Linux-Hardware Digest #330, Volume #13 Mon, 31 Jul 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Questions about Old PC resurection w/Linux. (Nicolas Iselin)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (Jonathan)
Re: network dies when I replace hub with switch ("Gene Heskett")
Hardware modem in Linux ("Joe Robin")
Soundcard/Modem confilcit in RedHat 6.2 ("David Stackis")
Wavelan card not talking ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct ("David Stackis")
Re: TV Card support ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: SCSI-controller in Linux ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Turtle Beach Montego Driver Needed!!!!! ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Raidport III support in Linux? (Markus Kossmann)
OkiPage 4w plus (Florian Forster)
Re: Scanner recommendation ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Not all memory detected under linux (Steve Fosdick)
any module for a YAMAHA Waveforce 192 XG ? (Marcus Brauer)
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Re: Scanner recommendation
SBLIVE can't record from SPDIF in (Marc Remijn)
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From: Nicolas Iselin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions about Old PC resurection w/Linux.
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:12:36 +0200
Kano Ako wrote:
> >
> >Questions now follow. I take it that the smallest drive available now a
> >days exceeds the BIOS' abilities, correct? So then I would have to
> >download & flash the bios to be able to handle larger drives, correct?
If the manufacturer offers such a bios update ... I have at home two 200MB
SCSI-disks which I took out of a similar machine you have now. They worked
fine under Windows 3.1, but I couldn't make linux talk to the onboard SCSI-
controller properly. So I used some old IDE-Disks... If you want to have
the SCSI-Disks sent over from Switzerland, send me a mail. You'll only have
to pay the transport ;-)
> >Secondly about CDs. Fast CDs require a certain amount of HP from the CPU
> >correct? Does this apply to SCSI? I guess I'll not need the latest &
> >greatest (just enough to handle loading some not a lot of software) just
> >again want to make sure the minimum now a days does not exceed the
> >hardwares limitations.
I installed the old machine over the network using nfs. It was (with Debian)
quite tricky and I had to customize a boot floppy (I used tomsrtbt on
www.toms.net) to make it work... But I did not have to install a CD-drive :-)
> >
Nicolas
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From: Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:18:11 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Uh.... Mebbe I'm smokin crack again, but I don't think it'd be really
fair
> to compare a dual-proceesing P-II-400 to a single Athlon.... First
off, the
> dual processors are going to push all IO faster. That will affect
memory
> access, hard drive access, etc.
>
> Second, unless you've got both motherboards BIOS' set up identical (or
as
> close as possible) you're going to see performance differences anyway.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> -SSB
>
> root wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>
I was thinking the same thing; plus which a drop from 256 Mb to 128 has
got to impact performance. One thought - is SMP still compiled into the
kernel?
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Date: 31 Jul 2000 9:51:24 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: network dies when I replace hub with switch
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to boomer9119 ;
> I have a 2 PC network with one machine in the basement and one in a
> bedroom upstairs. Both have 10/100 NICs in them and for the last few
> years they've been connected via a 10Mb. cheapy noname hub which has
> been working just fine. Both are running Linux 2.2.14. Out of curiosity,
> I picked up a Linksys 10/100 switch just to see if 100Mb. would be
> noticeable. Well, I thought I could just swap out the hub for the switch
> and be done with it, but whenever I swap in the switch into the network,
> I lose all connectivity! I can't ping either PC from the other or do any
> other kind of network activity.
> The cable run from PC1 to the switch is about 5 feet and from the switch
> to PC2 is probably about 75-80 feet of cable. I am using CAT5 cable and
> the box the cable came in says its 250 feet of cable. I've seen
> documentation (with the switch) where it says fast Ethernet is limited
> to 100 meters (368 feet) so I must be within bounds on that, since I
> don't own that much cable! And there is still a lot of cable left in the
> box.
> It looks to me like the right lights on the switch box light up as
> expected when I have the PCs booted up.
> I also tried moving the two PCs physically right next to each other and
> setting everything up. That did work. So my guess is that the problem is
> related to the length of the switch -> PC2 run. But 75-80 feet should be
> well within bounds. So why would I be having problems? And if I use the
> 10Mb. hub with the same cable, everything is OK. How can I more
> thoroughly test my cable and fix whatever the problem may be? Do I need
> to buy a signal booster and do they even sell such things for Ethernet?
> Are they expensive?
Cableing for 100 meg is *much* more critical. Replace it with good cat
5 stuff, properly terminated. One of those 2" long double female cable
couplers can and will kill a 100 connection instantly. When terminating
it, the less the length of cable pairs untwisted to get into the plug,
the better, ideally the last twist is against the back of the plastic
plug. And some of those nice convienient wall plugs for cat 5? They
leave 2 plus inches worth of vswr causeing bumps. We use them at 10,
but they come out for reliable 100, pulling the cable thru the box and
all the way to the cpu's back connector in an unbroken run.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Joe Robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: mot.comp.os.linux,mot.general
Subject: Hardware modem in Linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:23:27 -0500
Hi,
I am a new user to Linux. I am trying to get Linux to recognize my external
hardware modem (thanks Gary Segal!). However, I can't get Linux to see the
modem. Can someone quickly run thru the modem install process for my
edification, I'm thinking I don't fully understand the process. Thanks in
advance.
Pertinant details of system:
Redhat Linux 6.2 (don't have the Redhat manual however)
Practical Peripherals 9600SA external hardware (not Winmodem) modem
Modem on COM3 (have a Digital Research(?) COM port extender card in my PC to
add additional COM ports, it is configured to COM3.
Modem is functional -- Win98 sees the modem on COM3, and I have successfully
connected to my ISP using the modem.
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Soundcard/Modem confilcit in RedHat 6.2
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:09:03 -0700
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
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]
Subject: Wavelan card not talking
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:59:59 GMT
We have configured the Wavelan card onto Linix, PCMCIA recognises this
card with no problems. The card is visable via IFCONFIG, the power
light is constantly on, and the communication light flashes every 10
seconds or so. This is the only Linux system we have and would like to
get it working in Ad-Hoc mode.
The other wireless cards are running Win98 and W2000 with no problems,
on channel 6 with WEP disabled. This is the line we have in config.opts
module "wavelan2_cs" opts "network_name=NETWORK port_type=3 channel=6"
The only symtom of anything wrong is the following error reported in
var/log/messages
kernel: eth1: Transmit timeout.
Any ideas where we should look now?
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RedHat 6.2 Soundcard, Modem Confilct
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:15:08 -0700
It's an ISA....on COM1
Thanks!
"James Richard Tyrer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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> You didn't say if your modem was ISA or PCI. Please advise.
>
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV Card support
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:39:19 -0700
> >I am planning to buy a TV card, but also like it to work under Linux.
> >Who has positive results with using one under Linux?
> >Thanks for your reply,
Have a look at www.linhardware.com, they have ratings and compatibility info
on _many_ TV cards.
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=17
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-controller in Linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 08:56:17 -0700
Have a look at Linux Hardware Databases (LhD) SCSI category:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=5
"Lawrence C. W. Tai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello.
>
> Which SCSI-card is the most stable in Linux? Can I use adaptec 29160 in
> Linux?
>
> Thanks.
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turtle Beach Montego Driver Needed!!!!!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:00:17 -0700
Try Linux Hardware Database (www.linhardware.com):
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?306
"doug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Does anyone know where I can find a driver for this card for RH 6.2???
> Please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Raidport III support in Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 05:19:56 +0200
Michael Soibelman wrote:
>
> I have a Supermicro S2DG2 motherboard with a Raidport III slot and an
> Adaptec Raidport III card (ARO-1130U2). Does anybody know if these
> Raidport cards are supported under Linux?
AFAIK the card uses a AIC7810 chip , which isn't supported (accordding
to the kernel configuration help of the aic7xxx driver)
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From: Florian Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OkiPage 4w plus
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:06:50 +0200
Hello=20
Has anybody of you the OkiPage 4w Plus Printer and made it printing?
Can you pleasce give me a guidline how to install this printer in KDE
THX
Flo
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scanner recommendation
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:15:13 -0700
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Hi John,=20
I have UMAX2400S scanner which work perfect (or almost perfect) in =
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2.3.99 but I was able to scan only one picture. After some period of =
unsuccessfull experiments I came and bought Tekram 315U card and SCSI =
cable. After patching kernel for support of this SCSI card I able to =
scan from GIMP and print from there on my Epson 860 printer in Photo =
Quality with gimp-print plugin. I get really good results and it works =
and it easy. Now I configured my system so that I use modules kernel =
which load modules on demand (need some work to make it clear as some =
modules do not have depedendance by default) and after boot system I =
have only one module to support my NIC. If I want scan anything all =
modules load automaticaly and remove from memory after 5min if system do =
not use them. I have some problems to make it works for joystick modules =
as it do not remove it from memory and probably I have to make some =
script to analize and remove them - I do not have this problem when I =
remove them by hand. I try to use netfilter at the moment (compiled as =
module) but could not find way to switch logging and TOS functions yet =
(try only for one evening)=20
NOTE: Kernel 2.4-test4 on RedHat 6.2=20
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help.=20
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=20
John T Pogue wrote:=20
"mphm.janssen" wrote:=20
> I use a UMAX Astra 1220S with ncr53c820 based SCSI card.=20
> Works fine for me with SANE.=20
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> Marcel Janssen=20
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unable=20
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unsuccessfull experiments I came and bought Tekram 315U card and SCSI =
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make it=20
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probably I=20
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 17:30:02 +0000
In article <X4Xg5.64253$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> With different kernels (now Redhat 6.2 using kernel 2.2.14-5 or something),
> the detection of the amount of RAM is wrong, resulting in my system using
> only about 16 MB of 128MB present.
Interesting one. Some motherboards, including recent ones, have a
deficiency in the BIOS which means that when Linux queries the BIOS
to ffind how much memory the system has the BIOS replies 64Mb even
when there is much more available.
Given that your kernel only sees 16Mb may indicate the the weird OS/2
memory compatibility option is turn on in your BIOS. Try turning this off
and if the system still doesn't see all 128Mb then add a boot parameter
to the kernel of mem=128M - you can try this at the LILO prompt
(linux mem=128M) and if that works add an append line to your LILO
config file.
> I'm running a athlon K7 700 on an epox K7KXA mainboard.
> Does anyone know about this problem?
> Output of cat /proc/meminfo:
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From: Marcus Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: any module for a YAMAHA Waveforce 192 XG ?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 18:25:59 +0200
Does anybody know a working sound module for a YAMAH Waveforce 192XG soundcard ?
Thanks, Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:42:01 GMT
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 01:19:10 +0000, Steven Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) wrote:
>
>> ? Drivers have nothing to do with anything on the Linux side. Linux
>> has one driver for IDE CD-ROMs and another one for SCSI CD-ROMs, and any
>> "magic" that Linux can accomplish lies in the user-space program
>> "cdparanoia", available at http://www.xiph.org/paranoia/ . This program
>> is extremely good at what it does and works even on slow, old, nasty
>> CD-ROMs, though it's a bit slower than other programs like cdda2wav. As
>> for encoding .wav to .mp3, LAME or gogo or bladeenc work well, and even
>> the slowest of those works faster than your average Lose9x mp3 encoder.
>
>Another poster mention 'grip'. Grip is a GUI program that ties together a CD
>ripping program (cdparanoia or another of your choice) with an MP3 coder
>(which you have to installled from your Linux distrubtion or elsewhere)
>and reference to an on-line CD database to set the track info informatoion
>in the MP3 files that are generated.
ripperX is a similar sort of program. It is my favorite ripper.
http://www.digitallabyrinth.com/linux/ripperX/
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was more "popular" than contemporary Macintoshes despite the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Scanner recommendation
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:44:21 GMT
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 09:15:13 -0700, Nathan Appleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
A cheap SCSI 300x300 scanner (umax) can be had for ~ $60.
A cheap PCI SCSI2 card (tekram) can be had for ~ $30.
[deletia]
Also, StarOffice has a SANE acquisition applet built in.
--
The term "popular" is MEANINGLESS in consumer computing. DOS3
was more "popular" than contemporary Macintoshes despite the
likelihood that someone like you would pay the extra money to
not have to deal with DOS3.
Network effects are everything in computing.
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From: Marc Remijn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SBLIVE can't record from SPDIF in
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:07:47 +0200
In installed the sblive in my system.
Got the drivers from opensource.creative.com.
Compiled and installed the without any hassle.
Jul 30 23:31:38 mirage kernel: Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver,
version 0.6, 22:50:19 Jul 30 2000
Jul 30 23:31:38 mirage kernel: emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 7 model 0x8040
found, IO at
0xd400-0xd41f, IRQ 9
Everything works fine. Recording / Playback from all sources. Except for
one, that is the SPDIF in. I can playback, but I cannot record from it.
The kmix program from kde doesn't allow me to set the spdif slider as
'RecSource'.
I can record from spdif in MS-Windows, so it is supported by the
hardware.
How do I do this in Linux???
Marc
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