Linux-Hardware Digest #460, Volume #13 Tue, 22 Aug 00 00:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset.... (Trent Piepho)
Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI ("James Gray")
Re: Installing 2nd hard disk (Stewart Honsberger)
Re: Sound Woes (Dave Phillips)
FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux.... (Arthur Sowers)
Any Hope for a SMC 2202 USB Ethernet Adapter? ("Ric")
Re: SIIG SC-PE4612 UltraATA 66 PCI (David Brooks)
Trident 3DImage985 Problems (Arash Sayadi)
Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI (David Efflandt)
Not able to add Linux Partitions to New HD (mike)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Trent Piepho)
Subject: Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset....
Date: 21 Aug 2000 18:17:27 -0700
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know anything about the SuperMicro 370DL3 mother board? Does
>anyone know anything about the performance of the ServerWorks SeverSet
>III LE chipset? I've been looking for benchmarks & reviews of this
>board but I haven't found anything. Any thoughts or suggestions?
I've read on a mailing list that someone does in fact have linux running on a
serverworks III chipset, the LE I think. It was just a recent stock kernel,
so it appear that Linux should work on that motherboard. I don't know
anything about the performance, but would be very interested in finding out.
Both Supermicro and ASUS have a ServerWorks III LE based board out. Tyan
supposedly has a III HE board, the Thunder 2500, which should give better
performance than the LE chipset. Tyan doesn't list the board on their site,
just the thunder 2400 which is intel 840 based. They do have a pdf manual for
the 2500 on the support page. I can't find anyone selling a 2500, so I don't
know what's up with that board.
Neither the LE nor the HE chipsets support AGP, which greatly limits the
performance and selection of graphics cards you can use. The serverworks III
WS chipset supports AGP, but I don't know of any motherboards that use it.
It looks like if you want 64-bit PCI slots and AGP, your only option is the
intel 840 chipset. Except the 840 chipset doesn't work, so there are no
options!
------------------------------
From: "James Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 12:09:59 +1000
I haven't seen this specific problem before, but make sure your keyboard is
configured as a standard 101/102 keyboard not some weird notebook config.
Cheers,
James
"nico" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
>
> i jsut got a new logitech keyboard for my laptop, (Deluxe 104), very
> basic one.
> i use a splitter to attach both my kboard and mouse, and it works great.
> but when i am in VI, the numeric pad coes not respond and instead of
> printing digits, it prints letters like ,x,z,y,t,s,...
>
>
> anyone who got that problem solved?
>
> nico
> --
> The young (who always want more and have no game to protect),
> the artists (who always hunger for the ecstatic moment),
> and the alienated (the wise slaves and noble minority groups watching
> from the periphery of the society). "High Priest," -- Timothy Leary
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stewart Honsberger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Installing 2nd hard disk
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 02:08:31 GMT
On 21 Aug 2000 23:52:37 GMT, Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>: I agree with Stewart. If the drive is BRAND-SPANKING new, there
>: shouldn't need a reboot after you partition and mkfs on it. I am
>
>This has nothing to do with the state of the disk.
It has everything to do with the state of the disk. Your argument supporting
re-booting after using fdisk was based on having a mounted partition on the
drive.
>And please reply below the quote - I not going to reformat your top
>quote of a bottom quote, but am going to cut the rest entirely, so
>people can just guess whatever it is you are talking about while seeing
>perfectly well what *I* am talking about). Geez .. what is it with
>peoples writing and editing skills?
While I agree with you, I have to ask - was the fecetiousness really
neccesary?
--
Stewart Honsberger (AKA Blackdeath) @ http://tinys.cx/blackdeath
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remove 'thirteen' to reply privately)
Humming along under SuSE 6.4, Linux 2.4.0-test6
------------------------------
From: Dave Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Woes
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:29:10 -0400
ronnie wrote:
> Has anyone made an Maudio Delta44 work under Linux using the Alsa drivers.
> Upon installing the card, kudzu found it, and the sound module
> ice1712 was loaded (which is the correct driver according to the alsa page).
> When booting i can hear a faint click in the speakers as the drivers load.
> All the directories are there for the alsa stuff including the stuff in
> /proc/asound but I can not get any of the devices to respond. I am running
> linux mandrake7.1. I have tried the alsa howto and such. Tried sndconfig
> but it sees the card and says that there is no support yet for envy24. I
> know it is something really stupid I am missing. Any help would be
> appreciated.
Sorry, I don't own that card, but if you're using the ALSA drivers try
running the alsamixer and amixer apps. Did you install the ALSA package
yourself ? What version is it ?
ALSA mutes all mixer channels by default, you can open them with
alsamixer, amixer, or alsamixergui.
Best regards,
== Dave Phillips
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/index.html
http://www.bright.net/~dlphilp/linuxsound/
------------------------------
From: Arthur Sowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: FYI: Applix vs. StarOffice vs. WP8 for Linux....
Date: 22 Aug 2000 02:21:27 GMT
FYI, I'm a very newbie newbie, but have been dabbling with Linux since
Summer of '99 (see footnote 1, below on experience summary). I got into
Linux because I was disgusted with Win9X, by the way.
Mainly I need a wordprocessor and a spreadsheet (something like Excel, if
possible) and I need that to get work done. The OS and tinkering with it
is going to be a long, drawn out hobby for me.
I bought WP8 for Linux (Corel's) at a local Sam's club. I bought Sun's
CD-ROM disk for $10 with StarOffice 5.1 on it (it has versions of SO for
Win98 [and I have one copy installed as a Win98 ap], Linux, Solaris, and
OS/2, by the way), and just this weekend, I decided to spring for Applix
5.0 (an office suite for Linux) at Best Buy (must have been on sale, the
cash register rang it up for $62) to see how well it ran.
All of my boxes are Red Hat 5.2 except one; that one is RH 6.2. Most are
200 mHz, one is 400 mhz. All are 32 MB ram. HDs are 1 gig, or 1 gig
partitions. I have RH 5.2 running on a 486dx-33 with 8 MB of RAM, by the
way. The fvwm window manager comes up rather slowly after I type
"startx" at the prompt, but otherwise is a nice box. Once the window
manager is up and running, the aps-games-utilities run just a little
slowly.
I installed SO and WP on several Linux boxes, and Applix on both a 5.2 and
a 6.2 box.
The Applix install had some glitches. But it launches very fast and exits
very fast. HOWEVER, I had a bunch of windows open, then closed them before
exiting the whole ap and shortly afterwards noticed in the terminal window
that I used to launch the ap a series of warnings regarding "unexpectedly
destroyed windows" AND a 1.5 MB "core" file in my root directory with a
buch of gibberish in it. "core" files suggest that something went wrong
somewhere and that bothered me. I do not see an uninstaller for Applix.
Applix required an upgrade or override of some glibic libraries. I chose
the override route. Its a gtk+ application, whatever that means but it
worried me a little. A launches by typing "applix" at the prompt. The
manuals for Applix are not too bad, but are certainly not thick. They
show, in the "install" booklet, a long list of fixed bugs from ver 4.0,
which is nice. But there is almost nothing there on "trouble-shooting" or
explaining a few things on options & routes of installing the ap.
SO launches (and exits) very slowly but has not given me any
"trouble" like a core file or warning messages anywhere (I have had
crashes under win98 and I have read in a few places now where crashes can
take place in SO with complex operations). The install of SO (now on five
boxes) has always been flawless. As I recall, there is an uninstaller for
SO. SO has a low grade web browser (Id rather use something else) and a
Newsgroup client that crashed on me several times (from Win98, by the
way). The email client worked however. SO is launched by typing
"./soffice" at the prompt. (you can also click on the menu icon on the KDE
desktop). Its nice that you can download SO, for any of the four OSes,
from Sun's website, for free. SO ver 5.2 is on a CD-ROM (with other
aps/games/utilities) for, I think, this month's issue of "Maximum Linux."
WP launches (and exits) faster than SO but slower than A. Its also quite
good and well behaved (i.e. no core files generated, no error messages
generated in the launch terminal screen. WP is just a word processor, but
if you don't need math functions or cell formulas, you can create
"tables" in grids as a low functionality "spreadsheet" in WP. WP launches
by typing "./wp" at the prompt in the "bin" directory. I had a chance to
use the uninstaller in WP8 to remove WP from a directory I did not want it
in and then reinstall it into a directory I did want it in, and the
uninstaller worked flawlessly. No residual files or directories.
I've configured printing for SO and WP8 at least three of the RH 5.2 boxes
and it needs about the same amount of tinkering as for Windows to get a
printer to run.
I expect to spend a fair bit more time evaluating these three packages
before getting set up with one of them with my regular work.
Arthur E. Sowers
----------------------------------------
| Science career information websites: |
| http://freeshell.org/~advocacy |
| http://www.magpage.com/~arthures |
----------------------------------------
| More 'public interest' websites... |
| ...subject is embedded in URL: |
| http://freeshell.org/~layoffs |
| http://freeshell.org/~golinux |
| (more in future) |
----------------------------------------
footnote:
I'd like to put in a word for Red Hat 5.2 and 6.2: I've put 5.2 on six
boxes so far, including the slow 486 with 8 MB of ram, without a failure
or glitch (most will boot off their HD, two need a boot disk [the trick I
learned is to make two native partitions, one is a small "/boot" native
partition and the second is a large root "/" partition during the install
setup]). Most other distributions I've tried sometimes crash on install,
or always crash on install. AND, nobody is paying me to say this. I have
no relation with Red Hat or anyone who works there. I always used the
"text-based" install. Sometimes the graphics installs don't work.
I've also had my share of screw-ups with Linux such as getting into stuff
without knowing how to get out of it, or doing stupid things at the
command line. And, otherwise having to reinstall Linux a few times. It
helps to read a good book on Linux/Unix and at least be aware of those
little details that can blow up your install.
------------------------------
From: "Ric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any Hope for a SMC 2202 USB Ethernet Adapter?
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 02:29:23 GMT
I've finally got my 56K modem to work under Linux. Discovered it had
jumpers and found some settings that Win98 was happy with (it was a USR
Sportster PNP ISA, a general Linux no-no).
Now I want to get my cable modem running. My problem is that I have a SMC
2202 USB Ethernet Adapter. Linux doesn't detect it and I'm a newbie trying
to learn Linux so that the Unix system in the factory where I work won't be
so foreign. I'm running Linux on it's own drive. Are there any patches out
there to get this adapter working?
I don't want to use an internal network card because I tried one and it
refused to let my SBLive card work.
Thanks,
Ric
------------------------------
From: David Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIIG SC-PE4612 UltraATA 66 PCI
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 22:41:11 -0400
I can't tell since they have covered the controller chip with a SIIG label.
Thanks for the idea, I may try to remove the label and check. May try to call
SIIG but doubt they would know or confess.
Thanks for the idea....
> Dave wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using the latest 2.2.16 IDE patches, I have managed to get my SIIG,
> > UltraATA/66 controller working running 1.25 bios but I get
> > this error under heavy load:
> >
> > > hde: timeout waiting for DMA
> > > ide_dmaproc: chipset supported ide_dma.timeout func only: 14
> >
> > The machine will just lock up. Usually, I see this under heavy disk
> > activities while running some CPU intensive program. If I use the PIO
> > mode, the system is fine.
> >
> > Any ideas? I may take a stab at looking through the kernel but if
> > anyone has seen this or have an idea, please let me know....
> >
> > Thanks!
> > Dave
> >
> > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > PIIX4: chipset revision 1
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
> > HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 68
> > HPT366: chipset revision 1
> > HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide2: BM-DMA at 0xb400-0xb407, BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:pio
> > HPT366: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 69
> > HPT366: chipset revision 1
> > HPT366: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> > ide3: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio
> > hda: Memorex CDRW-2216, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > hdb: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD Floppy, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> > hdc: CD-ROM 48X/AKU, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > hde: Maxtor 54098U8, ATA DISK drive
> > hdg: Maxtor 91024U4, ATA DISK drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > ide2 at 0xac00-0xac07,0xb002 on irq 5
> > ide3 at 0xb800-0xb807,0xbc02 on irq 5
> > hde: Maxtor 54098U8, 39082MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=79406/16/63, UDMA(66)
> > hdg: Maxtor 91024U4, 9765MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=19841/16/63, UDMA(33)
>
> Does the board have a VIA chip?
>
> If so, see attached.
>
> JRT
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> WARNING!!!!!!!!!!
>
> VIA code require you pass idebus=XX
>
> Where XX must == 25, 33, 37, or 41
>
> This reflects IDE-PCI BUS CLOCK!!
>
> You must know your SYSTEM........
>
> Failure to do so can have damage that is not recoverable.
>
> 0519:
>
> This should fix the VIA problems.
------------------------------
From: Arash Sayadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 03:18:26 GMT
Subject: Trident 3DImage985 Problems
I am very new to Linux. I recently made a switch from a home network of=
=20
Win NT 4.0 / 98 to a Linux server / Win 98 Workstations setup.
I am currently running:
- 2.2.12-20 Kernel
- RedHat 6.1
- Gnome Desktop Manager
on the following hardware:
- Pentium II 300 MMX
- Soltek Motherboard
- 128 MB RAM
- US Robotics Sportster V.34 modem
- Trident 3DImage985 video card
- Linksys 10/100 NIC
- etc.
My problem lies with the video card. I can't seem to get the high color=
=20
depth to display any of the resolutions. I seem to be able to rotate=20
only through the 8-bit color res.
To setup my card, I ran SuperProbe to get my card info. I then ran the =
xf86config and setup my mouse, keyboard, monitor, and video card. I=20
chose the video card from the provided definitions for Trident. From th=
e=20
information I gathered from SuperProbe and from previous MS Windows=20
experience I kndw that this monitor and video card combination did allow=
=20
me to run 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x1024 in 8, 16, and 24-bit=20
color. I could also run 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768 in 32 bit color. In=
=20
fact the same definitions came up when I ran the xf86config. However,=20
when I run xwindow (i.e., with Gnome Desktop) I seem to be able to only =
rotate through the 4 resolutions for the 8-bit color via the key=20
combiation ctrl-alt-+. How can I switch to the higher colors?
I think I need to change something in the XF86Config script, or may be=20
associate a different server for the video card, i.e., instead of using =
the xf86config recommended xf86_svga server, but I'm unsure what to do.
Any suggestions?
I would appreciate, aside from a post to this thread, a response via=20
email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks,
Arash Sayadi
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: logitech keyboard problem in VI
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 03:46:32 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000 15:49:49 -0700, nico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hello,
>
> i jsut got a new logitech keyboard for my laptop, (Deluxe 104), very
>basic one.
>i use a splitter to attach both my kboard and mouse, and it works great.
>but when i am in VI, the numeric pad coes not respond and instead of
>printing digits, it prints letters like ,x,z,y,t,s,...
>
>
>anyone who got that problem solved?
I have a Logitech wireless keyboard with wireless mouse plugged into a
splitter into the single PS/2 port on my Sony laptop. And the keypad
seems to work fine in vi (Mandrake 7.0). It prints numbers if NumLock is
on and acts as cursor keys, etc. if not.
The NumLock button does light the LED on both the computer and the
wireless transmitter/receiver.
Note: the Belkin PS/2 splitter was molded backwards, so I have to plug the
keyboard into M and the mouse into K, but with that reversed I think it
refused to boot due to keyboard error.
Another Note: Reflection in Windows (for accessing HP3000) seemed to
default to numlock "on" which made certain letters appear as numbers (the
laptop keypad overlays alpha characters). I somehow had to disable that
in the Reflection program. So it does sound like you have a keyboard
mapping problem (see if the letters correspond with the numbers on the
laptop numeric keypad).
--
David Efflandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.de-srv.com/
http://www.autox.chicago.il.us/ http://www.berniesfloral.net/
http://hammer.prohosting.com/~cgi-wiz/ http://cgi-help.virtualave.net/
------------------------------
From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Not able to add Linux Partitions to New HD
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 23:48:53 -0400
Hi,
I recently added a second drive to a Dell Dimension XPS R400.
It now has: 1. 10GB IBM Primary Master with Win98
2. 15GB IBM Primary Slave. with 9648Mb FAT32.
Drive 2 has 4997Mb unallocated space.
I want to use 3000mb for Redhat 6.1. I started the 6.1 cd by setting
the
bios to boot on the cd. The Redhat install came up and I chose custom
installation. I have tried to add partitions using the add button but,
it keeps rejecting the partitions that I want to add. I tried to add
a 16mb /boot partition and it said too big. It did allow me to add
a 256mb <swap> partition, but I can't add other partitions. What ever
I try to add, it says "partition too big". I was initially planning to
use
a boot floppy so I assume that the 1024 cylinder limit wouldn't come
into play under those conditions. I believe that the program in the
install
that does the partitioning is Disk Druid. Could it be that there is a
bug
in it? I am at a loss at what to do at this point.
Thanks
Mike
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
