Linux-Hardware Digest #171, Volume #10 Thu, 6 May 99 09:14:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: X-Server with ATI 3D Rage LT Pro ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SMP Support (Suran)
Re: Help! Linux & ISDN (UK) (Stephen Kench)
Re: Will Linux utilize dual processor systems? (Brandon)
Is there a solution with VIBRA16 problem? (Carlo Zapponi)
Re: "no daemon present"? ... lpc> status (Martin Schulz)
Re: AHA-2940U2W ("Ricardo Canani")
Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Q: What can I do when SVGALIB did not support my video card(chipset)???
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Caldera Linux 2.2/Pentium III (Brandon)
Re: Benchmark software for Linux? (Marc Mutz)
Re: Critisism/advice needed (gus)
need tape drive recommendation ("jerome fayot")
Double-sided printing with HP1100 (Tomas)
Dell and RH6 ("Dave Mimms")
Re: Benchmark software for Linux? (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Re: kernel doesn't see new 32meg dimm (gus)
Re: IBM LCD T55D + Linux (Marc Mutz)
Re: need tape drive recommendation (Marc Mutz)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (Matthias Warkus)
Help! Scanner HP ScanJet 3p is not determined device (dnepr)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X-Server with ATI 3D Rage LT Pro
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 09:29:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Barlow) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tried just about every possible combination of setups to get my
> notebook running X. Has anyone any experience with this card.
>
> Thanks
>
> Ray
>
>
The Dell Inspiron uses this card. For a wealth of info see
http://www.edgeworld.com/notebook/i7000.htm and for Linux specifically (with
notes on the 3D Rage Pro see http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
Chrres,
Ron
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From: Suran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP Support
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:46:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bucky4me wrote:
>
> I recompiled my kernel for smp but do not know how to check if the OS see's
> both. How can I do this?
less /proc/cpu
You should see more than one entry.
For checking the cpu-load I prefer xosview, scince
it's just one of the _very_rare_ load-view tools that support smp's.
(and it's small on your desktop(s))
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From: Stephen Kench <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Linux & ISDN (UK)
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:53:05 +0100
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Dean Darlison wrote:
> Mark Roberts wrote:
>
> ps. pipex uk do not, as yet, offer 128k links on their ISP connections.
> Unless you have access to the Beta testing accounts ;-)
>
> --
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
callnetuk.com supports 128K ISDN.
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Stephen Kench.
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 05:55:05 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will Linux utilize dual processor systems?
Per Beckman wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm thinking of experementing with a dual Celeron (366Mhz, overclocked
> to ~ 400- 450) system.
> I'm new to Linux and therefore wonder if Linux will take use of
> the power. Will I need to do som kernel-hacking, is the dual processor
> support buggy, etc (I think you get my point... ;).
>
> Thanks
> // Pelle, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The kernel supports it but i think defualt is single processor so all u
would have to do is recompile with the option enabled for multipe
processors. Dont know if its buggy or not though, sorry.
Brandon
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: Carlo Zapponi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is there a solution with VIBRA16 problem?
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 11:58:40 +0200
How can I configure my sb VIBRA16?
The solution in 2.2.x-kernel-source Documentation tell to use a particular
isapnp.conf file,but my isapnp tool is not able to read that file,because
it uses some strange directives isapnptool doesn't know.
Please help me!!!!
Carlo.
this is the file isapnp.conf in 2.2.x in src/linux/Documentation/sound :
..........<cut text>......
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE PRESERVE)
(IDENTIFY *)
(VERBOSITY 2)
(CONFLICT (IO FATAL)(IRQ FATAL)(DMA FATAL)(MEM FATAL)) # or WARNING
# SB 16 and OPL3 devices
(CONFIGURE CTL00f0/-1 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 3))
(IO 0 (SIZE 16) (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 2 (SIZE 4) (BASE 0x0388))
(NAME "CTL00f0/-1[0]{Audio }")
(ACT Y)
))
......<cut text>........
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From: Martin Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: "no daemon present"? ... lpc> status
Date: 06 May 1999 12:06:09 +0200
"Bleh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Why does it says "no daemon present" for every single printer device? How
> do I start the "raw" device as a daemon?
As I understand it, this is okay as long as there are no entries.
HTH,
Martin.
--
Martin Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Uni Karlsruhe, Institut f. wissenschaftliches Rechnen u. math. Modellbildung
Engesser Str. 6, Karlsruhe
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Reply-To: "Ricardo Canani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Ricardo Canani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA-2940U2W
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 07:06:54 -0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7gka89$ula$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In article <0X6X2.2691$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Ricardo Canani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi !
>>
>> Does anybody know if Linux Kernel 2.0.36 supports Adaptec
>> AHA-2940U2W ?
>>
>> Any help is welcome.
>>
>
>
>Yes, it does. BOth RedHat5.2 and Mandrake 5.3 worked well on an
ASUS P2B-LS
>motherboard which includes the adaptec chipset. I use an IBM
UltraStar
>Ultra-2 drive and it works like a charm. The driver correctly
claims that
>the SCSI chain transfer speed is 80 MB/s, as expected with U2
stuff.
>
>Of course, the drive's max transfer speed is around 20 MB/s,
which leaves 60
>MB/s to play with...
>
>
>
What about Slackware Linux ?
_______________________________
Ricardo Canani
Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
http://www.nh.conex.net/user/canani
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Adaptec 3940 UW and MANY devices
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 06:41:54 GMT
"Bill Frisbee" <bfrisbee*NoSpam*@*NoSpam*webxi.com> writes:
>Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I didn't see the original article, but replies were talking about 28 cdrom
>> drives hooked up to a system. Bear in mind, that as it stands right now,
>the
>> maximum number of scsi devices you can have in an entire system is 16.
>The
>> devfs patches may solve this problem.
>Nope the 3940 is a dual channel UW. 16 devices per channel, unless it is a
>limitation of Linux.
[...]
It is. That's why he mentioned the devfs patches. The standard Linux
installation doesn't provide enough major/minor numbers for more than 16
SCSI devices .
Michael
--
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Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Q: What can I do when SVGALIB did not support my video card(chipset)???
Date: 6 May 1999 10:23:50 +0100
ei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi~~~
> could anyone please tell me what i can do when SVGALIB not support my
> Millennium II & G200 ?
> Is there any solution to use graphics for console mode on liunx or
> unix?
You can try to use the VESA driver in the latest svgalib version. It works
quite well (even if rather slowly) with my Millenium II.
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 06:12:07 -0400
From: Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera Linux 2.2/Pentium III
tony alfrey wrote:
>
> I am a Linux newcomer and hope one of you experts can tell me
> a) Can I install Caldera Linux 2.2 on a Pentium III (Gateway and Dell seem
> to sell only III's anymore).
> b) Is an Iomega Zip drive compatable with Linux? Will I need a special
> driver?
> Thanks very much. Please have pity on a refugee from the MacOS that wants to avoid
>being attached to Windows 98. I have run the Caldera package on a Pentium II and it
>really seems to work nicely (with KDE).
I suggest changing the length that your newsreader wraps lines at.
Brandon
>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
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--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:16:01 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmark software for Linux?
Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
>
> Is there a benchmark software to test Linux systems? Thanks for any tip.
>
> Napi
cat /proc/cpuinfo (see bogomips)
bonnie (HD benching)
rc5des from http://www.distributed.net/ (cracking DES & rc5-keys)
compile kernel
render a picture w/ povray
...
Marc Mutz
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Critisism/advice needed
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 10:44:47 +0100
I agree with "killbill" on the "overkill, bill", Hendrik. I would
suggest that you settle on just one 128meg dimm, a single processor,
save yourself some money on the LVDifferential SCSI because both the
controller and the devices are poor value for money (in my opinion) when
UW is more than enough *especially* when you only have one hard drive.
So, my recommendation is to save money on the LVD and just go UW. With
that saving, buy two disks, not necessarily 9.1. Two 4.5 disks are
better than one 9.1. So, I would guess that your saving may allow you to
go for two 6.4 gig drives.
The money you save on just one dimm I would spend on a scanner ;-) That
is just me ... ;-)
Avoid the PCI soundcard. ISA is just fine. Get an AWE64. I have one and
I like it enough. Then again, I do not know what *real quality* (TM)
sound is like.
I like the Marble, but I have had to use the gpm repeater to get it to
work in X. This is probably just a laziness on my behalf.
I presume that you have a 100mbit network ... then the Intel is good
enough. I have a home network with these cards exclusively. Wonderful.
IIRC though, it will *not* operate at 10mbit, so you may have problems
if there is a 10mbit card or hub on the network.
I would buy a single CPU. For the purpose you mention, it is way
overkill to have dual processor. This is a personal preference thing,
but I would get a good PII board with a PII450, maybe PII500. This is
more than enough. I have a PII400 which I have yet to manage to run at
full capacity for more than a couple of minutes (that is how long a full
kernel compile takes. My "load" tends to look like 0.0 0.0 0.0.
BAsically, hard as I try, I can not use the full capacity of a PII400.
Most importantly, if you want to lavish yourself, buy a 19inch monitor,
not the 17inch. The bigger the better. The monitor is your most intimate
interaction with your computer. If it looks good on screen, it feels
good in general. Spoil yourself with a good monitor.
Finally, the Mini Tower is perhaps not the best case. Go with a mid-size
tower (or more) and a minimum 230W supply. You will find that working in
a case with space is a pleasure. It leaves room for expansion (which is
easy with SCSI), and the capacity to drive it. A couple of hard disks on
a 200W supply (especially of they have high spindle speeds) may cause a
serious drain when they spin up. I had a machine with serious boot
problems as a result of three disks all spinning up at once, causing a
drain on the supply which trashed the memory, so boot failed.
gus
Henrik Otterstr�m wrote:
>
> Hi there, fellow linux'ers ;-)
>
> I'm about to buy hardware according to the following list. I would love to
> hear your comments and/or recommendations regarding using this setup as a
> Linux development workstation. Primary for C/C++ development but
> occasionally for testing different Internet Servers (ftp, http, dns, sql,
> etc.)
>
> I've tried to check every component against hardware-combatibility databases
> on the net and found the list OK, but perhaps your personal expierience will
> make me reconsider my choices?
>
> I am planning on using the S.u.S.E 6.1 distro on this box.
>
> Please feel free to recommend something else. I have little expierience with
> PC-hardware, so I do not know if this is a good list of choices.
>
> Heres the tentative list:
>
> - ASUStek P2B-DS, Slot1, Dual, SCSI motherboard
> - 2 x 128 MB SDRAM, PC-100, ECC
> - 2 x Intel Pentium II 400 MHz (Intel in a box)
> - ASUS V3400TNT, 16MB AGP graphics card
> - Creative Sound Blaster Live! value, PCI soundcard
> - Intel PRO/100+ PCI network adapter
> - IBM Ultrastar 9LZX, 9.1 GB Ultra2 LVD harddisk
> - Toshiba 40x SCSI CD-ROM drive
> - Panasonic 1.44 MB floppy drive
> - ATX Mini Tower, 200W Low-Noise
> - SoundBlaster PcWorks 100 speakers
> - Keytronic KT-2000 105 tasters keyboard, PS/2
> - Logitech Trackmann Marble FX mouse extravaganza
> - Sony MultiScan 200PST, 17" monitor
>
> Also: I've considered buing a singe PIII 500Mhz instead of the dual PII
> 400Mhz. It costs almost the same. What would give me the most bang for the
> buck?
>
> TIA,
> Henrik.
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From: "jerome fayot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need tape drive recommendation
Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 12:30:49 +0200
Hi,
I am going to buy a tape drive to install on my RedHat 5.2 Intel PII
workstation. I will use it essentially to backup 6Go and 4Go hard drives.
What device would recommend me ? And also what software ?
Thanks
Jef
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Subject: Double-sided printing with HP1100
From: Tomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 May 1999 09:58:16 +0100
Hello.
Does any one know what to do to print on both sides of the paper with
RedHat and the HP1100?
Thanks.
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From: "Dave Mimms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell and RH6
Date: Tue, 4 May 1999 20:39:35 +0200
Are integrated sound and video cards compatible with RH6? I'm looking at
the Dell Deminsion V series computers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Benchmark software for Linux?
Date: 6 May 1999 18:07:26 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah wrote:
>>
>> Is there a benchmark software to test Linux systems? Thanks for any tip.
>>
>> Napi
>
>cat /proc/cpuinfo (see bogomips)
>bonnie (HD benching)
>rc5des from http://www.distributed.net/ (cracking DES & rc5-keys)
>compile kernel
>render a picture w/ povray
>...
>
>Marc Mutz
Thanks. But I'm looking for something like WinBench from Ziff-Davis for
Windows95 or Speedometer for the Mac. Would be nice to have something like
this for Linux to test the overall system performance.
Napi
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From: gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kernel doesn't see new 32meg dimm
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 12:55:36 +0100
Have you read the how-to's (sarcasm intended)?
Have you searched dejanews (ditto)?
check your lilo.conf, you probably have some legacy configuration in
there.
gus
P.S. You shouldn't get flamed for posting in two newsgroups, but you
should get flamed for being grossly lazy.
chris wrote:
>
> i'm probably going to get flamed for posting this to 2 groups, but what
> the hell.
>
> I had 2 32 meg sdram dimms and tossed a third in. windows (and the bios)
> see the third, but linux (2.2.5) still thinks I have 64 megs of ram. As
> I said in .comp.os....setup, I want to troll for suggestions before a
> hair-pulling session in HOW-TO land.
> thanks.
> chris
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 14:01:30 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: IBM LCD T55D + Linux
Roland Schmehl wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I want to run the IBM LCD flat panel T55D with a digital interface under
> Linux,
> for example with accelerated-X + ATI Xpert LCD. Does anybody knows if
> this will
> work? Or, does anybody has this combination of hard- and software
> operating?
> Thanks a lot,
> Roland
Should work with the tricks at
http://www.fachschaften.uni-bielefeld.de/physik/leute/marc/X/
if your Panel has nominal 1024x768. You do not need accelerated-X!
Marc Mutz
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 14:09:46 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need tape drive recommendation
jerome fayot wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am going to buy a tape drive to install on my RedHat 5.2 Intel PII
> workstation. I will use it essentially to backup 6Go and 4Go hard drives.
>
> What device would recommend me ? And also what software ?
>
> Thanks
> Jef
Any SCSI-Tape will do together with 'tar'. A DDS2-DAT would be quite
fast and portable in terms of reading it with drives of another
manufacturer.
Marc Mutz
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Wed, 5 May 1999 22:48:05 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Wed, 05 May 1999 09:55:18 -0600...
..and John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Fierke wrote:
> >
> > Actually, I may be mistaken, but I believe that HP already makes
> > windows-only printers. And I would certainly consider the office-jet and
> > related multifunction printers (printer, scanner, fax machine, and coffee
> > maker all in ones) to be windows-only.
>
> IIRC, these "winprinters" merely lack built-in fonts. They
> just expect to be fed bitmaps of some sort. I suspect that
> ghostscript could support these.
No. They are GDI printers. They need the Windows GDI printing API /
rasteriser to work.
The only way to make them work with Unix lpd is to use a dedicated
Win32 rasterising server. Geez.
mawa
--
As soon as a drunk driver sees a roadblock, what does he do? He makes
a U-turn and *bang*, another roadblock related traffic accident!
-- Jimmy Tingle, on: Heat, NPR
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From: dnepr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Scanner HP ScanJet 3p is not determined device
Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 11:24:00 +0000
Scanner is complected SCSI card SymBois Logic 53C400A (HP version).
Linux hasn't a driver.
Help!! Please!
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