Linux-Hardware Digest #345, Volume #10 Thu, 27 May 99 19:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: Riva TNT only in 256 colours. (Michael Meissner)
Re: building a dual processor system? (bryan)
Re: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2/SC And Linux (Harri Johansson)
Adding a second SCSI adapter (David C.)
OPTi 82C925 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is it posible to use ZOOM PCI 56k modem under Linux? (Alexander Budnik)
COL 2.2 LISA boot disk: floppy very slow ("Christian Volk")
Re: Quantum DLT4000 tape drives (Johannes Niess)
Re: Any way to print out IRQ's being used in linux? ("gm")
Actiontec PCI Modems supported? (Karl Shultz)
VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good? (Jonas Palsson)
USR/3Com Sportster ISDN TA External (Darren Durbin)
Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems (Totally Lost)
Re: awe64 + debian = :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Any way to print out IRQ's being used in linux? ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems (David C.)
Re: Caldera 2.2 and Compaq 3200 RAID controller ("Laith Suheimat")
Re: Cardbus problems on various machines... (Manoj Kasichainula)
CD-ROM error question ("Pankaj Patel")
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Philip Brown)
Re: HP LaserJet 4M Plus (Matt Starnes)
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Lance Woodson)
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Subject: Re: Riva TNT only in 256 colours.
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 May 1999 13:57:58 -0400
"Ray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Managed to install XFree86.3.3.3.1 today on Redhat 2.
>
> Selecting riva tnt if xf86config it tells me that it's chosen a SVGA server
> from the card defenition.
>
> It only runs it 256 colours which is fine as that is what I've always
> understood svga to be but replies to an earlier post have told me xfreed
> supports up to 32 bit colour.
> I can use all resolutions I selected.
I use a Dianmond Viper 550 PCI video card which has a TNT-1 chipset in it.
I use it at 1600x1200 dpi, 32-bit colors, 82Hz refresh rate with a Nokia
446Xpro monitor.
At least when I ran xf86config right now, it set up modes for 8, 16, 24, and 32
bit pixels. I suspect if you do:
startx -- -bpp 32
it will start up with 32 bit pixels. You can make the default be 32 bit
pixels, by editing the /etc/X11/XF86Config file and putting:
DefaultColorDepth 32
in the "Screen" section.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: building a dual processor system?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:46:25 GMT
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > bryan wrote:
: > >
: > > 2 celerons if you can get 300a chips and overclock them. get the
: > > right slotkets - do some net.research to find out about these.
: >
: > Celerons are SMP-disabled by intel.
: yes. however, a soldering iron and a small drill can SMP-enable them.
or for the soldering-impaired folks, there's always the slotkets with jumpers.
--
Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]$spamm3rs.com (Harri Johansson)
Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge Expandable RAID Controller 2/SC And Linux
Date: 27 May 1999 20:23:58 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in <7ig3gg$6cd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>If anyone has any experiance or knowledge whether the
>Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller 2/SC works with linux or not I
Dell's PERC-2/SC is actually a re-named AMI MegaRAID 466 which is supported on
Linux. 2.2.x kernels have the driver included but newer one is available from
ftp://ftp.megatrends.com/MegaRaid/Drivers/linux/
Although it is supported all I've heard of it is negative but probably the
recently released new version of the driver fixes some of these problems,
namely data transfer speed. This controller was used in the infamous
Mindcraft's NT vs. Linux benchmarks using the older driver.
I am considering this controller as well for a new Dell server but I'll
probably go for Mylex AcceleRAID 250 instead.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Adding a second SCSI adapter
Date: 27 May 1999 15:23:56 -0400
I recently added a second SCSI adapter to my system. Before the
upgrade, my configuration was:
- Adaptec 2940UW
+-- IBM 9G UW HD (ID 0)
+-- Iomega Zip 100 (ID 4)
+-- Aiwa 4mm DAT (ID 5)
+-- Pioneer CD-ROM (ID 6)
All worked fine. After the upgrade, my configuration is now:
- Adaptec 2940UW
+-- IBM 9G UW HD (ID 0)
- Adaptec 1542B (with floppy and BIOS disabled)
+-- Iomega Zip 100 (ID 4)
+-- Aiwa 4mm DAT (ID 5)
+-- Pioneer CD-ROM (ID 6)
At boot time, only the 2940UW is found. I have to run "insmod aha1542"
to get the second card working. When I do, its configuration is read
and everything comes up fine.
I can't enable the BIOS on the 1542B, because the card is not jumpered
for its default I/O port address, and the docs say that the BIOS will
only work with the default address. (That port is used by another
device).
For now, I've created an /etc/rc.d/rc.modules script, which calls
insmod. This gets everything working before the initial login prompt.
I would prefer, however, for the 1542B to be detected and installed at
the same time the 2940UW is detected. How do I do this? I think I have
to add a line to /etc/conf.modules, but when I did, it didn't do
anything.
In a worst-case scenario, I'll just leave things the way they are, but
I'm hoping I can eliminate rc.modules and do the right thing.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: OPTi 82C925
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:46:36 GMT
I am trying to install a OPTi 82C925 based soundcard into my RH 5.2
system but I keep on getting a:
sb: Interrupt test on IRQ15 failed - Probable IRQ
conflict
Any suggestions?
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From: Alexander Budnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Is it posible to use ZOOM PCI 56k modem under Linux?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:54:42 +0400
I can see this device in /proc/pci but setserial with showed IRQ does'n
help.
Modem did not work like in NT on COM3.
Is it possible to activate it some how under Linux?
--
Sasha
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From: "Christian Volk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: COL 2.2 LISA boot disk: floppy very slow
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:56:55 +0100 (MEZ)
Reply-To: "Christian Volk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi!
I'm trying to boot from the Caldera 2.2 LISA boot floppy, but it loads *very*
(5 minutes) slow. Lateron it does not recognize the Modules floppy.
Maybe a driver/floppy controller problem?
The drive recognize the FDC as a 8272A. Any know problems with this one?
Any boot parameteter I could try?
Thanks!
-Christian
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Niess)
Subject: Re: Quantum DLT4000 tape drives
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 22:55:06 GMT
Lee Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>I would like to to use a Quantum DLT4000 tape drive to backup my Linux
>box. The scsi card is installed and works and the tape drive is detected
>at booted time as a DLT4000, however the dump command seems to think the
>tapes have a smaller capacity than the really have. I have tried
>changing the tape density with both the dump and mt commands but this
>does not work. How can I get dump to recognize the tape correctly
There are a lot of problems with dump on linux. I repeatedly
recommended amanda (www.amanda.org) with tar as low level programm.
Johannes Niess
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From: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] REMOVE NOSPAM to reply>
Subject: Re: Any way to print out IRQ's being used in linux?
Reply-To: "gm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove NO_SPAM to reply>
Date: 27 May 1999 13:44:24 -0600
Some modules may acquire and release an interrupt at
each open/close cycle. When the interrupt is released,
it does not show in /proc/interrupts. If the interrupt has
been used and released, it shows in /proc/stat, so you
might find /proc stat more useful.
regards,
gm
Clifton T. Sharp Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Vladimir Florinski wrote:
> > Dan Christensen wrote:
> > > Does anyone know why these aren't listed? I don't currently
use
> > > audio or mpeg-2, but is it a problem that they share an
interrupt?
> > > The settings are the default settings.
> >
> > BIOS tells you which HARDWARE has the ABILITY to use which
interrupts. All
> > hardware interrupt vectors point to addresses within the Linux
kernel in memory.
> > If the kernel doesn't have sound support (or the module isn't
loaded), Linux
> > doesn't know about the sound card. Even if the card throws IRQ5,
kernel does
> > nothing. That's why IRQ5 isn't listed in /proc/interrupts. Try
loading a sound
> > module and you'll see it listed.
> > Sharing interrupts is not a problem as long as you don't use the
two devices at
> > the same time. In your case, of course, IRQ5 is, for all
purposes, vacant.
>
> That's nice, but apparently not the whole story. I use IRQ 3
(/dev/ttyS1
> for PPP) all day, but it doesn't show many times.
|
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From: Karl Shultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Actiontec PCI Modems supported?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:18:50 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is anyone aware of special trickery you'd have to use to install an
Actiontec PCI v.90 modem in a Linux box? "cat /proc/pci" sees
*something* in the slot with a Rockwell chipset, but won't dial.
I've tried all the possible numbers for /dev/cua_ , and relinked
/dev/modem to those. The card is apparently supported under SCO
UnixWare and IBM OS/2, so I imagine that it could work under a Linux box
too. Sadly, the instructions describe installing it through specialized
SCO tools.
Any ideas out there? a PCI modem seems like a terrific idea to me.
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From: Jonas Palsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 23:22:44 +0200
I get LOTS of CRC errors when i download files (ethernet connection). I
know that the NIC not is broken so my last hope is that anyone here
knows what the problem could be. I think it could be something with the
VIA MVP3 chipset and UDMA. My system:
Harddisk: IBM Deskstar 16GP (udma disk)
CPU : AMD K6-2 350
MB: DFI P5BV3+ with the VIA MVP3 chipset
RAM: 64 MB PC100 SDRAM
NIC: 3com905B
Hope anyone can solve my problem
Jonas P
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From: Darren Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR/3Com Sportster ISDN TA External
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 22:20:16 +0100
Hi,
I'm trying to get an external Sportster ISDN TA working with my Redhat
5.2 system.
Everything is fine - pppd connects as I would expect, but when I try to
access
any sites over the TA the throughput is terrible. Pinging a site will
result in 50%
packet loss, with every other packet being lost.
Under Windows NT the modem behaves perfectly. It presents itself to the
host computer
as a standard modem, controllable by using At commands, but as soon as a
PPP connection
is established it almost stops.
Has anyone got one of these working properly, or have any ideas ?
Thanks,
Darrren
--
Darren Durbin 'I know that this is vitriol, no solution,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] spleen venting, but I feel better having
screamed on you..." - R.E.M
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From: Totally Lost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,csu.unix.linux
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:28:52 GMT
In article <7ik6eb$5dn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Totally Lost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If IA64 is delayed much longer, I think we might see some
> fast Quad/Octa PIII's developed and released.
Should put my head up more often, Proliant 6000, 6500, and 7000
systems are on the street. 8-Way SMP 500MHz boxes. A little
pricey, but the system should be fast and come with great
system boxes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: awe64 + debian = :-(
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 21:40:31 GMT
Tero Hakala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've run into some trouble while setting sb awe64 on my debian system...
: I compiled kernel with awe drivers and used isapnp to setup the card.
: At first I couldn't get any initialization message in bootup and
: /dev/sndstat showed that no card was detected.. I tried a little bit
: of everything and eventually maganed to change my Bios' pnp setup
: so that the right irq (5) was more probable to get assigned to
: blaster.. That seemed to do something because now I get correct
: initialization messages and sndstat displays as it should be.
: However I'm unable to play anything, dmesg shows "IRQ/DRQ config
: error" and isapnp complains all kinds of conflicts.. .
: I feel like out of ideas, I've read tons of help files and tried
: everything I could think of, but without any luck..
: Any suggestions? There must be someone who has got this thing
: work properly.
I have been able to get AWE64 working with debian twice, sort of. In
once case I got it working fine. In the second case it works mostly,
but the driver can't seem to find the WaveTable. I'm wondering if it
is a bad card.
I've found that the secret is getting the isapnp.conf right and
getting the kernel configured correctly. If you want to send me a copy
of your isapnp.conf and your kernel config I would be happy to look at
it.
--
==================================================================
Steven Saner SouthWind Internet Access, Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Junior Systems Administrator
http://www2.southwind.net/~ssaner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.southwind.net
263-7963 Wichita (800)525-7963
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any way to print out IRQ's being used in linux?
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 01:45:48 -0500
Vladimir Florinski wrote:
> Dan Christensen wrote:
> > Does anyone know why these aren't listed? I don't currently use
> > audio or mpeg-2, but is it a problem that they share an interrupt?
> > The settings are the default settings.
>
> BIOS tells you which HARDWARE has the ABILITY to use which interrupts. All
> hardware interrupt vectors point to addresses within the Linux kernel in memory.
> If the kernel doesn't have sound support (or the module isn't loaded), Linux
> doesn't know about the sound card. Even if the card throws IRQ5, kernel does
> nothing. That's why IRQ5 isn't listed in /proc/interrupts. Try loading a sound
> module and you'll see it listed.
> Sharing interrupts is not a problem as long as you don't use the two devices at
> the same time. In your case, of course, IRQ5 is, for all purposes, vacant.
That's nice, but apparently not the whole story. I use IRQ 3 (/dev/ttyS1
for PPP) all day, but it doesn't show many times.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,csu.unix.linux
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron's and SMP Performance Problems
Date: 27 May 1999 15:11:17 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Celerons and P2's aren't designed for quad operation...
> PPro/Xeon are
The built-in SMP circuitry doesn't support quad operation. This doesn't
mean a motherboard manufacturer can't add external SMP circuitry
(including new cache controllers) to provide 4-way (or more) SMP.
Case in point: ALR used to sell a 6-way PPro system. Needless to say,
this was an expensive system.
Heck, with the right kind of external circuitry, you can cretate a
1000-way 8088 system. (But nobody would want to use it! :-)
-- David
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From: "Laith Suheimat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Caldera 2.2 and Compaq 3200 RAID controller
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 20:23:01 +0100
Thanks for the excellent link, from which I gleaned much info, as well as
from a link there to http://www.yps.org/~whorfin/compaqarray/install.html
Downloaded drivers and formatted the partitions no problem, can also boot
off Lilo fine, having configured RAID as two three-disk groups.
I am now going to get hold of RH 6 and upgrade, as it seems the RH5.2+compaq
smart array only works with 2.0.x of the kernel, not 2.2.x.
Ideally I would have liked to install Caldera 2.2, but tried this and
couldn't get it to see the RAID (and Caldera claim they are Linux distrib of
choice with businesses - not without RAID support they're not!).
Thanks again,
Laith Suheimat
Tony Platt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:PFU23.939$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would suggest raid 5 across all 5
>
> as
>
> with 3 drives you lose 33% space
> 4 drives 25%
> 5 drives 20%
> etc
>
> more space using the 6 drives
>
> look at
>
> http://www.insync.net/~frantzc/cpqarray.html
>
> for the kernel patch
>
> and related info
>
> Tony Platt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Kasichainula)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Cardbus problems on various machines...
Date: 27 May 1999 22:35:49 GMT
On 27 May 1999 09:12:13 -0700, Dennis Heimbigner
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I too am having trouble getting a cardbus card
>(a 3COM 3CCFE575BT 10/100 LAN card) to work on
>my IBM TP600E. I gather that this is a problem on
>other brands of machines as well.
I found a solution for my 600E and the same LAN card in the
PCMCIA-HOWTO, section 3.5:
In some cases, the default high memory window is not usable. On some
IBM Thinkpad models, a window of 0x60000000-0x60ffffff will work in
place of the default window.
--
Manoj Kasichainula - manojk at io dot com - http://www.io.com/~manojk/
"Yes, I know a nose is not a butt." -- Darrell Fuhriman
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From: "Pankaj Patel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-ROM error question
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:36:27 -0500
This is a general on cd-rom error handling. I am wondering how the
CD-ROM drive and driver will handle an error where a user application
requests a file whose pointer is found on the CD-ROM 's directory structure
but the actual blocks where the file is located has been completely
destroyed.
will the drive and driver notify the application of the error, or will a
system
exception be raised and the application hangs and crashes without any
notifaction?
What type of error would be sent from the drive?
In other words I am wondering if a gracefull handling of such an error is
possible
as far as the application is concerned.
Also where is the checksum for the file located with the file itself or in
the directory
tree structure or some where else?
Thanks,
Pankaj Patel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Brown)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 27 May 1999 22:01:40 GMT
On Thu, 27 May 1999 21:04:10 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello!
>
>A friend of mine received a working, but too old and slow (by todays
>standards) Sun workstation for free. The disk is dead, but we have a 1Gb
>replacement. The machine has 16Mb of RAM, is by itself diskless -- fits
>entirely in what a casual observer would call monitor. I do not know the
>model :(,
sounds like an old SLC, if it is monochrome. Or a "classic"?
blah :-)
> but can get it if needed. The disk we have is external. There
>is also an external CD-ROM available. No floppy drives in sight,
>though... The RAM can be increased.
Ah. must be a classic or variant, then.
>The requirements are to be stable (of course), have PPP software, and
>run Netscape... I'd prefer to set the disk up at home, using my
>FreeBSD/i386 machines, but I'm not sure I can make it bootable by a Sun
>box.
If you want to stick to solaris, it is doable, if you increase the RAM to 32
megs, and do NOT run CDE :->
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From: Matt Starnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 4M Plus
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:51:34 -0500
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Andr� Dahlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone know if the printer mentioned in the subject is
> > supported under linux? It wasn't listed in the supported printers
> > section of the Printing-HOWTO, but I've been using one on my linux
> > box for 2 days now, and yet I haven't ran into any problems. I use
> > it as a native postscript printer. Are there some things that don't
> > work with this printer that I just haven't ran into yet?
>
> i've had my HP 4MP for about 6 years. it's still working great. i
> guess if you are used to having configure ghostscript translation in
> printcap and lpr you expect problems and lots of debugging work. the
> printer postscript support makes life very easy. don't worry; it
> really *is* this easy.
>
> --
> johan kullstam
Could somebody email me there printcap file. I have a Laserjet 1100,
but I can't get it configured for the life of me.
Matt
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From: Lance Woodson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 17:46:58 -0500
Mikhail Teterin wrote:
>
> Students can also get cheap (or free?) Solaris, AFAIK...
It's probably an ELC or SLC. I would deffinately NOT install Solaris on
it.
I installed Solaris 7 on a SPARCstation 2 with 96MB of ram and, while
useable, it was practically unbearable.
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