Linux-Hardware Digest #573, Volume #12 Wed, 29 Mar 00 18:13:06 EST
Contents:
[Fwd: Compaq Proliant 1500 as a Linux Fileserver?] (Lars Grobe)
Re: [lan]anyone useing intel etherexpress 10 isa? ("TJ Snider")
Re: Looking for the "right" SMP Linux motherboard ... (aggressive ("TJ Snider")
Re: Athlon kernel compile (Antoine Hugueney)
Compaq 4500 / Redhat 6.1 ("John Arnott - PDbS, Inc.")
Re: Best Video Card w/tv/mpeg2/dvd/capture for SuSE /FreeBSD? ("TJ Snider")
Re: parallel port under linux (Antoine Hugueney)
Re: Maxtor 40G IDE w/o BIOS support ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IntelliEye USB mouse :-( (Philippe Dilet)
Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS. ("xiangola")
Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS. (PaulTB)
Epson Photo 1200 Driver (Kevin John Hart)
Re: Motherboard recommendations... ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: K7/3Com/RedHat question (Rich Piotrowski)
Re: Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
linux on gx chipset mobo (Gerald Willmann)
Epson Stylus Color 640 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith)
XFree86 4.0 and Intel i810 (REN)
Re: latest 2.3.99-pre3 won't boot on I-OPENER (Rick Ellis)
BP6: Linux hangs on dma66 HD access (Jehsom)
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From: Lars Grobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Compaq Proliant 1500 as a Linux Fileserver?]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:00:32 +0200
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> Hi!
>
> We've got some Proliants here, and we want to use them
> as fileservers under Linux. Are there any experiences
> with these systems and Linux? I only know that the 1500
> is not certified under Linux.
>
> Thank You!!! Pleas send a copy of your answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
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> CU, Lars.
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From: Lars Grobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Compaq Proliant 1500 as a Linux Fileserver?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:58:33 +0200
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Hi!
We've got some Proliants here, and we want to use them
as fileservers under Linux. Are there any experiences
with these systems and Linux? I only know that the 1500
is not certified under Linux.
Thank You!!! Pleas send a copy of your answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED]!
CU, Lars.
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [lan]anyone useing intel etherexpress 10 isa?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:34:23 GMT
I actually had very bad luck with a pair of etherexpresses... they kept on
dropping packets and getting "stuck" in bad modes...
I've since switched to 3Com 3c509b's for ISA and haven't had any problems
since.
TJ
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "William B. Arnold"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Greetings,
>
>I have had good experience using this card in my Linux (Redhat 6.0
>distro) with no real problems except for somewhat slow transfer rate.
>Finally put in a WD8013 card, beside the EExpress adn checked the
>transfer rate. Out classed the EExpress card hands down. Still have
>many more of them laying around. On day might get around to do some
>further testing on the EExpress cards fro giggles.
>
>Bill...
>
>
>Junghwa wrote:
>>
>> Hello!
>> 2hard disk: One is running win98 and the other on linux.
>> nic: intel etherexpress 10 isa(pnp enabled)
>>
>> Is there anyone using intel etherexpress 10 isa (pnp enabled)? I just
>> can't make that work in Linux. I used pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf and in
>> that file, I found my lan card, so I edited that io=0x260, irq=10 then
>> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf. It said that my lan card io address has
>> conflict ... But I'm sure that io address didn't have conflict with any
>> io device. I can do internet on win98 environment with that io address
>> and irq. And I check /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts in linux ...
>> It's free io address...
>>
>> So, is there anyone using intel etherexpress 10 isa? Then could you tell
>> me what module I must use? (I tried eexpress.o and eexpress.o. Both of
>> them didn't work for me, and eexpress.o crashed my computer... )
>> If you know anything, please tell me....
>> bye can take care.
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for the "right" SMP Linux motherboard ... (aggressive
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:40:37 GMT
I've had pretty good luck so far with my Tyan S1696 DLUA except the onboard
Yamaha audio sucks, I could never get it configured correctly without *tons*
of noise.
You my also want to take a look at;
http://www.2cpu.com/
http://www.dualprotech.com/
and
http://www.motherboards.org/
TTUL,
TJ
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From: Antoine Hugueney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Athlon kernel compile
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:43:34 +0200
Janet a �crit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm about to compile kernel 2.2.14 for my athlon box and was wondering
> whether to enable MTRR (there have been a lot of posts about needing to
> disable it in earlier kernel versions; what about this one?). Also, which
> processor type should I choose?
>
> Thanks,
> Janet
Hello,
No problem with kenel 2.2.13, 14 and above. I had MTRR problems with LM 6.0
but not with 6.1 nor with 7.0 (with my Athlon).
Regards,
Antoine
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From: "John Arnott - PDbS, Inc." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq 4500 / Redhat 6.1
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:30:09 GMT
Compaq lists several supported servers for Linux, but the older Proliant
4500 is not listed. Has anyone used this particular hardware as a Linux
server? Any caveats?
Best Regards
John
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "TJ Snider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Video Card w/tv/mpeg2/dvd/capture for SuSE /FreeBSD?
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 20:59:39 GMT
Hi Alex,
I'm running RH6.1 with XFree86 4.0 on a Rage Fury 128 32MB TV-OUT. I haven't
done anything with Linux and the TV-OUT but it does do okay under Win98.
Performance is quite snappy under Linux.
I'm waiting for Precision-Insight to make the DRI compatible driver so that
I can do 3D under linux. I believe the current r128 driver is already
available for SUSE (I think they helped fund it).
TJ
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Alex Lam." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> Building a new multi-media entertainment box.
>
> What is the best and reasonable priced video card (around $250.us)
>for Linux kernel 2.2.x, or FreeBSD3.x?
>
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From: Antoine Hugueney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel port under linux
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:27:17 +0200
nina a �crit :
> Tanveer wrote:
> >
> and there is a line in /etc/conf.modules missing to load the parallel
> port kernel module:
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>
> then it should work, nina
I have both (the right line in /etc/conf.modules and the rpm release 48). But,
even if my Linux Mandrake 7.0 recognizes port /dev/lp0 (alias LPT1 for the
"Dirty Operating System"), no light ever flashes when I send data through it.
Even if my /proc/parport/0/autoprobe has detected a Lexmark 3200 all right.
Please, don't let me alone with my Windows 95 OSR 2 aging from the middle ages
of computer history ! My 547 bogomips box should deserve better, shouldn't it ?
Regards,
Antoine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Maxtor 40G IDE w/o BIOS support
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:17:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Halliday) wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 21:52:44 -0600, Keith Rohrer
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> : Does anyone know how to configure such a drive for its full
capacity under
> : Linux without BIOS support? I have to install the capacity limiting
jumper
> : or the machine will not boot, even with autodetction turned off or a
> : specific geometry and mode chosen.
>
> Are you running any other OS's on the same drive? If so, I don't have
> a solution (other than new motherboard or a hopeful BIOs upgrade).
> If Linux is the only OS then you can use the full 40Gb provided you
> are booting off another drive (alternatively a Linux boot floppy disk
> should do it).
>
> To be able to use the full 40Gb under Linux;
> 1. Reposition the jumper on the Maxtor drive so the full drive
> capacity is accessible.
> 2. _Remove_ the hard drive entry form the CMOS settings (i.e. Go in to
>
> the BIOS and tell it that there is no drive installed on the IDE
> channel). This should allow the machine to boot without problems.
> 3. When in Linux (installation disk or off another hard drive), run
> fdisk and type in 'x' (followed by RETURN) to enter expert mode.
> Then half the number of cylinders and double the number of heads
> (type 'c', hit RETURN and enter 39703 and RETURN, then type 'h',
> hit RETURN and enter 32).
> 4. You can now partition as much of the 40Gb as you want (just type
> 'r' and hit return to enter the normal, non-expert menu mode).
>
> Note that the original drive geometry is actually 79406 cylinders, 16
> heads and 63 sectors (as reported by Maxblast - at least for the
> 7200RPM version I have). Linux (or maybe just fdisk) seems to have a
> 16-bit limit on the number of cylinders, so you can't enter more than
> 65,536, but the above instructions will let you use it without problem
> - working much like the EIDE solution used to solve the old 500Mb IDE
> limit. I've been able to partition it and save a few Gig of data to
> the last 38-40Gb of the hard drive without any problems, so it appears
> to be working. You can mount the partitions after a reboot without
> having to tell it anything about the new geometry (it gets it from the
> partition table).
>
> Personally I have problems because I want to run Win95 on it too (I
> need the space for all those computer games ;), so I'll probably buy
> one of those 1GHz overclocked Athlons for �200UKP and a new board (my
> current board is a TMC TI5VGF, 2Mb cache, 8 months old yet even the
> BIOS on that isn't capable of more than 32Gb and just locks up. :-(
>
> Paul.
>
I suppose you've seen the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q246818,
which mentions the 32 GB limit of Win95 (and I strongly believe of
Win98, since some other newsgroup users mention still having this
problem). This article was referenced from the www.maxtor.com site
as well. Your explanation above gives me a very good idea of what
Microsoft may mean by "32 GB", so now I can partition my drive so
that the 3rd partition just reaches 65536*16*63=33833867456 bytes,
which is probably the Win95 (and perhaps Win98) limit. Win95 gets
nasty and overwrites the low partition when the drive size exceeds
the "32 GB." With the info above, I'll set up partition 4 for the
last 7 or so GB as an ext2, so that only Linux can find/use it,
perhaps as an archive area for the first 32 GB. Nasty thing to allow
DOS 7.0 to be able to fdisk/format partitions larger than 32 GB but
have the limit in Win95, without *any* red flags showing until it's
too late...
SoftGeek
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From: Philippe Dilet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IntelliEye USB mouse :-(
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 23:40:15 +0200
hello ,
i've got Caldera 2.3
Anyone can give me the miracle answer, on how to install
a USB intellieye on linux
driver,howto,advices, magic spells are WELCOME !! :-)
Thx
fred
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From: "xiangola" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS.
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 21:47:03 GMT
Greetings:
I think that you'd have to make a boot disk before you can use the CD
Live long and prosper.
Xiangola
PaulTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for this double-posting:
>
> In the past, I've grown up to computers with UNIX systems, etc.
>
> Now that I've purchased "The Complete LINUX Kit" with the CD
> having Linux v1.1 kernel, X Windows System Version 11 Release 6
> and a whole bunch of other stuff, by SYBEX.
>
> I installed MSDOS 6.22. Then installed Mitsumi CD drivers. I have
> a (Gateway) P5-120 and 32MB of ram and a 125MB IDE (St3144at)
> and a 1.44MB 3.5" floppy drive. It seems adaquate for Linux, so
> far. No "Windows" anything on the previously blank drive.
>
> I go to the D:\ drive (CD) and ran "rawrite" to make the two boot
> disks, that worked. Then booted them both. Next I booted and
> logged in as root. Typed "setup" to install the Linux system. And
> tried to figure out what next, it can't find the CD!
>
> Amazing! What gives?
>
> I think it's a mitsumi type. It is a master on the secondary IDE
> connector.
>
> I have the "Gateway CD install disk" that goes with the CD and
> used that to install the DOS drivers. DOS finds the CD on
> power-up, although it does complain that there's a "hardware
> conflict" and have to hit ESC on every power-up/reset. This
> "conflict" appeared when I plugged in the CD drive. It's on its
> own cable by itself separate from the IDE cable.
>
> Paul T. Barton (use NitrOS-9 too)
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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Subject: Re: Newbie to Slackware, Oldie to DOS.
From: PaulTB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 13:51:22 -0800
If you did read my message, I did. the CD becomes un-available in
Linux but is OK in DOS.
Paul
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From: Kevin John Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Photo 1200 Driver
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 07:24:02 +0930
Need advice on finding the correct driver for Epson Photo 1200
printer. I would like to make use of A3 paper and high res colour
printing. Perhaps there is a driver for another A3 printer that will
work on the Epson?
John
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations...
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:02:20 -0800
Here are some related ratings from LinHardware.com:
> - Supermicro P6DBE
Very respectible ratings and user feedback:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?29
> - Gigabyte GA6BXD
No, feedback on the GA6BXDs though (if you own it let us know how it works
;-) ):
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?486
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?487
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?488
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Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 16:02:01 -0600
From: Rich Piotrowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: K7/3Com/RedHat question
Robert wrote:
>
> We are experiencing some TERRIBLE packet loss on our linux boxes.
>
> Our boxes that run on an AMD K6 with 3Com 905b or c running Redhat 6.0
> or 6.1 run just fine.
>
> Our boxes that run on an AMD K7 with 3Com 905b or c running Redhat 6.1
> get 22-39% packet loss. Has anyone else seen these kind of probles on
> the AMD K7s? The switch is not to blame. I have run a direct with a
> cross over.
>
> Thanks,
> robert
Robert,
Just a complete guess but..
I have had problems with those NICs in areas of high RFI. Had to
replace them with cheaper Netgear '310's. They actually seem to work
better. I wonder if the additional RFI of the Athlon ( due to the 200
MHZ bus) is giving trouble.
Also, if you have the Asus K7M MB, there is a setting in BIOS that
reduces RFI. I think it has something to do with "clock for empty
DIMM/PCI slot.
Rich Piotrowski
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Subject: Re: Recomendations for 10/100 PCMCIA/Cardbus ethernet card
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 22:06:33 GMT
According to Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I've heard good things about the Netgear 410TX.
The 410TX is PCMCIA, not Cardbus. The FA510TX is the Cardbus version,
but I have found no reference that this card runs under Linux. :(
> It's fairly cheap--about $75 compared to the $150 3Com 10/100 card!
I've seen the 410 card for < $60, and it will probably be my choice if I
cannot find a cheap and reliable Cardbus version. The 510 is just $15
more, making it an excellent buy -- if it works!
-p.
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux on gx chipset mobo
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:04:39 -0800
I have to put together a server for 4-5 users and since I heard so many
stories about dual cpu bx chipset machines locking up I was thinking of
using a gx chipset mobo and using normal PIIIs instead of Xeons for price
reasons. Does anyone out there run such a machine and could tell me how
reliable it is - just do an uptime for me - and what mobo you use. I was
considering the supermicro P6DGE - any comments? Thanks,
Gerald
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson Stylus Color 640
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 00:08:39 -0100
Greetings,
Please could someone tell me if there exists a decent driver for an
Epson Stylus Color 640 printer, so that it can print with 32bpp color,
720dpi resolution, and without any ugly black lines over my XEmacs
printed docs ?
Thanks in advance,
--
Beno�t Smith
Just A Rhyme Without A Reason
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Subject: XFree86 4.0 and Intel i810
From: REN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 14:28:43 -0800
Hi,
I installed XFree86 4.0, but could not get the X-window running.
During the configuration process, I did not find the driver for
intel i810 (I found Intel 5430? instead). Any suggestions?
Thanks!
Tom.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Ellis)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: latest 2.3.99-pre3 won't boot on I-OPENER
Date: 29 Mar 2000 22:49:07 GMT
In article <ufpE4.121$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>BUT when I build a custom kernel and launch it via lilo, I get
>'loading 2.2.14 ..." but after that, the video does NOT show text msgs
>scrolling up. I took this as a broken kernel, when IN FACT IT WASN'T.
>it DID boot and when I did a startx after loggin in, X did come up ok.
>so there's something having to do with resetting the funky video mode
>that the bios set (there's a welcome graphic at bios/boot time) that
>the slackware kernel resets by ALL of my kernels don't ;-( damned if I
>can figure it out, too.
Do you have frame buffers configured in you kernel? If so, try
turning them off.
--
http://www.fnet.net/~ellis/photo/linux.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jehsom)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: BP6: Linux hangs on dma66 HD access
Date: 29 Mar 2000 22:47:25 GMT
I have a 40gb maxtor udma66 hard drive here.
I can connect it to the PIIX controller and it works fine at
dma33 speeds (hdparm -t shows 13 MB/s).
I can then connect it to the HPT366 controller, and it shows
xfer speeds almost 2x as fast (hdparm -t shows 25 MB/s). How-
ever, the whole system locks up on normal disk accesses, such
as hdparm -t, and the usual startup fsck when the volume was
not properly unmounted. So I end up having to disconnect the
drive just to boot up, because it locks when it tries to fsck
it.
I patched my 2.2.14 kernel with ide.2.2.14.20000124.patch,
but it doesn't seem to make a difference.
Please help!
Thanks,
Moshe
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