Linux-Hardware Digest #396, Volume #12 Fri, 3 Mar 00 16:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system? (Frank Miles)
adding a scsi controller ("Ron S")
optical drives and optical media (Paulo Nogueira)
Re: Help identify this card (James Waldby)
Re: Help identify this card ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Printing Printing Printing (Anton Deguet)
Re: (help) hpt366: linux boot hangs after ide detect
3D Prophet Driver ("Dominique Callaert")
Re: AMD and LINUX (Stephen Bodnar)
SB AWE 64 GOLD issues (=?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Unanue-Zahl)
digital tft (Tim vor der Brueck)
Dell OptiPlex GX300/Intel 820 chipset (Konrad Hinsen)
Re: ati rage 128 pro (Lawrence Houston)
Xircom CE3-10/100, ThinkPad 600x, Slackware 7.0 (Peter Liqun Na)
Re: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Help with my strange printer problem!! (Kingshuk Majumdar)
Re: how can I tell how many CPUs? ("E Guinn")
HELP: adaptec 2940u2, gateway E5200, IBM LVD disks - aborting command due to
timeout! (Rusty Carruth)
Where To Get Raid Info (mike)
Re: Dell OptiPlex GX300/Intel 820 chipset (clyde jones)
Re: AMD and LINUX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Mar 2000 13:24:47 -0500
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steve Snyder wrote:
>
> > I will soon be setting up a couple of Linux systems with faily complex
> > partitioning schemes. Naturally, I thought of PowerQuest's
> > PartitionMagic (PM), which I've never used but which is highly
> > regarded.
> > I know that PM supports the ext2 filesystem, but PowerQuest's Web site
> > also says that the software is shipped on a "Win32 CD". How does one
> > use PM on an all-Linux, no Win32 system? Do/can you run it from a
> > DOS-formatted boot diskette?
> > Any advice on using PM on an all-Linux system would be appreciated.
>
> what's wrong with linux fdisk ??? Honestly don't see why you would need
> anything else especially on all-linux systems.
You don't need PM to create the initial system, but it is extremely helpful if
you want to resize disk partitions without doing a dump/load. My PM has more
than paid for itself for that one feature.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Advice on PartitionMagic on all-Linux system?
Date: 3 Mar 2000 18:17:06 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 3 Mar 2000, Steve Snyder wrote:
>
>> I will soon be setting up a couple of Linux systems with faily complex
>> partitioning schemes. Naturally, I thought of PowerQuest's
>> PartitionMagic (PM), which I've never used but which is highly
>> regarded.
>> I know that PM supports the ext2 filesystem, but PowerQuest's Web site
>> also says that the software is shipped on a "Win32 CD". How does one
>> use PM on an all-Linux, no Win32 system? Do/can you run it from a
>> DOS-formatted boot diskette?
>> Any advice on using PM on an all-Linux system would be appreciated.
>
>what's wrong with linux fdisk ??? Honestly don't see why you would need
>anything else especially on all-linux systems.
PM is worthwhile when you want to change the sizes of existing partitions.
This can be for a variety of reasons, such as taking better advantage of
partitioning as a means of providing greater security for parts of a
drive; or when you want to add another version or distribution of Linux
to an existing system.
My dim recollection is that Ted Ts'o did the ext2 portion of PM, and that
this was going to be open-sourced in some form after a year or thereabouts
of exclusive use by PM. Anyone heard anything about this?
-frank
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From: "Ron S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adding a scsi controller
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 13:39:07 -0500
I have a system running RH6.1. It is booting from an IDE drive. I added a PCI
based 53C810 SCSI controller card to the system. When I rebooted, kudzu
detected the controller and asked if I want to configure the device. I
responded yes. However when the system came up, it did not recognize the
controller. I checked and found that an entry had been added to
/etc/conf.modules for the controller:
alias scsi_hostadapter ncr53c8xx
There was also an entry in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf for the device:
-
class: SCSI
bus: PCI
detached: 0
driver: ncr53c8xx
desc: "Symbios|53c810"
vendorId: 1000
deviceId: 0001
-
However it was not seen at boot. The only hint of an error I saw was in
/var/log/messages:
kernel: scsi : 0 hosts.
kernel: scsi : detected total.
I thought maybe it isn't loaded since there isn't a target drive. I installed a
drive, but the results were the same.
If I manually do an insmod ncr53c8xx however, the controller is recognized and
I can use the attached drive.
So the question is, why isn't the module loaded automatically at boot time?
What do I need to change to make
it do so?
TIA,
Ron S.
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From: Paulo Nogueira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: optical drives and optical media
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:38:48 +0000
Could someone out there enlighten me (a bit) on the
pros/cons of the available optical media/drives? I am not
interested in capacities, prices, etc (that I can surely
find out), but rather on their logical structure, on the
filesystems supported, and on their easy of use.
What I mean is the following: right now, the following
main types are available: CD-R, CD-RW, DVD-RAM (and DVD+RW),
and MO.
On one extreme, we have the CD-R and its write-once media.
CD recording is a bit tricky, because a CD-R disk cannot be
written more than once, and also (probably) because it is
conceptually different from a hard drive: the hard disk has
cylinders, sectors,... while the CD-R has a single spiral
track. It seems one cannot just copy files to a CD-R (even
a multisession one); rather, one has to generate some "image"
in the first place.
Magneto-optical disks seem to be very flexible (their
logical structure is like those of hard-disks, and they
are rewritable) and work fine with Unix systems -- they
can be mounted just like hard drives. So (?) they can be
used with various powerfull filesystems.
This seem to be the other extreme (the good one).
Now, what happens with CD-RW and DVD-RAM ?
Also, if you can spot any (conceptual) errors in my
message, please do let me know!
Thank you (a lot!). And please send me a copy of any
meassage you post on the newsgroup.
Paulo
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From: James Waldby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help identify this card
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 18:43:28 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I recently bought a card at a garage sale because I didn't know what
> it was and because it was cheap. Unfortunately, I still don't know
> what it is! It's a "half-length" ISA card that has two ports, one
> 9-pin female and one 25-pin female. I stuck it inside one of my Linux
> PC's but it wasn't recognized (or I don't have the right module/driver
> loaded into the kernel). The only things printed on it that I can see
> on it are "M3127 MGP CARD 89092" and a big Acer chip in the middle
> stamped "M3127 1028AW 16190SS 40". There's also a couple of smaller
> Motorolla chips on the side.
>
> I guess I could plug it in a Windows PC and see if it's automagically
> recognized, but that would be admitting defeat! Any help would be
> appreciated.
>
> Simos
> ...
Probably a monochrome-graphics / parallel card.
I had an "MGP" card once with that combination.
The 89092 number could be a date code, like
day 92 of 1989, which would be about the right
vintage for such a card. Look at some of the other
chips for date codes of form yyww, eg 8932 would
be week 32 of 1989. Also look for jumpers to set
the parallel port number to 1, 2, 3 and its irq to 5
or 7, and an enable/disable jumper.
It's possible to use an MGP card in a dual-monitor
setup - if you found an old monochrome monitor -
but more likely only the printer port is useful.
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From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help identify this card
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 18:29:07 GMT
I don't recognize any of the numbers so this is just a guess but the
connectors would make me think an I/O card with a 9 pin rs232 and either a
25 pin rs232 pr 25 pin parallel port, depending on the gender of the
connector. Your computer wouldn't be able to see it if it was using the
same parameters as the serial and/or parallel ports you already have.
Jeff S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <89orci$n4u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>I recently bought a card at a garage sale because I didn't know what
>it was and because it was cheap. Unfortunately, I still don't know
>what it is! It's a "half-length" ISA card that has two ports, one
>9-pin female and one 25-pin female. I stuck it inside one of my Linux
>PC's but it wasn't recognized (or I don't have the right module/driver
>loaded into the kernel). The only things printed on it that I can see
>on it are "M3127 MGP CARD 89092" and a big Acer chip in the middle
>stamped "M3127 1028AW 16190SS 40". There's also a couple of smaller
>Motorolla chips on the side.
>
>I guess I could plug it in a Windows PC and see if it's automagically
>recognized, but that would be admitting defeat! Any help would be
>appreciated.
>
>Simos
>
> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 TOTAL
>.-----------.---------------------------.-----.
>| REALISTS | 2 0 1 4 2 1 0 6 2 | 0 |
>| IDEALISTS | 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 | 1 |
>.-----------.---------------------------.-----.
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Printing Printing Printing
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 19:03:55 GMT
Melissa Nelson wrote:
>
> ok every one who is more than likely smarter than me at linux.....
>
> i have a HPDeskJet820Cse can linux use this printer or do i have to use the
> HPOfficeJetR40xi thru the network??
>
> if i can use the 820 how might i go about configuring it???
>
> thanks in adavnce UberLinux users
> Melissa & Necro
You need a ppa driver for these "windows only printers". Look at
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322 for more infos.
Anton
PS: Avoid to post in too many groups ... printing in definitively not
related to networking or misc.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: (help) hpt366: linux boot hangs after ide detect
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 19:30:05 GMT
I had the same problem which I solved by numerous changes to the kernel.
Unfortunately I tried so many things that I can't remember exactly what
got it working in the end. Just keep on trying different block device
settings and I think SCSI settings too until it works.
Al H
softwaredesign wrote:
>
> I have the following system:
>
> Abit BE6 MB
> 2 Quantum Fireball 18.2 udma66 drives (one on ide2 and the other on ide3)
> sound card on pci1
> nic on pci5
> cdrom on ide1 (slave)
>
> hd on ide2 has 4 partitions: linux, linux swap and two fat32
>
> hd on ide3 has 3 partitions: linux, and two fat32
>
> I have installed Redhat 6.1, downloaded kernel 2.2.13, patched
> it with:
>
> ide.2.2.13.patch (for my two quantum 18.2 udma 66 drives)
> pppox.patch (ppp over ethernet for my adsl)
>
> I compiled the kernel, etc, etc. ran lilo, etc. Enhanced IDE support,
> HPT, and ext2 are compiled into the kernel (not as modules). When I
> reboot it hangs:
>
> --------------
> ide2 at 0xd000-0xd007,0xb002 on irq 11
> ide3 at 0xdc00-0xdc07,0xbc02 on irq 11
> <HANG>
> --------------
>
> As I understand, it should print the disk geometries next, but
> it just hangs.
>
> I've tried specifying the disk geometries using append="hde=... hdg=..."
> in lilo.conf. I've tried installing lilo with -l option. Nothing
works.
>
> I've double checked and I don't have any card in pci 3 (it shares irq
> 11 with hpt3666 ide controller).
>
> Am I missing something. Please, if someone has any ideas, *please*
> let me know!
>
> Many Thanks,
>
> Orion
>
> ------------------ Posted via CNET Linux Help ------------------
> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: "Dominique Callaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3D Prophet Driver
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 20:34:38 +0100
Hi all,
I'm looking for the driver of the Hercules 3D Prophet DDR-DVI under Linux
SUSE (6.3 if matters) can anyone help me ? Thanks for responding on
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
See ya
Dominique
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From: Stephen Bodnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 10:38:58 -0900
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, LOIC B
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and
>I would like to know if it is possible to use linux without
>problem with an AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux
>could you recomand to me.
>
> Thanks a lot.
Looks like I'm in the minority here, but I had problems with
an early K-2 233 (I think that's the model, it was one of the first
233's). There were some timing problems that caused random
crashes, and we could NEVER do a complete kernel compile.
This was back in the bad old days of kernel 2.0, and RedHat 5.1
It was a packaged system put together by Polywell, I believe
it has a Microstar motherboard. And yes, there was plenty of
cooling.
Later,
Stephen
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E5l?= Unanue-Zahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB AWE 64 GOLD issues
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:46:24 +0100
Hi!
I just wanted to know if I can extract digital sound from det SPDIF
output under Linux? pls e-mail me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
P�l Unanue-Zahl
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From: Tim vor der Brueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: digital tft
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:33:01 +0100
Does someone knows if linux works with digital tft's?
I would also like to know if digital tft displays work together with
tv-cards.
Thanks for any comments.
======
Tim
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From: Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell OptiPlex GX300/Intel 820 chipset
Date: 03 Mar 2000 21:01:24 +0100
Does anyone know if the new Dell OptiPlex GX300 works under Linux?
It uses the Intel 820 chipset, which is rather new. I couldn't find
any information about Linux/Intel 820 compatibility, and the OptiPlex GX300
is suspiciously absent from RedHat's list of Dell machines certified
for Linux.
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45071 Orleans Cedex 2 | Deutsch/Esperanto/English/
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From: Lawrence Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ati rage 128 pro
Crossposted-To: comp.windows.x.i386unix
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:08:07 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Terry Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I looked into the source for the SVGA driver and there are references to
: the Rage 128 Pro.
: scanpci turns up a device code 0x5046 which is defined in vgaPCI.h as
: PCI_CHIP_RAGE128PF but the xserver see a strange device - something like
: 0x3f3f0000 - and quits.
This is in keeping with what the Font Patched SVGA (XFree86 3.3.6) Server:
http://www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/XFree86-3.3.6-SVGA-fixed.tar.gz
is returning (ATI Rage 128 PF and Unknown 0x3F3F0000)!
================================================================================
(--) SVGA: PCI: ATI Rage 128 PF rev 0, Memory @ 0xf8000000, 0xf0100000, I/O @ 0x9000
Using XFree86 ATI driver version 4.6.
Unknown graphics controller detected.
Unknown chip descriptor in BIOS: 0x3F3F0000.
Unknown video adapter detected.
Brooktree 476 or similar RAMDAC detected.
Support for this video adapter is highly experimental!
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: Lawrence Houston wrote:
:>
:> In comp.os.linux.hardware Terry Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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]
:>
:> We have a Rage 128 Pro which came in a Dell XPS T550 and are experiencing
:> similar problems with the XFree86 3.3.6 include in the Mandrake 7.0
:> Distribution! Tried both XFree86 3.3.6's own SVGA and the RAGE128 they
:> included from the SUSE Distribution (XFCon). Todate I have NOT found an
:> XFree86 Server supporting the Rage 128 Pro and from what have read on the
:> Web it appears to be a "different/new" Chipset???
:>
:> --
:>
:> Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Peter Liqun Na <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Xircom CE3-10/100, ThinkPad 600x, Slackware 7.0
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 11:59:54 -0800
env:
tp 600x 2645-7eu, Xircom CE3-10/100, slackware 7.0
Problem:
Slackware 7.0 locked up sometimes, especially when very high speed
download(over 800K/s) or when long time inactive(over one hour).
stupid solution:-) pull it out and plug in again,
then '/etc/pc*/network stop eth0;
/etc/pc*/network start eth0;
/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1'
everything back.
got this Xircom CE3 card long time ago(the early of 1997 or the end of
1996). so don't have much docs.
guess:
i82365.o's timing option? cycle_time=? The default is 210 ns(4.77 MHz).
how much expected? don't want to try one by one:-)
recompiled kernel, apmd added?
irq, memory ... setting?
download newest pcmcia-cs?
or ......
I post some information about my machine as the following, I sincerely
appreciate any kind of suggestion.
thank you,
Peter
============
none# cardctl config
Socket 0:
Vcc = 5.0, Vpp1 = 0.0, Vpp2 = 0.0
Interface type is memory and I/O
IRQ 3 is exclusive, level mode, enabled
Function 0:
Config register base = 0x0800
Option = 0x41, status = 0000
I/O window 1: 0x0300 to 0x030f, 16 bit
none# more /proc/modules
xirc2ps_cs 11108 1
ds 5676 2 [xirc2ps_cs]
i82365 22480 2
pcmcia_core 39080 0 [xirc2ps_cs ds i82365]
none# more /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.13 (root@none) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #4 Thu Mar 2 09:58:15 PST 2000
none# find /proc/bus/pccard -name '*' -exec echo {} \; -exec more {} \;
/proc/bus/pccard
*** /proc/bus/pccard: directory ***
/proc/bus/pccard/01
*** /proc/bus/pccard/01: directory ***
/proc/bus/pccard/01/cardbus
00000000 00000000 30000186 00000000 00000000 00000000
/proc/bus/pccard/01/pci
ac1b104c 02100007 06070003 0082a808
50102000 020000a0 b0070500 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 07c0020b
01301014 00000001 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00449068 00000000 80818080 00001000
416682c0 00000000 00000000 00000000
7e110001 00c00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/proc/bus/pccard/01/exca
83 00 00 40 00 08 00 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 01 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
/proc/bus/pccard/01/info
type: TI 1450
psock: 0
bus: 00
devfn: 02.1
cardbus: 05
/proc/bus/pccard/00
*** /proc/bus/pccard/00: directory ***
/proc/bus/pccard/00/cardbus
00000009 00000000 30000459 00000000 00000020 00000000
/proc/bus/pccard/00/pci
ac1b104c 02100007 06070003 0082a808
50103000 020000a0 b0040200 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 07c0010b
01301014 00000001 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00449068 00000000 80818080 00001000
416683c0 00000000 00000000 00000000
7e110001 00c00000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/proc/bus/pccard/00/exca
83 6f 90 63 00 08 41 01 00 03 0f 03 00 00 01 00
00 00 00 80 00 40 c0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
/proc/bus/pccard/00/info
type: TI 1450
psock: 0
bus: 00
devfn: 02.0
cardbus: 02
/proc/bus/pccard/memory
50102000-50102fff : i82365
50103000-50103fff : i82365
60000000-60000fff : card services
Info from booting..........
Linux PCMCIA Card Services 3.0.14
kernel build: 2.2.13 #22 Wed Oct 20 17:32:52 CDT 1999
options: [pci] [cardbus]
Intel PCIC probe:
TI 1450 PCI-to-CardBus at bus 0 slot 2, mem 0x50103000, 2 sockets
host opts [0]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq]
[lat 168/176] [bus 2/4]
host opts [1]: [ring] [pwr save] [serial pci & irq] [no pci irq]
[lat 168/176] [bus 5/7]
ISA irqs (scanned) = 3,4,5,7,9,10,15 polling interval = 1000 ms
cs: IO port probe 0x1000-0x17ff: excluding 0x15e8-0x15ef
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
cs: memory probe 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff: excluding 0xa0000000-0xa0ffffff
cs: memory probe 0x60000000-0x60ffffff: clean.
xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
eth0: Xircom: port 0x300, irq 3, hwaddr 00:80:C7:B7:12:96
eth0: media 10BaseT, silicon revision 4
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From: [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 15:21:18 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/03/00
at 03:21 PM, "Daniel Parish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>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.
Just curious, how do you figure US as Imperial when we've never elected an
emperor? ;-)
But seriously, I agree. I'm a big fan of the metric system as sole use
would make my life alot easier. For instance, in the metric system you
calculate force due to gravity as mass (kg) * acceleration (m/s^2) equals
force (N). Simple. In American Engineering Units it's mass (lbm) *
acceleration (ft/sec^2) / gravitational constant (32.174
(lbm*ft)/(lbf*sec^2)) equals force (lbf). I've had to memorize the value
32.174 and figure out the units basis the equation F = m * g / gc. What a
pain!
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From: Kingshuk Majumdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with my strange printer problem!!
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 20:30:28 GMT
Hi,
I have a Epson Stylus 900 printer which I tried to hook up with Redhat
6.1. I did modify the /etc/conf.modules file and included the text:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Now as there is no driver at present for Epson Stylus 900, I first tried
the Epson 800 ECP II (something like that) and I was able to print the
B & W tests page (both plain text and postscript). I then tried just
the Epson Stylus Color option and I got a color printout of the ps test
page (color not that good though!). I became ambitious and increased the
resolution to 720x720 and then when I tried to print the ps test page it
started printing junk. I switched off the monitor, removed all the jobs
by typing lprm * from the printer queue and change my printer configuraion
to the previous B & W one. Now it don't print any damn thing!! When I
try to print the test page - I get the message that `Your job is queued '
but I don't see any entries with the lpq command. My printer works just
fine with Windows but now not with Redhat 6.1. I tried to add the printer
again from the scratch by removing the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory, and
clearing up the /etc/printcap file. The strange part is that at one point
I unplugged my printer from my machine and then tried to add a printer -
but it found the printer port!! How the hell that can be!!! My guess is
somewhere the printer got registered or may be there is something else
which I don't know. Any help from anyone?
Thanks in advance.
--Kingshuk.
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From: "E Guinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can I tell how many CPUs?
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 14:56:51 -0600
Or more informatively, after the line 'bogomips :265.42,' the second
processor's details will begin with the line 'processor : 1' and so on
until all the processors are accounted for; providing the OS is set up for
SMP;?)
E Guinn
Robert Woodworth wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>At the command line:
>
># cat /proc/cpuinfo
>
>processor : 0
>...
>...
>...
>cmov mmx
>bogomips : 265.42
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rusty Carruth)
Subject: HELP: adaptec 2940u2, gateway E5200, IBM LVD disks - aborting command due to
timeout!
Date: 3 Mar 2000 13:52:57 -0700
So, I get a new gateway E 5200 machine to put linux on, with
an adaptec 2940U2 scsi card and 2 IBM LVD disks.
NT works 'ok' on it (for some value of 'ok' ;-).
However, when I boot RedHat 6.1 CD on it all I get is:
<4>scsi: 1 host.
<4>scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Test
Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00
<4>SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
<4>SCSI host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
<4>SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
the last 4 lines repeat indefinately.
Anybody have any idea what's wrong or how to get around this?
Rusty
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where To Get Raid Info
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 15:57:07 -0500
Hi,
I want to setup raid for the purposes spanning a number of
small old hard drives to make one large drive to install Linux on.
I have looked at the RAID-HOWTO and it seems that there is
not enough info there to be able to set it up. I think that
the spanning requires raid 0 or 1. Is there any other doc somewhere.
Thanks
Mike
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From: clyde jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell OptiPlex GX300/Intel 820 chipset
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 21:02:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Konrad Hinsen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| Does anyone know if the new Dell OptiPlex GX300 works under Linux?
| It uses the Intel 820 chipset, which is rather new. I couldn't find
| any information about Linux/Intel 820 compatibility, and the OptiPlex
| GX300
| is suspiciously absent from RedHat's list of Dell machines certified
| for Linux.
did you call dell? they support linux on most of their machines, and
have a testing lab for linux.
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- Spanish Proverb
Clyde Jones
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 16:02:10 -0500
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/03/00
at 04:02 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) said:
>Certain generic parts (like RAM and power supplies) must be built to
>tighter tolerances to work reliably with Athlon motherboards. If you go
>to AMD's web site, there is information on this, along with a list of
>vendors whose products have been tested and approved.
http://www1.amd.com/athlon/config
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