Linux-Hardware Digest #880, Volume #10 Thu, 29 Jul 99 18:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems with time on my Linux box (Jarek)
Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help! (Steve Arnold)
Upgrading motherboard/CPU - Need reinstall? (uRBaN_WeaSeL)
TWAIN Scanner Support? (uRBaN_WeaSeL)
Re: SB Live under SMP kernel? (David Fox)
Tape newbie needs help ("Brett G. Monroe")
Re: Linux SCSI Performance Issues (Dimi Shahbaz)
Re: PS/2 MS Mouse Problems (Bill Stapleton)
Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU - Need reinstall? (Rod Roark)
Re: Kernel drivers vs. Kernel modules? (Kenny Kim Leung)
HP DAT Drive Problems (DC2000 - HP6400) (remove _ to reply (James))
Re: help soundcard NeoMagic (Peter Klein)
Re: Tekram DC-390F with Linux (PG)
CDROM problems (Toshiba XM7501TA) (Panu Saren)
Re: Graphics card (Howard Mann)
Re: startup disk (Rob Stockley)
Re: davicom dm9102 driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
over clocking matrox g200 in linux? (Gaiko Kyofusho)
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From: Jarek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Problems with time on my Linux box
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:56:01 +0200
Sergey Gribov wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have Gateway Solo9100 with Suse 6.1 & kernel 2.2.10.
> I have the following strange problem: I set the right time on my
> computer, but after reboot
> the time is moved back by about a half hour. If I do some reboots it'll
> stay the same (about
> half hour earlier, than it supposed to be).
What timezone did you set, and have you set
BIOS to GMT?
set the correct timezone with (or check your start
scripts):
tzconfig
Jarek
--
Raz, dwa, trzy, proba sygnatury...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Arnold)
Subject: Re: Problems with using 2 ethernet cards -- please help!
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 1999 20:15:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Pelly) wrote:
>I'm trying to use 2 ethernet cards in my linux box to enable ip
>masquerading. However, I'm having problems getting both ethernet cards
>to work. I've got an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 and a NetGear
>FA-310 card (I think those are the right model #'s). According to the
>ethernet-HOWTO, I can pass arguments to the kernel through LILO to
>tell it I'm using two ethernet cards. However, I'm not using LILO to
>boot linux -- I'm using a boot floppy instead.
Why?
>Either of the cards will load fine individually (ie, when I take the
>other out), but both won't work in the machine at the same time.
>
>So does anybody know how to tell the kernel to load both cards? I'm
>running RH 5.2.
There's probably a way I don't know about, but without using lilo, I don't
know of any other way except changing the kernel driver source. I'd say
installing lilo is the best way to go; you can use it boot different linux
kernels, ie, add a stanza to lilo.conf to boot your latest custom kernel in
test mode, so you can easily go back to your orignal kernel if something
doesn't work right.
Assuming there are no conflicts between the two NICs, you can add the line:
append = "ether=9,0x360,eth1"
to the right section of lilo.conf and you should be in business. The same
thing (without the quotes) will work from the LILO: boot prompt. Just don't
specify the first ethernet card (eth0); you only need to specify the ones
beyond the first one.
HTH, Steve
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From: uRBaN_WeaSeL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Upgrading motherboard/CPU - Need reinstall?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:04:48 -0400
I'm going to be upgrading from a VLB based Motherboard and Pentium 133 upgrade
CPU to a full-blown ATX-style PII motherboard and PII/440 CPU with PCI bus.
Will I have to reinstall Linux or just reconfigure XWindows with
Xconfigurator?
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From: uRBaN_WeaSeL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TWAIN Scanner Support?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 15:11:57 -0400
Does Linux have TWAIN Scanner support? Can someone point me to some drivers
and software? I want to use GIMP and also have a UMAX Astra 300-P Parallel
port 24-bit color flatbed page scanner.
TIA
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: SB Live under SMP kernel?
Date: 29 Jul 1999 12:07:13 -0700
Billy Donahue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Fox wrote:
> >
> > William Zhao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a Sound Blaster Live Value sound card and Red Hat Linux 6.0
> > > I managed to get it to work with Creative's beta drivers. But only under
> > > a uni processor kernel. I understand those drivers don't support smp
> > > kernels.
> > > Does anyone have any idea how to get it to work on a dual processor
> > > machine?
> >
> > You would probably need to build it from source to get the module
> > symbols right. I.e., not possible. But I'm guessing.
>
> Creative is giving out binary-only drivers for that card?
> Fuck that! I almost got one of those, thinking it was
> non-evil hardware. Close call, I guess..
Don't take my word for it, I was just assuming. Maybe there is a
conflict between the source and the SMP header files.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Brett G. Monroe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape newbie needs help
Date: 29 Jul 1999 18:51:50 GMT
Alright, I'm in a pickle...here's the situation: I juat got a new PII
with a built in SCSI DAT 3 tape drive. I recompile the kernel (2.2.10) to
include SCSI tape support. I reboot with the new kernel and nothing. I
can't access the tape drive (atleast not through /dev/st0 or /dev/nst0).
Is there something I am doing wrong or forgetting? For what it's worth,
the SCSI card is a Adaptec 2940U2W. This is something that I realy need
to get working so any help woulf be much apriciated. Thanks.
Brett
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From: Dimi Shahbaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.dev.c-programming,linux.dev.kernel,comp.os.linux.development.system,linux.dev.scsi
Subject: Re: Linux SCSI Performance Issues
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:28:30 -0700
> Dave Platt wrote:
>
> Here are some quick results for 100MB sequential disk reads
> on sg (2.2.10-ac10, advansys 940UW and 2 DCHS04U IBM disks):
>
> # time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sgb of=/dev/null count=200k
> 204800+0 records in
> 204800+0 records out
> 0.00user 1.23system 0:10.44elapsed 11%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (99major+27minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> # time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sgb of=/dev/null count=200k
> 204800+0 records in
> 204800+0 records out
> 0.02user 1.75system 0:12.87elapsed 13%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
> 0inputs+0outputs (99major+27minor)pagefaults 0swaps
>
> The first result was obtained without any other loading.
> The second result was obtained when a similar command
> was run on /dev/sga (which took 12.5 seconds elapsed).
> When command queueing was used (i.e. sgq_dd512 command)
> the coincident runs took 10.5 and 11.1 seconds each.
>
> Doug Gilbert
I got some interesting results with the sg_dd512 program:
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sga of=/dev/null count=20k
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.08system 0:03.52elapsed 2%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sga of=/dev/null count=20k &
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sgb of=/dev/null count=20k &
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.11system 0:06.87elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.12system 0:06.92elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sga of=/dev/null count=20k &
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sgb of=/dev/null count=20k &
time ./sg_dd512 if=/dev/sgc of=/dev/null count=20k &
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.12system 0:07.43elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.16system 0:10.17elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
20480+0 records in
20480+0 records out
0.00user 0.15system 0:10.43elapsed 1%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 0maxresident)k
0inputs+0outputs (88major+44minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Is this the sort of performance I'm supposed to get? The delay roughly
doubles from 1 disk to 2 disks, and even more so from 1 disk to 3 disks (btw,
the 2,3 disk runs were launched simultaneously to the background via a shell
script). This was run on a 2.2.10 kernel, on 3 identical 9GB scsi disks.
Thank you,
Dimi Shahbaz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Stapleton)
Subject: Re: PS/2 MS Mouse Problems
Date: 29 Jul 1999 19:22:26 GMT
Reply-To: Bill Stapleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <o5Rn3.118$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"James Jose" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
|> HI,
|> After a few days of stuffing around I got Linux installed, X windows
|> starts and runs but, my mouse is unuseable because when ever I try and move
|> it it moves off to the other side of the screen and closes and opens things
|> it's a PS/2 MS Intellimouse
Try checking out this web page:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
The short answer is: In your X config, use "imps/2" as the mouse protocol.
This should work in recent X distributions.
--
Bill Stapleton University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Information & Media Technologies
Web Janitor, http://www.uwm.edu/ Technical Solutions
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Upgrading motherboard/CPU - Need reinstall?
Date: 29 Jul 1999 20:01:10 GMT
uRBaN_WeaSeL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm going to be upgrading from a VLB based Motherboard and Pentium 133 upgrade
>CPU to a full-blown ATX-style PII motherboard and PII/440 CPU with PCI bus.
>Will I have to reinstall Linux or just reconfigure XWindows with
>Xconfigurator?
Unless you're going to some other video chipset, you probably won't
have to do a damn thing. This is not Win95 you know. :-)
-- Rod
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http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: Kenny Kim Leung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel drivers vs. Kernel modules?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:08:12 +0800
I'm a Linux newcomer. Just built a 2.2.10 kernel. I long had this question
in head: If everything can be built into modules (except those critical to
system boot), why would one prefer an "N" to an "M"? By specifying sth as
modules, will it increase kernel size +/or its memory footprint? If not,
why not saying "M" to everything except those needed to bootup, so that the
resulting kernel is omnipotent?
Derek Smithies wrote:
>
> Using modules are advantageous as
>
> a) when adding new hardware to your system you dont have to recompile
>
> then kernel
>
> b)memory is conserved by using modules. This is very relevant when
>
> using Linux on a memory deprived machine (386, palmtop, etc).
>
> --
>
> There may be a performance benefit/cost to using modules or monolithic
>
> kernel. I don't know, but the effect would be minuscle.
>
--
Everything is not as it appears to be.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove _ to reply) (James)
Subject: HP DAT Drive Problems (DC2000 - HP6400)
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:29:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have recently been trying to make use of my 4mm SCSI DAT drive under LINUX
using TAR. The SCSI chain I use is fine under Windows (no termination
troubles).
The drive is recognised by my host adapter (Adaptec 2940) and TAR will attempt
(and seems) to backup to the device.
However, when I try to restore I get a few problems. The restore seems to
"freeze" quite often during the restore.
The entire backup set on the DAT tapes never seem to come back during restore
(even using brand new tapes of a different make).
Am I using an incorrect block size perhaps?
Any help appreciated.
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From: Peter Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Re: help soundcard NeoMagic
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 22:40:50 +0200
Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano wrote:
> I've Linux installed on a Acer TravelMate 720TX.
>
> No way to get the sound card working. According to Acer it should be
> a NMA2 (Neomagic) 16bit Saundblaster pro (sw integrated audio,
> integrated control).
>
> It seems that it doesn't work as a Sondblaster anyway...
>
> Help will be greately appreciated!
>
> Mauro
I've got the same problem with my Sony VAIO F160 - the chipset is calles
NeomagicAV256
and it CAN emulate SB16, WSS, ...and a lot more. The problem is (as far
as I know) that the
BIOS of your computer must keep an IRQ free for the emulation (e.g. 5
for SB). This works
with my Tecra8000 fine - but the Sony (Phoenux BIOS) doesn't features
this. I also heart
about that the Siemens Scenic work with that emulation to (-> iX :
www.heise.de/ix). But
naitive support for the AV256 is not available (Neomagic mails: we think
about a linux driver ...)
- the OSS doesn't provide any help either.
hope that helps
Peter
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From: PG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-390F with Linux
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:34:13 GMT
> I got following warning:
>
> "WARNING: 256 Heads, 64 Sectors Parameter is expected..."
> (I don't remeber the actuall numbers, but they differ
> from whats said in User's Manual, see below)
This warning message could happen at "Fdisk" during the installation of
Linux operation system .
1). If you need to use Linux "fdisk" to partition your SCSI hard disk,
you would have to "fdisk" with DOS utility to make one "DOS partition"
first. This is due to the fact that Linux fdisk utility may use that
disk parameter (C/H/S) made by DOS partition and then further
partititon your SCSI disk.
2). If you won't do as suggested as the above, i.e., to create a DOS
partition first, you may also get the correct SCSI disk parameters
during DC-390's SCSI BIOS display and then manually key in these
parameters during your FDISK under Linux. .
The following are some more regarding how you operate the FDISK under
Linux:
++++++++++++++++++++++++
[ The number of cylinders for this disk is set to "xxxx".
This larger than 1024, and may cause problems with :
(1) software that run at boot time (e.g.,LILO)
(2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g.,DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
]
++++++++++++++++++++++++
After seeing the above message during performing FDISK under Linux, you
could use command "x" to enter the extra functionality (experts only) .
In "experts only" mode you will be asked to manually set the correct
SCSI disk parameters (C/H/S).
* Key in the disk parameters that you get from DC-390's BIOS display
during bootup.
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From: Panu Saren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM problems (Toshiba XM7501TA)
Date: 29 Jul 1999 23:23:23 +0300
Hello,
Does someone have knowledge of the following problem.
This is what kernel (2.2.10) prints out, when I try to mount
a CDROM:
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
extra data not valid Current error sr00:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Unable to recover table-of-contents
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) error, command: Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
extra data not valid Current error sr00:00: sense key Medium Error
Additional sense indicates Unable to recover table-of-contents
cdrom: open failed.
SCSI error: host 1 id 5 lun 0 return code = 28000002
Sense class 7, sense error 0, extended sense 3
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
Information about CDROM (clip from /proc/scsi/scsi):
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-5701TA Rev: 3136
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
best regards,
Panu Saren
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics card
Date: 29 Jul 1999 21:30:30 GMT
proDG wrote:
>
> Please help:
>
> How to configure STB Horizon64 PCI with Sierra Falcon64 chipset under
Linux?
> X-window SVGA driver hangs-up the machine.
> Please send answers to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thank You
>
> Dariusz Goiński
> Poland
>
As of today, the FAQ at : http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#SierraFalcon
says the following :
Q.F8- Sierra Falcon chip
Boards based on this chip (such as the STB Horizon 64) are not supported.
You may want to look at the commercial X - window servers,including
SciTech Display Doctor
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: Rob Stockley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: startup disk
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 09:10:28 +1200
christos karayiannis wrote:
>
> I tried to create a second copy of my startup disk using the diskcopy
> utility from DOS. It is the only one I know that copies disks sector by
> sector. I didn't make it - I took a message illegal operation or something.
> Is there another way to make it from Windows or Linux ?
>
> christos
There's lots of ways to skin this cat. See the man page for dd. The
following should work.
dd if=/dev/fd0 of=/tmp/floppy.img bs=1024 count=1440
dd if=/tmp/floppy.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1024 count=1440
The file floppy.img will contain a byte for byte image of your floppy
disk. You can make multiple copies by simply executing the second
command again. You should delete /tmp/floppy.img when you're finished.
--
Rob Stockley
Christchurch, NZ
Email: delete spam-buster from return address
ICQ: 37780545
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: davicom dm9102 driver
Date: 29 Jul 1999 21:53:07 GMT
I've got this driver and have fixed it to work w/ RH6.0, seems
to work OK for me so far, but I've not tested it fully. If you want
the source, drop me an email at [EMAIL PROTECTED], elide the
elide for the real email. (I'll stick a link to the source on
my webpage once I've tested it more fully).
cheers,
--Sunil
In article <7nn4g8$v7v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7llhsu$aij$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I am trying to use a dm9102 adapter (built-in
>to MB) and
>> I am running the 2.2 linux kernel. Is there
>anyone that's
>> gotten a driver to work with this kernel
>version?????
>>
>> THANKS!
>
>Davicom has a driver for linux, www.davicom.com.tm
> ...you just have to follow the link for dm9102.
>I am having trouble compiling it though, let me
>know if it works for you?
>
>>
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>>
>
>
>
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From: Gaiko Kyofusho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: over clocking matrox g200 in linux?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:55:22 GMT
Hi, i have been trying to learn about over clocking my matrox g200 card
(mystique) and have gotten the impression (please correct me if i am
wrong) that the over clocking is done through the use of software. I
have oc'd my P2 via hardware settings so i was wondering if either:
#1 one could over clock their g200 card via some "hard" setup
#2 If there is any software out there for linux that would allow one to
oc their g200 card
Thank you for any help you may be able to provide,
-Gaiko
Gaikokujin Kyofusho
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