Linux-Hardware Digest #556, Volume #12 Sun, 26 Mar 00 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: WINModem (Bit Twister)
[Q] About linux-2.3.99-pre3 Boot Msg on IDE (Young4ert)
Re: 512 MB HD BIOS Limit Workaround? (brian)
Trident 9680 graphics card won't use XAA in Red Hat 6.1 (Andrew)
Re: !!!Cool Site!!! ("Next Dimension Hardware")
CDRW question ("Eddy")
Accounting software ("Toolman")
Re: CDRW question (Dances With Crows)
How to support Stealth III under X Windows? (sean)
KDE Sound (was re: SB Live Works but) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Driver for EtherExpress 100A (Kelly)
Re: Trident 9680 graphics card won't use XAA in Red Hat 6.1 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Driver for EtherExpress 100A (Mark Davis)
Question: PIII mobos, GX chipset, 100MHz bus ("Robert L. McCormick")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: WINModem
Reply-To: The news group
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 00:15:29 GMT
You might look around here
http://www.linmodems.org/
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:26:30 +0200, KeesM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Recently I installed Red Hat 6.1 at a seperate partition on my harddisk. My
>internal modem is US Robotics 56K Voice Win. The modem won't work in RH 6.1;
>in Windows 98SE it functions well. Do I have to buy another modem or what's
>wrong??
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: [Q] About linux-2.3.99-pre3 Boot Msg on IDE
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 16:34:35 -0500
Hi,
I have compiled and installed linux-2.3.99-pre3 kernel on my AMD K6-2
400MHz, FIC PA-2013A Mobo. When the computer booted up, I looked at the
/var/log/boot.msg file and found the following message:
<6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
<4>ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
<4>VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
<4>VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
<4>VT 82C597 Apollo VP3
<4> Chipset Core ATA-33
AFAIK, the FIC PA-2013A Mobo supports the Bus frequency of 66, 68, 75,
83, 95, 100, 112, and 124MHz. Whereas my FIC PA-2013A Mobo Bus
frequency is set at 100MHz. The question is why the linux-2.3.99-pre3
kernel defaulted to assume a 40MHz system bus as shown in the
/var/log/boot.msg (excertped above)? Does this mean that my FIC
PA-2013A Mobo Bus frequency is set at 40MHz?
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From: brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 512 MB HD BIOS Limit Workaround?
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:33:19 -0500
Just out of curiosity (seeing as my pentium system is running into the
8.4G barrier) what boot manager did you use?
According to Maxtor's web site, LILO is not compatable with Maxblast
(which I also found out the hard way).
Also, What utility did you use to create the Various partitions on the
HD. When I attempted to modify any partitions using Linux Fdisk, it
totally trashed the Partition table which maxblast created. And if I
dont use the maxblast partitioned HD as the boot disk my system does not
recognize it.
Brian
John in SD wrote:
> Likewise I have an old 486 still in Linux service. With a new Maxtor
> drive and Maxblast, I can boot Linux (RH 5.2, 6.0 and 6.1), DOS, and
> Windoze98. With Maxblast, only OS/2 will not boot, since it does not
> recognize the sector 0 mapping required by Maxblast.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew)
Subject: Trident 9680 graphics card won't use XAA in Red Hat 6.1
Date: 27 Mar 2000 00:47:39 GMT
I recently upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.1. My video operations
slowed down noticably. Text in xterms scrolls much more slowly, for
example. This is a Trident 9680 chipset PCI card with 2MB of RAM.
I'm using it in 16 bit color; 8 bit is noticably faster but still
slower than 16 bit was back in RH 5.2.
After a few hours playing with it (still have the 5.2 install to play
with), I noticed that in 5.2 the SVGA server is using XAA for
acceleration but not in 6.1. E.g. my logfile from 5.2 says:
(--) SVGA: Using Graphics Engine.
(--) SVGA: Using 1024 byte display width.
(--) SVGA: Using XAA (XFree86 Acceleration Architecture)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Solid filled rectangles
(--) SVGA: XAA: Screen-to-screen copy
(--) SVGA: XAA: 8x8 pattern fill
(--) SVGA: XAA: CPU to screen color expansion (bitmap, TE/NonTE imagetext)
(--) SVGA: XAA: Using 8 128x128 areas for pixmap caching
(--) SVGA: XAA: Caching tiles and stipples
(--) SVGA: XAA: General lines and segments
None of this comes up in 6.1.
XFree86 changed from 3.3.3 to 3.3.5 in this upgrade. I don't know
enough about the differences or how this relates to the SVGA server.
Is there some way to tell the SVGA server to use XAA for this chipset?
I looked at the README.trident file but couldn't figure it out. Not
sure where else to look.
Spent a lot of time with Xconfigurator and XF86Config file. Even used
the same XF86Config file from 5.2 but it still does not use XAA
(i.e. graphics are still slow in 6.1).
I'm about ready to give up. Anyone have any ideas, besides getting a
faster graphics card?
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: "Next Dimension Hardware" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
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Subject: Re: !!!Cool Site!!!
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:55:12 -0500
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From: "Eddy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW question
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:00:50 +0800
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From: "Toolman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accounting software
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 19:22:41 -0800
Anyone know of an accounting software package like QuickBooks available for
Linux!
Thanks in Advance,
Dennis, WI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CDRW question
Date: 26 Mar 2000 20:36:37 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 09:00:50 +0800, Eddy <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
Can anyone suggest to you how to NOT use that bloody MIME garbage? It
annoys the fsck out of people with text-based newsreaders.
>I am intended to use CDRW for backup. Can anyone suggest which CDRW work =
>fine for this purspose ? Thanks
Almost any of the newer CD-RWs work well with Linux. Using a CD-RW for
backups is no different from using a CD-RW for creating audio CDs from the
hardware's perspective. If you have SCSI already, then get a SCSI CD-RW,
and make sure it has at least a 4x write speed. If not, get an ATAPI/IDE
CD-RW, and make sure it has at least a 4x write speed and a 2M onboard
cache. Don't get the Iomega ZipCD; there have been problems due to its
slightly non-standard interpretation of the normal ATAPI command set.
Plextor makes very good drives, but I've had excellent results with a
cheap Philips CDRW-460 (it's IDE, even!).
Read the CD-Writing HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html . Getting it set up
might be a pain initially if the drive is IDE, but once it's set up, it
will work very well. Also check out http://www.freshmeat.net and do a
search on "CD Backup" for some utilities that make backing up to CD a bit
easier. HTH, Bonne Chance.
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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: sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to support Stealth III under X Windows?
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 01:30:13 GMT
Anyone knows how to support this card with SVGA mode? I can only use it
as VGA16(640x400). 800x600 256 color is enough for me.
Thanks,
Sean
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: KDE Sound (was re: SB Live Works but)
Date: 26 Mar 2000 20:45:58 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:20:04 GMT, Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko
<<UhuD4.1888$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>> sound works (plays CD's, wav's, and MP3's), but I can't get the system
>> sounds to work in KDE. Apparently, when the sysconfig tool installs the
>I know :))) I found out that you can create manually /etc/sysconfig/sound or
>soundcard. This file should contain one line CARDTYPE=anythingyouwant (I
>have aureal3d card but I wrote CARDTYPE=SB16 or GUS or ADLIB etc. always
>WORKED the same)
Good call, Jarek, but that works only on RedHat and derived distros. Does
nothing for SuSE :-(
However, there's a way around that for SuSE users: As root, edit
/usr/X11R6/bin/startkde and check the lines where "startifaudio" is
defined. There are actually two startifaudio() functions declared, one
for use if your /dev/sndstat works, one for use if it doesn't. Those who
use ALSA or certain not-quite-OSS drivers such as the es1371 and es1370
use the one *without* /dev/sndstat.
This caused me some vexation until I read Jarek's post and started
thinking... but hey, it's sort of documented in SuSE's startkde script.
*shrug*
Can't report on how to fix this for Debian/Slack/Caldera as I only have RH
and SuSE on this box right now. Anyone else...?
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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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Subject: Re: Driver for EtherExpress 100A
From: dNeOmSePnAtMrHoE[at@at@at]RpEeGnOgAuWiAnYpDoOwNeOrTeSdP.cAoMm (Kelly)
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 01:53:46 GMT
It does not exist and to my knowledge will never exist
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/eepro100.html
read the 3rd paragraph
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oliver Folini) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>i'm looking for a driver for my etherexpress pro 100A with i82556 chip
>on it. does somebody know if a driver exists?
>
>thanks
>oliver
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Trident 9680 graphics card won't use XAA in Red Hat 6.1
Date: 26 Mar 2000 21:02:12 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 27 Mar 2000 00:47:39 GMT, Andrew <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I recently upgraded from Red Hat 5.2 to 6.1. My video operations
>slowed down noticably. Text in xterms scrolls much more slowly, for
>None of this comes up in 6.1.
>
>XFree86 changed from 3.3.3 to 3.3.5 in this upgrade. I don't know
>enough about the differences or how this relates to the SVGA server.
>Is there some way to tell the SVGA server to use XAA for this chipset?
>I looked at the README.trident file but couldn't figure it out. Not
>sure where else to look.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/trident1.html
for starters? I don't know; the Option "pci_burst_on" and Option "accel"
lines might os.linux.x group.
just help you out some unless you already tried
them. It
seems very strange that XAA works with 3.3.3 and not with 3.3.5. If
you're daring, enter the Option "tgui_mclk_66" to overclock the video RAM,
which should speed things up a bit. :-) You also might try posting this
to the comp.
--
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] (Mark Davis)
Subject: Re: Driver for EtherExpress 100A
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 02:04:43 GMT
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Oliver Folini
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:>
:>i'm looking for a driver for my etherexpress pro 100A with i82556 chip
:>on it. does somebody know if a driver exists?
In the 2.2.13 kernel source in the Slackware 7.0 distribution there source
files for compiling modular drivers for this card.
Mark Davis
San Angelo, TX
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From: "Robert L. McCormick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Question: PIII mobos, GX chipset, 100MHz bus
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 20:05:34 -0600
First off, I realize this may not be the most appropriate place for this
question but since I need this info to build my next Linux box I'll ask
it anyway:
I just put in an order for a Tyan motherboard (S1837UANGR) with a
GX chipset. At Tyan's web site, they claim that this board supports the
coppermine PIII processor at 700 MHz (100 MHz bus) as long as the
motherboard is at least a certain revision.
My question is: If it supports the 700 MHz PIII then is it likely that
it also supports the 800 MHz version (at the same bus speed)? It seems
that the only differences between the two are the internal CPU clock
speed and that the motherboard shouldn't care which copermine is in
place since the clock multiplier is internal to the PIII, unlike its
predecessors.
Could someone with some knowledge about this please let me know if this
makes sense?
Thanks,
Robert
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