Linux-Hardware Digest #561, Volume #10 Tue, 22 Jun 99 21:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sun 1962B or 1662B monitor under linux - jrt (Gerald Willmann)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! ("dkmallick")
Re: MB for Dual Processors (Joe Mason)
Re: Help with modem! ("Minh Dinh")
Setup RedHat6 w/ Sony CDrom drive (Redmount3)
Re: Partitioning for new computer? (wizard)
Re: Help: Kernel can't see 2GB JAZ drive (Roland Gerlach)
Modem and kppp ("Laine Walker-Avina")
Re: Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ? ("Michal P.
Bienias")
aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore... (Douglas E Harmon)
Re: Sun 1962B or 1662B monitor under linux - jrt (John Turnbull)
My display is fuzzy... (Filipe Ribeiro)
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun 1962B or 1662B monitor under linux - jrt
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 13:43:03 -0700
have you considered picking up a Sun IPC (you should get one for less than
50 dollars) and running the monitor off that machine using the whole thing
as a Xterminal to your linux box. That's what I do here and it works great
Gerald
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From: "dkmallick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live!
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:17:26 -0500
Thanx for that info!
Have you managed to run kmp3 or gqmpeg with sblive? I can't get them to
work. I was just wondering if it had anything to do with sblive or whether I
am doing something wrong. I do have mpeg123 installed!
C�dric Charest wrote in message ...
>No need for this!
>
>insmod -f sblive.o with any kernel (somes bug with 2.2.10), but I'm running
>2.2.9 with the sblive 0.2b module with no problem...
>
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>dkmallick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
>7km1cb$vu3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> This is what I did:
>>
>> I downloaded the kernel source 2.2.5 in tar.gz format from the internet.
>> Make sure it is just 2.2.5 and not 2.2.5-15 or anything like that
>> Compiled the kernel with the following options (besides whatever you
need,
>> maybe you need to read up on compiling kernels in HOW-TOs or a good book)
>>
>> 1.non-SMP
>> 2. sound card (modular)
>>
>> I configured lilo with the new kernel as my default boot option, booted
>into
>> linux kernel 2.2.5 and then installed the sblive driver as directed in
the
>> installation direction that came with the driver.
>>
>> My SBLive seems to be working fine, not with any surround sound frills
>like
>> you get in Windoze though. But what the heck, I am just glad that I can
>> listen to my CD in Linux.
>>
>> So, happy compiling kernel.
>> write to me if you have any questions.
>>
>>
>> CyShArK wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >Hi everyone! i got a sound blaster live! and the rh 6 but the problem is
>> >that i got a driver in linux.box.sk that was supposed to work with the
>> >sblive and it's weird but it doesn't support rh 6 'cause it tells me
that
>> is
>> >designed to work with kernel 2.2.5 and my rh 6 has 2.2.5-15 do you have
>any
>> >idea what can i do?
>> >
>> >thanks
>> >
>> >Cyshark
>> >
>> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Mason)
Subject: Re: MB for Dual Processors
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 22:15:08 GMT
Tsmanlyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I have an ASUS P2B-D on which I've set-up 2 PII 450s.
>
> May I ask how much you paid for it where? I'm looking to do the same thing
>but I haven't decided on a MB, tho I will be using PII 400s. TIA
I found two places on-line with P2B-D's for $263 US. First was
www.provantage.com, but it was listed as backordered (this was last Friday).
The other was www.priceshock.com. It hasn't come in yet (it wouldn't have
shipped till Monday at the earliest) so I can't tell you how reliable they
are.
The next cheapest wos $404.00 Canadian from www.dealsdirect.com, which works
out to about $275 American. My roommate got his whole machine from them, so
I can vouch for their service.
For comparison, the most expensive I saw was $328.00 US at www.baber.com.
Not sure how thorough my search was, though - it basically consisted of
typing "Asus P2B-D" into Metacrawler and scrolling through a few pages of
hits. If it' possible to get them for a lot less... eh, don't tell me. Let
me keep my illusions.
Joe
--
"Think hard and long about what your favorite book is. Once identified, read
it a paragraph at a time. Then after having read the paragraph, read each
sentence. See the way the sentences interrelate. Then, read the words..."
-- Mike Berlyn, on learning to write
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From: "Minh Dinh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Help with modem!
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 21:43:39 GMT
I thing there should not be any reason not to be able to install ISA modem
under Win 9x. I'm running a Diamond 56K PnP with Win 9x and Wkstn. If you
have a PnP card, your system must see it and tell at boot process. Check
you BIOS as well.
To be successful with Linux, you must know the port. Since every single
internal modem uses different COM port, you might want to see it under
Windows and set respective port for Linux. One reason why I use external
modem whick goes to the COM I plug it in.
Andrey wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently installed Redhat 6.0 on my dell machine. Modem that I have is
>PCI Win modem, so no questions here. However, I've got ISA slot and I have
>ISA USR 56K modem. Problem is I cannot install ISA under windows 98. Dell
>support gives me some reasons i cannot use ISA slot for the modem, which
>sounds like bull. Why have two ISA slots on the board if I cannot use them
>for a modem?
>
>So, my question is -- can i use ISA modem under Linux and PCI modem under
>windows and how would I configure my ISA modem under Linux?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andrey
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Redmount3)
Subject: Setup RedHat6 w/ Sony CDrom drive
Date: 22 Jun 1999 22:23:10 GMT
I'm trying to install RedHat 6 on a blank system with a proprietary Sony CDrom
drive (31a)... the drive is listed in the instalation but it won't find it. I
have booted the system useing a dos driver on a floppy I put together and i'm
starting the install off of the cdrom by going to the /dosutils/autoboot.bat
file.... So I know the drive is there and works but it won't start up.
My only idea is that the dos driver is still useing the cd and lin can't find
it. Can anybody off help?
Email at [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any ideas.
Thanks a million for helping a poor stuck soul who's sepnt a lot of time
backing his head on the keboard!!
Caleb
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From: wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partitioning for new computer?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:55:40 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael wrote:
> I am having a new computer built on which I would like to try out Linux as
> well as Win 98.
> Untill I can get a second hard drive can I partition my present hard drive
> to run both?
> If so could I then remove all traces of Linux and move it to the new hard
> drive when I get it?
> If someone could direct me to the proper How-To's it would be a great help.
> The hard drive I have is a Maxtor Diamond max plus 5120 10.2Gb.
> Thanks in advance.
> Michael
The answers more or less are yes to all of the above. Search around online
an you will find info about installing Linux. At the very minimum you will
need two partitions for linux. There are limits to where the parttion with
the boot files can go ( at least with older versions of LiLo).
Actually having two drives can give you a performance boost in both Windows
and linux environments. Putting the swap partitions on another drive
sitting on a SEPERATE IDE controller will boost performance.
Dave
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From: Roland Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Kernel can't see 2GB JAZ drive
Date: 23 Jun 1999 08:40:18 +1000
Allin Cottrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Roland Gerlach wrote:
> >
> > I've recently installed a 2GB JAZ drive into a PC with an ADAPTEC 2940
> > SCSI controller. The JAZ drive is the only thing on the SCSI bus...
>
> > Is the 2GB JAZ supported by the 2.0.3x kernels or do I need to switch
> > to a 2.2.x kernel?
>
> It's supported in 2.0.
Thanks for that - at least I don't have to upgrade the kernel yet ;-)
In fact last night I put the JAZ drive in my own PC which runs 2.2.9.
The kernel saw it so at least it's not a hardware problem.
> > Can any one send me the relevant parts of their kernel config?
>
> # SCSI support type (disk, tape, CD-ROM)
> #
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
> CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
> CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y
> CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m
>
> (although this machine has a SCSI hard drive).
I have CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y (SCSI disk support) and
CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX=y (Adaptec controller). I also have
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y (SCSI generic support). I doubt I need
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m (SCSI tape support) or CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m (SCSI
CDROM support), but I may be wrong. I'm curious about the
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=m (IOMEGA Parallel Port ZIP drive SCSI support). Do
you actually load these modules to get the JAZ drive working? Can you
confirm which modules are loaded with a lsmod?
> Are you sure you have termination right?
The Adaptec SCSI controller lists the JAZ drive when the computer
boots so I think I've got the termination right. The drive is the
only device on the SCSI bus and I'm using the cable supplied with the
JAZ drive. The cable only has three connectors - one at each end and
one about two inches from one end. From the SCSI controller, the
middle connector has the drive and the last connector has the large
chunky terminator block. So the drive and the terminator are about
two inches apart.
I'm visiting the PC tonight and I'll play with the settings on the
Adaptec controller. Any suggestions?
I'll post the output from a kernel boot tomorrow morning.
Cheers,
Roland.
--
Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember;
involve me and I'll understand - Chinese Proverb.
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From: "Laine Walker-Avina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem and kppp
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:55:27 -0700
i'm using kppp for a dialer, and when i try to use my modem on /dev/ttyS2 it
says its busy. I have OpenLinux. My modem is also a PnP.
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From: "Michal P. Bienias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,misc.forsale.computers.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,alt.comp.periphs.cdr,alt.iomega.zip.jazz
Subject: Re: Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:34:52 -0400
I just bought a 80-pin (ultra wide) 2.5GB IBM drive for $38, and it's
working great, doesn't mention sustain transfer of 12 MB/sec. !
That 4.3GB drive have a 50-pin connector, so it's not so fast as wide, but
is still better as a zip drive, and it will go for probably $60-$70.
If I would need one, I would definetly buy it.
Mike.
Tony Hwang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>At least, check the feedbacks on the seller. Before get carrid away.
>So far I got away with decent deals but needs lot of patience and good
>timing. Like long week end, holidays, business is slow on eBAY.
>I got one IBM 18Gig SCSI drive brand new for 300.00, works just fine.
>Tony
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> [Posted & Mailed]
>>
>> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:16:24 -0500, "Witch Burner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> > |Is it possible for a brand new 4.3 GB SCSI-3 to be sold at US$40 ?
>> > |
>> [snip]
>>
>> > This drive will probably end up going for almost what you can buy it
from
>> > a
>> > mail-order vendor! I have noticed that most of the bidders on eBay
tend
>> > to
>> > get carried away when bidding and end up paying as much or more than
>> > retail.
>> [snip]
>>
>> That's what happens when a lot of stupid people sit down at their
computers
>> semi-concurrently... <~>
>>
>> > Buying on eBay is kinda risky too. I haven't been burned yet but it's
>> > unsettling to send someone a money order and then wait to see if the
>> > merchandise you bought is D.O.A.
>> >
>> [snip]
>>
>> So don't be one of them!
>>
>> What would ever possess any reasonably intelligent person to agree to
those
>> terms?!? There is ABSOLUTELY *NO* legitimate reason for a seller to
refuse
>> to use either C.O.D. or one of the third-party escrow services. If you
do
>> agree to such terms (such as by placing a bid), you are ASKING to be
ripped
>> off -- it's that simple.
>>
>> If you see something listed on eBay that you might want, but the seller
has
>> specified any such nonsense as "payment by money order in advance", just
>> send him a note telling him/her that you're interested, but WILL NOT bid
>> under those terms -- if he'll do C.O.D. (or iEscrow, etc.) and guarantee
the
>> item against DOA, then you will be happy to consider placing a bid on his
>> item.
>>
>> Then STICK TO IT -- remember, he's asking for YOUR money. It's up to him
to
>> make it worth you giving it to him. And don't worry... No matter what
the
>> item is, odds are another one will come along soon enough.
>>
>> -- Jay T. Blocksom
>> Appropriate Technology, Inc.
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From: Douglas E Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore...
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:42:15 -0500
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Hi all....
I have aproblem that has me stumped... I have a celron 333,intel
board(440lx),onboard yamaha-pci sound, onboard mach64-agp. Two pci
slots, and one isa with a modem, ne2000 clone, and an aha-2930uc scsi.
My problem is that I can not auto probe or manualy insmod the scsi. I
have recompiled the kerel four times, twice with the aic7xxx driver
modular and twice as monolithic. I am also using scsi emulation for an
atapi cdrw. When you use modprobe on the modular version it gives you a
'device or resource busy' and fails. I don't think the scsi emulation
has anything to do with it since I had a pas16-scsi and scsi emulation
working in another computer with kernel 2.0.36. I am booting off of hda
so I don't think I need a new initrd. An attachment of the dmesg output
is included. Is there something simple I can't see?
kernel 2.2.6 and 2.2.10 (tried both)
pci reports
ide interface i/o at 0x1000
usb interface i/o at 0x1020
audio interface irq 11
scsi interface i/o at 0x1400 irq 10
eth interface i/0 at 0x1040 irq 5
vga interface i/o at 0x9000 irq 9
I have swapped the eth and scsi around to no avail. I have used from the
command line and as an append(modprobe aic7xxx 'aic7xxx=0x1400,10,7,1').
Without modprobe and the ''s from the append line of course.
If any of you have had any problem like this or can help in any way it
would be greatly appreciated. <not a lie.....
thanks in advance,
Doug
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Linux version 2.2.6 (root@harmon) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66 19990314 (egcs-1.1.2
release)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 15 19:34:04 EST 1999
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (00256000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (00257000)
Detected 331836257 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 330.96 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63048k/65472k available (1008k kernel code, 420k reserved, 928k data, 68k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.26 (19981001) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 25.06 usecs.
CPU0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 00
SMP motherboard not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd9c3
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Enabling memory for device 00:60
PCI: Enabling I/O for device 00:70
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
js: Version 1.2.13 using 690 MHz RDTSC timer.
js: no joysticks found
loop: registered device at major 7
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1000-0x1007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1008-0x100f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
hda: Maxtor 90845D4, ATA DISK drive
hdb: Conner Peripherals 850MB - CFA850A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: LTN301, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: no response (status = 0xd0), resetting drive
hdd: CRW6206A, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: Maxtor 90845D4, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63, UDMA
hdb: Conner Peripherals 850MB - CFA850A, 813MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=826/32/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: LITEON Model: CD-ROM LTN301 Rev: MP08
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: ATAPI Model: CD-R/RW CRW6206A Rev: 1.2A
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI cdroms total.
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.54
sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 2x/6x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
ne2k-pci.c:v0.99L 2/7/98 D. Becker/P. Gortmaker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/ne2k-pci.html
ne2k-pci.c: PCI NE2000 clone 'Winbond 89C940' at I/O 0x1040, IRQ 5.
eth0: PCI NE2000 found at 0x1040, IRQ 5, 48:54:E8:26:26:B1.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
hdb: hdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 68k freed
Adding Swap: 128516k swap-space (priority -1)
diald uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET)
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY-MODULAR (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP: version 2.3.3 (demand dialling)
PPP line discipline registered.
registered device ppp0
PPP BSD Compression module registered
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
scsi : 1 host.
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From: John Turnbull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sun 1962B or 1662B monitor under linux - jrt
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 00:26:11 GMT
Gerald Willmann wrote:
>
> have you considered picking up a Sun IPC (you should get one for less than
> 50 dollars) and running the monitor off that machine using the whole thing
> as a Xterminal to your linux box. That's what I do here and it works great
>
> Gerald
I considered that. The 1662B came with a free Sparc II, and I ran up
RH6.0 on it. It is too slow to be an acceptable Xterminal, and the video
card is just 8 bits. It now lives down in the dungeon acting as a
networked scsi card for a stack of HP scsi drive boxes. That freed up
the monitor.
What I want to do is make a diskless (and fan-less) box for the living
room that will be a silent Xterminal. Imagine: you turn it on, a wee
racket while it boots off a floppy, then silent computing!
But this is not going to happen 'til I get the monitor working on a
linux PC. sigh I know it can be done, I just need that working
XF86Config for a Sun 1962B or 1662B. John Turnbull
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From: Filipe Ribeiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My display is fuzzy...
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 17:55:26 -0400
Hi!
I have a linux box with RH6.0.
My monitor is an IIyama Vision Master 502.
In the resolutions 1600x1200, 1280x1024 the characters appear out of
focus in
some parts of the screen. In the center everything is acceptable.
Now, is this an hardware problem or a software problem? In either case
does anyone have an idea how to solve this?
Thanks
Filipe.
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