Linux-Hardware Digest #153, Volume #9 Mon, 11 Jan 99 10:14:02 EST
Contents:
Re: SCSI Timeout? ("Alexander Schuetz")
Re: Drivers for Riva TNT (Simone Piccardi)
Re: Linux, SMP and Compaq SystemPro ("Schalk Klee")
Re: 400MHz versus 350MHz... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Teles PCI ISDN & Red Hat 5.2 - HELP!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: pppd dies unexpectedly??? (Sebastien Caille)
Re: Choosing a HP color printer (George Dau)
Mylex (Buslogic) BT-950 vs. BT-958 (Janne Himanka)
Re: Does linux (any version) run on an Evergreen Tech WinChip? (Student)
Re: Sparc vs Intel (George Dau)
Help with Tape Drive and ftape ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Anyone using S3 Trio3d??? (GYeomans)
Re: Anyone using S3 Trio3d??? (GYeomans)
AMI MegaRAID 762 (Toby Boreham)
Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<] (Alan McLean)
Volume control problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help w/ Sun GDM-20D10 Monitor (Trinitron Tube) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Peter Samuelson)
Help Wacom tablet (Peter Gilbert)
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From: "Alexander Schuetz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Timeout?
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.scsi
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 10:13:58 GMT
Please read my old thread, "HELP! Kernel 2.0.36 / Aic7890 problems".
I also had a lot of timeouts until I decided to change some SCSI Bios
options, especially the "device speed" options. Most CDROMS wont constantly
send data faster than 20 mb/sec, so you might try to lower that value and
see if it works better now, and you might try to switch from synchronous
transfer to async. transfer (slower, but more reliable).
Alex
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From: Simone Piccardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Drivers for Riva TNT
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:37:15 +0100
Patryn wrote:
>
> Hello, I've just installed Red Hat 5.2 and I can't use anything that is in
> Graphic mode. In the list of RH 5.2 was the Riva 128 but not Riva TNT.
> Anyone can tell me where can I find the drivers for my video card.
>
> Thank you very much.
Go to the any RedHat mirror and look inside the update/upgrade
directory; you must find XFree 3.3.3 that supports Riva TNT.
You need to download these rpm:
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-SVGA-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-VGA16-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-devel-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
then upgrade with rpm -Uhv *.rpm and run XF86Setup to put the right
card.
I did this and I've everything working (I've a Diamond Viper 550).
Remember that the right server for Ndivia RIVA TNT is SVGA.
Bye
Simone
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From: "Schalk Klee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, SMP and Compaq SystemPro
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:04:56 +0200
Tim,
The Compaq SystemPro uses Compaq's TriFlex architecture for SMP. That is
why under NT and SCO you need Compaq specific implementation of SMP to be
able to see the second processor (Compaq Triflex HAL etc). The older Compaq
servers eg, System Pro, Prosignia 300 500 and VS, Proliant 1000 1500 2000
4000 4500 all uses different version of this technology.
The newer Compaq servers Proliant 5000 6000 6500 7000 2500 etc all use
standard Intel SMP architecture.
The bottom line is : Linux SMP will not work on the Triflex based machines
untill the specs for that is made public.
Hope this helps.
Tim Nimmo wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Actually I fo-pawed (or misquoted myself) in the 3rd para. I meant to say
>"Linux says the systemboard does NOT support SMP..." When in fact it
>does...
>
>Tim Nimmo wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if a Compaq SystemPro/XL w/2 x 486DX/50 is support
>> under SMP on Linux kernels 2.1.x or 2.2.x.
>>
>> I read the linux/Documention/smp.txt that mentioned config'n the system
>> setup to use Unixware mode. I tried Unixware 7, Unixware 2.0 & 2.1.
>>
>> Currently I can only get Linux to see 1 CPU and it says the systemboard
>> does support SMP. Even though I have run SCO and WNT and both CPUs run
>> on those O/Ss.
>>
>> Thanks alot!
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 400MHz versus 350MHz...
Date: 11 Jan 99 11:10:58 GMT
Harry McGregor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes, the K6-2 400MHz uses the newer CXT core (or is it CTX...) that
> adds about 10% in speed. for $50 extra, I say go with the 400MHz
> part.
FWIW, the K6-2/400 isn't the only K6-2 using the new core. I'm
sitting at a 333 with the new core right now. Still, the value is
there.
robert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Teles PCI ISDN & Red Hat 5.2 - HELP!!!
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:16:30 GMT
I'm using Teles PCI ISDN Card and Red Hat Linux but still cannot configure the
card.
Anyone who have been sucessful setting up the card out there that can help me?
Thanks.....
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Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:43:11 +0100
From: Sebastien Caille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.ppp,linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: pppd dies unexpectedly???
joris dallaire wrote:
>
> Hello fellow Linuxians,
> I'm trying to log on ISP using kppp; the modem connects but when kppp
> invoques pppd, a get a message saying <pppd died unexpectedly!>. I thing
> it's a problem of misconfiguration of pppd, but what are the conf files
> for it?
>
> Can someone send me samples of working conf files for pppd? Help greatly
> apppreciated. Thank u
> --
> Joris Dallaire [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> http://www3.sympatico.ca/joris.dallaire/
> ................................................................
If you use a 2.1 or 2.2 kernel with pppd version 2.2.0f, have a look in
linux/Documentation/networking/ppp.txt
The error message I had in /var/log/messages was something like
'ppp0 : ioctl (SIOCADDRT) : network is down'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: Choosing a HP color printer
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:17:14 GMT
Johan Pelgrim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]I'm about to buy a color printer.
]Since I have good experience with my HP Deskjet 500, I think it's going
]to be a Hewlett Packard again.
]
]I've heard some bad stories about windows-only printers and don't want
]to make that mistake.
]So has anyone good experiences with one of the following printers:
]HP 420C
]HP 670C
]HP 710C
]HP 720C
]Which one is the best?
I've got a HP DJ 400. It is not a winprinter, but it causes me great pain and
hearache.
It is a dud. Hell-spawned, and vicious, and a dud. My fingers have bled while
trying to remove the jammed paper. It has not printed a single sheet without
trying to rip both the page's and my own soul's heart out. It has spiked wheels
on the front to rip your hands when you try to grab the one sheet that nearly
made it though in one piece.
I do not recommend the HP 400.
The colour sux too.
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From: Janne Himanka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mylex (Buslogic) BT-950 vs. BT-958
Date: 11 Jan 1999 13:02:14 +0200
We currently have two BT-950 (Flashpoint) UW SCSI adapters in a dual
PII 450 MHz machine. One adapter has three Seagate Cheetahs, the other
two. One disk is root, the remaining 4 comprise one raid0 partition. I have
been benchmarking, and while speed is excellent, I am worried about
the cpu consumption. Bonnie says
-------Sequential Output-------- ---Sequential Input-- --Random--
-Per Char- --Block--- -Rewrite-- -Per Char- --Block--- --Seeks---
Machine MB K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU K/sec %CPU /sec %CPU
2000 8629 98.0 58084 80.2 22013 70.8 9037 96.7 52675 89.3 405.4 7.2
Even block writes use 80% of cpu. I also used time(1) on this Bonnie
process, and it reported that 40% of the cpu comsumption was system,
60% user.
Iozone reported similar speeds but system cpu consumption was 95%,
user cpu 5%. Is there any way to determine, what that system cpu usage
is? Is it mainly Linux raid implementation's overhead or is it the
Mylex drivers?
I tried also with raid5, and cpu consumption was about the same, plus
the md_thread process taking around 13% of cpu.
Finally, it would be nice to know if upgrading to BT-958 is worth the
price differential.
Janne Himanka
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Student)
Subject: Re: Does linux (any version) run on an Evergreen Tech WinChip?
Date: 11 Jan 1999 10:19:28 GMT
Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) tried to convey the following message:
: Richard Johnson wrote:
: > The Subject line says it. I have an older motherboard, that used to have a
: > Cyrix P166 processor, I have an Evergreen Tech WinChip overdrive processor
: > in it now. Has anyone run Linux on the WinChip...sucessfully? Or do I need
: > to put the Cyrix back in?
: I replaced my P5-100 with a WinChip C6-200 last week. The first night I had
: some X-server crashes from Signal 11 errors that I never had before. Since then
: - no problems. Running Debian 2.0. Using Winchip CPU, not an upgrade package.
AFAIK Sig11s are usually (if not always) related to broken memory modules
(AKA SIMM or DIMM). There is a sig11 FAQ if I have scared you enough. IIRC it
was http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ Correct me if I am wrong.
Greetings,
der Joachim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: Sparc vs Intel
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 12:10:06 GMT
Dug Birdzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
]I am about to set up RedHat 5.2 and I have 2 options for hardware:
]a sparc station 20 with 2x75mhz HyperSparc processors, 96mb ram and approx 4gb
]hd for $2000, vs a Dell with 1 350mhz pentium II, 128mb ram and 8gb hard disk,
]for $2100. the promise of more speed makes the Dell attractive, yet the
]sun's multiprocessing architecture could render that point moot. sun boxes
]have been very reliable in my experience, but i've only known intel boxes to
]act flaky when they run a MicroSloth OS. I guess I lean towards the Sun box
]but I may just be biased. thoughts? opinions? what would you do if you had
]someone else's $2K to spend on a box which had to be up 24x7 running secure commerce?
]tia...
Neither, unless you have a different idea of 24x7. To me 24x7 means at least two
different boxes, each with RAID.
Anyway, I'd be chasing the disk space and extra memory and pick the Intel. I've
had Linux uptimes of over 400 days on intel, and that shutdown was planned and
scheduled. (had to move the box).
Thost Sparc 20s are nice though. Well built too.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with Tape Drive and ftape
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 01:45:50 GMT
I have not been able to get the ftape driver to work with my tape
drive. Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
I have:
Red Hat version 5.2 of Linux
kernel version 2,0,26
ftape version 2.08
Tape Drive: HP Colorado 8GB Internal IDE tape drive
it uses Tr-4 tapes
Nether tar or mtape recognizes the tape drive.
I have downloaded fersion 4.02 of ftape. The documents
mentions that it is compatible with Tr-1m 2m and 3 tapes. Does anyone
know if it works with my current tape drive?
Randolph Wilhoit
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From: GYeomans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone using S3 Trio3d???
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:02:56 +0000
Hi Andrius,
If you just want to use X , try using the generic VGA16 server - it
works for me (though its not pretty!) . I created XF86Config with
XF86Setup and everything worked hunky dory.
regards
garry
Andrius Kaikaris wrote:
> Anyone know if there are any (even experimental) drivers for it, so I
> could at least try to see something on my X?
>
> Thanks
> Andy
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From: GYeomans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone using S3 Trio3d???
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:16:37 +0000
Hi Andrius,
If u just want to use X , try the generic XF86_VGA16 server. It works
for me(though it 's not pretty). You need to install the driver as
default . I then used XF86Setup to configure XF86Config. Everything
worked hunky dory. Im sure I can copy u XF86Config if u get stuck,
best of luck,
garry
Andrius Kaikaris wrote:
> Anyone know if there are any (even experimental) drivers for it, so I
> could at least try to see something on my X?
>
> Thanks
> Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toby Boreham)
Subject: AMI MegaRAID 762
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:06:47 GMT
Has anyone managed to get this controller working under RedHat5.2? I
got the boot & supplemental disks from AMI's web site but it hangs up
when loading the MegaRAID driver.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan McLean)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: [Fwd: >>>matrox millinium g200 & Xconfigurator<<<]
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:51:30 GMT
brent stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Alan McLean wrote:
> >David Fox wrote:
> >> <snip>
> >> No, for a redhat-5.2 system you should go to updates.redhat.com and
> >> get the XFree86 packages from there.
> >>
> >
> >For a trouble free installation do what David said.
> >
> >You don't need to download all of the X rpms. The
> >following are all you should need
> >
> > XFree86-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-libs-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-devel-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-VGA16-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-XF86Setup-3.3.3-1
> > XFree86-SVGA-3.3.3-1
> > <snip>
>
> I got it working just by downloading the SVGA server
> mgag200 is the chipset, I believe
This may work. Note, I did say for a _trouble_free_
installation do the above. Keep in mind XFree86-3.3.3
is linked with the libs from XFree86-libs-3.3.3 and
_not_ the libs from XFree86-libs-3.3.2. This may be
a non-issue, but it may also give you instability if
certain changes have been made to the new libs.
In general, it is not a good idea to mix packages from
different releases.
Also, the original poster is having a hard time
producing his XF86Config file. He _needs_ the
XF86Config/VGA16 3.3.3 to create it, as again the
G200 was _not_ supported in 3.3.2.
-amcl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Volume control problems
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:02:22 GMT
I'm new to the Linux (Redhat 5.2) world and am having trouble with the GUI
volume control that comes with it. I can hear sound just fine when playing
my cd music or sound files - that is, I used to until I set the volume all of
the way down on the GUI interfaces (xplaycd and xmixer). How do I bring the
volume back up? If I click on the volume bars, they lower. I need to figure
out how to get them to raise back up. I am using an MS Intellimouse. I have
tried this under MS Intellimouse (PS/2), Generic Mouse (PS/2), and MS
Compatible Mouse (PS/2) - with and without 3 button emulation. Any
suggestions?
Regards,
Tim Gabaree
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,sci.electronics.repair
Subject: Help w/ Sun GDM-20D10 Monitor (Trinitron Tube)
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 14:01:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
I just picked up a Sun Sparcstation 2 with a Sun GDM-20D10 monitor. Soon
after I booted the machine up I noticed two thin black lines running all the
way across the monitor. One is roughly 4" down from the top, and another is
about 4" up from the bottom. I originally thought it may have been a cable
problem, but reseating and/or flexing the video cable has no effect.
I've heard that all (older? circa 1995?) Trinitron tubes exhibit these thin
black lines, but I really hope that is not the case. They are VERY noticable,
especially once you become aware of them on a bright background .. I recall a
Sony CPD-1304 monitor I had quite a few years ago developing this problem
after a few years of use. I never investigated the issue with that model as I
moved up to a larger unit. This 21" GDM-20D10 seems to have a very high
quality picture (with the exception of the two lines) so I'm hoping there is
a fix for this problem!
The machine is running Solaris 2.5 and I hope to soon install Sparc Redhat
Linux.
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Samuelson)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 11 Jan 1999 07:27:34 -0600
Reply-To: Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>]
> >LVM.
> Sorry my ignorance - but what's that?
Short for Logical Volume Manager. A concept apparently pioneered by
Veritas and picked up by the major commercial Unices (specifically I
know of AIX, Solaris, DU, HP-UX, and IRIX) and being developed for
Linux. Defines a different way to allocate, access and manage file
storage volumes on disks. Key features (I refer to the AIX
implementation here, about which I know the most):
- A volume group, which acts as a sort of meta-partition, if you
will, can comprise multiple physical disks. These can also provide
redundancy not unlike RAID mirroring, as well as plain striping.
The sysadmin can add disks to an LV at will, and take them away.
- Inside a VG you have logical volumes, which are allocated from the
VG like files in a filesystem. Like files, these can be resized,
moved, copied, renamed, etc. They can also be mirrored. Each LV is
a block device.
- On an LV you mkfs a filesystem. Since the LV is a block device this
works just like traditional partitions/slices, except that LV's are
so much easier to manipulate.
- Some filesystems commonly in use with LVM's support resizing. AIX's
JFS, for example, lets you grow it without unmounting. This would
not be very useful with traditional disk partitions or slices, but
makes life much more fun for the sysadmin when the filesystem is on
a (resizable) LV. Wish /home were 80 megs bigger? No problem: have
the system allocate 20 more 4-meg "blocks" for /home's LV, assuming
the VG has that many available. If not, first add another disk to
the VG....
And one more feature that can save a lot of headaches in some
circumstances:
- Disks are recognized not by SCSI ID's or whatever but by a VG
signature. LV's contain a certain amount of metadata as well, so
/etc/fstab is not really needed to figure out what partitions mean
what.
Anyway as I said, an LVM is being developed for Linux. Current release
is 0.4 and is available at ftp.msede.com:/pub/linux/lvm/ . It was
released back at kernel version 2.1.103 or so; don't know how much has
changed since then that would involve the kernel patch portion.
--
Peter Samuelson
<sampo.creighton.edu!psamuels>
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From: Peter Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Wacom tablet
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 13:52:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I'm a newbe to linux. I have the redhat 5.2 linux working with a
genius mouse, but really miss my Wcaom Tablet with Linux. Does anyone
out there know of driver or how to configure for a tablet instead of a
mouse on com1.?
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