Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #14Wed, 20 Dec 00 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux? (Bob Marcan)
Re: Who is happy with their linux/xwindows hardware? ("Kilian A. Foth")
Re: Hard disk partition problem (Richard Kimber)
Re: ??? RH7.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 (Richard Kimber)
Problems with promise u 66 (Wolfgang Schmidt)
Re: AT LAAAST !!! YIPPEEE! (Jerra)
Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux! (The Ghost In The Machine)
Re: PCMCIA, winmodems(gag), and Acer TravelMate (Joe Merlino)
Re: PCMCIA, winmodems(gag), and Acer TravelMate (Brian Delaney)
Adding Memory to an A-Trend ATC-6240v Motherboard (mike)
ATI Rage Mobility-AGP2x on Dell 7500 (Inspiron) Redhat Linux v7.x... (MWencek)
CPU temp (ekk)
3Com 3CCFE575CT PCMCIA on Dell Inspiron 7500 (MWencek)
Re: Zoom / Lucent winmodem with mandrake 7.1 (bob)
Re: Installing ISA modem (Colin Alie)
SCSI errors... (Colin Alie)
Re: Intel Easy PC camera - cannot be supported in Linux! (John Travis)
MyLinux PDA Project Site... (Rob Wehrli)
From: Bob Marcan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ECC RAM supported by Linux?
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 13:12:11 +0100
Carlos wrote:
>
> >Suppose the memory that holds the kernel segment that responds to memory
> >errors goes bad? ("Kernel panic: Error in error handler!") When you
> >set up a system to report faults, it is best to make sure the faults
> >being detected can't bugger the reporting system--which means in this
> >case, putting the ECC error handler in ROM.
>
> Well, that is certainly a possible way to detect errors ;-)
>
> Now, ECC memory can detect and CORRECT a number of bits (I think that on
> 64bits it could correct 2 erroneous bits and detect 4, but don't quote me
> on this...). Lets say that a chip has one bad bit (or a bad "row" of
> bits not in the same word) then it could detect and correct the problem
> (so that there is no kernel panic) but still report it to root so that
> he/she knows that there is a bad chip...
>
> Carlos
In early days (80s) memory boards were not so stable.
VMS disables physical memory page (512B) and report to errlog.
Also the command SHOW SYSTEM shows the offending page.
Today: i got original additional 128MB ECC RAM for my Compaq AP200.
NT simply crashes from time to time, on Linux this part of memory
was mainly used as cache and i got corrupted data.
Hm.
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Bob Marcan mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Astertel:+386 (1) 5894-329
Nade Ovcakove 1 fax:+386 (1) 5894-201
1000 Ljubljana, Sloveniahttp://www.aster.si
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From: "Kilian A. Foth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who is happy with their linux/xwindows hardware?
Date: 20 Dec 2000 12:15:25 GMT
Dan Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'd like to run linux with xwindows, possibly a multi-monitor setup. Is
> there anyone with a fairly recent mass-market, mainly off-the-shelf pc which
> they are happy with as a platform for this software? Do you do dual boot or
> pure linux?
> Any advice about an readily available, fairly trouble-free linux platform,
> especially one that can be extended to multi-monitor mode, I'd much
> appreciate.
My box is a totally off-the-shelf Fujitsu Pentium III, and both SuSE
7.0 and Win98SE use all of the hardware without complaint, even the
cheap on-chip soundblaster. Multihead setup is reputed to be easy
under X11 (not that I've ever done it). About Win I have no
clue.
--
``The nice thing about standards is that you have so many to choose from.''
- Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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From: Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk partition problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:41:15 +
Mark Post wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000 00:31:25 +, Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >Mark Post wrote:
> -snip-
> >>
> >> Based on the device numbers sda5 and sda6, I would guess that you have
> >> one
> >> extended partition, with several logical partitions within it. The
> >> extended partition is most likely partition #4, which means that the
> >> first, second, etc. logical partitions within it would be /dev/sda5,
> >> /dev/sda6, etc.
>
> >> Mark Post
>
> >Hmmmn. Interesting. That could certainly explain it. Though I didn't
> >realise that the extended partition within which the logical partitions
> >fit gets its own device.
>
> That's because it doesn
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #13Sun, 18 Jun 00 13:13:16 EDT
Contents:
mount ("cOn")
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Re: ext2 filesystem. (Dances With Crows)
Re: Great ZIP problem (Dances With Crows)
Re: soundblaster pci 128 in linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Cordless Mouse Problem (gbass)
Logitech Cordless Wheelmouse Problem (gbass)
Re: How to change BIOS setting from ATA66 to ATA33 (Markus Kossmann)
Re: Books (H Dziardziel)
ATi Rage 128 PRO AGP 4x ("Ralf K. Wiegand")
Re: Can't use "setserial" command to setup modem. (H Dziardziel)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (JEDIDIAH)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (JEDIDIAH)
Motorola VoiceSurfr 56K under Corel Linux? ("Steven")
Re: soundblaster pci 128 in linux? (Andreas Tretow)
Re: Hardware Problems? (Steve Martin)
From: "cOn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: mount
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 18:14:08 +0500
Reply-To: "cOn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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hi,
does anyone know how to mount a win98 partition on RH 5.2?
I tried both the=20
mount -t msdos /dev/hd* /mnt
and
mount -t vfat /dev/hd* /mnt
although it works but i want to get rid of this error, which occurs =
everytime i access the mounted fs:
fat_clusters_flush:did not find calid FSINFO signature. Found 0x0 =
offset=3D0x1e0
thanx,
cOn
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charset="iso-8859-1"
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hi,
does anyone know how to mount a win98 partition =
on RH=20
5.2?
I tried both the
mount -t msdos /dev/hd* /mnt
and
mount -t vfat /dev/hd* /mnt
although it works but i want to get rid of this error, which occurs =
everytime i access the mounted fs:
fat_clusters_flush:did not find calid FSINFO signature. Found 0x0=20
offset=3D0x1e0
thanx,
cOn
===_NextPart_000_000C_01BFD950.FEA68440==
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Date: 18 Jun 2000 09:58:08 -0400
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:42:18 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>SECURITY
>---
>Prevent anyone displaying on X remotely (man xauth)
No man page or xauth required:
xhost -
will do.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ext2 filesystem.
Date: 18 Jun 2000 10:00:59 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 12:30:47 GMT, B
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>i recently put a 210 Mb hdd in it (in addition to my 540 Mb hdd) and it
>already had the MS fat filesystem on it, and it runs REALLY slow (like the
>dox say) and i want to know how to make it user the ext2 filesystem.
fdisk it, then mke2fs it. Simple as that.
>number 2)
>i have a yamaha Opl-SAx sound card and was wondering how to use the on board
>ide controller for it (i couldnt find it in all the options when i compiled
>the kernel, and i cant find any docs on it)
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/ide.txt for starters. Keep in mind that even
if you do manage to get it working, it will be very slow.
>number 3)
>i cant get apache (v 1.3) to look for user dirctories. i have made a
>'public_html' directory on the user i wanted to test it with, but i get
>"Forbidden" error, no matter ,who owns the files/directory, or what chmod
>values i set on them
In httpd.conf, what's the value of ServerName? It should match your
machine's fully qualified domain name if you have one, your IP address if
you're connected to the Net but have no FQDN, or "localhost" if you're not
connected. (Found that out the hard way, I did. Apache apparently
converts the http://whatever/~myhome to http://ServerName/~myhome when it
does lookups for ~s.)
>number 4)
>when i boot to my compiled kernel, the computer does not finish finding
>module dependencies, it will chug away at it for a while, and one night i
# cd /usr/src/linux
# rm -rf /lib/modules/KERNELVERSION
# make modules_install
# depmod -a
I posted a longer explanation of this yesterday; search Deja if
interested.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\"Man could not stare too long at the face
\[this space for rent]-/ \ of the Compute
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #11Sat, 21 Aug 99 07:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Help: Jaz setup on msdos or vfat (Yes)
Re: 3com ISA cards and linux (William Park)
Re: Linux file-size limit? (Christopher Browne)
One for Many ("wilyan candra")
Re: Probz with Sb Live! Value and Suse Linux 6.1 (Jim Zubb)
"Unknown interrupt" hang (Paul McQuesten)
Hard drive showing wrong size? ("Matt")
Re: Problem with an ATAPI CD-RW (Larry Barlow)
Re: 3com ISA cards and linux (Ronald Benedik)
Re: Need last word on AMD K6-2 ("stephen")
Digital PCXBV-ZX monitor specs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: NE2000 ISA help (Bill)
Re: Joliet and Kernel 2.2.xx (James Pearson)
Re: HELP: What's best for Abit BP6 dual Celeron/Voodoo3? Slackware/Redhat/?? (Leejay
Wu)
Re: 3com ISA cards and linux
Re: BJC-5000 Printer (Frank Hahn)
Which printer should I buy? (Ernst de Haan)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yes)
Subject: Help: Jaz setup on msdos or vfat
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 05:42:57 GMT
The Jaz drive will not mount /dev/sda with a file type of msdos or
vfat but will work with ext2 when formated under Linux. I have also
tried mtools with no luck.
Have set up a mount point of /mnt/jaz
I am a newbe to Linux.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] drop the last net
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From: William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
at.linux,aus.computers.linux,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3com ISA cards and linux
Date: 21 Aug 1999 06:51:25 GMT
In comp.os.linux.advocacy Caitanya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm on cable as well the guys are great there and you can joing the bigpond
> linux newsgroup, read the FAQ and you'll get up and running in not time at
> all
>
> ---
> Kalkas wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have been seriously thinking to use Linux and stop using Windows 98. I am
> fascinated by Linux's stability and security.
> Therefore, I have seriously planing to install Linux and USE IT.
> However, it seems that it is not possible for me to use Linux, since I use
> cable modem with a 3com ISA card. More precisely, I use 3com EtherLink III
> ISA (3C509/3C509b) network interface card, and there are no drivers which
> will support my card in Linux.
> Did someone else have similar problems?
> Regards,
> Kalkas
3c509b (and most 3com cards) is supported by Linux. I'm using it
right now. To load the driver, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.modules and search
for '509'. To enable BNC port and disable PnP, download 2 disk set 'EtherDisk' from
and run '3c5x9cfg.exe' from the 2nd disk in DOS.
Yours truly,
William Park
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:51:11 GMT
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:54:55 -0600, John Thompson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 1. Is there a limit to the file size hardcoded in the
>>kernel?
>
>AFAIK, this is an intrinsic limitation of the filesystem.
Apparently what you *think* you know isn't correct. The ext2
filesystem supports files of up to 1TB in size.
The standard file access API on 32 bit architectures is what can't
handle more than 2GB.
>>2. What do I have to recompile in order to solve this or get around
>>it?
>
>Rather than backing up to another partition, you can backup
>to a device that does not use a filesystem; eg, a tape
>drive. Tar can handle multi-gigabyte archives on a tape
>drive without size limitation problems beyond the physical
>limitations of the media used.
Have you tried this so as to verify the veracity of this claim?
The *true* problem is that the data structure used to hold the pointer
that indicates how far into an input stream you are is only 32 bits.
TAR doesn't get you around this problem...
--
Who's afraid of the garbage collector?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/linuxkernel.html>
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From: "wilyan candra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: One for Many
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 14:19:14 +0800
Reply-To: "wilyan candra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Dear Friend,
I would like to have information about how to start a cyber net.
I want to use one connection for many computers.
I have already prepared the Hardware that I got from my friend, which are:
HUB 16 port
Ethernet Cards
2 Modem external
Do I miss something?
And also I would like to know what kind o
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #10Mon, 19 Apr 99 09:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (GAZZA)
Newbie--3c509b can't recognize ("Kevin")
Creative Banshee pci ("Tony")
Re: Programmers are gods ("Nostril Of Happiness")
From: GAZZA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 10:01:18 +0800
westprog wrote:
>
> Firstly, GAZZA, thank you for remaining polite and debating the
> issues (e.g. not accusing me of inane rants, etc.); it seems that
> case sensitivity is a sensitive issue for some people. Your tabloid
> image seems to be a gross misrepresentation.
My "tabloid image"? Err...perhaps you mean that "Gazza" is the
nickname of the soccer player Paul Gascoyne (sp?). In all fairness,
I'm not that personage; my name is Gary, and Gazza is just a
"short" name for it. (Like "Tel" for "Terry"; maybe you either have
to be English or a Minder fan).
In any case, though, you haven't been rude. We have a disagreement,
but I have never seen arguments won through descent to personal
insults. Besides, you do make it easier for me to understand your
position - even if I still don't actually agree with it.
> > > This could be useful, indeed. The trouble is that now you have
> > > "Object" and "object", which mean different things - if you fail
> > > to press the shift key at the right time, you get a valid
> > > symbol in the wrong place.
> >
> > No, you don't. You get an INvalid symbol in the wrong place. This
> > distinction is very important; the compiler (or a good GUI) will
> > spot this INSTANTLY.
>
> I was trying to think of an instance where a class definition and
> instantiation could be confused by the compiler, but I couldn't
> think of it.
Actually, you've got me there. Even in Fortran, where (IIRC) you
can happily use commands as variables (ie there are no "reserved
words"), the compiler can't get confused.
So case sensitivity doesn't really buy you anything here from a
compiler perspective (although I maintain it is still a handy
thing to be able to declare a variable object of type Object).
I profess to a certain ignorance here - in a language like Delphi
(which I don't know, but I've heard is basically OO Pascal and
presumably has the same case insensitivity of Pascal), is it
possible to "overload" on class names and variable identifiers?
(It's certainly not possible in the "C family", but due to case
sensitivity it's less necessary).
> > > This leads to confusion if you are discussing the code with
> > > someone - "Object" sounds quite similar to "object", and it looks
> > > very alike when written on a whiteboard.
> >
> > I don't tend to write up code on whiteboards, just designs. When I
> > want to discuss code, I get a printout. Is my methodolody in this
> > respect so very unusual?
>
> Not unusual, but not universal. I often find myself discussing class
> definitions with colleagues, or writing brief code fragments on a
> whiteboard, where my handwriting makes Object and object very easy
> to confuse.
I accept the point, then. My handwriting is probably worse than
yours, which is a large reason I avoid writing code "freehand". ;-)
> > > I don't think that it is up to the compiler to force "natural
> > > looking" code; that is appropriate for an editor.
> >
> > Well, we disagree. Fair enough.
>
> The C standard enforces on very limited instance of coding
> standards; i.e. not having the same variable written in two
> different ways; it prevents a lot of other standards. For example,
> it isn't possible to write your keywords in uppercase, or with
> an initial uppercase letter.
This would be a feature of any language, however, if we look
outside the case for a moment. If you compare the way to write
"Hello World" to the screen in various languages, you'll instantly
note that there are always subtle differences in context. It's not
unreasonable to want a language where YOU specify what the command
to display "Hello World" looks like - and indeed you can, if you
create a function that does that and encapsulates the details away.
For example, you could create a standard include file with a bunch
of #defines to use uppercase keywords.
Although I must be honest - such a procedure is fraught with
Linux-Hardware Digest #64
Linux-Hardware Digest #64, Volume #9 Wed, 30 Dec 98 18:13:36 EST
Contents:
Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am stuck
in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! (THE DUNGEONS OF
DOOM)
Damaged ext2 filesystem (Miikka-Markus Alhonen)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HELP !!! (THE
DUNGEONS OF DOOM)
Re: Linux Laptop (=?iso-8859-1?Q?G=FCnther?= Wieser)
Re: LS120 (garv)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I haveCox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SOHELP !!! (Mantikor)
Re: Viking External Modem Works! (Nathan Zalman)
Re: AMD K62-3d and 2.0.36 (Phillip Deackes)
Re: ATX Power Supplies and Linux - RedHat 5.2 (garv)
Re: Micro Star mother board MS-5169 (garv)
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have (Michael)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Graham Murray)
Re: RC.INET (Josef Elias Norgan)
Re: COMPUTERCRAFT archives of Linux USENET groups (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Can run a AMD K6-2 300 with a ASUS TX 97 X MB ??
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!! (Rick Moen)
Re: kernel panic! ("Exiguus DeBartolo")
AWE64 or PCI128? ("Tim Gajewski, KU4IY")
Re: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!!
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (THE DUNGEONS OF DOOM )
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Want to do direct install of Redhat 5.2 via FTP since I have Cox@home but am
stuck in the DUNGEONS OF DOOM !!! SO HEELP !!!
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 18:46:46 GMT
Hi. i do apologize if my message sounds a bit too long but at least
you all will be able to figure out the sticky problem I'm stuck with
and may even know how to help me out of it. I currently am running
Windows 98 on one hard disk. However, since it is 7.5 GB and it's
32-bit, Linux won't recognize it when I first install Linux. At least
that's what I have been told and eventually found out. Besides, sure I
can download 500 MB in 2 hrs without any trouble via my cable modem,
but I would still need to copy it to a CD-R or CD-RW disc or something
and I'm not gonna pay $200 - $400 for CD-R/RW (in case you all wanted
to know why I would not prefer to copy to a storage device and then
install). I'm not sure if Linux will do it off my zip disks if I copy
linux to 6 zip discs. In any case, these wonderful people keep on
changing the versions of RH Linux. Therefore having got fed up with
it, I looked in the book which talked about RH Linux and how to
install. Well, I had versions 3 and 4 of RH but since some of my
crucial hardware at that time could not be recognized I abandoned RH
until I finally found out that if I had a direct connection with
Cox@home just like corporations and universities that have a direct
connection with their T1, T3, OC-3, etc... server, then you don't even
have to download RH linux. All you really have to download are the
boot.img and supp.img files and transfer them to two blank but
formatted 3.5" high density disks. So I did just that and booted up my
machine and when I got to the installation method option, I chose ftp
method. When I got to the ethernet card question, I 3c509 driver. By
the way, I still have the 3c509b PnP 16-bit Ethernet adaptor which I
obtained when I used to attend another university. Rather than sell
it, I kept it for something like a cable modem. In fact that same
ethernet card I had was part of the requirements for my cable modem
installation. Anyway, RH Linux never in the past had any trouble
recognizing my ethernet card. The only trouble was recognizing my
video cards,my parallel port zip drive, and my higher capacity hard
drive. here, in 5.2 that was not the problem. however, when I got to
the options of DHCP, BOOTP, and Static Address, I chose the Static
option and filled in my fields correctly. However, I got an error
message saying unable to connect to host. I fully verified the ftp
site address and typed it correctly. So I then went back and tried the
other two options only to get the "no response" error message from
bootp and dhcp. So the question still remains, isn't it possible to
install via ftp with cox@home and if so, how and what configurations
are to be made during installation?
P.S:
PLEASE DO NO TELL ME TO USE ANOTHER VERSION OF UNIX SINCE I KINDA AM
USED TO RH
