Linux-Hardware Digest #618, Volume #10 Mon, 28 Jun 99 21:13:37 EDT
Contents:
Re: Parport / lp problems (Ryan Meadows)
Re: sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci) (Leejay Wu)
my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print (Yosef Zlochower)
Matrox board and Mitsubishi monitor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hardware list ("S3/\\\\\\T3X")
Video Card!! (Amit Shukla)
Re: aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore... ("Niels Bleijswijk")
Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly (hmssg)
Linux Printer (LaoBaller)
Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly ("jerry keeney")
Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted (Mike Frisch)
Re: AHA1505 driver (Darryl Bryant)
S3 TRIO 3D ("Eduardo Figueres")
Lexmark 5700,is it possible in S.u.s.e v 6.1? (fahlis)
ibm aptiva modems (Ahmed Aden)
Re: WHAT KIND OF LANGUAGE IS THAT ? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: ECC on SDRAM matter w/Linux? (Jenni G)
Re: Quantum Fireball+ KA ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Matrox M3D (Shashank)
Re: Can I use all of my hadware under LINUX? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print (Gary I Kahn)
Success writing to IDE zip drive (Cliff Bergman)
Re: Millenium Video and Sony Monitor problem (Gerald Willmann)
Re: More or fewer drives better for RAID ("Tony Platt")
Re: 3C515 NIC probs (Vidar Andresen)
Re: Printer problem for kernel 2.2.10 (Joceli Mayer)
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From: Ryan Meadows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parport / lp problems
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:16:43 -0400
On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Joceli Mayer wrote:
> Just a guess, try: /sbin/insmod parport (or parport_pc)
>
Use modprobe to load ppa. It will take care of the dependancies
for loading parport, parport_pc, and finally ppa (in order).
Ryan
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound drivers for turtle beach Montego (pci)
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:32:49 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 28-Jun-99 Re: sound
drivers for turtl.. by the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Janet Anderson wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for drivers for my montego 64 pci sound card by
> > turtle beach or some advice on how to set it up(you see I've been
> > looking for a long time
[snip]
AFAIK, the *only* one available is the "very early beta test", NDA-closed,
binary-only driver from www.opensound.com; they offer evaluation (time-
limited) and pay versions.
See http://www.opensound.com/readme/README.Vortex.html, and
http://www.alsa-project.org/black.html (the ALSA project's blacklist).
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From: Yosef Zlochower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 16:13:25 -0400
Hi,
I am running rh6.0 on an intel al400lx system with an okidata okipage
6e led printer.
Ican't get the printer to print. I set up the printer using printool
(as an hp ljet 4) .
The printer light just blinks and nothing is printed. I tried adjusting
all options for the ljet4 (send EOF .....supress headers etc)
(under printool) ; nothing seems to work.
I also tried directly dumping text to the port.
Any help would be greatly
appreciated
Yosef
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Matrox board and Mitsubishi monitor
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 20:55:37 GMT
Hi folks,
I will appreciate it if any one can help me with the following.
When I run Xfree86 on my HP Vectra with Matrox Millenium 2064W (not
sure) GAdapter with 2MB memory and TI TVP3260 (not sure) clock chip with
a 17" Mitsubishi Diamond Pro 87TXM monitor, no matter what I do the
Xwindows fills only about 12" of the screen. However, when I run Win95 I
am able to take advantage of all of the monitor screen.
Any ideas? I have tried quite a few things with no luck. My last resort
I am thinking is going for a commercial XiGraphics Xserver but I dont
wanna pay the money especially for a destop with a graphics adapter as
common as Matrox.
Any help will be greatly appreciated. By the way, I tried running
xdvitune (name ?) utility with no success.
Thanx.
-- Fatih Ugurdag
Cupertino, CA
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From: "S3/\\\\\\T3X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware list
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:25:50 +0200
try www.linux.org
they have an area specifically geared towards hardware and manufacturers
creating hardware/drivers for linux
hope thsi helps,
grtz, semtex
Yankee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:6lCd3.634$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I'm buying a new system and was wondering if there was a website that
listed
> all current companies writing linux drives for there devices. If not can
> anyone suggest companies to avoid?
>
>
> Green Linux User
>
>
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From: Amit Shukla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Card!!
Date: 28 Jun 1999 20:30:54 GMT
Hello All:
I am having trouble in running X-windows at a higher resolution on my ELSA
gloria -L card. Please advice, if you have had any similar experience or
can suggest a solution.
-thanks in advance.
Amit
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From: "Niels Bleijswijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore...
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:05:42 +0200
Got the same thing. The problem is that the 2930U2W responds differently
than it's Big brother 2940 when probed (it's not the same bios). Altough I
got Red Hat 6.0 to believe it was an 2940 and then got it mounted
(synchronous mode) after the install was completed and I booted the system
it just crashed when rh probed the card... I'm new to linux but IMHO some
Hacker needs to built a new driver for this card. Or revise the 2940 driver
so that it understands the hex ident code the 2930 returns.
Niels.
Mark Evans Jeffcoat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7l7sk6$306$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Douglas E Harmon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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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
>
> I've had very similar problems with my 2930. I still haven't
> gotten it to work myself, but Redhat 6.0 autodetected it and
> managed to get it quite effortlessly. I don't know how RH does
> the autodetect, so this isn't a very useful reply, but I offer
> it as a clue. If you get it running, though, I'd appreciate you
> posting what worked. I haven't given up quite yet. (Everything
> would be fine, except that I really want to run Debian, which
> doesn't, afaik, have a clever hardware autodetect, so I get
> to do it myself.)
>
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From: hmssg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:46:41 +0200
I had the equal problem.
Just a suggestion:
a. Check the file "/etc/ppp/options" for the entry "lock" and comment it
out or delete it.
b. Open KPP-settings and add an pppd-argument "-mru 808" to reduce the
packet-size.
In my case, it helped and now works fine.
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From: LaoBaller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Printer
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 22:07:18 -0700
I'm buying a new printer, and I need info on which printer will work
with Linux
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From: "jerry keeney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: pppd daemon died unexpectedly
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:19:24 -0500
Here is the entire list, sans date/time/pppd[375]:
pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
using interface ppp0
connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/cua2
Remote Message: Login Succeeded
local IP address 216.88.250.48
remote IP address 216.88.250.6
Hangup (SIGHUP)
Modem hangup
Connection terminated
Exit.
Once again, my connection times are around 3-4 minutes in length.
If it is something on providers side, whats my options/ just call and ask
them some questions....????
Thanks
D. J. Birchall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> jerry keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I have just been able to set up my external Zoom modem for use with
linux.
> > After connecting the first time to the net using Kppp, I was able to
surf
> > for about 3 minutes until I received the following message:
> > "The pppd daemon died unexpectedly"
> > I am using Mandrake Linux 5.3 (red hat 5.2) with KDE.
> > Here is the applicable portion of the script that I was given after
this:
> >
> > localhost pppd[375]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
> > ........
> > localhost pppd[375]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> > localhost pppd[375]: Modem hangup
> > localhost pppd[375]: Connection terminated
> > localhost pppd[375]: Exit.
> >
> > I have connected again, with the same exact results.
> > Does anyone have any ideas/ suggestions??
>
> The content of that "........" section you omitted might be
> helpful in diagnosing whether it happened due to something
> on your end (in which case you might be able to do something
> about it) or on the other end (in which case it might be
> someone else's problem).
>
> For example, here's what the end of a connection looks like
> (sans the date, time and hostname fields) on my system, when
> I 'kill -9 pppd':
>
> pppd[559]: Terminating on signal 15.
> kernel: 74 65
> kernel: 72
> pppd[559]: Connection terminated.
> pppd[559]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
> pppd[559]: Sent 50709 bytes, received 37454 bytes.
> kernel: 33 36 20 33 39 0A 0 36 39.
> kernel: 4A 20 ress VJ
> kernel: 36 20 32 30 36 66 20
> kernel: ppp: channel ppp0 closing.
> pppd[559]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> pppd[559]: Exit.
>
> Here's another ending, where the ISP dropped the connection for whatever
> reason:
>
> pppd[507]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
> pppd[507]: Modem hangup
> pppd[507]: Connection terminated.
> pppd[507]: Connect time 50.0 minutes.
> pppd[507]: Sent 40612 bytes, received 143291 bytes.
> kernel: ppp: channel ppp0 closing.
> pppd[507]: Exit.
>
> On my system, at least, things come up in a very different order depending
> on how the connection dies. The lines you gave, in the order you gave
> them, would mean the remote host dropped it, in my case.
>
> -Dan
>
> --
> From the Linux laptop of Dan Birchall, V.P. of Technology
> Digital Facilities Management, Haddonfield, New Jersey
> Internet/Extranets/E-Commerce - http://www.digitalfm.com/
> Hosting the bright ideas of M&M Lighting - http://www.mmlight.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted
Date: 28 Jun 1999 21:05:30 GMT
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:02:42 -0400, Greg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does anyone know of a pci66 to udma66 combination
>of hardware and software that will work with Linux?
Why PCI66? Which PC motherboards support this and why would you want EIDE
on such a system?
I am curious why PCI66 and UDMA/66 are being use interchangeably?
Mike.
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From: Darryl Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AHA1505 driver
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:46:36 +1000
tar wrote:
>
> I picked up a couple Adaptec 1505s cheap this weekend, sure that they'd
> be supported, since they're Adaptec.
>
> Wrongo, Batman.
>
> Anyone know any tricks?
>
> tia
> tom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
not sure about the aha1505, I use the aha1520b and I have this in my
/etc/conf.modules file, if thats any help
cheers
dAz
.......... cut here ...........
alias scsi_hostadapter aha152x
options aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7
alias sound sblive
pre-install sblive insmod soundcore
post-remove sblive rmmod soundcore
.......... cut here ...........
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From: "Eduardo Figueres" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 TRIO 3D
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:15:07 +0200
Hi,
I'm a debian 2.0 user with AMD K6II-350MHz/128Mb and S3 TRIO 3D AGP video
card, and i want to install a better x-server than VGA16, but I can't. Some
body knows a free xserver who supports this video card, Need I some kernel
version ( I have the 2.2.x, i don't know exactly). I you know something can
help me, tell me, please !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
thanks
Edu. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fahlis)
Subject: Lexmark 5700,is it possible in S.u.s.e v 6.1?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:04:58 +0200
Is there any known drivers for this printer that works in the latest
S.u.s.e distribution?
I know there�s one for redhat,I tried it but can�t figure out how to set
it up,is it possible to get this one to work in S.u.s.e Anybody who have
managed to set it up?and can offer me a step through?I�m kinda newbie
so...
/Tony
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From: Ahmed Aden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ibm aptiva modems
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:22:19 -0400
I need to install Linux for a friend and was wondering whether or not
anyone knows if the default modems that come with IBM Aptivas are
winmodems, or non-linux compatible modems?
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High Speed Installation Reseller Division
UUNET, an MCI WorldCom Company Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone: 703.744.2583 Hours: 10am - 7pm Eastern
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Subject: Re: WHAT KIND OF LANGUAGE IS THAT ?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Jun 1999 18:27:41 -0400
"Shamsuddin, Amir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Jeremy Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did eloquently scribble:
> > = >Note: PORTUGUESE is the language spoken in Brazil and after English and
> > = >Spanish is the third European language in the world.
>
> > I would've thought Chinese was 2nd and 3rd... Or even 1st and 2nd....
> > (On a purely population basis)
>
> Not strictly necessary, but refer to the wording of the original post. I
> think that Chinese of some sort is in fact 1st.
chinese is not some monolithic language. afaik chinese comes in
several flavors such as cantonese and mandarin which, while they share
the same written form, are mutually unintelligible in spoken form.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jenni G)
Subject: Re: ECC on SDRAM matter w/Linux?
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 19:41:57 GMT
C:
Thanks for taking the time to reply.
I should have stated my question differently...
Is there any mechanism provided in Linux that handles the lack of
parity/error correction in non-ECC memory?
Regards,
JG
On Sat, 26 Jun 1999 21:55:34 GMT, Chris Mauritz
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Jenni G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I want my server to be as robust as possible. Anyone know if the ECC
>> memory is beneficial in a Linux environment?
>
>> Thanks!
>
>ECC error correction is transparent to the operating system.
>
>C
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Date: 28 Jun 99 19:19:56 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Quantum Fireball+ KA
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Andrew Comech;
AC> On 24 Jun 99 18:35:55 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Andrew Comech;
AC> ...
>> If hdparm says you have dma, then either *your* drivers do it by
>> default, or you've checked that first option. On my 1590, with a
>> VIA chipset at least, it must be checked or I'm down to about 3
>> m/s.
>> [...]
>> AC> I told you, kernel compiles _do_ become faster (1-2%), it is
>> AC> _hot_ air indeed (not just as if from a fan ;-).
>>
>> Mmmm, here, I'd say a kernel compile is done in half the time when
>> [DMA] is working. Its done when I get back from the fridge. I
>> think the correct caveat is YMMV here. And I didn't intend to come
>> off as a grouch, but I am ATM, a bout with electrocution 6 weeks
>> back triggered a bout with shingles. Can you define miserable? I
>> can. but its not reportable
>> *here*. :-)
AC> I figured I want to post yet another followup:
AC> If you are saying that with doubled drive speed you can compile
AC> kernels in half the usual time, then you must be swapping hard
AC> onto the hard drive. Is it that you have 4MB of RAM?
No, 128 megs to be precise, in that machine. The machine is not this
one. I use this for email and news because there simply is *no* linux
program that can be compared to the Amiga running THOR. The linux
offerings are not even on the same playing field on the same day.
AC> PS. Do get more memory!
See above, or for this machine, below. There is sufficient memory for
either to do its job.
Cheers, Gene
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|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
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From: Shashank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox M3D
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:11:18 -0500
Sorry man- SOL. Basically the only 3d drivers out there are 3dfx, nVidia,
Matrox G200. Inklings of Permedia support as well.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Can I use all of my hadware under LINUX?
Date: 27 Jun 1999 13:45:42 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) writes:
> On Sun, 11 Apr 1999 22:30:21 +0200, "Ths" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Sorry if this question has been asked before, but I hope you'll take the
> >time to answer it anyway.
> >
> >I'm a win98 user but want to change to linux, but before I do that I'll want
> >to know which of the following hardware LINUX does not support?
> >
> >56k modem internt (don't know the brand)
> If it is a PCI modem, then, no
> >Soundblaster LIVE! value
> no
I have the Soundblaster Live! working on my linux machine. Creative
Labs now have someone writing drivers for linux. You can download a
driver module (sblive) from their web site. The package contains
modules for kernel versions 2.0.36-0.7 (Redhat 5.2) and 2.2.5.
You will probably need to recompile the kernel.
Ian
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From: Gary I Kahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: my okidata okipage 6e printer won't print
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 19:53:01 -0400
> The printer light just blinks and nothing is printed. I tried adjusting
> all options for the ljet4 (send EOF .....supress headers etc)
> (under printool) ; nothing seems to work.
1. Try printing to the printer under Windows, if you have it
available, to rule out a hardware problem.
2. Could you please be more specific about the blinking? Has
the printer finished its warmup cycle? Is it in the non-blinking
light stage before you attempt to print? Is the blinking fast or
slow? Slow is about once per second, and indicates that the
printer is receiving data. Fast blinking is noticeably more than
once per second, and indicates a problem. For me, the most
common problem has been the out-of-paper condition. Other than
that, I've had one paper-jam and a couple of instances of my not
having closed the paper drawer completely.
I used the Red Hat Linux Print System Manager to configure my
printer under RH5.1 and RH6.0. Here's what I used to get it
running:
Name: lp
Spool Directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp
File Limit in Kb: 0
Printer Device: /dev/lp0
Input Filter: *auto* - LaserJet4
Supress Headers is checked.
On the Filter screen:
Printer Type: HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series
Resolution: 300x300
Paper Size: letter
Color Depth: default
Printing Options: 1 page per output page
Margins: 18 pts for each.
Gary Kahn
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From: Cliff Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Success writing to IDE zip drive
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:26:15 -0500
Thanks to those who helped me out with my problems writing to my IDE
zip. Here is what I've learned.
The maintainer of the relevant section of the kernel (Alan Cox)
apparently is aware of the problem, and has a patch against kernel
2.2.10. You can find it at ftp.linux.org.uk in the file
patch-2.2.10.ac4.gz. However, I got errors when I tried to execute the
patch. Presumably (since Mr. Cox works for redhat) the next update of
the kernel from redhat will fix the problem.
Here is what worked for me: Create a new kernel in which the ide-floppy
option is turned _off_, and turn _on_ ide-scsi and generic-scsi. (I
compiled them in directly. It may work to compile as modules.) Add the
following line to /etc/conf.modules:
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
Boot your new kernel, and the zip drive should show up as a scsi
device. Assuming you have no scsi card in your machine, that means the
device is /dev/sda, so you should be able to see the zip disk at
/dev/sda4 (assuming you have not repartitioned the disk).
I hope this works for others.
--cb
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Millenium Video and Sony Monitor problem
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 17:16:55 -0700
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Boris Shor wrote:
> I tried re-installing Linux and manually entering the refresh rates from
> the Sony manual, but the outcome was just the same: a flickering
> display.
you re-installed linux to get Xwindows running ??? Sorry to say this but
this obsession with reinstallation must be some Microsoft epidemic. Why
don't you look at a good book like "Running LInux" - I think it's on the
web at the linux documentation project - and follow their instructions.
Get some XF86Config file (I can email you mine - using a millenium myself)
and then run X probing only redirecting the output to a file to analyze.
Use one modeline at a time to figure out which one works.
Gerald
PS: btw, does RH6 use runlevel 5 by default ???
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More or fewer drives better for RAID
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 09:40:37 +1000
Jimmie Houchin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Thanks to Justin B Willoughby, Tony Platt, Dr Rowan Hughes for
>replying to my post.
>
>After posting I went to search for more raid information at the DPT
>site. I learned I didn't understand as much as I thought, which wasn't
>much. :)
>
>If able to, RAID 1 looks the best.
>DPT says that you can add drives to the array anytime you need more
>space.
>
>With mirroring they would have to be added in pairs?
>With RAID 5 they could be added one at time?
>Is this correct?
Yes some controllers able expansion of the raid 5 array
Expansion of a raid 1 mirror isn't possible, unless you add another mirrored
pair of drives. Then add the mirrored pair's partition into your linux tree.
>The website will be built using Apache, JServ and Java Servlets. It
>will be database oriented. About the only thing potentially not in the
>database will be images. The database will be very large.
Raid 5 is good for lots of little files with lots of random access.
Raid 4 is good for large files with mainly sequential access..ie people
reading and writing video / movie files
>Does the single app, database oriented website impact the choice of
>which RAID?
If the database has very critical info contained within yes I would
recommend going RAID 5 and have a hot spare designated
A hot spare is a drive the controller can pull into the raid array, if any
of the drives in the array fails.
it works like this on my systems
say 14 drives in a raid box
13 of them set up as raid 5 (one logical drive )
1 drive sits and does nothing ( hot spare ) isn't even powered up.
I walk over and simulate that a drive has failed
Pull a drive out !!!! say ID5
Instantly the hot spare fires up and the raid 5 array begins to transfer
data ( from the parity on the remaining 12 drives) to the temporary ID5 hot
spare.
A light goes on saying there is a problem with drive at ID5, meanwhile the
hot spare drive has a different light on which flashes slowly indicating
that it is rebuilding.
Also you are likely to get some messages displayed on screen that something
is up.
When I replace the dead drive with a fresh new one, the controller senses
this and instantly begins writing all the data from the hot spare to the new
drive.
When it is finished the hot spare is returned to powered down and ready
again.
All my data is safe, and I didn't have to worry that all this happend whilst
I was (pretending to be ) asleep!!!
This hot spare also helps in the situation ( altho very unlikely ) of two
drive failing pretty close to each other.
As if I don't have a hot spare assigned and a drive goes belly up say at
2am. Well that OK as the raid will keep working albeit at a reduced rate
until I replace the failed drive. But what if another drive goes at 5.30am
just before I get to work???
the whole raid dies.
But if I had the hot spare assigned the drive that died at 2am was
"replaced" by the hot spare. So the raid array is still running Fully, but
at 5.30am when the second drive goes, everything is still up and running OK,
it is just in the degraded mode reduced rate.
You can usually assign more than one Hot spare. But it depends what your
data is worth to you.??? As having drives sitting doing nothing costs $$$
and isn't for everyone.
The hot spare can also cover the drives in a mirrored pair or a Raid 4 array
but not a strip (raid 0 ) naturally
Also naturally the Hot spare has to be of the same size ( or larger ) than
any of the drives it is to replace.
>Will RAID help any with the 2gb file size limit on 32bit Linux?
No that is the limitation of linux, having a (logical) drive of 500gig won't
get around that.
Tony Platt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: 3C515 NIC probs
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:51:39 +0200
In article <c0ud3.9966$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Don Awalt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone successfully running on the NIC 3C515-TX? Autoprobe did not find it,
>I am kinda lost on how to get the card recognized in RH 6.0...
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/3c515.html for a start.
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Printer problem for kernel 2.2.10
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:32:57 +0000
If you didn't solve your problem yet, take a look in a previous post in
newsgroup entitled:
"Re: Can't print; /dev/lp0 not detected; procfs?"
You may have the same problem I had with ZIP and LP at same port and the
solution is easy to apply but not
easy to find ;)
Good Printings and let me know if it helped, I really wanna know how many
people is stuck with this
very hard problem.
Rafael Stekolshchik wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why my printer DeskJet 400 doesn't work?
> (before for linux 2.0.30 it worked finely,
> and it also worked in Win95)
>
> Here are reports from different programs:
>
> 1) kernel is updated to 2.2.10 ,
> parport & printer configuration are:
>
> CONFIG_PARPORT=m
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
> CONFIG_PRINTER=m
> CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
>
> 2)
> more conf.modules
> returns
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
>
> 3)
> dmesg:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP]
> parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
> lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
>
> 4)
> When I do
> /sbin/insmod parport_probe.o
>
> I get
> parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP DeskJet 400
> in the /var/log/messages
>
> 5) My printer is in the chain with the ZIP device
>
> 6) lpq:
>
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 1st root 33 /opt/test.txt 2610 bytes
>
> 7) more /proc/parport/0/autoprobe
> returns
>
> CLASS:PRINTER;
> MODEL:HP DeskJet 400;
> MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard;
> DESCRIPTION:HP ;
> COMMAND SET:PCL,C32;
>
> 8) more /proc/parport/0/devices
> returns
>
> lp
>
> 9) more /proc/parport/0/hardware
> base: 0x378
> irq: 7
> dma: none
> modes: SPP
>
> 10) lpd is running,
> ps auxS | grep lpd
> returns
>
> lp 66 0.0 0.1 1608 40 ? S 07:47 0:00 /usr/sbin/lpd
>
> root 62 0.0 0.0 1596 0 ? SW 07:47 0:00 (lpd)
>
> 11) /etc/printcap
>
> lp|lp0|a4-auto-mono:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/a4-auto-mono:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/a4-auto-mono/log:\
> :if=/usr/sbin/lpf:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
>
> Rafael Stekolshchik
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