Linux-Hardware Digest #368, Volume #9 Sat, 6 Feb 99 09:13:50 EST
Contents:
faster video card (Larry D Snyder)
Troubles with my Extensa 500 Notebook. Help!!! ("Davide Pierattoni")
Re: Epson vs. HP ("Dali Llama")
LG 32X CD Problems (Wilson Fletcher)
1GB Syquest SparQ drive under Linux (Bill Gates)
Re: What's Celeron? (Michael Meissner)
Re: X11 and Banshe (Mike M)
newbie needs scsi help!!!!! ("R.H.")
Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup... (John Ford)
Re: Looking for cheap modem.... (David Fox)
Re: Can the Diamond Fireport 40 use Ultra2Wide? (Eric Sandeen)
intel motherboards for linux (Bob Whittle)
Re: Modem problems (Gerow)
Help installing NIC ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem with Adaptec SCSI card during installation (Mike M)
nur 16mb bei 128mb? ("tech")
Re: What's Celeron? (Rod Roark)
Linux and NEC VERSA 6030X? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Modem problems ("Brian Sullivan")
[help]compaq prosignia 500 with redhat5.2 memory problem (=?EUC-KR?B?udq8usHY?=)
Modem Tech ("Eugene K.")
scsi mo (David Lee)
Re: Help with TV tuner. (David Utidjian)
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From: Larry D Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: faster video card
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 11:09:47 -0500
Which video card is faster under X and Linux 2.2 - A Matrox G200 AGP
with 8 megs or a ATI Xpert@Play AGP with 8 megs?
LS
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From: "Davide Pierattoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Troubles with my Extensa 500 Notebook. Help!!!
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:11:17 +0100
I have an ACER (Texas Instruments) Extensa 500T notebook equipped with a
NeoMagic MagicGraph 128 ZV+ video card and a SuperVGA 800x600 LCD TFT
monitor. The video card is not supported from XFree86 3.3.2-8, so I have to
run X with a VGA16 X server. I would rather find a better X server to have a
fully working Linux installation on my notebook.
The same problem regards the modem, an LT WinModem.
Could anybody help me, please?
Davide Pierattoni
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From: "Dali Llama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson vs. HP
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 15:20:33 -0600
The only two Epsons I've had any dealings with are both very good low-end
Epsons. These are the Epson Stylus Color II and the Epson 800. I used the
Stylus II until if simply wore out... ;). Up until that time however, I
printed reams and reams of paper on it with no problems to speak of. Make
sure to use the print head cleaning procedure often and you should be okay
(this is explained in the manual and on the underside of the cover over the
print mechanism.
I love my E800 also. It prints fairly good for a low-end inkjet and just
keeps on truckin' along. The only downside to either of these is that they
are a little slow on the ppm end of things. Nonetheless, since price was
more of an issue to me than blazing speed, I bought the Epson over both
Canon and HP.
In the end it's always a personal decision, but there are some thoughts from
a user in the trenches... ;)
David L. Rice
a.k.a. Dali Llama
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <79cteq$3uu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi there,
>
>I'm trying to take a decision about a cheap home printer.
>
>I used in the past the 600 and 660 HP inkjet printers with decent
performance.
>Therefore, when I found an attractive offer for a HP697 (150 bucks), I
jumped
>in. Unfortunately, I was very unpleasantly surprised to find out that these
>end-of-series printers suffer from serious mechanical problems. No matter
>what paper quality I used (plain or HP inkjet paper), the printer feeds
ALWAYS
>several pages, a very annoying feature. All 4 printer the seller had in
stock
>behaved the same.
>
>Consequently, I would like to buy an Epson 640 instead but I have no
previous
>experience with the Epson printers.
>
>My question is: how reliable are the Stylus printers? Is their mechanics
>robust? I need to print mostly B/W texts with occasionally color stuff and
I
>read that "nothing compares to the HP B/W quality". How good is the B/W
>output quality for the Epson printers?
>
>Thank you,
>
>Serban
>
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From: Wilson Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LG 32X CD Problems
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 21:20:59 +0000
I have been trying to install linux on a 486 with an LG 32X CD drive. It
is an ide/atapi drive.
When i install the boot process freezes just after it recognises the CD
Rom drive ie. I get something like this:
hda ... hard disk details
hdb ... CD Rom drive details
Nothing after hdb has been recognised.
If I unplug the CD then the boot process continues through to the
installation prompts.
Any help will be hugely appreciated.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Gates)
Subject: 1GB Syquest SparQ drive under Linux
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:59:25 GMT
Does any of you guys out there got this drive?
Can you get it running under Linux?
I would like to make it to work under Linux, is it possible?
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's Celeron?
Date: 05 Feb 1999 19:22:54 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (June Seek Choi) writes:
> My applogy if this question is redundant?
> How Celeron is different from PII's in Linux system?
> It seems to be the cheapest among the CPU's. I heard that is has reduced
> number of instruction sets but how does it affect the performance?
The old Celeron's (300 and 333 without the A suffix) have no L2 cache. The new
Celeron's (333A, 350, and now 400Mhz) have 128K of L2 cache that runs full
speed (the Pentium-II has 512K of L2 cache that runs 1/2 speed). A Celeron is
designed to run with 66Mhz memory (while the current P-II runs at 100Mhz
memory). However, a lot of people have been successfull at overclocking the
333A it to 100 Mhz memory, given the right motherboard.
--
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: Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X11 and Banshe
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:54:34 GMT
go to glide.xxedgexx.com and darryl can help you out.. There is a alpha
release for this card, there some problems, but it works.....also check
out the linux 3dfx message board, there are people constantly talking
about the banshee there..
mike
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]
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From: "R.H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie needs scsi help!!!!!
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:42:06 -0800
Though I doubt anybody will answer this I really could use some help. I
have a SIIG PCI SCSI BusMaster card which seems to be recongnized as in
/proc/pci file it lists the adapter, but it does not detect it during
boot up and when I reconfigure my kernal I lose half of the modules that
normally get loaded at boot up. I got the driver from initio, but I
can't get it to work right though it does show up in the config menu.
In any case, I really could use some help.
Thanks,
Roger
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From: John Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup...
Date: 05 Feb 1999 17:16:42 -0500
steve winston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Brett M. Delia wrote:
> >If you or anyone else out there finds has some advise for this I too have the
> >same modem and do not know how to configure...
> Hy, I have a US Robotics 56k modem. No problem with Linux. I have RedHat 5.2.
> I disabled plug and play in my BIOS. THen, I removed the com2 serial port so
> the modem could have it. Then, I set jumpers on the modem to com2 and
> IRQ..Either 3 or 7, I don't remember. It worked instantly.
> steve w
Be aware that USR sells different 56K modems under the same model number.
I bought one that had no jumpers to disable the plug-and-play, even
though the board had the instructions printed on it to disable PNP!
I could not get it to work, so I took it back, and bought another
EXACT same model modem, took it home, and it had an older design board
with the jumpers, and a different chip set to boot. It works like a
charm.
--
John Ford
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Green Bank, WV 24944-0002
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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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: Looking for cheap modem....
Date: 03 Feb 1999 06:32:30 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lucifer) writes:
> Ok, I know my winmodem won't work with Linux, and im actually looking
> for a not expensive modem but of course, it must work with Linux.
> Any idea?
Best Data has a hardmodem model #56SF that is $56 at buycomp.com.
There is a Hayes Accura that is $49 at www.compgeeks.com that should
work. I wonder what the cheapest V.90 out there is?
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can the Diamond Fireport 40 use Ultra2Wide?
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 08:59:23 -0600
Look on the website:
http://www.diamondmm.com/products/current/fireport40.cfm
40 MBytes/sec. Hence FirePort _40_ :-)
michael thomas mc mahon wrote:
> Sorry for a relative newbie question here, but I just installed a new
> Fireport 40 scsi card and wanted to know if this could transfer data at
> the SCSI-3 rate of 80 Mb/s? I configured it and currently it seems to
> support the SCSI-2 wide configuration, but I have a quantum viking II
> drive attached to it and would like to be able to get a faster rate if
> possible?
>
> mike mcmahon
--
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Linux - the choice of a GNU generation!
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From: Bob Whittle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intel motherboards for linux
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:20:12 GMT
Can anyone advise me on which Intel motherboards are compatible with a Linux
system.
regards, Bob
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From: Gerow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Modem problems
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:29:53 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Sullivan wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I need some guidance!
> I can't figure out how to set up the modem. I am running RedHat 5.2 I have a
> working modem in Windose (IRQ 9, Address 03E8-03EF, 16550A UART, set up for
> pnp )
> The modem is an E-Tech Bullet PC56RVP-2. I read that it is compatible with
> Linux.
Yes, but in plug and play mode? I'm not sure Linux will let you use
COM2 with an IRQ of 9. Besides, those settings only keep if you have a
plug n play BIOS on your mainboard, otherwise the card is a dead fish.
Even when I install plug and play modems in computers, I use the
optional jumper settings and hard set every modem I install to typical
settings (COM1=IRQ4, COM2=IRQ3, COM3=IRQ4, COM4=IRQ3) just to be sure it
works in everything.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help installing NIC
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 04:59:57 GMT
Hi, I am trying to install Linux on a 486 machine (which does not have Plug
and Play support). The network card I have can be configured to be used in
PNP or Jumperless mode. I set the card to jumperless mode, and during bootup
Linux can find the card at the correct I/O port and interrupt, but when Linux
tries to connect to the DHCP server it fails. In addition to that, after I
start using Linux from the console, I keep getting this error message:
"Trying to free free IRQx" where x is the IRQ number I am using for the
network card. I tried changing the IRQ number, but the problem still
persists. The network card I have is supposed to be an NE2000 clone, it is a
Soho Basic NIC200 card. I haven't tried changing the I/O port which has been
set to 0x300.
I was using the card successfully during a previous install, but after that I
formatted my hard disk and I couldn't use the card anymore.
Thanx,
Ramzi
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From: Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problem with Adaptec SCSI card during installation
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 02:51:14 GMT
I have an Adaptec SCSI adapter also, and it is really a pain in the neck.
Linux doesn't like the wide negotiations...there is a how to or faq which
describes how to fix the problems....look for the faq which has to deal
with scsi!! I hope this helps...
Mike
Alan Po wrote:
> Dear sir,
>
> I have tried to install Red Hat to my computer which contain two hard
> disk. An IDE hard disk for Win98 and a 1G SCSI hard disk which want to
> install Red Hat.
>
> However, when Red Hard try to detect my SCSI card, it hang up. I have
> tried to install by using expert mode and I find the Linux fail to scan
> my SCSI card.
>
> What is the problem? Please give me some idea or hints. Furthermore, I
> find that I need to Cold Boot my computer after the failure, otherwise,
> my SCSI card cannot detect my hard disk. However, my SCSI hard disk is
> working properly under Win98.
>
> Thanks for any help,
>
> Alan Po ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nur 16mb bei 128mb?
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 13:35:16 +0100
mein Linux erkennt nur 16mb meines speichers, wer kann mir da weiterhelfen?
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's Celeron?
Date: 5 Feb 1999 23:49:23 GMT
June Seek Choi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My applogy if this question is redundant?
>How Celeron is different from PII's in Linux system?
>It seems to be the cheapest among the CPU's. I heard that is has reduced
>number of instruction sets but how does it affect the performance?
>
>Another question: What's the story regarding AMDK6-2's? I am happily using
>K6-200 right now and could upgrad to K6-400 but some people say there's a
>bug in K6-2's. Is this serious enough to make you avoid AMD's? Thanks in
>advance.
Celerons and K6-2's are good and work fine with Linux. You can read
all about these CPUs at http://tomshardware.com/.
-- Rod
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux and NEC VERSA 6030X?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 13:09:53 GMT
I am wondering if I should install Linux on my NEC Versa 6030X laptop.
Has anyone here tried that combination? Any success?
frank
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From: "Brian Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Modem problems
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 23:54:25 -0500
Hello,
I need some guidance!
I can't figure out how to set up the modem. I am running RedHat 5.2 I have a
working modem in Windose (IRQ 9, Address 03E8-03EF, 16550A UART, set up for
pnp )
The modem is an E-Tech Bullet PC56RVP-2. I read that it is compatible with
Linux.
I have a duel boot system with Win98 and I must keep the modem working in
Win98 or my wife will kill me! So it has to stay pnp.
I have 3 questions:
1-How do I do it?
2-How do you use setserial? I think that I have to use it to set up the
modem.
3-How do I use isapnp? I think that I have to use that also.
I have read the man pages but can't figure exactly how to do it they are not
specific enough to my problem (newbie) but they do have a lot of information
of everything it can do.
I've searched the Dejanews but haven't found a complete answer.
Could someone guide me in the proper direction. It's the last thing I need
to set up.
Thanks
Brian Sullivan
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From: =?EUC-KR?B?udq8usHY?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [help]compaq prosignia 500 with redhat5.2 memory problem
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 15:26:40 +0900
hi all,
we have compaq prosignia 500 server that is running with redhat5.2,
but linux don't recognize 16MB memory olny. actually, It has 80MB's
memory.
=================
System board 16M
extended Memory 1
simm1
bank1 8M
bank2 8M
simm2
bank1 16M
bank2 16M
simm3
bank1 8M
bank2 8M
total 80M
__________________
extended Memory2 LIM driver not loaded <----------
above information that compaq's Sytem diagnotic program shows "LIM
driver not loaded"
I don't know what does that mean??
on the linux I use the command line ' append="mem=80M" ' in lilo.conf.
but linux don't recognize the total memory. only 16M.......
this is a compaq's problem??
PLS anyone help me!! how can I use a full memory in this system with
linux??
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From: "Eugene K." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem Tech
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:36:22 -0600
Hi!
I have a modem hooked up to /dev/cua2. Once I accidently turned off my
computer without shutting down first, and since then I have not been
able to access my modem. I am pretty sure this has something to do with
lock files, because on some applications it says "Sorry, the modem is
busy". Has anyone had this problem before?
Thanx in advance,
-Bob
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From: David Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi mo
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:27:24 +0800
Hi there!
Does anyone know how to make file system on scsi MO? Which device file
is needed to
be created?
-- David Lee
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From: David Utidjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with TV tuner.
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 01:34:06 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ralph Pickering wrote:
[much stuff deleted]
You have half the job done..... now all you need is an app to use the
card.
See:
http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html
Kraxel has links to all the other relevant stuff from there.... xawtv
works fine with the Hauppauge and STB TV cards I have tried. I have been
watching cable TV and using a Phillips and generic cameras with both. Very
cool.
-David Utidjian-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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