Linux-Hardware Digest #349, Volume #9 Wed, 3 Feb 99 19:13:45 EST
Contents:
Re: QuickCam VC USB (Eric Sandeen)
xwindow setup problem ("Alexander")
Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server ("Peter Stephen Drage")
Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals) (Bill Vermillion)
Re: Q: Yamaha 4416S CDR-RW Expereince (Shannon Hill)
kernel 2.2.1-ac1(2) with qlogic Fibre Channel Driver (Seth Mason)
Re: Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem? (James Lothian)
Re: Where to spend more money to speed up file server? (Alan Schunemann)
can't mount msdos drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
check this out... (Max Lock)
Re: Q: Yamaha 4416S CDR-RW Expereince (Alex Taylor)
Modem Question MT5634ZPX-PCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Modem help MT5634ZPX-PCI ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
EPSON Stylus COLOR 850, does uniprint support it? (Lev Tarasoff)
video card upgrade? ("Bill Jones")
can't get modem to work (Superstar)
Re: HELP - Installing Network Card (Jim Harper)
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From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: QuickCam VC USB
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:04:04 -0600
USB support is in very preliminary stages, check out
http://www.nv.org/linux/USB/
I doubt that your camera is supported yet, but take a look...
Ruben Orduz wrote:
> Does anyone know how to setup a QuickCam USB in RedHat 5.2 ?
>
> Ruben
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From: "Alexander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,apana.lists.os.linux.redhat,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux,hk.comp.os.unix,hk.comp.software,hk.ge
Subject: xwindow setup problem
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 00:32:40 +0800
i was using REDHAT 5.2 with a SIS6326 display card
i also download the following file
XFree86-SVGA-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-XF86Setup-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
zgv-3_0-6_i386.rpm
XFree86-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-VGA16-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-libs-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-100dpi-fonts-3_3_3-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-cyrillic-fonts-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
svgalib-1_3_0-3_i386.rpm
XFree86-75dpi-fonts-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
libc-5_3_12-28_i386.rpm
svgalib-devel-1_3_0-3_i386.rpm
Xconfigurator-3_89-1_i386.rpm
XFree86-xfs-3_3_3_1-1_i386.rpm
command : > rpm -Uvh ___(the filename)___
i can see the display card name SIS6326 in the display card listing
after setup i also cannot to start the Xwindow
anybody can help me? Pls email me or drop a reply.
Urgent, thx (sorry for cross post)
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From: "Peter Stephen Drage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 23:07:12 -0000
I am going to be using it for development, my external site is hosted on a
linux server and I want to mirror this at home, so that I can develop
scripts and test them with out the need to be online.
Regards
Peter
Lewis Foti wrote in message <7983m9$a2u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Have you any idea of the level of traffic you are going to get? This is
>probably the most important question to ask when selecting the hardware for
>a web server. Depending on the content of your site, the type of
application
>it has to support, and the number of concurrent users the hardware you
>describe will possibly be too small, just right or too big. To put it
>another way a bit more information would be useful...;-)
>
>Peter Stephen Drage wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Hi there folks
>>
>>I am looking to put together a Linux machine for home use as a web server.
>>After many years lost in the Windows NT wilderness, I have discovered
there
>>is an alternative.
>>
>>I will be running Redhat Linux 5.2 and was wondering what spec machine I
>>should be looking at. I was thinking something along the lines of AMD
K6-2
>>400MHZ with 128 / 256 MB RAM and a 6.4GB Hard Drive.
>>
>>Is this too much, too little or just right, I would appreciate any help
>>offered.
>>
>>Regards
>>Peter Drage
>>
>>
>
>
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Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer,comp.sys.hp.hpux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Vermillion)
Subject: Re: Terminals (sources of used terminals)
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:25:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bob Rubendunst
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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:
>> > > ~ 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...
There's not a lot to be called state-of-the-art in terminals. :-)
Wyse terminals - depending on model - can be slow or fast.
The Wyse50 was always faster than the Wyse60. The latter was much
like the former, but while stopping short of having a temrinal
emulation for every entry in the standard termcap file, the amount
of emulations and the options made it run far slower. You don't
typically find bloatware burned into firmware.
The 160 was a pretty decent fast terminal. It also will permit
two active sessions at one with it's 2 serial prots and 1 parallel
port.
One of the niftiest of the character terminals was the Link MC-10.
The concept was wonderful, the implementation was about the worst
of any I've seen.
One 'neat' feature is that you could cut and paste inside the
terminal. By that I mean that if you logged onto one system, you
could postion the cursor and area to be cut, and then move to the
other terminal emulation and paste it into that session. Made
moving things between differing systems easy.
However - avoid them at all costs. I still have one in a box
packed away somewhere after it made at least two trips back to the
factory.
Link 5's are ok. Last ones that I saw were $8 each with keyboard?
--
Bill Vermillion bv @ wjv.com
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From: Shannon Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Yamaha 4416S CDR-RW Expereince
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:42:39 -0500
Kyle B Ferrio wrote:
>
> I'm considering the Yamaha 4416S.
> I'd like to know what experience
> people have had using this burner
> under Linux.
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
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The SCSI version works great; had to download
an update to EZ-CD Creator to have it recognized.
Works fine with cdrecord under RH5.2 on my adaptec 3940.
Computability is selling it for 389; there might be
better prices now, though.
================================================
Shannon Hill
Tenor Networks, Inc.
50 Nagog Park
Acton, MA 01720
Ph: 978-264-4900
Fx: 978-264-0678
Em: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Seth Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel
Subject: kernel 2.2.1-ac1(2) with qlogic Fibre Channel Driver
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 14:35:26 -0800
I've noticed some interesting problems with the qlogic fibre channel
driver contained within the 2.2.1-ac1 (or ac2) patch:
-If the FC adapter is connected to a hub, and nothing else is attached
to the hub, the module loads fine. (Tho, I cannot find a /dev entry for
the device). At this point I can plug a FC disk subsystem into the hub
(it presents LUNs to an OS), the linux adapter registers that a LIP has
occured. But no additional devices (LUNs) have been created on the
linux side to represent the LUNs that are presented by the disk
subsystem. (Is there a manual way to get linux to rescan the scsi
devices for additional luns?)
-If I load the module, while the disk subsystem is attached to the hub,
I end up with a stack dump resulting in a kernel panic. (Hints on
debugging this would be greatly appreciated). OR If i rmmod the module
while the disk subsystem is on the loop, I end up with the same stack
dump.
-I can successfully load the module while another host (NT4.0 with an
emulex FC adapter installed) is attached to the hub. I'm also able to
unload the module in this same setup with no problems.
Other notes:
Whenever I plug or unplug a device into the hub after the module has
been loaded, the Linux system correctly identifies that a LIP has taken
place.
_Any_ Help would be greatly appreciated...
-Seth
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From: James Lothian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem?
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:33:59 +0000
I've just bought one of these, unfortunately, and although I haven't
tried it with Linux yet, I'm almost sure it's a winmodem (no discernible
rom on the board, loads lots of VXDs and godknowswhatelse on Windows).
Bugger bugger bugger.
James
arozhkov wrote:
>
> Eternal question: If Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 is winmodem or it can
> work with Linux?
>
> Alex Rozhkov.
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From: Alan Schunemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.servers,comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: Where to spend more money to speed up file server?
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 09:41:13 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob,
I'd be interested to hear about any benchmarks you've run using your
setup. I'm particularly interested in a full speed file write (>=50MB)
to your server from a switched 100base high powered client. I'd like to
compare that rate with the TTCP test real wire/network rate. Also, I'd
like to see a disk to disk copy on the server of the same file. This
would pull out the network bandwidth, server disk bandwidth and really
show where the bottleneck is (assuming writes are many times slower than
reads). Your server is clearly dealing with a 'flushing all the toilets'
(or real world) scenario but I'd be interested in a pure test to find
out what kind of overhead Samba incurs.
Thanks,
Alan
Bob Farmer wrote:
>
> I just recently started using a Samba server for our main application
> server here as a test. It handles 1000-1500 sessions at a time.
>
> The first bottleneck was software: Samba's user logins. They're slow.
> This is because Samba calls getpwnam() more than once for every user
> login, and on systems without a database for /etc/passwd (Linux glibc has
> support for an /etc/passwd db but I've never been able to get it working),
> this is very slow on systems with lots of users (like our 14000). Also if
> you're using "user" security w/ encrypted passwords, you have the same
> slow search through smbpasswd for each login (although only once). The
> logins slow everything down. I fixed this bottleneck by adding db support
> into Samba for those files. If you don't have thousands of users this
> probably won't be a problem for you.
>
> We're using a dual P2-350 with only one processor online (first I'm
> testing the stability of one processor before compiling an SMP kernel),
> two 9G Cheetah (Ultra/Wide) drives RAID0'ed together with Linux's md
> support, 100BaseTX (SMC EtherPower II), and 512MB RAM. For this many
> sessions, the 512MB is definitely needed. In fact, more might be good,
> cause there's not much left for the disk cache. I would say allocate 512K
> memory per user session (for Samba on Linux). The bottleneck at this
> point here is CPU, idle time often runs down to 0. Will have to see if
> that's cured when I enable the second processor...
>
> Bob
>
> >John Rowe wrote:
> >> I'm looking to set up a linux file server, primarily running samba
> >> 2.0, using s/w disk mirroring. My basic server would look like this:
> >>
> >> * 2x Pentium II 350 MHz
> >> * 256 MB 100 MHz ECC SDRAM
> >> * 8 x 9 GB IBM Ultrastar 9ES disk drives, mirrored, on 4 ultrawide
> >> scsi channels or 2 ultrawide + 1 ultra2.
> >> * A few 100 BaseT ethernet cards.
> >>
> >> Possible upgrades (# means UK pounds, about US$1.6 FWIW):
> >>
> >> +#200 400MHz Pentiums
> >> +#400 450MHz Pentiums
> >> +#300 (?) extra 256 MB RAM, 512 MB in total
> >>
> >> Disk drive RPM Seek Transfer rate
> >> +#0 Ultrastar 9ES 7200 7.5ms 108.6-171.1
> >> +#520 Ultrastar 9LP 7200 6.5ms 92.2-179.2
> >> +#800 Ultrastar 9LZX 10020 5.6ms 187.2-243.7
> >>
> >> So, where, if anywhere, is it worth spending more money? I guess what
> >> I'm asking is, in a linux server running samba and s/w disk mirroring
> >> on multiple ethernet cards, is the limit in the disks, the CPU,
> >> memory, memory bandwidth, or something more nebulous? And is there any
> >> part of the above which is noticably weaker than the rest?
> >>
> >> Any other comments?
> >>
> >> Thanks a lot
> >>
> >> John
> --
> Bob Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Computer Services, Sam Houston State University; Huntsville, TX
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't mount msdos drive
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 23:26:27 +0000
I'm having problems mounting my dos drive - I get the error
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too
many mounted file systems
The superblock seems the most likely problem - when I used FIPS to split
my disk I was told that the drive didn't start of finsh at the beginning
/ end of the cyllinder.
Has anyone got any ideas?
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From: Max Lock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: check this out...
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:43:05 +0000
http://www.eit.de/c/easylinux.html
smooth...
--
Maxwell Lock, Systems Specialist, CRAY Research / SGI UK. 01189 307806
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley, LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Re: Q: Yamaha 4416S CDR-RW Expereince
Date: 3 Feb 1999 23:30:29 GMT
On Wed, 3 Feb 1999 14:42:39, Shannon Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'm considering the Yamaha 4416S.
> > I'd like to know what experience
> > people have had using this burner
> > under Linux.
>
> The SCSI version works great; had to download
> an update to EZ-CD Creator to have it recognized.
>
> Works fine with cdrecord under RH5.2 on my adaptec 3940.
How noisy is it, incidentally? Most CD-ROM drives these days tend
to sound like jets taking off when they spin up (and make the whole
desk vibrate, too).
I'd like to find a nice, *quiet* SCSI CD-RW drive I can use as
a CD-ROM as well...
=================================================================
Alex Taylor BA - CIS - University of Guelph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca/~alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem Question MT5634ZPX-PCI
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:33:46 -0800
I have a Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI modem its not a winmodem and it will
operate under Unix,OS2,windows and according to Multitech Linux as well
"in therory". I've see people posting articles claiming that this modem
should work but I have yet to see anyone back it up with any facts ect.
I'm begining to think that I'm wasting my time messing with this modem
right now I just want to prove it does or doesn't work.
My Windows 98 Modem Settings are:
IRQ 11
COM 5
UART 16550AN
Do I set my Linux settings to match my windows settings ? Example:
setserial /dev/ttys4 IRQ 11 UART 16559
When I use the setserial command It shows the changes have been made but
I'm unable to get the modem to anything. I can use minicom to dial and it
says its dailing but it just hangs there.
anyone has any ideas??
Thanks!
Ken Bell
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem help MT5634ZPX-PCI
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 15:39:36 -0800
I have a Multitech MT5634ZPX-PCI modem its not a "winmodem" and it will
operate under Unix,OS2,windows and according to Multitech Linux as well
"in therory". I've see people posting articles claiming that this modem
should work but I have yet to see anyone back it up with any facts ect.
I'm begining to think that I'm wasting my time messing with this modem
but right now I just want to prove it does or doesn't work.
My Windows 98 Modem Settings are:
IRQ 11
COM 5
UART 16550AN
Do I set my Linux settings to match my windows settings ? Example:
setserial /dev/ttys4 IRQ 11 UART 16559
When I use the setserial command It shows the changes have been made but
I'm unable to get the modem to anything. I can use minicom to dial and it
says its dailing but it just hangs there.
anyone has any ideas??
Thanks!
Ken Bell
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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:17:38 -0500
From: Lev Tarasoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPSON Stylus COLOR 850, does uniprint support it?
Now that the Epson Stylus 800 is discontinued, what is
recommended for a good quality colour printer on Linux? The
ghostscript home page does not mention support for the new
Epson color 850, but does anybody know if it works anyway?
thanks
Lev
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From: "Bill Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,rec.autos.simulators
Subject: video card upgrade?
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 1999 10:08:21 -0500
Last night on ZDTV's Screen Savers program, they talked about PC upgrades
and said that it makes sense to upgrade older 2D video cards now to a 3D
card. They said even an inexpensive card like the TNT ($89??) would be a
noticeable improvement.
I currently have an ATI Winturbo (Mach64) PCI video card with 2MB VRAM. I
also have a Monster 3D graphics accelerator. The PC has no AGP or USB
capability at present.
We have a family PC, a Gateway2000 Pentium 233 MMX, 64MB RAM, and a 17"
monitor. It's used as a general purpose machine; my son uses it for gaming
and school work (in that order!); the wife surfs the Net and uses MS Office;
my daughter uses it for school work and occasional games; and I use it for
all kinds of things (MS Office, Visual Basic programming, Internet and
e-mail, Linux, and racing simulation games). The performance now seems very
good - in Viper Racing for instance I'm getting about 25 fps frame rate at
full detail, and I get 25-30 fps in MS CART Precision Racing at full detail.
The question is, should I bother to replace my ATI with a newer card?
Should I keep the Monster 3D, or get an all-in-one 2D/3D card? The only
reason I'd want to upgrade is if I'd get a noticeable frame rate increase in
the 3D games, and keep the Linux compatibility.
<remove 7of9 for e-mail replies>
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Bill Jones e-mail addresses:
Computer Sciences Corp. (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Norwich, Connecticut (play) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 437-5650 WWW: http://pages.cthome.net/billj
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From: Superstar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: can't get modem to work
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:43:27 GMT
I have a usr sportster 56k internal modem (not a winmodem) that I have
gotten to work under Linux in the past. Currently, though, I'm
running redhat 5.2, 2.2.1, and I can not get it to work. I hardwired
the settings to com2/irq3, disabling pnp. But when I try to test it
in Minicom, it just doesn't see the modem. I even specify the settings
with setserial at boot time. Is there some step I am missing?
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From: Jim Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HELP - Installing Network Card
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 23:43:29 GMT
"Michel A. Lim" wrote:
> the linux install was successful except that it did not recognize
> my network card. i disabled the plug and play function of the card using
> the intel configuration software (softset2), and then tried re-installing
> linux and passing the IRQ and I/O settings (7 and 320-32Fh respectively) but
> that also did not work. i then tried to add the following lines to
> /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias eth0 eepro
> options eth0 io=320-32Fh irq=7
I think I see one problem...
The options line should read:
options eth0 io=0x320 irq=7
Note that it reads "Zero x Three-twenty"
Give that a try...
-Jim
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