Linux-Hardware Digest #471, Volume #9 Sat, 20 Feb 99 15:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: Riva128 & Hauppauge TV (Marcus Metzler)
Re: kanji keyboards (Marcus Metzler)
Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive (Robert Young)
Re: 3151 Terminal. (Denny Hardian)
Re: Advice Needed From Seagate Owners (Rick Brice)
Re: Lexmark 1100 Color Jetprinter & Redhat 5.1 (Julian Thomas)
9 track or 3480 tape drives on Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: M570 Motherboard, AMD K6-300 and Redhat 5.2
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP Netraid 3si and Linux AMI Megaraid driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0 (Jose Urena)
5 button mouse??? (C Mulliss)
HP 820 Cxi and pbm2ppa 0.8.6 (Jose Carlos Machado)
TV Tuners and Linux ("Neil Moore")
Re: VIDEO: too little memory for mode -- not true! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice Needed From Seagate Owners (Pierre Moret)
Re: floppy driver instability in 2.1.x/2.2.x? (Rob Komar)
Re: Finding EDO Memory with Parity? (John Statham)
Best CD Writers (Robert Brown)
Sony SuperStation/Aiwa Bolt (Bill Stephens)
Help?? SoundBlaster PCI64. (Oistein Aanensen)
IBM Netfinity 5000 - SCSI problem (Miguel De Buf)
Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations? ("Arcady Genkin")
Re: Printers again: nothing but color (Lev Tarasoff)
Re: Linux deadlock? (James Tappin)
Re: Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive (David Ripton)
Re: How to low-level format a harddrive ("Torsten Jenkner")
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From: Marcus Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Riva128 & Hauppauge TV
Date: 19 Feb 1999 16:22:18 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zany Wilco) writes:
> i do have the same problem.
> Windows98 works fine but xtvscreen/xawtv only show monochrome.
> >I have a Hauppauge TVcard and a Elsa Victory Erazor videocard (riva128).
> >When I start a tvprogram (xtvscreen, kwintv or any other I've tried) the
> >colors are all wrong. In Windows98 I run the same resolution
> >(1600x1280x16bpp) and it works fine. Anybody any suggestions?
You should use "xtvscreen -bpp 15", since the 16bpp mode of the TNT cards is
only 15bpp deep. xawtv probably has a similar option. This is a bug of the
xserver.
Marcus
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From: Marcus Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kanji keyboards
Date: 19 Feb 1999 16:31:04 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am looking into getting a kanji keyboard such as the ones offered at:
>
> http://fingertipsoft.com/kbd/nmb.html
>
> --Tyler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
I don`t know about support for such keyboards. I haven`t seen them being used
in Japan. Maybe you should post this to the mailing list of the Tokyo Linux
User Group (TLUG), or have a look at their web page (http://tlug.linux.or.jp).
They have lots of tips on how to use Japanese on a Linux machine.
Marcus
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From: Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:34:31 GMT
Hi,
Currently, CompUSA has a US$30 rebate for the above drive and the price
after
the rebate is US$199. This sounds like a good bargain. I am thinking to
purchase one and use it as the main hard drive for my web server under
Linux.
Is it a good idea to use this Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA hard drive as the main
hard drive for a web server under Linux?
Thanks.
--
Robert Young,
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From: Denny Hardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: 3151 Terminal.
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 15:45:52 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can try a freebie screen from www-frec.bull.com. It allows you to switch
among many sessions. HTH.
Denny
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hmm.. how exactly can I hot-key between 2 sessions on my Infowindow 3153? I
> have been looking for this answer for quite some time.. never been able to
> find it... also, I just acquired 9 IBM 3151's, and I'm not sure how to
> access the terminal setup (within the terminal itself.. there has to be a
> way..)
>
> I would appreciate any assistance. Thanks!
>
> -Roger
>
> P.S. Could you C.C. any replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks!
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > A 3153 will let you hot key between two sessions or hook up to two
> > systems. I don't believe the 3151 has that capaibility - it has one "host"
> > port and one pass-thru port for a printer. You can certainly use the 3151
> > terminal on Linux if you send the terminfo (or termcap - depending on which
> > the applications you use on Linux use) entry for the 3151 and it should be
> > just fine.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Paul
> >
> > Derek Kwan wrote:
> >
> > > Hello World,
> > >
> > > I have just order a IBM 3151 terminal, and I was wondering if it is
> > > possible to use as a regular dumb terminal. For example hook up with my
> > > Linux box (BTW, isn't 3151 have 2 comm ports?) so I can switch between
> > > terminals?
> > >
> > > Derek
> >
> >
>
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From: Rick Brice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice Needed From Seagate Owners
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:34:35 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Go to......
http://customer.seagate.com/warranty/Cwvw
Seagate knows all.....
Rick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Dear fellow Seagate owners,
>
> I need to identify the dates of manufacture of an ST34501W and an
> ST34572W. There are quite a few sets of codes and numbers printed and
> labeled on the drives, but I cannot figure out which one is the year
> and month of manufacture. Any advice will be appreciated, please also
> reply to my email address. Thanks and regards,
>
> Kryz Keiderg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julian Thomas)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Lexmark 1100 Color Jetprinter & Redhat 5.1
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:25:36 -0500
In <7aiugi$oue$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/18/99
at 10:58 PM, "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Lexmark printers are "Windows only" printers. You have a better chance
>of getting hit by lightning than getting that printer to work ;-)
Not true for most of them (specifically the 5700 and the lasers work with
os2).
--
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Boardmember of POSSI.org - Phoenix OS/2 Society, Inc http://www.possi.org
In the beautiful Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State!
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Johnson's Corollary: computers have a reset button for a reason.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 9 track or 3480 tape drives on Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:55:10 GMT
Does anyone know what models of 9 track drives (if any) are supported
by Linux? Also, same question for 3480/3490 tape drives.
If you attach a 9 track drive to Linux, is there any software that
will allow it to read/write IBM compatible tapes (EBCDIC), or will it
be limited to handling tapes in tar format?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: M570 Motherboard, AMD K6-300 and Redhat 5.2
Date: 19 Feb 1999 16:26:00 GMT
Mark Borgstrom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I wrote your "busy" program and let
: it run on my machine all last night. It was running just fine in the
: morning.
You may add the busy-loop-programm in of the
startup-scripts with something like
/usr/bin/nice 20 /usr/local/bin/busyloop
This also provide the necessary load and shouldn't
have a big loss of performance.
(Try this in case you don't find the solder-points)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP Netraid 3si and Linux AMI Megaraid driver
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:12:52 GMT
I recently got a Netserver LC3 that contained two HP Netraid 3si cards (aka
AMI Megaraid 438, Revision B4). I have tried the Linux AMI Megaraid driver,
including the latest version, included in Alan Cox's 2.0.37 prepatches, but
no matter what version I try, when I insert the module, the box freezes up.
Has anyone else had luck getting this controller to work under Linux?
TIA.
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem mounting a 'newer FAT32' filesystem Linux5.0
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 12:13:08 -0500
is the Windows 95 filesystem part of your kernel?
you might need to rebuild your kernel with all the MSDOS file System options
plus NFS support
Paches wrote:
> I tried:
> mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /doze (thanx to help from readers)
> but I got this:
>
> [MSDOS FS Rel. 12,FAT 16, check=n,conv=b,vid=0,gid=0,umask=022,bmap]
> [me=0xf8,cs=8,#f=2,fs=32,f1=0,ds=32,de=0,data=32,se=0,ts=12578832,ls=512]
>
> Transaction Block Size = 512
> VFS:Can't find a valid msdos filesystem on dev 03:01
> mount:wrong fs type,bad option,bad superblock on dev/hda1, or too many
> mounted filesystems
>
> Hmmmmmmmm
> -Paches
>
> >
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From: C Mulliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: C Mulliss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 5 button mouse???
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:11:48 +0000
Hi
I am fairly new to Linux, and have just upgraded (in the end went for a
clean install) RH5.2. Previously, under RH5.0, I had no problem
configuring my mouse for left handed mousing. I was able to do it from
within xwindows using the graphical menu system. The mouse is an older 2
button MS serial mouse. This wont work under 5.2, the change just isnt
implemented, although no error message.
So, using xmodmap instead, (as indicated in the man page) with
xmodmap -e "pointer = 2 1"
(I also tried 3 2 1 as well)
I receive the following error message:
bad number of buttons, must have 5 instead of 3, I error encountered,
aborting.
I tried a 3 button serial mouse next ( a Primax venus mouse), exactly
the same error message!
Along the way, I have tried, in mouseconfig, setting both mice
(separately of course <g>) as various generic and named mice with the
appropriate number of buttons, and with and without the option of
emulated 3 buttons.
Any (helpful) ideas anyone?
TIA
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Cherry Mulliss
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Life can only be understood
backwards; but it must be
lived forwards. (Kierkegaard)
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From: Jose Carlos Machado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 820 Cxi and pbm2ppa 0.8.6
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 13:46:13 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
I'm pretty much a newbie in Linux and I'm trying to use my HP820 Cxi
with the pbm2ppa driver.
I downloaded it and when I try to "make 820" I always get an error
saying:
', needed by '820.h'. Stop.rget '
To be honest I don't know whether this results from something wrong in
the scripts or Makefile or from me trying make 820 in the wrong
way/directory/file permissions?
I would really appreciate your help :-)
Thank you very much in advance,
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IPATIMUP Fax: +351 2 5570799
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From: "Neil Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV Tuners and Linux
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 10:01:25 -0000
I have a TV Tuner based on a brooktree chipset and was wondering how to
configure this to work under linux and where to download viewing software.
Thanks.
Neil Moore
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: VIDEO: too little memory for mode -- not true!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Date: 19 Feb 1999 17:17:48 +0100
In comp.os.linux.x dave caputo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> (--) S3: Too little memory for mode "1280x1024"
> But, i have a diamond stealth 64 video vram with 4MB memory ...
> this is detected, as evidenced by the line
> (--) S3: videoram: 4096k
> Now, as we all know 1280x1024x3 < 4096k, and in fact, when i run windows,
> i can get 1280x1024x24bit just fine ...
Could it be the X server tries to use 32-bit depth instead of 24-bit? I read that
24-bit packed color wasn't supported by all drivers; you should check the docs
for your server...
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Pierre Moret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Advice Needed From Seagate Owners
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:40:01 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I need to identify the dates of manufacture of an ST34501W and an
> ST34572W.
<http://www.seagate.com:80/support/disc/st34501w.shtml>
should help...
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Pierre Moret, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
skyweb developments SA/AG
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: floppy driver instability in 2.1.x/2.2.x?
Date: 19 Feb 1999 18:04:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: hello,
:
: i think i've noticed a bit of instability in the floppy driver used in the
: 2.1.x and 2.2.x kernels. i unfortunately have no core dumps or kernel panic
: information to submit, but just my hunch that after using linux for 3-4
: years without a single crash, something is very wrong.
I haven't found any mention of this in the docs that come with the
2.2 kernels, but the following entry in the slackware-current
ChangeLog:
slakware/a1/aaa_base.tgz: Recompiled fdutils (recommended for Linux 2.2.x)
suggests that you might try doing that yourself.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: John Statham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Finding EDO Memory with Parity?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:48:26 +0000
Jon McLin wrote:
> Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
> > ...
> > Are you really sure that you have EDO simms with parity? I didn't know
> > that EDO with parity existed. Maybe you have Fast Page memory with
> > parity?
> >
>
> That's what the Dell manual says. And examining the existing SIMMS shows
> 9 RAM chips.
>
> I somewhere found a web page on memory which mentioned the parity EDO did
> in fact exist but was uncommon (and that vendors would often tell you that
> it didn't exist!). Don't remember the link.
>
> Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Jon
See -
http://www.kmscomponents.com/
And follow "products", "memory", "72 pin SIMMS"
72 pin EDO with parity is listed at the bottom of the page.
Cheers
John
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From: Robert Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best CD Writers
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:04:59 -0800
Can anybody tell me the of some good CDROM writers for Redhat 5.0?
Thanks,
Robert
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 12:20:47 -0600
From: Bill Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.tape
Subject: Sony SuperStation/Aiwa Bolt
Ok, I admit it, I bought one without checking the news groups first.
Now that I have checked though, it looks like folks have been trying to
get it working since last November. Does anyone have it working
reliably?
I tried 2.0.36, and hit the I/O errors most folks did, so I struggled
with the 2.2.1 upgrade, and finally was able to boot my system and have
it recognize the tape on /dev/ht0. When I try to tar (tar cvf /dev/ht0
/root) I receive a trap screen.
If anyone has it working, I sure would appreciate any hints or tips,
otherwise, it'll have to be relegated to, ugh sigh whimper, my NT
machine.
Thanks,
Bill Stephens
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From: Oistein Aanensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help?? SoundBlaster PCI64.
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:12:19 +0100
Can't get it to work, how?
Do I need addiditional drivers? Or will the standard
2.2.1 kernel do?
I'm running RH5.2 with kernel 2.2.1
Thanks a lot in advance for any help
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Institute of Solid Earth Physics Lesesal.: 55588758
University of Bergen
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From: Miguel De Buf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM Netfinity 5000 - SCSI problem
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 20:16:07 +0100
Hi there,
I need to install a Linux box on a IBM netfinity 5000 server. This one
comes with a built in IBM RAID II SCSI controller, which is not
supported (yet ???) by Linux. So I will buy another SCSI card and
attach the 4 hard drives from the bays to it. Which SCSI controller
should I buy (I don't have any experience with SCSI) ??? Do I need an
ultra-wide SCSI card (what's so special about ultra-wide) ???
Thanx,
Miguel
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From: "Arcady Genkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Old ISA ethernet card - Recomendations?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:05:16 -0500
Hi all!
Can you guys recomend what used ISA networking card should I buy?
I am going to network 2 computers. The other one already is a PCI
full-duplex 100Base-TX/10Base-T with Reltek 8139 chip (ne2000 for PCI).
Should it influence my decision as to what to buy? I have heard that ne2000
clones are poor performers.
What transmission speeds do you suppose I will be able to get out of it? I
know 100Base is capable of 200 Mbps in full duplex mode. Any ISA cards match
that?
Also, how safe is it to buy from online auctions, like Ebay? There seems to
be tons of old hardware for sale there...
Thanx a lot for any input!
Arcady
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Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 11:43:08 -0500
From: Lev Tarasoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printers again: nothing but color
Check out http://www.pricewatch.com for cheap printers.
They list a factory refurbished (and warrantied) Espon colour
stylus 800 for $165 plus shipping. This has great print quality
under linux, though I can't comment on long-term wear.
Lev
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From: James Tappin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux deadlock?
Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 19:31:39 +0000
Bao Lichun wrote:
>
> It has frustrated me that whenever I use Xwindows and do with
> graphic application much, the computer will die at some point.
> It seems my video card is not set well or monitor. I am a newbie,
> can someone help?
To get a useful answer you probably need to give more information: (e.g.
what type of card, what resolution & depth; whether there are specific
applications that cause problems etc.)
There is a fairly long-running discussion of a possibly similar problem
going on on the Linux-tecra mailing list. At present all we really know
is that some applications which use "home-made" toolkits (e.g. xv) lock
the Tecra laptops (S3 Virge card) rock solid when moving the mouse over
pulldown menus.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA Hard Drive
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:24:22 GMT
In article <Awfz2.3828$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Currently, CompUSA has a US$30 rebate for the above drive and the price
>after
>the rebate is US$199. This sounds like a good bargain. I am thinking to
Yeah, but remember that it may take a while to get that rebate. Check
www.pricewatch.com for mail-order prices on that drive.
>purchase one and use it as the main hard drive for my web server under
>Linux.
>Is it a good idea to use this Maxtor 13.6GB Ultra DMA hard drive as the main
>hard drive for a web server under Linux?
Check www.storagereview.com for drive comparisons. Maxtor makes very
good IDE drives these days. For the money they usually can't be beat.
Whether it's a good idea depends on what you do with your web server.
If it's a heavily loaded commercial site, it may be worth the money
to buy expensive high-end SCSI drives like Seagate Cheetahs. If load
is moderate, disk performance is not a major bottleneck, and cost is
important, Maxtor drives are a good buy.
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From: "Torsten Jenkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a harddrive
Date: 20 Feb 1999 19:40:11 GMT
with modern harddrives it is impossible to low-level format them. If you do
so, you would destroy the drive completely. The question is what problems
you have exactly. Are there any problems on hardware? Are there any tracks
unreadable and/or not writeable? give us more information.
Torsten Jenkner
A.G. schrieb in Nachricht ...
>Hi all:
>
>I suspect I have problems with my harddrive. Can somebody advise about the
>subj?
>
>Thanx for any input,
>Arcady
>
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