Linux-Hardware Digest #256, Volume #10 Mon, 17 May 99 13:13:25 EDT
Contents:
ATI mach 64 & Red Hat 5.1 (robert)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines (bryan)
need A/D board for data acq. (Les Schaffer)
Re: Need a program to exercise/test the computer hardware (Lee Allen)
Re: Linux on an embedded 486 (Bill Feero)
My awe 32 card wont setup (Kobus Wolvaardt)
Symbios SYM8751SPE SCSI with LINUX? (Ruediger Bodack)
Re: How to SILENCE a MODEM? (Rob Clark)
Will RH 6.0 work with my LS-120 (IDE - internal) ("Mitch")
SB 128 again (Claude Chaudet)
Re: Linux on an embedded 486 (Bill Feero)
Re: Token-ring cards ("Arne K. Haaje")
future domain 8 bit SCSI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD ("Gary Maltzen")
Re: Quad/Dual Motherboard? ("Tony")
Re: However my ATI RAGE 128 AGP 8MB =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= work (javierlt)
Re: How to SILENCE a MODEM? (D. J. Birchall)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (robert)
Subject: ATI mach 64 & Red Hat 5.1
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:28:18 GMT
Ran the druid & probed for Video support. It found my ATI Video
Expression & when I continued, set-up for video failed at 90%
completion w/ this message.
"X Free 86-Mach 64 failed unpacking of archive on file
/usr/X11R6/man5/XF86Config.5X:1: no such file or directory.
I installed to an old harddrive that is 234 megs, kept the package
count low because of this, what I want from linux is there-for a
beginner. When I designated a monitor in the druid set-up I checked
generic. I actually have an old Macintosh SVGA monitor (480 x 640),
w/ a virtual desktop set at 600 x 800 High Color. So the deal is, I
start X windows & get darkness-o-monitor. I obviously set things up a
bit wrong. When I partitioned the HD I only designated /(root) & swap
in the interest of saving space. How can I reset parameters from w/in
Linux (command linese), thus avoiding re-install? Thanks in advance.
Robert
P.S. I am running as drivers for my video card on my main C: drive
MS(hell!!!!) direct X 5. This so I can have MAME 32. Could this be
my prob.?
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:30:13 GMT
I'll second the celeron idea.
if you can get celeron 300a and the right slotket adapters, you can push them to 450
ea.
a 900mhz system is the result (sort of) ;-)
you most likely need to enable the SMP jumper on the slotket and raise
the voltage to 2.2. finally, b21 might need cutting or lifting. some
mobos (like the asus p2bd) don't need to worry about pin b21.
all this gets you the best price/performance system out there!
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: According to M.V. Ramana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
: > I am thinking of building a simple dual-processor machine (2 P-II 400Mhz
: > CPUs).
: I'd actually recomend running dual Celerons. They are every bit as
: fast as the PII and about half the price. In fact, my single-CPU
: Celeron 333 is actually a bit faster than my dual-CPU PII-333 when
: running on just one CPU.
: > The most challenging task for this machine, if an when built,
: > would be running some serious number crunching (linux) applications from
: > mathematical optimization, computational algebra etc.
: Fortunately for you, RH 6.0 installs SMP out of the box. ;-)
: > If some of you out there have built similar machine configurations, I
: > would
: > much appreciate if you can share your experiences. A few questions on
: > on my mind are:
: >
: > 1) On applications (built say, using gcc) that are not designed with
: > parallel processing in mind, can you get any speed up at all?
: Unless they are multi-threaded, no.
: > 2) A P-III 500 Mhz machine from Dell with similar specs costs about the
: > same as above, and so, is it worth my time to build the dual processor
: > machine?
: I'd recomend benching the fastest Celeron you can find against the
: P-III before plunking down the cash. The results may surprise you.
: > 3) What are the best places (on the internet or otherwise) to shop for
: > parts? I looked at www.tcu-inc.com, and they had fairly decent prices
: > on most items (256MB memory being a notable exception).
: Standard rules apply. Make sure they have an 800 number. Make sure
: they take credit cards and don't bill until the otder is shipped.
: etc, etc, etc.
: > I should also mention that I have never "built" (assembled is a more
: > accurate
: > term, I guess) a PC before.
: You may want to enlist the help of someone who has done it before. It
: is not at all difficult but you *can* break things if you aren't
: careful.
: -p.
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Bryan
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Subject: need A/D board for data acq.
From: Les Schaffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:36:23 GMT
I am looking for an A/D board for my linux box on which to do data
acquisition stuff from various sensors and microcontroller projects.
come to think of it, an i/o baord where i could put either analog or
digital data would be even better. do such exist?
can anyone suggest a decent board with linux drivers? i am willing to
compile software if thats what it takes....
many thanks
les schaffer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lee Allen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need a program to exercise/test the computer hardware
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 13:50:21 GMT
Compiling the kernel would exercise the software installation, but
what I really need to find out is whether Linux is working properly
with all the hardware.
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> I am looking for a test program that can be used to exercise, test &
>> diagnose PC hardware, under Linux. This is for Intel based systems.
>>
>> Does anyone know of such a package?
On Fri, 14 May 1999 21:23:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Compiling the kernel should give your hardware and installation a
>shake-out.
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From: Bill Feero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on an embedded 486
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:23:16 GMT
Thanks for your suggestions, I am looking at the linux router project. At this
point I just have a lot of questions and am looking for answers and trying
anything that looks like it might work. Since this is my second week working
with linux I still have a ways to go.
Bill
Sebastien HUET wrote:
> Bill Feero wrote:
>
> > I need to create a 4-port terminal server on an diskless 486 based
> > embedded system. This system will not have a hard or floppy drive,
> > display, keyboard, or BIOS. It will have 16 Megs of RAM, 2 Megs of
> > Flash to store the image and file system, 4 serial ports, and a
> > network connection. I have the HOWTO on creating a boot floppy, can I
> > create a bootable RAMDISK?
>
> sure
>
> > If I can, then I can save the ramdisk and download it into the flash
> > on the target 486. I have RedHat v5.2, does anyone know if I can
> > compile the kernel so it has no BIOS calls ? I would think removing
> > the PC devices (hard drive, display, keyboard, etc) these calls would
> > also go.
>
> Hi bill, you may usefull links on http://linuxembedded.com.
> about bios you may find answers at
> http://www.waste.org/~zanshin where is the best mailing list about linux
> & embedded stuff.
>
> Keep me in touch about your project.
>
> Bye
>
> Seb
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From: Kobus Wolvaardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My awe 32 card wont setup
Date: 17 May 1999 13:31:02 GMT
I have run sndconfig , it detected it but on installation it stalled , some
error ??in/on line 342 in isapnp?? Manuel config doesnt work , what do I
do?
mail me [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ruediger Bodack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Symbios SYM8751SPE SCSI with LINUX?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 16:40:48 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
does anyone know if the SYM8751SPE works with LINUX? It has the
SYM53C875 chip which usually works with a NCR kernel. Is compliance
dependend from the card or
from the chipset only?
Thanks in advance,
Ruediger
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Subject: Re: How to SILENCE a MODEM?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 15:06:52 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anybody know how to control the loudness of the modem's sound when it's
>connecting to ISP? (i have Internal US Robotics 56K).
>Since I do that in Windows, I thought maybe I can do it in Linux, too.
Put M0 in the dial string to turn off the speaker, use L1-L3 to adjust
the volume, e.g.
change atdt5551212
to atm0dt5551212
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: "Mitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Will RH 6.0 work with my LS-120 (IDE - internal)
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 11:26:16 -0400
Will RH 6.0 work with my LS-120 (IDE - internal). Also wondering about my
RivaTNT video card (Viper V550 - AGP) and SoundBlaster AWE32 which has an
IDE connector on-board.
Thanks for any help... Mitch
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From: Claude Chaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB 128 again
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:00:28 +0200
Hello,
I have been trying to coinfigure my soundblaster 128 for a while now.
I read somewhere that ALSA drivers were good. So I tried them.
It nearly works. ie : I can play audio CDs, I can cat .wav files
on /dev/dsp.
But mpg123 refuses to work (it won't play and tells me "No supported rate
found") and esound (for enabling sound in enlightenment) doesn't work
either. The mixers (gnome and xmixer) don't work.
I tried loading the oss-compatibility driver with no success.
I think I have one device wrong but I can't figure which one.
Can somnebody tell me exactly what to do to configure this card with ALSA
drivers ? Thanks.
Claude.
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From: Bill Feero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on an embedded 486
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:06:21 GMT
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<html>
Walter,
<br>I am trying to create a bootable floppy for testing, but my final system
won't have a drive. I will have lots of ram. BTW, do I need a swapfile?
Can the swapfile (if I need one) be a ramdisk?
<p>Thanks for your help
<br>Bill
<br>
<br>
<p>Walter Harms wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Bill Feero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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<br>><html>
<br>>I need to create a 4-port terminal server on an diskless 486 based
embedded
<br>>system. This system will not have a hard or floppy drive, display,
keyboard,
<br>>or BIOS. It will have 16 Megs of RAM, 2 Megs of Flash to store the
image
<br>>and file system, 4 serial ports, and a network connection. I have
the HOWTO
<br>>on creating a boot floppy, can I create a bootable RAMDISK? If I can,
then
<br>>I can save the ramdisk and download it into the flash on the target
486.
<br>>I have RedHat v5.2, does anyone know if I can compile the kernel so
it
<br>>has no BIOS calls? I would think removing the PC devices (hard drive,
display,
<br>>keyboard, etc) these calls would also go.
<br>><p>Any help would be appreciated since I am a newbe to Linux.
<br>><p>Bill</html>
<p>in the beginning you should take a look at the linux on a floppydisk
<br>distributions. They let you have everything you need for less than
2megs.
<p>The other solutions is to create an bbotable image on the disk.
<br>btw: i dont see why you shouldnt use a floppy your system at least
at
<br>the beginning.
<p> walter
<p>see: www.linux-embedded.com for embedded linux systems
<br>and www.toms.net
for linux on a floppy distributions
<p>--
<br>-----
<br>"Oh, it's just the unknown, then!"
<br>-----</blockquote>
</html>
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From: "Arne K. Haaje" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Token-ring cards
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:31:38 +0200
Owen Brotherwood wrote:
>
> Madge has just released linux drivers for their non "true blue" TR cards
> on their web site.
> - I'm using a PCMCIA Madge card on a RH6.0/Dell Latitude and it works.
> Madge have PCI cards so Linux TR hits the PCI bus at last?
>
> I don't like the ibmtr driver that has been available until now(which may
> work with certain 100% IBM TR compatible cards)
> - it can hang the system with a cable error: the madge driver doesn't.
> I don't know if IBM will sudenly release more drivers (also for PCI)
>
> Olicom also have drivers: but the guy who was maintaining them left the
> company(?)
> - it is also an installation that patches the kernal source which may mean
> it ill not work with RH60
I use the Olicom 3137 PCI Card with kernel 2.2.7 on Stampede Linux, and
it works very well. I belive IBM PCI cards are now supported, see
http://www.linuxtr.net/ for details.
Arne
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: future domain 8 bit SCSI
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 12:14:36 GMT
Hi,
I've got an old SCSC controller. It's a 8 Bit card TMC-850 by Future
Domain. How is it to install under SuSE 6.0? Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Stephan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work?
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 14:11:57 GMT
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I suggest you reduce your aggressive ram timings (bios) to
: conservative ones. if that doesn't work, try resetting bios to
: factory shipped default, then customize very slowly/carefully from
: there.
: if that doesn't work, then try better quality ram. or maybe swap slots in the mobo.
I tried most of that on a K6 which I had, but it didn't seem to work. I
ended up putting a intel chip in and things worked perfectly.
There appears to be some problems with timings between K6's and various
mother boards. On the other hand, I have a k6 which works completely
without trouble.
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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From: "Gary Maltzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.1 and Maxtor 17GB IDE w/o BIOS support on MB as 3rd HD
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 10:39:45 -0500
I have a 1994-vintage 486 supporting a 12.7GB drive under Linux 5.2; to
insure that the system remains bootable, I boot the kernel from a 10MB hda1
partition, mounted on /boot. Although the BIOS doesn't see the whole drive,
once Linux is booted it has access to the whole drive.
Darin wrote in message <7Bj%2.13365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Basically want to add a Maxtor 17GB IDE HD to a RedHat 5.1 system. The
|motherboard's BIOS doesn't support it directly. hda1 is a WD 424MB drive,
|hdb2 is Maxtor 540MB drive, and hdc is NEC 6x4 Disc changer all drives are
|IDE. I want to make hdc the Maxtor 17Gb or hdd doesn't really matter.
|
|My question is will RedHat 5.1 see all 17GB i don't care if it is multiple
|partitions. In fact will probably have at least 3 or 4.
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quad/Dual Motherboard?
Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 02:04:52 +1000
Try for a duel Pentium PRO combo
Getting nice and cheap now !!!
And they still kick along nicely <grin>
Tony
Douglas Darrah wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Gavin McCord wrote:
>>
>> Rather than buy a single expensive superfast PII on a single mainboard,
I'd
>> like to go dual/quad motherboard with cheaper processors i.e. 266-300MHz
>>
>> Any recommendations on boards to buy?
>>
>> --
>> "I'm Keyser Soze. No, I'm Keyser Soze. I'm Keyser Soze and so's
>> my wife..."
>> -Monty Python plays The Usual Suspects
>
>Three months ago I got a dual SuperMicro MB and case, along with two PII
>400s and 256 megs of 100mhz RAM. Cost for the components was about
>$1200US. I imagine you could get the same gear for around $1000US now
>(if not lower). Installation of the components was easy, and the system
>has performed flawlessly: with kernel 2.2.x SMP, performance is
>excellent.
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Doug
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From: javierlt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,es.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: However my ATI RAGE 128 AGP 8MB =?iso-8859-1?Q?doesn=B4t?= work
Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 17:53:45 +0200
Carlo Leorini escribió:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have the ati 128 fury and i could configure it with FBDev (and kernel
> 2.2.5, RedHat 6)
>
> I think the 0317 value is when you answer to the lilo prompt (when vga=ask)
> This is in hexa.
> But in /etc/lilo.conf you must put it in decimal: 791
>
> Here are other values:
>
> Colors 800x600 1024x768
>
> 16bits 0314 (788) 0317 (791)
> 24bits 0315 (789) 0318 (792)
>
> And look at mini-howto for vesa
>
> Good luck
Hi
I put 0317 at lilo prompt. If I change the value of VGA=791 it happens
the same effect, black screen and shutdown.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (D. J. Birchall)
Subject: Re: How to SILENCE a MODEM?
Date: 17 May 1999 15:18:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anybody know how to control the loudness of the modem's sound when it's
> connecting to ISP? (i have Internal US Robotics 56K).
> Since I do that in Windows, I thought maybe I can do it in Linux, too.
If your modem supports the usual Hayes "AT" command set
(and if it doesnt, what planet are you posting from? ;)
try sending ATM0L0 before dialing.
This means:
AT - ATtention, modem!
M0 - I don't want you to use your speaker at all.
(Other values might make it turn the speaker on only while dialing,
or until done handshaking, or leave it on all the time)
L0 - I want you to set your speaker volume to zero.
(Other values would make the volume louder)
-Dan
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