Linux-Hardware Digest #633, Volume #12 Fri, 7 Apr 00 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 7 Apr ("K.Tsakaloglou")
network card problem !! (JEMI)
Re: Help!! Linux ate my RAM!!!! ("William R. Bishop")
Re: Integrated Motherboards (Dragos A. Manolescu)
Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ? ("jeff")
Re: Abit BP6 (Timothy M Lowe)
Re: Motherboard recommendations... ("William R. Bishop")
Re: Fixed Freq Monitor (James Hunter Heinlen)
ATI Mach64 -- Documentation needed (Kendall Blake)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (jam12)
Re: read CD-RW (Dumb newbie) (Dances With Crows)
Re: XWAVE 3000 PCI SOUNDCARD (nospam/?@?!$�)
my PS/2 mouse doesn't work (or my IRQ 12 ?) (Isaac Santaolalla Sol�rzano)
New Linux Site Needs Experienced Users (Norman Jordan)
sound problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
MCA and ISA ("Rev. Reverse")
These guys suck ("FreeBSD")
Soundcards with es1938-chipset ("Tobi Heinemann")
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 7 Apr
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 07:11:53 +0300
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K.Tsakaloglou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 12:18:01 +0800
From: JEMI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network card problem !!
hi!
i just installed RH linux 6.2 on an old machine as below:
Digital Celebris XL5100, 100MHz, 1G, 80M memory, 3Com Etherlink III
(3c509b/3c509)
the problem is the network card cannot be detected although a thorough
probing work has been done. Can anybody advise me on this please ...
thank very much.
JEMI.
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From: "William R. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help!! Linux ate my RAM!!!!
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 22:39:48 -0600
Ronald Bruck wrote:
>
> In article <8bh2sa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "EchoFox"
> <echofox@;;;;;;;bigfoot.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a true story!!! & I need real help!!!
> >
> > I've got two PCs
> >
> > #1 PC...
> > AOpen AX59Pro mobo
> > AMD K2-400
> > 192 MB RAM (128+64)
> > 8GB HD
> > Creative TNT2
> > Creative Live! Value
> >
> > Linux Mandrake 7.0 reports my RAM = 13MB!!!!!
> > Making my PC soooo slow... :(
> >
> > #2 PC...
> > ASUS K7M
> > AMD Athlon 700
> > 256 MB RAM (one module)
> > 20GB HD
> > Hercules Geforce256 DDR-DVI
> > Creative Live! Value
> >
> > Linux Mandrake 7.0 reports my RAM = 64MB!!!!!
> > Runs OK, but I bet it'll fly with the full 256
> >
> > Did anybody have this problem before? if so, how did you solve it?
>
> The second one, anyway. Your bios is reporting only 64MB RAM, and
> Mandrake is taking its word.
>
> You can fix this in the bios, or you can fix it in /etc/lilo.conf by
> changing the comment "" to "mem=256M" (don't forget to execute lilo to
> get it to "take").
>
> Now here's one for you to try. I, too, have an Asus K7M with an AMD
> Athlon 700, running Mandrake 7.02. Download a copy of xmemtest86 (get
> version 2.2a) and run it. (Do a "make", insert a floppy disk, then a
> "make install"; then reboot from the floppy.) In test 2 I get an error
> at address 0x4E0, but this is apparently phony; the web page for
> xmemtest86 says this is a known problem with Intel 810 chipsets, which
> of course I don't have...
>
> If you get the same error, I'd appreciate hearing about it.
>
> --Ron Bruck
>
Yes, I just got a couple of the supermicro PIIIDME SMP boards that
use the new Intel i840 PCI chipsets; same problem. Booting with
"mem=512M" makes life considerably nicer (under RH 6.1). Thanks for
the tip on lilo.conf, Ron. I just hope I don't forget to change it
when I pull some RAM for another machine ;-)
->bil
--
Academy Award winning Digital Imaging Product Development Specialist
William R. Bishop - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pcisys.net/~wrb/
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Subject: Re: Integrated Motherboards
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dragos A. Manolescu)
Date: 07 Apr 2000 00:50:39 -0500
>>> Dylan McClung writes:
Same chipset, Mandrake 7.0 works out of the box.
-DM
dm> Everything in my system is common except for the integrated sound and
dm> graphics. Between SuSE 6.3 + 6.4, Mandrake 7.0, and TurboLinux 6.0
dm> Workstation, which one works best with the SiS 530 Chipset? I would like to
dm> use the X window system, so this is important.
dm> -thanx
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: BOOKS ON LINUX ?
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 21:56:16 -0700
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8cjf17$7vp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <8ciap4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve) writes:
> > 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. <snippage>
>
> Well, in that case any book on Windows is only good for about
> forty-eight hours.
That's absolutely untrue. I once had a Windows book that was good for TWO
SOLID WEEKS. If I've told you once, I've told you HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS of
times - Don't exaggerate.
-jeff :)
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From: Timothy M Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 05:00:00 GMT
Well after a bad power supply incident and maybe bad power from the
wall outlet I'm on my third motherboard. The ABIT BP6. Althouth the
motherboard still works the BIOS has constantly given me a hastle. I
have a lot to think about thanks to this newsgroup. THANKYOU.
Adam Stouffer 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.
> >
>
> No, if you want real stable SMP the proper way then buy a real dual
> socket
> mobo and run the cpus at their rated speed. Buy good quality ram, don't
> buy cheap disks like fujitsu or western digital. Personally I like
> tweaking
> and changing things, but not for a machine I would need for real work.
>
> Adam
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From: "William R. Bishop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboard recommendations...
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:01:11 -0600
Andrew Stevens wrote:
>
> Up-to and including 600Mhz CPU's no more than 768M RAM
>
> - Supermicro P6DBE
>
> - Gigabyte GA6BXD
>
> Up to and including 600Mhz CPU's more than 768M RAM
>
> - Supermicro P6DGE
>
> Mad Mike's offering (the Intel OEM GX board)
>
> > 600Mhz CPU's
>
> CPU's beyond 600Mhz
>
> The only sane choice for a dual configuration is the Supermicro
> PIIIDME...
>
> However, the first reports of people trying this have surfaced and
> they're not
> good. Crashes and driver problems. I suspect we should simply steer
> well
> clear of boards for the > 600Mhz Intel CPU's at present. The situations
> is
> simply a mess until chipsets and drivers mature.
>
> Andrew
I've got the PIIIDME, and it came right up under RedHat 6.1 using
a voodoo 3000 card. I have not tried to get the sound working yet.
One niggly has been the bios not reporting the proper amount of memory
to Linux on startup, so I had to add "mem=512M" to /etc/lilo.conf
(or do it at boot time on the command line). I'm running an
adaptec SCSI controller for disk, and only using the IDE for CDROM.
I'm currently only running it with one 733 Mhz CPU. X is somewhat
unstable (crash a couple times/day) under KDE/Xfree86-3.3.5. Will
upgrade my KDE and X to 3.3.6 tomorrow in hopes to stabilize. The
only disappointment was the fact in can't fully utilize pc-133 memory;
only in the motherboard handbook does it point out that the memory
bus *always* runs at 100Mhz (borderline deceptive advertising, if
you ask me) even though the front-side bus is at 133Mhz (sigh).
I agree with Andrew, it seemed to be the best board at the moment.
Unfortunately, I don't see chipsets "settling" down much for a while;
I think we're all waiting for SMP Athlon motherboards :-)
->bil
--
Academy Award winning Digital Imaging Product Development Specialist
William R. Bishop - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://pcisys.net/~wrb/
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From: James Hunter Heinlen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,dc.org.linux-users
Subject: Re: Fixed Freq Monitor
Date: 7 Apr 2000 05:05:56 GMT
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 23:21:40 -0400, patrum ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) suffered dangerous fits
of clarity and wrote:
> I have a SUN GDM-1955A fixed frequency monitor and can only get my
> xserver to work with 640 x 480 at 32bpp. I don't know the actual
> refresh and scan rates of the monitor and am looking for some help.
Sun sold at least 6 different models of the GDM-1955a. They were all
1152 x 864 composite sync monitors with hsync of 61.8 kHz and vsync of
66 Hz. They were 19" monitors with 4 BNC connectors (but you knew
that), and the primary difference between them was the tube model.
Sony made all of the tubes (and changed the tube model when the spirit
moved them). More info at:
http://www.monitorworld.com/monitors_home.html
Getting fixed frequency monitors to work can be a chore (3 down, 2 more
to go), especially if you do not have a video card that was designed to
work with fixed frequency monitors. Here are some faqs about this:
http://www.devo.com/video/
http://cvs.anu.edu.au/monitorconversion/
Good luck!!
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From: Kendall Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI Mach64 -- Documentation needed
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 01:29:54 -0400
I hope this is the right newsgroup to post this in ;)
I'm looking (in vain) for ATI Mach64 information (Xpert@play 98, more
specifically) for purposes of vriting a TV-Out driver. I know that the
TV-Out documentation itself is unreleased (ATI is under an NDA?), but
I wanted to start hacking away to try and figure out exactly what sorts
of card registers &tc need to be set to kick the card into TV mode.
I've tried looking at the X server sources, but the M64 stuff I have
(From Slack 7 (3.3.3?)) is all binary - I can't find the source!
If anyone knows of any ATI Board documentation, could you throw me a
bone? I've poked around the XF86 site and the Utah GLX site, but I
couldn't find any actual chipset info (I tried ATI, too). Anyhow, my
plan was to hook up the card to a TV, then start kicking around with the
io port -- That's the best way to do this, right?
Thanks much
Kendall Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: jam12 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 01:55:02 -0400
Not true, the platters are exposed to the same air you and I breath. There is
a small filter for the hole, but the air is contiguous with room air. That is why
you must allow cold drives to warm gradually before powering them up, or
condensation will occur, and drive damage or failure is very possible. I always
advise clients to allow their machines to come to room temp for twelve to sixteen
hours before use if the computer has been stored in a cold environment, like
their car during winter for any length of time.
Read up on it, John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Apr 2000 16:54:28 -0600, David Rencher
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Try the desktop idea but do what you can to find drive's without breather
> >holes. They're hard to come by but you can find them. I suppose you could
> >buy one at sane altitude and seal the breather hole. I'd like to see
> >that... could be pretty funny.
>
> If there's a 'breather hole' it is for ventilation only. The actual platters
> are sealed.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: read CD-RW (Dumb newbie)
Date: 07 Apr 2000 02:57:17 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 07 Apr 2000 03:52:24 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<YXcH4.1255$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>All these commands.... Where do you type them ??
>I've been ALL over this new install and I cannot figure out where to enter
>these commands. Pleeeeeezzzz ??
Start an xterm, kvt, konsole, eterm, or hit Ctrl-Alt-{F1..F6} to get to a
command prompt. Become familiar with it; there are many many things that
can be done more efficiently with it and some things that can't be done
*at all* in a GUI.
>but with this Linux (Mandrake) I have NO reference to start with. TIA
Hogwash. The boxed sets of Mandrake come with a dead-tree manual. The
CD-only sets you can get from Cheapbytes install megabytes' worth of
documentation in /usr/doc. Mandrake's default KDE install puts a rather
large icon at the bottom of the screen that says "KDE Help is the KDE
online help browser" when the mouse pointer is moved over it. I hope
you've looked in one or more of these areas, because there are a lot of
answers in there.
Invest in a good dead-tree manual/tutorial, like _Running Linux_ from
O'Reilly, if electronic documentation isn't your thing.
--
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: nospam/?@?!$�
Subject: Re: XWAVE 3000 PCI SOUNDCARD
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 08:07:05 +0100
hi Duncan,
I will try it out, thanks I can now stop using windonot again :)
mike
On Thu, 06 Apr 2000 19:02:28 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (duncan)
wrote:
>Hi Mike
>I have one and it works fine. It is supported by ALSA (which I use)
>or OSS and the driver to use is fm801.
>http://www.alsa-project.org
>http://www.opensound.com
>Your card was made by labway and there site is not worth visiting.
>http://www.labway.com
>
>Regards
>
>Duncan
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>On Sun, 6 Apr 3900 13:41:50, nospam/?@?!$� wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a Xwave300 PCI Soundcard, it is picked up by sndconfig in Linux
>> mandrake or redhat, but I can not get it to work.
>>
>> Has anyone got this to work and if so how
>>
>> When will it be included
>>
>> thanks
>>
>>
>> mike
>
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From: Isaac Santaolalla Sol�rzano <is05562@[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: my PS/2 mouse doesn't work (or my IRQ 12 ?)
Date: 7 Apr 2000 07:12:03 GMT
Hello...
I'm a spanish linux user, and I recently upgraded my PC into a PIII 450, with
an ASUS P3B-F mainboard. The mouse is a logitech PS/2 attached to a PS/2
connector. Under DOS the mouse works flawlessly, under W98 mouse works
perfectly... Under my Slakware 7.0.0 (2.2.13) PS/2 port is detected, but my
irq 12 "doesn't appear" in /proc/interrupts. Then if I load gpm, my whole
linux box gets severlly hanged. If I run X, again when trying to deal with the
mouse, the linux box again gets hanged... (a COLD reset is needed! :(
I boot the kernel with loadlin under DOS.
in the mainboard I've set that my BOOT-OS hasn't PNP. (I boot DOS)
Trying to temper with setserial/isapnp/many-things, I ONCE was able to enable
IRQ 12 in /proc/interrupts (I almost died of joy! :), then I ran XF86Setup,
everything was seeming OK, I changed to tty1 (ctrl+alt+F1), I changed back to
X (alt-F7), and my mouse again locked...
I'm real sad, as I'm not specially newbie (or maybe yes! :), and I'm real
tired of having a linux box without X for 5 months...
Any hint??
THANKS in advance...
Isaac Santaolalla
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From: Norman Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: New Linux Site Needs Experienced Users
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 07:23:27 GMT
I would like to announce a new Linux site called "Redefine The Fine
Manual" or RTFM for short. It is located at
http://rtfm.phpwebhosting.com
This site is designed for Linux newbies. Users can post tips to help
newbies out. The tips can be anything Linux related, from how to set up
a network in Linux to how to use a SoundBlaster Live in Linux. The site
currently contains very few tips, but with your help it can become the
perfect resource for Linux newbies.
If you have any comments about the website, feel free to email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "no-spam_" from the email address).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: sound problem
Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2000 07:20:23 GMT
hello,
I'm having problems when "using insmod or modconf" to install the sb
soundmodule. I get the error:
sb_card:i/o,irq.dma are mandatory
/lib/modules/2.3.4/misc/sb.o:init_module:DEVICE or RESOURCE BUSY
tried to specify the i/o,irq,and dma settings but it doesnt work too.
gives the same error. I wonder why?...my soundcard is configured
properly thru isapnp.conf since I can see it when linux "boots" up.
any ideas?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Rev. Reverse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MCA and ISA
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 02:29:55 -0500
can an ISA card fit into a MCA motherboard?
(sorry, new to the hardware thing)
Rev. Reverse
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From: "FreeBSD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: These guys suck
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 00:26:52 -0700
http://www.techtalkusa.com Can you believe these guys, they are essentially
telling us that Redhat support sucks! Damn that pisses me off. They made
some tech support call audio stream and said it was a Red Hat Linux support
call. They even had Redhat placed with Windows.
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From: "Tobi Heinemann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundcards with es1938-chipset
Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2000 09:53:06 +0200
Are there any drivers for this type of soundcards?
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