Linux-Hardware Digest #127
Linux-Hardware Digest #127, Volume #14Thu, 4 Jan 01 09:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Unable to contact host ("Dan White")
Re: RedHat 6.1 does not see the hard disks ("Dan White")
Re: CD Burner (Aulne)
Re: HELP!: Abit KT-7 RAID Mandrake 7.2 problems!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DAT in RH7 (Harri Haataja)
CPU upgrade for old Intel P90 (Zappa motherboard) (Chris Rankin)
Re: Newbie question ("Seamus Boyle")
DVB Satellite PCI Cards (Matt)
PenCam, Mp3 Player and AM/FM/TV Tuner/Capture card ("Seamus Boyle")
PCMCIA big problem :( (Colin Laplace)
SuSe Linux 7.0 hang off at: "Setting up the cmos clock" ("Xochipilli")
install slakaware on dell 2400 (Alain Gaspard)
SIS 6326: SetVCLK Finished, beep (Christopher Wong)
Second Keyboard for a VC (Mario Lang)
From: "Dan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unable to contact host
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:12:02 GMT
In article 92vlv5$n9b$[EMAIL PROTECTED], "Shjiva" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hello, I am a Linux newbie myself and I have a problem. I use SuSe Linux
6.3 and I've installed it without any great problem. When I got a
connection and I open Netscape it gives me an error that he can't find
the server, but the connection is there. I have a USR 56K external modem
on COM2. Please helpme..
Have you configured your dns nameservers? If not, add them to
/etc/resolv.conf in this format:
nameserver 24.10.24.15
nameserver 24.10.24.17
- Dan White
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From: "Dan White" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.1 does not see the hard disks
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:13:46 GMT
In article 92vehm$3tv$[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trying to install RedHat 6.1 on my new HP LC2000 system but the
installation does not see the hard disks. The error message given is:
"An error has occurred-no valid devices were found on which to create
new file systems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this
problem."
Have a feeling that the divers for these disks do not exist in which
case I am doomed.
The BIOS sees them, but not the installation. If it helps the disks are:
HP 18.2GB 7200 Ultra3 Wide SCSI-3 HS HDD (3 pieces) HP 9.1GB 7200
Ultra3 Wide SCSI-3 LVD HDD (1 piece)
Which SCSI controller? Redhat 6.1 has some problems with newer Adaptec
controllers. Try Redhat 6.2.
- Dan White
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From: Aulne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:14:18 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In alt.os.linux.mandrake Aulne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still on the subject, any opinions on having the CD burner positioned
vertically? My PC tower lays down on its side. Could this cause any problem
with burning CDs? anyone got experience with this? My CD burner is a TEAC
CD-W54E.
Most cd-rom drives and burners have little clips on the tray just for that
purpose. You fold them in towards the center to hold the cd in place.
This is only so that it doesn't slip off the tray while loading; when data
is actually being read (or written), the cd is clamped in place and your
drive should work at pretty much any angle.
This TEAC drive surprised me as it got no clips. It holds the disk
vertically without clips, which is much easier to use. There is some kind of
a narrow crack in which the disc falls. But what I was wondering about is
that, since the burning of a CD seems to be a more precise task than reading
it, maybe the vertical position could cause problems. Thanks for your
comment.
Alain
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux,alt.comp.mainboards.abit
Subject: Re: HELP!: Abit KT-7 RAID Mandrake 7.2 problems!!!
Date: Thu, 04 Jan 2001 09:18:54 GMT
I'm having difficulty with my new Abit KT-7 RAID machine and Linux
I had it working fine, but then I decided to throw a bunch of new
hardware on it.
Now, the machine completely freezes up and I must reset it or power
cycle it.
I suspect that the problem may lie with the HPT ATA-100 RAID
Sorry for the length of this posting.
You can see in the output below that the kernel (2.2.17-21mdk) is
recognizing the HPT-370 controller.
The filesystems (ReiserFS) seem to mount ok, but I can't seem to do lots
of write I/O on the disks (it locks up).
Here's dmesg output from the problematic setup:
music:~ % dmesg
Linux version 2.2.17-21mdk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version
2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #1 Thu Oct 5 13:16:08 CEST 2000
Detected 900068 kHz processor.
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
ide_setup: ide1=autotune
ide_setup: ide0=autotune
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Calibrating delay
Linux-Hardware Digest #127
Linux-Hardware Digest #127, Volume #13 Tue, 27 Jun 00 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI (Daniil Kolpakov)
Re: "Unknown" Network card (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds (sysop)
Re: "Unknown" Network card (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Tim Haynes)
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (Tim Haynes)
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution (David Damerell)
Re: 10Gb HD - can't mount vfat filesystem ("Graham Staker")
Re: Crash copying large directories (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Hard Drive Problems with Redhat 6.2 - Bad Geometry? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: how to configure to use null modem port? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: installation problem (sylvain hutchsion)
Re: Microstar versus asus k7v (WhO cAreS?)
Zoltrix external Rainbow modem (Randy)
Re: Matrox g400 Dual Head (John Gluck)
help in learning device drivers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PENTIJUM MII 300 ( F O N T O ) (John Gluck)
From: Daniil Kolpakov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Creative AudioPCI 128 - no MIDI
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 15:47:42 GMT
lobotomy wrote:
The AudioPCI/SB64/SB128 do not have a real hardware MIDI synth. Under
windows, the drivers use a software synth with patch set in system
Yes it does, however MIDI works also under DOS (and midi sounds little
worse). If you know exactly that SB PCI has no synth than let it be so,
but it seems to me it HAS hardware synth but has no onboard memory for
patches itself (is a guess).
memory. The linux drivers don't have a built-in software synth, but
you can use something like timidity to play midis if you need to. The
Timidity I have sheeped with terrible instrument set, it's SO bad I
can't really listen to that sound. Also, timidity has bad synth yet
(e.g., no modulation support).
/dev/midi I believe outputs to the MPU-401 jack on the card, so if you
had an external sequencer attached it would work.
I'll try to connect my Casio CTK 611 to midi port, pity that you didn't
said how to send data to it. Should I use 'cat'? At least, I can't
figure out anything better.
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 16:43:52 GMT, Daniil Kolpakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello gurus!
If my question sounds quite lame, that's besause I'm novice to Linux :)
I have Creative Labs Sound Blaster 128 PCI. Mandrake 7.0 (Air) 's
utilitys sndconfig and Lothar Sound Config say that I have Ensoniq xx70
(don't remember those xx) -based card. In sndconfig's list also said
that Ensoniq xx71 (not 70 as it detects) is Creative SB PCI 64/128. When
I try to select 71 card it says modprobe error. With 70 module sound
works Ok. But no MIDI. I've tried to modprobe other modules as well,
hack into config files by hand, no luck. MIDI players say I have no
/dev/sequencer. I really don't. However, it seems I have /dev/midi (?)
- but I don't know how to check it. Tried to
cat midifile.mid /dev/midi
No errors, but no sound either (I'm not quite sure it's allowed just
send midi files to device, but had no better idea).
How to set up /dev/sequencer? What module to load? Please help, or
respond if even no ideas at all, so I'll know SB128PCI is suxx and'll
throw it out :).
Please CC: responds to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you can, it's too hard to browse
newsgroup throwgh 1000's of messages!
--
Daniil Kolpakov
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Daniil Kolpakov
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Andrey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "Unknown" Network card
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 09:46:32 -0700
Hi there,
I don't know will it help or not but you could try
http://www.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/1999week06/0475.html
Andrey
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From: sysop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 16:55:29 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jun 2000 20:59:42 GMT, sysop
[EMAIL PROTECTED] shouted forth into the ether:
gLaNDix wrote:
for instance:
1.) play an mp3
2.) open up a term and do 'play soundfile'
the 'play soundfile' command just sits there waiting until i stop
the mp3, then it finally plays... this is not the desired effect...
i would like it to return something like "device is in use"
btw. i've got a 1371 and the same problem. probably the same driver, or
The ES1371 has two output channels, dsp0 and dsp1 AFAICT, but for some
reason only dsp0 gets used unless you explicitly configure one (or
more) sound-emitting programs to use the other one. DOn't know for sure
what's up with that.
The Enlightenment sound daemon (esd) can mix several audio
Linux-Hardware Digest #127
Linux-Hardware Digest #127, Volume #10 Fri, 30 Apr 99 20:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hardware recommendation for Samba server... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Another naive Beowulf question (+Pablo+)
Promise EIDE 2300+ card work w/ Linux? (Roger Ehrlich)
Re: AWE 64 pnp card installation question (Jay W. Summet)
Re: Driver for AGP ATI Xpert98 (Thomas Keto)
Re: Lexmark Optra E310 (Grant Taylor)
Re: Recommendations fo hot swap SCSI (Andrew Brown)
Re: Drive limit under Linux (Andrew Brown)
Acorp 5Ali61, DMA trouble.. (Andy Nikolenko)
Modem problems : new newsgroup required. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Diamond Video kaart ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: I want to write a driver (need a drivers how to) (ellis)
Re: HP 1100A (Frank Miles)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ("C L Johnson")
Re: HP LaserJet 1100/1100A performance ("Mr. Zero")
/dev/hda1 has reached maximal mount count, check forced ("David Peavey")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hardware recommendation for Samba server...
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 17:04:19 GMT
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In article 7g4f50$ett$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
Daniel Tremitiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd like to apologize in advance for the basic nature of these
questions...but
then, if I knew the answers, I wouldn't be asking.
I'm setting up a network for a small, and certainly not rich, elementary
school; although they need Windows to run educational software on the client
machines, I plan on using Linux and Samba for the server end of things. The
server will be used to provide home directories for students and faculty, and
to maintain Windows profiles. It will occasionally be used to standardize
the
software distributions on the client machines, but speed isn't important in
this (it'll likely be done at night.) I don't anticipate running programs
off
the network.
My question is this: what are the minimum hardware requirements for
acceptable
performance in a system like this? The network will be 10base-T at first,
but will be upgraded to 100Mbps as soon as it's feasible. I have my ideas as
to what might be an appropriate configuration, but I'd really appreciate any
input on the subject.
10 Mbps will probably be plenty. Doesn't sound like you'll be hitting the
network very hard. I run programs over NFS every day on a 10 Mbps network,
and I don't even notice the lag. I have 100 Mbps at home, and the only
place I really see a difference is when ftping big files. (Even then, the
100 Mbps LAN is only 2-3 times as fast as the 10 Mbps LAN, not 10 times.)
You said the school is small, so I'm guessing your network has less than a
dozen machines on it. And you won't be using the server for really
intensive tasks. This is cake. A 486 would probably do CPU-wise, but you
want solid PCI for the NICs and a BIOS new enough to handle big drives
seamlessly, which means at least a Pentium-class box.
I think a Pentium 133 with 32 MB, a $20 10/100 PCI card (Netgear FA310TX
or equivalent), and a big fast IDE drive would do nicely. Anything you'll
find still for sale new will of course be much faster than that; sub-$1000
machines now feature 400 MHz Celerons or K6-2's and 64 MB. A big hard
drive pays for itself because you don't have to waste as much time policing
your users' disk usage. By all means get a backup device and a UPS.
(Neither needs to be very expensive; a Quantum Bigfoot in a machine on the
other side of the building is an easy 99% backup solution, and the smallest
Linux-supported UPS you can find will do.)
--
David Ripton[EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
Daniel,
A confirmation of David's assertion.
This is what I have running at a Middle/High School.
Slackware 3.3 Kernel 2.0.34, with KDE 1.1 on a P133 with 32 Meg.
2 Nics (3-com pci). One on a private 192.168.x.x network, the other on a
cross-over cable to a 56K router.
Samba:
4 network printers with about 50 - 250 print jobs per day.
35 NT 4.0 Workstation PC's.
10 Macs connect via DAVE from thursby.com.
The samba has an admin share for a FoxPro 2.6 administration database of about
75 Meg for 5+ users during the day.
Apache server combined with MySQL 3.21.19 and PHP 3.6.:
1 Hits this month.
Sendmail:
About 175 accounts total; a little over 500 messages sent/received this month.
Firewall:
About 10 Meg/day, with logging enabled (will grow the messages file 10 - 15
Meg/day, as well.
IP masquerading entries
prot expire initseq delta prevd source destination
ports
tcp 14:26.08 0 0 0 ws5.myschool.spfs.k12.mi.us
205.188.1.2422256 (62767) - 5190
udp 01:38.35 0 0 0 ws7.myschool.spfs.k12.mi.us
ns.theirnameserver.net 1131 (62252) - domain
tcp 01:40.12 0
Linux-Hardware Digest #127
Linux-Hardware Digest #127, Volume #9 Thu, 7 Jan 99 16:13:40 EST
Contents:
Symbios UII ncr53c8xx.o (rtp)
Re: SEE YA' LATER SUCKERS !!! HAHAHAHA !!! (Doug)
SCSI AHA-152x and redhat install ("Craig Copelin")
CDROM question (Nicolas Dufort)
Kingston KNE-40T and linux ("Jakub Chmielewski")
Re: CDROM Spindown == IRQ Timeout !?! (craig)
Re: What do you think of this hardware Config? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Driver for DiskOnChip ??? (Jim Howes)
Re: MO Drives ("Kim,JaeHwan")
Re: Dell Servers (James Youngman)
Re: PERC RAID Controller - compatible? (James Youngman)
Re: Umax Astra 1200S scanner ("StephanBS")
cdrom writers (ross)
Creative Vibra16 ("Tim Gajewski, KU4IY")
Re: N64/Dreamcast port (Daniel Drewes)
Re: LILO and Promise Ultra33 ("TURBO1010")
Problem setting up modem... ("Numinus")
Re: Linux and HP CD-R/W Drives ? (Jeffrey Golds)
Compiling The Kernal problems ("Jay Bramble")
From: rtp [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Symbios UII ncr53c8xx.o
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 04:24:06 -0600
I've found the following boot image and instructions for the ncr53c8xx.o
controller at redhat.com/support/docs/rhl/rh5.2-errata-general.html. The
problem is I don't know how to create a bootable floopy with the
"boot.img" and "supp.img" files. I've tried the following "dd" commands:
*dd if=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=8192
*dd=/home/rtp/bootdisk/boot.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1440k
These builds resulted in "failed boot" while initrd is loading.
Do I need this updated image (forgive me, I am very new to linux)? If
I do need the updated boot.img can someone give me instructions for
building the bootable floppy. Meanwhile, I'll be attempting to decipher
the man pages and any other clues I can find. Thanks Much!
ron parker
After entering the seemingly impenetrable vortex, I am all the more
commited to keeping Redmond, WA in my rearview mirror.
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From: Doug [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: SEE YA' LATER SUCKERS !!! HAHAHAHA !!!
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 11:23:44 +
Since you resolved your problems and are smarter than everyone in the group,it would
be nice if you
shared your wealth of knowledge of Linux with others.
Doug
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FTP INSTALL FINALLY WORKED THANKS TO CROSSBONES !!!
Well, except for me and Crossbones, all of you are none more than
f** idiots. But it's been fun insulting everyone one of you, who
were against me, in this newsgroup. In fact, when you look at the
thread(s), it probably reminds you of Jerry Springer. Now I did not ask
for this, you all forced me into it, so don't even f** blame me !!!
Anyway, it was fun fighting like in the Springer shows but I gotta go
now, so
GOOD-BYE TO ALL YOU MENTALLY RETARDED IDIOTS OUT THERE WHO CAN'T BE HELPFUL THE WAY
I WANT IT !!!
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From: "Craig Copelin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: SCSI AHA-152x and redhat install
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 00:07:28 GMT
I have a 486 that I am attempting to install redhat 5.1 on. My problem is
that the install program hangs on the SCSI initialization step of install.
I pass the kernel the parameters
aha152x=0x340,11,7
at the point it asks for them, then it just sits and spins the cdrom, which
was succesfully detected earlier. Is there something more I should be
doing?
I find it interesting that the SCSI HDD LED comes on durng the
initialization of the CD ROM.
Any help is apreciated.
craig
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From: Nicolas Dufort [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CDROM question
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1999 18:01:43 -0600
hi all,
i'm new to linux. i want to install it on my laptop, a Digital HiNote
VP703, and since i did not get the combo drives (CD+floppy), i'm
thinking about getting a PCMCIA cdRom drive.
could anybody suggest me a good drive that would work for sure under
linux?
please answer directly to this email.
thanks
nico
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From: "Jakub Chmielewski" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kingston KNE-40T and linux
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1999 17:23:35 +0100
Hi!
Has any of you used Kingston-40T ethernet card under linux? Is it supported?
What about its efficiency in a server?
Thanks
Jakub Chmielewski
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From: craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CDROM Spindown == IRQ Timeout !?!
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 1999 10:41:47 -0500
I have e generic atapi cdrom 36x that is behaving in the same
manner--very peculiar.
It times out when I try and install a package from the x11 directory of
the debian hamm disk the top most directory. it just spins down and
spits out I/O errors to the console. I know its no
