Linux-Hardware Digest #906, Volume #12 Mon, 22 May 00 16:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Supermicro PIIIDME with Red Hat 6.2 SMP (Dimitri Komatitsch)
Re: Tekram DC-315U/DC-935UW support? (Markus Kossmann)
IBM 300 GL workstation install ("eduard")
Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32A (PX-W8432T) supported in Linux? (John Ericson)
Re: kingston ethernet plus adsl modem on redhat (Duane)
Re: How large a cheapo (E)IDE drive can linux support? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32A (PX-W8432T) supported in Linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: What is this Xfree86 stuff? (Dances With Crows)
Re: unable to access CD ROM when superdisk added. ("Gene Heskett")
HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi (Kevin E Cosgrove)
ISA modem, COM port and IRQ question ("Kirk R. Wythers")
Re: 820 AC'97 Audio (D G)
SCSI controllers (Douglas Fraser)
Re: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi (D G)
Re: IBM 300 GL workstation install (Apple Advertising)
Re: STB Nitro Video (Apple Advertising)
Photo-Quality printer? [was: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi] (Kevin E
Cosgrove)
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From: Dimitri Komatitsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Supermicro PIIIDME with Red Hat 6.2 SMP
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 13:51:21 -0400
Hi everybody,
I'm considering buying a bunch of new Supermicro PIIIDME
(or PIIIDM3) motherboards, with dual Pentium-III 750 MHz.
I plan to run Red Hat 6.2 SMP , does anyone know if these
new boards are already fully supported and if 6.2 SMP runs
fine on them? I hope this is not a stupid question,
I checked the Supermicro web site, looking for some info
about Linux compatibility, but did not find anything.
thanks
dimitri
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tekram DC-315U/DC-935UW support?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:48:52 +0200
Per Wedin wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Does anyone know if Tekram's SCSI-cards DC-315U or DC935UW are supported?
> Are they any good? I know Adaptec has a rather solid reputation, but at the
> moment I'd rather buy something cheaper.
There is no support in the standard kernel, but patches are available on
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/dc395/
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Markus Kossmann
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From: "eduard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM 300 GL workstation install
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:28:11 +0200
Reply-To: "eduard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
I am trying to convince my boss to run Linux for an intranet webserver,
because the next step will probably be a real webserver and a proxy box, and
I prefer not to use MS for that.
My experience with Linux is small (or non-existent if you want to say,) I
have it running at home but on the IBM 300 GL and PL machines I cannot get
the vieo setting right.
I cannot find anything on the IBM site too, anybody can hep me?
I have tried the Caldere 2.2 build and am now trying with the definite linux
built.
Thanks in advance,
Eduard de Vries
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From: John Ericson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32A (PX-W8432T) supported in Linux?
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 18:18:22 GMT
Im about to purchase an CDRW for Linux and I wonder if the CDRW in the
Subject line is supported. Its an ATAPI and as I far as I have heard
most ATAPI drivers should work.
Other tips on good CDRWs for Linux are also appreciated.
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John Ericson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kingston ethernet plus adsl modem on redhat
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 10:44:29 -0700
Simon Huang wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> i've just installed redhat 6.2 on my computer. all went well except my
> ethernet card. i have a "Kingston EtheRx PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet Adapter
> KNE110TX" installed. it's connected to a WireSpeed ADSL Modem. when i choose
> the network options in "System Service" when i type "Setup" at shell,
> everytime the computer boot, it fail the "eth0" test. can anyone suggest a
> solution please? btw, i am using pacbell adsl service. thank you very much.
I think this card uses the "tulip" driver, and therefore you may need to
download and install the latest one:
http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: How large a cheapo (E)IDE drive can linux support?
Date: 22 May 2000 14:39:35 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 16:31:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I'd like to have a library of digitized copies of my LP collection online.
>For, say, 200 disks of 40 minutes average it would be 80G which should
>compress to 50G or so using lossless compression.
>Although I run w/ u2-scsi on my main machine, I want this drive to be as
>cheap as possible, so I'll be using an EIDE drive.
>How large an EIDE drive can linux support? I run RH6.2.
There were problems with drives larger than 32G in kernels prior to
2.2.14. I believe this has been fixed now, and Linux will support drives
up to 137.5G (the limit of the IDE spec at the moment.) Finding a drive
that large is left as an exercise. Also, fdisk may not be able to handle
such large drives correctly--use cfdisk. If either program gives you
weird-looking cylinder numbers, use the other one. If both programs do
weird things, get the latest versions.
Your BIOS may also decide to be unhappy with the drive if it's huge. But
then, you're not going to boot from that drive, so it might not be a
problem. Good luck....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Plextor PlexWriter 8/4/32A (PX-W8432T) supported in Linux?
Date: 22 May 2000 14:42:57 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 18:18:22 GMT, John Ericson
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Im about to purchase an CDRW for Linux and I wonder if the CDRW in the
>Subject line is supported. Its an ATAPI and as I far as I have heard
>most ATAPI drivers should work.
Yes, it will work. Read the CD-Writing HOWTO at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html for information on getting
it set up properly.
>Other tips on good CDRWs for Linux are also appreciated.
...most any newer ATAPI CD-RW will work, though problems have been
reported with the Iomega ZipCD and some Sony drives. I bought a
bargain-basement Philips CD-RW and it has worked very well so far.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: What is this Xfree86 stuff?
Date: 22 May 2000 14:53:11 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 17:39:43 GMT, CEO@The_Acme_Corp.
<<zheW4.83999$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I am having a very hard time installing Corel Linux OS. It will try to
>detect my hardware then gives a message
>starting graphical installation
>then my installation cd ejects and the whole process sarts over again.
>
>I have an ATI all in wonder 128 AGP with 16 mb or RAM. This a a Rage 128
>card. Now I guess my Corel version maybe won't support this card. Even so
Nope. Rage128 support was put in with Xfree86 3.3.6 and IIRC a lot of
Corel's distros shipped with 3.3.5. You need to do a text install, and
you need to explicitly tell the install program to do a text install
because graphical is the default. The exact procedure for doing this
should be covered in the manual. I don't know what it is; never tried
Corel's distro, but you should be able to enter "text" at the LILO
bootprompt instead of just hitting Return...
Once you have the system installed, it's time to upgrade your
Xfree86. Since Corel's distro is based on Debian, doing an "apt-get
dist-upgrade" will update damn near everything and suck all your bandwidth
for a very long time if you're on an analog modem. You can replace
"dist-upgrade" with the name of Debian's Xfree86 package. (xfree86?) Or
you can upgrade manually; guides to that are at the URLs below:
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/RELNOTES.html
(those are .tgz files, not .taz files, if I'm not mistaken.)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mhgraham/UpgradeXfree.html
Once Xfree86 is updated, run XF86Setup and X will be happy.
RedHat 6.2, Mandrake 7.0, and SuSE 6.4 all shipped with Xfree86 3.3.6 and
do not have this problem if you're thinking "This is too complex!"
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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Date: 22 May 2000 9:9:20 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unable to access CD ROM when superdisk added.
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Elton Woo;
I have such a situation here. I have a 13gig on /dev/hda, the cdr-w on
/dev/hdb, a 4gig hd on /de/hdc and the ls120 on /dev/hdd. I don't have
an entry for the ls120 in fstab, nor do I seem to need it. I have
performed a 'mke2fs' to make an ext2 filesystem on each disk before I
used them, done to rescue trashed disks from some badly failed genetic
experimentations on this amiga with faulty hardware and drivers, so mine
all have an ext2 file structure already on them.
When I want to use it, I simply do
#> mount -t ext2 /dev/hdd /mnt/ls120
and voila! 'ls /mnt/ls120' shows me the disks contents.
Now, while I've never done this before, thats the first floppy I've ever
stuck in the ls120, I just mounted it with a -t vfat option, copied a
file to it and that also seems to work just fine.
I have udma33 hard drives on the master side of both connectors also, so
my 'drive map' is a bit like full :)
If you already have data on the disks, then I'd have to assume that a -t
vfat option to the mount should find them ok as long as the addresses
don't conflict.
EW> I am using Mandrake 7.0, and have the
EW> following
EW> problem: whenever I add my
EW> LS-120 (superdiak) drive as an accessible hard drive /dev/hdc
EW> (vfat), I am unable to access my CD writer drive. By default,
EW> Mandrake dupermounts both the 1.44 flloppy drive, and the CD
EW> drive. Once I run Drakeconf (linuxconf), and add the superdisk
EW> floppy, I come to grief.
dupermounts? I hate to ask, but... Needless to say, I don't think you
can mount it as both a floppy, and as a large disk(ls120) at the some
time. Bear in mind that this is a 'removable' drive, and I personally
would never consider putting it in /etc/fstab. It is a transient medium
only! The cdr-w is also in this category in either mode.
EW> I have installed, and re-installed Mandrake
EW> several
EW> times this past week, nuy
EW> still no joy. My latest install was done with "automount",
EW> *DE-selected. However, I
EW> notice that though the CD is no longer automounted, it is *not*
EW> referenced in the mtab
EW> file.
EW> Kindly pardon my ignorance, but should this have
EW> identical enrries as the fstab file?
EW> Contents of my FSTAB file:
EW> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 defaults 1 2
EW> /dev/hda5 / ext2 defaults 1 1
EW> /dev/hda6 swap swap defaults 0 0
EW> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
EW> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto sync,user,noauto,nosuid,nodev,unhide 0 0
EW> none /proc proc defaults 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts mode=0620 0 0
EW> /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom auto user,noauto,nosuid,exec,nodev,ro 0 0
EW> /dev/hdc /mnt/hdc vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,conv=auto 1 1
What does /dev/cdrom actually point to?
EW> Contents of my MTAB file
EW>:/dev/hda5 / ext2 rw 0 0
EW> none /proc proc rw 0 0
EW> /dev/hda1 /boot ext2 rw 0 0
EW> /dev/hda7 /home ext2 rw 0 0
EW> none /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=0620 0 0
EW> /dev/hdc /mnt/hdc vfat rw,conv=auto 0 0
EW> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy vfat rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,sync,unhide,user=elton 0 0
EW> I need to access *both* my superdisk drive and writable CD
EW> drive.
EW> Please respond via provate email to the address below:
No. Ask here, get answers here so that all might learn.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 19:02:09 GMT
Could anyone tell me of a printer driver for the HP DeskJet 930C
which supports full resolution in color mode? HP says best
resolution is "PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi".
A little net searching makes me believe that the DeskJet 930C
printer can print color in 600x600 dpi mode using the "vanilla"
GhostScript cdj550 driver. I also found that Mike Sweet's GIMP
printer plug-in, http://www.easysw.com/~mike/gimp/print.html,
supports a number of DeskJet printers in their "highest supported
resolution". But the 930C (maybe it's new?) is not in the list
of support DeskJet printers. I also checked out the Common UNIX
Printing System, www.cups.org, and found that they support
generic DeskJets in 600x600 dpi mode. Easy Software Products,
http://www.easysw.com, appears to support the 930C, but doesn't
mention whether the full printer capabilities are supported.
Any info is appreciated. Thanks...
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA modem, COM port and IRQ question
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:39:17 -0500
I have a 3COM / USR fax modem (ISA) that I'm trying to get working on a
redhat 6.2 box. None of the auto config tools seem to be able to find
the modem and I'm guessing that it is a COM or IRQ issue. The modem
looks like it came from the factory configured as PnP. I'd like to know
if I can leave the modem as PnP (my bios says PnP is on) or if I should
set the COM and IRQ on the modem with jumpers. I'm having a bugger of
time figuring out what COM port linux is seeing. setserial says the
modem is on COM2. I have /dev/modem pointing to /dev/ttyS1 with a
symbolic link.
Thanks,
Kirk
btw this is a duel boot system and windows 98 can use the modem fine, so
I know it's installed ok and working...
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Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 820 AC'97 Audio
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:44:32 -0700
Dan wrote:
>
> I have a SuperMicro P3SCA motherboard with RedHat Linux installed. The
> reported audio driver is AC'97 Codec and is reported as not supported in
> RedHat 6.2. Has anyone heard of anyone working on drivers for this audio
> setup?
http://www.alsa-project.org/
Install the i8x0 driver.
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e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Douglas Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI controllers
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:51:15 -0400
Hello.
I have seen the hardware compatiblity lists, and I
am asking a very simple question.
Given a choice of several PCI SCSI adapters,
which would be best given the following
order of importance (to me...):
1) Stability/Reliability
2) Performance
3) Cost
And what one card would you avoid at all cost?
I have previous experience with Adaptec 1542
and Buslogic 5xx series on ISA. Both were
fine, but I had better luck with Buslogic
than Adaptec over all. That old machine has
become a doorstop. I would appreciate any help.
Keep it short and simple, just the manufacturer
and model/part number of what board you prefer,
and if you have such a view, what board you hate.
Thanks
Doug
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 12:48:29 -0700
Kevin E Cosgrove wrote:
>
> Could anyone tell me of a printer driver for the HP DeskJet 930C
> which supports full resolution in color mode? HP says best
> resolution is "PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi".
>
> A little net searching makes me believe that the DeskJet 930C
> printer can print color in 600x600 dpi mode using the "vanilla"
> GhostScript cdj550 driver. I also found that Mike Sweet's GIMP
> printer plug-in, http://www.easysw.com/~mike/gimp/print.html,
> supports a number of DeskJet printers in their "highest supported
> resolution". But the 930C (maybe it's new?) is not in the list
> of support DeskJet printers. I also checked out the Common UNIX
> Printing System, www.cups.org, and found that they support
> generic DeskJets in 600x600 dpi mode. Easy Software Products,
> http://www.easysw.com, appears to support the 930C, but doesn't
> mention whether the full printer capabilities are supported.
>
> Any info is appreciated. Thanks...
Nothing better than 600x600 here. Hopefully HP will get their act
together and release drivers for Linux.
I modified the dj550 uniprint driver slightly to change it from 300x300
to 600x600. It's an easy change, but a little complicated to describe.
E-mail me if you want the details.
--
DG
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From: Apple Advertising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM 300 GL workstation install
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 14:55:28 -0500
The 300GL that I have shows a S3 Trio3D rev B card.
If all you want is web services, you really don't need the X windows stuff for
the server or administration of the server.
- Ken
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From: Apple Advertising <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB Nitro Video
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:04:19 -0500
I have an STB Nitro DVD AGP 8M card as well. Last time I checked, it has the
Chromatic Research chipset. Unfortunately, I could only get the framebuffer
device to recognize it, and even then only with 1.5M ram.
The problem is there are no X drivers for the Chromatic Research chipsets -
nobody can get the specs to program a driver for it <g>.
- Ken
Pawandeep Lamba wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i am having problems configuring videocard after installing RH 6.2 on my
> system. I am using STB nitro DVD AGP 4mb card. And it only works on 640*480.
> I am not sure if it RH config supports it or not. I tried looking for any
> help on xfree86.org but couldnt' find anything.. anybody familiar or
> experienced with the same problem...?? Knowof any patches/drivers i need ???
>
> -thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin E Cosgrove)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Photo-Quality printer? [was: HP DeskJet 930C PhotoREt III or 2400x1200 dpi]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:07:23 GMT
So, Epson & HP both make fairly cheap photo-quality inkjet printers.
Are *ANY* of these (or other makes) supported on Linux at full
resolution?
Thanks...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Nothing better than 600x600 here. Hopefully HP will get their act
> together and release drivers for Linux.
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