Linux-Hardware Digest #749
Linux-Hardware Digest #749, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 07:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
36 GB LVD SCSI FDISK (David Brian Lawson)
Sound Card Help ("Brian")
Re: i740 (Karlo Szabo)
DSL PacBell (Arnold Komala)
Diamond Sonic Impact S70 PCI sound card ("Mark")
Debugging lpr and Epson 740 ("James Wall")
Re: QuickCam VC anyone? (Mircea)
Re: SCSI controller for ZIP 250 (Tim Moore)
Recommend: good AGP video card (Carlos Wexler)
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers (Tark)
Re: Limit Access By Time or Date (Mihaly Gyulai)
Recommend: good AGP video card (Carlos Wexler)
Experiences with CD-RW Ricoh 7040S? (Frank Paehlke)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Colin Andrew Percival)
Re: Recommendation sought: good AGP video card (Ian Tester)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? ("FM")
Re: How Close is the Mobo temp to the CPU temp ("Ron Keller")
ATI Expert 128 Video ("Ron Keller")
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers (Brown Bear)
bttvgrab, sound (Thomas Schwarze)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Helge Hafting)
configuring ISDN adapter for Red Hat (Srikanth Minnam)
Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 ("Ricardo C.")
Modular Technology Modem (Dean Edwards)
Re: UDMA 66 Support (Helge Hafting)
RE: configuring ISDN adapter for Red Hat ("Carlos RCU")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: 13 Jul 1999 04:16:23 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 00:34:56, "Thierry ANDRIAMIRADO"
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For instance invoking commands such as "ftape" or "fd0" I get a no such
device message. However when viewing the directory with MC the devices
and or links are there and they have been made.
I'm having the same problem. I updated my RedHat 5.2 to RH6 so my printer
doesn't work anymore!!
I discovered that my /dev/lp symbolink link disapeared and I re-created it!
But it doesn't work anymore! any idea?
You got me. I've never seen this one before. Whenever I've had a
device problem it's been because they weren't made. I made them and
everything was all right. I'm beginning to think that I made a mistake
in recompiling the kernel.
Did you use MAKEDEV? It is a little daunting unless you're pretty good
at perl but I managed to trudge my way through it. In my case I needed
to make up to hda16 and it would only go to hda8. I finally found an #
in the script after 8 and moved it to after 16 and all was well.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Brian Lawson)
Subject: 36 GB LVD SCSI FDISK
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 13 Jul 1999 00:35:26 -0500
We just bought 2 of the new 36 GB LVD SCSI drives and put them in our Linux box
at work. The goal is/was to stripe the two of them into a nice fat 72 GB
partition for a large database. The problem is that FDISK won't create a
partition bigger than 24 million blocks for some reason. I can't imagine
what magic number this blows away but whatever it is, we hit it. Right
now I have the drives cut into 2 18 GB partitions per drive and then I
stripped over that. That seems to work but I know that it isn't optimal.
Does anyone have any clues? I've searched for the fdisk source one web sites
hoping there might be a new one but I can't even find it anywhere. I didn't
think SCSI had these problems?
Also, does anyone know if the RAID setup in RedHat 6.0 is safe and stable. I
had a heck of a time getting it to work but it does seem to stripe the 4 18GB
partitions ok.
Thanks for any help,
Dave
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Reply-To: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound Card Help
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:36:43 GMT
I am using redhat 5.2 with the kernel 2.0.36
I am having trouble with my sound card.
It is a ESS with full Adlib, Sound Blaster and Sound Blaster Pro
compatibility as well as plug and pray.
This information came from my windows setup:
ES1869 Plug and Play AudioDrive
IRQ: 05
I/O: 0220h-022FH
I/O: 0388h-038Bh
I/O: 0330h-0331h
DMA:01
DMA:03
When I try to set it up I get this error:
/lib/modules/preferred/misc/sb.o:init_module:Device or resource busy
sound:Device or resource busy
Can anyone help?
I am new to linux so please excuse my lack of knowledge.
Thank you in advance.
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From: Karlo Szabo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: i740
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:10:00 +1000
"crtl" + "Alt" + backspace will exit you from X-windows.
"crtl" + "Alt" + the plus or negative key changes the resolution of X.
basic wrote:
Beautifulat last decent resolution and terrific colour. Except, when I
went through the xf86config, I, somehow, reconfigured my mouse and it doen't
work. So I tab my way around in Gnome. Is there any way to 'break out' of
the Gnome interface so I can
Linux-Hardware Digest #750
Linux-Hardware Digest #750, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 09:14:12 EDT
Contents:
UMAX Scanner (Renzo Lauper)
Re: SCSI controller/device advice (Helge Hafting)
Re: FWD: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud (Helge Hafting)
Help with Sound Card ("Brian")
NCR 53C710 Fast SCSI-2 Controller ("Mike Coakley")
Re: NTFS Striped Partitions (Helge Hafting)
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers (David Fox)
Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy (Marc SCHAEFER)
Re: Help with Sound Card ("ph")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (kls)
From: Renzo Lauper [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: UMAX Scanner
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:16:07 +0200
Hi there
I've got a UMAX Astra 1220S Scanner connected through a SCSI Card (generic NCR
5380/53c400). I compiled the kernel (2.0.36) with SCSI-Support (built in the
kernel) SCSI-disk-Support (for an external ZIP-Drive) as a modul, SCSI
generic support and the SCSI low level driver for generic NCR 5380/53c400.
When I built support for the SCSI-Card Support in the kernel, the system
stopped when it came to recognize the SCSI-Card, so I built it as a module and
loaded the module with insmod, and the system stopped again.
Can anybody help me?
Thanks in advance
Renzo Lauper
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From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI controller/device advice
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 12:58:41 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In 7m4tid$ik3$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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|I'll recommend them, too. I'm planning on purchasing the 9.1GB 9LP...
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|| I'm still trying to decide between the Quantum Atlas III drive and the
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|| Ultrastar 9ES though. The Ultrastar looks excellent, and about the same
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|| price as the Quantum drives. However it only has a 512KB buffer, as
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|| opposed to the Quantum's 1MB. The IBM drives with 1MB (such as the 9LP)
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|Actually, if you head over to http://www.storagereview.com they did a
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|comparison review of two almost identical IDE drives (make/manuf. escapes
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|me) from the same manufacturer, where the only thing different was an
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|The performance did not change ONE BIT.
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|I'm going to have to poke around to see if the 9ES would be sufficient...
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|The storagereview site also allows you to do lots of side by side
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|ttfn.
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|chris.
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| http://www.searchlinux.com
How effective the drive's on board cache will be is determined by
YOUR data access characteristics, most tests do not use
YOUR data access characteristics; so, draw your own conclusions...
Large cache helps when most data access is sequential, so that the
read ahead of full/multiple tracks will actually bring in what you
need next. Also, a larger cache allows things that will will be
re-read frequently to stay in the cache. This is especially useful
in a multi-tasking environment where competing tasks might cause
the smaller cache to thrash.
For SCSI, the large cache *also* help very random-access. Just
make sure you use tagged queuing. The drive will then be able to
read the next sector(s) (from any place on disk) into its cache
while the previous one is transferred across the scsi bus.
Helge Hafting
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From: Helge Hafting [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FWD: Intel could nip dual-Celeron move in bud
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 13:07:24 +0200
Anon wrote:
Why on earth would Intel care!? Selling two celerons is better than
selling one. A person who has to go celeron for SMP more than likely
could not afford PII/III SMP in the first place so it is not like Intel
would be forcing them to the more expensive CPU. They would just be
losing the sale of 1 cpu.
It is not that simple. They are afraid their buyers might find out that
while celeron isn't as good as xeon, it isn't too far behind. So
the celeron has better price/performance than xeon, and it makes sense
using, say, 5 celeron servers instead of 3 xeon servers. Cheaper
*and* better performance if it is ok to split the load over more
machines.
That's certainly fine for file servers.
Helge Hafting
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Reply-To: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Brian" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with Sound Card
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 11:32:49 GMT
I am using redhat
Linux-Hardware Digest #751
Linux-Hardware Digest #751, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 13:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Let Borland know Linux is a ripe market for professional software developement
tools!!! (ReplyTo_PlatoAtAccesswestDotCom)
Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
About to scream: more info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (chrisv)
RH 6.0 vs RH5.2 PCMCIA SCSI support (Geoff Hargreaves)
Re: DSL PacBell (Bryan)
Re: SoundBlaster Live! ("Kovalev")
Re: Abit BP6 w/o overclocking (Bryan)
Re: SiS6326 video card problems (Sachin Doshisa)
Re: Blaster Banshee AGP and Linux (ppu)
Question about Power Drive (Sok Ha Chang)
sony vaio F160 sound config? (Karsten Reuter)
FWD- Eight way AMD K7 chipset on cards (Alex Lam)
Re: Linux - NT (Leonard Evens)
Re: Anyone know about Linux support of Castlewood's ORB? (EIDE I/F) (Dennis Burke)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ReplyTo_PlatoAtAccesswestDotCom)
Subject: Let Borland know Linux is a ripe market for professional software
developement tools!!!
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:10:59 GMT
This company has over the years turned out some of the best
DOS/Windows based developement tools since the early 80s. Like many
other great tools developers they have been beaten down by Microsoft
in the Win32 arena. Let them know that Linux *IS* a great platform to
sell serious professional software development tools for.
These guys have the resources to turn out great tools in a much
shorter time period than Open Source programmers can, plus the
commercial support corporations require. This lack of these tools is
hurting Linux with professional UNIX (all flavors free and commercial)
developers who are accustomed to hard core professional development
tools.
http://www.borland.com/linux/
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Date: 13 Jul 99 09:37:27 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Marc SCHAEFER;
I found it late last night on one of my many cd's, but haven't attempted
a compile yet. And I finally did get bru2k to work last night late.
What did I do? Damnifiknow other than a couple of reboots, one of them
a full powerdown. The backup log showed 118 instances of an 'internal
bug in namelink' early on, but was otherwise uneventfull. And, it
apparently only takes time to update the progress bar while verifying as
it was only done once at about .01% done during the backup itself.
And while I didn't hear the drive doing any little micro-backups like
it did on the Amiga, this one took about an hour more for about 300 megs
less data Considering the amiga is a 19 bogomips machine, and the
other box is a 799 bogomips machine, I figured it would go faster that
_that_. It also did not eject the tape when it was done, so it sat
there about an hour before I woke up again. Thats a major head wear bug
IMNSHO.
OTOH, it actually worked, so I'm gonna paint that one on the wall, and
maybe even price the full version.
There are several little bugfixes you can dl from their (bru's) site
but I haven't installed them yet. Many of the bugfixes are to linux
utils, and one to the xbru interface. I note the current version
installed can't find netscape to show its help even if its already
running...
MS In comp.arch.storage Gene Heskett [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MS wrote:
MS: 'strace'? I'm not familiar with that one yet. Sounds usefull
MS: though. I really miss having a utility such as the amiga
MS: snoopdos.
MS Having used the AmigaOS myself, yes, strace is quite similar,
MS except that strace shows every system call with the parameters,
MS not only file I/O operations.
MS Example:
MS golid schaefer:/users/schaefer strace date
MS execve("/bin/date", ["date"], [/* 47 vars */]) = 0
MS [ ... ]
MS write(1, "Tue Jul 13 10:04:12 MEST 1999\n", 30Tue Jul 13 10:04:12
MS MEST 1999
MS ) = 30
MS [ ... ]
MS You can also restrict the search, for example if you say:
MS golid schaefer:/users/schaefer strace -e write date
MS write(1, "Tue Jul 13 10:05:09 MEST 1999\n", 30Tue Jul 13 10:05:09
MS MEST 1999
MS ) = 30
MS See the man page (man strace) for details.
Will do asap. Thanks.
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] (Ron Gibson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dev's won't work???
Date: 13 Jul 1999 14:30:53 GMT
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 04:19:10,
Linux-Hardware Digest #752
Linux-Hardware Digest #752, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 15:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Is Xircom's pc card supported??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP:Upgrading to RedHat 6.0 "fouled" up my system (Tom)
Re: cant get xwindows happening (Nico)
Re: Curious about root passwd (Markus Wandel)
Re: okipage 4w window printer support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cant get xwindows happening ("keiron")
TNT2 Ultra and OpenGL/MesaGL (dmanddmer)
help setting parms on a AHA-2940UW (Scott Tyson)
Re: HELP:Upgrading to RedHat 6.0 "fouled" up my system (Shice Beoney)
Re: newbie:printer drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dev's won't work??? (brian moore)
Re: DSL PacBell (Alex Lam)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Dave)
Re: Linux - NT (Tsmanlyman)
Re: Where to purchase Linux modems? (David Ripton)
Re: Abit BP6 w/o overclocking (David Ripton)
Re: Help on scsi tape needed ! (Pierre Asselin)
Re: SiS6326 video card problems (Nico)
Re: *** Need modem recommendation for LINUX (Tsmanlyman)
Re: Dev's won't work??? (brian moore)
3dlabs VX1 ("Dave McIntosh")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Is Xircom's pc card supported???
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 01:59:54 GMT
Hi,
I just wondering if anyone knows whether the Xircom's RealPort CardBus
Ethernet 10/100+Modem 56
(http://www.xircom.com/products/realport/realport-rbem56g100.html) is
supported by RH Linux 6.0?
I was thinking of getting it since they are having a promotion. Please
feedback any advice/suggestions. Any info is greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Rgds,
CH
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From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP:Upgrading to RedHat 6.0 "fouled" up my system
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:55:40 -0700
Hi,
I just purchased the the RedHat 6.0 core system upgrade. Unfortunately,
it did not come with a boot floppy. That seems pretty lame, since in the
installation manual it says that if I am running an Intel based system,
which I am, then I will need to use a boot floppy. Well, I had a boot
floppy from my previous install of RedHat 5.0, so I though that I would
"get lucky". BIG mistake. I got through most of the install but it died
at the point where it has to install the boot loader. I can still boot
up but none of the Xwindows functions work, I suspect because the video
drivers were improperly set.
Does anyone know whewre I can get a boot floppy for RedHat 6.0 and try
this whole thing again?
Thanks
Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Nico [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: cant get xwindows happening
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:20:47 +0200
keiron wrote:
During my linux install, my video card was not recognised (STB Velocity
4400)
I selected SVGA instead, and matched the monitor. I then selected 800 x 600
8 bit coulour. However, the install couldnt determine the amount of RAM. I
selected 8Mb (its actually 16Mb). When i typed startx, I got the message
that i didnt have enough video ram to start it.
Im really lost and confused here, as I have been using linux for, oh, about
10 minutes, and all I could do was stare at a command prompt!!
I guess I want to know what I should be setting my card to, if there are
drivers or whatever available, and how I install them from the prompt!!
tks in advance,
Keiron
Take a look at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
Search your card get the server and install it.
If your card isn't in there then do a search at a search engine on "STB
Velocity 4400" and linux and driver
Nocturnus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Curious about root passwd
Date: 13 Jul 1999 16:49:52 GMT
In article 7mbi40$aj1$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Davis Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, there,
It is not a question. I am just curious about the root password. I once
forgot my root password (I am a single user using my RH Linux box), and
after that, I fixed it by booting as linux single user. My question is:
Is this a security hole in Red Hat linux or not? Because I can use any
tools which are supposed to be used by root only without any password.
And I think I can even kick out the orignal root in this way.
Am I right? Thanks for your opinion.
You can't secure a computer against someone who has physical access to
it. Any mechanical lock can be broken with the right tool (bolt cutter)
and then the machine can be taken away and compromised at leisure.
What you can do is make it inconvenient for someone to casually compromise
it. This is what is generally done with Unix boxes in office environments.
Specifically this means
- don't allow it to boot from removable media without a password
- don't allow it to be booted into single user mode (or any other
Linux-Hardware Digest #753
Linux-Hardware Digest #753, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 18:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: HELP:Upgrading to RedHat 6.0 "fouled" up my system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Some difficult to work with 3Com 3c509B card --- Can you help me ? ("Mimmo a Mclink
(News)")
Soundblaster16 PnP ... :( (Tsmanlyman)
Floating Point Exception on Cyrix with MP3s (Pete Hollobon)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Artur Swietanowski)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Artur Swietanowski)
Re: What about DVD Drives ? (Tsmanlyman)
Re: Headless Multia? (Andre Kostur)
Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy (Barry Samuels)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Dual boot Win9x and Solaris using LILO ("Administrator")
Simple Tech 56K V90 PCMCIA modem working under Linux ? (Id Est)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Limit Access By Time or Date (Brian McCullough)
multiple modem's ("w.stoeger")
Re: How Close is the Mobo temp to the CPU temp (Allen)
Fastest CPU for 60ns simm memory? (Peter Hecke)
Re: Headless Multia? ("Marco Ruiter")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP:Upgrading to RedHat 6.0 "fouled" up my system
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:52:49 GMT
Or you can run xf86config. If you really want to run install from the
cd though. Boot off a 98 system diskette (or other with dos cdrom
drivers) and run the batch file off the CD (dosutils\autoboot.bat).
Eric
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shice Beoney) wrote:
On Tue, 13 Jul 1999 09:55:40 -0700 in comp.os.linux.setup, Tom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following profound gem of wisdom:
snip
Does anyone know whewre I can get a boot floppy for RedHat 6.0 and
try
this whole thing again?
Tom,
Using an ftp client (or, gag, a web browser) go to ftp.cdrom.com, then
from the pub/linux/RedHat/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/dosutils,
download the file rawrite.exe
Then, from the pub/linux/RedHat/linux/redhat/redhat-6.0/i386/images
directory, download boot.img. Put a formatted diskette in your a
drive, and run rawrite. Tell it the location on your hd of boot.img,
then the location of your diskette (it should ask you that) and it
should then write the boot disk for you.
HTH!
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mean you
will have trouble walking thru the mall un-noticed." -Wurk, in
article
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From: "Mimmo a Mclink (News)" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Some difficult to work with 3Com 3c509B card --- Can you help me ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:01:06 +0200
My machine is running in Linux 2.2.5-15 RedHat 6.0.
After starting system , everythings seems [OK] , but when i try to send
somethings via Eth0 (3c509), like ping command i receive the message:
"Transmit timed out, Tx_status 00 status 2000 TX FIFO room 1456".
I try to set off the PnP (Plag and pray) bit with dos utility of 3Com ( ref.
How-to-Ethernet-5 Vendor/Manufacturer ...3Com...)and restart system but
dont'work.
The network (hardware resource) is tested and is O.K.
Any help appreciated,
===
Mimmo Principe - Rome
Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsmanlyman)
Subject: Soundblaster16 PnP ... :(
Date: 13 Jul 1999 19:11:24 GMT
Howdy all.. I can't get my sb16pnp to work at all, and I'm sick of dicking
with it. I have compiled kernels with various port, DMA and IRQ options, used
sndconfig, played with pnpdump and isapnp tools, all to no avail. Here are my
windows settings, could this help shed light on the situation?
IRQ 10
DMA 1, 0
IO 0240-024F
IO 0330-0331
IO 0388-038B
BTW .. these settings are often different from boot to boot.
What a pain in the ass. It's easier to set up a modem and compile X !!
Please respond via e-mail... I'm newsgroup blind :(
TIA
Glen
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From: Pete Hollobon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Floating Point Exception on Cyrix with MP3s
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:35:31 +0100
Hi,
I'm running a Cyrix PR166+, with 48Mb ram. Kernel 2.2.10, though
tried several, including 2.0.34.
When I play or encode an MP3, it crashes after a seemingly random
amount of time with a floating point exception. I've tried lowering
the memory speed in the bios, turning off internal and external
caches, limited memory usage - everything. It doesn't occur
when I use FPU emulation, but it won't play in realtime if I use
that.
Last year, the fan went and the CPU got a bit hot for a while. Does
anyone have any ideas what's going on here - I can't find any info at all.
Cheers
Pete
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Linux-Hardware Digest #754
Linux-Hardware Digest #754, Volume #10 Tue, 13 Jul 99 21:13:27 EDT
Contents:
miro Video D1 (Andre)
Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Re: Fastest CPU for 60ns simm memory? (Greg Leblanc)
aha152x synchronous mode ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Unsuported PCMCIA card help (Roy Goodman)
Avermedia TV Phone (bt848) TV card not working...help! (Ken Overgard)
Re: SoundBlaster Live! (Mike Simos)
Advanced CAD for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel Panic, initrd problem? (Richard Bumby)
Re: Zip plus always busy (Richard Bumby)
Re: What about DVD Drives ? ("Drew A. Dunn")
Re: Linux/KDE; KDat backup on dat tape proggy ("Gene Heskett")
For about the 1000 th Time ("Dennis")
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Ron Gibson)
Advanced CAD for Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 23:25:17 +0200
From: Andre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: miro Video D1
Hi there!
I have an old video grabber card called "miro Video D1". I know its
really old and not so powerfull, but I have it and its enough for me, I
just cant find drivers to run it under Linux. Maybe someone heard of a
solution...
cya
-andre
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Subject: Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 14:14:42 -0700
On 13 Jul 1999 18:29:35 GMT, Tsmanlyman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VERY COOL. Soon I'll be able to kill windows entirely :) I got a Q now tho..
are there any drivers for the newer DVD burners? I'd love to get into 4gig
As much as one of those puppies cost, you just might be
able to afford someone to write a driver for you...
storage CDs.. :)
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From: Greg Leblanc [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Fastest CPU for 60ns simm memory?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:47:03 GMT
I'm not sure what chipset that board has, but I'm guessing that it will
allow you to run the RAM asynchronsly with the CPU bus. I.E. You can
run the RAM at 66MHz (the fastest it will do) and the CPU and L2 cache
at 100MHz. If this board can't do that, find another one that can.
This will allow you to keep your existing RAM, and get the fastest
socket 7 CPU on the market. I'd check www.tomshardware.com (getting a
little too comertial, but still a good source) or anandtech.com. They
are great references for hardware.
Greg
In article 7mg7vh$qn9$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Peter Hecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wish to upgrade my motherboard/CPU to a faster combination.
Currently, I
have 60ns 72 pin (non-EDO) simms and would like to use them on the new
motherboard.
So my question is, what is the fastest CPU that can run reliably with
my
existing simms?
I am looking at a Tyan 1590S socket seven motherboard with either a
233MMX
Pentium or AMD 350. I would underclock the CPU's if necessary.
In the future, I will upgraded to faster memory. For now, I am trying
to
keep the costs down.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: aha152x synchronous mode
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:41:36 GMT
Hey there, does anyone know what happened to Juergen Fischer, the author
of the aha152x SCSI driver? The latest version is from 1996 and doesn't
have synchronous SCSI support working. Has anyone looked into what it
would take to get this finished?
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From: Roy Goodman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unsuported PCMCIA card help
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 18:11:00 -0400
Sorry for the long message, but it should contain the answers to any
questions anyone has about what I'm trying to do. Any help appreciated.
I have an Ambicom 80002t ethernet card which is a 10Base-t card, which is
unsupported by PCMCIA card services although their 8002 (which is 10base2
is supported. I'm attempting to follow the directions in section 6 of the
PCMCIA HOWTO for unsupported cards. I have two PCMCIA slots, and the
Modem in socket 0 worked from the first time I slipped it in, so I know
that the card services module is compiled.
If I try to just insert the card, I get a single
Linux-Hardware Digest #755
Linux-Hardware Digest #755, Volume #10 Wed, 14 Jul 99 00:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Success in enabling FirstMouse+ S48-OEM scroll wheel ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers ("Daniel Tonks")
Re: Curious about root passwd ("Tim Izod")
cs4242.o modprobe fails (Dave Smith)
Canon BJC-5000 ("Alan Gibson")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Keith R. Williams)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Michael)
Re: DSL and Linux ("TURBO1010")
Driver for Asuscom ISDNLink 128k PCI? (Kari Brown)
Re: SCSI adaptor for ZIP 250? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
mouse prob with 2.2.7 (Dennis Perisa)
Linux compatible Tablet? (Habin)
THANK YOU EVERYONE! ("Éric Paré")
Re: Avermedia TV Phone (bt848) TV card not working...help! ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Colin Andrew Percival)
Re: Compact Flash vs. SSFDC Smart Media (Phil Askey)
Re: 2.2 SMP brief lockups (Myca-Boo)
Compact Flash vs. SSFDC Smart Media (Ken)
Date: 13 Jul 99 20:33:39 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Success in enabling FirstMouse+ S48-OEM scroll wheel
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Andrew J.;
AJN -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
AJN This is to let the community know that as of 16:25 on July 13,
AJN 1999 the zilog controler version of logitech's FirstMouse+ PS/2
AJN (known as S48-OEM) has been conquered. The scroll wheel can
AJN enabled by a series of set sampling rate commands directed at
AJN /dev/psaux.
AJN A utility has been written, but is not ready for public
AJN consuption, which will enable the wheel so that it registers
AJN using the standard MouseManPlusPS2 protocol under Xwindows. In
AJN addition there is a diagnositic utility that will allow for
AJN trapping and interpretation of mouse events.
AJN I will release both of these shortly along with a mini-howto.
AJN When things are ready I will notify the community with offical
AJN release info.
Thanks.
AJN Untill then I have a Bob Dylan/Paul Simon concert to
AJN attend..
Please, you're making me homesick, those *were and are* the days...
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Daniel Tonks" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Bogus hard disk sizes from manufacturers
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 00:40:55 GMT
Robert Leong wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Ian Tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about the speed ratings for CD-ROM drives, it started with simple
2X, then 4X and so on, but some where along the way someone decided to
change the de facto standards of X, and offers an incredible 24X (or
higher) speed. BUT, this X is not the same X as before.
Actually, "X" is the same (150kb/sec) but it's now MAX "X". An "up-to"
statement, such as "you could win up to $25,000,000". The drive can actually
get 24X at one position on the disc - but at the other end it may be 11X.
Some companies such as Plextor calculate the "average" sustained transfer
you can expect - their "17/40" drive averages out to 27X.
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Daniel Tonks
Remote Central - http://www.remotecentral.com/
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From: "Tim Izod" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Curious about root passwd
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 19:03:01 +0100
Markus Wandel wrote in message 7mfqng$deg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
In article 7mbi40$aj1$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Davis Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
With a PC you can generally set up the BIOS and LILO that way. Your only
way back in, should you forget the password, is to open the box and short
the little jumper that makes it clear all its BIOS settings. And the cable
locks that are used to discourage computers being taken away generally also
inhibit access to the interior. Which brings you back to the guy with the
bolt cutter.
If I wanted to compromise a RedHat 5.2 system that has been secured in
this fashion, what I would do is: Wait until it's accessing the disk a
lot. Unplug it. Plug back in, watch it go through fsck on bootup and hope
it gets messed up enough to dump me into a single-user shell to continue
manually. My box did that once after a trip-over-the-power-cord event.
At University it wasn't unknown for savvy people to hit STOP-A as a
starting point for getting at the Ultra Sparcs running Solaris. Determined
people who know a bit will get in and all you can do is make it awkward.
/pessimist
Linux-Hardware Digest #756
Linux-Hardware Digest #756, Volume #10 Wed, 14 Jul 99 01:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: What about DVD Drives ? ("Alex Roussel")
Re: cant get xwindows happening (David Pollack)
Re: Blaster Banshee AGP and Linux (Heyday)
Epson Color 600 and Debian 2.1 (Josh Morris)
SCSI adaptor for ZIP 250? (Pat Palmer)
Zip plus always busy (Jonathan Busey)
Zip drive auto sleep (Jonathan Busey)
Re: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Dave)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Marc Mutz)
Re: tft t55d under linux? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Dev's won't work??? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (David T. Wang)
From: "Alex Roussel" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What about DVD Drives ?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 22:55:42 -0400
Tsmanlyman wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
VERY COOL. Soon I'll be able to kill windows entirely :) I got a Q now
tho..
are there any drivers for the newer DVD burners? I'd love to get into 4gig
storage CDs.. :)
Send replies via e-mail !
yes, actually, that's why I got so confused. Source: www.linuxtoday.com
newsletter
mystBurn 1.1.2-80 stable with dvd-recording is out
"CD-Recording program that support bootable CD, Multisession, Rock Ridge,
Iso9660, Audio-CD, direct copy's and all Mac-Format's dvd-recording and
many more. you can make tar backupsets on one or more CDs on fly."
http://linuxtoday.com/stories/7554.html
The software might be in german though. :-(
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From: David Pollack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: cant get xwindows happening
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 1999 21:23:24 -0700
You might want to try and get the newest version of X if you haven't
done so.
Nico wrote:
keiron wrote:
During my linux install, my video card was not recognised (STB Velocity
4400)
I selected SVGA instead, and matched the monitor. I then selected 800 x 600
8 bit coulour. However, the install couldnt determine the amount of RAM. I
selected 8Mb (its actually 16Mb). When i typed startx, I got the message
that i didnt have enough video ram to start it.
Im really lost and confused here, as I have been using linux for, oh, about
10 minutes, and all I could do was stare at a command prompt!!
I guess I want to know what I should be setting my card to, if there are
drivers or whatever available, and how I install them from the prompt!!
tks in advance,
Keiron
Take a look at http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
Search your card get the server and install it.
If your card isn't in there then do a search at a search engine on "STB
Velocity 4400" and linux and driver
Nocturnus
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From: Heyday [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Blaster Banshee AGP and Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 04:34:52 GMT
That worked! I only have one more problem. I need to lower my
resolution to 800X600 but I can't for the life of me figure it out.
I've looked at my x86config file but do not know what to change. Any
suggestions.
Thanks
Heyday
In article 7mdrvb$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"kryliss" kryliss_at_navix.net wrote:
Go to your mandrake CD then go to Mandrake/RPMS then do rpm -Uvh
XFree86-VGA16* after that then do the 3dfx updates. That's how I get
mine to
install.
Terrapin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
On Sun, 11 Jul 1999 06:12:01 GMT, Heyday [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm trying to install these but it keeps saying I need X86Free_16
installed.
Load the specific XFree86 package it asked for. This will contain
the
font drivers and other stuff you need for that card. The only XFree
rpms that are loaded during install are the basic ones.
I'm running Mandrake and beleive I have set this up. I have
been able to get it running by loading the drivers on the Creative
labs
website, but the resolution is too small and I can't figure out how
to
change it. I've tried CRL+ALT+"-" and CRL+ALT+NUMLOCK+"-" and no
luck.
I've looked at the X86config file but do not understand it.
Anyone
have any suggestions?
Thanks
Joel
In article U2Xf3.5609$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Ken Potter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's taken me 3 nights to get my Creative Banshee working with
Linux 1st
I tired RedHat 6, didn't like it, then went to Mandrake. I had to
do
quite a
bit (for newbie little me) of tinkering to get it to work with X.
Here's the
URL you should start with:
http://glide/xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS.htm
What a PITA... and my Intellimouse still doesn't work :-)
-Ken P.
Now, if I get a Blaster Banshee video card, will it work with
the
Mandrake 6.0 distribution? Anyone have the Blaster Banshee
Video
card
working with Mandrake 6.0??
Joe
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