Linux-Hardware Digest #104, Volume #11 Thu, 26 Aug 99 16:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: USB switching? (David C.)
Re: Linux on AMD K6-2/400? ("Russell E. Smith")
Ensoniq PCI sound support ("Liddleddy Morris")
Re: I HATE LT WIN MODEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Lew Pitcher)
LS120 - LILO (Joseph P Turner)
IBM MCA Raid Controller Support (Florian Lenz)
Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy.. (David C.)
Re: DMA on Ali Aladin V chipset? (Peter Stein)
mounting 2nd hd ("Macy")
Voodoo Banshee Problem ("Craig O'Neill")
onstream's 30/50GB backup device on Linux? ("Peter Vaughan")
Re: I can't power down using "shutdown -h now"! (Hans J�rgensen)
Re: Scanner am Parallelport ? (Markus Gans)
Re: ISA sound card SB16 PnP driver (Hans J�rgensen)
Problem with S3 Savage4 ("Bastian Merkel")
Re: Repeated crashs after CPU fan change (Guillaume Filion)
Re: UDMA on Ali Aladin V chipset? (Peter Stein)
Re: RTL8139 BOOT-ROM (Thomas Kaemer)
Re: Dual processor and AMD (Mike Frisch)
Re: onstream's 30/50GB backup device on Linux? (Mike Frisch)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: USB switching?
Date: 26 Aug 1999 12:12:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ronald Bruck) writes:
>
> I have two computers at home, a 400MHz PII running Mandrake 6.0 and
> (shudder) occasionally Windows 98, and a 400MHz Blue&White G3
> Macintosh, usually running MacOS but occasionally running LinuxPPC or
> YellowDog Linux.
>
> I'd like to use a single keyboard and monitor. It's easy to switch
> the MONITOR, but switching the KEYBOARD is usually a hassle between a
> Mac and a PC.
With Pre-USB, it would be impossible, as PC's use the PS/2-type
connector or the older PC/AT type connector. Pre-USB Macs use ADB,
which is completely different.
> Except that I have USB on both. The keyboard is a macally USB
> keyboard, the house is a Logitech 3-button wheel mouse (also USB); is
> there such a thing as a USB switch which will switch between one
> computer and the other?
I haven't heard of a switchbox for this, but what you want to do isn't
terribly hard. I'd get a cheap hub and attach both the keyboard and
mouse to it. Then, it should be possible to hot-swap this hub from one
computer to the other. (You may want to invest in one or two more hubs
if the computers' connectors are in inconvenient locations.)
Of course, this assumes that Linux supports USB keyboards and mice in
the first place. I didn't think that was working yet.
> Alternatively, can I run the USB to BOTH computers (perhaps using a
> hub, or maybe directly) and software-switch them? (Keyboard input to
> both computers simultaneously is likely to be less than useful ;-)
I've never heard of this. You might want to ask this question in one of
the hardware newsgroups.
> Has anyone else solved this problem? Two monitors and keyboards just
> take up too much space. I could get a 21" monitor and have a much
> more reasonable use of space.
I share one monitor with two computers at work (A PC and a Sun), and
just keep separate keyboards. They keyboards are easy to move out of
the way when you're not using them.
-- David
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From: "Russell E. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,cs.amd,cx686.amdk6.and.others
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD K6-2/400?
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 10:23:17 -0600
I switched from NT to Linux for reasons other than conflicts with my K6-2. I
switched because the OS is just not as stable as Linux, regardless. I've
been running a small file server on my families LAN and have not had a
reboot in 2 months going. If thats not stability, I don't know what is.
Cheers,
--
Russell E. Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Get all your hardware news at http://www.alereon.org
"I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck"
-- Eric S. Raymond
K. Eggleston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Out of desperation for more speed for M$ NT 4.0, I went to my local
> bargain geek-shop and bought a Gigabyte motherboard along with AMD K6-
> 2/400 chip. This is the first time I've bought a non-Intel MB, but
> everyone told me I'd have no probs.
>
> But, I must get BSOD's in NT at least once a day. And it's stuff that
> specifically mentions the processor.. One of its favorites is complaining
> something about AMD EXCEPTION IRQ1 is LESS_OR_EQUAL .. Not quite sure
> exactly what it means, but it happens all the time. Other bizarre
> behavior as well.. StarCraft doesn't want to run smoothly, for some
> reason.. Can't figure out if its the vid card to blame on this one, tho
> (Voodoo3/2000)..
>
> Anyway, these BSOD's are going to really get on my nerves. I canst stands
> no flakey system!
>
> And now, for the Linux part of this post-- Has anyone had a similar
> experience with AMD chips -- that Windoze would bomb or act bad
> specifically for reasons tied to the AMD chip -- and replace Windoze with
> Linux and experienced 100% hardware-reliable performance?
>
> I bought this AMD chip because so many people swore that it was a good
> bet. The Gigabyte MB, I was also told, was a great MB.. Trying to make
> my anti-monopoly statement and save a few bucks at the same time. I
> guess I got what I paid for!
>
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From: "Liddleddy Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ensoniq PCI sound support
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:16:06 -0400
Does the latest kernel support this card?
ed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: I HATE LT WIN MODEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 16:54:41 GMT
>From the explanations I've seen on some modem manufacturers sites,
there seems to be three breeds of 'WinModem'.
First, there are modem chipsets that lack the serial-port used to
connect the modem to the computer ('Software UART' modems).
Second, there are modem chipsets that lack the controller that
interprets the Hayes AT commandset ('HCF' or 'controllerless' modems).
Finally, there are modem chipsets that lack the DSP necessary to
process modem tones into valid binary data and perform the various
V.35/V.90/etc. compression/decompression functions ('HSP' modems).
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:57:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Sun, 22 Aug 1999 22:40:15 -0400, george <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Win modems are also known as controllerless modems. They rely on the
>system CPU to run the phone - computer interface. Traditional modems
>have an on board processor to handle this task. Depending on the
>machine and the amount of data being transferred, the system can take
>a significant performance hit when managing the modem. This is also
>true for certian sound cards which also rely on the system processor
>to do the work. Beware of inexpensive products. It likely doesn't
>perform as well as it's more expensive competitors.
>
>>Not to be rude, but Win modems do not work under Linux. Hence the name "Win"
>>modem - they only work under Windows. This is because the hardware
>>manufacturer was very cheep and decided that rather than add the extra
>>components to make it a real modem, they would supply drivers - for windows
>>only - to make the modem work.
>>
>>Sorry.
>>
>>liuyb wrote:
>>
>>> I have a lt win modem, but I can't let it work in linux. I tried all means
>>> and spend a lot of time , the result is the same. So I hate it.
>>> I HATE WIN MODEM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>>--
>>George Nimmer - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Linux - The choice of a GNU generation
>>
>>
>>
>
Lew Pitcher
System Consultant, Development Services
Toronto Dominion Bank
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employers')
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Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 01:24:36 +0800
From: Joseph P Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LS120 - LILO
Anyone managed to make an LS120 bootable? With lilo?
I have a root parition on it and would dearly love to make it bootable,
but lilo seems to have a hard time.
Cheers
Joe
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From: Florian Lenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM MCA Raid Controller Support
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 13:01:47 +0200
Hi,
Does anyone know if there is a driver for the IBM Raid Controller (MCA).
I have a PS/2 Modell 95 with that Adapter (NCR 53C720 Controller Chips
and Intel960 Processor)
Thanks for any information.
Bye,
Florian
--
MGI
METRO MGI INFORMATIK GMBH
Industriestra�e 24, 55232 Alzey (Germany)
Phone: +49 (6731) 910-165 Fax: -111 E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: CD-RW drive making me crazy..
Date: 26 Aug 1999 12:04:01 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> Sony are more expensive, but I have had NO problems with them in
> my Acer CD-RW under Windows95 and Linux. Verbatim are good too.
Just to add another data point, I've had good luck with Imation (3M)
CD-Rs.
As for price, all brands cost $2 per disc at office supply stores around
here. (That is, $20 for a 10-pack, with jewel cases. I can't get bulk
CDs without mail-ordering them.)
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: DMA on Ali Aladin V chipset?
Date: 26 Aug 1999 18:53:00 GMT
In article <7q2pf7$vm3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have DMA running on an Asus P5AB (Ali V chipset) using kernel 2.3.4. I
>believe there is a patch for 2.2 kernels, but certainly 2.3.4 is very
>stable.
>
>Pete
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Can you successfully use UDMA or are you limited to DMA? I'm running
2.2.9 with DMA on my P5A-B, but cannot get UDMA working.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Macy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mounting 2nd hd
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 17:01:11 GMT
Im trying to mount a 2nd hard drive. Whenever I try to mount it the message
comes up that the fs is supported by the kernel. My windows machine can see
and open the file but there's nothing in there. What could be my problem?
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From: "Craig O'Neill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Banshee Problem
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 22:43:08 -0230
I'm running Linux Mandrake 6.0
It does not support the voodoo banshee in the install.
I found drivers in the RPM form
I run them but I still cannot get the banshee card to run
All I get is 8bpp in vga
What am i doing wrong.
PS I have very limited knowlegde of Linux. I' m trying to learn
There must be more to installing the card that I am doing
Please give me detailed information on how to make it work
Thanking you in advance
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From: "Peter Vaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: onstream's 30/50GB backup device on Linux?
Date: 26 Aug 1999 15:34:31 GMT
Hi Hardware guru's
Anyone have any experience with Onstreams 30GB/50GB tape backup drive on
Linux ( http://www.onstream.com/ ). I came across this product while
looking for a backup solution for our servers. Looks like a good? high
capacity low cost backup solution.
It has an IDE or SCSI I/F so would it work as a normal SCSI backup device?
TIA
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans J�rgensen)
Subject: Re: I can't power down using "shutdown -h now"!
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:24:00 +0300
Ross Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've recompiled the kernel (2.2.7) to include APM support and to turn off on
>shutdown, but when I use the "shutdown -h now" command, it goes through all
>the usual stuff and then just sits there!
>Anyone got any ideas on what I've missed? I'm using SuSE 6.1....
edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
locate this:
command="halt" and change it to
command="halt -p"
(This is for redhat 5.1 but might work for SuSE to.)
--
Hans J�rgensen - Boris - #Linux.dk & #Danmark on the Undernet
Homepage -> http://boris.n3.net
.If you are a spam-bot then please add *spam-this* to my e-mail-address.
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From: Markus Gans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: apana.lists.os.linux.hams,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Scanner am Parallelport ?
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:52:24 +0200
Am Wed, 25 Aug 1999 hat Johannes Herlitz geschrieben:
>Was, wirklich nicht ? Glaub ich eigentlich kaum...gibt kaum was, was nicht geht
>unter linux.
>Ich hab naemlich dasselbe Problem sowohl mit einem ParPort-Scanner (selber wie
>oben) als auch mit einem HP ScanJet, SCSI: beides mal wollen Programme, die was
>einscannen wollen von /dev/pnm0 oder /dev/pnm1 lesen und ich hab keinen blassen
>Schimmer was das sein soll.
Ich hatte das gleiche Problem mit meinen HP-ScanJet 4c.
Behoben habe ich es, durch auskommentieren von der scsi-Zeile.
/etc/sane.d/hp.conf
======================================
#scsi HP
/dev/scanner
======================================
--
Hast du was von Bill dann Gates, oder auch nicht.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hans J�rgensen)
Subject: Re: ISA sound card SB16 PnP driver
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 18:25:49 +0300
Etienne Ducamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using Suse 6.1 Linux and I would like to find a driver for my card.
>Does any one knows where I can find it?
Get the newest kernel (2.2.12) and compile it with PnP and SB16-support.
That'll do it.
--
Hans J�rgensen - Boris - #Linux.dk & #Danmark on the Undernet
Homepage -> http://boris.n3.net
.Hi! I am a .sig virus. Copy me into your own .sig file! (Shit, jeg har
ogs� f�et den).
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From: "Bastian Merkel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with S3 Savage4
Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 20:39:11 +0200
Hi,
The new S3 Savage 4 seems not to run in any X Server Configuration, is that
rigtht?
Bastian Merkel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guillaume Filion)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Repeated crashs after CPU fan change
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 14:44:06 -0400
In article <nvs3q7.bsr.ln@localhost>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Guillaume Filion ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : I change my CPU fan and my BIOS battery three days ago on my Linux 120 Mhz
> : server Box, and in three days, I got two crashs (on Linux)... The crashs
> : were like:
> : Kernel Panic, or
> : Complete freeze of tty, or
> : Impossible to log-in (error was: Too much fragmentation (or something like
> : that))
> :
> : The only way to reboot was to hit the reset button on the Box, and then I
> : got those kind of errors:
> : 'Boot sequence corrupted, giving up', or
> : 'Kernel currupted, impossible to uncompress', or
> : Not even a LILO boot!
> :
> : The solution is relatively easy, I just shut-off the computer for about
> : half an hour, and start it again: I boot like if nothing had never
> : hapenned (except for the disk check forced).
> :
> : As you can see this is a strange problem, and I'm about sure this is
> : hardware related, but I don't know what hardware. Could someone point me
> : what is wrong?
>
> I'd start with the new fan. Is it still running? Is it similar to the old
> one? What about the heat sink - same size or larger than the old one? Heat
> sink thermal compound between the cpu and the heatsink?
>
> What about the fan in the power supply? Is it still running?
Stu,
The new fan is running nice. It is bigger than the older one, it may take
more power than the old one. The old one was connected serial with the
hard drive, so in case the new one is taking more power, I connected it
alone on it's own plug.
The brand is a Cooler Master TP5-5020B. The heatsink is a little bit
larger than the old one and I didn't put compound between the cpu and the
heatsink.
The power supply's fan is working as good as before...
Can you guess something with this?
Thanks,
GFK's
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Stein)
Subject: Re: UDMA on Ali Aladin V chipset?
Date: 26 Aug 1999 19:10:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unrot13 this;
>Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Glen Parker;
>
> GP> Is there any way to get Linux to use UDMA on the Ali shipset
> GP> (this is kernel
> GP> 2.0.37 on an Asus P5A board, with K6-2-400) ?
> GP> Maybe only with 2.2.* kernels?
> GP> Any pointers appreciated; docs, patches, etc.
>
>2.2.9 and up work just fine *in UDMA-33*, which requires you run the
>drive makers dos utility to switch them down from UDMA-66, it is not an
>auto-switch in my experience.
Your experience is unique. Most people have not been able use UDMA
successfully even in kernels as recent as 2.2.9. DMA works fine, but
UDMA suffers from write errors. Some people have mistakenly posted
that UDMA works based on "hdparm -t", but this is a read-only test
and if any writes are attempted they fail. I've emailed the authors
of the ALI driver, but only one responded, and that was to let me
know he was experiencing the same problem and had no solution for it.
I've been monitoring the Linux newsgroups carefully for this subject.
It's possible I missed something, but I've not seen any indication
that this problem has been corrected. While DMA is certainly better
than PIO, it clearly is not UDMA. Maybe UDMA works on other motherboards
that use the Ali Aladin V chipset, but it certainly doesn't work on my
P5A-B and that's been the case for other posters as well.
Peter Stein
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Kaemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RTL8139 BOOT-ROM
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 1999 19:56:01 +0200
Rafal Wysocki schrieb:
>
> Hi,
>
> I need a bootrom for the RealTek 8139 NIC. Can anybody give me a hand
> (e.g. URL), please?
>
> Rafael
Look at http://www.slug.org.au/etherboot/
CU Thomas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Dual processor and AMD
Date: 26 Aug 1999 19:32:09 GMT
On Thu, 26 Aug 1999 20:53:31 +0200, Alain BURET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is it true that AMD K6 processors don't support SMP ? So, no dual AMD
>processor motherboard ?
That is correct.
>I heard that K7 will allow it, but K6 prices are so lowwwwwwwww....
Yes, the K7 does support SMP.
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: onstream's 30/50GB backup device on Linux?
Date: 26 Aug 1999 19:33:25 GMT
On 26 Aug 1999 15:34:31 GMT, Peter Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone have any experience with Onstreams 30GB/50GB tape backup drive on
>Linux ( http://www.onstream.com/ ). I came across this product while
>looking for a backup solution for our servers. Looks like a good? high
>capacity low cost backup solution.
There is no Linux support for these drives (they do not 'appear' as
regular tape backup devices) at the present time. OnStream claims to
release a driver in the future, but don't count on it. They don't
respond to email either. Look elsewhere...
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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