Linux-Hardware Digest #556, Volume #9 Wed, 3 Mar 99 13:13:55 EST
Contents:
Re: Q: tv tuner on a remote xterm? (Vijaych)
Re: Midi with SB AWE64 ISA: detailed (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Micron Millenia Sound Card ? (Richard Finney)
Re: ISDN and 2.2.x (Volker Widor)
Re: *intermittent* dead pixels, laptop ("Chas")
10.2 gig drive (Scott Adams)
Pentium 133Mhz vs Cyrix P150+ ("cm")
Re: 10.2 gig drive (Stephen La Joie)
SCSI disks on a Server ("F.Besserve")
How can I boot linux form System Commander (fatkamp)
Re: X, Diamond Viper (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Weird Hard Drive Error Messages - help! (Eric Lee Green)
Re: Help Working under w95 but not under RH 5.2 Linux ("Timothy Chu")
Re: Where can I found CS8900 Ethernet Driver (Russell Nelson)
SI Prefixes (Re: Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor DiamondMax (Dan Eble)
Buying a Soundcard. SB128 Pci or ? (Neville Dalal)
modem dies under X? (Tim Jolly)
Boca 33.6 and ppp problems (Jonathan Bowman)
Kernel 2.2: SCSI Hardware List (RAID?) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Small pump for liquid cooling... (Bill Heagy)
which grame grabber to buy? (Gilbert Soucy)
Re: RealAudio and Linux?
Epson Stylus 740 under SuSE 6.0 (Christopher James Smith)
Re: Hardware to recommend? (Andrew Comech)
ENSONIQ PCI and LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help with Intel 740 Chipset (Igor Korsakov)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vijaych)
Subject: Re: Q: tv tuner on a remote xterm?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 01:44:56 GMT
What about on a 100MB network?
Two computers running Linux with 100MB cards running a patch cable?
VJ
Have no fear, VJ is here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Burkard B. Kreidler)
Subject: Re: Midi with SB AWE64 ISA: detailed
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:00:39 GMT
>--- The sound section of my .config file: ---
>#
># Sound
>#
>CONFIG_SOUND=m
>CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
>CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
>CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
>CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
>CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
># CONFIG_ACI_MIXER is not set
>CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
># CONFIG_AEDSP16 is not set
IMHO correct.
>--- cat /dev/sndstat -----
>Audio devices:
>0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX)
>
>Synth devices:
>0: AWE32-0.4.3 (RAM512k)
>
>Midi devices:
>0: Sound Blaster 16
>1: AWE Midi Emu
>
>Timers:
>0: System clock
>
>Mixers:
>0: Sound Blaster
Good. Everything you need is there and seems to be configured
correctly. Do you have a program that with which you can determine
whether the output device is an OPL Chip, a wavetable Chip or an
external MIDI device?
kmod (on some ftp-servers kmid, not kmidi) for the K Environment can
do so.
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From: Richard Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Micron Millenia Sound Card ?
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:18:06 -0500
My receipt for a new Micron Millenia 450 says ...
SCM001414-00 Sound Card 128-voice PCD wavetable onboard sound.
My guess is that it's an on the motherboard chip.
Gotta get Real Audio running !!!
If anybody's configured this, then could they please post
some simple instructions or pointers? Also, where are the
drivers?
Much Thanks,
Richard Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Volker Widor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN and 2.2.x
Date: 3 Mar 1999 13:12:31 GMT
Robert van Loghem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Who has ISDN and the 2.2.x kernel up and running????????
yes, works fine
: could you please tell me how you did this....
: I have 2.0.36 and all works fine....
: I read that if you wanted to use isdn and 2.2.x you needed to apply some
: patches to the 2.2.x kernel....i downloaded the isdn4l-3.0-beta2 but i
: can't seem to find the patches.....
: so i thought right, i can compile the i4l 3.0-beta2 but no i can't....
take a look at:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/isdn4linux/v2.1/
there is a dayly mirror of both, the kernel-patches (isdn.tar.gz)
and the isdnutils (isdn4k-utils.tar.gz).
: please help......
: thnx in advance!
: Robert
volker
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From: "Chas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops,comp.sys.mac.portables
Subject: Re: *intermittent* dead pixels, laptop
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 06:13:56 -0700
I getthe same thing on my Dell 7000, 14.1" screen. One pixel, intermittent,
then it goes away? what's happening here?
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From: Scott Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 10.2 gig drive
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 00:25:48 +1100
G'day,
I recently purchased a seagate10.2 gig drive, i'm having a hell of a
time trying to partition it using both fdisk and redhat's "disk druid"
for some reason it wont write 4 primary partitions but seems to only
want 2. It's really weird and i need help!
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From: "cm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pentium 133Mhz vs Cyrix P150+
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:07:45 -0600
I have a Pentium 133Mhz and a Cyrix P150+ I want to know which one would be
recommended to run in my RH5.2 box?
(Overclocking is not an option)
I plan to use this machine as a DNS cache, I'll probably try Squid on it as
well. It's basically just a test machine on my home network. I'll try a
little of everything on it. I'm using the Cyrix now but wonder if I
shouldn't just put the 133 in it?
TIA
cm
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From: Stephen La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 10.2 gig drive
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:05:39 GMT
Scott Adams wrote:
> G'day,
> I recently purchased a seagate10.2 gig drive, i'm having a hell of a
> time trying to partition it using both fdisk and redhat's "disk druid"
> for some reason it wont write 4 primary partitions but seems to only
> want 2. It's really weird and i need help!
I just bought an 8.4 gig drive. The installation procedure installed
"EZ-Drive",
which the manual said wouldn't be installed if the drive didn't need it.
Well,
it turns out it didn't need it. My bios settings were for "Auto", and
setting drive
type to LBA enabled me to ditch "EZ-Drive" and run the win95 FDisk and set
up DOS partitions the way I wanted them. Before I removed EZ-Drive, Dos
fdisk would crash, and linux's fdisk would tell me the Dos partitions were
overlapping, and I could only see the ONE dos primary partion and the
three
extended dos partitions appeard as one big partition. I couldn't delete to
make
room for Linux.
Now, I can. If your mother board supports LBA, try setting it to that and
removing
any kind of big disk program from your boot sector.
--
Chill out. It's just my opinion,
even if it IS true.
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From: "F.Besserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI disks on a Server
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:00:19 +0100
Hello,
I installed 5 SCSI disks (18Go) on a Server (Intel) running RedHat
5.2,with AdaptecAIC78xx 2940UW cards.
When I add an other disk, the name of this new device becomes
the first and move forward the name of the others devices, that is
to say, if I had devices sda1, sdb1, sdc1....., when I add an other
disk, its name becomes sda1, and the previous sda1 becomes
sdb1, sdb1--->sdc1, sdc1---->sdd1, and so on.
Please could somebody can tell me if there is a way to prevent this
move forward ?
Many thanks in advance for your help.
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From: fatkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: tw.bbs.comp.linux,hk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: How can I boot linux form System Commander
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 14:41:55 +0800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Lee Green)
Subject: Re: X, Diamond Viper
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:50:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 20:46:07 +0100, �� Nobody's Perfect �� <�@�.nl> wrote:
>Does anyone know how to get X (need driver I think) configurated with:
>Diamond Viper 550 , 16 MB , Nvivda Riva Chipset.
>I use Red Hat 5.1
Yes, upgrade your XFree86 with the latest updates from
ftp://updates.redhat.com. You need at least XFree86-3.3.3 to work right
with the Riva TNT chipset.
You should upgrade to Red Hat 5.2 first, probably. Getcher upgrades at
Cheapbytes for now, since Red Hat 6.0 is probably coming out within the
next two months and it'd be a shame to pay full price for something that
you're about to replace...
--
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)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat,linux.redhat.install,redhat.config
Subject: Re: Weird Hard Drive Error Messages - help!
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:46:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:10:36 -0800, W. Scott Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have the same messages....on two different systems. a SUSE and Redhat 5.1
>.....I haven't found an answer for just what it means...
>Jack Newton wrote:
>> hdb:hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
>> hdb: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
>> hdb: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
The only time I've ever gotten those messages, the hard drive died
shortly afterwards.
The BadCRC errors, however, could be a bad cable...
--
Eric Lee Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.linux-hw.com/~eric
"People have grown used to thinking of computers as unreliable, and it
doesn't have to be that way." -- Linus
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From: "Timothy Chu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help Working under w95 but not under RH 5.2 Linux
Date: 3 Mar 1999 02:50:30 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Rajat & Papia Goon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: note : my card is also ne2000 compatible. Shall I try to load ne2k-pci.o
: module with IRQ 8 and base address
: 0xe800. I haven't try this option.
: Thank you in advance,
Yes, I'd try that. That's what I'm using for my network card, and it
isn't a lot of trouble to re-compile the module. You didn't mention if
you've tested out this card under anohther operating system to make sure
the IRQ and base address is correct.
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From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where can I found CS8900 Ethernet Driver
Date: 03 Mar 1999 10:38:32 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Do you know the PC104 module MOPS/586 from JUMPtec company
> with CS8900 Ethernet chip from CRYSTAL Manufacturer ???
>
> I search the LINUX Ethernet driver for the CS8900 chip.
>
> I don't found anything about it on LINUX HOWTO !!!
>
> Does this chip is so exotic ?
> or does exist a driver compatible for another chip ?
The driver is in 2.2.2, or you can download the source
from ftp://ftp.crynwr.com/linux/
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From: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SI Prefixes (Re: Is there a FAQ concerning the Maxtor DiamondMax
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 10:50:17 -0500
Reply-To: Dan Eble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Andries Brouwer wrote:
> I agree with your explanation, but not with the word `really'.
> The prefix G = giga is well-defined, and means 10^9, just like
> k = kilo is well-defined and means 1000.
>
> In hacker circles people use 1 kB instead of 1.024 kB, just
> for convenience, like one might say that something is a thousand
> kilometers away when in reality the distance is 1033.8 km.
Not just in hacker circles; the use is more widespread. When was the last
time you bought 64MB of RAM expecting to get 64*10^6 bytes and not 64*2^20
bytes?
I agree with you that we should use SI prefixes in the standard way. So
does the IEEE. There's an interesting article about proposed prefixes for
binary powers at http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html . It's a
good idea, but "kibibyte" just doesn't roll off the tongue like
"kilobyte". And to me "mebibyte" sounds like data of questionable
integrity.
I propose the following: Unit Abbr Quantity
---------- ---- --------
kaluabyte KaB 2^10
moolahbyte MuB 2^20
gigglebyte GiB 2^30
terrorbyte TeB 2^40
If everyone would just follow my new standard, we could communicate with
absolute clarity. (Of course, we'd all sound like we're 4 years old, but
it's a minor drawback compared to the advantage of lucid thought.)
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From: Neville Dalal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Buying a Soundcard. SB128 Pci or ?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:48:14 +0000
I am running Linux 2.2.1, Redhat 5.2, with an ESS1938 or some such
soundcard.
I cannot get the ESS card to work for it has two devices on one
interupt, so I am gonna get a new sound card.
I want to get the SB PCI128, but I do not want a painfull time trying to
get it to work. Does anyone out there have a working 2.2.1 setup with
the SB card, and if so can you email or reply with how you got it to
work.
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From: Tim Jolly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem dies under X?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 17:46:47 -0800
I have a USR 33.6 that seems to work fine until I run XFree, my mouse
uses com2 irq 3 and my modem uses com3 irq 4 so I have no idea what is
causing my problems, I am running RedHat 5.1
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From: Jonathan Bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boca 33.6 and ppp problems
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 11:36:21 -0500
Is there any reason why my Boca 33.6 Kbps V.34 FDVSP will not respond to
any attempts at ppp? Is it supported hardware? I have tried pppd, the
KDE networking tool (kppp), and fvwm95 networking. The COM port is
fine, but KDE responds that the modem is busy. In Win95, it has no
problem, and I have checked and double checked my settings. The same
procedures worked fine on another Linux machine with a different modem
(Boca 28.8) and RedHat 5.1. I have RedHat 5.2 and a Pentium 166. If
the modem is not supported, can anyone tell me about a good V.90 modem
supported by RedHat 5.2?
Thanks,
Jonathan Bowman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Kernel 2.2: SCSI Hardware List (RAID?)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 03:24:21 GMT
Is there a list of all devices supported under 2.2 on some WWW site,
especially SCSI and SCSI RAID boards?
/ivo welch
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Heagy)
Subject: Re: Small pump for liquid cooling...
Date: 3 Mar 1999 03:37:49 GMT
On 1 Mar 1999 22:33:45 -0500, Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I was wondering -- is there some inflammable liquid which would
>evaporate at about 40-50C? That is, 100-120 F... It would yield
>much more effective cooling of a system (but still condensation
>would not be there)..
>Do not really know what to suggest as a pump.. there are
>some water pumps in cars (windshield washing system), but this
>could be too big to fiddle with. I did not mean to sound sexy.
>Cheers,
>Andrew
>
If you reduce the pressure, water will boil at any temperature down to
(almost) 0C. This can give very effective cooling from a closed
evacuated pipe with a bit of water inside (no air). It's called a heat
pipe and amazingly efficient, with no danger of fire (no magic smoke
inside).
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London, Ontario N6A 1Y2 Canada telephone:(519)663-9180
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From: Gilbert Soucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which grame grabber to buy?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 17:39:43 GMT
Hi,
I would like to know if anybody has experience with frame grabbers
under Linux. Which one should I buy? Which one has a good driver?
Is there any support for the Matrox RainbowRunner ? Once you
have a Millenium, this is a relatively cheap add-on option...
Many thanks!
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3480 University
Tel: (514) 398-2185 McGill University, McConnell Bldg #444,
Fax: (514) 398-7348 Montreal, H3A 2A7, CANADA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: RealAudio and Linux?
Date: 3 Mar 1999 03:15:42 GMT
On Tue, 02 Mar 1999 15:23:13 -0800, garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>May be bugs, but my RA works fine with RH 5.2 and SB32.
>
Kernel version? 2.0.36 or 2.2.x?
The "bug" I believe he's referring to is one that is in the Kernel 2.0.x
series. 2.2.x fixed this, and since RealAudio is built on that bug, it
broke RealAudio.
- Mike
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From: Christopher James Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus 740 under SuSE 6.0
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 17:30:05 +0000
Hi,
Does anyone know how to configure apsfilter to print at 1440 DPI using
microweave on an Epson Stylus 740 printer under SuSE 6.0 (Ghostscript
5.something).
Also, is anyone going to write USB drivers?
Cheers,
Chris Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 12:44:40 -0500
From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Hardware to recommend?
Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
>
> Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
> >
> > JT wrote:
> > >
> > > I am wanting to set-up relatively low cost system (around $550 excluding
> > > monitor) and need some advise as to all components:
> > >
> > > motherboard
> > > CPU
> >
> > Don't use AMDK6.
> > If you are lucky you can intall Linux if not your are on your own.
> > Actually I have 25 K6AMD and I can't install at all Linux (reset when I
> > try installing)
>
> Nonsense... I personally have 4 K6 machines in the house (2xK6, 2xK6-2),
> and have had absolutely no problems whatsoever with any of them, on a
> wide range of hardware. I have *never* seen a problem with a K6 chip,
> nor have I ever heard of a problem with the K6 series and linux.
Here is two more:
I have built two K6-2 systems; both CPUs (300 and 333 MHz) work at
100x3.5 MHz. No crashes whatsoever.
Best,
Andrew
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ENSONIQ PCI and LINUX
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 04:44:56 GMT
Can anyone help me? I would like to get my Ensoniq PCI sound card working in
Linux. Here is my information:
I am Running Redhat Linux 5.1 and using Window Maker.
Do I have to recompile my Linux kernel?
If so, is this risky and hard to do?
I would really appreciate help with this;
Thanks,
-Michael
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From: Igor Korsakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Intel 740 Chipset
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:49:45 +0300
Look at www.redhat.com . You can find it there.
Richard Latter wrote:
> All,
>
> Does anyone know how to get an Intel 740 Graphics card to work with
> Linux X11 or does anyone have any drivers for it.
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> /trickie
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