Linux-Hardware Digest #385, Volume #9 Mon, 8 Feb 99 08:13:29 EST
Contents:
Re: Driver for Diamond Stealth 2 ("Maurice Wijtten")
Newbie help with HP DeskJet 722C (Mike M)
PII Xeon anyone? (Ivan Rossi)
Re: Dual Processor (Pauper9)
Re: Matrox G200 PCI support Linux?? (Jaakko H Kyro)
Re: MODEM HELP MT5634ZPX-PCI (Pauper9)
Re: Linux on the Lifebook 270dx (Mike Pritchard)
Linux and Acer travelmate 312/313T (raoul signorile)
Re: Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, SCSI CRW4416S (James Holland)
Re: New k6-2 system advice (Pauper9)
Re: Linux on Alpha (Pauper9)
HELP - Need modem reccomendations (Glen Berry)
Re: Linux requires DOS (Villy Kruse)
Re: tar file portability (Villy Kruse)
RedHat on a Compaq DeskPro EP/SB Series ("Jim Orfanakos")
Re: scsi mo (Eric Wurbel)
Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug? (Hilaire Fernandes)
Grabbing from Rainbow Runner G... HOW?? ("Andrea Curtoni")
Re: xwindow setup problem (David Muir)
HELP - Need Sound Card recomendations (Glen Berry)
Can't find AHA 1522 (Ivan Sanders)
Re: 1GB Syquest SparQ drive under Linux (Grant Guenther)
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From: "Maurice Wijtten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Diamond Stealth 2
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:31:52 +0100
i've had some problems to,
redhat DID NOT detect my stealth II,
but do you mean the rendition or the
i740 one ??
I have the s220 one, and i needed
the renditn.rpm file before redhat
could initialize him (stil haven't got
it working)
success
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
grandma angst wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Derek Ruths wrote:
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is a Linux driver for the Diamond Stealth II
video
>> card?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Derek Ruths
>
>i've got a diamond stealth 2... upon installation of redhat linux
>2.0.32, and again with 2.0.35, my card was automatically detected and
>configured with no problems.
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From: Mike M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie help with HP DeskJet 722C
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 08:39:32 GMT
Does anybody know where I could get a driver for this, or a faq on how
to get it to work? I have RH 5.1 with kde pre1.2, and linux release
2.0.35...
Thanks for the help
Mike
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From: Ivan Rossi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PII Xeon anyone?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:09:56 +0000
My lab has got an offer for :
Intel SC450NX server
4 PII Xeon 450MHz
Built-in SCSI LVDS controller
Mylex AcceleRAID 250 RAID card
The machine specs are impressive, but big question is DOES LINUX RUN ON
THE THING?
I do not want to buy a machine like that and then being forced to
migrate to NT, SCO, or Solaris.
Please reply to me by e-mail too, my news server stinks.
--
Dr. Ivan Rossi - CIRB Biocomputing Unit
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauper9)
Subject: Re: Dual Processor
Date: 8 Feb 1999 09:50:03 GMT
you need 2.2. The 2.0 kernels can't do SMP fer poop.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jaakko H Kyro)
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,hklug.general,hklug.group
Subject: Re: Matrox G200 PCI support Linux??
Date: 8 Feb 1999 09:42:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Tsou wrote:
>On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 23:41:02 +0800, whywhys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
>
>>All,
>> want to ask whether the G200 PCI card support Linux X-windows or
>>not?
>>Any help?? HOW-TO configure the driver using Xf86config???
>
>SUSE released drivers for X quite some time ago. I'm not sure about
>the pci card though. You need the matrox xserver and xf86config from
>suse. Alternatively, you can try ome of the comercial servers like
>Accelerated-X.
Actually, the new XFree86 3.3.3 server supports Matrox cards, including
G200.
--
===============================================================================
Jaakko Kyr�, University of Helsinki, Department of Computer Science
Pengerkatu 24 A 3
00500 Helsinki
tel. 040-5960945
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauper9)
Subject: Re: MODEM HELP MT5634ZPX-PCI
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:05:59 GMT
Need a real response here for the ppl reading.... I have the ISA version of
your modem. It werks without a hitch. However, I would definitely do what you
said with setserial. I believe that any unix support MultiTech offers should
also work the same on your Linux box; in fact, their tech department does all
its testing in a unix environment (I live 2 blocks from them and have gone
there to talk to them in person). To get the modem working in Win I had to
disable my COM ports in the BIOS and allow the modem to decide which port it
wanted - i.e. jumper settings. I left things exactly the same when I installed
Linux and I have had no problems. Just a suggestion from a (near) newbie.
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From: Mike Pritchard <[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, 08 Feb 1999 02:00:17 -0800
Mark Swope wrote:
> Erin,
> I have the 280dx. It should have the same hardware that you have.
> attached below is the display section of my XF86Config file.
> The display is clean w/o wavy lines or anything (but it's limited
> to 800x600).
Thanks Mark. You solved the problem for me too. I have the 280DX also
and was having trouble getting the X configuration sorted out. The
information in the Linux Laptops web site didn't seem to work at all.
Mike
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From: raoul signorile <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Acer travelmate 312/313T
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:30:46 +0100
I'm looking for someone who has installed linux on Acer travelmate
312/313T subnotebook.
I want to know if everything (video card, audio, cdrom and modem) works
well under linux o.s.
Is there any bug ?
thanks raoul
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:56:40 +0000
From: James Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,alt.cd-rom,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, SCSI CRW4416S
The issue re SCSI and CDRs is apparently simply that SCSI produces a more even
dataflow, and is generally less likely to suffer a buffer underun. my EIDE
HP7100 was a pain in the b**, but the old HP 6020 and my current traxdata 4260,
both SCSI, are fine. Internal is supposed to be better than external.
James
ONL wrote:
> I'm successfully using a 4416S. I am told SCSI is the more reliable of the
> two - that seem to be the general view. Mind, they say a SCSI hard disc is
> best; yet my EIDE Maxtor works fine. Perhaps the gap between SCSI and EIDE
> in performance terms for everyday users is negligible. Buying an EIDE would
> mean you don't need to buy a SCSI card - assuming you don't have one.
>
> Jon M. Pearsall wrote in message <794ca6$om5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>x-no-archive: yes
> >>
> >>Anyone have any experiences with the Yamaha EIDE CRW4416E, or the Yahama
> >>SCSI CRW4416S? I'm thinking of buying, so any opinions would be
> >>helpful.......
> >
> >
> >I just got my new 4416S last week. I've burned about a dozen CDs so far,
> no
> >problems yet. The 4X is great.
> >
> >
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauper9)
Subject: Re: New k6-2 system advice
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:49:57 GMT
OK. NOT all internal pnp modems are Losemodems. My MultiTech MT5634ZPX-ISA is a
pnp and not a losermodem. Same as it is for their PCI model. I'm not saying
that I have the greatest piece of hardware, but that one really has to be
careful when picking up an analog modem.
BTW - since when is $100 for setup and $50 a month affordable for net
access???? I live in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area where both DSL and cable
modem ISPs live. I can NOT afford to pay these prices for access, in fact, I am
having a hard time switching ISPs from AOL because so many want to charge for
setup. When I find a nice *CHEAP* cable or ADSL service I will be one of the
first in my area to switch to it.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pauper9)
Subject: Re: Linux on Alpha
Date: 8 Feb 1999 09:21:40 GMT
You sed:
>> I've got linux up on a couple of machines at home, and was thinking
about expanding to non-X86 based versions. Has anybody run Linux on an
Alpha 21064A at 275 Mhz? I can pick up a motherboard pretty cheap, but
I'm wondering how it will compete with my K6-233. Any comments or
thoughts?
David<<
I personally do not run any non-x86 architectures. But, I CAN say from what
I've heard that that Alpha will blow away the machine you mentioned. Especially
running Linux.
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:02:45 -0500
From: Glen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP - Need modem reccomendations
I use Red Hat 5.2, and I've read the hardware incompatibility lists on
their site, but I would really like some personal reccomendations for a
56K modem that will *definitely* work with Linux. I'd prefer an external
modem, but I think that even some of those are incompatible. Please send
me some concrete suggestions.
--
Thanks,
Glen Berry
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the "7" if you want to reply via email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: Linux requires DOS
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:22:21 +0100
In article <79f5h9$jb3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Claudio Granatiero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Jonathan E. Snow" wrote:
>>
>> I am trying to get a hard disk to boot that has never booted an OS
>> before. LILO is no use, even though it writes an MBR -- apparently,
>> it requires the presence of a DOS MBR first in order to work
>> correctly! No matter what I do with linux all I get is "PRESS ANY KEY
>> TO REBOOT" when trying to boot the new disk.
>
>Just guessing: is the partition bootable?
>
That is only relevant if you have a dos loader in the MBR sector.
All the bios does (or should do) is to load whatever contents are in the
first sector of the first disk and pases control to that piece of code.
And if that piece of code is the LILO loader then nothing will ever look
at the bootable/active flag.
My disks has never ever had dos installed on it and it works fine
without it.
Villy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: tar file portability
Date: 8 Feb 1999 10:36:31 +0100
In article <95av2.508$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Danny Willis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Lamb) writes:
>
>
>I haven't tried to do exactly this conversion before, but here are
>some things to check:
>
>1. They may well have different default blocksizes. On the Linux
>end, you can read a random blocksize with the magical command
>mt -f /dev/st0 setblk 0
>
>2. However, that wouldn't make the tape drive fail to sync up at the
>beginning of tape. That unfortunately suggests an alignment problem
>between the two drives, which is all too common.
>
If you write a tape with variable tape block size and try to read that
on a system that is configured for fixed block size, you won't be able
to read anything.
You should check the actual block size on the tape you have made on the
HPUX system, and set your linux tape block size accordingly.
do 'dd if=/dev/st0 bs=100k count=1 | wc -c'
dd should report reading one partial record and the output of wc should
tell you the block size.
Villy
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From: "Jim Orfanakos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat on a Compaq DeskPro EP/SB Series
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 06:44:55 -0500
Does anyone have RedHat 5.X running on a Compaq DeskPro EP/SB? I picked one
up cheap over the weekend at a computer show. I installed RedHat but the
systems is not healthy.
It has a PII 300 MHz CPU, 64 MB RAM, ATI Rage IIC AGP video card, 3.2 GB
disk and an Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NIC.
I have it running on a Dell XPS R400 with no problems (not any more at
least). Different video, NIC, memory etc...but everything is running fine.
The problems I have so far are:
1) In the CMOS setup I can set the irq's for the Video, NIC, and USB...I
can even disable them. Depending on the combination...the RedHat won't
install, or after install the keyboard does not work. I have it running now
by only enabling the NIC.
2) I installed the SVGA X-Server. It is working but if I move or re-size a
window...there is a lot of 'static' on the screen. The ATI Mach64 X-Server
does not work. During the setup, the installation program does not probe
the video card.
3) The network is real slow. I can ping OK, but to telnet or FTP takes
about a minute to connect.
4) Each time I install, I select and/or specify everything but I never get
the Apache Web Server on the control panel. The HTTPD starts...but I cannot
seem to hit it.
Thanks.
--
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Jim Orfanakos
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/djo3
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From: Eric Wurbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi mo
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 13:31:57 +0100
David Lee wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> Does anyone know how to make file system on scsi MO? Which device file
> is needed to
> be created?
>
> -- David Lee
Personnally I proceed like this :
- no partition table because it is a 230 Mo MO disk (phillips).
(if you want a partition table, run fdisk first)
- choose the filesystem you want to use : generally e2fs or vfat. The
advantage of vfat
is that you can read disks with windoze too.
run mkfs.ext2 on /dev/sd? ('?' stands for 'a' or 'b' or ... depending
on the SCSI
ID of your MO drive. If you want a vfat filesystem, use superformat,
but you
will need to fiddle with drive parameters (tracks, sectors, etc ...).
Personnally,
I format my vfat MO disks with windoze.
- mount the filesystem (for example on a /mnt/mo directory, which you
create as
usual).
It works fine for me. You don't need to create the devices. It should be
already
present in your /dev directory.
To guess which /dev/sd? to use, issue a dmesg command. You shoud see
something like
this :
aha152x: trying software interrupt, ok.
scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver; $Revision: 1.18 $
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST51080N Rev: 0943
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0
This is for a SEAGATE hard drive but you should see something similar,
except
the type field which indicates "Optical Device" or something like that.
Look at the last line, it says that the device is /dev/sda.
good luck
regards
Eric
--
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From: Hilaire Fernandes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:41:59 +0800
> > When I install linux, the kernel load, it starts to make its uusal
> > check-in and after the PCI probe the system just reset.
> > I've almost 20 Pc where I can't install linux :(
>
> There are plenty of people who have had no problems with that
As I do in the past, I already installed Linux over a K6, even this K6
seems to be overcocked but it was ok.
> combination, including me. On the other hand, there are people who
> have reported the same problems as you have. I'm not sure if there is
> a clear or common problem. What brand of motherboards are you using?
I try installing both from floppy and CDROM and try with Redhat from
4.1, 5.1, 5.2. The problems is excatly the same.
I can't remove stuff from the PCs as there are already running W95 and
WinNT workstation, I've no authority to play with the hardware.
There is 1 GB partition free I can use for what I want - installing
Linux, but no chance.
> Have you checked to see if it is AMD certified? Are you over-clocking
> the CPU? Have you tried taking some memory out of the machine, or
> doing 'mem=16M'? Have you tried a Pentium CPU? Can you boot on a
> boot floppy? What distribution are you installing, and have you tried
> difference kernels?
>
> robert
>
> --
> robert cope austin, texas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.linuxwizard.net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Hilaire Fernandes
Dr Geo project http://members.xoom.com/FeYiLai/dr_geo/doctor_geo.html
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From: "Andrea Curtoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Grabbing from Rainbow Runner G... HOW??
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 11:06:37 +0100
I need to grab images using a Matrox Rainbow Runner G card.
Is it possible? Where can I get Linux drivers for this card ? (if they
exist!)
Thanx,
Andrea
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Muir)
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: Re: xwindow setup problem
Date: 8 Feb 1999 11:14:37 GMT
you want to mount it as type VFAT instead of FAT16. That will correct the filename
problems.
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Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 06:24:30 -0500
From: Glen Berry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP - Need Sound Card recomendations
I use Red Hat 5.2, and I've read the hardware incompatibility lists on
their site, but I would really like some personal recommendations for a
PCI sound card that works gracefully with Linux. I tried the Sound
Blaster PCI 128, but it conflicted with my Cirrus Logic video card. I
took the sound card back for a refund, but I might try one again, if it
would work with a different video card. So, which PCI sound cards are
known to work well? If none of the PCI cards are reliable, which is the
most trustworthy ISA model?
--
Thanks,
Glen Berry
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the "7" to reply via personal email)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ivan Sanders)
Subject: Can't find AHA 1522
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 11:51:03 GMT
Am trying to install RedHat 5.0.
System (Drives/adapters etc)
2.6 Gb IDE boot drive with 1 Gb FAT16 (Drive C, Windows 98), and 1.6
Gb NTFS (Drive D, NT4.0)
4 Gb SCSI drive connected through said AHA1522. 3.5 Gb partition
(NTFS, Drive E)
500 Mb unpartitioned on this drive and intended for Linux.
SCSI card drive work fine through 98 and NT. RedHat says it doesnt
exist.
Have tried additional parameters: eg
ramdisk aha1522=340,12,7,1
ramdisk aha1522=340,12,7
aha1522=340,12,7,1
aha1522=340,12,7
Have checked jumper settings and all seem fine
Clues???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: 1GB Syquest SparQ drive under Linux
Date: 8 Feb 1999 12:13:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999 18:58:12 GMT, Bill Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My one is a parallel port version.
>If I recompile my kernel and enable the parallel port device, then
>what else do I do? Do I use mount, like 'mount /dev/lp1 -t vfat
>/mnt/sparq'? How do I actually access the drive?
First, read the documentation - its in your kernel source tree at
linux/Documentation/paride.txt . You should also check out the
linux-parport pages at http://www.torque.net/parport/ .
Most likely you would do
mount /dev/pda1 /mnt/sparq
(depending on your setup). /dev/pd works just like /dev/hd ...
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