Linux-Hardware Digest #373, Volume #10 Mon, 31 May 99 09:13:43 EDT
Contents:
pioneer cd jukebox help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netscape & PPP (Arvid Walter)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Daniele Bernardini)
Re: 2.2.9 problem on Compaq 1850R ("Tony Platt")
Printer not detected. ("Luis Pestana")
Re: Epson printer (Claude Chaudet)
Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC? ("Tony Platt")
Re: NFS block size for 3C523 NIC? (Roope Anttinen)
Re: Realmagic Hollywood DVD card ? (Scheiter)
Re: Tape Backup Question (John Thompson)
Re: Is this a drive or a controller problem? (Tim Moore)
Re: SiS 6326 Daytona graphic card (Markus Hillenbrand)
Officejet-driver ? (dieter)
Memory allocation problem ("Mirko Gotschlich")
Re: FTape question. (Rob Komar)
AGP-V2740 ("K.K. Liu")
RH6.0 + Eicon DIVA ISDN ("Wouter Bovelander")
Re: Canon BJC5000 (John Hong)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: pioneer cd jukebox help
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 03:05:33 GMT
Hey,
I've got myself a 6 cd changer that I'm trying to get up and running on
a linux box, RH6. It's a scsi device and RH6 sees it and polls the
drive's identification during bootup. I've got the scsi card reporting
multiple LUNs and have enabled multiple LUNs in the kernel
configuration.
Now that I've got the bad boy on the scsi chain, how can I tell if I can
read a cd with the default scsi driver? LUNs are given only cursory
explanation in the scsi-howto and I'm not sure how to map the devices to
mount points.
I'm not optimistic that it'll work "out of the box," but it's worth a
shot before I start contacting manufacturers and such.
Any appropriate RTFM link is also appreciated.
Thanks,
fyddler
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From: Arvid Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netscape & PPP
Date: 31 May 1999 09:20:00 GMT
alpine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: i have established a network connection
: but netscape is reporting that it could not find the domain name for
: anything
: i.e.: netscape is not seeing the connection
: running pent pro 200
: sportster 56k internal
: redhat 5.2
: i have had this exact system working before and went through a new
: hard drive
: and now can't seem to get it to function properly
hi,
did you try to ping.
ping www.redhat.com
I guess your system doesnt know the dns of your provider.
You have got to tell him ,by editing the /etc/resolve.conf - file and
establish a route in /etc/sysconfig/ somewhere.
live long and prosper,
asa.
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From: Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:19:40 +0200
Jan Johansson wrote:
>
> Daniele Bernardini wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Let ma tell you my adventures with a compaq laptop
> >and the inatallation of Windows 95/98 and Suse Linux 6.0
> >I'm right now using a dual boot system with 1Gb for Windows
> >(just the necessary space for Diablo, Dune2000 and Baldur's gate),
> >and 2.3 Gb for Linux which I use for work.
>
> Geee, and downloading the Compaq support paqs for windows 9x didnt ever
> occur to you? you NEED those to enable all bells and whistles under W9x
You must be thinking I am stupid or what?
Of course it occurred to my mind, but it was not a problem of
"bells and whistles". The problem was windows 98 not being
able to use my ide disk in non protected mode!
I did not see any softpack for this, and in The "Compaq White
Paper" for installing W98 on Compaq armada laptop NOTHING
is mentioned.
To answer some other posts, I have 10 years experience with
MS operating systems and only 2 years with UNIX/Linux. Never
the less I had less problems with Linux. The reason it's simple.
If something is supported it works and it is also documented very
well, so you do not have to guess which is what you have to do all
the time with Windows.
Daniele
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.9 problem on Compaq 1850R
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:26:39 +1000
So don't use the latest Kernel !!!!
Geeeezzz
Also read up on the Kernel Numbering System
Especially look at ODD NUMBERS
Tony
Chris Mauritz wrote in message ...
>When I try to compile 2.2.9 on a Redhat 5.2 system on a vanilla
>Compaq 1850 R (dual PII-450 with 192mb RAM and 3 4.3gig hot plug
>disks), I get:
>
>init/main.o: In function `get_options':
>init/main.o(.text+0xa0): undefined reference to `__canary_death_handler'
>init/main.o: In function `no_halt':
>init/main.o(.text.init+0x34): undefined reference to
`__canary_death_handler'
>init/main.o: In function `mca_pentium':
>init/main.o(.text.init+0x78): undefined reference to
`__canary_death_handler'
>init/main.o: In function `no_387':
>init/main.o(.text.init+0xbc): undefined reference to
`__canary_death_handler'
>init/main.o: In function `copro_timeout':
>init/main.o(.text.init+0x14c): undefined reference to
`__canary_death_handler'
>init/main.o(.text.init+0x200): more undefined references to
`__canary_death_handler' follow
>make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
>179.630u 15.130s 1:43.62 187.9% 0+0k 0+0io 221691pf+0w
>
>I've never seen this error before. Anyone have any insight? The linux
>kernel has gotten *really* squirrelly lately. Things that used to be
>rock solid are now starting to fall apart (like DAT tape support on
>the aic7xxx controllers).
>
>C
>
>--
>Christopher Mauritz
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From: "Luis Pestana" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printer not detected.
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 09:57:07 +0100
Hi
I have a parrallel port Zip drive with a lexmark 7000 connected to it. The
zip works fine but the printer is not detected.
Is it possible to have this configuration in Linux? I wouldŽnt like to
disconnect the zip drive everytime i want to use the printer.
Thanks
Luis
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From: Claude Chaudet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson printer
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 11:17:38 +0200
>-->I have an Epson Stylus Photo 700. I've tested it using an ASCII test
>-->page and it worked okay. I then tried a test using PostScript and now my
>-->printer keeps printing blank pages after the intial page with garbage on
>-->the first line. Even after I remove the job from the queue, it still
>-->continues to print. How do I configure this printer properly and how do
>-->I remove the print job from the printer's memory? Usually, in Windows I
>-->can easily cancel the job from the printer status monitor. Does this
>-->mean that this printer is unsupported by Linux/Epson?
I think it is well supported with the latest ghostscript (5.xx). I have a
stylus 600 and it works very well. If you use redhat, try upgrading to
version 6. The printtool utility has a great list of epson printers.
If you don't use redhat, I don't know how to do it. In fact all you have
to do (!) is make a filter. If you don't know how to do it, write me and
I'll send you the filter generated by printtool for your printer.
Good luck.
Claude.
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: What are drawbacks to using an ISA NIC?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:34:52 +1000
Tim Moore wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>ISA is clocked at 8.3MHz, PCI at 33MHz. ISA has more CPU overhead too.
Yes and ISA does 16MB/sec (thats 16 megabytes per second) 10 base T is 10
Mega BITS a second>>>>>big difference. So ISA should more than well cover
the requirements
>This card is 10bT if I recall correctly, so it won't move more than
>about 850KB/s. If you want 3MB/s you'll have to go 100bT which means
>PCI.
There are ISA and EISA 100bT cards around
>Are you sure the slot is defective? My PCI slots 4&5 share an IRQ which
>could cause weird behavior under some circumstances. Other boards that
>have built-in SCSI, sound, etc are known to share IRQ's with particular
>PCI slots.
>
>Steve Snyder wrote:
>>
>> I discovered (by trying to use it) that the last unused PCI slot in my
>> system is defective. This forced me to add an ISA NIC (a 3Com 3C509B)
>> instead of the PCI device I had planned on.
>>
>> The ISA NIC is working well. I wonder, though, what the drawbacks are
>> compared to a PCI NIC. This device is just attached to a cable modem,
>> which suggests that it will never be called upon to move more than
>> 3MB/second anyway.
Thats right, does the cable modem run on 100 base T ????? or 10 base T
So a 10base T card will more than do you, unless you want to throw away good
money??
So how can there be any drawbacks
>> Is interrupt latency higher with an ISA NIC? Increased CPU use? The
>> initial install involves more work because you have to specify the IRQ
and
>> I/O port address range. Now that the installation is done, though, I'm
>> interested in runtime gotchas.
The initial install (if you turn off the PnP on the card) deosn't need any
parameters passed at all with these cards !!!
>> Thank you.
>>
>> ***** Steve Snyder *****
>
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From: Roope Anttinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NFS block size for 3C523 NIC?
Date: 31 May 1999 10:22:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.networking Georg Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Which NFS block size (rsize, wsize) should I use for an MCA 3COM 3C523
> ethernet card? With 8192 I'm getting lots of timeout errors. Maybe this is
> why the driver is labeled experimental? I'm using Linux 2.2.9.
Can't tell 'bout card specific issues, but I've compiled for my statistics
course a perfomance study with NFS between HP9000/HP-UX 10.20 machine, pair
of Linux-2.2 PC's and one Linux-2.0 server in 10BaseT network. Here's the
best rsize/wsize combinations I found:
Server Client wsize rsize
HP-UX Linux20 8192 8192
Linux22 4096 4096
Linux20 HP-UX 4096 8192
Linux22 4096 8192
Linux22 HP-UX 4096 4096
Linux20 8192 8192
Linux22 4096 8192
With Linux-2.2 server, knfsd were used. Speedwise the best combination were
Linux-2.x server with Linux-2.2 client.
The measurements were made with copying 20MB's of random data back and forth
between client machine and mounted share, measuring the total time of
operation. I've found out that especially with 2.2 kernels (tested 2.2.1 and
2.2.5) the blocksize has quite dramatic effect on NFS speed eg. with 1024
Linux-2.2 were slowest of 'em all and with 4096/8192 it were clearly the
fastest.
KNFSD were a bit disappointment because it had virtually nil effect on
performance compared to the userland nfsd - at least with these kernels.
Hope this helps.
Roope
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From: Scheiter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Realmagic Hollywood DVD card ?
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 12:31:46 +0200
Tomas Barros wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Anybody knows about the realmagic hollywood dvd/mpeg decoder card and
> linux ?, or dvd and linux in general.
try out news:news.sigmadesigns.com/REALmagic.questions
Also write an EMail to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] and ask for linuxsupport,
that could help ;)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape Backup Question
Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:33:23 -0600
Hugh Fader wrote:
> The Hardware-HOWTO mentions a module called ide-tape. However, this is the only
> documentation I can find anywhere about this. Can anybody share with us how to use
> this? Does it make the IDE tape look like a SCSI, floppy interface tape or
> something else?
It seems to make it look like a SCSI tape device here; at
least it responds appropriately to the various "mt"
commands.
> A more broad question is where do you find information on any module? There are a
> whole bunch of them and the information seems to be scattered among HOWTO's and
> web sites.
I just used whatever came with the kernel 2.2.1 sources.
Seems to work for me.
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Date: Sun, 30 May 1999 21:52:59 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a drive or a controller problem?
Assuming the first few minutes it works fine, it sounds like a heat
problem which could cause seek errors. Excess heat could be caused by a
failing disk, eg- worn out bearing.
Rick Darnell wrote:
>
> I'm running RH5.2 on an Intel 586. HDA is an old 400MB drive that runs as
> root, HDB is a not-as-old 1.2GB drive that handles the /home directories.
>
> A few minutes after I boot the machine up, I start getting this series of
> errors, repeated ad nauseum until I turn the machine off (three-fingered
> salute and shutdown commands will quit working)
>
> hdb: irq timeout: status 0xd0 { Busy }
> end_request: I/O error, dev 03:41, Sector 408790
> hdb: status timeout: status 0xd0 {Busy}
> ide0: reset success
>
> Do I have a bad sector on the drive? Is the drive going bad? Is the
> controller on the brink? Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /s/Rick
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From: Markus Hillenbrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 Daytona graphic card
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 12:40:59 +0200
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W-Mark wrote:
> Since then I've been able to see everything on my screen, but there're a lot
> of drawing-errors like these:
> - I cannot see the programe-bar sometimes
> - I cannot read the letters of some programmes
> (on my 1st machine with a Riva128 I can see them!)
> - If I move a windows around, it redraws not correctly
You should add the option "no_bitblt" to your config file
(section "Device").
> - Sometimes my pointer changes into a white box
You should add the option "sw_cursor" to your config file
(section "Device").
This is neccessary in 16/24 bit. 8 bit color depth works
without these Options.
Markus
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From: dieter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Officejet-driver ?
Date: 31 May 1999 13:14:34 +0100
Hello,
is there any usable HP-Officejet driver available. I know the announced
project, but it seem to be sleeping...
Sorry, but I can not contribute myself (restricted skills)
Greetings Dieter
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From: "Mirko Gotschlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory allocation problem
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 13:37:29 +0200
I have a Memory allocation problem.
Linux Red Hat 6.0 (with the Kernel 2.2.5 )
Winco Mainboard with a K6 II CPU, 32 MByte RAM, ISA- Graphic board form
Chips & Technologies (Type 65545) which drives a Touch Screen LCD Display.
The above hardware is a system requirement and can not be changed.
To get the graphic board to work with X-windows I have to set the BIOS to
Memory Hole 15-16 MByte. Linux recognizes only 15 Mbytes. Ok, I can accept
that. I change the
Bootprameter mem=32M to correspond to the true amount of RAM. The system
boots, recognizes the full 32 Mbytes of RAM, but when I start X-Server. X
immediately crashes.
Question:
Is it possible to lock out areas of memory in Linux ? Is there a kernel
parameter or a kernel-hack I could use ?
I would appreciate any ideas or comments from similar problems.
(The alternative to Linux would be Windows NT, which I do not want to do.)
Mirko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: FTape question.
Date: 31 May 1999 05:56:36 GMT
AG ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hello,
:
: I'm having some difficulties writing to a DC 2000 QIC 40 cartridge.
: I use a HP/Colorado T1000 tape back-up.
:
: The tar commands seem to work fine, however, I get
: errors
: in /var/log/messages which state that the tape isn't
: a
: "Linux Raw Data Type".. I'm not sure how to format
: the
: tape so it knows that it isn't a DOS tape..
:
: Each time a perform a back-up, it tells me that it
: isn't a
: "tar archive" so it skips over the data..
:
: Any clues.. Thanks..
The newer ftape distributions come with a program for formatting floppy
tapes. Check out the ftape homepage at:
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/
But before you try formatting the tape, did you erase it first? Erasing
it in Linux fills the tables at the beginning of the tape with information
that tar can understand. Use the `mt erase' command to erase the tape.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: "K.K. Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AGP-V2740
Date: 31 May 1999 11:59:48 GMT
Would anyone tell me the X Servers will be used for ASUS AGP-V2740
display card?
I have installed the Redhat 6 successfully, but I have only created the
320x240 Virtual screen. Would anyone tell me why?
Cheers
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From: "Wouter Bovelander" <wbovelander*SPONAM*@antares.nl>
Subject: RH6.0 + Eicon DIVA ISDN
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 14:00:23 +0200
Hi,
I have installed RedHat6.0 and I would like to know how to determine whether
Linux has recognized my ISDN card.
Any information is appreciated.
Wouter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Canon BJC5000
Date: 31 May 1999 12:12:02 GMT
Armando Rojas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Has anybody had any success with this printer?
It's a WinPrinter and so is the newer 5100 and 7000 series.
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