Linux-Hardware Digest #633, Volume #9 Thu, 11 Mar 99 19:13:36 EST
Contents:
Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!! (David Kirkpatrick)
Re: poweroff or even suspend/resume on ASUS P2B Atx mainboard (Michael Will)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (Serguei Patchkovskii)
Re: BT speedway, red hat 5.1/2, hisax?? howto?? (Paul Black)
Using Iomega Zip Scsi Version. (Paolo Zavalloni)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed ("Jeffrey J. Potoff")
Re: Help with ghostscript ("TURBO1010")
No Mouse ? ("Erik Vermeulen")
Re: MATROX mystique G200 problems (Bill Anderson)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session (Bill Anderson)
FS: 2 DECServer 500's ; $250 US (Kent Rankin)
Re: HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES?? (Tom Herman)
Re: Sound Blaster AWE 32 in Kernel v. 2.2.1 (Bill Anderson)
Re: Linux on a Celeron? (Andrew Comech)
Non-Winmodem problems! Help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Problems... HELP!!!!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:14:03 +0000
James,
I would still think its HW but could be wrong - its not unusual. It
seems that your seeing it when you load the system - like building. I'd
be interested in what you come up with.
d
James Kosin wrote:
>
> Dear David Kirkpatrick,
>
> The crc errors are not with the disk. fsck works fine and will report
> no problems usually. When I get one of the bad errors!!! It usually
> finds stuff associated with the logfiles and files I happen to be
> un-tarring at the time as being corrupt. It hasn't seemed to affect
> other areas of the disk. When I'm doing a build of the kernel it will
> come up with SILLY errors that don't exist in the source code.
> unless I happen to catch it while the file is still in memory
> cached ] Other times it will crash with little errors that point to a
> temporary file type error with the assembler not understanding the
> register %ax and other stuff. I've even seen the cpp broken pipe
> error.
>
> I will get my system back to the point where I got the BAD errors and
> see if I can track down where in the code it comes into problems. I'm
> beginning to understand the methodology to reading the error reports.
>
> Thanks,
> James Kosin
>
> David Kirkpatrick wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> |James,
> | Sounds like there is some corrupton on you disk. Just your first
> |problem is enough to stop as its major. What differences did it
> |report?
> | I would fsck your drives and see what happens. Boot into init 1.
> |Boot linux and at the linux prompt enter linux single or linux 1.
> Read
> |the man page about fsck.
> |If you keep getting crc errors its probably hardware.
> |d
> |James Kosin wrote:
> |>
> |> OK,
> |>
> |> When I "cp" a file then do a "diff" on the same file... They come
> up
> |> different!!!!!
> |>
> |> If I download a file and try to "un-tar and un-gzip" a file gzip
> reports a
> |> crc error in the file. I can reset my system and sometimes it
> reports no
> |> problems at all!!! This usually happens with LARGE files like
> source for
> |> the kernel!
> |>
> |> Even if it reports no problems at all if I do a "tar dzf
> linux-2.2.2.tar.gz"
> |> I get statements saying that the Data differs for certain files!!!
> The
> |> files are usually different at different times after trying to
> untar &
> |> ungzip the files!
> |>
> |> At one point... without any parameters in the append statement in
> lilo.conf
> |> file I would get errors [especailly with the new kernel] kinda
> like the NT
> |> BLUE SCREEN only sometimes I could continue with this one.
> Ooops...
> |> Sometimes NOT because it was in the INTERUPT HANDLER. and would
> give
> |> another statement saying it could not because it was trying to stop
> an
> |> interupt handler...
> |>
> |> My only guess for now is the problem is with the HD controller and
> Linux and
> |> the HD. These errrors always happen durring disk activity!
> |>
> |> Any help will be recieved and tried in a timely fashion.
> |>
> |> Thanks,
> |> James Kosin
> |>
> |> David Kirkpatrick wrote in message
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> |> >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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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Will)
Subject: Re: poweroff or even suspend/resume on ASUS P2B Atx mainboard
Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:08:01 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ok, poweroff works now thanks to you! ;-)
What about suspend now:
>>it) and also apm -s does suspend only for a few seconds then comes back up
>>again. What could be the reason?
Cheers, Michael Will
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Serguei Patchkovskii)
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: 11 Mar 1999 17:02:05 GMT
Mike Prager ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I agree with JG's statement for the most part. There is, however, a
: very pleasant aspect to using 2-processor NT system: far less waiting
: for many operations. I find the smoothness of operation is worth the
: money, and it also allows me to run compute-intensive, single-threaded
: jobs at close to full speed while I'm answering email, writing code,
: etc., at the same time.
Of course, just about any half-decent OS starting with OS/MFT in the
dusty aeons gone by will allow me to run compute-intensive, single-
threaded jobs at close to full speed while I'm answering email, writing
code, etc., at the same time. (well, cross off e-mail - many pretty
decent OSes predate the invention of e-mail). So will a multitude of
operating systems available here and now, including all softs of
mainframe OSes, VMS, most dialects of Unix - to name just some. All
this without needing that pesky second CPU... Of course, they are all
Old Technology, and so do not count, right?
Please ignore me, I am just bitching...
/Serge.P
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From: Paul Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: BT speedway, red hat 5.1/2, hisax?? howto??
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:55:58 +0000
Abalt Travel Ltd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Paul
>
> Sorry to jump in but I have been looking to do the same for the last weeks
> I am more than a Linux newbie!
>
> - Where do I find (and do I need it I am using RH5.2??)
>isdn4k-utils-3.0beta1.tar.gz. I
> found isdn4k-utils-2.2 I think ....
http://www.isdn4linux.de has links to download sites.
> - When I have the file What do I have to do next exacly.......
You need to compile ipppd & isdnctrl and use those as shown in a
previous post.
Paul
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From: Paolo Zavalloni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Using Iomega Zip Scsi Version.
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:10:59 +0000
I have mounted a Iomega Zip Scsi drive wich runs well on Win 98 and
WinNT
but it does not mount under Linux .
The drive is mounted as SCSI id 6 on an ADAPTEC AVA 1505 SCSI controller
, it is
also mounted an UMAX scanner as SCSI ID 5 ; the Zip is the last of the
chain and is well
terminated .
After the boot the system recognize the device and partitions as
/dev/sda* (/dev/sda4 ) .
Kernel version is 2.2.0 (pre9) with
- SCSI support
- SCSI disk support
-Verbose SCSI error reporting
-Low level driver : AHA152X
with kernel parameters
AHA152X=0x140,9,7,1,1,.......
all is compiled into the kernel and not as module .
files under /proc/scsi reports right infos .
When i try to mount a Zip partition with command :
mount -t <fstype> /dev/sda4 /mn/zip
or doing something like :
mkdosfs /dev/sda4
the command blocks and never returns or ends .
Is there someone that can help me ??????????
Thx !
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From: "Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 11:52:25 -0500
Greg Lindahl wrote:
>
> "Jeffrey J. Potoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > That's a big reason why we run DU and NT on Alphas instead
> > of Linux. Why pay a premium for a faster CPU and then cripple (to the
> > tune of 20-30%) with g77 ?
>
> Because the price/performance is better? DU costs money. NT costs
> money. Digital Fortran costs money. Do the math and see how it works
> out for you.
But is it better than Linux on a 450 MhZ PII with g77 ?
Jeff
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with ghostscript
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:41:58 -0800
What version of ghostscript, and I'm assuming that you are trying to setup
the Stylus 600.
John wrote in message ...
>Hi, I'd like to use ghostscript to print in linux with my Epson printer. I
>driver I want to use it stc600p.upp (or soemthing like that). I have read
>the file called Setting up a Unix lpr filter for Ghostscript and have
gotten
>to the part where I have to edit the printcap file. I have no clue what to
>do now. Any help out there? Thanks.
>
>-John
>
>
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From: "Erik Vermeulen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Mouse ?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 00:14:58 +0100
Hello there,
I've installed redhat 5.2 and upgraded to xfree 3.3.3.1.
I've used xf86config to set up x.
Afther the instalation and running I get the 111 error and it says "no
mouse"
I've got an Intelli mouse and it worked well last time I've installed
What could be the problem?
thanks in advance Erik
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MATROX mystique G200 problems
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:56:14 +0000
"Fr�d�ric Dumont" wrote:
>
> excuse me first for my bad english. ( i'm french)
>
> How can i use my MATROX mystique G200 with Linux red hat 5.2 ?
> When i call "startx &", i got a message that explain that the card i use is
> unknown .
> In the installation, that i try many times, i finally select the SVGA
> parameters, but it fails.
>
> And now, i will see if LINUX is a real "FRIENDS-OS"
>
> THANK YOU
> MERCI BEAUCOUP
>
> VIVE LINUX
Hasten thee to www.rpmfind.net and download the latest XFree86. You will
need at a minimum the XFree86-3.3.3.x, XSVGA, CGA16, XF86Setup rpms. Get
them all and do an rpm -Uvh * in the directory you put them into. This
will upgrade your X. Then run XF86Setup, nad select your card.
Bill Anderson
(been waaay too long since French class to try ;)
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:03:26 +0000
Tim Kelley wrote:
>
> Bill Anderson wrote:
> >
> > Bluescreen O'Death wrote:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > > > Oh really? I have a Compaq box back in the UK that I'd like you to take a look
> > > > at. When X crashes on that (which it does regularly), it takes the graphics
> > > > card down with it. It won't go back into text mode. It won't switch graphics
> > > > modes. So restarting the X server is useless - it has to be big-red-switched.
> > >
> > > What kind of video card? Or failing that, what model Compaq?
> > >
> > > And what flavor Unix?
> >
> > I have had this on a Mill2 w Linux, Kernels 2.03x and 2.2.(.0prex->.1),
> > on a micron.
> > It really sucks when it happens.
>
> Well, this happens every now and then even with the best xservers ...
> but there is an important distinction, which most users don't care
> about, but it does need to be made.
> While it is quite possible for the xserver to crash, this event will
> almost never take the linux kernel down with it. There may not be a
> difference to most users, but if you can telnet in you can kill the
> process and start over without rebooting.
Tried that. Usaully, most X-server crashes are fixed in this manner (or
using the SysRq key combo).
The best I could get when these occurred was to do an /sbin/reboot.
Killing the offender did zilch. Mind you, this is not common, and I am
fully aware of the distinction, and appreciate it.
Which reminds me of this happening with a mill2 AGP on an HP Kayak XU.
I was curious about the SciTech display doctor for linux (or whatever it
is called. I downloaded the rpm, and quickly found that they have made,
IM-NSH-O, a grevious error with it. an RPM should *never* launch the
application, it should only install the application and needfuls. This
particular rpm launched the 'do not run this program in X' program,
rather than installing it for me to run at my volition. This required a
reboot, and much angst resetting things afterwards.
Cheers,
[ngs trimmed]
Bill
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From: Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.terminal,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: FS: 2 DECServer 500's ; $250 US
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:41:56 GMT
They are located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449.
2 Digital DECServer 500
64 19.2Kbps terminal ports each
1 Ethernet port each
Status lights, tra-la-la... =)
They are the size of a large PC tower.
System software is included.
-Kent Rankin
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From: Tom Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW CAN I FORMAT DAT TAPES??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 17:23:54 GMT
I have never ever had to format a tape until I bought a
Travan tape drive (TR-3). I messed up and did a format.
It ran for 18 hours! The tapes came pre-formatted.
But last month, one tape lost some of it's format info
about 3/4 through the tape. I had to re-format that tape.
Another 18 hours - but at least it saved a $20 tape.
I much prefer DAT tapes. A DAT tape drive is going to be my
next tape drive purchase.
Tom
--
Markus Wandel wrote:
>
> In article <7c7u3a$noh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Villy Kruse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, david horner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>I need to formatdat tapes . They are blank or mud.
> >>How can I do it in linux 2.0.3?
> >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> >Used date tapes for several years and never knew that they needed
> >formatting. They just worked.
>
> Quote from an old Archive Python manual...
>
> When you insert a blank cassette in the Python drive for the first time,
> it will be automatically formatted. The Python drive first detectes that
> the tape is blank (about 10-12 seconds). It then formats the tape when it
> receives the first WRITE command that stores more than 126 kilobytes of
> data (total) or when it receives an ERASE command. The formatting operation
> takes about 30 seconds.
>
> If the first WRITE command stores less than 126 kilobytes of data, the data
> is placed in the buffer until the next WRITE command exceeds the 126-kilobyte
> buffer capacity and forces the stored data to actually be written to tape.
> At the time the data is actually written to the tape, the Python drive
> formats the tape before completing the operation.
>
> So in a nutshell, don't worry about it.
>
> Markus
--
The views expressed are the author's and do not necessarily
reflect the official position of GTE or any of its subsidiaries
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster AWE 32 in Kernel v. 2.2.1
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:04:18 +0000
mulder wrote:
>
> On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:30:16 +0000, Bill Anderson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >"David J.V. Brown" wrote:
> >>
...
> >> If you are trying to play the mp3 files with x11amp, you can't until x11amp
> >> gets fixed -- kernel 2.2.1 exposes a flaw and breaks it. If you run x11amp
> >> from the bash prompt, you'll see that you get a socket error.
> >>
> >> If you're not using x11amp... well... I dunno! Once I found my x11amp was
> >> broken, I tried kjukebox (I use KDE 1.1) and it plays the mp3's fine... though
> >> the list creator still suffers from a really annoying floating point
> >> exception...
> >>
> >> Hope this helps.
> >>
> >> David
> >> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> >
> >With what setup does x11amp do this on 2.2.1?
> >Runs fine on mine.
> If you compile version alpha 3 of X11 Amp under this kernel version,
> it seems to run fine. If you are using a previous version of X11 Amp
> that was compile from a previous kernel version, and then just
> upgraded your kernel, you are going to have problems. Please, when
> you upgrade your kernel, get the latest version of winamp from sources
> and recompile on your system. It should run fine after that. If I
> had the time to figure out how to build RPMs, I would make binaries
> available for people running redhat 5.x, but I assume building these
> things is harder than it really is. ;-)
>
> Lawrence Mulder
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Though that is good advice, I have not yet done it. Still running a
pre-2.2.1 kernel rpm of it.
THis weekened (hopefully?) I will be rebuilding my system from the
ground up, with 2.2.1, glibc 2.1, and egcs 1.1.1. perhaps I will get an
rpm of x11amp out of the deal as well.
I am not at home right now, so i am not exactly sure which version of
x11amp it is ...
Bill
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From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a Celeron?
Date: 11 Mar 1999 18:39:17 -0500
> what is a 'celeron motherboard'?
yes, I was certainly talking about cheaper socket 370
motherboards with ZX chipset.
> The socketed Celerons are even easier to overclock <snip>
Has not intel started to lock the frequency?
Cheers,
a.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Non-Winmodem problems! Help!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 18:14:25 GMT
Greetings: I recently purchased a non-WinModem 3Com/USR 56K modem that I am
trying to set up on my linux box. Currently, I have a 28.8K USR Sportster
internal modem, and that has been working splendidly without problems.
However, when I install and try to set up the 56K modem, diald (which I am
using for dial-up) fails to initialize the modem. I have tried setting up the
modem on /dev/cua0, /dev/cua1, & /dev/cua2, but have not had any luck. It
seems to me that the problem might be in the modem initialization string, but
I thought that these were all pretty much the same, especially for modems
made by the same manufacturer? Please, can anyone help?? Thanks!!
Justin
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