Linux-Hardware Digest #484, Volume #10 Sun, 13 Jun 99 18:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Six Rack AS/400 (Andy)
Re: Cirrus Logic AGP locking up (Thomas Zajic)
Re: zip drive (Mike Frisch)
Re: biZaRRe: X changes pErmisSiOns of /dev/audio*. ????????? (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Problem configuring PCMCIA Network card ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: Celeron or PII? (Kenyon Ralph)
MPACT 2D/3D X11 Support? ("Kris Erpenbeck")
HDIO_GETGEO - can anyone enlighten me on this (root)
Re: SUSE 6.1 - Adaptec1505 - Snapscan310 (Luca Satolli)
Re: Linux Backup Solution. (Marc Mutz)
Re: Celeron or PII? (bryan)
Socket 370 & Linux? (John Hong)
Re: Socket 370 & Linux? (bryan)
Re: How do you know if you have a WinModem? (X Metro Man)
PCI SCSI card driver for MacOS? (Raymond B. Kropp, M .D.)
Re: Recommend Components for Hardware Upgrade (Marc Mutz)
Re: Recommend Components for Hardware Upgrade (Marc Mutz)
A new successful marketing: (HANG CHEONG)
Re: Video Cards - Where to get servers? ("Chris Warner")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy)
Crossposted-To:
alt.folklore.computers,comp.sys.ibm.as400.misc,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Re: Six Rack AS/400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:45:10 GMT
Kent,
You need to get your blood pressure looked at. 172/63 is well outside
the limits of what is considered healthy and normal.
andy
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 05:10:24 GMT, "Kent Rankin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm sure I don't have the space requirements for the machine, but it does
>>sound interesting, I'm sure others think so too, do you have a place to
>post
>>the pictures so we can all get a look at it.
>
>
> I do... let me go and get my photos developed and I'll put them up on my
>page for a while. The page is at:
>
> http://www.public.usit.net/~srao/
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Kent Rankin
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Zajic)
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic AGP locking up
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:52:36 GMT
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:37:36 -0500, Phillip A. Ryals wrote:
> 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?
If this is a CL-GD546x based card (Laguna3D), look at the FAQ:
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#GD546xLockUps
HTH,
Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: zip drive
Date: 13 Jun 1999 04:51:33 GMT
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 02:54:04 GMT, Zheng Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, Can I get my zip drive to be read by linux and how?
ATAPI/IDE and SCSI versions behave just like a hard disk. For the
parallel version, the following URL may be useful:
http://www.torque.net/parport/
I have both the ATAPI and parallel versions and both have worked fine in
Linux for quite a while now (since early 2.0.x AFAIR)
mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: biZaRRe: X changes pErmisSiOns of /dev/audio*. ?????????
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 17:43:12 GMT
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 19:46:35 -0500, Igor wrote:
>I have a problem. Whenever I start X windows, it changes the owner and
>the permissions of /dev/audio*, /dev/dsp*, and /dev/mixer*.
Interesting. I just looked at the permissions on /dev/dsp, and it's got RW
all across the board - but I still have to SU myself to root before I can
access it with my radio card software.
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://sprk.com/blackdeath/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE Linux 6.0 / OS/2 Warp 4
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From: "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problem configuring PCMCIA Network card
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:43:56 GMT
Robert,
I'm in the same (or at least similar) boat. I have a Linksys Combo
PCMCIA EthernetCard which is a supported card. I have looked everywhere
for info on how to set up PCMCIA cards for networking but nothing I have
read has helped. I also have the strange problem that the cardinfo
command cannot be found anywhere. Both cardctl ident and cardctl status
give similar info to yours.
When I try to connect eth0 to a driver, no reasonable driver appears in
the list (I'm using Red Hat 6.0, BTW, on a Toshiba 2535 laptop.) From
what I've been able to gather, something called pcnet_cs is involved but
I don't know if this is a driver or not. It never shows up in the list
of drivers. My PCMCIA modem card works just fine so I know PCMCIA is
installed and working.
It doesn't seem that anyone else knows or if they know they are keeping
it secret. Why does it have to be this hard? I've gotten nowhere with
support at Red Hat so far.
I just got sound working. But to get it working I had to buy drivers
from 4Front ($20) but it was worth it! I'd surely pay $20 to get
networking through the PCMCIA card working!
If you find out anything useful, I would appreciate hearing about it.
Rick Bilonick
Robert Chung wrote:
> I am having trouble getting my PCMCIA ethernet card to work in Linux.
> It is EPX-10BT PC Card Ethernet 10BT from Eiger labs,Inc., and it is
> working well in Windows 95 and Windows NT. I am trying to add IP
> address to this device, and "ifconfig" is telling me there is no
> interface (I tried "eth0" for this device). I do not think my PCMCIA
> card has an interface name assigned to it. What should I do? Thank
> you in advance.
>
> PS: Below is output from "cardctl ident".
> This card is taking up Socket 1.
> Socket 0:
> product info: "SMS", "MM510 56K", "021", "A"
> manfid: 0x0013, 0x0000
> function: 2 (serial)
> Socket 1:
> product info: "Eiger labs,Inc.", "EPX-10BT PC Card Ethernet 10BT",
> "01"
> manfid: 0x0004, 0x2000
> function: 6 (network)
>
> ==============================================================
>
> Below is output from "cardctl status"
>
> Interface type is memory and I/O
> IRQ 3 is exclusive, level mode, enabled
> Speaker output is enabled
> Function 0:
> Config register base = 0x0200
> Option = 0x61, status = 0x08, pin = 0000, ext = 0000
> I/O window 1: 0x02f8 to 0x02ff, 8 bit
> Socket 1:
> Vcc = 5.0, Vpp1 = 5.0, Vpp2 = 5.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenyon Ralph)
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:03:43 GMT
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:06:55 GMT, bryan wrote:
> did I mention NT? I was referring to 9x. oh, I said 'doze - maybe you
> didn't know that that refers to 'windows' ;-)
NT == Windows NT
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsnt
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Kenyon Ralph | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://home.san.rr.com/ralphs
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From: "Kris Erpenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MPACT 2D/3D X11 Support?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 14:08:45 -0600
Hi All,
Just wondering if there was anyway to get X working with
a Joytech Media2 MPACT video card? From what I can
tell this card is completely unsupported, and further I believe
that the chipset made by Chromatic Research has been
discontinued.
Thanks for your help
Kris
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HDIO_GETGEO - can anyone enlighten me on this
Date: 13 Jun 1999 16:33:37 +0000
I've had a IDE HD failure which i am trying to investigate.
klogd gives
<6>hda: IBM-DTTA-351010, 9671MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=1232/255/63
<6>hdb: ABM-LTTA-3=1810, 8063MB w/466kB Cache, CHS=2455/128/63
^ ^ ^ ^ ^^^^ ^^^
Have had a look with sfdisk.
But need to know where the kernel gets the drive info.
Ta
Trefor
--
THISISR
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From: Luca Satolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.scsi,linux.scsi,nl.comp.os.linux,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: SUSE 6.1 - Adaptec1505 - Snapscan310
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 21:54:04 +0200
HI,
I've a snapscan 1236s and after a period of trimming now works fine. I've Red
Hat (now 6.0 but this I'm telling u works on redHat 5.2 and I suppose it's not
diffucult to change it for Suse).
I've seen that there is NO way to make recognize our Ava1505 with the ISAPNP
script. I've added the module at boot time using "Kernelconfig" utility (as u
have seen the insmod works!). After that I've get the latest source version of
sane (1.1 I suppose). When u compile it u can exec a test that will search ur
scanner among ur SCSI device.
Just this, then u can exec xscanimage /dev/sgx where x is ur device ....
Remember that in such way the IRQ setting may be changed if u add a new device
... so u have to set the new IRQ.
I suggest to download also xsane a good front end to sane drivers, it does have
some problem with 1236s but I suppose u will have no problem.
Best regards
Luca Satolli
Dirk Demuynck wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since a while I'm trying to setup my flatbed scanner Snapscan310 with no
> luck so far. This is what I do
>
> During the installation of SUSE, the Kernel SCSI module is loaded from the
> 'modules' disk ==>adaptec1505 (aha152x=0x140,11,7)
> The systems tells me that it has recognized it witout any problems
>
> Once the system is installed and rebooted these are the commands that are
> used to continue
>
> - SANE1_0_33.rpm is installed
> - pnpdump>/etc/isapnp.conf
> - uncomment into this file the IO adress/IRQ /ACT(Y) lines
> - test the loading of the module with modprobe, which is OK
> - edit /etc/conf.modules and add
> alias scsi aha152x
> options scsi aha152x=0x140,11,7
> - reboot
>
> During the rebooting , I get the several errors that the IOports setting are
> wrong ?
>
> after typing insmod aha152x=0x140,11,7,the card is again recognized
> (sgchecks shows the Snapscan scanner) but when I launch Xsacnimage at that
> time I get again an error saying that it is 'invalid parameters' and
> scanning is not possible.
>
> Can somehelp me into this issue or do I use a wrong procedure to set up
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:45:31 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Backup Solution.
Kyle Christensen wrote:
>
> I'm currently looking for a good scsi 10gig+ reasonably priced backup
> solution with good support in linux. Can any suggest a drive in particular?
>
Go with a cheap (e.g. used) DDS-2 DAT. Maybe even DDS-1 suffices,
because you don't need to save static data (e.g. /usr) and the rest
should fit in 4-8G.
DAT has the great advantage of protability and widespread use.
Marc
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:43:06 GMT
Kenyon Ralph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 16:06:55 GMT, bryan wrote:
: > did I mention NT? I was referring to 9x. oh, I said 'doze - maybe you
: > didn't know that that refers to 'windows' ;-)
: NT == Windows NT
: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsnt
regardless of what M$ wants, when folks say "nt" they mean nt, and
nothing else. when folks say 'windows' they -usually- don't mean NT.
but all this is just semantics, my main point was that some third
party figured out a way to implement the 'clever' concept of sleeping
during idle threads. why didn't M$ do that in the first place?
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Socket 370 & Linux?
Date: 13 Jun 1999 18:59:04 GMT
Anyone running Linux off of a socket 370 motherboard yet? If so,
which one and how well is it running?
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Socket 370 & Linux?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 19:44:06 GMT
John Hong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Anyone running Linux off of a socket 370 motherboard yet? If so,
: which one and how well is it running?
why should it matter? the only issue would be onboard periphs (sound,
lan, scsi, etc). and its usually the most flexible arrangement to NOT
get any of that integrated stuff, and instead, pick cards/vendors from
the linux-friendly list.
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (X Metro Man)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How do you know if you have a WinModem?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 18:33:02 GMT
On Sun, 13 Jun 1999 15:49:56 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curley) wrote:
>On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:10:27 +0000, Skaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>scribbled:
>Another good way to determine if your modem is a "winmodem" is to boot
>up to dos (not dos inside windows), then try some sort of dos
>internet program, or something that uses the modem in dos (you might
>have to download something). If the modem works under "pure" dos,
>it's not a Winmodem.
You could have a Viking, which is a PNP with no override jumpers,
which provides software so it can run under DOS or OS/2. However,
since it cannot be hardware-set, it cannot run under Linux. Unless,
of course, someone has come up with a driver for it. Viking has no
Linux drivers.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raymond B. Kropp, M .D.)
Subject: PCI SCSI card driver for MacOS?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 13:21:07 -0700
Trying to get into Linux. VERY new.
Red-Hat will not recognize an ultra-wide SCSI HD that's running off of a
PCI adapter on a 333 mH PowerPC (MacOS). Any suggesions as to how I can
get an install? My OS is on a different drive (IDE).
Thanks for any help,
Ray
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:37:23 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend Components for Hardware Upgrade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hey Guys,
>
> I box I currently have runs NT4, but I going to do a dual boot with
> Linux in the near future. At the same time, I am also planning to
> upgrade components. This box has three different users and is used
> primarily for web research, web authoring and scientific
> research/computation/data entry/report writing. The current setup,
> originally a Micron Millennia MME 200, is as follows:
>
> Intel Pentium 200 MMX
> 96 MB SDRAM
> 6.4GB Maxtor HD
> Floppy Drive
> Pioneer 32X CD-ROM
> Iomega ZIP (ATAPI)
> USR 56K modem (ISA, not winmodem)
>
> What I am thinking about doing is putting in a new MotherBoard (and
> most likely newer & faster RAM), new processor, and extra 4.3GB
> harddrive. The other hardware would continue to be used and not
> upgraded. I have a couple of questions that I would love some
> feedback and recommendations on:
>
> 1) What do you think of ASUS, ABIT, and INTEL motherboards,
> specifically is one brand better than another for LINUX and/or dual
> boot situations? If so, which model motherboard from that brand?
>
I'd avoid Intel stuff as much as I can, mainly because I don't like
monopolies.
> 2) Should I go with a PII 350 MHz or 400 MHz or one of the newer
> Celerons, maybe even a dual Celeron configuration? Also, why should I
> do this?
I'd wait for the K7... (see above)
>
> 3) Lastly, from personal experience, who do you think makes the best
> IDE harddrives? I only ask because I have heard bad things about
> Maxtor and thought I might try something new.
>
Use IBM DTTA. They are cheap, fast and absolutely silent. You won't even
hear them seeking!
> I greatly appreciate your feedback on this. Take care and have a
> great week!!!
>
Marc
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Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:41:25 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend Components for Hardware Upgrade
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention what the video is. Right now, the video card is a
> Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro w/ 4MB RAM. I was planning on keeping it,
> though I am wondering if a newer AGP card is a better option. Anyone
> tried them in Linux? Recommend a good one that is reasonably
> inexpensive?
>
> Thanks again!!!
>
Matrox G200 and Riva TNT's are the fastest 2D chips. 2D performance is
more important in Linux than it is in Windoze (maybe because of
user-space drivers).
Make sure you get SGRAM, not SDRAM.
Marc again :-)
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From: "Chris Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Cards - Where to get servers?
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:33:13 +0100
Thamks Guys that was very helpful.
Ferdinand Tempel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Chris Warner wrote:
> >
> > I have an I Intel i740 based video card and I'm looking for a server for
it,
> > is it supported in linux/xfree?
>
> http://www.precisioninsight.com/products.html
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