Linux-Hardware Digest #15, Volume #11 Sun, 15 Aug 99 01:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual Celeron 500 PPGA feasible? (Jason Costomiris)
Re: SCSI problem (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Creatve Video Drivers (Jon Akers)
Linux with Satelite Modems??? (like cable modems) (Chad Peters)
Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux? (Jeanette Russo)
KDS monitor (Oz Dror)
Re: adding memory, linux doesn't see it... (Russell Perkins)
emachines eOne w/ Intel 21145 ethernet controller under Linux?` ("Dirk Leas")
Re: Linux and Extertnal Modems ? ("Leonzo E. Miller III")
Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux? ("Jim Hall")
Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error ("Robert Grizzard")
Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question (Mircea)
Diamond Monster 3D card ("Damon")
Re: Diamond Monster 3D card (Thomas Kochak)
Help---"Cant create modem lock file"...??? ("JMNugent")
Re: Can't get HP720 to print (not even blink) ("Gene Heskett")
Need help optimizing tape drive parameters (Lyndon F. Bartels)
Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question (Carl Fink)
Re: Linux crashes all the time, need help!!! (Rod Roark)
Re: Parallel SparQ drive & Linux (Brett Hall)
Re: Linux and Extertnal Modems ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Costomiris)
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron 500 PPGA feasible?
Date: 15 Aug 1999 01:14:43 GMT
On 14 Aug 1999 14:28:37 GMT, David Ripton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > I too have the BP6, but I've resisted the temptation so far.. Why,
: > what's wrong with the UDMA/66 ?
:
: The board comes with Win9x drivers for the hpt66 controller, but
: using it anywhere else is problematic. Apparently some people
: have managed to get it working under NT and Win2k (and a lot of
: others haven't), and there is a Linux driver in the works.
I guess you've not looked much at www.deja.com...
I looked there this morning, and found an article that discusses:
http://www.kernel.dk/ide/
That's where I found the uniform-ide patches. Essentially, it's a
back-port of the 2.3 IDE code to kernel 2.2. There are also patches
for hdparm as well.
My HPT366 interfaces show up just fine...
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 98
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port0
ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio
HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 99
HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
HPT366: reg5ah=0x01 ATA-66 Cable Port1
ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdg:pio, hdh:pio
I'm not boot from IDE though. The HPT366 is not yet bootable under
Linux. I boot from my AHA2940UW.
All in all, I'm glad I took the plunge with the BP6. My 300A's
are stable @ 477, running cool too. Also, all the stuff on the mobo
works under Linux!
--
Jason Costomiris <><
Technologist, cryptogeek, human.
jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org | http://www.jasons.org/
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI problem
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:35:55 -0700
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Frank Dijcks wrote:
> I have a weird problem with a Buslogic Flashpoint SCSI adapter.
> First I used the Flashpoint with an Intel Endeavor motherboard, a Pentium
> 133 MHz, and a Fujitsu 4 GB harddisk. Worked for years.
> Then I replaced the motherboard with a DFI P5BV3+ with an AMD K6-2/350.
> RedHat 5.2 could not bootup anymore and locks up during fsck.
> So I reinstalled 5.2 and tried 6.0, but they both hangup during formatting
> of the disk. No warnings, just a complete stop.
> I replaced the harddisk by a 1 GB drive and that worked fine.
> I installed WinNT on the 4 GB drive and that works fine.
> I have also swapped around the cards in the PCI slots and I even have had
> the Flashpoint as the only PCI card. No success.
> Can anyone give me some clues?
have you tried low-level formatting it from the SCSI bios?
Gerald
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From: Jon Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Creatve Video Drivers
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:57:37 -0700
Prashant Gandhi wrote:
> I purchased a Creative Graphics Blaster Exxtreme Video card with 8 Meg of
> RAM. The installation in windows 98 went well. Linux was also configured
> easily. Infact, I reinstalled RedHat 5.2 just to make sure. The lllcommand
> line mode runs perfectly, but when I try to load X, my monitor shuts down.
> I think it is because of non-availability of proper drivers for the
> graphics card. Can anyone tell me what to do?
> I am very distressed. Please help me ASAP...
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
For this video card you need to install the 3D Labs X-Server due to the
Permedia chipset on the card. I am not sure if it is a standard package of
XFree86 or not, but it does come on the Redhat 6.0 CD.
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From: Chad Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with Satelite Modems??? (like cable modems)
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 02:39:23 +0000
Does anyone have their Linux box running with over a satelite modem
(like PCDirect)?
I would like to hear about any setup problems.
Chad Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeanette Russo)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux?
Date: 15 Aug 1999 01:59:20 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Followup-To:
Seems like Soundblasters are good. Ensoniq seems good also.
There are drivers for
SB Live from Creative. SB 16 is easy A lot of people
have problems with AWE 64. SB 128 seems to work pretty well also.
Jeanette
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:30:47 GMT, Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I got my modem up and running and only my soundcard and scsi don't work.
>The guy who wrote the OSS drivers told me that I couldn't get my Audiotrix
>3D-XG soundcard to work under Linux. So which low cost ISA soundcard is
>the best? I don't want a really awfull one but I don't want a really
>expensive one (50-60$ would be nice :) and I want it to work with Linux
>very well. Could anyone help me with this?
>
>------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Oz Dror <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: KDS monitor
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:07:11 -0700
I am looking for a recommendation for the new 19" KDS monitor
vs195 and vs-19sn
I bought vs195 the monitor broke as soon as I set the mode to
1600x120070Hz
shall I return the monitor or replace it.
-Oz Dror
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From: Russell Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding memory, linux doesn't see it...
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:31:26 -0700
tha D wrote:
>
> I've added 64MB of memory but I can't get Linux to recognize it. I have a
> total of 131,072 MB of SDRAM (says my BIOS) and windows also sees 128MB, so
> I at least know that I installed it correctly. I've tried inserting
> "mem=128Mb" (and other sorts of combinations of "mb," "MB," "Mb") without
> success. Please help me.
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> TIA,
> D
My 64Meg didn't show up until I used mem=65535K.
For some reason "M" was not getting recognized....
--
Russell Perkins
http://personal.riverusers.com/~rperkins/
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From: "Dirk Leas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: emachines eOne w/ Intel 21145 ethernet controller under Linux?`
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 02:38:44 GMT
I'm in the process of testing a new emachines eOne (the Celeron 433 based
iMac knockoff) and wasn't able to find a driver for the onboard network
card. All the docs say is it's based on the Intel 21145 controller. It
actually supports both 10base-t and HomePNA. Anybody have a clue about which
linux network driver might work?
TIA,
D
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From: "Leonzo E. Miller III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Linux and Extertnal Modems ?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:13:40 -0400
M0RPH wrote:
> I would like to know if linux will work with any external modem ? as i'm
> lookin to upgrade my modem because my winmodem won't work in linux.
>
> Thanks please mail responces to :-
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All I use are external modems and they work fine.
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From: "Jim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which soundcard is best for Linux?
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:43:52 -0500
No it's not Midi's Fault. It's the Driver/Card. Have you ever heard XG? If
not you are missing out. Midi is very very powerful when used with a good
Soundcard/Driver. Alot of games and movies use Midi. I am not kidding. Also
many high end keyboards use Midi. Midi can "sound" better than MP3, mp3 is
compressed format that in 128K sounds very swishy. Encode at 160 or 192 and
you get "NearCD" quality.
brian moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 01:30:47 GMT,
> Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I got my modem up and running and only my soundcard and scsi don't work.
> > The guy who wrote the OSS drivers told me that I couldn't get my
Audiotrix
> > 3D-XG soundcard to work under Linux. So which low cost ISA soundcard is
> > the best? I don't want a really awfull one but I don't want a really
> > expensive one (50-60$ would be nice :) and I want it to work with Linux
> > very well. Could anyone help me with this?
>
> You can get an AWE64 "value" (ie, with only 512k of RAM for the wave
> table) for $15 or so used without looking hard at all.
>
> Works great, though the midi sucks (but, then midi always sucks compared
> to mp3's or mods) unless you use timidity, and then it still sucks, but
> that's midi's fault, not the card's. :)
>
> --
> Brian Moore | Of course vi is God's editor.
> Sysadmin, C/Perl Hacker | If He used Emacs, He'd still be
waiting
> Usenet Vandal | for it to load on the seventh day.
> Netscum, Bane of Elves.
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From: "Robert Grizzard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need Help w/ Modem--"Sorry modem is busy" error
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:43:08 -0500
In comp.os.linux.misc JMNugent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I see this:
> "Sorry, the modem is busy" retry/cancel
and start thinking about things like lock files,then I see:
> "you need to remove the lock option"..blah blah blah......(makes me think I
and I have to ask, "Do you have a file in /var/lock called something like
'LCK..ttyS1' or 'LCK..modem'?"
> dont have permissions to some folder I need ....)
Not permissions; if you do have the LCK.. file then the modem is actually
flagged as being in use by some other program and none other may access it.
HTH
Rob
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:00:35 -0400
Gerard Schlundt wrote:
> (..)
> Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
That's your Jaz drive (bus 0, id 6)
> sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
Because you don't have a disk inserted in the jaz unit at boot time.
> sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
> sdb : extended sense code = 2
> sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0, absolute sector 0
>
> and when I do a cdburner -scanbus I see:
>
> scsibus0:
> 0) 'COMPAQPC' 'DPES-31080 ' 'S31K' Disk
> 1) *
> 2) *
> 3) *
> 4) 'ARCHIVE ' '4586XX 28887-XXX' '4.BG' Removable Tape
>
> 5) *
> 6) 'iomega ' 'jaz 1GB ' 'J.83' Removable Disk
>
> 7) *
> scsibus1:
> 100) 'IDE-CD ' 'ReWritable-2x2x6' '3.01' Removable
> CD-ROM
> 101) *
> 102) *
> 103) *
> 104) *
> 105) *
> 106) *
> 107) *
>
All seems normal... you have a series of SCSI devices connected to an
adapter, and the emulation that takes care of the ATAPI cdrw (bus 1, id
0, lun 0). See the CD-Writing-HOWTO at:
http://www.guug.de/~winni/linux/cdr/html (especially section 2).
MST
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From: "Damon" <dssaylor@NO SPAMhotmail.com>
Subject: Diamond Monster 3D card
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 19:48:40 -0700
Hi. I am new to Linux and had a pretty easy time installing Red Hat 6 but I
have a question. How can I tell if my Diamond Monster 3D card was
installed? I am trying to run Quake 3 test and I installed the Glide
drivers (I think) but it wont run.
Thanks,
Damon
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From: Thomas Kochak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Monster 3D card
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 22:18:06 -0500
goto /usr/local/glide/bin and there should be a program called test3Dfx and run
it
Damon wrote:
> Hi. I am new to Linux and had a pretty easy time installing Red Hat 6 but I
> have a question. How can I tell if my Diamond Monster 3D card was
> installed? I am trying to run Quake 3 test and I installed the Glide
> drivers (I think) but it wont run.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damon
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From: "JMNugent" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help---"Cant create modem lock file"...???
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 21:26:13 -0600
Trying to use pppd in Redhat 6.0 and Gnome....(Finally got my modem to work
by going into BIOS of my motherboard and turning off "PnP OS")
When I login as ROOT,. I can use PPP just fine....but that probably not very
secure
When I login with my normal user account and try to run PPP, I get ...."Cant
create modem lock file".......I presume that this means I dont have
permissions to modify a certain file. (Presumably in the /var/lock
directory)....
Here's the interesting part....when I'm logged on as ROOT all I see is
/var
/console
/subsys
But, when I logon as my user account, I see this.....
/var
/console
/subsys
and a file called "console.lock" which I get "permission
denied" when I try to open it.....
How come I can see this file as a user, but I cannot see it as ROOT----more
importantly,..if I cant see it as ROOT,..how am I supposed to give my user
account access to it....All I really want to do is logon as a user and dial
out.....
---jason
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Date: 14 Aug 99 22:24:25 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get HP720 to print (not even blink)
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Chad Peters;
This is a winprinter. But, there is a driver that currently is working
in black only, do a search on dejanews for it.
CP> I have been trying to get RH6.0 to recognize my HP720 printer.
CP> It won't even make the lights blink.
Cheers, Gene
--
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Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyndon F. Bartels)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Need help optimizing tape drive parameters
Date: 15 Aug 1999 03:24:14 GMT
Hello,
I have the following hardware setup.
Intel P-II 350.
196 Mb RAM.
S3 Virge video card.
Adaptec 2940UW w/
4.5 Gb Seagate Medalist Pro disk
4.5 Gb Seagate Medalist Pro disk
9.1 Gb Seagate Medalist Pro disk
9.1 Gb Seagate Medalist Pro disk
Adaptec 2910 w/
CD-ROM (I think it's a NEC 8 speed.)
Exabyte 8200 8mm tape drive.
3com 3c509 network card. (To be replaced with 3c905 10/100 card.)
Software:
Redhat 6.0 (2.2.5-15 kernel. No patches as yet.)
I'm trying to get the tape drive set up and working. Booting recognizes the
drive OK. And I can get
the DUMP routine to work OK too. But, I have to give the dump qualifier
density parameters.
This makes me wonder if I'm using the tape drive as efficiently as possible.
When I dump a file system,
I notice that the tape drive and disk drive indicator's only light for a few
moments then go off. I'm
wondering if I'm transfering data as quickly as possible.
My questions are;
Has anybody dug into the performance of this hardware? Especially the tape
drive? I've
been toying with /etc/stinit.def, with /etc/sysconfig/tape, and I'm not
satisfied with the results.
How best to optimize density, transfer rate.
How can I make /dev/st0 the default device?
Thanks in advance,
Lyndon F. Bartels
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink)
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question
Date: 15 Aug 1999 03:50:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999 18:22:10 -0500 Gerard Schlundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The drive works fine in the Windoze world (Ran it there to test it)
>however, when my newly compiled kernel boots, I get the following error
>log:
>
>Detected scsi removable disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
>sdb : READ CAPACITY failed.
>sdb : status = 1, message = 00, host = 0, driver = 28
>sdb : extended sense code = 2
>sdb : block size assumed to be 512 bytes, disk size 1GB.
> sdb:scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:10, sector 0, absolute sector 0
That seems to mean that there's no disk in the drive, but your
/etc/fstab is set up to mount it automatically (and of course fails).
I'm no expert, but that's how I read it.
Have you read the CD-Writing HOWTO? If it's not in /usr/doc/ on your
system, check the Linux Documentation Project at your favorite
mirror.
--
Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."
-Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux crashes all the time, need help!!!
Date: 15 Aug 1999 04:34:19 GMT
Mark Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi! I am very new to linux and I got a PII Celeron 300A system with 128MB
>RAM, Seagate Medalist 4.3 GB HD, ATI Rage II+ display. I installed RedHat
>5.2(Apollo) on my system. It is very stable, except everytime I try to
>install RPMs or compile other packages, the computer will restart itself
>randomly (it actually restarts everytime when I try to install GTK). I have
>reformat and reinstalled many many times with full installation, but it
>doesn't seem to help at all. Since I am pretty new to this OS, the only
>strange thing I notice is when I boot the system I got an error message as
>"fpu using exception 16 error reporting". What does that message means? Can
>it be related to the crash of my linux?? Could it be my hardwares? I need
>advice, Please help!!
Sounds like hardware. Try conservative motherboard settings. Make
sure you understand all the motherboard settings, both jumpers and CMOS.
Try disabling the CPU's cache. If you have two DIMMs, try running
without one and then the other. If you're overclocking, try not.
Good luck. :-)
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
======================================================================
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From: Brett Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel SparQ drive & Linux
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 04:43:57 +0000
Marianne Taylor wrote:
> Does anyone know how to set up a parallel SparQ drive in Linux. I am using
> OpenLinux 2.2.
Check out this page:
http://www.torque.net/parport/paride.html
-brett
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Linux and Extertnal Modems ?
Date: 15 Aug 1999 04:45:51 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Leonzo E. Miller III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: M0RPH wrote:
:> I would like to know if linux will work with any external modem ? as i'm
:> lookin to upgrade my modem because my winmodem won't work in linux.
:>
:> Thanks please mail responces to :-
:>
:> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: All I use are external modems and they work fine.
I actually _prefer_ external modems. It's easier to see what is happening
with your connection. When my RD light stays dark for minutes at a time
while my SD light periodically blips, it reassures me that my data
stoppage is at the ISP's end (a frequent occurance for me these days).
Antryg - Using a Newcom 33.6Kbps v.34 Fax Modem on a RedHat 6.0 box...
--
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