Linux-Hardware Digest #470, Volume #10 Sat, 12 Jun 99 03:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin his
linux box ? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Need help with Diamond SupraExpress V.90 ("Keith Ackerknecht")
Cirrus Logic AGP Locking Up, Help! ("Phillip A. Ryals")
openGL Graphics card/all around graphics card recommendations? (Matthew Zenkar)
does linux support maxblast? (Henry Lu)
Re: Celeron or PII? (bryan)
Re: I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all (Marc Mutz)
Re: slight OT: automatic reboot after power fail (Alan Mead)
Matrox Millenium II and XF86 probs (Kevin)
Re: RAID options ("Tony Platt")
Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350 ("Matt Goheen")
CDrom help needed (root)
Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help with Tandberg Travan NS20 tape drive (Stephan Loescher)
Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin his
linux box ? (Curley)
Re: Powering off problems (Stefan Opperskalski)
Re: D-Link 220 ISA PNP NIC ("Niclas Andersson")
Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card (Donovan Rebbechi)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin
his linux box ?
Date: 12 Jun 1999 03:50:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 9wands wrote:
>Andrew Comech wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 May 1999 09:28:17 -0700, Charles Morley wrote:
>> >Jan Johansson wrote:
I wrote:
>> >> >It would be good if 3Com would label its retail packaging clearly,
>> >> They do. They say "winmodem" or "sportster winmodem" on the box.
I disagree that "winmodem" is a clear label. It's a jargon word
which the consumer who is victimized by the winmodem will not
recognize. The label should say "Does not work with any other OS
except Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT." Then they'll get a clue that
it's missing something.
>> >They also say(mine did) on the back of the box: for windows only
>> This is not easy to read the back of the box when ordering over the
>> phone or internet, though..
>worked fine until I upgraded to RH 6. 6 set up /dev/ttyS2 as crw-------
>with root as owner. Anybody know how to change permissions for a
>character device? Neither hard linking nor symlinking to it seems to
>help.
chown root.dialout /dev/ttyS2
chmod 660 /dev/ttyS2
Then add every user who needs to dial out to the dialout group.
If you run uucp, or run a cron job to fetch mail, your uucp
or mail user needs to be in dialout, too.
Cameron
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From: "Keith Ackerknecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with Diamond SupraExpress V.90
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:24:37 -0400
I have a Diamond SupraExpress V.90 ISA Pnp Modem. I have been trying to
install but I getting error messages when saying I/O error with every damn
address I try. I got it to dial once but I don't know how I did it. Any help
is appreciated.
Keith
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From: "Phillip A. Ryals" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cirrus Logic AGP Locking Up, Help!
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:02:04 -0500
I just installed RH6.0 on my system and It's locking up so hard that I have
to physically switch it off. I know it has something to do with the video
card, but I'm not sure what to do.
I have a Cirrus Logic AGP card on an AMD K-2 400. Basically, it's
recognized during installation and setup installs XFree86-SVGA, everything
works for a couple minutes, and then it locks up. It's running at
1024x768x24. Incidentally, setup set the default color depth to 32 bit.
When I set it to 24, it seemed like it took longer to actually lock.
Any ideas?
Phillip
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Zenkar)
Subject: openGL Graphics card/all around graphics card recommendations?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 04:32:51 GMT
Hello,
I am in the process of building a "second" PC which will run Linux,
most likely RedHat 6.0 or above. One of the applications I intend to
run will do some intensive rendering/surfacing/CAD type stuff and runs
with the MESA library under Linux.
The Vodoo3 3000 cards are inexpensive enough for me to consider buying
one - and I know there is a Linux driver under development for this
chipset.
I also know that XFree86 has some support for 3Dlabs chips such as the
Permedia 2 on the ever popular under Windows Fire GL 1000. So, I am
looking for opinions from those out there with some experience in this
area on the following questions:
1. Which of these currently "supported," at least somewhat, would
give the best performance and why? (Under NT for CAD type
applications, from what I know, the answer would most likely be the GL
1000.)
2. Which of these cards would give the best overall performance?
3. Is there a better solution such as with a TNT2 or some other
chipset?
Thanks in advance!
All the best,
Matthew
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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: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:38:17 GMT
Vaisbrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: > I used to believe this myself. I really did. I used to believe that
: > you should always 'blindly follow the specs'. but in the case of the
: > celeron, you -are- following the specs - sort of. the cpu is the same
: > basic part they use in the p2-450 - it just has a different cache part
: > inside. and that cache part can usually work very well at 450.
: >
: > raising the voltage from 2.0 to 2.2 is 10%. that's the margin that's
: > allowed by the specs, too, I believe. and almost no celeron won't o/c
: > at 2.2 v.
: >
: Hi,
: 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.
in fact, just the opposite, imho. its known that linux heats cpu's up
less when the system isn't running at full 100% util. linux executes
the HALT instr which saves energy. 'doze, otoh, is ALWAYS in a busy
loop and generates more heat just doing nothing (being idle).
: 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).
the only way to o/c a multiplier-locked cel is to raise the bus freq.
: Do you mean that if I o/c my CPU to 500 MHz (7.5*66), it will work
: without overheating with Linux too ?
see above.
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:38:39 +0200
Mike wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I have a Logitech 3-button mouseman and I get no response at all in
> X-windows. I've tried mouseconfig, XF86Setup, XConfigurator, and
> xf86config and none of them work to fix it. I've tried using Logitech and
> Microsoft as my mouse configurations and neither of them gives me a
> response. I also tried to killall gpm to no avail. I know the mouse is
> good (it works in Windows) so I'm sure that I'm just making a small
> oversight somewhere, I just don't know where else to look. Please send
> help.
>
My Logi Pilot works w/ Microsoft setting and w/o (!) any 3 button
settings. Have you selected the right device (i.e. /dev/ttyS* for serial
mice, /dev/ps* for ps/2?)
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Mead)
Subject: Re: slight OT: automatic reboot after power fail
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:03:44 GMT
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:33:41 GMT, Martin Lorenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>i recently figured out, that my computer is NOT rebboting after a
>power fail...
>
>it simply stays off
So it doesn't boot at all? What do you do to manually boot it if
applying power to an open power switch isn't enough?
-Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin)
Subject: Matrox Millenium II and XF86 probs
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:25:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi All,
Cant get my slackware 3.5 linux to run my Matrox Mullenium II card at
1280 * 1024, at any colour depth, My monitor (a Iiyama Vision Master
Pro 17") complains about the speed of something or other then shuts
down
I have the same problems whether I use XF86Setup of xf86config.
I looked at the XF86Config file, but dont realy understand what I'm
looking at,
Any help would be much appreciated.
Kevin.
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAID options
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 13:19:00 +1000
Stewart McCullough wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, I'm building a web server that will be running redhat 6.0. I want to
run
>RAID 1 (mirroring) across 2 drives. I am considering 2 options:
>
>1. use the software raid support present in the kernel.
>
>2. buy a Mylex AcceleRAID 150
>
>questions:
>
>1. how much CPU overhead is eaten up by the software approach? Would a
single
>PII-400 be sufficient for handling this extra raid work under heavy
conditions?
Software raid is OK, but I did find one problem when I was using it
This might be especially a problem for a large web server (file space wise
that is)
With a Normal Linux install say. Web pages (files) don't seem to chew up
much space.
Mainly I think because Linux makes < 1k clusters (probably wrong term) on
the drive / partition. and a lot of html files gif's etc are really small.
So unlike other systems with say 8k / 32k clusters the space savings are
quite a lot, if you have heaps of web pages /gifs etc.
But with the software raid the min I could go was 4k clusters, straight away
I lost quite an amount of Hdd space using the same web sites.
But yes the software raid works quite good. But I don't use it now and
haven't for about a year so maybe things have changed since I last played
with it.
I use hardware raid now, mainly because I need the reliability / hot swap
features it provides.
Hope it helps
Tony Platt
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From: "Matt Goheen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good motherboard for K6-2 450 and 350
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:28:38 -0400
> There are some exceptions in boards that will run the memory bus at the
> AGP clock speed (or a multiplier of) instead of the full PC100, but
> anybody who doesn't populate with PC100 memory now is wasting money (PC100
> memory is now cheaper than PC66).
The Apollo chipset in the VA503+ and PA2013 supports asynchronous memory/bus speeds
(so I've heard/read). I assumed that meant you could use whatever memory you wanted.
I suppose the point is that whatever memory you HAVE is the cheapest, assuming it
works. I happened to have a bunch of old EDO memory and thought it would work (slowly)
with the K6-2/350 on the FIC MB. I was wrong.
- Matt Goheen
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDrom help needed
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 06:07:50 GMT
I can't seem to get any CDs mounted. I have iso9660 compiled in as
it shows when I cat /proc/filesystems
I can also communicate with the drive by doing dd if=/dev/hdd of=dev/null bs=2048
But when I try to mount it I get:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdd /cdrom
mount: block device /dev/hdd is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdd,
or too many mounted file systems
then an excerpt of dmesg gives the following
hdd: ATAPI 2X CD-ROM drive, 120kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.55
hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0x40
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Hardware error -- (Sense key=0x04)
Internal ATAPI CD-ROM drive failure -- (asc=0x44, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Read TOC" packet command was:
"43 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 "
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
hdd: packet command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: packet command error: error=0x40
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Hardware error -- (Sense key=0x04)
Internal ATAPI CD-ROM drive failure -- (asc=0x44, ascq=0x00)
The failed "Read TOC" packet command was:
"43 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 0c 00 00 00 "
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: cdrom_decode_status: error=0x30
hdd: ATAPI reset complete
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Unit attention -- (Sense key=0x06)
Power on, reset or bus device reset occurred -- (asc=0x29, ascq=0x00)
hdd: tray open
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 64
isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=16:40, iso_blknum=16, block=32
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
th0: Advertising 01e1 on PHY 0 (1).
cdrom: open failed.
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
VFS: Disk change detected on device ide1(22,64)
Bad logical zone size 1
TIA for any help
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Compaq ProSignia and ProLiant
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 05:25:58 GMT
In article
<81913.33608$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Rehat 6 will install directly onto your Raid
disks !!!
>
> Not all the Netflex cards are tlan's some are
Intel chipset
>
> Rob Walsh wrote in message ...
> >The shop I work in has been using SCO Unix and
Compaq server class
> >hardware for several years. I would like to
try and convince my boss
> >to switch to Linux where we can. (I have been
using Debian Linux on
> >my workstation for the last 2.5 years, and have
gotten rather
> >spoiled. :-)
> >
> >In all my digging through FAQs, HOWTOs, source
code, and web sites, I
> >have not been able to find any reference to
using Compaq server
> >hardware with Linux. Specifically whether any
of the Compaq SCSI
> >controllers or Ethernet cards (NetFlex) are
supported. I am
> >completely puzzled that there is no mention of
them, one way or the
> >other.
> >
> >Has anyone had any success running Linux on
Compaq ProLiant (2000,
> >2500, and 4500, I think) or ProSignia (300)
hardware? If so, where
> >can I find info on what drivers to use?
> >
> >Thanks,
> > Rob.
>
>
Does this apply for Proliant 1000 as well, as I
would like to install Linux RH6 or Caldera 2.2?
Any experience or hints appreciated.
Per
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY)
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 01:50:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsmanlyman) wrote:
> Go to www.XFree86.org. Red hat 6 comes with Xfree86-3.3.3.1. Check
there to be
> sure, but I understand that the server for that card isn't finished
yet. I also
> understand that it is definitely in the works. I have the ATI Xpert98
so I went
> lookin'.
> i thought i posted a reply to this thread but i dont see it now , at
any rate if you want to use your rage fury now with redhat 6.0 check
out this site http://ruff.cs.jmu.edu/~bettle/ragefury.htm it shows
you how to set up your card using the frame buffer device "FBDev"
driver.
i have this card and redhat 6.0 runs great
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From: Stephan Loescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.tape
Subject: Re: help with Tandberg Travan NS20 tape drive
Date: 11 Jun 1999 08:45:20 +0200
Robert Brodeur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Hi!
> # mt erase
> /dev/tape: Input/output error
> =
> ...which also gives this message when debugging is turned on in st.c
> Jun 10 08:48:37 slat kernel: st0: Erasing tape. =
> Jun 10 08:50:14 slat kernel: st0: Error: 28000002, cmd: 19 1 0 0 0 0
> Len: 0 =
> Jun 10 08:50:14 slat kernel: EOM Current error st09:00: sense key Volume
> Overflow =
> Jun 10 08:50:14 slat kernel: Additional sense indicates
> End-of-partition/medium detected =
It seems, that the tape is at its end.
Try all of the following:
- Leave the tape in the drive an power-off and power-on your machine.
- mt rewind
- mt retension
- use another tape
- use another Kernel (I use 2.0.33 with the NS20 and it works great.)
Stephan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curley)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Some USR modems are MS-only, Re: [SURVEY] Who has an internal modemin
his linux box ?
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 06:22:09 GMT
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 20:28:17 -0500, 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
scribbled:
>Andrew Comech wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 11 May 1999 09:28:17 -0700, Charles Morley wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >Jan Johansson wrote:
>> >>
>> >> >It would be good if 3Com would label its retail packaging clearly,
>> >> >so we could know at point-of-sale which modems in its product line are
>> >> >Microsoft-only.
Well, actually they do. Look at the box, and look for "System
Requirements". Winmodems only say Windows 9* as a requirement, while
non-winmodems also run under dos, etc...
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From: Stefan Opperskalski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: Powering off problems
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 07:58:52 +0200
Reply-To:
>
> 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...
On Linux 2.0.36 the power off worked well (on ASUS P2B-DS too), but now
with 2.2.x no power off any more.
I think the problem is to locate in the kernel and not on the bios.
Ciao,
Stefan
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From: "Niclas Andersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link 220 ISA PNP NIC
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:23:36 +0200
Hello.
Yepp, I got it to work under RH5.2, RH6.0 and now have it running under
Mandrake 6.0 also. No problems at all during the install when I choosed
NE2000. It found it without complaining.
Niclas
KalDar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:MJI53.7360$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have RH 5.2 and am trying to install a d-link 220 ISA pnp NIC. I have
it
> set for IRQ 5 and io 320. When I run setup, none of the selections RH
gives
> me (D-Link or NE2000 compatible) will work. Anyone get one of these cards
> to work?
>
> --
> =========
> Cheers,
> KalDar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> "Real name and address hidden to thwart spam and protect inbasket."
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card
Date: 12 Jun 1999 06:06:23 GMT
On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:21:27 -0400, Jim Zubb wrote:
>Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>>
Cool, It works now. One problem I still seem to be having: when I run in softx,
the mouse behaves fine, but when I run in GL/X , I get a big fat mouse
cursor in the middle of my game. Ughh. Any pointers^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Htips ?
--
Donovan
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