Linux-Hardware Digest #57, Volume #9 Wed, 30 Dec 98 02:13:29 EST
Contents:
Re: Processors? (Erik Kiledal)
Re: Linux SMP revisited (Holger Matthoefer)
Virtual Xwindows ("Art Ehuan")
Which Modem to Use ("Art Ehuan")
Re: Tseng ET6000 2 MB only 8 Bit colors? (Rod Roark)
Problems with CMD646 and ATAPI (Richard Simpson)
Re: Processors? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: IBM Think pad 380DX Sound Problems.. (Ted McDaniel)
Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux (biggles)
HEEELP! - Mouse not working on Sony Vaio notebook (Lenny Primak)
Linux SCSI AIC7xxx driver ("Marcin Zurakowski")
Re: HOWTO Backup onto HP DAT Tapedrive ? (Carlo Trobia)
Re: Genius GF100TXR (Realtek RTL8139 Based) (Mark Trawczynski)
Re: Compaq Prosignia (NCR 53c710) EISA PC server and Linux - HELP! (Art)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: Erik Kiledal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Processors?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 22:41:46 GMT
Bill Pitz wrote:
> I know this is off-topic, but I'm having a heck of a time finding what
> I'm looking for.
>
> Does anybody know of a good place online to buy processors?
> Specifically, I am looking for a Pentium 200 (mmx or no mmx...makes no
> difference) or an AMD K6/200.
www.pricewatch.com
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Matthoefer)
Subject: Re: Linux SMP revisited
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 06:35:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) writes:
> AMDs and Cyrix do support SMP, using the OPENPic standard.
> Small problem.
> No one makes OPENPic motherboards.
I don't know for sure about Cyrix, but AMD's K6/K6-2 doesn't
support multiprocessing. My guess is AMD realized that OpenPIC is
dead so they saved some square millimeters of circuitry. So the
K6-3 won't be SMP capable either - which is really a pity.
Holger
------------------------------
From: "Art Ehuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Virtual Xwindows
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 18:48:15 -0500
Help, Can anyone tell me how to permenently get rid of the virtual XWindows
mode in Red Hat 5.2. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Art
------------------------------
From: "Art Ehuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which Modem to Use
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:01:04 -0500
Can anyone recommend a 56k modem to use with RH 5.2.
Thanks
Art
------------------------------
From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tseng ET6000 2 MB only 8 Bit colors?
Date: 29 Dec 1998 23:14:54 GMT
UUnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>has anyone an idea why W32 X Server does not use 16 bpp with my old ET6000.
>2 megs should be quite enough for 1024 x 768 or?
Hmm, I use the SVGA server with mine (also 2MB) and its does 16 bpp
nicely at 1024x768. I didn't think the W32 server would support it.
-- Rod
======================================================================
Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ Starting at $499
======================================================================
------------------------------
From: Richard Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Problems with CMD646 and ATAPI
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 23:49:06 +0000
Hi,
I have an Alpha LX164 which as you may know contains a CMD646 IDE controller.
When I enable CMD646 support in the 2.1 kernels and switch on DMA I get a very
significant increase in disc speed (2.5 MB/s to 9 MB/s).
Unfortunately, enabling this kernel option causes my ATAPI CD-ROM drive (which
is on a different IDE channel) to exhibit read errors as seen below (this
occurs irrespective of whether DMA is actually switched on (via hdparm)).
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: hdc: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady S
eekComplete Error }
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: hdc: command error: error=0x54
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: end_request: I/O error, dev 16:00 (hdc), secto
r 275020
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: ATAPI device hdc:
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Dec 29 00:12:54 rcsimpson kernel: Logical block address out of range -- (asc=0
x21, ascq=0x00)
Is anyone else experiencing errors of this sort?
Thank you,
--
---
Richard Simpson @ home
Linux - Where do you want to go tomorrow?
www.linux.org
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Processors?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 14:32:10 -0800
Hi Bill,
Try looking at www.shopper .com or www.pcprogress.com
ED
Bill Pitz wrote:
> I know this is off-topic, but I'm having a heck of a time finding what
> I'm looking for.
>
> Does anybody know of a good place online to buy processors?
> Specifically, I am looking for a Pentium 200 (mmx or no mmx...makes no
> difference) or an AMD K6/200.
>
> Thanks...
> Bill
------------------------------
From: Ted McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IBM Think pad 380DX Sound Problems..
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 15:14:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Donald L. Gover" wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad 380dx when I run the sndconfig program it finds the
> Crystal card as a SoundBlaster at the correct interrupts and DMA channel. It
> correctly plays the test sound but when I run the Real audio player all I
> get is static.. Any Ideas????
You normally get static if you try to force 16bit soound through an 8 bit audio
device.
Try going to View --> preferences --> Advanced and check the "disable 16
bit sound"
I have to do that on my TP 770, which like the 380 series, uses a Crystal Semi
sound chip. The Linux drivers are curently 8 bit.
I believe the 2.2 kernel will have 16 drivers, but I have check on that.
------------------------------
From: biggles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SupraExpress 56i in Linux
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 16:50:34 -0600
Daniel Lindberg wrote:
>
> The manual says PRO so I guess it's a PRO then :(
> Diamond says that it should be possible to use
> all their internal modems in Linux, at least in the future.
>============================================================
This is coming to you thru a Diamond SupraExpress 56k v90 internal PnP
full-duplex voice blah blah blah. It had jumper setting for most common
port/irq's plus the PnP setting. Likes ttyS1 just fine, its that other
OS that had trouble with it when the PnP is castrated.
DonC.
--> The reset button makes your hardware MS compatible <--
------------------------------
From: Lenny Primak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HEEELP! - Mouse not working on Sony Vaio notebook
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 01:14:45 -0500
I am using (trying to use) RedHat 5.2. Everything works but the mouse.
The setup is Sony Vaio PCG-818 notebook. The mouse type is PS/2
compatible,
which I happily selected, but it does't work either with gpm or X.
Did anybody install this successfully? is there a patch?
Here are the details:
Under Windows 98, the device appears at the Logitech ScrollPoint PS/2
mouse,
IRQ 12, which is confirmed the only IRQ for the PS/2 mouse and there are
no conflicts (after all, this is a notebook). I tried every mouseconfig
setting to no avail.
When doing a "cat /dev/mouse" (which is linked to /dev/psaux),
I get an "Operation not supported by device" error. I though this was
the lack
of the driver in the kernel, so I built a new kernel, making sure that
psaux
was in there. I tried everything and I am stuck - please help.
Thanks.
------------------------------
From: "Marcin Zurakowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Linux SCSI AIC7xxx driver
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 09:32:42 GMT
Hi,
I've got a little problem.
I have a Adaptec AIC-7770 adapter and hard disk. I made a partitons on it
under 2.0.35, and leter a I've upgraded to 2.0.36. Both of them (2.0.35 and
2.0.36 has the same SCSI configuration).
Under 2.0.36 fdisk display errors:
======================================================
Using /dev/sda as default device!
Command (m for help):
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 274 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1 64 513008 83 Linux native
Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?):
phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 0, 33)
Partition 1 has different physical/logical endings:
phys=(500, 63, 32) logical=(63, 221, 30)
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary:
phys=(500, 63, 32) should be (500, 254, 63)
/dev/sda2 502 64 80 123904 82 Linux swap
................
========================================================
,but everything is clear under 2.0.35.
It's strange but under 2.0.36 system is working ok, If I hadn't run fdisk
I would have never discover this error.
I attached dmesg files from 2.0.35 and 2.0.36
What should I do?
Marcin Zurakowski
===================
ZSE Administrator
===================
=================== dmesg from
2.0.35 ------------------------------------------
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: mono EGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f6bc0
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd206
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd551
Probing PCI hardware.
PCI bridge optimization.
Cache L2: Not supported.
CPU-PCI posted write: on.
CPU-Memory posted write: off.Changed! Now on.
PCI-Memory posted write: on.
PCI burst: on.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30972k/32768k available (680k kernel code, 384k reserved, 732k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
Linux version 2.0.35 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #2 Tue
Oct 13 07:54:54 CEST 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter> found at EISA slot 11
(scsi0) Twin Channel, A SCSI ID 7, B SCSI ID 7, 4/255 SCBs
(scsi0) BIOS enabled, IO Port 0xbc00, IRQ 14
(scsi0) IO Memory at 0x0, MMAP Memory at 0x0
(scsi0) Resetting channel B
(scsi0) Resetting channel A
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 414 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.0.19/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
(scsi0:0:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
Vendor: Quantum Model: XP32150W Rev: L912
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU-76S Rev: 1.1c
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
(scsi0:1:-1:-1) Scanning channel for devices.
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset 15.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4406960 [2151 MB] [2.2 GB]
ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 9.
eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xfce0, IRQ 9, 00:40:05:66:08:AF.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 123900k swap-space (priority -1)
============================================================================
========================================
============================== dmesg from
2.0.36 ----------------------------------------------------------
Memory: sized by int13 088h
Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
Console: mono EGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63)
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory structure at 0x000f6bc0
pcibios_init : BIOS32 Service Directory entry at 0xfd206
pcibios_init : PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd551
Probing PCI hardware.
PCI bridge optimization.
Cache L2: Not supported.
CPU-PCI posted write: on.
CPU-Memory posted write: off.Changed! Now on.
PCI-Memory posted write: on.
PCI burst: on.
Calibrating delay loop.. ok - 53.25 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30956k/32768k available (692k kernel code, 384k reserved, 736k data)
Swansea University Computer Society NET3.035 for Linux 2.0
NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.13 for Linux NET3.035.
Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_5.6.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug - workaround enabled.
alias mapping IDT readonly ... ... done
Linux version 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #1 Fri
Nov 20 14:24:25 CET 1998
Starting kswapd v 1.4.2.2
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
lp1 at 0x0378, (polling)
PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected -- driver installed.
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter> found at EISA slot 11
(scsi0) Twin Channel, A SCSI ID 7, B SCSI ID 7, 4/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 423 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.4/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7770 SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: Quantum Model: XP32150W Rev: L912
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU-76S Rev: 1.1c
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4406960 [2151 MB] [2.2 GB]
ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'RealTek RTL-8029' at I/O 0xfce0, IRQ 9.
eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0xfce0, IRQ 9, 00:40:05:66:08:AF.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 123900k swap-space (priority -1)
============================================================================
=====================================================================
------------------------------
From: Carlo Trobia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOWTO Backup onto HP DAT Tapedrive ?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 08:58:47 +0100
Hi,
Anyone tested a good DAT drive on the RedHat 5.x recently ?
Any brand and model to propose?
Thanks for your help.
Carlo Trobia
------------------------------
From: Mark Trawczynski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Genius GF100TXR (Realtek RTL8139 Based)
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 19:38:57 -0500
==============63626F764990E2ACBEB3AF3A
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Ive got the card and am running RedHat 5.2. You need NASA driver
mentioned. If you have RH or similar that can use the RPM he has a
compiled. if not he has the souce and you can complie it... Good luck
Blaine Lupulack wrote:
> prider wrote:
>
>> I picked up some 10/100 network cards. Windows NT recognizes them as
>>
>> Realtek RTL8139 based PCI fast Ethernet Adapter. Has anyone a
>> success
>> story involving Linux and these cards? If so, please point me in the
>>
>> right direction I'd really like to get these cards working.
>>
>> regards,
>> Paul J. Rider.
>
> If these are the cards I think they are, ( combo cards, 10/100,
> RTL8029 ), then they work just fine! ( Windows recognized them as a
> slightly different variety, but they worked ) And we got them for ~$28
> each.
>
> We had 20+ of these in our computer lab. To get them to work under
> linux, just compile your kernel with :
>
> Other Isa cards
> ne2000/1000
>
> They're an ne2000 clone, and work just fine.
>
> --
> Blaine Lupulack
> Quesnel, BC, Canada
> ---
> And remember kids, Cheese is Murder!
>
>
==============63626F764990E2ACBEB3AF3A
Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Ive got the card and am running RedHat 5.2. You need NASA driver mentioned.
If you have RH or similar that can use the RPM he has a compiled. if not
he has the souce and you can complie it... Good luck
<p>Blaine Lupulack wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>prider wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I picked up some 10/100 network cards. Windows NT
recognizes them as
<br>Realtek RTL8139 based PCI fast Ethernet Adapter. Has anyone a success
<br>story involving Linux and these cards? If so, please point me in the
<br>right direction I'd really like to get these cards working.
<p> regards,
<br>
Paul J. Rider.</blockquote>
If these are the cards I think they are, ( combo cards, 10/100, RTL8029
), then they work just fine! ( Windows recognized them as a slightly different
variety, but they worked ) And we got them for ~$28 each.
<p>We had 20+ of these in our computer lab. To get them to work under linux,
just compile your kernel with :
<p>Other Isa cards
<br>ne2000/1000
<p>They're an ne2000 clone, and work just fine.
<pre>--
Blaine Lupulack
Quesnel, BC, Canada
---
And remember kids, Cheese is Murder!</pre>
</blockquote>
</html>
==============63626F764990E2ACBEB3AF3A==
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Art)
Subject: Re: Compaq Prosignia (NCR 53c710) EISA PC server and Linux - HELP!
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 01:15:04 GMT
Steven,
The problem is that the current NCR SCSI driver does NOT support EISA
which is needed for that controller. The embedded NIC should work fine
with the pcnet32 driver.
Maybe someone would be willing to update the NCR SCSI driver with
EISA support!!!
Short of that, you will probably have to get ahold of an ISA Adaptec
controller that's supported.
Art
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 13:04:21 +0000, "Steven Freegard"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I was given an old Compaq Prosignia 486DX2/66 PC server that my IT
>department recently de-commisioned and I really want to run Linux on it,
>the trouble is that Linux will not recognise the SCSI adapter on the
>motherboard, it is an NCR 53c710 chip, it works fine under DOS and Win95
>and Novell 4.11.
>
>Windoze95 reports the following setup in the Device Manager:
>
>+ SCSI Controllers
> + Compaq integrated 32-bit Fast-SCSI-2 controller
>
>Resources:
>
>Input/Output range: 8000-801F
>Interrupt: 15
>
>I really want to put RedHat Linux 5.1 on this machine but I've just about
>tried everything.
>
>Someone please help!
>
>Thanks in advance
>Merry Christmas
>
>
>Steven Freegard
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
