Linux-Hardware Digest #11, Volume #9 Tue, 22 Dec 98 16:13:26 EST
Contents:
Re: Dell Ultra ATA controller? (steve)
Re: iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 (model A901GT) ("Hans Thielemans")
Mouse Problems ("Brian & Margaret Stephens")
Re: Riva TNT and Red Hat 5.2 ("Brian & Margaret Stephens")
[Q] Diamond Viper 550 (Draco)
pcmcia scsi linux > 2.1.118 (Dieter Kraft)
TurboExpress Port 920 16750 card (Douglas Hensel)
Re: Why doesn't Linux recognise PCI-modems ? (brucekey)
Re: AMD k6-2 in a server. (Peter Daniel ECKERSLEY)
Re: Matrox G200/MAG Monitor Problems (Paul Triolo)
Digiboards ("Martin Babb")
Re: Getting Creative VIBRA16XV onboard sound working (Michael Gurski)
How to check Sportster 28800 int. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux SMP revisited (William Taylor)
Re: Dimond Viper 330 and Xconfigurator ("Richard F. Jr.")
Compatability troubles with my hardware? ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gianfranco))
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Kyler Laird)
Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux... (Kyler Laird)
VideoCard Daimond Stealth ii S220 ("Henk Altena")
DVD RAM ?? (David Livingstone)
PowerEdge 4300 and RedHat5.2 / Debian2.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Ultra ATA controller?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 07:59:19 -0500
Chris Deiss wrote:
> I'm considering buying a Dell Dimension XPS R, and I'm wondering if anyone
> has successfully installed Linux on one of these systems.
>
> In particular I read on the RedHat 5.2 hardware compatibility list that
> some Ultra ATA controllers are not supported. I then noticed that some
> Dell's have an 'Enhanced EIDE S.M.A.R.T. II Ultra DMA' blah blah blah HD
> controller. I'm not sure this even applies to the Dimension series . . .
>
> Any know compatibilities/incompatibilities?
>
> TIA,
> Chris
Chris,
I'm writing this under Caldera 1.3 on a 3 week old XPS R 450. Installation
was no problem, everything worked fine. The sole problem I'm having is
getting the integrated Crystal sound to fire up. Everything else is fine.
Steve
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From: "Hans Thielemans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: misc.forsale.computers.monitors
Subject: Re: iiyama Vision Master Pro 450 (model A901GT)
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:44:14 +0100
>root wrote:
>>
>> Marcin Okraszewski wrote:
>>
>> > Does any one has already used that monitor??? If yes, is it worth of
its
>> > price? I rather think that it is good monitor, but it is extremely new,
>> > so I don't have any news about it. Maybe some experience with this
>> > monitor ??? Would you recommend it ???
>> >
I use a Ilyama Visian Master 450 19" monitor. It works perfect.
I run 1600x1200@80Hz no problem with a Matrox Millenium
Regards,
Hans
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From: "Brian & Margaret Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse Problems
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:08:03 GMT
I have tried every combination with my logitech Track Man Marble under
XF86Setup and I can not get it to function it is a PS/2 mouse not a seiral
mouse would this cause the problem?
thanks
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From: "Brian & Margaret Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Riva TNT and Red Hat 5.2
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 03:50:13 GMT
I have used rh 5.2 which I am told came with xfree86 3.3.2, which did not
support the TNT.
I then downloaded
XFree86-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
and mounted the c drive where it was downloaded on a win 98 partition with
the command
mount -t vfat /dev/hda5 /c
next I typed
rpm -Uvh --force XFree86-3.3.3-1.i386.rpm
this looked like it installed it
next I deleted my XF86config file
and typed
XF86Setup
I can't get my mouse to work either, but I did navigate around the menu and
set my card to TNT, It only allows me to select 8 meg even though I have 16
meg.
This is what I get now when I run
startx
(--) SVGA: PCI: NVidia Unknown chipset (0x0020) rev 4, Memory @ xe4000000,
0xe600000
(--) SVGA: Chipset: Generic
(--) SVGA: VideoRam: 64k
(--) SVGA: Clocks: 25.18
(**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color Weight: 666
SVGA: Too Little Memory for virtual Resoultion 800x600
*** A Configured device found, but display modes could not be resolved. ***
I hope this helps you help me, thanks alot in advance
also my TNT is AGP if it matters
Brian Stephens
any Ideas on why a PS/2 Logitech Track Man Marble Mouse won't work???
Guenter Neumann wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi Brian,
>
>are your problems related even to the text-mode or only to X ?
>
>If they are running X you probably need a new driver for it.
>You get the driver from
>http://dimension128.smartcom.net/files/XF86_SVGA.libc.gz
>
>Unpack this driver to the X-bin directory. This should be located something
>like
>/usr/X11R6/bin. Than you have to link this file to X with the command
> 'ln -s XF86_SVGA.libc X'. You might need to delete the existing link
prior.
>
>This worked fine for me.
>
>Have fun with it.
>
> Guenter
>
>Brian & Margaret Stephens wrote:
>
>> I am new to linux and I have a STB 4400 TNT board, I can not get it to
work
>> what do I do. Please be very discriptive I'm new to this. Thanks in
>> advance
>>
>> Brian Stephens
>
>
>
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From: Draco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: [Q] Diamond Viper 550
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:35:55 GMT
Hi,
You have probably seen a post like this 500 times. I am having
trouble with the Diamond Viper 550 and X-Windows. I found the Riva 128
driver for it, installed it, and I don't know what to do after that. I
have heard that Xf86 3.3.3 supports the card, but I cannot put one of
the files on a 1.44mg floppy. I have tried virtually every card in
Xconfigurator, and nothing works. Could someone please help???
John
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From: Dieter Kraft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: pcmcia scsi linux > 2.1.118
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:46:06 +0100
hi,
since linux kernel > 2.1.118
my SlimSCSI 1460B of Adaptec
under D.Hinds pcmcia 3.0.6 or 7
on a Gateway Solo 9100 266
lets tar cvf tape.tar stop after a while
for 2.1.117 all works fine
Any hints are very welcome
Dieter
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From: Douglas Hensel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TurboExpress Port 920 16750 card
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:55:51 -0500
Does anyone know if Linux supports the TurboExpress Port 920 from
Pacific CommWare
TurboExpress Port 920 from Pacific CommWare Serial Card????
I have my 3COM ISDN modem plugged into it.
Thanks for any and all help
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: brucekey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why doesn't Linux recognise PCI-modems ?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 00:45:11 -0800
Mircea wrote:
>
> The Venus chipset you mentioned, combined with a dedicated PCI interface
> chip, can also be used for making a PCI modem, full hardware solution. It's
> mentioned somewhere on the Lucent website, I think towards the end of the
> technical info for the 1647 chipset. The problem is nobody seems to use it.
>
> MST
>
> Rob Clark wrote in message
>
> >What appears to be missing is an integrated hardware modem chipset for
> >PCI. Time will tell whether they become available to manufacturers.
Most, if not all PCI modems are PnP these'a days. This is one of the
many reasons that I have decided to go with external modems. Fewer
problems with hardware (modem's etc.) upgrades. I have found that the
problem isn't that linux doesn't support 55k, the reality is that most
phone company switching networks include at least 1 too many A/D
conversions, "This will not do!" 56k requires one nad only one A/D
conversions. Basically, If you *just* happen to be on the same switch as
your ISP, and of course they support your flavor of 56k, you are out of
luck. *ME TOO* So far, I've used linux from 110 baud (HF Radio Link) to
10BaseT
The interesting thing to me, is that, most times I start up a ppp
session with my ISP, my modem responds a connect at 16680, but I'm
seeing data transfer rates of 3.3 to 3.7 bytes per second. It seems to
be an adaptive speed conection that slides up and down in speed. hmmm.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Daniel ECKERSLEY)
Subject: Re: AMD k6-2 in a server.
Date: 22 Dec 1998 04:03:26 GMT
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
>> >
>> > Just a warning - the Pentium II/400 I have at work is nearly twice
>> > as fast as my K6-2/333 when doing mpeg layer 3 encoding. I don't
>> > know why.
That sounds suspiciously like an optimisation problem, not a capability problem.
Peter
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From: Paul Triolo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox G200/MAG Monitor Problems
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:11:07 -0500
Problem solved!! I downloaded the latest SVGA server for
XFree and it works fine now.....thanx for help...
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From: "Martin Babb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digiboards
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 14:04:48 +1030
Hi
Does anyone know if Linux supports COM/Xi Digiboards?
The Digiboard web page reports this board as Legacy Hardware and that no
Linux drivers are available.
Thanks in anticipation.
Martin Babb
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Gurski)
Subject: Re: Getting Creative VIBRA16XV onboard sound working
Date: 22 Dec 1998 13:36:26 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan D. Warren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>You're not alone with this problem... I've been trying to get my Vibra16
>card to work under RH5.2 for the last 2 weeks, but haven't been able
>to. I'm having the same problems with my other computer's SB16PnP card
>under both RH5.1 and RH5.2... however, I *did* have that card working on
>that computer under RH5.1 at one point in the past, I didn't do anything
>special to get it to work (i.e., no recomp of kernel needed before) my
>comps are a Cyrix Pr166 and an AMD 486DX4/100... the 486 is also having
>problems with the SMC EtherEZ 8416 card that's in it.
>
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I finally broke down and downloaded the eval version of the OSS
drivers (http://www.opensound.com/) and they worked, albeit at half
duplex. I haven't really decided yet if I want to get another card or
not, or just how important full duplex would be for, say, internet
telephony.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to check Sportster 28800 int.
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 04:39:31 GMT
I would appreciate if anybody could help with this:
USR Sportster 28800 internal. Jumpers removed. Win95 says its on COM3
whose Int.=05; I/O=03E8 to 03EF.
On Linux RedHat 5.2 I try to run pnpdump and get an output of several
different settings. The I use setserial to use the settings for Stty2
(should be COM3, isn't that so?) then I try to use minicom and my
modem dials after a very long waiting pause. In other word it responds
but very slowly.
What should I do next - Do I assume that everything is OK with ports
and addresses and I should try to change init string or is somethinng
still wrong with the modem-port configuration.
And am I correct to think that I do not use a winmodem, 'cos it's not
written anywhere on it and the thing can dial after all.
Thank You
Roberts Klotins
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From: William Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux SMP revisited
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 12:57:26 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd take care of memory and disk i/o before getting a second CPU.
Depending on what you are doing 128MB or more memory is a must. If you
have large datasets get more. Also go for dual-channel UW or U2W SCSI
and multiple disk drives to spread the i/o out. If you using IDE disks,
by all means go SCSI before SMP.
If you are cpu bound on a single, unthreaded process, then a faster cpu
will work. If you have a range of processes or a threaded process then
smp is OK.
Personally, I've found SMP to considerably speed up both NT and Linux.
Even running a single threaded app under NT, it is essentially one of
many system processes running at any given time. SMP doubles the cpu
cycles available to the kernel for scheduling and everything speeds up.
The same goes for linux. BeOS on SMP is astonishing.
The capability of a lean OS like BeOS running on SMP really is greater
than the sum of its parts. NT doesn't come close. Linux seems to take
advantage of SMP almost as well though.
IMO, SMP is really needed at the very high-end and at the very low end.
IF, Win98 could use SMP, imagine the performance of a 3D game running on
dual K6-2 3D chips (for the price of a single P2/450 cpu).
All the best,
Wt
Jason Baeder wrote:
>
> To begin this like all other messages on this subject: I'm building a pc
> at home with the express intent of running Linux to avoid Windoze as
> much as possible. I see that most people running SMP seem to be doing
> hard core mathematical calculations or modelling etc. Early next year
> I'll start learning Oracle and intend to run it under Linux. Besides
> that, I'll do the usual: Applixware, shell programming, web surfing,
> etc. I'm no neophyte -- I know dual cpu's are useless under Windoze,
> and only minimally helpful under NT (without the proper applications).
>
> But what I don't know is to what extent under daily use Linux will take
> advantage of two cpu's, especially under multitasking conditions (rather
> than twiddle my thumbs while waiting for a web page to download, I'd
> rather use the time to do something else constructive). Right now I'm
> leaning towards putting the money I would otherwise spend on a dual-cpu
> m'b and an extra cpu towards additional drive space. But I'm also
> wondering about the imminent release of the 2.2 kernel and if its
> reported stable SMP processing will bring even more advantages to
> running dual cpu's under LInux.
>
> Any and all opinions (except flames) gratefully accepted.
>
> TIA
> Jason Baeder
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From: "Richard F. Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dimond Viper 330 and Xconfigurator
Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 23:44:54 -0500
I run the Viper 330 on S.u.S.E. Linux 5.3
just run "xf86config" both XFree86-3.3.2 and 3.3.3 can easley run the Viper 330
with the SVGA Server
Stephen Ashley wrote:
> I have had X (RH 5.2) running along fine on my Digital XL PC. I swapped the
> old S3 964 pro for a near new Dimond Viper 330 PCI card.
>
> According to the old RH5.1 box set manule the i would need to load a new
> server. So I removed the old link (/etc/X11R6/X) and installed the P9000 rpm
> server file. Added the link as per the book instructions. Nexted i tried to
> run up the 'Xconfigurator' tool and select the Dimond Viper 330 from the
> selection. But the config session fail with -
>
> Server dosen't exist, can't continue.
> tried to use ../../X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
>
> What have I done wrong??
>
> Cheers and merry Xmas to all.
> Stephen.
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From: sacquegna(nospam)@tin.it (Gianfranco)
Subject: Compatability troubles with my hardware?
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 18:32:15 GMT
Hello people, I have just a few days ago updated my computer:
- motherboard PowerBoard P586TX (chipset 430 TX)
- CPU P233MMX
- RAM 64 MB DIMM
- Bios PnP Award 2A59IPN9
- Controller primary: Master Seagate ST 34323A
Slave CDROM BTC 16X JLL16
- Controller Secondary: Master Palladium P1600-3AF
Slave -
Before upgrading I installed RH 5.0.
Now, when I try to install RH 5.2, while is in boot disk of
installation, computer breaks and the last rows displayed are:
Ramdisk driver initialized: 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57
ide 0: BM-DMA at 0XF000-0xF007
ide 1: BM-DMA at 0XF008-0XF00F
It seems not recognizing hard disks; can anyone help me?
Thanks
Gianfranco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyler Laird)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 22 Dec 1998 19:14:04 GMT
"Martin Atkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>This suggests to me that smbd (samba) should be capable of doing what
>I believe the original questioner asked for - ie being runnable by normal
>users. What is missing?
use of standard I/O instead of sockets
--kyler
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kyler Laird)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: things I'd pay to have developed for Linux...
Date: 22 Dec 1998 19:17:11 GMT
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>To serve the SMB protocol, you must use ports 137 and 139.
Oh, no! Alert the SAMBA team!
(Sure would be nice if people here could at least
understand what a protocol like SMB is and isn't....)
--kyler
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From: "Henk Altena" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VideoCard Daimond Stealth ii S220
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:31:30 +0100
At www.Redhat.com/support the Daimond Stealth ii S220 video card is not
supported. This means I have to buy another video card or is there a way to
configure this videocard under Linux Apollo ? Perhaps the card is compatible
with another video card ?
Henk Altena [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD RAM ??
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:03:42 -0500
Has anybody tried using a Creative Labs PC-DVD RAM with Linux ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PowerEdge 4300 and RedHat5.2 / Debian2.0
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 19:23:56 GMT
Hello, everyone! I am having serious trouble getting the RAID controller to
work with the above mentioned flavours of linux (redhat and debian). The
machine, I am told by Dell, has an Adaptec 2940 controller with an AIC-7860
chipset which controls the CD-ROM. It also has a RAID controller with an
AIC-7890 chipset which controls the hard drives (3 of them). The way it is
set up, the RAID controller reports the CD-ROM and an Adaptec scsi
controller. There are on hard drives on the primary scsi chain, only the
CD-ROM, which is bootable and works fine. Both RedHat5.2 and Debian2.0 are
able to go through the initial stage where the CD-ROM is detected (in case of
RedHat). Then, when they get to the partitioning area, they both complain
that there are no devices that can be configured. I am kinda new to the scsi
world and I am in a time crunch to get this machine set up for my company.
Any help would be highly appreciated. Thanks a bunch in advance. Kaushik
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