Linux-Hardware Digest #726, Volume #14 Fri, 4 May 01 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed (Tim Moore)
Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem (Tim Moore)
Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card (Tim Moore)
Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed (Nigel Jewell)
Re: ZIP problems (John Bauer)
ISDN Fritz!Card PCI V2 (Juergen Leeb)
Re: kppp say Modem is busy ("LittleFish")
Linux Gigahertz Processor Roundup (Kristopher Kersey)
CDRW INSTALL (Terry)
Graphics Card (Nick Bruton)
Tv card + Sound Card problem ("Francisco Galvan")
CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a JE) (Young4ert)
Re: need good linux *athlon* (tbird) motherboard.. (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Firewire (was Re: Umax 6400 Scanner) (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (Jonadab the Unsightly
One)
Re: remount HD rw (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2 (Rajko)
Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards (Otto J. Makela)
Re: need 3Com 3c950 NIC driver for win2k (works just fine in a linux!) (Jonadab the
Unsightly One)
Mainboard Socket 7 (Dedicated to all Manson Fans)
Re: CDRW INSTALL (Kwan Lowe)
sgi challenge server S (Noam Kloos)
Wrong major or minor number... (Shad)
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:16:51 GMT
> Copy 250Mb to a FAT16 filesystem can take a couple of minutes. Copying
> 250Mb to a EXT2 filesystem can take most of the day. Is there anything
> that I can do to speed up the EXT2 writes?
I average about 1.1MB/s regardless of vfat or ext2. What does the zip look
like at boot time in dmesg? What is the output of dumpe2fs /dev/sda? How
do you mount it?
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BP6 + Mandrake + reboot problem
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:34:21 GMT
If 'init 6' doesn't reboot could be any or all of:
- low power supply (s/b >= 300W)
- the well documented EC10 capacitor (EC10 is the little one
between the two 370 sockets - s/b 1500uf like its neighbors)
- insufficient core voltage (assuming 100MHz FSB + 33MHz PCI)
- heat (case airflow, cpu cooling)
- memory BIOS settings (try CL3)
- power mgt BIOS settings
Does 'init 6' work at 66MHz FSB?
rgds,
tim.
Jerry Broszkowski wrote:
>
> I've had this problem since Mandrake 7.1, now
> running LM8.0.
>
> When I get into a console & su then do a reboot,
> services shut down properly but then my machine "hangs".
> Reset button does not work neither does power off. I have
> to turn off the power supply, wait 6 secs, turn the
> power supply on then use the "On" button. Everything
> boots fine after this. "Restart" from WinME does not
> cause this behavior. Anyone know what causes this?
>
> MB: ABit BP6
> CPU: dual 366Cel's overclocked to 550
> RAM: 512M
> OS: LM8.0
>
> (It seems shutdown is being invoked with -h (runlevel 0)
> rather than runlevel 6.)
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:39:59 GMT
Ben Feinstein wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a heck of a time getting my Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound
> card to work under Debian Potato w/ kernel 2.2.18pre21. I've recompiled
> and installed my kernel with sound support, and the es1370 and es1371
> drivers. I've tried compiling the support in directly and as modules,
The es1370 is a different chip for the original Ensoniq board. Don't use
it.
What board shows up in 'lspci -v' output?
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
From: Nigel Jewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP ext2 vs fat16 and speed
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 09:10:39 GMT
Tim,
Your a star! I rechecked the mount options that I'd copied from a
autofs file for a parallel version ...
zip -fstype=ext2,rw,sync
:/dev/hdd1
I removed the sync - and now its SOOO much better!
Nige.
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > Copy 250Mb to a FAT16 filesystem can take a couple of minutes. Copying
> > 250Mb to a EXT2 filesystem can take most of the day. Is there anything
> > that I can do to speed up the EXT2 writes?
>
> I average about 1.1MB/s regardless of vfat or ext2. What does the zip look
> like at boot time in dmesg? What is the output of dumpe2fs /dev/sda? How
> do you mount it?
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
--
URL: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~jewell
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From: John Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP problems
Date: 4 May 2001 10:35:00 GMT
J.H.ETTLE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> i have problems mounting my ZIP under LINUX resp. under Windows.desperate
>> as i am - i was wondering whether you could help.
[...]
>I have a similar problem. Apparently, Windows 98 formatted the Zip Disk
>FAT (like a floppy). The only machines with Zip drives at university are
>Windows machines (yuck), and it was only after I'd filled it up with
>several downloads and a kernel updated that I discovered that Linux
>(with or without mtools) would refise to mount it.
and what did you do? does it work now?
cu -
--
Beowulf:)) the Fearless
*no brain, no pain*
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From: Juergen Leeb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN Fritz!Card PCI V2
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:59:48 +0200
I recently bought a the new IDSN Fritz!Card PCI V2. I tried to make it
run an Suse 7.0
and also an Mandrake 8.0 but it doesn't work. I used autodection an both
systems.
Does anybody know what kernel driver do I need and what package must I
install on my system?
Thank for helping!
juergen leeb
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: kppp say Modem is busy
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 00:19:34 +1000
go to the Run option in your window manager KDE and type modemtool and
select the right port for your modem. if it is a ISA modem you may need to
do a if you have other isa devices save a copy of etc\isapnp.conf first to
another file name ISAPNP.CONG is what I use.
PNPdump>etc\isapnp.conf and then edit it to activate the configuration
file don't forget to activate it right at the end of the file!
Littlefish
"Eitan Berkovich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:newscache$60mpcg$fdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a ess modem. Linux doesn't auto-recognize it but when I configure
it
> in kppp it finds it and says the the modem is busy.
> why? how? etc.
>
> JShard.
>
>
>
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From: Kristopher Kersey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Gigahertz Processor Roundup
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 07:19:08 -0400
All,
I just wanted to send word to all of you that LinuxHardware.org has just
posted part two of the Gigahertz Processor matchup under Linux. In part
two both the Quake 3 and kernel compile benchmarks have been updated
plus a new floating-point benchmark has been added. Head on over that
way if you get a chance and drop a line here, in the comments section on
the site, or send me an email directly and let me know what you think.
Part One: http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/01/04/25/0256236.shtml
Part Two: http://www.linuxhardware.org/features/01/05/03/167228.shtml
Thanks,
Kris Kersey
LinuxHardware.org Site Manager
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW INSTALL
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 23:20:00 -0500
I installed a new CDRW, I've got the CDRW to where I can mount and read
CD's on it.
When trying to run Xcdroast I get the following error message:
No Generic-SCSI-Support has been detected. Without it no SCSI-Devices
can be
detected or used by X-CD-Roast. Please load the sg-module (e.g. "insmod
sg")
or recompile your kernel with Generic-SCSI-Support.
sg module is loaded:
# insmod sg
/lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: a module named sg already exists
Kernel info
===========
Kernel image : linux
OS Release : 1.1.2 release 2.2.14
Version : #1 SMP Thu Feb 17 11:19:33 MST 2000
built by : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
built with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release
Filesystems : ext2 proc devpts vfat nfs
Char devices : mem=1 pty=2 ttyp=3 ttyS=4 cua=5 lp=6 vcs=7
misc=10 sound
=14 fb=29 netlink=36 ptm=128 pts=136
Block devices: ramdisk=1 fd=2 ide0=3 md=9 ide1=22
Net devices : lo eth0
Root device : /dev/hda6
Hardware info
=============
Processor : i586 with 999.42 BogoMips
Memory RAM : 128 MB (3028K kernel, 2656K cache, 85672K shared, 2944K
free)
Swap area : 243 MB (3064K used, 245904K free)
Any Ideas?
--
Registered Linux User # 188099
http://counter.li.org/
Personal SystemCOLe2.4, 500Mhz, 128Mb Ram
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From: Nick Bruton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Graphics Card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 12:06:28 GMT
Hi,
I've just got a PIII 800 with Onboard sound and graphics which is the
Intel 815 BUT the graphics performance is not very good, can anyone
recommend any of the following to replace the onboard graphics, I'm
running RedHat7.1 kernel 2.4.4 X-Windows 4.0.3 and using the i810
driver.
Cards are ................
Matrox G450 32Mb
nVidia TNT2 32Mb AGP 4x Graphics
nVidia GeForce 23Mb half height AGP 4x Graphics
or is there something else I should be looking at ??
Thanks Nick
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From: "Francisco Galvan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tv card + Sound Card problem
Date: Fri, 4 May 2001 14:15:18 +0200
Hi,
First of all, I beg your pardon my bad English.
I am a Linux newbie. I have a PC Pentium II 350 Mhz, 192 MB RAM, a
Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo XL sound card, Best-Buy TV Card, ATI Xpert
2000 Pro Video Card, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM.
I Install in my PC a Linux SuSE 7.1 and the sound card is detected OK and
work fine.
I try change the /etc/modules.conf file uncoment the lines
options bttv card=0 radio=0 pll=1
options tuner type=5
in order of activate the TV card.
When I reboot the PC, several messages appears with "failed" in red color,
and the sound card no is detected, and if I run YaST2 program and it is not
possible detected the sound card.
I try comment the 2 lines, reboot the PC, but the several messages appears
yet, and no sound card is detected.
Thanks in advanced.
Francisco.
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CONFIG_USB_UHCI vs. CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (a.k.a JE)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 12:40:01 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to compile linux-2.4.4 kernel on my linux machine comprised of
an Asus K7M Mobo and an AMD Athlon 500MHz CPU. When configuring the "USB
support", I get stuck and am confused as to which UHCI support to choose:
CONFIG_USB_UHCI or CONFIG_USB_UHCI_ALT (Alternate JE Driver). Can anyone
please shed some lights in this matter?
TIA.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: need good linux *athlon* (tbird) motherboard..
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:07:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
> Hmm. For "Athlon", the thl consonant combination occurs in such a way
> that the speaker can split the word into two syllables, "ath" and "lon",
Yes, you can do that, but people typically don't. Not sure why.
> and there are a number of consonant combinations that are easier to
> pronounce when separated by syllable boundaries. The "k-h" sound in
> "blockhouse" is one of them, at least for English speakers; I'd think
> the "thl" would be another.
Most Americans tend to aspirate k at the end of any syllable
(just try saying "black" with an unaspirated k), so blockhouse
tends to come out blok-ouse, at least when I say it quickly;
the h sort of gets swallowed by the k. That aside, "thl" is
of course easier to say if you split it into two syllables,
so I'm not really sure why we don't. Maybe it has something
to do with the way we say that a in Athlon (every time I hear
anyone say it, it's like the a in flat only more drawn out;
again, I'm not sure why, but I've never heard it said, for
example, like the a in father). Dunno why.
> Sure they won't just elide the "ph"?
Yes, some people would do that, too.
> Although it's possible to reduce this to "people tend to pronounce
> things sloppily if they get a chance, and people can't spell either",
Yeah. Although they were spelling it according to the way they
pronounce it, which is typical. That's also why Americans first
started spelling doughnut as donut and colour as color and so
on -- it started with sloppy pronunciation that was then put
into the spelling.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Firewire (was Re: Umax 6400 Scanner)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:24:53 GMT
"Nick K. Aghazarian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone get a firewire scanner to work under linux (any distro)? I have
> one, and would love to use it without having to reboot to windows.
> Sane doesn't seem to support it, and makes it sound like it never will.
This is the first I've heard of firewire on anything but an iMac.
Is there PC hardware that supports firewire? Is that native to
the motherboard, or is it added via an expansion card? What are
the advantages and disadvantages of firewire as compared to more
common types of connections (serial, parallel, SCSI, USB, PCI,
or whatever it compares with most readily)?
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux...
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:30:30 GMT
iQXth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ...or do they?
In the olden days of yore, Linux people used to advocate
Logitech mice specifically (nay, almost exclusively),
because they were the best known maker of three-button
mice; at the time, almost all mice had two or fewer buttons,
but Logitech made three-button mice, and Linux people liked
that third button for use in X.
These days, of course, Logitech has competition in
the three-button-mice maket.
- jonadab
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: remount HD rw
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:37:40 GMT
Static <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I always like to keep two root partitions on the go, that way if I screw up
> too massively, I can boot the other partition and still get to my data...
Plus, as an added bonus, you can use the one root partition for
stuff you care about and play with trying out various distros
and such on the other partition. Of course, if your system is
mission-critical and has to be up all the time this isn't a
real alternative, but for a personal system, playing around
with different distros can be a fun diversion and a source of
learning as well.
- jonadab
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From: Rajko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Help wanted. Linux problems using AMD K6-2
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 08:54:46 -0500
Hi Ashton,
You wrote:
> I am have having numerous problems using linux (Redhat 7.0) on my k6-2
> based machine. Are there any known problems with K6-2s and what are the
> fixes?
>
> All the problems appeared when I took out a pentium 233 MMX and put in
> the k6-2.
As there was a lot answers, I'd like to vote.
I give my vote to Nils Holland :-)
He is only one that read your message to the end.
There is difference between Pentium and AMD CPU,
and unlikely Win, linux does not automatically load
proper kernel.
The way to solve is as wrote Nils Holland in his message:
> I would build a K6-2 optimized kernel for the machine that has the
> problems. If the compilation cannot be done with the K6-2 in there, then
> compile the K6-2 optimized kernel with the 233 MMX processor in the
> machine. After having installed the kernel, change CPUs and see what
> happens.
>
> I'm running Linux on both a 300 and a 500 Mhz K6-2 CPU and it runs great
> without any problems. Make sure that all your jumper settings, cooling
and
> similar stuff is set up correctly.
>
> There's definitely no general problem with K6-2 CPUs under Linux, and
what
> you are experiencing can surely be fixed by you having another look at
your
> setup. If not, you should probably do some advanced troubleshooting by
> trying your CPU on a different motherboard and / or by trying a different
> K6-2 CPU on your motherboard.
>
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Crossposted-To: sfnet.atk.linux,redhat.hardware.arch.intel,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto J. Makela)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:57:32 GMT
(This is a translation -- I have a Hauppage BT878-based television
card which doesn't work right in i386/RH7.1 a system with the setup
mentioned in the subject)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Viljo Hakala) writes:
> I remember that Xv used to cause problems with XFree86 4.0 where
> only black screen was shown.
>
> How about trying xawtv with the options -noxv -noscale?
Yep, finally a picture, albeit a rather sluggish one!
How would I resolve this Xv problem in the long run?
Switch over to using video4linux, how is this done?
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Subject: Re: need 3Com 3c950 NIC driver for win2k (works just fine in a linux!)
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 13:58:50 GMT
Eric Holbrook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i know this is an odd post; bear w/me please. i've never had a
> problem running my 3c950 nic in linux (or solaris, for that matter). i
> just installed win2k, though, and it can't find the driver for it. a
> search on 3com's page yielded nothing.
>
> anyone else had this card/problem? do i use the driver for another of
> their cards?
Is it possible that the card doesn't _need_ a driver?
Or is it possible that the card adheres to some standard
(NE2000 for example) and thus will work with one of the
standard drivers that ships with NT 2000?
Also, check the hcl.
- jonadab
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Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 17:13:11 +0200
From: Dedicated to all Manson Fans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mainboard Socket 7
Hi,
I'm searching for a socket 7 mainboard. It should have some SDRAM slots,
an FSB up to 100MHz, a nice (that means fast) Chipset with a good APM
(stable and with some nice features like 'wake up on modem-act'), UDMA66
on Board an so on...
It's for an old P200MMX
What can you recommend (single components, too)? It's long time ago so
that I can't find the test's in my mags.
Thanks
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From: Kwan Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDRW INSTALL
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:17:23 GMT
Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I installed a new CDRW, I've got the CDRW to where I can mount and read
> CD's on it.
> When trying to run Xcdroast I get the following error message:
> No Generic-SCSI-Support has been detected. Without it no SCSI-Devices
> can be
> detected or used by X-CD-Roast. Please load the sg-module (e.g. "insmod
> sg")
> or recompile your kernel with Generic-SCSI-Support.
You probably have an IDE CDRW. If so, you'll need to use the SCSI emulation
module called ide-scsi.
In your /etc/modules.conf, add
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install sr_mod modprobe ide-scsi
In your /etc/lilo.conf
image=/boot/bzImage.004
label=linux.004
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
append="hdd=ide-scsi " <---- Change this line
In your /etc/fstab, edit the cdrom line to point to the new device. Generally,
it will be something like /dev/scd0.
> sg module is loaded:
> # insmod sg
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/scsi/sg.o: a module named sg already exists
> Kernel info
> ===========
> Kernel image : linux
> OS Release : 1.1.2 release 2.2.14
> Version : #1 SMP Thu Feb 17 11:19:33 MST 2000
> built by : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> built with: gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2 release
> Filesystems : ext2 proc devpts vfat nfs
> Char devices : mem=1 pty=2 ttyp=3 ttyS=4 cua=5 lp=6 vcs=7
> misc=10 sound
> =14 fb=29 netlink=36 ptm=128 pts=136
> Block devices: ramdisk=1 fd=2 ide0=3 md=9 ide1=22
> Net devices : lo eth0
> Root device : /dev/hda6
> Hardware info
> =============
> Processor : i586 with 999.42 BogoMips
> Memory RAM : 128 MB (3028K kernel, 2656K cache, 85672K shared, 2944K
> free)
> Swap area : 243 MB (3064K used, 245904K free)
> Any Ideas?
> --
> Registered Linux User # 188099
> http://counter.li.org/
> Personal SystemCOLe2.4, 500Mhz, 128Mb Ram
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noam Kloos)
Subject: sgi challenge server S
Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 14:27:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello group,
Is there an easy way to install linux on a SGI challenge S server?
That is without having to install IRIX.
Greets,
Noam Kloos.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shad)
Date: 04 May 2001 14:48:29 GMT
Subject: Wrong major or minor number...
Howdy,
I'm encountering an error when trying mount my SCSI CDRW. The message says
"mount: /dev/cdrom1 has a wrong major or minor number"
I am also unable to use cdrecord to burn cds. However, I know the system sees
it, as when I do a dmesg | grep SCSI, I can see the CDRW...
any thoughts?
-Shad
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