Linux-Hardware Digest #775, Volume #13 Tue, 24 Oct 00 03:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Digital flat-panel LCD (Michael Meissner)
Re: dual cpu (Michael V. Ferranti)
Re: dual cpus and linux (Michael Meissner)
Re: Colorado Tape worked w/RH 5.2, not w/RH 6.2 (Jeff Moore)
Re: Need help with Highpoint HPT370 non-RAID ("MaxOCP")
Re: G400Max AND Red Hat7.0 (Steffen Kluge)
Re: ADSL on RedHat 7.0 (Jeff Moore)
Re: cable to connect Apple Printer to PC Serial port (Jeff Moore)
Mount (Aleksandar Petkovic)
my computer froze ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Faster Linux on 486 ("William Fong")
redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166 (Jeff Moore)
[Question]Which printer under Linux? (Sinner from the Prairy)
Re: redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166 (Sinner from the Prairy)
Re: [Question]Which printer under Linux? (Zero Piraeus)
Re: Faster Linux on 486 (David M. Cook)
Re: redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166 (Jeff Moore)
ata100 (a7v) and linux ("Andreas Förster")
Re: my computer froze (Jeff Moore)
Adaptec AIC 7896 SCSI (Janis Ivanovskis)
Re: my computer froze (Jeff Moore)
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Subject: Re: Digital flat-panel LCD
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Oct 2000 23:18:13 -0400
I wrote some time ago:
> ..... I would love to talk to anybody that has
> gotten the digital dfp support to work in Linux with Matrox cards.
Since I've had a few queries about digital flatpanel access with the Matrox
cards, I've discovered that Matrox now provides a non-open source dropin X
Windows driver that provides both TV-out and flat panel support (not at the
same time). I need to rebuild my 4.01 tree in order to install it before I can
test it out, but it is promising.....
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Michael V. Ferranti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual cpu
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 20:22:22 -0700
Here I was, minding my own business, and wouldn't you know it?
John Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> just had to go and say:
>I was wondering about a dual cpu (Compaq) system working with linux.
Redhat 6.2 came with three pre-compiled SMP (dual-CPU) kernels:
kernel-smp-2.2.14-5.0.i386.rpm
kernel-smp-2.2.14-5.0.i586.rpm
kernel-smp-2.2.14-5.0.i686.rpm
I assume the other distros do as well, but most no longer include
kernel versions compiled for the i386.
-- Michael V. Ferranti [blades&inreach*com]
Warning: The Surgeon General has deemed that excessive displays of warning
labels and public service announcements produce stress and shortens lives.
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Subject: Re: dual cpus and linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 23 Oct 2000 23:24:45 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > This is my first time emailing this list. Please excuse me if my
> > questions are too dumb.
>
> It's a newsgroup, not a list. Small point, though.
>
> > I was wondering about a dual cpu (Compaq) system working with linux.
> > If I install say Red hat 7 on a dual cpu Compaq system, during the
> > installation process, would the o.s. detect the dual cpus by itself,
> > and work with both cpus in delegating tasks/processes among them.
>
> It might or might not. The Linux kernel which ships with Debian has
> support for SMP built in, but that may not be the case with RedHat.
I think all of the major distributions now support installing SMP kernels if
they notice you are on a SMP box. Certainly Red Hat has done it since 6.2 (I
don't remember if 6.1 did or not).
> > In other words, is it simple to get linux to work with a dual cpu
> > Compaq system and recognize automatically that there are two cpus
> > and work with both? Or do I have to do something (or a bunch of
> > things) during the installation process to make linux recognize and
> > work with both cpus.
>
> Actually, what happens is, after you install, you recompile the
> kernel. This is relatively straightforward. The option you're
> looking for is very obvious. There should be a HOWTO or FAQ on
> recompiling the kernel.
On Red Hat, you typically don't compile a custom kernel, but a SMP kernel is
provided by the distribution. You are free to custom build kernels of course
(I do), but you don't have to.
> It's also possible that you can get a binary of the regular kernel,
> the only difference being that it supports SMP.
Well a SMP kernel is ever so slightly slower than a non-SMP kernel on a non-SMP
machine, and there are a few non-SMP machines in the world that if you run the
SMP kernel on it, they get into an error state (though I haven't heard of one
recently).
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Colorado Tape worked w/RH 5.2, not w/RH 6.2
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:26:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a colorado tape drive also, a T3000 fc-10, and I use redhat 6.0.
I have not gotten it to work yet, but one thing in the howto for ftape
4.04 says to do is:
uninstall ftape and modules from kernel and recompile the new ftape
package with modules and install.
This is what I read but like I said I still havent gotten the thing to
work yet, Im too busy implementing multicast to even play with the
thing.
Jeff Moore
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Reply-To: "MaxOCP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "MaxOCP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Need help with Highpoint HPT370 non-RAID
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 03:31:02 GMT
What options did you use for patch and in your kernel compilation? I just
patched mine and tried to recompile the kernel but I'm stuck with some
errors... A little more information in the readme on HighPoints site would
be nice... ;-)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8si33p$vr3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm installing Linux on a system with an ABIT BE6-II mobo with a
> Highpoint HPT370 non-raid ata-100 chipset on it. The chipset works
> fine, I'm quite sure, since I've installed Win98 on the drive without
> problems.
>
> I had linux on a SCSI drive so I'm using that as my base for installing
> over onto the HPT370-controlled disk. I updated my kernel to 2.2.16
> and applied the patch from www.linux-ide.org. There was no option for
> HPT370 so I chose the HPT366 option (which I have read in other posts
> to be the right option).
>
> During Linux boot with this new kernel, I do see a new "hde" which
> correctly lists my new disk's manufacturer and model info. But when I
> get down to the partition check part of booting, I get a long series of
> error messages such as "lost interrupt" every few seconds as the kernel
> unsuccessfully tries to read the new drive's partition table. Once,
> after a few minutes of this trying, the kernel continued and finished
> booting, though the new drive wasn't available. Other tries since
> then, the kernel never quits trying to read the new drive's partition
> tables and just keeps giving errors.
>
> Can anyone give me guidance? Do I need to pass anything to the kernel
> here?
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
>
> Gene
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: G400Max AND Red Hat7.0
Date: 24 Oct 2000 04:20:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8t1a9b$qef$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have installed a Red Hat 7.0 with XFree 4.0.1.
>My video card is a Matrox G400Max.
>My PC is fitted with two screens: a PL70i and a S110.
>The dual head configuration doesn't work. My X server works only on the
>PL70i screen. I join my XF86Config-4 file.
>Is there someone who can help me?
>Thank you.
You need to use the mga driver supplied by Matrox. Basically,
it's the XFree86-4.01 driver, but they added some proprietary
(and binary-only) code to initialise the card for dual-head and
tv-out.
Last time I checked the driver was in
ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2000/beta_1_00_03/
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL on RedHat 7.0
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:36:16 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have redhat 6.0 and this is how I did it.
My redhat linux is setup as a caching only dns, read the howto DNS HOWTO,
serving to two macs by appletalk over ethernet. It works great, heres why.
The caching only dns is setup so that it uses the internic root dns servers and
it does not matter whether you include the forwarders for any local isp dns
servers you may have.
I have run it this way for 3 months and it always works fine. Be sure that you
set the dns server setting on your network client machines to the ip address of
your linux box.
Jeff Moore
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cable to connect Apple Printer to PC Serial port
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:45:43 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Connecting an apple printer to pc serial is easy.
You can use a mac modem cable or just call pcmall or someone and buy a
apple imagewriter I cable, which has a minidin8 on one end and a db25 on
the other.
An apple dealer surely would have one of these cables for sale.
If you use the modem cable then you will need a gender changer or serial
transfer cable
(db25,db9-db25,db9 F-F) to make it work.
The apple imagewriter I cable is what I use to connect terminals to my
mac for linux.
Jeff Moore
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From: Aleksandar Petkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mount
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:04:55 -0400
Hi all!
I am fairly new to Linux, and I'm running RH6.1 (latest kernel), and I'm
having trouble mounting my CD-Rom and Floppy. I was wondering if anyone
could help me in any way. The problem I'm having is that of getting an
error message which talks of an incorrect filesystem type, and this is
probably due to the fact that I have /etc/fstab incorrectly configured.
This is what I do have in the file:
/dev/hdb6 / ext2
defaults 1 1
/dev/hdb1 /boot ext2
defaults 1 2
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,users,noauto,unhide
0 0
/dev/hdb5 swap swap defaults 0
0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto
ro,users,noauto,unhide 0 0
none /proc proc
defaults 0 0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620
0 0
Any help would be greatly appreciated as to how I can correctly
configure this file, and ultimatelly be able to succesfully mount my
CD-Rom and Floppy. Thanks a lot!
Aleksandar Petkovic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: my computer froze
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:02:18 GMT
I started to have problems with my PC last week I started to freezing on
me especially when I was on line browsing with netscape
I was running linux (red hat 6.2) since may but it newer happend before
My pc froze on me a few times last week and the worst thing about it was
when I restarted no display showed up on the monitor so I could not
troubleshoot it I tried to restart but no display again
I kept turnig the pc off and on maybe on 20th time it started to boot
the day after the same thing happen agin froze and after restart no
display no double beep ,strange ahh and this time it took maybe 30 -40
off and ons.
I thought my pc is fried but it started suddnly after
sometimes it froze at boottime at mmory check stage and I got a endless
beep.
I decided to reinstall linux which was yesterday It froze on me today
when I was editing a perlscipt and ran netscape! but no boot problem
oh and when I boot to linux I get something like
ems[386] ....-0.1% unknown
Ok my question is can linux actually damage a pc? whad could cause this
freezing I thught that the processor may be overheated? but I'm not sure
before it froze I heard som Hard drive activity but nothing specal and
the PC should boot without an hard drive I looked like a motherboard or
processor problem because the monitor did not start at boottime
I run linux on a separate partition but on the same disk with windows
I have Tyan tsunami 440BX board and pentium3 500 slot 1 processor
anybody experienced something like this or has some tips please reply
thanks
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 04:14:29 GMT
Make sure you disable all the services you aren't using. That should help.
Services like sendmail. I don't remember what Caldera and RedHat install by
default.
-will
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"David N. Haney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Linux Gurus:
>
> I am installing Linux on an old 486 (actually AMDs 486/Pentium 133).
> I have tried both Caldera and Red Hat. The problem that I run into
> is that they seem VERY slow, not only in graphics mode but just in
> text server mode. I was wondering if there is a streamlined version
> of Linux that runs better on the older 486s. I thought I would make
> this a firewall/mailserver/printserver, but with the speeds that
> I have been able to get, it is much better as a Windows machine.
>
> Any suggestions? Thanks for your help.
> --
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 23:27:53 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Anyone using an AMD K5 166 with redhat?
When I install and reboot with the stock install it fails module
dependencies every time.
This means no ethernet, firewall, or any other module.
Even the gcc compiler sends segmentation faults so I can recompile.
I have recompiled a monolithic kernel with no modules on another system
but still no ethernet with the AMD k5.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Jeff Moore
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Question]Which printer under Linux?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:26:11 -0400
Hi there!
My good old HP-6L has died... beyond any cheap repair. So now I'm faced to
buy a new printer.
What do you recomend? I intend to print mostly text. Probably some
pictures. Sure some text + color (like a web page). It's going to be for
home use, and networked (via SAMBA). And there's __not__ such a thing as an
unlimited budget.
I use Linux Mandrake 7.1 in a Samba network (my wife only uses Windows...).
I like the HP stuff: 895C, 930C, 950C... (that's what I've seen at the
shop) but I'm open to suggestions.
What about Lexmark Z52 under Linux?
What about USB printers under Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Sinner
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 06:28:47 -0400
Jeff Moore wrote:
> Anyone using an AMD K5 166 with redhat?
> When I install and reboot with the stock install it fails module
> dependencies every time.
> This means no ethernet, firewall, or any other module.
> Even the gcc compiler sends segmentation faults so I can recompile.
>
> I have recompiled a monolithic kernel with no modules on another system
> but still no ethernet with the AMD k5.
>
> Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Jeff Moore
Try compiling as a i486 instead of a pentium. If it doesn't work, then go
for i386. The K5 weren't the "best thing" out there, you know.
Did you updated the modules dependencies, BTW?
Hope this helps,
Sinner
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From: Zero Piraeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Question]Which printer under Linux?
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 05:48:13 +0100
Hey:
> I like the HP stuff: 895C, 930C, 950C... (that's what I've seen at the
> shop) but I'm open to suggestions.
HP printers seem to have some problems in Linux -
http://www.linuxprinting.org is a useful resource.
-[z].
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Faster Linux on 486
Date: 24 Oct 2000 04:58:01 GMT
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000 16:30:44 -0700, David N. Haney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>is that they seem VERY slow, not only in graphics mode but just in
>text server mode.
Run ntsysv and turn off anything you don't need. F1 will give you a short
description of each service.
You can also run top to see what is taking up the most CPU. Hitting the
capital"M" key will sort by memory usage ("P" goes back to CPU usage).
>I was wondering if there is a streamlined version
>of Linux that runs better on the older 486s.
I bet there is! See http://lwn.net/2000/1019/dists.php3 for a list of
distributions.
># La Jolla
Check out the kernel-panic LUG: http://www.kernel-panic.org
Dave Cook
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: redhat 6.0 on amd k5 166
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 00:14:42 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yes, I did recompile the monolithic kernel for i386 and no go.
BTW when you say update module dependencies, do you mean depmod -a,
yes, I did that and I get segmentation fault.
The gcc compiler on the amd also gets segmentation faults, I think this
thing is junk.
Any more suggestions?
Jeff Moore
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From: "Andreas Förster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ata100 (a7v) and linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:20:51 +0200
When trying to install Linux (SuSE 7.0) when my WD 30GB-drive is connected
to the ATA100-connector, it always says, that it can't find a harddisk.
Any idea ???
Perhaps I need another driver to be linked into the linux-kernel ...
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my computer froze
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:22:24 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
When my linux box crashes this is what I do.
I connect to the serial port with another computer or a terminal and login
with a user account. Then su to root and check the /var/log/ files to see
what happened. You will need a telnet application on the other computer or
a serial terminal, which is a very good piece of extra equipment to have
around when running linux.
Jeff Moore
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From: Janis Ivanovskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AIC 7896 SCSI
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:43:00 +0000
I have the subj. SCSI card, i cannot boot up RedHAT Linux 7.0. I
loaded aic7.xxx module, but anyway, it says thats scsi hosts: found 0.
Can anyone help.
Thnx.
John.
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my computer froze
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 01:33:07 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
BTW I forgot something important if you use a serial terminal.
add this line to your /etc/inittab
S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/uugetty DT9600 ttyS# termid
Where ttyS# is the /dev port for your serial port and termid is your terminal
type from termcap. Also the telnet works over the internet or a network so
connect by telnet over the internet from another pc.
Jeff Moore wrote:
> When my linux box crashes this is what I do.
>
> I connect to the serial port with another computer or a terminal and login
> with a user account. Then su to root and check the /var/log/ files to see
> what happened. You will need a telnet application on the other computer or
> a serial terminal, which is a very good piece of extra equipment to have
> around when running linux.
>
> Jeff Moore
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