Linux-Hardware Digest #457, Volume #10 Thu, 10 Jun 99 10:14:44 EDT
Contents:
HELP!! Promise Ultra/66 with RedHat 6.0 setup (Mark Parry)
again: ax59pro and poweroff (Matthias Kilian)
Re: Celeron or PII? (Johannes Nix)
Re: DVD ROM drive ("Lewis Foti")
sound ("hot-hands")
Re: Promise Ultra 33 IDE Controller (Jacob Spoelstra)
Kernel says 'heck' on boot-up ("Nigel Hawkes")
Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card (Ray Ingles)
Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS (Johannes Nix)
FS Compaq 16 Meg Memory upgrade Kits "NEW" AUSTRALIA ("Tony Platt")
Re: How to format 100mb ZIP with EXT2 file format (Dan LaPine)
ATI video card (RAGE FURY) (Phil)
chipset ali1541 (root)
Happy Hacking Keyboard (Niklas Matthies)
need linux backup device/software recommendation ("Farhad Farzaneh")
Sound Blaster volume issues (Joe Pelkey)
kdat with Ditto streamer (Markus Jostock)
Re: Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS (Abdullah Ramazanoglu)
repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ?? (dan)
Re: SB Live! and smp (Peter A. Castro)
BNC output (Howard Brazee)
D-Link DFE-530TX Howto? ("WCY")
Re: SOYO SY-5EMA+ Motherboard problems ? (Y Chen)
SiS 6326 (Larry)
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From: Mark Parry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP!! Promise Ultra/66 with RedHat 6.0 setup
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:17:11 +0100
Hi,
I've got a machine with a WD Expert 18GB drive attached to one channel on a
Promise Ultra/66 IDE controller. The other channel has a Fujitsu 6GB drive (as
master) and an Aopen DVD-ROM drive (as slave), which should be supportable as a
standard ATAPI CDROM for the moment.
When I try to boot the install disk (identifying the Promise controller with
ide2=0xdc00,0xe002,11 and ide3=0xe400,0xe802,12 in the kernel boot params of
LOADLIN), all devices are identified succesfully as the above, yet when the
second sweep of identification begins, only the WD and Fujitsu drives are listed
- the Aopen DVD isn't shown at all - and the boot hangs there.
Does anybody have any idea what may be going on here, or have a workaround?
Thanks for you help,
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: again: ax59pro and poweroff
Date: 9 Jun 1999 19:54:12 GMT
Hi!
Has anyone an idea how to get poweroff on ax59pro running?
As far as I know, there's a problem with the BIOS on this boards, and
AOpen doesn't seem to be very cooperative (they just point me to Linux
newsgroups, as they did two months ago), but may be there's a workaround
available for Linux.
Yes, I *did* configure poweroff on halt and the other APM stuff.
Bye,
Kili
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 12:21:36 +0200
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> if you *really* *need* raw cpu performance, then alpha might be a good
> choice - especially for floating point. they are a bit more expensive
> than the intel offering however.
>
This is very interesting for me.
I would like to have some numbers, especially concerning floating
point arithmetics.
Are there SMP Alphas?
What impact has the architecture of Alpha systems to throughput?
Johannes
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From: "Lewis Foti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD ROM drive
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 22:57:00 +0100
Yes, my DVD ROM works fine as a CD ROM for me.
Vijay Ramachandran wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I have bought DELL inspiron 7000 laptop with a DVD ROM drive. Can
>I install linux on my system even though I don't have a CD ROM drive.
>That is, will I be use my DVD ROM drive as a CD ROM drive ?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Vijay
>
>
>
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From: "hot-hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 17:01:53 -0500
When i try to run soundcfg in redhat 5.2 it detects my ess1869 sound card
then hangs and will go no further it stayed this way for 30 min. So i had
to hard boot then linux will not load said was unmounted inproperly. I have
to hit control c then it sayd regenerating to fast halting for 5 minuets 5
minutes later it just repeats untill i format and reinstall linux.
Can anyone explain to me how to recover from a hard boot and possibly how to
install the sound.
I think the sound issue is because plug and pray is turend on, but how to
recover from a hard boot without reinstalling is really puzzeling me.
any help is greatly apprecieated
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jacob Spoelstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra 33 IDE Controller
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:02:33 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mike Frisch wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 20:57:10 -0400, Troy Hellman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Is the promise Ultra33 IDE Controller supported under linux?
>
> I have one in my P100 test machine and it seems to be supported in 2.2.5
> (the kernel that comes with RedHat 6.0) without any fooling around (no
> kernel recompile, etc). I do not have a UDMA drive connected to it,
> though.
>
> Mike.
>
> --
> ======================================================================
> Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
> Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
> ======================================================================
I'm running Red Hat 6.0 and recently installed a Promise Ultra 33 card in
order to connect a fith ide device. I now have two CDs connected to ide0, a
zip drive to ide1 and my wo thard drives to ide2 (where they show up as hdf
and hdg. The kernel seems to recognize the card, but when doing the partition
checks, takes a long time and periodically complains "lost interrupt".
I actually have two questions: 1. is the "lost interrupt" thing an indication
that the kernel is not communicating with the card correctly - if so, any
ideas?; and 2. how do I go about getting linux to set the root partition to
/dev/hdg2 (what used to be /dev/hdc2) and how do I change all the other mount
points accordingly. I tried using RH's rescue disk, but only devices hda
through hdd have been created, so I can't mount hdg2.
Any suggestions appreciated!
-Jacob
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Jacob Spoelstra, PhD
Hedco Neurosciences Building, MC 2520 Office: (213) 740-3515
University of Southern California Lab: (213) 740-6995
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2520 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Nigel Hawkes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Kernel says 'heck' on boot-up
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:00:49 +0100
Recently I've been tuning the SCSI BIOS settings on my system, trying to
eliminate the 'data overrun' messages I'm getting on boot-up. I didn't
succeed, but I did notice several messages like this in /var/log/messages:
Dan kernel: Loaded 8 symbols from 3 modules.
Dan kernel: heck:
Dan kernel: sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 >
I guess it ought to be saying 'Partition check'. Is this sufficiently weird
to warrant a detailed report to someone, do you think? If so, who'd be the
right person to send it to?
(By the way, the kernel is 2.2.5, with aic7xxx scsi driver 5.1.15)
--
Nigel Hawkes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To email me, change 'NO.SPAM' to 'argonet'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Ingles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:35:34 GMT
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:21:27 -0400, Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>>
>> Hi. I am trying to get quake 2 working with my TNT card on linux.
>> Unfortunately, this is not in the quake howto yet ( hint hint )
Is it possible to get glquake running using a TNT card? According to
the HOWTO, it uses SVGAlib... and thus I can't see GLX doing any good.
Am I wasting my time?
I'm having trouble just getting SVGAlib working... if I install the
1.3.1 version, and force VESA mode, it seems to work, until I quit the
program. Then my monitor complains that it's in a 28.something hsync,
60Hz vsync mode, and I have to blindly hit CTRL-ALT-DEL to get video
back.
>This is how I got mine running. It is kind of slow, but
>playable, I still use Windows when I really want to play
>Quake2 (much faster). :(
I don't have Quake2, but I'm hoping that glquake's demands will be smaller
and it'll run faster.
--
Sincerely,
Ray Ingles (248) 377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"An apple every eight hours keeps three doctors away." - B. Kliban
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS
Date: 10 Jun 1999 12:09:14 +0200
I am working on digital signal processing algorithms for speech
processing. Until now, we have done this mostly on DSP systems, but
hardware is costly, gets every year more complicated and is outdated
rapidly. Also, libraries are often buggy and porting DSP code is as
much work as developing it new - this costs often ten or twenty times
more work than developing under UNIX. (Compared to DSP development,
writing a multithreaded C Program is a easy game!)
So I am considering to do the development on Pentium or Alpha
SMP systems.
I have tested a convolution algorithm on a Dual Pentium II 450 MHz and
it seems to give about 160 Million Multiply-and-Adds per second,
included piping and buffering the data, with simple multithreaded C
code.
It would be critical for us to have as many CPUs avaiable as possible;
our aim is to have about 1GFLOPS computing power. I think a cluster
would not be the best solution because a quite high bandwidth is
needed also.
- Does anybody knows about SMP Systems with more than four
processors ? (Linux does support up to 16 Processors.)
- Does anybody has an example on how to call Fortran-style BLAS
libraries from C? (There are some Pentium optimized BLAS Libraries).
- Do there exist anywhere free or commercial libraries with Pentium
III optimized BLAS and/or Vector math code for Linux/UNIX ?
- Which speed may be achieved with Alpha SMP Systems now? I would
like to know a concrete example. I got the information that gcc still
does not give very fast code on Alphas, and fast math libraries are
lacking, are there alternatives?
Please answer me with mail also, my newsserver is keeping this group
only for a short time:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Johannes Nix
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FS Compaq 16 Meg Memory upgrade Kits "NEW" AUSTRALIA
Date: Wed, 9 Jun 1999 20:43:34 +1000
The following items are located in Australia
Compaq 16Meg memory upgrade Kits
Brand NEW in sealed cartons (3 Cartons)
One has been opened by myself to examine the contents, but the memory is
still sealed and the installation manuals are intact.
Typical Compaq packaging ie Giant Box just to hold 2 simm modules with a
very well laid out installation manual, covering all the Compaq models the
memory suits
Full ECC Compaq 16MB 70ns Memory Upgrade Kit (2X8MB SIMM's)
Compaq part Number 148189-001
3 Kits available (Total 48 Meg)
Suits the following Compaq Models, should also work in other clone type
machines that require Full ECC type memory simms
Compaq - Deskpro XL 466
Compaq - Deskpro XL 5100
Compaq - Deskpro XL 5120
Compaq - Deskpro XL 5133
Compaq - Deskpro XL 560
Compaq - Deskpro XL 566
Compaq - Deskpro XL 575
Compaq - Deskpro XL 590
Servers
Compaq - ProLiant 1500 5/100
Compaq - ProLiant 1500 5/120
Compaq - ProLiant 1500 5/75
Compaq - ProLiant 1500R 5/100
Compaq - ProLiant 1500R 5/120
Compaq - ProLiant 1500R 5/75
Compaq - ProSignia 300 5/120
Compaq - ProSignia 300 5/75
Compaq - ProSignia 300 5/90
Compaq - ProSignia 500 5/120 (Pentium)
Compaq - ProSignia 500 5/150 (Pentium)
Price AUD $65ea Kit
Tony Platt
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From: Dan LaPine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to format 100mb ZIP with EXT2 file format
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:11:25 -0500
berco wrote:
> Hello Linux Users,
>
> Since several weeks I have ATAPI-Zip(100mb) drive.
> I want to format my ZIP disks with ext2 file format.
>
> How can I do that?
>
> Greeting Berco
Strongly consider using the MS vfat format that the PC formatted
disks come with. RH versions 5.1 and up read and write to these zip
disks without any problems. If you need to preserve file attributes from
an ext2 file system, just tar or tgz the files/directories and move them
to your zip as a single file.
Add the following line in your fstab, adjusting the /dev/DRIVE to
reflect where your zip is attached to the PC
/dev/hdd4 /mnt/zip vfat user,exec,noauto,rw 0 0
Do "mkdir /mnt/zip", insert a PC formatted zip disk, do a "mount
/mnt/zip" and you're ready to use the zip. Don't forget to do "umount
/mnt/zip" before removing the zip disk.
The nice thing about doing it this way is that you can transport your
data to someome else's PC and still have it readable on both machines.
Dan LaPine
lapine @ uiuc . edu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil)
Subject: ATI video card (RAGE FURY)
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:03:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey everyone,
I have just decided to change my os to linux. I was wondering
if anyone know if the ATI Rage Fury 128 video card is compatible with
RedHat or any other flavor. (RH6 is what I have). If so, is there
drivers somewhere I can get or are the included? Thanks for any help.
Phil
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: chipset ali1541
Date: 10 Jun 1999 11:22:20 GMT
Helo,
I have a motherboard with the chipset ali1541
Is there a driver for it?
and if it exists where can I find it?
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Bernat Ginard
mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Niklas Matthies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Happy Hacking Keyboard
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:17:18 +0200
Hi,
Does anyone worked with the Happy Hacking Keyboard from PFU?
I'd be grateful for any experience reports, pros and cons etc.
-- Niklas
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Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 16:43:03 -0700
From: "Farhad Farzaneh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: need linux backup device/software recommendation
What is a good backup solution for linux? I am currently running rh5.1 on
i686. I would like to use the same device for backing up my macintosh and
windows boxes as well, which are all networked via ethernet. The disk
drives are from 2-6 GB and I would like to spend no more than a couple of
hundred dollars.
TYIA for your recommendations.
I would also appreciate a response via e-mail. Thanks
--Farhad
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From: Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster volume issues
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 07:49:49 -0400
Hi, how do I change the volume of my sound blaster 16?
Thanks,
Joe
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From: Markus Jostock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: kdat with Ditto streamer
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:10:19 -0700
Hello
I have got the iomega ditto 2GB streamer with the additional accelerator
card ditto dash from iomega. Everything works quite well with the
ftape-4.0.x driver. But unfortunately I cannot get kdat to work with my
floppy tape. It always tries to mount the tape.
The chosen device is o.k. and if I address the ftape device with the tar
command everything is fine.
Any ideas ? Or does anyone know some software that offers a graphical
user interface for storing multiple archives on a floppy tape that works
with the iomega ditto 2GB?
Hints would be appreciated.
Yours
Markus
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# Markus Jostock #
# [EMAIL PROTECTED] #
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From: Abdullah Ramazanoglu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:22:38 +0300
Johannes Nix wrote:
>
> - Does anybody knows about SMP Systems with more than four
> processors ? (Linux does support up to 16 Processors.)
>
While P-II processors have on-chip SMP support for up to 4 processors,
P-II-Xeon processors support upto eight. While there are mainboards
beyond these limits, it is costly to manufacture them because instead of
making use of the SMP support embedded on chips, they implement this on
motherboard. I have seen such boards only in high end servers from
Compaq, HP, NCR etc. I don't know whether it is possible to find such a
motherboard as OEM. ASUS producing quality SMP mo/bo's within these
limits. There are surely others but I don't know them well enough to
recommend.
Just my 8300 TRL (about 0.02$ :)
Regards,
--
Abdullah Ramazanoglu ( aramazanoglu AT demirbank DOT com DOT tr )
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From: dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: repost: can 2 linux machines talk to a dual port scsi raid system ??
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 19:12:38 -0500
i have a dual port scsi raid system with 2 linux systems connected to it
both run redhat 5.2
there is an ext2 filesystem on the raid box (~26Gbytes)
the problem i have is that if linux box A writes a file to the raid
filesystem,
linux box B doesn't see the file
if i reboot linux box B, it sees the file,
if i write the file with linux box A BEFORE the mounting the raid system
on linux box B for the FIRST time it sees the file
i tried unmounting and then mounting the raid system on linux box B,
but it still doesn't see the file
the first mount of the raid system takes much longer than later mounts,
i assume that linux is only "looking" at the raid system the first time
it
mounts it (and buffers the directory and file info into memory ?)
is there a way to get linux to "relook" at the disk ?
rebooting the system takes too long, i am looking for
a faster way of seeing the files
i hope this makes sense
thanks for any help in advance,
dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter A. Castro)
Subject: Re: SB Live! and smp
Date: 9 Jun 1999 22:38:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Chris K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > Hi, Linux newbie here..
: > when I ./install_sblive I get a "kernel must be compiled without smp"
: > error.... I kinda like using both cpu's. Does anyone know of a
: > workaround?
: There's none. Creative kindly gave us a binary-only driver, compiled
: with uniprocessor support: until they provide the source, you're
: stuck with the supported kernel versions :-(
Try installing the drive by hand (I often find that installation scripts
are too restrictive). I've been using the driver on a 2.2.9 kernel
with SMP without any problems. Take care not to play more than one thing at
a time, though.
: Alain Borel
: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
--
Peter A. Castro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) or ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BNC output
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 00:49:29 GMT
I just bought a new computer, I will turn my old computer into a Linux
file server and gateway (for my cable modem) as soon as I move all of my
applications over. They're still building it, but I picked up a cable
to convert my video output to BNC, so that my monitor can switch back
and forth between both computers. (My Sony Multiscan 400PS has an input
switch to allow me to switch between HD15 & BNC).
I plugged in the BNC cable into my Virge card and the colored cables
into the back (I had to call the PC company to find out which color was
horizontal and which vertical - colors were labeled).
No picture. I switched the black and white cable and it recognized that
I have BNC, but still no picture.
What do I need to do now?
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From: "WCY" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: D-Link DFE-530TX Howto?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:30:37 +0800
Hi:
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI ethernetcard . How can I make it work ? When
Linux boot, it detect it with the fallowing message :
EATA0 : address 0x1f0 in use , skipping prob.
EATA0 : address 0x170 in use , skipping prob.
I have the Slackware 3.6 distribution with kernel 2.0.35. Thanks a lot.
Best Regard
Chin-Yung Wang
June,9,1999
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Y Chen)
Subject: Re: SOYO SY-5EMA+ Motherboard problems ?
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 14:32:28 -0400
In article <7jl94p$jln$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "TVS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I have the same box. And from my experience.
I disbale "power off at shut down" when I compiled kernel.
You should enable PCI IDE work around in compiling kernel. I do not
know what exactly is the IDE chip, but this board need it.
Also, APM-screen blank does not work in X windows.
But in win98, I think 5EMA is a good board, support UDMA and AGP2X.
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From: Larry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6326
Date: 10 Jun 1999 01:31:19 GMT
I now have X working under RedHat 5.2 with XFree v.3.3.3.1 and a SiS 6326
8mb vram. I have modified the xconfig file to notice the 8192k of memory
and added the optioons.
But I can't get a resolution over 320x200. Please help.
Thanks!
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