Linux-Hardware Digest #333, Volume #13 Mon, 31 Jul 00 21:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Epson 1270 (Carlos)
Re: Driver for SiS 6326 8Mb AGP video card ("Stefan Viljoen")
Most powerful Linux system ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: Creative and Ensoniq Audio PCI Users! Please follow me! (Scott Alfter)
Re: Best Backup solution? (Johan Kullstam)
Intel EtherExpressPro/10 pci ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Exabyte EXB-220 ("TRB")
Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux? (Brian Stretch)
Re: PHOTO QUALITY printing (Keith Rhodes)
ISA 3c509b trouble. Detected but wont work. (mackan)
Re: SCSI-controller in Linux (Keith Rhodes)
Re: HD size limit (Keith Rhodes)
Re: Manually setting IRQ's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie asks stupid questions... (Keith Rhodes)
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? (Keith Rhodes)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (James Knowles)
Re: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80 (Mat Kelcey)
ISA 3c509b-Combo problem ("J Tokarz")
Re: dos doesn't boot (rubrsoul)
Linux Driver for Yamaha XWave Direct 192 XG PCI Sound Card
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From: Carlos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Epson 1270
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 16:15:16 -0500
Hi;
I'm trying to setup a EPSON 1270 printer on RedHat 6.2 with not
luck. I used the uniprint ghostscript driver that comes with redhat but
it refuses to print postscript files. When I print from gimp using the
EPSON 800 driver it work fine. According to the printer database the
1270 should work fine. Any suggestions on how to configure the printer
would be greatly appreciated. Thanks....
Carlos Martinez
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for SiS 6326 8Mb AGP video card
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:22:42 +0200
Don Loukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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.
Hi!
Is this for X-Windows?
Stefan Viljoen
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Most powerful Linux system
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:27:22 +0200
Hi all,
Something I was just wondering about - what is the most powerful Linux
system currently in existence? I mean as in super computer grade / SMP type
computers that run Linux, highest memory arenas it runs in, clock speed etc.
Just for interest sake...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Creative and Ensoniq Audio PCI Users! Please follow me!
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:31:32 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[attribution lost; someone else whote:]
>> 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.
That's one of 'em...the other is es1370. You need to make sure you use the
correct one for your card. I have a 1370-based AudioPCI in one of my
computers and 1371-based AudioPCIs in two others.
_/_
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(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
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Subject: Re: Best Backup solution?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:39:24 GMT
Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
> >
> > Bartek Kostrzewa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I need a small backup solution. It mustn't be very large but at least
> > > 1.5 Gigs, one very important point is that it has to be fast. (SCSI or
> > > IDE, no prob). I though about a JAZ or that new drive... ahhm, yeah the
> > > ORB. Any ideas?
> >
> > how about mirroring to another hard drive? cheap, fast and has capacity.
> >
> > --
> > J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> > [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > sysengr
>
> Yeah well, but most backups will be needed elsewhere too, so it's not
> only backup but also removable media that count.
you could have said that. you said
1) small (but at least 1.5GB)
2) fast -- you emphasised fast.
no mention of portable.
> Now you probably say: "
> Use harddrive caddies!". Good point, but I'm not sure if every person I
> need to show one of my designs (for example) will have the needed bay
> etc... But I know they all use SCSI, if not, well, I always carry with
> me a converter (I'm referring to internal devices, open the comp,
> connect, leave it open and there you go, of course externel ones are
> more practical here, but if somebody doesn't have SCSI you're
> f'''ed...)
how about one of them fujitsu MO drives? i think the new line up does
1.4GB (less than, but close to your requirement). they can connect
via an external scsi cable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Intel EtherExpressPro/10 pci
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 21:31:07 GMT
I can't seem to get my card working with linux mandrake or red hat. Can
someone help me set up my card. I tried downloading the module driver,
but it will not compile.
Please help.
Denis.
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From: "TRB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Exabyte EXB-220
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 00:23:40 +0200
We've got a Exabyte EXB-220 JukeBox (SCSI) for up to 20 cartridges.
Does anybody know if there is a possibility to use it with
S.u.S.e Linux 6.4 (Kernel 2.2.14)?
Regards,
Marcus Pockrandt
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From: Brian Stretch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Thunderbird ok w/ Linux?
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 22:33:48 GMT
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.
The older Via KX133 chipset is known not to work reliably with the
Thunderbird-core Athlons, thus the need for the (minor revision) KT133.
The Slot A Thunderbirds were intended for large OEMs only as a stopgap
until the Socket A motherboards shipped in quantity; end users weren't
supposed to be able to buy them separately, but everything hits the grey
market these days.
> I'm using 128M Crucial mem & Matrox G400 AGP.
Good choices. Wish they'd hurry up with the G450.
> If I hadn't been so impatient, I'd be waiting for the SocketA stuff to
> get out & stable before blowin' the bucks.
Alas, yup. I'm waiting for someone to get an Asus or Abit Socket A
board in stock... or holding out for a dual processor Mustang-core
Athlon late this year. The "temporary" upgrade would be cheap enough
that its tempting, and it'd boost my http://www.dcypher.net score nicely
;-).
> 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.
--
Brian Stretch http://www.mindspring.com/~bstretch Cert. Technojunkie
"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a
well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,
enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy."--John Derbyshire, NR
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PHOTO QUALITY printing
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:43:02 +0200
I've been looking at printer spec over the last week, looking for photo quality
output.
The Epson 900 looks a good bet; you can get a level3 PostScript module for it,
it does 1440 dpi (IIRR) and can handle thick glossy paper (so the ink stays on
the surface as it dries, rather than sinking in and spreading, like on blotting
paper).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mackan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network
Subject: ISA 3c509b trouble. Detected but wont work.
Date: 31 Jul 2000 22:47:32 GMT
Hi!
Need some advise with a 3c509b ISA network card. It works well
under Win98, but won't work under Linux.
I have the driver compiled inte the kernel, and it is detected
during boot, with same IO and IRQ as under Win98, but still
won't work. Pinging itself works under Linux, but pingin an
outside host doesn't.
output of dmesg: (exept for newline)
eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, adress \
00 60 08 6e f0 5e, IRQ 10
3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
output of ifconfig eth0:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:60:08:6E:F0:5E
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
interrupt:10 Base address:0x300
output of route:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
localnet * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo
default gate 0.0.0.0 UG 1 0 0 eth0
Running kernel 2.2.16.
Main board: Abit BE6, BIOS with default settings
ANY help or suggestions wanted! I think it is strange... as it works
just fin under Win98, but not in Linux. 3c509 are supposed to be a
well tested and stable nic for Linux, isn't it?
Answers to newsgroup will be read - but any CC:s to my email are
also apprechiated! tnx!
-- Mackan
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI-controller in Linux
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:45:46 +0200
I looked at the prices of Adaptec and equivalent Tekram cards...
guess which one I bought..... Tekram was about one third the price of the
Adaptec!
Got it configured and running fine in less than an hour.
That was ver a year ago... when I knew very little about recompiling, and less
about modules ;-)
KR.
"Lawrence C. W. Tai" wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Which SCSI-card is the most stable in Linux? Can I use adaptec 29160 in
> Linux?
>
> Thanks.
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD size limit
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:51:09 +0200
In any case, if you're planning to do regular bacups, it's a good idea to limit
the size of a filesystem to that of the backup medium...
e.g., if you're going to use a tape with a capacity of 2GByte, limit the size of
a partition or filesystem to 2GBytes, so you can fit it on a single tape...
Ofcourse, you'll not want to use CD-Rom for backup, and limit yourself to
650MBytes, willl you? ;-)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Manually setting IRQ's
Date: 31 Jul 2000 22:56:45 GMT
You want isapnp. Once you get it set up right, the presence of an
/etc/isapnp.conf file will trigger the boot to configure the devices.
The basic procedure for setting up isapnp is:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
Now edit /etc/isapnp.conf in you favorite editor.
Uncomment the section that matches the config you want, and set the values
for IRQ and other resources you want from the lists provided.
Uncomment the "Act Y" line at the end.
Hopefully issuing an "isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf" will now make the modem
visible. If not you probably need to tweak the serial port settings with
"setserial" too. (man setserial)
hth,
Chris
In linux.redhat.install David Stackis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 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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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie asks stupid questions...
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:02:02 +0200
"Richard H. Reepe" wrote:
> 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
> when it was 200 UKP and a "proper" laser with PostScript was 800 UKP. It
> seen me through 4 Windoze upgrades and I still think it's a cute device,
> but of course the standard PS or DM drivers won't touch it. Has anyone
> done any work on GDI printers under Linux....?
Doesn't look very promising... according to
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=142825
this printer is supported in a "paperweight" fashion...
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:15:00 +0200
I use cdparanoia to rip... it can sometimes be r e a l l y slow... but that's
prbably because it's correcting a lot of errors (bad CDs, but also a dirt cheap
drive). It even speeds up if I tell the software to run the drive at 2x or 1x
speed, instead of the default 8x speed that the drive is capable of.
Looks like running the drive slower results in fewer read errore, therefore
fewer re-reads hence faster ripping...
Bladeenc to convert .wav to .mp3 format.
I tried Slackware back in 1997... a real pain to install. RedHat 4.2, 5.2, 6.0
were e a s y. Then Mandrake 7.0. Even easier... even if I couldn't get it to
boot straight from the CD.
I've read some bad things about the 7.1 screwing up partitions, disk labels,
other stuff. I would recommend getting 7.0 off a magazine coverdisk. Ask around,
like someone else suggested; if you've got a Debian expert next door, borrow his
CD (and brain) for an evening.
KR.
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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 17:29:00 -0600
> plus which a drop from 256 Mb to 128 has
> got to impact performance.
Maybe under Windows. If you look at the tests that I've done, they're
not affected by amount of RAM. The problem is the speed of the CPU
talking to the RAM, not some fuzzy overall machine performance.
> One thought - is SMP still compiled into the
> kernel?
Different stock RedHat 6.2 kernels; same kernel version; one with, one
without.
I've a third machine, a signle P-II/400 128MB RAM ASUS P2B-D that gives
very similar numbers to the SMP machine. Other than CPU/motherboard,
this machine is essentially identical to the problem child.
This should put the SMP nonsense to rest. Next time I'll not mention
that machine. Geez....
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- J.R.R. Tolkien
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From: Mat Kelcey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: ide0: unexpected interrupt, status=0x80
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:40:17 GMT
something very similiar to me happened on my oldest drive causes it had
a heap of corrupted sectors. a forced full check of the partitions
located the bad blocks or whatever and removed them.
is the drive old? run the fullest check you can over it, maybe something
will turn up?
good luck anyways.
mat
Yumin Lee wrote:
> 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: "J Tokarz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA 3c509b-Combo problem
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:22:46 +0000
Hi,
I have just acquired a pair of 3c509b-Combo cards (but no drivers) so I
thought I'd have a play around with networking two machines. I have read
the the how-to but I haven't managed to get past the first step. When I
look in Win98 it identifies the card correctly but states that it is in
PnP mode. I download the TPOFIX.EXE file from the 3com site but when I
run the program in DOS it just states that the card is not a TP or TPO
card.
Anybody got any clues? I
realise this isn't really a Linux H/W problem but I can't get any further in
Linux without turning PnP off and finding out which interface is being used.
Cheers in advance, Jay
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From: rubrsoul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dos doesn't boot
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.msdos,comp.os.msdos
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:58:15 GMT
On Sun, 30 Jul 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello,
>
>For installing linux, I have adjusted the BIOS harddisk setting,
>switching off LBA and entering manually the nr of sectors, heads and
>cyls. Booting linux is no problem, nor is partitioning the full capacity
>of the harddrive.
>
>The result of this is however that there's no way to boot DOS (in fact a
>Win98-bootdisk) from floppydrive. I even tried doing it via the linux
>DOSEMU, but that didn't work either.
>
>Could someone explain:
>
>1. how it is possible not to be able to boot DOS from floppy, just by
>having changed harddisk settings; because I thought it should be
>possible to boot from floppy even WITHOUT any harddisk
>
>2. maybe a hint on how to get in DOS, because I have some
>GHOST-hd-partitions that I should have to put on my system; but as far
>as I know, ghost only runs from DOS.
>
>Should anyone know if in my case, VMware would be able to boot DOS? But
>for doing so, I'd have to install DOS first by booting it from floppy...
>
>I have a HP Vectra VL system.
>
>Any response is welcome,
>
>Vic
I had the exact same problem, I installed Red Hat in a dual boot and had no
problem getting to Linux but could not boot into Windows. If I typed dos at
LILO it simply hung until I gave the 3 finger salute, and it would not boot
from a DOS floppy. The problem is that the label on the extended Linux
partitiion is probably wrong, run Linux Fdisk like this "fdisk /dev/hda -l >
/tmp/hdaconfig.txt" without the quotes. This will send the contents of the
fdisk report to a text file and you can post it here. My old partition table
looked like this.....
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 766 768 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 769 2495 13872127+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 769 1023 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1024 1151 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1152 1168 136521 82 Linux swap
Note the extended partition is labeled as ID 5, this is wrong. My current
partition table looks like this.....
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 766 768 24097+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 769 2495 13872127+ 85 Extended
/dev/hda5 769 1023 2048256 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1024 1151 1028128+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 1152 1168 136521 82 Linux swap
and I can now boot into Windows. Fdisk walks you through the process quite
easily, just boot from your EBD (you did make one) and log in as root. This
may also work if you log in to safe mode (at lilo type linux safe), but I have
not tried that method. I hope this helps and good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Driver for Yamaha XWave Direct 192 XG PCI Sound Card
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 00:52:19 GMT
Recently installed and running Mandrake Linux
7.1. Am using a Yamaha XWave Direct 192 PCI sound
card. Does anyone know of a site where I can get
a proper driver/module/rpm for this card? It is
based on the Yamaha YMF-724 chipset. Linux sort
of loses its luster without sound.
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