Linux-Hardware Digest #550, Volume #9 Tue, 2 Mar 99 22:13:32 EST
Contents:
Stupid Soundblaster Question (Alex Armstrong)
Re: Computer crashes often (**Nick Brown)
Re: Portable Linux?? (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Possible upgrade for older 430 TX motherboard ("Robert M. Taylor")
Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM?? (Terry Lam)
Panasonic Panasync C1381i Monitor (John W. Bales)
Re: Small pump for liquid cooling... (Phil Stevens)
problem with capslock (caps lock) (ronald s chong)
Clock slow down ("Stanley Leong")
Re: ASUS P2B-LS motherboard ok? (Eric Lee Green)
USR or Jaton (valner)
help with modem?? (Carl Hennicke)
Creative Sound Blaster Live! ("Matt Goodhue")
Re: AMS Roadster Trident Cyber 9385 setup (leslie barstow)
Re: is my hardware supported? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM?? (Eric Lee Green)
Re: RAID solutions for Linux... (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Linux SMP & GX Chipset (Supermicro P6DGU) (Gianni Mariani)
Re: Are you new to Linux? Then read this ("Tony Kirk")
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From: Alex Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Stupid Soundblaster Question
Date: 2 Mar 1999 17:31:40 GMT
Hello everyone,
I'm using a RHL5.0 box and I can't get my SB 16 to work :(
When I do and "sndconfig" it tells me that "modprobe" doesn't work... now
when RH boots at some point it that i can't find the module midi and the
module sound. Any ideas?
PS. I'm sure this is a really stupid question and there is a blindingly
obvious answer that I have overlooked but because I'm nearly going crazy,
please help!!!
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Computer crashes often
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:41:27 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The original message sounds like a bad block in the paging area. The
later ones sound like the disk is definitely on the way out. You do
have a good backup, don't you ? You might want to order that new SCSI
drive now...
> "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual....", this time it
> repeatedly said:
>
> SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 170195) timed out - trying harder
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
>
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|\ | o _ |/ Life's like a jigsaw
| \| | |_ |\ You get the straight bits
But there's something missing in the middle
Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mathew A. Hennessy)
Subject: Re: Portable Linux??
Date: 2 Mar 1999 17:39:56 GMT
In article <01be604d$ce13b960$a84d22cf@ryan>,
Falky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to put Linux on my laptop but I have heard that it doesn't run
>so well on a portable. Is this true? Can Linux be run on a laptop, and if
>so what kind of problems should I expect if trying to install it on high
>quality, but relatively no-name computer?
Hi,
I run RedHat Linux v5.2 + kernel v2.2.1 on a Dell Inspiron 3000
portable with 266/144MB/6.4GB, and it works wonderfully. It's
particularly handy because I can run ssh and x-windows easily over my 56k
PC-card modem. It handles pretty much everything except for Age of
Empires.
Putting Linux on a laptop can be tricky, but with the added
NeoMagic chipset support of newer revs of Xfree86, you can get really nice
results.
Check http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ for more
Linux laptop info.
You should use a tier-1 pcmcia NIC if possible: I used the
farallon ethernet adapter, which is basically a 3Com 3c589D clone.
Upgrading to the 2.2.x kernel will be tricky if you run a RedHat system,
be sure to upgrade your pcmcia-cs package (3.0.8 is the earliest version
to support 2.2.x kernels IIRC), and read the docs in that package
regarding redhat (RH does some script customization in their pcmcia-cs
distro).
Another thing I've noticed: life is much easier if you eject your
PCcard ethernet when you intend to use ppp. There's probably a fix around
that, but I don't mind.
Best of luck,
--
Mathew A. Hennessy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
'So the next time someone says, "I have a 50K file for you," your next
exclamation needs to be, "Wow, that's cold!"' - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://208.201.18.9:(8000/8020/8023) all 128/44.1/Stereo mp3 feed all the time!
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From: "Robert M. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Possible upgrade for older 430 TX motherboard
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:07:00 -0500
Hello,
I'm looking at what upgrade path this MB may take. The documentation fo
this board says that the board will accept K6 cpus (old K6) pentium MMX
to 233 and cyrix m2 233. W#hats the best way to go with this board
without repalcing it. If I had the money to replace the thing I would
have by now.
Current configuration:
Tyan S1571-AT-2 motherboard with Intel i586/166 (no MMX).
Memory is edo (48MB).
Very stable as is and I would like to keep it that way. The bottom line
is: what upgrade gives good performance and overall stability. I know
the Intel chip will work. Are the others worth upgrading to.
I would have upgraded to a K6/233 if I could have found one, but supply
seems to have dried up. Do the Cyrix chips work well. K6/266 chips wont
work without a regulator between the chip and the motherboard.
Bob Taylor
--
Bob Taylor @home with Janet, Katie, Anna and
Red Hat Linux release 5.2 (Apollo)
Kernel 2.0.36 on an i586
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From: Terry Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM??
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:19:45 GMT
My Linux box with 128MB SDRAM and it works fine with LILO option
mem=128M.
>From older version of kernels (before 2.2.x), Linux can only
recongise 64M by default. Any extra RAM can be used by the above option.
Terry.
In article <7bcb0u$20v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Andreas Hofmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ooops, error...
> the argument should be "mem=80M"
>
> Andreas
>
> Andreas Hofmann schrieb in Nachricht
> <7bca4q$1g8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >pass the argument mem=80MB to kernel at boottime or upgrade to an newer
> >kernel 2.2.1 should work quite well
> >
> >Andreas
> >
> >User schrieb in Nachricht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
> >>I was running Linux with 32MB of EDO ram (4*8MB Simms)
> >>with no problem. Then I bought 2*32MB Simms and
> >>put those along with two of my 8MB simms in for a total
> >>of 80MB RAM. However, Linux seems to recognize only
> >>64MB.
> >>
> >>has anyone else had this problem?
> >>
> >>Thanks
> >
> >
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John W. Bales)
Subject: Panasonic Panasync C1381i Monitor
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 12:21:18 -0600
Does anyone know the specs on the Panasonic Panasync C1381i Monitor? The
Red Hat 5.2 installer does not have the specs on any Panasonic monitor
whatsoever, so I'll have to do a custom install.
In a search of the internet and newsgroups I was unable to turn up any
information on this monitor. I've emailed Panasonic but, so far, have
received no reply.
Thanks
--
***** Replace REPLACE in email address with jwbales *****
John W. Bales, Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Tuskegee University
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From: gwizz@gwazz.* (Phil Stevens)
Subject: Re: Small pump for liquid cooling...
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: mudshark(at)euphoria.org
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:07:48 +0000, Pascal Goguey
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Well, there is a very old system that may work: why not using the energy
>or your processor to circulate the water? The radiator has to be higher than
>the processor so that the hot water (which is lighter than cool water) can
>climb
>to the radiator using the weight difference of hot / cool circuit. It would
>be
>protected against a pump failure.
Like I said before: thermosiphon. Old as the hills, simple physics, no
moving parts. I'd try tranny fluid - noncorrosive, high vapor
pressure, and wide operating temperature range. I'm also a proponent
of silicon heat sink grease, since one of the problems in cooling
parts is plain old thermal transfer inefficiency.
The first part to fail in most computers I've had has been a fan,
whether in the power supply or on the cpu. I've got yet another on its
way south, and I'm tempted to rig something up a la fluid transfer
concept.
ps
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (ronald s chong)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: problem with capslock (caps lock)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 18:22:46 GMT
i've upgraded my old "chained" kbd to the logitech wireless desktop
system; very cool. it was trivial to setup under linux.
but i've got a weird problem that i'm haven't nailed it down
completely as yet. i'm using rh5.2 w/kernel v2.2.1 and xfree 3.3.3.1
and fvwm 1.24r as my window manager.
the problem is that i'll be typing along and all of a sudden get all
uppercase type; as though i hit 'caps lock'. hitting 'caps lock' to
turn it off doesn't have an affect. hittin 'shift' doesn't do
anything.
based on this, you'd think it was the wireless keyboard or the
receiver. but i can fix the problem by simply logging out of my X
session. when xdm pops up, all is well again. and i *think* that if
i were to switch to a runlevel 3 type "window" (by hitting ctrl-alt
f1, for example) i get normal behavior.
so it must be an x thing, right?? i know that when i had rh4.2 (with
xfree 3.???) and a wired keyboard, there were also weird caps lock
behavior there; the system would freeze for like 15 seconds whenever
'caps lock' was hit.
thanks for any help on this.
-ron
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From: "Stanley Leong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clock slow down
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:49:10 -1000
Linux's clock is running very slow on my system. If an hour of real
time---relative to our space-time---goes by, my linux clock only shows about
5 minutes passing.
This does not effect the system clock. If I were to reboot, the time is
correct. Also, if I were to use another operating system---like
windows?---the time remains correct.
I am running Open Linux 1.3---using 2.0.35 kernal.
My system seems to be running correctly. I can use KDE, start and stop
programs. Though, I do have one problem, but it seems unrelated. My ppp
connection is buggy. I can dial out and connect to my isp, but when I start
receiving web pages, the process will stall. It will also stall when I'm
retrieving my email. It might retrieve a couple email, but then it won't
continue. I used a terminal program under linux and called a local bbs and
it worked find, so it must be something to do with ppp.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-LS motherboard ok?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:21:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01 Mar 1999 13:33:38 +0100, Jason T. Breitweg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone out there use this motherboard? I will be running with it
>under SuSE 6.0 and *gasp* Win95/98. Someone mentioned to me some
>issues with the on-board network card not working correctly. I would
>appreciate any comments from the educated masses. Thanks.
It should work fine with SuSE 6.0. I've used the P2B-L in the past with
no problem, and used the P2B-DS in the past with no problem, so the P2B-LS
should not be an issue.
The only real issue is that you must be careful about which PCI slots you
use. The eepro100 driver does not like to share an interrupt, but,
unfortunately, the interrupt line for the eepro100 chip on the motherboard
is connected to the interrupt line on one of the PCI slots. Alas, I don't
remember which (I just remember playing a game of move-the-cards-around
until I figured out which!).
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Microsoft will compete ... by adding features" -- Ed Muth, Microsoft
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From: valner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR or Jaton
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 10:59:54 -0500
Hello,
I bought a computer that came with a winmodem... so I have to
upgrade it. I've found :
1)US Robotics Sportster 56K V90 -> 75,00
2) Jaton - Communicator V90 -> 49,00
As far as I know USR is a more reliable brand .. but I realy don't
care about it.. I just want a modem to work under linux... and if I can
save some bucks... better...
Does someone has some experience with these modems?? Suggestion and
oppinions are welcome
Thanks a lot
Valner
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Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 16:22:14 -1000
From: Carl Hennicke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with modem??
by any chance anyone know how to get a 3Com US Robotics 56K Voice
Faxmodem workin' on Slackware 3.6? The modem's on ttyS2 (com3 right?),
and I've tried minicom to just get a dial tone, and dial into my ISP,
with no luck. Can't figure out weather or not it's supported in Linux,
it is a PnP, but not a WinModem. Anyone know how to get it workin'?
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From: "Matt Goodhue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:33:11 -0600
Has any one had success in getting a Sound Blaster Live to work under RD 5.2
Linux? If yes where would the drivers be and how do I go about installing
them? Thank you in advance.
Matt
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From: leslie barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AMS Roadster Trident Cyber 9385 setup
Date: 2 Mar 1999 18:55:44 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x leslie barstow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am the (somewhat unfortunate) recipient of an AMS Roadster 266MMX
: laptop, on which, for work purposes, I have installed Linux (RedHat
: 5.2).
: I managed to get the sound card working (had to do a pnpdump and edit
: the config by hand), the Xircom CBE2-100 is unsupported, and X is really
: being a pain.
: Xconfigurator guesses the correct card, but doesn't seem to want to do a
: probe (just returns a failure). The screen is a TFT 800x600 12.1"
: screen, and the video is a Trident Cyber9385 with 512k of video RAM.
In a fit of talking to myself... I got it figured out!!! Don't ask, you
don't want to know.
Upgraded to XF86 3.3.3.1, but RedHat's automated detector still failed.
But, I persisted, and ran Xconfigurator by hand, using the Cyber9385
card and the *Generic04* monitor from the commandline. Yes, I know the
Generic04 monitor is a multisync and not an LCD monitor; I have a feeling
that, since the Generic04 is set up to do 800x600@72, and I am running
at 800x600 (the best the monitor can do, especially considering the 512K
video RAM...), that I just got the right frequency. Guess this goes to
RedHat and/or the laptop configuration page...
Of course, I still want support for my Xircom CBE2 10/100 PCMCIA card.
Sigh. Guess I'll have to trade for a 10-Base card at work.
--
Les Barstow | Apple ][ Forever!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] |
| "How may I be honest with you today?"
Disclaimer: I didn't do it! | -- Tuvoc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: is my hardware supported?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:32:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:58:46 -0700, Kevin White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>it. I have a microstar 6147 motherboard with built in:
>
>Creative Ensoniq es1371 audio
>ATI AGP2x 3d rage pro w/ 8MB SDRAM
>
>PII-300
>64MB pc100 SDRAM
>32x ide cdrom
>MS Intellimouse Trackball
>3com pci etherlink III 3c905b
All of that should work. I've used most of it with Red Hat 5.2 before.
>Finally, I have two hard drives (each is the master on its udma/33 ide
>channel). The first (2gb) has win95 on it. The second (6 gb)has a 3.75
>gb fat32 partition, and the rest available for linux. Can I install
>linux in that remaining space on the second hard drive, and use lilo to
>load it from there?
The LILO boot sector must be on the first hard drive, and must be below the
1024 cylinder boundary. The kernel must also be below the 1024 cylinder
boundary on whatever drive. Note that the Linux kernel does not usually
report the second drive in LBA format, meaning you'll need to pass a
"hdb= ..." statement with an LBA format matching that reported by the BIOS
in order to properly install Linux there.
I would recommend, instead, putting a small "/boot" partition of about 8
megabytes at the end of the first drive, using the FIPS utility provided with
Red Hat or other Linux. Put your LILO boot sector on that partition, plunk
your kernel in there, and you don't have to mess with all that nonsense about
hdb= etc. statements.
>What distribution of linux will come with drivers for these components?
I know Red Hat 5.2 and SuSE 6.0 do. Debian "slink" should, also. Note that
Slackware is very much deprecated nowdays -- it is considered to be
outdated, based upon obsolete technology, and stubbornly resistant to
current Linux standards.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Linux represents a best-of-breed UNIX, that is trusted in mission
critical applications..." -- internal Microsoft memo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: Linux with > 64MB RAM??
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:34:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 20:21:32 GMT, User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem.
>I was running Linux with 32MB of EDO ram (4*8MB Simms)
>with no problem. Then I bought 2*32MB Simms and
>put those along with two of my 8MB simms in for a total
>of 80MB RAM. However, Linux seems to recognize only
>64MB.
Upgrade to version 2.0.36 of the Linux kernel. It will properly recognize
your memory and fixes various important bugs.
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Microsoft views service as what a bull does to a cow." -- Unknown
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: RAID solutions for Linux...
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:38:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999 15:29:18 GMT, John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've heard good things about the intraserver line
>(http://www.intraserver.com) seems Linux Hardware Solutions use some of
>these SCSI boards in their boxes...
Yes, they make good boards and are supportive of Linux. They do not, however,
make RAID controllers. The closest they have is a 2-channel 64-bit-PCI SCSI
card that screams in an Alpha :-).
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"Software is like sex, it's better when it's free." -- Linus
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From: Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux SMP & GX Chipset (Supermicro P6DGU)
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:08:08 GMT
Thanks for all the input.
So, I suspect no-one has actually tried the Supermicro P6DGS
in an SMP config with Linux.
Vladimir Florinski wrote:
> Mark Hahn wrote:
> >
> > > Linux doesn't support ECC. Save your money.
> >
> > this is FALSE. completely. ECC works perfectly, which is to say that
> > Linux does not even need to know it's there. if you mean that Linux
> > doesn't decommission faulty pages reported by uncorrectable errors,
> > that's true. Linux also doesn't do any kind of active scrubbing.
> > it's _highly_ questionable whether Linux even should bother with this
> > sort of thing, given that the error rates for even 4G of ram are tiny.
> >
>
> My mistake. I was thinking about parity. Such memory doesn't correct errors but
> simply sends an NMI and I think Linux doesn't catch it.
> And yes, the Xeon is not really superior to Pentium II/Celeron. In the
> simulations that I run they perform about the same.
> --
>
> Vladimir
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From: "Tony Kirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Are you new to Linux? Then read this
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 14:04:12 -0500
Take away the ending ldp.html and you'll get the index page.
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/
Tony
Rufus V. Smith wrote in message <7bgv0t$bgh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I clicked on:
> http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ldp.html
>and got
> 404 : FILE NOT FOUND
>
>Rufus
>
>Snoopy :-)) wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Accept My Congradulations :-))
>>I am sure that the Newbies who will be fortunate enough to read your Post
>>and go to the suggested Link will probobly remember you with gratitude for
>a
>>long time...
>> ... But I've found another
>>Place on the Web which I think is even better, since here you can find the
>>above mentioned Guide and also download the whole Guide in many different
>>Formats (I prefer the HTML) in addition you will find many other Goodies
>>:-))
>>Here it is: http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/ldp.htm
>
>
>
>
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