Linux-Hardware Digest #538, Volume #10 Sun, 20 Jun 99 11:13:53 EDT
Contents:
Re: rz Slow on Serial connect. ("Gene Heskett")
Sound Blaster Live! Value support (Maxim Bazhenov)
Re: TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?... ("Chris Warner")
Re: linux on 386 ("Matthew Haley")
Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support (Swietanowski Artur)
Redhat 6 and Matrox G200 ("Tomas Edstrom")
Re: TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?... (Aaron and Hifumi)
Laser printers (Duncan)
Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape (Chris Wilson)
FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: shortcomings of Creative Labs CD-ROM? (Chris Harshman)
Linux with a Thinkpad and a parallel port Iomega Zip drive (Joe Phillips)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (Johan Groth)
IDE not IDE (Garry Wright)
Re: SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache (Johan Groth)
Back up the system. (S Sachdeva)
sound card ("nicolas.gasnier")
Newbie alert: 3Com Impact IQ ISDN TA (J Yarnell)
Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER? ("Dredd")
Re: Any problems using a AMD K6 CPU? (bryan)
CDrom-Rewritable? (Guy LaCreta)
Need help setting up Exabyte TR-4 tape Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mozart Sound System (root)
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Date: 20 Jun 99 05:20:56 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: rz Slow on Serial connect.
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to dpc ;
> Well, I was finally able to get a serial console up and running.
> Many thanks to the people who provided me with help. In any case -
> I've got a crossover cable going from Com2 on NT to ttyS1 on Linux
> and logging in to Linux via a term emulator called CRT.
> The setup is a fresh install of SuSE 6.1 - Nothing tweaked...yet :)
> As I don't have a network set up yet, I tried to do rz and sz using
> the serial cable. It's connected at 115200baud, but if I try to do
> a rz
> (Zmodem) upload to the linux box, it is EXTREMELY slow - i.e.
> 200bytes/sec and constantly decreasing. However, if I do an sz
> <filename> from Linux, it transfers at up to 11Kb/sec. Why such a
> drastic slowdown with rz (Zmodem). Does sz use a different default
> protocol? And if so, is there a way to call rz from Linux? Because
> it's being done now by a menu command in CRT which allows me to
> select files to upload to the linux box. Thanks for any tips again.
First, whichever end is doing the sending should be using sz, thats what
it stands for, Send Zmodem. Also, be very aware that unless you have
Chuck Forsburgs code installed on the NT in place of any M$ clone, all
bets are off, I've *yet* to make an M$ supplied zmodem program actually
work. Chuck owns the copyrights, and you just *know* that M$ will try
to clone it instead of paying the commercial fees (they have) and screw
it up.
The most recent version of the real rz/sz that I'm aware of is 3.36, but
thats now 4 or 5 years old. Its shareware but fully functional. You
may have to compile it for your machine. Look up Omen Technologies for
the most recent sources.
And be sure and use the -b switch when moving binaries.
Cheers, Gene
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Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster Live! Value support
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 03:21:11 -0700
I'm going to buy a sound card for my Linux box (RedHat-6.0) and my
question is:
Is "Sound Blaster Live! Value" supported by Linux? If yes, then what
should
I select during kernel configuration? Reading documentation about sound
support
in kernel, I couldn't find direct mentions about this card. Thanks a
lot.
Maxim
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From: "Chris Warner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?...
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 11:31:44 +0100
> By the way, quake3 runs alright on my linux box with a tnt using the new
drivers
> for the tnt, Chad. ;-)
How do you get Windows Games Working Under Linux?
Chris
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From: "Matthew Haley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: linux on 386
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:50:30 -0700
Hi there,
I have run Debian 2.0.34 (Hamm distribution) on a 486DX/25 with 8MB RAM and
230 MB Hard drive and it ran very well. The docs for the CD say you need 386
with 4 MB RAM and 40 MB HD and I believe that would work well
for what you need.
Stefano Ghirlanda wrote in message ...
>Hi everyone,
>I happen to have an 386 with which I would like to do something useful,
>but mostly play with :-)
<<snip>>
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:01:52 +0200
Maxim Bazhenov wrote:
> Is "Sound Blaster Live! Value" supported by Linux? If yes, then what
> should
> I select during kernel configuration? Reading documentation about sound
> support
> in kernel, I couldn't find direct mentions about this card. Thanks a
> lot.
This card is supported to some (?) extent by the Creative Labs
themselves. They provide a binary version of their propeirtary
drivers. Go to their web pages ald look for Linux, there you'll
find the driver.
Personally, I'd advise to look for a card that is supported under
GPL or other open source license.
HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: "Tomas Edstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6 and Matrox G200
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:38:45 +0200
I've just installed Redhat 6 on a HP Brio w integrated Matrox G200 graphics
card.
It was not easy... Most of the configurations for the X environment (that I
_thought_ would work) just didn't work. But... at last I got it working,
with a little problem... Matrox has a hardware-zoom, which seems to be
invoked, so now I have a very nice desktop, but it is 4 times larger than
the screen. I don't like it. What can I do?
/T'd
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From: Aaron and Hifumi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TNT2 or 3dfx Voodoo3?...
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 07:30:24 -0400
Quake3 is not a windows game. It has executables for a bunch of different
platforms. So does quake, quake 2 and doom from ID. If you do some looking
around, you'll find that there, in fact, quite a few games in the process of
being ported or have already been ported. Civilization:CTP is one game that
was released with a linux version. A lot of games just need the executable
changed, and then you can use all the huge data files, etc... from the
windows version. I can't possibly list all the port games here.
Another option is to use WINE to run various games. People have had luck with
all sorts of software, not just games with wine. In essence, wine is
rewriting the windows .dll files, and giving linux a way to deal with them.
Check it out at www.winehq.com
Aaron
Chris Warner wrote:
> > By the way, quake3 runs alright on my linux box with a tnt using the new
> drivers
> > for the tnt, Chad. ;-)
>
> How do you get Windows Games Working Under Linux?
>
> Chris
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Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:45:33 +0100
From: Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Laser printers
Hi all
I've been looking round for a low-end laser printer that will work fine
with Linux.
In this months PCdirect they review sub-�300 laser printers yet the two
best buys (and commended) all have PostScript support in their *drivers*
which I am assuming is worthless with Linux.
So, the only printer I can find near that price with hardware PostScript
support is the Brother HL-1070 at �323 (not so much of a crisis).
Can anybody comment on this or suggest a better one? Do either the Oki
or Lexmark in the (above) report really have internal PostScript support
or is it just in their Windoze drivers?
Thanks
Duncan
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From: Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:23:00 GMT
Just to let everyone know, I have found a work around....but I would
still like to be able to read the tape using the "tar" command.
I was able to use the "mt setblk 1024" to set the tape size and then
"dd if=/dev/st0 of=dump bs=1024" followed by a "tar -xvf dump". Great,
it reads at between 10 and 15Mb / minute. Changing "bs=xxx" to anything
else slows everything dowm by orders of magnitude.
Any clues would be appreciated
Chris Wilson
[So long as the voices in my head tell me
to "just act normal", everything seems to be OK]
Chris Wilson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have received a number of DDS-2 tapes that I have to read. They are
> written on an AIX system. The format is 1024 bytes per block.
>
> I have used the "mt" command and set "defblk" to be 1024. Now when I
> "tar -xvf /dev/st0", the tapes read at about 5Mb/hr :(. Life is too
> short for this.
>
> I am sure that I have missed something fundamental. When the tape reads
> it says blocks = 2. I have tried the -b command to read more blocks at a
> time but it makes no difference.
>
> Can anyone send me some suggestions as to what I can do to speed this up
> a little.
>
> My system: Dual Intel Pentium 133 / 64Mb / 2 x 4Gb Quantum on an AHA2940
> / Sony SDT-5000.
>
> Kind Regards
>
> Chris Wilson
>
> [So long as the voices in my head tell me
> to "just act normal", everything seems to be OK]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic
Subject: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 08:24:57 -0400
The MVP3 Apollo chipset on this MB claims to support asynchronous operation
where the CPU and L2 cache run at 100 MHz FSB while the main RAM runs at
66Mhz. I want to use this feature to upgrade to a new CPU while keeping my
existing 96MB of old EDO RAM.
But, the one poster (Matt Goheen) reported:
> 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.
Does anyone have a FIC VA-503+, an AMD K62-400 (running 100 MHz FSB), and
older 66MHz EDO RAM working together? If so, were there any problems that
had to be resolved? If not, what problems did you encounter.
Thanks!
Ben McCann
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Ben McCann Indus River Networks
31 Nagog Park
Acton, MA, 01720
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.indusriver.com
phone: (978) 266-8140 fax: (978) 266-8111
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shortcomings of Creative Labs CD-ROM?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 11:50:14 -0500
Audio cable; sends analog sound information from the CD-ROM (when
playing audio CDs) to the soundcard. No control element.
David Young wrote:
> Something that might be important is ... what's the role of that thin
> 4-wire cable from the CD-ROM to my Sound Blaster Pro? I've closed my
> computer's case on that thing a zillion times by now so it might be a
> little mangled. Might the sbpcd driver hang waiting for a signal from
> the CD-ROM drive that comes on that cable? Maybe the signal never arrives,
> if I've ruined it....
>
> Any tips would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Dave
>
> --
> ``I always thought that anybody who told me I couldn't live in the
> past was trying to get me to forget something that if I remembered
> it would get them in serious trouble.'' --Utah Philips
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From: Joe Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with a Thinkpad and a parallel port Iomega Zip drive
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:28:37 -0800
I'm a newbie to linux, currently working with Caldera
Open-Linux 1.3 (came with a book I got to learn the
Linux OS; hope to upgrade to either Mandrake or Red Hat 6.0
soon). I've been backing up all my important windows files:
e-mail, documents, favorites, etc. before I undertake
installing linux on my IBM Thinkpad 360cse. Pretty much
what I'd like to know is (1) how compatible is Linux with
this laptop? From what I've read on the net "Linux is happy
on a 360 thinkpad," but that little quote I got off
linux.org doesn't begin to tell me what I should expect.
The second hardware question I have is will linux work with
a parallel-port Iomega Zip 100 drive? I ask this question
because two programs: StarOffice and WP 8.0 are very large
downloads and I wanted to back them up to zip disks for
archiving.
Thank you for any help you can give me in this endeavor. If
all works out well, Bill Gates will have lost yet another
Windows user to Linux.
Feel free to e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't
get many chances to peruse newsgroups that often.
**** Posted from RemarQ - http://www.remarq.com - Discussions Start Here (tm) ****
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From: Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:35:05 +0200
Markus Korte wrote:
>
> hi
> i have the same drive connected to an adaptec aha2940uw and it had problems
> until i changed termination in the crontroller bios from auto to high=on,
> low=off (i use both internal connectors). do you use automatic termination?
No, I use high=on, low=off. What kind of device do you use to terminate
the wide cable?
///Johan
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"Better to ask questions and seem stupid
than not to ask questions and remain stupid" -Unknown
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kupolen Data
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Garry Wright)
Subject: IDE not IDE
Date: 20 Jun 1999 12:37:51 GMT
I have an old 486Dx which uses the AMIbios chip.
I try to install a 2.1 Gb drive with 4092 cyl and invariably get
a hd controller failure from the bios. In addition, when RH6
tries to boot from the install floppy, it reports the drive
correctly, in terms of cyls etc but then claims it is not an
IDE drive. Anyone know what is happening here?
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From: Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SV: Adaptec 2940UW and IBM 9ES headache
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:38:29 +0200
Lore wrote:
>
> Johan,
>
> Just a thought, have you tried taking off every device except for your
> new IBM drive? I know you need termination, but don't worry about that
> for now, just see if you can even access the drive to
> format/partition/etc if no other devices are on the bus.
No, I haven't but I can access the drive through the BIOS and verify its
surface and low level format it. So I can access the firmware but I seem
do be unable to actually write anything to it.
///Johan
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"Better to ask questions and seem stupid
than not to ask questions and remain stupid" -Unknown
Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kupolen Data
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From: S Sachdeva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Back up the system.
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 09:05:04 -0400
Hello,
What is a good way to back up the whole system on a ZIP Drive.
Thx 4 your help.
Sandeep
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From: "nicolas.gasnier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound card
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:17:35 +0200
Hi.
I've an aureal vortex a3d pci on my computer. I've heard that an oss driver
is currently in progress on www.opensound.com. But this driver is not free,
and I'm not ready to spend some money for that. Anyone know if there is an
equivalent that is free ?
thanks in advance.
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From: J Yarnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.dcom.isdn
Subject: Newbie alert: 3Com Impact IQ ISDN TA
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:22:04 GMT
I'd like to install Linux on my home computer. I have a 3Com Impact IQ
ISDN modem I use to connect to the Internet. Is there any support for
this device in Linux?
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From: "Dredd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic
Subject: Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 10:22:00 -0400
Hey Ben-
I'm running a FIC VA503+ with an AMD K62-450 at 1000MHz FSB and EDO SIMMs a
66MHz. System runs with no problems whatsoever, and I'm enjoying the speed.
The only trouble I had during setup was OS related; the CPU and RAM worked
together with no problems from the start.
Dredd
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any problems using a AMD K6 CPU?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 14:28:32 GMT
Mike Frisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:13:38 GMT, bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >I think you had a bad one. or, it was a 66 chip and your mobo was set
: >to 100.
: His problems were with the motherboard the chip was on, not the chip
: itself.
well, it might or might not be.
I know of several 66mhz chips that were marked and marketed at 100.
so if he set his FSB to 100, it would 'sort of work' for a while, then
crash.
my local retailer always sold real 100mhz chips (I didn't KNOW there
was a 66mhz version of the -2 k6) and when I used FIC motherboards for
all my k6 systems, I just NEVER had linux problems.
but I didn't do udma at that point, just regular dma, so I might never
have seen the problem. still, its specious whether udma is that much
better than dma. ide is still ide; meaning, it will never outperform
scsi. if you want high performance, go scsi and stop playing around
with cheap hardware (ide drives).
--
Bryan [at] Grateful.Net
http://www.Grateful.Net
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From: Guy LaCreta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDrom-Rewritable?
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:35:24 -0400
Hi All,
I would like to purchase a CDW-RW for a Linux I386 machine/SCSI and
would apprecate hearing about your sucesses and failures.
What CDW-RW would you suggest purchasing? I would like to use it for
backups as well as the more mundane.
I currently have installed RedHat 6.0.
I would suggest that all the PNP are trouble or does it matter?
Guy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help setting up Exabyte TR-4 tape Drive
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 13:07:49 GMT
Hello: I am realitively new to Linux so be patient. I have everything
setupnad running properly except for my TR-4 tape drive. It is an
Exabyte drive (ATAPI) and has functioned flawlessly under Win98. I want
to set it up now under Linux (RH 6.0). Need help in easy to follow
steps (so my mind does not melt).
Chris
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mozart Sound System
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 15:21:02 +0200
Hi!!!
Could anyone help me to configure my Mozart Sound System (opl4) to work
under Linux???
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