Linux-Hardware Digest #804, Volume #9 Mon, 22 Mar 99 09:14:37 EST
Contents:
Re: CD mount error (Willi Richert)
Re: set the clock (Willi Richert)
Re: Linux + Solaris -> partition problem (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
Millennium zoom feature ("Brian Griffiths")
Again SiS 6326 AGP? (Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano)
Re: AMD vs PII ("Alexander Dymerets")
FS: 4 Digital VT-340-A2 Terminals; $75 US. (Kent Rankin)
Re: Which processor ("Alexander Dymerets")
Re: LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk) (Dr A O V Le Blanc)
Help with Aztech PCI Sounc Cards & ATI TV Tuner ("RaVe N MaDD")
Re: What videocard do you use? (Axel Liljencrantz)
Re: ghostscript and Epson Stylus Color 600 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IDT Winchip (Han Speek)
SCSI controller problems (urgrue)
Re: Banshee ("Phil Guerney")
Re: HP Colorado 5 or 8 GB success story, anybody? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Banshee (Nam)
Tape Backup Help Please ("W.C.")
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:12:32 +0100
From: Willi Richert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: CD mount error
Rich wrote:
> Hi
>
> Can anyone offer any advice, I keep getting this error whilst trying to
> install SuSE 6.0 Linux:
>
> An error occured mounting the CD. The error output of the mount command is:
>
> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd
> or too many mounted file systems
>
> My Cdrom works with DOS/Win98 and it works with Linux during most of the
> installation. I have tried entering into YAST and
> configuring Installation Medium to IDE ATAPI but I get the same error
> message. I have noticed when my PC starts Linux it reconises the Maxtor IDE
> hard drive as /dev/hda and the CDrom as /dev/hdb.
>
> Thank you
> Richard Booth
In my case I had to delete the spaces in the option fields of /etc/fstab.
Took some days to figuring it out...
willi
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Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:14:33 +0100
From: Willi Richert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: set the clock
Igor Vedernjak wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a dedicated server with redhat OS and need to know, how to set the
> server clock to Central Europe Time via telnet?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Igor
try "clock"...
linux makes differences between system time and cmos time. But I think clock
does it.
willi
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux + Solaris -> partition problem
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 12:22:33 +0200
Hello,
Your problem could be kernel config option "CONFIG_SMD_DISKLABEL".
It is SMD disklabel (Sun partition tables) support, and it is turned off in
default kernel that ships with RedHat 5.2
Hope this helps,
Abdullah
Timo wrote:
> do is set up NT, Linux and Solaris 7 so that they could be switched with
> ...
> adding Solaris on the IDE disk: Linux stops at something like
> "checking the partitions...
> hda: "
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From: "Brian Griffiths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Millennium zoom feature
Date: 22 Mar 1999 09:31:11 GMT
I'd like to use the hardware zoom features of my
Matrox Millennium under X11. Does anyone know of
and tools to do this or even where I can get hold of
some specs so I can write the code myself.
Thanks - Brian
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From: Carlos Oscar Sanchez Sorzano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Again SiS 6326 AGP?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:54:44 +0000
Daniel wrote:
> Last year I setup a system with a SiS 6326 AGP.
> At the time XFree86 was at version 3.3.2 which
> did not come with support for the card. I was able to
> find a server for the card at the S.u.S.E. web site
> but then soon after that 3.3.3 came out.
>
> I was never very happy with this card. I could never
> get more than 256 color unless I ran it at 800x600.
>
Hi you all.
I am trying to configure a SiS 6326 AGP video card on Linux with the Xfree86
3.3.3. The problem is that it seems that the configuration program doesn't
recognise the memory from the card (videoram=0) and all display modes are
deleted. Even if I edit manually the XF86config file and set up the valid
modes for my monitor, when I start the X windows (xinit), evrything becomes
black and you can see that the cursor changes when you are on top of the
terminal or outside it. But you cannot see anything as everything is black
(except the cursor).
May somebody help me? Thanks before hand.
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From: "Alexander Dymerets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD vs PII
Date: 22 Mar 1999 10:43:28 GMT
> I understand that if I use an AMD CPU I would compile Linux kernal as
> for a 386. But if I use a PII
Compile kernel as for PPro
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: FS: 4 Digital VT-340-A2 Terminals; $75 US.
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:07:22 GMT
Subject says it all. They are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449,
and are as follows:
Digital VT340-A2
Dual session
ReGiS/SiXeL graphics supported
Color(16 simultaneous colors of a 4096
color palette).
A bit of a larger screen than most
terminals
Firmware V1.1
1 DB25 comm port
2 MMJ comm ports
1 Mouse port
1 MMJ printer port
Anyhow, do send word if you can use them.
-Kent Rankin
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From: "Alexander Dymerets" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which processor
Date: 22 Mar 1999 10:54:10 GMT
> Intel really shoot itself in the leg with the PIII.
Why? PIII is really expansive now, like any new CPU.
In some months it's price will be acceptable.
Alexander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dr A O V Le Blanc)
Crossposted-To: linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk)
Date: 22 Mar 1999 11:08:14 -0000
Vincent Zocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>When I install LILO on /dev/sda things look better. Linux boots fine.
>NT4 however, starts a boot sequence but the gives me the BSOD with some
>message that it coudn't find the boot device. Ok, silly NT4.
This is a known bug in NT4: it is looking for a CLI instruction at the
start of the primary boot loader code. LILO 2.1 works around this by
inserting the CLI instruction.
-- Owen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "RaVe N MaDD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help with Aztech PCI Sounc Cards & ATI TV Tuner
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 06:04:56 -0600
My problems center around the mistake of purchasing not 1, but 2 sound
cards by Aztech (the first is an SC-128 PCI & my wife's which is the 338-A3D
PCI). I've checked with 4Front about their OSS & neither cards are
supported. Supposedly the SC-128 uses the S3 SonicVibes chipset, but I
still can't get audio on either machine.
Also, is there any software to utilize the TV tuner on ATI video card
available? The ATI has a BT829 chip on board & that option is compiled as a
module for the kernel.
Here's a breakdown of what I'm
running:
Server
=========
PII-300 @ 100mHz Bus 64 MB RAM
6.4 GB WD HDD 8 MB ATI All-In-Wonder Pro AGP
8 MB Monster 3D-II PCI Realtek 8029 PCI NIC
Aztech SC-128 PCI AcerOpen 33.6 Modem ISA
24x Pioneer IDE CDROM Memorex 2216 CDRW
Internal IDE Zip Dual 1.4/1.2 FDD
Slackware 3.5 (upgraded to kernel 2.2.3 & KDE 1.1)
Client (wife's Machine)
===============================
Pentium 233MMX 32 MB RAM
4.3 GB WD HDD 4 MB Matrox Mystique
Realtek 8029 PVI NIC Aztech 338-A3D PCI
24x Mitsumi CDROM 1.4 FDD
Slackware 3.5 (upgraded to kernel 2.2.3 & KDE 1.1)
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From: Axel Liljencrantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: What videocard do you use?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 10:57:07 +0100
Andrew Comech wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to hear your experience with cheap videocards;
> precisely, at which resolutions YOU RUN THEM,
> and what is the best refresh and color depth.
> Also, if there is something specific in the configuration.
Actually, graphics cards are pretty cheap nowadays, so if I were you I'd
get a good one. I'm perfectly happy with my Riva TNT based card, and I
run it at 1600*1200 32 bpp 75 hz refresh ( Windows confines me to 60
hz..... )
hth
/Axel Liljencrantz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: ghostscript and Epson Stylus Color 600
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:53:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use StarOffice and Wordperfect for Linux, and thus far I have been
> saving my files in Postscript format, then using Ghostview or Kghostview
> (KDE) to view and print them. Is there a more direct way to print my
> files without using ghostview? (Can I use ghostscript directly from the
> word processors some how, in other words?) Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Jonathan Bowman
>
You can find a solution in the SUSE-data base
http://www.suse.de/sdb/de/html/kfr_51.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Han Speek)
Subject: Re: IDT Winchip
Date: 22 Mar 1999 12:55:57 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <7d05mn$dc5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"BSI Produktnews" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> ======================================
> IDT Winchips ab sofort lieferbar:
>
> * Winchip C6 in allen Varianten
>
> * Winchip 2 mit 3D-NOW in allen
> Varianten
>
> E-Mail-Anfragen:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> ======================================
>
Hi,
OK, so it runs Windows - that's why it's called Winchip :-)
But... does it run Linux ? Has anyone actually used one of these in a Linux
box ? If so, what flavour/version ?
Thanks,
Han.
--
H. Speek, B.Sc. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MESA Research Institute http://www.ice.el.utwente.nl/~han/
Univ. of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (urgrue)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: SCSI controller problems
Date: 22 Mar 1999 12:38:25 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello. I cant get linux to recognize my SCSI controller. Problem is that the
computer is an older 486 and the controller is integrated in the motherboard.
I have no idea what brand it is. I did, however, find a chip marked 'NCR53C94'
which is pretty close to some drivers available (such as NCR53C8xx etc). In
the bios i've set the scsi to 0x340, irq 11, dma 6, which are the defaults (no
conflicts, i've checked). ive manually gone through each and every driver
provided with both suse and red hat, giving each always io=0x340 as a
parameter, with no success. i also tried autoprobing and autoloading of
modules. generally i get a normal error message such as 'device blah blah not
found' which makes sense. sometimes i get something like 'VFS: Media in dev
2:0 changed' or 'No minix or ext2 filesystem in dev 2:0'. i'm guessing thats
just the modules being weird upon not finding my scsi controller, because
there certainly is an ext2 filesystem in fd0 (the boot disk) and it hasn't
'changed'.
anyone have any suggestions? I cant really install linux without a recognized
hard drive :(
fred
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From: "Phil Guerney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Banshee
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 23:42:44 +1000
Greg White wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> Is the Voodoo Banshee supported at all in X?
>
>http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
>
>Try the above URL for instructions and a binary download of an X server
>for Banshee graphics cards.
I have tried several times to download this file. I never get a gzip
compatible file as a result, and all the usual indications are wrong during
the download (time estimates of 100's of hours). The file on my local drive
always ends up being BansheeX-199902230.tar.gz and 3,130kB long.
[I'm still using Windows having only got Linux X Windows working as a very
low resolution, essentially useless screen with my Voodoo Banshee card. The
Windows IE4 download dialog goes crazy with this file, never seen such
behaviour before.]
Anyone else had trouble? Is the file mirrored somewhere else?
Thanks for suggestions
Phil
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HP Colorado 5 or 8 GB success story, anybody?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 11:50:01 GMT
For those interested, I would like to add an update to this posting.
Since I wrote this, I have been able to get my colorado to work "raw", using
paride compiled into the kernel, and select "epat" and "pt" as the drivers for
the device.
However, the "mt" commands don't (yet) work and for all intents and purposes
the device is dead to all backup software. Only a raw "tar" directly to
/dev/pt1 works and writes to the tape drive.
So there IS light at the end of the tunnel. If anyone is interested, I have
a script to load in the correct modules for the drive. Please just email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] and I will send it to you. If demand it high, I will put
up a web page.
If anyone gets the drive working with "mt", please email the solution to me!!!
Brad
In article <7auob9$le2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I don't think that it is possible to drive it via the parallel port ...
> I have had no luck at all and I know that my config is correct for the
> port at least because I can drive PLIP and the printer without any problems
> at all.
>
> My 8GB Colorado (external) drive is and remains, totally dead.
>
> Frankly, I think that the thing isn't compatible with the ftape drivers for
> some reason. If anyone knows how to get the specs for this device I am looking
> at changing ftape to work with it, but need proper documentation first.
>
> Brad.
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David R. Christianson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Has IDE-Tape support changed since kernel 2.0.36? I couldn't get HP 5GB
> > to work with that. Something about not supporting non-DRQ drives. The
> > whole box locked up when I tried to access the tape. Only the 8GB and
> > Seagate clone were supported. If it is supported under 2.2.1, I'll have
> > to toss it back in!
> >
> > John Thompson wrote:
> >
> > > I have gotten the Colorado 5GB IDE unit to work with kernel
> > > 2.2.1 using tar. I've been struggling with taper but no joy
> > > so far. But tar works fine so I feel less desparate about
> > > not being able to use taper.
> > >
> > > --
> > >
> > > -John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
>
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Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 12:43:42 -0600
From: Nam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Banshee
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Yann MORERE wrote:
Glen L. Spangler a écrit:
>
> Is the Voodoo Banshee supported at all in X?
Ooops very difficult to make it works peharps with the standard SVGA X
server with configuring a standard svga card...
For the latest news go to the news server
news.3dfx.com
and read the newsgroups there.
I haven't read them for a while, but last month Daryll Straus (I
believe) announced a
mostly stable x-server for the Banshee. His page is
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
<http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html>
There is also some info for using a linear frame buffer device using VBE
2.0 at
http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/
<http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/>
You may also want to read
http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/bansheeFAQS.html
<http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/bansheeFAQS.html>
Hope this helps!
--
Norm Mortensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
() "When all you have is a hammer ...
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## ... everything looks like a nail!"
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<P>Yann MORERE wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Glen L. Spangler a écrit:
<BR>>
<BR>> Is the Voodoo Banshee supported at all in X?
<BR>Ooops very difficult to make it works peharps with the standard SVGA
X
<BR>server with configuring a standard svga card...</BLOCKQUOTE>
For the latest news go to the news server
<BR>news.3dfx.com
<BR>and read the newsgroups there.
<P>I haven't read them for a while, but last month Daryll Straus (I believe)
announced a
<BR>mostly stable x-server for the Banshee. His page is
<BR> <A
HREF="http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html">http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html</A>
<P>There is also some info for using a linear frame buffer device using
VBE 2.0 at
<BR> <A
HREF="http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/">http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/</A>
<P>You may also want to read
<BR><A
HREF="http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/bansheeFAQS.html">http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/bansheeFAQS.html</A>
<BR>
<P>Hope this helps!
<BR>--
<BR>
<P>Norm Mortensen
<BR>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<P><TT>
() "When all you have is a hammer ...</TT>
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<BR><TT>
## ... everything looks like a nail!"</TT>
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From: "W.C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tape Backup Help Please
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 07:49:17 -0500
Newbie server operator here. I'm running a POP server, and, since people
are relying on me to provide their mail, I would like to make backups each
night. I have installed an Adaptec 2940 SCSI interface and an HP SureStore
T20 tape drive (10/20).
How does one go about mounting and using such a device? I've investigated
the tar command and mount command in my references, but cannot locate solid
information.
Actually, I have an internal Zip100Mb IDE device and have the same question
about that.
All hp will be certainly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Bill
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