Linux-Hardware Digest #699
Linux-Hardware Digest #699, Volume #14 Sat, 28 Apr 01 11:13:04 EDT Contents: Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives (Gabriele Del Prete) Re: general noise (Garglemonster) Re: Help with RH7.0 did not detect USRobotics/3com 56k model 005687-03 (silveraxe) Re: Help with RH7.0 did not detect USRobotics/3com 56k model 005687-03 (silveraxe) redhat 7.1/mandrake 8.0 screensaver (Larry Snyder) A7V133 Audio with linux (Larry Snyder) Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives (Gabriele Del Prete) Re: Cannot Install RH7.1 - Partition Table Corrupt ! (J-Pip) how to use wheel mouse (Johnny Kim) Re: GA-7ZX, ALSA, and Sound (olgnuby) Help whit RAID controller (MEX) Re: CD writers (Frank Hahn) Re: how to use wheel mouse (Peter) Re: aggiornamento hardware (Lucky) Re: Modem (Lucky) Re: Promise FastTrak100, which distribution supports it? (Jan Koop) AT keyboard timeout (Peter) Re: Easy to run Ethernet/Modem combo PCMCIA (Andreas Somogyi) Re: phoneline nic (atlmike) sis 6215c (Tankd) ICP Vortex now with Intel - How to still buy ICP Controllers? Please read. (Leo) From: Gabriele Del Prete [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 13:25:37 +0200 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 17:24:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr) wrote: Note the raid support is a closed source driver by promise and this is only software raid. The software raid in kernel 2.4.x series works just as well as the promise driver. Note the promise raid driver will not work with 2.4.x kernels, and promise is not promising to upgrade the driver. I've discovered yesterday that promise controllers have some incompatibilities with Maxtor drives. Can you suggest another udma66 or udma100 controller? (i don't need RAID). See the above site for more details. Thank you, will take a look! -- Gabriele Del Prete [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- From: Garglemonster [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: general noise Date: 28 Apr 2001 20:30:28 +0900 Dances == Dances With Crows [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dances On Fri, 27 Apr 2001 00:00:02 GMT, Piet staggered into the Dances Black Sun and said: I have a small other question. I currently have a p-III @ 550Mhz, and this thing is really _incredibly_ noisy :( I have to shut it down when I go to bed, where I would rather just leave it on all the time. Do recent machines still have this major disadvantage? Dances The noisiest components in a PC are generally the hard Dances disks and their fans, the CPU fan, and the power supply Dances fan (roughly in that order, I think.) It is possible to Dances spin down any IDE hard disks you are not using with hdparm Dances -Y, but note that you cannot really spin down the disk Dances that contains your / or /var partition without tweaking Dances the update daemon so that it doesn't flush buffers every Dances 30 seconds. Modern i386 CPUs cannot live without fans, Dances but more expensive fan+heatsink combos are often quieter. Dances If it's the CPU fan that's driving you batty, well, the Dances PowerPC line don't need fans even the noisiest hard disks aren't really that noisy ... by themselves. however, when you bolt them to a case, they get really noisy because cases amplify the sound. that's why i have my disks floating on foam rubber, unbolted. this makes a huge difference, especially with scsi disks. i used to be able to hear cronjobs starting up while sitting on the toliet, which is a couple rooms removed from the machine in question. ( / is on a cheetah, though the worst disk is an st32550). now i here more hard disk noise from my ancient laptop/firewall. i have to be careful when moving the machine, but honestly, how often does one move a tower? g.m. p.s. thermistor controlled fans are a plus, too. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm also pre-POURED pre-MEDITATED and pre-RAPHAELITE!! -- From: silveraxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Help with RH7.0 did not detect USRobotics/3com 56k model 005687-03 Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 11:30:06 - Qadmon wrote: Do a setserial -g /dev/ttyS* and find out what port address its on. This indicates the com port. If its not com1,2,3, or 4 then at boot time it will not be probed. After you discover its values then you can set a link from /dev/modem to /dev/whatever ttyS it is. 1,2,3,4,5,etc Com5 will be a bitch. On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 06:30:03 -, silveraxe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would appreciate your help to this newbie who is given linux a try. Thanks Thanks for your help but nothing you said really worked, however I just unistalled the board and changed the jumpers asigning it to a specific com/irp ports (factory setting is pnp). After that Linux
Linux-Hardware Digest #699
Linux-Hardware Digest #699, Volume #10Thu, 8 Jul 99 01:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: 3com VEverything modem (Kaya Imre)
Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC (Kenneth Been)
Re: I have a Intel 740??? (Jeff Potter)
Re: modem mystery (Kenneth Been)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (L.Angel)
Re: Hoe to config my modem? ("Chris")
Re: SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) (John McKown)
Re: Seeking video card recommendation (Jack Carroll)
Re: File Server Hardware (Brian McCullough)
Re: SbLive Linux drivers and RH 6.0 (David H. Calvarese)
Re: Xwindows + ATI All in Wonder Pro AGP (brody)
SCSI v. IDE boot conflict (Linux-only system) (JeremyDunn)
Re: CPU Question (The 2-Belo)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (Alex Lam)
Setup Promise EIDE 2300+ VLB controller (Roger Ehrlich)
Re: Internal Modem (Nir)
DPT SmartRaid III, EATA driver module issues with kernel 2.2.5 (pjs)
Re: File Server Hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: aha1540 (ie aha1542) - can't load module (Scott)
From: Kaya Imre [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3com VEverything modem
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:14:25 -0400
JC Ervin wrote:
I was wondering if there is anybody out there that may be able to help me
out. I have a 3com Veverything external modem and I can't get the damn
thing to work. So if anybody has any ideas, please help me.
"Doesn't work" is hardly enough for anyone to give any advice.
I have USR v.everything external and it work flawlessly.
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:56:11 -0400
From: Kenneth Been [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Let's build a perfect Wintel-free PC
Ludovic Hirlimann wrote:
You're still talking 'tel' here. the K7 is definitivly in the "intel"
world because it complies and is compatible with the 80386 architecture
(which somehow is very close to the 4004 architecture dev in the 70s).
Looking for a non wintel machine means not using Microsoft software nor
using Intel x86 processors (why didn't they pushed their i860 and so
good other processors).
You should be looking for PowerPc based machines - Mips, Arm, Alpha
based machine.
I agree. Go for an altogether non-PC architecture.
I was getting really interested in the Netwinder (see
http://www.rebel.com or http://www.netwinder.org), but then I realized
that it has no floating point unit, as well as some other smaller
problems, like a noisy fan.
I would be interested in hearing about other non-PC Linux boxes.
Ken
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From: Jeff Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I have a Intel 740???
Date: Thu, 08 Jul 1999 02:48:58 +
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Joceli Mayer wrote:
Laurence wrote:
How do I get drivers for my Intel 740???
download from ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XFCom/
it should work for RedHat distributions, maybe for others too ...
These is a good readme there,
good luck
My stock answers:
Try the X Server from Precision Insight (
http://www.precisioninsight.com ).
The file you want is named XFCom-i740-glibc-1.1.0-1.i386 located here:
ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/pi/XFCom/XFCom-i740-glibc-1.1.0-1.i386.rpm
also get:
ftp://ftp.precisioninsight.com/pub/pi/XFCom/xf86config-glibc-1.1.0.i386.tgz
Follow the instructions after decompressing the .tgz file. The .rpm
file
should install correctly. I had marginal success with the "automatic"
XF86Config created, and had to hand-edit some modelines.
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 1999 22:41:57 -0400
From: Kenneth Been [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modem mystery
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
Here is the output when I do
setserial -g /dev/ttyS?
Uh.
/dev/ttyS0, UART: unknown, Port: 0x03f8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
/dev/ttyS2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4
/dev/ttyS3, UART: unknown, Port: 0x02e8, IRQ: 3
Two serial ports, ttyS1 and ttyS2 . This should work, as long as your
onboard serial port (that one you're connecting your external modem to)
has been configured as ttyS2. The setup is a bit weird, though:
It seems that you did disable ttyS0 in your CMOS setup as well, or did you
just change the port address in the CMOS for that port ?
What does "cat /proc/interrupts" tell you ?
I only disabled one port in the setup utility (that's the one that you
enter when booting by pressing F2). That was COM2, which I assume is
the same as /dev/ttyS1. (I think the setup utility called it "COM B".)
The (not very useful) documentation that I got from Gateway said I
should do that if I installed an internal modem, and since I changed the
port on my old modem, I figured that was the same as insta
