Linux-Hardware Digest #219, Volume #13 Wed, 12 Jul 00 03:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: Help needed for Brother Printer ("Wayne M. Syvinski")
Re: External Modem Problem ("Wayne M. Syvinski")
Re: CPU temperature ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is this a good machine for the money? (David Steuber)
Re: 16 bit computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Integrated motherboard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HELP! System backing up and then "froze" (Craig McCluskey)
Re: CPU temperature (Alex)
Re: CPU temperature (Alex)
Trident Blade3D VIA MVP 4 chipset SOLVED (Chem-R-Us)
Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ? ("Pierre")
Re: Config network cards ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Adaptec 2904 ("Marc")
Industrial Hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ? ("Gene
Heskett")
Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ??? (Olivier Breard)
Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ? (Olivier
Breard)
Re: SB Ensoniq probs (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ? (Kenneth
R�rvik)
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From: "Wayne M. Syvinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed for Brother Printer
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:34 -0500
Problem solved!
Wayne M. Syvinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:YKza5.1501$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Brother MFC-8300 (multifunction fax/printer/copier). I can't get
> it to work with Linux-Mandrake 7.1 using either a parallel or USB
> connection, and none of the printer drivers I've tried work. I can't even
> get gibberish to print!
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Wayne Syvinski
>
>
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From: "Wayne M. Syvinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External Modem Problem
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:29:54 -0500
Problem solved!
Wayne M. Syvinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:WIza5.1500$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Creative ModemBlaster Flash56 II (DE5620-3) external modem. It
> worked fine with my previous configuration, but now I can't get Linux to
> acknowledge the modem (kppp keeps saying "Modem is busy" on EVERY device I
> try i.e. /dev/ttyS0, /dev/cua0, etc.).
>
> Previous config:
>
> Linux-Mandrake 6.5
> eMachines etower 400i (400 MHz Celeron processor)
> 256M RAM
>
> Current config:
>
> Linux-Mandrake 7.1
> Hewlett-Packard Pavilion 8655C (533 MHz Pentium III processor)
> 256M RAM
> This computer also has an internal modem linked to the sound card
> (grrrr...), and removing the modem disables the sound, so I have to keep
it
> in there.
>
> I'm no hardware expert, but one of the most striking things I noticed
about
> the Pavilion was that there are no ISA slots. Could this have something
to
> do with the failure of Linux to correctly detect the modem?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide...
>
> Wayne Syvinski
> confused Linux user
>
>
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Subject: Re: CPU temperature
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 03:56:25 GMT
Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I think my case is 19 inches tall... It's not that small... I have just
> re-apply the thermal compound (CPU heat sink) today.
> I think... My CPU gets really hot when running full load (I run setiathome
> almost 24hrs a day). I stopped it for a few hours today and the
> temperature seems to come down. However, I did not reboot to check the
> reading. I might as well check it again tomorrow...
Don't you have the Intel LDCM or its Linux correspondent? I know
there is one, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's
called.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Is this a good machine for the money?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:00:06 GMT
A rather lengthy URL to the VA Linux 420 follows:
http://www.valinux.com/systems/configure/index.html?SELECT_2=3&SELECT_3=11&SELECT_4=17&SELECT_5=24&SELECT_6=26&SELECT_7=None&SELECT_8=None&SELECT_9=None&SELECT_10=None&SELECT_11=None&SELECT_12=None&SELECT_13=43&SELECT_14=None&SELECT_15=45&Model=420&ANCHOR=-1&db=2&id=26729&MODEL_LOADED=1&Last_Function=0&max_anchor=15&EndConfig2=1&FINAL_CHECK.x=80&FINAL_CHECK.y=28
I'm looking to use this machine as a low end server rather than a
workstation, but the servers are out of my pricerange. This box seems
reasonable at $855. Don't know yet what shipping would bring it up
to.
Has anyone got any experience with VA Linux?
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Subject: Re: 16 bit computer
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:01:56 GMT
Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.) writes:
> > This doesn't mean the chips share a common machine language. It only
> > means that the people writing the documentation chose to use similar
> > mnemonics for the new opcodes.
> > Big deal. With that as a definition of "compatible", I can also claim
> > that a 6800 is compatible with a 68040.
> No, the definition is fuzzy, but there is a very clear mapping from
> the 8080 registers and op codes to the 8086 registers and op codes, to
> the point that it was reasonable to just assemble 8080 code to run on
> an 8086.
I really don't think this definition works. SVR-style ASM is
surprisingly portable from architecture to architecture, to the point
of reversing the operands and changing the names of most of the
mnemonics. You can even address the IA32 registers using the more
general indexed-register (r0, r1, ..., rn) format, can't you?
By the way, I wrote a (minimally-functional) assembler for the
MC68HC12 that mimicked the IA32 syntax, to the point where simple IA32
ASM programs could be straight-reassembled for the HC12. That does not
make the chips compatible in any way, shape, or form; it makes my
assembler compatible with Intel's reference assembler.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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Subject: Re: Integrated motherboard
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 04:06:29 GMT
Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > Well... when I was shopping for my motherboard, the bare-bones
> > versions ran about $220. Mine, which had onboard SCSI and ethernet,
> > was $300. The cost of a comparable SCSI card (an AHA-2940UW) was,
> > IIRC, at least $150. The cost of a comparable ethernet card was at
> > least $70. That's nearly $450 for the whole set if I'd bought it
> > piecemeal, and I'd come out two PCI slots short of where I am now.
> Good grief! What boards are those?? I just paid ~ $80 for a Gigabyte
> motherboard...
Dual-CPU.
Also, this was back when P3's were first being introduced. I had to
do some shopping to find an SMP board that already had a BIOS update
to handle P3's, which limited me to the two most expensive brands.
> > The other factor to consider is that it's extremely difficult to find
> > high-end motherboards with nothing integrated.
> Well, ``nothing'' is a pretty strong requirement. But it's easy to
> find them without video, sound, modem, or ethernet.
Well, I've yet to see a motherboard with a modem built-in. But a
bunch of server boards have video and ethernet built in, and many of
them seem to have sound as well. My definition of "high-end" here is
"server," which I probably should've said.
--
Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
oh, wait."
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP! System backing up and then "froze"
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 23:10:25 -0500
I started a backup on a dual 450 MHz Pentium III to an HP35480A
DDS-DC SCSI tape drive.
I used the command,
find / -print | grep -v /dev/*st0* | cpio -oaBcm > /dev/st0
and found that the console is locked up:
no mouse action
no alternate virtual consoles
The hard disk light is on continuously and the tape light is
on continuously (at least they were at 1900 CDT when I came home).
It's now been over seven hours since I started the backup.
I can ping the box and get replies, but I can't get it to
respond to an ssh login request (the only way I can get it
remotely).
Any suggestions what to do, besides push the reset button?
Craig
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU temperature
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:29:56 -0400
>
> Don't you have the Intel LDCM or its Linux correspondent? I know
> there is one, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's
> called.
Are you talking about lm_sensors (it also require i2c)? Well, haven't get the
chance to read
through the "README" part. Therefore, I haven't install it yet or I should say
compile or
patch it to my kernel tree. I should do that asap...
;-)
Alex.
>
> --
> Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> "Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
> oh, wait."
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From: Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPU temperature
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:23:28 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Don't you have the Intel LDCM or its Linux correspondent? I know
> there is one, but I can't for the life of me remember what it's
> called.
>
Are you talking about lm_sensors (it also require i2c)? Well, haven't get the
chance to read through the "README" part. Therefore, I haven't install it yet
or I should say compile or patch it to my kernel tree. I should do that asap...
;-)
Alex.
>
> --
> Eric P. McCoy ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
> "Dude... my hands are huge. They can touch anything but themselves...
> oh, wait."
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Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 22:55:12 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linx.x,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Trident Blade3D VIA MVP 4 chipset SOLVED
OK. Here's what I did:
This specifically applies to Linux-Mandrake 7.1, the FIC PAG2130
mainboard, and a KDS 19" Visual Sensations monitor.
1) It took me 3 times as long to do the mainboard upgrade on my Dad's
win98 box as it did on my Linux box :)
2) Using the info from Rod Smith on news:comp.os.linux..questions and
Steven Ponsford on news:comp.os.linux.x, I managed to get X working at,
ahem, 1280x1024. That sure is tiny on a 19" monitor!
Here's what I did. I manually searched the /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/Cards,
Cards+, CardsNames, and /usr/X11R6/lib/doc/Monitors databases for my
card and monitor.
Running xf86config I chose not to list cards (my xf86config dumps core
if I do), but chose option 3 (accelerated) I then made "Trident Blade3D"
my
card identifier, "Trident Microsystems" the vendor, and "Blade3D" the
devide (board) name. The chipset is actually "Trident Cyberblade
(generic)".
I then used XFdrake to find an "acceptable" resolution. I selected
"1024x768" and it presented me with a "workable" 1280x1024 screen.
If you'd like to see my /etc/X11/XF86Config file, email me at:
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Pierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 00:12:35 -0700
Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
I found these packages on http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn .
I have a sound card not supported. I depend on ALSA. But I don't know how to
install the
packages with names ending with .tar.bz2.
Thanks a lot !
Pierre.
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===========================
Dept. of Mathematics,
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Config network cards
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 05:43:53 GMT
In article <OGNa5.43$TX.5736689@elnws01>,
"Marc Nesheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I have an old 486 running redhat 6.2. I would like to get two intel
> etherexpress cards (isa) working in there. No matter how I have the
two
> cards arranged in the system only eth0 will come up. When I type in:
ifup
> eth1 the following error message is generated:
>
> SIOCSIFADDR: No buffer space available
> SIOCSIFNETMASK: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCSIFBRDADDR: Cannot assign requested address
> SIOCADDRT: No such device
>
> Then I do an ifconfig and that out pu looks like:
>
> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:AA:00:55:36:C0
> inet addr:172.16.0.2 Bcast:172.16.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:246 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:362 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> Interrupt:3 Base address:0x310
>
> eth1 Link encap:AMPR NET/ROM HWaddr
> UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300
this last paragraph means theres a eth1 device already up in your
system,
but its not ethernet, its AMPR/....
whatever that means.
i have actually *not the slightest* idea what that is .
are you *sure* your 2 cards are identical?
tried to remove the ethernet0 yet?
is the other one recognized as eth0 then and working?
any funny networking devices activated in your kernel?
try to replay your boot-messages with dmesg.
what does it say in connection with eth1?
puzzled.
--
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From: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2904
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:45:46 +0200
Reply-To: "Marc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
My cd-writer (yamaha) and zip-drive are connected to a aha-2904 and work
perfectly (SuSe 6.4). I don't know if it is supported, but at least it
works.
Marc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anyone tell me if the aha-2904 scsi controller is supported by
>Linux? The documentation is not very clear on this! Some where i found
>that aha-29xx is suported but the conctroller is not listed as
>supported!
>
>Please help!
>
>ae
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Industrial Hardware
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 06:03:00 GMT
Hi does anyone know if any cpu card/passive backplane systems have been
tested under Redhat 6.2?
Also do any diags exist for this purpose?
My infinite gratitude ;)
thanks
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Before you buy.
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Date: 12 Jul 2000 2:1:19 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Pierre ;
man tar
If its a tar.bz2 file, its probably source which will need to be
compiled. You do have that installed too don't you?
> Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
> I found these packages on http://www.alsa-project.org/~valentyn .
> I have a sound card not supported. I depend on ALSA. But I don't
> know how to install the packages with names ending with .tar.bz2.
> Thanks a lot !
> Pierre.
> --
> ---------------------------
> Dept. of Mathematics,
> University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
> --------------------------
Cheers, Gene
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From: Olivier Breard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ???
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:57:09 +0200
Hi all !
I am a linux user for many years, but i change my hardware and can't install
linux now that my win partition is too big: the 1024 cyls limit is reached
(>9Gb, on a 13.5Gb disk).
I can't (/*even if i would be very pleased to*/) remove or resize my fat32
partition, being not the only user of my PC
I am considering buying a Mandrake 7.1 distrib, kernel 2.2.15 and i would
like to know if kernel&lilo now supports over 1024 cyls...
I heard a new boot loader was developped. Can anybody give me some infos
about it ?
Thanks for your help !
Olivier
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From: Olivier Breard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:59:28 +0200
bzip2 is a GNU compressor i think... checkout gnu.org to see if I am
wrong...
(No web access here, so can't check myself)...
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Subject: Re: SB Ensoniq probs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:02:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Lemieux) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Probably there's a resource conflict. Are you sure you are supplying
>> the right values for irq and io-address? Anyway, compiling the support
>> directly into the kernel worked just fine for my Creative
>> ES1371/PCI128 card on mdk7.0, it is then detected at bootup. Suggest
>> you try this. Run "cat foo.wav > /dev/dsp" to test.
>
>Maybe, I don't know, those are Chinese to me... how do I set that? and
>/dev/dsp doesn't exists...
You need to compile support for the audio chipset into the kernel - See the
kernel-howto (http://www.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html )for
instructions on compiling this into the kernel. When doing the "make
config/xconfig" step, enable the ES1371 support under "Audio" (set to "Y").
Alternatively, If you already have the modules compiled, you need to figure
out the correct io-address and irq (interrupt) for your card. Take a look
at the file /proc/pci, this should contain a listing of the devices on your
PCI bus. Look for the section that says "Multimedia controller" and
"Ensoniq". The io-address and interrupt should be listed there. Then you
can run modprobe and supply io=AxBCD and irq=X as parameters.
Hope this helps some more. As for /dev/dsp, it is supposed to be a symlink
to /dev/dspX, X being a number, often 0. If /dev/dsp0 exists, try "ln -sf
/dev/dsp0 /dev/dsp". If not, you need to create a character device with
"mknod". Can't remember the exact values to pass right now, but if you need
them, email me, and I'll look them up.
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Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:05:17 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre) wrote in
<u2Ta5.2231$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I have a sound card not supported. I depend on ALSA. But I don't know
>how to install the
>packages with names ending with .tar.bz2.
bunzip2 foo.tar.bz2; tar xpvf foo.tar :))
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