Linux-Hardware Digest #246, Volume #11 Mon, 13 Sep 99 19:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: Hardware compatibility and where's the bottleneck? (LhD Administrator)
Re: Supported Video Cards (LhD Administrator)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Spike!)
Why Does Suse 6.2 Take Up So Much Real Estate?? (Luckydaze1)
Re: Hardware compatibility and where's the bottleneck? (Mike Moulton)
Re: Sound "skip" with Vivo 90 ("Bob Gilbert")
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems ("JDR")
Re: How To Format Old Linux Partitions?? (Spike!)
Re: 2 soundcards (Frank v Waveren)
ATI 3D Rage PRO problem (Olof Land�n)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! ("Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz")
Re: Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook (Terry Fielder)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (James Knott)
2940 timeouts (Cris Collins)
Linux 2.2 (Caldera) CD Rom access ("Ed Lewis")
Re: 3c503 card under SuSE 6.2 (LhD Administrator)
Re: Help- netwoking card configuration (LhD Administrator)
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware compatibility and where's the bottleneck?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:31:35 GMT
Emil Eifrem wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with a similar setup or of any of the
> individual components? Are these good choices for a Linux workstation
> (main) / server? Where would the performance bottlenecks be?
Seems like a reasonable system, check that the ATI card will be supported
by the X server you intend to use. Before buying the system, you might
want to consult our ratings & workaround database (at
http://lhd.datapower.com), and after buying it, come back and rate the
individual components!
LhD Administrator
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Supported Video Cards
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:31:28 GMT
Dan Chak wrote:
> I want to port some software used on an SGI O2 over to Linux, and am
> wondering if someone can recommend a good videocard that mimics SGI's
> sVideo in and out, and that is also well supported by Linux.
Try http://lhd.datapower.com for a comments/ratings on a few cards, as
well as checking various Video4Linux and X server resources.
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:06:58 +0100
And verily, didst Lisa Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> This goes out to all my lovely flamers:
> It's amazing how much indignation can be provoked when you try to get
> Americans to peer out of their insular, all things beef and ammo, truth
> justice and the american way, precious little world.
Americans? Last time I looked, this was an international newsgroup.
> I'm an Australian. I would never try to justify my governments' actions
> over East Timor. They've been abhorrent. And don't laud your right to bear
> arms over the plight of small peoples like the East Timorese. Your country
> has reserved the right to arm every oppressive, tyrranical government the
> world has seen. Where did Saddam get his weapons, hmmm? Straight from
> Uncle Sam.
I'm in the UK. Now tell me, what has a "right to bear arms" got to do with
me? I might have a right to bare arms, but that's a totally different
thing...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1)
Subject: Why Does Suse 6.2 Take Up So Much Real Estate??
Date: 13 Sep 1999 21:00:15 GMT
I installed Mandrake 6.0 with a 532mb install and have Kde,Gnome, Afterstep
and few other choices to choose when I log out of one. I did a 1500mb install
of Suse and have the Gnome package checked but can only log into Kde. How do
I get into Gnome and the others? I tried the Switchdesk command but get
nothing.
Why does Suse use so much space up compared to Mandrake and offer less?
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From: Mike Moulton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware compatibility and where's the bottleneck?
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:24:20 -0400
Emil Eifrem wrote:
>
> - Motherboard : Asus P3B-F, Slot 1, ATX (jumperless... yay)
> - CPU : Intel PII 400 Mhz 512kb
> - RAM : 128Mb SDRAM
> - HD : IBM Deskstar 22GXP 13.5Gb 7.2krpm UDMA66, IDE
> - Videocard : ATI Rage IIc 8Mb, AGP
> - CD-ROM : MIDA 40X CD-ROM, UDMA2, IDE
>
>
> Does anyone have experience with a similar setup or of any of the
> individual components? Are these good choices for a Linux workstation
> (main) / server? Where would the performance bottlenecks be?
>
I'm running a very similar system,
PII 400 512K
128 Mb PC-100 SDRAM
32 Mb Riva TNT2 -M64
12 Mb Voodoo 2
3.2 Mb Quantum Fireball EX
6.4 Mb Quantum Bigfoot
5x Creative DVD w/ Dxr3 Decoder
using Mandrake 6.1
I find that the main bottleneck is the HDD. The bigfoot drive is slow,
and other than that I find that the only component that could slow you down
is the Rage IIc, if you are going to be running Mesa intensive apps in
X-windows. If you intent to make it a server, the video card shouldn't
matter too much. As well I'm not sure if Linux will fully support UDMA
HDD's. Hope this helps.
Mike Moulton
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 10:22:19 -0600
From: "Bob Gilbert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound "skip" with Vivo 90
Sounds skipping in a PC are always the result of a sound device using the
same interrupt as another device in the system. The IRQ 5 noted below is
probably being used by another device in your system. My recommendation is
to try another IRQ such as 10, 12 or 15.
-Bob Gilbert
Tom Brinkman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tim Frisk wrote:
> >
> > I have been able to configure my Ensoniq Vivo 90 (PnP) card to play
> > sound using the following settings:
> > I/O: 530
> > IRQ: 9
>
> ## Look in bios, and disable ACPI (or somethin similar to that,
> too damn many accronyms in my head). It also uses IRQ9.
> If your 'skippin' is the same as mine was, that's
> what fixed it for me.
>
> Tom Brinkman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> > DMA: 3
> > MPU
> > I/O: 330
> > IRQ: 5
> > DMA: 1
> >
> > I can hear sounds, but they "skip." "Linux" sounds like
> > "Li-Li-Li-nu-nu-nu-x-x-x." This true for any sound I try.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tim
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From: "JDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 16:08:19 -0400
Reply-To: "JDR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Rod Roark wrote in message <7rc1g2$7ms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Define "rock solid stable". Just because it doesn't crash running
>whatever you happen to want to run doesn't mean it's stable. Do you
>really test every one? If so, how exactly? If not, you better start
>testing.
>
>By the way I always use AMD-recommended motherboards, mainstream
>SDRAM and decent fans. When you take out a CPU from a consistently
>failing system and substitute a different (same model) CPU and nothing
>else and it works, I think the conclusion is pretty clear. That has
>been the case for me with each bad CPU.
>
I can't speak for the guy you are following up to, but I have personally
built about 15 AMD boxes ranging from K6-2/300's to K6-3/450's. Each box
serves as a pretty heavily loaded internet server (web, ftp, in some cases
MUDs, etc). This subjects boxes to some pretty heavy loads and some
pretty bizarre situations as well. I have never had an AMD processor fail
in use or on the bench. The boxes generally have uptimes of over 100 days
at a time, one has been running for a full year. I can't say that I have
ever had bad Intel processors either, but I have never found a problem with
AMDs. You may want to try switching distributors to see if that is your
problem. Perhaps they are subjecting the chips to some strange
environmental conditions...
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From: Spike! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Format Old Linux Partitions??
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 20:29:44 +0100
And verily, didst Luckydaze1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
> I want to install Suse 6.2 over RH 6.0 but used Partition Magic to make the
> old Linux paritons and I don't want to lose these partitons and start over. How
> can I
> format these partitions so no files are left on them so I can install Suse on
> those same partitions??
Boot up the SuSE CD and go for expert install.
Select "Set target partitions/filesystems"
This bypasses repartitioning and allows you to format existing partitions.
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| in | and get out the puncture repair kit!" |
| Computer Science | Arnold Judas Rimmer- Red Dwarf |
==============================================================================
|GCv3.12 GCS>$ d-(dpu) s+/- a C++ US++ P L/L+ E-- W+ N++ o+ K PS+ w-- M+/++ |
|PS+++ PE- Y t+ 5++ X+/X++ R+ tv+ b+ DI+ D+ G e++ h/h+ !r!| Space for hire |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank v Waveren)
Subject: Re: 2 soundcards
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 22:01:10 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> How can i tell linux to use 2 soundcards ? Application example: one for
> mpg123 and one for quake2.
>
> 0x220, irq 5, dma 1/5: AWE32 (driver included in kernel, working fine)
> 0x240, irq 9, dma 0/3: SB16 Vibra
>
> I think "insmod sound" will conflict with the AWE and /dev/dsp and
> /dev/mixer for example, won't it ?
> Is there a clean solution for that problem ?
>
AFAIk, it shoud work. Use /dev/audio2, /dev/dsp2, /dev/mixer2 etc.
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Frank v Waveren
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From: Olof Land�n <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI 3D Rage PRO problem
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 21:31:17 GMT
hi
i've got a ATI 3D Rage Pro Turbo AGP 2x 8mb card, and it works fine in X..
(by the way, im running Slackware 3.6)
but i cant get the card to work properly in svgalib .. the highest
resolution ive reached so far is 320x200 or something ;(
if anyone has got svgalib to run with such a card, please reply to this
message and tell me how to do, or send you svgalib config file (ive
forgotten the name of it) to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
thanx alot..
/Olof Land�n
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From: "Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:58:52 -0400
Lisa Evans wrote:
> It's amazing how much indignation can be provoked when you try to get
> Americans to peer out of their insular, all things beef and ammo, truth
> justice and the american way, precious little world.
Well, little miss chip-on-her-shoulder, it's amazing how piggedheaded
someone with a cause can be, to the detriment of her cause. Did it ever
occur to you that the East Timorese might have been better served by an
on-topic post in appropriate news groups, and that by making an off
topic post you have turned away potential supporters. If I were from
East Timor I would be saying "With friends like these, who needs
enemies."
Should I donate money to the cause, rest assured that I will not funnel
it through a spammer.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Reply to host nsf (dot) gov, user smetz
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From: Terry Fielder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Need help with Ethernet on Sharp A250 notebook
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:01:54 -0400
Just a thought:
Some BIOS's have a field to set if OS is PnPray or not, and if you leave it as PnP,
then
BIOS ignores PnP cards and lets OS assign settings for them upon hardware
initialization.
If I say "no PnP OS installed" then my BIOS assigns IRQ's etc to PCI devices, OS
doesn't
have to, and all seems to work well.
Have you tried this?
Terry
Charlie Woloszynski wrote:
> Edwin:
>
> I am having a similar problem on an HP Pavilion 4535. IT uses the Celeron chip (400
> Mhz) and the 810 Chipset. I have two PCI buses (one internal and one for the PCI
> cards). All the cards on the PCI Bus 1 (the second one) report back IRQ=0.
>
> I suspect that there is something wrong with the PCI bridge programming process. I
> am not sure if it is the BIOS not setting the IRQs right (but Windowz is able to
> figure it out, arrgghhhh) or if something in the Linux kernel is "resetting this
> stuff".
>
> Where did you hack the code to fix your problem? Can you send me the driver you
> have and a diff against it. I am using the NetGear FA310TX 100 Mb/s card, so I need
> to re-create your fix in the TULIP driver.
>
> Have you addressed the other problems with the driver yet? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>
> Edwin TAM wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I finally manage to get rid of the SIOCSIFFLAGS error, and brought the
> > interface up, however, the LAN port is not sending or receiving
> > anything, kernel reported TX error.
> >
> > Apparently, the SIOCSIFFLAGS error comes from the PCI probing routine
> > (rtl8139_probe1) in the driver that it cannot determine the correct IRQ
> > for the LAN interface, traces from kernel debug showed that it found an
> > IRQ 0, which from Windowze reported it should be IRQ 9. So I hardcoded
> > (yes, cause the irq=9 kernel module option is not working, too :-) it
> > into the driver and recompile the kernel module.
> >
> > That's it but the Rx, Tx Error problem still needed to be investigated.
> >
> > Edwin
> >
> > > Edwin TAM wrote:
> >
> > > > However, I can't get neither the modem, sound nor Network to work. It
> > > > has a Realtek RTL8139A PCI Fast Ethernet NIC built-in and I have tried
> > > > the version 1.80a driver (written by Donald Becker) rtl8139.c without luck.
> > > >
> > > > Whenever I try to 'ifconfig eth0 up', it gives me the following message:
> > > >
> > > > SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable
> > > >
> > > > I can ping localhost and ping the self IP address and has no problem,
> > > > but the eth0 interface is never up and running.
> > > >
> > > > I can live without its sound nor modem, but the LAN is a must.
> > > >
> >
> > --
> > ---
> > Edwin TAM
>
> --
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> -
> - Charlie Woloszynski
> -
> - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (email)
> - (973) 361-3848 (home)
> - (973) 829-5228 (work)
> - (973) 670-3058 (cellular)
> -
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> --------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knott)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!!
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:15:13 -0400
Reply-To: James Knott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In article <01befdb7$e3614dc0$0100a8c0@thomas>,
"Thomas Skyt Jessen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >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
>>
>> Let's all send them our old Linux CDs!!!
>
>no ... why not send all our old (and the new ones too) Windows CDs?
I thought we were supposed to be helping the people in East Timor.
But then, if we sent those Windows CDs to the miltia that's killing
everyone, perhaps... ;-)
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The above opinions are my own and not those of ISM Corp., a subsidiary of
IBM Canada Ltd.
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From: Cris Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2940 timeouts
Date: 13 Sep 1999 22:16:10 GMT
I am running the 2.2.12 kernel with a system that has a
2940u2w SCSI controller and 4 segate barracuda 50 gig drives
one IBM 38 gig drive and another 9 gig IBM. The two IBMs
are running in SE mode and are connected to the internal
Ultra connector. The 4 Segates are connected to the external
connector are coming up in LVD mode. I am able to boot the
system with 2 of the seagates connected and on rare occassion
4. Durring the boot up I am getting timeouts and the system is
unable to recover even after "triing harder". On the rare
occasion I boot the system up with out timing out. WHile
the user is working the following error will appear:
SCSI disk error: host 0 channel 0 id 5 lun 0 returncode=18000002
[Valid=0] Info fld=0x0, Current sd 08:51; Sense Key aborted Command
Additional sense indicated scsi parity error
SCSI Disk I/O error: dev 08:51, sector 26346606
SCSI 0 channel 0 : resetting for second half of retries
SCSI Bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
The above error was not always id 5 and the sector number would
increment by 2 each retry. The LVD terminator and cables are
brand new. I have also stepped the sync rate down to 40 mb.
Is there anything i can tweek in the SCSI bios to keep this
from happening? Is there anything in the kernel I can tweek
to keep this from happening? Would setting these drives up
using the the software RAID in the kernel keep these timeouts
and parity errors from happening?
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From: "Ed Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux 2.2 (Caldera) CD Rom access
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 13:57:49 -0500
I have Caldera Linux installed on my computer and everything works like it
should but I can not access the CD Player in my personal account. When I log
in as root it works fine but when I try to log in as myself it tells me that
I do not have permission. I have configured the CD Rom permissions in COAS
and edited the /etc/fstab and the /dev/cdrom exist and there is a line for
the CD Rom that looks like this /dev/hdc/mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0
0 and AMD is running.
Any suggestions will be appreciated.
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3c503 card under SuSE 6.2
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:31:16 GMT
Alan M. McKenney wrote:
> (192.168.1.1), netmask, and broadcast address.
How about making that 192.168.1.3 ?
LhD Administrator
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help- netwoking card configuration
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 19:31:19 GMT
Xiaozhou Qiu wrote:
> SIOCSIFFLAG: Resource temporarily unavailable.
IRQ conflict?
Have you read Donald Becker's tulip page?
Search LhD for "tulip" and it will come up.
LhD Administrator
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