Linux-Hardware Digest #408, Volume #9 Thu, 11 Feb 99 14:13:36 EST
Contents:
help with xserver and qvision ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Harri Johansson)
Re: faster video card (Will Hutchins)
Re: Help with TV tuner. (Will Hutchins)
Re: Seagate ST118273n 18gig locks up Linux 2.0.36 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG (Robert Schratzer)
Linux on antry level PCs (Marco La Cascia)
Re: L2 cache kills linux : help! (Tim)
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 ("Walter Harms")
Re: IBM PS/2 95 Server (Chris Dukes)
Re: HP500C resets every 5 min
Finding EDO Memory with Parity? (Jon McLin)
USB Driver Status? (Jon McLin)
Anyone run RH on a Sun SPARCStation IPC? Need advice. (Paul Braun)
Re: sound just WILL NOT work. (Mark Bratcher)
Sound card probs, modem probs. Help im cut off!!!! ("Lassie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
Re: 3com 59x at 100Mbit? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Video Card not working with X Windows ("Nitehawk")
Matrox G200 AGP card? ("Steffen Kristensen")
Re: Trident 9680 and Linux XWindows (Fulton B. Gonzalez)
Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Raphael Clifford)
TrueColor Video with overlays planes? (Daniel Ganek)
Re: Quake II and non-Voodoo OpenGL (Paul Nevin)
Re: 2.2.1 and etherexpress 16 (eexpress) (Geoff Blake)
Re: which distribution package do you recommend? (Lars Weber)
Red Hat 5.1 has PPP config utility? ("Iron Balls McGinty")
Re: Network performance 3c589c (Andreas Hinz)
Mustek ScanMagic 9636P in Linux. Does anybody know what chipset it uses? (Wojciech
Zabolotny)
CD-RW Problem - Help Please!! (ali)
Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server ("~The Seventh Sign ~")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: help with xserver and qvision
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 15:18:41 GMT
I tried installing linux on my old compaq deskpro 575 with a mixed bag of
success.
I tried redhat 5.2 and caldera openlinux 1.3
Each of these distros always crap out whenever i tried running the Xserver.
My screen always displays gibberish and blurry lines. Please help on how I can
install and use a GUI on my spanking new Linux Box.
Jelili
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From: Harri Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]$pamm3rs.com>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: 11 Feb 1999 12:20:14 GMT
Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I am having difficulty using my large IDE to its capacity. It is
> correctly recognised as follows at boot up:
>
> hda: Maxtor 91296D6, 12360MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
I had/have the same problem with my new 10G UDMA Seagate. The kernel
doesn't use LBA for it eventhough the BIOS (Asus p2b-f v1.007) has set the
hd to use LBA. I forced the hd's configuration to the kernel by kernel
command line, in my case hda=1245,255,63 which allowed the linux
partitioning software to recognise the correct size of the disk. You should
snoop the correct geometry for your drive from your BIOS settings or using
one of the EIDE info utilities before giving any command line arguments to
the kernel.
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From: Will Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]**>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: faster video card
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:24:57 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]**
Don't bother with the ATI.
Larry D Snyder wrote:
> Which video card is faster under X and Linux 2.2 - A Matrox G200 AGP
> with 8 megs or a ATI Xpert@Play AGP with 8 megs?
>
> LS
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From: Will Hutchins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]**>
Subject: Re: Help with TV tuner.
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:19:53 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]**
Do you still have that information so I could get stereo working on my card?
Trent Piepho wrote:
> In article <79n0vv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Miguel Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >: Manish Laad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >:> Can you tell me where I can find the driver and the application for the
> >:> Hauppage card? Also is the driver and application free?
> >
> >: ....and what's the cheapest that people have seen the card (the stereo
> >: one, preferably) for?
> >
> >The Hauppauge Wincast TV runs for $60.00 at officemax.
> >
> >Don't bother with getting the stereo card. Stereo will probably never
> >be supported. American NTSC television uses a completely different
> >method of encoding stereo sound compared to those used in Europe.
> >Since there are not many American NTSC stations in Europe running MTS
> >stereo, and stereo encoders are extremely expensive due to patents on
> >DBX compression, the bttv driver developers can't easily develop the
> >code needed to support it.
>
> A while ago someone with a stereo bt848 card posted what chip it used for
> sound, and I downloaded the spec sheets for it and wrote code (that worked!)
> to enable stereo for the card in around an hour. The sound hardware on bt848
> cards isn't all the same, and the bt878 has builtin sound, but no fancy
> patented algorithms are needed to decode the stereo, it's just a matter of
> setting up the chips on the card.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Seagate ST118273n 18gig locks up Linux 2.0.36
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:10:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have tried it with the 18Gig as the only drive on the bus.
The cable length is about 15 inches
The controller terminates and the 18gig terminates internaly. Their
are no external devices.
After John Wilkie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ingested several caps and stems
of a rather potent variety of psilocybin mushroom, mumbled the
following hallucination:
>David Maris wrote:
>>
>> I have a AHA2940 Scsi Controller running a Seagate ST118273n Ultra
>> drive. I am trying to create a single Partition .
>>
>> this procedure locks up my system.
>>
>> The scsi bus is correctly Terminated
>> I have 2 Seagate ST34371n drives at scsi id 0 and 1
>> I have a HP 1533a at SCSI 2
>>
>> This drive is at SCSI id 5
>> ULTRA Speed is disabled in the bois and Drives >than 1g is enabled.
>>
>> Any Suggestions.
>>
>There are a lot of drives on the bus - what is your chain length ?
>I have great trouble with more than 3 drives on a bus with external
>connectors.
>
> John
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Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 10:15:42 +0100
From: Robert Schratzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: GTE flamed linux for BillG
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
James wrote:
>
> My isp, mtt.ca, will also terminate adsl service if the account is using
> anything other than windows. Apparently, MacOs has crashed some systems,
This looks like typical M$-thinking! A system cannot "crash" another one
over a network. If a system crashes (itself) it's because of poor
implementation.
> and service is now discounted if the user has a mac or a linux box.
>
my 2c
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From: Marco La Cascia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on antry level PCs
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 09:14:03 -0500
Hi All,
I was thinking about buying an eMachine 300c (Cyrix MII) to run Linux
but it seems that the installation and the operation is not very smooth
(I've heard on the newsgroup of problems with the modem and the
Xserver).
Any info about other cheap machines (Compaq, Packard Bell, etc...) and
their compatibility with Linux?
Thanks,
Marco
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: L2 cache kills linux : help!
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:27:56 +0000
nine@ wrote:
> >
> >The posting software is responsible for the messages'
> >settings, not the reader used to display it.
> >
>
> Not if the reader is using MT-Newswatcher on MacOS that is :-)
> - paul
...and I expect we can count the number of people on this group using
that particular combination of OS and news reader on the fingers of one
hand... :o)
Tim
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: 10 Feb 1999 13:48:22 GMT
Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am having difficulty using my large IDE to its capacity. It is
>correctly recognised as follows at boot up:
>hda: Maxtor 91296D6, 12360MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
>I am running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I can't seem to find any
>way of persuading the system that the drive is greater than 8 GB. For
>example fdisk shows
>Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
>Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>/dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux native
>/dev/hda2 3 1012 8112825 83 Linux native
>/dev/hda3 1013 1024 96390 82 Linux swap
>which seems to imply that the whole drive is used up !!
>Help!
>Raphael
>P.S. I read the a HOWTO that said that there was a problem before 2.0.34
>but I'm using 36.
maybe you have a bios problem ? look at the homepage of your bios distr.
perhaps there is an update. several bios have problem of that kind.
walter
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"I've had enough excitement for a while; right now, a little
boredom wouldn't be amiss!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Dukes)
Subject: Re: IBM PS/2 95 Server
Date: 9 Feb 1999 16:40:08 GMT
In article <79onga$jv2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Bodnar wrote:
>I've come across an old IBM PS/2 9595 Server, and I'm looking for some
>information. The FAQ's list an address for PS/2 linux installations,
>but the site comes back with no DNS entry. I've been unable to find
>mirror sites, either.
>
>What does it take to get a PS/2 to boot from floppy, other than it's own
>reference disk? If it turns out to be a hopeless situation, I'll end up
>ripping it apart and turning it into a disk farm, but I think it could
>make a nice linux box...
If it's only booting from a reference diskette, it is probably
lacking a reference partition on the harddrive.
That said, Debian Hamm was fairly painless to install on an industrial
version of the 8577.
(I can't get the debian slink diskettes to write an MBR yet).
--
Chris Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Hacking's just another word for nothing left to kludge."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: HP500C resets every 5 min
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 21:22:44 +0100
In article <78kiia$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
January Weiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I have read the HOWTO, I have read the FAQs, I searched the net,
> but could not find any solution to my problem.
>
> I have a HP 500C and SuSE 5.3, kernel 2.3, apsfilter for print�
> ing. Everything is nice and easy, printing is OK, but the HP
I have a even bigger problem. My printer is turned off every 5 minutes.
I suppose my printer has other firmware.
(Or Redhat5.2 is worse :))
However, when I don't need high quality printing I can avoid it by selecting
a HP400 filter. Then I get a sligthly less quality (OK for text) and can use only B&W.
>
--
Jaap de Wolff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.de-wolff.demon.nl
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:56:05 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Finding EDO Memory with Parity?
Can someone point me to a source for EDO SIMMs with parity? I wish to
add another 64 MB to my DELL. Adding non-parity EDO would force me to
disable the ECC.
Thanks,
Jon
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:58:04 +0000
From: Jon McLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Driver Status?
Has work on the USB driver stopped? All links I've found are dead.
If not, can someone provide a link so I can monitor the status?
Thanks,
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Braun)
Subject: Anyone run RH on a Sun SPARCStation IPC? Need advice.
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 14:23:35 GMT
I was just given an IPC and I would like to run RedHat on it. Has anyone had
experience doing this? I'm new to the linux world -- I have friends who can
help me with RH-specific stuff but they've only run it on intel boxen.
Any help would be appreciated.
Paul (remove spamblock to reply)
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound just WILL NOT work.
Date: 10 Feb 1999 14:02:40 GMT
Did you run sndconfig and set your IRQ, DMA, and I/O addrs?
"Oo.et.oO" wrote:
>
> "Oo.et.oO" wrote:
> >
> > I don't understand. I got all the modules to load with the right
> > parameters.
> > here is /dev/sndstat:
> > OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
> > Load type: Driver loaded as a module
> > Kernel: Linux byzantine 2.2.1 #4 SMP Sat Feb 6 22:09:15 EST 1999 i586
> > Config options: 0
> >
> > Installed drivers:
> >
> > Card config:
> >
> > Audio devices:
> > 0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.13) (DUPLEX)
> >
> > Synth devices:
> >
> > Midi devices:
> > 0: Sound Blaster 16
> >
> > Timers:
> > 0: System clock
> >
> > Mixers:
> > 0: Sound Blaster
> >
> > so shouldn't it work now?
> > I send it a file. it pauses then completes but nothing comes out.
> > I have a SB16 ISA with jumpers set in the bottom slot on my ISA bus
> > (only two slots) the other one is my modem and it is in the upper slot
> > and works fine.
> > BTW when I put the modem in the bottom slot it didn't work anymore.
> > does this mean my mother board is hosed? it is a ASUS P5A with amd k6-2
> > chip...
> > I don't want to send this crap back!-
> > thanks-
> > eric
> > is there anyway to probe the slots?
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From: "Lassie<BST>" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card probs, modem probs. Help im cut off!!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 09:21:01 -0500
Help me :::runs into linux vets:::
Well I need help with me sound card and modem. I have an AudioPCI for a
sound card and it will not work. I do not know if this is due to
changes, if any, that gateway had the company do to it. The kernel is
compiled for AudioPCI support so I have no idea why it will not work.
My modem for some strang reason will not work on linux right now :( I
think it is due to the jumpers not being configured right on it but I am
not sure. It is a 3com U.S Robotics 56k Data/Fax/Voice v.90/x2 for an
ISA slot. It is not a winmodem :P
Please If any one can help out please do. I really want to make Linux my
prim OS and only use Windows when i have to. These two things are the
only thing keeping me from using linux for more then 2 or 3 hours a day.
Thanks for the help,
James Danilowicz
Linux Newbie :(
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3com 59x at 100Mbit?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 14:53:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a Vortex 10/100 card connected to my 10/100 hub. According to the
> lights on the hub, all my windows computers are connected at 100Mbit.
> But my linux (redhat 5.2) box is connecting at 10Mbit.
>
> I've read the pages at
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
>
> But they make no sense to me.
>
> It seems that maybe I need to apply the patch, but am not sure about the
> warnings on that page:
>
> "Note: this patch may not work with earlier 1.2.* kernels and will not
> work with kernel sources patched for ELF compiler support (e.g. the
> kernel sources packaged with RedHat or Slackware) or the 1.3 development
> kernels. In those cases you should apply the patches by hand or use the
> modules support in the updated Vortex driver."
>
> And, I don't even know if applying the patch is what I need.
>
> I have the kernel sources installed
>
> I downloaded the driver source code to the directory
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/.
>
>
> Anybody have any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> hampton
>
Search their list archive or join and ask.
- Eric
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From: "Nitehawk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Video Card not working with X Windows
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:58:35 +0100
Your Vid card is not supported until XFree86 3.3.3.1
you'll have to download this.
and then choose the XF_SVGA server.
gr
Nitehawk
Zachary Echlin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I have a 4 MM Diamond Stealth II S220. How do I setup X windows for my
>video card? What X Server do I use? Is there another card its
>compatible with? Xconfigurator is having trouble probing my video
>card. Please help me!
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Zachary
>
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From: "Steffen Kristensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox G200 AGP card?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 16:09:38 +0100
Are there any drivers that support the Matrox G200 AGP card?
It's not in the driver list, and I get a Server Error when trying to use
another card.
Regards
Steffen Kristensen
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From: Fulton B. Gonzalez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trident 9680 and Linux XWindows
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 10:05:26 -0500
On Sun, 07 Feb 1999, Scott wrote:
>I'm trying to get a 2MB Trident 9680 working with RedHat Linux 5.2.
>XWindows sees the card, but can't get into any other resolution than
>320x200.
>
>I'm really new to Linux and am hoping someone can help. Please email me at
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Thanks
I had the same problem with a Trident 9685 card, but was finally able to get
the desired resolution (800x600) after manually editing the XF86Config file.
This card uses the color SVGA server. In the Screen section be sure to set
DefaultColorDepth to 16, modes to 800x600 (and 1024x768 if you want), and
virtual to 800x600.
Fulton B. Gonzalez
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From: Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 13:34:32 +0000
I am having difficulty using my large IDE to its capacity. It is
correctly recognised as follows at boot up:
hda: Maxtor 91296D6, 12360MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
I am running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I can't seem to find any
way of persuading the system that the drive is greater than 8 GB. For
example fdisk shows
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 3 1012 8112825 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 1013 1024 96390 82 Linux swap
which seems to imply that the whole drive is used up !!
Help!
Raphael
P.S. I read the a HOWTO that said that there was a problem before 2.0.34
but I'm using 36.
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From: Daniel Ganek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TrueColor Video with overlays planes?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 11:27:34 -0500
At work I use an HP workstation with an FX-2 board which
is 1280x1024 24-bit true color for imaging with an 8-bit
overlay plane for graphics.
Does anyone know of an equivalent PCI board that I can
use on my home PC? A P133 running RH 5.2
/dan
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From: Paul Nevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quake II and non-Voodoo OpenGL
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 02:19:06 +0800
I have purchased the XiG accelerated OpenGL display drivers from
http://www.xig.com for use on a new SGI Visual 320 workstation.
I plan to run Linux on this "NT" box and use the XiG OpenGl support
which apparently has hardware acceleration for the display adapter on
this system. The SGI has a flat pannel display at 1600x1200 which is
supported in the XiG drivers too.
>From what I have read the OpenGL support does use hardware acceleration
for a large number of other cards. I have not played with the software
yet but it would be nice to get OpenGL hardware acceleration on my
3DLabs Permedia II 8Mb Card.. for the purposes of running Quake II of
course.
If anyone has had any success with this configuration please let me
know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Geoff Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.1 and etherexpress 16 (eexpress)
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 06:59:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
TheSuit ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Has anyone noticed any problems with this combination? I've had my
: etherexpress16 working under 2.0.3x since I first installed linux with
: vitually no problems... now all of a sudden after upgrading to 2.2.1 i
: occasionally get the following error messages (usually after i put some
: heavy'ish, 1mb +, trafic on the link)
: -------------
: ??? reset timed out, kicking...
: ??? reset timed out, kicking...
: ??? reset timed out, kicking...
: ??? not responding, giving up
: -------------
: ???= something like eth0 ixxxxxx.. can't remember the exact numbers..
: Has anyone else experianced this problem? Or does anyone know what the
: error messages mean? Does this indicate a hardware or software failure?
: I can provide more details if someone gives me some indication of what
: is required..
I have experienced this many times with earlier kernels and it has always
been "cured" by changing the card. From that I would suggest that it was a
hardware problem (with the card). However, in most cases, the cards worked
OK in other hardware under Linux and other OS's (?).
HTH
: Suit
Dirty old jeans :-)
--
--
Geoff Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux 2.0.31
Chelmsford [EMAIL PROTECTED] i586
Intel create faster processors - Microsoft create slower processes
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From: Lars Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: which distribution package do you recommend?
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 19:20:25 +0100
S.u.S.E. 6.0 in German is out but the change of the version number to 6.x doesn't
have to do with the kernel version, they changed it cos 6.0 is now based on
glibc, not on libc5 like 5.x used to be.
And concerning the readiness for 2.2, well i got some trouble compiling a recent
version (pre6 i guess) with the ntfs support modules....
Todd Ostermeier wrote:
> On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, Matthias Warkus wrote:
>
> : SuSE 6.0 is already out. It still ships with 2.0.36, but it is 2.2.0 ready.
>
> Just to clear this up, I was referring to the english version of 6.0. The
> German version is out, and has been out for a couple weeks now. There is
> still no english version, to my knowledge, and with the release of the
> 2.2.0 kernel today, I would assume the english version will be shipped w/
> 2.2
>
> ________________________________
>
> Todd Ostermeier
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ostermer/index.html
> ICQ UIN: 2253928
> A-723
> ________________________________
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From: "Iron Balls McGinty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 5.1 has PPP config utility?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 08:14:18 -0700
I'm having one of helluva time getting dialup PPP setup!
I've been trying to tweak the countless rc, init, inet, etc files by hand,
and I keep seeing some references to a setup utility (something like "RH 4
PPP configuration ...blah blah") that runs under Xwindows. I poked around
the Red Hat website but didn't see anything along those lines. Should I be
using that utility to get the job done?
...and while we're on the subject...
Immediately before giving up this morning, I ran the netcfg prog (in
/usr/bin) from the console just to see what would happen. I got an error
pertaining to a display variable or display name IIRC. I haven't come across
that in my books yet...any idea what I need to do there?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Hinz)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Network performance 3c589c
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:19:01 GMT
On Tue, 09 Feb 1999 16:39:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> TX packets:0 errors:97046 dropped:1446 overruns:0
> Interrupt:3 Base address:0x300
>
Hm. Interrupt:3?
Now I do not know your PCs configuration, but this is usually used by the
second serial port.
Try to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts and add the following:
# Second built-in serial port
exclude irq 3
Then run
/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia stop
/etc/rc.d/rc.pcmcia start
Dependig on your distribution the files config.opts and rc.pcmcia can be
in some other place on your file system. I am using Slackware.
--
Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
Andreas Hinz
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From: Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mustek ScanMagic 9636P in Linux. Does anybody know what chipset it uses?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:58:48 +0100
Hi!
Has anybody disassembled the Mustek's ScanMagic 9636P, and stated what
chips are used for its parallel interface?
I would like to prepare the Linux driver for this device, and I'm still
trying to avoid the protocol analysis...
Maybe this scanner is internally the SCSI device and uses a standard
SCSI<->parallel interface?
If anybody may help, please send me this information.
TIA
Wojtek Zabolotny
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Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 15:45:47 +0000
From: ali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: CD-RW Problem - Help Please!!
Hi!!
I'm using a HP-8100 CD-RW and cdrecord 1.6. and I'm having trouble
writing multiple sessions to the CD. (writing just one session works
fine)
The command. "cdrecord dev=0,0 -multi cdimage1" works fine and writes
the first session to disk
but if I execute "cdrecord dev-0,0 -multi cdimage2", although the track
writes to disk, when I mount the CD the files from the second image
don't show up.
eg. If image1 contained the file "abcde", writing to disk works just
fine. But if I then write image2 to the disk and image2 contained the
file "fghij" , when I mount the CD, the file "fghij" doesn't show up. It
takes up the disk space and all but I just can't get to it.
What am I doing wrong?
Please help
ali
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From: "~The Seventh Sign ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Specification for Linux Web Server
Date: Thu, 11 Feb 1999 13:39:10 -0500
Reply-To: "~The Seventh Sign ~" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm reading more into the types of problems people have before i get all
the parts for my system to run linux on. The More I read the more it looks
like a real Guru type of language to set up and play with than a desktop
choice. So far it is looking like Redhat 5.2 gets my vote for the linux OS
on the computer. Although I'm not to sure about my ISP right now becasue
linux is way different from anything I have now. I'm currently cursing the
IE 5 beta 2 right now and linux with the illusion of stability looks pretty
good right now.
--
~The �eventh �ign ~
Life on this planet has such limited visions.
If aliens in outerspace tapped into the Internet what would they say?
Thomas Neurauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:~The Seventh Sign ~ wrote:
:>
:> What happened when you run CGI scripts on it?
:
:
:Well, CGI scripts in Perl took some time.
:CGIs coded in C ran perfectly.
:
:Although hardware costs are very low nowadays,
:I always have to smile by myself when reading
:of people investing in double PIIs with 450 MHz,
:half a gig of memory and an awful amount of
:diskspace.
:
:It simply is not necessary half the time.
:Therefore we use Linux, don't we?
:
::-) Thomas
:
:
:> Thomas Neurauter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
:> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
:> :Peter Stephen Drage wrote:
:> :>
:> :> 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.
:> :
:> :For your jobs you should simply get a
:> :PII-350 with 128MB memory. This will do
:> :far more than you said you're going to do.
:> :
:> :I was running 12 virtual web-hosts on
:> :a 486/66 with 32 MB memory and 1,5 GB disks.
:> :It worked fine (except running perl-scripts
:> :for cgis and other purposes).
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