Linux-Hardware Digest #393, Volume #12 Fri, 3 Mar 00 03:13:05 EST
Contents:
HEY IM BACK (Necro)
IDE Controller (Gus Palandri)
Re: Linux sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
UDMA66 Problem (Michael Prinkey)
Re: Getting Linux working with Cheapo Motherboard? ("Scott")
QuickCam Express, Anyone? (Young4ert)
Re: Voodoo III, tv-out, xf86, modeline (Young4ert)
Re: CDRW as backup device... adviseable? (Bill Maniatty)
Re: sound ESS1878, is it supported? (Dances With Crows)
any scanner/fax peripherals for linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: AOpenFM56-IUT/2 Modem ("Thomas Alley")
Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives (Michael Prinkey)
Re: Linux sucks ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to active my sound card? ("Brian")
Re: ,,\/,,.SAY A PRAYER FOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF BLACK VIOLENCE AND
LAWLESSNESS!..,,` ("Brian")
internes Modem installieren?????????????? ("Steve Gerbothe")
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76 (Jan-Erik Engels)
Linux smp kernel UNSTABLE? ("Kyo-Bang Chung")
Problem with modem on linux (Sibba)
ATI Rage Pro and Quake 2 (Anonymous Coward)
Re: Linux smp kernel UNSTABLE? (Edward Lee)
Re: ,,\/,,.SAY A PRAYER FOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF BLACK VIOLENCE AND
LAWLESSNESS!..,,` (Kenneth Crudup)
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Subject: HEY IM BACK
From: Necro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 20:11:47 -0800
Hey all its me Necro and i am finally online with my NIC in linux
Thanks to all for the help
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From: Gus Palandri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE Controller
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 04:30:18 GMT
Using Red Hat 6.1. I have my Zip drive connected to a SIIG IDE controller
card 1st channel as Master,as my 5th IDE device. How can I mount my zip
drive? I have tried /dev/hde /dev/hde1, but I get a message that says the
kernel does not see it as block device.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 04:35:37 GMT
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:22:49 GMT, the Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(JEDIDIAH) screamed:
>>> 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.
Actually, if you pay attention to the world, you'll realize that there
is a world-wide economic crisis that North Americans are sleep-walking
thru -- those that aren't already struggling (the ones who don't get
on TV, i.e. most of us...)
The widening scramble to extract profits out of every possible sector,
and most especially out of the sexy (i.e. 'higher margin') new
'Hi-Tek' geek IPOs, has led to this present stampede of speculation --
most notably (for us) into Linux here. Linux is 'special', because the
speculators are following Microsoft's competitors as they jockey to
out-maneuver Windoze with their sudden-found 'free' OS...
THIS is the true reason for Linux' sudden cachet, and their fete-ing
and toasting of Linux geeks -- most notably(?) RedHat...
These jackals will as-easily dump Linux stock in the blink of an eye
when their purposes are no longer served -- but I guess that's the
'free market' at work, eh? Don't buy that BMW yet...
True Linux supporters want to make it easier to install because they
have a vision; speculators want to see it easier to install merely
because they want to replace Microsoft -- and become the 'next' Bill
Gates.
We live in truly decadent times...
:<
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From: Michael Prinkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA66 Problem
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:33:05 -0500
I have an Abit BP6 (two 433 Celerons, not overclocked!) with four IBM
37.5 GB EIDE hard drives connected to the HPT366 UDMA66 controllers (hde
thru hdh). I am running RH61 and 2.2.14 kernel with the most recent IDE
patch. The controller and all four hard drives are detected and I can
cfdisk them (fdisk only sees 4 GBs...go figure). I can mkfs and mount
them without a problem, but under heavy usage, I occasionally get "hdX:
Timeout waiting for DMA." This will either hard lock the machine (with
HD activity light on) or the kernel will kick the controller back to PIO
4. I have a similar setup using a Promise Ultra66 card that works
without a problem in UDMA66.
The system is otherwise rather vanilla: 128 MB SDRAM, Netgear
Tulip-clone NIC, and a cheap Trident AGP card. The system is booting
from a 6.4 GB drive on ide0 which is DMA33. Any ideas?
Thanks,
Mike Prinkey
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting Linux working with Cheapo Motherboard?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:35:32 -0500
I agree that PCChip ( and its aliases) are not good buys, but I was able to
get my 571 going without a whole lot of trouble. It has integrated video
and sound. I've never used Mandrake, so can't really advise you there.
Don't give up yet.
scott
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I used the new Mandrake Linux 7-02, booted off cdrom, correctly id'ed
> onboard video and sound card. Modem won't work though its a winmodem, not
> too sure you'll have any luck with the built-in network card either
> > > I made a huge mistake 3 months ago. I bought a PC100 board with a
> ton=20
> > of
> > > integrated hardware.
> >
> > > Now I'm trying to get Linux working on it (instead of Mr. Gate's=20
> > monopoly).
> >
> > PC100 is one of the many names PC Chips uses to dump=20
> > their junk on the unwary
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: QuickCam Express, Anyone?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:11:33 -0500
Hi,
Does anyone know if there has been work in progress to get the Logitech
QuickCam Express USB supported under Linux?
I have been looking for info on Logitech QuickCam Express USB for Linux
to no avail. The only ones that I found were the linux kernel support
for QuickCam and some other QuickCam supports through a parallel port.
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Voodoo III, tv-out, xf86, modeline
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:13:36 -0500
Andreas Neukoetter wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> does anybody have the correct modeline for the
> voodoo III 3500 and a
> standard PAL TV ?
>
> It looks ok in the shell, but when I start up X it gets very noisy ;)
> I have some animations that I want to tape.
>
> I couldn't find anything on the web.
>
> ciao
> Anti
What program are you using to make the Voodoo3 3500 to capture the
movie?
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Subject: Re: CDRW as backup device... adviseable?
From: Bill Maniatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 04:53:26 GMT
Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >[...]
> > So, for personal backups, made maybe every 10 or 15 days, do you think a
> > CDRW would do the trick nicely?
>
> I have a ZIP-100 and a CD-RW. I use the ZIP only to transport data
> between different computers, but I use the CD-RW for backup. The only
> problem is, that I didn't found a suitable program to to this. Meanwhile
> I use XCD-Roast and have to split up the directorys manually, as I need
> more CD-RWs for my backup.
>
> >
> > If so, which would work fine under linux? I am planning to use an IDE one
> > as I don't have SCSI controller. At the company I worked for they had an
> > Iomega IDE CDRW and (under windows) worked 100% ok. The price was more than
> > reasonable.
>
You might want to consider getting a DVD-RAM drives, which I think could
be a cost effective backup solution (I think dual sided DVD RAM media
can hold up to 5.2 GB per side). I recently read an exchange in this
group (found on Deja News) about a fellow using rsync to backup to his
DVD drive, you may wish to check it out.
Regards:
Bill Maniatty
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: sound ESS1878, is it supported?
Date: 03 Mar 2000 00:01:16 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:30:55 +0000, mike <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>The sound driver in 2.2.13 appears to support ESS chips as 100%
>soundblaster compatible. Unfortunately, ESS1878 is not mentioned in any
>of the documentation.
$ grep '1878' /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/sb_ess.c
sb_ess.c: * ES1868, ES1869 and ES1878. Could be used for
sb_ess.c: * way however: ES1868, ES1869 and ES1878 can be recognized (full
sb_ess.c: * - try to detect ES1868, ES1869 or ES1878
sb_ess.c: * ES1878 no
sb_ess.c:#define SUBMDL_ES1878 0x13 /* Subtype ES1878 for specific
handling */
sb_ess.c:* - try to detect ES1868, ES1869 or ES1878 (ess_identify)
sb_ess.c: case 1878:
sb_ess.c: submodel = SUBMDL_ES1878;
sb_ess.c: case 0x1878:
sb_ess.c: chip = "ES1878";
sb_ess.c: devc->submodel = SUBMDL_ES1878;
Sometimes, in Linux, the source code *is* the documentation. It should
work for you; try it.
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There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: any scanner/fax peripherals for linux?
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 05:02:25 GMT
dear all,
are there any scanner/fax machines that are known to work under linux?
i don't mind sweating to get USB working, as long as the device CAN operate
well under linux. i also have a great ultra wide SCSI 2 card, so scsi is
also an option.
i've heard that hp is "linux friendly" but after going to their website,
it looks like their scanner/fax machines are windows only.
thanks!
pete
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From: "Thomas Alley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AOpenFM56-IUT/2 Modem
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 23:56:24 -0500
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"Chris Maynus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm really new at Linux and was wondering if my AOpenFM56-IUT/2
> Modem would work with Linux? Does anyone have this modem? How do
> I set it up
>
> to get on the Internet with Redhat 6.1? Please any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris Maynus
>
Yes, this modem will work under RH 6.1. You will need to setup your
ppp connection, which may require calling your ISP. Also, you will
need to tell Linux which com port the modem is on. This can be done
through control panel. I hope this answers your question. Anything
more would require someone with a little bit more experience with
Linux than what I have.
Thomas Alley
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From: Michael Prinkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk and 40 GB drives
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:13:40 -0500
Try using cfdisk instead. My 37.5 GB IBMs only showed up with 3.8 GBs
available in fdisk. Also, make sure that you have the 2.2.14 kernel
installed. I think 2.2.13 and earlier didn't support 32+ GB EIDE HDs.
Cheers,
Mike Prinkey
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 05:26:46 GMT
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000 11:28:45 -0600, the Evil Joseph Crowe
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> screamed:
>Hey Folks,
>
> Don't ya'll think this belongs in an advocacy group....instead of groups
>relating to installation, hardware and networking?????
You're right -- but I can't help myself.
Stop me, before I THINK AGAIN!!
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to active my sound card?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:47:50 -0800
Hi Lu:
You will have to build a new kernel that includes the "Creative Ensoniq
AudioPCI 97 (ES1371)", "OSS sound modules" and optionally, "SoftOSS software
wave table engine" - use the default sampling & voices.
I prefer to build in rather than employing these as modules.
I use the Creative PCI64 on my machine and it functioned right out of the
box - not the case with horrible Creative pnp ISA cards.
If you have any problems, email and I will try to help.
Best regards,
Brian
Lu Bingwen wrote in message <89nalg$n1i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I am a newbie to linux. I am using Creative PCI64 sound card in win98. Now
I
>installed RH6.1 to my computer (coexist with win98 on the same machine).
>However, there is no sound. Anyone knows how to active my sound card?
>
>Thanks and thanks.
>
>
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ,,\/,,.SAY A PRAYER FOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF BLACK VIOLENCE AND
LAWLESSNESS!..,,`
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 21:50:21 -0800
You are a racist bastard.
Go fuck yourself.
Just one guys opinion.
Brian
<clipped out of respect for good taste>
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From: "Steve Gerbothe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: internes Modem installieren??????????????
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 07:17:48 +0100
Hi
Ich hab unter SuSe 6.3 folgendes Problem:
Ich hab ein internes Modem und ich wei� nicht, wie ich es installiere.
Im KDE hab ich das mit dem PPP - Tool gemacht(ist ja so �hnlich wie unter
win). Und wenn ich dann das Modem teste, ist alles in Ordnung. Er spricht es
an . Dann kann ich mir noch die Modem-Behfehle anschaun.
So weit so gut.
Als ich mich dann zu t-online einw�hlen wollte, hat er mir gesagt
initialiere Modem.
War ja ganz sch�n - aber weiter ist er nicht gekommen. Manchmal bleibt er
sogar h�ngen.
Wenn ich im bash mit wvdial versuche mein modem zu konfigurieren - sagt er
mir modem is busy.
Liegt das vielleicht daran, da� mein modem/dev /ttys0 und nicht wie wvdial
denkt /dev/modem???
Wenn dem so ist, wie kann ich das dem verklickern, das es /dev/ttys0 ist???
Tausend Dank an die die mir helfen
CU Steve
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From: Jan-Erik Engels <[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: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:29:20 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Mankind take a look at the right side of your 104-Keyboard and find
a "," close to the numberkeys. Bow to head to the real truth :))).
Isn't it funny to read such impartations in a technical newsgroup ?
We are borg...
CU Jan
Daniel Parish wrote:
> 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: "Kyo-Bang Chung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux smp kernel UNSTABLE?
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:36:14 +0900
Hi,
I report that kernel-2.2.12smp and kernel-2.2.15smp is unstable
for some programs, very unfortunately, such as mine.
My program runs well on kernel-2.2.12 and kernel-2.2.15, and
crashes on the smp versions of both.
I tested with three compilers (PGI, Fujitsu, Absoft)
on both single- and dual-CPU (Intel PIII). The result are the same.
The reason I use Linux is the support of muliti-processor.
Does anyone have any idea of what is going on the smp kernel development?
Thanks in advance.
Kyo-Bang Chung
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From: Sibba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with modem on linux
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 06:30:09 GMT
Hello everyone
the problem i am having is that i can not get linux to initilize the modem
to log on to the internet. I know that it is com 1 (ttyS0 - linux). Also
when I used RH ppp I set it as ttyS1 and i can not remove it cause i get
an error with RH3, i can not remember the exact error message (I think it
was some segmentation fault with in RH3 - config.) I have Red Hat linux
6.1. It would be a great help to get this up so i can learn how to use
linux better.
Thanx,
sibba
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From: Anonymous Coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Rage Pro and Quake 2
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 06:55:39 GMT
I have been unable to get OpenGL Quake2 to run using the Utah GLX
drivers and Mesa 3.1. Quake3 Demo runs with these drivers (although not
very well...but what can you expect from a Rage Pro with bleeding edge
drivers?), but when I try to start quake2, my system hangs and I have to
kill X. I am XFree86 3.3.5 and the Mach64 server. I suspect conflicts
with the drivers included with quake2/linux, but I have no idea how to
fix this. Could someone walk me through this process or point me to a
URL?
Thanks
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux smp kernel UNSTABLE?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:52:17 -0800
I use SMP kernels 2.2.12,13 and 14 on M2, K6, P5 and Dual P-II. My only
unstable system is due to marginal motherboard. Can you be more specific on
what you are exercising the kernel on? I/O or file system? Have you tried
more than one motherboard?
Kyo-Bang Chung wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I report that kernel-2.2.12smp and kernel-2.2.15smp is unstable
> for some programs, very unfortunately, such as mine.
>
> My program runs well on kernel-2.2.12 and kernel-2.2.15, and
> crashes on the smp versions of both.
>
> I tested with three compilers (PGI, Fujitsu, Absoft)
> on both single- and dual-CPU (Intel PIII). The result are the same.
>
> The reason I use Linux is the support of muliti-processor.
>
> Does anyone have any idea of what is going on the smp kernel development?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Kyo-Bang Chung
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Subject: Re: ,,\/,,.SAY A PRAYER FOR THE INNOCENT VICTIMS OF BLACK VIOLENCE AND
LAWLESSNESS!..,,`
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 07:35:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>Again, where is all the public outrage and cries of racism here?
Did they use Linux?
-Kenny
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