Linux-Hardware Digest #390, Volume #12 Thu, 2 Mar 00 16:13:09 EST
Contents:
hard-drive recording in linux?? ("'59burst")
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Lawrence Houston)
IDE drive spindown (Yan Seiner)
fdisk and 40 GB drives ("Anthony Zampella")
Re: Linux sucks (Joseph Crowe)
Re: Linux sucks (JEDIDIAH)
asus v3800 - redhat 6.1 ("pio_sz")
Re: Wireless Network (Vlar Schreidlocke)
Re: Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux (oisin)
Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives (Antoine Martin)
Re: ESS Solo-1 PCI PnP Audiodrive (WDM) in RedHat 6.0 (Edward Lee)
Re: Network Card Woes (Darryl)
Re: mice for lefties? ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Re: mice for lefties? (David C.)
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... (Michael J Porter)
Re: unknown disk drive activity (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= "Nodens" HERMANN)
Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100? (Michael J Porter)
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76 ("Daniel Parish")
CPU Over clocking ("LordCompaq")
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Norman Owens)
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From: "'59burst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard-drive recording in linux??
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 18:15:10 +0100
Can I just forget it? Anyone know if linux supports Midiman soundcards? Is
there software for harddrive recording out there??
tanx
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From: Lawrence Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:14:54 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Jason Grenier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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: there is a patch for 3.3.6 for the rage 128. the pro is more 'tuned' from
: what I understand.
: Terry Kovacs wrote:
As per Curtis Newton Posting I tried the Font Patched version of the
3.3.6 SVGA Server:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/XFree86-3.3.6-SVGA-fixed.tar.gz
Unfortunately it still returns saying Chipset is "unknown"!
:> I have a Dell XPS T500 system with a card that is identified as an "ATI
:> Rage 128 Pro" under windows 98.
:>
:> Does anyone know if the "rage 128 pro" card is significantly different
:> than the "rage 128"?
:> I have been trying to configure this card under linux/xfree86 3.3.6
:> which has support for the rage 128 cards but have had no success. The
:> XF86_SVGA server goes blank with every configuration I've tried. The
:> XFCom_Rage128 server (from suse) usually just core dumps.
:>
:> Terry Kovacs
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE drive spindown
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:48:27 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is it possible to spin down an IDE drive?
How?
--Yan
--
Think different
ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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Reply-To: "Anthony Zampella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Anthony Zampella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fdisk and 40 GB drives
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:26:38 GMT
I'm having some difficulty partitioning and formating my 40 GB Maxtor drive.
Either the partitioning doesn't work quite right and/or the making of the
file
system doesn't occur properly. Has anyone else out there partitioned a 40
GB
hard disk successfully? I'm actually looking to patition the drive FAT32
LBA for a windows 98 box, but I've tried Linux Native type too to no avail.
Please mail me about this as I' m posting this from some windows machine
using something that vaguely resemples a combination of IE and Outlook and I
have no idea how to change who the message is from or how to get back here.
Thanks. ;)
Curt Hesher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Joseph Crowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:28:45 -0600
Hey Folks,
Don't ya'll think this belongs in an advocacy group....instead of groups
relating to installation, hardware and networking?????
Joseph Crowe
http://www.io.com/~jcrowe
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:22:49 GMT
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 14:26:57 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:37:40 GMT, the Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>(JEDIDIAH) screamed:
>
>>>> I don't really care about the source. I view it primarily
>>>> as a means to an end, a tool with which market balance can
>>>> be restored. As long as products are perfectly replacable
>>>> source isn't that valuable.
>>>
>>>The attitude of a 'consumer'.
>>
>> Yup. There tend to be a lot of us littering free markets.
>
>You really believe the hype, don't you?
Just pay attention to the world. Things aren't as dire across
the board as their are in computing. Much of that has to do
with the fact that far too many people are intimidated by the
technology. Perhaps that will change as the tech gets out of
it's infancy.
[deletia]
--
|||
Resistance is not futile. / | \
Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
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From: "pio_sz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: asus v3800 - redhat 6.1
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:51:19 GMT
Hi
I've got a problem with my asus v3800 svga. I have some standart linux svga
library, but it doesn't work good. Generaly it works, but mouse cursor
leaves same trace on the background.
Is there any driver for agp Asus V3800 Pure ( no tv output )?
Thanks for any help!!!
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From: Vlar Schreidlocke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless Network
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:58:56 -0600
What is a good product/method for having my notebook communicate
wirelessly with my preexisting ethernet LAN?
On 29 Feb 2000 18:14:02 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 17:14:32 GMT, Jerome Corre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>What I don't really understand is the use of the "access point" (it
>>just seems to be a box with a Wavelan turbo card plugged in it!).
>
>Yes, afaik it is basically just a bridge between ethernet and wireless.
>
>
>>I would like to know is what are the differences between
>>1- using only wireless network card (1 on each PC in the group).
>>2- using a wireless network card on each PC and an access point?
>
>With #2 your wireless network can talk to a wired one.
>
>
>>Also is it possible to use a PC with two network cards: 1 wireless, and
>>one wired. and use it as a router between the wireless group and the
>>wired network.
>
>Yes, this is quite feasible. I have exactly that setup using Proxim
>Symphony cards. I have an old 486/50 running Linux 2.2 that has a modem, a
>wireless card, and a regular ethernet card. We have some desktop PC's on
>the wired net and a laptop on the wireless one. I set up the wireless net
>as 192.168.2.0/24 and the wired one as 192.168.1.0/24. I use diald and IP
>masquerading to hook up to the Internet. The 486 routes between all the
>networks and also handles our home email and local DNS. Everything works
>great.
>
>You could probably also do this with bridging instead of routing but I
>haven't tried that.
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From: oisin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp/os/linux/misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:40:26 -0800
Akbar Avliyaev wrote:
>
> Hi
> I'm trying to install Linux on my computer,
> but i'm having problems with graphics card.
> What I get now is 400x600 resolution.
> My card (Diamond Stelth III S540 32MB, Savage 4) is not on the list (i'm
> using RedHat 5.2).
> I checked list of supported card for newer versions (I checked both RedHat
> and Corel), but the card isn't on the list.
>
> The question is:
> is there any version of Linux (actually X) that supports this card, or
> patch (or something like that).
>
> Thanx in advance
Both XF863.3.5 and 3.3.6 support the card, but you have to use the
drivers specified at: http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.6/S3V1.html#1 The
easiest way to set it up is using XF86config. I think it may even
autoprobe these cards succesfully
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From: Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 18:55:31 +0000
my system would not even boot with my new 35Gb drive,
I have had to limit its size to 32Gb with a jumper to get the bios to see it.
You may have to od something similar...
Hope this helps.
Antoine
Anthony Zampella wrote:
> I'm having some difficulty partitioning and formating my 40 GB Maxtor drive.
> Either the partitioning doesn't work quite right and/or the making of the
> file
> system doesn't occur properly. Has anyone else out there partitioned a 40
> GB
> hard disk successfully? I'm actually looking to patition the drive FAT32
> LBA for a windows 98 box, but I've tried Linux Native type too to no avail.
> Please mail me about this as I' m posting this from some windows machine
> using something that vaguely resemples a combination of IE and Outlook and I
> have no idea how to change who the message is from or how to get back here.
> Thanks. ;)
> Curt Hesher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: ESS Solo-1 PCI PnP Audiodrive (WDM) in RedHat 6.0
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:15:35 -0800
You can download the modules and standard kernel at
http://204.216.187.141/setpnp.html. This works with most distribution's
kernel except Redhat.
Jim Persson wrote:
> I cant get this to work... sndconfig can't find it, and the ES???? stuff
> doesn't work...
> How can i get this to work?
> I found this esssolo1.c on the net... but i can't compile it.. and how do i
> use it.. will it work?
>
> Please help me!
>
> /Jim
>
> Name: esssolo1.c
> esssolo1.c Type: unspecified type (application/octet-stream)
> Encoding: x-uuencode
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From: Darryl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Network Card Woes
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:38:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MultiMeow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the card ISA or PCI?
I said it was ISA.
> Should it be configured externally?
Don't know. It's not stamped "Must be configured externally", and
you're too busy asking questions to tell me how to figure it out.
> Does it hook up proper resources? Have you got proper driver modules,
have you installed them and depmod'd them? Edited /etc/conf.modules?
Verified /proc/interrupts and /proc/ioports?
What the hell are "proper resources"? That advice is about as useful
as "Good nutrition is important". Same deal with "proper driver
modules". The mention of conf.modules is useful, the "edited" is not:
I doubt that appending the line "Dear Mandrake, please turn on my NIC
card, thank you" will fire that puppy up.
> Checked whether is the card alive at all?
Ordering a 2nd card and installing it is one way to do that. That's
why I ordered another one. Of course, there may be other ways, but
they're apparently top secret and can't be revealed.
Seriously, people, I see a lot of smartasses who want everyone to know
that they COULD answer your question, cause they sure do know the
answer, no doubt about it, but you screwed up by not asking it using
the proper syntax, so they're helpless, so sorry! Or demand that
someone provide a lot of information that, if I was a newbie, I
wouldn't have the slightest idea how to obtain. Would you ask someone
who wrote in asking how to change the oil in their car "How many
cylinders is it? Is it transverse-mounted? What's the compression
ratio? Are the universal joints Bingwappers or Flogdooders?"
A newbie who writes in asking how to install a NIC card is assuming
that the install procedure is easy, and that they are just lacking the
knowledge on how to do it. If you can't help them, then don't. But
don't chastise them simply because YOU can't answer the question
without knowing EXACTLY what the problem is. Sometimes you do need
more info, that's true, but several times I've seen responses asking
for more information, followed by ONE response by ONE guy with the
correct answer! Now how was THAT guy able to help the newbie? Is he
just psychic, or maybe just more patient? Or maybe he doesn't need to
know the model number of a monitor before suggesting some possible
solutions to "My monitor won't turn on".
And I'm not just slamming you, so don't be offended, I've just seen
other answers similar to the above that were even worse, and felt that
some of the information demanded of newbies isn't relevant to the
problem, and some of it was provided in the original question if only
the person would READ.
--
**** Darryl ****
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:50:48 -0500
"Andreas Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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!!!
Why not get an un-contoured mouse and remap the buttons?
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: 02 Mar 2000 15:11:01 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti) writes:
>
> DO these exist?!
Yes. At least I know Logitech made them at one point. They might still
be available.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael J Porter)
Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
Date: 2 Mar 2000 15:21:20 -0500
In article <C97v4.211$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Gaywood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>> Another way is to use Partition Magic. A Windows program and
=>> much more userfriendly than Fips.
=>
=>Partition Magic is very good, if you willing to fork out for it. It lets you
=>resize Windows & Linux partitions without having to wipe them first. Damn
=>reliable, too, in my experience.
Check out "Upgrading and Repairing PCs, Linux Edition (Upgrading &
Repairing)", ISBN: 0789720752. It comes with a version of
Partition Magic on a CD.
Mike
--
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Mike Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Cl=E9ment?= "Nodens" HERMANN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unknown disk drive activity
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:39:59 +0100
Unfortunately, I don't see where the problem could be. But I have a
question : how many swap partitions do you own ? I thought it where
impossible to use a swap partition bigger than 128 Mo.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:36:31 +0100, Cl�ment "Nodens" HERMANN
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>
> >> My disk drive (actually scsi activity) light flashes every two seconds
> >> constantly and the disk seems to make actuating noises about every ten.
> >>
> >> This is happeneing even when the system is idle. I tried removing any gnome
> >> applets that produced screen activity (cpu meter, net monitor) but that had no
> >> effect.
> >>
> >> Is there a way to list what processes are doing i/o?
> >
> >not a process that is doing i/o, but swaping, probably. How much RAM do
> >you own ? how big is your swap partition ?
> >--
>
> There's enough ram and even if there wasn't, the swapping should
> eventually stabilize as I'm talking about an idle system.
>
> There's 128Mram and a 400M swap partition. The biggest memory (surprise
> surprise) is X.
>
> The worst case virtual ram consumption is when I run netscape, and vmware
> together. It'll cause about 80M to swap out, but none of the swapped VM is
> active. There's no thrashing at all.
--
Cl�ment "Nodens" Hermann_____________________________________
"de la musique avant toute chose, .^. ___ !
et pour cela pr�f�re les pingouins" /_V_\ o o l l!
(librement, et sans remords aucun, / ___ \ l l l l!
adapt� de Verlaine) ( ( ) ) l___l o o !
_____________________________________\_\_/_/_________________!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael J Porter)
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100?
Date: 2 Mar 2000 15:32:06 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Francisco de Borja Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>Hi.....
=>I'm looking for information on the current status
=>(supported/unsupported) for two mainboards on linux:
=>
=>ASUS P2B-D
=> and
=>TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100
=>
=>Are there any known problems with these boards?
=>(configuration would be something like
=> 2x500PIII, Ati Rage Fury, 256Mb RAM)
=>What mainboar is better, ASUS P2B-D or
=>TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100?
I have a ASUS P2B-DS (onboard SCSI). Main problem is that I can't
UDMA/33 working (actually, no DMA to IDE drives - hard or CD). I
now suspect that the BIOS does not set up the controllers
correctly. I've downloaded a new BIOS and will try it.
Outside of DMA problems, I like the board a lot. It's given me
very few problems, even when running dev kernels. Problems that
are reported on many boards haven't been showing up too often on
the ASUS.
I don't know if all ATX boards have this problem, but it is
difficult to get a really long IDE board installed. If I recall,
only one slot can be used with a long board, and the board sort of
hits some connectors for leds and the like. The board in my case
is a SoundBlaster/32. If you have two long ide boards, I don't
think you can install both of them. If this is an issue for you, I
can check the system.
Mike
--
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Mike Porter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: "Daniel Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:42:25 GMT
Actually that is not the convention. Metric system everywhere (except for
silly Imperial places like the US) there is not supposed to be any separator
between the hundreds, thousands, etc.
i.e. 2, 100, 200.28 in the Imperial system is supposed to be:
2 100 200.28 in English, with 2 100 200,28 in French (I'm Canadian, we've
got both :)).
Banks everywhere use the separator though because it prevents people from
adding digits.
Wow, I need to unclutter my brain.
Dan
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From: "LordCompaq" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CPU Over clocking
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 14:58:13 -0600
Does anyone know if this configuration would ever work?
I have a couple processor cards for a compaq proliant server. They run
486DX/50 chips. The chips can be removed. What would happen if I put in a
dx4/100 chip or the like. Do you think it might work?
I have taken intel overdrive processors and put them in other compaq
processor boards (P5/66 board with a 133MHz upgrade chip, and it works
fine).
I know that the DX/? is a factor of a multiplier of the processor bus, in
this case 50MHz. Is anyone aware of a DX2/100 or something like that? I have
been tempted to put a DX2/66 chip in the thing to see what happens, but I am
not sure as this chip has a bus speed of 33MHz. I dont know what would
happen if I tried to run it at 50MHz. I guess I might end up with a 100MHz
board?
If you know the answer, I would like to hear about it.
Thanks,
Todd
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From: Norman Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 15:09:44 -0600
Hey I was able to get XFCom_Rage128 to work for RedHat 6.0 but now that
I've upgraded to RedHat 6.1 I can't get it to work. Also, Xfree86 3.3.6
has been giving me fits. My card was detected when I ran Xconfigurator. I
have a
Rage 128 VR AGP and the server it listed was Mach64. I haven't been able
to get
XF86_Mach64 to work. Have you tried it?
Terry Kovacs wrote:
> I have a Dell XPS T500 system with a card that is identified as an "ATI
> Rage 128 Pro" under windows 98.
>
> Does anyone know if the "rage 128 pro" card is significantly different
> than the "rage 128"?
> I have been trying to configure this card under linux/xfree86 3.3.6
> which has support for the rage 128 cards but have had no success. The
> XF86_SVGA server goes blank with every configuration I've tried. The
> XFCom_Rage128 server (from suse) usually just core dumps.
>
> Terry Kovacs
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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