Linux-Hardware Digest #326, Volume #10 Tue, 25 May 99 22:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: How can I configure opl3-sa3 by direct kernel in? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
VideoLab on Linux? (Danny Sung)
Cipher M990 9-track 1/2-inch Tape drive with Pertec interface and ISA card ("Jeffrey
A. Jordan")
Baby ATX Motherboard with video, sound, net? (J Murphy)
Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sybase ASE on Linux faq needed ("John Bjorgen")
linux on Aldi ("Jochen Funk")
Re: Which modem to buy? (Jan Panteltje)
Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CSU/DSU Modem - v.35 interface combo ("Peter B. Yorke")
Re: Backup solution for a single linux box with about 10Gig drive. (killbill)
3c905x.o driver needed!!! ("KERR, MIKE")
Re: ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE (David Fox)
Re: 3c905x.o driver needed!!! ("Colonel Panic�")
Support for the G400 in June (ren)
Help with LPR printing! (Jason)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW? (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: HP Laserjet 3p (Jim Howes)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How can I configure opl3-sa3 by direct kernel in?
Date: 26 May 1999 09:09:57 +0900
When I compiled, I could see a like this messages
gcc -D ..opl3sa2.c
..471:you configured but not defined..
..477:you configured but not defined..
..520:you configured but not defined..
Thank you in advance.
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From: Danny Sung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VideoLab on Linux?
Date: 25 May 1999 23:31:35 GMT
Does anyone know if there are drivers for using Analog Device's VideoLab
wavelet compressor under Linux?
Thanks
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From: "Jeffrey A. Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cipher M990 9-track 1/2-inch Tape drive with Pertec interface and ISA card
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:41:44 -0500
Reply-To: "Jeffrey A. Jordan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a Cipher M990 9-track 1/2-inch tape drive with a Pertec interface and
the ISA card that I would like to get to run under Linux. One of the guys
here seems to think he has the DOS device drivers, but has yet to find them.
The ISA card really does not have much info on it except:
1986 I.D.B. Corp
If anyone has any info on how to get this to work with Linux, please e-mail
me directly.
Thank you.
Jeffrey Jordan
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From: J Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Baby ATX Motherboard with video, sound, net?
Date: 25 May 1999 17:09:15 PDT
I'm building up a linux system for a somewhat "embedded" use. I'd like
to
find a motherboard with built in serial, video, audio, and network (Plus
IDE) that works
under linux. I've heard mention of the pcChips 741lmr in this group,
and was wondering
if the network, video, and sound worked under linux. (I understand that
the 741 also
includes a "winmodem" which I don't really care about.
Processor is not a big deal, although I'm guessing I'm going to look for
at least a Pentium 166.
Does anybody have any recommendations as for the _MINIMUM_ CPU I need to
decode MP3's with an occasional serial or ethernet interruption?
Thanks to anybody who has suggestions. I can use an ATX or AT Power
supply.
Thanks again,
murph
(Remove the prefix including the underscore to send mail directly)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,csu.unix.linux
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems
Date: 26 May 1999 00:17:21 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Totally Lost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Celron's with their 128K L2 cache can easily produce worse performance
: under modest to heavy load than a single processor in an SMP system.
Don't forget: PPros had only 256K L2 and everbody was just satisfied :-)
: In many server systems, even dual PII's with 512K L2 caches fail to
: scale or produce negative results under modest to heavy work loads.
: In some applications, even Xenon's large caches fail to scale or
: produce negative results in comparision to uniprocessors of the same
: architecture. Simply put, it's not uncommon to find applications where
: two processors trashing the caches with SMP interrupts or shared memory
: produce much worse performance than the same system with only a single
: processor enabled.
Of course, you can _always_ find an appication that doesn't fit
into an L2-Cache (and that will ever be).
: I would expect that for many users, dual Celeron's may have a negative
: performance impact much of the time.
You _expect_? I have _experiences_: up to 90% speedup at code-compilation
(yes, with Dual-Celeron)
: To observe that Dual Celron's produce an observed improvement under
: certain lightly loading applications may be true. To assert that
: they scale under modest to heavy work loads is probably a huge mistake.
It's always a question of code locality: a Dual Celeron may be
faster than a Dual PII at the same clockrate since the Celeron's
L2 is twice as fast.
: To expect that they will scale well under Linux with heavy loads is
: almost certainly folly.
hmm ... i tried a load of ten ... the machine didn't felt slow
at all. :-)
A friend of mine did some benchmarks with dual PII/350 and
Dual Celeron 333: the Celerons were only 10-20% slower
at many Applications (compilation, gaming, rendering etc.)
but they are a third the price ...
You should forget you theoretical considerations (which are close
to FUD) and do some practical works!
PII and Celeron are realy very close in performance but very
different in price (that one who buys a PII instead of a Celeron
is realy silly or forced to).
In dual-mode the Celerons are only a little bit slower than Dual PII, but
1) the Price is much lower, so the performance/price ratio is much better
2) if i realy had a mission critcal Server under heavy load, then i
would buy a _real_ Computer (i am not talking of Xeons)
Especial for Home-Multimedia on Linux, the (Dual)Celeron are the
better choice (Oh i have forgotten to mention PIII: it even
speeds up the internet, according to intel's advertising in germany)
Ok, the Celerons would scale lousy on a Quad- or Octa-SMP-System, but
that is theorie, because Celerons and PII can only do dual-operation
So, now it's your turn!
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From: "John Bjorgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Sybase ASE on Linux faq needed
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:42:40 -0400
There is a wealth of information at:
http://sybooks.sybase.com/onlinebooks/group-as/asg1192e
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> Can someone plese post a faq on Sybase ASE installation in Redhat Linux?
-snip-
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From: "Jochen Funk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux on Aldi
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 01:24:04 +0200
Hat jemand Erfahrung mit Linux Suse Installation auf Intel SR440BX Board
z.B. im neuen Aldi Computer oder Cybercom -Realkauf - als von Medion)?
Darauf l�uft eine Grafikkarte mit NVIDIA TNT an 2x AGPort on board. Mit
dem TNT (nicht demTNT2) soll es gehen - siehe link auf Suse support- ,
gibt es die Probleme bei mir wegen 2x AGP? Auf dem PC nat�rlich.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Subject: Re: Which modem to buy?
Date: Tue, 25 May 99 20:40:29 GMT
>I've made a switch to Linux but because my system has a 33.6 winmodem I
>keep having to go back to windows to connect to the internet. I figure
>this is a good excuse to upgrade to a 56k modem. Does anyone have any
>suggestions on a good modem to buy at a good price that will work under
>Linux? I've been thinking of getting the USR faxmodem because they are
>a reliable company but the price (~$120) kind of scares me away.
>
>Thanks
>
I have bought the Etech Bullet for approx. $75.
It performs incredibly.
It is an extern modem, and will not give you any problems.
J.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW?
Date: 26 May 1999 00:18:44 GMT
Stuart R. Fuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: The SCSI driver will query each SCSI device to get various information about
: them. One piece of information is some negotiation of how fast the device can
: run. The driver will then configure each device to run at the fastest common
: speed of the controller and the device. Therefore, scanners will run at
: 5MB/sec, disks at 10, 20 or 40MB/sec, etc.
You sure about that? Is that only with certain scsi drivers/interfaces?
I've always understood scsi to run at the speed of the slowest device on the
bus (which is why you don't hook up your zip drive to the same card as your
Ultra2 RAID). I'd be happy to find out I was wrong though...
- Isaac =)
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From: "Peter B. Yorke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CSU/DSU Modem - v.35 interface combo
Date: 26 May 1999 00:34:40 GMT
Does anyone know of a vendor who sells a good csu/dsu modem combined with
a v.35 interface, internal?
That works with Linux, of course?
Pete Yorke
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Backup solution for a single linux box with about 10Gig drive.
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 00:29:27 GMT
This may not necessarily be the right solution, but you might want to
consider it.
I have a CDRW drive, and I use a program I have released opensource (see
backburner at www.freshmeat.net) to capture any unix stream to a
sequence of CD-RW disks.
I pipe tar to compress, and pipe the result of that to backburner.
Assuming a 50% compression ratio (about average) you should be able to
back up a 10 gig disk to about 6 CDRW disks.
The advantages are that you may already have a CDRW drive, and could use
it. Or, this is an excuse to go buy the drive you were looking at
anyway. The disadvantage is that you must manually change the disks, so
a full backup will probably take 5 short visits to the machine over the
better part of a day for a 10 gig drive backup. (A restore could be
exceptionally fast, however).
You can mitigate the disadvantage by making one complete image of your
system, then making incremental backups after that. My whole system
fits on 2 disks, and my /home hiererchy easily fits on a single disk. I
can back it up every night if I wish.
Like I said, this is not the optimal solution, but it might meet your
needs and provide you with other advantages (like a CDRW drive).
Tape has some real advantages for large un-attended backups, but good
ones (DLT) are darned expensive, and cheap ones have media life and
media cost issues, and can be painfull to restore.
Plus, you can't burn all your MP3 tracks to a tape and take them to work
to play on your CD-Rom :)
--
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it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: "KERR, MIKE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c905x.o driver needed!!!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 16:15:14 -0400
I'm trying to install a NIC card on a Red Hat 5.2 machine but I don't
have the appropriate drivers. I'm not sure where to find drivers. Could
somebody point me in the right direction?
Thanks.
-Mike
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: ASUS P2BD vs. SuperMicro P6DBE
Date: 25 May 1999 18:10:54 -0700
Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am planing to buy a dual P-III system to use with Linux (RedHat) and
> I am deciding now
> between two motherboards: ASUS P2BD and SuperMicro P6DBE. It looks like
> they have pretty
> similar features, however P6DBE is less expensive (by about $70). Are
> these two motherboards
> both compatible with Linux? Does anybody has any good/bad experience
> with any of them
> while running Linux? Thanks a lot for any advice.
I've had a great experience with the ASUS, it replaced an unstable
Tyan Tiger 100 and its solid as a rock.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Colonel Panic�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c905x.o driver needed!!!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 17:15:40 -0400
go here, and bow to the god of linux ethernet drivers, Donald Becker...
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/index.html
KERR, MIKE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm trying to install a NIC card on a Red Hat 5.2 machine but I don't
> have the appropriate drivers. I'm not sure where to find drivers. Could
> somebody point me in the right direction?
> Thanks.
>
> -Mike
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From: ren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Support for the G400 in June
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:21:47 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Here is a Linux Box I'm building.
ASUS P5A AGP 512K ATX
AMD K62-400 3D MMX 100 MHZ
128MB SDRAM PC100 8ns
Western Digital 10.2 GB Ultra DMA HD
Teac 1.44mb FD
USR Akita 56K V.90
Toshiba 4x DVD rom
Sound Blaster Live
Here is the kicker.
I want to use the Matrox G400 card with DVD, svideo out, 32bit 2D, and
3D bump maping
Can I get this video card to work with Linux?
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help with LPR printing!
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 21:24:55 +0000
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I'm running into some problems with my printer daemon. I was having
problems prior to recompiling my kernel, so I started from scratch
afterwards and used apsfilter and ghostscript. After running them, my
printer worked great! I was able to get color and formatting to print
correctly in all apps- applixware, netscape, etc. However, seemingly
overnight, my printer won't work at all! I can't even get a test ASCII
page to print directly to the port. Here are some of the error
messages:
1) When trying to print ASCII directly to port... "Can only print
directly to a LOCAL printer."
2) When trying to print either ASCII or postscript to lpr, it doesn't
do anything. I do an lpq, and there is nothing queued. However, when I
go into /var/spool/lpd/... there are the queued jobs! Why won't they
show when I do lpq, or in the RedHat printtool, or in klpq?
If anyone thinks they can help, I would be greatly appreciative. Here
are the specs on my box- RedHat 5.2, recompiled to kernel 2.2.7 with
SCSI support for ZIP drive. I *do* have two parallel ports, the second
just installed to give individual support to both ZIP and the printer.
Keep in mind, that this upgrade *was* made prior to the recompile, and
it has been working great up til now. The printcap file is included for
your review. If you might require any additional files, please let me
know. I used apsfilter 5.0 and the most current (at the time) version
of ghostscript.
Thanks in advance,
Jason Dixon
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii;
name="printcap"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline;
filename="printcap"
##
## Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
## Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
## Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
##
## This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
#
#
###PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ap3250 360x360 letter {} EpsonAP3250 Default {}
#lp:\
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
# :mx#0:\
# :sh:\
# :lp=/dev/lp1:\
# :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Thu May 20 21:41:19 EDT 1999
#
# APS_BASEDIR:/download/apsfilter
#
#
ascii|lp1|uniprint-letter-ascii-mono|uniprint ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/download/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint-letter-ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp2|uniprint-letter-auto-mono|uniprint auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/download/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint-letter-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp3|uniprint-letter-ascii-color|uniprint ascii color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-ascii-color/acct:\
:if=/download/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint-letter-ascii-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp4|uniprint-letter-auto-color|uniprint auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-letter-auto-color/acct:\
:if=/download/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint-letter-auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp5|uniprint-letter-raw|uniprint auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/acct:\
:if=/download/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
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From: [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: Tue, 25 May 1999 18:23:11 -0700
On Tue, 25 May 1999 19:00:10 +0200, Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:7ieg2l$d1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[deletia]
>> I think that the designer of a new OS could do worse than find all the
>> points of commonality between NT and Linux (and there are many) and
>> eliminate them from the new system.
>
>BTW it's interesting to see that Linux is slowly evolving to become more and
>more similar to things the Linux hackers criticized in the past (for
>efficiency, etc.) I have just moved to Red Hat 6.0. My boot screen is a
>clone of HPUX, my drivers are in modules, my GUI uses an ORB and chews more
For the most part this is also a description of Redhat 4.2.
Most of this is really nothing new nor really in the control
of kernel hackers to begin with.
>memory than the rest of the OS, I have standard mechanisms to (un)install
>software packages, I needed to get a new build of the JDK as the 117-v2
>wouldn't run with the new glibc libraries (kinda equivalent of msvcrt) and
>so on. :) It's easy throwing stones while your own roof is not yet
>finished.
[deletia]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: IDE faster than SCSI UW?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 22:00:04 GMT
Tony ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: <snip>
:
: >I'm getting an occasional "hickup" when accessing the CD-ROM. I've got
: >the system loaded; UMAX 1220s scanner, Toshiba 32x CD, Yamaha 4260t
: >CDRW, and the IBM and Viking 4.5g drives. I can get the actual settings
: >for the devices if necessary (Guesstimate: all devices have disconnect
: >enabled though the bus speeds differ (40mbs/drive, 10mbs/CD,
: >??mbs/scanner. Except for ID 0 (Viking), the other devices are placed
: >in on IDs 1-6 in no specific order.).
:
:
: Don't tell me you have all these devices connectd one the one SCSI channel
: ????
:
: Because don't forget the old rule,
:
: ALL SCSI DEVICES WILL RUN AT THE SLOWEST DEVICE SPEED.
:
: If that scanner only runs at 5Mb/s , ........wellll..........
The SCSI driver will query each SCSI device to get various information about
them. One piece of information is some negotiation of how fast the device can
run. The driver will then configure each device to run at the fastest common
speed of the controller and the device. Therefore, scanners will run at
5MB/sec, disks at 10, 20 or 40MB/sec, etc.
Maybe you're thinking of cases where a device like a scanner will tend to
"hog" the bus while it's scanning, since it doesn't know how to
disconnect/reconnect?
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Howes)
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 3p
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:03:55 GMT
Rich Cox ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I got a used HP Laserjet 3p, and have a few questions. I assume the 'p'
: means its postscript capable, right?
Nope, in HP lingo, 'p' means 'Plus', 'm' means PostScript.
: Secondly, when I print to it under linux the text comes out in landscape
: mode. How can I fix that? It prints in portrait under dos.
What are you printing with in DOS, presumably the printer is set for
landscape from the front panel, and the application sends it the appropriate
escape to flip it back around again.
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