Linux-Hardware Digest #90, Volume #10 Fri, 23 Apr 99 03:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Re: Modifying Video Cards... (Alex Sleeis)
Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support. (robert farney)
Re: Install (Codifex Maximus)
Re: Iomega ZIP Permissions (Dan Stephenson)
Bocaboard board Serial port card drivers. ("Daniel Stanfill")
Upgrade Linux after hardware upgrades question (Mountaingoat)
Help: read HP-UX hard drive ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux 2.2.x and serial ports ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Modifying Video Cards... (Lewis Lin)
Re: UDMA CDrom problem... ("David B Kelly")
Re: Newbie's Linux questions - help needed! (Jeff Szarka)
Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!! (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Tatung Monitor (Tom Hua)
Proliant 1600 (Keith Howells)
Re: Tape Backup for Linux (Erwin de Beus)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (=?iso-8859-1?Q?=BF=2DInfinity?= Rising-?)
UDS-IS11/DTC-3181/UMAX/Mustek SCSI Card (Peter Schildmann)
Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support. (Digital Wokan)
Re: CDROM burners (bigger than big) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best ways to optimise Linux (jane chav)
Re: Acerview 56e
Re: STB Horizon 64 (Digital Wokan)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (Jeff Szarka)
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From: Alex Sleeis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modifying Video Cards...
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:09:21 +0000
Lewis Lin wrote:
>
> I just installed Linux on my system, and I think Linux does not recognize
> my video card properly b/c it freezes everytime I launch Xwindows.
>
> How can I manually set my linux OS settings to use a "generic SVGA"
> driver? XF86Setup doesn't work, and Xconfigurator automatically detects
> and uses my ATI Mach64 setting, which is causing me problems right now.
Not to sound like a jerk with the old "RTFM"... but that's what ya need
to do. I don't know if Xconfigurator is in all distributions, but I
believe so. That is the program to configure your X system.
For knowledge sake, Linux recognizing your video card and X Windows not
recognizing the card are two seperate things, and should be thought of
as such when you encounter future problems in X windows. It will just
help you to debug an issue easier with the right understanding of the
mechanics.
Check out the XFree86 HOWTO:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/XFree86-HOWTO.html
Or at any other HOWTO reference.
I assumed that you are new to this, so if you are offended because you
aren't, and it seems that I was talking down to you... then just chill.
Man... I must be on edge with all the damn flaming people get cuz they
try to explain something, that I see in newsgroups. *smile*
Anyway... hope this was helpful however you took it. :)
-Alex
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From: robert farney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support.
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:17:34 -0500
Hello,
My experience tells me that Diamond Viper is a good card with RedHat Linux.
Viper 550 w/16mb should not be any different than my 4 mb Viper 330.
GBP wrote:
> IO suggest one of the matrox g200 based cards.. read the review in
> http://tomsharware.com
>
> anway its on the list of cards that work.
>
> Jazzy_one wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > I am looking for a great video card with 24bit color support for RedHat
> > 5.2 and XFree86-3.3.3-1. I really want a 16 meg or a 32 meg card but I want
> > something supported.
> > Any suggestions? What are you currently using?
> > Please e-mail me back @ scobee(NOSPAM)@home.com. Just remove the nospam from
> > the e-mail address.
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From: Codifex Maximus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:44:00 -0500
Krusty the Clown wrote:
>
> While trying to install Calderra Open Linux 1.2 here is what happens.
>
> I put in the boot disk and start the system. While it is probing PCI
> hardware i get two lines that say something like
> Warning: Unknown PCI hardware found. Please read /include/linux/pci.h
>
> And it locks up right there. Is there any way around this?
> I think my mother board may be the problem. it is oneof those really cheesy
> ones with the graphics and sound on board. ButI have used these in the past
> with noproblems. Anyway the video is supposed to be AGP on it.
> Any suggestions?
>
> Chad
You might try turning off "PCI AWARE OS" in the BIOS. Hope that works.
--
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flamed with better information than to be left blissfully ignorant.
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From: Dan Stephenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Iomega ZIP Permissions
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:51:06 -0500
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Robert Mintram wrote:
>Hi All
>I have just installed a ZIP drive for backup purposes. My
>machine is a P200 RH5.2. I have given the mount directory
>full global permisions. However, after I mount the ZIP
>drive the global permissions reduce to r-x instead of rwx. I
>have changed the /dev/hdd4 file permissions to global rwx
>but no change. Anyone know what's going on? I would be most
>grateful for any help.
>Thanks a lot
>Regards
>Bob Mintram
I think in linuxconf you can specify access to your drives. Maybe that will
help?
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From: "Daniel Stanfill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bocaboard board Serial port card drivers.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:17:43 GMT
Does anybody out there have or know of a driver for the boca board bb1008 8
port serial port card???
I may be taking someone I know from SCO 3.2 to Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mountaingoat)
Subject: Upgrade Linux after hardware upgrades question
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:24:56 GMT
Before I do any damage to my crowning achievment of a quadboot
setup...
I set up a system that boots from M$'s boot.ini to either Win98,
NT4WS, x86 Solaris and RH5.1
The original system was based on a FIC PA2007/P166MMX with 64MB RAM,
three hard drives, a serial mouse and a Sportster 33.6
The system has now been upgraded to a FIC503+/AMD K6-2 450mHz with 128
MB SDRAM, PS/2 mouse, Zoom 2925 PCI modem and the same three hard
drives.
Needless to say, I need to reinstall Linux and I have in my hot little
hand a copy of RH5.2.
I don't have a lot of data in the installation so losing that wouldn't
be a tragedy. My main concern is for all the work I put into getting
this to work, mostly in partitioning and managing the boot sector,
which I did with Bootpart, and in setting up the dialup.
What's going to happen when I boot off the CD and start the install?
Can I aavoid losing the boot info? (I have a recent NT ERD)
Will I loose the answer file for my dialup?
Thanks for any help.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help: read HP-UX hard drive ?
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:15:01 GMT
Is there any way I can read an HP-UX (a UNIX variant) SCSI hard drive
on a Linux system ?
The HP system refuses to recognize the hard drive;I figure Linux
ismore forgiving and has a better set of utilities, so maybe there's
a way ...
Any info would be appreciated
Thanks in advance
Scott Daniels
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux 2.2.x and serial ports
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 23:49:06 GMT
Has anyone noticed a problem with Serial ports that share the same IRQ and the
new 2.2.x serias kernel? I have two com ports (Com1 and Com3) that share the
same IRQ and this was ok with the old 2.0.x kernels. However when I boot up
with the new kernel COM3 does not work. I get an error "Device or resource
busy" Any ideas? Thank you for your help.
Mark
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From: Lewis Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modifying Video Cards...
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:10:06 -0700
Hi,
I just installed Linux on my system, and I think Linux does not recognize
my video card properly b/c it freezes everytime I launch Xwindows.
How can I manually set my linux OS settings to use a "generic SVGA"
driver? XF86Setup doesn't work, and Xconfigurator automatically detects
and uses my ATI Mach64 setting, which is causing me problems right now.
Thanks for your help!
Lewis
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From: "David B Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: UDMA CDrom problem...
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 00:35:33 -0400
If your drive has a play button you can disconnect it from the pc, just give
it power and with headphones see if it plays ok.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Newbie's Linux questions - help needed!
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 03:25:04 GMT
On Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:10:11 +0100, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:2 - Though I've had as many as 4 OSes on a single drive and it can be done
:relatively easily I would buy a second drive and install Linux on that.
:Drives are very cheap now. In the near future I may be using 3 operating
:systems and I plan to use, say, 3 4 gig drives, one for each. I prefer the
:smaller size drives and would rather not put all of them on a single 9 gig
:(or larger) disk but that's just personal taste.
That's not a bad idea since SuSe (and probably others) will handle
partitioning for you if you let it have the whole drive. The only
downside is more drive's cause more heat, need more power, are louder
then one but I commonly use 3 drives. You get used to the noise after
a while...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keven R. Pittsinger)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!!
Date: 23 Apr 1999 00:53:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
**Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do I need an upgrade to my kernel to see the teen pictures ?
Nope, just a copy of the M$ version of Linux.
Keven
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From: Tom Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tatung Monitor
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:14:29 -0700
Does anyone have the specs for a Tatung CM14SBS monitor? I can't get
any X86 Server to run properly on it. Any help would be greatly
appreciated.
Thanks,
Tom.
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From: Keith Howells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Proliant 1600
Date: 21 Apr 1999 12:32:20 GMT
I have not completed an install on a proliant, I will in the short term.
I don't believe it will support the array controller, nor Netflex3 NIC. It
does however find the integrated UltraWide SCSI controller. I would
suggest tossing in a 3Com 10/100 XL Etherlink and you should be fine. It
should also support the Cirrus chipset in the XFree86 Server.
Hope this helps.
Ketih
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From: Erwin de Beus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Tape Backup for Linux
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 14:41:57 +0200
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I think Arkeia backup does what you want. You simply install a backup
server on your linux box and clients on all other machines that you want
to backup. These can be almost any platform. I haven't used it yet, but I
am evaluation Arkeia in the comming weeks as a solution here. We have a
Linux server, some workstations (W95/NT and Linux) and a couple of HP Unix
machines. Arkeia is capable of handling all this platforms.
Have a look at http://www.arkeia.com
Hope this helps.
Erwin de Beus
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=BF=2DInfinity?= Rising-? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 22:09:42 -0500
Well, duh - that's why they're called "Winmodems". For a Linux user,
you're not that bright. RTFM and so on...
The real innards are Windows based drivers, probably tied in to Windows
DLLs so it would be difficult, if even possible, to write a Linux or
anything-else driver (don't be so self-centered about Linux support, there
are other platforms which deserve support).
The external shell is just that. Rudimentary rubbish. That's why they're
cheap. Because they replaced a universal microchip with 5 million lines of
Win32 code. This stuff ain't hard to figure out.
Of course, you probably think Linux is free, too...
Pierre Scotney wrote:
> I wonder how much damage the incompatibility of host-controller modems,
> ie winmodems, with Linux is having on the credibility of Linux with new
> or potential Linux users. Most new and recent PCs have these cheap PCI
> devices, which under Windows provide a high degree of functionality
> with data, fax and voice capabilities but with Linux are currently
> useless. Lets hope that http://linmodems.org gets lots of support.
>
> Just a thought...
>
> --
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dr Pierre Scotney
> St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
> University of Melbourne
> Australia
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Schildmann)
Subject: UDS-IS11/DTC-3181/UMAX/Mustek SCSI Card
Date: 21 Apr 1999 14:53:43 +0100
Hi,
does anybody know if it's possible to get this
SCSI card running with interrupt?
The card has a PNR/PNP jumper. The card does not
use an IRQ in PNR mode (plug and run) but in
PNP mode it is possible to configure an IRQ.
Peter Schildmann
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:37:37 -0400
From: Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support.
I, too, am now running a 16MB Viper V550. I pulled a 4MB Velocity 128
to put it in, and X started up without a hitch.
You'll be using the SVGA XServer instead of an accelerated one, but
that's the way it goes.
robert farney wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> My experience tells me that Diamond Viper is a good card with RedHat Linux.
> Viper 550 w/16mb should not be any different than my 4 mb Viper 330.
>
> GBP wrote:
>
> > IO suggest one of the matrox g200 based cards.. read the review in
> > http://tomsharware.com
> >
> > anway its on the list of cards that work.
> >
> > Jazzy_one wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > > I am looking for a great video card with 24bit color support for RedHat
> > > 5.2 and XFree86-3.3.3-1. I really want a 16 meg or a 32 meg card but I want
> > > something supported.
> > > Any suggestions? What are you currently using?
> > > Please e-mail me back @ scobee(NOSPAM)@home.com. Just remove the nospam from
> > > the e-mail address.
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Subject: Re: CDROM burners (bigger than big)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 02:05:16 GMT
According to Armin S. A. Roehrl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I must burn somewhere between 4 up to 100 (?1000?) CDs
> (all with different contents) per hour.
> Can you give me any pointers on who sells that kind
> of powerful mutiple CD burners (if possible ones
> that work with Linux)
There are numerous hopper-fed systems, but I think they are usually
driven by a single master cd. There could be hopper-fed systems
driven from windows or linux, but I'm not aware of any. Be sure to
check out the trade mags as well as comp.publish.cdrom (or something
like that.)
If you don't mind swapping disks manually, you could probably hang a
bunch of fast SCSI burners off a linux box and do it that way too.
-p.
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From: jane chav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linus.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Best ways to optimise Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 15:37:26 +1000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> A recent Microsoft sponsored test pitted NT server versus Linux on a quad
> processor machine doing tasks like FTP and web services. Although NT won on
> this particular test, many were quick to point out that the NT installation
> was optimised, while the Linux installation was not. My question is, how do
> you optimise Linux? I know in NT you can defragment the hard drive and do
> stuff like that, but how do you make Linux run to the best of it's ability?
>
I thought it's been proven that Windows NT has any 2 out of the 4
processors busy waiting at any given time. So how can it beat Linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Acerview 56e
Date: 23 Apr 1999 05:46:44 GMT
mail's dead, posting instead...
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
you write:
|> I am a new user of Linux and would like to get SVGA from the monitor
|> using XFree86. I have no specs on the Acerview 56e and have tried the
|> ACER Web site without success. Anyone have specs or suggest where I
|> might get them . Thanks!
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Acer AcerView 56e"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
# HorizSync is in kHz unless units are specified.
# HorizSync may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
HorizSync 31.0-66.0
# VertRefresh is in Hz unless units are specified.
# VertRefresh may be a comma separated list of discrete values, or a
# comma separated list of ranges of values.
# NOTE: THE VALUES HERE ARE EXAMPLES ONLY. REFER TO YOUR MONITOR'S
# USER MANUAL FOR THE CORRECT NUMBERS.
VertRefresh 50.0-110.0
good luck!
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Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 01:39:31 -0400
From: Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: STB Horizon 64
Rhys Ulerich wrote:
> video card manufacturers; why can't their naming conventions make sense?)
Because then people would actually know what they're getting and stop
wasting their money on mistakes.
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From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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: 21 Apr 1999 15:26:58 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello) writes:
> You are. Usually, the character '-' is used for subtraction,
> not in symbol names.
That's one of the joys of Unicode: The '-'-as-a-hyphen is a different
character than '-'-as-a-minus. :-) Also '-'-as-a-dash is yet another
character. (It could also be interpreted as a range operator, that is
1-6 means the numbers for 1 to 6 inclusive.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Szarka)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 06:34:49 GMT
On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 11:17:55 +1000, Pierre Scotney
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:
:I wonder how much damage the incompatibility of host-controller modems,
:ie winmodems, with Linux is having on the credibility of Linux with new
:or potential Linux users. Most new and recent PCs have these cheap PCI
:devices, which under Windows provide a high degree of functionality
:with data, fax and voice capabilities but with Linux are currently
:useless. Lets hope that http://linmodems.org gets lots of support.
:
:Just a thought...
I use a win modem at work and it's really not that bad. If the CPU is
fast then you get good connections, if not you're screwed. Cheap
pci/winmodems aren't going away either, it's good someone is trying to
get drivers written.
Lack of hardware support is never a good thing, no matter what OS.
Without 90% market share though what can you do....
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