Linux-Hardware Digest #238, Volume #11 Sun, 12 Sep 99 18:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: Scsi troubles (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: isapnp revisited... (Frank v Waveren)
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 (allen kurt savegnago)
cd mounting - sometimes yes sometimes no ("yuval")
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Bruce Tennant)
Re: 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 supported? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: serial port not usable - "modem busy" (Duncan Cameron)
UDMA/66 not working...yet ("David St.Clair")
Re: Q: Videocard for using OpenGL under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SMP speedup (800mhz AMD vs 2XPIII-500) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Seti@home wont run. (Bryan)
Re: 13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller... ("Jesse F. Hughes")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Scsi troubles
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:29:09 GMT
Robert Sheskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Doing cat /proc/ioports shows it as a vacant address.
Irrelevant. IRQ 4 is used by the primary serial port.
[...]
>Been doing it this way for years and it is not changing now.
Might become quite expensive. Check Dejanews for "flowers.com"
one day.
Michael
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Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank v Waveren)
Subject: Re: isapnp revisited...
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:14:06 GMT
After isapnp'ing this config file, have you used setserial to set the params
for a serial port?
In article <%nUC3.1554$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Sean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Once again...my Motorola ModemSurfer 56K is acting up. I'm looking for
> suggestions. TIA.
>
> I had the thought to make a linux machine out of a 486 for my network to do
> dial on demand to the inernet for the rest of my machines.
>
> Anyway, this lil' 486 has nothing but a vesa controller, ethernet, and the
> modem in it. In my other box that I had this modem in, Windows detects it
> at IRQ 5, IOPort 2E8-2EE
>
> IO ports from /proc/ioports -
> root@neo:~ > cat /proc/ioports
> 0000-001f : dma1
> 0020-003f : pic1
> 0040-005f : timer
> 0060-006f : keyboard
> 0070-007f : rtc
> 0080-008f : dma page reg
> 00a0-00bf : pic2
> 00c0-00df : dma2
> 00f0-00ff : fpu
> 01f0-01f7 : ide0
> 0300-031f : NE2000
> 03c0-03df : vga+
> 03f6-03f6 : ide0
> 03f8-03ff : serial(auto)
>
> Interrupts from /proc/interrupts -
> root@neo:~ > cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0
> 0: 93421 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 2 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
> 10: 428 XT-PIC NE2000
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 79047 XT-PIC ide0
> NMI: 0
>
> Output from pnpdump -c : (snipped the majority of the output leaving the
> configured settings that pnpdump suggested)
> # Card 1: (serial identifier 4d 05 68 10 e0 50 15 f4 35)
> # Vendor Id MOT1550, Serial Number 90706144, checksum 0x4D.
> # Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
> # ANSI string -->Motorola ModemSURFR 56K Modem <--
> #
> # Logical device id MOT1550
> # Device support I/O range check register
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x38
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3a
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3b
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3c
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3d
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3e
> # Device supports vendor reserved register @ 0x3f
> #
> # Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
> # Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be changed
> if r
> equired
> # Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
>
> (CONFIGURE MOT1550/90706144 (LD 0
> # Compatible device id MOT1550
>
> # Multiple choice time, choose one only !
>
> # Start dependent functions: priority acceptable
> # Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
> # Minimum IO base address 0x03e8
> # Maximum IO base address 0x03e8
> # IO base alignment 8 bytes
> # Number of IO addresses required: 8
> (IO 0 (SIZE 8) (BASE 0x03e8) (CHECK))
> # IRQ 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12 or 15.
> # High true, edge sensitive interrupt (by default)
> (INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
>
>
>
--
Frank v Waveren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ# 10074100
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Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (allen kurt savegnago)
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 21:24:09 GMT
HDºallen kurt savegnago wrote:
HDº> Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems
HDº> I have the same motherboard and an OEM K6III did not work. I awaiting
HDº> the arrival of a boxed K6III-450 cpu and will try again.
HDºA sig-11 says there is a hardware problem, in most cases it is the
HDºmemory which doesn't stand the 100 MHz bus-frequency or
HDºit's caused by overclocked systems/cpu's.
HDº> The mobo is
HDº> supposed to be the one "approved" by FIC as compatible with the K6III.
HDºYep, "approved by the manufacturer itself", what are you awaiting ? :)
HDºHave you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y ??
HDº~ hd
Yes I did. Again, I think the problem might be with the cut-rate
cpu I got ripped-off on. Some of the lettering was blacked-out on
the edges of the chip. My other AMD cpu's have clearly discerable
letters on the side.
Well I'll find out when the boxed chip comes.
AKS
* 1st 2.00 #6533 * 1stReader: Buy the best and you never regret it.
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From: "yuval" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cd mounting - sometimes yes sometimes no
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:12:13 +0200
for unknown reasone my cd (ATAPI) is sometime agree to be mounted and
sometimes dont.
Does anyone knows something about that phenomenome ?
Chears for the info givers
Yuval
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From: Bruce Tennant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:19:36 -0400
Gene Heskett wrote:
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Lisa Evans;
>
> LE> You people are disgusting. Remind me to make jokes at your
> LE> expense the next time you and your family are shipped to a
> LE> concentration camp and slaughtered, because that's what's
> LE> happening in East Timor right now.
>
> Lisa, while I share your feelings about the attempted humor, and you may
> mean well and all that, but I'm afraid the situation there is a lost
> cause.
Noam Chomsky (for Mother Jones on-line)
Why Americans should care about East Timor
There are three good reasons why Americans should care
about East Timor. First, since the Indonesian invasion of
December 1975, East Timor has been the site of some of
the worst atrocities of the modern era -- atrocities which
are mounting again right now. Second, the US government
has played a decisive role in escalating these atrocities
and can easily act to mitigate or terminate them. It is not
necessary to bomb Jakarta or impose economic sanctions.
Throughout, it would have sufficed for Washington to
withdraw support and to inform its Indonesian client that
the game was over. That remains true as the situation
reaches a crucial turning point -- the third reason.
President Clinton needs no instructions on how to proceed.
In May 1998, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright called
upon Indonesian President Suharto to resign and provide
for "a democratic transition." A few hours later, Suharto
transferred authority to his handpicked vice president.
Though not simple cause and effect, the events illustrate
the relations that prevail. Ending the torture in East Timor
would have been no more difficult than dismissing
Indonesia's dictator in May 1998.
Not long before, the Clinton administration welcomed
Suharto as "our kind of guy," following the precedent
established in 1965 when the general took power,
presiding over army-led massacres that wiped out the
country's only mass-based political party (the PKI, a
popularly supported communist party) and devastated its
popular base in "one of the worst mass murders of the
20th century." According to a CIA report, these massacres
were comparable to those of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao;
hundreds of thousands were killed, most of them landless
peasants. The achievement was greeted with unrestrained
euphoria in the West. The "staggering mass slaughter"
was "a gleam of light in Asia," according to two
commentaries in The New York Times, both typical of the
general western media reaction. Corporations flocked to
what many called Suharto's "paradise for investors,"
impeded only by the rapacity of the ruling family. For more
than 20 years, Suharto was hailed in the media as a
"moderate" who is "at heart benign," even as he compiled
a record of murder, terror, and corruption that has few
counterparts in postwar history.
Suharto remained a darling of the West until he committed
his first errors: losing control and hesitating to implement
harsh International Monetary Fund (IMF) prescriptions.
Then came the call from Washington for "a democratic
transition" -- but not for allowing the people of East Timor
to enjoy the right of self-determination that has been
validated by the UN Security Council and the World Court.
In 1975, Suharto invaded East Timor, then being taken
over by its own population after the collapse of the
Portuguese empire. The United States and Australia knew
the invasion was coming and effectively authorized it.
Australian Ambassador Richard Woolcott, in memos later
leaked to the press, recommended the "pragmatic" course
of "Kissingerian realism," because it might be possible to
make a better deal on Timor's oil reserves with Indonesia
than with an independent East Timor. At the time, the
Indonesian army relied on the United States for 90 percent
of its arms, which were restricted by the terms of the
agreement for use only in "self-defense." Pursuing the
same doctrine of "Kissingerian realism," Washington
simultaneously stepped up the flow of arms while declaring
an arms suspension, and the public was kept in the dark.
The UN Security Council ordered Indonesia to withdraw,
but to no avail. Its failure was explained by then-UN
Ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan. In his memoirs, he
took pride in having rendered the UN "utterly ineffective in
whatever measures it undertook" because "[t]he United
States wished things to turn out as they did" and "worked
to bring this about." As for how "things turned out,"
Moynihan comments that, within a few months, 60,000
Timorese had been killed, "almost the proportion of
casualties experienced by the Soviet Union during the
Second World War."
The massacre continued, peaking in 1978 with the help of
new arms provided by the Carter administration. The toll to
date is estimated at about 200,000, the worst slaughter
relative to population since the Holocaust. By 1978, the
United States was joined by Britain, France, and others
eager to gain what they could from the slaughter. Protest
in the West was minuscule. Little was even reported. US
press coverage, which had been high in the context of
concerns over the fall of the Portuguese empire, declined
to practically nothing in 1978.
In 1989, Australia signed a treaty with Indonesia to exploit
the oil of "the Indonesian Province of East Timor" -- a
region sober realists tell us is not economically viable, and
therefore cannot be granted the right of self-determination.
The Timor Gap treaty was put into effect immediately after
the army murdered several hundred more Timorese at a
graveyard commemoration of a recent army assassination.
Western oil companies joined in the robbery, eliciting no
comment.
After 25 terrible years, steps are finally being taken that
might bring the horrors to an end. Indonesia agreed to
permit a referendum in August 1999 in which the Timorese
were to be permitted to choose "autonomy" within
Indonesia or independence from it. It is taken for granted
that if the vote is minimally free, pro-independence forces
will win. The occupying Indonesian army (TNI) moved at
once to prevent this outcome. The method was simple:
Paramilitary forces were organized to terrorize the
population while TNI adopted a stance of "plausible
deniability," which quickly collapsed in the presence of
foreign observers who could see firsthand that TNI was
arming and guiding the killers.
The militias are credibly reported to be under the direction
of Kopassus, the dreaded Indonesian special forces
modeled on the US Green Berets and "legendary for their
cruelty," as the prominent Indonesia scholar Benedict
Anderson observes. He adds that in East Timor,
"Kopassus became the pioneer and exemplar for every
kind of atrocity," including systematic rapes, tortures, and
executions, and organization of hooded gangsters.
Concurring, Australia's veteran Asia correspondent David
Jenkins notes that this "crack special forces unit [had]
been training regularly with US and Australian forces until
their behavior became too much of an embarrassment for
their foreign friends." Congress did bar US training of the
killers and torturers under IMET, but the Clinton
Administration found ways to evade the laws, leading to
much irritation in Congress but little broader notice. Now,
congressional constraints may be more effective, but
without the kind of inquiry that is rarely undertaken in the
case of US-backed terror, one cannot be confident.
Jenkins's conclusion that Kopassus remains "as active as
ever in East Timor" is verified by close observers. "Many of
these army officers attended courses in the United States
under the now-suspended International Military Education
and Training (IMET) program," he writes. Their tactics
resemble the US Phoenix program in South Vietnam, which
killed tens of thousands of peasants and much of the
indigenous South Vietnamese leadership, as well as "the
tactics employed by the Contras" in Nicaragua, following
lessons taught by their CIA mentors that it should be
unnecessary to review. The state terrorists "are not simply
going after the most radical pro-independence people but
going after the moderates, the people who have influence
in their community."
'It's Phoenix' ... notes a well-placed source in Jakarta,"
Jenkins writes. That source adds that the aim is "'to
terrorize everyone' -- the NGOs, the [Red Cross], the UN,
the journalists."
The goal is being pursued with no little success. Since
April, the Indonesian-run militias have been conducting a
wave of atrocities and murder, killing hundreds of people --
many in churches to which they fled for shelter -- burning
down towns, driving tens of thousands into concentration
camps or the mountains, where, it is reported, thousands
have been virtually enslaved to harvest coffee crops.
"They call them 'internally displaced persons,'" an
Australian nun and aid worker said, "but they are hostages
to the militias. They have been told that if they vote for
independence, they will be killed." The number of the
displaced is estimated at 50,000 or more.
Health conditions are abysmal. One of the few doctors in
the territory, American volunteer Dan Murphy, reported
that 50 to 100 Timorese are dying daily from curable
diseases while Indonesia "has a deliberate policy not to
allow medical supplies into East Timor." In the Australian
media, he has detailed atrocious crimes from his personal
experience, and Australian journalists and aid workers
have compiled a shocking record.
The referendum has been delayed twice by the UN
because of the terror, which has even targeted UN offices
and UN convoys carrying sick people for treatment. Citing
diplomatic, church, and militia sources, the Australian
press reports "that hundreds of modern assault rifles,
grenades, and mortars are being stockpiled, ready for use
if the autonomy option is rejected at the ballot box," and
warns that the TNI-run militias may be planning a violent
takeover of much of the territory if, despite the terror, the
popular will is expressed.
Murphy and others report that TNI has been emboldened
by the lack of interest in the West. "A senior US diplomat
summarized the issue neatly: 'East Timor is Australia's
Haiti'" -- in other words, it's not a problem for the United
States, which helped create and sustain the humanitarian
disaster in East Timor and could readily end it. (Those who
know the truth about the United States in Haiti will fully
appreciate the cynicism.)
Reporting on the terror from the scene, Nobel Laureate
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo called for "an international
military force" to protect the population from Indonesian
terror and permit the referendum to proceed. Nothing
doing. The "international community" -- meaning Western
powers -- prefers that the Indonesian army provide
"security." A small number of unarmed UN monitors have
been authorized -- but subsequently delayed -- by the
Clinton administration.
The picture in the past few months is particularly ugly
against the background of the self-righteous posturing in
the "enlightened states." But it simply illustrates, once
again, what should be obvious: Nothing substantial has
changed, either in the actions of the powerful or the
performance of their flatterers. The Timorese are
"unworthy victims." No power interest is served by
attending to their suffering or taking even simple steps to
end it. Without a significant popular reaction, the
long-familiar story will continue, in East Timor and
throughout the world.
> Any _intelligent person_ doing so will very quickly come to the
> conclusion that we should observe, and record only.
I have found it to be very common for people with right-wing perspectives
to unironically question the intelligence of those that disagree with them
and it is almost always a sign that they don't know what they are talking
about.
For more about East Timor please visit ZNet http://www.zmag.org/znet.htm
Please forward Chomsky's essay as is appropriate.
Bruce Tennant
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.hardware.arch.intel,redhat.general
Subject: Re: 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 supported?
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:43:00 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware f5alcon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is the Voodoo3 3000 card supported in Red Hat Linux 6.0 without
: downloading drivers because I have no internet connection in linux?
Sorry, no Voodoo3 X-Server on RH6.0!
You will have to go to an Internet-Cafe:
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
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From: Duncan Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial port not usable - "modem busy"
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 16:50:03 -0400
Thomas Metschies wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I use SUSE Linux 6.1, and I have a problem connecting my computer to my
> modem, which is plugged into COM 1 (working well with windows 98). I
> configured it via yast and checked that the entries in rc-config were
> right (/dev/modem -> ttyS0). I tried the other port, but it's the same.
>
> The LEDs at the modem don't even flicker for one moment using minicom,
> and using kPPP "query modem" it says "modem is busy". I tried every
> device in the device list, but none works.
>
> I have a Computer with ATX motherboard, Pentium II, 233 and the computer
> has two USB-ports. Can it be that the USB-ports are the reason?
>
> When I run minicom in a terminal-window under kde, it says "modem is
> locked". Is there en entry in a system file that I have to alter?
>
> I hope anyone has the right answer for me.
>
> By, Thomas
I am by no means expert in this field, but after much messing about, I
finally heard that this can bev a BIOS issue, ie set the BIOS to "non-pnp
o/s" and disable (in your case) Com1. This should allow Linux to access the
modem. Good luck!
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From: "David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA/66 not working...yet
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:23:34 -0400
I have a UDMA\66 Quantum Fireball Plus KA13.6 with a Abit BE6
motherboard. I have tried compiling 2.3.17 with HPT366 support and that
part seems to see my hard drive and starts to configure the necessary
stuff, but it hangs at the irq's. I did enable boot off chip support
too. It works with a 33 pin ribbon cable hooked up to the hard drive,
but it doesn't work with the 66 pin cable. It does see the 66pin cable
in the bootup (i think). Anyone got it working yet or got some special
configuration I need to know about?
Running (in UDMA/33 mode)
Redhat Linux Lorax Beta
128M Ram
PIII 450
ATI Rage Fury
Sound Blaster Live
3com 905
Currently using 2.2.12 Kernel
Thanks,
David St.Clair
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Q: Videocard for using OpenGL under Linux
Date: 12 Sep 1999 21:50:34 GMT
Igor I. Tovstopyat-Nelip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm setting up a new machine which is supposed to run under Linux OS.
: Which card can be recommended in order to work with Linux and to be good
: for OpenGL programming?
You may get Voodoo3, G400 or TNT2-Cards.
Voodoo3 is the fastest, but can only do fullscreen.
TNT2 is faster than G400. both can do in-window-rendering,
but they are not yet fully 3d-accelarated. in fact
the developer of the TNT2/G400 GLX-modules state
that it isn't even considered alpha-quality ...
But TNT2/G400 already do it for many 3D-apps
(i know some people working with a TNT2-Card doing
Robo-Vision under Linux)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SMP speedup (800mhz AMD vs 2XPIII-500)
Date: 12 Sep 1999 22:00:53 GMT
David J. Topper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi folks,
: I'm trying to decide on the purchase of a new desktop. The Kryotech
: 800mhz AMD system really sound sweet, but I'm a bit concerned about
: noise related to the condenser. So I've never been able to understand
: how well Linux handles multi-processor systems. Will a dual PIII-500mhz
: system be about twice as fast as a single CPU system?
Application depended:
i.e. compiling with "make -j2" will mostly result in 70-90% speedup.
PVMPov gives you about 40-60% speedup on an Dual-Machine.
If you have many CPU-time consuming (but non I/O-expensive)
tasks running on the same maschine, up to 100% are very
likely. But if you only have one non-multithreaded Task
Running: 0%
Many tasks with heavy I/O-accesses may also slow down
the system ...
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seti@home wont run.
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 22:04:50 GMT
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Running ./setiathome in a shell will show you some data, but scrolling
: data just doesn't pull *my* trigger. The xseti script does it much
: nicer.
sending output to /dev/null reduces overhead (no gui, less i/o, less
processes) and that relates to faster computes. which ends up being
better scores ;-)
--
Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: "Jesse F. Hughes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller...
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 17:49:04 -0400
Thanks for the info.
My BIOS is set for LBA already, so I guess that I'm using as much of the
drive as I can. That's pretty disappointing. I'm using only a little
over 10 Gig of a 13 Gig hard drive.
I wonder -- does it make a difference how one partitions the hard drive?
I forget what size blocks I used -- I guess that's easy enough to figure
out, though.
Jesse
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