Linux-Hardware Digest #629, Volume #12 Thu, 6 Apr 00 20:13:40 EDT
Contents:
Re: Abit BP6 (Bryan)
Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ? (Johannes Nix)
Re: AVM ISDN Fritzcard under I4L in SUSE 6.2 (Marek Jawurek)
Re: REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!! (Joel Hoffman)
Re: Abit BP6 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Abit BP6 (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Problem: Dell Dimension T700, Maxtor 54098U8 (40G HD) (Edward L. Hepler)
Prmetheus 14.4 Modem ISA Card (Nikhil Raj)
Re: Parallel Printer Port (Peter Bloomfield)
AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686? (Dragos-Anton Manolescu)
Re: linux printing question... (Bob Dusek)
Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686? (J Bland)
Re: Asus P5A and UDMA (Martin Vonwald)
Re: Please help before I lose my mind :) (D G)
sndconfig problems ("Simon H.")
Root Passwords ("2 Bit Unix, Inc.")
Re: Printing in linux RH6.1 (D G)
Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone? ("Kris Luyten")
Re: Abit BP6 ("David Rencher")
Re: Parallel port does not detect printer (D G)
Re: Canon BJC-2000 (Mark Bratcher)
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From: Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:28:22 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: >
: I hear you brother. I do want something rock solid, able to be
: maxed 24/7, as another processor on my home office network, running
: totally CPU-intensive stuff. But I'm not afraid of the software,
: or of having to sort things out;
be smart. if you do SMP, use scsi and ignore ide.
its that simple. I had very very good stability with SMP and scsi (as
a workstation, NOT as a heavily loaded compute server).
for workstation stuff, BX is fine. for compute heavy apps, GX or a
'real' system (sun, sgi, hp, dec, ibm, etc).
--
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From: Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ?
Date: 06 Apr 2000 17:33:54 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) writes:
> On Wed, 05 Apr 2000 00:09:37 +0200, Luca Marchese wrote:
> >ALL THE BOOKS ON LINUX IN THE WORLD ARE HERE
> >
> >SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHERS GUIDE
> >
>
> Are they all written in block capitals?
>
Muahahaha!
I think that the problem with books about Linux is that the subject is
changing far to fast for most books being useful for more than one or
two years. At least newbies should read first the users' guide and
then most howtos and then they should ask around to borrow some really
good books which will last for twenty years or more. They are
recommended in various reading lists which are floating around.
But from someone who doesn't respect the basic rules for the usenet I
wouldn't even dream to expect that he has grasped enough Unix and
network culture to sell ONE good book about Linux.
Johannes
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From: Marek Jawurek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AVM ISDN Fritzcard under I4L in SUSE 6.2
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 17:39:23 +0200
> Hi it would be easier to help you when you specified the Distribution you are
> using.
Then the last few lines of the messages file from /var might be of interest.
Always available for further help.
Marek Jawurek
> Hi
>
> My problem is that I can't dial-up to the Internet with my AVM Fritzcard.
> Configuration of the card is OK, of the Network, too. In fact, I did exactly
> as described in the how-to's but it still doesn't work. When I try Kppp, it
> always says the other side were busy.
>
> regards
> zoltan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Hoffman)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: REAL hardware issues for the GURU's out there !!!
Date: 6 Apr 2000 15:46:22 GMT
The option you should check in the SCSI BIOS is "Extended BIOS Translation
for DOS Drives > 1G" under "Advanced Configuration Options." It should be
enabled. This is what was causing my problems with identical symptoms -- I
assumed Linux didn't need it. (In fact, Linux doesn't -- LILO does. This
option makes no difference once Linux has loaded.)
silkythreads ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: If I attempt to boot from my harddrive, I get "LI" and it halts.
: If I attempt to boot from LoadLin unders W98, I get the error
: I explained before.
: My SCSI is set up correctly. C/H/S in the SCSI BIOS. But,
: if you can think of anything in the SCSI BIOS I should change,
: I'm listening. BTW, I do have the SCSI BIOS set up to boot
: from this device, sda.
--
Joel Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OIT Webmaster (541) 885 1165
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 15:58:47 GMT
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:02:27 -0600, David Rencher
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm the guy with the 400s OCd to 570. In case you didn't read my post
>all the way I said it WAS stable at that level. It's not stable at 582
>but that's to be exptected.
>
>At 400, at 500, at 550, at 570, my BP6 is stable running any OS with a
>full load on both processors.
>
>I also never mentioned anything about SMP1.1 or MPS1.1 or any kernel
>revisions.
Then you are not he ;) The quoted piece definitely mentioned SMP1.1. I
went and read it. Maybe just a typo by whoever. I didn't get the name.
And he was running RH6.x with stock 2.2.12 kernel. He was having mucho
trouble at 570 -- data corruption, drives hanging, etc. Different guy
methinks.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 16:09:52 GMT
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 06:35:49 GMT, Robert W. Cunningham
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> So now I have a quandry: to believe the people who report no
>> problems, or to believe the ones who do. And yes, there is far
>> too little information there to figure out what each guy actually
>> did with his system.
>> Yup, Forest Gump's mother strikes again.
>>
>> And I guess now, the answer is that there is no easy answer.
>
>Well, there are such things as contingency plans. I'm chomping at the
>bit to get a BP6 this month, and I'm planning on selling to a friend
>for $100 less than I paid if I'm not happy with it. He's using NT4, so
>he's used to the occasional BSOD, and he'd *really* like to get the
>hardware cheap if he can... For $100 off, he can afford to use it as a
>uniprocessor mobo.
>
>He's almost ready to sign off on the deal (I hope). And for me, I feel
>the risk of failure is worth $100 against the risk of success. To put
>it differently, I'd rather blow $100 for the chance to try now, rather
>than wait until more dual-370 mobos hit the market and receive *ANY*
>low-level Linux support (what, 3 to 6 months?).
>
>Plus, selling for as little as US$130, the BP6 doesn't cost much more
>than many uni-processor mobos.
Here is quick start tips from someone who has chased the problems:
Avoid the HPT UDMA66 controller. IDE seems fine with late model kernels
(>=2.2.14) at UDMA33. Get the board stable first, then try this if you
want.
Get good quality components, especially PS (300W?). Extra cooling too.
If using X, flash to QQ Beta BIOS. There is definitely something fixed
with this BIOS. I guarantee this has solved a serious problem for me.
Note that running a server without X, seems a much better out of the box
setup, ie less likely to lock. SCSI also seems less problematic.
Turn off all Power management in BIOS (OK if compiled in kernel).
'noapic' boot option helps for some people. This gives you all IRQs on
one process, but has very little performance hit.
Do NOT OC until you know you are stable. This is tempting since the
BIOS makes it so easy.
Check the owners manual for which slots share which IRQs. This is
sometimes a source of problems.
MPS 1.1 vs 1.4 makes no difference IMO. (BIOS setting)
If running high load apps like SETI, put heat compound and maybe a fan
on the BX chip. Gets real hot under prolonged load.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward L. Hepler)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem: Dell Dimension T700, Maxtor 54098U8 (40G HD)
Date: 6 Apr 2000 11:25:28 -0400
In article <8ci7e6$env$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan H N Chin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Edward L. Hepler) writes:
>>The system came up but reported multiple errors on /dev/hda6 (the BIG /home
>>partition)... Thinking that perhaps I had forgotten to tell the RH installer
>>to format /home, I did a "mkfs" on /dev/hda6... Then I rebooted...
>>The system booted... I made a few changes... Then decided to reboot to see
>>that everything was OK... When the system came up again, /dev/hda6 was
>>reported as having errors again... The boot dropped into root mode so that
>>I could manually run fsck... I instructed fsck to fix all the problems that
>>it reported... Then ran fsck a second time... It reported a clean /dev/hda6.
>>The machine rebooted after exiting root mode... I verified that I could
>>get into X-windows, etc., then asked for a shutdown -r... The system rebooted,
>>again reporting a corrupted /dev/hda6...
>
>
>I have a similar problem. I have the same maxtor drive.
>My BIOS doesn't recognize it. Linux does, sort of.
>(I have just obtained a flashable version of the latest BIOS
>that I intend to try out tonight.)
>
>I can use fdisk to set CHS to 79406/16/63 and make a single
>partition that covers the entire disk and then run mke2fs.
>However when I mount this partition, I get many errors.
>
>A fsck will claim to have fixed the problems, but then a
>subsequent remount will give the same error messages.
>
>If I use fdisk with CHS set identically, but partition into
>a 3.xG partition and three 12G partitions and then run mke2fs
>I get no problems when I mount the resulting partitions.
>
>The kernel in question is 2.2.9, the ext tools are fairly recent
>(but the machine is not here so I can't quote the version).
>
>
>-jonathan
>
>--
>Jonathan H N Chin, 1 dan | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems mangler | tel/fax: +44 1223 335986/330508
>
> "respondeo etsi mutabor" --Rosenstock-Huessy
After searching Redhat's hardware compatibility list, I found the
statement that drives larger than 33G are not supported.
I just got RH 6.2 and installed it... works fine!!!
Ed Hepler
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From: Nikhil Raj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Prmetheus 14.4 Modem ISA Card
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 12:25:38 -0400
Hi All,
I have an old Prometheus 14.4 Modem ISA Card and I would like to set it up
on
Redhat 6.1. I am not sure as to what to do. I read the Modem-HOWTO several
times. I am not sure if its a PnP device. pnpdump does not see it. So I
guess
it isnt. I hope its not an ISA-Winmodem which is why I cannot initialize it.
I
am not able to send AT commands to it through minicom because I dont know
what
the AT commands are for this modem and minicom does not show what I type on
the screen. Any past experiences, advise, suggestions ? I have only recently
started using modems on linux and I am not sure if I am doing it right...
Nikhil
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From: Peter Bloomfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel Printer Port
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 12:35:11 -0400
If you're using RH6.1, see
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1-6.html#ss6.19
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Subject: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686?
From: Dragos-Anton Manolescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 06 Apr 2000 11:34:22 -0500
I thought I try this one more time since so far nobody answered my
question. Thanks!
-Dragos
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From: Bob Dusek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux printing question...
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 11:31:50 -0500
You may want to look into the "CUPS" printing system.
When you try to "lpr text.txt" as root, you still got the "bash:
/home/dressel/.bashrc: Permission denied" error? This seems to me to
indicate that you executed the "su" command to obtain root access. When
you "su" it doesn't completely re-write your environment variables and
therefore is still acting as if it were you logged in.
You should be able to "chmod 700 .bashrc" from /home/dressel to get rid
of that error. If you don't have a .bashrc file in /home/dressel, then
you must not use "bash" as your shell..??
??
Bob
Kevin J Dressel wrote:
>
> OK, so now I have a follow up question. I thought it was working since
> it appeared to be printing (at least sort of) using the test page
> feature of RH6.1's printtool. The only problem I ran into was due to
> low memory. However, since then, I've tried to set it up with Samba,
> but, alas I have failed. I also tried to print a text file from the
> prompt (outside of kde) and it too kind of fails. For instance, I sent
> a command to print a text document:
>
> lpr text.txt
>
> Since there is only one printer, I figured this would work. However, it
> returns the following statement:
>
> bash: /home/dressel/.bashrc: Permission denied
>
> dressel is my account on the machine, though it give this same error
> regardless of whether I am logged as root or as dressel. Would this be
> a permissions error somewhere? I have done nothing to the files that
> Red Had supposedly set up when I installed the printer.
>
> In any case, I thought that this problem may have related to the Samba
> problems. I'm definitely no expert here, so any help is great!
>
> In the future, I'd like to try a different printer que. I tried for
> kicks to install pdq, but I have thus far been unable to get it to print
> anything.
>
> Cheers,
> Kevin
>
> --
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>
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it's going to be up all night.
-- Steven Wright
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: AMD-K6-2: 586 or 686?
Date: 6 Apr 2000 16:41:47 GMT
>
>I thought I try this one more time since so far nobody answered my
>question. Thanks!
>
K6-2 : 5th gen chip
i586
"Pentium/K6/TSC" option when compiling a kernel.
AFAIK.
JB
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From: Martin Vonwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus P5A and UDMA
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 18:40:21 +0200
bolion wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I am using an Asus P5A m.b ,p200 mmx , 28 Gb HDD (Maxtor ) the DMA is
> well activated by the BIOS but when i want to enable it with "hdparm" i
> can read that the op�ration is forbiden and the setting is set to off.
>
> I use Linux mandrake 7.0 with kernel 2.2.14.What should i do to enable
> UDMA .
>
>
> Thank's in advance for your help.
>
> Lionel
>
In the kernel config you have to select the support for the Ali M15X3
chipset. The support is experimental, so be warned!
Martin
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Please help before I lose my mind :)
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 09:49:52 -0700
Me wrote:
> It has a Trident Cyberblade i7 agp card in it. I saw support for the
> card on the xfree863.3.6 card database screen. It seems to have
> installed but I get this error now when I try to run startx. This is
> with Mandrake... That was the only recent version that had 3.3.6 xfree
> 86.
>
> Error:
> You must provide a "Screen" section in XF86Config for at least one of
> the following graphics drivers: fbdev
>
> Fatal server error:
> No configured graphics devices.
>
> Please help.
I've done quite a few linux installs, and never once has X been set up
correctly. You'll have to go into /etc/X11/XF86Config and fix things by
hand. The "Screen" section is at or near the end of the file.
To fix it by hand, you'll need to know the format of the file. Try 'man
XF86Config' for the gory details. The part you probably want to edit or
add is the "accel" accelerated server.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: "Simon H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sndconfig problems
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 18:04:21 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My Linux system has no working sound at present (e.g. CDs). Running
sndconfig, all goes well until I get to the bit where it plays a sound
sample. I've tried several configurations: in some cases I can't hear
the sound, so I guess in these cases I've got it configured wrong. In
other cases I still don't hear any sound but get a message like:
Modprobe error:
/lib/modules/2.2.12-20/misc/cs4232.0:
init module: Device or resource busy
uart401: Device or resource busy
which may as well be Greek to me. It's RH6.1 on a Toshiba Satellite. Any
suggestions?
Thanks (again!)
Simon
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.m68k
Subject: Root Passwords
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 13:15:38 -0400
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing in linux RH6.1
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:10:59 -0700
Russell wrote:
>
> where could i find some printer drivers for linux. what i'm looking for is,
> Epson LQ - 1070+, and Lexmark 1100, or is there another way to print without
> using drivers, just simple text will do, i don't mind getting instruction to
> configure any files needed to get linux to print. I've tryed printtool and
> it wont detect anything located on my parallel port.
>
> what can i do to get linux to print
RedHat 6.1 misconfigures the parport modules. If printtool can't detect
anything at /dev/lp0,1 or 2, then you probably need to add:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
to your /etc/conf.modules file.
Try running printtool again, then select the driver that looks most like
your printer.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Kris Luyten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Where is my 128 MB RAM gone?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 19:37:20 +0200
That "mem=128" did not not work, neither changing the OS/2 mem stuff in my
bios, I get a "Kernel Panic" doing that. the OS says something about my
cache and being unable to cache full RAM.
Kris
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From: "David Rencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 11:18:53 -0600
Ahhh... well when you said the 400's OC'd to 570 I figured that was me. I
checked the rest of this thread and didn't see any other reference to that
so I figured it was me and wires got crossed someplace.
Sorry, didn't mean to get my feathers ruffled. I didn't like it when I
thought you were misquoting me and saying I dind't know what I was doing. I
frequently don't know what I'm doing but that's when I am fully aware of
what I'm saying. Anyway, missunderstanding I think.
I'm with you. I LIKE my BP6. It's a good little puppy.
Dave
Hal Burgiss wrote in message ...
>On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 08:02:27 -0600, David Rencher
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm the guy with the 400s OCd to 570. In case you didn't read my post
>>all the way I said it WAS stable at that level. It's not stable at 582
>>but that's to be exptected.
>>
>>At 400, at 500, at 550, at 570, my BP6 is stable running any OS with a
>>full load on both processors.
>>
>>I also never mentioned anything about SMP1.1 or MPS1.1 or any kernel
>>revisions.
>
>Then you are not he ;) The quoted piece definitely mentioned SMP1.1. I
>went and read it. Maybe just a typo by whoever. I didn't get the name.
>And he was running RH6.x with stock 2.2.12 kernel. He was having mucho
>trouble at 570 -- data corruption, drives hanging, etc. Different guy
>methinks.
>
>--
>Hal B
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel port does not detect printer
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 10:26:13 -0700
Russell wrote:
>
> Parallel port is not been detected in RH6.1, what can i do to resolve this
> problem, what I've done so far is created a line in the /ect/conf.modules
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc. this has made no difference to the
> printtool util.
>
> what is needed to get the parallel port to be recognized
Try setting the parallel port in your BIOS setup screen to EPP or
Bi-Directional. If that doesn't work or you need ECP, don't set it to
"auto", instead specify the IRQ, port, and/or DMA. Remember these
settings and type them in the conf.modules as:
options parport_pc irq=# io=0x### dma=#
(replace the #'s with the values you set up in the BIOS)
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-2000
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 13:47:45 -0400
Is the BJC-2000 a "Winprinter"? I looked at their user guide and saw
nothing but Windows in the discussion. Nothing about DOS or non-Windows
OSes.
If it's a Windows-only printer, it won't work under Linux
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| Mark Bratcher
| Director, Software Development
| Torrey Pines Research
| 565 Blossom Road, Suite B
| Rochester, NY 14610 USA
|
| Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
| URL: http://www.tpr.com
Toby Chamberlain wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Anyone got a Canon BJC-2000 to work on Linux?? It seems to be all set
> up right.. (there's a "kernel: parport0 : Printer, Canon BJC-2000SP"
> line in the syslog), but echo "TEST" >/dev/lp0 does absolutely
> nothing.....
>
> Thanks
> Toby
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