Linux-Hardware Digest #41, Volume #11 Wed, 18 Aug 99 16:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Need some advices with buying ZIP drive (Roy Grimm)
Re: Looking for a new video card (Richard Wu)
3D CreativeLabs Voodoo^2 (pces)
How about the CM8338... ("Lt. Brandon Szalai, USNR")
Re: abit BP6 & celeron SMP (David Ripton)
Re: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ? ("Rick Downs")
How to use Floppy and ZIP driver in Linux Redhat 6.0? (Jack Liu)
Minicom Doesn't Respond ("Kevin Greenidge")
Suggestion: External Modem on RH6.0 (Richard Wu)
Bttv entry for Magic TView (CPH061) TV-Card (Christian Stueble)
Solved Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! (Hugh McCurdy)
Re: Redhat 6.o w/viper 550 agp (tfox@meta[spam]creations.com)
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Voodoo Rush w/ MX86251 chipset (NeoFax)
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! ("Marshall")
Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No! (Jesse Singh)
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From: Roy Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need some advices with buying ZIP drive
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:31:54 -0500
"Richard Kr." wrote:
>
> Hello!
> I'm interrested in buying 100MB ZIP drive, and i have no idea about
> which one to buy :(
> I need some advices about this?
>
> Thanks in advance, richard kr.
Internal IDE drives are easy to set up. They work much like a CD ROM
and do not usually require an additional card in your machine. Most
modern systems come with support for up to 4 IDE devices on the
motherboard. I have a 100M Zip and it gets detected by the IDE drivers
of the kernel as just another ATAPI device. Pretty much plug and play.
>From what I understand, external SCSI drives are superior to external
parallel port drives, especially in the speed. However, they have the
problems common to all external devices. You have to plug them in
separately, they add to the tangle of cables already connected to your
computer, and (if you get a SCSI drive) you have to get a SCSI adapter
if you don't already have one. If none of this bothers you or you have
no place to put it internally, go ahead and get an external drive. I
would recommend SCSI over parallel, even if you have to get the SCSI
card separately.
I don't believe that the USB drives work well in Linux yet. AFAIK, the
USB drivers are still in development.
Hope that helps,
Roy
--
"If it ain't broke, you're not tryin!" - Red Green
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From: Richard Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for a new video card
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:19:27 -0400
If for your 100mhz machine, I think ATI Xpert 8MB is good choice. It
runs fine under linux and X Windows(KDE/GNOME).
"Lee K. Gleason" wrote:
>
> I have an old COMPAQ 575 desktop, with a 100 mhz Pentium processor,
> that I'm installing Linux on.
>
> It has an old Jaton video card in it, and X is not really working
> out all that well on it. Rather than struggle with trying to coax
> an old card into working, I'd rather update to something newew and
> better.
>
> What's the best available PCI video card, that is well supported
> by Linux?
>
> Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
> Control-G Consultants
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: pces <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3D CreativeLabs Voodoo^2
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 23:47:46 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can someone point out whether or not this 3D accelerator card works with
Linux( specifically, for the SuSE 6.1 distribution)?
I'm thinking of buying it (or the Diamond Monster 3D), but am not sure
of its
compatibility with Linux. I've checked the 3DfX howto, but it doesn't
specifically
list it, so thus my query.
Any information appreciated.
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From: "Lt. Brandon Szalai, USNR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How about the CM8338...
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 11:56:34 -0400
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Is there any documentation or drivers for the CM8338 series sound card.
This is what is built into my motherboard. It would be nice to get it to
work under Linux.
<p>Thanks,
<p>Brandon Szalai</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: abit BP6 & celeron SMP
Date: 18 Aug 1999 19:03:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <4osu3.1040$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bryan <Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware M17 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: To Whom It May Concern:
>: I'm interested in an ABIT BP6 motherboard. BP6 is a dual socket
>: 370/celeron board. I just wonder if anyone is using this board with 2
>: celerons under linux kernel 2.2.x?
>: 1. Are there any problems with SMP and dual celerons setup?
>
>no, but enable mps spec 1.4 in the bios (not 1.1).
Have you seen this make a difference under Linux?
>: 2. What is the performance gain one processor vs. two?
>
>1.75% increase.
Will vary from 0 to about 95%, depending on what you're doing.
>: 4. How good are the ABIT boards?
>
>the bp6 is solid.
Agreed.
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From: "Rick Downs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox
Subject: Re: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ?
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 15:02:06 -0400
Also a 360Mhz RAMDAC
Michael Malone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> XFree86[tm] 3.3.4 supports Matrox G400, but the G400 MAX?
>
> Anyone know ??
>
> What's the 50.00 difference, anyway?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Liu)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: How to use Floppy and ZIP driver in Linux Redhat 6.0?
Date: 18 Aug 1999 18:52:25 GMT
Dear Sir,
I set up the Linux Redhat 6.0 and I can mount the CD-ROM rightly. I can
find Floppy in Local driver information using Linuxconf. But when I use
mount -t msdos dev/hd0 /mnt/floppy to mount the floppy, there is an error.
I have the floppy directory in /mnt. So can you help me to use my floppy
driver in Linux? I havn't setup PICIA in installing Redhat, How can I use
the interal ATAPI Zip driver?
Thank you very much!
Jack
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From: "Kevin Greenidge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Minicom Doesn't Respond
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:21:23 -0700
I have a Creative Labs DI5601 internal and when i to run minicom it
initalizes
my modem fine but when i try to dial out it doesn't do anything it just sits
there counting down and doens't say anything's wrong. Could anyone help me
setup my modem?
P.S. I tried the init string that was listed in the modem properties under
Win 98 thinking it would be the same under linux
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From: Richard Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suggestion: External Modem on RH6.0
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:30:19 -0400
Recently, I bought a computer set which include a USR 56K internal
modem. When I install Redhat 6.0, everything works fine except the modem
setup. After looking for the solution, unfortunately, my modem is a
"winmodem", Holy! I have try many times, but still doesn't work. Now I
give up and wanna buy a cheap external modem. Any suggestion(I want to
ensure it works under linux)? Thanks.
Richard WU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Stueble)
Subject: Bttv entry for Magic TView (CPH061) TV-Card
Date: 18 Aug 1999 19:04:01 GMT
Hiho,
the following entry works for my card:
{ "Askey TView (CPH061)",
3, 0, 2, 0xe00, { 2, 0, 1, 1 }, {0x500, 0, 0, 0x300, 0x800}},
Add this line to bttv/driver/bttv.c
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Solved Linksys Etherfast 10/100 Problems
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:01:41 GMT
Hi All,
This message is for people who have successfully got their Linksys
Etherfast 10/100 LAN cards working properly under RedHat Linux 6.0.
Could you please send in your BIOS settings for PCI/PnP, please also
let me know the release of the tulip.c driver that you are using if
different from the one used during the Linux installation. Also, please
let me know what you had to do, if any to get the card working.
The problem that I have is that the kernel see's the card but I have
not been able to ping any host on the same subnet. When I try this, I
get this continuous transmission time out error message. I was able to
ping the IP address of the card from the PC that it is on. When I do a
netstat -in, I see packets going through the loopback interface and
transmission errors for all packets that were sent to the card (eth0)
for outbound transmission.
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From: Hugh McCurdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:17:58 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am thinking about installing Linux on a new computer.
> It will have the below listed hardware.
>
> AMDK6-3 400
> 128M PC100
> FIC-2013a MB
> 8.4G HD
> 44X CDROM
> Ricoh CDRW
> Adaptec-SSCII 1569??? Can?t remember number
> SB value 64 sound card
> STB TV adapter card
> ATI Rage Pro AGP or New AGP card.
> Cardinal Connecta 3440 modem V.90 ISA
> NE2000 PCI net card
>
> I went to CompUSA to buy a copy of Linux for $29.95, but the sales
> Staff told me I would have problems with the OS and my hardware. They
> said that Linux had no support for CD?s (The program was on a CD) or CD
> Writers and that I would have a problem setting up my sound card and
> Modem and most of the hardware.
Sounds to me like they are not qualified to offer an opinion other than
to say "we don't know enough about Linux to help you should you have
any difficulty." To say such things as "Linux has no support for CD's"
is simply put, irresponsible.
A 44X CDROM is almost certainly SCSI or ATAPI IDE and should be fine.
The Ricoh CDRW is probably fine. But you didn't state a model #.
But I'd expect that it would work.
The video card should be fine. I have a similar card that is working.
I don't know about the modem. But if it doesn't say WinModem on the
box, it is probably OK.
The NE2000 would not be my first choice for a NIC, but Linux does indeed
have a driver for that card. I've tested it. It works. The NE2000
card
I had was a piece of junk though. It couldn't deal with the mildest of
voltage dips when every other piece of equipment could. What happened
(in case anyone cares) is that I turned on a regular fan (because I was
hot) and each time I did...the NE2000 would flake out. My 3Com cards
(and everything else) was fine.
I don't know anything (useful) about TV cards. I know only a little bit
more about sound cards (so I'd better not comment).
The SCSI card is probably not a problem. Without the exact model #,
nobody
can look it up. But my guess is that it won't be any sort of problem.
>
> I wanted to get the REAL scoop on this.
How about half a scoop?
>
> Will I be able to use my CD writer? MOST IMPORTANT!
I think so.
> I thought this was a good OS with support for most hardware. I read the
> package, but it did not say anything about compatible hardware so I put
> it down and did not buy.
>
> Please help! I want to try the OS but do not want to give up the CD
> writer or net card. The other items such, as the TV card isn't so
> Important. Can anyone lead me into the right direction, a Web page or
> something to study up on the hardware compatibility.
You do not have to remove your existing operating system in order to try
Linux.
Slackware offers a UMSDOS load. This means that you can load Linux into
a DOS/Windows9x directory. This isn't terribly efficient but it might
be
a good way to get started. Slackware also has a file you can download
called ZIPSLACK.ZIP. You can unzip it into your DOS/Win9x directory and
try it. I don't think ZIPSLACK.ZIP has X support. But it is simple to
install.
You can also repartition your hard disk with a utility such as FIPS or
Partition Magic. FIPS is a free program. Partition Magic is commercial
software. Partition Magic is included on the sample CD that I received
from Caldera. This suggests that they include it with the CD's that
they
sell. One of the Caldera loads assumes that you have Win9x loaded and
want to repartition.
I mention Caldera and Slackware, but I'm not endorsing either.
Other fine distributions include (but are not limited to) Red Hat, SuSE
and Debian.
>
> Also I heard that the OS is free on the Internet. How do you download
> and install it? I have a T1 line here and should be able to get it
> fairly fast. Which directories do I copy from the FTP sites? I also
> heard Corel was giving away WordPerfect for Linux.
>
You can download Slackware from the cdrom.com ftp site (and many
mirrors).
Some of the other distributions can be downloaded. However, the only
distribution that I've ever tried to download is Slackware. As I said,
ZIPSLACK is easy to download and install. But it does have limitations.
But it is a cheap and simple way to begin (as long as you don't expect
too much). In short, that's what I would do, just to get Linux up the
first time. If I was still happy, then I'd try something more advanced.
As for Word Perfect, I don't know they were. I don't know if they still
are. Of course, you'd need X for that (so you'd have to advance past
the ZIPSLACK stage).
Finally, you can purchase cheap CD's from web sites such as cheapbytes
and linux system labs. www.cheapbytes.com and www.lsl.com
I'm sure there are others, but I don't know who they are.
--
Hugh McCurdy
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From: tfox@meta[spam]creations.com
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.o w/viper 550 agp
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 16:44:35 GMT
Me too, just plugged it in and installed RH6. Works great.
On Wed, 18 Aug 1999 14:30:03 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig
McFarlane) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I am trying to get better resoultion than 8bit at 800x600.
>>
>>Has anyone got the viper to 24bit at 1024x760?If so can you please help.
>
>Mine works out of the box with RH 6.0 at 24-bit, 1024x768. Default install too.
>
>cya
>Craig.
>
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>ACN 058 140 702 PO Box 84 Forest Hill Vic 3131 AUSTRALIA
>
> "My opinions had better be those of the management, or they're FIRED!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 18:50:41 GMT
In article <7peirl$2ai$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am thinking about installing Linux on a new computer.
> It will have the below listed hardware.
>
> AMDK6-3 400
> 128M PC100
> FIC-2013a MB
> 8.4G HD
> 44X CDROM
> Ricoh CDRW
> Adaptec-SSCII 1569??? Can�t remember number
> SB value 64 sound card
> STB TV adapter card
> ATI Rage Pro AGP or New AGP card.
> Cardinal Connecta 3440 modem V.90 ISA
> NE2000 PCI net card
>
> I went to CompUSA to buy a copy of Linux for $29.95, but the sales
> Staff told me I would have problems with the OS and my hardware. They
> said that Linux had no support for CD�s (The program was on a CD) or
CD
> Writers and that I would have a problem setting up my sound card and
> Modem and most of the hardware.
>
> I wanted to get the REAL scoop on this.
>
> Will I be able to use my CD writer? MOST IMPORTANT!
> I thought this was a good OS with support for most hardware. I read
the
> package, but it did not say anything about compatible hardware so I
put
> it down and did not buy.
>
> Please help! I want to try the OS but do not want to give up the CD
> writer or net card. The other items such, as the TV card isn't so
> Important. Can anyone lead me into the right direction, a Web page or
> something to study up on the hardware compatibility.
>
> Also I heard that the OS is free on the Internet. How do you download
> and install it? I have a T1 line here and should be able to get it
> fairly fast. Which directories do I copy from the FTP sites? I also
> heard Corel was giving away WordPerfect for Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance for the information!
>
> Old555
You should be ok with the CD I used RH6 Linux ($50 from CUSA after
rebate)- boot from CD works fine. I used an 8MB ATI expert card -again,
fine. But I have had trouble finding a modem, and I can't get my
soundcard to work.
OB
>
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From: NeoFax <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Rush w/ MX86251 chipset
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 19:21:13 GMT
I was wondering if anyone has this card, and if they got it to wotk in
Linux?
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From: "Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 13:10:32 -0400
http://www.croftj.net/~jam/index.html
a good site for beginers
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From: Jesse Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help! want to intsall Linux but Compusa says No!
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 12:04:33 -0700
screw CompUSA go to http://www.linuxcentral.com they will sell you a CD
for around $3.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am thinking about installing Linux on a new computer.
> It will have the below listed hardware.
>
> AMDK6-3 400
> 128M PC100
> FIC-2013a MB
> 8.4G HD
> 44X CDROM
> Ricoh CDRW
> Adaptec-SSCII 1569??? Can�t remember number
> SB value 64 sound card
> STB TV adapter card
> ATI Rage Pro AGP or New AGP card.
> Cardinal Connecta 3440 modem V.90 ISA
> NE2000 PCI net card
>
> I went to CompUSA to buy a copy of Linux for $29.95, but the sales
> Staff told me I would have problems with the OS and my hardware. They
> said that Linux had no support for CD�s (The program was on a CD) or CD
> Writers and that I would have a problem setting up my sound card and
> Modem and most of the hardware.
>
> I wanted to get the REAL scoop on this.
>
> Will I be able to use my CD writer? MOST IMPORTANT!
> I thought this was a good OS with support for most hardware. I read the
> package, but it did not say anything about compatible hardware so I put
> it down and did not buy.
>
> Please help! I want to try the OS but do not want to give up the CD
> writer or net card. The other items such, as the TV card isn't so
> Important. Can anyone lead me into the right direction, a Web page or
> something to study up on the hardware compatibility.
>
> Also I heard that the OS is free on the Internet. How do you download
> and install it? I have a T1 line here and should be able to get it
> fairly fast. Which directories do I copy from the FTP sites? I also
> heard Corel was giving away WordPerfect for Linux.
>
> Thanks in advance for the information!
>
> Old555
>
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> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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