Linux-Hardware Digest #224, Volume #10 Thu, 13 May 99 07:13:39 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (Tmack)
CTX EzBook FC2A300A (Joshua Martin)
Viper 330 - What's better for XF86? ("doug")
Re: How do I use a tape drive???? (Harald Arnesen)
Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM? (fht)
CMI8330 Soundblaster and isapnp - a question (Stephen Quattlebaum)
Re: yamaha724 (Garron Stevenson)
Re: DLT4000+Adatec AHA-2940U2W=BIOS NOT INSTALLED!?!? (Dan Poynor)
Need specs for older monitor ("Watchman")
Problem with cdrecord ("Tiamat")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tempman1)
Re: SCSI Problem ("Tony")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Re: CD-RW's for Linux (Philip Charles)
Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system. (Christopher Mahmood)
Notebook: IPC Topnote 400 Celeron (Thomas King)
Re: Dual M/B recommendation please (Tim Moore)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tmack)
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
Date: 13 May 1999 04:31:21 GMT
In article <39r_2.22943$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>one thing that annoys me, though; my board didn't come with a slot-1
>terminator. both my asus p2bd boards came with cpu terminators, for
>when you run the dual board in single cpu mode (just one plugged in).
-=chomp=-
Those cards are not necessary. I have a Tyan Tiger2 (lx dual board)
that didnt come with one, it autodetects one or two cpu's. Runs fine
without the dummy card. Another computer I just finished building
for a friend was based on a supermicro p6dbu, again no dummy card.
Worked fine with one or two cpu's.
BTW: P6DBU works nicely with 2xcelery300A@450, had to go 2.2V by
modifying the slocket(Abit RS370a), but all works well. RC5 puts
out about 2.5Mkeys/sec on it, compared to my 1.66Mkeys/s on my
2x300A tiger2 board. Its all scsi based, and is extremely fast,
9.1G U2W HD, 8x4x Panasonic CD-R (7502B) scsi, scsi Zip. Only
thing wrong is Its running NT, but thats only because its being
used for Maya, 3ds, Flash, Char. Studio and other graphix apps.
Tmack
--
blah
bleh
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From: Joshua Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CTX EzBook FC2A300A
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 22:05:14 -0700
Thinking about buying this notebook...
CTX EzBook FC2A300A
Anybody have any good/bad experience with it in linux?
--Joshua Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Viper 330 - What's better for XF86?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:08:33 -0500
I have a Diamond Viper 330 adapter running the SVGA server. I really want to
be able to run at least 1280x1024 under XF86, which SVGA server apparently
will not do.
What widely available (and not too pricey) PCI boards will run a more
capable server for X?
Thanks,
Doug
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I use a tape drive????
Date: 12 May 1999 09:40:37 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson) writes:
> I can now use my tape drive but probably really need to look in to buying a
> backup program.
Before you buy anything, you might want to check out the free
alternatives, such as tob and taper.
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: fht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX and AMD K6-3D NOW, ANY PROBLEM?
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:45:48 -0300
I am using a K6-2 400MHz on a ASUS P5A-B Mainboard. It�s very pretty
running LINUX. The only drawback is the onboard sound card, which driver
is difficult to setup.
Pentium II has more FPU capacity, good for games and scientific
applications, but the rest is almost the same.
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Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 15:25:22 -0500
From: Stephen Quattlebaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CMI8330 Soundblaster and isapnp - a question
I'm trying to get my CMI8330 on-board sound chip to work in Linux. The
driver documentation, however, gives a sample isapnp.conf that is
drastically differnt from what my pnpdump reported (I don't just mean
IO/DMA/IRQ - I mean a completely differnt number and numbering of logical
devices). I'm no PnP expert, so this may be normal. I have managed to
isolate which devices appears to be which from looking at the resource
requirements, but now I'm stuck. So, I have a few questions for whoever
may have tread this route before...
1) Are there several versions of the CMI8330? As I said, my logical
device numbers were different from the numbers of the person who wrote the
documentation.
2) I'm not very knowledgable on sound hardware; I believe that the uart401
and mpu drivers are support drivers, and that of the interfaces to the
CMI8330, I only need one of WSS or SB. Am I correct? (by the way,
uart401 and the mpu drivers load with no errors with only an insmod (no
parameters), but I don't know if that means anything). Also, why does the
documentation mention ad1848? Is this an adlib interface?
3) I set up the sb interface (I believe it's teh sb interface; it has a
preferred io address of 0x220 which is a big clue) to 0x220, irq's 5 and
9, dma's 0 and 7 (all of which are in range according to pnpdump, and all
of which just happen to be the card's Windows settings as well). However,
when I try to insmod, (or modprobe) I get a message that the device is
busy. (I did give the proper command line arguments and set up my
modules.conf file correctly). /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports both
report taht these settings are not being used by another device, and a
scan of my isapnp.conf reveals taht no other devices are being set up to
use those numbers. So, does nayone know why the device might be busy?
(As a side note, I tried inserting at 0x200 wit hthe same other settings,
without setting up the card to expect 0x200, and the error was different;
the module loaded but couldn't probe IRQs. I of course didn't expect that
to work, but the fact that the module loaded at a wrong address but won't
load at the address that the card is configured for might be sueful).
Please pardon my bad typing; I'm on a slow connection through pine.
Thanks for your help. Maybe I can get this figured out before I have to
just buy an external modem so I can fit my old soundblaster (which does
work for sure) onto the system board :-)
****
Stephen Quattlebaum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This email composed of %100 post-consumer electrons.
The opinions expressed by me are not necessarily the opinions of the
University of Alabama or it's faculty/administration (but they should be).
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From: Garron Stevenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yamaha724
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 11:30:17 +0200
try www.opensound.com - new url for 4front
Pawe� Sierzputowski wrote:
>
> the address taht you gave me is corect?
> www.4ftront-tech.com
> I've problem with conecting to this page.
> Thanks for answer.
> pawels
>
> Luke Ordelmans wrote:
>
> > Probably your only optoin is www.4ftront-tech.com, there they have an
> > driver for this card, but it's commercial, so you have 2 chioces: pay
> > for it, or use your card only 20mins at the time and then reload the
> > driver......
> > There is no free linux driver for it...
> >
> > Luke Ordelmans
> >
> > Piotr wrote:
> >
> > > I've red-hat 5.2 and I have a problem with Yamaha Soundsystem 724.
> > > I can't install this card. Please help me.
> > > pawels
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Poynor)
Subject: Re: DLT4000+Adatec AHA-2940U2W=BIOS NOT INSTALLED!?!?
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 23:11:45 -0700
It ends up this was a problem with a Differential drive vs. a Single-Ended
(SE) SCSI card issue. I did try two different cables and two different SCSI
cards before figuring this one out. Not to mention lots of bios reconfigs.
The Quantum DLT4000 (Differential version) likes the Adaptec AHA-2944UW
SCSI card and can use the 294x kernel module stuff. I love it when it
works!
Cheers,
DAN
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerhard Wesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello dear Dan,
>
> i have noticed that youre' use an external scsi cable to join teh DLT drive
> to the
> server system. Well i had also some major problems with an external device
> connect
> to an Adaptec controller. In this curcumstance it's absolute required that the
> cable is specified
> for FAST-SCSI-II environment.
> In addition, if your are use a wide-scsi device with an narrow-scsi device on
> the same channel,
> the 8bit device does'nt support termination power and termination.
> The ADapter setup must be configured to "disabled wide-scsi negotination" and
> reduce the xfer speed
> to the used device adress.
>
> I will hope that helps you.....maybe disable reset at power-on on adapter
> setup
>
>
> Gerhard Wesser
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
> Dan Poynor wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to connect an external Quantum DLT4000 tape drive to my
> > Intel/Linux server for backups.
> >
> > Currently I have a Adaptec AHA-290U2W card installed with my 2.0.36 kernel
> > and have run into a "BIOS NOT INSTALLED" error on boot with the DLT drive
> > connected using a new cable. If I hit F1 to continue I get some DHCP and
> > PXE messages before "Operating System no found" and a hang. I've checked
> > termination and the SCSI id and pooked around the Bios Setup screens with
> > no luck. If I disconnect the SCSI cable every works great as before.
> >
> > Below I've noted some specifics of my current driver. I'm thinking of
> > upgrading to the 2.2.7 kernel but not sure that would help with my
> > situation. If anyone has ideas on how I might resolve this it would be a
> > big help.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > DAN
> >
> > [root@server /usr]# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
> > Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.2/3.2.4
> > Compile Options:
> > AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
> > AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled
> > Check below to see which
> > devices use tagged queueing
> > AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer an option)
> > AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled
> >
> > Adapter Configuration:
> > SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter
> > Ultra2-LVD/SE Wide Controller
> > PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xf4100000
> > Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
> > Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
> > IRQ: 15
> > SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 2,
> > Allocated 15, HW 32, Page 255
> > Interrupts: 25847
> > BIOS Control Word: 0x18a5
> > Adapter Control Word: 0x1c4c
> > Extended Translation: Enabled
> > Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
> > Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0000
> >
> > [root@server /usr]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
> > Attached devices:
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DRVS09V Rev: 0100
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
> > Vendor: IBM Model: DRVS09V Rev: 0100
> > Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
> > Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
> > Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U16S Rev: 1.01
> > Type: CD-ROM
> > Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
> > Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
> > Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
> > Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
> > {255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
> > Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
> > {1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
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From: "Watchman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,alt.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Need specs for older monitor
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 12:09:42 -0600
Hey all. I have a Daewoo CMC-1414AV 14" SVGA monitor that I need to find
out the specs for (ie. horizontal sync, vertical sync, vertical refresh
etc).
If you happen to know where to find the specs or know what they are, plz
email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanx.
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From: "Tiamat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with cdrecord
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:58:43 +0200
Hi everybody :)
Here's my config :
Pentium 200 (non MMX)
Ram 128 MB
3 HD : 8.4 GB (IDE0), 1.6 GB (IDE1) et 2 GB (IDE2)
Linux SuSE 6.0 on /dev/hdc2, swap on /dev/hdc1 (about 100MB)
CDRom Pioneer SCSI 36x (scd0 -> /dev/cdrom)
CDWriter JVC WR2010 (scd1 -> /dev/cdwriter)
SCSI Adaptec AHA2940 UWSCSI
Here's my probleme :
When I use cdrecord, it refuses to write anything, and shows the following
messages :
<<
Cdrecord release 1.6.1 Copyright (C) 1995-1998 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
scsidev: '2,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 2 lun: 0
atapi: -1
Device type : Removable WORM
Version : 2
Response Format: 2
Capabilities :
Vendor_info : 'JVC '
Identifikation : 'XR-W2010 '
Revision : '1.51'
Device seems to be: Teac CD-R50S.
Using driver for Teac CD-R50S, Teac CD-R55S, JVC XR-W2010, Pinnacle RCD-5020
(teac_cdr50).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Track 01: data 646 MB
Total size: 742 MB (73:36.53) = 331240 sectors
Lout start: 743 MB (73:38/40) = 331240 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
Blocks total: 335100 Blocks current: 335100 Blocks remaining: 3860
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input-buffer ... input-buffer ready.
Judging disk...done.
Calibrating laser...done.
cdrecord: Cannot allocate memory. Cannot send SCSI cmd via ioctl
>>
It seems that cdrecord correctly recognizes the cdwriter, is able to send
commands to it, but why this 'cannot allocate memory' ? Why can't cdrecord
allocate this memory ? What can I do ?
Thanks in advance for your help :)
A. Claden (aka Tiamat)
If a man says it's a silly childish game, it's something his wife can beat
him at.
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From: Tempman1 <[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: Thu, 13 May 1999 02:03:56 -0700
I agree that all OSes are somewhat idiotic. Almost everything is built by one one
vendor sent to the customer as a giant piece of code.
I would be nice if an OS could be broken into several major components that
follow the specifications. Each component could then be developed by a different
company. Finally, all the components could be stitched together to form an OS.
This is the way hardware is built. Why not software too?
Tempman1
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Problem
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 20:23:00 +1000
No not wide negotiation
On some of the older cards I have you can set things (say on an adaptec)
like individual speeds for each id
so you could have
>>id0 40mbs sync
>>id1 40mbs async
>>id4 10mbs sync
etc
all the way down
Can you not do this with the card you have ???
Tony
bryan wrote in message ...
>doesn't that card have both narrow and wide busses?
>
>can't you connect the scanner to the narrow bus and all else (that is wide)
to the wide bus?
>
>and only lvd stuff to the lvd bus.
>
>
>Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Tony wrote:
>: >
>: > Try dropping the speed of the divice id (scanner ) down to 10/mb/s
>: >
>: > As I don't think it will like running at 40mb/s
>: >
>: > Tony
>
>: Thanks for the suggestion, but I've tried that. I tried that with Wide
>: Negotiation on and off. I've been working on this for the past 2 weeks
>: and am tempted to just pick up another card, which I don't really want
>: to spend the $$$ on.
>
>: --
>: Michael Barnhill
>: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>: http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
>: ICQ 13526262
>
>--
>Bryan
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[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: Thu, 13 May 1999 10:43:55 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brad BARCLAY wrote:
>
> >> and actions encapsulated together, considder the r&d that is being
> >> done with the GNOME project and it's use of CORBA interface ideas.
> >
> >I'll go and look at it at once.
>
> Of course, what GNOME is trying to achieve is exactly what the OS/2
> WorkPlace Shell did achieve was back in 1992, and has been refined multiple
> times since. The WPS is a fully OOUI based on SOM - IBM's CORBA ORB system.
>
> And it's quite a fair bit more advanced than Gnome is in terms of
> OO-ness, for both users and developers. And as an added bonus, OS/2 has the
> fastest JDK v1.1.7 implementation available :).
>
> Everything you're looking for describes OS/2 to a T - it may be worth
> your while checking it out.
>
This is OK but I think the use of os/2 among desktop users is on the
decline (it certainly isn't increasing). Don't get me wrong, I've used os/2
since 1.3 and I still have it on one of my machines and I like it but I
find that, as the months pass, I use it less and less.
Saying that gnome is trying to be what os/2 already is, while perhaps true
(and it's doubtful), isn't going to cause anyone to switch to os/2. Also,
just because an interface has a high degree of "oo-ness" isn't going to
make me change my mind about it. I'm not flaming you and I do like os/2 but
for desktop users it's rapidly falling off the radar screen (if it hasn't
passed from view completely already). I'm very close to removing os/2 to
have more space for Linux, something I would not have thought about 2 or 3
years ago. The development of gnome will continue, for os/2 I can't say
(except for the server poduct perhaps).
I thought SOM was a separate technology that IBM no longer supports (if I
remember correctly)? IBMs orb is called something else entirely, isn't it
(Component Broker)?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Charles)
Subject: Re: CD-RW's for Linux
Date: 13 May 1999 10:00:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using one. Happy with it.
Phil.
On Wed, 12 May 1999 13:37:50 GMT, killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> donald-martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I am considering buying an HP 7200 CD-RW, but I see on their website
>> that they only have software for Win 98 & NT. I am reluctant to buy
>> unless I can be sure it'll work with linux. Anyone using it? or any
>> other CD-RW's? Your feedback is appreciated.
>
>The short answer:
>=================
>Yes, it appears to be supported.
>
>The long answer:
>================
>The tool you will likely be using to write your CDR and CDRW disks will
>be cdrecord.
>
>Look for it on www.freshmeat.net, or go direct to:
>http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/private/c
>drecord.html
>
>There are great links from that page as to supported drives, and
>information about getting your Linux system to work with the drive. You
>have to rebuild your kernal with SCSI emulation for now if you are using
>an ATAPI drive, this requirement will likely go away in the near
>future. You do not need any kernal patches for any reasonably up to
>date kernal source.
>
>Once you get it installed and get it working, take a peak at:
> http://w3.one.net/~bilshell/backburner/backburner.html
>for some software that will allow you to capture and play back any
>streams to a CDR or CDRW disk, effectively allowing you to make
>compressed file system archives or compressed disk images of any
>partition or disk.
>
>Ahhh the freedom of a backed up system.... I am FEARLESS :)!
>
>--
>Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
> it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
> of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
>
>
>--== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==--
>---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
--
Philip Charles. For Debian GNU/Linux CDs, see http://www.copyleft.co.nz
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie vs Linux: Comment on this system.
Date: 12 May 1999 04:30:52 -0700
what the hell are you talking about man?
-ckm
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From: Thomas King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notebook: IPC Topnote 400 Celeron
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 12:25:39 +0200
Hello!
Anybody have good or bad experience with this Notebook in linux?
--
Mfg. Thomas King
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Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 00:14:35 -0700
From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual M/B recommendation please
bryan wrote:
>
> just to confuse folks <g>, I got a tyan 1832dl board today and I'll
> see if my 2 300a celerys will run smp just like my asus boards do.
>
As shipped from Intel Celerons are intentionally crippled for purposes of dual
processor support by any OS or application.. Some PPGA -> slot1 adapter cards
handle it and there are manual modifications documented:
http://www.anandtech.com/html/review_display.cfm?document=914
but without one of these you are only using 1 of the two processors.
--
Direct replies to username 'timothymoore'
"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
WS Burroughs.
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