Linux-Hardware Digest #333
Linux-Hardware Digest #333, Volume #9 Tue, 2 Feb 99 02:13:42 EST
Contents:
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Andy Glew)
Two keyboards and monitors (kociak)
300A@450 linux reboots as it's boots up ("karlo")
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (Chris Lee)
Re: New NIC and video chips
Re: Hard Drive install for Red Hat 5.2 won't WORK!!!
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (John Brush)
Re: Hard Drive install for Red Hat 5.2 won't WORK!!! (Grant Leslie)
Re: SCSI DAT and backup (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cant get NIC to work aahhh!!! (Craig Lucas)
Re: Hard Drive install for Red Hat 5.2 won't WORK!!! (Woon Lim Cheng)
Canon C5000 driver (Sam Hostetter)
Re: Compiling error with Soundblaster AWE32 (MRoman)
Cyrix "Coma bug" (David Kirkpatrick)
From: Andy Glew [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.arch,comp.arch.storage,alt.os.linux,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 13:39:49 -0600
By the way, folks, wrt to my earlier post about single
disk RAID, I should make explicit my interests:
(1) Online storage for personal computers with
only one, or at most two, disk spindles.
Typically for PCs that are actively
used less than 20% of the time (e.g. 20-30 hours
per week), which may not even be powered up
at other times.
(2) Archival storage - e.g. Jazz disks sitting on a shelf,
CD-Rs in ISO filesystem format. The sort of stuff
that you save for years, and then try to read back.
I'd even extend this to tapes, but I'll admit that I have
never been able to successfully read all of a tape more than
10 years old.
I.e. storage systems where it is not possible to regularly
scan the data, detect incipient errors, and then correct them.
And, similarly, storage systems where multiple media sets
are either unavailable or undesirable.
Although if anyone has tools
that make reconstructing a single image from two Jazz drive
or tape or CD-R copies of the same data, both
having what appear to be block errors in different places, I'd appreciate
it. I.e. basically preserving the model of one logical device or storage
item to the human user.
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From: kociak [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Two keyboards and monitors
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 05:02:41 +0100
Hej !
What you mean, may it works two keyborads and monitros in one pc on
linux. ?
I want use first keyborad with first monitor and second keyboard with
second monitor.
If some one know any thing about this ... thanks for answer.
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From: "karlo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 300A@450 linux reboots as it's boots up
Date: 2 Feb 1999 04:08:38 GMT
I have a strange problem?
Windows boots fine @450
but as linux is booting up it just restarts the computer??
what the hell is going on here???
anyone have any clues???
thanks
karlo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: 2 Feb 1999 04:22:27 GMT
In article 36b5d8c4$3$qnivqjrv$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
In 794i0k$jvc$[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/01/99
at 03:42 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lee) said:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
How would this help someone who's ISP didn't support X2?!?
Did you shop for an ISP the same way you shop for modems? My ISP
supported X2 right out of the gate.
Why bother? I wasn't about to dump my ISP just because they choose not to
support X2.
Then who are you to bitch about X2 not being available? You choosed not to
find a better ISP.
What makes you think I had a problem with knowing my ISP did not support X2?
All it meant I knew what modem not to buy...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: New NIC and video chips
Date: 2 Feb 1999 04:24:15 GMT
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999 12:19:20 -0700, Johnnie Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi,
While trying to install RedHat 5.2 on a new machine I have ran into two
devices
that are not currently recognized.
The first is a new S3 video chip. It reports as an S3 but the sub type
code
is a new one of 0x8904. It installs find but the Xserver does not
recognize it.
The second is the ethernet controler the message I get is:
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: VIA technologies unknown device (rev.6).
Vendor id=1106. Device IO=3043
Medium devsel. IRQ 11. Master capable.
Linux-Hardware Digest #336
Linux-Hardware Digest #336, Volume #9 Tue, 2 Feb 99 15:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: Recomendations? Dual Processor MB with EIDE built in and compatible (Johan
Groth)
Re: HELPME -config 1106cyclnder disk under RH5 ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Re: HP 690C and ghostscript (Brian D. May)
Re: Internal SCSI Zip-drive (Not detected) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson))
Re: Internal SCSI Zip-drive (Not detected) (James Tappin)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (John Varela)
Re: Monitor 1024x768 under Win, 640-480 (and flaky) under Linux (arozhkov)
Max Laptop ("Marvin J. Kosmal")
Re: HELPME -config 1106cyclnder disk under RH5 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3Com Model 5687 (Allan Chunn)
Re: HELPME -config 1106cyclnder disk under RH5 (Pasi =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=E4rnstedt?=)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (John Varela)
QuickCam VC USB ("Ruben Orduz")
Re: DMA (Jose Urena)
Re: zoom 56k pci dualmode modem (model 2925) (Jose Urena)
From: Johan Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recomendations? Dual Processor MB with EIDE built in and compatible
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 19:15:25 +0100
Erik Olson wrote:
Craig Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As far as I know there are no dual boards that support AMD or Cyrix
because SMP was created by Intel. If you find one though I'd love to know
about it, because I was looking for one too.
Does anyone know if AMD's upcoming K7 will support SMP?
According to AMD the K7 will support SMP. Checkout http://www.amd.com
///Johan
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: HELPME -config 1106cyclnder disk under RH5
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 1999 12:21:28 -0600
Use cfdisk to partition your disk. fdisk always uses actual geometry where
cfdisk can use apparent geometry. This will then allow lilo and other boot
programs to work. fdisk is antiquated.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Johnny El wrote in message 79152r$10m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi folks
this is my 2nd attempt to get an answer on this.
I'll be more specific this time.
I'm trying to configure a scsi disk drive under RH5, but it wont mount the
disk.
I think its because a cylnder limit, can you confirm that?
the errors I get are:
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[root@linuxhost /root]# fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software form other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help):
=
Command (m for help):
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot BeginStart End Blocks Id System
Command (m for help):
any help will be appreciated1
Johnny El
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian D. May)
Subject: Re: HP 690C and ghostscript
Date: 2 Feb 1999 17:56:56 GMT
Pietro Abate ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: HI,
: I don't know how to use my Deskjet with ghostscprit.
: I've tried to compile ghstscript with hpdj, but seems doesen't work, and i
: don't find any RH package with this feature.
: Someone have experience about that ? Someone have a suitable rpm package
: (for RH) ?
If you upgrade to gs 5.10 from:
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/redhat/contrib/i386/
ghostscript-5.10-6.i386.rpm
ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10-7.noarch.rpm
i.e., rpm -U ghostscript-5.10-6.i386.rpm
rpm -U ghostscript-fonts-std-5.10-7.noarch.rpm
You will be able to use the following devices:
$ gs -h
Aladdin Ghostscript 5.10 (1997-11-23)
Available devices:
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11gray2 x11mono lvga256 vgalib eps9high eps9mid
epson epsonc ibmpro lq850 deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3
ljet3d ljet4 djet820c cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550 cdj670
cdj850 cdj890 cdj1600 djet500c dnj650c pj pjxl pjxl300 hpdj uniprint
bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800 cp50 jetp3852 st800 stcolor tek4696 faxg3
faxg32d faxg4 dfaxhigh dfaxlow pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b
pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw tiffcrle
tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc bmpmono bmp16
bmp256 bmp16m psmono psgray bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16
png256 png16m jpeg jpeggray cgmmono cgm8 cgm24 sgirgb pdfwrite pswrite
epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage
which includes hpdj.
Should work for you.
Cheers,
Brian
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Brian May
Department of Oceanography email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dalhousie Universityphone: (902) 494-7007 (work)
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Linux-Hardware Digest #340
Linux-Hardware Digest #340, Volume #9 Tue, 2 Feb 99 23:13:26 EST
Contents:
Re: RedHat 5.2 kde ("karlo")
Linux apps in win2000 port news! (M Sweger)
Re: Intel i740 AGP video card ("karlo")
PC reset when installing (Hilaire Fernandes)
Re: Soundcard Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI (Giles Jones)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (Doug Bissett)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (John Varela)
Re: Same Disk RAID and Mirroring (Malcolm Weir)
Re: Tape file marks (Phil Howard)
Trick to setup ATI All-in-Wonder AGP (JS Root)
sofwtare RAID-0, controller query. (Chris Parkin)
Re: Creative Labs SB PCI128 and 3DFX Banshee drivers (Andy Wendel)
Two cordless mice at one receiver? (KL-Services)
Re: SurfBoard 1000 Cable Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan))
Advice on connecting LINUX with NT servers ("S. Sachdeva")
Re: BH6 Mainboard and "LI" boot problem ("Oo.et.oO")
Re: Cirrus Logic GD5446 and PCI detection ("Michael")
X11 and Banshe ("Daniele")
HP2000C ("Pierre Laffitte")
From: "karlo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 5.2 kde
Date: 3 Feb 1999 01:32:19 GMT
This combination is just kick ass.
I never want to go to wincrap again.
But I have to for games.
David B. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
recently upgraded RH 5.1 to 5.2 - when I install kde - rpm creates the
path /opt/kde in the root partition.
i didn't allow room for this
is there a way to point rpm to the /usr partition??
early on i had no problems with rh 5.1, kde rpm installing in the same
configuration i now use
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M Sweger)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Linux apps in win2000 port news!
Date: 2 Feb 1999 15:58:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
Just saw on the biz wire that a company http://www.interix.com has
developed a 64 bit application that runs a a unix/linux emulator within
the MSoft Win2000 (NT5.0) platform environment. They want alot of
Linux apps ported to their API interface so that Unix runs within Windows.
Seems kind of ironic since Linux is trying to run Windows apps in Unix;
but we don't have the source code to their stuff, but they have ours.
Hmmm! seems like there isn't any competition again. Msoft is supporting them
though.
They have a limited list of things they want ported such as gcc (all compilers and
assemblers) and emacs and Tex to name a few. You have 2.5 months to do it
by -- they end of January 1999. Anything else is nice but they won't pay for.
Those they'd like you to port will only pay a maximum of $1000 to a cheap
payment of $500. They didn't mention [conveniently] that they would like the
linux kernel or Sunos x86 kernel etc to run within the interix Win2000.
The reason it was supposed to be done by the end of January 1999 (now past)
is due to todays press release about this product.
Hmmm! if you can't get the Unix software vendors to port their stuf from Unix
to Window Nt, then make the Unix apps run within NT! In this way you can
say that your OS is a engineering workstation.
--
Mike,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "karlo" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Intel i740 AGP video card
Date: 3 Feb 1999 01:35:20 GMT
I hate the red hat site it's crap and suck big time.
http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html
This is where I got it, works just great and fast. things will slow down a
bit at 24bpp and 32 bpp.
karlo
michel simoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in article
[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi,
Anybody knows where to get the Intel i740 video card Linux driver and/or
which video card models already have a driver for Linux ?
Thanks.
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From: Hilaire Fernandes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PC reset when installing
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:26:46 +0100
Every time I try to install linux the PC rest after loading the kernel
(i thing this is after the PCI probing)
The main board is AL-B583 with Intel 40TX chips
The CPU is a K6 200Mhz
I try to disable the UlttraDMA with success.
In the past I installed linux on a K6 PC with this problem.
I try with RedHat 4.2 5.1 5.2, the problem is the same
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Giles Jones)
Subject: Re: Soundcard Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 01:35:56 GMT
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:42:25 -0600, Eric Sandeen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This card uses the Ensoniq 1371 chipset... it *is* supported in kernel
2.2, I'm not sure if was supported in the 2.0 series - I don't think it
was.
Works fine with the 2.2 kernel. Check the chipset first (could be 1370)
I found out by looking at the inf file on the Creative labs cd which
came with the sc
