Linux-Hardware Digest #389, Volume #10 Wed, 2 Jun 99 05:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: Viper 770 TNT2 (Hugh Bonney)
Book on HW/SW interface? (Slav Inger)
Re: VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good? (Kelly Harrison)
Video Card Prob. ("Jake Newton")
Re: Problems with TV card (Tino Krist)
Re: Lucent WinModem-Will it work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scanner solution? (David Fox)
Re: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine? (Vladimir Florinski)
video4linux (Mike Gorsuch)
Re: Cloning a Linux box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: FA: Pentium Pro System - Cheap!!! (Glitch)
Sound support for MediaGX? (Frederick Lim)
Re: PCI Modem - lost cause? (Johan Kullstam)
Is this modem IRQ problem? ("Frank Yan")
Re: How do you install LNEPCI2 Ethernet drivers? (jaydub)
Support for ESS AudioDrive Sound Card? ("Sandip Srivastavaa")
Do Travan 4 tape drives work on Linux? ("Jun Yang")
Re: Memory Limitation (IT drift)
Booting from a LS-120 (IT drift)
Re: Trying to install linux (Harald Arnesen)
Re: linux on a 386 lappy (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Support for ESS AudioDrive Sound Card? (Stefan Werner)
Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ? (S�ren Schmidt)
Parallel Printer Cable (Charles Thomas)
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From: Hugh Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Viper 770 TNT2
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 04:57:27 GMT
KevCo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: You'll need XFree86 3.3.3.1 (the latest version) for TNT2 support. Even
: with that, I had to manually add 'Chipset "RIVATNT" ' to my XF86Config
: (thanks to a usenet tip I found in another group) to make it work.
: Otherwise it comes up with "unknown chipset" and drops into 320x200.
: With the added chipset line I'm able to run at any resolution/colordepth
: I want.
: Also I have an AMD K6-2/300 with a VLI chipset. I've had no trouble
: with the TNT2 under windows or linux once I finally got Xwindows up.
I apologise, but the above is the first post I've seen in this
thread and the only one visible. What did you use for a driver
for TNT2 support? It appears that the Viper 770 and the Hitachi
SuperScan 753 might be a good combination to run both Linux and
NT4 (when absolutely necessary) and be used for several years.
The apparent ability to run 1600X1200 at a decent frame rate is
attractive.
Thanks, Hugh---
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From: Slav Inger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Book on HW/SW interface?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 10:19:51 -0400
Hello,
My question is very simple, but I haven't been able to find an answer.
I've been searching for a book that delves into the theory of how
software controls the hardware (basically a hardware/software interface)
- literally, how software (machine code) causes bits to flip or motors
to actuate. I've seen only a few books on this topic, but they didn't
answer my questions. I guess this question deals with control theory,
systems, computer science, and everything inbetween. I've also been
searching for information on theory of object code and how program
loaders work. Anything you can suggest? I'm not looking for an
architecture reference - I've read all CPU and hardware manuals I could
find on a number of computer architectures.
Thanks very much.
- Slav Inger.
- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kelly Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA MVP3 + UDMA no good?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:39:57 GMT
Jonas Palsson wrote:
>
> 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:
I've got a strange, but similar problem - when I move a very large file
onto my UDMA drive (from another drive on my system) the machine locks
up. I turned DMA transfers off for that drive and things seem to work.
PA2013
WD 8.4 GB
AMD K6-2/300
Don't know if they're related, but...
kelly
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From: "Jake Newton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Card Prob.
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1999 00:37:09 -0500
I have the Diamond Monster Fusion 16mb AGP Video Card and I don't think that
Linux 6.0 has a driver for it. The best I can get in X Windows is like 300
x 400 or so. I need help, if you can help me please email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tino Krist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with TV card
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 07:30:00 +0200
Udo Wolter wrote:
> > color deep to 8 bit. With 15, 16, 24 and 32 it does not work. But this
> > solution is
>
> Nice hint. I'll try this.
>
> > I thougth it depends on the X Server. But I cannot prove this. Its only
>
> No, as long as XFree is the same XFree in FreeBSD & Linux it the X Server
> can't be the problem. In FreeBSD I have a terrific picture.
>
Good to know.
> > Or it is bttv. Try a newer one... and please tell me your results!!
>
> I tried the newest I can get. Or is there a higher version than 0.63 ?
>
I don't know. At the moment nor time for playing! What a pity.
> Thanx & Bye,
> Udo
>
> --
> Udo Wolter, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], www: http://i.am/uwp
> !!!! LOW-TECH Page: http://hello.to/low-tech !!!!
Please contact me after solving the problem!
Bye,
Tino
--
==============================================================================
A L C A T E L Tino Krist |
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TELECOM Standard Elektrik Lorenz AG |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lucent WinModem-Will it work?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 01:10:01 GMT
Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> this is no longer true -- external modems with USB interfaces
> are around here... They do not work so far (even assuming that
> some of them have firmware controllers and thus are not _true winmodems_).
You're absolutely right. My apologies; I completely over looked
USB modems.
Anyone else miss the days of total manual configuration where
devices actually had a brain and didn't leech off the CPU?
Greg H.
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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: scanner solution?
Date: 01 Jun 1999 22:28:30 -0700
Mark Koek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Do I have any chance in getting one of the parallel port ones working
> (USB surely not?),
> or do I need SCSI?
You need SCSI. Check the SANE home page, http://www.mostang.com/sane/.
I see Musteks for about $80 at buy.com.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is it possible to build a sub-$500 Linux machine?
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 22:21:14 -0700
Andrew Comech wrote:
>
>
> You better not try to save another $20 buying non-parity memory; thats's
> a stupid thing to do.
>
I don't think many people would agree with you. ECC memory is a little slower
and usually a lot more expensive. I've never had a single problem with non-ECC
memory in a variety of systems, including dual P-IIIs with 512 MB RAM.
--
Vladimir
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From: Mike Gorsuch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: video4linux
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 00:57:10 GMT
Hey guys,
Just wondering if anyone has any recommendations or victory/horror
stories to share about seting up video4linux cards. I am planning on
using a Captivator PCI card and I want to be able to view camcorder
recordings through it. I don't want to waste the money and time if it's
not gonna get a decent frame rate though. In Windows it is supposed to
get 30 fps, but can Linux do it?
Thanks a ton,
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cloning a Linux box
Date: 1 Jun 1999 17:43:51 +0800
What I did is make or download a pair of rescue bootdisk and rootdisk, then
boot up and mount a floppy minux filesystem. Then I mount both harddisk into
say /mnt1 and /mnt2. So I can use "cp -via /mnt1/* /mnt2" to clone a disk.
Of course the disk cloned may not be bootable the first time, you have to
boot it from floppy and do the lilo stuff again.
In comp.os.linux.setup Leslie Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <1I__2.6871$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Brian Kell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> You could simply tar the entire contents of the drive and pipe it back
>>> through tar to extract it to the other drive. Then you'll need to run
>>LILO
>>> on the new drive to write the master boot record.
>>
>>What about the /dev directory? Won't tar try to copy all of those special
>>files? And if you leave that out, then how do you get the new disk to have
>>enough of a /dev directory in order to boot?
>>
>>I've tried to clone disks using tar before, but never found a satisfactory
>>way to avoid this problem. Any suggestions?
> GNUtar understands the /dev entries and shouldn't have any trouble
> duplicating a working system. But, all you really need if the
> drives are local is 'cp -a'. Either of these can be done one
> filesystem at a time (--one-file-system) and do not require the
> destination to be exactly the same size as the source. You still
> need to run LILO to make the drive bootable.
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 01:58:32 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.sys.intel,intel.microprocessors.pentium_pro,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Re: FA: Pentium Pro System - Cheap!!!
North Star wrote:
> on eBay...
>
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=109785452
>
> Loaded System... Current high bid $177.50 no reserve...
>
> Auction ends 6/2/99 21:57:29 PDT
>
> I can't believe this is only bidding at $177.50!?!?!
whatever asshole....this isnt the advertisement newsgroup
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:38:57 +0800
From: Frederick Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound support for MediaGX?
I got a desktop using Cyrix MediaGX, can I get sound support with it?
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From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: PCI Modem - lost cause?
Date: 20 May 1999 11:05:09 -0400
"John Hardin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David A. Rogers wrote in message ...
> >On Wed, 19 May 1999 09:50:51 -0700, Roberto Leibman
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> speaketh saying:
> >>
> >>I have to disagree with this, as the constraint in computing power moves
> >>around, from i/o bound to processor bound to memory bound to disk bound
> to
> >>bandwith bound, the "right" partitioning philosophy changes as well. I
> think
> >>we are at a time where we most people have a lot of extra capacity in
> their
> >>CPU's (most of the time anyway), it makes engineering sense to download
> some
> >>of the processing chore to the less stressed CPU, particularly if this
> can
> >>bring the price of the peripherals down.
> >
> >I don't buy it. I've got a 133 and I want all of those cycles
> >being used for their intended purpose. Even if I had a 450, I don't want
> some
> >rube-goldberg peripheral slowing it down.
>
>
> Agreed, particularly with a timing-sensitive peripheral such as a modem. If
> the CPU is busy doing something else when the WinModem needs attention,
> data will be lost - so the WinModem driver runs at a high priority,
> impacting *all* other services.
>
> No, thanks.
on the other hand, a pci (or other) device which could itself do ppp
would be a cool thing. once you write a frame, the modem wouldn't
wait and time-out looking for more data. you could move the packets
back and forth using dma. uarts with their constant flood of nickel
and dime interrupts make a lousy interface. make an modem with
ethernet card interface!
unfortunately, modem vendors are avoiding a smart card and building
idiot cards with as little as possible on them. oh well.
--
johan kullstam
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From: "Frank Yan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is this modem IRQ problem?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:56:18 -0400
I set up my ppp stuff under RH5.2, everything seems fine at first.
Everything is ok, like ping, telnet, netscape,..., but after a while I found
something really unusual that the net speed is extremely slower than
that under windows system. I can hardly surf the net by using netscape
under RH, and when I download something from the net, the speed
is extremely slower than under windows.
I'm wondering if I did something wrong with the configuration or
something not configured well with the modem, I've got a u.s. robotics
external modem 56k, but the speed looks like only 56 :(
People told me that it's the modem IRQ problem, I'm wondering how
to check the modem IRQ and how to set it? I have an U.S. Robotics
external 56K modem. I did no confiugration except plugging it on.
Thanks a lot,
Frank
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jaydub)
Subject: Re: How do you install LNEPCI2 Ethernet drivers?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:58:42 GMT
This card can be used using the generic PCI NE2000 driver.
Compile the NE2000 driver into your kernel or alternatively, run
the NE2000 kernel module (I think it is called ne2k-pci.o). What
distro are you using?
Jeff
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 01:15:44 -0400, "Xaragon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>This is my first time installing linux and I've got linux installed but i
>haven't been able to find how to install my ethernet card. I have a p.o.s.
>Linksys Ethernet PCI 2 card in the machine and i'd like some help, thanks...
>
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Reply-To: "Sandip Srivastavaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Sandip Srivastavaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.be.help
Subject: Support for ESS AudioDrive Sound Card?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:42:03 -0400
My PC has the ESS AudioDrive sound card. It's called either
ESS Solo-1 or ESS 8080.
Is it supported?
-Sandip
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From: "Jun Yang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Do Travan 4 tape drives work on Linux?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 18:50:54 -0700
Hi,
I am considering buying a Seagate Travan 4 tape drive
with the EIDE interface. Does it work with RedHat 5.2?
I checked the Hardware Compatibility HOWTO but didn't
find the answer for TR4 and QIC-3095, the native format
of the drive. Anybody who has experience with it?
Thanks!
Jun
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From: IT drift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory Limitation
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:40:46 +0200
Ravindranath wrote:
> I've got 64Mb RAM, it can be picked up by my BIOS but Linux can't!!
> I'm currently using Redhat 5.2 with kernal 2.0.36 running on a HP vectra
> 486 server. In it contains, two 3Com 3c509 cards, two AH1740 Adaptech
> card.
> It is a little bit old but still kicking except for this problem.
>
> Regards,
> Ravi
Try puting
append="mem=64M"
in your /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo
Mvh
Svein Olav Bjerkeset
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: IT drift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting from a LS-120
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:57:27 +0200
Hi,
I reacently replaced my old 1.44M floppy with a LS-120 (SuperDisk). I
managed to
get Windows 98 boot from it, but Linux will not boot from a SuperDisk.
If I use put
a 1.44M floppy in the LS-120 drive I can boot Linux from that disk.
I have tried two methods to get Linux to boot from a 120M floppy
1. copy the kernel directly to the LS-120 device (/dev/hdc) and puting
an ext2 image
after the kernel. When I boot using this setup the kernel loads and
then I get an
error message: "invalid compressed format" and "System halted"
2. made an ext2 fs on /dev/hdc and set up LILO. I get the lilo message
on the screen
and can select from the boot menu, but when I have made the
selection, it just
prints 0x01 and halts
By the way, the LS-120 is an ATAPI drive connected as master to the
second
IDE controller (/dev/hdc). I am running Linux kernel 2.2.9 (slackware
3.6)
Does anyone have any clue on how to get this working?
Thanks in advance
Svein Olav Bjerkeset
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to install linux
Date: 02 Jun 1999 09:22:06 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Serial # 0) writes:
> I have been trying many times to install linux on a intel 386 with 4
> Mo RAM !
> but the install always stop when it says :
> found compressed RAM disk at block 0
Not enough RAM. I suggest you give MuLinux a try, or see if you can
get an old Slackware distribution.
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux on a 386 lappy
Date: 02 Jun 1999 09:25:31 +0200
Nick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> i just got myself an old 386 laptop for free , its a compaq with 120 meg
> hd & a mono lcd screen..
> It would be nice to get linux (any distribution) going on it, maybe run
> x with it?
> am i dreaming? what can i do with it besides use it as a foot stool
> (probably alot more useful then running windows on it)
Well, you dream when you sleep at night.
You _can_ squeeze in Linux, but it will be slow (you don't say how
much RAM the machine has, that will make a big difference). Forget
about X on this machine.
If you want a Unix-like system on this kind of machine, I would
suggest you look at Minix.
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:53:54 +0200
From: Stefan Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.be.help
Subject: Re: Support for ESS AudioDrive Sound Card?
Hi,
Sandip Srivastavaa wrote:
>
> My PC has the ESS AudioDrive sound card. It's called either
> ESS Solo-1 or ESS 8080.
>
> Is it supported?
Try the sbPro-driver from www.be.com/beware/ . This
one should work.
Bye,
--
\O/ Stefan Werner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ //
X http://Lichtmensch.home.pages.de/ \X/
/ \ o---------------------------------o
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From: S�ren Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: IDE RAID - Promise Fasttrak ?
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 10:10:14 +0200
John Burton wrote:
>
> Paul Gregg wrote:
> >
> > To summarise what I think I've learned from this thread:
> >
> > Build the box with 2 x Promise Ultra-33 cards and perform software RAID
> > (vinum in FreeBSD) or (md in Linux).
> >
> > Sounds good to me :-) Just going to find a case now that will hold 8 ATA
> > drives plus CD plus floopy ;)
>
> Ummm...has anybody looked at the RAIDZONE product
> (http://www.raidzone.com) which promises to do IDE raid and can handle
> hot swapping, etc? Support under linux is in the Beta stage with full
> support supposed to be available within the next month... I'm interested
> in buy one, but would like to hear what others have to say...
Hmm, I've been playing with normal IDE disks mounted in some of those
elcheapo drawers that can cut off power to the drive. Then on some of
the IDE chips (including the Promise) one can tristate the IDE channels,
so it can be made almost safe to pull the disks on an active system.
It works, but it demands that the driver is modified a bit to support
it..
-S�ren
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From: Charles Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel Printer Cable
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 09:59:23 +0200
Hi there
I'm trying to connet my Slackware box to a Win98 pc using a parallel
printer cable. The problem is I don't have an application that can use
the cable on Linux. I am using Direct Cable Connection on the Windows
pc obviously. Do any of you know what I can do?
Thanks
Michael
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