Linux-Hardware Digest #494, Volume #9 Wed, 24 Feb 99 10:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: 3COM 905B-TX Detection Problem (Sean)
Re: true color in windows, 16color in linux (Teddy Pao)
Default colour depth of a X-Server (ThomasWalz)
Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 - SCSI problem (Jon Milliren)
Re: Linux & SPARC (Paul Braun)
Installing Linux From A local Hardrive ("Tony")
OnStream drives under Linux? (Alvin Garcia)
Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux (bill davidsen)
help: X with NVIDIA STB Velocity128 4MB AGP and EV900 Monitor ("J. Bolze")
Re: TV Tuners and Linux (Diederick van Dijk)
Re: How to connect an Apple LaserWriter printer to my PC box through the parallel
port (Kevin Quick)
Install to external PCMCIA HDD (Nova max)? ("Steve Moyle")
Dimm PC and Linux ("Walter Harms")
type 4 sun keyboard on K6-2 Box (Jean-Loic Moat)
Re: ProAudio Studio (pas2.o) sound card and Redhat 5.2 ?? (Yaye)
Multi-Disc CD-ROM TEAC /w linux (Klaus Wilting)
Re: Linux on a Compaq whith a Smart+ Card ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB modem (Andri Saar)
Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO 90 (ISA) on 2.2 kernel? (mvrao)
Re: My Leadtek Winfast S320 Riva TNT does not work with XFree86 3.3.3. Help!!!!!!!!
(Eric Larson)
Looking for a global supported hardware doc (David GUYON MARTIN)
HP SureStore T20 and T20X tape (Wayne Veilleux)
System performance on differrent processors. PPC, SPARC, ALPHA, and INTEL ("David
A. Frantz")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean)
Subject: Re: 3COM 905B-TX Detection Problem
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 14:44:29 -0600
Supposedly the 3c509 module that comes with the RedHat 5.2 distribution
does have support for this card and the other 3c905 variant. I, however,
had no luck with it and was forced to recompile the kernel with the new
3c905B Vortex drivers in it. After doing that everything worked just
dandy.
Sean
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Schiele
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Russell Dawson wrote:
> > =
>
> > Hello there,
> > =
>
> > I can't seem to even get RedHat Linux 5.2 to install because my 3COM
> > 905B-TX is not a supported NIC. I was told that maybe the kernel has
> > drivers for it, but as for installing it, I don't know what to do.
>
> I have the same card and it works fine with Linux.
> Are you sure RedHat 5.2 does not support it? I can=B4t believe that. SuSE=
>
> does support this card.
> It=B4s driver 3c59x.
>
> > =
>
> > Is there any UNIX based OS that I can install from FTP with a 3COM
> > 905B-TX?
> > =
>
> > Is there anyway to get a driver for the Linux installation?
> > =
>
> > Thanks.
> > =
>
> > Russell Dawson
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From: Teddy Pao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: true color in windows, 16color in linux
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 00:27:16 -0800
ComFuMasta wrote:
> i get true color in windows, but i use a driver sis 5597/5598. in linux all
> i can get is vga16. can you help. i do not know what all info you need but
> if you have any questions please feel free to ask.
>
> comfumasta
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
not only you have to have the right xservers for the xwindows also you have to
modify startx. inthe server arguement add -bpp 16 or -bpp 24 or -bpp 32
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Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 23:26:12 +0100
From: ThomasWalz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Default colour depth of a X-Server
The X-Server from my Linux PC is starting with a colourdepth of 8 bpp.
If i drive Linux to runlevel 2 and type startx -- -bpp 16 it works fine
with 16 bpp. I also modified the script usr/X11R6/bin/startx as follows:
clientargs=""
# serverargs=""
serverargs="-bpp 16"
It is also working correctly.
But if i drive Linux to runlevel 3 ( Default in /etc/inittab ), xdm will
start and the changes i did in
the script usr/X11R6/bin/startx have no effect. The X-Server
is working only with 8 bpp.
How can i make the X-Server starting with 16 bpp ?
Thanks in advance,
Thomas Walz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jon Milliren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM Netfinity 5000 - SCSI problem
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:21:53 -0500
On Sat, 20 Feb 1999, Miguel De Buf wrote:
> 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) ???
I just installed Linux (RedHat 5.2, the four disk super set), on
that exact machine, and had no problems whatsoever. The install will
detect the adaptec 2740,2840,2940. Go ahead and just install the thing as
normall and it will just work. I put two of the 9gig scsi drives in there
with no problems. I even mirrored a large partition on both of the drives.
And people think that Windows is easier...=)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Braun)
Subject: Re: Linux & SPARC
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 20:24:33 GMT
In article <7at2j8$535$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Scott Statland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I was told that SPARC Processors will only run Solaris & Linux. Can anyone
>tell me what version of Linux runs on a SPARC and where I can get it?
>
>
I know that Red Hat makes a SPARC-flavored version.
www.redhat.com
You can buy RH at Best Buy now, but I'm not sure if that distribution includes
the SPARC stuff or only the x86 flavor.
Paul
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Installing Linux From A local Hardrive
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:56:25 +1100
Hello
Can someone please head me to some tips on installing linux from a local
harddrive. I have a dos drive and will copy all the redhat distribution
onto it, then i plan to install it from there.
Any help/tips most appreciated
Thanks
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alvin Garcia)
Subject: OnStream drives under Linux?
Date: 22 Feb 1999 17:03:57 -0500
Hello,
I just ran across a new large-capacity tape backup system at
www.onstream.com. The drives look great for my purposes, but I need it to
work under Linux as well. I tried talking to a tech support representative,
asking him whether the drives behaved as a tape/removeable-media IDE or
SCSI device, in which case, they should run fine under Linux (I think). The
representative told me that I couldn't use the drives without special
drivers, and that they had no plans for Linux drivers. I would imagine that
these devices should "appear" as any other tape/removeable-media device, but
I wanted to know if anyone could give me a definitive answer.
Thanks.
-Alvin
p.s. Please reply via e-mail
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bill davidsen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: IDE RAID controllers for Linux
Date: 22 Feb 1999 21:43:10 GMT
In article <76ruku$3et$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Most computers today come with two onboard IDE controllers. If you need to
| mirror lots of drives, you can install one DupliDisk RAID 1 controller on the
| Primary IDE and another on the Secondary IDE. Each DupliDisk can handle up
| to two pairs of mirrored drives--one pair on the Master Channel and another
| on the Slave channel. If you hook up your four existing 6.5 Gbyte drives to
| the DupliDisk on the Primary IDE, you can still add two more pairs of 6.5
| Gbyte drives to the DupliDisk on the Secondary IDE. Or, you could hook up
| one pair of really big drives to the second DupliDisk, using only the Master
| channel of the Secondary IDE for mirroring. This would leave the Slave
| channel free for a CD-ROM.
|
| Donna Barron
| http://www.arcoide.com
On a very related issue, before motherboards had IDE, we used to buy
ISA/EIDE/VESA IDE controllers. Now since Linux will support up to four
controllers, is there anyone still making controllers, obviously for
the PCI bus these days, which can be used to add the other two?
The Duplidisk gives the reliability protection of RAID-1, but lacks the
performance benefit, since with traditional RAID-1, if you get multiple
reads to a single drive you can read one off the mirror, while with a
single virtual IDE device you don't get that benefit.
--
bill davidsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Politicians and diapers have one thing in common. They should both be
changed regularly and for the same reason.
--Ted Symons(?)
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From: "J. Bolze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help: X with NVIDIA STB Velocity128 4MB AGP and EV900 Monitor
Date: 24 Feb 1999 10:58:09 GMT
Hello,
I am new with linux. On my Gateway 2000 G6-266 I installed Red Hat 5.1.
But I could not run XFree86 3.3.2 with my NVIDIA 4MB STB Velocity128 4MB
AGP video card and the Gateway2000 EV900 Monitor. Can anybody help?
Thanks a lot,
Joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Diederick van Dijk)
Subject: Re: TV Tuners and Linux
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:08:48 GMT
Neil Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My Apologies...my news client screwed up and sent my internal mail address at
>work...it should read [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>Many thanks
>
>Neil Moore
>
>Neil Moore wrote:
>
>> 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
Hi,
Here are some links for you :
http://www.in-berlin.de/User/kraxel/xawtv.html
http://roadrunner.swansea.uk.linux.org/v4l.shtml
http://www.exploits.org/v4l/
============================================================
Bill can't buy or beat the Internet.
So Linux will win every time.
Diederick van Dijk
Homepage: http://www.xs4all.nl/~diedvdyk
Mini-Howto PPP to NT with MS Chap and callback :
http://www.xs4all.nl/~diedvdyk/PPP-NT-HOWTO/PPP-NT-HOWTO.html
=============================================================
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Quick)
Subject: Re: How to connect an Apple LaserWriter printer to my PC box through the
parallel port
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 11:17:45 +0000
In article <7aao70$nd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Cruz) wrote:
>Emmanuel Promayon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am wondering if some of you already get a Apple LaserWriter printer
>> working directly connected on a PC parallel port.
>> My printer is an Apple LaserWriter II NTX, my system is RedHat 5.1
>> (linux 2.0.34).
>
>You can connect it to your serial port with no troubles. Why do you need to
>use the parallel port?
>
>miguel
The NTX doesn't support the parallel port. The only option you have with
this model are serial.
Kevin.
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From: "Steve Moyle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Install to external PCMCIA HDD (Nova max)?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:39:14 -0000
Someone has kindly donated a 3.2 GB PCMCIA external HDD (Nova max).
I would like to install Linux on the drive.
I would appreciate any pointers to information regarding this objective.
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dimm PC and Linux
Date: 24 Feb 1999 08:54:16 GMT
In the last time embedded linux had some great successes. the
coldfire group got there system boot and the world smallest webserver
is running linux. I am looking for an embedded linux for data logging.
Did anyone repeat the experiments with the dimm pc or the coldfire so far ?
how much time would it take to create a test version ? how robust they are ?
walter
--
=====
"I am not expendable, I am not stupid and I am not going!"
=====
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From: Jean-Loic Moat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: type 4 sun keyboard on K6-2 Box
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:11:27 +0100
Hi all.
Anyone knowing how to connect a type 4 sun keyboard on the serial or PS1
port of a K6-2 Linux Box ?
Thanks,
JLoic
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yaye)
Subject: Re: ProAudio Studio (pas2.o) sound card and Redhat 5.2 ??
Date: 24 Feb 1999 13:28:36 GMT
Hi,
I've been having the same problem with my Proaudio Spectrum 16. I have the
SCSI interface on the card working and can access the CD-ROM connected to it.
I have not been able to get the sound portion of the card to work with Redhat
5.0 or 5.2 sound config utility.
After quite a bit of time on the phone with tech support, I got it to work for
a short time with the trial version of the commercial sound drivers from
Forefront Technologies. I turned off the computer and when I restarted it a
few hours later, the sound was no longer working. I called Forefront the next
day, but I guess they couldn't give me more help without me registering it, and
I didn't want to register and pay $20.00 without getting the trial version to
work from a cold boot.
When I switch over to the DOS/Windows 3.1 hard drive, the sound card works, so
it isn't a hardware problem. One day I might get brave enough and try
recompiling my kernel to see it this will get it working.
If you ever get it working, please post your method to the newsgroup. Good
Luck!
Ian
Plano, TX
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From: Klaus Wilting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multi-Disc CD-ROM TEAC /w linux
Date: 24 Feb 1999 13:06:23 GMT
Is there a convenient way to operate a TEAC CD-C68E multi-disc CD ROM
drive with linux?
The ide-cd driver works and also the applied program "cdload.c"
works and switches the disc.
What i now miss is a convenient user interface, e.g. like a web-page,
to allow users to switch CD-ROMs on server remotely.
Any ideas? Thank you for submitting your tips/tricks/hints!
--
Klaus Wilting Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Frankfurt am Main, Germany Fax: +49 69 66600099
Geekcode = GB/CS d++ p c+++ l++ u--- e-- m+ s++/-- n++ h* !f !g w+ t--- r- y?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on a Compaq whith a Smart+ Card ?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:50:50 GMT
Hi
Since the NCR 53c710 driver does not support EISA Controller you cannot
install Linux on Proliant 1000.
One more thing , to make Smart + Array controller bootable we need to first
install Linux on hard disk Connected to SCSI controller. As this is not
possible on your system you cannot install Linux unless we get a driver for
710 controller.
Regards
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yann Saint-Jalmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi !
>
> So, as it seems that there is no driver for NCR 53c710 chip on EISA bus,
> I'm looking for another solution to run Linux on the Compaq Proliant
> 1000.
>
> If I plug a Compaq smart card "smart + Array Controleur, spare
> 142130-001" in the EISA bus, can I install Linux ? With which
> floppy-disk boot ?
>
> Best regards.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:59:29 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB modem
fatboy wrote:
>
> I have a USR usb modem which can be connected by usb or com port, cad i
> use this modem both in linux and win98?
If you connect it to a serial port it should work. USB doesn't
work yet (_yet_: work is done to implement USB in Linux)
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From: mvrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO 90 (ISA) on 2.2 kernel?
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:23:03 +0000
I know this card wasn't supported in kernel 2.0.x. Has anyone got it to
work in kernel 2.2 ? It used to ship with Gateway systems.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Larson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: My Leadtek Winfast S320 Riva TNT does not work with XFree86 3.3.3.
Help!!!!!!!!
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:29:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Did you upgrade your setup program when you upgraded your XFree
server?
On Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:28:44 +0100, "Juan Miguel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How I could work in linux with Riva TNT.
>The XFree86Setup only let me work with 640x480x8 and I must configure the
>card manually (the name of card is "none").
>Please help me!
>Thank you for all
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: David GUYON MARTIN <"d.gm"@francemel.com(please_no_spam)>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux
Subject: Looking for a global supported hardware doc
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 15:15:16 +0100
I am looking for a doc with all the hardware currently supported by
Linux
- mainboards
- video cards
- sound cards
- network cards
- mice, ...
I guess I could look in each FAQ for each part of the system, but I am
not sure that all will be up to date !
As I'm going to buy a box specialy for Linux I don't want to get
troubles with an unsupported yet video card...
Thanks for you help, crawling over the web didn't help me much!
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Veilleux)
Subject: HP SureStore T20 and T20X tape
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 14:36:55 GMT
Hi:
Does anyone know if the new TR-5 (travan) tape HP SureStore T20 and T20X
is supported by Linux kernel ? It is SCSI-II based, so I suppose it should
work.
Here is the url:
http://www.hp.com/tape/colorado/NetworkProductsFrameset.html
Thanks.
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Architecte de r�seaux http://waycomm.dynip.com/ Fax: +1 450 649-2419
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System performance on differrent processors. PPC, SPARC, ALPHA, and INTEL
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 23:19:03 -0500
Hi All;
After installing the new kernel 2.2.1 on an old 586 laptop (133Mhz), and
seeing an amazing performance increase, I have to wonder how the kernel
performs on other architectures. Is the speed up I'm seeing Intel
specific or have the other platforms seen similar increases in performance?
To be honest I'm not even sure that the new kernel is avialable yet on PPC
or Alpha.
Is it safe to assume that most of the performance tweaking of Linux 2.2.1 is
targeted at I386? With the same generation kernel which chip set gets the
best performance out of the kernel Alpha PPC Sparc or Intel?
This question comes to mind because of the availibility of low cost PPC
based machines from Apple and IBM. In fact IBMs "giving a boost" to Linux
is what started me thinking about what would be the best hardware platform
to replace my P2 system.
The big question is given three 400Mhz systems one Intel, one PPC based and
one Alpha based which is going to perform best all around? I know this is
a hard question to ask, and the K7 may be the big contender, but only
recently has pricing of these other systems made thinking about it
worthwhile. Since I don't have access to this equipment comments from
someone in the kow would be helpful.
Dave
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