Linux-Hardware Digest #640, Volume #9 Fri, 12 Mar 99 11:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem setup problems - no DTR except in MINICOM ("K.A. Steensma")
Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1 ("ū�")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers ("liam toh")
Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers ("Jack Mott")
Re: Tulip driver, with buildin 21143 controller. (John Strange)
Re: Linux, mac and a cable modem (Michael Hazarian)
HD controller failure of laptop (Selim Jochim)
ELSA Victory Erazor with SuSE 5.3 (Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kr=E4mer?=)
Re: FS: DECSystem 5400 (Bob Koehler)
pci fritz! isdn pnp- isdn.o, hisax?????? (Mark Hamlin)
Re: ASUS P5A mboard, 2.2.3 with DMA for ALi M15xx IDE access? (Shaw Carruthers)
Re: Please help identify old NIC..I'm desperate ("Rodney Beede")
Bug in kernel/OSS in 2.0.36 an later? (Axel Morgner)
Re: help: SMC9432TX ehternet card with RedHat5.2 (Harald Anlauf)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (John Burton)
failure to find floppy controller ("B. Collins")
Turbo TV card support ("John J. Budd III, MD")
Re: Intellimouse wheel scolling under UNIX (Charles H. Chapman)
Re: Speed..Speed..Speed (Jason McKnight)
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From: "K.A. Steensma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem setup problems - no DTR except in MINICOM
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:14:08 GMT
Forgive my ignorance. Is the modem external? If not, does it have jumper or
switch setting to allow it to be addressed as comm 1-4? KAS
Deus wrote:
> I'm trying to set up my 3 COM Impact IQ. It works fine in Win 98, but now
> I'm trying to set it up in RH. I went through all the steps in Network
> Configurator and in the edit PPP page, but when I go to "connect", I get
> nothing.
>
> However, when I pull up MINICOM, I can dial and get a connection (however I
> still don't get a Login: prompt from my ISP). I know there are problems
> getting the Impact IQ to use both channels, etc. But my first concern is
> getting Linux to recognize the modem in the first place.
>
> Any suggestions?
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From: "ū�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 and XFree86 3.3.3.1
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 17:48:29 +0900
My Case. I am install XFree86 3.3.3.1 update version in my Linux box for
SiS 6326 Chipset VGA Card. and I tried XF86Setup program and XF86SVGA
server
for X windows configuration. At that time no problem of X Windows on my
system.
Currently my Xwindows configuration.
Monitor. Hyundai DeluxScan 5870(15")
SiS6326 with 4MB
Resolution. 1028x768x32bit color.
Redhat 5.2(Included hangul version: I am korean)
Retry to XF86Setup program your linux system.
Good luck!
p.s. So Sorry! I can't english.
Brian Stone ��(��) �������� �ۼ��Ͽ����ϴ�...
>I took the easy way out & downloaded the Scitech Display Doctor. I tried
>for 3 or 4 days to get my system to run before SDD. SDD took about 3
>minutes and it works.
>
>
>
>Kurt Mehlhoff wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>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.
>>
>>I also cannot get xvidtune to run.
>>
>>Any ideas?
>
>
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From: "liam toh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:45:21 -0800
typo should be;
http://www.mercurycenter.com/svtech/news/breaking/merc/docs/041815.htm
Greg White wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>childsplay wrote:
>>
>> This is very disturbing
>>
>> http://www.mercurycenter.com/breaking/docs/041815.htm
>>
>> --
>> Charles "childsplay" VanDyke
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> ICQ# 14539920 ============
>> ]TeamGameSpy[ ============
>> http://www.gamespy.com ===
>You're right. It is very disturbing that someone would post a broken
>link to a newsgroup. <g>
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From: "Jack Mott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: For all you Nicrosoft lovers
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 14:41:55 -0600
yeah
thats the fucking issue
closed source
thats why its bad
in the words of a valley girl:
what-ever
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>Samuel Aw writes:
>> Extremely disturbing esp. when I use win98 in the office.. shesh! and
>> all the while, m$ is spying on win98 users, collect info about us and F*!
>> I PAID them to do all these shit ! How could they!
>
>Surely when you chose to use a closed source OS you realized that you were
>exposing all your secrets to the vendor.
>--
>John Hasler This posting is in the public domain.
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will.
>Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind.
>Elmwood, Wisconsin Do not send email advertisements to this
address.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Strange)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Tulip driver, with buildin 21143 controller.
Date: 12 Mar 1999 12:52:41 GMT
Try a newer driver at
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers
stephen ashley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I am having trouble getting and Digital PC 5000-266 PII system to use
: the build in DEC Chip 21143 ethernet controller. The onboard controller
: works fine, when I am in my BORG BODY SUIT (ie Windows NT4.0 SP4) But I
: am trying real hard to remove my BORG eye piece, Arm extender and body
: suit ;) .
: Anyhow enough of the sillyness. The red hat 5.2 CDrom install never
: detected this controller, I have re-build a(several) kernals (modular
: and monolitic) with the newest tulip.c (24-feb-'99). This kernal find
: the controller but end's up with a warning about the transcever being
: not found. When I tried a modular kernal I never saw the eth0: device
: get reported in the message log. I use the xconfig tool changed the 'Y'
: to a 'M' (PCI ether section was still 'Y') make boot; make clean; make
: dep; make modules; make modules_install. cpoy the kernel, and
: /sbin/lilo. Rebooted.
: Stephen Ashley,
: Member: ASLUG
: Alice Springs,
: Out Back Oz.
: Chip Markings.
: +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
: digital 21143-PB
: 21-44085-11
: (c)DEC 1996
: DC1071B
<snipped log info so I could post>
--
While Alcatel may claim ownership of all my ideas (on or off the job),
Alcatel does not claim any responsibility for them. Warranty expired when u
opened this article and I will not be responsible for its contents or use.
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From: Michael Hazarian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux, mac and a cable modem
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 23:41:56 -0800
Paul Sian wrote:
>
> Currently I have a cable modem running to my mac. Its hooked via ethernet.
> I'd like to be able to hook my Linux box up also so I can use the cable
> modem through it. What do I need and what do I need to do to get it to
> work?
Three options assuming (assuming you only have one IP address:
1) Buy a hardware router that can masquerade IP ($300 to ?). Set up a
local private network.
2) Buy IPNetRouter for the Mac ($90). Set up a local private network.
3) Setup Linux to act as a router with IP masquerading (~$0). Set up a
local private network.
One option assuming you have, or can get another IP address.
1) Get another IP address. Configure your Linux system with it.
michael hazarian
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From: Selim Jochim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD controller failure of laptop
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 1999 19:18:18 +0100
Hello,
Has anyone ever tried to repair a broken HD controller? I know that the
controller chip itself is fine. So it must be something like two bus
transceivers (74htc245) that seem to be used to give the ide bus the
right voltage of 5V ...... The laptop is a Chicony 975. It has a
multibay where one can attach a cddrive or a floppy. The controller died
after swapping the cd for the floppy in suspend to disk state upon
resume. Just in case anyone had a similar problem and solved it.
.........
Selim
--
Selim Jochim
Max-Planck Institut fuer Kernphysik
P.O.Box 103980
69123 Heidelberg Tel:+49-6221-516-347
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax:+49-6221-516-602
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Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:33:40 +0100
From: Thomas =?iso-8859-1?Q?Kr=E4mer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ELSA Victory Erazor with SuSE 5.3
Hello!
Did someone make experiences with the ELSA Victory Erazor (Riva 128/4
MB-SG/AGP) or the ELSA Victory Erazor LT (Riva 128/8 MB-SD/AGP)
graphic card? Perhaps i'll buy one of them because I have a Trident
3DImage975 (4MB/AGP) and I tried nearly everything to make the card
work faster but it's slower than slow (with KDE 1.0 and XF 3.3.3.1 on
a SuSE 5.3 - System)!!! I'm not really sure if I should buy one of
these cards because perhaps X has problems with a lot of AGP-cards?!
Thankx for help!
Ciao, Thomas ...
--
Thomas Kr�mer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.xoom.com/JFW
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Koehler)
Crossposted-To:
misc.forsale.computers.workstation,comp.sys.dec,comp.os.vms,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: FS: DECSystem 5400
Date: 12 Mar 1999 13:42:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kent Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>The following system is located in Knoxville, TN, 37922-3449 and is up
>for immediate sale:
>
> Digital DECSystem 5400
> 2 MIPS R3000 processors at 30MHz
>
> Currently running Ultrix 4.3 for RISC
> Can run VMS 7.1, if anyone is interested in
> that sort of thing. =)
NO IT CANNOT. VMS does not run on any MIPS based processor. DECsystem
5000 series are all MIPS based.
======================================================================
Bob Koehler | Computer Sciences Corporation
Hubble Space Telescope Payload | Federal Sector, Civil Group
Flight Software Team | please remove ".aspm" when replying
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From: Mark Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.dcom.isdn,de.comm.isdn,uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: pci fritz! isdn pnp- isdn.o, hisax??????
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:55:46 +0000
How the hell do I set this up? PC PCI MMX, fritz internal pnp PCI card
(Siemens avm). Red Hat 5.1 kenel 2.053. ISDN for Linux and HISAX
driver, isdn.o.
The very comprehensive instructions that come with the above components
don't clearly tell me how to prepare the drivers, and only talk about
isapnp.
How do I load the isdn & Hisax modules. I know for a isa card I can
just put some info in the conf.modules file which has worked for me in
the past. I have not had success with other aspects of isapnptools, I
still have an internal USR jumerless pnp modem to get working.
If may have this wrong, but I think the instuctions said that with a PCI
card the kernal has to be patched. Is this right, if so how/where.
Am I using the best kernel. I am not an experienced unix administator
by any stretch of the administration, should I forget the card and get
an external terminal?? Oh dear.. anyone got any cash lying about???
please e-mail me, any help will be much appreciated. If you're lucky
enough to live in in Suffolk anywhere near Rendlesham air base (area 52)
and think you could help, I don't have any money to offer but should be
able to make it worth your while.
Cheers, Mark
01473 646703/ 01394 460918
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shaw Carruthers)
Subject: Re: ASUS P5A mboard, 2.2.3 with DMA for ALi M15xx IDE access?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 13:46:36 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Aas) wrote:
>When Linux boots, it can't recognize the IDE controller (ALi M15xx chipset),
>so it turns off DMA. Has anyone solved this problem?
>Is anyone working on ALi M15xx support for the Linux kernel?
>I have tried including ALi M14xx support, but I haven't checked out enabling
>it through kernel boot/runtime parameters, so I might have missed something
>there.
>
Ali patches are available from:
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
work just fine with P5A.
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From: "Rodney Beede" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help identify old NIC..I'm desperate
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 08:50:14 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7c7ni0$9jd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Please help!! The card had a "Runs with Netware" stamp..if that helps..
I would go with it being a NE clone (either 1000 or 2000). Since it says it
runs with Netware and you can't find the company that made the NIC it is
probably a generic clone card.
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From: Axel Morgner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.kernel,linux.dev.laptop,linux.dev.sound,de.comp.os.linux
Subject: Bug in kernel/OSS in 2.0.36 an later?
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:32:41 +0100
Hi,
I believe there's a bug in all kernel versions older than 2.0.35 (incl.
2.2.x) causing my box (Acer Extensa 368T notebook, on-board sound chip
OPL3SAx (OPL3SA3 YMF715)) to crash when stopping music output. I
remember there were a lot of changes from 2.0.35 to .36, but I can't
figure out yet what exactly happened.
The effect is consistently reproducable, with all possible settings of
base, irq, dma, drivers (OSS/free+commercial), just trying to play some
mp3-Files or making excessive use of /dev/dsp or /dev/audio.
It seems that something is waiting for an IRQ event (?) and looping
forever, no segfault, no kernel messages, no reboot. When stopping music
output by killing the process (let's say 'cat sample.au > /dev/audio') I
normally hear a high popp noise followed by a lower noise (very short
delay < 1/10th of a second or so), but when the box hangs there is only
the first higher popp noise.
Anyone an idea of about what's going on?
Ciao,
-Axel.
--
This is Linux country ...
... on a quiet night you can hear Windows NT reboot.
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From: Harald Anlauf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help: SMC9432TX ehternet card with RedHat5.2
Date: 12 Mar 1999 14:42:09 +0100
"J. Bolze" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But I have a problem with my SMX9432TX Network card. The SMC9000 series
> should be supported, but during the installation procedure it cannot be
> detected, also not with autoprobe.
>
> What's wrong?
The correct driver for the SMC 9432TX is the epic100 module.
--
Ciao,
-ha
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 14:45:26 GMT
James Giles wrote:
>
> John Burton wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> ...
> >Ummmm...Depends on how you define throughput...if you define throughput
> >as the number of jobs put through the system in a specific length of
> >time, then there is a very definite correlation between throughput and
> >turnaround... i.e. "throughput" is not an irrelevant measure...
>
> Is there? Consider the scheduling problem at the department of
> motor vehicles. In the old days you took a number, waited for a
> clerk to call your number, and transacted your whole visit with that
> same clerk. Then they modified the process. You went in an waited
> to be helped by a receptionist, then got sent to the line for the proper
> forms for whatever your visit entailed, then got sent to another line
> to process those forms, then got sent to the line for ... several more lines ...
> and finallly got sent to the line for the cashier. Result: greater throughput.
> The bean counters loved the system. Other result: *all* visits
> to the DMV took longer, no matter what your visit was for and
> no matter when you went.
>
Ummm did they *actually* have *higher* throughput? i.e. number of people
going from the entrance to the exit in a specific amount of time... from
your description it sounds like they had lower throughput...(sounds like
a typical government agency though ;-)
Then obviously the DMV did not do much of utilization and systems
engineering study...;-) In that case, they *still* had single server /
single queue set up with the receptionist feeding into a multi queue /
multi server arrangement (single queue per server) the problem with that
scenario is each server *did not* complete the processing, but instead
had to hand off the processing to another server, forcing the person to
wait in a minimum of 3 different queues...
As you have indicated, the properties of the job mix are very important
to throughput (number of jobs processed) and turnaround (time spent
processing a particular job) and we can sit here and create job mixes to
prove our point until the cows come home, but the simple fact is, the
*best* architecture depends upon the application/job mix. In pure batch
setups you're concerned with "throughput", you try to keep the queue
full, only have one job in primary memory at a time, arrange the jobs in
the queue based on priority don't worry about context switching, and
optimize the hell out of single job processing (heavy duty vector
optimizations etc...). With a multiuser interactive system, you're
worried about "response time", which means you are *very* concerned
about context switching time, making sure all interactive user processes
are in memory at the same time and that when a user presses a key,
something happens immediately... Most systems these days are somewhere
in between these two extremes...
The single "fast" Alpha tends to be more suited for the batch setup in
that it can crank through the floating point numbers in a hurry... The
multiprocessor Intel setups tend to look better in the multiuser
interactive environment since you are reducing the number of processes
per processor, making it a shorter time between a process getting its
time slice from the processor...
John
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From: "B. Collins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: failure to find floppy controller
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 10:15:42 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm configuring a large linux system for installation at a manufacturing
company and I've encountered a strange problem. I can boot from the
floppy without any problem but I can't mount a file system on the
floppy. In fact I can't even dd or tar a file directly to the floppy.
The system reports that /dev/fd0 is not accessible. The
/var/log/messages file looks like this:
Floppy drive(s): fd is 1.44M
reset set in interrupt, calling 001711bc
floppy: no floppy controllers found
I checked the /proc directory and can't find any evidence of a floppy
controller despite the fact that I can boot from the floppy. I
installed redhat 5.2 out of the box. This system has an IDE CDROM
drive, adaptec 7880 scsi controller, 9GB scsi disk drives, sony 24GB dat
tape and an intel ether express 10/100 nic card.
time passes....
Since the initial problem, I've stripped all junk I don't need out of
the kernel and made the floppy driver a module to no avail. Performing
an insmod floppy still generates the "no floppy controllers found"
message. As an experiment, I've verified that DOS, Win'95, Win'98, and
SCO Unix can see the floppy controller.
At this point I'll entertain any suggestions. Unless I can come up with
a resonable workaround, I'll have to chalk this Linux experience as a
failure and go back to NT. Thanks.
Bruce Collins
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From: "John J. Budd III, MD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Turbo TV card support
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 06:09:47 -0600
Can anyone supply me with information on how to use this card? I think
it uses the BT848 chipset but I am looking for some advice as to how to
proceed. TIA JJB
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles H. Chapman)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Intellimouse wheel scolling under UNIX
Date: 12 Mar 1999 14:55:10 GMT
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999 12:49:55 -0700, Jon Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Now, I'm running Exceed as my X software at work using an NT box as a
>dumb terminal.
>
>Does anyone know now to get my Intellimouse wheel to scroll under SunOS
>UNIX using Exceed?
It's the -server- that handles mouse events, not the clients. It
doesn't matter if you're running your X clients under SunOS or any
other OS -- you have to have an Intellimouse-aware version of Exceed
(the server) to make the wheel work.
Chuck
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From: Jason McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Speed..Speed..Speed
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:30:05 -0500
Jim Moser wrote:
> Am currently running a K6-2 300Mhz processor with 128Mb of 100 Mhz
> memory and considering
> upgrading to a faster board and processor. I am pursuing a project which
> will require scads of floating point
<snip>
If you are looking for RAW FP power look at an ALPHA processor. Load it up
with memory and fast disks.
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