Linux-Hardware Digest #356, Volume #12 Sun, 27 Feb 00 15:13:09 EST
Contents:
dual xeon or single athlon? (John Jensen)
Looking for drivers for a Dynalink PCMCIA L1433VQC (10Mb + 33k6) ("Jaap Crezee")
Re: VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset mother boards. (Rod Smith)
AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test (Ulf Michel)
Help with setting up Epson Stylus640 with Star Office ? ? ? (Dave Armeson)
Re: Redhat 6.1 and 4mb ATI Rage Mobility M Video Chipset (IbmThinkpad 1400 -
2621-427) (Che Ma)
Re: Getting the hp9100i working under RH 6.1 (zuggzugg)
Devices in general ("Barry Kiernan")
Re: How do i clear ttyS's so i can install new modem (Dave Brown)
ultra160 scsi support? (John Jensen)
Re: Which ZIP drive? ("Armond Perretta")
what display card & network card I should choose!!! ("Raymond")
Re: Yamaha CDRW 4x4x16...terminates Linux (MH)
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility -- Please Help! ("Stieven Struyf")
Re: Devices in general (Dances With Crows)
Parallel Scanner under Linux??? (Andreas Graef)
Re: SYM53c895 not detecting right ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2 ("snomonk")
Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive ("Andrew E. Schulman")
Re: Compatible hard disks? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 16:19:35 GMT
I've been out browsing web pages considering my next workstation. I
notice that Xeon 400 MHz with 1MB cache sell for around $300, while Athlon
800 MHz sell for about twice that. I wonder, for a moderately priced "big
dog", if dual 400MHz/1Mb/Xeon's are the way to go over even a 800 MHz
Athlon. I'd guess that the 1Mb caches would go a long way to make the
typical workstation mix of applications (Linux/X11/Gnome) go fast.
Any comments?
Thx,
John
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From: "Jaap Crezee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for drivers for a Dynalink PCMCIA L1433VQC (10Mb + 33k6)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:26:17 GMT
Does anybody know where I can find these drivers? (Not at
http://www.dynalink.com)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: VIA Apollo MVP4 chipset mother boards.
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:53:38 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi:
> Does anyone know how the following all-in-one motherboards work with
> Linux? Especially the built in Video(Color depth and resolution) and
> Audio?
I don't have any of the motherboards you referenced, but I recently got a
Compaq Presario 1200-XL106 notebook that uses the VIA MVP-4 chipset. I've
got a web page about it:
http://www.rodsbooks.com/presario/
I expect compatibility for stuff like video and audio would be the same
across all motherboards that use the MVP-4 chipset, assuming the
motherboards use the relevant chipset features.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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From: Ulf Michel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMI MegaRAID: Crash with Bonnie I/O test
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:29:20 +0100
I have the following disturbing problem with the MegaRAID controller
466.
The computer stops without any message when large amounts of data are
stored
and is therefore not safely useable as file server as intended.
This crash is repeatable through use of the I/O test "bonnie".
I would like to ask the owners of MegaRAID controllers to check this on
their
computer. (The computer reboots without problems if there was no other
activity.) The test performs well on computers with normal Adaptec SCSI
controllers as well as on computers with RAID controllers GDT Vortex.
My main board is an ASUS P2B-S (with on-board SCSI Controller).
Pentium III 500 MHz.
256 MByte ECC-Memory.
3 IBM 9 GByte hard disks (LVD) DNES-309170w with transfer rate
Ultra-2 to be operated by the MegaRAID-Controller with RAID 5.
I used the Linux distribution SuSE 6.2 which contains a 2.2.10 kernel
with megaraid support. The driver source mentions driver revision 1.01.
Meanwhile I upgraded to SUSE 6.3 with kernel 2.2.13 which did not
change the problem.
The error can be reproduced by using the benchmark program
bonnie that comes with the SuSE-distribution. This benchmark
tests the performance of file systems with selectable file sizes.
A call with
bonnie -s 10
(scratch file size 10 MByte in directory .) is finished successfully.
This is also true for
bonnie -s 20
through
bonnie -s 70
while
bonnie -s 80
stops after the message
Rewriting ... (done)
This was with 16 MB EDO RAM in the controller.
To check if the error is related to the RAM size, I
installed 64 MB (ordered from the distributor of the MEGARAID
controller).
The benchmark bonnie now caused the crash even earlier with
bonnie -s 70
(rather than bonnie -s 80 with the 16 MByte memory).
I have disabled the onboard SCSI controller to make certain
that there are not IRQ conflicts.
The AMI technical support could not help so far.
Ulf Michel
German Aerospace Center, DLR
Mueller-Breslau-Str. 8
10623 Berlin
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Subject: Help with setting up Epson Stylus640 with Star Office ? ? ?
From: Dave Armeson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 09:16:36 -0800
I have configured my Epson Stylus 640 with APSFILTER and a
Uniprint Driver. I can get my printer to print something with
the ECHO command at the command prompt. But after installing
Star Office I see the printer for Star Office is set to GENERIC
POSTSCRIPT PRINTER. I don't know how to make Star Office see my
EPSON printer, as it doesn't appear in the printer options
listing.
Can anybody help me?
yours gratefully,
Dave Armeson (HULL, UK)
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From: Che Ma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.problems
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.1 and 4mb ATI Rage Mobility M Video Chipset (IbmThinkpad 1400 -
2621-427)
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:22:40 -0500
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I know it is none of my business, but from my understanding there are at least
3 different Mobility chipset.
They are Mobility P, M1 and M. I think dell use P and M1, and the out-of-date
XF335 or the patch from http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/xserver.html
should work fine. But for IBM TP i series, Mobility M is used. I have a i1460
and spend days trying the methods from the link above without success. So I
was using the slow SVGA server for a while, until I found the Staikos page has
a updated patch for XF336 Mach64. Now I am using the patched XF336 Mach64, the
graphics are much smoother and faster than SVGA and I am very happy with it.
If you can get it to work by following advice from Dell user (Jim), please let
me know. Or my advice is to ask a real IBM user instead (Staikos).
Sincerely, -Alex.
Nenad Dragic wrote:
> Hi Jim
>
> That is the error that I get on my laptop.
>
> Could you send me the files that you use on my email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I run 800*600 16bpp (if you culd set it up, becouse I an new user of Linux).
>
> Thanks
>
> Nenad Dragic
>
> >I think we may be talking at both sides of the issue. 3.3.5 did not work
> >correctly for me either, although it did recognize the chipset. The
> display
> >was misaligned (graphics offset and overlapped horizontally for about 1/3
> of
> >the display). The vga= line forced initialization by the BIOS and
> corrected
> >this issue. So it "works" with that tweak and it "doesn't work" without
> it.
> >That might explain our difference in experience.
> >
> >It wouldn't suck to get a version that works correctly without the tweak,
> >although I have to say that I kind of like having it boot up with the
> little
> >penguin :-) and it's been working quite well for me.
> >
> >jim
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I know it is none of my business, but from my understanding there are at
least
<BR>3 different Mobility chipset.
<BR>They are Mobility P, M1 and M. I think dell use P and M1, and
the out-of-date
<BR>XF335 or the patch from <A
HREF="http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/xserver.html">http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/xserver.html</A>
<BR>should work fine. But for IBM TP i series, Mobility M is used.
I have a i1460
<BR>and spend days trying the methods from the link above without success.
So I
<BR>was using the slow SVGA server for a while, until I found the Staikos
page has
<BR>a updated patch for XF336 Mach64. Now I am using the patched
XF336 Mach64, the
<BR>graphics are much smoother and faster than SVGA and I am very happy
with it.
<BR>If you can get it to work by following advice from Dell user (Jim),
please let
<BR>me know. Or my advice is to ask a real IBM user instead (Staikos).
<BR>Sincerely, -Alex.
<BR>
<BR>
<P>Nenad Dragic wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>Hi Jim
<P>That is the error that I get on my laptop.
<P>Could you send me the files that you use on my email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<BR>I run 800*600 16bpp (if you culd set it up, becouse I an new user of
Linux).
<P>Thanks
<P>Nenad Dragic
<P>>I think we may be talking at both sides of the issue. 3.3.5 did
not work
<BR>>correctly for me either, although it did recognize the chipset.
The
<BR>display
<BR>>was misaligned (graphics offset and overlapped horizontally for about
1/3
<BR>of
<BR>>the display). The vga= line forced initialization by the BIOS
and
<BR>corrected
<BR>>this issue. So it "works" with that tweak and it "doesn't work"
without
<BR>it.
<BR>>That might explain our difference in experience.
<BR>>
<BR>>It wouldn't suck to get a version that works correctly without the
tweak,
<BR>>although I have to say that I kind of like having it boot up with
the
<BR>little
<BR>>penguin :-) and it's been working quite well for me.
<BR>>
<BR>>jim</BLOCKQUOTE>
<PRE></PRE>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (zuggzugg)
Crossposted-To: linux.apps.cdwrite
Subject: Re: Getting the hp9100i working under RH 6.1
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:20:12 GMT
I have found on my Mandrake system that removing the ATAPI support is
a must. The HOWTO hints at this, but never really confirms it. I
have disabled the ATAPI CD support completely, not even as a module.
I think the problem is that if an ATAPI module is available, the
kernel will load it and ignore the SCSI emulation.
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 05:13:07 GMT, Justin McPeak
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Recently purchased a hp-9100i, after reading the Cd Write Howto's and
>the Module HowTo's I determined that my kernel (2.2.12smp) had all of
>the modules necessary for ide to scsi emulation.
>So there wasn't any need to recompile my kernel.
>Currently Redhat 6.1 detects my drive as an atapi /dev/hdc device.
>I understand that it needs to be scsi to write. I appended the
>following lines to my /etc/conf.modules file:
>
>
> alias scd0 sr_mod
> alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi
> options ide-cd ignore=hdc
>
>Is this all that shoiuld be needed? Apparently not, I know my drive
>*does* work, what else do I need to do. Am I right assuming I don't
>need to recompile my kernel because all the necessary moduales are
>already installed in my installation kernel 2.2.12smp? Do I have to
>completely remove my atapi support?
>
>I have been stuggling with this for the past week so any help would be
>nice, and yes I did read the howto's but I couldn't get everything I
>needed out of them. Any help would be greatly appriciated. Thanks
>Jesse Walters
>
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From: "Barry Kiernan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Devices in general
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:23:41 -0000
Hello all.
If I've understood what I've read then on Linux there exists the following
relationships
physical device <-> device driver <-> device file <-> application program
Could someone explain how the 3 intermediate links are established and when
this occurs?
Cheers,
Barry Kiernan
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From: Dave Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do i clear ttyS's so i can install new modem
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:30:14 GMT
/dev/ttyS0,/dev/ttyS1,/dev/ttyS2,/dev/ttyS3,/dev/modem....Is what i'm
talking about...When I do "setserial /dev/ttyS2" it says that another
Irq/I/O is already using it...So i want to clear it so I can put my new
modems IRQ/I/O on it...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Saturday February 26 2000 22:30, Dave Brown wrote to All:
>
> DB> think my old modem is still installed for some reason...How can i
> DB> clear the ttyS's?
>
> ttyS's what?
>
> KS
>
>
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ultra160 scsi support?
Date: 27 Feb 2000 17:02:54 GMT
Browsing around, it looks like Adaptec and Red Hat announced ultra160
support for Linux in the middle of last year.
Can anyone summarize the current state of affairs?
Thx,
John
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From: "Armond Perretta" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which ZIP drive?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 13:18:20 -0500
x-no-archive: yes
> "Dances With Crows" wrote ... Julio C. Gutierrez wrote ...
> >
> > I am considering getting a ZIP drive ... Which ZIP drive would you
> > recommend as "best to buy" for Linux?
>
> The best deal wrt price and performance is probably an internal IDE ZIP
> drive. I saw some on http://www.pricewatch.com for about $80. Data
> transfer speed is pretty good, about 1 to 1.5M/second.
>
> I wouldn't recommend a ZIP for backups, though. ZIP disks are expensive
> and low-capacity ($10, 96M) compared to CD-Rs ($1, 650M) ...
My internal IDE (which came with the Dell system) was a snap to set up under
Linux (RH 6.1). I merely want to note that over time I have built a
collection of 100 MB zip disks at varying prices. The most recent "haul"
netted out (after rebates) to $4.16 per disk (Staples SuperStore). My
average cost over about 80 disks hovers at just below $8. Still expensive,
of course.
Good luck and good sailing.
Armond Perretta
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com
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From: "Raymond" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what display card & network card I should choose!!!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 01:10:32 +0800
Hi,
I would like to setup a server for myself.
The problem is my budget is very limited.
I just need the server to be a printer and file sharing server(window OS
client), and share internet access through a dial-in broadband.
The Linux should run Xwindow.( this is the most problem I come
across)
Can you advise what brand name (or chip set) of Display card and network
card I should choose.(low price range)
Please kindly advise me what 2 name of the Display card and Network card I
should use! ( I hope a name like Leadtek-3D S700)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: MH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Yamaha CDRW 4x4x16...terminates Linux
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 18:49:08 +0000
I believe I've solved the problem. Apparently, wide (16 bit) and narrow
(8 bit) SCSI communications are NOT auto-negotiated as I had assumed.
Turning off the "wide negotiation" option for the CDRW device in Adaptec
BIOS did the trick.
I don't know if this would work with mixed devices on the same channel
or not, since I also moved the CDRW off the 68 pin connector/cable to a
separate 50 pin connector/cable available on the controller. I also
haven't tried burning a CD yet, but no problem mounting or reading, so I
assume I will also be able to write.
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From: "Stieven Struyf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: TNT2 Clock Utility -- Please Help!
Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 22:38:25 +0100
where do you get those 3.75 drivers i can only find 3.68
>
> on new drivers > 3.75 there is a memory and core speed utility built-in
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Devices in general
Date: 27 Feb 2000 14:14:15 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 17:23:41 -0000, Barry Kiernan
<<l5du4.5642$p4.57636@news1-hme0>> shouted forth into the ether:
>
>If I've understood what I've read then on Linux there exists the following
>relationships
>physical device <-> device driver <-> device file <-> application program
>Could someone explain how the 3 intermediate links are established and when
>this occurs?
Take this with a grain of salt; I may have details wrong.
Device files are created with the mknod() system call, which creates a
special file with major and minor numbers. For example, the master device
on the secondary IDE interface has major number 22 and minor number 0.
This shows up as:
brw-rw--- 22, 0 /dev/hdc
in an ls -l. Device files are usually created by the MAKEDEV script at
install time. The name of a device file matters not; all the kernel cares
about is the major and minor numbers.
When something accesses a file with major and minor numbers, the kernel
intercepts this file access and looks up the correct device driver to
implement the file access request. Let's say /dev/hdc is an ATAPI CD-ROM.
Then the kernel passes the read request to the CD-ROM driver if the driver
is available, or issues a modprobe() if the driver is available as a
module and not loaded and then passes on the read request, or issues a
funky error message if the driver is not available or can't be loaded for
whatever reason.
The device driver takes the kernel's read request and does a number of
black-magic transformations on it before sending the commands on to the
raw device.
Reverse these steps for going the other way. For much more info, the ORA
book _Writing Linux Device Drivers_ or the "Linux Programmer's Guide"
available on the Web is a good place to go....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:33:36 +0100
From: Andreas Graef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Parallel Scanner under Linux???
I've got the Mustek Scan Express 6000P, and I only have drivers for
Windows.
Does anyone here know how to get a driver for a parallel scanner under
Linux or does anyone have one???
Thanks!
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SYM53c895 not detecting right
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 14:58:54 -0500
> 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?
Your new kernel may not have the right device driver. Get the kernel
source and from its root run config or menuconfig or xconfig, then look
for the right driver and throw out any you're not using. Then rebuild
and install.
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From: "snomonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card Genius Sound Maker 3DX2
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 12:01:26 -0800
I am about to buy a sound card. Has anyone had success with the Genius
Sound Maker 3DX2?
Also, any recommendations for a low cost sound card are also appreciated!
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From: "Andrew E. Schulman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Legacy 150x Tape Drive
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:00:35 -0500
> I have an old Legacy 150x tape drive system, with a controler that I believe
> to be SCSI, but that aside I was attempting to find out if at all there
> would be a way to get this to operate under the linux OS
If your SCSI card is working correctly, your tape drive should be
autodetected at boot. Then all you need is the right device special
files.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Compatible hard disks?
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 20:08:07 GMT
Scott Fraser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ran into a problem yesterday with a couple of brand new Quantum UDMA 7200 eide
> hard drives. They are 13 Gig drives. I have tried STormix 2000, Red Hat 6.1 and
> SuSe 6.2.
> Install goes great until reboot and then it fails. It comes up with LI at the
> boot prompt. Using a floppy I can boot the machine into any flaover that is
> installed, but would like to not have to use the damn floppy. Anyone got any
> tipes?
Check /etc/lilo.conf. Does it contain a line which says
compact
Make it into a comment a la
#compact
Then run /sbin/lilo and see try again.
--
Best regards,
Stephen Jenuth
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
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