Linux-Hardware Digest #343, Volume #13 Wed, 2 Aug 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
bttv: Wierd Problem (jurgyman)
ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
diamond supramax 56k usb modem (Chris)
Re: slow PIII850MHz performance... (EKK)
Re: slow PIII850MHz performance... (Kent Perrier)
Re: Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer... (Steve Fosdick)
Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: Athlon Motherboards/ Linux Support ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Dual NICs of same type? ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player... (Antoine Martin)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (J Bland)
Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player... (sideband)
Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player... (David C.)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (David C.)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? (David C.)
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? !!!SOLVED!!! (David C.)
Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems ("Kay Keys")
My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Newbie asks stupid questions... ("Richard H. Reepe")
Re: slow PIII850MHz performance... (EKK)
PC to Apple printer cable?? (Keith Rhodes)
Re: VIA USB
Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
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Subject: bttv: Wierd Problem
From: jurgyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 08:12:38 -0700
hi,
I have a bt848 based TV board (ADS Channel surfer...) and am
trying to get it 2 work with latest kernel: 2.4.0-test5.
Modules load fine. I can get video with no sound in xawtv, when
at the "Composite0" setting. I can get sound but no video, in
the "Television" setting in xawtv...
is this an xawtv problem/bug/setup or the driver???
JurgyMan!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:23:59 GMT
I'm trying to get my Iomega zip drive to work under linux.
unfortunately, I
don't fully understand how SCSI and parallel port drives work, but I
think mine is on a parallel port with a SCSI controller? I'm pretty
sure
it's the standard method.
ok, the kernal is compiled per the instructions in the zip drive
mini-HOWTO.
all the switches (SCSI support, etc.) were set.
so:
# insmod -f parport
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/parport.o
# insmod -f parport_pc
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/misc/parport_pc.o
# insmod -f imm
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
parport_pc 7400 0
parport 7516 0 [parport_pc]
lockd 31912 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 53604 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
3c59x 18948 1 (autoclean)
I then do a dmesg, and here is the relevant info:
imm: Version 2.03 (for Linux 2.0.0)
scsi : 0 hosts.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
operation.
I still don't have a working zip drive. how do I get rid of the
device
or resource busy message and load the module so I can mount the drive?
also, FWIW, after I get the module loaded, how will I know how to mount
the drive; e.g., will it be sda, sda1, sda2, sda4, etc.?
finally, the error messages are virtually identical using ppa, and I'm
running redhat linux v6.2 kernal 2.2.14-5.0.
gabe.
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: diamond supramax 56k usb modem
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:30:06 GMT
i visited the linux-usb.com site but found this modem listed as a winmodem
(it's an external modem btw) doesnt make any sense....does anyone of you
have it....if u do......did u make it work?....if i have no chance what
modem do u think i should get for my linux...thanks in advance
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow PIII850MHz performance...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 02:06:22 -0700
B. Joshua Rosen wrote:
>
> Is linux recognizing all of your memory?, if Linux is only seeing 64M
> that could be your problem. Also check to see if dma is enabled on your
> disk,
>
> hdparm /dev/hda
>
> if dma is off then do
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
>
> EKK wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > We recently bought a dual PIII machine with this motherboard
> > and hard drive, CPU, etc.:
> >
> > TYAN TIGER 133 (VIA APOLLO PRO 133A) (Slot 1)
> > (VT82C596B)
> > WINBOND W83977ATF Super I/O CHIP
> >
> > IBM DTLA 307045 (45GB IDE UDMA66)
> >
> > 2 x PIII-850MHz
> >
> > 1GB RAM
> >
> > Redhat 6.1
> >
> > Now, this runs at 100Mhz, got PC100 memory.
> > I run the same analysis code, compiled with g77,
> > as a benchmark. I have two other machines:
> >
> > PII450MHz and PIII650MHz.
> >
> > The 650 is approx. 1.4 times faster than 450.
> >
> > BUT
> >
> > The 850 is approx. 1.1 times faster than 450.
> >
> > !!!!!!
> >
> > No matter what I do to the bios settings, I still
> > get this problem.
> >
> > I compiled the kernel for SMP, and included the
> > VT82***** IDE chipset option, since that's the
> > chip on this motherboard.
> >
> > I cannot figure out why this is SOOO SLOW!!!!!!
> >
> > Anybody had a similar experience???? Is it the
> > mboard?
> >
> > Thank you,
> >
> > AG
> > --
> >
> > Alessandro Giachino, Software Engineer
> >
> > EKK Inc.
> > 2065 West Maple C309 tel. 248-624-9957
> > Walled Lake MI 48390 fax. 248-624-7158
> > _____________________________________________
> > http://www.ekkinc.com
Hi, how would I make DMA permanently on?
I.E. where would I put 'hdparm -d1 /dev/hda' ?
Is it OK for it to be in rc.local or should it run
before that (within lilo??)
Thanks,
AG
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From: Kent Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow PIII850MHz performance...
Date: 02 Aug 2000 10:38:17 -0500
"B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is linux recognizing all of your memory?, if Linux is only seeing 64M
> that could be your problem. Also check to see if dma is enabled on your
> disk,
>
> hdparm /dev/hda
>
> if dma is off then do
>
> hdparm -d1 /dev/hda
Be careful, though. Read the bugs section of the hdparm man page before
you do this. You can really screw up your machine with hdparm. Nothing
that a reinstall can't fix, but that is a real PITA. Do a backup before
you start messing with your hdparm parameters.
Besides, if the disk performance of your workstation isn't the bottleneck
then this should not have any effect on the performace of the benchmark.
Kent
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:38:54 +0000
In article <8m6f54$5mi43$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ronny Tobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - Do I have to format the tape before I use it
> for the first time?
Not usually. Some early HP tape drive used formatted tapes but most
modern drives seem to use raw tapes or sort the formatting out
themselves.
> - If I make a new backup do I have to delete the old
> data before and how if so?
No you can just "record over the top" like cassette tape. If you just
use tar as per the examples you gave it is quite simple.
You can also put more than one tar archive on a tape with each
archive being in a separate tape "file" i.e. each one is separated
by a special mark placed on the tape. To do this though you you
need to choose a tape device file with the "no-rewind" option and
keep track of where you are on the tape - the mt command is used
to move back and forward.
> Now about the backup:
> With "tar -cvf /dev/ht0 /home/ronny" do I make a backup
> of my home directory right?
Yes. You will probably get a message from 'tar' saying that
it is removing the initial '/' from the directory names when they
are stored on the tape.
> To restore I use the command: "tar -xvf /dev/ht0" but now
> my most important question: If I restore where would he put
> the data on the streamer? To directory where it was, or
> somewhere else?
That was the point of tar removing the leading '/' from the
names as stored on the tape. If you want to restore the
data to where it came from you make sure you are in the
root directory when you run the restore (cd /). If you want
to restore to somewhere else you can - tar will create a
'home' directory under the current directory and a 'ronny'
directory under that and restore the files to this new
directory.
> Thanks to those who took time to answer :)
> Ronny
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: 2 Aug 2000 15:41:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000 15:23:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to get my Iomega zip drive to work under linux.
>unfortunately, I ok, the kernal is compiled per the instructions in the
>zip drive mini-HOWTO. all the switches (SCSI support, etc.) were set.
># insmod -f parport
># insmod -f parport_pc
># insmod -f imm
>/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
> I still don't have a working zip drive. how do I get rid of the
>device or resource busy message and load the module so I can mount the
>drive? also, FWIW, after I get the module loaded, how will I know how
>to mount the drive; e.g., will it be sda, sda1, sda2, sda4, etc.?
modprobe lp
modprobe imm
(ZIP drives on the parallel port require the lp module to be loaded.
Until then, they won't work.)
Once that is done and you don't get any error messages, you should be
able to mount a ZIP disk by doing "mount /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip" assuming
the directory /mnt/zip exists. Most ZIP disks are partitioned so that
all the data resides on partition 4, but a few of them are partitioned
so that the data resides on partition 1.
--
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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: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athlon Motherboards/ Linux Support
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 10:57:42 -0500
Mark Sullivan wrote:
> I recently bought a 700MHz T-bird with a Gigabyte AMD751/756 chipset (ie
> OEM slot-A version as well). I can't get Redhat 6.2 to run; it installs
> but then on reboot I get:
>
> Disabling CPUID Serial Number... general protection fault: 0000
>
> followed by a kernal panic and the machine freezes.
I ran into this the other day while playing with a memory upgrade on my
7ix and original Athlon 700. At the time it happened, I had less memory
in my machine than I had told LILO was there; I had configured for 192M
and pulled out one 64M DIMM, forgetting all about what might happen.
If your BIOS is reporting some ridiculously large amount of memory to
RH, you may have to use LILO to explicitly tell the kernel how much
memory you actually have.
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 11:26:15 -0500
L Slade wrote:
> > 3c905s are PCI cards. PCI cards have their IRQs and I/O addresses
> > auto-configured by the BIOS so they don't step on each other's I/O
> > ports, assuming you have the BIOS "I have a PnP OS" option set to NO.
> > PCI cards can share IRQs as well.
Sort of. I played a lot last week when I installed my second Linksys
LNE100TX. The only configuration that didn't work was when the BIOS
assigned the same IRQ to both cards; then eth1 wouldn't work at all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 16:27:15 GMT
Hi I use an external modem by Blaster with my Linux_Mandrake 6.0 /
Win98 SE dual boot. WinModems have some drivers out there to make them
work but go with an external modem as long as it is not WinModem.
"guau25" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don�t know if it is a winmodem
> Is it a Winmodem?
> >
> > Winmodem + Linux = no workie.
> >
> > If it's a Winmodem, get a real one. Winmodems are little more than
> glorified
> > sound cards.
> >
> > guau25 wrote:
> >
> > > Hello
> > >
> > > I have a problem. I can�t connect to Internet with Linux because
Linux
> don�t
> > > accept my modem. My modem is :
> > >
> > > SupraSST 56i PRO DF
> > >
> > > I would be gratefull if you give me an answer.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > > Erase NOSPAM.
> >
>
>
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From: Antoine Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:45:39 +0100
I tried to buy the software from their website and gave them my credit
card number,
I haven't heard from them since.
(that was in december...)
Fred wrote:
> ATi are weasels; I bought a Rage Fury 128, and sent the coupon and
> requested and requested the DVDPlayer software, yet they never came
> through. Can someone EMail me a copy?
>
> Thanks a million...
> <used to be an ATi customer>
> Fred Farleigh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: 2 Aug 2000 16:51:10 GMT
>>> OK, here's another thought. Redhat stock kernels are optimized for
>>> pentium. Maybe you should recompile and specify your processor type,
>>> etc.
>>
>>I think you sent the thought telepathically. I tried both the 2.2.16
>>kernel and the 2.4-pre5 kernel. Same results. *whimper*
>
> Are you sure about that?
>
> I thought it was only Mandrake that optimized their kernels
> (and the rest of the distro) for Pentia...
SuSE is i386 but the standard kernel is pentium optimised (along with
386/smp etc ones).
Frinky
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 13:04:17 -0400
Try posting this on a Winbloz site, instead of reposting it repeatedly in
a group which most likely does NOT have what you need.
Antoine Martin wrote:
> I tried to buy the software from their website and gave them my credit
> card number,
> I haven't heard from them since.
>
> (that was in december...)
>
> Fred wrote:
>
> > ATi are weasels; I bought a Rage Fury 128, and sent the coupon and
> > requested and requested the DVDPlayer software, yet they never came
> > through. Can someone EMail me a copy?
> >
> > Thanks a million...
> > <used to be an ATi customer>
> > Fred Farleigh
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: ATI Rage; need Windows DVD player...
Date: 02 Aug 2000 13:03:13 -0400
Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> ATi are weasels; I bought a Rage Fury 128, and sent the coupon and
> requested and requested the DVDPlayer software, yet they never came
> through. Can someone EMail me a copy?
>
> Thanks a million...
> <used to be an ATi customer>
> Fred Farleigh
And what the hell does this have to do with Linux?
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: 02 Aug 2000 13:07:38 -0400
James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Because the program is so simple, I'm attaching it. Only hard-nosed
> "never attach anything" bozos should object.
Since you were posting C sources, could you have posted it in a readable
format? The MIME type application/octet-stream is meant only for
unknown binary files - every program that properly supports MIME forces
me to save it to disk instead of viewing it.
Furthermore, you posted it with BASE64 encoding, so I can't even view it
as part of the message source.
See what I mean:
> --------------8988B14E2DB1AF86384B9505
> Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
> name="test.c"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment;
> filename="test.c"
>
> I2luY2x1ZGUgPHN0ZGlvLmg+CiNpbmNsdWRlIDxzdGRsaWIuaD4KCiNkZWZpbmUgTVNJWkUg
> KDk2KjEwMjQqMTAyNCkKI2RlZmluZSBOSVRFUlMgMTYKCmludCBtYWluKHZvaWQpCnsKaW50
> IGksajsKY2hhciogYzsKY2hhciogcDsKCmMgPSAoY2hhciopIG1hbGxvYyggTVNJWkUgKTsK
> CmZvciggaT0wOyBpPE5JVEVSUzsgaSsrICkKICB7CiAgcCA9IGM7CiAgZm9yKCBqPTA7IGo8
> TVNJWkU7IGorKyApICpwKysgPSAwOwogIH0KCmZyZWUoYyk7CgpleGl0KDApOwp9Cgo=
> --------------8988B14E2DB1AF86384B9505--
Doesn't look much like a C program, does it?
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: 02 Aug 2000 13:09:56 -0400
Jonathan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> OK, here's another thought. Redhat stock kernels are optimized for
> pentium. Maybe you should recompile and specify your processor type,
> etc.
Maybe in the past, but now now.
If you go to RedHat's update FTP site (ftp://updates.redhat.com/) you'll
find three different sets of kernels - i386, i586 and i686.
On my PPro and PII systems, the i686 kernel gets installed.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400? !!!SOLVED!!!
Date: 02 Aug 2000 13:13:00 -0400
sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I still think the dual processor setup would be faster than a single
> processor, provided all apps and the OS itself is optimized for those
> dual processors.... But that's just my two cents...
Depends on what you're testing.
Neither Linux nor Windows can schedule a single thread to more than one
processor. So a dual-processor system will not show much difference
from a single-processor system, unless your test program is running
multiple threads/processes at once.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: 2 Aug 2000 13:35:00 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ok, the kernal is compiled per the instructions in the zip drive
> mini-HOWTO.
> all the switches (SCSI support, etc.) were set.
(etc.? SCSI, SCSI disk, SCSI generic?)
> # insmod -f imm
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/scsi/imm.o
imm? Do you have a parallel port ZIP or parallel port ZIP PLUS?
imm is for the ZIP Plus. Use:
insmod ppa
for the parallel port ZIP.
(if you have CDRECORD on your system, do a:
cdrecord -scanbus
and see if it shows the ZIP drive.
CDRECORD is used for burning CDs, but "cdrecord -scanbus" is a quick way
to scan your SCSI bus to see if it can find the ZIP drive).
> finally, the error messages are virtually identical using ppa
"virtually identical"?
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From: "Kay Keys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ppa, imm: Iomega zip problems
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 12:28:34 -0500
Also verify that you even have an imm drive. I'm not sure of the cutoff
dates, older zips were ppa (mine is) newer ones are imm.
Good luck,
Kyle Keys
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My Brand New Hard Drive Only Gets .95MB/s!!!!
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 17:49:40 GMT
I have RedHat 6.0 installed. I've been using this for three years now on
a five year old Western Digital 2.5GB Caviar. Currently, that gets about
6 MB/s from hdparm -t. So, I installed my new 15GB Western Digital
Caviar UDMA/66 hard drive (without an Ultra/66 controller). There are no
partitions on it, the entire drive is /home. I put it on as the master
of the second IDE channel. I have no problems with it, but when I
benched it with hdparm -t it only gets .95 MB/s. I have gone through all
the usual tweaks, turn on 32bit transfers (with sync as well), unmasked
interrupts, and turned on DMA (unfortunately, the Caviar won't allow me
to set multiple sector counts or write-back caching). The best I can get
it to is .95MB/s. I'm not really sure what to do here. Is there an
updated Linux IDE driver I can be using, or is it a problem because the
drive isn't partitioned into chunks less than 4GB, or a problem with the
second channel, does it think it's using Ultra/66 when in fact it's not
and that's slowing transfers???? HELP!!
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From: "Richard H. Reepe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie asks stupid questions...
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 18:32:45 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Rhodes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>"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!). 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...
>
That's what I was afraid of, looks like I'll have to keep windoze on my
second PC for a while yet..... Thanks Keith.
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: slow PIII850MHz performance...
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 04:34:00 -0700
Kent Perrier wrote:
>
> Besides, if the disk performance of your workstation isn't the bottleneck
> then this should not have any effect on the performace of the benchmark.
I agree. Total COMPUTATIONAL time is greater. Very little I/O going on
in my benchmark.
AG
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EKK Inc.
2065 West Maple C309 tel. 248-624-9957
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PC to Apple printer cable??
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 19:59:57 +0200
A friend has an Apple StyleWriter 2500 that he's lent me on trial to see if I
want to buy it.
According to www.linuxprinting.org, it should work, but that only considers the
driver.
I need a cable to connect it to the D-shell serial port of my Linux PC.
The StyleWriter has Apple's round-shell 8 pin connecter on an asynchronous
serial interface (RS-422).
Are cables vailable for this, or does somebody know a pin-to-pin equivalent so
I can cobble together a cable?
KR.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: VIA USB
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:05:08 GMT
On Wed, 2 Aug 2000 11:50:03 +0100, Jonathan Ritchie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello Folks
>
>Has anyone got USB working with an oboard VIA USB controller. If so could
>they explain how? I use Mandrake 7.1 with a Tyan Tiger 133 Motherboard and
>my USB just times out when I initialise it. It works with an intel USB hub
>on a BX board.
My Epox board works just fine with Mandrake and my mouse and keyboard.
[deletia]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Why is Athon 650 slower than P-II/400?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 18:06:28 GMT
On 2 Aug 2000 16:51:10 GMT, J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>> OK, here's another thought. Redhat stock kernels are optimized for
>>>> pentium. Maybe you should recompile and specify your processor type,
>>>> etc.
>>>
>>>I think you sent the thought telepathically. I tried both the 2.2.16
>>>kernel and the 2.4-pre5 kernel. Same results. *whimper*
>>
>> Are you sure about that?
>>
>> I thought it was only Mandrake that optimized their kernels
>> (and the rest of the distro) for Pentia...
>
>SuSE is i386 but the standard kernel is pentium optimised (along with
>386/smp etc ones).
>
>Frinky
...then it sounds like it should be a i586 rpm then...
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