Linux-Hardware Digest #291, Volume #10 Fri, 21 May 99 14:13:46 EDT
Contents:
WinPrinter OKI Page 4W (Jean-Yves Pignier)
Re: Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller, Is it possible to use this card? (Kent Saxin
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Hammarstr=F6m?=)
Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'! (Glenn)
Re: how's this for a cheap webserver? (Lyn A Headley)
zoltrix just tv drivers? specs to write one? (David Borowski)
-> Folkert Meeuw: Starting RH 5.2 Installation from bootdisk, hang on Calibrating
delay loop .. ("Folkert Meeuw")
Re: How to mount a mo drive? ("Gary Maltzen")
RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Dan Finn)
Help with 3com 56k Faxmodem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant ("Lee Sharp")
Re: changing hard drive's serial number (elmer smeckert)
Re: MAKEDEV don't know how ... ("Gary Maltzen")
Re: Turtle Beach Montego, anybody make it work? (John Coiner)
Re: Help! Sound Loop Error with Crystal CS34232 Sound Card! (Matt Willis)
Alton M748 motherboard ("Yip, emily")
Re: ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, 2x AGP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: what is bus master? (Michael Powe)
KDE or Gnome (Dharmesh Patel)
Cannon BJC210 inkjet (please help) (Brian B.)
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From: Jean-Yves Pignier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WinPrinter OKI Page 4W
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:57:18 +0200
Is there a way to use a OKI Page 4W under linux ?
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From: Kent Saxin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hammarstr=F6m?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 IDE Controller, Is it possible to use this card?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 15:21:36 +0200
That method worked fine for me, except that I still haven't been able to
get LILO to work for booting off a hard disk (not even the old IDE-drive
I plunked in as hda). Boots just fine off a floppy though.
>-Kent->
dave wrote:
>
> trying to install RH6 but, the boot disk does not recognize my hard drive
> which is attached to a Promise Ultra66 IDE controller.
>
> I found the following web site which explains how to install Linux using
> with a Promise Ultra33 :
> http://www.redhat.com/docs/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA-5.html
> will this method also work with the Ultra66? I'd hate to screw something
> up.
>
> Has anyone successfully used this card before? or does anyone have any
> suggestions?
>
> Thanks in advance for any usefully info.
>
> --dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on Dual Pentium-II machines
Date: 21 May 1999 13:33:38 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware sven the hairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is linux inferior in its handling of multiple processors than other OSs?
: Somebody at work trashed linux in this area, but I couldn't object to his
: comments because I don't know much about multi-processor systems. Is he full
: of S**t?
with kernel-2.0.x only the BootStrap-Processor was able to handle
interrupts, and only one processor was able to be in kernel mode
at a time. With high I/O-traffic (server), that had slightly negative
effects on the performance.
But it didn't affect user-space programms, such as number-crunching.
Today (Kernel 2.2.x) everything is better :-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can't install Linux5.2 on Presario 5660 'Help'!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:00:35 GMT
On Thu, 20 May 1999 21:21:27 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Glenn)
wrote:
>I have a Compaq Presario 5660: Pent.II, 128meg ram, 12gig HD. I used
>FIPS after doing a defrag, and split my HD into 8gig for my M.S. and
>have about 4gig I want for Linux. All went smooth until I went into
>Disk Druid, put my cursor on Mount Point, selected hda2 the 4gig and
>followed the instruction: "Press F1 to add partition. Enter / for
>Mount Point. Select Linux Native, leave default 1 for size and
>selected "Growable". I click Ok and get the following:
>
>"There are currently unallocated partition(s) present in the list of
>requested partition(s). The unallocated partition(s) are shown below
>with the reason they were not allocated.
>
>/............... boot partition too big"
>
>I tried using the supplemental floppy with my CDRom still to no avail.
>I am a 'newbie' working from Linux for Dummies and the Red Hat 5.2
>included in that CD. Any help or guidance would be appreciated.
>Compaq was of NO help. I am finding nothing on the Red Hat site.
>
>Thanks.... Glenn, To reply by email, remove NOSP from the email
>address in the header. Thanks again......
I received a gracious response by email to try fdisk as the
alternative. Trying that method I get the screen showing hda1 and
hda2 but with the following:
hda1 * 1 1000 7559968
hda2 1001 1557 4210920
Partition 2 has different physical/logical endings:
physical = (532, 239, 63) logical - (1556, 239, 63)
When I try to make my Linux native partition, it says I have only
1001-1023 space. I end up with 170meg of free space as I did using
Disk Druid. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Remove NOSP
from my email in the header for any email response. Thanks very much.
Glenn
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From: Lyn A Headley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how's this for a cheap webserver?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:15:22 GMT
Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >motherboard: $95
> >ASUS:P5A ALI 512K 100MHZ 5PCI 2ISA 3DIMM AGP ATX
> >-- ALI chipset OK?
> >-- will it take a celeron?
>
> No. The P5A is a Super Socket 7 board and would need something like
> a K6-2. Plus it's harder to get UDMA support out of the ALI
> chipset. The Asus P2B is a good Slot 1 mobo for Celeron and P-II.
>
> But for good quality and less $$ check out the AOpen boards, for
> example:
>
> AX59Pro - Super 7
> AX6BC - Slot 1
> MX3L - PPGA Celerons
>
sorry, I'm confused. My tiny brain has heard of two modern
motherboard types, Socket 7 and Slot 1. I thought Slot 1 was for
Pentium II's and higher, and Socket 7 was for everything else,
including celerons. What's a PPGA celeron, and what relationship does
it have to motherboard type?
-Lyn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Borowski)
Subject: zoltrix just tv drivers? specs to write one?
Date: 21 May 1999 14:35:13 GMT
Are there drivers for the zoltrix Just TV card.
I downloaded the vt1500-1.9 stuff and although it looks similar
in its method of tuning the card it doesn't work.
The card is an 8 bit isa with a vga passthrough arrangement.
The one I have has a philips tuner, after I removed all the zoltrix
dummy stickers. Any info would be appreciated including
info on setting up wine and trapping the i/o (only port 36f).
I did this with dosemu for the zoltrix radio card and found out it was an
aimslab by looking at the data. The Just TV has an aimslab alv8000
chip and the other large one is an I don't know who makes it.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Folkert Meeuw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: -> Folkert Meeuw: Starting RH 5.2 Installation from bootdisk, hang on
Calibrating delay loop ..
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 08:41:53 +0200
Hi Dear Friendly Readers,
yesterday, I made a backup from my files of my old RH 4.2 system
today I want to install RH 5.2.
I write the boot.img with rawrite on a formated 1.44 Fd.
I put the Fd in FDD on my 486 PC, start the system and <enter>.
But Installation hangs on: Callibrating delay loop ..
Ok ! The PC has no pci_init: no BIOS32 ...
Next I start the system again and type: expert <enter>.
Hm, what do you think is passed, the same precedure as ..
I need help or information, but nothing 'bout my PC.
Or fails installation on a i486 compaq: pci_init: no BIOS32 detected ?
NG Folkert Meeuw
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From: "Gary Maltzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to mount a mo drive?
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:24:41 -0500
IIRC, you will need a 2.1 or later kernel (or suitable patches) to support
the 2K sector size. My RH5.2 system (2.0.36 kernel) reports my Mitsubishi
(internal device is Fujitsu) 640MO as a 2KB sector and fails to do anything
more with it.
Note: AFAIK, this should be treated as a (removable) hard disk; it has
*nothing* to do with the SCSI generic device support.
Cheuk Wai TAI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|does anyone know how to mount fujitsu mo since I can't mount the
|MO although the kernel included the scsi generic device? On the other
|hand, my scsi zip drive can run perfectly.
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Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 11:38:05 -0400
From: Dan Finn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP
I recently installed RedHat 6.0. I have a sound blaster 16 PnP. I was
able to get this sound card to work with RedHat 5.2 using sndconfig so I
was hoping that RH6 would work fine. When I ran sndconfig it detected
the card as the right card, it then told me it was going to re-write a
couple of files, it then complains about certain lines in the
/etc/isapnp.conf file and not knowing what to do with a certain line. I
tried it multiple times and even tried it with a different card and the
same exact thing happened (it also detected that card fine). I tried to
install the isapnptools and sndconfig packages off my RH 5.2 cd and
sndconfig complained that it needed two library files that I didn't
have. Any help would be really appreciated,
Thanks
Dan Finn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with 3com 56k Faxmodem
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:24:35 GMT
I just purchased a 3com USR 56k Faxmodem and am having
a bit of trouble getting it to work. First, is there is
a way to disable PNP on this card? It would be easiest if
I could just rearrange some jumpers or something.
If not then why won't Linux free IO:02f8 and IRQ:3 when
I disable COM2, which I would like to use for the modem.
I definitely disabled it, but /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts
still tell me that the resources are being used, which leads
to isapnp failing with a conflict at bootup.
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Dave
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 07:08:57 GMT
Rob Walsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> In all my digging through FAQs, HOWTOs, source code, and web sites, I
> have not been able to find any reference to using Compaq server
> hardware with Linux. Specifically whether any of the Compaq SCSI
> controllers or Ethernet cards (NetFlex) are supported. I am
> completely puzzled that there is no mention of them, one way or the
> other.
Almost all of the Netflex3 cards or onboard systems, at TI Thunderlan
chipset, enabled by the Tlan driver. This may have to be done after
install, with an "insmod tlan duplex=2" command. The 32 bit SCSI
controller is a NCR 53825 series, and should auto detect. The Smart array
controllers have a beta driver. It requires a kernal recompile.
http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html for details. The Video
varries, but is generally a CL chipset. 800x600 256 color is about as good
as it gets. Other than the RAID, they run great.
Lee
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necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
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individual, not as a representative of any company, organization or other
entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 22:58:01 -0700
From: elmer smeckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: changing hard drive's serial number
I can't swear to it, but I think the Serial number is
in the ROM on the drive. You can see it, but I don't
think you can change it from software.
Igor Schein wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> using hdparm(1) command I can display the
> serial number of an IDE hard drive:
>
> # hdparm -I /dev/hdb|grep -i serial
> Model=DW CCA4300L0 , FwRev=234.N153, SerialNo=DWW-3T15
>
> My question is, how can I change it? I was thinking to
> use dd(1) to raw-write to the hard drive, but I don't
> know which sector to write it to.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Igor
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From: "Gary Maltzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MAKEDEV don't know how ...
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 12:02:34 -0500
Devices scd0-scd7 correspond to driver 'sr' devices 0-7
Kurt C. Anderson wrote in message ...
|i added a smart and friendly (yamaha) scsi cd-rw to my rh5.2 server and
have
|not been able to get it to work. the dmesg output says, the kernel sees
the
|cd-rw as sr0 scsi 0,channel 0, id 6, lun 0 and my scsi tape as st0 scsi 0,
|channel 0, id 2, lun 0. but when i try #/dev/MAKEDEV -v sr0 i get the
error
|MAKEDEV: don't know how to make device sr0. so, i tried #/dev/modprobe sr
|and got the error can't find module sr. the scsi tape works fine, scsi
|tape is a module in the kernal, scsi cdrom support is in the kernel . . . .
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From: John Coiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego, anybody make it work?
Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 21:53:33 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Has anyone been able to make the Turtle Beach Montego sound card work
> with Red Hat 6.0?
>
> Jerry Sandefur
> http://members.tripod.com/~sandefur
>
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It works with www.opensound.com's proprietary driver. Unfortunately,
this is a beta, it sounds bad (resamples everything to 48Khz I think)
and costs money unless you download the time limited nagware. I'm about
to investigate initializing it under DOS and then booting linux and
making it work as a SB compatible... let me know if you get yours
working and sounding halfway decent.
John
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From: Matt Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Help! Sound Loop Error with Crystal CS34232 Sound Card!
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 15:55:14 +0000
Whoa. That sounds crazy. I too struggled with PnP and all that. I got my
cs4232 card working, but then my modem stopped. Rather than frig with
things forever, I disabled PnP in my BIOS, compiled support for the card
into my kernel, and everything works fine now.
Try that. Failing that, try getting the OSS drivers from
www.4front-tech.com and seeing if they work.
- Matt
Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> I have spent *weeks* trying to get my sound card configured correctly for my
> system, all with very little success. My latest problem is that regardless of
> the application I use, whenever I play a sound file, a one second clip of it
> plays, and repeats over and over and over again, until I finally stop it.
>
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From: "Yip, emily" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Alton M748 motherboard
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 00:38:00 -0700
I am a computer science student trying to build myself an affordable
computer that will support linux and some future endeavors.
This motherboard looks great to me but I would like to get someone elses
opinion.
The deal is:
Alton M748 motherboard
56k V.90 modem
333 celeron processor
built in 8mb VGA
3 DIMM slots
etc. for $162
check it out at www.altonpc.com
Is there a downside to this deal?
Does this board support linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, 2x AGP
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 16:43:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a MiTac MiNote 6020 with an ATI Rage LT Pro graphics chip (8MB,
14.1", 1024x768).
? http://www.fachschaften.uni-bielefeld.de/physik/leute/marc/X/
? http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
? http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/
My first attempt was to (using only S.u.S.E. supplied code) compile a
new kernel and set up a frame buffer device (XF86_FBDev). This was, for
me, a bad idea. It seemed straight forward, but . I missed something.
What finally worked were a standard kernel, the patched XF86_Mach64
server (from the links above) and the XF86Config file that is attached
to this mail. It was built using SAX (on an external CRT display). I
replaced the XF86_Mach64 server by renaming the original
(XF86_Mach64.original) and letting the patched version take it's place.
/Anders
In article <7fml5r$ev3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ola Wintzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How shall I configure my SuSe 6.0 Linux for my computer? I can't get
X up
> and running.
>
> 450 MHz Intel Pentium II
> 2x64 MB, 100 MHz SDRAM.
>
> ATI 3D Rage LT Pro, 2x AGP
> TFT Screen
>
> Regards Ola
> Please CC to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: what is bus master?
From: Michael Powe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 21 May 1999 01:07:18 -0700
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>>>>> "Chen" == Y Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Chen> Hi, there, My new mainboard require a bis master to work
Chen> fine under win98. I do not know what it is? Do I need it to
Chen> run linux too? BTW, my new board is Soyo 100 MHz 5EMA.
Chen> Thanks. Y.Chen
A search engine is your friend.
8<---------------------------------------------------->8
- From http://www.mediavis.com/tech/busmaster/index.htm:
Bus Mastering IDE technology implements logic circuitry on your
motherboard that, when configured properly with other elements of your
system, can reduce the CPU's work of retrieving and/or storing data on
your hard disk drive or other IDE device.
If you tend to have multiple applications running simultaneously that
are disk intensive, then Bus Master IDE technology may help your
system complete these tasks faster. Bus Master IDE technology will
probably not benefit you if your user operating environment is
characterized by the one of the following:
you typically run DOS games OR
you work with office apps where only one application is running
OR
you have many apps running but they are not disk intensive
To utilize Bus Master IDE technology your system must have all of the
following elements:
bus master compatible logic on your system motherboard
bus master compatible BIOS
a multi-tasking operating system (OS) such as Windows* 95
a bus mastering-aware device driver for your operating system
a bus mastering compatible IDE device (disk drive, CD-ROM) that
supports "DMA multi-word" modes
a high level of compatibility validation, such as commonly
performed by an OEM, which is required to ensure that all these
complex elements function properly together
8<---------------------------------------------------->8
I don't know if or how busmastering is implemented in linux.
mp
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From: Dharmesh Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE or Gnome
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 13:33:42 +0530
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I'm already using KDE but have heard Gnome has some better
additional features.Can some onr guide me as how I should go about the
installation .
Should I uninstall KDE first ? (if so how ) .
Please help.
Thanking you,
Dharmesh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian B.)
Subject: Cannon BJC210 inkjet (please help)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 21 May 1999 13:10:59 -0600
Ok while looking around for information on
http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi it says that this
printer works in b/w and color using the bjc600 gs driver. But it seems that
the printer/driver is unable to get the colors quite right. and prints a little
to dark.
Has anyone gotten this printer to work correctly in color?
All comments would be most appreciated.
Brian
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