Linux-Hardware Digest #586, Volume #10 Fri, 25 Jun 99 07:13:36 EDT
Contents:
128MB PC-100 SDRAM in UK (Duncan)
Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo (Glitch)
HP2000C ("Pierre Laffitte")
Re: Linux Installation Questions (Dirk Behrens)
Re: Modem speed measurement ("Gene Heskett")
Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo (Erwin van Akkeren)
Re: FREEZING system (David Stanaway)
Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER? (jerry)
Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive (coffee)
Re: 3c905C-TX installation failure (Martin Schreck)
Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo (Glitch)
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 (Jan Panteltje)
Re: Modem and kppp ("jerry keeney")
Compaq Prosignia VS (Marcin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ste=E6?=)
Re: MB for Dual Processors (Robert Kaiser)
Internet Startup Company looking for programmers, designers and administrators
("Internet Recruit")
Re: ERRORS: "telnetd: all network ports in use", "no ptys" etc (Carlos Wexler)
troubles with a QMS1600 printer (Jean-Michel FRENOD)
Re: Modem and kppp (John Ledesma)
Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2 (Barry Smith)
Win98 FDISK no longer works after Linux install ("Mike Meyer")
fs/drivers prob ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OPL3-SAx saga SOLVED [was: Re: OPL3-SAx PnP: the saga goes on...] (Illo de' Illis)
Re: Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who) (David E. Fox)
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:17:41 +0100
From: Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
chile.mercado.hardware,cn.bbs.comp.hardware,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.
Subject: 128MB PC-100 SDRAM in UK
For those in the UK that are interested, both Dabs Direct (www.dabs.com)
and Insight (www.insight.com/uk) are selling PC100 SDRAM in 128Mb chunks
for around 65-70 pounds including VAT.
Duncan
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:59:59 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo
i found drivers for this device by doing a search on yahoo.com
using 'cmi8330' i beleive, it took me only 5 minuts to find a site of
the search results to find the dirvers i needed
Brandon
PS, the drivers are for dos/win but it would allow u to set the device
up and then use the saem settings in linux like the person says below)
Peter Christy wrote:
>
> Unfortunately my CMI 8330 is on the motherboard. That means that its default
> settings are set by the bios during boot up. All I had to do was look those
> settings up, and apply them - as detailed in the howto. It worked instantly,
> even without isapnp. The only way you may be able to discover the settings
> on your sound card is via Windoze, if you have it installed. Didn't it come
> with any documentation?
>
> If you have a driver disk for it, you may be able to initialize it to known
> settings using a dos config utility, and a bootable dos floppy. However, if
> you haven't got a dos config utility for it, I don't know what to advise
> next. I can assure you that it does work, and very well, under Linux.
>
> Pete
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Davis Eric wrote in message <7kn3hs$825$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I have a sound card with CMI8330 in my Red Hat 6.0 box................
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: "Pierre Laffitte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP2000C
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:03:35 +0200
I cannot find the driver for Linux for a HP2000C printer.
Hope it exists.
Thnx for helping
Pierre
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From: Dirk Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux Installation Questions
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 09:51:01 +0200
I tried that a while ago ( the symlinking) and in the first place it worked,
but you can't add any new bookmarks under LinuX even if the mount options
for the Windoze partition are set to writable. Another problem was that
after adding some new bookmarks under Windoze they didn't show up in the
symlinked LinuX bookmarks.
So I turned back again to copying the bookmarks from one partition (system)
to the other.
Dirk
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 17:19:49 GMT, Anthony Ord wrote:
> >On 21 Jun 1999 03:46:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >(Donovan Rebbechi) wrote:
>
> >>You can run Netscape in linux. If you want to use your bookmarks file
> >>from windows, you need to copy the file into your linux installation.
> >
> >Can't you symlink it?
>
> I guess so. You need to mount the dos partition with the right arguments
> though ( out of the box, users can't write to it. )
>
> --
> Donovan
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Date: 25 Jun 99 03:13:33 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem speed measurement
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Charles Sullivan;
CS> killbill wrote in message <7krpgc$l8u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
CS> <snip>
>>If you want a real measure of the modem, try transferring a large
>>file of random data (a jpg or a gzip'd file) back and forth from
>>your box to your ISP's box. This should eliminate as many bottle
>>necks as possible and give you a best case scenario. Use the unix
>>time command with ftp from a command line, or just fire up the stop
>>watch. Remember that baud is Bits per second, and the file size is
>>bytes. There are 8 bits in a byte, so multiply the file size by 8
>>and divide by the number of seconds for transfer and you should get
>>the effective baud. Also remember that downloads are faster then
>>uploads for 56k modems (and ADSL, etc).
CS> <snip>
CS> Since each 8-bit byte transferred via RS232 serial also entails a
CS> start bit and a stop bit, shouldn't the factor be 10 instead of 8
CS> ?
Yes
Cheers, Gene
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|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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erwin van Akkeren)
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:13:29 GMT
On Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:59:25 -0400, Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i found drivers for this device by doing a search on yahoo.com
>
> using 'cmi8330' i beleive, it took me only 5 minuts to find a site of
> the search results to find the dirvers i needed
There's a CMI8330 mini-HOWTO at
http://home.gelrevision.nl/~h.wolter/CMI8330_0.05.txt
Regards,
Erwin van Akkeren
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stanaway)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: FREEZING system
Date: 25 Jun 1999 07:36:22 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Suba wrote:
>PII 350MHz
>64MB PC100 RAM
>ALI ALADDIN M726 BX MOTHERBOARD
>SB PCI128
>MATROX MILLENIUM G200 AGP 8MB
>8.0GB HDD
>WIN98
>
>Can anyone help me out. Everytime i work with the computer for about 10-15
>minutes it freezes. When it freezes the mouse does not move nor the keyboard
>does not work. I've been told that this is CPU overheat bujt if i goto CMOS
>is says that CPU TEMP is 104 (87 when i turn the computer). I've also read
>that others who have the Ali Aladdin motherboard also have this problem.
>If the computer does freeze it will not boot up until the whole system has
>cooled down so can anyone tell me whether this is overheat or the Ali
>Aladdin MotherBoard.
>Reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>thank you so much
I have seen this problem with a similar system.
Dif was Dual PII 333 and Millenium II AGP and NT4
I think the board was Aladdin, dunno what version.
It was fixed by putting in a PCI graphics card.
Odd.
David
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From: jerry <[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: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:40:14 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <7kl70n$nei$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Pugwash wrote:
> From: "Pugwash" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Newsgroups: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic,comp.os.linux.hardware
> Subject: Re: FIC VA503+ with AMD K62-400 and 66MHz Memory. DO THEY WORK TOGETHER?
> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 12:17:14 +0100
>
> I have no problems on my 503+. I had the motherboard up to 83MHz with 16M of
> Fast-Page (old stuff) + 32M EDO + 64M PC100 when I had a 266MHz CPU. I
can you use sdram and edo ram together? How?
> Plopped the AMD K62-400 in, upped the motherboard to 100 and limited the
> memory speed to Non-PC100 settings. No problems now.
>
> Pugwash
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From: coffee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.inux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Recommendation needed for Tape Backup drive
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:25:29 -0400
Martin Kiely wrote:
>
> I'm planning to co-locate an Intel box running redhat 6, can someone
> recommend a tape drive and software combination.
>
> Thanks
Im using an HP Surestore Dat 8 and it runs pretty good. Although, I do
get i/o errors in taper. I usually just tar to it. Works better.
--
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From: Martin Schreck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: 3c905C-TX installation failure
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:21:16 +0900
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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I am using the same card unter Linux 6.0 but SuSE Distribution. Try and
use the ethernet standard driver and see if it works.
Cheers, Martin
Cris Collins wrote:
>
> It seems as though the C revision of the 905 ethernet card is not supported by
> the 59x driver within the kernel. If you took the card from the Win box it should
> work fine. I have looked for an update or new driver that supports the C
> revision, but have been unsuccessful. Let me know if you have found anything.
>
> Jonathan Epstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Hi,
>
> : I have a brand-new dual-PIII dual-boot (NT/Linux) system. Its network
> : card is identified by NT as "3c905C-TX". When configuring Redhat 6.0
> : (CD-ROM), it fails to autodetect my card (I select 3c905 at install time
> : or 3c59x later with "netconf", but neither seems to work). The card is
> : working fine under NT.
>
> : RedHat says that because of these trailing letters "C-TX" the card is
> : not supported, although this sounds pretty bogus to me.
>
> : In any case, do others have experience with this card? Any suggestions
> : with diagnosing a potential IRQ conflict, etc.?
>
> : Alternatively, I have another system currently running Win95 which I
> : will shortly upgrade to NT, but don't plan to install Linux. This
> : system's network card is identified by Win95 as "3Com Fast EtherLink XL
> : 10/100Mb Ethernet Adapter (3C905-TX)". Note that there is no "C" in its
> : name. Since I don't need to run Linux on this system, I'm thinking of
> : swapping the two network cards. Do people have more positive experience
> : on Redhat with this 3C905-TX card?
>
> : TIA,
>
> : - Jonathan
>
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Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 03:59:25 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: CMI8330 :<<<<<help! :oo
i found drivers for this device by doing a search on yahoo.com
using 'cmi8330' i beleive, it took me only 5 minuts to find a site of
the search results to find the dirvers i needed
Brandon
Peter Christy wrote:
>
> Unfortunately my CMI 8330 is on the motherboard. That means that its default
> settings are set by the bios during boot up. All I had to do was look those
> settings up, and apply them - as detailed in the howto. It worked instantly,
> even without isapnp. The only way you may be able to discover the settings
> on your sound card is via Windoze, if you have it installed. Didn't it come
> with any documentation?
>
> If you have a driver disk for it, you may be able to initialize it to known
> settings using a dos config utility, and a bootable dos floppy. However, if
> you haven't got a dos config utility for it, I don't know what to advise
> next. I can assure you that it does work, and very well, under Linux.
>
> Pete
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Davis Eric wrote in message <7kn3hs$825$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >I have a sound card with CMI8330 in my Red Hat 6.0 box................
--
"Bill Gates?, I dont know any Bill Gates. Oh, you mean 'by putting
every conceivable
feature into an OPERATING SYSTEM, whether you want it or not, is
innovation' Bill
Gates? Yeah, I know the monopolizer"
http://web.mountain.net/~brandon/main.htm
For Beginners in Linux, Emulation, Midis, Playstation Info, and
Virii.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Panteltje)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 99 09:41:41 GMT
>
>From a tech:
>
>A plumb well thought out response, NOT. What if the monitor is already 5
>years old? Or more?
>
I second that, and it is also clearly stated if XF86Config's documentation IIRC.
Take it from an experienced TV repair man.
You blow them, I fix them, but usually advice you to buy a new one :)
Why? because this kind of repair, replacing HV transformer, few transistors,
caps, is labour intensive, parts are expensive, and you would still have the
same monitor, and then you would try again would not you ;).
If indeed RedHat does not warn you about this at install, you should try to sue
them for the repair costs.
J.
>
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From: "jerry keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem and kppp
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:07:26 -0500
I have also the same problem (zoom external modem)
Cesar Mateus Conceicao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7ktve9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have the same problem !!!
>
> --
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> Laine Walker-Avina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7kp4va$fdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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: Marcin =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ste=E6?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Prosignia VS
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:23:35 +0200
Hi everybody,
Did anyone installed Linux on Compaq Prosignia VS? It is equiped with
some ncr scsi controller on board. I found it by opening the case, there
is no such information on compaq's pages. Which driver should I try?
Any ideas (instead of puting somethimg normal inside :)?
--
marcinek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Kaiser)
Subject: Re: MB for Dual Processors
Date: 25 Jun 1999 08:46:40 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Mauritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "JANA" <nest(nospam)> wrote:
> For those on a budget, Abit has just released the BP6. It's a dual socket370
> board. You can run a pair of PPGA celeron chips for a budget dual processor
> system.
I would be __very__ interested in hearing any success/problem stories
from people who are running Linux on a BP6 -- Anyone ?
It seems the board is not yet available here in Germany, I hope
that changes real soon.
================================================================
Robert Kaiser email: rkaiser AT sysgo DOT de
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From: "Internet Recruit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.perl.tk,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.unix.programmer
Subject: Internet Startup Company looking for programmers, designers and administrators
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 02:55:03 -0700
We are looking for people to help us launch and maintain in-house servers
for new internet startup company located in Los Angeles, CA. Anyone has any
experience on one the following areas should apply:
**Yes, we do run Apache servers on Linux RedHat**
1. Apache server setup and administration
2. DataBase Apps (SQL, Oracle8...)
3. Unix/Linux OS CGI scripting
4. Perl CGI scripting and programming
5. Graphics (Photoshop) design and preparation
6. HTML (the old way) and object based webdesign softwares like (NetObjects
Fusion)
Freelance or contract based. Salary plus stock options available for
qualified candidate. Please send your resume and sample site (if any) to
this email.
Thank you,
David Parks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Wexler)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: ERRORS: "telnetd: all network ports in use", "no ptys" etc
Date: 24 Jun 1999 14:34:56 GMT
In article <7ks1ve$o54$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <7klh5q$aro6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos Wexler) wrote:
>> In Mandrake 6.0:
>>
>> I have been getting a bizzarre error when I try to telnet to my
>machine
>> from within my machine. Let's see:
>>
>
>Make sure that this line is
>in your /etc/fstab file
>
>none /dev/pts devpts mode=0622 0 0
>
>
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Thanks, this solved it.
Carlos
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Michel FRENOD)
Subject: troubles with a QMS1600 printer
Date: 25 Jun 1999 10:07:56 GMT
Bonjour,
We had 2 troubles with our new QMS DeskLaser 1600P/XNet.
The first one was a duplexer (recto-verso unit) model uncompatible with
the printer. Well now it's ok (we received the right model duplexer).
BUT the 2nd one is still bothering. We notice a too much long delay (15mn) when
printing a Postscript file before to see a page out of the printer.
Is that due to the IP interface configuration ? If yes what must we change.
10 days after having ask the question to QMS support we don't have any answer?
Text service works finely.
Thanks for your help.
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...:. . . :.. C460 8 rue du capitaine Scott Paris XV
: : : : : : : : (boite 169) 75252 PARIS cedex 05
.. : : :: 33 (0)1 44 27 70 06
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From: John Ledesma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem and kppp
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 05:18:40 -0500
I had the same "busy" notice. After I ran sndconfig as root and got the
soundcard working, the "busy" notice did not come up again.
Mateus Conceicao wrote:
> I have the same problem !!!
>
> --
> ==============================
> Cesar Mateus Conceicao
> ==============================
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> Sistema AlterNex
> APC Network Member
> BookMarks�(http://www.bookmarks.com.br)
> **********************************
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> **********************************
> Laine Walker-Avina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7kp4va$fdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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: Barry Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Monitor dies while installing Redhat 5.2
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 01:48:12 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 24 Jun 1999, Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Dump Redhat.. Redhat killed one of my monitor before during installation
>probing.
>I mean totally killed it.
>
>Alex Lam.
How can that happen?
--
Barry Smith
Email: sax (at) wychcraft.demon.co.uk <-- I don't want ANY spam!
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From: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Win98 FDISK no longer works after Linux install
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 22:08:31 -0700
Reply-To: "Mike Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Can't run FDISK anymore. Run it and it just freezes with a blinking cursor,
with hard drive light on after I installed Red Hat. I can run Disk Druid
and see app partitions. Tried re-SYSing C: (to get rid of LILO), still
doesn't work.
Is this a common thing - unable to read partition tables? I need to add
another DOS partition, but can't now. What's up?
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: fs/drivers prob
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 08:37:44 GMT
Hello,
We have a compaq proliant 3000 here running Linux,
with a Smart2DH SCSI board, 5disks, using RAID 5.
we applied the 3 following patches.
patched the kernel: DAC960 and smart2
patched lilo.
The server is really fast and seems stable, but sometimes,
all access to a local directory (never the same) will fail.
all attemps to read, write, create files there will fail.
The process (ls, mkdir etc...) freezes, and you can't
kill it.
"sync" will also fail.
we run kernel 2.2.9, and had similar problems with the 2.2.7
here's a trace from a ls hanging :
[..]
time(NULL) = 930129113
ioctl(1, TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0
ioctl(1, TIOCGWINSZ, {ws_row=24, ws_col=80, ws_xpixel=499,
ws_ypixel=316}) = 0
brk(0x8058000) = 0x8058000
lstat("/home/ntsys/finition", {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a
directory)
open("/home/ntsys/finition", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|0x10000) = 3
fstat(3, {st_mode=0, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
fcntl(3, F_SETFD, FD_CLOEXEC) = 0
brk(0x805a000) = 0x805a000
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR) = 0
getdents(3,
and it blocks there, trying to get the directory entries. And no,
the filesystem isn't corrupted.
If anyone has an idea, pointers to some docs, please letme know.
THanx a lot
--
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CCRI, IUT-IUP de Vannes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Illo de' Illis)
Subject: OPL3-SAx saga SOLVED [was: Re: OPL3-SAx PnP: the saga goes on...]
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 10:02:29 +0200
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mircea wrote:
>I have configured one of these beasts a while ago, but unfortunately I
>cannot access that system right now, so I cannot check any specifics. I
>know the output of pnpdump shows there are 3 possible hardware
>configurations for the card, the first and the last being very similar.
>I have had no luck with either (and it looks like you're using the first
>set of parameters), but it worked like a charm with the second
>acceptable configuration set. There was no resource conflict, either,
>and no error messages, but it simply refused to play anything at all.
I tried everything, every possible combination. Well, I've reset everything
to the initial value and I've installed the ALSA drivers: now it works
flawlessly...
Ciao,
Illo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David E. Fox)
Subject: Re: Alpha performance (reply to somebody else... forget who)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 20 Jun 1999 06:29:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Kullstam wrote:
>x86 processors *have* a complex instruction set. how much of it is
>*used* by your C compiler is another story.
A good point.
>smaller (since you throw out unneeded stuff). the new partial x86 has
>a Reduced Instruction Set CPU (RISC) since you have fewer valid
>op-codes than before.
gcc typically uses a rather small subset of the i386, mostly using
lots of leal's, and using specific forms of those, taking advantage
of particular addressing modes, and eschewing others. But occasionally
one sees use of rather 'exotic' instructions like setne and so forth;
a good compiler will spot the opportunity to use such an instruction
if it's justifiable.
A few times I've taken the (rather large) assembly output from gcc,
and passed it through a few grep's, getting it into a form that can
be processed via awk, just to see the frequency counts of the
various instructions emitted by gcc. Setting up the scripts/pipelines
to do this wasn't that difficult, and the results were rather interesting.
>means having lots of generic registers. stuff like delayed branching,
>aggressive pipelining &c are not RISC per se (since there's no reason
>a CISC chip couldn't have them), but are now made practical and
No, and some CISC's do have these features. There are even some
'hybridized' processors that are internally risc-ish, have many
registers, but on the 'outside' look like an x86 (ISTR the Cyrix
being like this). Also many CISCs have superpipelining etc., but
it all boils down to how much die space you've got to work with, and
large complicated instruction sets require some die space that *might*
be better used for things like more registers.
>the x86 instruction set is notoriously bad for having compilers
>generate code for it. it has few registers, they are all special
>purpose and there are many weird op-codes which the compiler never
>bothers to generate.
This is still the case, but was much more true and a factor for the
processors like the 8088/80286, and less so for more modern (386+)
processors. Intel of course hasn't managed to improve on the
number of registers, but even though (historically) the registers
have 'preferred' purposes, there really isn't any more the restriction
that only certain registers can be used in certain instructions, except
possibly those instructions that use certain registers by default (such
as the string byte instructions).
>put simply the alpha is just more C compiler friendly in its
>instruction set. it doesn't mean that stuff compiles quickly, it
And it's easier to optimize.
>J o h a n K u l l s t a m
>[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Don't Fear the Penguin!
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