Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #14 Tue, 23 Jan 01 08:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Serial Terminal (Chris Elvidge)
Re: Alpha: 21064
slow system, SCSI to blame? ("Frank Riley")
IDE CD-R and SCSI harddrive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
can't print to my printer, but Win machines can! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
vibra 128 with ct2518 (slim hamdani)
Re: Intel i815e and Linux (Kevin Phillips)
Re: It's racism to hate Microsoft with fraudulent and inflammatory (John Thompson)
Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story...... (John Thompson)
Re: HP Colorado (John Thompson)
Re: How to save xvidtune settings? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Asus A7V ("Zoran V. Petrovic")
Re: RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down. ("mc")
Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable? ("Gunnar Hilling")
Re: Installing linux with an ATA/100 controler ("Zoran V. Petrovic")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: BP6 ATA66 Crashing System
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:07:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Adam Becker wrote:
> >
> > > <snip>
> > >
> > > I've had the exact same thing happen with a dual celeron abit bp6
with
> > > the original gentus linux and anything I've compiled since. Short
> > > answer is hpt 366 is garbage. Get an ata pci card. Not a lockup
since
> > > I installed it. I think it was freezing during the slocate
(updatedb)
> > > cron job. That's the only rigorous thing that happens after I
log off.
> > >
> > > I was (am?) using the RU BIOS and have been all along. I did not
bother
> > > testing the hpt controller in dma33 mode. You can probably buy a
> > > Promise card for $30 - 40.00. I notice Abit stopped using the hpt
> > > controller in recent releases.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rinaldi]$
> > > "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let
the
> > > glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
> >
> > I added the Promise card, but the system still finds the hpt366 as
ide2&3
> > how can I disable it so the system will find the new Promise card??
> > I tried disabling Ultrdma in bios, no luck.
> > I tried ide2=0x9400,0x9802 ide3=0x9c00,0xa002 (from /proc/pci for
Promise
> > card), it still finds ide2&3 on the hpt366.
> > I tried ide4&5 on same address, no luck. Is Linux limited to ide0-
3?
>
> Also emailed-----------
>
> Did you recompile your kernel with the Promise ATA 100 support?
>
> Let's take it from the top. What kernel are you using and how did you
> install it; rpm, *.tar.gz/bz2? Do you have the source? You composed
> this using MS, does Winblows see the Promise card? Do you know how to
> patch a kernel?
>
> I don't believe the hpt 366 can be disabled without altering the
BIOS.
> I put support for both hpt and Promise in my current kernel. I still
> get the blue Highpoint screen at boot, but have nothing attached. I
may
> hook a couple of udma 33's to it and do some massive data transfers
and
> diff the files. If it's ok, that's good.
>
> One request: I'll gladly give you all the help you need on this, but
> please bottom post (as you did here) your replies and don't <snip> any
> of the content. It will save me from having to refer to previous
posts
> for information.
>
> The law of Linux: learn what you don't know, teach what you do.
>
> --
> Rinaldi]$
> "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
>
How can you disable the hpt? I can't find anything in the bios to
disable it it, the "integrated peripherals" screen has options to
disable ide1 and ide2, but that's the 2 33 ide ports. Now the blue hpt
screen says press ctrl-H to configure, but hitting it and/or holding it
down doesn't do anything. I can't enter the highpoint config screen at
all.
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Terminal
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:20:12 +0400
Roland Scheike wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I try to connect a Siemens/Nixdorf TC20 terminal to
> a linux box via the serial line.
>
> My settings of the terminal are:
> v.24/ 38400 / 8n1/ xon,off, ANSI
>
> On my linux-box I setted up inittab with the following:
>
> S0:23:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400 ttyS0 ansi
>
> Now I have the problem that there is no response at all.
> Getty is running fine- but there is no login-prompt on the
> terminal.
>
> Can anyone help me?
>
> Btw. I don`t get any entries in my log file concerning
> agetty. Can I change this?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roland
Try adding the rest of the runlevels (1, 4 & 5) to the line.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Alpha: 21064
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:30:06 -0000
Check out
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Linux-Alpha/Miniloader/v2.0/pre-
2.0.31/Avanti/
I see that the milo and milo.dd files are present. Check out the
miniloader documentation as well for instructions on loading milo.
M.
Marble Head wrote:
>
>
> Michael Champigny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
> <91lo67$1b5gn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >> Thanks for the help everyone! I had looked at SUSE Linux for Alpha and
> >> it only mentioned the 21164 processor so either (1) this would not be
> >> backwards compatible or (2) it would run but they had not tested it.
> >
> >I am running SuSE 6.4 for Alpha on a Multia (21066) and an AlphaStation
> >200 (21064). So I guess the website/manual is wrong. I think I saw that
> >mentioned on the box but luckily it is incorrect. :-)
> >
> >Michael
> >
>
> Agreed. I don't know what I'd do if SuSE didn't work on my EV5 here...
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From: "Frank Riley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slow system, SCSI to blame?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 00:53:27 -0700
Hello,
I've got RedHat linux running on a Pentium 120 with 24mb of RAM. I know this
system isn't going to get going very fast, but it seems to me it is much
slower than it should be. I'm trying to figure out what could be the cause.
I measured my SCSI drive speed with hdparm and got the following:
/dev/sda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 24.75 seconds = 5.17 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 37.48 seconds = 1.71 MB/sec
These numbers seem awfully low to me. I've got an Adaptec 2940AU with an
Ultra SCSI drive. Should I expect higher performance out of this drive? or
is my system slow because I don't have a lot of memory? Any help is
appreciated.
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: IDE CD-R and SCSI harddrive
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 07:44:09 GMT
Hy everybody,
I've got the problem, that I can't use my CD-R (which is an IDE device)
with my other hardware (SCSI Controller with 3 harddrives, a ZIP drive
and a SCSI Scanner).
The SuSE support data base says, that ... CD-Writer IDE-SCSI emulation
does not work if you have SCSI harddisk and IDE CD-R...
Does anybody have an idea how it will work nevertheless??
Thanks for help
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't print to my printer, but Win machines can!
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 08:37:43 GMT
I have a PS printer hooked up to my Linux machine. When windows
machines print to my printer via SAMBA, their jobs come out perfectly!
However, when I print from my own machine, I only get a line of code
at the top of the page and then nothing else. This happens when I
print ascii, PS, or basically anything from my own machine. Any
suggestions on how to remedy this, or on what to look for? Printing
used to work flawlessly!
SUSE Linux Pro 7.0
Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS
Thanks,
Ken
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From: slim hamdani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vibra 128 with ct2518
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:25:06 +0000
I use the Mandrake 6.1 and I can't configure my souncard.
It is a ct4810 model, but with a ct2518 chipset.
Wich module should I use.
Of course sndconfig reconise it as a ES1371, but it looks wrong.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Phillips)
Subject: Re: Intel i815e and Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 09:45 +0000 (GMT Standard Time)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <94g5ud$hpv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karrade)
wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> Well, I finally decided to wonder out of Windows land, and give Linux a
> try. I'm going to use Mandrake 7.2, and dual-boot it with WinME. I
> have a quick question for you all though:
>
> I'm using an Intel 815e motherboard, and an ATI Rage Pro 128 video card
> (the onboard Intel graphics card is disabled). My question is, will
> Linux (either the 2.2 kernal or 2.4 kernal) be compatible with this
> setup? I won't end up frying my monitor when I install it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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I'm using an Intel 815e motherboard with integrated video, audio and
ethernet. I don't have a separate video card so I'm not sure about the
Rage Pro 128 but I believe it is supported.
I use RH 7 and it works fine (2.2 kernel). The only minor problem I had
was that the installation appeared to default to the wrong ethernet driver
module on installation and I had to change this to the correct driver
(e100).
Kevin Phillips
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: It's racism to hate Microsoft with fraudulent and inflammatory
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:21:55 -0600
Ray wrote:
> >Now you gotta configure your Mouse, Video Card, Modem and all what ever you
> >bought for PC windows, Mac or whatever,
> Well, some distributions do a pretty good job of doing this for you with
> most common hardware and even Windows can be a major PITA with some
> hardware. Have you installed WinNT or 2K recently?
Tell me about it. I recently had to re-install Win98 and it took
*8* *tedious* reboots before it finally came up in a reasonably
usable fashion. I still have a couple pieces of hardware it
refuses to recognize, mostly due to "plug and pray" issues. Linux
has never taken more than one reboot during an install, and by
using a modularized kernel I can change hardware configurations
without having to reboot.
> >Sure one won't mind doing all this things. BUT LINUX DOESN'T MAKE IT
> >EASYYYYYYYY.
I suspect a subtantial part of this "ease" derives from the fact
that most people don't have to install Windows on their
computers. If they had bought computers with linux
pre-installed, you'd see no end of whining about the difficulties
getting it to install and recognize your hardware.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd Day Same Modem and Same story......
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:28:53 -0600
Tina Carter wrote:
> The thing is that, I don't know if there is wvdial and I can't tell nor I
> can installed I can uzip file and the folder but that's about it....
> Make and Makefile don't workkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
> WhY??????????
Have you installed them? Try running "rpm -q make" to see if the
"make" package has been installed:
[john@starfleet john]$ rpm -q make
make-3.77-6
This shows I have make v3.77 build 6 installed here.
If it's not installed, get out your distribution CD, find the RPM
directory and run "rpm -ivh
[path/to/RPM/directory]/make-n.nn-n.rpm" (where the "n.nn-n"
represent the version and build number on your distribution CD.
Then run "make; make install" or whatever as required. But your
distribution CD should have pre-compiled binary packages of most
basic software you will need, so compiling your own stuff from
source won't be an issue unless/until you need a program
unavailable in pre-compiled form.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Colorado
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 18:31:22 -0600
Gustav J Kramer wrote:
> Anyone have any luck using an HP Colorado 5GB (Travan) IDE tape drive under
> linux? Am using RH6.2, Kudzu saw the drive and installed something but
> neither Arkeia nor Taper seem to support the drive. Any suggestions?
Sure. I've been using one of those here for a couple years
already. I've never tried Arkeia or taper with it, but it does
work fine with tar or afio.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to save xvidtune settings?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:32:47 +0100
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have Fetched the number from xvidtune and put them where I think
> they're supposed to be in /etc/X11/XF86Config but still no luck.
> Any suggestions?
That you think wrong. Either your entry in the file is worng/misplaced,
or that is not the configuration file.
Test.
Peter
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From: "Zoran V. Petrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus A7V
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:10:30 +0100
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Alvaro wrote:
> Hi,
> My maxtor udma100 drive also works fine in my a7v with suse 7.0 and the eide
> bootdisk (follow the instructions in the suse support database at
> www.suse.de/en, search for a7v)
> But I haven't succeeded to configure X with my geforce 2 mx; none of the
> articles in the sdb has helped me.
> Anyone has been able to configure X (4.0.1) with an a7v, ata100 disk and
> geforce 2 mx video card?
> Thx
>
Hello. Yes, but with X 4.0.2 , NVIDIA-kernel-0.9-5.src.rpm ,
kernel 2.2.18 + ide patch ( Promise 100 ) .
No rpm for X 4.0.2 "old" type of install.
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801
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Alvaro wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi,
<br>My maxtor udma100 drive also works fine in my a7v with suse 7.0 and
the eide
<br>bootdisk (follow the instructions in the suse support database at
<br>www.suse.de/en, search for a7v)
<br>But I haven't succeeded to configure X with my geforce 2 mx; none of
the
<br>articles in the sdb has helped me.
<br>Anyone has been able to configure X (4.0.1) with an a7v, ata100 disk
and
<br>geforce 2 mx video card?
<br>Thx
<br> </blockquote>
Hello. Yes, but with X 4.0.2 , NVIDIA-kernel-0.9-5.src.rpm ,
<br>kernel 2.2.18 + ide patch ( Promise 100 ) .
<br>No rpm for X 4.0.2 "old" type of install.
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From: "mc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH Linux 7.0 machine reboots when shutting down.
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:23:56 GMT
The problem started when I enabled my parallel port and system sounds.
Shutting down from GNOME (rather than KDE) works fine (the system shuts
down). Therefore, not to dwell in this any longer, I have uninstalled KDE
and am working fine using GNOME.
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From: "Gunnar Hilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:52:57 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anders Buch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Did anybody make this work? Did anybody give up?? Any comments will be
> greatly appreciated!
> (I wonder if I have to go back to the store and buy a parallel cable...)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Anders Buch
>
>
Hi!
No problem for me with kernel 2.4
Works from scratch (using the stp driver from gimp-print).
I'm getting very good results.
-Gunnar
(Does Your USB-Subsystem recognize the Printer as a printer? I had this
problem with my scanner that was unknown to the usb-scanner module.
Had to add the codes for it...)
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From: "Zoran V. Petrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing linux with an ATA/100 controler
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 12:23:26 +0100
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Chig wrote:
> I am having difficulty installing any version of Linux at all because each
> time i try to install SuSe, Mandrake,red hat, or Turbo Linux, it won't find
> my hard disk to install onto. I have already made a linux partition in Win
> '98 with partition magik. My system is using:-
> Promise Ultra100 IDE controler (PCD20265)
> VIA Bus Master PCI IDE controler
> IBM DTLA 305030 (30 Gbite HD)
> I've looked on the net for drivers, but there aint any. I need some kind of
> work around, but i have very little linux experience before.
>
> Cherz, Charlie.
Hello.
For SuSE You have special boot disk from SuSE on www. Boot ok.
After that you may build custom 2.2.18 + ide-patch from Hedrick
( www.linux-ide.org).
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801
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Chig wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I am having difficulty installing any version of
Linux at all because each
<br>time i try to install SuSe, Mandrake,red hat, or Turbo Linux, it won't
find
<br>my hard disk to install onto. I have already made a linux partition
in Win
<br>'98 with partition magik. My system is using:-
<br>Promise Ultra100 IDE controler (PCD20265)
<br>VIA Bus Master PCI IDE controler
<br>IBM DTLA 305030 (30 Gbite HD)
<br>I've looked on the net for drivers, but there aint any. I need some
kind of
<br>work around, but i have very little linux experience before.
<p>Cherz, Charlie.</blockquote>
Hello.
<br>For SuSE You have special boot disk from SuSE on www. Boot ok.
<br>After that you may build custom 2.2.18 + ide-patch from Hedrick
( www.linux-ide.org).
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Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801</pre>
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