Linux-Hardware Digest #193, Volume #11 Mon, 6 Sep 99 17:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Xconfigurator for SUSE 6.1 (MBr)
Re: SB Live and SUSE 6.1 (MBr)
How to switch screen-size?? (Autometic)
Re: Netgear FA310TX (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Re: Avance logic ALS 100+ sound/redhat 5.1 (phihilippe VENTRILLON)
Re: Pb with SCSI symbios 53c895 and kernel 2.2.xx (MADIOT)
kyocera (Jonathan C Busey)
coprocessors/math emulation...giving up?! (Jonathan C Busey)
Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 installation. 2nd disk not being recognized by (Norman
Levin)
Re: Netgear FA310TX ("James M. Wadkins")
Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions. (David Cooley)
Re: Building new Linux server - opinions (Michael Alan Dorman)
Re: Linux and hardware RAID (David Cooley)
Re: EAST TIMOR ("Hrodenu")
Tekram DC390F e Linux ("Emilio")
Re: Why is module st0 (SCSI tape drive) always loaded? (MBr)
Re: DFE-530TX compile... (Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?=)
Re: Setting Up Linux Shell--Need HD ("Kraid")
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From: MBr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Xconfigurator for SUSE 6.1
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:14:45 +0200
money2k wrote:
>
> Is there a SUSE Version of RedHat's Xconfiguration? And - yes - we know
> all about SUSE's SaX. SaX was does not really recognize our Matrox G400
> and Princeton Ultra 17+ shows up as other Princeton model (EO710?)
>
> riii
Easiest thing to do, is to rename your matrox server to
/usr/X11/bin/XF86_SVGA (backup the old one..)
and select the generic SVGA server under SAX.... I tried Xconfigurator,
after being used to SAX
and personally, I think Xconfigurator sux...
>
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"It may hurt my pride to be wrong once in a while, but I
rather be flamed with better information than to be left
blissfully ignorant." /-- Manuel Beunder, maintainer of:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme - The SB Live!-Linux page
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From: MBr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live and SUSE 6.1
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:10:27 +0200
MBr wrote:
>
> Tobias Haf wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > after
> >
> > insmod soundcore
> > insmod emu10k1
> > modprobe emu10k1
> >
> > I just can hear AUDIO-CD's but no Waves or MP3s. Why?
> >
>
> Try to skip the insmod emu10k1 part...
> also, on some systems you need to set NON-PNP OS in the BIOS
p.s. I almost forgot, make sure that you got actual write access to
/dev/dsp and /dev/dsp1
>
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Tobias Haf
>
--
"It may hurt my pride to be wrong once in a while, but I
rather be flamed with better information than to be left
blissfully ignorant." /-- Manuel Beunder, maintainer of:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme - The SB Live!-Linux page
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From: Autometic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to switch screen-size??
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 00:08:31 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I switch screen sizes while in an X server ?
I have several screen sizes selected (ranging from 1600x1200 to 800x600)
and would like to be able to switch between them by clicking a few
buttons only.
Is this possible ?
Thanks,
Autometic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E. Taylor IV)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: 6 Sep 1999 19:07:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hmm
> I have the FA-310TX in my PC and slackware 3.0 loaded up and ran
> perfectly with it... that was old kernel 2.0.34... I have since
> downloaded slakware 4.0 and added the new kernel 2.2.12 and it still
> runs fine.
ISTR that different versions of that card may/may not work with the
stock tulip drivers. At any rate, the drivers that come on the floppy
with the card had better work - and it's a good place to start if the
other poster's having trouble setting up the cards.
--
Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
"We got the MRxL, and you got none!"
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From: phihilippe VENTRILLON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Avance logic ALS 100+ sound/redhat 5.1
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:31:09 GMT
I also have a ALS100 sound card.
I configured it as following
extract of /etc/conf.modules :
alias sound sb
alias midi opl3
options opl3 io=0x388
options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=0 mpu_io=0x300
during kernel compilation I said that it 's a soundblaster compatible
and that I wanted a generic opl2/3 driver
It doesn't work too bad but I still have two problems :
1) /var/log/messages have a message
Sep 6 13:53:46 localhost kernel: SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA
channel
2) It is slow, playing xboing -sound causes hashed game
Hope it helps
Nicolas Kisselhoff wrote:
> Christophe MICHEL wrote:
> >
> > hello world
> > ---------------
> >
> > Anyone succeeded in correctly configure IRQ/DMA for Avance logic
ALS
> > 100+ sound card with linux ?? What values dit you choose ????
> >
> > I have tried to put the same values as window's but unsuccessfully.
> >
> > This card worked fine with redhat 5.1 on a spacewalker tx Chipset
with
> > an AMD K6 233 but my new IWILL XA100+/AMD K62 350 has made changes to
> > available irq's and DMA's and I can't figure which ones are the good
ones. I
> > have tried almost every configurations in xconfig without any success.
> >
> > Someone has heard about a program that could test available values
for
> > sound cards and /or every ISA/PCI devices hooked onto the motherboard
????
>
>
> Salut Christophe,
>
> le programme dont tu parles n'est pas sndconfig qui est en standard sur
> RH 5.1 et 5.2 ?
>
> Nicolas.
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From: MADIOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pb with SCSI symbios 53c895 and kernel 2.2.xx
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 13:31:14 GMT
I got the same Pb with a ncr53c875 and a 2.2Gb Bull drive
Afetr a while i finally come to the end by DISABLING the queue tags for
the drive in the scsi adapter configuration at system boot.
Now it works fine, both with kernels 2.0.36 and 2.2.3
I did not notice this Pb on a previously installed RH5.2 2.0.36
It appeared after reinstalling from another source CD ( The one given
with the magazine : Linux pratique #1 -> French )
jware wrote:
> I had the same problem with loading RedHat 6.0 on my Netserver
> LH4. As I was on a deadline to get the system live, I didn't have
> time to research the problem in depth.
>
> My work around was to back off and load RH 5.2. That install when
> like silk.
>
> I think the problem is that the Symbios/NCR controller has NV
> (non-volitile) RAM onboard and needs to be flushed before
> the install program can query the controller and install its own
> driver.
>
> Yes- the SCSI problem is a large pain but the Netserver LH4 is a
> major platform I'm sure that it has been seen and cured. Even running
> RH 5.2, the LH4 runs like a scalded dog. I have it running as
> our DNS, mail and web server and it hasn't even broken a
> sweat.
>
> How about it Netserver fans? How do you kill this bug and get
> RH 6.0 to load?
>
>
> -James
> SysAdmin
>
>
> G.Ramelet wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > i have some pbs with my scsi controller symbios 53c895 (sym53c8xx) and
> > the 2.2.xx kernel (actually, i have done tests on 2.2.5, 2.2.7, 2.2.9,
> > 2.2.10).
> > The pb is that i can't boot because of a fail at loading scripts code
> > stage.
> > There is no pb with the 2.0.xx so it is not a pb of scsi-terminaison...
> >
> > The machine is a HP LH4 biXeon 400 without RAID controller and with 2
> > hard disks of 9Gb.
> >
> > Thank you for your help.
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan C Busey)
Subject: kyocera
Date: 6 Sep 1999 20:21:32 GMT
I agree, what is cheap? I love my kyocera FS-600. I pay about 1.5 cents
per page consumption. the printer was under 400$, and it has postscript
compatibility. What more do you want?
--Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan C Busey)
Subject: coprocessors/math emulation...giving up?!
Date: 6 Sep 1999 20:27:14 GMT
this is the message I get for every distribution of Linux i try to install
on my 8 meg ibm ps/2 50z 486. I don't have a cdrom and though I could
install a small distribution with zip support built in, but not even the
DLX 1,3 meg dist. based on kernel 1.3.77 would run; instead I always get
the message:
no coprocessors found and no math emulation present.
giving up.
I can't compile any kernels myself and can't find anything already tested
out there. any ideas? Thanks a mil!
--Jon
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Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:14:12 -0400
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Caldera OpenLinux 2.2 installation. 2nd disk not being recognized by
Suneil wrote:
>
> My system comprises:
>
> Intel Celeron 400Mhz
>
> 64 MB RAM
>
> 2 disk (1st disk:4GB and 2nd disk:10GB) with following partitions:
>
> 1st disk:
>
> 1 primary partition only: FAT32 (Win 98 boot)
>
> 2nd disk:
>
> 4 logical partitions:
>
> Part 1, FAT32
>
> Part 2, FAT32
is this partition about cylinder 1023?
(part 3?)
>
> Part 3, LinuxExt2
>
> Part 4, Linux Swap
>
> The problem is:
>
> All partitions were created using Partition Magic 4.
>
> On running Linux 2.2 installation from CD, 2nd disk (10GB) is not detected
>
> so I cannot install Linux to the partitions created on that disk.
>
--
Norman Levin
vm/dynAmIX inc.
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From: "James M. Wadkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.dev.net
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 09:48:43 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay folks, I need a little point in the right direct. I have finally given into
the linux thing and dumped my NT server ( on loan , that s the real reason). I
have just puchased 6 Netgear FA310TX PCI Card and upgraded all my machines and
hub to 100Mbit. I have linux installed and started on my server. It worked fine
with the western didgital module to run my kingston 10Mbit card. When I
reinstalled the system (debian) from scratch, I choose the the tulip module for
I believe 21040 (i'm not sure now). The system see's both netgear cards on boot
up but, they do not appeart to wrking. Anyway, I have no idea how on a linux
system to upgrade to the newer drivers everyone is talking about. Where can I
find the info on how to install this driver and get it working
Robert McGwier wrote:
> Is there a driver for FA310TX (10/100 PCI card) in existence or development?
--
James Wadkins
General Manager
VTAT, Inc.
5429 Valley Wells Way
Las Vegas, NV 89113
702-873-0480
702-873-0049 Fax
http://www.vtat.com
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Optimal Linux RAID Support? Questions.
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:41:35 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Someone had indicated that the patch set would apply OK except
> for, ummm, fs.h I believe. That file already had the correct
> changes. But when I tried it, no go. Everything compiled but
> something unpleasant happened during boot so I went back to the
> 2.2.11 kernel with the working patches.
>
> I just saw that the patches have been updated and can be found at this
> URL:
>
> http://www.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/raid/alpha
>
> filenames "raid0145-19990724-2.2.11.gz" and
> "raidtools-19990824-0.90.tar.gz".
>
I'll have to get those and try again... I have Raidtools 0.90-3 from
the redhat site... I'm running UltraPenguin 1.1.9 and it seems that
although it's based on RedHat 5.2, RH 5.2 for sparc RPM's won't install
giving the error that the SW must be RH 5.1 or greater...
> > My hardware config is:
> > SUN UltraEnterprise 2
> > dual 300MHz UltraII CPU's
> > 256 Meg ram
> > dual internal 9G drives (System)
> > external SUN D1000 StorEdge array with 12-4.2G drives.
> >
> > I'm currently running the raid code and SAMBA. It has become the home
> > file server!
>
> Sheesh! And I thought I was stylin' having my 166MHz/64MB box
> with its two 13GB IDE drives as a server... I get that much Sun
> hardware at work but certainly not at home! ;-)
You should see what we have at work!
E4000, 10cpu's, 1.5G ram, 75G raid 5 (SUN Raid 214 rack), an E450, 2
cpu's, 512M ram, 500G raid 5, 588 slot StorageTek 9710 tape library with
6 9840 drives...
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Subject: Re: Building new Linux server - opinions
From: Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 20:15:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> That said, I/O is *very* important to me - the database development work
> I do is extremely disk-intensive.
Then blow the processor, get more spindles. Spread your disk load
out.
FWIW, Doug Ledford, the Adaptec SCSI guy, has been able, with the
right hardware, to saturate the PCI bus using 10K drives and multiple
Adaptec cards.
Mike.
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and hardware RAID
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 12:37:09 -0400
Alan Murphy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Im looking at putting together a file server runing linux (Most Likely
> RedHat 6), this machine MUST have some form of RAID, I would prefer it to be
> Hardware. Anyone got any suggestions/experience of specific RAID
> controllers
>
I'm running software RAID5 on my Sun box under UltraPenguin 1.1.9 Works
great!
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From: "Hrodenu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.fan.starwars
Subject: Re: EAST TIMOR
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 21:20:04 +0100
Reply-To: "Hrodenu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Wow, is this an Episode II spoiler???
Sorry. Tasteless. Couldn't resist it.
--
www.hrodenu.freeserve.co.uk
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news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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purpose
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From: "Emilio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tekram DC390F e Linux
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:02:05 +0200
Salve a tutti, posseggo un Tekram DC390F UW su cui ho collegato un Plex 40x
ed un Teac6x24x.
Ieri ho provato ad installare il controller (per ovvi motivi...altrimenti
stavo senza CD su linux !!!) ed ho installato la SUSE 6.1 indicando come
controller SCSI un generico chipset NCR875...ecc... che comunque corrisponde
al chipset del mio controller. Volevo chiedere una cosa:
perche' adesso linux l'unico CD che dice di possedere e' il Teac
(masterizzatore....) ? Mi piacerebbe usare il Plex come CD ed il Teac come
master (cosa ovvia direte voi...).
Da premettere che oggi ho scaricato da Internet i drivers per il mio
controller da installare su Linux e che comunque non potro' provare fino a
fine settimana.
Vi viene in mente qualcosa ?
Vi dico infine che il Teac ha ID 2 ed il Plex 3 con naturalmente il Tekram
7.
Ciao e grazie
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From: MBr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Why is module st0 (SCSI tape drive) always loaded?
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 22:34:48 +0200
Bob Surenko wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Steve Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On my all-SCSI system (RedHat v6.0, kernel v2.2.10) I build the CD-ROM
> : and tape drive support as modules. (These devices are rarely used so
> : there's no need to have the device drivers for them occupy RAM all the
> : time.) I notice, though, that the module for the SCSI tape drive,
> : "st0.o", is loaded at boot time and never removed.
>
> : Can anyone explain this to me? Thank you.
>
> I have the opposite problem. I have a SCSI tape drive yet when I installed
> RH 6.0 out of the box it did not create the st module. How do I create it?
Duh, by installing CD-ROM support :D
>
> : ***** Steve Snyder *****
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> - Bob Surenko [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> - http://www.fred.net/surenko/ finger for PGP key
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"It may hurt my pride to be wrong once in a while, but I
rather be flamed with better information than to be left
blissfully ignorant." /-- Manuel Beunder, maintainer of:
http://www.euronet.nl/~mailme - The SB Live!-Linux page
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?=)
Subject: Re: DFE-530TX compile...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 17:40:02 +0300
jaems wrote:
>Secondly (and more importantly in my opinion!), I have cable modem service
>with @Home. I have a D-Link DFE-530TX installed. I compiled the driver
>via-rhine.c....it gave me via-rhine.o, which I installed into the other
>modules....I have also added the line --alias eth0 via-rhine--to the
>conf.modules script. Now, running ifconfig gives me some info about the
>card (I assume). I've run linuxconf, netcfg, and everything else I can
>think of but still can't connect to the internet! Please, any help or
>advice would be appreciated....I know there are some of you out there who
>have the @Home service, so please help! I'm tired surfing under Win98!!!
I use this to set up my machine to connect throug a gateway-box.
Maybe it'll work for you to (change IP-addresses to the ones you use
;O)
============
ifconfig eth0 up
ifconfig lo localhost netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
route add -net 192.168.1.3
route add localhost dev lo
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
===========
192.168.1.3 is my machine.
192.168.1.1 is the gateway.
--
Hans J�rgensen - Boris - #Linux.dk & #Danmark on the Undernet
Homepage -> http://boris.n3.net
.."Hvorfor ikke n�jes med 40mb harddisk? Det vil v�re rigeligt i mange �r"
IBM-S�lger '91
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From: "Kraid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Linux Shell--Need HD
Date: Mon, 06 Sep 1999 15:38:32 GMT
Thanks tim for the histroy lesson, even some of this I didn't know and
didn't think about putting in my post. The type of shell I will be running
(if I ever get this thing) will be of the more modern (Troll-house Cookie)
type you spoke of. If it works, and if the person who donates wants it, I
will give them *almost* root access to the shell. Thanks for the reply.
Kraid
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tim Moore wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I'm attempting to set up a box for linux shells. No restrictions. If you
>> have an extra HD laying around no matter how
>> big but needs to be IDE, and would like to make a donation. E-mail me if
you
>> may be able to help.
>
>Which kind of linux shells? As you probably already know, but some
>people might not, the older pre-2.0.34 shells (aka the 'green-slime'
>shells) will only work with Seagate 1.2GB and smaller drives provided
>they also have a double-ended ribbon cable (two red stripes, on the
>outside edge wires). From 2.0.34-2.0.36 shells (aka 'dog-days'), only
>the 2.1-6.4GB ISA drives work as long as the ribbon cable is grey. The
>more modern shells (aka "Troll-house Cookies") most anything works. You
>should still post your linux shell color so people can send you the
>right disk.
>
>
>--
>timothymoore "Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
>bigfoot WS Burroughs.
>com
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