Linux-Hardware Digest #86, Volume #13 Wed, 21 Jun 00 17:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: ATA 66 and eide compatibility (Timothy Moll)
Re: Help on motherboard decision ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Athlon problems (Ray)
Re: External Modem`s (Ray)
Re: Abit KA7 and mouse problems (Ray)
Re: which graphic card? ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Slackware7/EthernetCard (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: creative dvd encore 6x (Jim McDonald)
Re: Duplex with HP 970Cxi (Grant Taylor)
Re: recommendations for inkjet printer with Linux? (Grant Taylor)
IDE TR-4 tape & RH6.1 ("John Barry")
Re: Epson Stylus Color 740 (Grant Taylor)
PB Legend220CD - installing ISA Network Card (Sandhitsu R Das)
Re: Need soundcard suggestion. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ??? (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Redhat 6.2 and 15 GB IDE disk NOT BOOTING ("Ctrl-Alt-Del")
ATI Xpert 2000 ("Jonathan M. Paley")
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From: Timothy Moll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATA 66 and eide compatibility
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:30:25 +0100
thesystem wrote:
> Timothy Moll wrote:
>
> > I am think of getting a new hard disk, a quantum fireball lm 20.5Gb,
> > which uses an ultra ata 66 interface. Would this be compatible with my
> > computer which only supports eide? And do you think the hdd is a good
> > choice?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > --
> > Timothy Moll
> > t . moll @ usa . net
>
> the quantum is a good drive check into a promise ata/66 card for your
> system
> the ata/66 drives are backwards compatible to ata/33.
> note: on quantum though if the drive goes bad be prepared for quantum to
> want to
> send you a check for the drive instead of a replacement, do to harddrive
> shortages
> just went through this with them on a 13.6 gig. and am still dealing with
> them because they have NO upgrade policy whatsoever ..........:(
Thanks for the information, and an ata/66 interface card for my system seems
like a good idea.
Hopefully I won't have to find out about the replacement scheme :-)
--
Timothy Moll
t . moll @ usa . net
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Help on motherboard decision
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 10:52:35 -0700
> I am planning an Intel PIII based system, maybe around 733 Mhz or so,
> with 256 MB RAM, and the usual array of accoutrements (30-40GB 7200 RPM
> HD, DVD, CD writer, USB ports, sound, maybe firewire, 10/100 NIC). To
> start off, I am trying to refine my selection of system board. I was
> thinking along the lines of the Intel cc820 series, but having read so
> much negative press about them, I have come around to realizing that is
> not likely to be the best choice. Others on this NG have posted positive
> comments about the ASUS boards.
Almost all of the ASUS boarsd have received high marks at Linux Hardware
Database:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?name=asus&modelno=&manufname
=&_catid=1&minimumrating=&summary=&description=
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Athlon problems
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:49:26 GMT
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:56:54 GMT, James Pearson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having problems running Redhat 6.2 on an Athlon box - it freezes
>when I try to run mkfs on a disk partition.
>
>My set up:
>
>Athlon 700Mhz, Gigabyte 7IX mainboard, 256Mb RAM, 2 IBM
>Ultra66 disks (IBM-DTLA-307030).
>
>Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-12.
>
>The root disk has a 2Gb root partition, 512Mb swap and the rest spare.
>
>I can install RH6.2, but when I try run mkfs on the large spare
>partition, the machine freezes. It also freezes if I try to dd to the
>raw spare partition.
>
>I've also tried:
>
>- installing kernel 2.2.15 + ide.2.2.15.20000509 + raid-2.2.15-A0
>
>- using a Promise Ultra66 PCI controller, instead of the on board IDE
>controller
>
>.. but with no improvement.
>
>However, if I replace the mainboard/CPU with a Intel based mainboard and
>a PII (with or without the Promise controller), it works fine (although
>slower).
>
>Can anyone suggest anything else? Could the Athlon/mainboard be faulty?
I doubt the Athlon is at fault but the motherboard may be. I'd check
Gigibyte for bios upgrades and also the kernel mailing list for issues with
whatever chipset you're motherboard uses. Presumably you've already checked
for cabling issues etc?
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: External Modem`s
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:42:45 GMT
On 21 Jun 2000 16:13:55 +0100, Richard Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>But I take it that it's not a serial port modem?
>
>I'd like to know of a winmodem that operates entirely on a serial
>connection.
Back when 14.4 modems were common there were some (even external serial
types) that did data compression and error correction in software. That
didn't last long though since people actually returned the things as
defective rather than just accepting it as normal.
--
Ray
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray)
Subject: Re: Abit KA7 and mouse problems
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:51:28 GMT
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:02:07 -0400, Neal Bambha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Yes, I have the same problems with Abit KA7 /Athlon 800/RH6.1
>Previously I had an Abit BH6/Celeron 300, with no problems.
>The X server also crashes (as much as Windows)
Any chance something is sharing an interrupt with the video card?
--
Ray
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which graphic card?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:01:50 -0700
"Matthias Zeichmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ipvdf$p66$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> ho ppl!
>
> i�m going to buy myself some new comp around an athlon 700. i�ve thought
> of an abit ka7 board, which i�m not sure of, maybe it�s gonna be an asus
> or gigabyte. but the question is: which graphic card should i take?
>
> i�m looking for something w/ reasonable 3d performance (for q3a), so i
> think matrox g400 is out of discussion. what about this nvidia stuff:
> tnt2 ultra, geforce256 (no ddr)? any other suggestions? the thing is:
> i�m not going to spend a fortune (fortune = 200$) on it.
>
> any hints/comments/experiences are appreciated
Linux Hardware Database's list of graphics cards with ratings, drivers,
workarounds, how-to's and other related resources:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=8
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slackware7/EthernetCard
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:28:41 +0200
Steve wrote:
> Slackware has a 'netconfig' program that supposevely detects ethernet
> cards automatically (saving me a hell of a lot of trouble)...
No, it does not. Netconfig is a shell-script which sets your IP-address,
hostname and dns configuration. When this is done it tells you the
following:
-8<---------------------------------------------------------------
dialog --title "NETWORK SETUP COMPLETE" --msgbox "Your networking \
software has now been configured. IMPORTANT: Remember that most
precompiled \
Linux kernels do not have network drivers compiled into them, since \
compiling them all in results in kernels that are too large to boot. \
If you need a driver that is not present in your kernel, either \
recompile the kernel to include the necessary driver or load the \
driver as a module by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.modules." 11 64
rm -f $TMP/tempmsg
-8<---------------------------------------------------------------
At least the above applies to Slackware 4.0. You will need to compile
and install a kernel with support for your network card or load a
module. You could also use a precompiled kernel which supports a lot of
network cards. At least in the Slackware versions I have used the NFS
installation boot kernel autodetects most network cards as support for
them is compiled into the kernel.
However, this might have changed to some module solution in later
versions of Slackware.
regards Henrik
--
spammer strikeback:
root@localhost
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim McDonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: creative dvd encore 6x
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 11:32:02 -0700
Tuschl wrote:
>
> hallo!
>
> hat jemand nen plan wie man das creative dvd encore 6x, v.a. eben die
> dxr3 mpeg karte unter linux einbindet ?
>
> Gibt's da ueberhaupt schon ein Modul dafuer ?!?
>
> regards,
> Tuschl
http://linuxvideo.org/,http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5165
--
Jim McDonald
htttp://www.stanford.edu/~mcduck
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Duplex with HP 970Cxi
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:56:59 GMT
Till Oliver Knoll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I want to print duplex on my (non-postscript) HP 970Cxi (it can print
> duplex under windows, according to the manual). I use ghostscript 5.5,
> and the printer driver HP550 (as far as I remember). Is there any way to
> do so under linux (SuSe 6.3...)?
AFAIK the 970C's duplex mechanism is not documented; no free software
supports it.
One person has reported sporadic success by setting the thing to
duplex from Windows and then printing, but it is unclear *exactly*
what he did.
The DeskJet 970C entry on my Linux Printing website may contain
details that I have forgotten; give it a look.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO and Website: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting in most things Unix/Linux/*BSD/Perl/C/C++
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recommendations for inkjet printer with Linux?
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:10:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Faheem Mitha) writes:
> Dear people,
>
> I was wondering if you could recommend a good inkjet printer for
> Linux. I should add two things.
>
> 1) I think most inkjet printers can print colour, but nevertheless let
> me add that I want an inkjet printer that will print colour.
>
> 2) This printer is for my parents new computer in Bombay (not yet
> bought), which will be running Linux. So very recent hardware may
> not be available there.
>
> The chap who my parents are talking to about computer parts says the
> following are available:
>
> HP Deskjet Printer 610 C, HP Deskjet Printer 810 C, HP Deskjet printer
> 880C. These printers are international versions, but similar to the US
> versions 612, 812, 882 I believe.
>
> He suggests the 610C would be good. However, I have heard that HPs
> printer cartridges (at least for this particular model) are very
> expensive. On the plus side, I believe it does work with Linux.
Yes, the 610 more or less works, although the print quality is not as
good as under Windows. This will primarily affect color/photo
printing.
Essentially all HP and Lexmark consumer-grade inkjets have cartridges
integrated with the printheads. This gives you a replacable
printhead, which is important, but you end up with single-sourced ink
that costs an arm and a leg.
Various Canon and, especially, Epson models do much better in the cost
of operations department, since many of these have simple replacable
ink tanks, with third party ink available.
The Epson line, in particular, is quite well supported and rapidly
approaching perfection. Verify that you are able to install the stp
Ghostscript driver from the gimp-print distribution, though; a
Ghostscritp recompilation is beyond some people.
> Can anyone suggest good inkjet printers which work Ok with Linux,
> have reasonable running costs, and which are not too new? (So that
> there are more likely to be available in Bombay).
Except for the cost thing, I've been pointing people at the Lexmark
Optra 40, a discontinued color PostScript/PCL5c inkjet printer that
goes for around $80 if you can find one.
To meet all of those, it'd be an Epson Stylus of some sort. Examine
the information about the "stp" driver:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO and Website: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting in most things Unix/Linux/*BSD/Perl/C/C++
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From: "John Barry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IDE TR-4 tape & RH6.1
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:10:51 -0400
Howdy.
I took a working Seagate CTT8000-A TR-4 4/8GB IDE drive, and put it on the
second IDE channel of a Dell PowerEdge 1300.
It's recognized by RedHat (Dell installed) 6.1 on booting, as "hdd", which I
take to mean /dev/hdd.
The drive is NOT on the Hardware Compatibility List at www.linhardware.com.
Tar will run when I try to write tarfiles to this drive, but no writing, or
subsequent reading, takes place.
Should I use a different device-file for this drive? Do I need some kludge?
Or should I go SCSI tape?
TIA,
John
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 740
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:13:40 GMT
"Eric J. Shamow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working with an Epson SC740, kernel version 2.2.16, and I've run into
> something of a wall:
> The print daemon is running, the parallel support module is loaded, and yet
> my printer refuses to print. Output redirected to /dev/lp0 produces no
> response, but no error messages either. The cable is fine, the printer is
> fine.
> Just for kicks I tried running the APSFilter config (don't know why this
> would work if > /dev/lp0 wouldn't) - same deal, no error message, and no
> printing.
Is your parallel port in fact up and running? Examine the various
files under /proc/parport to see. Also, the HOWTO has this to say:
Some Linux distributions don't ship with a properly setup
/etc/modules.conf (or /etc/conf.modules), so the driver isn't
loaded properly when you need it to be. With a recent modutils,
the proper magical lines from modules.conf seem to be:
alias /dev/printers lp # only for devfs?
alias /dev/lp* lp # only for devfs?
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc # missing in Red Hat 6.0-6.1
The parport_pc one in particular must be present, or it pretty much
won't work in most cases.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO and Website: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting in most things Unix/Linux/*BSD/Perl/C/C++
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From: Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: PB Legend220CD - installing ISA Network Card
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:27:36 -0400
I have a PB 486DX2 based m/c. I can't get my SMC 8013 10M network card
to work. There seems to be an Apricot onboard ethernet. Do I need to
disable it ? If yes, how ? Any other suggestions ?
The card is fine - hooked up to a hub and detects the link. But the OS
(RedHat Linux 6.2) doesn't seem to find it. I have manually set jumpers
on the card to use IRQ3 and I/O 0x280.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: Need soundcard suggestion.
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 19:44:44 GMT
Look at the Sound Blaster Live! Platinum. It has everything under the
sun and for only $150.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: DeAnn Iwan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 486 Linux setup, 250 meg HD, which distro ???
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:58:26 -0400
peter wrote:
>
> I'm setting up two 486 linux systems, one will be a small web sever,
> firewall, and ip masq.
>
> The other will be a machine to write perl programs on.
>
> I have two 250 meg drives, I don't plan to install X, so which distro
> is out there that will allow me to do what i want to do on the 486's
> ???
>
Any major distribution will probably work. Note that how much
memory you have and whether or not you have a CDROM drive enter into
play here. The latest RH, SUSE, and other graphical interfaces like
lots of RAM (RH 6.2 will complain about 32 MB RAM, but will install,
etc.). I have been unable to get SUSE 6.1 or 6.4 to do an NFS install
from machines even with 32 MB RAM; they seem to get caught thrashing
between trying to load appriate parts of YAST, the install packages and
so forth and eventually freeze up. After 2 weeks, I've given up. (I
had done NFS installs with RH 5.0 very smoothly. I suspect it has to do
with distros taking advantage of the new kernels ability to preload one
kernel/OS and then finalize with another. If they are finalizing across
NFS and do not have enough local RAM/storage, then they tangle.)
Unless you have lots of RAM and a local cdrom, moving to Debian or
Slackware can be good. Both distributions allow you to install a small
Linux system from around a dozen floppies. You can then download the
rest of what you want via ftp, NFS, etc.
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From: "Ctrl-Alt-Del" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 and 15 GB IDE disk NOT BOOTING
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:04:01 +0100
I would agree with the LBA part of this - I had a similar problem with RH6.2
and a 10Gb disk, changing the block type from LBA to LARGE seems to have
fixed things (although it's only been 24 hours so far... fingers crossed)
> You might check to make sure that the kernel is detecting the geometry
> of
> the disk properly. Boot from the floppy and watch the messages that go
> by during the boot. When the bootup process detects the drive, it will
> display the geometry as it detects it.
>
> Also, there might be a problem with the way you have the drive set up in
> the BIOS. I just went through that problem with a new 10 Gb drive I put
> in my system, turned out that when it was set up to use LBA, the BIOS
> set it up for 255 heads, which mke2fs did not like. You probably don't
> have the same problem (you said the install progressed properly, which
> it
> wouldn't have done if mke2fs had choked), but it might be related.
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From: "Jonathan M. Paley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: ATI Xpert 2000
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:09:36 -0400
Hi,
I just bought an ATI Xpert 2000 (AGP) card to replace the card I'm
currently using. I've tried to install it on my machine, and though it
seemed to work fine in VGA mode, when I tried to configure X,
Xconfigurator, after testing X, tells me there's an error in my
configuration. Xconfigurator can never seem to find how much memory the
card has (though it finds the card type when I run it), and so I've
tried setting it to 8, 16 and 32 MB, neither of which work. I've also
tried various resolution settings, though I don't think this has much to
do with anything.
I do have the Mach64 driver installed.
My motherboard is an ABIT BE6 with a PII-450 and 128 MB RAM.
My system works fine with the Matrox Millenium II card (using the
SVGA driver).
I returned the first card I received from the place I bought it, got
a new one today, but still have the same problem.
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Jon
--
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Jonathan M. Paley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://g2pc1.bu.edu/~jpaley
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