Linux-Hardware Digest #884, Volume #10 Fri, 30 Jul 99 06:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Video card Query? (Howard Mann)
Re: How to create bootdisk on a LS120 drive? (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Maxi Isis (Valette =?x-user-defined?Q?Jean=2DS=E9bastien?=)
Re: SMP Mother boards? (Bryan)
new savage4 video card ("Duane Powers")
Re: SCSI CD Changers? (Dirk Aust)
Re: Kernel drivers vs. Kernel modules? (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
Re: Configuring USR 56K Internal Voice Modem
Sis 620 setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: x (Matthias Kilian)
Linux on an ACER Travelmate 330T (almost: No sound or APM) (Gary Lawrence Murphy)
Disk going bad? (Graham Harris)
Re: TWAIN Scanner Support? (Jeffrey Chok)
Re: New Hardware(Tyan s1590/ATI All in Wonder 128) (A Guy Called Tyketto)
AWE32 not detected in RH6.0 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and scanners (Jeffrey Chok)
Re: When is it safe to hdparm a drive? ("James Young")
Re: Matrox G400 (Markus)
Re: BRU2000 PE how to exclude directories (Johan Groth)
Re: new savage4 video card (Kai Tujula)
Re: What's the best K6-3 mobo? (fIPS)
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video card Query?
Date: 30 Jul 1999 05:30:29 GMT
Alok R Saboo wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> I have a S3 765 Vga Card, is this card supported.
> Someone told that the card is supported as "S3 86C765". Is it true.
>
> Help,
> From Alok.
I believe this card is the S3 Trio 64V+ card, which is supported
by XFree86,3.3.3.1, using the XF86_S3 x-server.
Cheers,
Howard Mann.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron L. Spitzer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to create bootdisk on a LS120 drive?
Date: 30 Jul 1999 06:00:43 GMT
Steve said his hard drives are SCSI. Most BIOSes will try to boot
the IDE device first. So we are installing LILO and a bootimage
on an IDE drive but root is on a SCSI drive.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Cole wrote:
>
>You'll need to put a kernel image and a working set of files on the disk
>-- I haven't a clue as to how to do that in RedHat, so you're on your own
>there.
Install kernel source and make a kernel and bootimage. Use RPM or just go
cd /usr/src
# (pick a nearby mirror)
lynx -source http://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.10.tar.gz >
linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
mv linux linux-redhat
tar xzvf linux-2.2.10.tar.gz
mv linux linux-2.2.10
ln -s linux-2.2.10 linux
cd linux
make mrproper
# (be sure to set module versions info on)
make xconfig
make dep && make clean && make modules && make bzImage && make modules_install
Now use fdisk or cfdisk to partition your LS120 diskette.
Then make a file system and copy the bootimage there.
badblocks /dev/hda1 12000 | tee /tmp/bad
mke2fs -m0 -l /tmp/bad /dev/hda1 12000
mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
cp /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/bzImage /mnt/bz2.2.10
And then set up LILO. It's not that hard. Put the conf file
on the LS120 so you don't lose it.
cp /boot/boot.b /etc/lilo.conf /mnt
cat > /mnt/message <<YOW
Here's an end to all your troubles;
Here's an end to all distress.
It's the old dope peddler,
With his powdered happiness.
He gives the kids free samples
Because he knows full well
That today's young innocent faces
Will be tomorrow's clientele.
YOW
# you could also put a *useful* message...
vi /mnt/lilo.conf
/sbin/lilo -C /mnt/lilo.conf
>
>You'll need a lilo.conf file similar to the following (make sure it at
>least has these lines, and it should work):
>
>boot = /dev/hda
>image = /vmlinuz # replace with the name of your image
> label = Linux # replace with some identifier string, or leave it
> root = /dev/hda1
Ooops. Root is on a SCSI drive in this example, and the bootimage
is on the LS120.
message = /mnt/message
image = /mnt/bz2.2.10
root = /dev/sda2 # or whereever your root is.
read-only
label = thermonucleardestruction
alias = fuzzykittens
>Matt Cole
>
>Steve Snyder wrote:
>
>> I've got an IDE LS120 drive in place of a floppy drive on a RedHat
>> v6.0 system. I would like to use the LS120 as a boot disk.
>>
>> I understand that I must partition the LS120 disk because Linux thinks
>> it's a hard disk. So now I've a 120MB partition which is identified
>> as /dev/hda1 (the hard disks in my system are all SCSI).
>>
>> The mkbootdisk utility that RedHat ships with their distro seems to
>> assume that it is being used on a floppy disk. It doesn't seem to
>> understand that there may be more than a single partition on the
>> destination drive.
Cameron
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From: Valette =?x-user-defined?Q?Jean=2DS=E9bastien?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxi Isis
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:59:40 +0200
Is there any known driver for Maxi Isis Sound card ???
thx
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Jean-Sébastien Valette
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From: Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP Mother boards?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 04:50:00 GMT
almost any dual board would be fine. I've used the p2b-d, the tyan
tiger, and lately the abit bp6 (dual sock370).
all work fine with linux.
Ray Atnip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I looking to buy a dual Pentium mother board and looking at the
: Intel N440BX and Asus P2B-D.
: Does anyone have RH 6.0 running on either of these?
: If so, any regrets or caveats to watch out for?
: Thanks in advance.
: --
: -----------------------------------------------------------------
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->->-> to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: "Duane Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new savage4 video card
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 20:56:18 -0400
help! I've just finished installing RedHat 6.0, and I can't get better
resolution thatn 640x480. I'm running a brand new Savage4 3-D Blaster card,
by Creative Labs, running a new Savage4 PRO chipset from S3, Does anyone
have a driver available for this card, or am I buying a new card? Thanks for
the help.
--
Duane Powers
TwoSpurs.Com
duaneATTwoSpurs.Com
to email me, replace AT with @
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From: Dirk Aust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI CD Changers?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 08:41:19 +0000
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<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I don't have any problems, I don't have a CD changer
installed. I am
<br>asking before I go out and purchase one, to see if anyone has any
<br>recommendations or negative feedback about the products.
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I have an IDE CD-Changer, a TEAC C68E, it runs under Linux without any
problems, better than under NT, you only have to install the eject-package,
you will need this for changing the CDs.
<p>I think the only disadvantage of changers may be that there no actuall
models on the market.
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From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.kernel.general,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel drivers vs. Kernel modules?
Date: 30 Jul 1999 02:45:36 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
There is a performance overhead in loading and freeing modules, so unless
you are always adding and removing hardware, most of your system should
be compiled into the kernel
Some sample exceptions:
1) file systems. I use vfat once a week or less, so there is no need
to devote memory for it
2) Strange network protocols. If I need IPv6 or EQL or IPX, I can
load it dynamically, but for my normal every day PPP and ethernet,
there is no advantage having them only as module since they are
always loaded.
3) device sharing. You can use incompatible devices on the same port
if you swap modules. For example a QCam camera and a ZIP drive may
not co-exist, but you can remove the support for one before you
probe the other.
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Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : http://www.teledyn.com
Linux/GNU Education Group: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-education/
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Configuring USR 56K Internal Voice Modem
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 06:37:01 GMT
Bill Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I recently purchased a new modem, and cannot seem to get it configured
: properly. It is an ISA card, and not a winmodem. I used isapnp tools to
: set up the serial port, but now I am stuck. Minicom appears to initialize
: the modem and doesn't report any errors, but refuses to connect to the phone
: line. When I try to dial out, I can see that the modem is not even
: accessing the phone line (LEDs on my phone do not light up, indicating the
: line is not in use). I also tried pulling my init string out of Windows and
: into Minicom, to make sure the modem was being initialized properly, but no
: go. The modem works fine under Windows 98. Any suggestions?
: General info:
: Dual booting Red Hat 5.1 / Win98
: 14 MB RAM
: X configured and usable
i would try disabling plug and play and jumpering the modem to the com port
settings you want. It is much more reliable when not running in plug and play
mode imo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sis 620 setup
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:18:57 GMT
i got linux working but the resolution is bad, i set it for 8mb cause
thats what it has but i think the problem is there. how do i change
only that part of the configuration without changing the rest?
thanks
tai
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: x
Date: 29 Jul 1999 21:59:16 GMT
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Kili
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From: Gary Lawrence Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Linux on an ACER Travelmate 330T (almost: No sound or APM)
Date: 30 Jul 1999 02:38:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
After a bit of struggle, I have Linux 2.2.10 running smoothly on my
new Acer Travelmate 330T laptop ... and so far, I really like this
combination.
I have created a webpage of my installation notes at
http://members.xoom.com/teledynamics/acer330T.html
and invite any and all suggestions, wild guesses and sympathy ;)
to the acer people CC'd on this: I tried your online form, but it is broken
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Business Telecom Services : Internet Consulting : http://www.teledyn.com
Linux/GNU Education Group: http://www.egroups.com/group/linux-education/
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."(Pablo Picasso)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Graham Harris)
Subject: Disk going bad?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:32:36 GMT
Compadres,
My question: is there some kind of "disk doctor" for linux that I can use to
investigate- maybe even cure- a disk problem?
I've been getting some read errors on my disk at boot for a few days (indeed,
occasionally even a few during installation a few days before).
Errors like:
hda: read_intr error=0x59 DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest Error
hda: read_intr error=0x04 DriveStatus Error
and occasionally:
end_request: I/O Error, dev 03:01, sector 3719774 (consistent addresses)
hda: read_intr error=0x40 Uncorrectable Error LBASect=3719837 sector=3719774
and
ide0: reset: success
error messages
I've not suffered any loss of functionality so I've just left it alone so far.
I now have a lot of disk activity going on even when the system is 0%
occupied; I can't see what it is but dmesg shows the same kind of read errors.
It's a redhat linux 5.0 (2.0.32 kernel) on AMD 486dx100 cpu, 32mb RAM, no
external cache RAM fitted.
One hard disk: seagate st32132a 2.1g, as 1023 cylinders * 64 heads * 63
sectors, LBA mode- the other modes, "normal" and "large" have >1024 cylinders
and linux won't boot. master on the first ide channel with a CDrom slave on
the same channel. linux swap partition + Single linux native partition occupy
100% of the drive. No other hard disks. BIOS doesn't offer a DMA feature to
disable (I was advised here to disable DMA if I could) but I did disable "IDE
HDD Block mode" in case it helped. Setup was fine under Win 3.1 before I put
linux
--
Graham Harris
Equinus- Today's Business & Technology Consultancy for the Travel industry
http://www.equinus.com
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From: Jeffrey Chok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TWAIN Scanner Support?
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 15:57:45 +0800
You can find SANE here:-
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (A Guy Called Tyketto)
Subject: Re: New Hardware(Tyan s1590/ATI All in Wonder 128)
Date: 30 Jul 1999 03:04:03 -0500
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I don't know about the ard, since I'm using the ATI XPert 98,
8MB RAM AGP, but I am using the Tyan 1590s motherboard, with a K6-II 333
3DNow! CPU, and it works Wonderfully! 64MB Ram in it atm, with 3 IDE
drives, and a (to be) CD-RW. From the specs I have, the board can
support up to the K6-2 450Mhz, and probably the K6-III's, or K7's, when
they come out. Wonderful board. I recommend it to anyone.
BL.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: AWE32 not detected in RH6.0
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 07:56:23 GMT
Hi,
I guess there are already a lot of similar
questions, but after trying everything I can find,
I still cannot get my SoundBlaster AWE64 to fully
operate.
I am able to play CD/MP3 music already, but cannot
play midi yet. dmesg says:
Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
Savolainen 1993-1996
SB 4.16 detected OK (220)
AWE32: not detected
YM3812 and OPL-3 driver Copyright (C) by Hannu
Savolainen, Rob Hooft 1993-1996
<SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM0k)>
AWE32: not detected
I think I have correctly config isapnp.conf for
both sound card and wavetable. My /proc/sound says
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux xxxxx.ucsd.edu 2.2.5-15 #1 Mon Apr
19 23:00:46 EDT 1999 i68
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16) (DUPLEX)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL3
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
And my 'lsmod" says:
awe_wave 157804 0 (unused)
ppp 18316 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4328 1 (autoclean)
[ppp]
nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11516 1 (autoclean)
fat 25664 1 (autoclean)
[vfat]
opl3 11208 1
sb 33204 1
uart401 5968 1 [sb]
sound 57208 0 [awe_wave opl3
sb uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 6 [sb sound]
Note awe_wave is unused.
I am rather frustrated now. Do I have to recompile
the kernel? But I think the default kernel of
RedHat 6.0 (2.2.5-15) should support AWE32, right?
What should I do now? Please help me!
Thanks!
Kai
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From: Jeffrey Chok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and scanners
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 16:08:02 +0800
Ahmed Sowaileh wrote:
>
> Hi everybody,
> I am a webmaster and a programmer. I use an image scanner in my work on
> Windows95. Can you tell me if I can use the scanner on Linux. This can
> convince me to switch to Linux.
>
> Many thanks.
Hi,
You can find information on scanners on Linux here,
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
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From: "James Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: When is it safe to hdparm a drive?
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 1999 13:24:31 +0100
W Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyways, is it safe to do the hdparm while the filesystem is mounted? I
> was thinking of putting it in rc.local or something, but by that time, the
> drives are already mounted.
I've certainly not had any problems doing precisely what you're asking
about. I can't see any reason in theory why it should be a problem either -
all that's happening is that hdparm sends a few commands to the drive and/or
chipset. Any disk operations that are in progress when the commands are
received should be completed by the drive before it changes any settings,
and if changing those settings necessitates the drive going out of action
for a few ms, or the drive resetting, then Linux should queue up any I/O
requests until the drive becomes available again.
marm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus)
Subject: Re: Matrox G400
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 13:58:33 +0200
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
> James Ciesielski wrote:
>
> > Help, can someone please advise me on what video settings I need to use
> > for my G400 card? -or at least what 3rd party drivers could be
> > used....??
> >
> > Thanks
>
> only the xig (www.xig.com) X server supports the G400 right now.
>
As far as I know Xfree 3.3.4 supports the G400
Markus
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From: Johan Groth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BRU2000 PE how to exclude directories
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 1999 11:00:42 +0200
Derek Ealy wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've figured out that there was a copy of BRU2000 included with my
> RedHat 5.1 Distribution. By selecting backup options I can make
> entries in the bruxpat file which supposedly will include the
> directories I want to backup and exclude the ones I don't. But this
> isn't working BRU seems to just backup everything without regard to
> the dirs and filesystems I wasnt backed up. I do have the option skip
> mounted file systems selected. However I figured that since I
> specifically requested certain dirs be backed up (the top level of the
> other filesystems) that they would be included. By the same token the
> dirs I specified for exclusion are getting backed up anyway.
>
> Obviously there must be something that I'm misunderstanding about how
> to use this program. Can someone clue me in please?
>
According to 'man bru' there is an option called -X that triggers the
use of the bruxpat file. I use the version that came with Red Hat 5.0
and when I try to use that option bru tells me that the option isn't
recognized. I don't know if -X is supported in PE or if this is a bug.
Perhaps you need the professional version of bru in order to get -X to
work.
///Johan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Tujula)
Subject: Re: new savage4 video card
Date: 30 Jul 1999 11:01:22 +0300
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Duane Powers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>help! I've just finished installing RedHat 6.0, and I can't get better
>resolution thatn 640x480. I'm running a brand new Savage4 3-D Blaster card,
>by Creative Labs, running a new Savage4 PRO chipset from S3, Does anyone
>have a driver available for this card, or am I buying a new card? Thanks for
>the help.
Try this:
ftp://ftp.ctlsg.creaf.com/files/creative/drivers/3db/XF86_Savage4-1.01.tar.gz
kt
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From: fIPS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's the best K6-3 mobo?
Date: 30 Jul 1999 09:04:31 GMT
Jeremy Fincher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well....
> Thanks for all the help you've all given me so far...it's been invaluable :-)
> Jeremy
Have a look at www.super7.net. My personal favourit is the Epox MVP3G-M; it
has 5 PCI-Slots, 3SDRAMs, bus-frequencies up to 133MHz, runs stable in Linux
and Windoze and it's very well supported. It's chachable area is 256MB.
Hope this helps,
fIPS
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