Linux-Hardware Digest #899, Volume #10 Sun, 1 Aug 99 10:13:42 EDT
Contents:
Re: ATI Rage Fury 32MB AGP and SuSE Linux 6.1 (remove _ to reply (James))
Re: external hard-drive (John Thompson)
PnP USR 56k INT working! (Aleksandar B. Samardzic)
Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux (Redhat 6.0)?
(Wilson Lin)
Re: Linux and MS Proxy Server HELP! (scott)
Re: Looking for good *sounding* sound card (Justin The Cynical)
Memory problem (Chris Butler)
Re: Need help with ppa (ZIP) error message (remove _ to reply (James))
Re: US Robotics 56k Internal again (Aleksandar B. Samardzic)
Re: Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux ("R.K.Aa")
IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?! (Juergen Hammelmann)
Re: Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux ("R.K.Aa")
Re: Looking to buy a good modem for 50 bucks, Recommendations? (mike murray)
Strange module configuration (Joshua Li)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove _ to reply) (James)
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 32MB AGP and SuSE Linux 6.1
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 11:16:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:36:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frédéric
Dupuis) wrote:
>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999 08:42:35 -0600, "Brian Merrill"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>The only way I could get my own Rage 128 card to work under Caldera 2.2 or
>>RH 6.0 was to use the Mach64 chipset. However, from what I understand from
>>previous postings, that is currently the driver you're supposed to use
>>anyway for the Rage 128. Anyways, Mach64 works fine for me.
>>
>>Brent Justice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:MN6e3.14381$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>>> Ok I have an ATI Rage Fury 32MB AGP Video Card. This video card is based
>>on
>>> the Rage 128GL Chipset. I am running SuSE Linux 6.1 Now on the box it
>>says
>>> the kernel is version 2.2.5 but when I installed it it said it was kernel
>>> 2.2.7 so maybe I have a better version? Anyways how do I get X Windows to
>>> use the Rage 128? The only ATI video card chipset listed that comes close
>>> is the Mach 64 chipset but thats not the right one. It dosen't list the
>>> video card or the chipset. How do I set it up? Or am I stuck with the
>>SVGA
>>> module.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>I also have a ATI Rage Fury card, and I have only been successful with
>the framebuffer method some people have previously posted here. This
>is not a very good solution however as I am stuck at a 60Hz refresh
>rate, and no 2D acceleration. I would be very interested if you could
>send me your XF86Config file for the Mach64 server.
>
>
I was stuck for ages with the free drivers for this card and could never get
them going. In the end, I went out and purchased Accelerated-X 5.0. I can now
run X with the card at a better pace.
HTH.
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: external hard-drive
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 1999 21:11:27 -0600
Nicholos Berry wrote:
> has anyone loaded linux onto an external hard-drive on an already windows
> machine and just used a boot disk? I was just think of doing that instead of
> building a new machine AGAIN!
I have a machine with Win95 and OS/2 on an internal IDE
drive and linux on an external SCSI drive. Just put the
boot loader of your choice (ie, lilo) on the drive the BIOS
looks at (usually internal IDE drive) and you won't even
need a boot floppy.
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Aleksandar B. Samardzic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: PnP USR 56k INT working!
Date: 1 Aug 1999 11:30:33 GMT
Hi, all.
Here is procedure to setup PnP US Robotics 56k internal modem to work
under Linux (well, at least under RedHat 6.0).
First of all, you must be sure that you don't have "winmodem". So check
your modem box and your documentation, if above word is mentioned, you're
out of luck, this piece of hardware won't work under Linux. If you don't
have any documentation for modem, you can try to find your
modem code according to instructions from:
http://consumer.3com.com/modem/upgrades/codefinder.htm
and then lookup in modem database at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
After assuring that your modem is not winmodem, you can approach to
setting up your modem under Linux. Log on as root. First of all, you'll
have to use isapnp tools to setup your modem parameters (i/o port address
and IRQ number) each time during system boot. Basically, there are two
steps here:
1. you should create /etc/isapnp.conf file where modem parameters will be
configured
2. you should invoke isapnp program during system boot to setup modem
parameters according to what is written in /etc/isapnp.conf configuration
file
If you have PnP sound card, you're lucky and you should run sndconfig
utility to setup your sound card. This utility will do both of above. You
should then find modem configuration section in /etc/isapnp.conf file (for
example, search for word "USR" or "Robotics"). In this section, find
uncommented lines looking as follows:
(IO 0 (SIZE ?) (BASE 0x????))
(INT 0 (IRQ ? (MODE +E)))
Instead of ? you'll find numbers, write down them. BASE is i/o port
address, IRQ is of course IRQ number).
If you don't have PnP sound card, use command:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
to create /etc/isapnp.conf file. Now all lines in modem configuration
section will be commented and you should uncomment two among them to set
modem i/o port adress and IRQ number. In order to determine which i/o port
and IRQ number to set, execute following commands:
cat /proc/interrupts
cat /proc/ioports
First command should list interrupts used, second should list i/o ports
used on your machine. You cannot use anything of these. So select a
combination that is not already used and uncomment corresponding lines in
your /etc/isapnp.conf file. Also uncomment
(ACT Y)
line near end of modem configuration section. Now you should put command
to run isapnp utility passing /etc/isapnp.conf as parameter to your boot-
time initialization script. In RedHat 6.0 case, the script
is /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit and lines you should put there are:
# set up pnp
if [ -x /sbin/isapnp -a -f /etc/isapnp.conf ]; then
if [ -n "$PNP" ]; then
action "Setting up ISA PNP devices" /sbin/isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
else
action "Skipping ISA PNP configuration at users request" /bin/true
fi
fi
In my case, these lines are put right before remounting root filesystem in
read-write mode. Now reboot your machine; or even faster, only execute:
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
Modem parameters (i/o ports and IRQ number) will be set now.
Now you should setup your serial port. You'll have to try multiple times
here. To avoid side effects, reboot after each try. You'll have to execute
following command:
setserial /dev/ttyS? port 0x???? irq ? uart 16550A spd_vhi
First ? (in /dev/ttyS?) is number of COM port where you're looking for
modem. Try with 0 (COM1 under DOS), 1 (COM2), 2 (COM3) and 3 (COM4). If
you have serial mouse, then mouse is probably already on /dev/ttyS0, so
you can start to try from /dev/ttyS1. Group ???? (in port 0x????) is modem
i/o port address from /etc/isapnp.conf and last ? (in irq ? ) is modem IRQ
numbr from same file. To check port, run Kppp, click to Setup, then to
Modem and to Query Modem. If modem found, that's it; if not, you should
try again.
When proper serial port /dev/ttyS? (? is of course serial port number)
found, you can create /dev/modem link:
ln /dev/ttyS? /dev/modem
Finally, put setserial command (in same format as when you made your modem
working) to the end of your /etc/rc.d/rc.local initialization script.
One last advice for these who are outside of US and have problems with
dial-tone (NO DIAL TONE reported in Kppp log window): click to Kppp Setup,
then to Modem and to Modem Command and change initialization string from
ATZ to ATZ ATS6=0 and dial string from ATDT to ATX3DT (or, if you don't
have tone but pulse dialing, to ATX3DP). Also, in order to setup PPP
properly, do not forget to have your used ID and pasword, as well as you
ISP DNS number.
Alex
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From: Wilson Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux (Redhat
6.0)?
Date: 1 Aug 1999 11:30:34 GMT
Is there any autoloader (DDS or DLT) that's supported under Linux? I
can't seem to find any information about that.
I check out tape devices from Sony, Segate, Quantum, and Exabyte (DDS3,
DDS4, AIT, DLT). They all mention the hardware can run in compressed mode
but never mention whether that works under Linux or not. Does anyone have
experience about this?
What's the catch on this compress mode anyway? It stores more, runs faster
but never anything mention about the downside. I assume the reliability
will take a hit but how bad is it (and anything else)?
I am looking for backup solution for my work place. We have about 200GB
of data (and growing) needed to be backup. Hope to cycle through all of
them in about a week. Autoloader sound like a good solution so we can do
all of it over the weekend, but don't know what's supported. Any comment,
suggestion, experience welcome. Welcome to email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as
well.
Thanks a lot!
Wilson Lin
ps. I appologize if I post this where it doesn't belone.
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From: scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux and MS Proxy Server HELP!
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 07:02:15 -0400
Hi,
You will find both Squid and Apache on the Redhat 6 CD.
> Howdy,
>
> I have just set up RedHat 6.0, and want to run it as my main operating
> system. On my local intranet I am running MS Proxy Server 2.0 on NT Server,
> and in my current Win98 system I have the WSP (winsock proxy) Client
> installed for all winsock requests (so it makes the internet seemless in
> windows). How do I access the proxy server in Linux? Is there no WSP
> Client
> equivalent for linux? Is there another way of setting up linux so it can
> use the proxy server?
>
> I know the obvious answer would be to replace NT Server with linux, but I am
> trying to take linux one step at a time (i am relatively new to it)...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated... And may i just say, LINUX RULES
> :-)
>
> EvanD
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin The Cynical)
Subject: Re: Looking for good *sounding* sound card
Date: 1 Aug 1999 10:39:54 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 31 Jul 1999 04:03:53 -0700, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
->[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin B Willoughby) writes:
->
->> David Fox (d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u) writes:
->> > Heeeeeeeez back! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
->> >
->> >> David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> wrote:
->> >> > Oh, and here are the microcode files that go in /etc/sound/.
->> >>
->> >> > begin 664 msnd.tgz
->> >> > M'XL(`-^8GS<``^U:"W24QW7^5L_5OUJ)F-:FI:E_2;P,1D@\2_"A`E8"NT0"
->> >>
->> >> PLEASE don't post binaries...
->>
->> <snip>
->>
->> > Dare I ask why not, officer?
->>
->> Perhaps becuase this is a non-binary newsgroup?
->>
->> - Justin
[snip sig]
->Oh, I thought it was a non-stupid newsgroup but I can see I was
->mistaken. I'll try to be less helpful in the future.
It is a 'non-stupid' newsgroup. You are mistaken. And, you are the
one proving to be 'stupid', as you put it. Justin is right and I agree with
him/her/it 110%. (Yes, Justin is a male name, but with Usenet, it might be a
female using a male name, or an alien using the name. Just covering my bases)
:-)
Non binary newsgroups = don't post binaries.
Standard Usenet operation. I take it you have not been in Usenet all
that long? Mistake many people make. FYI, if the group doesn't say binary
or binaries in the name somewhere, don't post binaries to it.
And, just for the record, I am not a 'Net cop, but I am an admin at
an ISP. Having your mail address, or worse your whole ISP, added into the
servers' ban list is non-trivial.
Do you realise that, depending on the ISP, posting a binary to a
non-binary group *is* sometimes a offence that can get your account terminated?
Just giving you some friendly advice...
--
Let's make the /var/log/messages file a link to /dev/nul!"
"It's /dev/null. Two ell's...." "Well, that explains the file in /dev..."
"<boggle>"
- Justin The Cynical * [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Butler)
Subject: Memory problem
Date: 1 Aug 1999 10:24:22 +0100
Hi,
I just got a nice new 32MB DIMM for my computer.
However, the motherboard (and Linux) will only recognise the first 8Mb of
it.
Any ideas?
There are 4 chips on the thing, so at a guess, it may only be using the
first chip for some reason (32 / 4 = 8)..
--
Chris Butler
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove _ to reply) (James)
Subject: Re: Need help with ppa (ZIP) error message
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 11:16:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 26 Jul 1999 15:07:15 -0700, Bijan Nemati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I just installed Redhat 6.0 and attempted to use my zip drive with it. I
>used insmod to install the parport and ppa modules and it seemed at
>first like it worked.
>
>For some reason I now get the following error message:
>
>% insmod parport
>% insmod ppa
>/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/scsi/ppa.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
>This is what an lsmod command yields:
>
>% lsmod
>Module Size Used by
>parport_probe 2884 0 (autoclean) (unused)
>parport 7092 0 [parport_probe]
>nfsd 150936 8 (autoclean)
>lockd 30856 1 (autoclean) [nfsd]
>sunrpc 52356 1 (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
>3c575_cb 17736 2
>cb_enabler 1928 1 [3c575_cb]
>ds 5740 2 [cb_enabler]
>i82365 21956 2
>pcmcia_core 39720 0 [cb_enabler ds i82365]
>nls_iso8859-1 2020 2 (autoclean)
>nls_cp437 3548 2 (autoclean)
>vfat 11516 2 (autoclean)
>fat 25664 2 (autoclean) [vfat]
>
>I'd appreciate any pointers/advice as to what may be going wrong.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bijan Nemati
>Pasadena, CA
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I (and many others) have had this problem. I recently got a new PC and kept my
old to be a server. The problem also came up on my new PC and I've had the
problem under just about all distributions of Linux. They say you should
attempt to change the parallel port mode in your BIOS as a starting test.
I can run my external zip on any BIOS parallel port setting but I have a SCSI
hard disk for my boot disk - partitioned into several sections - and this
causes the zip drive driver to go wierd. My solution was to attempt to mount
the drive using a different /dev(ice).
Here is my script (SUSE 6.1):
#!/bin/sh
rmmod ppa
rmmod parport
insmod parport
insmod ppa
mount /dev/sdb4 /mnt/zipdrive -t vfat
exit 0
** Note the "sdb4" rather than "sda4" (the usual device I think on non-SCSI
based boot drive systems?).
..This seems to work for me. Give it a try. Maybe the removal and re-install of
the modules will sort your problem?
HTH.
James.
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From: Aleksandar B. Samardzic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config
Subject: Re: US Robotics 56k Internal again
Date: 1 Aug 1999 11:30:32 GMT
bkreps wrote:
> The card below (Card 2) is the same as the one I just got working.
> Uncomment the I/O address and irq of your choice - ones that are not in
> use. Then following the isapnp.conf (I assume you know where this is if
> you have sound)line in your init file add "insmod /var/lib/(another
> subdir?)/misc/serial.o" (assuming module support is compiled in your
> kernel.) I've also noticed that "setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x??? irq
> 7" may be needed AFTER these lines to let the motherboard know that
> this card should be treated just like another serial port, if this is
> entered before the card is initialized the resources will not be
> available.
Thank you for your reply. I installed modem successfully in the
meantime. I've tried to summarize procedure for other people
benefit in other message. Regarding your advices, I had nothing
to do with insmod. Also, no fixed IRQ number fits all. As far as
I was able to understand, main issue is to find free i/o port and
IRQ number, set them in /etc/isapnp.conf, then find appropriate
serial port (that was problem in my case) and set same parameters
to it by using setserial.
Alex
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:34:29 +0200
Wilson Lin wrote:
>
> Is there any autoloader (DDS or DLT) that's supported under Linux? I
> can't seem to find any information about that.
> I check out tape devices from Sony, Segate, Quantum, and Exabyte (DDS3,
> DDS4, AIT, DLT). They all mention the hardware can run in compressed mode
> but never mention whether that works under Linux or not. Does anyone have
> experience about this?
[snip]
This *may* be worth looking at..
http://www.tandberg.com
and a Linux page (out of frame)
http://www.tandberg.com/support/wp9906geaa.html
tar, cpio and dd are usable here. They have an interesting benchmark
published (Linux overall 25% faster on identical hardware.) Both SLR and
DLT are listed but I'm not 100% sure the DLT is widely supported yet.
Tandberg announced upcoming support for SLR and *future* support for DLT
sometime in June.
K.
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From: Juergen Hammelmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.kernel
Subject: IDE I/O errors in newer 2.2.x kernels ?!
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:40:18 +0200
Hello!
I need help to solve a driver problem for older and/or slower IDE/ATAPI
drives:
I have a Quantum Bigfoot 2.5 GB harddisk: this drive has I/O errors
since I use kernels
2.2.5 or newer!
Another PC which has RedHat 6.0 and kernel 2.2.5-22 shows I/O-errors
with an atapi-zip-drive.
Every time larger files are written to the zip drive, there are
I/O-errors, and the files get corrupted!
With Windows 95 running the zip-drive shows no errors!
Could it be, that there are changes in the timings of the ide-driver in
the kernel 2.2.x, so
older/slower drives cannot deal with?
Is this a known problem, especially to Alan Cox?!
Ciao, Jürgen Hammelmann
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From: "R.K.Aa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: Any compressed mode tape drive or autoloader supported under linux
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 14:41:52 +0200
Wilson Lin wrote:
>
> Is there any autoloader (DDS or DLT) that's supported under Linux? I
> can't seem to find any information about that.
> I check out tape devices from Sony, Segate, Quantum, and Exabyte (DDS3,
> DDS4, AIT, DLT). They all mention the hardware can run in compressed mode
> but never mention whether that works under Linux or not. Does anyone have
> experience about this?
[snip]
This *may* be worth looking at..
http://www.tandberg.com
and a Linux page (out of frame)
http://www.tandberg.com/support/wp9906geaa.html
tar, cpio and dd are usable here. They have an interesting benchmark
published (Linux overall 25% faster than NT on identical hardware.) Both
SLR and
DLT are listed but I'm not 100% sure the DLT is widely supported yet.
Tandberg announced upcoming support for SLR and *future* support for DLT
sometime in June.
K.
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From: mike murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking to buy a good modem for 50 bucks, Recommendations?
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 08:12:20 -0500
Joshua Li wrote:
> I am thinking to but another modem to coexsit/replace my current
> winmodem, and I really am on a budget now, can some recommend a modem
> that works with Linux and below $50us ?
>
> comments are welcome.
>
> --
> Joshua Li
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> -----
> Nothing is impossible for a man who doesn't do it himself.
I've bought a couple of USR v90 & USR 33.6 external & internal from
E-BAY auctions
Seems the going price for 56k is around 45- 50 bucks less for 33.6
NOT WINMODEMS
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From: Joshua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Strange module configuration
Date: Sun, 01 Aug 1999 13:28:22 GMT
I have COL2.2 / Kernel2.2.5 and the trouble is with sound module
opl3sa2.
I recently got the sound card to work, and during startup, module
section regarding sound will be:
opl3sa2............ok
mpu401............skip
ad1848.............skip
sound...............skip
soundcore.........skip
soundlow..........skip
opl3.................ok
But I had to reinstall everything, and after that I can load all modules
I need through insmod( for some wired reason, with exact setting COAS
just won't load), but opl3sa2 will _always_ be boot-time-load disabled.
Now my questions are:
1.is there a reason why insmod loads fine and coas won't?
2.is there insmod switch to toggle boot-load?
3.is there a way to manual edit load config to restore the settings from
last installation?
--
Joshua Li
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Nothing is impossible for a man who doesn't do it himself.
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