Linux-Hardware Digest #696, Volume #10 Wed, 7 Jul 99 18:14:00 EDT
Contents:
H.P. Deskjet 870Cxi setup? (Leslie Donaldson)
eth0 & slackware4.0 ("Rbtech")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Alex Lam)
how to's ("Rbtech")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? ("Dean Kent")
Re: Can we write to NTFS? (Carsten Cimander)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Pete Olson)
Re: eth0 & slackware4.0 (Mircea)
Re: laser-printer for linux (Dave Ulrick)
Re: CPU Question (Joceli Mayer)
Re: MAKE error when compiling FTAPE-4.02 (David Graham)
CPU Question
Re: scsi disk is not auto-detected during boot. (Carsten Cimander)
Re: Hoe to config my modem? (Carsten Cimander)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Jay Patrick Howard)
Re: Soundblaster Live Value and SuSE Linux 6.0 (Carsten Cimander)
Re: Tekram-Controller (Richard Bumby)
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From: Leslie Donaldson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: H.P. Deskjet 870Cxi setup?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 12:20:09 -0500
Hello,
I just got an H.P. Deskjet 870Cxi color printer and was wondering
if anyone has the magical incantation for gs to make it print in color.
currently I have the following setup
LOCAL djet500 300x300 letter {} DeskJet500Mono 1 {}
but only get Black and White.
System redhat5.2 heavily upgraded.
Please drop me an email due to the heavy usenet traffic. thanks
Leslie Donaldson
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From: "Rbtech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eth0 & slackware4.0
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 04:26:40 -0700
> for some reason when i run netconfig i can put all my network info in but
it
> dosnt ask me about my ethernet card so i thought mayber somehow it just
> detected it when i try to ping my gateway it sais :
> network is unreachable.
> i did notice however that when it boots up in the whole blurb that goes by
> it sais eth0 unkown interface.
> i think maybe it doesnt realize that its there...
> i have a 3com 3c509b. is there a file i can edit to put the eth0 in
there?
> or how can i get it to recognize it?
> thank you for your time
> richard
> my email is:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 13:31:58 -0700
Erik Corry wrote:
>
> In comp.sys.intel Chris Robato Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike
>Frisch) writes:
> >>On 4 Jul 1999 01:49:20 GMT, Chris Robato Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>Not if you use a 3DNow enabled compiler like Codewarrior.
> >>>
> >>>If it is compiled with 3DNow, chances are it can be much faster.
> >>
> >>Agreed, but Linux (the kernel) does not use any of the advantages of 3DNow
> >>to my knowledge. It does not use any of the features of the PIII either,
> >>for that matter.
>
> > Linux greatly benefits from processor with very strong integer
> > performance, and the K6 core is the ticket. But if you do compiling as
> > well, the combination of the K6 core + 64K L1, full speed 256K L2 and
> > 512K-1MB L3, is going to better than the Celeron with 32K L1 and full
> > speed 128K L2 or the PIII's 32K L1, and half speed 512K L2.
>
> See http://www.cpureview.com/art_kernel_results.htm
>
I got "file not found" from this url.
Alex Lam.
> The Celeron 300A at 450 does very well, but the K6-III is slightly
> better.
>
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From: "Rbtech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.slakware
Subject: how to's
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 04:33:33 -0700
can anyone point me in the direction of the howto's for kernel recompiling?
I would greatly appreciate it.
thank you
richard
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From: "Dean Kent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 10:30:35 -0700
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Oops! my default browser is IE. My office system is a P166MMX, so I
tried it here. Netscape 4.01 goes to lunch and takes the rest of the day
off. IE comes back in less than a second (this is with the 13 nested
tables).
Regards,
Dean
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Jay Patrick Howard wrote in message <7m00qa$rrl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Dean Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>: K6-2 300 (non o'c) - about 2 seconds...
>
>This under Netscape I presume? Win9x? Hmmm. It is surprising that your
>system would handle those so much faster. Obviously the K6-2 300 is much
>quicker than my P200, but by that much of a margin? Let me add some more
>depth levels and see what that does. If this gets exponentially slower,
>it shouldn't take much more to bring even a K7 to its knees.
>
>If you're bored, try:
>
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/13.html
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/14.html
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/15.html
>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/jhoward/tables/16.html
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can we write to NTFS?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:25:39 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi David,
in SuSE 6.1 distribution (Kernel 2.2.5) there is a trial (alpha or beta
I don't remember, sorry) driver which also can write to NTFS.
As you surely have experienced, a linux-beta driver most often works
more stable than a released and pathed windows driver ;-)
Of course, for your own health (to prevent you from a heart attack) and
loss
of data I strongly recommend to back up your NTFS partition first
(perhaps with a simple "tar cvf ...")
Regards,
Carsten
David Murray schrieb:
>
> I was thinking of making a small Linux bootable disk with NTFS compiled
> into the kernel to help me make some repairs to some NT servers from a
> command prompt. However, the only information I have been able to find on
> the web about this so far is dated 1997 and says the driver is read-only.
> So.. in newer kernels do we yet read/write access.
> --DavidM
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From: Pete Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 16:07:58 -0500
Jay Patrick Howard wrote:
>
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Must be something wrong with that site. It merely shows a simple
> : graphic and is instantaneous on my system. No lag whatsoever, but
> : somehow I don't think I am seeing what you want me to see.
>
> Netscape should choke trying to load these. If you loaded 13.html
> successfully, you're probably using IE. That, or your copy of Netscape
> has development sentience and re-coded itself using a O(n) algorithm.
Or perhaps your version of Netscape is too new. Netscape 3.04 loads
16.html in under 10 seconds.
Pete
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: eth0 & slackware4.0
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 17:08:24 -0400
You have to uncomment the line that loads the 3c509 module in
/etc/rc.d/rc.modules, and add the correct arguments (I/O address, irq)
to it, if you need any.
MST
Rbtech wrote:
>
> > for some reason when i run netconfig i can put all my network info in but
> it
> > dosnt ask me about my ethernet card so i thought mayber somehow it just
> > detected it when i try to ping my gateway it sais :
> > network is unreachable.
> > i did notice however that when it boots up in the whole blurb that goes by
> > it sais eth0 unkown interface.
> > i think maybe it doesnt realize that its there...
> > i have a 3com 3c509b. is there a file i can edit to put the eth0 in
> there?
> > or how can i get it to recognize it?
> > thank you for your time
> > richard
> > my email is:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Ulrick)
Subject: Re: laser-printer for linux
Date: 7 Jul 1999 21:27:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 07 Jul 1999 15:51:20 +0200, Felix Natter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>does anyone have hints for buying a laser-printer that
>works well with linux ?
>Right now I've got a HPDJ 660C, and I'm not happy
>with the printing quality when printing from linux (gs).
I get excellent print quality (600x600 dpi) and good print speed from
my HP Laserjet 6L. Before upgrading the printer's memory from 1 MB to
5 MB, some complex pages were printed fuzzy, but since I added the
memory I've been very happy with the print quality. As far as
Ghostscript is concerned, I tell it I have a Laserjet 4. I get
excellent print quality from TeX using dvips.
One caveat: if the "L" in "6L" doesn't stand for "light-duty", it
should. :-) The paper feed and output trays are rather small.
Besides that, the paper stands almost vertically in the paper feed, so
it could warp over time. I remove the paper from the printer every
night, then put a dust cover over the printer. Perhaps due to this
procedure, I've yet to experience a paper jam in the year I've used
the printer. That's good, because I've heard that the 6L is rather
difficult to unjam. If it ever jams I'll probably upgrade to a
higher-end printer.
>Thanks,
>Felix Natter
Dave
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: Re: CPU Question
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 21:14:23 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am in the market for a new computer and my first priority is to get Linux
> running on it, but I need to know some things about a CPU. I have recently
> been looking at an Intel Celeron processor, and I was wondering if Linux
> is compatible with this processor, and some of the pitfalls, if any, I may
> come across if I go with the Celeron.
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
It works. Also check http://www.amd.com for an AMD K6-3 or K6-2, cheaper and
faster than celeron. Also there is the new K7 chip, they rule all intel chips
in a performance-price tradeoff, so far ...
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From: David Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MAKE error when compiling FTAPE-4.02
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 14:15:22 -0400
Here's a quote from Bob Nielsen in fa.kernel.ftape:
"I believe Red Hat 6.0 uses a 2.2.x kernel. There are apparently
problems running ftape-4.02 with this. If 3.04d worked for you
previously, you might try compiling tape support into the kernel,
which contains 3.04d. It worked for me with a ditto 3200/dash.
Otherwise, try the "unstable" version of ftape at
http://www.math1.rwth-aachen.de/~heine/ftape/archives/ftape-4.x/unstable/
Bob"
I had problems like this, with a 2.2.5 kernel, and getting the
"unstable" version solved it for me. There seem to be changes in some
of the relevant structures from 2.0.x to 2.2.x.
David Graham
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> Doesn't the RedHat 6.0 distribution include ftape in the kernel already?
>
> < snip >
>
> > MAS> I'm running RH 6.0 (kernel 2.2.5-15), trying to get my floppy
> > MAS> tape drive (Colorado) working.
>
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.general
Subject: CPU Question
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 20:30:53 GMT
I am in the market for a new computer and my first priority is to get Linux
running on it, but I need to know some things about a CPU. I have recently
been looking at an Intel Celeron processor, and I was wondering if Linux
is compatible with this processor, and some of the pitfalls, if any, I may
come across if I go with the Celeron.
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: scsi disk is not auto-detected during boot.
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:02:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
as you obviously need the scsi-adapter at boot time to have access
to you disks I recommend to compile the scsi driver into the kernel
and not to load it as a module.
That works fine with my linux box. (I use a Buslogic Flashpoint LT scsi
host
adapter (Ultra-SCSI).
If you have problems with the kernel size (... too big) when
recompiling, try something like
# cd /usr/src/linux
# make dep clean bzImage
bzImage means "big zImage"
this works with my SuSE 6.1 linux (kernel 2.2.5)
Have fun!
Carsten
Eyal Lupu schrieb:
>
> I have Red-Hat 6.0 machine, until today it had only one IDE disk. Today I
> added a SCSI interface
> (Adaptec AHA-2940U2) and an IBM SCSI disk.
>
> Here is my problem:
>
> The SCSI bus is not been auto-detected during the boot process. By loading
> the module manually
> (insmod aic7xxx) everything works just fine. I added the the alias entry to
> /etc/conf.modules (alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx), still - no good.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Eyal
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hoe to config my modem?
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:46:56 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
you will probably need isapnp tool. (normally it's included in your
distribution)
try to read read
man isapnp
man isapnpdump
on the other hand: you are not allone.. there are many people having
problems
with a winmodem.
regards,
Carsten
shenbo schrieb:
>
> I have a 56K internal modem, can any one teach me how to config my
> modem, or send some references to me.
>
> Thanks advance,
> Shen Bo
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From: Jay Patrick Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: 7 Jul 1999 15:42:31 -0500
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips David T. Wang
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: : has development sentience and re-coded itself using a O(n) algorithm.
^^^^
I hate it when I make grammatical "typos" like this. That's what I get
for trying to improve my sentences via editing - sometimes there are
version conflicts.
: Took me about 15 minutes on a slow RS6K, but Netscape works loading the
: red/black/red rectangular pattern.
Well that's good to know - at least it works, albeit very inefficiently.
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From: Carsten Cimander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster Live Value and SuSE Linux 6.0
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 19:49:08 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Mark,
creative offers a driver for the soundblaster live:
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
I hope that helps.
Have fun!
Carsten
Mark Thomas schrieb:
>
> Does anyone know how to get the above mentioned soundcard working with SuSE
> Linux 6.0? I use pnpdump to try and find it and it doesn't. Please help!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Bumby)
Subject: Re: Tekram-Controller
Date: 7 Jul 1999 17:44:12 -0400
"Crossbones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Karl Lewalter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> i want to install SuSE 6.1. My Cd-Rom is connected to a Tekram 390F
>> controller, which is located at 6500h and Irq 10. According to the
>> handbook I added the following parameter before installing : linux
>> ncr53c8xx=0x650,10. But the controller is still not recognized by setup.
>>
>> Can anybody help ?? Thanks ...
> Hmm. I never did add any options, and it worked fine. One thing though: The
>driver might be configured as a module. If so, do an insmod and see if it
>brings it up. If it does, you can always add something to the init scripts
>to insmod it, or just have it compiled in to the kernel.
>Steve
The Caldera 2.2 distribution was also able to find the controller
without my help.. SuSE should be able to do as well. It is configured
as a module in that distribution
The original poster should check the port address. He wrote 6500h in
one place and 0x650 in another. I'm not at my system now, so I can't
check how mine is configured, or if anything special was done to allow
the module to load correctly. However, I can confirm that this driver
dows a good job with the TekrAm 390F.
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