Linux-Hardware Digest #565, Volume #10 Wed, 23 Jun 99 13:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problems reading CD created under Win9x (Mark Tranchant)
mass storage (Ian Brown)
Unable to handle kernel?? (Stuart H)
Re: HERE'S HOW TO GET ATI CARDS TO WORK ("Shamsuddin, Amir (EXCHANGE:MDN05:7E24)")
Re: determining CPU freq of Sun Sparc 10? (Greg Leblanc)
where did current->time-out go??? ("Moors, ing. E.W.J.")
X and ATI 3D RAGE LT Pro AGP (Sam Deleu)
Re: My display is fuzzy... ("Gene Heskett")
Bt829 (ATI) and bttv? (Bjoern Giesler)
Re: Problem with Iomega Zip (Mats Berndtson)
Cable Modem in Linux??? ("Glenn Altemose Jr.")
Re: making linux go away (Sybren Stuvel)
Talking with my modem? (Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Holmstr=F6m?=)
Re: Compaq proliant 400 dead keyboard ("Tony Platt")
Re: Anyone ever have trouble with S3 chipsets? (Hylke van der Schaaf)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Michal Jaegermann)
Need guidance with Scanner type (Peter Hill)
Re: Quantum Fireball+ KA (David Ripton)
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From: Mark Tranchant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Problems reading CD created under Win9x
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 08:06:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I had this problem too - although 16MB was as far as I could see. I was
advised to investigate the "cruft" mount option for the iso9660
filesystem, but didn't get around to it as my box is dual-boot, and I
used Win95 to pull it off the CD.
Mark.
Rod Smith wrote:
>
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <GxMb3.365$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "R Potts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I recently donwloaded a 140MB file and had some one copy it to a CD for me
> > under Win95. When I look at the CD under Linux I can see 68MB of the file
> > but when I look at it under a Win95 macine I can see the whole thing.
> >
> > What's up with this and how can I see the whole file. I don't have access
> > to a CD-RW under Linux or another UNIX OS.
>
> Chances are the file was copied using a packet writing program. This is a
> program that lets you treat the CD-R drive as if it were a regular hard
> disk. The problem is that Linux doesn't like CDs created in this way.
>
> If the only way you can get this file into Linux is directly off the CD,
> your best bet is to have your friend try again using conventional CD-R
> software like Easy CD Creator, Nero, or whatnot. Alternatively, you might
> have luck if you ran VMWare on Linux and accessed it from Windows under
> VMWare, but then you'd have to install Windows in VMWare, and that's a lot
> of work to get one file.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
> NOTE: Remove the "uce" word from my address to mail me
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From: Ian Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mass storage
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:16:26 -0700
What is the largest amount of hard disk or DVD space anyone has attached
to a linux machine?
How much did this system cost?
What was performance like?
Nicholas
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From: Stuart H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unable to handle kernel??
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 10:26:27 -0400
Hi, I am trying to install Caldera 2.2 or RH6.0.
PC is a 486dx4-100, 40mb RAM, 2.1 gb Hdd, 32x CD-ROM,
hda is connected via IDE controler on ide1, CD on ide2
Problem,
During boot frm floppy, either a RH6.0 or Caldera 2.2 boot disk, it
de-compresses or loads the kernel then fails giving the error msg
"unable to handle kernel in dereference module 000000"
Oops: 000
CPU: 0
and a whole whack of hex
*the hdd is blank, no partitions have been created. It was wiped clean
using windows fdisk.
Any ideas?????
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From: "Shamsuddin, Amir (EXCHANGE:MDN05:7E24)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HERE'S HOW TO GET ATI CARDS TO WORK
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:10:39 +0100
"Hans D. Mittelmann" wrote:
> Hi everyone and sorry for the flashy not really correct title. I saw so
> many desperate inquiries about running
> X with some of the newer ATI cards, that I thought I point again to a
> little helpfile I had put together on this.
> Until these cards are properly supported by the accelerated drivers one
> may just be able to get along for a while
> with the frame-buffer. We needed this here for an ATI LT PRO on a
> laptop. So, here is the little helpfile:
>
> ftp://plato.la.asu.edu/pub/FB_VESA.txt
This isn't quite correct, on my laptop (ATI LT PRO), I just need to use the
Framebuffer device to initialise the screen to the desired video mode, but
then, I use the XF86_Mach64 server, set up to use the same resolution /
depth as the framebuffer device. Viola, decently accelerated X (Assumption:
I don't think the XF86_FBDev will be as fast as the Mach64 server.)
Also, You don't need XFree86-3.3.3.1, I've used the framebuffer device of
XF68 3.3.2 compiled for Intel, which works fine.
Amir S
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From: Greg Leblanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: determining CPU freq of Sun Sparc 10?
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 23:44:26 GMT
In article <7kodfi$pcs$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz) wrote:
> Is there a way I can determine the CPU clock frequency of a Sparc 10
> runnnig Linux 2.2? /proc/cpuinfo gives:
>
> cpu : ROSS HyperSparc RT625 or RT626
> fpu : ROSS HyperSparc combined IU/FPU
> promlib : Version 3 Revision 2
> prom : 2.22
> type : sun4m
> ncpus probed : 1
> ncpus active : 1
> BogoMips : 124.92
> MMU type : ROSS HyperSparc
> invall : 0
> invmm : 0
> invrnge : 0
> invpg : 0
> contexts : 4096
>
> --
> Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP
2.6ui)
> Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC
kuroi
> Technische Universit�t Berlin
http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
>
I'd check out www.sunhelp.org and look for the FAQs or other info on the
ROSS processors. The top item on that list is likely to be some sort of
ID for the proc.
Greg
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From: "Moors, ing. E.W.J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: where did current->time-out go???
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:31:57 GMT
We are trying to port a driver for a PCIcard from the 2.0.x
kernel to the 2.2.x kernel.
No it turns out that the current->timeout call has been removed
from the task_struct, defined in <linux/sched.h> and <asm/current.h>
How can I write the following piece of code for the 2.2 kernel:
{
current->TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
current->timeout=jiffies + 1;
schedule();
}
Any hints are welcome,
Eric Moors
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From: Sam Deleu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: X and ATI 3D RAGE LT Pro AGP
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:30:34 +0200
Hello,
I am using a Compaq Armada 1750
with a ATI 3D RAGE LT PRO AGP 2X (A2U2) video card.
I would like to run X on the LCD panel, but except for a
small line I am not able to get the configuration correct.
Has somebody already tried this and even more has somebody already had
some success ?
Thankx in advance
Sam Deleu
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: 23 Jun 99 03:30:27 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My display is fuzzy...
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Filipe Ribeiro;
FR> Hi!
FR> I have a linux box with RH6.0.
FR> My monitor is an IIyama Vision Master 502.
FR> In the resolutions 1600x1200, 1280x1024 the characters appear out
FR> of focus in some parts of the screen. In the center everything is
FR> acceptable. Now, is this an hardware problem or a software
FR> problem? In either case does anyone have an idea how to solve
FR> this? Thanks
FR> Filipe.
Thats a hardware problem, Filipe. You may be overspeeding the h scan
rate just enough to soften the high voltage. Take a look at the
X86Config file, and compare the monitor's max scan rate specs with what
in the file. Or it might need the attention of a tech type.
Cheers, Gene
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From: Bjoern Giesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bt829 (ATI) and bttv?
Date: 23 Jun 1999 08:50:40 GMT
Hi,
I've got a laptop that has a video in powered by an ATI card. After lots of
research, I found out that behind the video in there sits a Bt829, which
isn't yet supported by bttv.
Does anyone know if there is a bttv update that supports this chip, or where
I can find documentation for the Bt829 that would enable me to write such a
driver myself?
TIA,
--Bjoern
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From: Mats Berndtson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat,linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with Iomega Zip
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 18:12:21 +0200
Glitch wrote:
>
> i have the same problem with my parallel zip and my printer. Both
> modules cannot be loaded at teh same time. For some reason they can't
> share the parallel port so if my zip is loaded i have to remmove the
> module and then load the one for the printer. Its a bit of a hassle but
> at least they both work.
>
This is a classic linux glitch! ;-)
but you see, if you use kerneld, the modules get loaded and unloaded as
needed. I have no problem using both the printer and the zipdrive, i
just have to umount the zipdrive when i need to print. The docs you
print while the zip is mounted, gets spooled onto /var/spool, so you can
print files from the zip too!
I didn't have to do anything special to have it this way, i just run
slackware out-of-the-box.
Heavy X-posting b.t.w.
/Mats
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From: "Glenn Altemose Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cable Modem in Linux???
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 14:00:41 -0400
Ok, I have a 3Com USRobotoics Cable Modem VSP. It is a hybrid modem setup -
this is strictly the cable modem part, none of that WinModem crap built in.
I also have another USR modem that I have been using with Linux for some
time. Does anyone know how to get a hybrid cable modem setup and working in
Linux? My setup: SuSE Linux 6.1, Kernel upgraded to 2.2.7. Any ideas
would be GREATLY appreciated. I am the most confused as to how to tell
Linux to tell the cable modem where the appropriate channel is... Please
help!!! Thanks!
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From: Sybren Stuvel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 11:49:14 +0000
I recommend not to use Win9x's Fdisk at all. It has more than once
corrupted my partition-table in such a way, that I had to remove all my
partitions in order to use Partition Magic on it. There were errors in
the part.table, and PQMagic just showed a big red bar, instead of my
partitions.
My recommendation: when modifying/creating linux-partitions, use
linux-fdisk. When modifying/creating Win9x/DOS partitions, use Partition
Magic.
Sybren Stuvel
Jacob Ratkiewicz wrote:
> Actually, last time I removed Linux (not for good,
> just because I like to upgrade clean.. Linux Rules),
> I wasn't able to delete the Linux partition using
> Fdisk on Win95B. I had to use the Linux fdisk to
> trash all the linux partitions, before I could
> use the Windoze fdisk to rewrite the drive.
>
> regards,
> Jacob.
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From: Stefan =?iso-8859-1?Q?Holmstr=F6m?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Talking with my modem?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:50:16 +0200
Hi,
I can use tip hardwire or HyperTerminal in unix/ windows to communicate
over the serial cable.
How do I go about doing the same thing in linux?
If I feel like communicating with my modem or mobil phone how do I get a
two way communication up?
I guess echo AT > /dev/ttyS1 would work(or?) but how or where do I get
the OK to a terminal?
Thanks for any instructions/suggestions
/sthl
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq proliant 400 dead keyboard
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 03:03:50 +1000
Are you using the Genuine Compaq Keyboard ???
Compaqs can get a bit fussy over their keyboards
Tony
Kostis Mentzelos wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi all,
>I have installed linux my compaq proliant 400 and there is a problem:
>there are a possibility (30%) the keyboard will be dead after reboot.
>I am using SUSE linux 5.3 with kernel 2.0.35 or 2.0.36
>
>The keyboard will work again after one or two reboots. Everything else
>is working fine.
>Kostis Mentzelos.
>
>
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From: Hylke van der Schaaf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Anyone ever have trouble with S3 chipsets?
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 14:15:27 -0700
Robert Kaiser wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Goodell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 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.
> >
> I have been using various S3 cards for a long time. Their're good
> under XFree86 as long as your viewscreen is <= 17 inch and as long
> as you are satisfied with 8 bits per pixel. For 16bpp, pixel clock
> is limited to 80Mhz (at least with all the cards I have been using).
I've used a Diamond Stealth 64 Video Vram (Video 3000) for years on
a 17" screen, 1024x768x16@106Hz with a beautiful picture. And that card
is based on the S3 968 Chipset.
So the S3 chipsets are OK, as long as they're out in cards together
with good other components (clockchip/memory/RAMDAC etc).
Cya,
Hylke
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: 23 Jun 1999 16:48:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In the first place, you need to be a *lot* more unlucky to find a company with a bad
: Windows driver.
Oh yeah! And a mail client which can wrap lines like it should!
I have to be one of those "unlucky" people which run into problems
with Windows all the time. Karma - I guess.
I remember quite vividly how my "Windows wizzard" friend spent quite
long evening rescuing my 'doze installation because we had to switch
a graphics card for one reason or another and this was not a pretty
sight to watch. On Linux side I had to replace one server with another
one and switch one or two links. I was up and running with a full
graphics under five minutes.
The same friend had also tons of fun after my son was installing some
game from Microsoft, not some third party manufacturer, (this what these
Windows are nearly exclusively for) and hit "OK" after confronted with
a dialog "Should I update this or that .dll for you?". He confirmed,
naive and innocent, and all the hell broke loose; booting doze was
quite a challenge after that.
>From the more recent stories - after waisting tons of time an effort we
had to replace in a customer laptop a good ethernet card, Cardbus type,
with a less capable one because '98 had a disconcerting habit of locking
up totally after more that 1 MB was transferred through this interface.
This after applying some non-obvious registry tweaks suggested by
this card manufacturer; without these the card simply did not work
at all. '98 had also a nice habit of forgetting that this card is
there and "installing" it multiple times; after that things could not
be uninstalled leading to tons of Registry fun. The same card, after
initial installation challanges (pcmcia-cs package had to be updated to
the latest version) did work like a clockwork under Linux (this is a dual
boot laptop) but the customer insisted, for inscrutable reasons, that
he wants something which works under '98 as well even if it is slower.
Oh, well....
Most people do not see such horror stories because they buy machines
preinstalled. Than the installation is really easy. You want the same
ease for Linux - do the same. Buy preinstalled and with warranties.
Simple.
Michal
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From: Peter Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Need guidance with Scanner type
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:51:37 +0100
Hi all
I know I need a scanner with a SCSI interface to use it with Linux but
other than that I don't know what else to look for. I am going to use it
with either an Adaptec 1542 or a Future Domain 950 or a Tekram 390U.
I am considering either a UMAX 1220S or a Mustek Scanexpresss 12000SP.
Does anyone have any comments about either, or any recommendations ?
I suspect that there is very little to choose between the UMAX or Mustek
or any other scanner at this price (�100 - �150), am right ?
TIA -
Peter
--
Peter Hill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball+ KA
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 16:14:26 GMT
In article <376ad4db.0@news1>, Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How does Linux handle the 7200rpm and UDMA66 capabilities of the above
>drive. Is there any software to turn off UDMA66 ?
7200 rpm is transparent to the OS.
You need a supported UDMA/66 controller and the right cable to do
that mode. Upcoming motherboards will support UDMA/66 on-board.
Yes, there's a (Windows) program to put that drive in UDMA/33 mode.
It's doubtful you'll notice any performance difference, as current
drives can't sustain anywhere near 33 MB/s. This is one of those
advances that is mostly hot air.
--
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