Linux-Hardware Digest #387, Volume #10 Tue, 1 Jun 99 23:14:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: slow video (mpeg playback, window moving (not that bad) on Matrox G200 (Marvel)
(Joseph Prisco)
Re: Promise UDMA66 -> can't finde the harddisk (Frank)
Re: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine? (Andrew Comech)
ATI All-in-Wonder PRO: Video support? (Joseph Prisco)
Re: Diamond Monster driver? (Joseph Prisco)
Re: DLT 7000 with Linux? (andiklein)
Samba cannot print ("�˼��H")
PC->Linux<-Mac???? ("..Luca T..")
Golden Sound and Panasonic CD-ROM under RedHat Linux 6.0 ("Roderick B. Greening")
Re: cdrecord fails (Greg Hookey)
new cheap Linux box advice wanted (Alan Jones)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! ("Christopher Clement")
Re: Cheap external modem (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Re: Jaton Video-87AGP and XWindows (Steve Ponsford)
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From: Joseph Prisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow video (mpeg playback, window moving (not that bad) on Matrox G200
(Marvel)
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 06:42:55 GMT
On 5/29/99, 3:58:59 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Desnoyers)=20
wrote regarding slow video (mpeg playback, window moving (not that=20
bad) on Matrox G200 (Marvel):
> I have a Matrox Marvel G200 and video playback of mpg files is VERY
> slow! any idea why ? Is the video driver optimized for 2D accel ? I
> use Linux-Mandrake 6.0. XFRee 3.3.3.1 of course.
Same here on a Debian distribution with an ATI All-in-Wonder PRO card=20
using xanim.
--=20
Pope Zaphod I, aka Joseph Prisco UIN:145699 AOLIM:PopeZaphod
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lightlink.com/jprisco
QUOTE: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank)
Subject: Re: Promise UDMA66 -> can't finde the harddisk
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 18:53:42 GMT
I have the same problem. Untill now I didn't find a way to install
Suse.
Please let me know if you do !
All advises I had until now where more or less like the ones in :
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html (5.1 Promise
udma/33)
But it looks like that RedHat gives you access to a boot prompt and
Suse don't. I can't figure out how and where to give the mentioned
'linux=' command.
Frank
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:52:41 +0200, "Roland Mauer"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I bought a new system with a Promise Ultra ATA66-Controller. Is there a
>possibility for the SuSE 6.1 to recognize this controller and my harddisk?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>Roland
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 1 Jun 1999 15:05:50 -0500
On 1 Jun 1999 17:20:24 GMT, xiangdong shi wrote:
>I am new to Linux. Having heard of how wonderful it is, I want to build
>a sub-$500 PC (not including the monitor) with Linux only. I am thinking
>of a machine on par with the other $500 windoz PC on the market in terms
>of the hardware. A Celeron 366 or AMD K6-2 350, a 100Mhz ATX Motherboard,
>4mb-8mb Video, a 36xCDROM drive, 56K modem, 4.3Gb HDD, a cheapo-sound card
>and speaker. Is this possible? Will I run into support problems because I
>picked up cheap components?
Look up http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html
Let me look at PriceWatch..
K6-2 300+ on FIC PA-2013 is below $150.
Quantum CR 4.3GB (I needed to switch ATA/66 to ATA/33, so that DMA mode
would work alright) is $90.
Memory: 64MB of parity memory (ECC PC100 SDRAM 64MB 8x72 unbuffered 3.3V)
is around $55.
That's already $300...
A decent videocard (ATI Xpert 98 8MB AGP) is around $40.
Modem is another $40. CD-ROM yet another $40.
This leaves you $80 for deliveries and a soundcard (which one???).
You can save another $20 buying Trident 3DImage975-based Jaton cards
4MB AGP, around $20, but they are _very_ tricky; see
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
Also, keep in mind that 4MB of video memory is a _bad_ buy for 18"
viewable monitors.
Assuming that most have successfully overclocked K6-2 333 to 350, the
following saves another $20:
FIC PRICE for Online Orders Only, PA-2013 Super7, ATX,VIA MVP3,.Retail
Box 2 Yr warranty, MB, Rev2.0 PA2013 w/AMD K6-2/333 3DNow!,ATX MB,
3Dimms/4P/1A/2I,K62 333 , Instock $ 130 No Data 5/26/99 1:42:47 PM CDT
Tufshop.com
You better not try to save another $20 buying non-parity memory; thats's
a stupid thing to do.
Good luck!
a.
PS. all parts mentioned above worked for me; YMMV..
--
Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
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From: Joseph Prisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All-in-Wonder PRO: Video support?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 06:44:30 GMT
Has anyone released a driver that supports the TV tuner in the ATI=20
All-in-Wonder PRO? I have the AGP version and would like to view TV=20
in X. I'm running Debian 2.1.
JPrisco
--=20
Pope Zaphod I, aka Joseph Prisco UIN:145699 AOLIM:PopeZaphod
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lightlink.com/jprisco
QUOTE: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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From: Joseph Prisco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Monster driver?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 06:30:23 GMT
On 5/30/99, 8:25:35 PM, Brian Gilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20
regarding Diamond Monster driver?:
> Sorry if this is a redundant but I haven't been able to find a driver
> for my diamond monster III card....Can someone put my on track? TIA!
Try http://www.3dfx.com I installed the Linux drivers for my Monster=20
II 3D card and it works great.
--=20
Pope Zaphod I, aka Joseph Prisco UIN:145699 AOLIM:PopeZaphod
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lightlink.com/jprisco
QUOTE: "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx
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From: andiklein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DLT 7000 with Linux?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:41:49 -0400
Reiner Schischke wrote:
> I have a Quantum DLT 7000 tape drive. Is it possible to run this drive
> as a Linux device and do I need a Linux driver for this drive?
>
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Hi Reiner
We have a DLT7000 on our Linux farm and it runs fine with amanda and all
the other tape software. However the best speed we ever achieved is 1.5
MB/sec and not the advertised
5. So you don't need any different driver.
PS: we are running SuSE 6.0 with 2.0.36
andi
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From: "�˼��H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,hk.comp.os.linux,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Samba cannot print
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 09:34:07 +0800
I setup samba 2.0.4 in Redhat 6.0. A HP 6P is connected to it. I can print
ascii and postcript(using ghostscript) in the linux box. However, I cannot
print from Windows client though I can mount the home directory and other
shares. The print job sent to the queue and disappears afterward but the LED
in my printer do not blink!!! I find nothing in /var/spoold/samba. My
smb.conf is as follows. Can anyone help?
# Global parameters
[global]
workgroup = NEWBRIGHT.COM
netbios name = NBMAIL
server string = Samba Server
log file = /var/log/samba/log.%m
max log size = 50
socket options = TCP_NODELAY SO_RCVBUF=8192 SO_SNDBUF=8192
printcap name = /etc/printcap
local master = No
dns proxy = No
wins server = 202.232.1.254
[homes]
comment = Home Directories
read only = No
browseable = No
[printers]
comment = All Printers
path = /var/spool/samba
print ok = Yes
browseable = No
[_source]
path = /_source
write list = fred, bill
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From: "..Luca T.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC->Linux<-Mac????
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:16:53 +0200
Hi,
I'm sad.
I wasn't able yet to install a LAN server in LINUX that permits the
visibility between PCs(with windows 98) and Macs.
Does anyone knows how or where should i find the answer for this?
(or tomorrow i won't have the money to eat)
Thanks.
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From: "Roderick B. Greening" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Golden Sound and Panasonic CD-ROM under RedHat Linux 6.0
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:45:39 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I can't seen to get my system to install RedHat 6.0 from CD-ROM. The
setup program does not detect my CD-ROM. I have tried all CD-ROM types
listed in the setup, but to no avail.
What I have is a 486, SX 50 with a golden sound 3-in-1 card and a
Panasonic CD-ROM attached. The golden sound card has IRQ 5, DMA 3, and
IO base address
of 310 (for CD-ROM). I have tried sbpcd=0x310,LaserMate as indicated for
soundblaster compatible cards with Panasonic CD-ROMs. This doesn't work
(nor does autoprobe). I even removed any ISA cards that could have
caused a conflict. It does work under windows 95 though, and I can
verify that the address is 0x310.
If anyone can help, I would appreciate it very much.
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From: Greg Hookey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrecord fails
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:11:10 -0230
Hey,
I'm not sure about your problem, but I have a HP 8110i and I'm mounting
from /dev/sr1 ...../dev/sr0 is an older cd-rom that I have. You might
wanna try that device. When your machine boots if you're using scsi
emulation you should get a message like this...
kinda hard to see when it's flying by at boot time so at a shell prompt use
dmesg |more
and somewhere you should find this message. As well cdrecord uses the lun
of the device. In my case it's dev=1,0. Try using cdrecord -scanbus to
find the required information as well.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: SONY Model: CD-ROM CDU77E Rev: 1.0e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total.
sr0: disc change detected.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 4x/4x xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
My problem is with multi session cd's. I've burned a couple and I can see
the second session in the table of contents but can't see the extra
information when I mount the cd. I've used almost step by step the
instructions of several cd-r multi-session howto's to no avail.
Good Luck,
Greg
Programmer
Scientific Computing Branch
Department of Fishies and Oceans
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Center
St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: new cheap Linux box advice wanted
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:11:46 GMT
I am finaly ready to build a cheap Linux box, but I have some
remaining questions. Low cost is very important, but I don't want to
compromise on floating point performance. This will be for single
user home use, but with some intensive engineering and multiprocessing
use.
I have tentatively decided on:
Celeron 300A overclocked to 450M (assuming I get one at a decent
price)
ABIT BH6 MB
64M PC100 ECC RAM (does anything really need 128M?)
6.4-8.6G UDMA/33 HD (or UDMA/66)
ATX tower case.
Other parts will come from my old 386 box; 12X IDE CDROM, 1M Trident
ISA video card, 33.6K ISA modem card, 1520 or 1542b ISA SCSI card.
(The BH6 only has 2 ISA slots, but that is OK.)
I am convinced that UDMA will provide adaquate HD performance at low
cost. Howver, I know that I also want SCSI to run my Zip drive and
other SCSI devices. I know that I can get a PCI SCSI controller for
as little as $40, but I would like the SCSI controller built into the
MB to free up a PCI slot. 10 Mhz SCSI-II performance would be fine.
I'm not going to pay an additional $100 or so for a built in SCSI
controller.
I would also be interested in mother boards with biult in UDMH/66, but
only if they hit the market in the week or so. I am also interested
in CPU upgrade potential. I'm not impressed with the
price/performance of current PII/PIII offerings. However the
Coppermine, 700Mhz with 256K full speed L2 cache, might be of interest
after the world moves to IA64 in a few years. Would I likely be able
to run this or other high performance CPUs in the ABIT BH6?
Do you have any other MB recommendations?
The Celeron 300A does seem to be in short supply (more probably just
very high demand). I checked Pricewatch a couple weeks ago. Where
should I buy the CPU? Some vendors are offering a 300A garanteed to
overclock to 450M, but the price seems much higher that it should be
based on the reported overclockable yields. If I just buy from the
cheapest vendor, isn't it likely that these would be overclock
rejects? Some reports say the overclockable yield is about 80% and
I'm willing to take my chances, but only if the game is played fairly.
What sort of cooling do I need for the overclocked 300A?
Do you have any specific recommendations on the HD? The 8.xG HD and
even UDMA/66 seems to a good value, but am I asking for more trouble
than a 6.4G or UDMA/33 only drive (which would all be adaquate)?
I don't have a clue which ATX case to buy. How much power do I need?
I"ll want to add more stuff later.
I"ll add 2X AGP video card as soon as I can, probably a Matrox G200.
I don't care about 3D gaming performance, but I might be interested
in movie formats and perhaps a TV tuner card. Later, I may add a CD
or DVD drive with write capability.
If this overclocked 300A plan falls apart, I'll have to fall back to
putting a cheap FIC MB and AMD CPU in my old 386 case.
Finally, I need a new Linux distribution. I'm partial to Slackware.
I have the old 3.2 four CD disk set. I had it running briefly from a
ZIP disk, but it was not acceptable. I claim no significant
experience with it. My local LInux/Slackware Guru and I have both
relocated and I have no Linux support system except for the Linux
Gazette, and newsgroups. Other distributions seem more popular and
better supported. I also have a 386/387SL 12M Laptop with a 100M HD
that I would like to use for occasional field use. Slackware would be
a better choice for squeezing into the 100M HD, but I would prefere to
just use one distribution. Recommendations?
I want to stay one the cheap side but not be foolish. I'd also
consider buying everything from a single vendor for simplicity and to
minimize shipping charges. I'd even concider using a low cost OEM
shop or bare bones package.
Thanks, Alan Jones, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christopher Clement" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:28:57 -0700
Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Let ma tell you my adventures with a compaq laptop
> and the inatallation of Windows 95/98 and Suse Linux 6.0
> I'm right now using a dual boot system with 1Gb for Windows
> (just the necessary space for Diablo, Dune2000 and Baldur's gate),
> and 2.3 Gb for Linux which I use for work.
> As you know laptops come with preinstalled os (guess which).
> Since I needed two oss I repartitioned my harddrive and I started
> to install windows 98 ( I know could have used partition magic
> or fips my I like to build thing right from the ground).
> Everything was fine with w98 installation till the first boot,
> at that point the computer started to hang and the only thing I
> could do was to reboot it. After some hours of messing around
> with log files I realized that the 32bit ide driver had problems
> with my harddrive. I then decided to try with W95osr2, this time
> all went in the right way and after having downloaded a couple of
> megabites of driver from the net I could also use a 800x600 screen
> and hear sound, have my pcmcia slots recognized and so on.
> After that I installed SuSE Linux and it worked right away out
> of the box I needed just to recompile the kernel with specific
> settings for my machine and setup Xwindows (40 mins in all) et voila'.
> But the story is not over: after some time having succesfully configured
> my harddrive with DMA access under Linux I tried to do the same with
> windows. result, windows did not boot anymore. Again I examined the
> problem and try to figure out, and the problem was the same of
> windows98. I tried to change the configuration back but to no avail.
> I tried to remove the drive and the controller from the system
> configuration but still no result. The only thing I could do was
> format and reinstall!
> Now tell me why somebody keeps on saying that windows is easy to
> install?
> I say it is just bullshit. Who says this, has never installed windows
> on a non standard hardware.
Ugh. I have reinstalled Linux about 10 times just to get the damn thing to
work with my video card that wasn't on the Red Hat list. And you are
whining about "non standard hardware"???? I think Linux is definitely the
OS of the future, but anyone that remotely thinks that it is anywhere as
easy to install and configure as Windows is absolutely nuts. Linux is
making progress, but it ain't there yet.
Chris
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cheap external modem
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 19:47:38 +0200
Joshy George wrote:
> The modem documentation specifically mentions that COM2 is the
> recommended port to connect to under Windows, for reasons beyond my
> guess!
The only reason is that some mouse drivers only work with COM1 in
windows. Then there is only COM2 left to use as COM3 and COM4 are almost
unusable sharing interrupts with other com ports. Have you tried to
connect the modem to COM1? What kind of error did it give? Did you
change /dev/modem to point to /dev/ttyS0 or /dev/cua0?
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 19:25:07 -0700
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 20:28:57 -0700, Christopher Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Daniele Bernardini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
>message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
[compaq Windows misadventures]
>> configuration but still no result. The only thing I could do was
>> format and reinstall!
>> Now tell me why somebody keeps on saying that windows is easy to
>> install?
>> I say it is just bullshit. Who says this, has never installed windows
>> on a non standard hardware.
>
>
>Ugh. I have reinstalled Linux about 10 times just to get the damn thing to
>work with my video card that wasn't on the Red Hat list. And you are
>whining about "non standard hardware"???? I think Linux is definitely the
>OS of the future, but anyone that remotely thinks that it is anywhere as
>easy to install and configure as Windows is absolutely nuts. Linux is
No, just unlucky. Windows will be more than happy to put you
through all sorts of OS installation and hardware upgrade
pain.
>making progress, but it ain't there yet.
The real catch is that neither is Windows. Know enough to ensure
that Windows 'reliability' won't catch up with you and you're
more than knowledgable enough to deal with any of the other PC
OSes (not just Linux)
The PC clone is a random collection of spare parts optimized
primarily for cost. This leaves plenty of room for user
frustration, even with Windows.
--
Novice end users deserve better than a |||
random collection of spare parts optimized / | \
for cost rather than ease...
In search of sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Steve Ponsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Jaton Video-87AGP and XWindows
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 19:21:45 -0700
Andrew Comech wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jun 1999 02:36:06 GMT, Jeff Morrow wrote:
> >I've been trying to set up XWindows for a few days now in Red Hat 6.0
> >with a Jaton Video-87AGP video card. I've tried all sorts of
> >combinations of settings, including other Jaton cards and generic
> >settings. Each time I try to run XWindows, I get no screen. Are there
> >any curealls or drivers? Thanks.
> >
> >Jeff Morrow
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Hi Jeff,
> try the recipe at
>
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
>
> Could you please post a follow-up whether this works for you?
> I am almost certain that you'd get up to 1024x768 at 32bpp and
> up to 1280x1024 at 16bpp...
>
> Best,
> a.
>
> --
> Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modems
You may also want to try the 'tgui_mclk_66' option under the Device
section
if your motherboard handles the agp specification well. There are some
motherboards that really do have their agp spec underclocked to handle
broken/awkward chipset implementations. A word of warning though,
the XFree86 site recommends you use the boards default settings if
your screen starts experiencing snowing. I've been using this setting
for
awhile now though and I haven't had the slightest bit trouble with it, in
fact
it actually seems faster, more responsive, and less jerky than my
unaccelerated
TNT/Viper550 card I had been using. But please use this setting with
caution.
I shall not be held responsible for a fried videocard ;-).
Here is how I have my device section setup
# **********************************************************************
# Graphics device section
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of graphics device sections may be present
Section "Device"
Identifier "Primary Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 AGP (generic)"
Chipset "3dimage975"
Option "tgui_mclk_66"
ClockChip "tgui"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
Good luck,
Steve Ponsford
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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