Linux-Hardware Digest #177, Volume #9 Thu, 14 Jan 99 16:13:30 EST
Contents:
Re: Got Signal 11 with gcc while compiling the kernel (David Fox)
Re: Winmodem or no?? ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Sparc vs Intel ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Why PCI Modems are a GOOD thing ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Amd K6-2 300 : Got Signal 11 with GCC while comiling. (Peter F. Curran)
Digiboard C/X Host Adapter ("Bob")
Re: Linux-Router h�ngt sich auf (Raymond Doetjes)
miro MAGIC premium (Ralf Oelschlaegel)
Printing graphics? (root)
Re: Red Hat installation problem - newbie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Choosing a HP color printer (Jack Frillman)
will a diamond MX300 sound card work ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Marvel-TV (Stefano Casadei)
Re: Soundcard - ESS 1868 (Edmon)
hardware setup problems. (Robert Barrow)
Re: Thinkpad 755 MWave sound supported? (Jeff Tackett)
2.2 kernel: ttyS vs cua (Hugh McCurdy)
Re: Amd K6-2 300 : Got Signal 11 with GCC while comiling. (Andrew Congdon)
Re: Advice Needed... video card.. etc (Mark Paulus)
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Got Signal 11 with gcc while compiling the kernel
Date: 14 Jan 1999 06:01:51 -0800
Serveur Web CyberMaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But when I tried to make a new kernel I got fatal signal 11 or 'Illegal
> instruction' from the c compiler (RedHat or Debian). The compiling of
> the modutils-2.1.121 archive work.
Could be a hardware problem, probably memory. Look for the sig11 FAQ.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:18:38 -0600
>General comment:
>
>PCI Modem == Winmodem.
>
>If anyone has a counterindication to this rule, I'd love to hear it.
>
>Otherwise, from all the digging I've done, this seems to be true. If you
>want a "true hardware modem" that is 100% OS-independant, you've gotta go
>ISA (or 8-bit :-)
PCI merely is an interface. It's the chipset that makes it a Winmodem.
And, there is a model from Diamond that is PCI and is not a winmodem.
Another company called "multi" something also manufactures a real modem that
utilizes the PCI interface.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sparc vs Intel
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:40:54 -0600
>I am about to set up RedHat 5.2 and I have 2 options for hardware:
>a sparc station 20 with 2x75mhz HyperSparc processors, 96mb ram and approx
4gb
>hd for $2000, vs a Dell with 1 350mhz pentium II, 128mb ram and 8gb hard
disk,
>for $2100. the promise of more speed makes the Dell attractive, yet the
>sun's multiprocessing architecture could render that point moot. sun
boxes
>have been very reliable in my experience, but i've only known intel boxes
to
>act flaky when they run a MicroSloth OS. I guess I lean towards the Sun box
>but I may just be biased. thoughts? opinions? what would you do if you had
>someone else's $2K to spend on a box which had to be up 24x7 running secure
commerce?
>tia...
SMP doesn't mean mucho-better. Stick with the 350 Pentium II - a helluva
lot more processor power for the money. SPARC 20's are out-dated by far
(anywho).
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.modems,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Why PCI Modems are a GOOD thing
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 21:36:05 -0600
>>Multitech makes the only reported PCI "realmodem".
>A 120MB/s buss so that you can transfer 5K/s data? Can you say overkill?
Setting aside the fact that most PCI modems are winmodems for the time
being, let's see why it would be a great thing to have a nice wonderful TRUE
modem with a PCI interface.
Most motherboards nowadays come with approximately 4 PCI slots, 1 AGP slots,
and 2 ISA slots.
If we have an AGP video card, a PCI sound card, and a PCI modem (a typical
base configuration) - we have plenty of room for expansion. Eliminating the
ISA bus is an immediate performance increase. This is due to the inherent
design of the PCI bus. The ISA bus itself almost acts like a PCI "bus" - I
would venture to call it more like a PCI device. Once you have a device
sitting on the ISA bus is acts as a slug in the midst of all your fast
devices. Your system then has to poll that device every so often letting
the device know it's ready to transmit/receive data. An idle device does
this as well - robbing your system of clock cycles. This is the nature of
the ISA bus - and was "corrected" by the PCI bus.
Many magazine reviewers note that having no ISA devices in your system can
boost performance up to 10%. Every little bit counts, right?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran)
Subject: Re: Amd K6-2 300 : Got Signal 11 with GCC while comiling.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 14:31:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Benoit PLESSIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
I'm sorry, but it sounds like you've still got hardware
problems. The "Signal 11" message is what a process gets
when a hardware error occurs while it is running. This is
often because of a memory parity error.
Unless your hardware is stable, you won't have much luck.
Linux is less forgiving of hardware errors than Windows,
but that is because such errors are serious problems and
could lead to corrupted data.
If I were you I'd adjust my BIOS settings to their "power-
on defaults", which shuld be the least taking. If your
kernel compiles then, I'd try adjusting things back one
setting at a time until you find what is causing your
problem.
--
Peter F Curran
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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From: "Bob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digiboard C/X Host Adapter
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 12:01:44 -0500
Is anyone aware of a Linux driver for a Digiboard C/X EISA host adapter?
We are really in a bind to find something!
Thanks,
Bob
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From: Raymond Doetjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux-Router h�ngt sich auf
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:12:01 +0100
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This is a hradware problem with Compaqs. The new generation Deskpros does
the same. Th eproblem comes from the fact that it has a strange BIOS system.
NT and Novell even provide special drivers for Compaqs.
Raymond
Felix Schreiber wrote:
> Dabei hat alles auf Anhieb geklappt!
>
> Ich habe einen Compaq Prolinea mit 486/66, 24MB und SuSE Linux 5.3.
> Er dient als ISDN-Router f�r ein kleines Windows-NT Netzwerk. Die
> ISDN-Karte ist eine Creatix PnP.
>
> Eigentlich funktioniert alles. Ich kann von jedem Rechner aus den Router
>
> und Adressen im Internet anpingen. Ich kann auch auf jedem Client
> l�ngere
> Zeit im Internet surfen und Daten runterladen.
>
> Nur leider st�zt Linux regelm��ig, wenn ich gr��ere Dateien per FTP
> runterlade (so ab ca 3MB) ohne irgendeine Fehlermeldung ab. Das
> bedeutet,
> Linux reagiert nicht mehr auf die Maus, es reagiert nicht
> mehr auf die Tastatur und auf dem Bildschirm tut sich auch nichts mehr,
> au�er da� der Cursor ganznormal weiterblinkt.�ber das Netzwerk ist der
> Rechner dann auch nicht mehr zu erreichen. Das einzige was dann noch
> hilft,
> ist der Netz-Schalter.
> Leider kenne ich mich mit Linux noch nicht so gut aus und wei�
> deshalb nicht, in welchen Log-Dateien ich etwas �ber das Problem meines
> Routers finden k�nnte.
>
> Ich w�re dankbar f�r alle Ideen und Hinweise
> Felix
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From: Ralf Oelschlaegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: miro MAGIC premium
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:45:20 +0100
Hello,
does anyone know how to capture videos with a "miro MAGIC premium" card?
The framegrabberchip is a Philips SAA7111a. Is there a project to
video4linux? Thanks Ralf
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing graphics?
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:47:55 -0700
This maybe a dumb question but I'vg got to ask. I'm using RH5.1. How
do you print graphics and html pages. I have a HP dj400 and it prints
ascii files fine, but when I try to print from Netscape, the printer
prints "-r must be followed by <res> or <xres>x<yres>". I heard
ghostscript must be installed, so I did that and it still won't print
non-ascii files. Am I suppose to config certain files, have certain
packages installed, or am I just out of luck?
Thanks in advance,
a newbie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Red Hat installation problem - newbie
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 16:46:02 GMT
The usual solution to the 4-partition limitation is to define the
4th as an extended partition, within which additional partitions
can be defined. Your existing partitions are most likely /dev/hda1,
/dev/hda2, and /dev/hda3; the extended partition would occupy the
4th slot in the MBR partition table and its entries would be /dev/hda5,
/dev/hda6, etc.
I thought the Red Hat 5.1 "Disk Druid" program would take care of
this automatically. What version of Red Hat are you using?
In article <77jhf8$rk8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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 ...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Frillman)
Subject: Re: Choosing a HP color printer
Date: 14 Jan 1999 17:44:01 GMT
Brian D. May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Johan Pelgrim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: : I'm about to buy a color printer.
: : Since I have good experience with my HP Deskjet 500, I think it's going
: : to be a Hewlett Packard again.
: : I've heard some bad stories about windows-only printers and don't want
: : to make that mistake.
: : So has anyone good experiences with one of the following printers:
: : HP 420C
: : HP 670C
: : HP 710C
: : HP 720C
: : Which one is the best?
: I'm also looking for a printer to use with Linux. The HP models I've
: seen are: 672C, 695C/697C, 710C/712C, 720C/722C.
I have been using the 672C for 14 months now and it works fine.
I have even been printing Grey Scale and COLOR stuff from GIMP,
Netscape, Xephem and most recently Word Perfect 8.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: will a diamond MX300 sound card work ?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:43:33 -0800
will a diamond MX300 sound card work with Linux?
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From: Stefano Casadei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Marvel-TV
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:26:52 -0500
Hi, does the most recent version of Xfree86, 3.3.3.1, or any commercial
X driver for linux support the graphic capabilities of the Matrox
Marvel-TV
based on the G200 chip, with 16 MB of memory ?
Please reply also to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you
Stefano
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edmon)
Subject: Re: Soundcard - ESS 1868
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 18:13:54 GMT
In article <77fnlp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harold
Henry) wrote:
[Posted and mailed]
Well I had trouble with this card. I just used sndconfig utility that came
with REDHAT and it detected it with no problems !! Been sounding off ever
since !
I have it worked before, but when I tried to reinstalled the whole thing,
it didn't work. What configuration did you use? SoundBlaster 16,
what are the IRQ and DMA (with 8bits ans 16 bits respectively), is address
220? Thanks.
Edmon
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Edmon
Is Cao Cao a wicked man? That is only a novel, don't believe it.
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From: Robert Barrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hardware setup problems.
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:21:26 +0000
Hi I'm a newbie to linux and having just installed RedHat 5.1 I can't
figure out how to get my WinTV, SBLive and Voodoo2 cards configured. Can
anybody help me?
Robert Barrow AI Cogs sussex university
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From: Jeff Tackett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thinkpad 755 MWave sound supported?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 00:21:12 -0500
Do you have the MWave modem working? If so, HOW? I have tried to use my
MWave modem and it does not work.
PSchork wrote:
> Does anyone know if RH 5.2 supports MWave sound hardware in some of the
> older Thinkpads?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh McCurdy)
Subject: 2.2 kernel: ttyS vs cua
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 03:48:08 GMT
I was reading where the cua devices are now obsolete as of 2.2.x.
I'm puzzled as to why.
I know plenty of people who are using the cua ports because their direct
connect cable (to a dumb terminal) has only RD, TD and GND wired.
The ttyS ports do *not* work for these people with the 2.0.x kernel.
Specifically, agetty doesn't work. Also 'cat >/dev/ttyS0' doesn't work.
But 'cat >/dev/cua0' works great.
Does the new agetty have an option that will allow it to ignore?
I know there's a -L command, but that seems to only work properly
(in 2.0.x) with the cua ports.
I had a lot to do with talking these people from switching from a working
(but obsolete) Xenix system to a Linux system. Of course, if they stay
with the 2.0.x kernels, then they don't have a problem. But I don't
really want to have to recommend that to anyone once 2.2.x is released.
The Serial Howto still refers to cua ports. So that's not much help.
Anyone have any idea of what I can read or what I can tell people that
I recommended Linux to?
--
Hugh McCurdy
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From: Andrew Congdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amd K6-2 300 : Got Signal 11 with GCC while comiling.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:16:55 +1100
> What seems to work for me, at
> least at some multiplier/bus combos (details posted later) is bumping the
> core voltage up to its maximum recommended value of 2.4v.
I've two similar CPU M/B PC100 memory systems and found I could get them
reliable but running the K6-2 300 at 2.1v and the K6-2 350 at 2.3v!
--
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice Needed... video card.. etc
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 20:46:41 GMT
>From what I have heard and read, the nVidia TNT based
cards will perform on an equal par with the G200 in 2D
mode, will outperform it in 3D mode, and will outperform
a single VD2, and will almost keep up with 2 VD2s in
SLI mode, and image quality is great. (And it's one card,
so less expense). TNT is supported in XFree86 3.3.3 so
that is not a problem. Check out some reviews at
http://www.anandtech.com, http://www.tomshardware.com.
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:12:21, Gord Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I'm in the process of building a new machine and would like a little
> advice on some of the toys I can toss into the thing.
>
> I have an ASUS P2B motherboard with 4 PCI and 3 ISA slots in addition to
> the AGP.
>
> Video Card.
>
> I have been looking for a Matrox Millennium G200 AGP and SGRAM.
> No one in this neck of the woods seems to carry or can get one.
>
> Are there any other reccomendations as a suitable replacement to this IF
> I can't lay my hands on one. Something with similar performance and
> price.
>
> 3D Accelerators
>
> Considering a Creative Labs Voodoo2 . Yes/NO
> After all... I have to play once in a while.
>
> Ethernet Card
>
> Would like to stay with a well known brand even if it does cost a few
> extra pennies. It will be used for a Cable connection to the net and
> thats about it. So PCI/ISA concerns are not all that high ( I think ).
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but do the cable speeds really need a full PCI
> card. If they do, so be it.
>
> Sound
>
> I recently read a message about the Soundblaster Live! It seems that
> Creative will be looking into writing, or having written for them,
> drivers for Linux. I can hold out for a while with no sound waiting for
> this. Is there something better/similar that is already supported?
>
> SCSI Card
>
> Go with Adaptec? Or some other manufacturer. It will be used to drive a
> scanner, tape, CDROM burner and possibly a couple of other non critical
> devices.
>
> Hard Disks
>
> What should I stay away from? I have had a few WD caviars that died on
> me, so I'm not overly fond of them as you can imagine. I'll use IDE
> drives, getting SCSI drives here is almost unheard of, no stores carry
> them and those that will entertain the prospect of ordering them are not
> the speediest of places.
>
> That should about do it.
>
> Thank for the input.
>
> Gord
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