Linux-Hardware Digest #671, Volume #12 Wed, 12 Apr 00 16:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ? (A. J. Hieb)
Toshiba T6963C LCD controller driver available now (Alexander Frink)
Re: ZIP drive partition problem ("ne...")
Hard disk failure (Giovanni Carboni)
xfree86 GUI not working (katastrophy)
Re: Dual processor ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 256 memory stack dump problem (Tellplace)
Re: SIIG - VLB FAST SCSI 2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Epson EPL 5700L (Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?=)
CompactFlash card- Imagemate Parallel Port Reader- how??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux on Athlon and K7V (choi daniel)
Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope? ("Kirk R. Wythers")
Review website with a difference ("Paul Nadin")
Re: last try, PA-2013 linux lockups. anyone have this configuration? ("Reverend Jim")
Installing New Setserial and Serial driver (Dolban using Netcom)
Re: ImWheel | Line Scrolling (Michael Kelly)
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From: A. J. Hieb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: IBM Ultrastar LVD drives with AMI Megaraid 428 card ?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:16:32 GMT
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:56:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Rohan Oberoi) wrote:
>I'm considering getting one of the AMI Megaraid 428 cards that are
>going cheap, and putting my two IBM Ultrastar 4.5gig LVD (U2W) drives
>on it.
>
>Does anyone have any experience with a similar setup? Concerns are:
>
>1. According to the AMI page, the Megaraid card is Ultra SCSI, not
> U2W. "LVD disks will only work if they are backward compatible
> and can be set to single-ended mode, and the disk firmware allows
> for running in that mode or slower modes." I'm not sure how to be
> absolutely sure the IBM disks conform to that description!
>
>2. Has anyone used "Generic" or "House Brand" true parity SIMMS (for
> cache) with this RAID card, instead of the approved brands ("PNY,
> SEC, Tanisys, Micron Technologies, Advantage, Unigen, and
> Centon")?
>
I've tried several "generic" 4x36 true parity simms in the 428 cards
with mixed results. It seems odd, but I haven't found any pattern to
the types of simms that the 428 likes. Currently where I work we are
using simms from a local vendor... the chips are Fujitsu (I believe)
but we've tried other simms in the past with the same chip (but on a
slightly different board) with no success.
My advice is to stick with the approved list, or buy simms that
someone has verified with the card...
A. J.
>Any reports welcome.
>
>Regards,
>Rohan.
>
>(Please remove TAKETHISOUT from email address if replying by email.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Frink)
Subject: Toshiba T6963C LCD controller driver available now
Date: 12 Apr 2000 17:27:05 GMT
Hi!
I just wanted to inform you that I have written a Linux kernel
console driver for LCDs based on the Toshiba T6963C controller.
Unlike the driver e.g. from lcdproc.omnipotent.net, this one
acts as a console driver which can fully replace a VGA card
(login prompt, ncurses applications), which is reasonable
with an e.g. 40x16 display (and would not make sense with 20x2).
The driver is suited for kernel 2.2.10, other 2.2.x should
work as well. However, it is still in alpha state and therefore
not intended for novice Linux users or those not familiar with
the T6963C (unless you like to waste around US$ 100 for a
display :-) ). The display will be attached to the parallel
port.
The driver can be downloaded from
http://wwwthep.physik.uni-mainz.de/~frink/linux.html
Best regards,
Alex
--
Alexander Frink, Institut fuer Physik, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universitaet
D-55099 Mainz, Germany, Phone: +49-6131-3923391.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: "ne..." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ZIP drive partition problem
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:34:46 GMT
On Apr 12, 2000 at 11:03, James Silverton eloquently wrote:
<snip>
>Ejection from the keyboard or using a mouse can be done but it requires
>Jeff Tranter's Eject program from Freshmeat. I have one small problem
>there in that "eject /mnt/zip" does eject but the "mounted" indicator on
>the KDE icon does not change.
Before doing an eject, make sure you unmount the device first.
I set up and alias the unmounts first before ejecting.
--
Registered Linux User # 125653
The judge fined the jaywalker fifty dollars and told him if he was
caught again, he would be thrown in jail. Fine today, cooler tomorrow.
1:33pm up 68 days, 58 min, 7 users, load average: 0.18, 0.15, 0.10
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From: Giovanni Carboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hard disk failure
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:57:13 +0200
I am sure that this problem is not new....
I have a desktop happily shared by Win95 and Linux. There is only one HD
(EIDE)
with several partitions.
Some days ago I decided to upgrade Win95 to 98 and everything went fine.
Few hours later the machine hang up on Windows. Scandisk reported a
"damaged cluster" and refused to repair it.After that Win98 works more
or less but
e.g. defrag does not (hangs when hits the damn cluster).
Now the strange is that the same problem came out on one of the LINUX
partitions.
Just the one adjacent to the Windows partition. I wonder if I had Win98
invading the Linux partition and screwing it up.
Briefly, by running fsck I could fix the partition for some time but the
problem came again.
My question: should I change the disk or reformatting would be enough?
In case, should I use low-level formatting or mkfs with some option will
do?
What about the Win part?
Any help would be appreciated
Giovanni Carboni
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Subject: xfree86 GUI not working
From: katastrophy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 11:00:15 -0700
I have the SIS SG86C205 video card, it's built into the IBM
Aptiva P166 machine I have. I've installed Redhat 6.1 recently,
but cannot get the x windows server to work at all. The server
installed ( I wasn't able to do a GUI install) but when I do
startx, the picture is garbled and full of static. The
xfree86.org website says my card is supported at xf86_svga but I
cannot get it to work. I've put in all the correct (at least I
think correct info) about the monitor and video card
specifications. The monitor is a old Hyundai from 1989 that only
goes to 6408x480 with a very low sync rate. I wonder if anyone
has any helpful hints or any experience with this type of
problem? Would it be easier just to install a different type of
card? I would appreciate it if anyone has any ideas. email -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Dual processor
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:59:43 GMT
Tom Haeck wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I have a CPU-board with 2 x PIII-500. I installed SUSE 6.2 on it. It was
> installed, and the CPU monitor in KDE only showed me one CPU. So I concluded
> that the basic installation of SUSE doesn't use the 2nd processor (Is this
> so?).
> So, I recompiled my Kernel, but still I can see only 1 CPU in the
> CPU-monitor. How can I be sure that Linux uses the 2 processors? And what
> must I do in order to make them work?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> TH
I am using Mandrake 6.1 w/ Dual 350 , Tyan Tiger 100, 256MB The KDE Task
Manager on the performance tab has 4 windows , 1: load, 2: Proc 0, 3: proc 1,
4: mem.
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From: Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 256 memory stack dump problem
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:12:15 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I put in another 128M memory stick in my Athlon/MSI MB system and
> updated the lilo.conf append memory line so the system would see it.
Sorry I dont know the solution to the problem, but another Athlon
user Joe Pfeiffer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) aperantly has the same problem
with two memory sticks. His motherboard was a Biostar M7MKA.
I also have an Athlon, but only have one 256 Mb memory stick and have
no problems. Have run memtest86 and kernel compiling with no
problems. (my motherboard: Asus K7V with VIA KX133)
Could be a general problem with the Athlon motherboards?
Please write to this newsgroup what you find out.
Regards
Tellplace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SIIG - VLB FAST SCSI 2
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:18:38 GMT
Look at the big chip on the card. Is it an Advansys? If so, just use
the Advansys
drivers when Installl asks for which scsi drivers to use.
SIIG should have a website, or even Advansys, should you need
'drivers' for your
bios. Don't know if you really do need this. Can't find mine just
now- I DO want to
use it on my new Dual cpu board (BP6). Thanx for reminding me I had
a spare scsi
card here (somewhere)!
Vacuo
On Sun, 8 Apr 3900 14:57:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Ringer)
wrote:
> I picked one of these up for use in an older system but it came with no
> manuals. Any info or pointers to a manual would be great? How do I access
> the bios on this thing?
>
> --
> clear skies, |http://www.erols.com/jringer3/astro1.htm
> Joe |
> |Remember when "Truth, Justice, & the American Way"
> |wasn't contradictory?
>
> |
Little-known fact: Dogs love carrots.
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From: Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.samba
Subject: Epson EPL 5700L
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:27:03 +0200
Hi all:
I'd like to know how to make my Epson Laser EPL 5700L printer run on my
RedHat 6.3 Linux.
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CompactFlash card- Imagemate Parallel Port Reader- how???
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:42:26 GMT
Sandisk is apparently ducking the question: Why no DOS (or Linux)
drivers for their Parallel Port
CF card reader: "Imagemate"?? Only Windoz, Windoz, ad infinitum! Yet
they produce DOS drivers
for some of their other stuff according to their website.
www.sandisk.com
Read the 'OEM' page and they discuss how compatible their cf cards
are to the DOS filesystem, etc.
The thought ocurrs to me that command-line access to the cf card may
be 'trivial'. Is there a scintilla
of truth to this notion?? I.e., with the cardreader hooked to the
parallel port, perhaps Linux could access
the cf card as an IDE device. Without the cutsie icon on the desktop
like their program creates- convenient
but not reallly needed.
Any thoughts or leads much appreciated.
Vacuo
_______________________________
Little-known fact: Dogs love carrots.
Yes, I do need a new keeyboard!
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From: choi daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:03:24 +0000
Hello,
I am planning to buy a new computer, with an Athlon system.
But i am concerned about compatibility with linux.
Has anybody installed Linux on an amd's ATHLON processor on Asus K7 V
(via 133 chipset) motherboard ?
(I plan to use IDE hard-disk and ATI 128 rage pro card)
As the chipset is rather new, a friend of mine told me Linux may be not
entirely "compatible".
Thanks in advance
Daniel CHOI
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New Dell with a ATA66: any hope?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 13:55:25 -0500
Thanks Mike... I thought Wayne's HOWTO looked pretty good. I'll give a try
as soon as I get my partition problem figured out. I used the randish
partition manager to shrink a win98 FAT partition to make room for linux.
Now even though fdisk correctly reports the size of the FAT partition as 22
gigs, Windows explorer says it's only 11 gigs. I've done the scandisk and
norton thing to no avail. I want to get this issue resolved before I try
again with the RedHat install. Thanks again...
Kirk
Michael Kelly wrote:
> In article <8d28t3$qfa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Kelly) writes:
> > In article <8d0p25$d32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Kirk Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
>
> > If you have the interface cable and
> > want to get the full udma support, once you get installed and all, then
> > download and compile the 2.3.4 kernel. I've been using it for a couple
> > of weeks now with no problems. bonnie went from showing 6.7 MB/sec to
> > around 21 MB/sec and hdparm showed buffered sequential reads of about
> > 16 MB/sec! Definitely worth a kernel download and compile! You can
> > set up your lilo.conf so you can boot either the install kernel or the
> > new one in case there's a problem.
> >
> > Good luck. :)
> >
>
> Oops! I should also add, if you compile 2.3.4 kernel make sure
> you run make config or make xconfig and enable the pd* drivers
> that support the Promise udma interface. They are not enabled
> by default. Also see the HOWTOs at www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO for
> info on enabling the udma on bootup etc..
>
> --
>
> Mike
> --
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have *me* as a member!"
> -- Groucho Marx
--
Kirk R. Wythers University of Minnesota
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Forest Resources
Tel: 612.625.22611530 Cleveland Ave. N.
Fax: 612 625.5212 Saint Paul, MN 55108
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From: "Paul Nadin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,microsoft.public.mshardware.product,ukr.comp.hardware
Subject: Review website with a difference
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:43:13 +0100
Reply-To: "Paul Nadin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Try www.reviewcentre.com for reviews on computer hardware, software and
other topics.
The reviews are by you rather than the "experts" so please do contribute.
Let us know what you think of the website. Any ideas on making the site more
useful gratefully received.
Thanks,
Paul Nadin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Reverend Jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.fic
Subject: Re: last try, PA-2013 linux lockups. anyone have this configuration?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 20:02:24 +0100
hey i got a similar setup, PA2013, SuSE 6.2 win98se and NT4
see my webby for details, mebbe some help :o)
www.rev666.freeserve.co.uk
jonathan hunsberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Tried 2.2.14, but couldn't get IDE patch to apply. Now that i've figured
out
> how to patch it, i should try that again. I tried 2.3.99pre4, but i must
have
> compiled it wrong, because it wouldn't even boot. Thanks for the
suggestion.
>
> Richard Olsson wrote:
> >
> > I dunno what exactly could be wrong, but I'd recommend trying one of the
> > stable kernels (2.2.14), or the latest
> > devel. kernel (2.3.99pre4). And are you changing any parameters with
hdparm?
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From: Dolban using Netcom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing New Setserial and Serial driver
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 15:07:05 -0400
Newbie here.
I am trying to install the newest (2.17) setserial and the newest serial
driver (4.92) in my Redhat 6.2 Linux.
How do I recompile it and then install it.
Thank you very much
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ImWheel | Line Scrolling
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:57:35 -0400
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000 15:44:40 +0200, "Thomas Hartmann"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello to all
>
>I have a problem with the program ImWheel.
>I only can do "page scrolling" but i want "line scrolling".
>What can i do?!?
>Please help me!
>
>-Thomas Hartmann
>
I'd appreciate if you post how you got page scrolling. :)
What mouse do you have?
Mike
--
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-- Groucho Marx
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