Linux-Hardware Digest #175, Volume #9 Thu, 14 Jan 99 06:13:40 EST
Contents:
Re: Will winmodems ever be supported?? (Russ Ross)
Re: Really weird problem with G200. (Kyle Fink)
Re: Which CPU to upgrade to? (Keith Rohrer)
Re: Compaq Prosignia (NCR 53c710) EISA PC server and Linux - HELP! (Rune Nordb�e
Skillingstad)
Re: X11 setup with STB Trio 64V+ and PanaSync E15 ("Nicholas Janzen")
I can't mount my ATAPI CDROM ("Happyguy")
Re: Linux for SGI Machines (Henry Wong)
Mac zip support for intel linux? (LewisGourlay)
Linux Dual Processor (Rafael Amer Ramon)
Q: Hercules Dynamite 3D/GL (Bernd Nies)
Re: video in XWindows -- Help! (Tabman)
Re: Linux and DDS3 Tape Drive (Michael Meissner)
Re: Eagle i740 Graphics card, campatable with Linux? ("karlo")
Re: Software RAID on a Pentium 233? (Kevin Mills)
Re: Philips HCS-80 dumb terminal (Martin von Weissenberg)
Voodoo Banshee (Dragon 4000) w/XFree86 ("Pat Gannon")
Red Hat installation problem - newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Russ Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Will winmodems ever be supported??
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:26:48 +0000
Michael Crump wrote:
> Is there any work in progress to add support for winmodems to linux??
>
> Thanks
>
> Michael
No. Winmodems do a lot of the processing using software (Windows
drivers) instead of hardware like normal modems. They are designed to
be cheap. Also, none of the manufacturers bother to publish any details
of how to interface with them, so no one can write Linux drivers for
them. If the details were published, I'm sure someone would write a
driver no matter how much the modems suck, but I'd recommend just
avoiding Winmodems, ever for use under Windows, because they use extra
CPU time.
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From: Kyle Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.questions,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,de.comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Really weird problem with G200.
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 13:36:16 -0700
If you are interested in a commercial X server, Xi Graphics supports the Matrox
G200 in all modes and resolutions fully hardware accelerated. Our benchmark put
the G200 at 41 Xmarks. That is the fastest graphics card X server combonation
it is about 2 times as fast as X free.
The X server has been tested using the X window test suite which is a free test
suite. Our X server passes.
Try our demo to see if the problems you are having disappear. The demo is at
http://www.xig.com/support/demo2.html.
Kyle
Tabman wrote:
> Hi folks.
>
> I have this really strange problem with my Millennium G200 running in Linux.
> The icons in Netscape Navigator ( the ones on the toolbar, etc. Even the
> Netscape icon in the top right corner ) are in black and white, but
> everything else is in perfect colour ! Even Navigator's start up page, which
> shows the Netscape logo, displays everything correctly ! No joke. It's just
> the icons.
>
> Also, when I play a MPEG in xanim, the MPEG is played in a screwed up way.
> It looks almost like playing a 4:2:2 Y'PrPb clip as though it were an RGB
> clip. That is to say, the clip is played as though xanim thinks the frames
> are larger than they actually are, and that the colourspace is RGB when it's
> in fact in Y'PrPb. As a result, the frames are tiled ( 3 frames
> side-by-side. The height seems OK, though ) , and show up in black and white
> with a very low resolution.
>
> I know the MPEG is OK because I run the same MPEG on my old machine, and
> it runs OK ( I mounted my new system's partition via NFS on my old machine,
> and then ran xanim with the version of the MPEG that's on the new system's
> partition. )
>
> Everything else is OK. JPEGs and XPMs show up perfectly.
>
> Here are my system specs:
>
> K6-2 350MHz
> ASUS P5A ( ATX with on-board audio )
> 64Meg Crucial PC100 CAS3 RAM
> Matrox Millenium G200 8Meg SGRAM
> RedHat 5.0 with X3.3.3 ( both the SuSe Matrox server and the Xfree86 SVGA
> server.)
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> 'later...
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| "If you make people think they are
> Tabman You may answer in | thinking, they will love you; if you
> english, french, german | make them think, they will hate you."
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Don Marquis
--
Check out Xi Graphics' performance marks:
http://www.xig.com/benchmarks/bmrk.index.html
Kyle Fink, Account Executive
Xi Graphics, Inc. 1801 Broadway Suite 1710, Denver, CO 80202 USA
Voice- Toll free: 1.800.946.7433, Worldwide: +1.303.298.7478
Fax- +1.303.298.1406
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Rohrer)
Subject: Re: Which CPU to upgrade to?
Date: 13 Jan 1999 17:57:39 -0600
In article <77i7ua$aat$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>John Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> I have a Intel Pentium 90 on a Intel Neptune mb that I bought 3 or 4 years
>> ago. I want to upgrade the CPU w/o swapping out the motherboard. Which CPU
>> should I upgrade to? I am interested in hearing about Intel, AMD, and Cyrix
>> (or any others) upgrades. Also, I will be exclusively running Linux 2.0.36
>> and Linux 2.2 (when it comes out).
>
>> Which is the most bang for the buck? Are there any to stay away from? etc,
>> etc.
>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>
>I am the original poster of this thread. OK, I have decided, that since I
>have a socket 5 motherboard, that I will have to buy another motherboard, as
>well as, a new CPU. I have decided to get the Intel Celeron 300 and plan to
>overclock it to 450.
>
>Now, I am asking about motherboards. I really like ASUS, but didn't see one
>that fits my needs. Right now, I have
>
>4 PCI devices: video, network, scsi, tv tuner.
>2 ISA devices: modem, sound
>
>Eventually, I would like to move to a PCI sound card. Also, it is unclear
>to me if I should go to AGP for video. At any rate, I would like to find a
>celeron mb, that has 5 pci, 1 agp, and 1 or 2 isa slots, and 4 dimms slots.
>Anyone know of a good manufactuer/model? Also, I am trying to keep the cost
>down.
I would've recommended the ABIT BH6, but that's an ATX form factor. However,
I'm looking at it myself as it does have 5 PCI slots plus AGP. It has "only"
3 DIMM slots AFAIK...but if you actually intend to fill more than 1 dimm
slot at this time, you can afford a new ATX case and power supply (or you
have a cheap source of 32M dimms...).
Don't forget, you always have a "shared" slot, so migrating all your cards
to this new board will fill up everything but the AGP slot...the fifth
PCI slot will be empty but the bracket space will be taken up by that
second ISA card.
Keith
--
"Well, look at that. The sun's | Linux: http://www.linuxhq.com |"Zooty,
coming up." -- John Sheridan, | KDE: http://www.kde.org | zoot
"Sleeping in Light", Babylon 5 | Keith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | zoot!"
www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html | http://www.enteract.com/~kwrohrer | --Rebo
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From: Rune Nordb�e Skillingstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq Prosignia (NCR 53c710) EISA PC server and Linux - HELP!
Date: 14 Jan 1999 09:53:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Art) writes:
>
> 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.
We have a Compaq Proliant 2000 P90 here that we would like to turn into a
Linux server. But that box has a NCR53c710 EISA SCSI controller.
It seems like we either have to scrap the box or write the driver ourself.
Has anyone done any work on trying to write a driver for it? If so, we
would be glad to hear from you.
Rune N. Skillingstad
RADAR Software AS
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From: "Nicholas Janzen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X11 setup with STB Trio 64V+ and PanaSync E15
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.x.video
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:57:01 GMT
i can only get mine into 320x200, in SVGA mode, and up to 640x480 in VGA16
mode, so you think you have a problem!
Paul M. Whitney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<Qqam2.14630$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I have a Panasonic E15 Panasync monitor with 30-61 Horizontal and 50-90
> Vertical. Yet I cannot get a match to get my X windows work at 800x600
or
> above. I have 640x480 but that blows! Can someone tell me how to
improve
> my resolution. I am running RedHat 5.2. Solaris 2.6 figures out my
> devices, but Linux is not helping. I have used a lower refresh rate and
> managed to run xvidtune and get 1024x768 to somewhat work ok. But not
sure
> how to store the xvidtune settings. Any help in this will be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Paul Whitney
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: "Happyguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I can't mount my ATAPI CDROM
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:42:08 +0800
I have a 24X second-ide-master ATAPI cdrom ,I installed redhat5.1 from
it(boot with it and install),
when I reboot ,a message shown below appeared:
hdc: No response.
In linux,I can not manualy mount it too. why?
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From: Henry Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux for SGI Machines
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:31:20 -0500
Kenny Melton wrote:
>
> Well, I was really hoping more for an answer to the "is it worth it?"
> question. Thanks though.
>
> Kenny Melton
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> , Chuck Tuffli
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > i think the site is http://www.linux.sgi.com but it don't seem to be
> > able to acess it right now.
IRIX is the SGI implementation of USL UNIX. It is very complete if you get
all the pieces. However, theres the catch; you have to get all the pieces.
As with all commercial versions of UNIX these days, the "whole thing" comes
in many, many component pieces so that users can buy only the pieces they
feel they need. Of course, you also don't get source code :-(. But they
have some nice graphics demos.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LewisGourlay)
Subject: Mac zip support for intel linux?
Date: 14 Jan 1999 09:35:15 GMT
Is there any program that will read/write mac zips or a recent kernel that
supports mac filesystems?
I'm not allowed to use PC format zips in our Uni macs.
I have bought MacSee for dos and windows, but it is soooo slow and crashes
quite frequently.
Alternatively does anyone know whether macs will read any of the Linux
formats? (I'd then have to find out whether I'd be allowed to put them in
the drives, of course.)
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From: Rafael Amer Ramon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Dual Processor
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 10:49:38 +0100
Hi.
I have a Dual Pentium with the following configuration:
Motherboard: ASUS P2B-DS ACPI BIOS Revision 1006
CPU: 2 Pentium II MMX 400 Mhz
Gaphic Card: Matrox Millenium G200
Hard disk: QUANTUM VIKING II 9.1WLS Rev: 4110
RAM: 256 Mb
Linux: Slackware 3.6
Complier: gcc 2.7.2.3
The systenm runs fine with a kernel with SMP disabled (kernel
versions 2.0.36, 2.1.131 and 2.2.0-pre6), but if I enable the =
SMP option and the system runs with the two processors, =
the system starts correctly and crashes at random time, no matter =
the kernel version I use.
For exemple I can't compile XEmacs or Xfree86, the system crashes
after a few moments. In one of those crashes, the system printed the
message:
stuck on TLB IPI wait (CPU #1) =
Does anybody knows how I can solve this problem.
Thanks.
--
Rafael Amer Ramon
Departament de Matem=E0tica Aplicada II
Universitat Polit=E8cnica de Catalunya =
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bernd Nies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Q: Hercules Dynamite 3D/GL
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:45:09 +0100
Hi,
Any success with running a Hercules Dynamite 3D/GL
video card on RedHat Linux 5.1 with XFree86 3.3.3?
This card needs the XF86_3DLabs X server. I was able
to configure and launch X with 16 bpp but the X server
slows down my system.
Is help out there? Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Bernd
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tabman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: video in XWindows -- Help!
Date: 14 Jan 1999 01:09:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 12 Jan 1999 21:30:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 6 Jan 1999 15:21:28 GMT, Michael Humphries-Dolnick
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >In article <c%Ui2.1652$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> >writes:
>>
>
>>
>> Hi Michael.
>
>I wasn't asking the question, I was answering his. Check the quotes.
Ooops. I missed travisj's header. Sorry.
'later...
--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| "If you make people think they are
Tabman You may answer in | thinking, they will love you; if you
english, french, german | make them think, they will hate you."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Don Marquis
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and DDS3 Tape Drive
Date: 13 Jan 1999 19:33:57 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated.
> thank you
A couple of 'obvious' things to check:
1) If you built the kernel, did you configure scsi tape support?
2) If you have the tape support compiled as a module, is the module
loaded? Check with lsmod. If it isn't loaded, you might need to load
it by hand with 'insmod st' in the startup scripts.
3) Do you have the '/dev/st0' tape device node created? If not, you might
need to: 'cd /dev; ./MAKEDEV st0'
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions (Massachusetts office)
4th floor, 955 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
[EMAIL PROTECTED], 617-354-5416 (office), 617-354-7161 (fax)
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From: "karlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eagle i740 Graphics card, campatable with Linux?
Date: 13 Jan 1999 00:59:15 GMT
I also need the same info, but I have already purchased the i740. But
haven't had the time to try it out yet. I think I have heard in this NG
that it is supported in xfree863.3.3.3
karlo
Nick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<77efou$b6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Hi,
>
> I need to know if the eagle i740 graphics card is compatable with Linux,
I
> intend to buy a graphics card within the next day or two so I need a
good,
> inexpensive graphics card good for both Linux and Windows as well as good
> for a few games.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Nick
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Mills)
Subject: Re: Software RAID on a Pentium 233?
Date: 14 Jan 1999 00:01:32 GMT
In article <77ges4$mn0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>The secondary processor won't necessary do much good in this case. What
>would _really_ help is if you had a really nice speedy primary processor and
>a really nice speedy video card.
Hmmm... So a single K6-2 400 processor will give me more 'bang for the buck'
than a dual Pentium 233? Interesting... I had thought that the dual set up
would allow the file serving and the local processing (X, etc.) to occur in a
more simultaneous fashion giving me and the network users better performance.
Is this not true? If not, is this due to Linux's SMP scheduling? Or is this
mostly true for any OS?
Thanks!
--
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From: Martin von Weissenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Philips HCS-80 dumb terminal
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:18:58 +0200
Raj Rijhwani wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Martin von Weissenberg" writes:
>
> > function keys ("Local/Line", "Fnct", etc.). The product label on the
> > bottom states: HCS 80/14, Terminal Telematique, Mode 1 Videotex CEPT
> > (Profil 2) 25L-40C, Mode 2 ASCII (ISO 20 22 ISO 64 29) 25L-80C.
>
> It sounds like it's a Videotex/Viewdata terminal. Probably won't serve
> you much purpose on a Linux system.
I'm not so sure about that... after all, it has an ASCII mode and
something that *could* be a serial connector. If I only can find a
15-pin serial connector pinout somewhere on the net, I'll build a cable
and see what happens.
--Martin
Martin von Weissenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.hut.fi/~mweissen
WOKING, n.: Standing in the kitchen wondering what you came in here for.
(DA)
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From: "Pat Gannon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Banshee (Dragon 4000) w/XFree86
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 17:44:02 -0800
I have a Dragon 4000 video card which claims that it is fully compatible
with Voodoo 3D, Voodoo Rush, and Voodoo 2.
I have been unable to get it to successfully run in SVGA mode under
XWindows. In VGA mode it seems to work, but that resolution is too low for
many applications. Even at the lowest resolution/refresh rates and no chip
set specified it will not load up even the initial black and white screen
(it blacks out).
Has anyone been able to get a Voodoo Banshee card to work under XWindows?
If so I would be interested to find out how or where I could find a driver,
or if there are XWindows options that I must set to get it to run correctly.
I am running Red Hat Linux 5.2 and the graphics performance of XWindows is
somewhat unimportant to me as long as I can run the applications that I need
(including linuxconf - which I can't get to run!)
Thanks in advance for any information or pointers that anyone can provide me
with.
- Pat Gannon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Red Hat installation problem - newbie
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 01:32:23 GMT
I am currently battling to install Linux on my laptop. Due to current
business/ support applications, I need to be able to dual boot Windows 98 and
NT - I would like to also be able to boot Linux. In order to do the above I
have a small DOS partition, I am informed that I need this because NT can't
read the Windows 98 FAT 32 filesystem and Windows 98 can't read an NTFS.
When I try to partition my disk for Linux, it only lets me add one other
partition, 3Gb in size, which I thought would be great for my Linux area. But
apparently Linux wants a swap partition as well, and for some reason my system
won't let me have more than four, [C: for DOS, d: for Win98, e: for NT 4.0, /
for Linux]. I have 128Mb of RAM and had planned on just using filesystem swap,
and hence would not need an additional swap partition. Are there any solutions
or do I go Linux-less or trash my machine.
Thanks in advance (hopefully),
David
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