Linux-Hardware Digest #551, Volume #10 Mon, 21 Jun 99 21:13:42 EDT
Contents:
TNT 2 F86free Config file ("Bill Holland")
Anyone ever have trouble with S3 chipsets? (Goodell)
QIC-3220-MC tape (Dana Iancu)
Re: Left handed mouse (Peter Chant)
Re: Mouse setup in linux ("Keith")
hard drive is accessing eternally ("isaac1")
Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
(Chris Blanos)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support (Charles E Taylor IV)
Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER? (David
Graham)
Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box... (J. Papa)
Re: $mall, cheap firewall router (Craig Zeller)
Re: I have an ati rage fury (Curtis Newton)
Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape (Craig Zeller)
Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER? (Larry
Mintz)
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (Jason Hong)
Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device? (Curtis
Newton)
Re: advanced question on mkfs and use of -c (Kyle Petersen)
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From: "Bill Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TNT 2 F86free Config file
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:53:45 -0400
Hello, I have a Diamond Viper v770 Ultra 32 meg Video card, Just got RH 6.0
and it has newest version of Xfree on it. Stupid configurator wont give me a
good config for it, and I am a newbie to Linux, could someone post up some
TNT2 configs? thnks.
--
Bill Holland
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From: Goodell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Anyone ever have trouble with S3 chipsets?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 18:29:41 -0400
I'm looking into buying a new video card to replace my old 256k trident
and I want >4Mb of RAM. There seem to be a lot of S3 cards out there
and I'm wondering if that's because they're faulty somehow. If anybody
has any information about that could you post here? Not just the S3,
but the ViRGE also.
Regards,
--Dave
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From: Dana Iancu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QIC-3220-MC tape
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:55:43 -0700
Hi there,
Does anybody know if there is any support for the QIC-3220 tape on
Linux?
Thanks,
Dana
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Chant)
Subject: Re: Left handed mouse
Date: 21 Jun 1999 22:06:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
bowman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> xmodmap -e "pointer = 3 2 1"
>
> in your .xinitrc
>
Thanks, works a treat, I had to put in in .xsession for WindowMaker, why,
I don't know, but it works.
--
Peter Chant
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From: "Keith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Mouse setup in linux
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:19:39 GMT
Haha. I got a good one about a mouse with Redhat Linux. I could not get a
mouse to work on my brother's Redhat system for 5 hours. I mean, I changed
the mouse, the motherboard, the case, the memory, the cpu, reloaded Redhat 4
times, put the hard drive in another system, reinstalled, wiped it clean,
installed 95, the mouse worked! I then reinstalled Redhat, mouse wouldn't
work...yada yada yada. The one thing I never replaced the entire time was
the hard drive.
I reinstalled Redhat on a different hard drive in both of the other two
systems with the same mouse that wouldn't work previously...presto...it was
the damn hard drive....go figure, what an unbelievable problem. The same
mouse on the other bad hard drive would work fine when Windows 95 was
installed, but not with Redhat linux. So, I guess the moral of the story is
keeping looking for answers. Why the mouse would work with 95 installed,
but not Redhat is beyond me.
That is one for the WTF category.
So in summary, keep trying everything, you don't know what it could be until
you start troubleshooting, that includes the hardware.
Keith
James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ViRa3.356$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I'm having some big problems installing my mouse in linux (redhat &
> caldera).
> Underneath, it says MS Intellimouse 1.1A Serial; with the 3rd "wheel"
> button, connected to Com1.
>
> RH 6.0 detects a mouse on /dev/cua0, but regardless of the type of mouse I
> chose, X will never find one, and freezes upon loading. It doesn't even
> respond
> to c.a.d., I'm forced to reset my computer manually.
>
> I have a k6-2 333, 128mb, monster mx300, marvel g200 agp, external
> USR v90 on Com2, PS/2 keyboard. I'm booting straight from cdrom for
> installation.
>
> Why would a mouse be causing so much problems? It works fine in Win98.
>
> Thanks sincerely to anyone who can put an end to this aggravation :)
> James
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "isaac1" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard drive is accessing eternally
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:20:57 GMT
hi,
i dont know if this is a porblem or not mbut it seems my hard drive in
my linux box that i just setup is constanly being accessed i can hear it
continuosly clicking and it gets kinda on my nervesrf is this normal? i
havent even logged in and it keeps going.
thanks,
isaac
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Blanos)
Subject: Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 20:30:55 GMT
On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 13:52:53 -0500, tom bergerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>i am certain that a physical defect is not the cause. i have the redhat 6 cd1 in
>the drive and had just loaded the os from it prior to recompiling, etc. the
>problem is that i must have to set something up to find the drive and make it
>mountable. as i said, the motherboard has the ali chipset (M15x3) and running
>rh6 out of the box, the kernel does not recognize it. it did recognize my cdrom
>if and only if i specified the parameter "Linux hdc=cdrom" (the cdrom is the
>master device on the secondary ide interface) either at the boot: prompt or using
>the append=.... line in lilo.conf.
>
>therefore i can say with nearly 100% assurance that the problem is one of
>configuration, rather than anything physical. also, the Linux hdc=cdrom method
>does not work after recompiling the kernel to recognize the chipset. it produces
>an error upon bootup and crashes the machine. also, i appreciate the thought
>from the vogels, but upon reading my first post, it is evident that i had already
>tried the usual mount argument. and hdd will not work for me since the cdrom is
>the master on the secondary ide interface, not the slave.
I am having the EXACT same problem after upgrading my RedHat 5.2 ->
6.0. Just wondering if you found a way to get the cdrom recognized.
Very frustrating since the cdrom worked fine under 5.2, not to mention
I installed RH6.0 FROM a cd. Ugh.
Thanks in advance.
- Chris
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Chris Blanos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | 3d Animator & Perl Hacker
http://www.blanos.com/ | Need CGI? Got ya covered!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charles E Taylor IV)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:59:21 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks. Then another question: which one of SB cards would be fully and
> easily
> supported by Linux? I have SB16 in my old computer and it works fine. Now I
> need
> another card.
You can try the Creative/Ensoniq AudioPCI, which has a kernel
driver in 2.2.x.
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Charles E Taylor IV <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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http://orangesherbert.ces.clemson.edu
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From: David Graham <[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: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:25:18 -0400
> I'm running a FIC VA503+ with an AMD K62-450 at 1000MHz FSB and EDO SIMMs a
^^^^^^^
Wow! What are the jumper settings? My manual doesn't say ANYTHING
about that!
Enviously,
David Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J. Papa)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box...
Date: 21 Jun 1999 22:24:50 GMT
Although I am completely unable to help you resolve your current
situation, I thought I'd add this - KDE on RH 6.0 has a definite problem
on logout. I've had similar crashes to what you've described, and I
also assumed it was hardware related. However, I realized it wasn't
because ctrl-alt-backspace kills the X server and gets you going again.
Once you're up and running again, if KDE should barf on logout try killing
the X server before you hit reset. I'll bet dollars to donuts it does the
trick.
(Now, if someone can explain why KDE on RH 6.0 is so flaky...)
JP
Robert Nickel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: So, there I sat, happily plinking away in my KDE window. I needed to
: leave the room and decided that I would log off. Doing so, my Linux
: machine obediently charged toward respawning kdm an BOOM, purple
: vertical lines on the screen and a locked up machine. Ack! I thought.
: I guess it's time to drop back and kick. So I hit the reset button
: expecting to be told all about how a check is being forced since I
: didn't shut down correctly. However, as I watched the machine go
: through the BIOS and start to ramp up I notice that I don't have LILO:
: on the screen, but I get LI and a locked up machine! Now the box that
: has been my trusted companion for the last year is suddenly taken ill.
: I don't understand exactly what's going on.
: Ok, so here are the facts:
: The crash was sudden. Although I had seen a similar crash in the
: past, a reboot and patient
: wading through fsck usually fixed it.
: The LI portion of LILO: shows up whether booting from the hard drive
: or a bootable floppy.
: No hardware changes have been made for at LEAST 6 months.
: Has anyone else seen this type of problem before? I'm fairly certain
: that it is some type of hardware issue, but I just can't seem to finger
: it out.
: Thanks in advance,
: --Robert
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
: (remove the no_spam and .no.spam irritation avoiders to get email to
: me)
: p.s. e-mail responses are preferred, but I check the list often enough
: if you simply post it here.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Zeller)
Subject: Re: $mall, cheap firewall router
Date: 21 Jun 1999 15:37:51 PDT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to find a cheap machine to use for a firewall router in a DSL
> installation in my cramped apartment.
>
> I don't need the latest CPU or a big hard drive - just enough machine to
> do the job. A 486 or 586 w/ 16 MB of RAM and a 500 MB hard drive would
> work great. However, I need the case size to be as small as possible.
>
> I had in mind something along the size of those "thin clients" you see
> advertised in the IT magazines.
>
> I initially considered the Corel Netwinder, but $1000 for the cheapest
> model seems a bit high. A bare-bones PC would more than do the job, but
> then I have to find room for another full-size case in my rapidly
> shrinking space. If you want to get an idea of what I'm talking about,
> take a look at:
>
> http://www.rebel.com/products/servertech/serv-net.htm
>
> Anybody know where I can find a cheap, small(ish) muffin-machine to do
> the job?
>
Browse <http://www.zdi.net/Linux/nec486pc-photos.html>
Craig
----
Craig Zeller, Sr. Systems Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation
"The software manual said the program ran with Windows-95 or better...
so I loaded Linux."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis Newton)
Subject: Re: I have an ati rage fury
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 22:51:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:43:02 -0400, "dpc"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Check out these two pages - they should help you out. They pretty much say
>the same thing, but it's always good to have extra references.
>
>http://www.0wned.org/~cain/ragefury.htm and
>http://ruff.cs.jmu.edu/~beetle/ragefury.htm
>
>dpc
>
the directions at the URL above worked great for me....the Rage Fury
will not work on a Mach64 server.
Hopefully, we will see an updated XFree86 with Rage support soon.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Zeller)
Subject: Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape
Date: 21 Jun 1999 16:03:11 PDT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Wilson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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]
There are actually two different block sizes for tape drives. One, the
hardware blocking factor, is set in the driver by the 'mt setblk' command.
The other, the software blocking factor that is imposed by 'tar' and 'dump'.
Many commercial UNIX implementations use a hardware block size of
10240. Linux defaults to 1024. Try setting 'mt setblk 10240' and see if
it improves the transfer rate.
Craig
----
Craig Zeller, Sr. Systems Engineer, Compaq Computer Corporation
"The software manual said the program ran with Windows-95 or better...
so I loaded Linux."
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Larry Mintz)
Subject: Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:09:39 GMT
Len ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Paul Gray wrote:
: >
: > ATTM (According to the manual):
: >
: > The VA-503+ will only support a 100MHz memory bus using the 4x
: > multiplier for the 400 MHz AMD K6-2. You could, of course, clock
: > *down* to 366 where the memory bus will run just fine at 66MHz.
: >
: > NB: One of the most attractive features of this board is the numerous
: > jumper settings which allow one to overclock easily. I don't want to
: > spur a debate on this here as I'm certain that others have indeed been
: > successful in running a 400MHz chip w/ a 66MHz memory bus on this
: > board. On the contrary, I wanted to point out that the configuration
: > which you desire is *not* supported according to the manual. (Page
: > 20, revision A4).
: So it works for 300 and 400 but not 350 and I assume 450???
: It seems like it only works for even (3x,4x,etc) multipliers.
: Is that your conclusion as well.
Not true. My VA-503+ supports the 3.5x multiplier as well. There are others
listed in the manual. So I am running a 350MHz unit with the 100MHz bus and
a 3.5 multiplier to yield 350MHz.
Larry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Hong)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Date: 22 Jun 1999 00:30:12 GMT
I am using RedHat6.0 on my old sparc10 and am so happy it is much cleaner
thatn SunOS5.7. I have all the tools even on my Sparc and feel much more
secure and more efficient with RedHat.
That is why Solaris comes with Linux nowadays.
J
> [... snipped hardware description]
>
> I have a much older sun 3/60, no hard disk.
> but it has a network card, so I hooked it up to my local network, and it
> boots NetBSD via a Linux server (an old 486).
>
> that's not very fast (not the network, but the machine itself - a 20mhz
> 68020 as far as I know), but the big 19" screen is nice :-)
>
> I installed it "raw", the harder being to understand that I had to setup
> rpc.bootparamd and a put a few files on my tftp server.
>
> of course, I recommend the hard disk if you can, qnd linux is sure more
> userfriendly thant netbsd when you don't know unix very well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Curtis Newton)
Subject: Re: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 23:06:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:19:39 -0500, tom bergerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>when i try to mount (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom) my Acer 685A
>8x cdrom, i get the following error:
>
>The kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod
>driver'?)
>
Have you tried mount /mnt/cdrom
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my reply to email address.
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By US Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer meets
the definition of a telephone fax machine. By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is
unlawful to send any unsolicited advertisement to such equipment. By
Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section is
punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or $500, whichever
is greater, for each violation.
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From: Kyle Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: advanced question on mkfs and use of -c
Date: 21 Jun 1999 16:19:59 -0700
Frank Sweetser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> (gotta love it when there's 5 followups Re nettiquite, and no answers...)
(Netiquette is important too - even more than spelling :).
Thanks for the REAL answer. I'll run "badblocks" in "write" mode
once probably and if it doesn't show anything, I'll use "mkfs -c"
every time I remake a filesystem. Maybe use badblocks every
couple of years.
I'll try to get the "mkfs" and/or "mke2fs" man page maintainer
to mention "badblocks" in the "SEE ALSO" section.
Thanks again, Frank.
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