Linux-Hardware Digest #544, Volume #12 Fri, 24 Mar 00 14:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: X and ATI All-in-Wonder 128 32MB AGP question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Terminal Help (Pat Finnegan)
Re: ZIP 100 ATAPI (or is it IDE?) and Linux RH 6.0 (Dances With Crows)
Re: SCSI Drive (Steve Fosdick)
RIVA TNT problems (Roland Weede)
Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BIOS detects virus, avail. RAM problems! ("Dan Chiasson")
Re: Optical fiber NICs (dave)
Re: XF86Setup Mouse goes CRAZY (Steve Fosdick)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Gerald Willmann)
Re: BIOS detects virus, avail. RAM problems! (Dances With Crows)
Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work (Dances With Crows)
modeprobe ide-tape (Thomas Harneit)
Problem Modem ("Pablo Gonz�lez �lvarez")
Re: SVGATextMode and ATI Rage Pro IIc (Anthony Campbell)
Abit UDMA66 - Installation impossible? ("Frank")
Re: LAN transfer speed (Bill Pitz)
Booting linux , little problem (disarm)
Re: Printer: Epson Styles Color 740 ("J. Schaap")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X and ATI All-in-Wonder 128 32MB AGP question
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:01:00 GMT
Kernel version 2.2.14
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Armin Faltl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I am trying to get my video card (ATI All-in-Wonder 128 32MB AGP)
with
> > X-Windows. I found a fix that said to recompile the kernel
> > with "Support for Frame Buffer Devices" and "VESA VGA Graphics
Console"
> > under Console Drivers of make menuconfig. I don't have either of
these
> > options. I only have "VGA Text Console" and something else. Do I
need
> > a patch for these or something?
> >
> > Or, has somebody been able to get this video card working and could
> > give me some insight on how I can get it to work.
>
> If you eventually mention your kernel version...
>
--
Jeremy Peters
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Programmer
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Before you buy.
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From: Pat Finnegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Terminal Help
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:05:50 -0500
I have a Relisys serial terminal, which is roughly equivalent to a
DEC VT320. From the manual I have the actual terminfo & termcap
entries. I have two questions:
1) After I modify terminfo and termcap do I have to 'recompile' them,
and if so, how?
2) How do I set up an entry in /etc/printcap for hooking up a printer
to the terminal's parallel port. The terminal uses the same method of
printing as the VT320 does.
Thanks much!!!
-- Pat Finnegan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ZIP 100 ATAPI (or is it IDE?) and Linux RH 6.0
Date: 24 Mar 2000 12:17:32 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 08:05:39 -0500, Steve Martin
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>Dances With Crows wrote:
>
>> IIRC, RedHat 6.0 shipped with 2.2.5 :-(
>
>Just out of curiosity (since I'm running RH6 and 2.2.5-15),
>is there some problem with 2.2.5 that I should be aware of?
>It seems to work just fine with my system, and I'm a big
>believer in the old engineers' mantra "if it works, don't
>fix it".
The post that started this thread mentioned installing a new ZIP drive
into a machine running 2.2.5-15. The ide-floppy support was slightly
br0ken in that kernel, leading to data corruption when you used the ZIP
disk in WinXX machines. So, I reccommended the upgrade.
If your kernel's working fine, don't bother upgrading until you add some
hardware that 2.2.5-15 doesn't support, or you want/need all the nifty new
stuff in 2.4.x.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:15:59 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> there. What is this loopback device? Something to do with the scsi-bus
> or the drive? Surely its not refering to the network loopback?
Given the context it is probably referring to a device that allows a
file contained within one filesystem (on a disk somewhere) to be treated
as a disk which conatins a filesystem within it.
> The ext2 errors begin to appear, just after I've installed the base
> system to the drive, basically any writes or reads after that cause
> errors, and usually the system locks up before I can reboot, per the
> normal install routine.
An educated guess here says that the disk is able to read perfecly well
but is not writing data correctly and is not doing a read after write
check either so the disk driver thinks the data has been written but
when it is read back it is either different or the drive reports some
kind of CRC failiure.
The disk surface test that the install does doesn't test writing.
The crashes are probably caused because of disk problems with the swap
partition meaning the kernel can't read back VM pages for some processes
or the pages are read back altered.
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From: Roland Weede <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:12:08 GMT
Subject: RIVA TNT problems
Hi all!
About six months ago I installed The One And Only Alternative=20
Operating System (Linux) on my computer (SuSE 6.2). Everything worked=20=
fine ... but since I like playing around with 3D graphics, I always=20
found it annoying that there was no hardware accelerated Mesa driver=20=
for my RIVA TNT graphics chipset. Meanwhile I upgraded to XFree 3.3.6=20=
and was very happy to see that there is a glx module available for=20
RIVA TNT and XFree 3.3.6 by now. I installed it, started "Battalion"=20=
and was impressed by the tremendously increasing graphics performance=20=
-- but only for 5 seconds. After that my X server locked and froze -=20=
immune to my desperate attempts to bring it back to life. With much=20
cursing I finally pressed the hardware reset button and was rewarded=20=
with a five minute fsck and an error on my hard disk. Being afraid to=20=
finally ruin my system I did not try it too often -- but IF I started=20=
any Mesa applications I would always get the same result - sometimes=20=
at once, sometimes not before the program had been running for one or=20=
two minutes.
Does anybody have the same problems? Is this a problem of the RIVA=20
driver software, or of my X server? Thanks in advance...
Roland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:07:13 GMT
In article <8beba4$2t3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > My hard drive supports UDMA mode 2, 33MBytes/sec. But hdparm says
> > using_dma is off.
> > I have an IWill motherboard that is set to UDMA mode 2. My
harddrive,
> > Maxtor 10Gb, supports UDMA mode 2 (33MBytes/sec).
> > Can anyone help me get more performance from my hard drive? Thanks a
> > Million!!
>
> hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
>
> The above command will turn on DMA for your harddrive. Read the man
> page for hdparm (man hdparm). It's not too hard to understand.
>
> Greg
>
I've tried. hdparm cannot modify the drive. I believe I found the
problem. It seems RedHat 6.1 has UDMA problems with iWill XA100 plus
motherboards. On boot, Linux says something about not 100% compatible
IDE and disabling DMA.
Paul_L
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From: "Dan Chiasson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BIOS detects virus, avail. RAM problems!
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:22:57 -0400
I have RH 6.1 on a Pentium III 500Mhz (with an Asus motherboard), with 1x 128MB
DIMM.
When I upgraded to RH 6.1 (using an iso image from redhat.com), my machine's ROM
BIOS (with "ChipAway Virus Protection") started displaying "Virus Detected!". I
then followed the directions, installed "Trend Filescan for Linux", ran it
several times, and no viruses were found.
The only problems I have with the the machine is memory related. When I
boot-up, the BIOS memory test indicates that I have 128MB installed. But Linux
only detects 64MB (when I use either "free" or "top" command). This didn't occur
on my machine under RH 5.2. Obviously, the 'available memory' problem may or may
not be related to the 'possible virus found' problem.
Has anyone had this kind of problem?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
--
Dan Chiasson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Systems & Network Administrator
Coastal Internet International Inc.
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From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Optical fiber NICs
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:20:28 -0500
Peter Faber wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> We need to set up a Linux-PC as a gateway with 2 100 Mbps optical fiber
> network cards. Does anyone know what PCI-cards are out there that run
> 100% reliably & efficiently under x86-Linux?
>
> PFF
> --
> o
> Peter Faber, [EMAIL PROTECTED] --X-- "We apologise for the
> snail: Schubertstr. 1, 94032 Passau, FRG / \ inconvenience" - God
you don't necessarily need fiber nic cards... you can use a media
converter to go between
twisted pair and fiber.
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Setup Mouse goes CRAZY
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:19:47 +0000
frankie wrote:
>
> I have been going crazy here... help please....
> I have a intellimouse 1.2A PS/2 Compatible
> running Redhat 6.1(version or DIST of linux doesn't matter it still jumps
> stright to the upper right corner)
> ATI Rage Pro 128 Video card
>
> I have tried to set it up without using the mouse which i can do but it
> never works on any type any ideas would be most welcome
> XF86Setup Mouse goes CRAZY
Sounds like the wrong mouse protocol. You can pick the mouse protocol
in X setup using the keyboard but remember that it doesn't take effect
until you apply it ('a' key IIRC).
Also beware of 'gpm', the text mode mouse program which sometimes relays
the mouse data from the real mouse to a pseudo mouse device
(/dev/gpmdata) and translates the protocol at the same time.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:28:43 -0800
hi there: just ordered this printer from buy.com. Could one of you guys
who already have it please send me your printtab entry for it or tell me
how to modify mine
##PRINTTOOL## LOCAL djet500 300x300 letter {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:sh:
thanks, Gerald
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: BIOS detects virus, avail. RAM problems!
Date: 24 Mar 2000 12:45:20 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:22:57 -0400, Dan Chiasson
<<8bg7pb$mo$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I have RH 6.1 on a Pentium III 500Mhz (with an Asus motherboard),
>with 1x 128MB DIMM.
>When I upgraded to RH 6.1 (using an iso image from redhat.com), my
>machine's ROM BIOS (with "ChipAway Virus Protection") started displaying
>"Virus Detected!". I then followed the directions, installed "Trend
>Filescan for Linux", ran it several times, and no viruses were found.
>The only problems I have with the the machine is memory related. When I
>boot-up, the BIOS memory test indicates that I have 128MB installed. But
>Linux only detects 64MB (when I use either "free" or "top" command). This
>didn't occur
Both easy to fix. Disable that silly "virus protection" thing; the BIOS
is looking on your hard drive's MBR and not finding the standard DOS/Win
bootsector, so it thinks you have a virus. Total crap. The second is a
little more puzzling, especially since it worked with 5.2, but just enter
"linux mem=128M" at the boot menu. To make things permanent, add the
following line to /etc/lilo.conf somewhere before the first "image=" line:
append="mem=128M"
then run /sbin/lilo. No problem. HTH,
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work
Date: 24 Mar 2000 12:51:39 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 24 Mar 2000 17:07:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<8bg7bi$2rl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I've tried. hdparm cannot modify the drive. I believe I found the
>problem. It seems RedHat 6.1 has UDMA problems with iWill XA100 plus
>motherboards. On boot, Linux says something about not 100% compatible
>IDE and disabling DMA.
Get the Unified IDE driver patch, or get the most recent stable kernel
(IIRC, the Unified IDE patch has been folded into 2.2.14) and compile a
kernel with support for your particular IDE chipset. Then you should be
able to enable DMA, and you should notice a performance increase even when
not enabling DMA. ("hdparm -m16 -c1 -u1 /dev/hda" tends to give 20-40%
improvements even when no DMA is running...)
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick (IDE PATCH)
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2
(kernel, use bunzip2 to uncompress it)
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: Thomas Harneit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modeprobe ide-tape
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:59:35 +0100
i �ve problems to run my IDE-Tape-Drive Seagate sst280008A-RF .
It�s connect to then secondary eide-port.
It should be supported by the kernel (it�s 2.2.5).
When i try to send a command, like "mt -f /dev/ht0 status" the server
crashes (core dump). Even when i call "modprobe ide-tape".
The command
it seems to be a conflict with hisax.
the error-message look like this (written on console-screen):
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010 [<c01a065e>]
..
..
Proccess syslogd (pid .....
Stack: .... ... . .. ..
isnd_net: local hangup ippp0
ippp0: Chargesum is 0
ipp, open, slot: 1, minor: 0, state: 0000
ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure
isdn: HiSax, ch0 caus: E0305
After this, i can�t login. When i try this, only a message
is there: login[231]: ROOT LOGIN on 'tty1'.
Login is impossible now. I have to make a reset.
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From: "Pablo Gonz�lez �lvarez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem Modem
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:15:52 GMT
I have a problem to configurate a PCI rockwell modem 56K.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Campbell)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SVGATextMode and ATI Rage Pro IIc
Date: 24 Mar 2000 18:24:46 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:46:31 +0100, Otto Wyss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried to setup a bigger screen size with SVGATextMode for my ATI Rage
>Pro IIc AGP-adapter and EIZO T563-T monitor. I configured the Mach64
>chipset in TextConfig but SVGATextmode complains: "Mach64: Cannot find
>ATI PCI videocard". Under X everything is fine working and in wdm.log I
>find an entry "ATI Mach64 GT IIc rev 58...". Im using SVGATextMode 1.9.
>
>O. Wyss
Probably best not to use SVGATextMode. The author of the program has
ceased to maintain it because he thinks it is no long useful with
present-day hardware.
Anthony
--
Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.1 (Windows-free zone)
Book Reviews: http://www.pentelikon.freeserve.co.uk/bookreviews/
Skeptical articles: http://www.freethinker/uklinux.net/
"To be forced by desire into any unwarrantable belief is a calamity."
I.A. Richards
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit UDMA66 - Installation impossible?
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 19:27:11 +0100
I'm using my HDD's with "Abit Hod Rod UDMA66" - Controller. Now, I wanted to
install Suse Linux 6.1, but YAST can't find my HDD's. Only the CD-ROM's
(Adaptec 2940...) are found. Is there a driver available, or is it
impossible to install Linux with this Controller?
Frank
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From: Bill Pitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LAN transfer speed
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:29:03 GMT
In comp.os.linux.networking Frenzy Killa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm quite a Linux newbie, but I do know these rates are way below average
> for systems with this sort of hardware. Someone please help me with this.
> It'd be a real pity having a Linux server without being able to use its full
> potential. I'd really appriciate any help I can get.
The TCP stack (particularly in Win9x..not sure how bad it is in W2k) is not
capable of transferring at the maximum rated speed of your network.
You also will lose performance because of encapsulation and network
overhead.
Linux to Linux transfers will be faster than Linux to Windows or (god forbid)
Windows to Windows trasnfers.
-Bill
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From: disarm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Booting linux , little problem
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 13:34:58 -0500
this is my config:
Slackware 7.0
p150
32 megs
Video Card 1megs
Smc EZ 8416 isa
Ethernet 8129 pci
2.5 gig harddrive
I installed linux, its worked perfectly, the only probleme i had is
that i cannot boot it normaly, with a lilo or a bootdsk it block at :
Uncompressing Linux.... Ok, Booting Kernel.
i can boot with the bootdsk that come with Slackware 7.0 by entering
mount root=/dev/hda1
i dont know why, even before i touched the kernel id get this message
each time i bootup, can i only have a way to fix that? or is there a
fix somewhere? thanks in advance
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From: "J. Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer: Epson Styles Color 740
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 18:37:56 GMT
Konstantin Schauwecker wrote:
> Hi!
> I tried out this Driver, but it only printed in two colors: black and
> red. Blue is printed in red too and yellow isn't printed at all. Do you
> know an other driver?
>
> Konstantin Schauwecker
> --
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> http://www.c-plus-plus-archiv.de | My ICQ:
> -------------------------------------| **********
> My Homepage: | *68193331*
> http://www.konstantin-schauwecker.de | **********
Stylus Color 740:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=62112
Lots if info about printers: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
I don't have the 740. I have a 640 and had to change the stc600pl.upp to
make the colors decent.. Basically I removed the color settings and the
colors are brighter now. Before especially the red was pale looking.
Another way I got results is to edit the graphics in StarOffice and played
around with the gamma settings.
There is also a crude driver for epson printers stcany.upp that might
work. In Ghostscript documentation there is lots of info how to change
settings. You may have to experiment a bit to get things working properly.
JS
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