Linux-Hardware Digest #482, Volume #10 Sun, 13 Jun 99 11:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Flyvideo Lifeview (no sound) (Jaap graswinckel)
3c508 driver ("MHH")
Re: FS: 2 NeXT NeXTStations w/ 17" Megapixel Monitors ; $125 each (Brian "JARAI"
Chase)
Hardware compatability list - where to get? (Richard C. Ferryman)
Video Cards - Where to get servers? ("Chris Warner")
HELP with IRQ problems, 2ndary IDE- RH 6.0 ("Phantom")
Re: Celeron or PII? (Suran)
Re: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme VGA Card (9wands)
Problems with modem configuration ("Gerald Ruiter")
imes-cd ("Mein Name")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (9wands)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (9wands)
A new successful marketing: (HANG CHEONG)
Re: My dream computer (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: CD_ROM problem (Henrik Carlqvist)
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From: Jaap graswinckel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Flyvideo Lifeview (no sound)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 10:37:47 +0200
I have the Flyvideo Lifeview tvcard, is uses a litte cable in the back
to pass thru sound to the soundcard.
This doesn't work! I don't get any sound whatsoever, the sad thing is,
it works great in windows...
Does anybody have an idea about this???
(Card uses BT 878 and also supports teletext, PAL)
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From: "MHH" <@home.com>
Subject: 3c508 driver
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:43:21 GMT
I have a 3Com 3c508 NIC that I can't seem to get to work with RH Ver 6.0.
Setup recognizes it as a 3c509 but it doesn't work even when passing
arguments to it. The card works fine with NT so I know it is working. The
card was used previously in an older version of RH (I think about ver 3.0)
so I am a little puzzled why I can't get this to work with RH 6.0. Any
suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.next.marketplace,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian "JARAI" Chase)
Subject: Re: FS: 2 NeXT NeXTStations w/ 17" Megapixel Monitors ; $125 each
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:09:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gary Henning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Kent Rankin wrote:
>> Subject says it all. The units are located in Knoxville, TN,
>> 37922-3449.
>>
>> -Kent Rankin
>Do you still have The systems? I'd like to buy one, the phone#? looks
>about 1 digit short.
Welcome to ZIP+4. Geez who actually uses the phone when it comes
e-commerce? I only consider my telephone line useful for providing the
physical layer of my Internet network connectivity. :-)
-brian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard C. Ferryman)
Subject: Hardware compatability list - where to get?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 09:20:12 GMT
I am about to obtain a recent linux to replace the linux I used to use
three years ago. Contenders are Slackware 4, Red Hat, SuSE and Debian
but I need to check in advance that my SCSI card, sound card, Matrox
card, network card, 8 port serial card etc are supported. Where can I
ftp a compatability list?
Richard
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From: "Chris Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Cards - Where to get servers?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 12:46:08 +0100
I have an I Intel i740 based video card and I'm looking for a server for it,
is it supported in linux/xfree?
If not can I use the new nVidia Riva TNT 2? if not what can I use (VooDoo
3?) I want a quick 3d card as I mainly use windows but I nee to learn
Linux/Xfree for uni.
Chris
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From: "Phantom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: HELP with IRQ problems, 2ndary IDE- RH 6.0
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 04:05:04 -0700
Please help-
I am attempting to install RedHat 6.0 on my P233MMX system.
I have a 4.3G HDD for Win98, a fresh (as yet unformatted) 4.3G HDD for
Linux. I also have:
64M Ram
4M VRam 3D video card
32X CD
56k modem, NE2000 compatible NIC
My problem is the secondary on-motherboard IDE controller. Apparently there
is some kind of IRQ problem. According to Win98 there shouldn't be any
conflicts.
It does say that there is a problem (denoted with a little "!" in the system
properties) with both primary and secondary IDE controllers, yet it doesn't
say what exactly (standard "device is not working properly, or all drivers
are not installed", etc.)
It also says that it is using MSDOS compatibility paging for both.
It assigns IRQ14 to primary IDE, and IRQ15 to secondary, no conflicts with
either.
When I have Win98 HDD and CD on primary, and Linux HDD on secondary, and add
the new HDD in BIOS, the BIOS detects it at boot, but then it hangs, and
eventually says "secondary master hard disk fail."
When I boot from Linux CD (after disabling new HDD in BIOS) and enter
installation, it detects the new drive, but reports these errors:
"hdc: irq probe failed" and
"hdc: lost interrupt"
It eventually continues with installation, and I can set the partitions up
OK. When I select packages and start installing, it freezes up again and on
the other screen (Alt-F4 I believe), it keeps giving that same "hdc: lost
interrupt."
Then I tried putting both HDDs on primary and CD on secondary.
The BIOS still detects CD, but the DOS device drivers don't detect it and
fail to load, and Win98 can't detect it either.
I can still boot Linux off CD. But again it detects the CD, then gives the
"irq probe failed" and "lost interrupt" errors agian.
In the install where it says "Initializing CD", it hangs, and the other
screen keeps giving the lost interrupt error.
I took my box to my local LUG meeting (showed up a little late to really
tinker, only 30mins left...doh), they couldn't figure it out really, and
suggested just using one drive at a time (enclosed-drive swap rack mount, or
switch cable). I would like to have both drives and CD available, and use
LILO to switch boot between OS's.
If anyone has any suggestions please help, post on both ng and email.
THANK YOU!
Phantom
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From: Suran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:15:02 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
bryan wrote:
>
> Mohd H Misnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 20:38:17 GMT, bryan wrote:
> : >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).
>
> : There're few utilities out there which do the above, one is called RAIN.
>
> I just heard about 'rain', recently. its interesting that a third
> party ends up releasing an OS patch that enables such a basic property of an
> OS, yet wasn't ever there in any shipping version ;-)
Wrong! NT does it. I don't know why they didn't implement it in 9x
(scince the
idle-task has to do sth.
>
> --
> Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
> http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics Blaster Exxtreme VGA Card
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:18:35 -0500
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Blade Runner wrote:
>
> I'm using Red Hat 6.0 on a machine using a Graphics Blaster Exxtreme
> video card. After installing and try to run xserver i got some shaky
> screen. I tried letting the installation finish and I figured I could
> just change the settings afterwards with XF86Setup but
> still same problem persist. Can anyone tell me what I might be doing
> wrong or anybody here use the same VGA card ?
>
> thanks in advance
I'm using a GB Exxtreme with RH 6.0 and it works just fine ... if you're
having problems with a "shaky" screen it sounds like you may be pushing
the vert/horiz sync speed limits of your monitor. The X-server for the
permedia2 chip (XFree3DLabs) is, in my experience, solid as a rock.
I've been using it for almost a year now under its original XCom3DLabs
incarnation (from SuSE's website) and, more recently, the official
XFree3DLabs name given when it was incorporated into XFree86-3.3.3.
--
Beware the fury of a patient man.
- John Dryden
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From: "Gerald Ruiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with modem configuration
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:15:12 +0200
Hi I am a Linux newbee,
I have a E-tech E56RVP internal modem, which is fortunately not a winmodem.
Therefore it should work under Linux. I know I have to use the tool isapnp
to tell linux what the port and IRQ settings are. I have tried man isapnp to
get some more information about this program, but it does not help me that
much. Can someone please explain to me how I can setup my modem properly.
Thanks,
Gerald Ruiter
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From: "Mein Name" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: imes-cd
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:22:41 +0200
wer wei�, wie man ein imes-cd-laufwerk in linux einbindet?
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From: 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:31:19 -0500
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westprog wrote:
>
> In article <7hek5k$pci$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Ahhh... isn't that the way that Linux is being put together?
> >
> > Except not by companies.
> ...
> > :I agree that all OSes are somewhat idiotic. Almost everything is
> built by one one
> > :vendor sent to the customer as a giant piece of code.
> > :
> > :I would be nice if an OS could be broken into several major
> > :components that
> > :follow the specifications. Each component could then be developed by
> > :a different
> > :company. Finally, all the components could be stitched together to
> > :form an OS.
> > :This is the way hardware is built. Why not software too?
>
> Here is what I would like to see happen: A small company designs an OS
> using an object model. All the components of the system are objects with
> fixed interfaces. The OS is given away free. Other companies are free to
> replace any objects in the system as they wish, so long as they don't
> change the interfaces. If they market their own version of the OS, the
> will pay the original company a small licensing fee. They are allowed to
> add interfaces to the objects, and to add new objects. A Linux type
> culture of open source, free software would be encouraged, but not to
> the exclusion of people who want to make money. A standards committee
> would adjudicate as to which extensions to the system would become
> standard. Making an extension standard would mean that its original
> implementation would be given away freely with the system.
>
> I can see a lot of ways in which this picture could go wrong, but if
> done right, I think it could work.
>
> --
>
> J.
>
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> ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---
First problem is the "standards committee" I'm not sure, but I think it
was Mark Twain who said "A camel is a horse designed by a committee."
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From: 9wands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 07:38:12 -0500
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"Jon A. Maxwell (JAM)" wrote:
>
> Mike Bartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (comp.lang.java.advocacy)
> [Mach as an example of]
> |> an OS built of small, replaceable components. Bugs will be fewer,
> |>and cost would be lower due to the competition (vendor
> |>independence). Also, if
> |
> | In Windows we have a large OS, true, but we also have many of the
> | "modules" that make it up (device drivers, services, etc.)
> | provided by 3rd parties. We *know* how stable this arrangement
> | is...it's "crash-o-matic"...and you have no good way of
> | determining which party is guilty and has to make a fix...you just
> | get a freezup or a BSOD and you reboot...over and over again.
>
> True, but Mach is not written by Microsoft. Also I believe that
> these components in Mach run in the user space as processes, so
> identifying the culprit should not be a problem.
>
> | On the other hand, OpenVMS is a large, monolithic OS produced by a
> | single company. It has very few crash problems...and what it
> | *does* have is nearly always device-driver related...usually
> | device drivers produced by third parties.
>
> To me that just says have your modular OS designed by Compaq.
>
> Jam (address rot13 encoded)
Good God No! You'd wind up with so many custom-designed simgle-source
proprietary components that the cost of fixing any problems that arose
would be completely outlandish.
Regards,
9wands (who once paid $54.00 for 2 1" wide steel strips just so he could
mount a second hard drive in a Presario cabinet).
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My dream computer
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:39:03 +0200
Mike Frisch wrote:
> RAM is far more reliable today that it was years ago and the need for
> ECC RAM is not as essential as it once was.
Agreed that RAM is rather reliable, however I have the following
experiences:
A sun ultra clone spitting ECC warnings to the console and filling disk
with warnings in system log.
A PPro with a broken motherboard which seems unable to handle SIMMs
bigger than 16 MB in the first bank.
Another PPro with oxide on the SIMMs.
None of the above is because of broken SIMMs, but the two first ones
made me return the SIMMs only to find that new SIMMs didn't help.
Cleaning oxide off the SIMMs in the third machine wasn't hard, it has
worked fine since then.
By trying SIMMs of different sizes it was easy to find out that the
first bank in machine two was broken and only could handle small SIMMs.
Seeing those ECC warnings and having system logs filled up isn't fun,
but without ECC memory the ultra clone would probably be totally
unusable.
All of the above cases would have costed a lot more time and work
destroyed by crashed applications if we wouldn't have had ECC or parity
memory in those machines.
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD_ROM problem
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 22:07:14 +0200
Angus wrote:
>
> Hi, i am using MATSUHITA CR-584 IDE CD-ROM drive, is it a support for
> Linux installation?
AFAIK Linux supports all IDE CD-ROM drives.
regards Henrik
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