Linux-Hardware Digest #511, Volume #9 Sat, 27 Feb 99 01:13:44 EST
Contents:
Re: Sorry, I meant AVA 1502I, not 1505I :-( (Markus Baumeister)
Re: Using a DELL as a Linux server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Needs info on at&t globalyst 720 ("Inger Karin Haarbye")
Re: i686 ("David A. Frantz")
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? ("David A. Frantz")
RealPlayer and OPTi 82C931 soundcard? (Pascal Haakmat)
Re: Any chance for Linux to use an MDP7800-U PCI Modem (Mircea)
Re: Printing under Linux ("Misterfixit")
Re: mgetty as a V90 PPP server? (Andri Saar)
3Dm-9504 video card and IBM 9504 monitor ("Rick Mansur")
Printers: HP 1100 or NEC 870? (Howard Frey)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Colorado parallel port tape backup not working (Grant Guenther)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony D. Tribelli)
SoundBlaster Live! w/ SuSE 6.0 (Malte =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6der?=)
Does Cyrix support linux (Kishore)
Does Encore n/w card support linux (Kishore)
Re: Printers: HP 1100 or NEC 870? (Grant Taylor)
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:48:50 +0100
From: Markus Baumeister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sorry, I meant AVA 1502I, not 1505I :-(
pigli schrieb:
Yes !!!
look at:
http://www.suse.de/cgi-bin/cdb.cgi?lang%3dE%3aVENDOR%3dADAPTEC%3aNAME%3dAVA%2d1502
--
mfg
Markus Baumeister
(linux newbie) & Allgemeiner Schutzfehler Veteran (�_�)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Easy Bank Ag. Blz.:14200 Kto.Nr.:20010037604 f.Spenden dankbar.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.sys.pc-clone.dell
Subject: Re: Using a DELL as a Linux server
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:08:13 GMT
In article <919860940.933481@marvin>,
"Jorrit Tyberghein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm investigating the possibility of using a DELL Linux server. Here
> is the hardware configuration that we're interested in:
>
We're in a similar boat. I'm about to install Linux on a PowerEdge 2300. I've
read several postings from people reporting success, and Dell itself will
install Linux on servers under special circumstances.
> - Will this setup work well with Linux? Any special things I should
> worry about in this particular configuration?
Unless you compile a special boot disk for some other distribution, the only
version of Linux that really supports the Dell systems more or less out of the
box is Red Hat Linux. You can get special boot disk images from Dell that will
recognize both the AMI MegaRaid (PERC) controller and the Adaptec controller
(so that you can install from the Red Hat CD onto the internal drive array).
Here's the URL for your model:
http://support.dell.com/filelib/system.asp?sysid=PWE_PNT_PII_4300
Look toward the bottom of the page.
I believe the boot images for the PERC raid controller are also available
directly from the manufacturer, at www.ami.com or ftp.megatrends.com (the site
claims the driver isn't available; that's not technically true). You should
probably get these drivers at some point anyway, as you'll need them if you
recompile the kernel.
> - Will the 2 processors be supported by Linux?
Yes, but you'll have to recompile the kernel with SMP support.
> - Is there an advantage over using the 10000rpm disks instead of
> the 7200rpm disks?
> - They propose 1,0'' and 1,6'' disks. The latter are more expensive.
> What is the difference?
The drive carriers will take either; we're using 7200 1.0" drives right now.
Frankly, with the right RAID configuration, the 80MB/s throughput of the
Ultra2/LVD SCSI bus makes the difference in drive speeds marginal in all but
the most I/O intensive situations.
> - They propose different tape drivers:
> - DDS-3 DAT 8 tape autoloader 96/192 GB
> - DLT 4000 drive 20/40 GB SCSI-3
> - DLT 7000 drive 35/70 GB SCSI-3
> What is the best choice here?
DLT is better but more expensive. Linux will work fine with either.
If anyone has actually *installed* Linux on a PE 2300 (as opposed to just
being in the planning stages), I'd like to hear his or her experiences.
Erik Diehn
Systems Engineer
Comet Systems, Inc.
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From: "Inger Karin Haarbye" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Needs info on at&t globalyst 720
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 02:18:13 +0100
Anyone knows where to get some detailed info on at&t globalyst 720?
Anyway, if anyone can answear my questions here:
My motherboard has got two sockets, one socket 5 and one socket 7, supports
CPU clocking up to 166MHz, and needs parity-type RAM.
- I need to know if my motherboard also supports the MMX prosessor.
- Can it dualprosess with two different CPU's at the same frequensy?
- Is it correct that only the two first RAM's have to be of parity-type, so
I can use normal EDO for the remaining four spaces?
Trond Peter
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i686
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 21:11:04 -0500
Pierre;
The short answer is yes you will see a performance increase. The long
answer is a little more complicated.
First just switching to ECGS will improve things greatly. This is
especially the case on the latest kernels, the other part of the equation is
that the latest kernels are required to compile correctly with anything
other than GCC. Switch to PGCC will again improve things but not to the
same extent as moving to EGCS (speaking of the kernel here).
Keep in mind that the "E" in ECGS is experimental.
To get substatial improvements on you overall system, does not require a
recompile of everything. Just hit the things that are known performance
impactors such as the Kernel and X. Keep in mind that the 2.2.x kernels
are a substantial improvement.
Dave
Pierre Scotney wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Hi!
>
>Would there be much improvement in overall system performance if I was
>to completely recompile a Linux set-up (kernel, X, et al.) with the i686
>flag on a new PII-450?
>
>Regards
>
>Pierre.
>
>--
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Dr Pierre Scotney
>St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
>University of Melbourne
>Australia
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 20:57:15 -0500
Seth;
Well stated!!!!
The problem is that people are embarrasssed at times when they go out and by
Apple computers even if there running Linux. I mention Apple due the fact
that they have the only mass produced non i386 system on the market.
Apple would do well if they would openly support Linux development on there
machines, everyone knows that the MAC OS is a little gray in the beard. I
know at one time they where doing so with a Mach kernel. I would love to
see a mass produced Alpha or PowerPC system, with standardized hardware,
that would be true competition for the i386 market.
Dave
Seth Van Oort wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Linux has helped people break out from being under the control of
>Microsoft by providing options in software. I hope it can help us escape
>the control of Intel as well. People are reluctant to get other
>processors even when they are obviously better, because they don't bear
>the Intel name. The markups on their high end processors compared to the
>performance gain is so incredibly ridiculous. If that trend would end,
>life would be sunnier in the computing world.
>
>Seth
>
>Robert Krawitz wrote:
>>
>> "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> > Robert Krawitz wrote in message ...
>>
>> > >I think this is a tad unfair. I'm disappointed that Linus doesn't
>> > >want to enable large memory addressing on the x86.
>> >
>> > As with any general purpose operateing system there are trade offs, one
>> > outstanding feature of Linux is the freedom to transform it into
something
>> > that suits your purposes. The reallity is that there is nothing to
be
>> > gained by trying to use a special capability of the XEON just to
fillfull
>> > the special needs of a few users. This is especially the case when
the
>> > Chip and Chip SETs are not suited for the application. I firmly
believe
>> > that if you really need 64 bit addressing to main memory then you need
to
>> > look at a 64 bit system.
>>
>> Well, Xeon boxes seem to be awfully popular these days. And again:
>> there's a lot of software (even for Linux) that only runs on x86.
>> Folks who want to use Oracle don't have the option of getting an Alpha.
>>
>> > >Job mixes that are more memory/IO than computation intensive (which is
>> > >the case for a lot of commercial data processing) would benefit
>> > >greatly from the availability of large memory on commodity hardware.
>> >
>> > Why would anyone do commercial data processing in large pools of main
>> > memory? Seems awfully risky. Actually large memory systems and
heavy
>> > computation base apps go hand in hand.
>>
>> Example: something that's trying to join a stream of transactions to
>> accounts. Database (and non-database) joins can always use all the
>> memory they can get their grubby little paws on.
>>
>> Actually, on further thought Linus's last message on the topic
>> suggested using the extra RAM as a ramdisk. If the machine then
>> swapped to the ramdisk, things would work reasonably well.
>>
>> [Disclaimer: that I'm not a disinterested observer: I work for Torrent
>> Systems: http://www.torrent.com/. However, this posting is completely
>> my own opinion, and does not reflect any official company policy.]
>>
>> --
>> Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.tiac.net/users/rlk/
>>
>> Tall Clubs International -- http://www.tall.org/ or 1-888-IM-TALL-2
>> Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works."
>> --Eric Crampton
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Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:42:32 +0100
From: Pascal Haakmat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: RealPlayer and OPTi 82C931 soundcard?
Hi,
I'm pretty much a newbie to Linux, running RedHat 5.2 on a Pentium
II/333. I have an OPTi 82C931 PnP soundcard, that sort of seems to work
after selecting the MAD16 Pro driver with the sndconfig utility. With
RealPlayer 5 however, many files won't play (ie. the sliders and the
time indication on the player move but there is no sound).
I can play some files by selecting the 8-bit option in the RealPlayer.
Obviously, I'd rather like for the RealPlayer to play 16-bit audio. Does
anybody know if it's possible to get RealPlayer to function better with
my Linux system?
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any chance for Linux to use an MDP7800-U PCI Modem
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 23:42:48 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yor modem has a Lucent chipset, and therefore falls into categories 1&3.
For more information, see:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
MST
"John L. Spetz" wrote:
>
> The statistics gleaned from Windoze 98 are as follows:
>
> MDP7800-U PCI Modem
> IRQ 10
> Mem Range E5821000-E58210FF
> I/O Range E000-E007
> I/O Range E400-E4FF
> Max Speed 115200
> UART NS 16550AN
> Identifier No hardware ID for this modem
> ATI1 E851
> ATI2 OK
> ATI3 LT V.90 Data+Fax Modem Version 5.17
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> ATI4 72
> ATI5 5.17, 1, 19 122D, 4100
> ATI6 OK
> ATI7 OK
> AT+FCLA 0,1
>
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From: "Misterfixit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printing under Linux
Date: 26 Feb 1999 17:39:22 PST
Ghostscript and GIMP will do the trick for you. I have and use GIMP from my
RH5,2 distribution and found it has a easy to set up configuration menu. It
even prints a very awesome color printer test page which when done on my HP
672C Deskjet in the super-good mode and with coated paper looks like a laser
print.
Hope this helps
Dave
RH5.2 running 7/24/365 no problemo
Gregory Leblanc wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I know how to get simple directory listings and plain text to print on
>my printer, but what about color images from GIMP? I've got a couple
>of color HP inkjet printers, and I wanted to do some of image
>processing from there. Thanks,
> Greg.
>Greg Leblanc
>Network Admin
>Concordia University Portland
>gleblanc at cu-portland.edu
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Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:53:30 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mgetty as a V90 PPP server?
�P�P wrote:
> speeds over 45000bps, but while they talk to each other,
> I always got 33600bps.
>
> Any help?
Yes.. The V.90 standard is a help:
Two V.90 modems that connect to eachother can connect at max 33600bps.
To achieve 56K (like your ISP) you'll have to buy a digital dial-in
centre, but it costs...
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From: "Rick Mansur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3Dm-9504 video card and IBM 9504 monitor
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:25:39 -0800
Does anyone know if these two will work together under Linux?
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From: Howard Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printers: HP 1100 or NEC 870?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:00:27 GMT
I am in the market for a laser printer for my home machine, and have narrowed
the field to the HP and NEC models. I have perused the postings and found
that some people have had problems with the NEC under Linux.
I run a dual boot machine with Win95 and Red Hat 5.2. I want to be able to
print from both Windows and Linux. My inclination is to go with the HP, but
I'm curious what others think of which to buy.
Howard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:24:28 GMT
Craig Kelley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Meissen) writes:
: > > Pentium III chip with the individual serial number that can
: > >track your web surfing and buying habits can now have the ID number
: > >turned on and off by software.
: >
: > This is untrue. The fact is, the feature can be disabled with software,
: > but it can ONLY be turned back on by a full hardware reset.
:
: You are mistaken:
:
: http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/05/news1/
The article was very vague. Was the processor covertly reset without
interruption of any currently running software (via deep sleep?), or was
the boot utility altered so that on the next system startup it would tell
the user it had disabled the serial number when in fact it did not
actually do so? The latter sounds more likely since Intel now says a BIOS
setting is the way to go, the former would defeat BIOS too. The latter
would not show the earlier poster to be 'mistaken'. The latter is more
like a virus causing a program do to something other than what it was
intended to do.
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3com 3c905b card loses Mac address
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 16:48:54 GMT
Hey,
I've been reading for hours now and I haven't been able to solve a problem I
thought you might understand. I have rh5.2 and I compiled kernel 2.2.2.
When I load the new kernel, the card loads exactly the same as in 2.0.36
except DHCP fails and ifconfig reports no eth0 interface. I compiled support
for the card and bootp. Any idea why i'm having this problem?
Thanks so much,
Dave
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > I also have a 3c905b on my PC and installed RH 5.2 and got your error
message
> > "FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF", but that was only temporary.
> >
>
> yes... that is what happens when you have either the "PnP aware OS"
> option enabled in the BIOS or do a warm boot from a PnP OS
> One option that I saw documented (I forgot where) said that if you have
> an ATX powersupply, shuting it down is not enough... you have to unpulg
> the box (the cmos draws minimal power otherwise, saving the PnP
> settings) to get it to work.
>
> A much better solution that worked for me is to upgrade to kernel 2.2.1,
> enable PnP in the kernel config (I also installed isapnp... dunno if
> that was part of the solution, but it's worth a try). IMO... this is
> your only option if you boot windoze and linux on the same box.
>
> -- PC^God --
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: Colorado parallel port tape backup not working
Date: 26 Feb 1999 16:44:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I never saw the orginal posting of:
>At 21 Feb 99 02:09:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote to All:
>
> p> I have a Colorado 8GB tape dfrive (parallel port) and it is as dead
> p> as a
> p> dodo
> p> with both kernel 2.2.0 and the very latest ftape, so I
> p> know that it's not a version problem
Note that the Colorado 5GB and 8GB drives are _NOT_ floppy tape drives.
The parallel port versions are supported by the PARIDE 'pt' driveri,
not ftape.
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Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 05:38:42 GMT
mlw ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: As far as I can recall, there is at least one instruction that acts like
: a reset, but, does not restart at the standard location. It was all so
: long ago with OS/2, 1.x. Intel had an undocumented instruction that
: allowed the 80286 to restart the computer but wake up at 40H. If that
: instruction is still around, it should be possible from kernel space to
: setup the system to halt/restart at that location and probably have that
: information available. All the while having the operating system know
: nothing about it. As far as it is concerned, it lost a number
: milliseconds.
:
: The 80286, once flipped into protected mode, was not able to return to
: realmode without a reset, this instruction, nicknamed hyperspace, was
: used to allow OS/2 1.x to implement a DOS box. I don't see how they
: could have removed it without breaking a all of the 16 bit protectd mode
: stuff.
I don't think there was a reset instruction, documented or otherwise. I
believe the keyboard microcontroller was asked to reset the main CPU, and
BIOS could recongnize a cold or warm boot and possibly jump to a location
specified in RAM (to resume where things left off rather than FFFF:FFF0).
To expand on your brief mention of 'kernel space', a protected mode OS
(WinNT and Linux, maybe Win9x) can prevent user programs from doing this
sort of thing.
Tony
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From: Malte =?iso-8859-1?Q?Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster Live! w/ SuSE 6.0
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:37:28 +0100
Hi,
does someone have an idea how to get a SB Live! Value to work with SuSE
6.0 and kernel 2.2.2 ???
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From: Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Cyrix support linux
Date: 27 Feb 1999 04:31:53 GMT
Hi Folks,
I fear,
And Is it easy to load on Cyrix does it have any problems?
Thanks for the input.
-Kishore
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From: Kishore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does Encore n/w card support linux
Date: 27 Feb 1999 04:31:43 GMT
Hi Folks,
I fear,
Does Encore ethernet card support linux?
If so can you guide for a place to get the drivers.
And Is it easy to load on Cyrix does it have any problems?
Thanks for the input.
-Kishore
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printers: HP 1100 or NEC 870?
Date: 25 Feb 1999 15:20:16 -0500
Howard Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am in the market for a laser printer for my home machine, and have
> narrowed the field to the HP and NEC models. I have perused the
> postings and found that some people have had problems with the NEC
> under Linux. I run a dual boot machine with Win95 and Red Hat 5.2.
> I want to be able to print from both Windows and Linux. My
> inclination is to go with the HP, but I'm curious what others think
> of which to buy.
The NEC SuperScripts do indeed have a problem: many of them will only
work at 300dpi under Linux.
The HP LaserJet 1100 is reported to work perfectly under Linux. It is
also, however, reputed to be "Not the world's fastest laser printer --
seems to be limited by parallel port speeds/speed of host computer."
In any case, the Printing HOWTO's compatibility listing (URL in .sig)
includes the following fully compatible black-and-hite laser printers:
make |model
=========+==============
Brother |HL-10V
Brother |HL-660
Brother |HL-720
Brother |HL-760
Canon |LBP-8II
Canon |LIPS-III
Epson |LP 8000
HP |LaserJet 1100
HP |LaserJet 2100
HP |LaserJet 2100M
HP |LaserJet 4000N
HP |LaserJet 4L
HP |LaserJet 5
HP |LaserJet 5L
HP |LaserJet 5MP
HP |LaserJet 6L
Lexmark |Optra E
Lexmark |Optra E+
Lexmark |Optra S 1250
Okidata |OL 410e
Okidata |OL 610e/PS
Okidata |Okipage 6e
Okidata |Okipage 6ex
Panasonic|KX-P4440
Panasonic|KX-P5400
Ricoh |4801
Ricoh |6000
Xerox |DocuPrint N17
Xerox |DocuPrint N32
(29 rows)
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Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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