Linux-Hardware Digest #643, Volume #10 Thu, 1 Jul 99 17:13:41 EDT
Contents:
Re: ps2 mouse freezing ("Steve")
es1373 based soundcard (Henrik Karlsson)
Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop? (Leonard Evens)
Re: yamaha 4416S and Adaptec AHA2940 ("Uni-Bayreuth")
Re: how to configure on board Ethernet chip? (Vidar Andresen)
Re: UDMA-4, U/66 performance ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: best sound card
Re: UDMA-4, U/66 performance ("Ron Reaugh")
Creative Labs CD120 ("Don McDaniel")
Re: HP 720C doesn't print (Richard L. Gabriel)
Re: FS/Trade: want laptop, no 286, 386, 486 please (Jon Melbo)
Many serial ports for Linux ("H. Wade Minter")
Redhat 6 and Mylex DAC960PL - can't autoprobe ("Dino")
Redhat 6 and Mylex DAC960PL - can't autoprobe ("Dino")
Re: linux and UPS (David Ripton)
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From: "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ps2 mouse freezing
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 02:15:22 -0400
ahh i guess thats it then cause i had it pointed to /dev/psaux and it didnt
work on my other system that was running windows as well....
thanks for your help, steve
Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Steve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > i have a ps2 mouse, when i run gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2 my computer is
> > freezes... then when i unplug my mouse it unfreeze with all the letters
or
> > anything i typed while frozen... the mouse is a serial mouse that i used
on
> > my old box and now i have a ps2 adapter so i can use it on my new box,
which
> > is just a gateway 2000 case and mobo. i have ps2 suppost added in my
kernel
> > and yes ive read the busmouse-howto
>
> Are you sure your serial mouse can be used with the adapter? Not all
> of them will work that way.
>
> You have of course checked that /dev/mouse points to /dev/psaux.
> --
> Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henrik Karlsson)
Subject: es1373 based soundcard
Date: 1 Jul 1999 18:54:14 GMT
I just bought a SoundBlaster PCI64V for my linux box. The main chip on
this board is a es1373 chip. There were no drivers for es1373 but i tried
the es1371 driver and it works. But the sound quality is realy bad. When
I play sounds in Windows it is perfect but in linux it sounds terrible.
I've tried the no-hlt thing but it didnt improve the sound quality. What
to do?
--
/H
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron compatibility? What is best laptop?
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 13:26:30 -0500
David J. Topper wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've run Linux on desktop machines since kernel 1.0.x. I also use it in
> our lab. The time has come, however, to explore laptop issues. My
> employer has a deal with Dell, which offers competative discounts for
> laptops. I must say that the Dell Inspiron line looks pretty good!
>
> I'd love to hear comments / get input from folks. I've already
> contacted the OSS folks about audio support, but have yet to hear. I'm
> of course concerned about support for various components like the 3com
> combo 56k + 10/100 that comes with the Dell. DVD? PCMCIA? Video Card?
>
> Email responses preferred.
>
> Thanks very much,
>
> DT
> --
> David Topper
> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
> Programmer Analyst - School of Arts and Sciences
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
> (804) 924-6887
One of my colleagues recently purchased a Dell Inspiron with a
15 in screen. We had a lot of trouble setting it up. First, we
could not use Fips2.0 to reduce the size of the Win 98 partition
because Dell had put some unmovable files at the end of the
partition, which could not be moved down by dfrag. (I seem
to remember there is a way around this, but I can't recall what
it is.) We used Partition Magic instead, and that worked. But
then we had a lot of trouble setting up X. My colleague had
found a web page with instructions, but I don't recall what it
was. (There are several other such web pages if you look.)
We finally got it to work, but in order to do so we had to
_downgrade_ the BIOS! We were not able to get his
PCMCIA ethernet card to work, and he had to go out of
town, so we will give it another try when he gets back.
Of course some or all of these problems might arise for
any other laptop. I've had good success with a Winbook.
When I bought it they were using a C&T video chip which
was covered by XFree. I decided to reinstall Windows 95
rather than try to use Fips, so I don't know if that would
work. But my ethernet card works fine.
Whatever you get, double check what the vendor provides
against any recommendations since the vendors change
their hardware frequently.
Of course if you get a laptop from a Linux platform provider
like VAResearch or Penguin, you won't have to worry about
these matters, but they tend to concentrate on high end
expensive machines. Still it is worth checking their
web pages.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: "Uni-Bayreuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: yamaha 4416S and Adaptec AHA2940
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 17:34:14 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb in Nachricht
<7lecro$2q2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Paul,
>
>I have some problems with my AHA78XX and my 4416s. Linux seems to timeout
>when detecting it. I get Kernel panic and have to Ctrl-Alt-Del. Upon which
>the SCSI bios does not detect the 4416s anymore and Linux boots up
>perfectly. Any Ideas?
>
>Regards,
>
Same questions as before:
-Which distribution?
-Kernel Version?
-Other devices attached?
-Mainboard?
-Bios-Version of Mainboard?
-Bios Version of 4416S?
I have Kernel 2.2.5, Asus P2B-DS with Bios 10.2 Beta, 4416S with 1.0g.
Runs perfectly.
At least, if I use the Suse 6.1 Setup. 6.0 doesn�t recognize the 4416 on my
AHA7890. I think, the Kernel 2.2.x has great improvements in newer
SCSI-Adapter-Support. Any Kernel <2.2.x give me the same kernel-panic you
have...
So: fetch the SuSe 6.1, newest Bioses -> will work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vidar Andresen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: how to configure on board Ethernet chip?
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 06:32:40 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bob Berman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I believe that I need to enable support for my on board Ethernet chipset in the
>kernel somewhere. My motherboard - ASUS P2B-LS has what it says is an Intel
>82558 Ethernet 10/100 chipset. I can not find any information about how to
>enable this in the kernel (2.2.?). I selected "EISA,PCI,VLB and on board
>controllers", but none of the controllers listed below that option resemble the
>82558. How do I get this Ethernet working?
Both eepro100.c and rclanmtl.c have the number '82558' in them.
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html for a start.
Mvh Vidar Andresen
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: asus.support.english.mainboard.p2bx,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: UDMA-4, U/66 performance
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:35:31 -0700
Joachim Klein wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>
>>
>> Don't expect any significant performance improvement from a Promise
Ultra66.
>
>But expect one significant advantage: with a Promise controller you have
>EIDE busmastering directly after booting your machine.
Not true.
> The onboard
>chipsets often report "Drive xxx at UDMA 33" or something similar but do
>not really activate DMA mode before W9x / NT4 is loaded and has started
>the busmaster driver.
True and both the Promise and on mobo EIDE controllers work that way.
>Promise cards have the the busmaster drivers for
>DOS / Win3.xx already in their BIOS...
Not true.
The efficacious use of DMA/busmastering REQUIRES the presence of a
multitasking kernel and therefore NO advantage can be accrued until W9X or
NT4 is loaded and using their respective drivers. This is true for any OS
and also any DMA/busmastering device...SCSI, NIC....
DMA/busmastering saves the CPU for doing something useful during the actual
I/O. No multitasking environment then no advantage.
There may be a small data transfer rate advantage for the Promise and some
mobo BIOSs that actually run UDMA mode in the BIOS but with no CPU usage
advantage since the processor burns a tight loop duing the I/O instead on
actually doing the I/O. The fastest current UDMA66 HDs only sustain about
21MB/sec. and PIO4 does 15MB/sec. I suspect that the difference in boot
time is negligible.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: best sound card
Date: 1 Jul 1999 12:22:20 GMT
Hi Jeremy,
Which soundcard seems to be best for Linux is a matter of your needs (and
your wallet, too). Any Creative Labs Soundblaster 16/32/64/128 will work fine,
but there are more, like Gravis- or Yamaha-Cards.
I own a Soundblaster AWE32 Wavetable card and I'm very happy with it, exept for
some plug-and-play troubles I had when I first installed and configured it.
But this should not scare you from buying a Creative Labs card because nowadays
plug-and-play is not so much trouble anymore (thanks to several pnp-tools).
Be careful with so-called "Soundblaster clones" or "Soundblaster compatible"
equipment, the money you save on these cards may lead you to a quite tedious
installation procedure, or the card may even fail completely to be used with
Linux...
With kernels < 2.2.x you can use the infamous rplayd for sound, with kernels
>= 2.2.x you can use the OSS support which is part of the kernel source now.
This is, of course, free of charge.
However, if you're going to use some exotic sound equipment or high end cards
you may have to purchase a more complete license of OSS (Open Sound System)
from http://www.opensound.com . You can download an evaluation copy of OSS
for free and do some testing.
Some Linux distributions (like S.u.S.E.) come with a free copy of OSS without
any shareware restrictions.
Boris
Jeremy Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What's the best sound card to get for linux? Also, it seems that some sound
> card drivers cost money; is this true?
> Thanks a bundle,
> Jeremy Fincher
[...]
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: asus.support.english.mainboard.p2bx,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Subject: Re: UDMA-4, U/66 performance
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 09:52:30 -0700
Greg Bartels wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Ron Reaugh wrote:
>>
>> Greg Bartels wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> >Jonathan wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Actually I own a promise card. With a 5400 rpm drive I see NO
>> >> difference, however, with the 7200 there is a mark difference in
>> >> performance. It is not an incredible difference. The card let me
>> >> install 4 more ide drives.
>> >
>> >which promise card do you have?
>> >if the Ultra 66, which drivers do you use?
>>
>> Don't expect any significant performance improvement from a Promise
Ultra66.
>
>alright, I'll bite, why not?
>
>a Promise Ultra66 mated to a Western Digital Expert drive
>should be faster than any setup that uses UDMA33, yes?
NO! The Expert sustains about 19MB/sec. and UDMA33 mode is more than fast
enough to handle that at full speed. See the Ultra66 review at
www.anandtech.com
>I think the Expert drive spun at 7200 RPM and had more
>platters than usual, so maybe it can utilize the
>UDMA66 bus.
Nope.
>Computer Shopper did a recent review on the card and
>said it benchmarked faster.
Where exactly? I looked and couldn't find it.
The mobo's UDMA33 mode will give equivalent performance.
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From: "Don McDaniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Labs CD120
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:33:30 -0700
I am attempting to install RedHat 6.0 on my computer.
The problem is when the Install program asks for the cd,
i put the cd in, and then the install program presents me with a list of
CDROM drives. Of course, my Creative Labs CD120 8 speed drive is not on the
list.
I have tried using the "linux hdc=cdrom" at the boot prompt.
This does not work. It shouldnt, as my cdrom is on a proprietary card,
with a base of 0x180, and on interrupt 11.
Any help will be appreciated, especially if someone could tell me if i can
hook up my particular cdrom drive directly to one of the ide controllers on
my system. Else, i am going to have to buy a Linux-compatible cd rom
drive...
Thanks in advance
Don McDaniel
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From: **gabriel**@twave.net (Richard L. Gabriel)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: HP 720C doesn't print
Reply-To: **gabriel**@twave.net
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 16:10:38 GMT
Daniel Connelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Try using an hp with the closest number to your printer, I have an hp 870cxi
>and i use hp 650c and it works fine.
>hope this helps
>root wrote:
>> Dear reader,
>>
>> I've a HP 720C colour deskjet and I have SuSE 6.1 runing on my computer.
>> During instalation of the OS I had to choose a printer. Because HP 720C
>> isn't on the list, I've tried other printers (like cdjet550) on /dev/lp0
>> but neither will print.
>>
>> The solution may be quite simple (I hope so) but being a newbie, things
>> are not that easy to me
>>
>> Tank you in advance !!
>>
>> --
>> ***************ROOT@hotzenplotz***********************
>>
>> Ulrich Gruen
>> Amsterdamse straatweg 609bis-a/2
>> 3553 EJ Utrecht
>> 030-2420019
>> ICQ: 35629246
>--
>Great ideas are controversial
>Or at least were at one time.
Daniel, this printer requires a "pbm to ppa" conversion program to
work. It (pbm2ppa0.8.6) can be downloaded from www.httptech.com/ppa/
Good luck, Richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Melbo)
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: FS/Trade: want laptop, no 286, 386, 486 please
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 1999 20:33:29 GMT
Sounds like a big pile of junk. Also, you didn't even bother to make
things into more of an easy to read list.
On Thu, 01 Jul 1999 04:53:57 -0500, weeve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have ten 4meg edo simms, two 8 meg edo simms, and four 16meg edo simms
>(all 72 pin), and some 2 and 1 meg 30 pin ram. a 486sx board with
>riser,a Nec Multispin 3Xi scsi jewelcase cdrom with and jewelcase
>inside, a Creative Labs SB16(soundblaster 16) scsi , with adaptec,
>adapter card(sound and scsi), two floppy drives, a 1.7 gig a desktop AT
>power supply 250watt, a power strip, a 15 inch moniter, every month
>turns off every 10 seconds, can be fixed once bought by you. 19inch
>Sassi Industrial bought for $4000 touch screen moniter(now build buy
>Mitumishi I think(some japanese distrib bought them) droped in shipping
>works fine accept for lines down screen and a little fuzzy, crack on
>plastic, screw joint for front plastic have to be redone, missing the
>panel in the front for adjustments(Can help on getting the panel, I know
>where to get the cables for the touch screen, one is $100(five color
>split cable, plugs in to video card)), one is like $30(direct serial
>port cable) and a power supply cable too). 4meg s3 Nitro 3d video card
>w/ drivers, 2meg S3 virge video card w/ drivers, vesa local bus ide
>controller card, 2 intel etherexpresses 10BT cards isa, 25 ft CAT5 cable
>pre ended with RJ45 connectors, Zoom 14.4 v.32bis external modem, Tv
>elite pro(converts vga to tv) internal card with cables, 1 sony class 1
>laser jewelcase cdrom hooks up to soundblaster 16 or compatible with
>cable, 1 Toshiba class 1 laser jewelcase scsi cdrom with cable(on both
>class 1's don't know the speed guessing 1-4x). Xfiles the game(worth at
>least $30)opened never used. Tons of linux flavors a year old. and a AT
>desktop case that fits the power supply I have. Also At least 50 Atari
>Games and a Atari 2600, a Atari huge system, controller pads(all 6)
>missing ac adapters, and tons of nitendo games.
>
>Want to trade for Compaq Armada, Toshiba Tecra or Satillite, IBM
>Thinkpad, Nec versa, Acer maybe, Dell maybe, hoping for a internal cdrom
>and floppy, and good battery but will pay for new battery if no
>arangement can be made, looking for 100mhz or over with 32 ram 64 would
>be great, and at least a 1 gig harddrive, other laptop and interesting
>offers accepted. Give me some idea of other things with this you'd like
>to trade I will find them fast. Looking for a good laptop for linux
>pref. redhat 6.0 got the cd though, anything that can run linux sweet.
>
>Weeve
>
>the email to cbrownl is about the vaio on Feb 13 for sale
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From: "H. Wade Minter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Many serial ports for Linux
Date: 1 Jul 1999 15:44:54 GMT
I'm looking for a device that will plug into a PCI slot on an intel
system, and allow Linux to have many serial ports off of that card.
An example of something similar to what I'm looking for is at:
http://www.systech.com/catalog/ProductsCatalog.html#Parallex
but it only connects to the parallel port, and isn't supported under
Linux.
Does anyone have any ideas?
--Wade
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From: "Dino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6 and Mylex DAC960PL - can't autoprobe
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:45:27 -0500
Hi :)
Trying to install a Mylex DAC960 onto HP Netserver LC motherboard (has an
internat Adaptec 2740 SCSI card). Have the DAC configured so it's the first
SCSI card that the bios sees, yet when I try and select the DAC960 driver
within the RH6 install, it comes up with the following error (in expert
mode)
"I cannot find the device on your system"
pci probing for scsi devices
pci probe found 1 SCSI devices
found driver for Mylex DAC960
in loadDeviceDriver, ks=0, typName = SCSI
pci probing for scsi devices
pci probe found 1 SCSI devices
found driver for Mylex DAC960
running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/DAC960.o
insmod failed!
Could anyone shed some light on this please? It's driving my friend and I
nuts - we've tried more or less everythign we can think of. Firmware updates
ect have all been tried...
Many thanks,
Dino
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From: "Dino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Redhat 6 and Mylex DAC960PL - can't autoprobe
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1999 15:45:27 -0500
Hi :)
Trying to install a Mylex DAC960 onto HP Netserver LC motherboard (has an
internat Adaptec 2740 SCSI card). Have the DAC configured so it's the first
SCSI card that the bios sees, yet when I try and select the DAC960 driver
within the RH6 install, it comes up with the following error (in expert
mode)
"I cannot find the device on your system"
pci probing for scsi devices
pci probe found 1 SCSI devices
found driver for Mylex DAC960
in loadDeviceDriver, ks=0, typName = SCSI
pci probing for scsi devices
pci probe found 1 SCSI devices
found driver for Mylex DAC960
running: /bin/insmod /bin/insmod /modules/DAC960.o
insmod failed!
Could anyone shed some light on this please? It's driving my friend and I
nuts - we've tried more or less everythign we can think of. Firmware updates
ect have all been tried...
Many thanks,
Dino
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: linux and UPS
Date: 1 Jul 1999 20:51:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
RohrMat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm loocking for a method to install an UPS (I don't know which one I could
>take) under linux. It should shut-down my linux-system automatically if the
>power is down.
Read the UPS-HOWTO.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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