Linux-Hardware Digest #674, Volume #12 Wed, 12 Apr 00 22:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ? (David C.)
Re: Dual proc with 2 dimm's is unstable ("hugo hallqvist")
Re: Parallel port IRQ setting problem. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !! (David C.)
Re: 256 memory stack dump problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !! (Rod Smith)
Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V (Rod Smith)
Re: Soyo K7AIA Athlon MB + Redhat 6.2 (Doc Shipley)
Re: high altitude modern systems performance (Robert Redelmeier)
help with zapping (sparker)
PA301 Netgear NIC ("Man in the Moon")
Modem and Sound Problems (Daniel)
Re: Modem and Sound Problems (Dances With Crows)
Unable to Ping after changing from Coaxial to 10baseT (NGHIENHA)
LILO 21.4 update (John in SD)
Re: K7V, KA7, etc with ECC memory? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP 720c in Linux (James)
Re: New video card worthwhile? ("Nathan Appleton")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Linux on SparcStation IPX, howto ?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:15:24 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge) writes:
> Mathias Fryksten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I have found an old SparcStation IPX and would like to install linux
>> on it. Is this possible, and if how do I do it ?. Does any1 got a
>> howto for this ?
>
> You could just get RH6.2 for SPARC and install it. That's what I'm
> doing to an IPC right now. Either get a CDROM or download the
> stuff. There will be a number of floppy images in the images
> directory. Get boot32.img, put it on a floppy and boot the IPX from
> it. The usual RedHat installer will come up.
This is a good sign, considering that an IPC is the same architecture
(and a little slower) than an IPX.
Note, however, that an IPX's overall performance is about equivalent to
a fast 486 box. (IIRC, it's a 40MHz SPARC - not MicroSPARc, not
HyperSPARC, not UltraSPARC - just SPARC :-). Don't expect this to be a
high-performing system.
-- David
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From: "hugo hallqvist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual proc with 2 dimm's is unstable
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:17:15 +0200
> From my experience PC66 and PC133 don't work well together.
Hmm, many people have told me the same thing. I'm running my computer at 92
MHz FSB, and my pc66 is stable atleast at 100 FSB, and posts at 112.. So I
don't think speed is the main issue. But anyway, it's working just fine for
me, so I see no reason for me to replace it. But then again, it'll probably
be one of the first things I'll check next time my screen goes black.. It
has now been stable for almost 3 months with the pc66/pc100/pc133 config.
Over time it maybe will become a problem. Just have to wait and see.
Regards, Hugo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Parallel port IRQ setting problem.
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 17:23:12 +0000
Try a line like:
options parport_pc io=0x378 dma=1 irq=3
in your conf.modules, of course you need your irq, io and dma to match your config
"John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install a parallel port webcam but software like cqcam doesn't
> find the camera.
> It seems that my lp0 port is using IRQ -1?? and tunelp can't correct the
> problem.
>
> Does anyone know?
>
> John. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !!
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:26:27 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707) writes:
>
> Does this BeOSi (or NextStep) run on 68k systems?
Not that I know of.
NeXT's own hardware was 68000-based, but it was not Mac compatible.
> I have a couple of MacIIci that I'd like to at least turn them into
> something useful besides taking up space as doorstops.
They're not that bad. I still use one.
You can put up to 128M of RAM into a IIci. You can also install SCSI
hard drives of any capacity (although each partition must be 2G or
smaller.) You can install any version of MacOS up to 7.51.
They're no speed-demons, but they can still run useful stuff. I've run
Claris Works and FileMaker on them.
They also don't do bad as print servers. (But you'll need a NuBus
Ethernet card if you don't want to spool documents through LocalTalk.)
They can also be used as X terminals (again, you're going to want that
Ethernet card :-).
I _think_ there are ports of Linux for 68K-generation Macs as well.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 256 memory stack dump problem
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:28:18 GMT
Thanks for the response Tellplace,
I'm going to contact Microstar and AMD and see what they know. I'll
post my findings. We'll tame this beast soon I hope.
Steve
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:12:15 +0200, Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>[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
>
>Remove 'nospam.' to reply
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Guys,Guys BeOS For Linux Is Here !!
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:29:16 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pjtg0707) writes:
> On 12 Apr 2000 17:22:40 -0400, David C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ------------------------snipped------------------------------
>
> Does this BeOSi (or NextStep) run on 68k systems?
> I have a couple of MacIIci that I'd
> like to at least turn them into something useful besides taking up space
> as doorstops.
BeOS was never available for 68k systems. NeXTStep did originally run on
68k hardware (68040, I believe, although there may have been a 68030
version). AFAIK, though, it only ran on proprietary NeXT hardware, not on
Apple hardware.
If you want to use a 68k Macintosh with something other than MacOS, AFAIK
your only choices are various UNIX offshoots. Apple offered one for a
while, although I think it's no longer available. Linux is certainly
available for 68k, although distributions are slim. Some of the BSDs may
be available for that hardware, too.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 22:33:19 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
choi daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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".
I'm running Linux on a system with an Athlon 650 and an ASUS K7M. The K7M
is an earlier motherboard that uses a half-VIA/half-AMD chipset. The VIA
half is, I believe, the same as the equivalent part in the VIA KX133 used
on the K7M. I've got no problems with it. Even the onboard audio (included
in the VIA part of the chipset) works fine for me, using the latest ALSA
drivers.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: Doc Shipley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soyo K7AIA Athlon MB + Redhat 6.2
Date: 12 Apr 2000 18:09:55 -0500
John Edgecombe wrote:
>
> I have an 8.4 gig Maxtor drive with the first half in fat32, W98SE. The
> Redhat 6.2 boot disk does not recognize the AMD 751/756 chipset,
> claiming that I have no hard disk. Expert mode claims I have a corrupted
> partition, and offers to erase it for me. (no thanks). So far, I cannot
> get as far as FDISK in my installation efforts. I have tried dumbing
> down the bios to PIO mode 4, and nothing seems to work.
>
If expert mode is seeing your harddrive at all, then the problem is
probably not the boot image but the FAT32 partition. Windows often puts
partition boundaries in odd positions. If this is the case, you could
try FIPS to "shrink" the FAT32 partition just enough to get the boundary
on an actual sector boundary. FIPS is pretty simple, but it really pays
to read ALL the docs first.
--
Doc Shipley
Network Support
TARL Labs, UT
Austin, Texas
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From: Robert Redelmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: high altitude modern systems performance
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 18:10:17 -0500
David Rencher wrote:
> deep secret of the PC world is that most thermal grease is just White
> grease. White Lithium grease is suspiciously similar to thermal grease.
The white is from Zinc oxide filler, rather than Lithium stearate.
Furthermore, the media is silicone rather than petroleum oil in
lubricating grease. I estimate the thermal conductivity of lube
grease is 0.15 W/mK versus 0.7-0.8 W/mK for standard thermal grease.
There is also "super" thermal grease at around 1.8 W/mK, and Intel
seems to have found some at 3+.
-- Robert
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From: sparker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with zapping
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:05:03 GMT
I am using v4l2 with zapping having trouble getting the right channels
to tune in. I have channels 63-76 I know I have over 50 channels. Anyone
know how to get the right channels tuned?????
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From: "Man in the Moon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PA301 Netgear NIC
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:20:12 GMT
I can't get the PA301 Netgear Phoneline network card working in linux. Is
this card supported? Is it NE2000 comaptible? How can I set it up? Anyone
had any success or have any info on this card? If there are no drivers
anyone willing to write and or help me write any? Answer or partial answers
to any of these questions would be helpful.
Please respond by email as well as I may not find the response on the
newsgroup.
--
From: Chris (Man on the Moon)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem and Sound Problems
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:30:04 GMT
HI:
I have a few problems--I have Corel Linux (the downloaded version)burnt on
to a cd-rom --I installed--the install went very well--but I have no 1.
sound and 2. while my modem seems to work under some TTYs3 sort of device-
and I do seem to be able to connect to the internet-Netscape,et al
(meaning any internet software) won't work. I get errors saying Netscape
can't locate my server (I dont have a server) along with misc other
errors. I have tried all other Linux versions that I can get my hands on
including winlinux and redhat and none of them seem to be able to get my
entire system working--and I havent even seen the Web on any browser as
yet let alone acces e-mail or newsgroups--whew! Ok next--the sound card--
I have been unsuccessful at getting any sound to work in any version of
Linux--I recently tried sndconfig in console and it found my sound card
but when I went to configure sound there was just a dull sort of click in
my speakers--it seems somthing was trying to work but didnt...what
sndconfig reported was the following: IRQ 5 DMA=3 DMA2=-1 IO=0x530
MPU IO =0x330 MPU IRQ =0x009
CM 1830 (CYRIX Media GX)sound chip I also have a sound blaster cd rom
which I think it found so I may be able to play music cds although -I was
getting so discouraged that I didnt bother trying
The harware that Corel Linux and all other versions had no trouble with
is : my display adapter, cdrom, floppy , all hard drives and partitions,
even my HP CD writer was somehow configured and running as another cd rom
with No problem
My biggest headache is the odem and sound problem--If I ever manage to
figure out how to get those two working as well as they do in Windoze I
will totoss windoze out the window as fast as I can :-)
If anyone there can rescue me I will be eternally grateful--I really think
Linux is way cool and very efficient--and I REALLY ONLY WANT TO RUN LINUX
Thanks in advance,
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Modem and Sound Problems
Date: 12 Apr 2000 20:49:36 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:30:04 GMT, Daniel
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a few problems--I have Corel Linux (the downloaded version)burnt on
>to a cd-rom --I installed--the install went very well--but I have no 1.
>sound and 2. while my modem seems to work under some TTYs3 sort of device-
>and I do seem to be able to connect to the internet-Netscape,et al
>(meaning any internet software) won't work. I get errors saying Netscape
>can't locate my server
Next time, post the *exact error message* that you get. Netscape probably
said, "The following hosts are unknown: blah.blah.net..." which means that
you do not have the DNS entries set up correctly. This is easy to fix.
Find out the IP addresses for your DNS--your ISP should give those to you.
In kppp, anyway, there is a space within "setup" where you can enter those
numbers, and I'm sure that other ppp-connecting frontends have similar
options. Do that, save the settings, try connecting again. If your
ppp-frontend doesn't have that option, then change the file
/etc/resolv.conf so it contains only these lines (replace capital letters
with DNS IP addrs, of course):
search
nameserver XXX.YYY.ZZZ.WWW
nameserver AAA.BBB.CCC.DDD
(I haven't used a modem since December... things may have improved.)
>but when I went to configure sound there was just a dull sort of click in
>my speakers--it seems somthing was trying to work but didnt...what
>sndconfig reported was the following: IRQ 5 DMA=3 DMA2=-1 IO=0x530
>MPU IO =0x330 MPU IRQ =0x009
That means you're halfway there. Try fiddling with the IO= value; there
should be a list of 3 or 4 values you can try for that. 0x534 seems to be
popular for an IO value, too. I think that you wouldn't have heard
anything if the DMA and IRQ weren't set correctly; ICBW. What does DOS
report for the IO, IRQ, and DMA values? That's a good place to start...
--
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] (NGHIENHA)
Subject: Unable to Ping after changing from Coaxial to 10baseT
Date: 13 Apr 2000 01:16:33 GMT
I have two TCP/IP networked computers which worked flawlessly
until I change from 10base2 (coaxial) to 10baseT (twisted pair).
>From the Linux 5.2 machine I can no longer ping to the other
machine but pinging to itself is ok on both ends.
The Linux box keeps issuing following message:
eth0: transmit time out, Tx-status 00 status 2000 Tx FIFO room xxxx
I tried different combinations of the ifconfig command something
similar to:
ifconfig eth0 10baseT up
and reboot the machine but it still reports 10base2 instead of
10baseT and I can't ping to other machine.
Can somebody help me out with the problem ?
Thanks,
John
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From: John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO 21.4 update
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 01:25:19 GMT
LILO version 21 by Werner Almesberger has been updated to support
booting from large capacity disks using a new 'lba32' option (-L new
command line switch). Dubbed version 21.4, the source code is
available for download from:
ftp://sd.dynhost.com/pub/linux/lilo (developer's site)
ftp://brun.dyndns.org/pub/linux/lilo (an alias)
Or from the main distribution site:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/boot/lilo
The lilo-21.4.2 release fixes problems that have affected a few
people:
1. The command line passed to the kernel was truncated at 78
characters if the LARGE_EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) compile-time
option was used. (With today's big kernels, this was the default.)
2. If both 'linear' and 'compact' were specified, the second stage
loader would encounter disk I/O error 0x40.
Enhancements include:
3. The boot loader now understands octal. The kernel has always
understood octal, decimal, and hexadecimal, but prior boot loaders
only supported the last two.
4. All patches from the RedHat 6.2 distribution have been applied.
This includes the RAID support.
This version of LILO will boot from partitions beyond the 1024
cylinder limit. To do this it requires a post-1998 BIOS with support
for the EDD packet call interface. Older systems may employ "soft"
BIOS support for these calls with hard disk boot software such as
EZ-DRIVE(tm) or MaxBlast(tm).
--John Coffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
EZ-DRIVE(tm) is a registered trademark of Micro House International,
Inc.
MaxBlast(tm) is a trademark of Maxtor, Inc.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: K7V, KA7, etc with ECC memory?
Date: 12 Apr 2000 20:59:56 -0400
Any of you guys running the new (VIA KX133) boards with ECC memory
(and with ECC enabled in BIOS)?
I've heard of problems with the K7V, but I'm wondering if others like
the Abit KA7 work?
Thanks,
Richard
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From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 720c in Linux
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 01:30:12 GMT
I have been thinking of switching to Linux because I am sick of Windows
crashing all of the the time, and I have been doing some research on it to
see if all of my hardware is compatible. Through this I found out that my
printer, which is an HP 720c, will not work in Linux. I went to the the
HP website, and it said the most printers work with Linux, except for th
thee 720c, and another one, because it is whats called a "host-based
printer". What does this mean, and is there any way to get past it.
--
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New video card worthwhile?
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2000 19:06:54 -0700
"Gerald Willmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, julien mills wrote:
>
> > I have a pentium 90, which is probably 5 years old,
> > and am thinking of getting a new video card and
> > monitor.
> > But, when I look at the video cards, a lot seem to
> > require a pentium II etc. Will it do me any good to
> > get a new card? Or is my computer so old it won't be
> > able to get the benefit of a better video card?
> > Right now I have an old Stealth 64 with 2MB. I can
> > run 800x600 or 1024x768 but not at a fast refresh rate.
> > I'd like to go 1024x768 or higher, at a high refresh
> > rate.
>
> I faced the same problem about a year ago and got a used matrox millenium
> with 2 megs for about 30 dollars. Allows for 1152x900 with 16 bit color at
> high refresh rates and I'm happy. You should probably get it with 4 or 8
> megs so you can have more colors and/or higher resolution.
Ratings/Comments for the Matrox Millenium:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1005
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