Linux-Hardware Digest #626, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Mar 99 23:13:45 EST
Contents:
Re: Linux Compatibility with Dell Laptops (Stan Higa)
Re: Disk Mirroring (Gary Momarison)
Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing? (Philip Brown)
Re: Sound Card Setup (Wilmarcd)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (Kent Perrier)
Re: Scanners in Linux (Gary Momarison)
Re: Diamond Viper V330 (Greg Morris)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Re: ethernet not working with HP network card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1 (Paul Thompson)
Re: Newbie: SuSE 6 (Quintin Womack)
Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!! (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: Dual Processors (Johan Kullstam)
Newbie: SuSE 6 ("Matthew Wilby")
Re: PCI Modems & Linux (Jerry Lapham)
Cause of HD IRQ/DMA timeouts? (Dave Swegen)
Re: ethernet not working with HP network card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Buying a new computer for linux (Eoin)
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From: Stan Higa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Compatibility with Dell Laptops
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 04:36:10 GMT
One place to check out is http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron
Matthew Denny wrote:
>
> I'm looking at pruchasing a Dell Laptop, and I was wondering if anyone has
> any info. on Linux (Specifically RH 5.x) compatibility with
>
> Dell Inspirion 7000 (particularly thoses with the DVDs)
> 3Com MegaHertz 3CCFEM656 Combo Ethernet 10/100 + V.90 Modem card
> Xircom RealPort or CreditCard Combo Ethernet 10/100 + V.90 Modem card
>
> None of these items are on the HCL, but I was wondering if anyone had any
> success in getting them to work on their own. Any help would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> Matt Denny
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Disk Mirroring
Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:49:18 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (wizzy) writes:
> Howdy. Is there any way to set up disk mirroring or disk duplexing
> under Linux without expensive RAID hardware? I just bought two 9gig
> drives, and I'd like to mirror them for added fault tolerance. I
> tried looking around for a HOWTO, but couldn't find anything in the
> LDP.
Yes, with free RAID software. See
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/raid.html
You'll still be doing backups, though, right?
I know someone who had a MB/controller go bad and destroy both drives.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can Linux use 36-bit Xeon addressing?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:51:29 GMT
On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 13:22:17 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>.... Final argument, in the form of a diagram for both Executives:
>
> Applications Applications
> / | |
> Win32 | POSIX OS/2 DOS/Win16 |
>------- | ----- ---- ---------- |
> | | User Mode |
>===|=======|=========================================================|=========================
> | | Kernel Mode |
>...
>
>'nough said?
err, no.
You made the mistake of using tabs. which in the world of USENET is a no-no.
Especially when *your* system doesn't seem to have the nice standard
8-char-fixed-width tab to begin with.
SO the diagram is a mess, unfortunately.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilmarcd)
Subject: Re: Sound Card Setup
Date: 11 Mar 1999 01:57:10 GMT
In article <7W7F2.526$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "news.ibx.net"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I ahve an old junk Aztech washington 16 Sound card. Is this supported under
>Linux or should I just junk it? I was trying to be frugal with the Linux
>machine since I am a newbie...
>
Probably depends on what chipset it uses. If it emulates a Soundblaster
or Soundblaster Pro then it just may work.
Check any documentation if you have it or just experiment.
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From: Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 10 Mar 1999 16:21:59 -0600
Michael Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I disagree. I routinely use a dual processor system for my work, and
> find that having one processor essentially dedicated to the OS, and
> the other running the app definitely helps. IMHO.
Correct. but you have no control over which processor the new program will
run on. What if your fast, floating point program happens to run on the
same physical cpu as you have netscape and emacs running on as well. If you
are surfing or reading news then your floating point program will not run as
fast as it would on a dedicated cpu. If your program creats threads then it
will be more likely to use the additional cpus more efficiently.
Kent
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanners in Linux
Date: 10 Mar 1999 15:55:26 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> I am wondering if anyone can direct me to a program that supports
> scanners in Linux, and a list of scanners that are supported. I would
> like to scan things on my Linux computer, and not have to go to the
> Windows machine to do that.
Check out http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/scanning.html
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From: Greg Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper V330
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:31:47 GMT
I have a Viper330 running under slackware 3.5, so i'm going to assume
that redhat has better, more up-to-date drivers. It works absolutely
perfectly for me. I just used XF86Setup, and selected the riva128
chipset, and it ran beatifully.
-Greg
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli)
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:02:28 GMT
Anthony Ord ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony D. Tribelli) wrote:
: >Saying something is 'part of the OS' and having it run at the kernel's CPU
: >privelage level are two very different things. Are you suggesting that
: >downloaded ActiveX components run at level 0 (most privelaged) rather than
: >level 3 (least privelaged)?
:
: They can download a .vxd which will run next time you reboot. "Oh no!
: IE has just crashed...", guess what that would mean?
As I've mentioned elsewhere, virus precautions are entirely applicable. I
actually expect that 'trojans' that mess with the serial number settings
to be considered just another type of virus.
Tony
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Tony Tribelli
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ethernet not working with HP network card
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 02:52:50 GMT
I have the same machine, same Ethernet card, same attempt to install RH5.2. I
tried each of the HP cards listed as known. A probe was launched for each,
each probe was unable to identify the card. Is this a PnP issue again?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 14:59:20 +0530, "Sanjeev Mehta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> >I have installed RedHat 5.2 on my HP Kayak XA machine. I not able to
> >configure ethernet for this machine. It has the following network card:
> >
> >HP Ethernet with LAN Remote Power
> >
> >Does anyone has any ideas?
>
> How do you mean "not able to configure ethernet"? What have you done so far,
and what
> errors show up?
>
> Lew Pitcher
> System Consultant, Integration Solutions Architecture
> Toronto Dominion Bank
>
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> (Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Thompson)
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1
Date: 11 Mar 1999 02:42:32 GMT
While the card functions in X, the performance is abysmal.
A fast scrolling large text Xterm can bring my Pentium II 350 to its knees.
The same Xterm on my 486 with S3 video performance is fine.
A lesser problem is all the icon buttons on Netscape lose their color,
although web pages appear fine.
I wish I knew more about video drivers; I can only hope whoever hacked
the Sis6326 support isn't finished tweaking.
Paul
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Kurt Mehlhoff wrote:
>
>> I have just installed Red Hat 5.2 on my system and most things are
>> working well, but I cannot get X going. I read that the 3.3.3.1 version
>> of XFree86 had support for my video card (SiS 6326 with 8MB) so I
>> downloaded and installed it.
>>
>> I can run xf86config and that seems to work ok, but when I bring up X it
>> looks hosed. My mouse pointer appears on the screen and I can control
>> it, but the screen itself looks strange. Mostly black with a couple of
>> dots and tiny images which look like the resize controls on windows.
>> Junk.
>> I can even move some of them around, but the system is not exactly
>> usable.
>>
>> The X server complains about the amount of RAM on the card and claims
>> there is only 1 MB.
>>
>
> There's a bug in the XConfigurator. Here's the piece out of my
> /etc/X11/XF86Config file:
>
> Section "Device"
> Identifier "My Video Card"
> VendorName "Unknown"
> BoardName "Unknown"
> VideoRam 8192
> Option "no_bitblt"
> Option "no_imageblt"
> Option "sw_cursor"
> # Option "no_accel" # Use this if acceleration is causing problems
> # Option "fifo_moderate"
> # Option "fifo_conserv"
> # Option "fifo_aggresive"
> # Option "fast_vram"
> # Option "pci_burst_on"
> # Option "xaa_benchmark" # DON'T use with "ext_eng_queue" !!!
> # Option "ext_eng_queue" # Turbo-queue. This can cause drawing
> # errors, but gives some accel
> # Insert Clocks lines here if appropriate
> EndSection
>
> Cheers,
> .../Ed
>
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From: Quintin Womack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie: SuSE 6
Date: 11 Mar 1999 03:14:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Matthew Wilby wrote:
>
> Just installed SuSE 6, comes up just fine. However, at the login states
> 'i386' ~ i'm using an AMD K6/2 300. Surely it shouls be i586?
>
> Ideas folks?
>
> Cheers
i386 doesn't refer to the processor. it refers to the platform, as in
Intel 386. the 386 cpu was the first cpu to run in protected mode.
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 22:08:15 +0000
James,
What problems are you having? Please give as much detail as you can.
I've had some problems here but got through them. The worse was drive
problems with corruption and lots of problems during install. The
install problems were mostly my fault with getting the partitions wrong
and the loads would screw up but those got squared away. I kept having
problems with the disk - loads went south, corruptions - lets of
problmes over a few weeks. I finally tracked it down to the vendor
incorrectly giving me bad information about setting the switches on my
motherboard. After that things have gone very well. By the way diags
ran fine on this system. The problems showed up when the system was
taxes like a load. So it would load after failures then I thought I
would be off and running but a few days later fail - usually under
load. But it got fixed.
So whats wrong?
d
James Kosin wrote:
>
> Anyone.... Please HELP.
>
> I've had problems with RH Linux and my HD since day 1... I can run
> diagnostics on my hard drive and everything comes out OK. Works great
> on Windows 98.
>
> The controller is an Intel 440FX chipset ...
> I'm running a PII Overdrive 333MHz CPU and 256MB of memory.
> 2 - WD Hard-Drives one 5.1G and one 4.0G drive.
>
> Anyone have any good suggestions???
>
> My HD's are good. Memory is good. CPU almost brand new.
>
> Thanks,
> James Kosin
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Subject: Re: Dual Processors
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Mar 1999 21:58:03 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) writes:
> Ideally, they need to be what's called a "matched pair", which means they need
> to be of the same stepping and revision, and preferable of the same die lot.
> Most vendors that sell Dual CPU boards will know this, and even some of the
> places that only sell CPU's and RAM will know what you're needing if you tell
> them it is for a dual CPU system. If they don't, then chances are, you don't
> need to be buying from them.
> Also, in order to compile SMP support into any 2.0.x kernel, you
> will have to manually edit the file /usr/src/linux/Makefile to
> uncomment out the "# SMP=1" line... may also need to use "make
> bzImage" later on in the process, instead of the "make zImage", as
> adding SMP support will increase the size of the kernel, and zImage
> may fil with a "kernel too big" error if you don't. Kernel versions
> 2.2.x won't need the manual edit, but may still need the bzip
> substitution. (I'm still at SMP RH 5.2/ 2.0.36, so I haven't tried
> that yet)
i went to 2.1.124 since my quad box would deadlock and die a horrible
death using 2.0.35. if you are doing SMP, you should look into
2.2.x. upgrading your system isn't all that hard. you don't need to
change your libc.
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: "Matthew Wilby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie: SuSE 6
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 01:01:54 -0000
Just installed SuSE 6, comes up just fine. However, at the login states
'i386' ~ i'm using an AMD K6/2 300. Surely it shouls be i586?
Ideas folks?
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham)
Subject: Re: PCI Modems & Linux
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 21:38:26 -0500
In <7c6hdo$ont$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/10/99
at 07:33 PM, Richard Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> My name is Richard Nelson, and I am a Technical support engineer for
> Actiontec Electronics, INC
> We do have a PCI modem that is NOT a "Win" modem, it is controller
> based, and uses the Lucent Venus chipset.
What's the model number? Do you also make controllerless PCI modems or
can we assume that any Actiontec PCI modem is OK?
Also, you might want to post this info in the OS/2 newsgroups, too. They
have the same problem as Linux users.
-Jerry
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From: Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cause of HD IRQ/DMA timeouts?
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 21:54:51 +0000
I just got a new mobo (an Asus P5A), and since it supports UDMA as do my
HDs I thought I'd try enabling it. I got a patch down for 2.2.2 and
tried compiling it. However, when booting my main linux drive (hdb) is
slow as anything ( < 3 mb/s), and using hdparm -d1 causes a DMA timeout
followed by and IRQ timeout. I know for a fact that the patch works, as
other people have reported having great success with it. Any pointers as
to what might be wrong would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ethernet not working with HP network card
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:22:26 GMT
Just found the posting by Fons Rademaker last year with the URL for RH 5.2 on
HP machines:
http://hp-linux.cern.ch/SupportTable.html
All my questions appear to be answered with the 2.2.1 kernel.
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From: (Eoin)
Subject: Re: Buying a new computer for linux
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 03:30:35 GMT
LS-120s work just fine in Linux. Yes, you can boot from them,
but not with the rescue/installation floppies from any distro I've
tried. Since they're IDE devices and the rescue floppies have the
machine expect to use the floppy drive, they don't boot very far. But
you can make your own and they'll work fine.
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 19:39:08 +0000, Gerard Thornley
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>In response to the replies I recieved from my previous message, could
>someone answer the following few questions:
>(again, I excuse my ignorance - correct me if I'm wrong :-)
>
>Is there any driver that would work with a Sound Blaster Live? - I don't
>mind using an old driver that doesn't make full use of the facilities,
>because I will be using sound mostly from win95.
>
>Will I be able to use an LS-120 floppy drive from linux - more
>importantly, will I be able to boot from it?
>
>And finally, assuming no problems with the above, can anyone tell me if
>I'm going to have any obvious trouble running linux with the following
>spec:
>
>Pentium II 350MHz
>ABIT BX6 motherboard
>Panasonic LS-120
>Maxtor DiamondMax 4320 8.4Gb
>Creative Labs CL 36x CD-ROM drive
>Sound Blaster Live
>Graphics Blaster RIVA TNT
>3-COM 3C-509B combo ISA network card
>
>Thanks very much in advance...
>
>--
>Gerard Thornley
>
>mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d7249y
>or mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or http://www.bigfoot.com/~g247
>
>
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