Linux-Hardware Digest #12, Volume #13 Fri, 9 Jun 00 08:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Celeron or PIII? ("Gi-Seong Eom")
Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment ("David Wang")
Performance of a 486DX4/100 (Daniel Haude)
Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100 (Martin Herrman)
Re: SCSI-Tape, how? ("Martin Knoblauch")
mandrake 7.1 + abit be6 (Rob Harper)
Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes (Michel Bardiaux)
Re: Need your help again... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CBB5055C Visio for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LILO, FreeBSD, and >1024th Cylinder ("Greg H.")
IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ??? (Igor Boukanov)
Re: Lexmark 5000 & Palm3e (Richard Watson)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization (florin)
Re: Linux now supports ATA/100... and versus Ultra-160 SCSI (Marc SCHAEFER)
Re: lemark 1100 (nospam/?@?!$�)
Re: Hauppauge WinTV DVB (Marcus O.C. Metzler)
Re: mandrake 7.1 + abit be6 ("sft")
Linux Drivers Please, Telemann Sky Media 200d ("Shane")
HD problem (Peter Lanzerstorfer)
Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes (Andreas Rottmann)
Re: mandrake 7.1 + abit be6 (Rob Harper)
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From: "Gi-Seong Eom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Celeron or PIII?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:52:52 +0900
> I use computer primarily for text processing and database applications.
>
hmm. I suggest more RAM instead of PIII.
The more RAM, the faster in database processing.
> Is it Celeron 566 powerful enough to run DVD movies?
Never :-)
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From: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 16:48:13 -0700
Reply-To: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Is it possible to change my monitor's display frequence from 60HZ to 85 HZ
My monitor is supported to display on 85HZ),
If can, how should I do?
The software enviroment: Red Hat 6.1 and Gnome
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Performance of a 486DX4/100
Date: 9 Jun 2000 09:08:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello people,
is there maybe a web page somewhere that compares performances of
different hardware types? I'm aware of the difficulties that arise with
different benchmarks aiming at different problems, but all I'm looking for
are some ballpark numbers.
Reason: I used to own a 386DX-40/8MB and didn't expect any of it, and got
at least something, so I was happy with it.
Then I bought a new PII-400/64MB, expected a lot of speed, and got it, so
I'm happy with that one, too.
I then bought a cheap, used 486DX4-100/72MB for home use, and I'm getting
a little bit something of performance but I'd like to get more, of course.
All I want to know is if I could try to tweak a little more speed out of
it, or if I just have to live with what I've got (like 90+ minutes for a
complete 2-2-14 kernel build). After all, it's only a $100 computer...
Thanks,
--Daniel
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Herrman)
Subject: Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100
Date: 9 Jun 2000 09:14:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 9 Jun 2000 09:08:13 GMT, Daniel Haude <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I then bought a cheap, used 486DX4-100/72MB for home use, and I'm getting
> a little bit something of performance but I'd like to get more, of course.
> All I want to know is if I could try to tweak a little more speed out of
> it, or if I just have to live with what I've got (like 90+ minutes for a
> complete 2-2-14 kernel build). After all, it's only a $100 computer...
90+ minutes is normal. My 66mhz, 8mb 486dx2 takes about 2,5 hours to
accomplish the job ;-)
Butta.. there are some optimlisations: try hdparm (watch out!),
run less consoles (take a look at /etc/inittab), run as less
deamons as possible, use a light windowmanager (icewm),
use the reiser file system (check freshmeat).
good luck!
Martin
--
Linux Gebruikers Handleiding v1.2 : http://2mypage.cjb.net
Linux RedHat 6.1 Kernel 2.2.14 Toshiba P233 MHz, 32 Mb RAM
11:10am up 6 days, 21:16, 2 users, load average: 0.16, 0.17, 0.11
Western Civilization, that would be a good idea!
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From: "Martin Knoblauch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-Tape, how?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:32:19 +0200
"Max Wheatley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Matthias Minich wrote:
> >
> > Hello again...
> >
> > I've got my AHA1542 working now. My next problem is, how to tell the
tape
> > what to do... (makin' backups and so on). I've tried the following:
> >
> > "mt /dev/st0 reten"and I get an error-msg: "mt: invalid tape operation
> > '/dev/st0'"
> >
what does "mt -t /dev/st0 status" give. Watch the "-t", I think that is
missing in your original command.
Martin
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From: Rob Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake 7.1 + abit be6
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:57:40 +0100
Hiya,
I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.1 so that I can use the HPT366 udma66
controller on my abit be6 motherboard. I have a 10Gb HD connected to
the first udma66 controller (so the partitions are /dev/hdex) with
windoze in the first primary partition hde1 and ext2 partitions hde6 and
hde7 for / and /home (hde5 is swap). I also have CDROM and 500 Mb HD as
secondary master and secondary slave on the second normal ide , so the
HD is /dev/hdd./
Right, so the install went fine until LILO/grub where it wanted to
install it in hdd, but I chose to install it in hde, cause that seemed
to make sense. Anyway install finished and rebooted but it couldn't find
LILO, presumably cos hde is not the first drive it looks at. I booted
off a floppy and it went fine till
INIT: go to runlevel 5
when it hung, but that's probably a different problem.
The only thing I can think of doing is connecting my second HD as
primary slave hdf, but that's not the best for performance. Installed
again with HD back as hda and everything went fine (except the wheel on
my mouse still doesn't work!)
Anyone got any ideas??
Cheers, Rob
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From: Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:07:43 GMT
Arnaud Westenberg wrote:
>
> > Don't use the address of operator (&) in front of your handler name, the
> > name alone is already a handler.
>
> fu^%#%^&* I meant the handler name is already a pointer! sh&^%&($(&^t
How can PERL code be relevant here? :-)
--
Michel Bardiaux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,alt.windows98,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need your help again...
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 09:56:30 GMT
In article <8homt4$4sa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Thirsty McGuinness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hi again,
>
> Thanks for answering my last question. The new one:
> I now have both ATA66-devices at the primary-channel, the two cd-
drives at
> the secondary.
> Although I�m sure that the chipset goes with UDMA66, benchmarking the
drives
> results in a maximum-transfer-rate of only 30MB/s.
> I switched the drives to UDMA and also tried a lot of benchmark-
progr.s,
> always with the same result (or lower).
> I got a further SCSI-drive via AHA2940U-adapter, but I don�t think
that got
> sth. to with it... (Why should it?)
>
> What could be the reason for that again?
>
> Hope I don�t knock on your nerves,
>
> Thanks
>
30 MB/s is more than alot of people get with ATA66. 66MB/S is the
maximum the controller can transfer... No drives go anywhere near that
fast.
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO, FreeBSD, and >1024th Cylinder
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 10:18:39 GMT
John in SD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The 'lba32' option will boot only those systems which support the EDD packet
> calls on int 0x13. Test your BIOS with "make floppy" from the LILO 21.4.3
> distribution. You will need 'nasm' for this make to be successful.
> Boot the diagnostic floppy, and see if it reports EDD calls available for your
> disk.
Will do. Thanks for the info.
Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Igor Boukanov)
Subject: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ???
Date: 9 Jun 2000 12:25:23 +0200
When I enabled SCSI interface emulation to my 100 MB IDE Zip drive
(via modprobe ide-scsi) I noticed significant performance improvements,
i.e. "dd if=/dev/zip of=/dev/null" started to run 20% faster with
zip=/dev/sda4 than it had been with zip=/dev/hdd4.
Are there any reasons for that? I mean if you so easily can improve
performance by 20% with this trick why it is not on by default???
Regards, Igor
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From: Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Lexmark 5000 & Palm3e
Date: 09 Jun 2000 12:17:12 +0100
"Stu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi Guys,
> I have tried to install both Mandrake and Suse Linux but ended up
> removing both due to no support of my Lexmark 5000 printer and any PIM for
> my Palm3e. If anyone knows of a driver for the printer or a Linux PIM that
> works with the Palm 3e then I'll re-install.
Have a look here for the Lexmark driver:
http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/03/23/953848684.html
Have a look here for the Palm stuff:
http://freshmeat.net/news/1999/08/11/934396119.html
--
Richard Watson email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Pentagon Web Design Ltd ICQ: 65274884
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From: florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:06:04 +0200
Joel Beach wrote:
> Hsinko Yu wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
>
> There's nothing wrong with this card. It worked out of the box for
> me....are you sure it's not set to use DHCP or bootp instead of a static
> address. If this is the case, it's hanging because it can't get an IP
> from the non-existent DHCP server you specified.
>
> Joel
>
> >
> > Anyone having it may now know what i say. I have tried
> > many solutions from the internet, but they all don't work
> > to me. Until now, i get the following message while booting,
> > Bringing up interface eth0
> > Delaying eth0 initialization.....[FAIL]
> > I just can't stand it anymore.
> > Please those who have the experience setting it up help me.
> > Thanks in advance.
> > ps. I use Redhat6.0 and via-rhine driver.
> > Hsinko
Ok, chek these out: first, figure out if in your BIOS setup is desactivated
the option Plug&Play system, other-else it wont't work.
Try to see on what io and irq is set your card (/proc/ioports;
/proc/interrupts),or type dmesg in the console to see your card status.
Msg me when u have all these, and be sure tu use the ne2k-pci module for
these card (i have the same one and it works fine with mandrake 6.1,on a
cable modem)
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From: Marc SCHAEFER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Linux now supports ATA/100... and versus Ultra-160 SCSI
Date: 9 Jun 2000 08:06:11 GMT
In comp.periphs.scsi List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: And finally, which is better overall for price/performance -- ATA/100 or
: Ultra-160 SCSI?
With Ultra 2 SCSI (80 Mbyte/s), it required 3 Cheetah (at around 18 MByte/s
max sustained each) to no longer have N times performance (ie with
4 Cheetah, it's no longer 4 x performance) in RAID0 with a stupid
sequential benchmark.
Now, real world also does seek, so you probably can put 6-7 of these on
the same Ultra-160 SCSI and get 7 x seek performance, and maybe 5x
sequential performance using RAID0.
With IDE, you can't connect more than 1 drive per channel without
sacrificing performance (although command queuing is rumoured for
recent IDE implementations, how many motherboard/disk combination
really work ?)
So, unless your problem is very specific and you only want to boost
performance out of a single drive, I would recommend going SCSI,
or, if you have the time vs the money, buy a few PCI IDE controllers
and put a disk per channel.
The CERN has done something like this (sorry, no URL), ie buy a motherboard
with 6 PCI slots, on each put a PCI IDE interface with 2 channels,
and you can put with a very good performance (presumably) both
seeks and sequential, all of those disks in a RAID0 array.
It would be interesting, in the long run, to compare a real-world solution
(say 12 disks, which is probably the max you can do with IDE boards nowadays,
unless you can buy one with many IDE chips and/or PCI buses), both in
the cost, ease of setup, etc, with SCSI and IDE.
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From: nospam/?@?!$�
Subject: Re: lemark 1100
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 12:09:14 +0100
On Thu, 08 Jun 2000 09:43:38 -0700, Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
thanks,
I will try it
mike
>
>Hi,
>
>check this links
>
>http://209.233.17.85/lexmark/
>http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=59008
>
>Andrey
>
>"nospam/?"@?!$� wrote:
>
>> hI,
>>
>> As anyone got this printer to work with linux.
>>
>> if so, How(Could ypu please tell me)
>>
>> thanks in advance
>>
>> mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus O.C. Metzler)
Subject: Re: Hauppauge WinTV DVB
Date: 08 Jun 2000 22:10:33 +0200
"Thomas Hartmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello to you!!
>
> Is it possible to use a Win TV DVB Card from Hauppauge with Linux????
>
> Greetings
> -Tom
Yes, get it at http://www.linuxtv.org/dvb/Developer
Marcus
==================================
Marcus Metzler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "sft" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake 7.1 + abit be6
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 11:30:15 GMT
Boot with your floppy, and look at /etc/lilo.conf. It should have
something like boot=/dev/hde on the first line. When you did your install,
were there any problems when you set up lilo?
By the way, I have set up several machines in a similar configuration to
yours, and haven't (yet) used "hde", usually my IDE drives are hda, hdb,
etc. Is this something new? (I use RH5.2/Mandrake6.0/Mandrake7.0).
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rob Harper
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> I'm trying to install Mandrake 7.1 so that I can use the HPT366 udma66
> controller on my abit be6 motherboard. I have a 10Gb HD connected to
> the first udma66 controller (so the partitions are /dev/hdex) with
> windoze in the first primary partition hde1 and ext2 partitions hde6 and
> hde7 for / and /home (hde5 is swap). I also have CDROM and 500 Mb HD as
> secondary master and secondary slave on the second normal ide , so the
> HD is /dev/hdd./
>
> Right, so the install went fine until LILO/grub where it wanted to
> install it in hdd, but I chose to install it in hde, cause that seemed
> to make sense. Anyway install finished and rebooted but it couldn't find
> LILO, presumably cos hde is not the first drive it looks at. I booted
> off a floppy and it went fine till
>
> INIT: go to runlevel 5
>
> when it hung, but that's probably a different problem.
>
> The only thing I can think of doing is connecting my second HD as
> primary slave hdf, but that's not the best for performance. Installed
> again with HD back as hda and everything went fine (except the wheel on
> my mouse still doesn't work!)
>
> Anyone got any ideas??
>
> Cheers, Rob
>
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Reply-To: "Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.computer.drivers.wanted
Subject: Linux Drivers Please, Telemann Sky Media 200d
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 21:34:53 +1000
Could some kind sole please upload or direct email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
the Linux Drivers for the Telemann Sky media 200D PCI Satelite Receiver Card
I should have downloaded them myself last month from www.telemann.com
But now when I try to go to Telemann's site it does not seem to exist.
Please and Thank's in Advance
No Spam mail Thankyou........
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Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:42:25 +0200
From: Peter Lanzerstorfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HD problem
Hello!
While doing a full-text search in some files, i got the following error
message:
hda: timeout waiting for DMA
hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
hda: DMA disabled
ide0: reset: success
Kernel panic: Freeing swap cache page
In swapper task - not syncing
After that the system locket up completely
1) What exactly does this mean?
2) Is this due to a hardware error, or is it a problem with kernel etc.
settings
(I didn't play around with hdparm, maybe i should) ?
This was the first time this error occured and it was not reproducable.
Thanks in advance.
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From: Andreas Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: HELP: SIMPLE IRQ Routine Crashes
Date: 09 Jun 2000 13:49:42 +0200
Michel Bardiaux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > fu^%#%^&* I meant the handler name is already a pointer! sh&^%&($(&^t
>
> How can PERL code be relevant here? :-)
>
LOL!
Andy
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From: Rob Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mandrake 7.1 + abit be6
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2000 13:01:30 +0100
sft wrote:
> Boot with your floppy, and look at /etc/lilo.conf. It should have
> something like boot=/dev/hde on the first line. When you did your install,
> were there any problems when you set up lilo?
>
> By the way, I have set up several machines in a similar configuration to
> yours, and haven't (yet) used "hde", usually my IDE drives are hda, hdb,
> etc. Is this something new? (I use RH5.2/Mandrake6.0/Mandrake7.0).
>
The be6 motherboard has 2 standard ide controllers and 2 hpt366 udma66
controllers. The standard ones give hda-hdd and the hpt366 have hde-hdh. I
think the problem is that the bios sees hdd first and expects to find some
kind of boot loader, but this is now on hde.
If I plug my main HD in as hda everything works fine (but I don't use the
udma66)
Cheers, Rob
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