Linux-Hardware Digest #287, Volume #13 Mon, 24 Jul 00 07:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: SMP Computer (Michael Meding)
ATI Rage Pro -- dog slow, please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2 (Anthony Ewell)
Re: Optical Mouse Recommendation (Steffen Kluge)
Re: DMA on AMD Irongate? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: UPS suggestions? (Steffen Kluge)
Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem (Guust Flater)
Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem (Guust Flater)
Re: UDMA/66 HPT 366 (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: M$ IntelliMouse (sideband)
Re: Change boot parameters LILO ("Ken Crofts")
network problem ("Baumann Reto")
VT82C686A south bridge (epox EP-7KXA built on sound card) ("Marco Bertotto")
Problems with SCSI card (RH 6.2) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: REALMAGIC PLUS TVput is B&W only !!!!!!!!!!!!!! ("Ofer Perl")
Re: DSL DRIVERS??? (M)
Re: Change boot parameters LILO (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: SCSI timing out? (Rick Stuart)
I740 ("Gregor Nosko")
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From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP Computer
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 06:52:36 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The stuff about intel in comparison to amd is nonsense.
For the rest:
It pretty much depends on what you want. If you have only a couple of
big non threaded applications which you normally won't run
simultaneously then you are better of with a 1ghz processor than two
times 550. As a rule of thumb if you have well scaling os'es and well
scaling programs you gain between 60 and 80 percent for the first
additional additional processor.
And think of the fact that the memory bus is limited in bandwith which
is that the two processors share the 1.06 gb/s max (that was it for
pc100 -- right ?)
Threaded applications are not as common as one might think in the linux
world, and the couple of times you do a compile job where you do the
make -j2 or -jsomething doesn't pay.
So why not go for an AMD or Intel around 900mhz, they are not as
expensive (especially the amd's) and you do not have to pay for the
exorbitant high motherboard prices for dual.
You have a lot of fiddling around if you use it for gaming for example.
Not all the soundcards drivers are smp safe. And this goes on and on.
For server use that's another story but for daily home use, at least for
now I wouldn't recommend it.
Regards
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ATI Rage Pro -- dog slow, please help!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 05:41:34 GMT
Hi,
I'm running XFree 3.3.6 (default mandrake 7.1 install) on a P3-650,
128MB ram, and an ATI Rage Pro PCI card (not fury or 128, it's a year
or two old). resolution is 1280x1024x32bit, and it's really sloooow..
screen redraws, fills, etc., just take forever. but by comparison,
it's nice and zippy in windows. what's wrong? i though the mach64
server was supposed to be accellerated. is that just not so??
greg
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Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 22:55:22 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Promblems with SCSI in RH 6.2
Hi Chris,
Ouch!
The only thing I can susgest is to upgrade the scsi bios
on your 2940 card.
Good luck,
--Tony
Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> I'll check it out...
>
> However, using Slackware Linux and Winblows, I could access everything no
> problem.
>
> Thanx!
>
> Chris
>
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Just a wild guess, but it sounds like a termination problem.
> >
> > Here are some tips:
> >
> > 1) turn all of your terminators off on your peripherals and use
> > an "active" terminator at the end of your cable. (Yeh, active
> > terminators cost more, but the passive ones have stopped
> > working for years now.)
> >
> > 2) put your scsi card's bios into "automatic" termination
> >
> > 3) while you are in your scsi card's bios, use the "scan bus" utility
> > to check for all your devices
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > --Tony
> >
> > Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
> >
> > > Hi All,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to get my Adaptec 2940 SCSI card to work under properly
> > > under RedHat 6.2 (using aic7xxx module). Redhat detected the card just
> > > fine, the module is loaded at boot, however, when I access the drives, I
> > > keep getting an interruption. I noticed once that the SCSI bus was
> > > getting reset.
> > >
> > > Anybody have any ideas how to fix the problem?
> > >
> > > Thanx!
> > >
> > > Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: Optical Mouse Recommendation
Date: 24 Jul 2000 06:42:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <8l5pqh$pc6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, oksigen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need to know if someone has used an optical mouse on Linux. If
>positive, what model is it.
I'm using an IntelliMouse with IntelliEye something... and it
works great with XFree 4.0. No extra software required.
Mouse support has vastly improved with XFree 4.0, btw.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: DMA on AMD Irongate?
Date: 24 Jul 2000 07:10:09 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>is it safe to activate via hdparm DMA-Mode on
>>a ASUS K7M (AMD Irongate 751 Chipset)? Are there
>>any known problems?
>
>Have one of these myself. Do *not* activate it unless you're using the
>latest kernel and patches from
>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/
>
>Without these I have had drives lock up totally seconds after activating it
>(the same goes for a number of other newer chipsets).
I never had a lock up (Gigabyte 7IXE board, same chipset), but
completely corrupted the partitions while playing with the -X
switch. Just using -d1 works great and is stable (2.2.14 kernel,
no IDE related patches) and gives 22+MB/s transfer rate with a
Seagate 9GB Ultra-33 drive.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: UPS suggestions?
Date: 24 Jul 2000 07:02:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Kufrovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I'm thinking of getting a UPS for my Linux box, since we've
>been getting short (a few seconds) power outages around here recently, and
>I'm just wondering what all to look for. Linux compatibility would
>certainly be a plus. A serial port connection is a necessity for
I just picked up an Exide NetUPS (1000VA) yesterday for A$450. I
bought it because I thought this was a great price for a new
1000VA UPS, but was quite surprised to find that it has
excellent Linux support. It comes with the LanSafe-III software
(ports for various Linux distros) and can shut down all hosts on
your home network in an orderly and organised manner. The GUI is
nice and features a live block diagram, history graphs of all
important parameters etc. It also has hot-swappable batteries.
Apparently (from the web sites I found) Exide is now called
Powerware, but the UPS products seem to be the same.
Before stumbling over this thing I was playing with the idea of
getting an APC UPS, but that would have been twice as
expensive...
Give me a few more days of playing with it and I can tell you
how long it survives on batteries with an Athlon tower, a
Pentium desktop, a Sparc IPC, a hub and a cable modem attached.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Guust Flater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.help
Subject: Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:27:07 GMT
Dave Slusher wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hans Vredeveld
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > How do I have to proceed to use the internal modem of a Compaq Armada
> > > 1700 (6300/T/5000/D/0/2) model with SuSE-Linux 6.4 ?
> >
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but is the Armada a notebook? If so, you may
> > quiet safely assume the internal modem is a Winmodem (also known as
> > software modem), which means it will not work with Linux.
> >
> > Hans
>
> No you cannot. I have an Armada 1590DMT with RedHat 6.1 running on it
> (with no Windows installed whatsoever). I have no idea what the modem
> is, but the first time I tried to use it, it worked. I've never really
> pursued the mystery of what modem it is, but it is either a hardware
> modem or somehow magically works. I dial up with it regularly.
>
> What is your source for this broad and incorrect generalization?
Consider yourself lucky. Hans is quite right. Most build-in modems in
laptops are winmodems. In case of the Armada1700 it surely is so no
modem in linux. Or better to say not yet, because
http://www.linmodems.org is working on it.
--
GFlater
====================================================
Why use Windows since there is a door (Andre Fachat)
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From: Guust Flater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.help
Subject: Re: Compaq Armada 1700 and built in modem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:29:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> How do I have to proceed to use the internal modem of a Compaq Armada
> 1700 (6300/T/5000/D/0/2) model with SuSE-Linux 6.4 ?
You probably have a software-modem (or winmodem) inside so it wouldn't
normaly work with linux.
Try to find out what kind of modem it exactly is and you might have a
change.
Here are some links you can look into which have valuable information on
laptop/linux specifics:
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
http://www.linmodems.org/
--
GFlater
====================================================
Why use Windows since there is a door (Andre Fachat)
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Subject: Re: UDMA/66 HPT 366
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 07:30:23 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (smp root) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>second would be to consider not useing the HPT366, it's a crock
>of shit and even when it's working well, is no faster than a good
>UDMA 33.
Disagree, my Hot Rod66 works perfectly well on linux-2.4.0-test4, and it
also gives about 15% more throughput with hdparm -Tt. Most people seem to
agree that UDMA66 gives little performance gain over UDMA33, so you're
right in that respect. But I have never had trouble with the HPT366 once I
got the 2.4.0-test kernel compiled.
>better still, get an SCSI card.
Agreed, but is _is_ the expensive solution :)
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: M$ IntelliMouse
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:40:50 -0400
Try IMPS/2 instead of intellimouse... Works for me.
also, add the following line in the pointer section:
ZAxisMapping 4 5
Hope this helps.
-SSB
Christian Weihs wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> I�ve got a Micro$oft IntelliMouse 1.1A PS/2. Does anyone know how
> I can get my middle mousebutton/wheel to work under X/KDE?
> I tried setting
> Buttons 3
> in the XF86Config file with no result. There is an option called
> Intellimouse but the manpage says it�s for serial mice.
> I�m running SuSE Linux 6.4 with X-Windows 3.3.6 & KDE 1.1.2
>
> thanks
> christian
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From: "Ken Crofts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 17:48:47 +1000
I tried changing LILO to that described below, and even made Winders default
but it wouldn't boot into Windows. When I booted off a Window 95s floppy
into DOS and ran Fdisk, it shows the first partition as a non-dos partition
(ie my original Win 95 installation) Is there any hope of restoring this by
changing location of LILO or is my Win95 installation history?
Ken
"Chem-R-Us" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ken Crofts wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am a newbie to Linux and need probably what is simple help.
> >
> > I have just installed Red Hat 6.2 onto my Toshiba Satellite 4100XDVD
laptop.
> > To prepare I created a separate partition of about 2GB using Partition
Magic
> > in native Linux file format. The first partition on my drive is 2GB
Fat32
> > running Win95. I then installed BootMAgic and disabled it, the
intention
> > being to enable it once Linux software was installed so I could bott
into
> > either Linux or Windows.
>
> You don't need boot magic. LILO will also boot winders. Just add it to
> /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> -----cut here-----
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=winders
> table=/dev/hda
>
> -----cut here-----
>
> And you can, errgh, even make winders the default. Just add to the top
> of /etc/lilo.conf:
>
> default=winders
>
> HTH. HAND.
>
> --
>
> Chem-R-Us
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From: "Baumann Reto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: network problem
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:27:24 +0200
I have the following problem:
I installed a second network card on my pc running SuSE Linux 6.0...
Unfortunately after this step, nothing seem to work. I can't ping the other
machines on my intranet anymore (ping localhost does work).
It looks like the kernel saw both NICs (eto and eth1). But when i do a
ifconfig eth0 there is only BROADCAST MULTICAST (but no UP and RUNNING).
When I do a ifconfig eth0 up I get an error message which sais that the
device dosn't understand the command.
Is this a ressource problem? Or what could be wrong here?
Both NICs are 3com Fast Etherlink XL (3c90x).
Thanks for any help in advance
Reto
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From: "Marco Bertotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VT82C686A south bridge (epox EP-7KXA built on sound card)
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 10:22:50 +0200
Hi!
I've a Epox 7KXA motherboard with Via 82C686 built on sound card.
My problem is simple: I can't heard the sound at all, but the system
reports: everything ok (sound card detetect, correct loading modules....).
I'am using RED Hat 6.2.
Ideas?
Thanks
Marco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with SCSI card (RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 08:58:52 GMT
I have an adaptec 1542 with a scanner hanging off it. During Boot the
SCSI bios lists the scanner but I can't seem to find out how to get the
card recognised under RH 6.2. I've tried loading the aha152x from the
linux boot prompt but linuxconf still shows no devices. Is there a
seperate module that I should be loading ?
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Before you buy.
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From: "Ofer Perl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.mail.pegasus-mail.ms-windows,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware,comp.sys.acorn.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: REALMAGIC PLUS TVput is B&W only !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:36:41 +0200
___________________________________________________________
>I've recently purchased a REALMAGIC PLUS MPEG decoder to use with my
>DVD-ROM, installation and detecting of the card were pretty smooth , i can
>play movies on screen but when I enabled the TVout option the picture i
got
>was black and white. Of course i read the readme file and tried to tweak
>with the controls , my TV is PAL, (not the 60Hz one but i tried both cases)
>, I used the S-Video jack with the supllied adapter for composite. I
entered
>the expert settings and tried to change the value ( whatever it does) no
>effect either. i reset the color calibration and calibrated it again
>manually, the strange thing is that when i had to find the position when i
>can see a cross over the color THER WAS NO WHITE VERTICAL LINE AS SHOWN IN
>THE PICTURE NEARBY the minimum showed the color background with the
>horizantal line and the maximum showed only black...
>I don't think there is a problem with the TV or the cable because i already
>checked my machines on 3 TVs with 4 different cables.
>Can you offer me any solution to this annoying problem ?
>
>thank you in advance
>
>Ofer Perl
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: DSL DRIVERS???
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 10:27:07 GMT
On Sun, 23 Jul 2000 12:22:32 -0400, "Rob F" <mcfrisch<ANTISPAM>@hotmail.com>
wrote:
>I was refering that the 3010 drivers won't do squat for the 3060, at least
>from what I could figure. But thanks for the procedure.
In that you are correct .. as such.. The current driver for the 3010 does not
do anything for the 3060, but as the source states it is just a missing
feature.. So it will propperly be the same driver for 3060 just with an
alcatraz (wazzint it called that?) implementation
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Change boot parameters LILO
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 20:46:41 +0000
Ken Crofts wrote:
> I tried changing LILO to that described below, and even made Winders default
> but it wouldn't boot into Windows. When I booted off a Window 95s floppy
> into DOS and ran Fdisk, it shows the first partition as a non-dos partition
> (ie my original Win 95 installation) Is there any hope of restoring this by
> changing location of LILO or is my Win95 installation history?
>
> Ken
Hi tourist in Linux-land.
After rewriting lilo.conf and saving it run as root
/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf #capital C
meaning "Please Lilo install yourself in MBR with the new parameters as writen
in directory /etc file lilo.conf."
It should do it - does always for me.
Have fun.
Stanislaw.
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From: Rick Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI timing out?
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:00:19 GMT
I am having a very similar problem when attempting installation of
RedHat 6.2 on a compaq AP550. Here is something I found on the
comp.os.linux.setup newsgroup. I have not tried it yet.
http://people.redhat.com/dledford/aic7xxx.html
Later,
Rick
Mike wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I posted a question earlier, but I thought I'd try again with the
> logging I'm now seeing. (Didn't know all the install logging went to a
> vt.) For context, this is a machine with an on-board Adaptec AIC7896
> chipset, talking to two IBM Ultrastar LVD disks. The motherboard has
> two on-board connectors, one Ultra Wide, and one Ultra2/LVD
>
> When Mandrake attempts to load the AIC7xxx module, I get the following
> logged:
>
> aborting command due to timeout pid0 SCSI0 channel0 id0 lun0
> (then another line with a series of thing, all set to 0)
>
> bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0
> host 0 channel 0 reset (pid 0) timed out - trying harder
>
> I get that over and over again until I reboot.
>
> Then after a soft reboot, I get (from the SCSI bios on startup)
> "FATAL ERROR: Wide negtiation failed. Please check your SCSI cable!
> STOP!"
>
> A hard reboot gets rid of that error, and the system seems to work with
> other OS's. Any suggestions? It almost sounds like the SCSI driver is
> tickling the Ultra Wide connector, which is unused, and ignoring the
> Ultra2/LVD connector, which the two drives are connected to.
>
> help!
> --
> Mike
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Gregor Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I740
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 11:16:25 +0300
Reply-To: "Gregor Nosko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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