Linux-Hardware Digest #468, Volume #10 Fri, 11 Jun 99 21:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who) (Tsmanlyman)
does linux support maxblast? (Henry Lu)
Installing Linux on a SGI Indy. (AG)
Alpha 4-Sale!!!! (Anonymous)
Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows... (Tsmanlyman)
Re: window resolution ("Erik Akkermans")
Re: help with Tandberg Travan NS20 tape drive ("Robert C. Paulsen, Jr.")
APM and touchpad conflict ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP880 only prints one page (David Miller)
Re: does linux support maxblast? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and X on a IBM Thinkpad 770Z ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Canon BJC5000 ("Donald E. Stidwell")
Re: CPUs: Pentium vs. AMD, etc. ("ajr-5")
Re: Which color printer ? ("ajr-5")
Re: Help: trying to compile for ali 15xx chipset? (tom bergerson)
Re: DAT drive/SCSI card combo (Marc Mutz)
Re: IBM 9LP HD cache enabling (Marc Mutz)
Re: Test (Marc Mutz)
Re: chipset ali1541 (Marc Mutz)
Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup (Mohd H Misnan)
printing with 2.2.5 kernel (maurizioc)
Re: Canon BJC-250B (Lewis Johnson)
Re: quantum fireball HDD & DMA (Marc Mutz)
CD_ROM problem ("Angus")
Okidata Okipage 6e configuration trouble (Todd Hurt)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsmanlyman)
Subject: Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who)
Date: 10 Jun 1999 22:37:23 GMT
Alphas are and have always been SMP able. In fact, the Cray T3 has 1024 "21164"
processors !
Alphas are best known for their floating point math, however, integer
operations aren't too shabby, either. Try this on for size:
Intel: 1 instruction fetch per clock cycle
e.g. 500mhz = up to 500 million fetches per second
Alpha: up to 4
e.g. 500mhz = up to 2 billion
Integer operations, like compiling, will *always* cream Intel, with the
possibility of the Merced giving it a run for its money because of the sheer
number of fetches per second... it simply does more.
At least, that's what I gather from the "Alpha AXP Architecture Manual, 2nd
Edition". No x86 architecture will ever come close to the Alpha's raw CPU
performance, no matter the clock speed.
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From: Henry Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: does linux support maxblast?
Date: 10 Jun 1999 22:37:43 GMT
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?
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From: AG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Linux on a SGI Indy.
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 16:00:50 -0400
Hello,
Has anyone ever installed Linux on an SGI machine? I've got several Indy
machines that I'd like to use for something other than a dust collector
:)
If there is any documentation online please refer me to the URL.
Thanks in advance
--
Alfred
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Subject: Alpha 4-Sale!!!!
Date: 11 Jun 1999 14:45:52 -0500
From: Anonymous <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I'm selling a Dec/Compaq Alpha Linux 533Mhz Workstation/Server.
I need the money, so I'm selling it very cheap.
Specs:
533Mhz Alpha-Processor 21164
AlphaPC 164LX Motherboard
RedHat Linux 6.0 Preinstalled With Updates + 2.2 Kernel
Windows NT 4.0 (optional)
2MB 3rd Level Synchronous SRAM Cache, 9ns
256 Megs SDRAM!
6.5 GiG HD
24x Cd-Rom Drive
Sony 1.44MB Floppy
SCSI Card
Sound Blaster 16
104-Key Keytronics Keyboard
Logitech Mouse
64-Bit 4meg Matrox Video Card
25 watt amp/eq with 4 "phono out".
Choice of 10mbs or 100mbs ethernet card (3com)
Axxion DL-17 Midtower Case w/Extra Cooling Fan and 300W Power Supply
Fastest and the best Linux Workstation/Server I've had... ever.
$1599
Links:
http://www.alphapowered.com
http://www.alphalinux.org
I'm in the San Jose, California area.
If your interested...
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (same)
Michael Asistido
3247 Almansa Ct.
San Jose CA 95127
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsmanlyman)
Subject: Re: my mouse won't work....getting out of xwindows...
Date: 10 Jun 1999 22:42:37 GMT
ummm... ya got some names wrong there. oops.
".Xconfigurator", "XF86Setup".
"XF86Config" is the name of the file that contains the information needed to
start your x server... i.e. modelines and such.
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From: "Erik Akkermans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: window resolution
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:02:06 +0200
alpine heeft geschreven in bericht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I have run the xf86config
>and set the window sizes to 640X480 on all of the color depths
>the monitor supports this size
>when i start the xserver
>it defaults to 320X240 or something like that
>I have tried using the virtual desktop and not using it
>I am using the s3v server
>under the active servers and all of that works fine
>i Just cant seem to change the screen resolution to make it go to
>640X480
>and I have tried the alt ctl + -
>that does nothing???
>and it defaults to 8 bit color depth/
>any way to change this
>
Piece of cake:
To get another colordepth (say 16) use
startx -- -bpp 16
to start Xwindows
Or better, add the following line in the screen section in /etc/XF86Config:
DefaultColorDepth 16
This way you can just use 'startx'.
To get rid of the virtual resolution, change 'Virtual' in the display
subsections in the screen
section in /etc/XF86Config to the actual size. In your case:
Virtual 640 480
Deleting this line or enabling it with the #-character may also do the job.
Regards, Erik
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From: "Robert C. Paulsen, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.tape
Subject: Re: help with Tandberg Travan NS20 tape drive
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:51:43 -0500
Robert Brodeur wrote:
>
> Calling all tape drive experts. Your help would be greatly appreciated.
> I recently aquired a Tandberg Travan NS20 for backing up several
> computers. For some reason I can't get the darn thing to work. Here is
> the computer configuration:
>
> RedHat 6.0
> Kernel 2.2.9 -- st.o loaded as a module
> Initio INI-9100 scsi card
> Tandberg Travan NS20 (SCSI id: 2) (Yes, properly terminated)
>
> Here is some of the output I'm getting...
>
> #mt status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 512 bytes. Density code 0x47 (unknown to this mt).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
> ...all seems well here...
>
> ...the mt status command gives this output in the system logs (when
> debuggin turned on in st.c...
>
> Jun 10 08:45:58 slat kernel: st0: Mode sense. Length 11, medium b7, WBS
> 10, BLL 8
> Jun 10 08:45:58 slat kernel: st0: Density 47, tape length: 0, drv
> buffer: 1
> Jun 10 08:45:58 slat kernel: st0: Block size: 512, buffer size: 32768
> (64 blocks).
> Jun 10 08:48:37 slat kernel: st0: Block limits 9 - 65536 bytes.
>
> # mt erase
> /dev/tape: Input/output error
>
I have a similar drive (NS20 made by Aiwa) and had a similar problem. In
my case the problem was that I was trying to write to an NS8 tape. Once
I got an NS20 tape everything worked OK. One difference -- instead of
"Volume Overflow" error I got something like "Invalid Media".
I tried NS8 tapes because the Aiwa web page said the drives were
backward compatible to NS8 and I wanted to save a few $$. Turns out they
should have said backward compatible for read only -- they neglected to
mention this!
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If my return address contains "ZAP." please remove it. Sorry for the
inconvenience but the unsolicited email is getting out of control.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: APM and touchpad conflict
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 19:51:00 GMT
Hopefully there's a simple solution for this. I'm running RH5.2 (2.0.36
kernel) on a Gateway Solo 5150. I just compiled APM support into the
kernel and installed apmd. Now suspending (with "apm -s") works fine,
and everything else continues to work fine, except: if I suspend the
system and then resume, the touchpad stops working. When I touch the
pad, the hard drive runs, but the pointer doesn't move. This happens in
both X and in the console; I have GPM configured to pass touchpad info
to X, instead of letting X read it directly. Killing GPM and restarting
it doesn't solve the problem. Restarting the computer is the only way to
reactivate touchpad functionality, but that defeats the purpose of APM.
Is this an IRQ conflict?
Thanks for your help!
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From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.printers,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: HP880 only prints one page
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:00:11 +0100
Hi all,
the title says it all. I am using the cdj880 ghostscript driver on Linux
with a newly compiled gs5.50 and only the first page of a document
prints out and then the queue is emptied.
Has anyone came across this? Any ideas?
cheers,
David.
p.s. I have deliberately kept this post brief, but if anyone thinks they
can help if I supply more details, please let me know.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: does linux support maxblast?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:07:25 GMT
problem solved by playing with diff. options. quick answer is that
Maxblast is indeed supported well under linux!!
The limitation jumper setting is OK. The only trick is to "disable
floppy boot protection" under maxblast/EZBIOS. The default is enabled.
Once it is disabled, linux can correctly see the 8.4G drive and install
ed/booted the linux into 8.4G correctly under maxblast without
problem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and X on a IBM Thinkpad 770Z
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:28:14 GMT
In article <7jmmoj$3ol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert McBride"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Trying to get X running on a Thinkpad 770-Z. Would like a X config
> file if
> anyone has one that's working. Thanks in advance...
<http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp770x.htm>
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From: "Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC5000
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:16:08 GMT
Mitch Martinez wrote:
>
> John Hong wrote:
> >
> > Armando Rojas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > : Has anybody had any success with this printer?
> >
> > It's a WinPrinter and so is the newer 5100 and 7000 series.
>
> I have a Canon 5100 also, have not been able to the lp deamon to run it.
> I keep getting the error "lpr: connect: Connection refused" "a(� P jobs
> queued, but cannot start daemon."
> --
> Mitch Martinez
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you have a network with a Windows box installed, you can get Linux to
print to any WinPrinter thru RedMon and Ghostscript 5.50 for Windows.
Works amazing well. However, WinPrinters will not work directly from
Linux. I have a BJC-5000 and I use the RedMon/Ghostscript combo on my
Windows box to print from Linux.
Don
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From: "ajr-5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUs: Pentium vs. AMD, etc.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:54:26 -0700
Some people might flame me for this, but I like Intel the best.
I'd get an Abit BX6 motherboard. The are jumperless and support both 66mhz
and 100mhz CPU's so upgrading is easy (and so is overclocking ;)
Peter Czoschke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm working on outfitting a new system and am trying to choose a
> mobo/cpu for it and I was wondering what suggestions people might
> have... Does anyone have much experience with PII chips vs. AMD-2 chips
> (or other brands)? Does one work better or worse with Linux
> (RH5.2/6.0)? I have a whole pile of nice old cases (towers, mid-towers,
> etc.) but they all have AT power supplies. I understand that the PII's
> usually come on ATX mobo's. Has anyone dealt with these issues?
> Advice?
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From: "ajr-5" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which color printer ?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:56:47 -0700
Having experience with both Canon and HP printers I must say that Canon wins
by a little margin. The Canon was much quieter and the single refillable
color cartridges made it nice too! Also Epson makes good printers.
Bob Wroblewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
> I am on the market for a color
> printer.
> Which is good color printer that will
> work in linux ?
> thanks
> bob
>
>
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From: tom bergerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: trying to compile for ali 15xx chipset?
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 18:02:30 -0500
thanks. that did the trick. my bad.
tom bergerson
Marc Mutz wrote:
> tom wrote:
> >
> > i have tried patching a 2.2.9 kernel and i have also tried to simply
> > compile the 2.3.6 kernel so that i can get the ide controller recognized
> > on this asus p5a or whatever it is with ali chipset and k6.
> >
> > unfortunately, although the chipset now appears when i do make xconfig,
> > or make config or make menuconfig, both with the 2.2.9 source and the
> > 2.3.6 source, the option for the ALI 15xx chipset is grayed out. so the
> > contents of the patch are apparently there, but i am unable to select
> > it. yes dma is enabled and everything and i have replace hdparm in
> > /sbin with hdparm v3.5 from the site at
> > www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/linux/drivers/udma or whatever it is. has
> > anyone got this to work and if so how?
> >
> > much appreciated
> >
> have you said yes to 'prompt for experimantal ... drivers' in make
> ...config?
>
> Marc
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:19:49 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DAT drive/SCSI card combo
Ferdinand V. Mendoza wrote:
>
> I want to buy a DAT drive / SCSI controller for my
> PC. Preferrably a drive that can handle DDS1 tapes
> and a SCSI card that could perfectly match the drive.
> I have check some models from Seagate but which
> SCSI card I don't know. I also want an internal DAT
> drive model.
> Any recommendations?
>
As for the SCSI card: Get yourself a Symbios USCSI adaptor. I had no
problems building two machines with it and as a special benefit, it
allows to talk to each with the highest speed available. Remember that
disks nowadays easily do more than 10M/sec, which is too fast for
fastSCSI, but on the other hand you won't find a DDS1 drive with Ultra
SCSI, so that's an issue.
Seagate might be as well as HP or Sony. Just make sure it has hardware
compression.
Marc
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:13:23 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: IBM 9LP HD cache enabling
John Hagen wrote:
>
> Good evening, all.
>
> I would like to be able to check and adjust the status of the read and
> write caches on my IBM 9LP UW SCSI hard drive. I've noticed that it
> sometimes "forgets" that the write cache is enabled in Windoze and I
> have to re-enable it using SCSI-Vision.
>
> Is there a program/utility available in Linux that would allow me to do
> the same thing? Since I've realized that my hard drive is "forgetful"
> I've been wondering what its configuration is under Linux.
>
> FWIW, I'm running SuSE 6.0...
>
Install the scsitool (or something like that) package (it comes w/
SuSE).
Marc
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:06:40 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Test
dill wrote:
>
> Test post.:)
Use one of alt.test.* for that...
Marc
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:34:08 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: chipset ali1541
root wrote:
>
> Helo,
>
> I have a motherboard with the chipset ali1541
> Is there a driver for it?
> and if it exists where can I find it?
>
You don't need a driver unless you need DMA for your IDE drives (PIO
will work on any board). If that's the case then have a look at the
latest experimantal (!) kernel 2.3.x (you won't use it for a production
system though). There is also a patch somewhere for older kernels 2.2.x.
Look at recent articles concerning this posted here.
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup
Date: 11 Jun 1999 06:35:06 GMT
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:19:33 -0700, Ling Liu wrote:
>
>I tried to use Logitech bus mice on my Linux PC. I used to have serial
>mouse and it works fine in X Window. The port I used is
>/dev/mouse->/dev/ttyS1. I tried and this port didnt work out. I want to
>know what's the correct dev port I should use for Logitech bus mice.
>Thanks
Try /dev/logibm instead.
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From: maurizioc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printing with 2.2.5 kernel
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:36:34 -0400
Can anyone tell me how can I configure my RedHat 6.0 for printing with
lp1 instead of lp0?
If I pass parameters to the kernel at boot time, I have an error message
during the boot, so I do not
what else can I do.
My printer (if this info can be useful) is a EPSON Stylus Color II.
Thanks
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From: Lewis Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-250B
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 23:41:14 GMT
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I think you gotta' call it an Epson, I'm G'neau myself and haven't got
that far with the installation... leme G'now what you find..........
The Krow wrote:
> has anyone has any luck geting color from a BJC-250B? I can get
> perfect blak text, but no color. ideas? Hints?
>
> The krow
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:35:48 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quantum fireball HDD & DMA
parag wrote:
>
> cant get my 4.3GB fireball to work in dma mode under RH 5.2. hdparm -d 1
> comes out with error of operation not supported but under win98 the disc
> does work in dma mode!! havein a via chipset and bios detect HDD as dma
> capable any pointers are appriciated
Make sure thare exists a driver for your chipset and compile it into the
kernel.
Marc
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From: "Angus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD_ROM problem
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:10:03 -0400
Hi, i am using MATSUHITA CR-584 IDE CD-ROM drive, is it a support for Linux
installation?
thanks
angus
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From: Todd Hurt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Okidata Okipage 6e configuration trouble
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 17:50:26 -0700
I'm having trouble getting my Okidata Okipage 6e printer to work under
Redhat Linux 5.1. I've tried to configure it with the Redhat printtool.
It appears that the
computer sends data to the printer because the printer light will blink,
and sometimes the
printer drum turns, but it never advances a page and actually prints it.
In the Redhat
printtool, I have selected the 'send EOF' option, but that didn't help.
I've also tried both
/dev/lp0 and /dev/lp1.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Todd Hurt
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