Linux-Hardware Digest #601, Volume #9 Mon, 8 Mar 99 17:13:43 EST
Contents:
Any one have experience with Linux and AOpen PG128? ("Michael")
Re: Barracuda 9LP and Symbios controller (Do-Hoon Kwon)
Re: FREE VIRUS!!! (was Re: TERMINALS - CHEAP - over 5000 in stock) (M. Buchenrieder)
D-Link Hub and PCMCIA (Alain BURET)
Re: Where To Ask About MGET command ("David C. Hoos, Sr.")
Re: Question: Asus P2-DS SCSI (Todd Schrubb)
Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project (Jonathan A. Buzzard)
Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence? ("Ian Payne")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers (childsplay)
Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2??? (Eric)
MC sometimes crashes when loading - Just shows \ or | in top right corner of screen.
("Gary J Sanderson")
Tiger (Eric)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Robert Krawitz)
Re: Using DeskJet 400 Printer (Grant Taylor)
problems with sound on Acer Extensa 386T notebook (Axel Morgner)
Re: MS Intellimouse (Markus Laun)
Xircom Ethernetcard + Slackware (Peter van den Brand)
Re: Stupid Line Printer... (Grant Taylor)
Re: bttv problems w/ stb tvpci (Tom Herman)
Re: Printing to HP DeskJet 895CXi ??? (Grant Taylor)
Re: lpr (Grant Taylor)
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From: "Michael" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any one have experience with Linux and AOpen PG128?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 14:17:26 -0000
Thinking of using an AOpen PG128 AGP card for a RedHat Linux 5.0
box. It is an S3 Trio3D 4Meg card.
Anyone using it? Any problems?
Thanks,
Michael
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From: Do-Hoon Kwon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Barracuda 9LP and Symbios controller
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:21:28 -0500
> Most SCSI BIOS have a setting to enable translation for greater that
> 1 GB. Have you enabled this?
Yes. As a matter of fact, I have a Quantum AtlasII 4.5G drive attached
to the same controller as well and recognized correctly. The controller
reports for the Quantum C/H/S=~1022/~120/32.
Do-Hoon Kwon
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Crossposted-To:
comp.terminals,ont.forsale,tor.forsale.computers,mtl.vendre-forsale,can.forsale,comp.sys.dec,comp.sys.hp.hardware
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: FREE VIRUS!!! (was Re: TERMINALS - CHEAP - over 5000 in stock)
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 12:31:59 GMT
[Note FollowUp-To: header !]
Stuart Brook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Johan Kullstam wrote:
>>
[...]
>> damn, the WSOCK32.SKA file seems to have be clobbered too. now, what
>> do i do?
>>
>> --
>> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
>> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Don't Fear the Penguin!
>This is a WINDOWS 95 problem ...
Surprise, surprise.
>I suspect you are running something
>else, so it doesn't matter.
You wouldn't recognize a joke if it were jumping directly into
your face. Learn how to read headers. Loser.
Michael
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From: Alain BURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link Hub and PCMCIA
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 16:16:20 +0100
Hi
I plan to buy a D-Link Hub (10 or 10/100), with a PCI card for my server
and a PCMCIA card for my notebook ... does someone yet tried these
stuffs ?
Alain BURET
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From: "David C. Hoos, Sr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where To Ask About MGET command
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 10:52:00 -0600
Steve Freides wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I know this is the wrong forum, but we're new to all flavors of *nix and
>have a language question: How to we, via an FTP login in a DOS window
>in Windows 95, retrieve an entire directory structure, a la MGET *.* /S
>
This is _not_ a language question. It's a communications protocol question.
I would get Absolute FTP from www.vandyke.com
which has a nice GUI interface, and let it do it.
David C. Hoos, Sr.
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From: Todd Schrubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Question: Asus P2-DS SCSI
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 15:22:34 -0500
I've got the P2B-DS and it was a snap to get the AIC78xx conroller running. All
I did was configure the kernel to have scsi support, and then selected the
AIC78xx driver option. I've only got a scsi cd-rom on it now, but am waiting to
get my fingers on a 10k rpm SCSI drive soon.
In general I can tell ya it's a GREAT motherboard!
Cheers,
Todd
Nobody wrote:
> Is the Adaptec 2940U2W SCSI-adapter supported under Linux (2.2.x) yet ?
> I want to buy a Asus P2-DS mainboard which has this controller onboard to
> connect a Quantum 9.1 GB U2W-SCSI Harddisk on it but
> I need to be sure that I'll have a fair chance that it will work.
> (Otherwise I would have to buy an extra IDE harddisk and that would slowdown
> performance)
>
> Anyone has experience with this configuration? Mail me or post a message....
>
> Thank you,
>
> Lion O
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan A. Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BEST HW For Linux NoteBook Project
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:34:34 +0000
In article <7bt0pn$32r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Robert;
> Robert Billing wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>David Fox wrote:
>>
>>> You could get a Pentium 233MMX thinkpad 560X from Micro Warehouse for
>>> $1299.
>>
>> Look, chaps, if you are going to crosspost to uk.comp.os.linux, could
>>we have the prices in sterling as well please? Btw I have just picked up
>>a Libretto, that runs Linux very well, for �600 (that's about $1000).
>
> The GreenBack, the American Dollar, is ubiquitous. It should be as
> familiar as the rising sun in any first world country, second and third
> world I'm not to sure about.
>
I think that you will find the Euro is more relevant in the UK than the US
dollar, which is totally irrelevant and even comes after the Euro/GBP
exchange rate on the news these days.
JAB.
--
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Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: "Ian Payne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux killed the drive? Coincidence?
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 19:12:24 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7brhej$vur$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I installed Linux last weekend onto my master drive, which went smoothly
>enough; however, after the install was complete my slave hard drive (an 11
>month old Western Digital Caviar 5.1 AC35100L) went south.
>
>It now reports S.M.A.R.T. status as bad on boot up, and scandisk can't
>read/repair the "end" of the drive.
>
>Does this seem like an extremely unfortunately timed coincidence, or could
any
>part of a Linux install cause something like this?
The first time I tried to install Linux I had something similar occur.
Somehow my 2 GB hard drive had a 3GB partition on it. Before I installed
Linux it was a 2GB partition. I had to do an fdisk and reformat before the
drive was usable again.
In my case the problem was I had a pretty old Linux distro (maybe even a 1.2
kernel) and the drive I lost was formatted FAT-32. My guess is I that
something (LILO?) saw a FAT drive and wrote a FAT-16 entry on a FAT-32
partition.
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From: childsplay <"childsplay"@planetquake.com (no Spam)>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 13:37:33 -0600
This is just for those ppl who htink Windows is som much better, maybe it
will help them see the light
Robert Bentley wrote:
> All I want to know is what this has to do with linux , and this newsgroup
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to compile Kernel 2.2.2 with redhat 5.2???
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:10:50 -0700
Aaron Saikovski wrote:
> Please Help!!
> I have followed the how-to's to the letter, I have used the Linus
> pocketbook.
> I cannot get the 2.2.2 kernel to work correctly under RedHat 5.2.
>
> I compiled the kernel, removed static links to linux, I have made the
> modules, made the modules_install.
> I have moved the zImage to /boot.
> When I reboot and try to boot the new kernel, it causes a total system
> reboot..
> In the /boot directory there is still initrd etc files...
>
> Is there an updated version of the kernel how-to that focuses primarily on
> redhat5.2 and the latest kernel build?
> I have followed the how-to to the letter and it doesn't workj with redhat
> 5.2
> Please help!!
>
> Thanks!
>
> Aaron
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Redhat has a how to for upgrading 5.2 to the new kernel, it outlines all of
the packages you need to update, and walks you through it.
Eric
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From: "Gary J Sanderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MC sometimes crashes when loading - Just shows \ or | in top right corner of
screen.
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 21:06:37 -0000
Sometimes when I run Midnight Commander it'll hack away at the HD as if it's
loading, the screen will go black but the only thing that appears is a '\'
or sometimes a '|' in the top right-hand corner of the screen.
When this happens I can't enter anything and so switch to another vc to gain
access to shut it down. It lets me log in ok but when I try to shut it down
it just hangs after the broadcast message. Also, if I try and run mc from
another vc after the first one crashes the same thing happens.
Getting really tired of switching the box off.......
TIA, Gary.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tiger
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 14:16:42 -0700
I am thinking about picking up a Super Socket 7 MB from Tiger, has
anybody else put Linux on one of these with an AMD K62 processor?
Eric
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From: Robert Krawitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Date: 08 Mar 1999 16:08:43 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I look at it this way. 99% of the i386 arch all the way to the pent
> II has a 1-2 gig memory limit. Dispite the 4 gig addressability of
> the CPU, the chipset will only allow up to 1 gig. more than that is
> ignored and is inaccessable because of the chipset. You want more
> memory, use a computer that can handle more memory instead of
> complaining about no support for something the hardware can't even do.
Exactly, but in the case of the Xeon the hardware *can* address 64 GB
or RAM.
> to actually NEED that kind of memory, you must have some serious data
> to crunch. our news server /w 64 meg ram runs our news server going
> through 3 gigs a day and keeps up no prob...
Yup. I'm not talking about 3 GB of netnews a day. That's about 120
MB/hour, or 33 KB/sec, which is peanuts. I'm talking in the range of
10-100 GB/hour (and up) using a high end RDBMS and other high end data
warehousing tools. At this point, we're talking 3-30 MB/sec. 4-16
Xeon's can do a pretty good job chewing through that kind of data, if
they can keep their feeds busy. That means that memory thrashing is a
no-no.
Essentially, I'm talking about entirely different applications here
than most people are used to dealing with.
--
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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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using DeskJet 400 Printer
Date: 08 Mar 1999 16:17:30 -0500
Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How do i get my printer working? do i mount the printer? I am using
> redhat 5.1 and totally lost in setting up a printer..
Run printtool, then consult the Printing Usage HOWTO.
--
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Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Axel Morgner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.dev.laptop
Subject: problems with sound on Acer Extensa 386T notebook
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 21:47:34 +0100
Hi out there,
I have a big problem with my Acer Extensa 368T notebook. It apparently
comes with an Yamaha OPL3-SAx onboard sound chip, and I generally CAN
play sound (.au, mp3 etc.).
But when starting/stopping a music output several time, the hole system
hangs and I have to hard reboot (switch off by pressing on/off button 4
sec).
I feel very disappointed that sound output under windows 9x runs fine
with plug'n play-settings (see below), but not with linux!
I tried
- several kernel versions (2.0.3x -> 2.2.2)
- OSS/Free
- commercial OSS ( up to 3.92 compiled for 2.2.2 UP)
- several card types, e.g.
- Yamaha OPL3-SAx as described in linux/Documentation/sound/OPL3-SA2
in linux kernel doc
- WSS (windoze sound system)
- Generic Yamaha OPL3xxx
- Generic SB
- ad1848
- several configurations, e.g.
- MSS base 0x530 (windoze setting), 0x534
- SB base 0x220 (win setting), 0x000 (disabled)
- base 0x370 (win setting)
- MPU base 0x330 (win setting)
- DMA 0 DMA2 1
- DMA 1 DM2A 0
- DMA 0 DMA2 7 (windoze setting)
- DMA 1 DMA2 3
- DMA 3 DMA2 1
- IRQ 5, 7, 10
- with and without isapnp
What could it be? Maybe some of you can help me.
Thanks in advance,
-Axel.
--
This is Linux country ...
... on a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot.
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Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:14:20 +0100
From: Markus Laun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: MS Intellimouse
Well my logitech mouse with wheel: the whell when pushed and clicked
acts just like any normal mouse button would. Don't know about the M$
stuff though!
Lee Luchford wrote:
>
> I'm considering buying an MS intellimouse to use in Linux. I know that there
> are various hacks to use the wheel for scrolling in X windows but what I
> need to know is does the wheel act like a third mouse button when you press
> it. I don't want to buy it and find out that it is effectively a 2 button
> mouse
> Thanks
> Lee
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From: Peter van den Brand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom Ethernetcard + Slackware
Date: Mon, 08 Mar 1999 22:19:11 +0100
Hi,
I installed Slackware 3.6.0 last week, and I have a laptop with a Xircom
10/100+56k6 modem PCMCIA card. The problem is: there's no eth0 device!
I had Redhat 5.1 installed a couple of months ago, and my ethernet card
worked then... I installed it via ftp, so it was detected and configured
by the Redhat setup program... so I know it is possible to use the card
under Linux.
When I look at the modules, it says pcmcia-cs is loaded. When i try to
start pcmcia services, it says cardmgr is already running. That looks
fine to me. Also, when I look at the pci information (cat /proc/pci) it
says it recognized Toshiba ToPIC97 cardBus controller (which is also
listed under PCMCIA Socket in my Windoze 95 device manager)... that
seems fine too.
I hope someone can help me with this one, I read all the HOWTO's
concerning networking and ethernet-cards, but I couldn't figure out what
the problem is...
Regards, Peter.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Stupid Line Printer...
Date: 08 Mar 1999 16:52:09 -0500
Tom Orsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have this stupid line printer that I can't seem to get
> working. The printtool from xwindows control-panel recognizes lp1 as
> a good printer port.
> When I load the lp.o printer modules I get a small nudge on the
> printer, like its recognizes the printer, but if I do lpr
> /var/log/messages or cat /var/log/message > /dev/lp1 nothing
> happens. No printer now error messages in the logfile.
Hmm. Perhaps playing with the lp driver setting with the tunelp
program will make it go?
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Tom Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bttv problems w/ stb tvpci
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1999 17:24:17 GMT
Try:
xinsmod bttv radio=1 card=3
where STB=3. See bttv.h
HTH
Tom
--
Ashley W Campbell wrote:
>
> I have a STB TV-PCI, and I am not able to get sound out of the thing.
> These are the settings in my "update" script:
>
> xinsmod videodev
> xinsmod i2c verbose=1 scan=1 i2c_debug=0
> test -f i2c_chardev.o && xinsmod i2c_chardev
> xinsmod tuner debug=0 type=2
> xinsmod msp3400
> xinsmod bttv radio=1
>
> And this is the kernel output I get from dmesg:
>
> i2c: device detached: tuner (addr=0xc6, bus=bt848-0, driver=tuner)
> i2c: bus unregistered: bt848-0
> i2c: driver unregistered: msp3400
> i2c: driver unregistered: tuner
> Linux video capture interface: v0.01 ALPHA
> i2c: initialized (i2c bus scan enabled)
> i2c: driver registered: tuner
> i2c: driver registered: msp3400
> bttv0: Brooktree Bt848 (rev 18) bus: 0, devfn: 112, irq: 10, memory:
> 0xf0001000.
> PCI: Enabling bus mastering for device 00:70
> bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found.
> bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 ... ok
> bttv: readee error
> bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: tuner= (4)
> bttv0: audio chip: TDA9850
> bttv0: model: BT848A(Hauppauge old)
> i2c: bus registered: bt848-0
> i2c: scanning bus bt848-0: found device at addr=0x80
> i2c: scanning bus bt848-0: found device at addr=0xb6
> i2c: scanning bus bt848-0: found device at addr=0xc6
> i2c: device attached: tuner (addr=0xc6, bus=bt848-0, driver=tuner)
> msp3400: I/O error, trying reset (read Audio 0x1e)
> msp3400: I/O error, trying reset (read Audio 0x1f)
> msp3400: error while reading chip version
> bttv0: PLL: switching off
>
> Has anyone seen this before, or is there any more information i need to
> provide?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> -Ashley Campbell
> http://dino.res.cmu.edu
--
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reflect the official position of GTE or any of its subsidiaries
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to HP DeskJet 895CXi ???
Date: 08 Mar 1999 16:57:04 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Can anyone please tell me if there is any driver update Ghost Script
> update or just plain old hack I can use to be able to print using
> the 895CXi???
The 895Cxi is known to work "at least basically" with Martin
Lottermoser's "hpdj" PCL3 driver. This driver is, I think, included
in some of the Ghostscript 5.x contrib RPMs out there, or install it
yourself beginning from ftp://ftp.pdb.sni.de/pub/utilities/misc/hpdj.html
Note that I do not have this printer in the HOWTO's compatability
listing. PLEASE let me know how things turn out so that I can add it.
(Or add it yourself at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi)
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lpr
Date: 08 Mar 1999 17:04:16 -0500
Joe Patrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am trying to install a new bubble-jet to linux. When I send a print to
> the printer I get this error message. Can someone tell me why, where I
> am making a mistake.
> Status: Cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'No such device', sleeping 10 at
This is your problem. Your printer might be at /dev/lp0, or your
parallel port might be configured to where the Linux driver can't find
it, or you might just not have the lp driver loaded.
Are you running Linux 2.0 or 2.2? For 2.0, see the Printing HOWTO.
For 2.2, see /usr/src/linux/Documentation/parport.txt
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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