Linux-Hardware Digest #464, Volume #10 Fri, 11 Jun 99 07:13:47 EDT
Contents:
Re: Powering off problems (Max)
Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350 (jaydub)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Martin A. Boegelund)
Re: Sound help: ESS 1969-based embedded soundcard (Rob Davison)
Ensoniq 1371 (Chuck Cusack)
video capture cards for Linux? (Peter Bismuti)
Re: Celeron or PII? (Mike Frisch)
Red Hat on a Dell Dimension (Sam Choi)
multiple soundcards (toast)
Re: modem problems (BoYz)
Video Shuts off Automatically! (Joe Pelkey)
Re: Linux on desktop Dells (Jonny Wray)
Re: does linux support maxblast? (Csaba Raduly)
Re: Video Shuts off Automatically! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3Com OfficeConnect NIC (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: SiS 6326 ("Tim Lewis")
slight OT: automatic reboot after power fail (Martin Lorenz)
Re: Disk usage monitoring ("Shaun Beech")
Re: Iomega Ditto drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HP 697C. Need help configuring. (Robert Brodeur)
Multiple SCSI controllers ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: Powering off problems
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:39:33 +0500
Mohd H Misnan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 7 Jun 1999 12:02:48 -0700, Ryan Lovett wrote:
> > I've got an Asus P2B-D inside of an Inwin ATX case. When I soft shutdown
> >from Windows, the box turns off. When I shutdown -h now from linux, I wait
> >till init finishes and then I press the power button on the front of the
> >case. The problem is that as soon as the machine turns off, it powers back
> >to life again. I have to flip the power switch on the back to safely turn
> >everything off.
> > What about Linux and/or my mobo/case is causing this to happen? Is it
> >possible to get Linux to turn off the power in the same fashion as
> >Windows? If not, is there any way to prevent immediate power cycling? Any
> >info is appreciated!
>
> The feature that you wanted is called Advance Power Management (APM) and you can
> surely use APM to automatically power-off your machine when you 'halt' your
> Linux. Check for apmd and APM support inside your kernel and make sure that your
> BIOS does support APM too.
>
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> |iMac/233 RevB+MacOS 8.6 |http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/3319/ |M|
> |Mitac 5033/AMD K6-2/300 |We want to take over the world, but we don't have |a|
> |Linux 2.2.9 i586 |to do it tomorrow. It's OK by next week - Linus T.|c|
The problem is that Intel-based Dual-Processor motherboards DO NOT
IMPLEMENT APM CORRECTLY. At least P2B-D (i've got one too) does not for
sure. AFAIK Intel promises to correct the problem, but when ? I don't
know...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jaydub)
Subject: Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:56:07 GMT
On Tue, 08 Jun 1999 10:23:13 -0500, William Mount
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm very happy with my FIC VIA-503+. 2 Meg L2 Cache. 450
I am quite happy with the FIC 2013 1 Meg L2 Cache, 350 (ATX)
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Any suggestions on a decent mobo for my K6-2? I'm getting a 350 and a
>> 450 to build 2 systems.
>>
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From: Martin A. Boegelund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 06:47:12 GMT
In article <7imhtp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Roberto Leibman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Daniele,
> Are you more familiar with Linux or Windows? I've been working with
Windows
> for many years now and have installed it in many strange hardware,
it's just
> a matter of knowing what its tricks are, as I'm sure its true of
linux and
> any os. If you have access to another computer, I suggest you get the
latest
> drivers for your laptop directly from compaq BEFORE you install
anything
> else, so that you have them ready when required, remember that
manufacturers
> seem to put a lot more custom stuff on their laptops than on other
> computers, and that NO OS testing team can test every possible
combination.
>
He _had_ trouble installing Windows, no doubt about that. He uses this
experience to show that a common reason for choosing Windows over other
OSs because of easy installation, does not hold in the real world.
And now you tell him to get drivers for this and that over the net?!?
Well, one often heard reason for _not_ liking Linux, is that you might
have to get special patches and other software for your specific
hardware-configuration over the net. This argument is often used by MS-
advocates...
I'd say you just proved his point!
> --
> Roberto Leibman
> Talaria Research, Inc.
> http://www.talaria.com
> Cxi tioj opinioj ne necese estas la opinioj de la administrantaro
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From: Rob Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound help: ESS 1969-based embedded soundcard
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:55:03 +1200
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> My Asus P5A Super 7 motherboards comes with a builtin sound
> card. When I do lspci --v I see this:
>
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1969
> (rev 01)
Same here. Mines a Chaintech motherboard I think.
[snip]
> I'm running debian/gnu linux with kernel 2.2.1, and building
> under kernel-package. I've tried the OSS drivers, but with no success
Using the demo of OSS package (3.9.2g) I can get sound in Enlightenment.
IIRC it auto-detects as ESS Solo-1 PCI (beta) but it works...
SuSE 6.1 - default kernel.
BTW - Don't you have to use a kernel with no sound support inbuilt
before OSS will work?
> **CCs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are much appreciated***
Done.
Hope this helps, I'm a newbie to Linux...
Rob.
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From: Chuck Cusack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ensoniq 1371
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:47:39 -0500
I just got a new Creative Ensoniq 1371, and just installed RedHat 6.0
I am getting no bass response from my CD player, although mp3s
have good bass.
Also, the mixers say that bass and treble aren't supported, so it looks
like
I can't adjust it, like I could with my old SB16
So, is the card WORSE than a 7 year or SB16?
Is there something I can do to get the bass increased?
I can go back to the old card, but its an ISA, and I'm low on slots, so
I would
rather have the new one. However, if it's just a cheap and not so good
card,
I may have to switch.
Otherwise, Suggestions for a decent $20-30 sound card with bass/treble
supported?
Thanks
Chuck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: video capture cards for Linux?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 16:40:16 GMT
I have a sony camcorder and I'd like to get a video capture card,
when that also has a television tuner if possible. Are there any
that will work with Linux??!! I guess the more proper question is,
are there drivers written for any video catpure cards?
How hard are they to configure? Would I be better off just hooking it
up to a Windows machine instead??
Another stupid question, you do need a cable input into the back of
the card in order to receive television channels, correct?
Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 16:33:23 GMT
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:23:17 +0200, Vaisbrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I saw somewhere than because of Linux's better (i.e. complete) usage of
>the CPU, it was tricky to overclock it, whichever the CPU model may be.
Yes, this possibility exists.
>I've got a 433 Mhz Celeron with a fan on a 66 Mhz bus (6.5 * 66 = 433).
>My motherboard can go up to 8*66 (can't change the bus frequency).
Celerons and Pentium II/III have fixed mulitpliers, so you cannot change
it. The only way you can overclock these CPUs is by upping the bus speed.
>Do you mean that if I o/c my CPU to 500 MHz (7.5*66), it will work
>without overheating with Linux too ?
You can't do it with your board since the bus speed is not adjustable.
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Choi)
Subject: Red Hat on a Dell Dimension
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:05:20 -0400
Hi,
Has anyone tried or heard of people installing Red Hat on a
Dell Dimension (desktop model as opposed to the server model).
The Dell rep tried to persuade me to the much more expensive
server line, warning that Dell would not support Linux on
a desktop model. But the server line is over $700 more for
the same configuration.
I'm planning a 500mhz PIII, 384 Meg RAM, and 22 gig HD.
(It's an institutional purchase, so I want to go with a
know brand. It's my head of I go with a generic PC and
something goes wrong).
Cheers,
Sam
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From: toast <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multiple soundcards
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:30:36 GMT
I am trying to set up 3 sound-blaster AWE64's in one computer under
linux(don't ask!) I know sndconfig only lets you configure 1 card and
writes the info to /etc/isapnp.conf, but I have edited that file
manually to include 3 of them. I first booted the computer into win98
and successfully configured the os to see them. I then used the irq,
dma's and addresses to set them up in /etc/isapnp.conf. They ended up
using irq's 5,7 and 10 and dma's 0,1,3,5,6,7. To make the story short, I
couldn;t get them to work. Does anyone know of an easier/different way
to do this? Is it possible?
Thanks,
SJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BoYz)
Subject: Re: modem problems
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:33:34 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Make sure you don't have WIN modem. Winmodem doesn't work on Linux.
BoYz
In article <7jqd4p$if5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> I have just recently moved into the world of Linux and so far I like it
> except that I have a generic 33.6 modem that I am attemting to install and
> cannot seem to get it to work. I have tried setserial and the control-panel
> and still nothing....please help
>
>
>
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From: Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Shuts off Automatically!
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:21:05 -0400
Hi. Does anybody know how to turn that pesky delayed video auto-shutoff
feature?
Thanks.
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From: Jonny Wray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on desktop Dells
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:57:27 +0000
Careful though. I just got a dell, linux installs and runs fine but they
come with winmodem's. I'm sending mine back to dell and getting a refund
but it would have been easier to get the right thing to start with.
Jonny
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From: Csaba Raduly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: does linux support maxblast?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:24:10 +0100
Henry Lu wrote:
>
> I saw that linux support EZ-drive from faq and from the page:
> http://www.pandemonium.demon.co.uk/linux.html . Does linux support
> Maxblast ? (EZ-bios from Maxtor).
>
> My old computer BIOS has a limitation of harddrive size of 2.1G. I
> added a second disk Maxtor 8.4G to the existing system (1.6G WDC disk) as
> master and 1.6G old disk as slave. I set limitation jumper at new disk as
> instructed. Win98 works fine. however linux diskdruid/fdisk only
> see 2.1G for the new disk. There was errors in redhat 5.2 upgrade/install
> process. What is wrong? Is Maxblast supported by linux?
To quote from (WD) EZ-bios leaflet:
...jumpering does not work with Unix.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Video Shuts off Automatically!
Date: 10 Jun 1999 16:58:18 GMT
In his obvious haste, Joe Pelkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: Hi. Does anybody know how to turn that pesky delayed video auto-shutoff
: feature?
Isn't that a powersave feature of the BIOS?
(It is on mine anyway... Go into setup. See if you can switch it from
there).
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com OfficeConnect NIC
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 22:51:54 +0200
Rick Ridzon wrote:
>
> I have a cablemodem which uses a NIC to communicate with my computer.
> The NIC is a 3com OfficeConnect (3CSOHO100-tx). What driver can I
> use to make it work properly?
Try to boot with the Slackware nfs installation boot disk (net.i), that
kernel is able to autodetect most network cards. Once the card gets
detected the kernel will probably tell you which driver it is using.
regards Henrik
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From: "Tim Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 6326
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:54:22 +0100
The page lists a number of options. I have SIS6326 and got it working by
adding the following options:
noaccel
no_bitblt
sw_cursor
Brett Neely wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I would advise that you read the information on this web page:
>http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/SiS.html
>
>It contains notes from the developers on the hardware support for
>SiS-based cards. For example, in the introduction: "Support for 6326
>is currently enabled, but tested only on few cards."
>
>Under the link titled "4. Modelines", there are also recommendations for
>configuration information you can add to your XF86Config file for the
>SiS 6326 card.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Larry wrote:
>>
>> 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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From: Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: slight OT: automatic reboot after power fail
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:33:41 GMT
i recently figured out, that my computer is NOT rebboting after a
power fail...
it simply stays off
(atx tower case, epox EP-51MVP3E-M mainboard)
no bios switch to set this behavior (i can set 4sec delay
on soft power off)
bios award v4.51PG
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From: "Shaun Beech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Disk usage monitoring
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 12:37:23 +0200
have a look for sar ... man sar
Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> man sar
> Randy
>
>
> Ron Smith wrote:
>
> > I've been looking for a while but came up blank -
> > is there any performance monitoring tool
> > like top which measures disk I/O usage for
> > linux?
> > I want to get an idea of how much disk I/O
> > is occurring on a running system, how frequently
> > processes are blocked waiting for I/O completions,
> > etc. to be able to spot bottlenecks in the overall
> > system.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Ron S.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Iomega Ditto drive
Date: 11 Jun 1999 06:53:51 -0400
David McMullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anyone using an Iomega Ditto drive for tape backup? If so, do tell
> how!
Look up `ftape' on http://freshmeat.net.
Follow all the links.
Read all the documentation.
I have used it, and haven't been very satisfied. However, this was before
a bunch of fixes were written for ftape. If it's not an inconvenience,
could you let me know how it goes? My real email address is:
jimmy at linuxstart dot com
Thanks,
Jimmy
reply to jimmy at linuxstart dot com
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From: Robert Brodeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP 697C. Need help configuring.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:49:34 -0700
Try this...
1. log in as root user
2. run "contol-panel" from the command prompt (without quotes of course)
3. click on the print tool
4. click the add button (the default values should be ok...but not sure)
5. select as an input filter the HP Deskjet 550C/560C/6xxC printer
6. Optionally check the printer options (for my 692C I need to check all
three)
7. Optionally add "-dDepletion=2" (again without quotes) in the Extra GS
options box (If your printer spits out too much ink)
8. Restart lpd and print a test page (menu options in the print tool)
good luck
Denis wrote:
>
> Can anybody who configured HP 697C (or another HP DeskJet) for RH5.1
> point me to the (preferably step by step) configuration procodure for
> such a printer?
> Thank you.
> Denis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Multiple SCSI controllers ?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 09:26:31 GMT
Hi,
Hardware config,
IBM 770X Thinkpad
SelectaDock III docking station incl AHA-2940(I think) SCSI Controller
2GB Jazz Drive attahced to above
The above config works fine. I have the SCSI drivers compiled into the
kernel and it works great.
However, I now want to use an additional SCSI controller a 1480A
CardBus controller, in one of the PC slots of the laptop. I've
installed and configured the latest version of the pcmcia modules. But
when I insert the 1480A all sorts of shit happens. But the key things
are the cardmgr finds two scsi busses. scsi1 and scsi2, this is in
addition to the existing scsi0. It appears that that it has found the
2940 again and is assigning it to scsi2 as well as scsi0.
Does this sound normal ?
Dobbin
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