Linux-Hardware Digest #332, Volume #13 Mon, 31 Jul 00 17:13:07 EDT
Contents:
>64Mb and 2.2.16 on GA-5AA possible? (Dwaan)
Re: Creative and Ensoniq Audio PCI Users! Please follow me! (Yidao Cai)
Re: Newbie asks stupid questions... ("Richard H. Reepe")
Re: OkiPage 4w plus (Florian Forster)
Re: >64Mb and 2.2.16 on GA-5AA possible? (lobotomy)
Re: eth0 not working... (EKK)
Re: ATI TV card in Linux? (Bruce Forsberg)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (James Knowles)
Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI-controller in Linux (Tellplace)
Serial direct connection (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Driver for SiS 6326 8Mb AGP video card ("Don Loukes")
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (James Knowles)
Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux? (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux? (Bartek Kostrzewa)
Manually setting IRQ's ("David Stackis")
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From: Dwaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: >64Mb and 2.2.16 on GA-5AA possible?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:14:37 +0200
Hi!
I upgraded my Gigabyte GA-5AA with a 32 Mb DIMM (PC 100) from 64 Mb (DIMM
socket 0) to 96 MB total Memory. The board accepted the new memory.
When I boot up with Kernel 2.2.16 only 64 Mb are used (free and top tell me the
same) . I changed the DIMM socket order (32 on 0 and 64 on 1) but linux only
used the first 64 MB. I tried it with a 128 Mb DIMM (PC 133). The same: only 64
Mb are used.
With another OS, 96 Mb where correctly used. :-)) But that doesn't
bring satisfaction.
Any ideas or work-arounds about GA-5AA and Kernel 2.2.16 ??????
Suse 6.4 but NOT with the Suse Kernel
GA-5AA, Rev. 2.2 latest BIOS
Standard Linux Kernel 2.2.16 compiled for K6-2
Many thanx
Dwaan
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative and Ensoniq Audio PCI Users! Please follow me!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:17:03 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> But still I cant make my Ensoniq Audio PCI Soud card to working in Corel
> Linux.
The module for Ensoniq Audio PCI is es1371. Hope this helps.
cai
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Richard H. Reepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie asks stupid questions...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:22:53 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Steven Fosdick <steven.fosdick@bti
nternet.com> writes
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>"Richard H. Reepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Firstly, I have a PCI modem from Diamond Multimedia which goes by the
>> name of a Supra Express 56i V Pro. This is a 56K Internal Voice Modem
>
>You could also check the manual for words like HCF-, HSP-, HSF
>
>Another incrediblt useful reference for modems and Linux is
>http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html which includes a long
>list of modems saying whether they are winmodems or not and if
>they are whether they can be made to work with Linux anyway.
I found this site late Sunday night and (sob!) my modem is not a
supported Linux product! It appears to be some kind of Soft Modem.
Okay so what is the best and most useful "real" modem I should buy. I
see Hayes a lot in Linux lit. but is any External (serial) modem okay?
Are there any makes or designs I should give a miss?
>> Second, Now this really is silly... I have a NEC SuperScript 610plus
>> laser printer (Yes I know it's GDI design!). I bought it 3 years ago
>You could try www.linhardware.com and see if they have any record of this
>printer. There is also a dedicated printer database whose URL I forget
>but many of the printer entries on linhardware.com will point you to it..
>
Okay thanks, I'll give that a good browsing too.
>
>Does is the CPU usage up to 100%? (use top to find out) split between
>the MPEG player and X? If so if it is the MPEG player that is taking more
>CPU then maybe a more effcient MPEG player may be the answer.
>
I'll be playing again tonight I think. Thanks for all the help Steven.
--
........Regards R2 (Richard H. Reepe)
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web-site: http://www.r2.org.uk
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From: Florian Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: OkiPage 4w plus
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:38:40 +0200
Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Florian Forster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>>>http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=3D3D25216
>
>> Thx. But I already downloaded the driver. The Problem is I can't
>> make the=3D right filters to use it for other files than PS
>
>The "a2ps" package provides a pretty good answer to this problem.
Okay. Tried it. But the outout wasn't always what I expected. Is this my =
fate?
THX
FLo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (lobotomy)
Subject: Re: >64Mb and 2.2.16 on GA-5AA possible?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:39:29 GMT
At the lilo prompt add mem=96m to the name of your image. If this
works, you can add the line append="mem=96m" to your lilo.conf and run
/sbin/lilo again. You might also want to get the newest BIOS for your
motherboard, with the latest BIOS for my Abit BX6-2 it fixed this
problem (it hadn't detected anything over 64 previously without an
argument).
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:14:37 +0200, Dwaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi!
>
>I upgraded my Gigabyte GA-5AA with a 32 Mb DIMM (PC 100) from 64 Mb (DIMM
>socket 0) to 96 MB total Memory. The board accepted the new memory.
>
>When I boot up with Kernel 2.2.16 only 64 Mb are used (free and top tell me the
>same) . I changed the DIMM socket order (32 on 0 and 64 on 1) but linux only
>used the first 64 MB. I tried it with a 128 Mb DIMM (PC 133). The same: only 64
>Mb are used.
>
>With another OS, 96 Mb where correctly used. :-)) But that doesn't
>bring satisfaction.
>
>Any ideas or work-arounds about GA-5AA and Kernel 2.2.16 ??????
>
>
>Suse 6.4 but NOT with the Suse Kernel
>GA-5AA, Rev. 2.2 latest BIOS
>Standard Linux Kernel 2.2.16 compiled for K6-2
>
>
>Many thanx
>
>Dwaan
>
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: eth0 not working...
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 06:26:42 -0700
EKK wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a Tyan Tiger (133A VIA Apollo) motherboard
> PC, and I cannot get the ethernet card to work.
>
> The driver I compiled into the kernel reports the
> card and its hardware address at the beginning.
>
> Netconfig just causes segmentation fault.
>
> The e-card is Intel EtherExpress Pro100+.
>
> This is strange because I have about ten other PCs
> running just fine with this card. Could it be a
> 'bad hardware' case? If so, why am I getting its
> hardware address at boot?
>
> Strange things have been happening with this motherboard,
> like I couldn't install Linux until I downloaded the
> updated boot disk (6.2) from RedHat. I am wondering if
> it is because of the motherboard? I never had problems
> with Intel 810 or similar motherboards, but this has
> a VIA Apollo chipset.
>
> Any issues with this chipset?
>
> Thanks,
>
> AG
well......when I switched ethernet cards, with a 3COM
Vortex type, it worked!
another machine received the intel card and that works fine.
that machine has an intel chipset motherboard.
WEIRD.
AG
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From: Bruce Forsberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI TV card in Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 19:52:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Anyone gotten an ATI TV card (daughterboard for a 3D Xpression+PC2TV)
or
> an All-In-Wonder to work in Linux? That is, can you actually watch TV
in
> a window on a Linux box in X?
>
> Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
Check out the following:
http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos
Bruce
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Before you buy.
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:13:33 -0600
> 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.
I'm not too sure about that. I've had long experience with SMP, longer
with parallelism in general. In truth an SMP machine is going to have a
slightly decreased memory access per processor due to bus contention.
I/O is similarly affected. I/O that can be parallelised will see a
benefit, but serialised I/O will see no benefit. I've seen a 5-10% drop
in performance per CPU under Linux. Typically this is about 15-20% under
WinNT from my experience.
In this specific case disk access is faster due the to fact that I'm
running RAID on SCSI and not IDE. This is a SCSI/IDE issue, not SMP.
> Second, unless you've got both motherboards BIOS' set up identical (or as
> close as possible) you're going to see performance differences anyway.
I'd be curious to know specifics. I might believe a small difference
could be achieved. What BIOS setting would cause a machine to run at 1/2
or 1/3 of the speed that it aught?
--
Those who want by the yard and work by the inch aught to be kicked by
the foot.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.periphs.pcmcia,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:21:08 GMT
Hi!
The lack of a beep possibly means you don't even have cardservices up
and running. In general, when cardservices are running, you will get a
beep when you install, and then a negative (lower) beep when the card
isn't properly recognized or bound.
My suggestion.
(1) Make sure you have card services running. How do you check?
Well, one simple thing is to do the following (insures it):
cd /etc/rc.d/init.d
./pcmcia stop
./pcmcia start
Note, if this doesn't work, and either ./pcmcia is not even present, or
the card services are not installed, just go to www.appwatch.com, and
search for pcmcia, download the latest pcmcia-cs package and install
it.
It is really really simple-- simply make sure you installed from
Mandrake your kernel sources so that you can install pcmcia-cs-3.1.19
in teh /usr/src/linux area and then simply "make config" followed
afterwards by a make all and make install. It is likely the 3com
driver is already part of the package so you won't even need to
spearatley deal with this.
(2) Now, after having restarted pcmcia services, go ahead and plug in
the card. Depending upon things, either the card is recognized and
bound or it is not. If not, go back to (1) and again think about
reinstalling pcmcia card services.
Note, to check whether it is being bound, another place you can look
for both the binding occurring or errors is in /var/log/syslog.
Here any errors or lack of errors is made clear (the system log file).
There is more, but I think that shoudl suffice to get you at least
started in getting hte card recognized.
In article <VL1h5.27037$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"dsgfu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get my pcmcia network card to work in Linux. Its a
3com
> Cardbus Model 3CCFE575BT. I'm installing on Linux Mandrake. I
downloaded
> the latest kernel-pcmcia rpm which has the module for this card
> (3c575_cb.o). I don't know what to do after that. The pcmcia HOWTO
talks
> about installing the source and recompiling the kernel, but says
nothing
> about what to do if you installed from the RPM. When I boot up,
pcmcia
> starts up, but there are no beeps, also no beeps when i insert/remove
the
> card. If anyone knows what to do, please let me know.
>
> If not to much trouble, please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks
>
>
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From: Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-controller in Linux
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:34:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Lawrence C. W. Tai" wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Which SCSI-card is the most stable in Linux? Can I use adaptec 29160 in
> Linux?
>
> Thanks.
I have good experince with Adaptec 2940, 2940UW under
Linux Redhat 5.2, 6.0 and Adaptec 29160UW under Linux Mandrake 7.0.
29160UW is perhaps a littel overkill in an standalone Linux box ...
Regards
Tellplace
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:33:32 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial direct connection
Yes I have a network, but one of my TP cables LITERALLY broke (was a
cheap one), and now I can't get a new one anywhere (only bundled with
two cards, but that's BS). How to make a file transfer over a serial
direct connection in Linux? (dnetc remote buffer access and ipchains
functionality)
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From: "Don Loukes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for SiS 6326 8Mb AGP video card
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:35:08 +0200
Hi,
I am looking for a Linux driver for the SiS 6326 8Mb AGP video card. I
have spent many hours browsing through FTP sites but, being a newbie, it's
all Greek to me. If you have the driver, please e-mail it to me. It's to
be used with RedHat 6.1 on an Pentium III platform.
Regards,
Don Loukes.
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 14:34:06 -0600
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> > 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).
> > 1) hdparm -T /dev/hda
> > P-II: ~108MB/s Athon: ~48MB/s
> 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.
Thanks for replying. It's good to hear from somebody with a similar
machine. Your number is more along the lines that I'd expect. I'm
starting to wonder if the motherboard or RAM is defective.
> did you try a "hdparm -d1 /dev/hda", or adding some fancy options to
> increase performance??
I've tuned the two hard drives. Not surprisingly it boosted HD
performance, but did not affect memory access performance.
# /sbin/hdparm -m16 -c3 -u1 -d1 /dev/hda
# /sbin/hdparm -m16 -c3 -u1 /dev/hdb
# hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdb
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.83 seconds = 45.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 6.14 seconds = 10.42 MB/sec
/dev/hdb:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 2.71 seconds = 47.23 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 12.90 seconds = 4.96 MB/sec
#
(As a side note, -d1 on hdb resets the bus so I have to leave it off.
Bugger!)
> > 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.
> to 3.) send me your self-written app + instructions on deadling with
> it and I'll give you my results.
I appreciate it. This is just a stupid C program compiled with gcc -Wall
-O2. You have to run it a couple of times to flush out stuff to swap
space before you get accurate numbers. I run it with 'time a.out' and
compared user time.
Because the program is so simple, I'm attaching it. Only hard-nosed
"never attach anything" bozos should object.
> with the Asus K7M i have to
> add "mem=xxxM" too, but my previous machine recognized all RAM instantly.
Reading kernel notes, this is an issue with the memory controller IC.
Aparently a very common one which does not always tell the truth.
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:38:58 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 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.
I'm running a socketed 750 T-Bird on an Asus A7V (revision 1.00...
unfortunately). Everything works flawlessy except for the sound, I mean,
I can use the internal sound by using ALSA, but I simply can't get my
sound card to work, and well, the internal sound, although it is pretty
good, has some scratching at high volumes [internally high volumes, that
is if the wave file or any other file format hits its volume peak
internally] (only with sound-effects, not with music).
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Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:40:35 +0200
From: Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux?
bgeer wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >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
>
> I have a SlotA 700 MHz T-bird & an ASUS K7V m'board & they aren't
> stable. I get about 1 hour max before a hang. I've read about other
> people getting this combo to work, & some are having better results
> with ASUS' newer K7V-T.
>
> I'm using 128M Crucial mem & Matrox G400 AGP.
>
> If I hadn't been so impatient, I'd be waiting for the SocketA stuff to
> get out & stable before blowin' the bucks.
>
> I previously built a K7 550 on a Microstar 6167 (AMD chipset) & it was
> bulletproof. Unfortunately I sold it *before* buying the T-bird.
> Anyways, I started with a "boring" old 2.0.30 kernel - worked fine,
> then installed 2.2.13 - which worked - then patched to ATA33, which
> also worked.
>
My socket was't very stable until I added three case fans (2 sucking 1
blowing), now it's rock stable, uptime until now 7 days, with a constant
max load (dnetc running all day and all night). Well, I s'pose that's
stable.
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From: "David Stackis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Manually setting IRQ's
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 13:47:35 -0700
Does anyone know how to manually set an IRQ for a modem?
My modem does not have any jumpers, and I checked procs/interrupts, but the
file is empty....
My isa modem is on dev/ttyS0
Thanks!
David
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