Linux-Hardware Digest #239, Volume #13 Sat, 15 Jul 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: how can i make run motorola sm56k modem? (Peter Riggs)
Re: vivitron 17 monitor resolutions with linux (Valentin Guillen)
Re: Request for comments on system specs... (Ancipital)
Re: ELSA GeForce 2 GTS/XConfigurator/AGP (Ancipital)
Re: monitor resolutions with linux (Tom Hoffmann)
X on TV -- Here's how it's done! (Valentin Guillen)
Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right) (Dan Kegel)
Re: Postscript Level 1 printing under RH6.2 (U S-D)
Re: Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right) (James
Knowles)
PCI card not recognized (Hans van Leest)
Re: problem installing ethernet adaptor (Hans van Leest)
creative modem and win2k (Lei Yan)
Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements (Alan Taylor)
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From: Peter Riggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how can i make run motorola sm56k modem?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:47:20 GMT
In article <Iw%b5.7688$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "daniel"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hello, i have problems qith connecting motorola sm56k with linux, i
> think mine is not winmodem is from billion thanks
>
>
>
sm == software modem
regards
peter.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vivitron 17 monitor resolutions with linux
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:08:32 -0600
Neil,
In a case like this, you can proceed in several ways.
You can research the monitor on the web, and obtain hard, concrete data
regarding the performance characteristics of the monitor, and then armed
with this info, you can then precisely and accurately configure the
montitor.
You could purchase a hare's tail for good luck, take wild, mad guesses
when running the video config utility, and just hope the tail protects
you from damaging or destroying the monitor.
You could visit http://www.vesa.org for information regarind the VESA
standards, and then using that data, configure the video using standard,
VESA-compliant rates.
I would guess that the monitor virtually certain to be VESA-compliant.
And then of course, the very last thing normal human beings would do is
to go to:
http://www.xfree86.org
and actually RTFM regarding configuring anonymous, unidentified
monitors.
Cheers!
Valentin Guillen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ancipital)
Subject: Re: Request for comments on system specs...
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:37:28 GMT
On Tue, 11 Jul 2000 06:03:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (X) wrote:
>The problem is, Intel (as you might imagine), doesn't write chipsets
>for AMD-based systems. VIA is going to be as good as it gets. The
>only other solution would be to get a mainboard with the older AMD
>chipset, which has fewer options, and doesn't support the faster
>processors.
>
>I have read alot of good things about Athlon mainboards with VIA
>chipsets. I am more concerned with the brand of the mainboard, not
>the chipset. ASUS makes a good (although pricey) mainboard. From
>what I have read, the ASUS mainboard is the most stable, and should do
>nicely.
Aye. The only gotcha is with the old K7m, whichhas serious timing
issues with Geforce cards, if it's in agp 2x.. causes a nasty lockup
:)
Ancipital- Inedible Buddhas reality control #1
http://www.buddhas.org is currently tqt- back soon.
To unmung email addr, get rid of "nospam-" and maybe even "-thanks"
"I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers
are genuine scumbags." -Sanford Wallace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ancipital)
Subject: Re: ELSA GeForce 2 GTS/XConfigurator/AGP
Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2000 15:40:29 GMT
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 18:21:37 -0700, Olivier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an NVDIA chipset based called GeForce 2 GTS sitting
>in my AGP slot.
>
>1) I have tried making this card work using XFree
>4.0.1/Xconfigurator.
AFAIK, Xconfigurator generates 3.xx syntax config files- you will
probably have to write your own for 4.xx.. Personally, I'd avoid 4.xx
for now anyway, it's still a bit shonky.
Ancipital- Inedible Buddhas reality control #1
http://www.buddhas.org is currently tqt- back soon.
To unmung email addr, get rid of "nospam-" and maybe even "-thanks"
"I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers
are genuine scumbags." -Sanford Wallace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Hoffmann)
Subject: Re: monitor resolutions with linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:35:41 GMT
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 22:00:48 +0100, Neil Hollow wrote:
>I've just bought a second hand gateway monitor CPD-17F23 and of course
>don't have a any technical details supplied. Does anyone have any
>experience of getting X to work with this machine. Running RH6.0 on a
>philips monitor using an ATI RAGE II card (I'm keeping the card). What
>vertical and horizontal refresh rate should I use? NH.
You might want to check the philips web site. They may have the
monitor specs there ... they do for their current models.
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X on TV -- Here's how it's done!
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:46:49 -0600
Benjamin,
Being how you appear to be keen on doing it, here's how I would proceed
to do it.
NTSC specifies 30 frames per second, each one consisting of an
interlacing which reqires two passes to complete. So we have the 30
frames each one of which consists of one image put together from two
"write passes" of the electron beam. Thus, we actually have vertical
synchronization pulses at a 60hz refresh rate.
So now that we know the freqency of the vertical refresh rate, we can
delete/rename the existing XF86Config file, and rerun the vid config
util to create us a new config file. This time we'll tell the config
util that we can only operate at 60Hz vertical refresh rate.
When VGA was released by IBM, the original specification called for a
2?.? vertical refresh rate (25.1 maybe or maybe closer to 27 or 28 Hz,
hard to remember that far back). Then, VESA was formed, and their
standard called for a more ergonomic (higher vertical refresh rates)
than the original IBM standard. This one is called VGA-VESA or
something similar. This second, newer standard is what most vid config
utils will give you when you specify VGA mode. But, this latter one is
NOT what you want.
Next, you will want to specify ONLY 640x res. You're screen is already
going to be unintellible enough that you don't want smaller ANYTHING on
your screen.
You may even need to manually examine the config file after the config
util writes it for you, just to ensure that the data are correct.
The point here being that you want that vertical refresh rate to be as
close to 60Hz as possible, because that's what the NTSC spec calls
for. If I remember correctly, IBM's original spec produced a ver
refresh rate of 59.9x Hz. Pretty close.
Steve, if you were in a tv studio and you wanted to broadcast an image
from a computer monitor screen, a couple of ways you could do it. You
might have a very sophisticated monitor whose internal synchronization
pulses were "tied to" and locked onto the "
genlock generator" which all cameras in the studio are tied to, so that
the snyc is "always in synch". Very expensive proposition, but basic to
an idustrial setting. The other way is to have a good video card in the
computer who's screen is going to be aimed at by a tv camera. This
video card would be connected to a monitor whose VERT refresh rate could
be cranked up very high, (say, over 100Hz). You would set the
XF86Config file to use the very highest rate you could, because the tv
camera is refreshing at 60Hz, and you want a monitor refresh rate much
higher than that so that there is no screen flickering that the camera
could see. We've all seen on tv when they show a computer screen and it
appears to be wildly out of synch, either upwards or downwards. This is
caused from the monitor being out of synchronization with the timing on
the video camera which is pointed at it. When you have high refresh
rates, the "phosphor peristence or illumination decay" is long enough
that essentially, you screen is no longer flickering. It's a steady
glow.
I may be forgetting something here, but if so, just write back and MAYBE
I'll know...:-) If you do, just remove the caps in return address.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 16:29:02 -0700
Some progress to report:
It seems that Red Hat 6.2 has some sort of problem with the Asus P2B-D.
After fiddling around, I noticed that 'make -j4 bzImage' would choke
even if I was booted single processor. Then I noticed that if
I installed the vanilla 2.2.16 + alan cox's combo errata patch
and configured a very simple kernel, the problem went away.
I've build successfully three times now under various stressful
conditions. I can't be sure the problem is gone for a week or so
of stress testing, I suppose, but I'm quite hopeful.
- Dan
Dan Kegel wrote:
> Just bought a system with an Asus P2B-D and two Pentium III-650's.
> Installed Red Hat 6.2. When I compile the Linux kernel (a big job
> that stresses the computer pretty well for two or three minutes) with
> make -j2 bzImage
> it fails on a different source file each time, complaining of
> an assembler error. Rerunning 'make -j2 bzImage' immediately
> causes it to compile the same file without errors and move on.
> This is the classic sign of a hardware problem -- but it appears
> to be specific to having both processors actively working and
> using the disk at the same time.
>
> I can reproduce the problem three ways:
> 1. boot SMP with all 32 MB RAM, run X, and 'make -j2 bzImage'
> 2. boot SMP with 'linux mem=24M', run in console mode, and 'make -j2 bzImage'
> 3. boot SMP with all 32 MB RAM, run in console mode, and 'make -j4 bzImage'
> It's very reproducible with the first two methods, and fairly so
> with the third.
> Booting uniprocessor and doing 'make -j2 bzImage' doesn't do it,
> booting SMP and running 'make bzImage' doesn't do it,
> booting SMP in console mode with all 32 MB RAM and running 'make -j2 bzImage'
>doesn't do it.
>
> ...
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386
>-DCPU=386 -c -o buffer.o buffer.c
> gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2
> -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -D__SMP__ -pipe -fno-strength-reduce -m386
>-DCPU=386 -c -o scsi.o scsi.c
> {standard input}: Assembler messages:
> {standard input}:1699: Error: invalid character '_' in mnemonic
> {standard input}:1699: Error: Rest of line ignored. First ignored character is ` '.
> make[2]: *** [buffer.o] Error 1
--
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (U S-D)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Postscript Level 1 printing under RH6.2
Date: 15 Jul 2000 23:37:48 GMT
Grant Taylor wrote:
>> U S-D wrote:
>>> I've recently upgraded from 6.0 to 6.2 and now my Postscript Level 1
>>> printer (OL840) refuses to play ball. Curiously, printtool's
>>> Postscript test page is produced fine. I guess this is because it
>>> conforms to PS level 1 whereas mpage output does not.
>
>You can use Ghostscript's ps2ps utility to interpret arbitrary modern
>Postscript into Postscript at Level 2 or Level 1. This should produce
>something useful for your older printer. man ps2ps.
I've been puzzling for a week now.
michael# ps2ps -dLanguageLevel=1 input.ps output.ps
creates a massive output.ps file eg ..
michael# ls -l Firewall-HOWTO.ps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 michael michael 130300 Jul 4 12:51 Firewall-HOWTO.ps
michael# ps2ps -dLanguageLevel=1 Firewall=HOWTO.ps output.ps
michael# ls -l output.ps
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 4873776 Jul 16 00:07 output.ps
michael# lpr output.ps
(many minutes later and the printer resets)
Outputting postscript to this Oki OL840 (ps level 1) all worked fine
with RH6.0 ie with...
printtool-3.40-3.noarch.rpm
rhs-printfilters-1.51-2.i386.rpm
ghostscript-5.10-7.i386.rpm
ghostscript-fonts-5.10-3.noarch.rpm
lpr-0.35-1.i386.rpm
Replacing the packages in RH6.2 with the above (previously functioning
packages) still brings no joy - same fault - printer resets without
printing.
I've also tried replacing GNU ghostscript with Aladdin ghostscript 6.01.
No difference.
Any help gratefully received!
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Solved? (was: Asus P2B-D, dual PIII-650MHz, SMP not working right)
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 17:58:22 -0600
> I installed the vanilla 2.2.16 + alan cox's combo errata patch
> and configured a very simple kernel, the problem went away.
Did you flash the BIOS? This sounds like a kernel problem, not
necessarily a RedHat problem. My P2B-D is about a year and a half old
and has worked flawlessly on all RH versions to date.
--
My stars, it's full of dogs!
- 2001 Dalmatians
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From: Hans van Leest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PCI card not recognized
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 02:22:20 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello,
I've got a Intel 166 with RH 6.2 and a PCI card is not recognized.
It's a ISDN card with a WINBOND w6692 chip.
After installation 'kudzu won't recognice the card.
The function 'lspci -v' recogize the card afterall with the following
output:
-Class: 0080
-IRQ 9
-Memory at f5eef000
-I/O ports at d000
-Flags: fast devsel
-Unkown device 5478 --this can be true, because it's not listed in
'/usr/share/pci.ids'.
The file '/proc/pci' recognizes the card also, only with more output
'Bus 0, device 10, function 0', and 'Unkown Class'.
This looks strange because "lspci -v' gives Class: 0080 .
How can I recognize the card, mayby with the values of 'lspci'.
Do I have to do that in 'lilo.conf' or with 'modprob/insprob', and how
Thanks
Hans
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From: Hans van Leest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problem installing ethernet adaptor
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2000 02:34:19 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I recently installed a Linksys 10/100 LAN PCI card in my Redhat 6.1
> system in anticipation of getting DSL. During the first reboot Redhat
> detected the new hardware and, presumably, did some sort of
> configuration. It then asked if I wanted to configure networking. I said
> "... ....e card sharing IRQ7 with the display adaptor (also PCI) and
> with
> LPT1 (not being used).
>
> Any suggestions about how to fix this or proceed with troubleshooting
> will be much appreciated.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
Check the "http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl61.html" page.
There is something with the Tulip chipset, I don't know what because I
don't work with that kind of card.
Good luck
Hans
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<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>I recently installed a Linksys 10/100 LAN PCI card
in my Redhat 6.1
<br>system in anticipation of getting DSL. During the first reboot Redhat
<br>detected the new hardware and, presumably, did some sort of
<br>configuration. It then asked if I wanted to configure networking. I
said
<br>"... ....e card sharing IRQ7 with the display
adaptor (also PCI) and with
<br>LPT1 (not being used).
<p>Any suggestions about how to fix this or proceed with troubleshooting
<br>will be much appreciated.
<p>Sent via Deja.com <a href="http://www.deja.com/">http://www.deja.com/</a>
<br>Before you buy.</blockquote>
Check the <a
href="http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl61.html">"http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rhl61.html"</a>
page.
<br>There is something with the Tulip chipset, I don't know what because
I don't work with that kind of card.
<p>Good luck
<p>Hans</html>
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Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 20:08:43 -0500
From: Lei Yan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: creative modem and win2k
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I have a creative lab ISA modem flash 56II, 5601.
Installed on a KA7 + K7 650.
It will not work with win2k, even I got the driver from their web site.
Does anybody know how to setup it? how to set the
jumpers and how to set the bios and how to set in the win2k.
Thanks in advance.
The reason I got this one is that I believe a ISA modem will work
lynux. Also I think there are some people in this group will encounter
the same combo.
--
Lei Yan
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I have a creative lab ISA modem flash 56II, 5601.
<br>Installed on a KA7 + K7 650.
<br>It will not work with win2k, even I got the driver from their web site.
<br>Does anybody know how to setup it? how to set the
<br>jumpers and how to set the bios and how to set in the win2k.
<br>Thanks in advance.
<p>The reason I got this one is that I believe a ISA modem will work
<br>lynux. Also I think there are some people in this group will encounter
<br>the same combo.
<pre>--
Lei Yan</pre>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Taylor)
Subject: Firewall/Gateway hardware requirements
Date: 16 Jul 2000 01:47:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I am considering buying a 2nd hand Pentium 133 with 16M ram to use as a
Firewall/Gateway/Router for a small network. The network has half-a-dozen
users, is 100M Ethernet and has some fastish computers involved (700Mhz, with
1.4G anticipated next year). The network is connected to the Internet via a
1.5Mbit cable modem. Is the Pentium 133 enough to ensure it will not become the
bottleneck ?
BRgds, Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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