Linux-Hardware Digest #798, Volume #12 Thu, 4 May 00 02:13:06 EDT
Contents:
updated v-card to Voodo03 2000??? help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Proliant 2000 ("Antony Platt")
Going crazy trying to network Linux with HP Pavillion 8570C ("JJR")
Re: Riva TNT2 display card ("Quintinstic")
Direct Serial Connection using minicom ("Ronald S. Thomas")
Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations? (David Bell)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Peter Teuben)
INDYBOX (Becky & Gus Palandri)
Re: Riva TNT2 display card (Dances With Crows)
Re: updated v-card to Voodo03 2000??? help (Dances With Crows)
Indybox (Gus Palandri)
Re: cdrecord and scsi burner issues ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Indybox (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Question on Graphic Card (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4=D1Noodle=C4=D1?=)
Re: SideWinder ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Bill Unruh)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: updated v-card to Voodo03 2000??? help
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 02:56:15 GMT
Hi all,
I've updated my video card to a VooDoo3 2000 PCI, downloaded the new
Glibc driver and glide packages and X_Package and XFSetup_Package from
linux.3dfx.com site. Tried the install using rpm in the order shown on
their page but when I tried to install the
XFree86_3DFXSetup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm, I get "failed dependencies - need
XFree86-VGA16" I haven't been able to get past this and don't want to
continue installing the drivers and glide until this gets installed.
Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance.
Tom Knoblauch
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Antony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Proliant 2000
Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 13:12:54 +1000
"Glen Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've been trying to get RH 6.1 & 6.2 loaded on a Compaq Proliant
> 200/P90MHz at my office, but when the install asks what kind of SCSI
> controll/CD, it just can't find it. Any experience with an old box like
> that?
>
> Glen
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Try here
http://www.sleepie.demon.co.uk/ncr53c710/index.html
here
http://www.geocities.com/rlcomp_1999/
and here
http://www.linuxstart.com/~JeePeePee/
Tony Platt
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From: "JJR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Going crazy trying to network Linux with HP Pavillion 8570C
Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 22:14:42 -0500
I'm going crazy trying to get my HP Pavillion 8570C to Network with Linux!
I've tried several different supported NICs and none will come up on eth0
due to "resource temporarily unavailable." I am convinced that I need to
assign the PCI NIC slot to another IRQ but cannot figure out how to do this.
The motherboard is an ASUS P2B-VE. HP's support page shows how to change
jumper settings on the board but none are for the NIC. Anyone have a clue
as to what I am talking about or have any ideas? If not, has anyone
gotten Linux to network from an HP Pavillion PC?
thanks!
-john
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From: "Quintinstic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Riva TNT2 display card
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 03:15:43 GMT
Can someone post their xf86config files? I am having trouble getting mine
working correctly. It keeps displaying very low resolution, and refuses to
regonizes it has 32 meg of ram.
I am trying to install redhat 6.1 with 3.5 xf86
charles
"Thomas J. Canich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> the TNT2 is supported, i am using one as i type this!
>
> in XF86 4.0, the driver is included, and i believe this is the case as far
> back as 3.3.5 (or maybe 3.3.3). The only problem i have with the card is
> that Quake 3 demo uses 3dfx, and so i am fscked! No fragging for me 'til
> the boys at ID labs figure that on eout... ;)
>
> tom
>
> "If you can't win on the scoreboard, hit them with your fists."
> --Mike, on the penguins losing to the islanders
>
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, kmchan wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I plan to buy Creative Labs' Riva TNT2 display card for my
> > P3 machine. I plan to run both win98 and linux. However,
> > I am worried that Creative Labs' Riva TNT2 display card is
> > supported in linux and I just only find that NVIDIA Riva TNT2
> > is supported. Would anyone please help ? Thanks a lot
> >
> > -- kmchan
> >
> >
>
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From: "Ronald S. Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Direct Serial Connection using minicom
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 03:38:33 GMT
Hello,
I have Caldera 2.4 freshly upgraded from 2.3 and would like to use
Minicom to connect to a serial device (not
a modem). The following are my configuration steps:
1) ISAPNP sets the modem com and interrupt
2) Setserial auto-configures three serial ports: com1 Motherboard
serial port; com2 Modem configured
via ISAPNP, com4 second motherboard serial port.
I checked the bios and the addresses and IRQ's match their respective
setserial parameters. The modem is
functional using Ksaferppp and minicom, but when I reconfigure minicom
to use com1 (/dev/ttyS0) I get
nothing out of the serial port (not even a signal "toggle" measured by a
vol meter).
My serial device requires a space ASCII character from the computer to
autodetect BAUD, has no flow
control and requires 8 n 1 no parity which I set in minicom. Further, I
know both the serial device and my
serial port work because hyperterm in windows works nicely. I would use
windows but I am more productive
using LINUX and would like to switch to LINUX completely. By the way, I
removed all the modem init
strings and the like, Disable DTR and Carrier Detect checking in minicom
and still no joy. Can anyone see
something I missed? I seem to have hit a wall. Any suggestions will be
greatly appreciated.
Ron
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bell)
Subject: Re: In need of really cheap modem.. Any recommendations?
Date: 04 May 2000 03:41:22 GMT
Well, I may have just found my answer! After looking through the modem
compatibility database for a few hours, I found the Kye/Genius GM56PCI-L,
Lucent 1646 chipset. At about $20, it's a great price. Now I have one
question remaining :)... Where do I find the Lucent Linmodem driver? If
anyone has any experience with this modem, it would be greatly appreceated.
=========================
David Bell - Otherwise known as DB7654321
Remember to remove nospam, notrash or anything odd looking from my email
address. :)
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 23:41:03 -0400
Peter Teuben wrote:
>
> Kenneth Mankoff wrote:
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> > I live at 10,000 feet and have had all systems newer than a 486DX33Mhz
> > computer fail me. Since november, this is:
> >
> > * 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 latptop motherboards (450Mhz). 2 months to failure
> > * 3 Dell Inspiron 7500 hard drives (12 to 18 gig). 2 months to failure.
> > * one gateway latop internal modem. 3 days to failure
> > * one 200 Mhz (overclocked) Gateway tower (2 days, then writing to zip and
> > floppy drive in linux failed)
> >
> > Running for days (and years):
> > 486 DX 33Mhz desktop
> > 286 5Mhz desktop
> >
> > I know airplane computers have radiation sheilds. I also know i have a 3%
> > higher chance of cancer than the average altitude of the global population
> > (or maybe it was sea level)
> >
> > I'm grasping at straws, but hoping some of you may have experience with
> > high altitude computing, or can point me to a resource.
>
> hmmm. i am about to take off for Mauna Kea, at 14,000ft. The only thing
> I am
> aware of there are the enourmous fans they use to keep the airflow
> around
> monitors and CPUs large (even at the mid-station at 10,000ft). I did
> also
> hear people being worried about the lower airpressure and the now slight
> imbalance of the diskheads, but I have not heard such horror stories as
> you
> have described. People generally have not had problems with HDs
> crashing.
>
> I can report back from Mauna Kea if you remind me next week (short term
> memory
> will be impaired there) and also maybe get some more stories of the
> other
> observatories
well, to update on this story, i did not hear of any disaster stories.
People
have had pretty normal experiences with HDs. A recent problem
wasreported at
Gemini, where a number of newer Sun trinitron monitors all accumulate
charge (dry air?)
and zap themselves to death. They were replaced with cheaper ones, and
haven't
been a problem since.
Another problem at high altitude that was mentioned was CD-R's.
Focussing depends
on air pressure/density, and something written at 14,000ft looks blurred
for
the same reader at 0ft, thus producing CDs that can only reliably be
read at their
own altitude :-)
peter
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From: Becky & Gus Palandri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: INDYBOX
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:48:31 -0500
Has anyone had any experiences with Indybox computer? Any help here
would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly.
Thanks for your help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: Riva TNT2 display card
Date: 04 May 2000 00:02:27 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 04 May 2000 03:15:43 GMT, Quintinstic
<<zX5Q4.25823$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Can someone post their xf86config files? I am having trouble getting mine
>working correctly. It keeps displaying very low resolution, and refuses to
>regonizes it has 32 meg of ram.
>I am trying to install redhat 6.1 with 3.5 xf86
Xconfigurator, in my experience, is seriously br0ken. Try using
"xf86config" and specifying everything manually. (Hsync and Vsync rates
for the monitor and VRAM amount especially) FWIW, Xfree 3.3.5 worked
beautifully for me with this card, but I was using SuSE's SaX for
configuration. [0]
Using an XF86Config from someone else is dangerous business; they may have
a kick-arse $700 Sony monitor while you're using a cheap no-name... the
two are very different in the range of sync values they take and the video
modes that get generated.
[0] Why in seven hells is SuSE's SaX so nifty for X configging, while SuSE
has minimal/no sound configging support, and RedHat's sndconfig is nifty
for getting sound working, while Xconfigurator is wretched compared to
SaX? Just wondering.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: updated v-card to Voodo03 2000??? help
Date: 04 May 2000 00:05:39 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 04 May 2000 02:56:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8eqos8$k4a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi all,
>I've updated my video card to a VooDoo3 2000 PCI, downloaded the new
>Glibc driver and glide packages and X_Package and XFSetup_Package from
>linux.3dfx.com site. Tried the install using rpm in the order shown on
>their page but when I tried to install the
>XFree86_3DFXSetup-3.3.3-5.i386.rpm, I get "failed dependencies - need
>XFree86-VGA16" I haven't been able to get past this and don't want to
>continue installing the drivers and glide until this gets installed.
>Any suggestions?
Use the --nodeps option to rpm? If you installed your distro from CD,
it's 99.5% certain that the X-VGA16 server is already installed. The
VGA16 server is usually used for the XF86Setup/Xconfigurator/SaX programs,
and for nothing else, since modern video cards can do much better than
640x480, 4-bit color. Or you can find a recent version of the
XFree86-VGA16 RPM at http://rpmfind.net ....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid,
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| as I have to run nothing but a
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| burp in the butt. --MegaHAL
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From: Gus Palandri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Indybox
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 04:30:09 GMT
Has anyone had any experiences with an Indybox computer? They are
located at http://www.indybox.com
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please email me directly.
Thanks,
Gus Palandri
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cdrecord and scsi burner issues
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 04:43:48 GMT
According to Philip Kirschner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I have a Sony CDU948S external SCSI CD Burner, that I would like to have
> working under Linux (I am running YellowDogLinux CS1.2). I have gotten
> it to burn a data CD once and an audio
> CD only three times ever in YDL. Most recently, I tried do make an
> audio CD
> like this (after a restart of the machine):
>
> cdrecord -v -dummy speed=4 dev=1,5,0 -audio -pad *.aiff
>
> I think this has worked before (without the dummy tag, of course), but
> it
> gets to the process of writing to the CD....
>
> Track 01: 0 of 48 MB written
>
> .... and nothing happens. It gets this error:
>
> cdrecord: Device not configured. Cannot set SG_SET_TIMEOUT.
> Currently running 'write_continue' command.
> Condition not caught: SCSI ALREADY RUNNING !!.
> Raisecond: not implemented.
> Aborted.
Well, the good news is that at the least, you have your configuration
nearly correct. I'm not familiar with PowerPC, but my only guess from
the software side is that you are using a buggy or outdated driver.
> .... than after my little SCSI error, if I do a "cdrecord -scanbus',
> which
> used to (when I turned on the machine) show an internal 500MB drive, my
> CD-R
> drive and my Jaz drive, now does this:
>
> scsibus1:
> cdrecord: Device not configured. Cannot set SG_SET_TIMEOUT.
> 1,0,0 100)
>
> And that's that. I just won't work. Somebody suggested that it might
> be a
> termination problem.
It could be a termination or cabling problem. The best way to test
termination is to remove *all* devices except your system disk and the
burner. Generally, internal drives do not cause problems, so you can
probably get a good test by removing all external devices.
Of course, if the drive works fine under MacOS, you can *probably*
eliminate cabling or termination as the problem.
-p.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Indybox
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 04:43:53 GMT
On Thu, 04 May 2000 04:30:09 GMT, Gus Palandri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Has anyone had any experiences with an Indybox computer? They are
>located at http://www.indybox.com
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
What's the problem???????????????
>Please email me directly.
Not how it works IMO.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=C4=D1Noodle=C4=D1?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question on Graphic Card
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 12:38:11 +0800
Thx for you info. ^_^'
Dallas Times wrote:
> For a list of supported XFree86 cards, goto http://www.xfree86.org. Pay
> attention to the supported card list because a lot of cards are supported in
> version 3.x but have not been completely ported over to version 4.x yet.
>
> Savage chipsets are supported under XFree86 v3.x, but some haven't been
> ported to version 4.x yet.
>
> - Ken
>
> ÄÑNoodleÄÑ wrote:
>
> > Could anyone please tell me if I can use my S3 Savage 3D graphic card on
> > RedHat Linux and the X-window? Will there be any other problems on
> > setting up the RedHat Linux with this adapter?
> > BTW, I found that my Leadtek WinFast 3D S800 having problem on setting
> > up the X-window. I guess it is not supported. But is there anyone can
> > solve this problem?
> > Thx in advance. ^_^'
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SideWinder
Date: Thu, 04 May 2000 05:20:11 GMT
Switch to analog, myself I can't get the sidewinder to work in
woundows
I think Bill forgot that not everyone voted to Reno.
On Mon, 01 May 2000 05:47:09 GMT, Chris Ream <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello!
>
>
> I am clueless on how to get a Microshaft Sidewinder working on my Linux box, I
>am running Redhat 6.2, and can't seem to find any support or help for this
>anywhere!
>
>Thankx!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Unruh)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: 4 May 2000 05:16:26 GMT
In <8eqa9m$45n$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>In fact, the only variation I've gotten is if I go back to my bios and
>re-enable the auto-HDD-detection for the 10G drive. When I restart the
>computer, I get simply "LI", with nothing else.
I would suggest that you enable auto-detection in the bios, use your
floppy to boot into linux and then rerun lilo again.
I think the largedisk howto is a bit old by now.
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