Linux-Hardware Digest #384, Volume #12 Wed, 1 Mar 00 20:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Modem cofiguration ("Jerry Don Fisher Jr.")
SoftOSS: Only some channels play (Rod Smith)
Re: SuperMicro PIIIDME (John)
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! ("Richard Gaywood")
Dell Optiplex 5166, Bogomips, etc. (Darren Enns)
Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM? (Derek Colley)
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! (Markus Wandel)
Re: Interrupt-driven parport? (Stephen Anthony)
Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices (Paul Gray)
Re: SB128 PCI and MIDI (Markus Wandel)
Re: mice for lefties? (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: mice for lefties? (Derek Colley)
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices (Andreas Hoffmann)
scsi scanner (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= VIGIER)
Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SoundBlaster {N 3 \/\/ |3 I 3} (Necro)
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From: "Jerry Don Fisher Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem cofiguration
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:33:17 -0800
vsnl wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Can anybody tell me if i can configure my internal modem(56.6kbps-USR
> internal winmodem)
> in mandrake . If so then how.
It is generally said that a 'win' modem is not configurable in linux.
Sorry to be the one to tell you this. You can try the latest Hardware
HOWTO on sunsite maybe I am wrong for your particular modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: SoftOSS: Only some channels play
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:27:11 GMT
Hi,
I've been toying with the SoftOSS support in the standard Linux kernel
(version 2.2.13 for the moment) and I'm having problems with it.
Specifically, only about half the channels appear to play. For instance, a
given MIDI file might use an acoustic piano, a flute, and a french horn,
but only the french horn part plays (this example is made up; I've not
tried to ascertain just what instruments do and do not play, or if it's
even consistent). I've tried using both the freeware MIDIA sample set an
an old Pro Patch sample set I had from the days when I used a GUS PnP on
one system, but I get similar results with both. FWIW, I'm using a generic
board based on an OPTi MAD16 sound chipset. Does anybody have any ideas on
this? Do I need to create some sort of configuration file to tell the
driver which patches to use? Thanks for any help.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & WordPerfect for Linux
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Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 15:43:56 -0700
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuperMicro PIIIDME
I've read somewhere on Red Hat's support site that Linux will not run
on some SuperMicro boards, sorry I hope I'm wrong.
Nick Birkett wrote:
> Does anyone have any information regarding the SuperMicro PIIIDME
> motherboard
> under Linux ?
>
> Dual Proc up to 733Mhz, 100/133Mhz FSB, SDRAM 133, EIDE UDMA66, 840
> intel chipset,
> 2 X PCI 64, 4X PCI 32.
>
> For other specs see:
>
> http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/840/PIIIDME.htm
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick
>
> (please remove NOSPAM from reply address)
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reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 23:14:47 -0000
> You measured the average temperature of the chip. Peak temperature at
certain
> area can be much higher and enough to cause damages.
Weelll, I measured the temperature of whichever bit on the chip is next to
the embedded thermistor. Not sure how to go about measuring the peak. but I
assume Intel stuck that thermistor somewhere fairly representative.
How do you measure the peak without, say, thermal imaging equipment? And
anyway, if the temp at one point is 45degC, I can't imagine the temp at any
other point is more that, say, 55degC. Even than, a temperature gradient of
10degC in, say, 1cm (about what the CPU itself is corner to corner, I
reckon) is absolutely manic, so I doubt it makes much difference. Then
again, I'm only a poor physics student, and I'm prepared to be proven
wrong... Any takers?
>
I turn on my fireplace
> because the average room temperature is less than 70 degree F, but I won't
put
> my fingers in the fireplace to test the peak temperature.
Good analogy ;o)
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: Darren Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell Optiplex 5166, Bogomips, etc.
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:20:16 GMT
I have an opportunity to purchase a used Dell Optiplex 5166 PC.
It is a 166Mhz Pentium with no CDROM drive, no OS (linux time!),
and 16mb of RAM. It seems to have an on-board 3Com ethernet device
(3C913 which uses 3C509 drivers), sound device (SB Vibra 16s compatible),
and video (S3 (Trio64V+) PCI). Sounds not too bad, but when I look
at the 'bogomips' charts, I see that 166Mhz pentium PC's have a rating
of about '66', whereas my AMD K2-300 has a rating of about '600'.
Does this mean that this Dell PC is about 9 times *slower*???
Any other comments are welcome!
Dare
--
Darren Enns
EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP: members.home.net/dmenns
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:19:06 +0000
I've got a desktop dual booting with W98 and RH6.0. I also have a VAIO
PCG-C1XN (the little one with the camera) that came pre-configured [used
in a broadest sense of the word] with a 4.3 Mb C: drive and a 2.2Mb D:
drive - perfect for a dual boot with W98 and Linux methinks...
But, I don't have a USB CDROM and booting from bootnet.img does not
recognise the 3com network card in the type2 slot - I have a cd drive in
my desktop I thought I could use. The installation howto mentions an
'old' way of installing linux, by downloading f iles to a number of
floppies etc. but there is very little by way of instructions.
As far as I can tell, I need to get to a stage where I can connect to
teh CD on the desktop - I am already able to network the two machines
using Windows, so I don't think the hardware will cause any problems...
As I already have the Redhat 5.1 and 6.0 distributions on CD, can a
create the required floppies with what I've got?
Has anyone done this lately? Any help will be appreciated.
Many thanks,
Derek
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: 1 Mar 2000 23:19:13 GMT
If you think you have a problem...
I have a Celeron 300A. I am the only person that I know that actually runs
this chip at 300MHz. When I bought it I listened to my friends and set it
to run at 450MHz. When I found out about the kernel compile stress test and
tried it it bombed, so I nudged up the voltage, eventually ending up with a
system that passed all stability tests that I could put it through.
Except once a week or so, it would forget how to read jpeg files. Somehow
the in-memory copy of of libjpeg.so got corrupted. Also once in a blue moon
(something like once every 20GB of disk written) a single bit in a file would
be wrong.
I attributed this to the cheap consumer-grade hardware with no memory parity
or ECC. But to heck with it, one day I put it back to 300MHz. The system
has been totally reliable since then.
If your system seems to work overclocked, it might or it might not. I find
one bit corrupted every 20GB of files written to be scary. To this day I
check everything, e.g. read back a CD-ROM that I burned and compare it bit
for bit to the original file tree on the disk. If your system doesn't work
overclocked but does work at its rated clock speed, you have nobody to
complain to.
"I *know* the engine's redline is 6500rpm but I always push it to 8000 and
it just blew! It worked fine up to now. I want my money back."
Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Anthony)
Subject: Re: Interrupt-driven parport?
Date: 1 Mar 2000 23:31:51 GMT
Bill Keeler <"bkeeler"@[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I'm running RH6, and keep getting the message "parport0: detected irq 7;
>use procfs to enable interrupt-driven operation." I've tried several
>things, and have even succeeded in making the problem temporarily
>disappear, but when I reboot, the problem returns.
>How do I get rid of this once and for all? I have looked for a way to
>do this in the Control Panel, but can't find anything. Any help would
>be greatly appreciated.
If you have compiled the kernel to let the parallel port use IRQ's, then
try passing this to the kernel in lilo.conf:
append="parport=auto"
This will let the kernel autodetect which IRQ the parallel port is using
and will set it to that IRQ. That's actually defined in your BIOS.
If you don't actually want the parallel port use IRQ's, then sorry, I
can't help with that :)
Steve
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From: Paul Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices
Date: 1 Mar 2000 22:00:27 GMT
Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, /dev/sd* are only SCSI disks. The (first) tape drive should be
> /dev/st0 as writen in the devices.txt. Try finding this.
>> [...]
As I said in the original post:
<> The system specifics:
<> kernel 2.2.5, an integrated Symbios controller (ncr53c8xx) and
<> an adaptec 2940U2. There are five 4-gig drives (not presently
<> running raid) and one 52-gig drive, complemented by an HP
<> Dat drive mapped to /dev/st0.
----------------------^^^^^^^^
The problem is with the fifth 4-gig drive. It is detected but
is not mapped as it should be to /dev/sdf...in fact it is not
mapped to anything. The kernel reports thus:
Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel:
Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi2, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
but then passes the device by:
Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: SCSI device sde: hdwr
sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=8888924 [4340 MB] [4.3 GB]
Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: sde: sde1
Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: VFS: Mounted root
(ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1
(It finishes mapping sde's partitions, but does nothing for sdf)
--
Paul Gray
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dept. of Mathematics
University of Northern Iowa
Wright Hall
Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0506
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: 1 Mar 2000 23:31:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
>for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
>Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
>it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
>translate midi to wav with timidity.
>Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
>Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
>PCI?
>Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
>this newer one has not?
The card dose not have a hardware MIDI synthesizer. The marketing just
does the usual Windows thing of listing the combined capabilities of the
Windows driver and the hardware. Here is what it says in the kernel
documentation directory...
This soundcard does not have any hardware MIDI synthesizer;
MIDI synthesis has to be done in software. To allow this
the driver/soundcard supports two PCM (/dev/dsp) interfaces.
The second one goes to the mixer "synth" setting and supports
only a limited set of sampling rates (44100, 22050, 11025, 5512).
By setting lineout to 1 on the driver command line
(eg. insmod es1370 lineout=1) it is even possible on some
cards to convert the LINEIN jack into a second LINEOUT jack, thus
making it possible to output four independent audio channels!
Your SB16 had a real synthesizer on board, but considering the quality
of the music it can synthesize, it's really not much of a loss (i.e. if
I had a SB16 in my main machine I'd still use timidity (kmidi) to listen
to MIDI files.
Markus
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:46:17 +0000
Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> DO these exist?!
>
> THanks.
Why? I'm also left handed and I use normal mices. Just grep it with a
certain angle, so that you can press the left button with the second
finger of the left hand.
Normally I preferred symmetric mice, but with the asymmetric Microsoft
Intellimouse I'm working fine.
Yeah, this is what Microsoft can do well! They should kick of their OS
and just make mices!!!
Andreas
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 11:53:23 +0000
Slightly off the topic, but do you think there's a market for
left-handed keyboards?
I mean a keyboard that gives the user the option of having the
[detachable] keypad on the left?
Regards,
Derek
Peter Bismuti wrote:
> DO these exist?!
>
> THanks.
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:13:57 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>[...]
>
> If you ever plan to reinstall Windows, you also might want to use BootMagic
> for your boot manager, rather than LILO. Boot Magic comes included with most
> current distributions of PartitionMagic. Microsoft's Windows9x Setup really
> doesn't like LILO in the master boot record, in my experience. ("no fixed
> disks present"). It wrote over the BootMagic MBR (so make a Boot Magic
> rescue disk before reinstalling Windows), but at least it acknowledged there
> was a hard drive present.
>
I used LILO in the MBR long time with even two Win98 installations on my
system. The only thing was, that I had to run Linux fdisk to hide the
one Win98 partition and activate the other, if i switched between the
Win98s (one should be "stable";-) , the other to play around).
This is done by BootMagic automatically on bootup, and this is the cause
I use it.
With only one Win98 system I'd prefer LILO, since I had no problems with
it.
(Did a reinstall of Win98 also, which overwrote the MBR, but a bootdisk
and /sbin/lilo fixed it.)
> Rebeccah
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Andreas
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:14:36 +0000
Paul Gray wrote:
>
> Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > No, /dev/sd* are only SCSI disks. The (first) tape drive should be
> > /dev/st0 as writen in the devices.txt. Try finding this.
>
> >> [...]
>
> As I said in the original post:
>
> <> The system specifics:
>
> <> kernel 2.2.5, an integrated Symbios controller (ncr53c8xx) and
> <> an adaptec 2940U2. There are five 4-gig drives (not presently
> <> running raid) and one 52-gig drive, complemented by an HP
> <> Dat drive mapped to /dev/st0.
> ----------------------^^^^^^^^
Sorry about that. The first part of your posting was a bit
misunderstanding and I didn't read the second part exactly. Was my
fault.
>
> The problem is with the fifth 4-gig drive. It is detected but
> is not mapped as it should be to /dev/sdf...in fact it is not
> mapped to anything. The kernel reports thus:
>
> Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel:
> Detected scsi disk sdf at scsi2, channel 0, id 4, lun 0
>
> but then passes the device by:
>
> Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: SCSI device sde: hdwr
> sector= 512 bytes. Sectors=8888924 [4340 MB] [4.3 GB]
> Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: sde: sde1
> Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: VFS: Mounted root
> (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> Feb 29 18:41:39 turbo kernel: change_root: old root has d_count=1
>
> (It finishes mapping sde's partitions, but does nothing for sdf)
Sounds quite strange. I can't remember a kernel setting which may help
here.
As the problem is before init is called, it is a kernel problem, i
think.
A newer kernel may help, but I can only guess.
Are you sure, the drive is all right? Try, if you can see it with
another OS (e.g. DOS FDISK).
Or unplug one of the working drives and look if the problematic drive is
detected right then.
> --
> Paul Gray
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Dept. of Mathematics
> University of Northern Iowa
> Wright Hall
> Cedar Falls, IA 50614-0506
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= VIGIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scsi scanner
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 00:19:11 GMT
Hi,
My actual scan is a Relisys Scorpio but I don't think it run with SANE.
I want to get rid of windows.
I'd like tu buy an UMAX ASTRA 2200 (Scsi ans USB connect on the same
model), has any body used this model ?
Is there an other way than SANE ?
Thanks.
FV
---
Mon scan actuel est un Relisys Scorpio, mais je ne pense pas qu'il soit
compatibe avec SANE. Je souhaite me d�barasser de windows. Je pensais
peut �tre acheter un ASTRA 2200 d'UMAX (connection scsi et USB sur le
m�me mod�le). Quelqu'un l'a t-il d�j� utilis� ?
Y a-t-il une autre fa�on de scanner qu'en passant par SANE ?
Merci.
--
FV
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM?
Date: 1 Mar 2000 18:58:16 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a desktop dual booting with W98 and RH6.0. I also have a VAIO
>PCG-C1XN (the little one with the camera) that came pre-configured [used
>in a broadest sense of the word] with a 4.3 Mb C: drive and a 2.2Mb D:
>drive - perfect for a dual boot with W98 and Linux methinks...
>
>But, I don't have a USB CDROM and booting from bootnet.img does not
>recognise the 3com network card in the type2 slot - I have a cd drive in
>my desktop I thought I could use. The installation howto mentions an
>'old' way of installing linux, by downloading f iles to a number of
>floppies etc. but there is very little by way of instructions.
>
>As far as I can tell, I need to get to a stage where I can connect to
>teh CD on the desktop - I am already able to network the two machines
>using Windows, so I don't think the hardware will cause any problems...
>
>As I already have the Redhat 5.1 and 6.0 distributions on CD, can a
>create the required floppies with what I've got?
Connect the laptop to th network (using the Ethernet adapter) and
donwload the entire redhat cd to it. You should be able to install
from the win partition. Also, try using RH 6.1, your card might be
detected with it.
>Has anyone done this lately? Any help will be appreciated.
>
>Many thanks,
>Derek
>
--
--
Daniel M. German
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://aries17.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg
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Subject: Re: SoundBlaster {N 3 \/\/ |3 I 3}
From: Necro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 17:07:45 -0800
well i did a full "everything" all options selected install of
linux RedHat6.1 and it says on boot cant load the "sound" modules
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