Linux-Hardware Digest #520, Volume #10 Fri, 18 Jun 99 07:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: Seems like a stupid question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Creative Graphics exxtreme driver? ("bernard.deleplanque")
Re: linux problems with 2 processors (Scott Mark)
Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk (Kevin der Kinderen)
Re: Is Linux capable of clustering ??? (Ton Nijkes)
which 10/100 MB switch to get? ("V. Doan")
Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (Johan Groth)
Re: linux problems with 2 processors (Suran)
Dlink 100MB Hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lucent win modem (JeroenHoppenbrouwers)
Ensoniq AudioPCI ??? ("Dariusz Goi�ski")
Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk ("Jong")
Re: Compaq MV 500 Monitor and ATI 3D Rage II LT Pro (Mike C)
Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion (Villy Kruse)
Re: USB Zip Drive ("Gene Heskett")
Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk (Frederic L. W. Meunier)
Re: Block error question ("Shaun Beech")
Re: WebCam ("Angus.G")
Re: cdrom (Luke & Niki Vogel)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Seems like a stupid question
Date: 18 Jun 1999 00:36:32 PDT
Dell has recently announced that they are shipping systems with Linux pre-installed.
It's very likely that if they aren't advertising a system with Linux installed, they'll
still make the components Linux-compliant.
I'm sure if you asked and called, they might tell you.
Linux is tough, like a rock... And you know what a rock does to Windows? :-)
-Reteo Varala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ#: 20440383 AIM: R Varala
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Network/5389/
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From: "bernard.deleplanque" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Graphics exxtreme driver?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:47:37 +0200
Is it possible to install a graphics exxtreme card with Linux??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Mark)
Subject: Re: linux problems with 2 processors
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 05:39:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Not much. Just enable SMP and disable APM (which is not SMP safe
>and will be disabled by the kernel anyways).
WHAT??
Why is APM not SMP safe? I mean, yes, one CPU might be doing nothing while
the other is running full-tilt, so you can't use that idle time to shut
down the system. But what else?
I've been _really_ hoping that I could use APM to put my new dual-celeron
system to sleep until (a) the modem gets a phone call or (b) a timer goes
off saying it's time to wake up and sniff the e-mail.
Scott Mark
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From: Kevin der Kinderen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:38:27 GMT
"Frederic L. W. Meunier" wrote:
>
> What is wrong? Can somebody tell me? Thank you
> ---
> Well, this error message when you run locate is because locate can't find the
>database. RedHat 6.0 ships with slocate (Secure Locate) and the database is in
>/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db. If updatedb fails during the process, no database is
>created.
>
> --
I ran updatedb -v to show the files being indexed. It hung on
/.automount (this is a new installation).
I then ran updatedb -v -e /.automount and it hung on /misc (excluded it)
/net (excluded it) and it completed.
The final command was:
updatedb -v -e /.automount -e /misc -e /net
This seems to be strange behavior to me. Those three directories have
the same owner, group and permissions as the other directories in /.
Kevin
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Crossposted-To: linux.sources.kernel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ton Nijkes)
Subject: Re: Is Linux capable of clustering ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:34:50 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 16:40:47 -0400, Mark Cooper wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999, Ton Nijkes wrote:
> >On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 07:58:51 -0500, Brian McCullough wrote:
> >> Tom Frank wrote:
> >> > (..) I would like to know if
> >> > it is possible to make a Cluster configuration as an fail-over
> >> > with Linux as with other Unix-variants and NT.
> >> >
> >> > In a real workable Cluster-configuration (in my opinon) are following
> >> > nessessary:
> >> > Heartbeat network
> >> > Shareable disc-arrays among server-cluster
> >> > Resource-handling on disc
> >> > Cluster-package (application) fail-over facilities to move a
> >> > from one cluster-server to an other. application
> >> > Virtual TCP/IP configuration.
> >>
> >> In other words you are saying;
> >> "Is there a free linux clone of the VERITAS cluster server?"
> >> http://www.veritas.com/products/csrv/
> >> As far as I know there is not one yet.
> >
> >Check out the High-Availability Linux Project at
> >
> > http://www.henge.com/~alanr/ha/
> >
> >It also has some links to commercial products. The one called RSF-1 seems
> >to fit the bill...
>
> What About Beuwolf cluster. They are still around I think.
I think you are mixing up two different kinds of clusters here.
Beowolf is a computational cluster, thus aimed at computing power. Each
node complements the other ones in order to increase computing power.
What the original poster is looking for is a high availability cluster.
High availability clusters are not primarily meant to increase computing
power, but are set up such that when one node fails, another node takes
over all (or most) of its functions. I believe Beowolf does not offer
such failover capabilities.
Greetings,
Ton.
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From: "V. Doan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which 10/100 MB switch to get?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:10:39 -0700
My company is getting me DSL from PacBell which will provide me with a
static
IP. I want to get a 10/100MB switch that has DHCP so I can use connect
all my
computers and network printer to it. Any recommendations? Any of them
have
a web interface?
Thanks,
Vince
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From: Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:10:28 +0200
I've bought an IBM 9ES (DDRS 9130D) which turned out be the LVD-version.
I've already two 2ES 4.5 GB (single ended) connected to the adapter's
wide side where one is terminated. So I decided that I would force the
9ES to single ended by setting that jumper and put it before the
terminated disk and it is detected by the adapter.
So I did and now comes the promblems. I can't do anything with the drive
except talk to its firmware. I've tried Adaptec SCSI benchmark program
in Win95 but it reports sense error 0xBh and in Linux I receive data-in
sync problems and when it tries to reset the SCSI bus the system
freezes. The strange thing is that I can low format the drive and verify
the surface in the adapter bios but I can't create a partition on the
drive in either DOS, WIN95 or Linux. Has anyone any clue what might be
wrong? Can it be the cable? It's a SE cable with 5 connectors.
The SCSI system looks like this:
50 pin side +----------+ 68 pin side (internal)
+-| 2940UW |------------+
| +----------+ |
| |
--------------- --------------
|0 Quantum HD | |10 IBM 2ES |
--------------- --------------
| |
--------------- -------------
|1 Quantum HD | |8 IBM 9ES |
--------------- -------------
| |
-------------- -------------------
|5 Fujiutsu HD| |11 IBM 2ES (term)|
-------------- -------------------
|
----------------
|6 Yamaha CDRW |
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|
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|2 Pioneer CD |
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|3 HP DAT (term)|
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From: Suran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux problems with 2 processors
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 11:46:57 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Scott Mark wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >Not much. Just enable SMP and disable APM (which is not SMP safe
> >and will be disabled by the kernel anyways).
>
> WHAT??
>
> Why is APM not SMP safe? I mean, yes, one CPU might be doing nothing while
> the other is running full-tilt, so you can't use that idle time to shut
> down the system. But what else?
Don't know but maybe some interrupt-things.
Am waiting for it to become SMP-safe scince years and I don't have the
ability
to implement this myself (don't understand the kernel-parts for it
enough and don't know why exactly.).
Anybody knows the exact reason? (If it's possible for me I'll fix it as
soon as I know about the why.)
>
> I've been _really_ hoping that I could use APM to put my new dual-celeron
> system to sleep until (a) the modem gets a phone call or (b) a timer goes
> off saying it's time to wake up and sniff the e-mail.
>
> Scott Mark
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dlink 100MB Hardware
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:47:00 GMT
Hi,
I have setup a Dlink 100mb network using Dlink nic's and hubs. The
nic's are using the via-rhine driver. Dhcp and Samba won't work at
100mb if I change the hub to 10mb's it seems to work fine. Ifconfig is
displaying collisions on eth0 they look high to me.
Using Win98 as the client it is unable to obtain a lease at 100mb but
does fine at 10mb's. I am able to ping the linux system only.
We are using Caldera 2.2 OpenLinux
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Micheal Der
Advanced Micro Technologies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JeroenHoppenbrouwers)
Subject: Re: Lucent win modem
Date: 18 Jun 1999 06:42:41 GMT
Malcolm Carlson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Anybody get a Lucent Winmodem to work with linux?
Winmodems need a significant amount of software support, and rely on
lots and lots of code in Windows. Therefore, they don't work without these
drivers and since the drivers are only for Windows, I'm afraid you're
out of luck.
The same with WinPrinters: they need about the whole Windows GDI to work.
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Infolab, Tilburg University, The Netherlands | start recycling ideas!
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From: "Dariusz Goi�ski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Ensoniq AudioPCI ???
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 08:39:52 GMT
Greetings form Poland !!!
I have Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card, but I can't configure it. Is there any
source code or driver for Linux. I'm using RedHat 6.0
Please send answers to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank YOU :-)
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From: "Jong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 17:54:14 +0800
Could u tell me why is there such a problem and How can I fix the problem?
Thanx
John
Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7kd133$tvh$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> What is wrong? Can somebody tell me? Thank you
> ---
> Well, this error message when you run locate is because locate can't find
the database. RedHat 6.0 ships with slocate (Secure Locate) and the database
is in /var/lib/slocate/slocate.db. If updatedb fails during the process, no
database is created.
>
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From: Mike C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq MV 500 Monitor and ATI 3D Rage II LT Pro
Date: 18 Jun 1999 09:30:49 GMT
i have the same configuration on a compaq 5150 if the screen is bland
when you start x try using CTRL ALT + or - to scrol through the video
modes. i use redhat 6.0 with the SVGA server don't use the mach 64 server
since it is hopelessly screwed with the LT PRO. as for the modem... i
still can't get that one to work... if you have better luck, e- mail me at
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. turn all P&P crap off in the bios by using F10 on
startup.. turn the os setting to <other OS>. the svga server is the only
one that i can get to work. the mach 64 server freezes and takes the
whole system with it.. use XF86Setup. that is my favorite vid config
program. make sure you enter the exact parameters to the monitor. you
should be able to get all vid modes. (the 1024 mode is a little flickery)
Morgan Hayes wrote:
>
> I have resolved my serious harddrive problems and have successfully
> installed linux. Now I have moved on to my next problem of configuring
my
> video card and monitor.
>
> My video card in ATI 3D Rage II LT Pro and my monitor is MV500. I have
> tried every possible configuration using Xconfigurator. I have even
tried
> the XF86Config putting in all the information in manually. However, to
no
> avail.
>
> The monitor has a horizontal sync rate of 31.5-54
> and a Vertical sync rate of 50-90.
>
> No matter what I try I get a black screen everytime I startx.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions so that I can solve this problem and
move
> on to bigger and better problems of config my modem and setting up a
network
> printer. (Oh, so much fun)
>
> Please advise me of any suggestions.
> maito: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Much Respects and Thanks!!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Villy Kruse)
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion
Date: 18 Jun 1999 09:08:48 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Install it. Linux doesn't care about the BIOS settings. All
>you need is a small boot partition (say, 150 MB) for your
>kernel etc. to be living in. You'd only need an add-on
>EIDE card with BIOS if you wanted to use that drive for more
>than just Linux.
>
150 Meg is a bit overdoing it for the /boot file system. 5 Meg should
be sufficient maybe 10 Meg to be on the safe side. The root and the
other file system can then be placed at will anywhere on the disk,
or another disk if you like as long as the entire /boot file system is
entirely located within the first 1024 cylinders of the first disk unit.
Villy
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Date: 18 Jun 99 05:59:19 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB Zip Drive
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Mohd H;
MHM> On 17 Jun 99 20:26:28 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>Humm, and I just compiled 2.2.10 for my machine. I've also been
>>through the .config file several times looking for options that
>>would cause the USB stuffs to be at least modularized.
MHM> Edit /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/config.in and add:
MHM> source drivers/usb/Config.in
Thanks, I found it, had a '#' in front of it.
Then it gives about 4 options related to the chipset in use. Does
anyone know which ones are on the TYAN S1590S boards? TYAN isn't very
noisy about it in the board's manual. Sigh...
MHM> somewhere inside it .. and make sure you've experimental mode
MHM> turn on (code maturity level).
Yup, and I must be the only one in the world with UDMA-33 enabled on this
board without exhibiting any 'stability' problems. OTOH, its major job
ATM is the rc5 challenge, and a little net browzing as I learn the
system. That and kernel compiling...
Cheers, Gene
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From: Frederic L. W. Meunier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: updatedb problem in Redhat6.0 with 10Gb Harddisk
Date: 18 Jun 1999 08:47:31 GMT
What is wrong? Can somebody tell me? Thank you
---
Well, this error message when you run locate is because locate can't find the
database. RedHat 6.0 ships with slocate (Secure Locate) and the database is in
/var/lib/slocate/slocate.db. If updatedb fails during the process, no database is
created.
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From: "Shaun Beech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Block error question
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:05:02 +0200
run fsck with th -y option and it should do all the necessary for you
have fun
Walter L. Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Gteetings all
>
> I am running SuSE Linux, kernel ver. 2.0.36 . My system got shut off
> accidentaly. I am now having a problem with block errors during boot up
> on hda1, which is my root partition.
>
> It will state during boot up that I have a bad block and that I should
> run "fsck" manually. Which I do. It says that block 40893 has an error
> but wants to know if it should ignore it. If I tell it no it will quit
> and do nothing further. If I tell it yes, it will skip that problem and
> go to other
> items if they exist. This happens about every other boot up.
>
> Can any one point me to where I can find a HOWTO or other instructions
> that will tell me how to fix this? (Mabey someone can tell me how to fix
> this.)
>
> The only thing that I can think of to do is to try and reload my root
> partition only. I run a 500 MB root"/"(hda1), a large /usr partition
> (hda2), a large /home partition (sda1).
>
> I would be greatful for any replies
>
> Walt
>
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 20:03:28 +1000
From: "Angus.G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WebCam
For the life of me I cont find any form of webcam for linux. Perhaps im
just not looking in the right place?!
The only thing I can find is a thing called MCS-WebVod and this has a
password on it
Thare must be something out thare! (something without a password even!?)
I may have to hack something up which captures an image from the parlell
port and then passes it to TFTP or something like that. (But I REALLY dont
want to have to get into all that kinda stuff!)
In responce to the bellow post,
Do you just use the kernel plugins from www.crynwr.com or are they just for
video capture?
Martijn - whare is your webcam posted at?!
Can anyone tell me anything about MCS-WebVod !?!?!?
Martijn Valkier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > Is it possible, to use a parallel port webcam with Linux?
>
> Yup. I use my old Connectix B/W par. port thingy and it works like hell.
> It works even better under Linux that Windows 9x, the load on the system
> reduced dramatically when I switched from Windows to Linux.
>
> Look on www.crynwr.com for the kernel drivers.
>
> --
> Martijn ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> SuSe 6.1, kernel 2.2.5
> at 8:00pm up 2 days, 1:24, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
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From: Luke & Niki Vogel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 09:04:51 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm no guru, in fact I've only been playing with linux since april, but my
understanding of the dev listings is that your cdrom is of device type hdd ...
ie because it has removeable media (cd's)
so your mount command should look like:
mount /dev/hdd /mnt/cdrom
the first parameter is the device itself, and the second is where you are
mounting it.
> have a loom at /dev/hdb for the second device ...
>
/dev/hdb? would point to a second hard disk. ie NON-removeable media
> Kirby Nell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7kappq$9uj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have an entry in fstab file and a comment in my lilo.conf file for my cd
> > rom and a /dev/cdrom directory but when I use the mount /dev/cdrom command
> > I get /dev/hdc is invalid block device. My cdrom is the only device
> > connected to my 2nd ide slot on the mother board. I am using kernel
> 2.0.29
> > I used my cdrom to install linux but ever since then I have been unable to
> > use it. Any help?
> > Thanks
> >
> >
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