Linux-Hardware Digest #218, Volume #11 Thu, 9 Sep 99 21:13:44 EDT
Contents:
NEED ADAPTEC 2940u DRIVER (dja7)
Mouse problems in SuSE 6.1 eval (Peter Polman)
Re: Dual Celeron (David Ripton)
Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world (Timothy J. Lee)
XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions) ("Soltzer")
Re: UDMA problem? (Dale Pontius)
AOpen FM56P PCI Internal Modem (help needed!) ("Philo")
The Ultimate Operating System News ("[EMAIL PROTECTED]")
Please help: Can't use external SCSI devices !? ("Gabriel L. Somlo")
Re: voodoo2 and slackware 4.0 and quake3 (Leigh Wedding)
Changing Monitor Resolution ("Soltzer")
FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! ("Pedro RA")
Re: SMP speedup (800mhz AMD vs 2XPIII-500) (Larry Ozarow)
Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL! ("Dave Nejdl")
Re: 2 NICS on the same machine (Paul Lew)
13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller... (Jesse Hughes)
Re: unnecessary CDROM roughness? (john)
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:26:49 -0700
From: dja7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NEED ADAPTEC 2940u DRIVER
Where can I find it ?
thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Polman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Mouse problems in SuSE 6.1 eval
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 13:59:03 -0700
Did an install last night and have had no luck at all getting a mouse to
work in X or for that matter SAX or XF86Setup. The mouse (a generic
serial mouse on COM 1) was working fine under Mandrake 6.0 and
previously under Mandrake 5.3. I've tried xf86config as well. I can
start up KDE with the mouse set up as /dev/ttyS0 but the mouse doesn't
respond. There's a cursor but no movement. I've also tried a PS2 mouse
on /dev/psaux after recompiling the kernel for non-serial mouse support
and changing the appropriate settings via SAX etc. I get the same
response with the PS2 mouse. What am I missing? It doesn't appear to be
a KDE problem as the mouse doesn't respond in SAX either. During initial
set up for GPM the mouse appeared to work.
Both mice work fine under MicroShaft 95 (a small partition on one of my
three hard drives).
My brain is not functional today after fighting with this until about
1:30 last night. Any ideas how to lift the fog?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: Dual Celeron
Date: 9 Sep 1999 23:32:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Bear in mind that if you are told that 80% of all celerons will
>overclock, you are fitting two of them, and so the likelihood of
>success will be 64%.
That analysis makes two implicit assumptions.
First, it assumes that each processor's chance of overclockability
is independent. But processors from the same batch tend to be
equally overclockable, and if you buy two together the odds are
that they will be from the same batch. If you can see the serial
numbers before you buy, you can guarantee this.
Second, it assumes that SMP itself does not have an effect on
overclockability. This is a controversial statement.
As an aside, I think that most overclockers do a lousy job of
stability testing, and that most of the overclocking success
rates we see posted are exaggerated. Not that people are
intentionally lying; they just don't test hard enough. Most
people run buggy software on an unstable OS, have come to
expect routine crashes, and just don't notice an occasional extra
crash due to slightly unstable hardware.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy J. Lee)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world
Date: 9 Sep 1999 23:26:28 GMT
Reply-To: see-signature-for-email-address---junk-not-welcome
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook) writes:
|I wouldn't want to run Netscape 4.x in anything under 32MB RAM. And I haven't
|tried to run it on a 486. I'd probably want to back off to Netscape 3, but
|that's not being maintained.
I've actually run Netscape 4 on a 486 with 16 MB of RAM (FreeBSD,
not Linux, though). But it was quite slow to start and didn't
seem that faster otherwise (though it was on the end of a modem,
so modem speed was often the limit).
Lynx works quite well on such computers, until you run into a web
page that requires graphics, Java, or JavaScript to be usable.
--
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Timothy J. Lee timlee@
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No warranty of any kind is provided with this message.
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From: "Soltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: XF86Config problems (trying to set monitor resolutions)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:25:24 -0500
I'm a new linux user (as of this morning). I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a
P2-333 Dell XPS w/ a Dell D1025HTX 17" monitor and a Diamond FireGL 1000 PRO
OEM video card w/ 8 megs of memory (using the permedia chipset)
I have both GNOME and KDE installed (both are latest versions)
Browsing through the ng messages I thought I had found an answer as to how
to change screen resolution through the use of XF86Config ... i ran through
that, selecting default resolution settings, video card, etc., and, now,
after a reboot, instead of linux booting back into KDE which i had been
using, it sits at a "dos-like" screen with a prompt for localhost login:
before i had mucked about with the xf86config it had gone straight past this
and into gnome or kde depending which i was using. now however it just sits
there and the following appears:
"According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (599) but seems to
have been murdered mysteriously" ... sometimes the message would appear w/ a
different # in parentheses.
So basically I guess the question is what is it I've done wrong? set
resolutions, refresh rates, etc that my monitor can't handle? in windows 98
my monitor (described at top) could run at 1280x1024 w/ 32-bit color
beautifully so I know it's capable of that...I believe somewhere in the
course of xf86config i set a default of 1024x780 800x600 640x480 24bit in
that order...
As you can see I'm quite clueless here, anyone who has experienced a similar
problem or can contribute any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very
much in advance.
--
Glen McWhorter
=================================
I'm so close to Hell I can almost see Vegas!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dale Pontius)
Subject: Re: UDMA problem?
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 18:26:27 -03-59
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.37 seconds =93.43 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 5.74 seconds =11.15 MB/sec
>
I'm still running 2.2.5-15, and have no UDMA kernel patches, but
I'm getting a bit over 14 MB/sec for the Timing buffered disk reads.
I was beginning to wonder if this was really UDMA, and that's what's
real instead of 33 MB/s. It sounds like there's some untapped perf-
ormance left, or is there?
Dale Pontius
DEPontius AT usa DOT net
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From: "Philo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AOpen FM56P PCI Internal Modem (help needed!)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:05:34 -0400
Hi,
I'm new to linux, but I'm now stuck trying to make my internal PCI modem to
work.
Under NT it is set up using COM3. I've tried any setting under linux, but
always get something like "can't find modem" or "modem didn't answer"...
It is not a win-modem.
What should I do?
--
Louis Pelletier, Qu�bec
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From: "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Ultimate Operating System News
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:26:39 -0400
http://TheUltimateOS.com
News
Reviews
and much more
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From: "Gabriel L. Somlo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Please help: Can't use external SCSI devices !?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 17:41:46 -0600
Hi.
I've got a BT-958 SCSI controller, and it worked fine for
cca. 2 years... until I tried hooking up some _external_
devices.
The external device I'm talking about is an old CD-ROM. I saw
it working fine on another computer. It has a Centronix
50-pin connector.
The BT-958 has a 68-pin connector on the outside, and two
connectors (one 50-pin, one 68-pin) on the inside. The manual
says you can only use two out of the three connectors at
any time.
I used to have stuff connected to both internal connectors:
internal CD-ROM and CD-RW to the 50-pin connector, and two
hard drives to the 68-pin connector.
To make it possible to use the external connector, I got
50-to-68 adaptors for the CD drives, and now I only use the
68-pin connector on the inside. This works fine.
I have a 68-pin to Centronix 50 external cable, and after
I hooked up the external CD-ROM drive, the SCSI bios would
hang before allowing me to enter the SCSI-bios config. utility.
SCSI experts out there: does this sound like a bad cable, or
is it maybe that I mixed 50 and 68 pin devices on the 68 pin
internal connector ? Or was my SCSI board broken all along and
I never noticed ?
I'd like to get a clue before I return/exchange my external
cable and look stupid at the store... :)
Thanks much in advance,
Gabriel
PS. I had to fake my email to get rid of spam
address-harvesters. If you want to email me personally,
please remove all UPPERCASE chars from my address... Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leigh Wedding)
Subject: Re: voodoo2 and slackware 4.0 and quake3
Date: 9 Sep 1999 23:50:15 GMT
In article <7r7fnd$nd9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>
>I am so close but I just can't seem to get Q3 to fire up. I can run it
>as a dedicated server, but not as a player.
>
>I am running Slackware 4.0
>I have the newest drivers, not sure if they are installed correctly.
>Inside /3dfx/usr/bin there is a file called "test3Dfx
>When I ./test3Dfx, it runs and I see the rotating 3Dfx logo. SO I think
>the card is installed properly and I think Q3 is installed properly, but
>I don't think the drivers are.
>
>When I try to run Q3, I get
>
>libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
>And I know this file exists...i have seen it and I put it in a path in
>/etc/ld.so.conf
>
>any ideas on what to try next?
>
>thanks
>
>Andy
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
I think this problem may be related to libc5 / libc6(glibc2). I got
a similar error message trying to run one of the quake versions.
Slackware 4.0 still uses libc5 as its main library, and all other
shared libs are compiled against it. However this version of quake
possibly is linked against libc6; this would be okay if that was
the only shared library it needed, as Slackware comes with the
glibc2 lib. Apps needing glibc2 will run, but only if that is
the only shared lib they need; the app won't run if it needs any
other shared libs because all the others refer to libc5.
Try running ldd on the quake executable and see what it gives you.
Hope this helps. But remember, this opinion may be worth what
you paid for it. Any gurus want to comment?
Leigh W.
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From: "Soltzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing Monitor Resolution
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 16:34:48 -0500
I'm a new linux user (as of this morning). I'm running Redhat 6.0 on a
P2-333 Dell XPS w/ a Dell D1025HTX 17" monitor and a Diamond FireGL 1000 PRO
OEM video card w/ 8 megs of memory
I have both GNOME and KDE installed (both are latest versions)
My question is how to I change my monitor resolution, it is running at
640x480 right now. I can't for the life of me find any controls or settings
relating to this. Any help would be _much_ appreciated. Thanks in advance.
--
Glen McWhorter
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I'm so close to Hell I can almost see Vegas!
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Reply-To: "Pedro RA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Pedro RA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:19:51 +0100
Sorry to post off topic but this is EXTREMELY important!
FREE EAST TIMOR NOW!
STOP THE KILLING KNOW!
Please take a look at the nearest
internacional news broadcast.
Remember KOSOVO, RUANDA,
BOSNIA, CAMBODJA, KURDISTAN,
or the HOLOCAUST. Or remember all
of them. You may as well add
EAST TIMOR to this list.
DO SOMETHING!
Do what ever you can.
Better even:
STOP SOMETHING THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED!
FREE EAST TIMOR
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From: Larry Ozarow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP speedup (800mhz AMD vs 2XPIII-500)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 23:54:03 GMT
"David J. Topper" wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to decide on the purchase of a new desktop. The Kryotech
> 800mhz AMD system really sound sweet, but I'm a bit concerned about
> noise related to the condenser. So I've never been able to understand
> how well Linux handles multi-processor systems. Will a dual PIII-500mhz
> system be about twice as fast as a single CPU system?
>
> Thanks,
>
> DT
> --
> David Topper
> Technical Director - Virginia Center for Computer Music
> Programmer Analyst - School of Arts and Sciences
> http://www.people.virginia.edu/~djt7p
> (804) 924-6887
I've been using a dual system at work for about a year and at home for a
few months now, and I can definitively answer your question -- it depends.
It depends on what programs you run and how you work. At work I run a lot
of monte carlo simulations that each take between a few minutes and a day
or so. Since I need a lot of runs with different parameters I can run them
in parallel, so in my case, a dual processor system IS twice as fast as a
single processor system. If you do your own programming and are adept at
programming multi-threaded applications (and your work can support it),
than single applications can probably run faster, certainly not twice as
fast, but maybe 30% (just a guess). If you're I/O bound than of course you
can't gain much. If you run stuff in the background while you use your
machine for routine kinds of stuff like letter writing web surfing
whatever, than it might be a bit smoother on a dual processor machine, but
I've usually found linux boxes to be pretty responsive regardless of whats
going on in background.
Of course if you've got some already-existing multithreaded application in
mind, it'll probably benefit, but again nothing like 100% speedup.
Anyway that's all I can report on this topic. I can tell you that the dual
machines (400 PII's at work, and OC'd Celerons at 450 at home) are zippy
and responsive and a lot of fun to use. It's kinda like having a nice
sports car or racing bicycle. Most of the time its potential is wasted, but
even the mundane things are more fun, and when you need the extra oomph,
it's great to have.
Larry
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From: "Dave Nejdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL!
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:48:33 -0400
Could you tell me where to find this paper. I searched my whole box and a
couple sites but couldn't find it. Thanks a lot for your help.
Dave
David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You need to search the web for AVA1502 and LINUX. There is a page out
> there dedicated to getting it running. I was going to, but got a
> different card.
>
> David Nejdl wrote:
> >
> > I just got an internal scsi zip drive with the adaptec AVA-1502 scsi
> > controler(zip zoom). I didn't get any manuals or anything with it. I
> > reconfigured my kernel to include scsi, scsi disk support and the
aha152x
> > driver. Then I went into windows nt to try and find out the irq and I/O
> > port. It always says the I/O range is 140-015f (0x140 I assume) and the
IRQ
> > is 11. SO I said "great" and "that was so easy." I entered the boot
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: 2 NICS on the same machine
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 22:30:53 GMT
Not sure, but I think that with 2 "identical" nics, the
nic with the lower IRQ would be configured as eth0; if
2 different nics, then the one replying quicker to the probe
would be eth0. Both happened to me recently.
The bootup recognizes both nics as per the /var/log/messages
but only 1 is configured; doing an ifconfig to configure the
2nd nic, activates and no need to reboot.
Some others have been able to have "both" ethx "ifconfig"ed
on boot but I wish I knew how...
gendro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have some problems configuring a PC as firewall/router. I have a ADSL
>internet connection which I want to pipe to my other PC (p200 running
>Win98/Linux).
>
>Facts:
>On my router-to-be, I have RedHat 6.0 installed - no X - customized with
>minimal apps to do what I want.
>PC: 486-dx2-66 VLB - 400 Meg HD, 16 Ram
>NICs : 2 DLink DE220t
>
>My problems resides in the NIC detection and configuration.
>Iniatial config of the cards have been done in accordance with the
>supplier specs ie I have used the DOS software supplied with the driver
>to configure both cards and make sure that they have been PNP disabled
>and set to different I/O adress and IRQ.
>
>Problem:
>At first boot, eth0 was detected which was the IO300 IRQ10 NIC.
>So I launched linuxconf to configure the second card (eth1) as IO 320
>and IRQ5. Next, I logged off and rebooted the machine to ensure that the
>new setting would take place.
>At the second boot where ethx are loaded, eth0 successfully installed
>but not eth1.
>On top of that, eth0 has connected itself to IO 320 - IRQ which was
>supposed to be IO 300 - IRQ !!!
>
>How come ?
>
>Is it possible that linux does not allow having two NIC of same
>brand/model ?
>OR
>Is there any specific setting that has to be done in order to ensure
>that the two card are treated seperately at installation time even
>though they use the same driver ?
>
>Thanks
>
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Jesse Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 13GB Hard Drive problems -- appears much smaller...
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 20:33:44 -0400
I purchased a 13GB Western Digital hard drive and partitioned it for Linux
(only). I used an old distribution set up disk, but I think it was 2.0
kernel or so (Slackware 3.0 disk, perhaps?). Everything seemed to go
well.
I upgraded to Slackware 4.0 and then put in a 2.2.10 kernel. It took me a
while, but I finally noticed that I'm missing part of my hard drive.
Here's the output of df -h:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda1 6.7G 3.0G 3.3G 47% /
/dev/hda2 3.3G 19M 3.1G 1% /home
Here's the output of fdisk with a warning and then the output of p.
bash# fdisk
Using /dev/hda as default device!
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1582.
There is nothing wrong with that, but this is larger than 1024,
and could in certain setups cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1582 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 1000 8032468+ 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 1001 1500 4016250 83 Linux native
/dev/hda3 1501 1582 658665 82 Linux swap
Where's the rest of me? Or my disk?
(And, YES, I know that's a stupid size for a swap partition. My brain is
the size of a turnip, but not as intelligent.)
By the way, I also received error messages whenever I tried to run setup
-- the messages were:
Mount table corrupt. Reboot machine and run setup again.
I'm sure now that these are related to my other problems.
Any help would be appreciated. I realize that I'm going to have to
reinstall everything to fix this problem, which is painful, but before I
do anything, I'd like to be convinced there is a solution.
Thanks. Please send a courtesy email copy with any help.
--
Jesse
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From: john <john*nospam*@jjgb.com>
Subject: Re: unnecessary CDROM roughness?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 18:49:21 -0600
Brenden Dawson wrote:
> Quick question...
>
> I'm wanting my CDROM to be accessible, either automatically (autofs), or
> always mounted. It's a mild pain to mount it to browse when my file
> manager doesn't have a "mount this" feature.
>
> My apprehension to autofs is that I've only seen it in conjunction with
> NFS... I'm not (mentally) prepared to go through round three in the
> rigors of NFS installation and configuration.
>
> So my question: Does mounting the CD at boot (and leaving it mounted)
> cause any unnecessary roughness to the physical drive?
>
> Are my assumptions about autofs wrong with relation to NFS?
>
> Is there a daemon out there similar to autofs that will mount devices
> when needed?
>
> TIA,
>
> Brenden Dawson
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
No, usually they spin down after a period of time. Here is my /etc/fstab
file:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/hda6 /home ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda9 /tmp ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda5 /usr ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda7 /var ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/hda8 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /mnt/dosfloppy vfat noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660
noauto,ro,user,unhide 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
Note the noauto in the line with the cdrom. Change yours to auto if you
wish it mounted at boot. BEWARE, you'll have to unmount it before you
remove/open the CD drive, and will have to re-mount it after doing the
above...
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