Linux-Hardware Digest #50, Volume #10 Sat, 17 Apr 99 06:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (mike@)
Re: SCSI-cd problem (Tonny Sejr Kromann)
Re: Ideal Linux Box? (Paul Nevin)
Re: controlling Linux via telephone (?) (Daniel)
Re: CDRW - HP and Backpack (WORLOK)
Re: Winmodems And Linux. (Russell Nelson)
Re: CDRW - HP and Backpack (Grant Guenther)
Re: IntelR PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter (Gianni Mariani)
Re: SB live (Denny)
Re: Non-destructive HD repartition? ("4Season")
Re: Sound Blaster Live (Denny)
Need help: fixed freq monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 16GB hardrive-problems with fdisk (Jose Maria Fontanillo Muniz)
Re: Minimum Hardware For Ghostscript on Linux (HAC)
SCSI Acard 6712S Compatibility ("Julien Blin")
Re: non-edo memory where, how much? (oak)
Linux on Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ideal Linux Box? (WORLOK)
Re: BUYING A MODEM ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E. Larson))
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From: mike@
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:42:29 -0700
In article <7f4a6d$sjl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Osvaldo says...
>
>I think you make code more readable and maintenable when you write
>ThisIsAnIdentifier instead of thisisanidentifier,
sorry, I think it is more readable when you write
This_Is_An_Identifier
than
ThisIsAnIdentifier.
Mike
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From: Tonny Sejr Kromann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-cd problem
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 1999 11:56:18 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Try mounting /dev/scd<x>, or /dev/sr<x>, where <x> is the number of
> your player (order is determined from the order it is recognised at
> startup). When you type dmesg, it will tell you the scsi device for
> each disk,cdrom,etc.
I can mount /dev/sr0 and read files from it without problems.
> Are you by any change using an aic7890 based scsi controller?
Exactly this one. P2B-S. As you see in the bottom of my previous message.
> I experience read errors with my on-board aci7890 (asus p2b ds) which
> don't occur in windos nt when I set the cdrom device speed to 20Mb/s
> or lower in ez-scsi bios. The problem occurs in kernel 2.0.36 as well
> as 2.2.5.
Well - at boottime (or dmesg) it says "(scsi0:0:4:0) Synchronous at 10.0
Mbyte/sec" so I guess 10MB/s should be enough.
I'll see if I can change something in the SCSI-bios. Think it says 80MB/s at
all channels. Perhaps I can make the value smaller.
I'll get back to you on this.
--
Thanks for your help
Tonny
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From: Paul Nevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 14:42:27 +0800
I just built a new linux server for work and had free reign over what
went in it..
Asus P2B-DS Dual Pentium III motherboard with SCSI onboard
2x 500MHz PentiumIII chips
1Gb Registerd ECC RAM 4x256Modules
Intel Server 1Gb ethernet card
3Dlabs Permedia II 8Mb graphics card
4x 18Gb Fast Wide Ultra SCSI II hard disks
24 Speed SCSI CD ROM
40Gb Sony DAT drive for backups
Philips 201P 21" Monitor
Iomega Jaz 2Gb internal drive SCSI
Needless to say the machine is bloody fast.. wish I had one!
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: controlling Linux via telephone (?)
Crossposted-To: comp.home.automation
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:16:52 GMT
In comp.home.automation Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: > Does anyone knows a way to exexute commands on a Linux box by telephone?
: > What I mean is to call the PC with the normal telephone, dial a security code
: > and then press 1 for executing a particular comman, 2 for anotherone, etc.
I'm using the X10 Telephone Responder bought from their web site for under
$40. I use it with heyu and the following script. The script was a 10
minute hack.
I can execute any commmand that a script can handle.
###- cut here - ###
#!/bin/ksh
# This program is meant to be used as an adjunct to the HEYU program.
# It listens for events and then responds to them.
# see the section set off by stars to see which ones to change.
#
# Housekeeping
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
# set up a monitor with it's output redirected.
# We can't just pipe the monitor output for some reason that I
# haven't even looked into. How embarrassing.
rm -f /tmp/heyumon$$ 2>/dev/null # Make sure there's no evil links
heyu monitor > /tmp/heyumon$$ 2>&1 &
TODIE=$!
#get rid of monitor program and file upon exit
trap 'kill $TODIE; rm /tmp/heyumon$$;trap 0; exit 0' 0 1 2 15
MODE=""
UNIT=""
# set up a while loop to read each line of output and act upon it.
# Some output is multi-line, so there's logic here to re-assemble it.
tail -f /tmp/heyumon$$ | while : ; do
read wholeline
if [ "$wholeline" = "" ] ; then
break
fi
set `echo $wholeline` noline
FUNC=$4
if [ "$4" = "address" ] ; then
UNIT=$6
MODE=""
HC=$9
elif [ "$4" = "Trasmitted" ] ; then
UNIT=
MODE=
HC=
elif [ "$4" = "function" ] ; then
MODE=$5
HC=$8
if [ "$MODE" = "Bright" -o "$MODE" = "Dim" ] ; then
DIRECTION=$9
shift 2
AMOUNT=$9
echo $DIRECTION BY $AMOUNT
fi
fi
# *********************************************************************** #
#Take action
if [ "$HC" = "n" -a "$UNIT" = 1 -a "$MODE" = "On" ] ; then
echo "Call me on my cellphone (925)XXX-1939. Love, Dan" | mail herpager
elif [ "$HC" = "n" -a "$UNIT" = 2 -a "$MODE" = "On" ] ; then
echo "Call me on my cellphone (925)519-1939. Dan" | mail
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
elif [ "$HC" = "n" -a "$UNIT" = 3 -a "$MODE" = "On" ] ; then
echo "I'm on my way home. Love, Dan" | mail herpager
elif [ "$HC" = "n" -a "$UNIT" = 4 -a "$MODE" = "Off" ] ; then
play -v 80 light_is_off.wav
heyu turn d7 off
fi
MODE=
done
--
Daniel B. Suthers, CCP
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Web: http://www.tanj.com/
- -Youth is a difficult time, and it gets more difficult after 30.- -
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDRW - HP and Backpack
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:26:43 GMT
Parallel ports are SLOWer. If you want external get SCSI (assuming you have a
scsi card, Advansys makes very reasonable ones and they are linux supported).
Correct, older CDROMS may not be able to read CDRW disks. My old 8X couldn't.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Christopher Fowler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm thinking about getting an external CD-ReWritable drive for my system. I
> figured what ever my choice in media is, it should be an external device so
> I can use it with several system easily.
>
> Here are my questions:
> Has anyone had any problems/success with the "BackPack" family? Best price
> I've found is $339.
> Same Question for the external HPs - best price $329.
>
> Any reason why I should avoid going with this solution?
>
> Also, is it true that some older CD-ROM drives will not be able to READ
> CD-RW disks? This is not a (major) issue, but was just wondering.
>
> Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or this newsgroup
>
> Thanks!
> -Christopher
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> What will the truth be tomorrow?
> Christopher Fowler
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> www.ChronoFish.com/Christopher
>
>
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From: Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodems And Linux.
Date: 16 Apr 1999 22:44:18 -0400
"KrOnZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Here are my specs: RedHat 5.2, U.S. Robotics 56K Internal Winmodem ISA.
>
> Does anyone know any way i can get my Winmodem to work in linux? I'm
> new to linux and most people are telling me that there might be a way,
Not *yet*, but watch http://linmodems.org
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-russ nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://crynwr.com/~nelson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Guenther)
Subject: Re: CDRW - HP and Backpack
Date: 17 Apr 1999 06:02:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 17:09:11 -0400, Christopher Fowler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Here are my questions:
>Has anyone had any problems/success with the "BackPack" family? Best price
>I've found is $339.
Most backpack drives are supported, but I believe their new CD-RW uses
a newer adapter that may not be supported by the Linux PARIDE drivers.
(No hard information is available yet ...)
>Same Question for the external HPs - best price $329.
The HP parallel port drives are supported.
==========================================================================
Grant R. Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gianni Mariani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IntelR PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:28:13 GMT
Ah, let's see.
1. Uses 1 PCI slot instead of 2
2. Can put more ports in the one machine
3. You have money to burn
If I wanted multiple 100BT ports I would certainly look at it even if I
had a multiple spare slots.
So, is it supported ?
Andrew Congdon wrote:
> > Is IntelR PRO/100+ Dual Port Server Adapter
> > compatible with Linux 2.2 ?
>
> > Dmitry Melekhov
>
> And can someone explain why you would use a dual port network card,
> rather than two cards? Dual port SCSI seems a bit more obvious to me..
>
> --
> Andrew
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From: Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB live
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:34:13 -0400
Creative Labs has announced on their site that SBLive drivers are under way and
'coming soon'.
http://www.soundblaster.com/resources/news%2Dserver/faq%2Dsblive.html#3.4
-Denny-
"Dr. Stephen S. Kerr" wrote:
> Jonathan Young ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I would love to know if its usable in linux as well. Anyone know? Im
> : currently running 2.2.5, so, if anyone has any ideas on how to get a SB live
> : working, please email me!
>
> : Thanks
>
> : J.
>
> 4front Technologies (www.opensound.com), producers of the OSS sound drivers
> for various Unices, says that development work has begun on drivers for
> this card but a beta is months away because they have no documentation and
> they must rely on reverse engineering. I don't know the status of freeware
> drivers for the card, but I would doubt they're any more mature, if they
> exist at all. Does anyone know otherwise?
>
> -- S.K.
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From: "4Season" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Non-destructive HD repartition?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 21:21:54 -0600
Thanks! The Red Hat manual mentioned using symbolic links, but did not
elaborate on how to establish them.
Jeff
John McKown wrote in message
<7f74nr$k7i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>To the best of my knowledge, you cannot resize an ext2 partition.
>What I have done is create a new filesystem (partition). I called it
>/drive2. I then put a symlink as a directory from /opt to the
>corresponding directory in /drive2. For example (as root)
>
>1. mkdir /drive2/opt
>2. mkdir /drive2/opt/communicator-v451
>3. cd /opt
>4. tar c communicator-451 | (cd /drive2/opt; tar x)
>5. rm -R /opt/communicator-451
>6. ln -s /drive2/opt/communicator-v451 /opt/communicator-v451
>
>Now the data is actually in /drive2/opt/communicator-v451, but I can
>access it via /opt/communicator-v451. If you are installing a NEW
>package, which will be at /opt/package, then you can simply do:
>1. mkdir /drive2/opt/package
>2. ln -s /drive2/opt/package /opt/package
>
>Now do the install. This, to me, is easier than backing up the entire
>filesystem, creating a new one somewhere else that's bigger, then
>restoring the data.
>
>On Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:42:07 -0600, 4Season <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>What's the best way to repartition a hard drive, without disturbing the
data
>>on it?
>>
>>I goofed and only allocated maybe 10 megabytes to /OPT, only to find that
>>the first two packages I installed both wanted it, and ran out of space!
>>
>>Nothing too complicated about the hard drive: A brand-new 8.4G Maxtor,
>>containing Linux, and only Linux (another drive contains all of my
Windows98
>>stuff)
>>
>>
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From: Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 23:38:36 -0400
Just posted this info to someone else, but here it is again. Pass it
on...
Creative Labs is working on the driver as we speak.
http://www.soundblaster.com/resources/news%2Dserver/faq%2Dsblive.html#3.4
There's at least one other reference on the site, but I forget where.
-Denny-
alpine wrote:
> if you could come up with that article i would appriciate it as creative
> told me they were not even working on it
> i would like to be able to have some reason "printed article" to
> complane at them about
> other than the fact that they "jsut should" support linux and not just
> infirior operating systems
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help: fixed freq monitor
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:27:03 GMT
I have been trying to setup XFree86 for a sony fixed frequency monitor. The
video card is a mirage zd-128 (et-6000) and is easily recognized. The system
works fine under other os's. When I run XF86Setup, to see anything I have to
select 'no' for that first prompt when starting the program. And then it
shows the screen in double, one image over the other. It's a real pain to
use this setup program as the mouse is a ms intellipoint ps/2 with the
wheely-gadget and causes problems as I can't get that setup properly either.
Anyways, I have enterred the correct vertical and horizontal frequencies and
tried all of the different mode selections. None of them produce a stable
image.
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From: Jose Maria Fontanillo Muniz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16GB hardrive-problems with fdisk
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:34:58 +0000
John Castillo wrote:
> I have a new 16gig drive I want to put in my linux machine running redhat5.2
> build 2.0.36.
>
> I can partition cylinders 0-1023 but do not now how to go beyond that point.
> help.
I had the same problem and, in my case (I have a HD IBM Darkstar of 16GB) ,
I put: append = "hda=32760,16,63" (where the numbers are cylinders, heads
and sectors)
in my lilo.conf and it worked. Dont forget to run lilo after having modificate
the file /etc/lilo.conf.
You can try also writing the previous sentence at the lilo prompt.
Bye.
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From: HAC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Minimum Hardware For Ghostscript on Linux
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 04:29:26 GMT
Donald R. Brewer wrote:
>
> Does anyone know what the minimum processor and memory requirements would be
> to run Ghostscript on Linux?
>
> For example if you run Ghostscript on Linux running on an embedded 386, what
> would be the mimimum memory requirements.
>
Using ghostview to look at a small PostScript file, I see about 2.3MB
for ghostview, and about 4MB for gs.
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From: "Julien Blin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Acard 6712S Compatibility
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 10:22:04 +0200
Hello,
I'm just a starter in linux environnement, and i've got problem
in the installation, because my SCSI card is'nt recognized.
It's an ACARD 6712S.
Could you help me ?
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From: oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: non-edo memory where, how much?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:31:05 GMT
If I get a new motherboard and memory I guess that means a new CPU too.
I was just checking in case there was a place to get this
type of memory for a good price. The memory on the board takes just one
memory slot. All it has is 4 megs on it so it's practically unusable
that way.
Thanks,
-Tony
James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Buy a NEW motherboard and new memory!
> Memory for that line of systems may be able to find at secondhand and pawn
> shops maybe.
> The memory is still very expensive for that type of system. 30pin SIMM and
> you probably have 1M SIMMs installed and either need another 4 1M SIMMs or
> go the very expensive route and get 4 4M SIMMs...
> Just save your money and buy a NEW motherboard, CPU and memory.
> Just my long 2 cents,
> James Kosin
> oak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:ghRR2.302$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have an old 486DX2 that I need memory for. I'm pretty sure it's non-edo
> > because it's so old so I'd like to know where I can get this sort of
> memory
> > and how much it would cost. Is it worth buying non-edo memory or will it
> cost
> > the same werer I to buy a new motherboard and buy less expensive edo
> memory?
> > Also, on this type of machine would it be parity
> > or non-parity? How to tell - is it on the chip?
> > How could I tell how many pins it is? count them? measure?
> > Lot of questions eh?
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > -Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux on Toshiba Satellite 2545XCDT?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:40:25 GMT
Is there anybody out there who has successfully installed Linux on a Toshiba
Satellite 2545XCDT laptop? I am considering to buy one because of its
excellent performance/performance ratio and other attractive features. What
kind of graphic chip it has? According to one source it is a S3 Virge MX 3D
64 bit, another source says it is a 128 bit acclerator. (I have to use
StarOffice that does not run with S3 Virge, so this info is crucial) Does the
PCMCIA controller work? Are there any tricky PnP devices that can cause
problems?
I did not find anything about this model in the linux laptop page
(kharker@utexas)
I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance:
Gyula Besztercey
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From: WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ideal Linux Box?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:53:47 GMT
RH 5.2/ kernel 2.2.5
KDE 1.1 / WindowMaker 0.21
Celeron 300a OC 450mhz
128 MB PC100
6.4gb Maxtor UDMA
Zoom 56k isa modem
Adaptec AHA 1542CP ISA
Acer 40X UDMA CDROM
HP Surestore IDE CDRW
Hercules Stingray 128/3D Voodoo PCI graphics
Creative AWE32 ISA sound
17" MAG DX17f
UMAX Astra 1200s SCSi scanner (SANE)
WangDAT 8gb 4mm DDS2 SCSI ext Tape
SCSi ZIP drive
ext Conner 2GB SCSI hdd
Logitech 3 button Marble trackball
DEC Laser 5100
Works pretty good for my home system. I added the scsi tape recently. What a
Godsend!
Your choices seem fine. Linux flies on new hardware.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig M Lambert) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to build myself a new Linux box and wanted some feedback
> about the hardware I have selected for it. (I am going to use Caldera
> 1.3 in it).
>
> Motherboard: Asus P5A (rev 1.0.4) [Dabs Direct] socket 7/
> Asus P5S-vm (as long as AMD K7 can be
> supported)
>
> CPU: AMD K6-3/K7 (when it comes out) 450-500mhz
>
> Ram: 128mb SDRAM PC100
>
> Hard drive: large UDMA > 10gb (not sure what make)
>
> Graphics card: AGP possibly ATI xpert 98/99 or ATI Xpert @
> work 8/12mb (must be compatible with Linux)
>
> CDROM: >=40x IDE (possibly Panasonic/Creative - compatible
> with Linux)
>
> Floppy disk: Generic
>
> Mouse: 3 button Microsoft - serial port
>
> Keyboard: win 95 (104)
>
> Box: ATX power supply, with 2, 5.25" drive
> bays and 2, 3.5" bays
>
> Printer: Epson colour 640
>
> Soundcard: Creative labs PCI (16bit)
>
> Tv card: Hauppage/ati compat.-(connects with graphics
> card)
>
> The other hardware such as the monitor and modem, I already have.
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> Craig
>
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From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E. Larson)
Subject: Re: BUYING A MODEM
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 08:53:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tuomo O.
Vuolteenaho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Question 1: For dual boot NT/Linux users: Which modem should I buy? I
>need a 56k modem that works well with both NT and Linux. Specs: Epox
>kp6-bs motherboard, NT4.0sp4, SuSE 6.0.
>
External - http://www.compgeeks.com/cgi-bin/prod_disp.asp?cat=ModemsTelephony
>Question 2: Cable modem. Are there some special issues with this one?
>
Yes, No, Maybe - depends alot on the cable company, Roadrunner while it
doesn't officially support Linux or Be willn't cause any problems if you use
them. Plenty of support pages around to get you started.
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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