Linux-Hardware Digest #327, Volume #13 Mon, 31 Jul 00 02:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (root)
Is Netgear FA410TX supported? ("Lin Gu")
Re: Is Netgear FA410TX supported? (Dances With Crows)
vicam webcam (b1sziu99)
Re: Printing with Lexmark printer (Grant Taylor)
Re: optra e+ printer (Grant Taylor)
Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait! (Cyrille Lefevre)
Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait! (Cyrille Lefevre)
Re: newbie HP 930C help (Grant Taylor)
Re: RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity (B'ichela)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Yumin Lee)
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Yumin Lee)
Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem (NecroBurn)
SCSI-controller in Linux ("Lawrence C. W. Tai")
Thunderbird ok w/ Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? ("rude")
Re: Monitor ("Karen Cheer")
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:28:34 +0000
I recently replaced a slightly dated motherboard with an Athlon 650 and
K7M motherboard and a new 128MB DIMM. Running RedHat 6.2.
I'm a little frustrated with performance. Memory access is roughly half
the speed of another machine (dual P-II/400 on ASUS P2B-DS 256MB).
I don't really notice the performance difference until I do anything,
meaning I can boot, log in, and everything works fine... it's just a
slow pig when I want to push the machine and make it do anything
significant.
Any ideas? I assume that this is a hardware issue, not a setup issue,
but I've been wrong before.
---
Rambling symptoms:
I've noticed this through several indicators:
0) VMWare (latest download) crawls (to the point of being useless) on
the Athlon and is perfectly usable on the P-II.
1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
P-II: ~108MB/s
Athon: ~48MB/s
2) Boot-up RAID 5 test:
P-II:
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 872.871 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 925.068 MB/sec
8regs : 689.229 MB/sec
32regs : 377.571 MB/sec
using fastest function: p5_mmx (925.068 MB/sec)
Athon:
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 74.676 MB/sec
p5_mmx : 72.771 MB/sec
8regs : 91.821 MB/sec
32regs : 37.719 MB/sec
using fastest function: 8regs (91.821 MB/sec)
1/10th performance? Ugh!
3) I wrote a program that allocates a huge chunk of memory (16/64/96
MB), and fills it with zeroes sixteen times. This program is always
twice as fast on the P-II than the Athlon according to the 'time'
command.
On both machines I've had to manually put append="mem=xxxM" in lilo.conf
else neither machine recognises anything more than 64MB RAM.
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From: "Lin Gu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is Netgear FA410TX supported?
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:16:23 -0800
Hi,
Has anybody successfully installed Netgear FA410TX on Redhat 6.2(or other
linux distribution)?
I tried to install pcmcia-cs-2.1.18 but it doesn't help. i roughly remember
redhat 6.2 support this card but it just doesn't work.
any suggestions are welcomed.
thanks,
lin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Is Netgear FA410TX supported?
Date: 31 Jul 2000 02:35:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 17:16:23 -0800, Lin Gu wrote:
>Has anybody successfully installed Netgear FA410TX on Redhat 6.2(or other
>linux distribution)?
Yep, works fine here. (SuSE 6.4, pcmcia-cs-2.1.16)
>I tried to install pcmcia-cs-2.1.18 but it doesn't help. i roughly remember
>redhat 6.2 support this card but it just doesn't work.
>any suggestions are welcomed.
Get thee to http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml and search
comp.os.linux.portable for author "Dances With Crows" and keyword "410".
For some releases of pcmcia-cs, you need a user-space program called
fa_select to manually enable the card's transmitter. I posted the
source for said program in that NG. Once you "fa_select eth0 X" where X
runs from 0 to 3 (0 is 10M, half-, 1 is 10M, full, 2 is 100M, half, 3 is
100M, full) then the card will work as a normal NE2000 clone. HTH, good
luck.
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: b1sziu99 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: vicam webcam
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:42:04 GMT
Has anyone been able to get a parallel port vicam webcam working with
linux? I am currently running redhat 6.1.
Thanks
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing with Lexmark printer
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 02:59:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Linus Torvalds) writes:
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a Lexmark Z42. It, like the other recent Lexmark inkjet
>> printers, does not have available Linux drivers.
Actually, most Lexmark inkjets do have drivers available:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Lexmark&format=summary
Mind you, they're not terribly good, but they work.
As for the Z42, I don't know. Try them all in turn and let me know if
any works so I can add it to my listings.
> Linus
Gads. Where on earth do you find time for Usenet?
--
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: optra e+ printer
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:12:09 GMT
Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> as I understood this printer is the best in rate price to features. Did you
> looked at next page?
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=60800
?? This is the URL for my Optra 40 entry. The Optra 40 is quite a
different beast than the Optra E+, or most any other Optra; most
Optras are laser printers.
>> I've bought an Optra E+ postscript laser printer recently. I can't
>> get it to print properly under Mandrake 7.0.
>> It prints all right but the margins are wrong, the page is always
>> cut on the left and the bottom.
>> I'm using lpr with LaserJet4 - dithered filter.
You can adjust the page offset in Ghostscript by prepending a line
like
<< /PageOffset [-2.8 1.4] >> setpagedevice
("shift 2.8 1/72nd inch to the left and 1.4 down")
to the job. You should also check that you are specifying the proper
paper type; if you use A4 for a letter system or letter for A4 it
might do this.
--
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: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait!
Date: 31 Jul 2000 05:12:49 +0200
Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> p.s. Skip the BSD Linux emulation. It is not reliable and is more of a
> gimmick.
are you the brother of Rev. Don Kool ?
Cyrille.
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From: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait!
Date: 31 Jul 2000 05:16:04 +0200
Reply-To: Cyrille Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (WhoCares) writes:
> While we're on the subject, has anyone out there found out how to get
> Civilization: Call to Power to work on OpenBSD under emulation?
>
> I know it's been run succesfully under FreeBSD, but I always get a bad
> system call error when I try it on OpenBSD. I'm going to throw in the
> glibc files in /emul/linux and give it another shot later, nothing too
> important, but I figured I'd ask around.
did you submit a bug report ? man send-pr
fu2 unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Cyrille.
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie HP 930C help
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:19:46 GMT
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> theCelt wrote:
>> I looked at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and they say the printer works
>> perfectly. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to see if I have the needed
>> driver or not.
Yike! This must have been an error of some sort; the 930, like all
modern DeskJets, is at best only partly supported. We don't ahve
enough information to write a really good driver for these printers
these days.
I've checked, and this printer is listed properly now. The 932C entry
(the 932 is in fact the same printer) is also correct, and has rather
more information about experiments with different drivers.
--
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: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 03:57:03 GMT
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David Stackis wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 6.2...using the KDE workstation option...it's great
> and all except for one little thing...
>
> Seems I can configure my modem using the KPPP tool, and I can connect to the
> internet and all....
>
> I can also run sndconfig from a console, and get my SoundBlaster AWE64
> working....the thing is, is after I configure my soundcard, my modem will
> not work anymore...I get the message "The modem is busy"
>
> I have tried to configure the soundcard first, but then I cannot configure
> the modem...which by the way is a US Robotics 56K V90 Internal.
>
> My modem is on COM1.....dev/ttyS0
> My soundcard is on COM2.....dev/tty/S1
>
> Has anyone else experienced this before, and know a way to make both pieces
> of hardware work together in harmony...
>
> TIA!
> David Stackis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Seagate 9.1gb ST410800N 5.25" - wrong capacity
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:54:03 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000 23:06:21 GMT, WORLOK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think I messed up BIGTIME. This is EMBARRASSING, but I must come
>clean. To hide my error would be cowardice in the extreme. I don't
>mount new disks all the time so from time to time I go daft and forget.
>
>I was putting the mount directive in the /etc/mtab file instead of in
>the /etc/fstab file (Doh!). I was wondering why upon each reboot the
>mount was gone as was the line I put in the file. When the lightbulb
>came on and I entered the appropriate line in fstab, the df output
>cleared up.
Glad you got your fstabs and mtabs in order ;)
>/dev/hdc1 9803940 6783388 2522540 73% /share
>/dev/sda1 8412364 20 7985020 0% /scsi0
>
>Note how /scsi0 now has a more reasonable capacity?
Looks correct, again no problems to be seen.
>
>Does ext2 really use all that space or did I format it wrong? Notice
>the mount /share, which is an EIDE 10gb disk. It didn't seem to take as
>much of a loss as the 9.1gb scsi disk did.
Well, you are talking about a 10gb vs a 9.1 gb drive. If you
calculate the math these are the raw capacities
10*2^30 = 10,737,418,240
9.1 * 2^30 = 9,771,050,598
Now we will calculate the percentages used
first the 10gb
(9803940*1024)/10737418140*100
space availble to Linux 93.498%
now for the 9.1gb unit
((1024*8412364)/9771050598)*100 = 88.161%
You are right as there is some additional loses, I am not sure
of why however. The 4% or so difference in capacities is nothing to
really worry about.
>
>BTW, these Seagate 5.25" monsters are HUGE! The machine I put it in,
>Red-Dwarf, has a full tower, and I luckily had 2 5.25" bays open where I
>could mount the sucker. I have another one that I am trying to figure
>out how to shoehorn into a machine. I was thinking about an external
>box, but those cost more money and require their own power.
I happen to have two ancient Maxtor XT4380s full hight scsi
drives in a external 4 full hight drive case, along with a Quantum
80mb 3 1/2" (I suppose in 3.5" drives a half hight bay counts as a
full hight). I have the room for the drive and the power for it.
All you need for now is another AT power supply and a Scsi
50pin cable to Centronics cable. As long as one does not bump the
drive it would work. The drive should draw enough power to power up
the 200 watt AT power supply all by itself. Oh yes you need to leave
the terminators on the drive and disable the terminators on your scsi
card. Since I am thinking of buying a 3.5gb Seagate from Hiteccafe for
$35 (its really all I can afford, Although if I don't pay the phone
bill I could get the 9.1gb seagate for $65. Sadly I Still need to back
this computer system up! Heres that URL incase you are interested
yourself.
http://www.hitechcafe.com/eshop
>
>Another thing. How much use do you think I will get out of a refurb
>like this?
Why knows! My Maxtors are over 15 years old and still kick
butt! They were Not refurbished but just pulls.
--
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From: Yumin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:34:02 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a desktop Pentium III running
Redhat 6.2. Recently the machine hangs
after idling for 5 or 6 hours, with the
following error messages that repeat
ad infinitum:
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=xxxx
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
hda:status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2097184
hda: drive not ready for command
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_write_inode: untable to read
inode block
- inode=123913, block=262148
hda: status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
I have a Seagate ST38410A (UDMA 66, 8623 MB)
HD. Also, I tried disabling the power
management functions in the bios, but that
didn't help the problem.
Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
Yumin Lee
My e-mail is yuminlee -at- cc -dot- ee -dot- ntu -dot- edu -dot- tw
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From: Yumin Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:40:50 +0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a desktop Pentium III running
Redhat 6.2. Recently the machine hangs
after idling for 5 or 6 hours, with the
following error messages that repeat
ad infinitum:
ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80, count=xxxx
ide0: reset timed-out, status=0x80
hda:status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:01 (hda), sector 2097184
hda: drive not ready for command
EXT2-fs error (device ide0(3,1)): ext2_write_inode: untable to read
inode block
- inode=123913, block=262148
hda: status timeout, status=0x80 { Busy }
hda: drive not ready for command
I have a Seagate ST38410A (UDMA 66, 8623 MB)
HD. Also, I tried disabling the power
management functions in the bios, but that
didn't help the problem.
Any ideas? Any help will be greatly appreciated ...
Yumin Lee
My e-mail is yuminlee -at- cc -dot- ee -dot- ntu -dot- edu -dot- tw
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Subject: Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem
From: NecroBurn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2000 21:38:54 -0700
ok well i just had to reformat my win drive, and when i went to
install winme it had errors (ex: win drive set to second) and i
set it to primary it fixed that prob.
well what i want to do is to use a boot floppy, and make my lin
drive sec. and leave my win drive pri.
can i do this and how....
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From: "Lawrence C. W. Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI-controller in Linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 12:56:20 +0800
Hello.
Which SCSI-card is the most stable in Linux? Can I use adaptec 29160 in
Linux?
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 05:02:03 GMT
I'm planning on buying a new computer pretty soon, and I want to make
sure it will run some variation of linux. I was planning on building my
own Athlon system with a Thunderbird chip, but I was looking through the
Redhat compatibility lists and found
" The Athlon CPU itself seems quite stable, but problems reside with the
new motherboard architecture being used and the cutting edge technology
implimented in their chipsets. Red Hat Linux may or may not install
properly on the board according to its components. This is especially
important in regards to the UDMA/66 IDE controllers that are usually in
place in these boards (see the IDE adapters section). "
I'd just like to check anyone has had problems running a Thunderbird
under Redhat or another distribution.
Thanks!
- Dan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "rude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 07:10:40 +0100
Im Artikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> I recently replaced a slightly dated motherboard with an Athlon 650 and
> K7M motherboard and a new 128MB DIMM. Running RedHat 6.2.
>
> I'm a little frustrated with performance. Memory access is roughly half
> the speed of another machine (dual P-II/400 on ASUS P2B-DS 256MB).
>
> I don't really notice the performance difference until I do anything,
> meaning I can boot, log in, and everything works fine... it's just a
> slow pig when I want to push the machine and make it do anything
> significant.
>
> Any ideas? I assume that this is a hardware issue, not a setup issue,
> but I've been wrong before.
>
> ---
> Rambling symptoms:
>
> I've noticed this through several indicators:
>
> 0) VMWare (latest download) crawls (to the point of being useless) on
> the Athlon and is perfectly usable on the P-II.
>
> 1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
> P-II: ~108MB/s Athon: ~48MB/s
>
> 2) Boot-up RAID 5 test:
> P-II:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 872.871 MB/sec p5_mmx : 925.068 MB/sec
> 8regs : 689.229 MB/sec
> 32regs : 377.571 MB/sec
> using fastest function: p5_mmx (925.068 MB/sec)
>
> Athon:
>
> raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> pII_mmx : 74.676 MB/sec p5_mmx : 72.771 MB/sec
> 8regs : 91.821 MB/sec
> 32regs : 37.719 MB/sec
> using fastest function: 8regs (91.821 MB/sec)
>
> 1/10th performance? Ugh!
>
> 3) I wrote a program that allocates a huge chunk of memory (16/64/96
> MB), and fills it with zeroes sixteen times. This program is always
> twice as fast on the P-II than the Athlon according to the 'time'
> command.
>
> On both machines I've had to manually put append="mem=xxxM" in lilo.conf
> else neither machine recognises anything more than 64MB RAM.
hi,
to 1.) i don't think it's an Athlon-related prob. i have an Athlon 700 sitting in an
Asus K7M with 128mb.
a "hdparm -T /dev/hda" returns 129.29 MB/sec.
did you try a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda", or adding some fancy options to increase
performance??
to 2.) no clue
to 3.) send me your self-written app + instructions on deadling with it and I'll give
you my results. it depends
on your bios' settings whether sees the full amount of RAM or not. with the Asus K7M i
have to
add "mem=xxxM" too, but my previous machine recognized all RAM instantly.
cheers,
rude
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From: "Karen Cheer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:16:34 +1200
Thanks For that!
Cheer's
Karen Cheer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m0i4s$sc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have A compaq MV 500 Monitor And need some details so i can install
> turbolinux 6.0 can somebody please help me?
>
> Cheer's
>
> Tristram
>
>
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