Linux-Hardware Digest #486, Volume #12 Wed, 15 Mar 00 18:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Stuart R. Fuller)
Re: Memory question ("Mike Bales")
Re: cat /proc/pci not in Mandrake 7 : UDMA66 Yet again (Hal Burgiss)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Jonathan Buzzard)
ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...??? ("frankie")
dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...??? (Michael Elizarov)
20G hdd (Michael Elizarov)
linux on HP pavilion (Vinay S Keerthy)
Re: 32M Viper V770D configuration (Anton Deguet)
Re: sound blaster PCI 128 ("E")
Re: Quick and Dirty Linux Setup ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Help with Linksys Ether16 Lan card. (Anthony Chan)
DVD movie nof frames ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RealPlayer7 ("Gary R. Skuse, Ph.D.")
Re: PIII vs PIII E - which is faster? (Geoff Dean)
UDMA66 & OpenLinux (gos)
Re: PIII vs PIII E - which is faster? ("Alexander Klietz")
How to enable the CMI8330 SOUNDPRO soundchip under RedHat GNU Linux. (Pierre Scotney)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Tony Houghton)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Julie Brandon)
udma in linux / seagate barracuda (Samuel R. Scarano)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart R. Fuller)
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:10:04 GMT
Jonathan Buzzard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:
: [SNIP]
: >
: > The mice themselves were solidly made, comfortable in the hand, had
: > nice, big buttons, and just worked - I didn't get interested in mouse
: > quality until I moved onto things like Suns and PCs with inferior
: > mice. But a good optical mouse beats a good mechanical mouse any day.
:
: I can't avoid butting in here. You have obviously *never* used a mouse
: that uses the Honeywell motion sensing mechanism. To anyone who has
: they are simply the best way of sensing the motion of a mouse and it's
: mechanical. They don't need a mouse mat and never need cleaning. One day
: when the patent runs out all mice will be made like this.
:
: Basically they method is to use two axially inclined disks. These are
: sealed so no dirt can get inside. The only maintanence is to occasionaly
: scrape the muck of the glide pads and disks (refered to as feet).
Hmm, sounds exactly like the mouse on my VAXstation. It's a round mouse with
the 2 disks as you've indicated. The bottom says "US Patent Pending 1985".
Too bad the PC industry didn't use a standard mouse, else I could use it on my
Intel Linux box.
Stu
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From: "Mike Bales" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,aus.computers.linux,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: Memory question
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:13:49 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8aln0v$smm$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I like to retain my memory.
>
> So whats happen if I got CPU running at 133MHz bus
> eg. 667/133 but a PC100 64MB DIMM.
> Will I have an issue?
Everything will be overclocked by 2x. The PCI bus will be at 66Mhz instead
of 33. The AGP at 133 instead of 66. The chipset at 133 instead of 100
(may not be that bad) which means the IDE controller also and HDDs.
How many of your devices do you imagine can do this? I'll bet the HDDs will
be the first to cause big trouble, probably have to lower to PIO mode 4 or
lower.
You'll have all kind of issues!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: cat /proc/pci not in Mandrake 7 : UDMA66 Yet again
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:13:53 GMT
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 12:37:28 -0500, Michael Kelly
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>All the HOWTOs say to get the info to boot Linux with
>a Promise Ultra66 UDMA controller do this command
>after the kernel boots:
>cat /proc/pci
>
>Mandrake doesn't seem to query pci 'cause what I look
>in /proc there's no pci. Is there some way to force it
>to probe the pci buss?
You might try 'lspci -vv'. (Maybe Mandrake breaks this too, but with RH
both work.)
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonathan Buzzard)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:01:01 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jonathan Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Which misses the point. The Honeywell motion sensing method is better
>> than *any* other method, including that used in Microsoft and Sun optical
>> mice and any type of mouse with a ball.
>
> Ah, but Microsoft's is different from Sun's. It claims to work on almost
> any surface, so you don't have to put up with those awful metal mats and
> felt mouse feet which keep ending up virtually welded together. I don't
> remember the old Suns I used at Uni having a particularly bad problem
> with this (ISTR the mats were some sort of laminate, not metal, ICBW),
> so I had fond memories of the Sun ones and when I found out about a
> cheapish Atari/Amiga optical mouse I bought one and made and adaptor for
> my Acorn. It suffered badly from "sticking", and was also overly
> sensitive to being used at an angle to the pad, so it went back; it also
> suffered from very occasional phantom button presses when I wasn't
> touching it, so that made a good excuse for the supplier ;). The Mouse
> Systems PS/2 mouse I bought later was OK with the angle thing (as was
> the old Sun), but did have the stickiness problem, so that had to go
> back too, after much arguing with the supplier.
>
> The MS IntelliEye should not have those problems in theory, I've no idea
> how effective it is in practice though.
Yes I know the Microsoft method is different from the Sun method. However
the two axial inclined rotating disk method is just simply the best method.
If there was not a patent on the method all mice would have been using
it for years.
Also the Honeywell method is well proven while the new optical method used
in the Microsoft mouse has yet to be proven in the field.
JAB.
--
Jonathan A. Buzzard Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northumberland, United Kingdom. Tel: +44(0)1661-832195
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From: "frankie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...???
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:14:42 -0600
the xfree86 sites say something about a r128 driver with the ati card where
the hell is it i found the I128 driver but NO r128
ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
Date: 15 Mar 2000 20:22:13 GMT
Hello,
During starting my PC (Red Hat6.1, kernel 2.2.14), I get the following:
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdc: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hdc: DMA disabled
The disc is a:
hdc: Maxtor 91728D8, 16479MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=33483/16/63, UDMA
Is this a hardware problem, BIOS setting, ...
Thanks for your help.
Aschwin Marsman
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From: Michael Elizarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...???
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:29:30 GMT
www.suse.com.
frankie wrote:
> the xfree86 sites say something about a r128 driver with the ati card where
> the hell is it i found the I128 driver but NO r128
>
> ATI rage 128 pro where the hell is the r128 driver...???
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From: Michael Elizarov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 20G hdd
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:31:01 GMT
I've just got a new Dell with 20G hdd and want to partition it nicely. I
need to put Linux and NT.
As always, Linux booted nice (RH 5.2). fdisk told me that I have 1024
cyls, while I actually have 2482. I explained this to fdisk and
partition the drive. But when I tried to verify my partitioning I always
get errors about overlapping partitions. So I just removed all but the
first 1G partition for root and installed Linux there. I was intended to
put NT on next nG and more Linux at the end.
NT also loaded from CD, but told me that although my disk has more than
1024 cyls it is only 8G. OK, BIOS! Not too many options. I set type to
user, enabled LBA and left intact multi-sectors transfer (16 sectors),
transfer mode (fast pio 4) and ultra DMA (mode 2). Maximum capacity
field showed 20420MB and was not editable. I am also unable to specify
C/H/S manually.
Now I stuck. When I boot linux from HDD, it says hda..... CHS
1024/255/63, what IMHO should say 2482/255/63. When I run fdisk, it says
I have only 1024 cyls. I tried:
1. lilo: linux hd=255,63,2482
2. /etc/lilo.conf
disk=/dev/hda
heads=255
cylinders=2482
sectors=63
3. Append line with hd= in lilo.conf
4. ???
I would appreciate all and any comments.
-- Mike
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From: Vinay S Keerthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux on HP pavilion
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:05:46 -0600
Anybody has installed redhat 6.0/6.1 on a HP pavilion m/c? I have a HP
4440 and have been having problems installing 6.1. Though 6.0 gets
installed but I can't run the modem and the sound card.
Thanks
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From: Anton Deguet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 32M Viper V770D configuration
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:33:54 GMT
Hamilton Link wrote:
>
> Has anyone gotten a Viper card working with X? The autoprobe doesn't
> work for my RH6.0 installer with this card, and while it was quite happy
> to install X etc. My resolution is closer to 300x200 than 1024x768. It's
> kind of funny, actually... the gdm login box takes up the whole screen.
>
> Anyway, if there's a driver for this card out there I would love to know
> where to find it.
>
> thanks
> hamilton
Any more recent xfree server has a tnt2 support (3.3.5 or 3.3.6). Rpms
might be at redhat web site or try http://rpmfind.net
Anton
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From: "E" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sound blaster PCI 128
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 19:21:55 +0100
Yes it works; it is supported in the kernel.
R.H. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:38cf02b6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am contemplating buying a Creative Sound Blaster PCI 128 sound card and
I
> was wondering if it is supported by linux or if someone has gotten it to
> work with linux by special drivers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Roger
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quick and Dirty Linux Setup
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 20:26:42 GMT
Good choice, I was a bit disappointed that the CD-ROM and floppy were
extra, but that case is just sooooo cool (I'm a sucker for aesthetic
marketing)
I'll be deleting whatever is installed an setting up Mandrake-Linux, it
seems to have the easiest setup and admin of all the 31 flavors.
for anyone who is interested:
PIA (Personal Internet Appliance) is only USD $299.00 and seems to be
worth it. The Linux Store can be found at www.thelinuxstore.com (well
duh :)
-Cheers
Stephen VanDyke
> Whynot try a Pia from The Linux Store?
>
> It's quite cheap and will come with Linux preinstalled.
>
> >
> >BTW, my "other" computer is a Ferrari ;)
> [deletia]
> --
> |||
> Resistance is not futile. / | \
>
> Need sane PPP docs? Try penguin.lvcm.com.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Anthony Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with Linksys Ether16 Lan card.
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 14:20:42 -0600
I have used the Ether16 and some other generic NE2000 cards for years in
my linux box at home. Since it is NOT a PnP card, linux won't detect
it. You have to set ioports and irq for the card. I set mine to use
io=0x300 and irq=10. Make sure there isn't any resources conflict when
you assign those values. You don't need to recompile your kernel
to get the OS to recongnize the card, since ne.o is a loadable module.
During installation of Mandrake 7.0, you will be asked to assign those
values. After installation, you need to set /etc/conf.modules with
options ne io=0x300 irq=10
Then reboot. Or use "modprobe ne io=0x300" at command prompt.
Hope it helps.
A.Chan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DVD movie nof frames
Date: 15 Mar 2000 20:52:20 GMT
Hello,
When I try to display a DVD movie using Red Hat 6.1, kernel 2.2.14,
using the latest software from cvs.linuxvideo.org:/cvs/livid
(nist ac3dec oms mpeg2dec mgadvd), I only get 3 frames per second as
a maximum. I know the code is not optimized (I was glad to see it worked),
but what is the minimum hardware that is needed for displaying a DVD movie?
I have 128MB, AMD K6 II/350, Diamond Viper 550 16 MB, and that shows that
it is currently CPU bound (100%). Is a hardware upgrade needed, or should
it be possible in the (near) future with this kind of hardware?
Would Xfree86 4 be an improvement?
Thanks for your suggestions,
Aschwin Marsman
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From: "Gary R. Skuse, Ph.D." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RealPlayer7
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:11:27 -0500
Yesterday I installed realplayer7 on my box and it won't run with the
complaint that it needs "15/16/24/32 bit TrueColor or PseudoColor Visual
display". I am not sure what that means. I currently have 32 bit color
on a Creative Voodoo Banshee card with 16M or RAM. What do I need to
change to fulfill the needs of this program?
Thanks in advance,
Gary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Geoff Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: PIII vs PIII E - which is faster?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:32:05 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Anthony Hill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
the pentium III E is used in lab tops, and not intended to be used in a
home system!
the best bet would be the p3 or the p3 coppermind (if you can find one
in canada)
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From: gos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UDMA66 & OpenLinux
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:47:46 +0100
Bonjour, hello!
Does some one succeeded in installating OpenLinux 2.3 from Caldera
for motherboard BE6 UDMA66 5PCI AGP2X and harddisk WD U-DMA66 5400T
(WD153AA) ?
For the moment I did not!
I've seen a lot of ideas for RedHat 6.0, 6.1..., Mandrake, Suse, but
nothing for Caldera!
The kernel of OpenLinux 2.3 is 2.2.10.
Of course, the installation programm doesn't recognise the hard disk
partitions.
So I tried to add
"install ide0=0xd000"
it works a little bit, I mean the installation programm does recognise
the hard disk partitions.
But the installation doesn't work at all!!!
Si vous avez une id�e, je suis preneur! Merci, thanks,
Etienne
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From: "Alexander Klietz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: PIII vs PIII E - which is faster?
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 22:54:49 +0100
Geoff Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> the pentium III E is used in lab tops, and not intended to be used
in a
> home system!
Sorry, but that's pure nonsense. Intels naming scheme is confusing
enough, don't make it even more difficult to understand. ;-)
Regards Alex
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From: Pierre Scotney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: How to enable the CMI8330 SOUNDPRO soundchip under RedHat GNU Linux.
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:06:26 +1100
Hello!
After following Stefan Laudat's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> kernel document
on how to enable the CMI8330 SOUNDPRO I have written an addition HOWTO
specific to RedHat GNU Linux. It is available at:
http://www.medstv.unimelb.edu.au/~pierre/CMI8330
Regards
Pierre
--
Dr Pierre Scotney
St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research
Melbourne, Australia
http://www.medstv.unimelb.edu.au/~pierre
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Mar 2000 21:51:39 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan Buzzard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yes I know the Microsoft method is different from the Sun method. However
> the two axial inclined rotating disk method is just simply the best method.
> If there was not a patent on the method all mice would have been using
> it for years.
How does it actually work, do you know?
--
http://www.caspian.uklinux.net
Use the address in the Reply-To header to avoid a spam trap when
emailing me. Your newsreader should automatically do so.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: 15 Mar 2000 21:29:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 14 Mar 2000 19:30:13 +0000, Jonathan Buzzard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
said:
>It would appear that Honeywell have sold the patent on to KeyTronic
>and is avaliable as the LifeTime mouse in North America or the KT Mouse
>in Europe. For details see
>
> http://www.keytronic.com/products/mouse.htm
>
>Unfortunately I can't find anyone in the U.K. that sells them. So far I
>have tried Insight, SMC Direct, Dabs Direct, Watford Electronics, Simply,
>Inmac, Action, MicroWarehouse, Global Direct, Tech Direct and
>Software Warehouse. If anyone knows of a U.K. supplier please let me know,
>I am would dearly love to purchase one of these mice.
Did you try...
http://www.keytronic-europe.com/profile/northeurope.htm
???
Ta-ra,
Julie.
--
Disclaimer: this post is just my insignificant mumblings, so don't believe
a word of it -- relax, and take it all with a pinch of salt. Any relevance
to real life is purely co-incidental, and is statistically very unlikely.
Gluten free. Requires 4xAA batteries (not included). May contain peanuts.
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From: Samuel R. Scarano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: udma in linux / seagate barracuda
Date: 15 Mar 2000 22:16:24 GMT
Hello, I have a problem with a hard disk that just came my way. Although
my old WD Caviar works just fine (UDMA33, hdparm -t => 9.8 meg/s), my
new seagate barracuda does not. My BIOS on my Soyo 5EAS motherboard
detects it as UDMA66 (it calls it UDMA mode 4 I think) but Linux does
not. hdparm -t gives 2.something meg/s, and when I use hdparm -d1 it
hangs my system. I was wondering if anyone knew whether I should be able
to use this this drive in Linux with UDMA support, and if so, how. Could
it be a motherboard issue? I'd like to know before break because that's
when my roommate wants the money for it, and in the mean time, I can
still renege on the deal. Any information, links to Linux/UDMA web
sites, etc. would be appreciated.
--
Samuel R. Scarano "Everything should be made as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] simple as possible, but not
http://people.cornell.edu/pages/srs25/ simpler." -- Albert Einstein
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