Linux-Hardware Digest #345, Volume #12 Fri, 25 Feb 00 20:13:12 EST
Contents:
Re: unknown disk drive activity (Stefan Seyfried)
What about the Qube? ("Dr. Evil")
Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility? (lf11 at @linuxstart.com)
Re: Sun HD on Linux (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility? (Kenneth Crudup)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (James Silverton)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Tony Houghton)
Linux and Video Card (Peyman Rezvani)
Re: Any good external modems for Linux ("KAP")
job (Adnan Gilani)
Re: Re: Re: Linux sucks (J Bland)
Re: Re: Re: Linux sucks (Jason Fenner (NACS Technician))
Re: Asus K7M vs FIC SDll athlon boards?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario) (mpierce)
SYM53c895 not detecting right (Richard Nairn)
intel 810 and sound ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
ANSWER TO HOW TO MAKE A PROMISE ULTRA66 CONTROLLER CARD WORK WITH LINUX (wayne rattz)
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system ("William L. Hartzell")
is there somo Multi I/O CARDS suported??
Drivers for MGA G400 ("Ko Alex")
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From: Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unknown disk drive activity
Date: 25 Feb 2000 22:59:10 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 2 ? SW 0:00 [kflushd]
> 3 ? SW 2:20 [kupdate]
It�s one of those two, and you can�t do much about it if you don�t
want to lose data in case of a power failure.
Read more about them in the Kernel docs
Do you have a name ? Also, your MessageID sucks.
--
Stefan Seyfried, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi, i'm a signature-virus! copy me to your .signature to help me spread!
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From: "Dr. Evil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What about the Qube?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:24:00 -0000
Is this Qube any good? It looks greats but would you spent $1000 on a PC or
this box, if you just want a cheap server?
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From: lf11 at @linuxstart.com
Subject: Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:32:45 -0500
I suppose you get these questions all the time, but....
I'm looking for a SCSI card for driving a Umax S-6E scanner. It is a wide port,
a narrow port, and a female DB25 connector on the back.
All I want is something that'll drive one device, 10 MB/s is fine. Something
less than $60 preferably. Windows support would be nice (Because I don't
have CorelDraw for Linux yet :-), but Linux support is vital.
Features;
* Linux support
* PCI (Can be ISA if necessary, but my computer has two ISA slots)
* 10 MB/s
Thank you!
-lf
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Subject: Re: Sun HD on Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:40:16 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Southeast Georgia Regional Development Center <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>My Sun Spark2 died and I want to move the hard drive to my linux box.
>But I am finding that linux does not support the 4.2 filesystem.
Are you sure? Do you have a kernel with "UFS support" and "Advanced
Partition Support (for Sun)" turned on?
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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Subject: Re: Which SCSI card for Linux compatibility?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 22:41:58 GMT
In article <896viu$fe$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, lf11 at @linuxstart.com says:
>I suppose you get these questions all the time, but....
Sure do! www.dejanews.com .
HTH,
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: James Silverton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 17:53:02 -0500
Matthew Malthouse wrote:
>
> In article <894lsv$2cl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. Newport) wrote:
>
> } The optical mice which require a special cross-hatched pad are much
> } better in dirty situations. A quick wipeover of the pad with a screen
> } wipe usually solves the problem.
> }
> } Unfortunately such critters are somewhat scarce nowadays, although
> } they are still an option for Sun kit.
>
> Eek! I've had to use them from the days when they were the only option for
> Suns and I HATE them, truely and utterly detest. The wipe clean notion
> would be fine if they worked in any reasonable manner even when pristine.
Has anyone used the newer optical mice that don't require a pad?
Jim.
--
James V. Silverton
Potomac, Maryland.
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Feb 2000 21:03:57 GMT
In <895q3i$91d$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Paul Grayson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The optical mice which require a special cross-hatched pad are much
> > better in dirty situations. A quick wipeover of the pad with a screen
> > wipe usually solves the problem.
Dirt on the pad isn't the only problem, the nap of the felt mouse feet
also "goes off", so there's too much friction to have any hope of moving
the mouse smoothly. It only takes a few days from new before it becomes
unusable. The feet can be buffed up again with a rubber. This makes it
usable again for all of 15 minutes.
> I was in a branch of Software Warehouse last week, and it appears that a
> certain company from Redmond has re-invented the optical mouse.
They work on a slightly different principle and don't need a special
mat. But I wouldn't be surprised if the tracking turns out to be wildly
inaccurate.
--
http://www.caspian.uklinux.net
Use the address in the Reply-To header to avoid a spam trap when
emailing me. Your newsreader should automatically do so.
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From: Peyman Rezvani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Video Card
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:02:24 -0800
I have purchased an HP notebook (F1676) Ominbook XE2.
The video card is Silicon Motion Lynx EM but the problem is that
the card is not in the list of supported video card from
RedHat Linux 6.1.
I was wondering if anybody else has experienced this problem before.
Is there a kind of compatible video card that I can use?
Any help is appreciated.
Peyman
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From: "KAP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any good external modems for Linux
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:21:23 GMT
Thanks for the tip, I actually picked up a ZOOM external before I read your
reply and it seems to work fine, it's been a while since I've had an
external modem gracing my desktop <g>.
Take care,
Ken
"Michael Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Although a bit on the expensive side, I've been having good luck
> with External USR/3COM Sportster 56K V90 Fax/Modems
<snip>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adnan Gilani)
Subject: job
Date: 25 Feb 2000 23:25:33 GMT
Hello everybody, this is a notice of employment with the high
tech firm Rebel.Com. It is currently seeking hardware designers, if
interested please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Linux sucks
Date: 25 Feb 2000 22:57:43 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:04:18 GMT, Nickolaus Dekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25 Feb 2000 16:08:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) wrote:
>
>>>I was under the impression that IBM would rather support their own AIX...
>>
>>It doesn't matter what they'd *rather* support, the fact is they support
>>*both*, heavily; seems to be they're pushing Linux for some stuff and AIX for
>>others.
>>
>>Nothing wrong with diversifying.
>>
>>Shrike
>
>i never said there was.
>
>my roommate works at ibm and aix is pretty much all he deals with, therefore all
>i hear about ibm working with.
>
>do you have any information on what exactly they're using linux for? i'd be
>interested to read up on it.
>
Being a rather vague person I don't have any hard links, but going to
http://www.ibm.com/ and entering 'linux' into the search field brings up a
few interesting articles (pay attention to the S/390 and RS/6000 etc
platforms).
IBM is (afaik) providing support for PCs with linux preinstalled and is
actively supporting Linux by adding certain parts of AIX to the OSS code
base (making linux a viable system on S/390 systems for example).
There are further links at:
http://linuxtoday.com/story.php3?sn=17075
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/1532/1/
or just simply
http://www.ibm.com/linux/
.
For good intentions or bad, IBM is actively supporting Linux. And as the
*old* adage goes "who got sacked for buying IBM?".
Shrike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Fenner (NACS Technician))
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Linux sucks
Date: 25 Feb 2000 23:54:50 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 21:04:18 GMT, Nickolaus Dekay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 25 Feb 2000 16:08:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland) wrote:
>
>>>I was under the impression that IBM would rather support their own AIX...
>>
>>It doesn't matter what they'd *rather* support, the fact is they support
>>*both*, heavily; seems to be they're pushing Linux for some stuff and AIX for
>>others.
>>
>>Nothing wrong with diversifying.
>>
>>Shrike
>
>i never said there was.
>
>my roommate works at ibm and aix is pretty much all he deals with, therefore all
>i hear about ibm working with.
>
>do you have any information on what exactly they're using linux for? i'd be
>interested to read up on it.
>
>cheers,
>ndekay
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
>-- H. H. Williams
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
I don't know what exactly they are 'using' it for, but I know what some of
their products are for Linux. Universal Database2, Lotus Notes, and various
others. Someone just did a presentation on UDB2 at our LUG and passed out a
flyer from IBM that went over all the various products and services they
have for or regarding Linux.
--
Jason Fenner
New Age Consulting Service, Inc. http://www.nacs.net
Voice : 216 619 2000
Fax : 216 619 2004
815 Superior Ave. #425
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Asus K7M vs FIC SDll athlon boards??
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 23:54:04 GMT
In this posting I present the main results of our investigations with an
Asus K7M and with a Gigabyte 7IX motherboard.
We experimented with several disks and with several operating systems.
These are the disks
Quantum Fireball 18.2 Gbyte,
Western Digital 17.6 Gbyte,
Samsung 20.4 Gbyte
The operating systems we are using are the following:
Dos, only for start-up
Win98 and Win98-SE
Linux 2.2.14 and 2.2.39
Our configuration is the following:
>- MB k7m (one version with SB16 and another - newer - one without)
>- Proc. Athlon 500
>- Linux 2.2.13/2.2.14 or 2.3.36 under Debian Potato
>- 3com 3c905
>- video V3800 ASUS
>- Quantum Fireball 18G2 UDMA disk or Western Digital (wbc-ac418000e)
17G6 UDMA
We also tried
>- MB gigabyte GA 71X motherboard
Main findings
We cannot get a well-functioning file system with two K7M Asus
motherboards
with a VIA BusMaster chipset. With both motherboards we experienced the
same problems. Under Win98 an Win98-SE we could not get sufficient
performance for any of the drives and for Linux we could not get a
stable
file system.
We also experimented with Gigabyte GA 7IX. Instead of a Via chipset is
has an
AMD chipset (Viper) for the IDE interface. With this board we could run
stable under Linux as well as under Win98-SE. They both provided a good
file system performance.
Our conclusion is the following.
Until now (16 jan 2000)
1. We could not get a stable Linux system get running on a K7M with VIA
chipset: copying big files crashed the filesystem.
2. We could not get a well performing file system running under
Win-98 (first edition and SE) on a K7M with VIA chipset.
3. We could get a stable and good performing file system (transfer
speed about 20MB/sec depending on the disk) running under Linux on a
Gigabyte 7IX motherboard with Viper chipset.
Pierre Jansen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Ranaur, the Elven Warlock! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Anyone have opinions on these two boards. Or for that matter, on
any
> > Athlon board under linux, and in general?
> >
> I bought a K7m and couldn't run a stable Linux, even with the
latest
> (2.2.14/2.3.43) kernel. Then I changed to a FIC and got the very same
> problems.
> Problem is: Both IDEs have the VIA chipset that is still
experimental. So
> you can't use the IDEs. If you have a SCSI, all right. If not, but a
> Pentium (I'll change my Athlon to a PIII).
> If you don't mind to wait some months to have a stable Linux,
get a K7M.
> First: it an ASUS. Second it has many more featurs (onboard sound,
that
> isn't supported by Linux, but OSS), two serials (SD-11 has only one),
four
> USB (only two for SD) and AMR (but forget it ... you should never use
an
> AMR if you want to be happy) ;-).
>
> Maybe an Gigabyte can run more smooth, maybe not. I'm tired of
losing hard
> disks. I'll go to a Pentium.
>
> Good luck,
> R.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: mpierce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: USB on VIA MVP4 (Compaq Presario)
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 11:04:14 +1100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rod Smith wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently acquired a Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook computer. This
> machine uses a VIA MVP4 chipset. I've been trying to get USB working on
> this machine using the 2.3.4x kernel series, with no luck. Whenever I try
> loading the uhci.o or usb-uhci.o module, the system hangs. The uhci.o
> module gives me no messages before the hang, but the usb-uhci.o module
> says it's located two ports (the Compaq has just one, but I believe the
> MVP4 chipset supports two). Using the -m and -v options to insmod doesn't
> reveal any more information. If I compile either driver into the kernel
> proper (rather than as a module), the system doesn't boot completely. No
> matter how it's done, the system is completely unresponsive to keyboard,
> mouse, and network input (it doesn't even respond to pings via the
> Linksys PCMCIA Ethernet card I've got). I get the same behavior with the
> 2.3.43, 2.3.44, and 2.3.47 kernels. I have no problems with any of this on
> a desktop computer that uses a VIA MVP3 chipset.
>
> Any ideas on this? Has anybody gotten USB working with an MVP4 chipset? Or
> is there perhaps something else going on here...? Thanks for any help on
> this matter.
>
> --
> Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.rodsbooks.com
> Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
It is my understanding that Linux does not yet support the USB.
Marvin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Nairn)
Subject: SYM53c895 not detecting right
Date: 25 Feb 2000 23:40:30 GMT
I have a Symbios Sym53c895 that is not getting detected right under
2.2.14. Under the kernel that was supplied with the RedHat 6.1 cd
(2.2.12-20smp) it is detected correctly. However under 2.2.14 it detects it
as more then one host and fails because it is busy trying to reset the
device... Was there anything changed between these two versions that would
cause this behaviour?
--
Richard Nairn
Nairn Consulting
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: intel 810 and sound
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:00:37 GMT
i am trying to setup sound using the onboard sound card
of the i810 if anyone has done so or can give me any help
let me know.
thanks
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Before you buy.
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ANSWER TO HOW TO MAKE A PROMISE ULTRA66 CONTROLLER CARD WORK WITH LINUX
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:30:09 GMT
I typed this so many times that I decided to put this in the forum.I have
a howto for the promise ultra66 pci controller card at my site that dosent
envolve installing drivers.It works with my cards and with the
distributions Ive used-redhat6.0-6.1,mandrake6.0/6.1/7.0-suse6.2/6.3-
slackware7.0 My site is http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html GOOD
LUCK WAYNE!
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:44:45 GMT
Kenneth Crudup wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> says:
>
> >May I ask but isn't this VMware stuff just another name for
> >sessions-screen groups that OS/2 uses to run Netware?
>
> I *really* don't think that's all there is to it- you've got to remember
> that most of what VMware does (provides a private virtual machine) is
> emulation of devices, and *that's* the tricky part.
>
Kenny:
Are you saying that emulation of devices is tricky? OS/2 and Windows both do that
now, and have since early 90's. Are you saying that VMware does it for 32 and 64
bit applications also....The same that OS/2 does for Netware since 92....Please
point me to documentation to I may read more about this and not sound like an ass
<g>. I want to know the advantages of it also.
Bill
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: is there somo Multi I/O CARDS suported??
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2000 10:58:17 +0100
Hi!
I need to know if ther is some multi I/O boards soported in linux, I am
talking about deviced that can detect 16 or moredigital inputs
signals, or 16 or more digital outputs.
Actually we use PCL 720, PCL722, and ACL-7130 in
a Lynx-RT systems, and we are porting this system to linux.....
All info would be apreciated
Thaks in advance
Eduardo Ferro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(SICE)
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From: "Ko Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Drivers for MGA G400
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2000 09:06:47 +0800
Hi, everybody. I'm new in the Linux's World. I had setup the Linux but
cannot run the X Windows as it does not suppot my display card (MGA G400).
Would anyone tell me where could I download the display driver for X window,
thanks?
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