Linux-Hardware Digest #664, Volume #10 Sun, 4 Jul 99 11:13:45 EDT
Contents:
Notebook with ATI Mach 64 ("Ting EDV")
Re: serial port blues ("Damian Wright")
Re: PCMCIA Ethernet networking problem (crayfish)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (kls)
ESS688 real SB compatible? ("Eric Wick")
SCSI reset to detect scanner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie Q on unsupported pcmcia card (Peter)
Which NIC in Fujitsu ErgoPro C4/33? (Peter Klein)
Re: Configuring my PCI modem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: APM patch for sysvinit (poweroff) (Thorsten Heit)
Video Capture (B&W) multiple inputs: (VSP24) (J'mes Pallack)
Hard drive size ("John Hansknecht")
Anybody running Linux on a Compaq Presario 1685 laptop? (Tim Smith)
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (George Macdonald)
Re: Hard drive size ("Kichi Leung")
Re: Modem Problem, RH 6.0 ("Jim_Alvarez")
Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128 ("Enrico")
Re: courier v.everything NON WIN MODEM ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Celeron, what's the catch? (George Macdonald)
System hangs when switching virtual consoles (Thorsten Heit)
Re: CL SB16 Waveffects (ViBRA 16X) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HPUX <--> RH60 NFS performance problem ("Johnny")
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From: "Ting EDV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Notebook with ATI Mach 64
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:26:12 +0200
Hi,
i have a Notebook with an ATI MACH 64 Graphicscard. I can not run X-Server
with them (i use Suse 6.1), i see always double pictures on screen.
Who can tell me a solution for that?
Thanks
Peter
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From: "Damian Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: serial port blues
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:22:46 +0200
Just a possible suggestion...
Try ATV1Q1
If it still doesn't work then it's possible your IRQ's are set up
incorrectly, on Slackware in your /etc/rc.d folder there's a file called
rc.serial edit it and check what IRQ's are being used...
Damian
Visual Numerics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am running a 2.2.5-15 kernel on a PPro and a
> PII and am having the same problem on both
> machines, so I assume it is a setup problem.
>
> I cannot get any response from the serial ports.
>
> If I attach a modem and use minicom I can
> talk to the modem, control it, etc, but get
> absolutely no responses (OK, ati info, etc)
> printed on the screen. This also happens for
> cu. I have tried two external modems and the
> software works for internal modems - I get my
> responses.
>
> This makes me assume it is a serial port setup
> problem.
>
> Does any one have a suggestion or two?
>
> Thanks
> Jeremy
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From: crayfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: PCMCIA Ethernet networking problem
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 11:22:10 +0200
Mike Carden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You might have to give us your configuration instead of just writing
that everything is ok :) In fact, if something is not working, there
has to be a problem, and I do not think this is a interrupt prob (as
somebody else wrote).
You might have to give us your configuration instead of just writing
that everything is ok :) In fact, if something is not working, there
has to be a problem, and I do not think this is a interrupt prob (as
somebody else wrote).
1. Can you see the replys on your linux box?
2. How did you connect your linux box? Do you get any other traffic to
your linux box (can you telnet to it)? If not, there might be a prob
with your wiring.
greetings, Crayfish
> I've a big problem which none of the documentation has helped with!
> Configuration:-
> Pentium II laptop with Xircom Realport 10/100+Modem 56
> Redhat 6.0 new install.
> Problem.
> The hardware works fine with win95/98/nt including the xircom
> I get a real weird problem with linux 6.0.
> The linux machine puts packets onto the network with no problem.
> I can see them with a sniffer.
> They are mainly arp packets of course until I manually add an entry via
> arp -s for another machine.
> When I do this and then a ping, I see the icmp traffic in both
> directions with the sniffer. The linux box sees no replys ( the led on
> the xircom flickers though as one would expect ).
> ifconfig -a reports no packets RX TX or collisions.
> network addresses, netmasks etc are all correct and the other machine
> populates it's MAC arp table with the linux boxes ether address
> correctly.
> Anybody got any ideas?
> Thanks.
> --
> Mike Carden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kls)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:10:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>>
>>On 4 Jul 1999 01:49:20 GMT, Chris Robato Yao
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Not if you use a 3DNow enabled compiler like Codewarrior.
>>>
>>>If it is compiled with 3DNow, chances are it can be much
>faster.
>>
>>Agreed, but Linux (the kernel) does not use any of the
>advantages of 3DNow
>>to my knowledge. It does not use any of the features of the
>PIII either,
>>for that matter.
>>
>>>Wrong boy. These are official SPEC benchmarks, which of course
>has been
>>>verified by the SPEC organization body.
>
>
>What it does do is take advantage of duals. can get a lx dual
>board for $50, bx dual, socket 370(ie don't have to buy converter
>cards) with ata-66 for $130 & c400's for $75x2. going the cheap
>route, $200 for dual c400's vs $200 k63-450. k63 will loose
>easy. multitasking, compiling, databases, spreadsheets, cad, ...
>take advantage of duals.
Before the amd fanatics jump on me about it, cheap route $220(have to buy
two slot 1 adapters). Side note: An interesting piece of hardware is 3dlabs
vx1 video card $200. Drivers take advantage of duals! Offloads geometry
to the second cpu. If what you do involves opengl/modeling...
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From: "Eric Wick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESS688 real SB compatible?
Date: 4 Jul 99 11:26:39 -0100
Hello,
is the ESS688 really full SB16 compatible, or is this only a tricky feature
when using win-drivers?
--
ByeBye
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI reset to detect scanner
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:10:50 +0200
Hi,
i have only two quantum scsi disks on my box (no IDE disk), the scsi
host is an adaptec 2490UW2.
I am using the aic7xxx module for it.
i also have a microtek scsi scanner (scanmaker 630), which works really
fine with sane.
but, to use it i have to turn on my scsi scanner before i reboot. (which
i don't do to often ;-) )
my problem is i would like to, somehow, make the scsi host reconize my
scanner when i turn on my scanner *after* boot.
The solution i thought was to rmmod the aic7xxx modules, which does not
work: device is busy, of course... I tried to think of something else
but could find any thing....
But somebody told me it was "impossible" for my root was on a scsi
partition that could not be unmounted since i have a only-scsi set up.
Any ideas?
(Btw i have no scsi terminator, it works fine but i know i should get
one)
Thanks,
JCC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter)
Subject: Newbie Q on unsupported pcmcia card
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 10:33:31 GMT
I have installed pcmcia support on my laptop and the pc card modem
works fine but my brand X ethernet card will not, 'cardctl config'
reports it as ge2412, and it is reported in /log/messages as
unsupported card, is this as far as I can go or can I configure it
manually.
Looking at the win98 inf file it may be a ne2000 clone as this is
mentioned several times, and I wondered if I can force Linux to
recognize it as such in a .conf file somewhere.
I have been using Linux for 3 weeks now and am finding it quite a
struggle, but am determined not to give up.
Any help will be gratefully received.
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From: Peter Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which NIC in Fujitsu ErgoPro C4/33?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:34:55 +0200
Hi
Does anyone know what type of chip is used for the built int
ethernetport for the
Fujitsu (ICL (Nokia)) ErgoPro C4/33? I would really like to know this so
that I
can use the ethernet port.
Is there an automatic prober besides the kernel probe?
Thanks for reading this far, please reply by E-mail if you have any
clue...
/Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Configuring my PCI modem
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 07:30:22 GMT
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
[...]
>I haven't seen any such modems at that price.
I bought an external Acer modem (V90/56K) for roughly USD 70.--, but
that was already 2 or 3 months ago. A quick glance into any HW related
magazine should list various models of that kind. Note that the Acer
I got was indeed supporting class2.0 faxing, which is very rare these
days (I needed it for mgetty+sendfax).
Michael
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From: Thorsten Heit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: APM patch for sysvinit (poweroff)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:23:16 +0200
> > In rc.0, replace
> >
> > command="halt"
> >
> > with
> >
> > command="halt -p"
> >
>
> I tried "halt -p" and "poweroff" as root on the console but it only did
>
> a usual halt, even if both manpage and halt --help said there is such
>
> an option -p
>
> My kernel is built with apm support. Any idea whats wrong?
The system normally executes the rc0.d's halt script when typing "halt" or
"poweroff" on the command line. Because the script normally contains
the "halt" command to stop your system, you should replace it by
"halt -p" or "poweroff", and your Linux box should then be able to turn
power off via software.
Thorsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J'mes Pallack)
Subject: Video Capture (B&W) multiple inputs: (VSP24)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 12:40:24 GMT
Anyone have any expierence using VSP24 card w/Linux?
Description:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=125419279
>
> The VSP24 card is ideal for Capturing Real-Motion & Single Frame video from a
>Camcorder, CCD Camere, VCR, or TV tuner ....... IN C o L o R to AVI or JPEG files or
>VIDEOCONFERENCING via
> Internet/LAN/telephone line.
>
> In addition, the Overlay capability uses the Feature connector on your VGA card
>to view Full Motion video in a window with no load on your system. This is perfect
>for surveillance, watching TV/Tape on VCR, etc.
>
> Product Description: The VSP-24 features 786K VRAM framebuffer, two RCA type
>NTSC or PAL video inputs, 24-bit 16-bit or 8-bit capture modes, software controls
>including video source selection, hue, brightness,
> contrast, etc. and compatible video sources include Video Cameras, VCRs,
>Videodisc, CCD video camera, TV tuner, VHS, VHS-C or Beta. MPC Level 2 compliant-
>Supports MS Video for Windows, .AVI and JPEG
> file formats and most Windows Video Capture and VideoConferencing applications.
>New in unopened shrink-wrapped box, complete with software, cables, and manuals.
>
note it has 2 video inputs. I was thinking of having multiple of these
cards installed for 6/8 inpus. Then have the images availabe via
TCP/IP local and post some or all (some encrypted/passwored access)
at my ISP for my webpage.
any suggestions on how to do this?
J'mes
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From: "John Hansknecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard drive size
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:06:24 -0400
I have been told that Linux does not support hard drives larger then 8.4GB.
I checked the Redhat manuals and do not see anything on disk size. As I will
be buying a new hard drive (second) for installing Linux I would like to
confirm this before I make my purchase. Will someone please confirm what
size drive Linux supports?
--
John Hansknecht
Hansknecht Technology Services
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From: Tim Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anybody running Linux on a Compaq Presario 1685 laptop?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 06:18:01 -0700
I'm looking at laptops and this one might fit my needs, but I would
like to know if anyone has successfully run Linux on it?
Any trouble getting X up on it?
Any trouble with I/O ports on it?
I don't care about audio on it, though if it works, it would be a bonus
-Tim
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From: fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 13:43:18 GMT
On 4 Jul 1999 01:57:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Robato Yao)
wrote:
>Unless you want to base your computation code entirely on X87 FPU
>opcodes, the Intel solution is better, and for the two, the PII or PIII
>is a better choice due to its larger caches and faster memory subsystem.
>
>On the other hand, if one uses a 3DNow supporting compiler, like
>Codewarrior, using 3DNow is going to be much faster on the FPU
>computation of large data sets and matrices, so I suggest the AMD route
>here, especially the K6-III 450.
You can't do any matrix over a few equations accurately with 32-bit FPU -
it just doesn't work. OTOH I don't think a student is going to be doing
matrix calcs which will show a huge advantage to the Intel CPUs anyway.
Rgds, George Macdonald
"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
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From: "Kichi Leung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard drive size
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 09:33:46 +0800
I haven't heard of anything like that before...
Linux supports partition sizes of up to 4*1024GB so you shall have no
problems with that.
John Hansknecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:O2sNw3hx#[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have been told that Linux does not support hard drives larger then
8.4GB.
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From: "Jim_Alvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem Problem, RH 6.0
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 06:57:22 -0700
What does the /var/log/message say?
Ahmed Abukmail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello guys, I have just recently upgraded to RedHat 6.0, and now with
> kppp, the modem dials fine, and displays the message logging on to
> network, and then it does and immediate disconnect followed by a
> redial.... I also have a problem using netcfg, it just hangs there, and
> does nothing... Any help would greatly be appreciated....
>
> Thanks
>
> Ahmed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Enrico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Xfree and ATI All-in-wonder 128 or ATI Rage fury 128
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 14:27:03 +0200
Hi everybody
I want to buy an ATI All-in-wonder 128.
Someone has this Videocard (or another one with ATI Rage 128bit chipset like
Rage fury) together with Linux? About Xfree?
I read the XFree Faq and I saw there no ATI RAGE 128 support...
Afterall can I use just simple VGA (640*480) (or better) even if XFREE
doesn't recognize the ATI Rage 128 chipset???
Sorry for my school english
Thanks a lot
P.S.
Please answer in Newsgroup
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: courier v.everything NON WIN MODEM
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 13:10:03 GMT
Mine works very well under RedHat 5.2, so it's the arrangement of your
internals that's giving you problems. I second what others have already
posted: rework your internals to try and get your modem as close to the
front of the pack of IRQ addresses as you can.
In article <7lh43n$l17$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Courier V.everything that is upgraded to V.90 and am using
RH6.0.
> The main reason I do not use Linux is because it will not work with my
> modem.. The modem is set to use COM 3 and IRQ 9 in Win98 and there is
no
> problems, (hyperteminal works fine). Why does every time I start
Minicom
> that the INIT string is displayed very, very slowly? It takes about
30
> seconds to display ATZ! It does dial but as I said it is extremely
slow.
> Kppp says the modem is not responding or is busy on every port I try.
I
> went to 3com's sight and read about some 1 page instruction on how to
get it
> to work in "unix" but all it said was which DIP switches to put down
(which
> I did) I bet no one on these news groups can give a decent answer
because
> no one has for a year.... good luck..
>
>
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From: fammacd=!SPAM^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Macdonald)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: Celeron, what's the catch?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 13:43:16 GMT
On Sat, 3 Jul 1999 04:45:56 -0400, "Suleyman Karabuk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I am a Ph.D. student at Lehigh and recently assembled myself a Celeron
>machine running at 488 Mhz (overclocked from 433). I was very curious about
>its performance compared to regular Pentium IIs in scientific computing. I
>ran a mathematical optimization package called CPLEX on my machine and on a
>regular Pentium 400. The result is that the regular Pentium II outperforms
>my machine (celeron 488) by about 10%. Extrapolating from here I conclude
>that the Pentium performs about 25% faster than an equally clocked Celeron
>in intensive computing tasks. Therefore for fractals and chess expect a
>similar behaviour.
What size of LP model were you running on CPLEX? Was it LP or MIP? I'd
expect the performance comparison of CPLEX to vary with the size of the
model. Small models of say 2K or 3K equations, where the working set is
mainly in the 128KB L2 cache, should perform better on a Celeron, medium
sized models (up to 10K or so equations??) should show an advantage to the
PII but with very large models, which overflow the PII L2 cache, I'd expect
to see the comparison start to level out again.
Rgds, George Macdonald
"Just because they're paranoid doesn't mean you're not psychotic" - Who, me??
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From: Thorsten Heit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: System hangs when switching virtual consoles
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 15:15:29 +0200
Since I have installed an ATI Rage Fury (32 MB) on my machine
Linux randomly hangs up when switching between the different
virtual consoles :-(
I don't know on what it depends; sometimes it works,
sometimes not. Because XFree86 doesn't support the Rage128
chip yet I downloaded the demo version of XiGraphics
Accelerated-X, but I have the same problems: Sometimes I'm
able to start X, but most of the time the complete system
freezes...
Does anybody have an idea why the system stops and (perhaps)
how to solve this?
BTW: I'm using RedHat-6.0 w/ kernel 2.3.5; today I tried
2.2.10, but had the same problems: the first time I was
able to start X, the second time the whole system hung up...
Thorsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CL SB16 Waveffects (ViBRA 16X)
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 13:55:00 GMT
Ethan Lamoreaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I can't help you on the subject of full-duplex recording and playback,
> as I haven't yet set up sound recording software under Linux.
I just mentioned that per chance that I would ever do any recording
via the soundcard's inputs. Other than that, thanks a _lot_ for your
response! Your explanation was golden. I feel a lot better now ;-)
Take care,
Greg H.
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From: "Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.protocols.nfs,comp.protocols.tcp-ip,comp.sys.hp.hpux,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.misc
Subject: HPUX <--> RH60 NFS performance problem
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:38:31 +0200
Reply-To: "Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi
I'm running rh60 as nfs server and and I use hpux11.0 as nfs client.
I can mount the nfs filesystem on the HP but the performance is so low it's
driving me crazy.
I think its the nfs version on the linux side that creates the problem,
since its using nfsv2 (i use rpcinfo -p linuxhost)and the hpux11.0 server is
nfsv3.
I use vers=2 in the mount options but it does not help.
please HELP!!
the service & support from HP is so slow that I need to solve this myself.
plus they are blaming it all on the linux side(but thats another issue to
discuss)
any idea or suggestion is welcomed
thanks in advance,
Johnny El
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