Linux-Hardware Digest #342, Volume #9 Wed, 3 Feb 99 04:13:32 EST
Contents:
Re: To all ATI Owners !!! (Mark Cooperstein)
Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news! (Colin Smith)
A delni as a hub (Joe Linington)
Re: System Commander Deluxe ????? (Ken)
Re: X11 and Banshe (Wouter de Waard)
Re: CS4236 Soundchip (Erik Olson)
Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux on the Lifebook 270dx (Kyle Fink)
Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals) (Bob Rubendunst)
Re: BH6 Mainboard and "LI" boot problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tyan S1833D - Need help accessing memory > 64M ("JAMES M. CLARK")
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Luca Filipozzi)
Re: zoom 56k pci dualmode modem (model 2925) (J. P.)
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Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Cooperstein)
Subject: Re: To all ATI Owners !!!
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:36:34 GMT
The difference is that your board uses the ATI Rage Pro turbo chipset which
is backwards compatible with the Mach 64; the Mach 64 is a much older ATI
chip. ATI has been very reluctant to give out any information on how their
chips work claiming that its "proprietary" information available only if you
want to pay a (rather large) license fee to develop drivers for. This policy
goes against the philosophy that Linux is built upon. Frankly, I think that
any hardware vendor that adheres to such a policy may be shooting themselves
in the foot, as ulimately if drivers were available to the Linux community,
more product (ATI) would be sold. Anyway, the Mach64 X server works ok for
most all ATI stuff, but it doesnt take advantage of the newer 3D features that
are built into their graphics accelerators.
A couple years ago, you could get NO X11 support for ATI with Linux. I had to
use the generic VGA server for my ATI card. I suppose I should be thankful
for the Mach64 server, as it's better then nothing.
Mark
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Chilly Willy) wrote:
>I don't know what exactly your discussing but I have an 8MB ATI
>XpertPlay AGP video card. I set it up in XF86Setup as the Mach 64
>family and it works great. No problems whatsoever. This is with
>RedHat 5.1 and 5.2.
>
>
>
>On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 00:27:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Pedro)
>you spoke these great words:
>
>>On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:59:56 -0500, "binaryhead"
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> As we all know ATI is a pretty good and popular video card. They have
>>>excelent drivers for M$ products.
>>> BUT they will not release information how to take advantage of the 3D
>>>acceleration for Linux.
>>
>>YasHC (Yet Another Shrunken Head Company), I think.
>>
>>...of course another chapter from the still unwritten ' support-Howto'
>>
>>But on the other hand: There is an OpenGL-Driver for the ATI Card I
>>own..... (..but only for Windows NT, not for Windows 9xx)
>>
>>...some kind of braindead, ehhh ?
>
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From: Colin Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux apps in win2000 port news!
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 20:24:48 +0000
M Sweger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just saw on the biz wire that a company http://www.interix.com has
> developed a 64 bit application that runs a a unix/linux emulator within
> the MSoft Win2000 (NT5.0) platform environment. They want alot of
> Linux apps ported to their API interface so that Unix runs within Windows.
> Seems kind of ironic since Linux is trying to run Windows apps in Unix;
> but we don't have the source code to their stuff, but they have ours.
> Hmmm! seems like there isn't any competition again. Msoft is supporting them
> though.
>
Hmmm....... Yes lets spend lots of money to run our Linux applications inside an
emulator on Windows NT rather than on Linux...........
Doh.....
Why bother?
>
> They have a limited list of things they want ported such as gcc (all compilers and
>assemblers) and emacs and Tex to name a few. You have 2.5 months to do it
> by -- they end of January 1999. Anything else is nice but they won't pay for.
> Those they'd like you to port will only pay a maximum of $1000 to a cheap
> payment of $500. They didn't mention [conveniently] that they would like the
> linux kernel or Sunos x86 kernel etc to run within the interix Win2000.
> The reason it was supposed to be done by the end of January 1999 (now past)
> is due to todays press release about this product.
>
> Hmmm! if you can't get the Unix software vendors to port their stuf from Unix
> to Window Nt, then make the Unix apps run within NT! In this way you can
> say that your OS is a engineering workstation.
>
> --
> Mike,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
|Colin Smith: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Windows 2000: |
|Linux: Delivers on the promises Microsoft make. | The Zeppelin of |
| http://www.linux.org/ | operating systems.|
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From: Joe Linington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: A delni as a hub
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 02:34:37 -0500
Is it possible to use a DELNI as a hub for a small ether net. I have 2
Novell NE-1000 network cards and a DELNI. I know that the actual purpose
of a DELNI is to act as a multi-port transiever from the main bus but
I would like to use it as a hub to make a small network to learn about
this wonderful technology. I recived the equipment and wiring (Thick
Transiever Cable) in a job lot and would am unable to invest in newer
technology right now. I have sucessfully configured the cards (Linux
recognizes them and ifconfig returns information about them) but I can't
getr the 2 computers talking to each other through the DELNI when
connected to ports 1 and 2. I get a time out message. I have also
recieved this same message using PLIP but I belieeve that this is due to
the low speed of the parralell port on the one computer. I need to
network the 2 computers under redhat 5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 in order to
install Linux on the 1 computer that does not have a large enough hard
drive to hold the installation and install it (I got Redhat 5.2 via FTP
but I still have all of the original packages)
The other option that I do have is to use some older ARCnet card with
RJ-11 TP cable but the installation boot disk does not have support for
ARCnet wich is beyond me because all ARCnet cards use the same driver.
If I could somehow boot off of a boot disk and then mount the
NFS filesystem through ARCnet and the install linux that would work. The
problem is that I have no idea how to invole the install program from
the command line. I also am not sure how to compile a Kernel and get
everything needed into a disk etc. I do not have any BNC cable, T's or
terminators or I would use these on any one of 3 types of interfaces.
ARCnet, Ethernet or good old Token ring. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thank you in advance. (please reply to email address as well as this is
cross posted)
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Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 23:49:54 -0800
From: Ken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,list.freebsd-questions
Subject: Re: System Commander Deluxe ?????
mrushton wrote:
>
> Has anyone used System Commander Deluxe ????
>
> My new plan is to use System Commader Deluxe to load on either Linux
> or FreeBSD or both onto my Dell Dimension XPS 300.
>
-- snip --
Hi,
System Commander is nice, but for what you want to do, the regular
edition is ok and you will save about $20. Actually, lilo or the boot
manager that comes with FreeBSD will probably do what you want for
free, only without the printed documentation that System Commander
comes with... and SC _does_ make it very easy to setup a multibooting
system.
Ken
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From: Wouter de Waard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X11 and Banshe
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:42:40 +0100
Daniele wrote:
> Is there any way to use my 3DFX Banshee video card with X11.
> I tried to find a video driver but it seems that this chipset is not
> supported.
> I can only use it in "VGA standard" at 640x480 x 16 colors....
>
> I just installed the RedHat 5.2 but it didn't solve any problem.
>
> Is there anybody who can help me?????
>
> thanks.....!!!!!
>
> Daniele [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Look at www.linux3d.org This guy (i forgot his name) is busy writing a
driver. His preliminary drivers work well enough for my Monster 3d
Fusion. OK they hang up your system exiting but who cares. Now i can
start learning Linux
success
Wouter
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From: Erik Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CS4236 Soundchip
Date: 02 Feb 1999 20:53:38 GMT
jpvisser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to get my soundcard working, everything sounds good
> when booting the speakers give a "bop" -sound and when I type cat
> /dev/sndstat
> it gives all the information, so far so good, but when I send a
> soundfile (WAV) to
> the audio device I get an error (Can't write to /dev/audio)
> This is my configuration:
> Installed drivers:
> Type 21: CS4232
> Type 22: CS4232 MIDI
> Card config:
> (CS4232 MIDI at 0x330 irq 9 drq 0)
> CS4232 at 0x538 irq 11 drq 3,0
Does MIDI work for you?
What board are you using?
Is the audio Plug and Play?
Tell us more.
If your CS4236 is integrated on the Intel Seattle motherboard
then an IO address is wrong as are the IRQs. If the CS4236 is on
something else then I don't know.
Check out this page on "Linux sound setup for the SE440BX motherboard":
http://www.best.com/~eriko/www/linux/SE440BX_sound_setup.html
It might have something that is helpful to you.
good luck,
erik olson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:09:34 GMT
Hi,
I also have a 3c905b on my PC and installed RH 5.2 and got your error message
"FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF", but that was only temporary.
I have Winnt, Win95, DOS and Linux on the same machine, I found if I wanted to
start Linux, I better shut off the machine completely instead of hitting
CTRL-ALT-DEL and it seems to work as Linux started up fine and able to talk to
the inside/outside world. Hope this might help
Brian
In article <780rdi$t88$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm setting up Linux on a friend's computer here at college and I'm running
> into trouble with his 3c905b Ethernet card. I installed from a CD of the
> Linux-Mandrake distribution (http://www.linux-mandrake.com/) which is
> basically RedHat 5.2 with KDE. I used the ISO image that they have available
> for download and burned a few CD's with it, and it was one of those CD's I
> was using for the installation. It's got kernel version 2.0.36. Well, all
> went well until the post-installation boot. The *first* time, the boot
> messages said "eth0: 3c59x.c [yada yada yada] MAC address" (Sorry, I don't
> remember what the MAC address was.) It was the correct MAC address, too. But
> the DHCP request failed, so we were unable to connect to the local network
> and thus out to the Internet. We rebooted into Windows 98 to test the card
> and all was fine: Win98's DHCP client properly obtained a valid IP address
> and Internet connectivity was there. So I rebooted into Linux again, and THIS
> time the MAC address reported by the 3c59x driver was "ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff"!
> Multiple reboots produced the same result each time: Win 98 got the right MAC
> address and was able to obtain an IP and talk to the network, Linux continued
> to see ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as the MAC address. :-(
>
> This is the first person I've managed to persuade to try Linux, so naturally
> I want to make it work, or Linux might get a bad name on my dorm floor. And I
> don't want that... :-) So: does anyone have any prior experience with 3Com
> cards behaving in this way? Should I upgrade to a development kernel, give
> him a different distribution, or tell him to change network cards? Any and
> all advice appreciated.
>
> TIA.
>
> --
> Robin Munn (Legal name: Robert A. Munn)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Kyle Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.laptops,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on the Lifebook 270dx
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 15:36:50 -0700
If you are interested in a commercial solution, Xi Graphics'
Accelerated-X Display Server supports the Lifebook 270dx in all modes
and resolutions fully hardware accelerated, e.g. 1024x768x24bpp. The
Accelerated-X is 2 times the performance of any other X server offered.
Install and setup are very easy. It takes about 10 minutes. Try our
free demo at: http://www.xig.com/support/demo2.html.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kyle
Erin Thomas wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Linux on a Lifebook 270dx, and while I have
> been able to get X windows to run on the display in 800x600,
> the display is a bit choppy and full of wavy lines, I'm guessing
> I'm not using the correct vertical refresh rate, or horrizontal
> frequency setting, and for fear of damaging the already crumby
> LCD display I've opted to use the CLI interface until I'm able
> to get some further information.
>
> Using the SVGA driver, Options set are "noaccel", and
> "no_stretch". Other than the wavey, choppy display, everything
> seems to be working fine.
>
> Any feedback is appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --------EAT
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From: Bob Rubendunst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.sys.hp.hpux
Subject: Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals)
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 15:24:11 -0600
Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> It was the Sun, 31 Jan 1999 17:05:46 -0500...
> ..and Richard S. Shuford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > At the instant enumerated as 19:53:04 GMT on 30 January A.D. 1999,
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > i am also lookiing for some terminals to play around in linux with
> > > if there are any to be had for cheap please let me know.
> > The advent of Linux and other low-cost Unix variants has
> > rekindled interest, among computer tinkerers, in character-
> > cell serial video terminals.
>
> Is there any shop still *making* them? What is the state of the art?
Sure. http://www.wyse.com/terminal/
I don't know about state of the art. Wyse terminals were always kinda
slow...
Most libraries I've visited in the last five years uses Wyse terminals
in their circulation departments. I'm sure a few will still use 'em in
2004...
--
-Bob Rubendunst
Soft Machines
Autolog Communications software for AIX, AMOS, DOS, Windows, and SCO
Unix
Phone: (217) 351-7199 Fax: (217) 351-2629
http://www.softm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: BH6 Mainboard and "LI" boot problem
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 00:12:43 -0800
Dave Atkins wrote:
> Let me know if you ever get it to work reliably. I've gone through 8
> motherboards now and it seems like I never get the same results twice.
> I now have three Tyan boards. One boots fine, the other two go into
> infinite loops rebooting. I used to get your error too and someone told
> me to use fdisk to mark the first partition as bootable and that seemed
> to fix the problem...but now, I am back to square one again.
>
> One board was working fine until I put the cover back on. I am about to
> go insane trying to get this crap to work.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hello All,
> > I am trying to migrated my working Linux system from a FIC-2007 to a BH6
> > motherboard with a Celeron processor.
> > I can't get it to boot into Linux as it did before.
> > I got a new 8Gig dirve and did a new install
> > of Linux. Everything worked OK until I went to boot.
> > It reports "No active partition on HDD" .I then installed DOS-5.0 on the same
> > drive and it booted DOS OK.
> > Reinstalled Redhat 5.1. on drive.At bootup it stops at "LI".
> > Booted into Linux using tomsrtbt ok. Can mount the hard drive OK
> > and everything is there. run lilo to reinstall the boot record.
> > On bootup same problem "LI".
> > I've run out of ideas. Has anyone had problems with the BH6 Motherboards?
> > All suggestions welcomed.
> >
> > Thanks for your time.
> > Sam Kex
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Hi all;
I just assembled a new computer with a 10G IBM drive. It boots fine when the
disk is in LBA mode, but I get the "LI" problem if it's not in LBA mode. I tried
the 'linear' option, but it didn't work. Try setting, or unsetting as it may be,
the LBA mode in your BIOS and see if that helps. Remember about the 1024 Cyl limit
IRT booting when partitioning your disk.
--
"By the time they had diminished from 50 to 8, the other dwarves began
to suspect 'Hungry' ..."
-- Gary Larson, "The Far Side"
aTdHvAaNnKcSe >THANKS 'in' advance<
Michael A. Irons
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ:9286466
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From: "JAMES M. CLARK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tyan S1833D - Need help accessing memory > 64M
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 07:45:13 GMT
John Montgomery wrote:
> I have a Gateway E5200 with a Tyan S1833D motherboard, apparently
> similar to the S1832DL. This machine has 2 PII-350's and 256MB of
> memory. RedHat 5.2 installs fine but I can't access memory above 64MB.
> I have tried passing "mem=nnnM" to the kernel when booting, but this
> does not help. I have used both the 2.0.36 and 2.2.0-pre9 kernels with
> equal lack of success. I would be grateful for any assistance.
>
> John Montgomery
JC wrote:
I hope this helps .. I have exactly the same problem, with a
ASUS TX97-L motherboard with 128 Megs ram, ((2) 64m dimms)
but Winsh.. AND linux will only recognize 64M ???
--
JAMES CLARK
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(-C-I-S-)-Crystal Information Soulutions-(-C-I-S-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luca Filipozzi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 00:32:29 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Bob> having windows. I have heard in newsgroups that GTE has
> Bob> terminated ADSL service when they found out somebody was
> Bob> running linux.
>
> Probably true and justified since they tell you up front that Windows
> is required (at least, the signup information I have seen stipulates
> as much). If you want to play games & not use Windows (after signing
> such a contract), that's fine but don't cry if you get caught.
Does the contract actually say the Windows is required? Or simply that it
is the only O/S supported?
My ADSL provider says I can use *nix but that they only support Windows
and Mac O/S. In other words, my problems are my own to fix.
Luca
--
Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. P.)
Subject: Re: zoom 56k pci dualmode modem (model 2925)
Date: 3 Feb 1999 00:04:51 -0800
On Tue, 02 Feb 1999 09:19:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anybody had any luck getting this sucker to work? I don't %believe%
>it's a winmodem, but linux doesn't seem willing to recognize it as a
>serial port. Any hints, based on experience or otherwise, will be
>greatly appreciated.
I've looked at ZOOMs WEB page
http://www.zoomtel.com/products/zoom-product-matrix-na.html
and there is that line in the Features column for the Model 2925:
. For Windows 95/98, NT 4.0 computers
But it could also be misleading because for Model 2919 they
specifically mention under the model designation itself that
it is DOS/Windows-only modem. They don't do that for 2925 which I
think is simply the internal version of their external 2949 modem.
With this external one I also had a hell of a time and had to return
two of them to the store: the first one for hardware failure (no tone)
the 2nd one for what seemed to be a bad driver under Win9x.
It was also using a Lucent chip set. Then I discovered the same
modem with Rockwell chip and that works fine, at least on Win98.
I have not installed Linux yet on this new PC (waiting for a 2.2
distribution), but I don't expect any problem on this external
modem. So I just didn't have any luck with the Lucent chip modems!
Does your modem work under Win9x, BTW?
Joe
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