Linux-Hardware Digest #416
Linux-Hardware Digest #416, Volume #13 Mon, 14 Aug 00 02:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems (Denver Timothy)
Re: Logitech wheel mouse in mandrake 7.1 (Denver Timothy)
Diamond FireGL 4000 Linux Video Drivers - Has anybody got them ? TIA (Aleksandar
Todorovic)
Re: write partition table (quagly)
SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1 (bernieo)
Modem won't dial ("Brian Wilmot")
Re: write partition table (Dances With Crows)
Re: I have similar problem, too with parallel port (Dances With Crows)
printing problem (Alexis Bilodeau)
Re: KVM Mouse Problems (Richard Steiner)
Re: The Rage Fury Xpert2000 is not yet supported with Red Hat 6.2, ("Michael G.
Manry")
Re: LRP vs squid socks ipchains (Monte Milanuk)
Re: Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card (Robert Brinson Tiffanie Brinsonrash)
Re: converting win partition to Linux...safely? (Christian Huebner)
Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems (Valentin Guillen)
Re: KVM Mouse Problems (Denver Timothy)
Error occurs when installing RedHat Linux 6.2 (phlo9)
Error occurs when installing RedHat Linux 6.2 (phlo9)
From: Denver Timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Strange Lilo "LI" problems
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:12:24 +
Installing LILO again works for me. Just type 'lilo' at the command
line.
savo wrote:
>
> I had the same problem. I removed lil from the MBR
> also ran dos fdisk /mbr and upgraded. put lilo on
> hda. and still comes up "LI"
>
> did the same thing but put lilo on hda1 and still get
> "LI" what do i do now?
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Denver Timothy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech wheel mouse in mandrake 7.1
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:18:07 +
This is my pointer section of /etc/XF86Config:
---
Section "Pointer"
Protocol"IMPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
Resolution 100
Buttons 5
ZAxisMapping4 5
EndSection
---
and this is my ~/.Xdefaults file to get Netscape to scroll:
---
Netscape*drawingArea.translations: #replace\
: ArmLink() \n\
: ArmLink() \n\
~Shift: ActivateLink() \n\
~Shift: ActivateLink(new-window) \
DisarmLink()\n\
Shift:ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink()\n\
Shift:ActivateLink(save-only) \
DisarmLink()\n\
: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
: DisarmLinkIfMoved() \n\
: DescribeLink() \n\
: xfeDoPopup()\n\
: ActivatePopup() \n\
Ctrl: PageUp()\n\
Ctrl: PageDown()\n\
Shift: LineUp()\n\
Shift: LineDown()\n\
None:
LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
None:
LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt: xfeDoCommand(back)\n
Netscape*globalNonTextTranslations: #override\n\
Shift: LineUp()\n\
Shift: LineDown()\n\
None:LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()LineUp()\n\
None:LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()LineDown()\n\
Alt: xfeDoCommand(forward)\n\
Alt: xfeDoCommand(back)\
---
Topher Cawlfield wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am unable to get my wheel mouse to work properly in Linux. I'm using
> mandrake 7.1, KDE, and have a Logitech PS/2 mouseman+. This same mouse
> worked just fine in RedHat Linux and gnome. I believe I'm using XFree86
> version 3.3.6, if that helps.
>
> > rpm -q XFree86
> XFree86-3.3.6-14mdk
>
> One thing that mystifies me is that there are two possible XF86Config
> files to use, /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86config-4. The latter
> has a different formatting, but I don't see any references to it in any
> documentation. In XF86config, there is section containing the lines
> Protocol"MouseManPlusPS/2"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> ZAxisMapping 4 5
> which look like they ought to be correct. When I use "harddrake", which
> has done no good for me in configuring my other hardware, it informs me
> that I do have a mouseman+ mouse. When I use "mousedrake", it always
> indicates a generic mouse, and when I select the right mouse from the
> list there is no apparent effect. I should mention here that harddrake
> detected my SBLive soundcard, could play a WAV sample with it, but gave
> me an error message when trying to configure it (something like
> "/dev/dsp: no such device"). I recently got it working, "by hand".
> Similarly, it didn't do anything about my USR PCI modem (5610), which I
> was able to get working thanks to a lot of research and some helpful web
> pages. I
Linux-Hardware Digest #415
Linux-Hardware Digest #415, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 21:13:10 EDT
Contents:
How do I change the IRQ of my network card ("Andrew Chalk")
Re: Mouse Wheel ("David M. Carney")
Re: Help identifying NIC (Vic Hoover)
Re: How do I change the IRQ of my network card (Mark Andal)
Modem Problem - help required ("Chris")
Re: What's the best internal modem to get? (piddy)
SMP newbie ("Rob Love")
Re: Dual processor board? ("D. Stimits")
Re: SMP newbie ("D. Stimits")
LRP vs squid socks ipchains ("Darren and Marla Welson")
Re: KVM Mouse Problems (Michael Meding)
Re: FS:Qty40 PPro200Cpu/Mb $89.00 each (system admin)
Re: Linksys Router and Linux Redhat 6.2 (Valentin Guillen)
Re: Modem Problem - help required ("D. Stimits")
I have similar problem with parallel port ("Wayne Huang")
Suse 6.4, disk: modules, driver: imm.o (Dieter Buricke)
I have similar problem, too with parallel port ("Wayne Huang")
converting win partition to Linux...safely? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: converting win partition to Linux...safely? (Tony Curtis)
Newby trying to build an online auction selling machine on Linux. Help? (schuetzen
- RKBA!)
From: "Andrew Chalk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: How do I change the IRQ of my network card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:17:05 -0500
I am using TurboLinux v6. I want to change the IRQ of my (non-PnP) network
card that Linux uses. How do I do this in the OS? I presume that there is
some kind of configuration file in which I need to set it. The TurboNetCfg
utility does not allow one to configure this feature.
Many thanks.
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To reply via e-mail remove NOSPAM from the reply address
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From: "David M. Carney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Wheel
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:19:59 -0500
Also, in adition to this page, the mouse wheel will now work in Gnome 1.2
(if you follow the instructions in the other replies) and it works in KDE 2.0.
David
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Wim
Koorenneef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Check out this page I found yesterday:
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
>
> Daryl Munday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Can anyone help me configure my Logitech WheelMouse so i can use the
>> scrolling wheel.Using suse 6.4 Thanx Daz
>
>
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From: Vic Hoover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help identifying NIC
Date: 13 Aug 2000 22:31:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:> HP PC LAN NC/16 TP
:> (2100/150T compatible)
:>
:> I also poked around in DOS and found a file called NET.CFG that says
:>
:> NET.CFG parameters for HP J2405A PC LAN Adapter NC/16 TP Adapter
:> The PORT: INT and DMA (settings must match the values in HPNCSET!)
The HP J2405A card is covered in the Linux Ethernet HOWTO, see:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO-5.html
It uses the Lance driver.
}:>
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From: Mark Andal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: How do I change the IRQ of my network card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:34:35 GMT
Andrew Chalk wrote:
> I am using TurboLinux v6. I want to change the IRQ of my (non-PnP) network
> card that Linux uses. How do I do this in the OS? I presume that there is
> some kind of configuration file in which I need to set it. The TurboNetCfg
> utility does not allow one to configure this feature.
>
> Many thanks.
>
> --
> To reply via e-mail remove NOSPAM from the reply address
try editing the /etc/conf.modules file and reboot.
Hope this helps.
Mark Andal
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From: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Problem - help required
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:38:55 +0100
Reply-To: "Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi,
Using RedHat 6.1 and Hayes Accural Internal modem. The problem is really
with the ISP (its a free 0800 one with BT). My problem is that occasionally
(once a week) I am disconnected from the ISP (its as thou' their connection
has timed out or summat?) and occasionally this disconnection causes my
modem to become "stuck" i.e. unable to hang itself up. I have tried forcing
ATZ via minicom but it seems the only way I can get the modem to reset
itself is to reboot the server. This is most annoying and isn't always
convienient - this is a working Linux box !
So my questions:
(1) Can I specify a modem string to force a hang up when the above happens.
If so what should I try?
(2) Is there something else I can try to force the modem to hang up without
having to reboot?
Thanks,
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (piddy)
Subject: Re: What's the best internal modem to get?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 22:43:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 23:27:51 +, Alex Chudnovsky
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot
Linux-Hardware Digest #414
Linux-Hardware Digest #414, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 18:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: KVM Mouse Problems (jeff)
Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the (Hit1Hard)
sound card ("waltam")
Re: YAMAHA sound card (blowfish)
Re: HP LaserJet 1100 print delays (Daniel Armstrong)
Re: URGENT : Rackmount case with riser cards and Network cards (Benjamin Grimm)
Re: Mouse Wheel (sideband)
ASUS A7V w/ AMD TBird 750 issues (Francesco Spadini)
Lexmark 3200 Printer (Allan Porto)
Re: Using an old Cirrus Logic card (legacy) (Matan Ziv-Av)
Re: Defrag in Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Crystal Labs (CrystalWare?) CS4236B Sound Controller Install? (SuSE) (Chris Vine)
Re: SCSI HP Scanner: Sane works, XSane doesn't ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Partition Size Advice (hac)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: What's the best internal modem to get? (Alex Chudnovsky)
Re: Driver Soundblaster Live (Alex Chudnovsky)
Sound card advice ("Rob Love")
upgrade NICs ("DM Welson")
Re: Sound card advice (Dances With Crows)
Re: upgrade NICs (Mark Andal)
Re: Serial port PCMCIA card support? (Andreas Hinz)
Turtle Beach Montego II Sound Card (Eric Shasteen)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: KVM Mouse Problems
Date: 13 Aug 2000 19:16:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:34:47 GMT, Jim Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>We have a Belkin OmniPro 8 port KVM switch that does not work
>with RH6.2. The mouse behaves as if it is receiving a continuous
>random stream of up, right and click messages. The cursor stays
>in the upper right corner and jumps back there if moved away.
>Needless to say, it is unusable.
>
>Anyone have any suggestions?
>
>--
>Jim Garrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>PGP Keys at http://www.acm.org/~jhg RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88
Are you sure that the KVM is the problem? I get these symptoms
when I define an IMPS2 mouse as PS2. I also use a KVM, BTW
(Genie, not Belkin), and only have problems when the mouse is
in motion during the switch.
-jeff
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From: Hit1Hard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Horror story...please help me! LM 7.1 expert install zeroed the
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:19:52 -0400
"Robert M. Stockmann" wrote:
>
> Paolo Servadei wrote:
> >
> > I am in your hands...please give me some advice!
> > please drop me a line by email if you see some way to get out from
> > this very uncomfortable situation, i can't monitor this newsgroup as
> > i'd like to be able to do (take out NONAG from my address!)
> > thanks
>
> well you had your lesson. Now please ditch that dinky toy RAID system
> and use serious gear, with a more serious/professional attitude.
>
> [msg(DDB)] ?? mandrake
> -DDB(~[EMAIL PROTECTED])- mandrake =
> Totally
> fucked distro based on RedHat. we can't fix it
>
> Robert
> --
> ++
> |Robert M. Stockmann SBA Automatisering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |
> | Networking Engineer UNIX Consultant |
> ++
> Linux: A copylefted Unix-like operating system for several platforms :
> http://perso.wanadoo.es/xose/linux/linux_ports.html
So , this is the only advise an UNIX consultant , working with an
"professional"
organisation can give ?
What did you do here , show your ( to buy for a lot of money )
"knowledge" ?
Is this your vision of sharing knowledge , when you are not payed for it
?
Is this also the vision of the company that you represent here ?
Since you DO have to share their name with us.
Maybe , just maybe , this "dinky toy" RAID (wich i would love to have to
experiment with ) , is something he bought himself .
(I.O.W. not a company supplied item (the company bought it) to work with
in the bosses time )
Have a nice day.
--
Hit1Hard
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From: "waltam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:33:07 GMT
I have Apackard bell with an AUREAL VORTEX PCI 3D and soundblaster
emulation.Asindicated i did disabled the plug and play on the bios and also
got the configuration problem.Card reconized but lothar doesnt find it and
with all parameters IRQ DMA etc.impossible to work.No sound at all on
startup exept the beepsound regular.Also tried soundblaster no way to work
with either.
Iff anyone has the similar problem arf me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks anyway for support.
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Subject: Re: YAMAHA sound card
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:39:46 -0700
Stuart Fotheringham wrote:
>
> Does anyone know how to get the Yamaha sound card working under RH6.2
SuSE 7.0 supports Yamaha right out of the
Linux-Hardware Digest #413
Linux-Hardware Digest #413, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mainboard founds uart 16450 instead of 16550a (mike)
Serial port PCMCIA card support? (Win Heagy)
write partition table (quagly)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working (bernieo)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: write partition table (Dances With Crows)
Re: Partition Size Advice (Dances With Crows)
help in isa modem, please (Tribologica)
Re: HELP: Sound on VIA (Duane)
KVM Mouse Problems (Jim Garrison)
Sound card not working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mouse Wheel (Daryl Munday)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (Robert Hampf)
Re: Mouse Wheel ("Wim Koorenneef")
Tyan S1668 (Christoph Helmert)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: RTL 8193 poor performance (bgeer)
scanner ("RR")
Best print filter for PCL5E printer (News User)
From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mainboard founds uart 16450 instead of 16550a
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:09:08 -0400
Hi,
i'm not sure what you mean when you say that your
motherboard found a 16450 uart. Maybe I have the
wrong take on your issue. Your motherboard might
have a 16450 uart on it, but that is not the uart in
your internal Zoom isa pnp modem. I would make sure
that the uart on the mother board is disabled in the bios
if it is assigned the same COM port as your isa pnp modem.
Maybe you can also disable pnp for the modem and set
the jumpers for the port and irq manually. I think that this
works best in Linux and Windows and DOS.
Mike
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From: Win Heagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial port PCMCIA card support?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:12:27 -0400
Does anyone know if there are any PCMCIA serial port cards supported
under Linux? I need one additional serial port on a notebook computer,
and this seems to be the way to go. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Win
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: write partition table
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:12:52 GMT
What information to you need to write a partition table?
I have fdisk and cfdisk. Do I want to print the raw table or some
other format?
are these commands all I need?
I am having no problems, but I am trying to be prepared.
The man pages are unclear, where is TFM?
Thanks,
--
From: bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:41:21 GMT
Carlos wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I think it would sure make life a lot
> >> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used ide-scsi,
> >> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
> >
> >It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
> >might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
> >using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
> >a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
>
> My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
> trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
> (probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide and
> scsi systems.
>
> Carlos
I have and IDE CDRW and a SCSI Scanner.
I tried to enable the CDRW under linux as a Writer, but when I did, I lost
access
to the TRUE SCSI Scanner.
How can I setup the IDE CDRW drive to go through the IDE-SCSI Emulation,
yet still have access to my SCSI Scanner.
--
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:37:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf) wrote:
> David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hélt þessu fram:
> :
> : My computer supposedly has the subject sound card. When I try to run
> : sndconfig, it thinks I have an Ensoniq ES1371. The sound sample test
> : fails. Does anyone know what I can do to get this working?
>
> The Sound Blaster PCI128 card has an Ensoniq 1371 sound chip. The
> question about how to get it working must be _the_ most frequently
> asked question here so you will find a lot of info on deja.
>
> People usually run some soundconfig or sndconfig program. I compiled
> a new kernel with Ensoniq 1371 compiled into the kernel and it worked
> without any tweaking.
Thanks. I looked around deja, but haven't really found the answer. I do
have sndconfig. As several others have reported, it thinks everything is
fine, but no sound comes out. My guess is that the es1371 kernel module
that comes with RedHat 6.2 is no good. What ker
Linux-Hardware Digest #412
Linux-Hardware Digest #412, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
HP Netserver LHII ("Clive Munday")
SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (David Shochat)
Re: Partition Size Advice ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Defrag in Linux? (J Bland)
Sony SDT-5000 Tape Drive on Redhat 6.1 (Shyam Govardhan)
Re: promise fast trak 66 and suse-linux - followup ("Neil Golstein")
Re: K6-2 vs Duron - a server platform ("B")
Re: Dual processor board? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Linux on AMD (sideband)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (Robert Hampf)
Re: mother boards needed (L S)
Re: HELP: Sound on VIA ("Frederik Tilkin")
Whoopee ("Neil Golstein")
From: "Clive Munday" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Netserver LHII
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:18:55 +0800
Can anybody tell me if they have succesfully installed and run Linux on
these machines. I have two:
PII 266, 256Mb RAM, HPRaid adapter 3X9GB SCSI disks
Twin PII266, all as above
--
From: David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:38:34 GMT
My computer supposedly has the subject sound card. When I try to run
sndconfig, it thinks I have an Ensoniq ES1371. The sound sample test
fails. Does anyone know what I can do to get this working?
Thanks.
-- David
--
From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: 13 Aug 2000 11:32:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: writes
:>> 6.4GB Hd...
:>> /usr = 5GB
:>> /root = 500MB
:>> /home = 500MB
:>> /swap = 127MB
: Apart from weight of tradition, why do usr, root and home have to be
: different partitions ?
So that /usr can be read-only and /home can be read-write. (I assume he
means / istead of /root). So that everytime you mess up your home
partition you don't also mess up your /. And vice versa. So that you
can comfortably clone your OS without also cloning your own files. And
vice versa. So you can upgrade or multi-install in functional units.
Etc. Etc.
He forgot to list /var as a separate partition. That's quite important.
I really hate runaway log files growing to swamp / or /home.
If you really don't know this and you aren't just trolling, go check
out the Partition-HOWTO.
There are some legitimate reasons for making a one partition system.
They boil down to "the owner is an idiot and/or doesn't care about
preserving and maintaining his system, so he might as well do the
laziest thing available, as he'll throw it all away tomorrow anyhow".
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: Defrag in Linux?
Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:04:24 GMT
>Thank you all for answering my 8 questions in one. Just out of curiosity, how
>is it that defragmentation is almost never goes over 8%?
Because ext2fs does that, it trys to keep files contiguous if it has the
space to do so.
>Back to performance, here is the output of my free:
>
>[root@localhost /root]# free
> total used free sharedbuffers cached
>Mem: 62992 61528 1464 60664 1532 26340
>-/+ buffers/cache: 33656 29336
>Swap: 313228 4632 308596
>
>Wow! I didn't realize that much ram was used! I thought I had 64megs of ram
>62.992 is close enough for me. If I bought 64 more megs of ram, do you guys
>think that my performance would increase significantly? thanks!
A small part of your ram is taken up by the kernel, so having slightly less
than 64MB is normal.
Linux always uses pretty much all your RAM all the time. Any RAM that isn't
used by applications is used for buffering and disc caching. This improves
your system performance somewhat, but if you need the ram for apps linux
automatically decreases the cache size. You're not hitting swap very much so
I don't think you're particularly running out of RAM.
You may have a crashed app (likely Netscape) chugging away in the
background. If you do 'uptime' it will show the uptime and load averages. If
this >1 it's likely you have a hung process or two.
Otherwise I can't see any real reason for performance dropping. But another
64MB always makes things smoother ;).
Frinky
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From: Shyam Govardhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Sony SDT-5000 Tape Drive on Redhat 6.1
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:03:42 GMT
Hi there,
I just bought a second-hand Sony SCSI Tape Drive SDT-5000. Has anyone
got this working on Redhat 6.1. I have got a Tekram DC-315U Ultra
SCSI adapter.
Please let me know if this tape drive works on Linux, as I have a week
to return it. Also, what kind of sotware/firware do I need to get this
drive to work. I could not find
Linux-Hardware Digest #411
Linux-Hardware Digest #411, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 06:13:04 EDT Contents: Re: Defrag in Linux? (sideband) Re: YAMAHA sound card (Nick Chalk) Re: HP LaserJet 1100 print delays (James Stafford) Re: Simple question about CD-Writing for Linux (Duane) Re: Defrag in Linux? (Prasanth A. Kumar) Re: promise fast trak 66 and suse-linux - followup (Benjamin Grimm) Vibra 128PCI (Terence Chan) dead monitor - help!! (paul) Re: Coppermine SLOW PERFORMANCE... (John Beardmore) Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore) Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore) Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore) Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore) From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Defrag in Linux? Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 02:28:04 -0400 Elliott wrote: > Thank you all for answering my 8 questions in one. Just out of curiosity, how > is it that defragmentation is almost never goes over 8%? > Back to performance, here is the output of my free: > > [root@localhost /root]# free > total used free sharedbuffers cached > Mem: 62992 61528 1464 60664 1532 26340 > -/+ buffers/cache: 33656 29336 > Swap: 313228 4632 308596 > > Wow! I didn't realize that much ram was used! I thought I had 64megs of ram > 62.992 is close enough for me. If I bought 64 more megs of ram, do you guys > think that my performance would increase significantly? thanks! > J Bland wrote: > > > >FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > > >/dev/hda8 387M 317M 50M 86% / > > >/dev/hda1 23M 2.6M 19M 12% /boot > > >/dev/hda7 2.9G 938M 1.8G 34% /usr > > >/dev/hda5 387M 31M 337M 8% /var > > >/dev/hdd 390M 4.6M 365M 1% /mnt/drive3 > > >/dev/hdb1 393M 16k 373M 0% /mnt/drive2 > > > > > >all the partitions appear to be fragmented. I would think, that "size" > > >minus "used" should equal "Avail". I checked my partition tables with > > >fdisk, and all cylinders and heads are accounted for. Thus leading me to > > >think that I really need to defrag. (then what the heck is auto-defrag?) > > >True, for a web server or fully networked computer, defragmenting may > > >not make a difference, but for my computer, I think it would. So what > > >program should I use? I have looked high and low, and I can't find one > > >(except for auto-defrag, whatever that is). Any help would be nice > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Ext2fs (which you are almost certainly using) does not fragment in the same > > way that windows filing systems do. Ext2fs is intelligent and arranges its > > data in such a way as to reduce fragmentation. The only time this really > > breaks down is when your disc is almost full, and all your partitions are > > quite a way from this. > > > > The small amount of fragmentation (of the order of a % or two) that you get > > on a standard ext2fs system will not produce a system performance drop that > > you could see. As for df; it only reports disc usage, there is no indication > > of fragmentation in its output so I wonder where you think it is saying your > > partitions are fragmented. Any differences between the allocated size of a > > partition and the reported size in df are due to: > > > > a) Space taken by formatting > > b) by default 5% of a partition is reserved for the root user only. So even > > when the disc is supposedly 5% full there is still some space for root to > > play around in. A godsend when users fill your disc accidentally. > > > > If you are experiencing performance drops it is much more likely to be a RAM > > factor, or more the usage of it. Once you start using up your RAM and hit > > the swap partition or file, performance nosedives. > > > > What are you running? How much RAM do you have? What does 'free' report? > > > > Linux doesn't 'degrade' with time like certain other systems. If there's a > > problem with performance it's to do with what you're doing, not the state > > the OS has got itself into. > > > > Frinky > > > > -- > > John Bland MPhys(Hons) GradInstP Webmaster and Sys Admin. > > http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ Condensed Matter Group > > Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University > > "And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!" >From the looks of it, if your "free" output shows your typical memory usage, then, yes, 64 more megs will probably improve your system's speed. HTH. -SSB -- From: Nick Chalk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: YAMAHA sound card Date: 12 Aug 2000 21:56:03 +0100 Stuart Fotheringham wrote: >> Does anyone know how to get the Yamaha sound >> card working under RH6.2 Flukezero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > Please provide the model of the card (ie. > YMF-724), and in my experiences with yamahas you > can't u
