Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #14Mon, 7 May 01 14:13:08 EDT Contents: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (C. Newport) Re: ELSA Microlink Modem (Chris Howells) Re: NEC 3.5 1.2MB Floppy support (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Pentium I 133 +32 MB enough ? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) RH 7.0 + Maestro.o +USB on Toshiba Laptop (Charlene Hanselman) Re: kppp problems... (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Harri Haataja) Re: ASUS A7M266 motherboard incompatible? (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Mathew Kirsch) Backing up Windows on Linux (Steve Smith) Help... terminal server (Ramesh K) VIA 686B bug fix (jay) Re: High availability webserver (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: High availability webserver (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Re: newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2 (Francisco Galvan) Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? (Abe Lian) reiserfs for new kernel (Homer) Sound Blaster 16 PCI (Marc Rosen) Re: linux kernel 2.2.12 and DAC-960 (Steve Wolfe) Re: reiserfs for new kernel (Kwan Lowe) Re: Backing up Windows on Linux (Kwan Lowe) From: C. Newport [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt servers)? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:11:54 +0100 Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Harri Haataja wrote: Sriranga Veeraraghavan wrote: If you are interested in an alternative OS on older Sun hardware, I would recommend you try either NetBSD or OpenBSD instead of Linux. In my personal experience, having run Sparc-Linux on everything from an IPC to a Ultra1, Sparc-Linux is not nearly as stable or fast as the BSDs. Things may have changed now, but it used to be quite difficult to get stable kernels and glibc's on Sparc-Linux. About the only reason I know of to choose Sparc-Linux over one of the BSDs is SMP support. This has been the case ages ago. Unfortunately it's really hard to find a recent distribution that easily installs on sparcs. N/O BSD's works fairly nicely. Take a look at http://www.slackware.com/ for a decent Sparc linux which runs OK on anything from an IPC to an Ultra. No bloat, 96Mb iso image. -- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. [Albert Einstein]. -- From: Chris Howells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ELSA Microlink Modem Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 14:13:03 +0100 sfer wrote: I try different things, linmodem driver etc but not work If the Linmodem driver doesn't work then it looks like it's time to buy a proper modem. Soft-modems are in effect nothing more than a glorified sound card. -- Chris Howells E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 93699029 Web: http://www.chowells.uklinux.net -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Subject: Re: NEC 3.5 1.2MB Floppy support Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:34:03 GMT Jan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a NEC FD1231T 3.5 floppy disk drive (mode 3) using 1.2MB diskettes. Does the Linux (RedHat 7, Kernel v2.2.17) support this kind of disk drives? Are you *certain* about the disk size? 1.2MB diskettes are usually 5.25 (the kind that are _visibly_ floppy). 3.5 diskettes are normally the kind with the stiff case, and they generally come in 720K and 1.4M sizes. - jonadab -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One) Subject: Re: Pentium I 133 +32 MB enough ? Date: Mon, 07 May 2001 13:44:27 GMT Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 32MB is enough to run X, a reasonable sized window manager like fvwm-1.24r, and emacs. netscape is a hog, but it will run ok too. The original poster asked about KDE. Older versions of KDE can run with 32MB of RAM (as long as you give them some swap space), but KDE2 prefers to have more, or there'll be a lot of swapping going on. I don't know which version of KDE comes with any particular release of SUSE. I know that Mandrake 7.1 uses the older (smaller) KDE, but Mandrake 7.2 uses the newer (bigger) KDE2, which likes to have more RAM. I *have* run KDE2 with as little as 16MB of RAM, given adequate swap space; however, it's quite sluggish. Gnome's memory requirements are at least as great as KDE2. fvwm, of course, doesn't consume as much. Adding big apps on top, like WINE or StarOffice, increases the memory requirements substantially, which is why they're asking what apps you intent to use
Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #13 Mon, 16 Oct 00 12:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Modem Multiplexing HOW ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Canon BJC-265SP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ACPI question (Alex Deucher)
Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config (-ljl-)
ABIT CC? (manny)
Re: dds3 streamer density code ("Gene Heskett")
kgcc and RH7 (Alex Deucher)
Re: dds3 streamer density code (jwk)
cdrecord and smart and friendly mach 12 (Alex Deucher)
Are linux drivers for i810e AMR modems and AC97 sound capabilities in the works?
("mnip")
Re: Adaptec 29160N problem (Ant Sims)
Re: asus a7v m/b (Bharath Krishnan)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem Multiplexing HOW ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? ("Barry Smith")
Smurf music with AC97 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: If you had these 2 nic cards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
USB modem (mEgA)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (Lew Pitcher)
Pls recommend a PC vendor (Dama)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem Multiplexing HOW ?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 13:48:19 GMT
I have 4 dial up lines and I would like to connect four modems to a
Linux box and get it to multiplex them for better throughput. Does
anyone have any experience or pointers for this ??
Ta,
Matt Lemon.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 22:08:59 +0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Canon BJC-265SP
Hi,
Has anyone tried out the Canon BJC-265SP Bubblejet printer on Linux? I
have Redhat 6.2 and am considering purchasing one. I haven't been able
to find anything on hardware.redhat.com.
Regards,
John Bell
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 10:09:46 -0400
From: Alex Deucher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ACPI question
I'm fairly new to acpi. I have it compiled into my kernel, and it seems
to setup fine upon boot. I have the appropriate entries in /proc/sys.
I compiled and installed acpid,etc. and all of that seemed to go fine.
Now I guess my question is how do I use it? How do I set the power
management options? How do I set it up to turn off my pc when I shut
down? Perhaps these options aren't available as of yet. I can't seem to
find this info anywhere, and the acpi FAQ seems to more detail the
technical aspects rather than using/seting up the features. Any help
would be much appreciated.
Please reply to me directly when you reply as I cannot always get access
to this list.
Thanks,
Alex
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From: -ljl- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:08:15 GMT
In article 70DG5.324081$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Guy Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have loaded Red Hat 6.2 on an old PC. Most everything is working
OK,
except for an HP35480 DAT drive. The device is seen at boot (see next
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dump from dmesg)
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Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current st09:00:
sense
key Not Ready
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Here you'll find some switch setting for your drive:
http://www.iohk.com/UserPages/wsyoung/12000e.html
got numerous other hits using:
http://www.northernlight.com
Looks like '/usr/src/linux/scsi/st.c' is complaining:
printk(KERN_WARNING "st%d: Error with sense data: ", dev);
? fatal ^ ?
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Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: manny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ABIT CC?
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 14:10:13 GMT
I've been trying to access the website fot the "ABIT CC" monitor (I
think the link is http://salebios.tiger2.net/~aug/ ). I have not been
able to connect to this site for the past 4 days. I need to install a
mobo temp monitor for my ABIT KT7. Anyone know of an alternate site for
this app? Or is there an alternate application (free) elsewhere?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: 16 Oct 2000 9:47:4 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: dds3 streamer density code
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to achim ;
Hi!
I have a problem withe the DDS3 Streamer Sony dts9000 (native
12GByte) under Linux 2.2.16 (SuSE 7.0) and a Adaptec 2940UW SCSI
Controller. The Drive write only 8GByte on a DDS3 tape who can
store 12 GByte native or up to 24 GByte with compression.
The mt output (mt -f /dev/nrmt0 status) (GNU mt version 2.4.2
Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #12 Tue, 25 Apr 00 11:14:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Daemon (Apple Advertising)
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen ("Jens Richter")
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Tobias Frank)
Re: Compaq Presario 1247 RH6.0 video (michaelb)
CD-ROM HP7570i (jinko)
Re: Integrated 3in1 motherboards (Edward Lee)
Athlon 700 + Lucky Star K7VA133 ("J.C. Gonzalez")
Re: Athlon 700 + Lucky Star K7VA133 ("J.C. Gonzalez")
partition limit ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Benni Motz)
Re: HOT HD (larrymoencurly)
Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !! (David C.)
Re: Dual Xeon Motherboard? (David C.)
Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer (Benni Motz)
Re: Dual Xeon Motherboard? (David C.)
Re: Browser based backup tools? (Henrik Carlqvist)
HP DeskJet 812C problem ("Yasuki Izaki")
Help on the problem: Serial port losing the parameters after re-boot ("Yasuki
Izaki")
Re: IDE or SCSI CD-RW? (David C.)
slackware install on 486dx ("hugo hallqvist")
BT878 TV-Karte unter Linux (Andreas Maunz)
Re: partition limit (Dances With Crows)
Re: HOT HD (David C.)
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: Floppy format problem. (David C.)
Re: partition limit (David C.)
Re: HOT HD (Edward Lee)
From: Apple Advertising [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Daemon
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 09:52:34 -0700
daemon is users/groups for background processes (no password).
admin is user/group/processes that have administrative priveledges (no
password).
NOBODY (I repeat, NOBODY) should be logging into the daemon or admin
users/groups. They are ONLY for background processes that the OS uses.
If you want to add a user that has administrative priveledges, you can add
'admin' to their group as well as other groups.
Again, NOBODY should be part of daemon user/group. Period.
For a better description, read the "Linux System Administration" (try
http://www.linuxdoc.org). Another book would be "Unix System
Administration" for a description of users/groups and background processes
in unix/Linux.
- Ken
Ian wrote:
What are the other users like 'Daemon' and 'admin', and what are there
passwords.
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From: "Jens Richter" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer zusammenfügen
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 16:08:35 +0100
Hallo!
"Ulli Rain" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:8e1ihl$869k2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
"Martin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] schreibselte am Mon, 24 Apr 2000
13:07:51 +0200 folgende Zeilen:
| Wie kann ich die gesamte Festplatte formatieren (Linux weg) und wieder
zu
| einer großen machen??
|
|Bootdiskette anlegen (mit fdisk und format drauf!!)
|von bootdisk booten - Partitions löschen (alle!!) - Neue Partition
|anlegen - Neuinstallation von Win98
|
Schön, wenn´s denn so einfach wäre!
Genau das gleiche Problem hatte ich mit Suse-Linux auch und Fdisk
konnte mit der Linux-Partition absolut nichts anfangen.
cut
Aber es gibt doch bei fdisk die Option "Nicht-Dos-Partitionen löschen".
Jedenfalls hat das bei meinem downgrade von W2k (ntfs) zu W98 ( fat)
anstandslos geklappt. Das geht nicht mit Suse? (keine rhetorische Frage!)
Jens
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From: Tobias Frank [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.hardware.misc,de.comp.os.ms-windows.misc
Subject: Re: gesplittete Partition wieder zu einer
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 17:20:44 +0100
Stephan Weber schrieb:
Wie kann ich die gesamte Festplatte formatieren (Linux weg) und wieder zu
einer großen machen??
Am besten du besorgst dir Partition Magic von Powerquest - damit hatte
ich noch nie Probleme. Du kannst hiermit Partitionen verschieben,
splitten, zusammenfügen, Dateisysteme umwandeln und der gleichen noch
mehr. Ist allerdings nicht ganz gratis.
--
Viele Gruesse
Tobias Frank
http://maschinenbau.iscool.de
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Subject: Re: Compaq Presario 1247 RH6.0 video
From: michaelb [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 08:51:58 -0700
I got the Compaq Presario 1247 to work using TurboLinux but I
had an equally hard time setting up the X Server. However, I
finally got it going. For the monitor I simply used the default
monitor setting with the modes 800x600 and 640x480 set up.
The setting I used for the graphics card was tgui9420dgi. The
way I found this out was by trying to install with a combination
of XF setup programs. They each detect things differently and
I eventually came across the correct setting. The utilities
I used were:
XF86Setup (runs with the VGA16 server)
xf86config
turboxcfg (comes with the distro)
The next
Linux-Hardware Digest #738
Linux-Hardware Digest #738, Volume #9Fri, 19 Mar 99 14:14:11 EST
Contents:
OPL3-SAx sounds like broken record (Mike Epstein)
Re: HD Problems... HELP ("James Kosin")
Re: STB Velocity 128 Video Card (Whigdon2)
Re: Burning (Gianni Mariani)
Re: Linux DSL (Willow)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Brian
Langenberger)
Macromate ethernet card works (Bob Martin)
Sound blaster Live driver. When will it be available? (Jens Sorensen)
Re: Is Windows for idiots? (Re: X munges the graphics card?) (jedi)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Sessionfalls flat)
("not")
Acer SCSI controllers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Powerdown with Linux #2 - HELP (Douglas E Harmon)
Re: Running CD-Rom of Soundcard (Paul Mc Kenna)
[Fwd: force manufatures to support linux!] (Douglas E Harmon)
Horrible painful system crash when using a certain Zip disk. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound card, "device in use"? ("ComFuMasta")
Hardware Questions ("Mordecaii")
Secondary Hard-drive Partitions ("Eamon E. Perrel")
Re: Considering Linux: Is my hardware good enough? (Kelly Wilson)
Re: HP Omnibook 800 CT (sams)
Re: bonnie results skewed by link library ? (Mark Hahn)
Re: which modem ??? for linuxwin98... (Akira Yamanita)
Do I have a WinModem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Which Webcams will work under linux+kde/Xwindows? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
From: Mike Epstein [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OPL3-SAx sounds like broken record
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:46:25 GMT
I'm running RedHat 5.2, with kernel 2.2.3. I've just configured my
on-board Yamaha OPL3-SAx manually with insmod, and when I play a sound
(either with "play" from the command line or with FreeAmp) each
segment (about a second or so) of the sound plays three times, then
the next segment plays, and so on. The card works fine under Win95.
I don't seem to have any IRQ, I/O or DMA conflicts according to the
relevant entries in /proc. Has anyone solved this problem? I'd
appreciate any help.
--mike
ZZhttp://hcs.harvard.edu/~mike/ mike at hcs.harvard.edu
[will work for sig quote]
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From: "James Kosin" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:46:26 GMT
Dear ALL,
I finally found my problem...
Always check you memory first! Even If you have already checked it a few
months ago.
I lost a SIMM.
Thanks for all the replys,
James Kosin
James Kosin wrote in message ...
Anyone Please HELP.
I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can run
diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works great
on Windows 98.
The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
Anyone have any good suggestions???
My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
Thanks,
James Kosin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Whigdon2)
Subject: Re: STB Velocity 128 Video Card
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:46:27 GMT
Any good information on this video card. Couldn't find any compatibly list
from Red Hat, Caldera or Linux.org on this card.
Thank
John
I have the STB Velocity 128 Video Card, and my newly installed Linux seems to
work fine on it, including Startx. I haven't given it a real workout yet, but
I think the answer to your question based on my experierce, is yes -- it is
compatible.
Bill
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From: Gianni Mariani [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Burning
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:46:29 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Everything you every wanted to know ...
http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/
and the Linux reference is in here :
http://www.fadden.com/cdrfaq/faq06.html
Ranger wrote:
sven the hairy wrote:
I'm interested in buying a cd burner, and I'm concerned about getting one
that is ready for linux (i'm almost ready myself, still a few problems yet
before I'll convert my main computer though). Any suggestions on particular
drives would be a real help. I want one that will burn single-use and
multiwrite cds. I've decided on a external scsi, easy to move between
machines, but not flakey like a printer-port model would be. Thanks.
Any comments on the LACIE 4X4X16 CD-RW PC/MAC EXT SCSI?
My suggestion would be to get a Yamaha CD burner because they are all
supported by linux using XRoast.
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From: Willow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux DSL
Date: 19 Mar 1999 13:46:31 GMT
Michael Meissner wrote:
Colin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BL wrote:
but after all those charades, we finally got it going. 1.5meg-6meg in and
384k out. nice... ;-) and $200/mo is reasonable enough for this kind of b/w.
