Linux-Hardware Digest #976, Volume #9 Fri, 9 Apr 99 07:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound :Creative SB16 Vibra (Wiley Hill)
Re: MT forward wont work (Henrik Kraft)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: New Linux install, hardware not working. (Wiley Hill)
Re: Cheapest possible working video card? (Wiley Hill)
AGP/S3 trio3d ("Johnny Dahl")
Re: HELP: Serial Mouse --> PS/2 mouse (Wiley Hill)
Re: Video cards (Wiley Hill)
Help memory, on Alpha (volume)
Re: ALS100+ Sound system on RedHat5.2 (Wiley Hill)
Re: hardware info (Wiley Hill)
Re: Is Ether Express PRO/10+ (ISA) supported by RH Linux 4.1? (Wiley Hill)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Shimpei
Yamashita)
Re: ANNOUNCE: Compaq and Linux mailing list created (**Nick Brown)
Re: Zip for parallel port - kernal question (**Nick Brown)
Guillemot Maxi 64 Home Studio 2 ("toto")
Re: Xeon vs non-Xeon PII/PIII systems ("Sascha Bohnenkamp")
Re: HELP: Serial Mouse --> PS/2 mouse (Jim Howes)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: Sound :Creative SB16 Vibra
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:33:16 GMT
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:31:36 +0200, "Roberto Lusini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Cuold someone help me to set this device,
>
>I 've compiled my Kernel 10 times, following every hints.
>
>> See the post Re:AZT1008 PnP card, basically
>> is says to goto http://www.se.opensound.com/linux.html
>> your card is on the list here as being supported.
>> I went through the Kernel recompiling for my
>> sound card, which wasn't on any body list and
>> ran it using the SB16 driver. I believe I ended up
>> Leaving off all support for sound in the kernel except
>> for the OSS modules. This was contrary what the
>> instruction said, but then again I already had
>> all of the modules made AND my car isn't PCI.
>>
>> Good Luck!
>>
>> Wiley
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From: Henrik Kraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MT forward wont work
Date: 9 Apr 1999 09:47:48 GMT
David Johnson wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am meant to be doing backups to a DLT 20/40, but I cant seem to get the
> thing to forward to the next archive on the tape. trying 'mt forward'
> etc. what am I doing wrong and why?
- use the right device node, e.g. /dev/nst0 for non rewinding, option -f
- see man page mt, fsf 1 to space one file ahead can jump to a eof mark.
the next try to read the tape
will work
Henrik Kraft
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: sndconfig - PnP problems
Date: 6 Apr 1999 21:21:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Murray ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Yeahh.. if you are a rocket scientist.. I tried screwing with that and its
: lack of "meaningfull" documentation.. I finally gave up and threw out the
Out of interest, what is it with isapnp that upsets you? I can't understand
how anybody can not understand such a trivial thing!
I helped somebody out the other day who was trying to install an isdn
modem, and they also had some sort of problem with it. I finally found
out that they wre trying to uncomment the COMMENTS in the file produced
by pnpdump. Why, I don't know - it was obvious they were comments just from
the indentation, let alone the content. I don't get it. Why do people
mess up on things like that?
Can you give some insight into what your problem is? It must be some
perceptual misunderstanding, I'm sure, but I'd love to know what (and why!).
: soundcard and bought a SoundBlaster 16 PnP that sndconfig properly detected
: and installed!
Sndconfig? Oh. Some redhat thing ...
: Jan Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
: <7eccl9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
: > Do it the right way with "pnpisatools"
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: New Linux install, hardware not working.
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:48:03 GMT
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 21:03:49 -0500, Bradley M Keryan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Fester wrote:
>
>> My Sound Card, Intellimouse, and (surprizingly) Ethernet card are not
>> working under Linux. (RedHat 5.0)
>>
>> Sound Card:
>> -----------
>> ENSONIQ AudioPCI
>> I/O: 1000-103F
>> IRQ: 10
>
>The AudioPCI is supported under newer kernels (2.2.x for instance). There
>are drivers and information at
>http://www.ife.ee.ethz.ch/~sailer/linux/pciaudio.html
>including a patch for 2.0.x (which I have used, BTW).
>
>>
>> Ethernet Card:
>> --------------
>> SMC EtherEZ (8416) [10/100 Base-T]
>> I/O: 0240-025F
>> IRQ: 05
>>
>> I was never given the option to install a sound card during setup, where
>> would I go about doing this? I have DOS & Windows drivers for the card, but
>> no Linux.
>>
>> When asked to config my LAN during setup, I was given the choice of many
>> cards, two of which were SMC cards, neither worked. Nor did generic cards.
>> It would report that "This device could not be found on your system", so
>> eventually I gave up. How do I make this work?
>
>I don't have one of those, but I think it uses the SMC Ultra driver, and
>you probably just need to specify the resources (I/O port etc.). If you
>did specify the resources, perhaps you need to use isapnptools to
>configure the card.
>
>>
>> Also, I chose not to emulate 3 buttons, because I figured that my
>> MS-Intellimouse wheel would function as a third button. Apparently it
>> doesn't. Can I make it do this? Otherwise, how can I turn on 3 button
>> emulation?
>
>The Intellimouse uses a slightly different protocol than non-wheel mice.
>There's a FAQ at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
>Make sure the version of XFree86 you have is 3.3.2 or later, for wheel
>mouse support.
>
>>
>> Great thanks for any help!
>>
>> --
>> ---==Fester==---
>Chances are, using a newer version of Redhat would have fixed 2 of your
>problems (the sound and the mouse)...
>
> Brad
>
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> For the Ethernet card, go to the control panel and opened the
>>> Network setup, Select the Interface tab and then the Add button.
>>> (this assume you installed without a eth0 device). Try the SMC
>>> module again but enter the port address in hex format, i.e.
>>> 0x240. You'll have to assign a device name and address
>>> before you can select the SMC module. As I recall there
>>> were a couple of SMC modules.
>>> For the Sound card check out other post in the group.
>>> or just goto http://www.se.opensound.com/osshw.html
>>>
>>> Later.
>>>
>>> Wiley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: Cheapest possible working video card?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:05:32 GMT
On 31 Mar 1999 02:05:14 -0500, Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>We need to set up a couple of compute servers that will be used through
>remote network connections only. Obviously, it doesn't pay to put any sort
>of fancy graphics board into the computers. So if I wanted to find the
>cheapest possible video card (one that would at least allow the occasional
>console login), what would people recommend getting?
>>You didn't say much about the target machines. You seem like
>> you want to rule out 3D boards. You probably could get by
>> with just an old ISA based SVGA card with a Trident
>> chip set and 1 meg of memory, if you have ISA slots. These
>> cards are a dime a dozen, people are literally throwing them
>> in the trash. You can still find then new, for under $25.
>> I personnally would recommend you spring for a little
>> better. You may want to take advantage of a GUI like
>> XFree86 which can make getting around the machine
>> (for setting it up) a lot more convenient and easier!
>> The quality of the image is very noticeable better and
>> really not all that expensive. I've noticed the S3 chipsets
>> are very well support by the Linux X-server. These
>> cards often have some type of 9xx trio chipset and
>> have reasonable 2D performance even by todays.
>> standards. These are the Diamond Stealth 64 cards!
>> Say with 2 - 4 megs of memory on a PCI card.
>> Good Luck
>>
>> Wiley
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From: "Johnny Dahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AGP/S3 trio3d
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:08:24 GMT
Does anyone know how to configure Linux RedHat 5.2 to work with S3 Trio3D
AGP?
Please mail me.
Johnny Dahl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: HELP: Serial Mouse --> PS/2 mouse
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:53:17 GMT
On 30 Mar 1999 02:52:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marie-France
Toupin) wrote:
>
>
>Hi all,
>
>
>I'm running Slackware 3.2 (kernel 2.0.29) that was initially
>configured to be used with a serial mouse.
>
>But now, I need to free /dev/ttyS0 to use my digital camera!
>I also have a PS/2 intellimouse that I'm not currently using!
>
>Thus what do I have to do to switch the serial mouse for the PS/2 mouse?
>Is it enough to just recreate the soft link for /dev/mouse or
>do I have to reconfigure X?
>
>Any help would be appreciated. Thanks !
>> I found this info in another post in the group, sound like
>> you may want to look into this:
The Intellimouse uses a slightly different protocol than non-wheel
mice.
There's a FAQ at http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Make sure the version of XFree86 you have is 3.3.2 or later, for wheel
mouse support.
>> Wiley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: Video cards
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 08:56:22 GMT
On 30 Mar 1999 05:26:38 GMT, "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> When it starts to probe the video card it gets an error of" Cant find
>> video RAM"
>> I have a BX 2 motherboard with AGP graphics.
>
>You missed the most important thing.
>What chipset is your vga card?
>
>That would greatly help if you want help.
>
>> Check http://www.xfree86.org/ They claim some
>> AGP support.
>>
>> Wiley
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From: volume <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help memory, on Alpha
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:16:56 +0200
hi,
i have a miata ( digital workstation 433a) system with 64 Ram ( running
Redhat 5.2 kernel 2.0.35 or 2.2.5 ac4) .
recently i bought 4 DIMMS 64Ram (Kingston 4 alpha KTV APW/64)
when adding the Ram in all possible ways ( different slots ) 2 piece 4
pieces i alway get the same error. expected. everything becomes buggy
(segmentation faults on 'ls' , rm ...... ).
The Ram is detected in the Milo aswell as present in the /proc/meminfo
In the alphaBios everything looks ok. this alpha workstation
does not have secondlevel cache ... i dunno ifthis is relevant.
Anyone ?
thx
Error in Dmesg :
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc000032d648
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff000032d60f
+20 6800 fffffff4c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc000032b93c
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff000032b94f
+20 6800 fffffff4c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc0000311940
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff000031194f
+20 6800 fffffff4c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc000031d514
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff0000574b7f
+20 6800 fffffff0c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc000033c6fc
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff0000061ccf
+20 6800 fffffff0c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
PYXIS machine check NOT expected
pyxis_machine_check: vector=0x630 pc=0xfffffc0000326448
+0 8000000000000038 3800000018
+10 86 ffffff000032644f
+20 6800 fffffff4c1ffffff
+30 100000000 0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: ALS100+ Sound system on RedHat5.2
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:20:56 GMT
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 07:13:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have the following sound hardware.
>Avance Logic Systems 100+ wave device.
>and other (Midi) etc of the same species.
>How do I set it up under RedHat Linux 5.2?
>I have KDE 1.1pre2
>
>>See http://www.se.opensound.com/osshw.html
>> It's say you card is not supported. Hate to break the
>> news. On the other hand, I got a ALS120 to work
>> by using the pnpdump utility to make the /etc/isapnp.conf
>> file and got it to work in SB16 compatible mode using
>> sndconfig utility. 16 DMA does work yet.
>> Do a "man pnpdump".
>> Also note, you'll need Kernel 2.x.
>>
>> By the way, how did you end up with KDE 1.1
>> with RHL 5.2? The upgrade isreally not to
>> bad. Just follow the instructions and use
>> the xconfig if you want to build a new kernel.
>> (The kernel off the disk has a lot of extra
>> stuff enabled, recompiling can often provide
>> a significant performance increase))
>>
>> Wiley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Subject: Re: hardware info
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:22:45 GMT
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999 10:25:39 +0200, Paul Vandevelde
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I get LINUX to give me system information (processor, mem, ...)
>?
>Thanx
>> Check your /var/log/message file. Will show you what the
>> Kernel and deamons found while booting.
>>
>> Wiley
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wiley Hill)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Is Ether Express PRO/10+ (ISA) supported by RH Linux 4.1?
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 09:13:45 GMT
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 11:16:13 -0500, Sean Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is the Intel Ether Express PRO/10+ (ISA) supported by RH
>Linux 4.1 (kernel 2.0.27)? The HOWTO says the Ether Express PRO/10
>is already included in the early 1.3.x kernels but I couldn't set it
>up on my system. I am wondering whether I should keep trying or buy
>a new card or upgrade the kernel.
>If this help, the card uses Intel S82595FX chip.
>
>Thanks,
>Sean
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> The Doc at http://www.redhat.com/support/ says the ISA version
>> of this card IS supported, The PCI version is not, Check out
>> other Re: post in os.linux.hardware for pnp issues, which
>> You MAY need to resolve first. If you can check in Win95
>> device manager and get the port and IRQ info you may not
>> not have to do the pnp bit. The probes for the ethernet
>> cards I use only check the standard ports, all of my
>> ethernet cards are pnp, both ISA and PCI. Just put the
>> correct info in for the modules, ie port and IRQ info and they
>> worked. The modules I use want the port address in hex.
>> Something like 0xXXX where XXX is the last three digits
>> you get from Win95 device manager (strip the leading
>>zero)
>>
>> Hope it Helps!
>>
>> Wiley
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 04:10:32 +0100
jedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Which is an exceedingly bad analogy.
>
> You use any 2 character file names starting
> with minus signs lately? It's the obscure
> not commonplace behaivor that is being debated
> here.
>
> In 10 years of computing across various platforms,
> the only time I have encountered such a file was
> when I was testing out some of the assertions
> regarding the behavior of various unix shells in
> this thread.
>
> There are immensely more generally relevant problems
> with the various user interfaces and programming
> interfaces.
It is, however, an interesting security problem. A file named '-rf'
sounds like a great thing to leave in a directory where root routinely
runs rm *. Of course, root really *should* be more careful in such a
directory, but a symbol that is supposed to stand for *files* altering
the *behavior* of the calling program is clearly an UI defect. The
reason you want to dismiss it is because there is no easy fix;
however, just because there isn't a fix doesn't mean the problem
doesn't exist.
I suppose one workaround is never to use globs without specifying a
directory when you are root. However, this runs counter to traditional
Unix behavior so I really don't like this idea.
A better one may be to have the shell optionally issue warnings every
time a glob expands into a possibly misinterpretable characters like
leading hyphens. After all, tcsh, bash and zsh can all be made to
issue a warning every time they see an rm *; why not do it with other
suspect key combinations? This won't save you from bad globbing in
shell scripts, but I think it's reasonable to expect shell script
writers to code defensively.
The more I think about this option, the more I like it. This doesn't
call for anyone to change their Unix typing habits; just code the
feature into the shells, and add one more line in the rc file enabling
this option by default. Confident people--the type who don't alias rm
to 'rm -i'--can simply turn the feature off and not even have to
remember it exists, while the paranoid such as myself will sleep
better at nights because of it.
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.com
Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Compaq and Linux mailing list created
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:32:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Looks to me like the link is broken :-(
Diederick van Dijk wrote:
> array controller. If you want to join please visit :
> http://www.eGroups.com/list/compaqandlinux
--
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Zip for parallel port - kernal question
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:34:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yep, that would be a good starting point, especially with kernels <2.2
which don't support parallel port sharing well (at all). Check
http://www.torque.net/parport/ as well.
Steve Morgan wrote:
> mavens: If lp is compiled into the kernal, and lp is conflicting with
> ppa when I try to "insmod ppa", could I solve the problem by recompiling
> the kernal without lp?
--
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From: "toto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Guillemot Maxi 64 Home Studio 2
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:53:42 +0200
Hi, has anyone had any success configuring the Guillemot Maxi
64 Home Studio PnP/ISA sound card on Linux 2.0.36
or 2.2.5. I can't hear any sound but I *can* record. It is as if
the volume was set to zero! But the mixer works ok: I can choose
the recording input, adjust the level etc. but with no audible effects!
So is there a trick?
I tried the oss eval with no more success.
Laurent Zanoni
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From: "Sascha Bohnenkamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xeon vs non-Xeon PII/PIII systems
Date: Fri, 9 Apr 1999 12:18:09 +0200
>We're planning to purchase a new workstation and are trying to decide if
>the Xeon chip offers any advantages over a comparable non-Xeon chip
>which would be useful to us. My understanding is that the Xeon's faster
no -- xeon with same cache size is NOT faster, but you could build a 4 cpu
xeon system --- not possible with p3 or p2
>and (optionally) larger L2 cache is ideal for cache-limited
>applications
yes, the bigger cache may give you some advantages
> but how can we determine if our work is cache-limited?
compute how much data is used at a limited period of time .. eg.
image-processing with relativ small images IS cache-bound but the
larger the image the less you will get from a bigger cache
and the xeons are very expensive
>Our workstations are used for scientific computing, mostly raw number
>crunching and image processing.
>I'm assuming, of course, that linux can fully take advantage of the
>improved L2 cache in the Xeon.
of course -- but you could get a 2cpu smp p3 system for the price of one
xeon with a big cache ...
maybe clustering is what you need
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From: Jim Howes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Serial Mouse --> PS/2 mouse
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 10:59:14 +0100
>Thus what do I have to do to switch the serial mouse for the PS/2 mouse?
>Is it enough to just recreate the soft link for /dev/mouse or
>do I have to reconfigure X?
At the most basic level, edit /etc/XF86Config (or wherever RedHat
hides it), find the
Section "Pointer"
Change the protocol lines and device lines to:
Protocol "ps/2"
Device "/dev/psaux"
Remember that the psaux driver is probably not configured by default,
you may have to either compile it in, or load the psaux module.
(Being a 'compile it in' junkie, I don't have a psaux.o)
You won't see psaux in the /proc/misc file unless it's actually in
use.
Regards,
Jim
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