able to probe it (apparently due to a problem with
the card chipset).
I have the same card and it works fine up to 1280x1024 24 bits.
Regards,
Erwan
Sylvia Isler a =E9crit :
> =
> I just got a Matrox Millinneum G200 video card and attempted to
> install RedHat 5.2 which went fine until Xconfigurator returned an
> error saying that it could not detect the video ram in my card.
> =
> So, I configured it by hand. But when I typed startx at the unix prompt=
,
> =
> the X server failed to start claiming that video card did not have
> enough
> ram to handle an 800x600 8bit configuration.
> =
> My video card has 8meg of ram.
> =
> My questions:
> =
> Has anyone else run into a similar problem?
> =
> If so, how did you fix/work-around it?
> =
> If anyone has successfully got RedHat Linux 5.2 to work with the
> Matrox Millennium G200 video card could you send me the
> config. file?
> =
> Thanks,
> =
> Sylvia Isler
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 15:42:15 -0800
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:54:14 +0200, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>jedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >That is an excellent way to fix bugs, but it is totally unable to fix
>poor
>> >initial design decisions. What happens on Linux when you type 'rm * .tmp'
>> >instead of 'rm *.tmp'? Just the same as on any Unix system for the last
>20
>> >years. Why hasn't it been fixed? Because it would break old programs.
>> >It simply isn't possible to design a 21st Century operating system that
>is
>> >backwards compatible with a 1980 OS.
>> Then write a new utility named foo or rewrite rm to exhibit
>> your notion of 'the one true interface'. Unix has less such
>> problems as it is nearly completely modular.
>
>The problem is not rm's, it's a fundamental problem of the CLI because the
>shell, not the rm program, will expand the wildcards. The right thing to
Then change the shell, or tell it not to expand.
>is having the tool to expand the wildcards when appropriate. You could
>stuff the expansion functionality in a shared lib so the developer has the
>same convenience of not having to write it. And the developer would have a
>change to check for suspicious parameters before the expansion.
IOW: rewrite the offending application, which is what I said
to begin with. MOdular facility rather facilitates that.
That and neither rm or the shells are a core part of the OS in Unix
to begin with...
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Travis)
Subject: Re: Kernel : Compile probs.
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 09:31:45 GMT
Reply-To: NewsClient
Matthew,
Make bzImage instead of make zImage (then the result will be smaller).
You may also need to update lilo (if lilo complains about the size).
Regards,
Michael.
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:51:56 +0100, "Matthew Wilby"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm having real troubles configuring my kernel on SuSE 6. I do all the
>procedures set out in the manual, however after the 'zImage' stage I get
>this...
>
>Root device id (3,3)
>Boot sector 512 bytes
>Setup is 4420 bytes
>System is 539kb
>System is too big
>make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
>make[1]: leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
>make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 2
>
>I've tried different setups and still no luck.
>
>Another thing is, after the kernel has been recompiled to processor type
>'Pentium', will this display on the login prompt, i.e. SuSE 6.0 (i586) or
>will it remain (i386)?
>
>I reletively new to linux, and i'd appreciate any help offered.
>
>Cheers
>
>
>
>
------------------------------
From: "Yiannis Demetriou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creative graphics blaster exxtreme
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 23:06:35 +0200
I am trying to put a red hat 5.2 on my pc (166 MMX). I have a problem. It
does not support my video card (creative graphics blaster exxtreme with 4MB
VRAM), so the Xwindows does not work. Any ideas to make them work? Please
help me.
Yiannis Demetriou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Autoshutdown in ATX
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:03:34 +0100
A couple of months ago, I was using kernel 2.0.35.
I compiled my own version with APM support enabled.
Whenever I shutdown, power was turned off.
Since I upgraded to 2.2.3, and with the same option(s) enabled, power won't
turn off.
Anybody has a hint on this?
Regards,
André
PS: Please, email.
------------------------------
From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel : Compile probs.
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:07:37 +0100
Also, you might consider reducing the size of your system.
Many things may be compiled as modules, thus reducing the total size of the
image and loading into memory those modules that are really being needed at
any one time.
Regards,
André
Michael Travis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Matthew,
>Make bzImage instead of make zImage (then the result will be smaller).
>You may also need to update lilo (if lilo complains about the size).
>Regards,
>Michael.
>On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 09:51:56 +0100, "Matthew Wilby"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I'm having real troubles configuring my kernel on SuSE 6. I do all the
>>procedures set out in the manual, however after the 'zImage' stage I get
>>this...
>>
>>Root device id (3,3)
>>Boot sector 512 bytes
>>Setup is 4420 bytes
>>System is 539kb
>>System is too big
>>make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 1
>>make[1]: leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.0.36.SuSE/arch/i386/boot'
>>make[1]: *** [zImage] Error 2
>>
>>I've tried different setups and still no luck.
>>
>>Another thing is, after the kernel has been recompiled to processor type
>>'Pentium', will this display on the login prompt, i.e. SuSE 6.0 (i586) or
>>will it remain (i386)?
>>
>>I reletively new to linux, and i'd appreciate any help offered.
>>
>>Cheers
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
------------------------------
From: Ishpeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem Booting Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 05:10:19 -0600
I would guess that the boot disk is bad. Make a new one.
Mark Belnap wrote:
>
> I just finished assembling a new machine (first time I've done that)
> completely from individual components. I want to install Linux only on
> it but when I try booting with a Linux boot disk (redhat 5.2), I get the
> following error:
>
> SYSLINUX 1.40 1998-05-07 Boot failed
>
> I thought that I may have assembled some things wrong, but when I boot
> with a dos system disk, everything works just fine. I can't find any
> info about this particular problem, so any clues would be welcome.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the ...nospam...)
------------------------------
From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to use Plug&Play with Linux?
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:16:06 +0100
Install your modem.
Then in the /etc dir type 'pnpdump >isapnp.conf' (without the '')
Edit this file, locate the modem line, choose the IRQ and IO resources (by
uncommenting the line out).
Uncomment the ACT Y line in the bottom of the modem related lines.
Type 'isapnp isapnp.conf'. Check that the modem has been configured with the
resources you've specified.
HTH,
André
Fisch wrote in message ...
>I've been using an external 33.6 modem on my x486 Linux box.
>
>Somebody gave me an internal modem, but it's plug & Play,
>and has no jumpers. It's either configured by Windows,
>or by the software that came with it.
>
>My Linux box is not dual boot, so I don't have access
>to Windoze to config the modem.
>
>Is there anyway I can use this modem?
>
>Thanks,
>Fisch
------------------------------
From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 12:06:43 +0200
Sigvard Lingh wrote:
>
> A Linux program suite - Mandrake - is it OK? Good?
It's a distribution, not program suite. It's RedHat 5.2 +
XFree86 upgrade, kernel upgrade, KDE 1.1 as default window
manager, some KDE apps, etc.
I switched to it (from RedHat) and I'm very pleased.
Regards,
=====================================================================
Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut fuer Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universitaet Wien, Universitaetsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
=====================================================================
------------------------------
From: "Christian Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond SupraExpress 56 i V Pro Internal Modem
Date: Mon, 5 Apr 1999 12:12:50 +0100
Is it possible to get a Diamond SupraExpress 56 i V Pro Internal Modem to
work under Linux? I have posted this question to other groups, but my only
replies indicate that this is a Win modem and is unable to work with Linux.
I have tried to drive this modem in Windows 95 using the standard driver and
it works. This suggests to me that it is not a Win Modem and does not need a
specialised driver for it.
Please could anyone help me with this matter.
Cheers,
Christian
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:55:45 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip drive for parallel port
http://www.torque.net/~campbell/
--
[Replies: add tim in front]
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:14:47 +0200
From: Dan Shechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Large (1MB) writes
Norm Dresner wrote:
>
> Michael Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <7cjeo2$6eo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > Are there any drivers to do large (1MB) tape read and write? The limit
> > in 2.0.xx was ~64k, but if we can't do at least 1MB, we're stuck with
> > Solaris.
> >
> Why not modify the original or write your own; that is, after all, one of
> the most important things about Open Source, n'est pas?
>
> Norm
I'm not too sure about this, but if I remember correctly it all comes
down to the buffer on your tapes hardware, which, is usually <1MB at any
rate, isn't it?
Shechter.
------------------------------
From: HAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: backup hardware and Linux
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 13:29:26 GMT
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> Matthew Hixson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I was wondering what sort of backup hardware people are using with
> > Linux. I am looking for some sort of a tape backup device, preferably
> > SCSI. I will be needing to backup about 60GB of data on a weekly
> > basis. Any thoughts on this? I am also considering going with the Jaz
> > drive since it would be much faster to pull backups off of there if I'm
> > looking for something in particular.
>
> I've used the various DAT DDS drives (DDS-1, DDS-DC, DDS-2, and just upgraded
> to DDS-3). My DDS-2 drive was a WangDAT 3800, and it seemed to be flakey with
> Linux if I specified hardware compression and block sizes > 8k. My new DDS-3
> is an HP and I haven't stressed it too much at this point. DDS-3 will hold 12
> gig uncompressed and 24 gig compressed per tape, and costs ~ $1000 for the
> drive, and media is in the low $20's. You can get autoloader drives as well
> that allow for larger unattended dumps.
>
One "gotcha" is that the default SCSI tape buffer size is 32K for the
2.0.x kernels. I've had to edit st_options.h and increase
ST_BUFFER_BLOCKS to 64 in order to use the Sun default 63K block size
for my Exabyte 8mm drive. I don't know if this has changed in the 2.2.x
tree; it probably should.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 02:11:27 +0200
From: Dan Shechter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus Riva TNT on Red Hat 5.0 (Hurricane)
qwerty wrote in message <7cr9gb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Hi there!
Hi,
|Does anyone know how to make a Riva TNT with 16MBs (Asus, Creative or
|Diamond) graphics card work on Red Hat 5.0.
|(I want to see more than 16 colours).
You'll need the latest XFree86 server (3.3.3.1 I think), the exact
server you need is XF86_SVGA. the SVGA server will recognize the
TNT and should give you no problems. My Asus v3400 works just fine.
Shechter.
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
