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Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #14Wed, 2 May 01 04:13:04 EDT Contents: Dell Dimension 8100 ("Timmy") Re: video playback improvement question (olgnuby) Re: Boot Error (Dances With Crows) Re: Dell Dimension 8100 (Dude) Re: Which adaptor card to buy for simple 2-PC home network? ("japhilp") Re: mouse wheel (Pete White) Re: Ensoniq Soundscape ISA PnP (modell 2) (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Modem trouble (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Mother Board Question with ABIT KT7A-RAID (Eric Kuhn) Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Firewire, anyone (gman1) Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies (hac) adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid... ("William B. Cattell") Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND ("pjsf") Re: two harddisks crashed and third one expected ("Dave Stanton") Re: Could Linux be used in this factory environment ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: jj asks: secondary floppy controller, reading hundreds of floppies (Jeff Jonas) Configuration of a D-Link DFE-570TX (Andreas Gutowski) A (hopefully helpful ! ) suggestion for Linux installs ... an auto-generated inventory file ("Andy Elvey") Re: Kernel 2.4 IRQ conflicts (Nicolas Delestre) Re: lucent modem (Chris Howells) From: "Timmy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Dell Dimension 8100 Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 01:20:28 +0100 Has anyone installed Linux on an 8100? (1.4gig P4, i850 chipset) I am looking for any pointers / experiences. -- From: olgnuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: video playback improvement question Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 19:30:22 + uncle freddy wrote: > Ok I have an AMD K6-2 450, 192M PC100 ram, Voodoo3 3500 TV When playing > back Divxs it's very slow and choppy on almost everything. If you had > around $140 to spend to make video better on this what would you get? A > new videocard? A new MB + cpu (Duron 800 w/ MBs are as low as $124+ > shipping on pricewatch now) Or does this hardware seem ok and I just need > to tweak some stuff? I'm also running 2.4.3 kernel, with agppart and DRI > enables and XF 4.0.2 which I compiled myself. What is a good player as > well? I have been using aviplay which is part of the avifile package. > > tia > Don't know Freddy. I've run the WinTV card on a Pentium MMX233, STB Velocity 128 video card w/8 meg vid memory and 320 ram, on an AMD K-6 2/550, and currently on an AMD K-7 Duron 700 MHz. All three have been on plain vanilla mother boards, VIA and ALI chip sets, with frame buffer enabled in kernel compiles from 2.2. 10(Ithink that was RH 6,1's out of the box kernel) all the way up through all the 2.3.x kernels and now on the 2.4.3 with excellent results except on occasion when I try to run too on color vga console prior to going into X I will get a loss of colors with really color intensive applications. Particularly with Mandrake 7.2. I've not run any DVD stuff under Linux, but otherwise all my streaming video, for example captures with the connectrix vid cam and some of the experimental v4l stuff and it's all pretty crisp, clear and real time. DVD under Win98 is and has been excellent on all the configurations except when I dropped below 124 meg of ram on a couple of installs. Cheap as memory is now, I think I'd venture a little on that direction to see what kind of results you get . Charlie -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) Subject: Re: Boot Error Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02 May 2001 00:56:51 GMT On Wed, 2 May 2001 01:15:21 +0800, Justinian staggered into the Black Sun and said: >I think it may partition problem. Windows 98 support 1 primary >partition and other should under ext partition and logical partition. > >I'm not sure that Windows 98 can works fine if linux partition (ext2) >have been add more than one and it's not under ext partition. Where'd you get that idea? Lose9x can handle more than one primary partition just fine *IFF* there's only one primary FAT partition. The other primary partitions have to be ext2, BSD, ReiserFS, Amoeba... anything but the codes used for FAT and NTFS types. A stock Lose9x installation will completely ignore these partitions, and you will not be able to access them without special software such as explore2fs. Note that some disk manglement utilities will "correct errors" in these non-FAT partitions; avoid these. If you have more than one primary FAT partition on a disk 'Doze is using, then 'Doze will behave oddly, showing inaccessible phantom drives for every partition on the disk, possibly corrupting data on a
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Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #13 Thu, 12 Oct 00 09:13:07 EDT Contents: E2A4D600 Visio for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Diamond Monster Sound mx300 (MCheu) Weird SCSI CD probs with latest kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Weird SCSI CD probs with latest kernel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Death knell for Windows ("Adam Short") Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro & Redhat 6.2 - Help (Fulvio Galeazzi) Re: ATI Rage 128 Pro & Redhat 6.2 - Help (Kenneth Rørvik) SIS6326 & RH 7 ("Beardo") Re: 'multimedia' buttons on keyboard --how? (Jim Randell) How often to check drives for errors (Dwight Johnson) Xircom Cardbus etc (Paul the Nomad) Re: Lilo won't boot windows - 1st active drive is hde Trident Blade 3D refresh rate at 1152 x 864 (Sebastian Niehaus) searching board wake on timer and software for linux / a7v? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) dma errors ("Osugi Sakae") From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: E2A4D600 Visio for Linux Date: Thu,12 Oct 2000 02:32:06+2000 Announcing complete new universal drafting program for Linux, FreeBSD, and Sun Solaris. LinuxCAD release for FreeBSD, a native FreeBSD build , not an emulation !!! the details to be found on WWW.LINUXCAD.COM Now version 2.26 that has many added features is ready to ship and download. Useful for preparing any kind of visual diagramming presentation for any industry or knowledge field, creation of illustrations for books and reports. LinuxCAD is more Visual Language for Business then Microsoft Visio ever was !!! Initially introduced in 1995 LinuxCAD today is very powerful and rock stable application program for Linux. The software comes with more than 1500 symbols that allows to use L i n u x C A D as a replacement for such diagramming tool as Microsoft Visio. That is absolutely right LinuxCAD is more convenient then Visio and can be used to replace Microsoft Power Point as well. LinuxCAD provides features of such programs as AutoCAD, Visio, Power Point and Corel Draw in a single program for Linux. linux cad can be used in: organizational charts , business process diagramms, information network and computer system diagrams, -->software development flowcharting , -->entity relationship diagramming, network planning, system administration diagramming and you actually can start your sysadmin tasks from inside linux cad, -->mechanical engineering drafting, pcb and schematic design ( easily integrated with routing programs ), geographicsl information systems, any kind of drafting where integration with database is important, floor plans for buildings and facilities, -->architectural drafting, front end for programmable rendering systems like opengl, -->front end for any software that may require graphics editor functions, can be used to replace acad in every application later is used !!! can be used to replace visio diagramming tool in every application later is used !!! This message posted in single instance and it is not a spam. Software Forge Inc. ( developers of the most advanced application software for Linux OS ). 847 891 5971 -- From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Diamond Monster Sound mx300 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 03:54:30 -0400 On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 06:07:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel) wrote: >On Mon, 9 Oct 2000 23:35:40 -0500, "colby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Does anybody know how to get a Monster Sound MX300 to work in Corel Linux?.. >>any help would be greatly appreciated. >> >> >Get the driver from . Search for "aureal". Run >"make install" since you have an 8830 chip in the MX300. Watch your >machine lock up (maybe you'll be luckier than me)! Return card for >refund and buy sound blaster, or wait until the driver works better or >someone else writes a driver that works. Now that Creative bought the >remains of Aureal, maybe they'll write a working driver (I'm not >holding my breath). > >Regards, John Perhaps it's a problem with the way you have the kernel set up. Similar requirements exist for the sound blaster Live driver. If you read the included documentation, you will find this information present. Depending on your kernel configuration, it may be necessary to recompile the kernel. The original Vortex driver as well as the current one work fine in Mandrake 6.0, Mandrake 7.0, Redhat 6.0 and Mandrake 7.1. It's been a few months since I installed the updated driver from sourceforge, but don't you have to run "make" without arguments first to generate the binaries before you
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Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 06:14:29 EDT Contents: Re: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape (Leonard Evens) Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) CD-ROM not usable ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (D G) Printer ("Ian") Onboard Audio in Linux (C.A.M.) Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Marius Andra") HP7200e soft ("Marius Andra") Re: HP7200e soft (Dances With Crows) Re: I am a reseller and need help (Nikola D Krgovic) Re: driver ata66 ("John McCubbin") Re: Onboard Audio in Linux (Dances With Crows) Re: Recommend PCI ATA66 card for Linux v2.2.14+? ("Bobby Hitt") hd? ("Robert L.") Re: Modem speed low: Olitec Self Memory 56K/V90 (Henrik Carlqvist) Re: scsi, eth0 irq conflict (Henrik Carlqvist) Re: Intel EtherExpress causing networkload? (Henrik Carlqvist) a modem that works (dgarbarino) Re: Kernel messages (David Weis) Re: Web Camera ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Best printer for linux box? (John Hong) Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Luke Olbrish") Re: sound irq conflict (Michael J Porter) Netscape Crashing Problems (Will Joyner) SCSI problem w/ CD-ROM & CD-RW ("Xavier Neys") SMP linux (Carl) newbie: turning off modem sound (Neil Blue) Re: newbie: turning off modem sound Re: IBM thinkpad 1421 (David Tan) Re: FAT32 and LINUX? (Robie Basak) Digital Video w/Linux ("Dheera Venkatraman") Matrox Rainbow Runner under Linux??? (Dave Smith) Tyan Tiger MB? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Dump/Restore problem: multiple dumps per Travan 5 tape Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 11:24:13 -0500 Adam Finkelstein wrote: > > Hello. > I have an ide Colorado TR5 tape that I can happily back up one partition > and restore it using: > /sbin/dump 0af /dev/ht0 /dev/hda1 > > On sun boxes I use a dump script to dump multiple partitions to 4mm tape > using a shell script. I have to define block size density and length for > the dump to be restorable. > > I wrote the following (commented lines) and cannot restore a specific > partition using: > > /sbin/restore -s 2 -if /dev/ht0 > > #!/bin/bash > # > mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind > #/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1 > #/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2 > #/sbin/dump 0af /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3 > /sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda1 > /sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda2 > /sbin/dump 0absf 64 2300 /dev/nht0 /dev/hda3 > mt -f /dev/ht0 rewind > mt -f /dev/ht0 offline > > I thought maybe I'd need to provide (like the 4mm tape on sun boxes here) > block size (64) but I cannot figure out the density and length of TR5 > Travan tape. Does anyone know what they are, and if provided as arguments > to the above /sbin/dump in the above script, will they allow multiple dumps > per tape and then restore specific partitions using the -s argument in > restore. > > Thanks in advance, and upcoming too. > > Adam > -- > Adam Finkelstein > SOTAS, Inc. > 301-258-8873 ext. 265 301-258-0059 (fax) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't studied your specific question, but let me raise another point. I have the same drive, but I use tar to backup. I've found the mt command cannot place me at the appropriate tape archive for recovering something if I put multiple archives on the same tape. (The same thing happens on a Travan SCSI tape drive we had.) But if I do an mt -f /dev/nht0 weof between the archives, then I can position the tape using twice the requisite number of skips. Have you checked if the same thing happens for you? -- Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537 Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208 -- Subject: Re: whats *your* ($hdparm -t) speed? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 16:04:30 GMT According to Martin Høyer Kristiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The benefit of UDMA 66 in current systems is very modest, because > current controllers are limitid to one UDMA 66 device per controller. Does this mean one *active* UDMA-66 device or one UDMA-66 device period? Are you allowed one UDMA-66 and one UDMA-33 device? I haven't bothered to take the plunge to UDMA-66 quite yet... Regardless of these restrictions, I would *never* put more than one device on an IDE controller if speed were an issue, especially since IDE controllers are so cheap (even the UDMA-66s nowdays) > The point of higher bandwidth is that the controller would be able to > saturate more devices, but because of the one device restriction on UDMA > 66, performance are dominated by the slower device-interfaces. No
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Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #10Fri, 9 Jul 99 11:13:23 EDT Contents: USR Sporster voicie 33.6 internal ? ("such ") Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Andrzej Popowski) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Andrzej Popowski) Re: No DMA with ALI IDE chipset (Asus P5A) (Bernat) Re: Sound Blaster PCI 128 ("Tim Izod") Re: Onboard ATI Mach64 (fried) and PCI Graphics Blaster Riva TNT 16MB (Volker Tanner) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Justin The Cynical) Re: CPU Question (Justin The Cynical) problem with swap (Alexander Gerlach) Re: Fibre channel (Peter Herttrich) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (L.Angel) Re: WD 18 GB Expert losing settings Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (L.Angel) Re: Slow modem! (llornkcor) Tekram DC-390F SCSI Card ? (Glenn Turnbull) "sendmail" attachment question ("Lee Tat (IS)") Re: SCSI controller/device advice (Chris) Re: Need to Build Low-Cost Linux Box ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (chrisv) Re: Onboard ATI Mach64 (fried) and PCI Graphics Blaster Riva TNT 16MB ("R.K.Aa") uninstall sane 0.73 (Holger Dahm) Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC (Eric Fierke) Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (chrisv) Re: LI (Gregory) From: "such " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: USR Sporster voicie 33.6 internal ? Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:20:49 +0200 Hi I'm trying to install my 33,6 baud internal modem under linux and it doesn't work It's not a winmodem , it's a sporster voice 33,6 internal HELP PLEASE how can I make it work ??? thank you -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Popowski) Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 09:26:15 GMT 9 Jul 1999 05:09:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen M. Caplan) wrote: >> CPUs are synchronous, > >Maybe we're running off a different definition of "synchronous". From your >description, the bus speeds are synchronous not the CPU speeds (since the >multipliers are different). For each 11 CPU clock periods of Celeron550, Celeron450 has 9 periods. Different speed but synchronius operation :-) >In any case, I'm quite impressed (and surprised) that these combinations work. >I'd be interested to see how your benchmarks results differ when reversing the >order of the CPUs. (ie, with your Celeron 550 + PII 350, switch the CPU >sockets to see if the threads are still allocated the same). I didn't think about this. I will try when I have some free time. Onother interesting thing is which CPU will boot as primary. I thing it will be the faster one. Pozdrowienia, Andrzej Popowski -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrzej Popowski) Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch? Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 09 Jul 1999 09:26:17 GMT Thu, 08 Jul 1999 22:39:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Hill) wrote: > It's interesting to note that the dual PII 350MHz chips were >faster then the Celeron 450+PII 350. I wonder if this is caused by >the simple fact that PIIs work better in multiprocessing systems, or >because the running SMP systems with asynchronous processors causes >other problems. My guess would be the latter. I think that Linux scheduler is not optimal at dividing tasks between different CPUs. I made also some estimation of one CPU "power" in single and dual setup: P2 350 1.0 reference Cel. 4501.2 Cel. 5501.3 P2 350 dual 0.8 Cel. 450 dual 0.7 Cel. 550 dual 1.0 You can see, that Celeron 450 is rather weak at dual setup, but Celeron 550 works well in both setups. Andrzej Popowski -- From: Bernat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: No DMA with ALI IDE chipset (Asus P5A) Date: 9 Jul 1999 08:48:45 GMT Hi, Try this: http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma The patches are beta and not always work: good luck. Frank Paehlke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > are there any kernel patches which enable busmaster DMA with the ALI > (Aladdin) M5229 chipset? On my system (K6-2/400, 128 MB RAM, Asus P5A, > IBM DTTA 10GB), disk access from Linux is terribly slow, which causes > very long startup times for e.g. KDE or Netscape. > On startup, the kernel reports something like the following, though DMA > is definitely enabled in the BIOS setup: > PCI-IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled > PCI-IDE: ide0: Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > PCI-IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled > PCI-IDE: ide1: Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) > Any
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Linux-Hardware Digest #714, Volume #9Fri, 19 Mar 99 07:13:31 EST Contents: Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (Patrik Magnusson) Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (NoBody Here) Re: My mouse is screwed. ("Charles Sullivan") Re: Modems for Linux and Unix? (Pete H) Re: Computer locks up when playing 16-bit sound (Vibra16C) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Digital Celebris 590 config (Stephen Ashley) Re: CDR For Linux? (Burkard B. Kreidler) Re: buying a linux box -- advice? (Paul Gowder) Re: Olympus D220L Digital Cam...under linux? (Stew Benedict) Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Steve Russell) sound card setup - HELP (Lee Bennett) Re: ATI all in wonder pro tv tuner (Floss) Diamond Stealth 3D2000 & XF86Config ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mustek 1200 flatbed scanner.under Linux? (Michael D. Knight) Re: USR Courier V. Everything ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Linux & PCI Modems (Johan Kullstam) usb devices on Linux2.0.xx or MKlinux? (Ulrich Hahn) Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive (Kyle Dansie) Re: CDs brennen... (Burkard B. Kreidler) Re: Mustek 1200 flatbed scanner.under Linux? (A Guy Called Tyketto) Re: Asus V3400TNT X configuration problems (Jeff McWilliams) Re: Sound Blaster AWE64... <<=Question==>> (Burkard B. Kreidler) Re: Asus Video card and other questions (Donovan Rebbechi) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrik Magnusson) Crossposted-To: comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:46:33 GMT In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) writes: |> Amen...A word that is mentioned quite infrequently in this group, |> productivity. |> |> |> It doesn't matter a hill of beans how technically superior your OS is |> if there are no applications for it that the general public want to |> use. Recent studies show that, the average office-worker loose half a day per week on "computer difficulties". These included: * computers/applications crashing * word-documents being bloated beyond usefulness * macro-viruses * paperempty on printers (from using word- instead of text-processors) * security concearns (most notably NetBus-concearns) But whatever the reason, half a day per work-week is a huge hill of beans. |> Vi, And EMacs and ppp-on, ppp-off, and slrn and tin an trn and tetris |> and ispell and on and on and on don't cut it when you have a plethora |> of Windows applications that blow the doors off the Linux crap... |> Users are NOT interested in going back to the 1970's Well, I just heard of this thing called X, supposedly it's this graphical thing for Unix, rumour has it there's even some applications for it. Stuck in the 70's as I am, I don't think it will ever be of much use to me, but you might want to check it out. /Patrik, ranting student. -- From: NoBody Here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:57:19 GMT Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jason McKnight wrote: > > Jim Moser wrote: > > > Am currently running a K6-2 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of 100 Mhz > > memory and considering > > upgrading to a faster board and processor. I am pursuing a project which > > will require scads of floating point > > > If you are looking for RAW FP power look at an ALPHA processor. Load it up > with memory and fast disks. How does memory and disk speed relate to FloatingPoint performance? This thread has my attention because a friend at Qualcomm said he got better performance out of a PPro then a Sparc 10 when doing simulations on voice codecs. That surprised me and I'd like to know how the Alpha does FP. Something more logical of a response is needed to be CONSIDERED authoritary. Doug -- From: "Charles Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: My mouse is screwed. Date: 19 Mar 1999 07:58:43 GMT This sounds like the problem I had in RH5.2. The MS Intellimouse PS/2 would work at the console screen and then at the X window screen. But if I exited X back to the console the mouse would barf. This mouse has a wheel button so I downloaded the 'imwheel' program from freshmeat. This program includes a patched gpm which solved the mouse barf problem. (Note: the original gpm did not show 'imps2' as a valid mouse type if you run 'gpm -i'; the patched one does.) Here's the file /etc/sysconfig/mouse file I'm now using: MOUSETYPE="imps2" XMOUSETYPE="IMPS/2" FULLNAME="Microsoft IntelliMouse (PS/2)" XEMU3=