Linux-Hardware Digest #438, Volume #10 Tue, 8 Jun 99 02:13:36 EDT
Contents:
nec 4 disc ide cd changer ("Will Elmes")
Re: Linksys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card (Brent Willcox)
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! (William Burrow)
Re: Voodoo3 or TNT2? (Chris Mauritz)
Re: Dual celeron (CB)
Matrox G400 MAX support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Onboard sound under linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adding a second SCSI adapter (David C)
Re: Dual celeron (bryan)
Re: AMI Megaraid failure with 2.2 kernels? (Michael Rasmussen)
Re: iomega zip drive... (David C)
Re: Digital Modems & Linux? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY (zch11)
Re: Best AGP Card for Linux / XFree86 [was Re: AGP only at 8bpp?!] (Dirk Haage)
WORM media under Linux (Andrei A. Smirnov)
Re: AMI Megaraid failure with 2.2 kernels? (Matt)
Re: Amptron P9100 mainboard ?s (Hugh Fader)
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From: "Will Elmes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: nec 4 disc ide cd changer
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 03:03:55 GMT
anyone know how to get (or if it is possible) an NEC cd changer to work
normally under linux? i can only get the first disc to mount, which doesn't
surprise me, but i am wondering if there was some sort of application or
patch to allow all 4 cds to be mounted at once. thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Willcox)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linksys Combo PCMCIA Ethernet Card
Date: Mon, 7 Jun 1999 20:50:33 -04-59
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have the same card as you, and I think I can help you.
Difference is my laptop is running Redhat 5.1.
>I looked in /etc/pcmcia/config and it lists the Linksys Combo PCMCIA
>Ethernet Card so I guess I have the software for card services loaded and
>this PCMCIA Ethernet card is supported. When the system boots it always
>says that ethernet initialization is being delayed.
My Toshiba says that upon bootup. It is because the PCMCIA drivers
have not been loaded at that point in time yet. They get loaded later on.
During the daemon start up sequence.
>But when I try to configure the ethernet eth0, I am never given the chance
>to use "pcnet_cs" which is listed in the /etc/PCMCIA/config file. The only
>choices I'm given appear to be non-PCMCIA ethernet cards. What am I doing
>wrong?
I did not need to specify a module in linuxconf or netcfg for the card.
When I plug in the card I get the two high beeps, and the log will say
that eth0is available. My linuxconf fields just list Net Device as eth0
and the lines below that (kernel module, etc) are all blank.
Cardmgr takes care of all the PCMCIA cards when you plug them in.
You'd only need to specify a module for a ethernet adapter on a desktop system.
All I had to do was plug in the card, then I configured eth0 in
linuxconf. Took about 5 minutes if even that.
>Also, although I have a man page for cardinfo, there is no cardinfo
>executable anywhere to be found. The 3Com Noteworthy 56k PCMCIA modem card
>works fine.
Redhat appears to have left cardinfo out of their PCMCIA distribution,
as I don't have it either. It is the X based card information manager.
The command line cardctl is quite helpful though. I'd suspect a goof in their
build environment, as they have the manpage but not the binary.
Report it to them as a bug. They will fix it.
>Any ideas?
Hope this is helpful.
--
Brent Willcox
University of North Texas
mail: bwillcox at jove acs unt edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
Date: 8 Jun 1999 02:32:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7 Jun 1999 11:52:34 GMT,
Markus Wandel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>However Netscape 4.07 as it comes with RH5.2 also has a memory leak, it
>occurs when composing an email message on Yahoo, and it can lose several
>kilobytes PER KEYSTROKE. I just managed to stop my house mate from
>crashing my machine when Netscape was at 226 megabytes and growing.
>Since then I've hacked a little script which displays current Netscape
>memory usage in a little windows so he can quit and restart if it goes
>crazy. This only occurs when composing email messages on Yahoo.
I believe this is in a TEXTAREA. Encountered this problem on another
site that required some data be entered in a TEXTAREA. I have xcpustate
running, but wasn't looking at it the first time it happened -- what a
shock!
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Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
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From: Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo3 or TNT2?
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 02:06:31 GMT
In the windows world, there's no contest. The ultra TNT2 seems to be
the faster chipset for 3D gaming (if only by a small margin).
C
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Actually, my impression is somewhat of the opposite; Nvidia has released
> all of the source code for their chipsets, but 3dfx still has only allowed
> Daryll Strauss access to their developer specs. So in other words, there's
> only one person working on Linux support for 3dfx, while Nvidia has
> released basically everything (according to what I've read).
>
> Now the reason why I ask my question is because basically, I want to see
> which has a "better chance" on Linux. I'm guessing it will probably be
> Nvidia for now since their code is open and their cards have support for
> large textures and can render in 32-bit color. Any opinions, anyone?
>
>
> Louis Plouffe wrote:
>>
>> Pros and Cons
>>
>> The only difference for now is that the V3 have more 'mature' drivers
> OpenGL
>> in Linux. The Nvidia drivers are very 'young' and maybe, with the time,
> all
>> the feature and benefict of this card.
>>
>> (scuse for my approx. english!)
>>
>>
>>
>> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
>> 7ja96j$v$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Now that there is support for 3D acceleration on Voodoo3 and TNT2
>> hardware,
>> > does anyone have any opinions on which 3D card I should get? I'm aware
>> > that Voodoo3 only supports up to 256x256 textures and only does 16-bit
>> > color, but I also read that the current Nvidia Linux drivers only
> support
>> > 16-bit color anyway. Any corrections and recommendations would be
> greatly
>> > appreciated; price is not an issue at this point in time.
>> >
>> > ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
>> > http://www.searchlinux.com
>>
>>
> ------------------ Posted via SearchLinux ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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Christopher Mauritz
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Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 18:38:02 -0700
From: CB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual celeron
Yes, with a dual-capable slot 1 to S370 adapter using the S370 PPGA
Celeron CPUs. A good adapter is made by MicroStar International: MS6905
v1.1 Two Celeron 400s and two adapters are now running about $240 USD
total.
Abit has announced a dual S370 motherboard - see their site.
MicroStar International MS6905 rev1.1 (dual jumper and voltage jumpers)
http://www.msi.com.tw/product_guide/converter/6905.htm
Soltek SL-02A8 "A2" adapter(out-of-the-box dual with voltage
adjustment)
http://www.soltek.com.tw/product/sl02a.htm
http://www.kikumaru.com/pc/s370tos1/sl02a8.jpg
EPoX EPS1C Dual out-of-box
http://www.epox.com/products/mboard/s1c.html
ECS Smart adapter Ver 1.3 Dual (out-of-the-box, but not the earlier
version)
Supermicro's TMR-006 Dual out-of-the-box
to purchase the MSI adapter:
http://www.censuspc.com/
http://www.azzo.com/
http://www.computermaxpc.com
http://www.plycon.com/cpuram.htm
http://www.computernerd.com/
http://www.pcnut.com/parts/cpu.htm
CB
j wrote:
>
> Looking at building a dual processor box to run BeOS and Linux. Not too
> interested in pentium II or III because of cost. Can celeron processors
> be used on dual slot 1 board?
>
> thanks
>
> j.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Matrox G400 MAX support
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 01:31:31 GMT
Hi all,
I know the Matrox G400 MAX isn't released yet but I'm probably going to
pick one up soon after it does come out. I was just wondering if there
is any work being done on Linux drivers yet or what? Can anyone predict
if the card will work for 2D (i.e., X-windows) with legacy SVGA
drivers? What about 3D support for stuff like OpenGL and Quake 3?
Thanks,
--Rainer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Onboard sound under linux
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 01:31:50 GMT
I have an onboard Crystal CS4236B Soundcard
The sndconfig in RedHat 6.0 can detect the card, but it can not playback
the sample sound, saying that there is some kind of a fatal error.
Please help.
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From: David C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a second SCSI adapter
Date: 08 Jun 1999 00:04:30 -0400
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "David C." wrote:
>> Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>>
>>> You could compile a custom kernel and build support for the
>>> Adaptec 1542B right into the kernel. It would then be detected when
>>> Linux boots up.
>>
>> That is a possibility, although it seems unnecessary, since I can't
>> boot off of that card anyway. (The BIOS has to be disabled on it).
>>
>> Something that will get it to install the module at the same time it
>> installs the other dynamic modules (like the Ethernet and sound
>> cards) would be what I'm looking for.
>
> Dave...
> Let's look at this...
> You're upset that the module isn't loaded during the kernal
> initialization, yet you've figured out how to get it loaded (using the
> utility of the rc{N}.d directories, to get it loaded IMMEDIATELY after
> the kernal is loaded.
>
> I find this to be aking to worrying about whether you are sitting in
> the 7th row or the 10th row of the airplane...you leave the airport at
> the same time, you get the same in-flight beverages, and you land at
> your destination at the same time.
>
> Unless I'm missing something, the system is basically the same by the
> time the "login:" prompt appeats on the screen. Or in other words,
> this is much ado about nothing.
Yes. At this point (after I figured out the rc.modules script) I'm
asking mostly out of curiosity.
The RedHat installer got my 2940 card set up without requiring anything
in the rc.d directory, so I would expect to be able to do the same
thing, but the one attempt I made (adding a new "alias scsi_hostadapter"
line to /etc/conf.modules) didn't do any good. Adding a line to
/etc/conf.modules with some other alias didn't seem to work either. I
just don't understand why, and not knowing bothers me.
I know about the mkinitrd function for making the initial ramdisk
image. But it only adds modules that are aliassed as scsi_hostadapter
in /etc/conf.modules (or so the man page claims), so I don't think it
will work if simply adding the line to /etc/conf.modules didn't work.
(Althought I haven't tried that approach yet.)
-- David
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual celeron
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 01:54:08 GMT
Tsmanlyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Yes. Be careful, tho. Sometimes you need the 370 kit (20 to 40 bucks).
: Remember, there's more than 1 model Celeron, and if you have to buy the kit,
: you might as well buy the PII
not always - I still think a 300a+slotket o/c to 450 is cheaper than a
p2 450.
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: Michael Rasmussen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AMI Megaraid failure with 2.2 kernels?
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 20:26:50 -0700
Yes, that is my experience also. Works find with 2.0.3x and doesn't with
2.2.x
David S. Stephenson wrote:
> Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> >
> > My current system, RH5.2/kernel 2.0.36, contains an AMI Megaraid
> > controller, model 428.
> >
> > I've recently attempted to upgrade to distributions (Caldera and Redhat)
> > with the 2.2 kernel. Caldera refuses to recognize the controller and
> > their support folks say it is not supported, despite being listed on
> > the hardware page. The RH installation lists the AMI controller but
> > hangs when it scans the scsi bus looking for the CDROM. The last
> > messages are:
> >
> >SNIP
> >
> > Do any of you have the Megaraid controller working with the 2.2 kernel
> > series?
> > Is there a workaround for this problem?
>
> We've got a megaraid running SuSe Linux with Kernel 2.0.x and it works
> fine. I recently tried to upgrade to 2.2.5 and I can boot from floppy
> but I get the message after booting that the root file system
> can't be mounted. I havn't got round to analysing this yet, by the
> way we never managed to install an operating LILO, we boot from
> the floppy.
>
> David
> --
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From: David C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iomega zip drive...
Date: 08 Jun 1999 00:12:44 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy) writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy) writes:
>>>
>>> Yes. I spent at least three hours trying to get the cheap 'zoom' zip
>>> scsi card it comes with to the be recognised - to no avail at
>>> all. It should be supported by the aha<something> (I forget) driver,
>>> but I couldn't get it to reconise the card.
>>
>> Do you mean the SCSI Zip drive? As far as I know, that only requires
>> a SCSI adaptor. Presumably the driver depends on the SCSI card. I
>> have a (cheap) Fireport card which works perfectly with my SCSI Zip
>> drive.
>
> Sorry, I see I misunderstood your post.
> I didn't get a SCSI card with my Zip drive.
> Maybe I was lucky.
The internal SCSI model includes a cheap SCSI card based on Adaptec's
AVA-1505 chip. It is configurable only via on-board jumpers and has no
BIOS, so you can't boot off of it and it probably won't be
auto-detected.
I couldn't use it on my system because all of its available jumper
settings were for interrupts that other devices were using.
I don't know if it will work with Linux or not. If it does, use the
aha152x.o module. You may have to specify the IRQ and port addresses
for it.
-- David
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Subject: Re: Digital Modems & Linux?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 07 Jun 1999 23:30:11 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Batson) writes:
> Can anyone tell me about a 56K external digital modem that works with
> Linux?
>
> I want to use this modem in a dial-up connection to my ISP and all I've
> found so far is a internal MultiTech MT5634ZPX. It has an ISA interface
> & gets 56K on downloads only from a V.90 server.
ok.... what is the problem here? you get 56k download from a v.90
server. this sounds logical. did you expect your isps old 28.8k
modem to suddenly upgrade itself?
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: zch11 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 16:41:08 +1200
"M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
>
> "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >When I try to mount my floppy disk ( Only one, in dos is A:) I got the
> >following message:
>
> >VFS: can't find an ext2 file system on dev 02:00
> ^^^^^^^
> >mount: Wrong fs type, bad opinion, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too
> >many mounted file systems.
>
> >Plese tell me what I need do, thank you very much in advance.
> >(I can mount my cd-rom however).
>
> It's all there :)
> A simple mount command will not work, due to the fact that the
> floppy certainly doesn't have an ext2 filesystem on it (which is
> the Linux default fs). You're probably using a DOS/Win9* floppy.
> Try
>
> mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt
>
> instead.
>
> Michael
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From: Dirk Haage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel,linux.dev.kernel,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Best AGP Card for Linux / XFree86 [was Re: AGP only at 8bpp?!]
Date: Mon, 07 Jun 1999 22:45:35 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
"David R. Bergstein" schrieb:
>
> Koder wrote:
> >
> > JOe!
> >
> > The problem is completely solved! My friend was wrong indeed, it was not the
> > kernel. I just forgot to use startx -- -bpp 24! If you use these parameters,
> > and your XFree86 is configured correctly, it will run on most cards!
> >
>
> With this thought in mind, I am interested in moving to an AGP graphic
> card for my Linux system. Can any one provide some recommendations on
> particular models that are known to work well with XFree86, i.e., for
> compatibility & performance? I was hesitant before this because of all
> the prior negative reports.
I would take a RivaTNT or RivaTNT2 Card! This is because Nvidia has
opensourced their driver and its the fasted graphic card available for
Linux!
/dirk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei A. Smirnov)
Subject: WORM media under Linux
Date: 8 Jun 1999 01:58:18 GMT
Hello!
Does anybody know, if a currently available software existing, writing
WORM media? I have Plasmon RF-7010 disks and Panasonic LF-7010 drive.
Thanx.
--
andrei.
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From: Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: AMI Megaraid failure with 2.2 kernels?
Date: 8 Jun 1999 02:31:17 GMT
Can you please tell me if you got this MegaRAID controller working ?
I am about to buy one and I want to know it will work with RedHat 6.0 and
the 2.2 kernel.
M
Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> My current system, RH5.2/kernel 2.0.36, contains an AMI Megaraid
> controller, model 428.
>
> I've recently attempted to upgrade to distributions (Caldera and Redhat)
> with the 2.2 kernel. Caldera refuses to recognize the controller and
> their support folks say it is not supported, despite being listed on
> the hardware page. The RH installation lists the AMI controller but
> hangs when it scans the scsi bus looking for the CDROM. The last
> messages are:
>
> [scans the 2 scsi buses and sees the drives]
> <4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 1.
> <4>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
> <6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
>
> After running into the wall there I upgraded my libraries, installed the
> 2.2 kernel source and compiled a new kernel. Booting to that kernel
> resulted in a system hang during SCSI initialization:
>
> [scans the busses and detects all devices]
> scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 3 SCSI disks total.
> scsi0 channel 1 : resetting for second half of retries
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 1.
> sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
> SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1818624 [888 MB] [0.9
> GB]
>
> and hangs at that point.
>
> Do any of you have the Megaraid controller working with the 2.2 kernel
> series?
> Is there a workaround for this problem?
>
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From: Hugh Fader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Amptron P9100 mainboard ?s
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 03:21:22 GMT
I am running Linux on an Amptron P9100 with a Pentium 233 just fine. I am not
using the built-in video and sound however. I am generally mistrustful of the
video arrangement and also think it is a waste of resources to steal system
memory for video. However, the board works great. I am running an STB Lightspeed
graphics card which isn't so great, but works OK. I just ordered a 4Mb Diamond
S3 Virge from Computer Geeks for ~$22. I noticed on their web site
(www.compgeeks.com) today that they have lowered the price to $16.50. This is an
old board, but the XFree site claims that S3 is the best supported graphics.
Also, I have 2 3Com 509B network cards in this machine and running it as a
router. It works great. Built it mostly from spare parts.
Good luck,
Hugh
Roger & Tina Morris wrote:
> I'm new to Linux. Figured I'd state that from the get go.
>
> I have a new Linux box I'm playing with, and now have a 5x86 AMD (socket 3)
> running at 133, on an unknown motherboard, 16MB RAM, WD HD, and an ancient
> trident video card (it only does 640 X 480 16 color.)
>
> I found an Amptron P9100 socket 7 board, with built in (4MB) video (unknown
> to me what chipset), and Soundblaster 16/Pro compabible sound.
>
> I can add that board, and a p233mmx for about $125 including shipping, which
> is a great boost in the system over all (cpu, video, and adds sound). I will
> also add a cheap pc66 SDRAM to the picture, just not sure what Meggage yet
> :)
>
> Does anybody know if there are any known problems with this board's
> video/sound and Linux? This isn't meant to be a power house, as I haven't
> much $ to spend, but I figure $150 total, I can more than double my
> performance, and see without straining my eyesight, while listening to it
> now.
>
> Also one more thing, the system is set up on my local LAN, which runs at
> 100Mbit, however, when I transfer files to it, it crashes the system. This
> happens if the system is running Linux or win95 (dual booting it). Can that
> be because something in the system is just too old/outdated to keep up with
> the speeds? I can send files from the linux box to my system w/o glitches.
> I'm hoping that the upgrade will also resolve that issue. Any clues what it
> could be? Linux keeps running, but network connection dies, win95 gets the
> blue screen of death.
>
> Only a reboot will get them both back to normal.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Remember, I'm a newbie, so try not to flame
> too much :)
>
> Btw, I might forget where this news group was (rarely read em) so if you get
> a chance to reply, email me as well if you can. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks in advance.
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