Linux-Hardware Digest #481, Volume #13 Sat, 26 Aug 00 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: d-link problem!!!! help (Jim Broughton)
Re: Partition Size Advice (John Beardmore)
Re: setting up the Internet with sympatico HS edition (John-Paul Stewart)
Re: cannot get into Gnome ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: Partition Size Advice (hac)
Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset.... (Mohammed Ishaq)
Re: 20 gb harddisk on P120 with motherbord from 95 (Julius Amado Irlandez Lagman)
Re: Promise ATA100 (Markus Kossmann)
L440GX+, AstorII and DPT PM1564U3 ? (Pierre Willem)
Re: USING DVD-RAM with LINUX (Yasuyuki Saito)
UCOM Nordic ISDN (USB) ("Martin Isaksson")
athlon system disk speed (Alan Needleman)
ATA66 ("SergejV")
increase microphone volume ("Anton Suchaneck")
imwheel stopped working ("Anton Suchaneck")
Re: imwheel stopped working (Dances With Crows)
Care and feeding of laptop disks ("Charles R. Wright")
Re: CUECAT for Linux (Martin Warnett)
Syjet 1.5GB / AHA1520B / Mandrake 7.0 Linux (Joseph Bourque)
CUECAT-- Spyware? (Valentin Guillen)
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: d-link problem!!!! help
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 22:18:33 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
jw wrote:
>
> can anyone tell me how to get my d-link dfe-530tx adapter
> recognized by my slackware distro???
> what driver ???
>
> where from???
>
> i use netconfig to no avail
> cus my dmesg shows only local loopback and no broadcast
>
> i am stumped?
> please help
> jamie
You need the rtl8139 driver.
place this line in your conf.modules file.
eth0 alias rtl8139
If slackware defaults to a completely modular system then this
module should be available to you.
--
Jim Broughton
(The Amiga OS! Now there was an OS)
If Sense were common everyone would have it!
Following Air and Water the third most abundant
thing on the planet is Human Stupidity.
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From: John Beardmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2000 23:26:15 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes
>John Beardmore wrote:
>>
>> So is this analogous to cluster size / directory entry issues in FAT
>> file systems ?
>>
>
>Unlike FAT, it has nothing to do with partition size limits.
>
>It's more of a performance issue. A larger block size, particularly
>one related to the processor's 'natural' block size, can give you
>faster reads and writes.
OK, but what's a natural block size ?
>The percentage of space reserved for root can be adjusted from the
>default 5%. After an ordinary user fills the disk, root still has
>some space to work with to clean up. The side-effect, and an
>important one, is that fragmentation goes up markedly as the disk
>approaches full. The reserved space helps keep the fragmentation
>down.
Are there any defragmentation tools for Linux ?
Cheers, J/.
--
John Beardmore
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: setting up the Internet with sympatico HS edition
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 03:37:32 GMT
Buju wrote:
>
> I'm currently using sympatico high speed edition for
> windows. How would I be able to set it up on Red Hat 6.2.
> I don't think its a dial up connection, so is it a local
> area network (LAN) or I'm I wrong and it's something else?
>
> Is it even possible to set up sympatico on Linux?
>
> * Sent from AltaVista http://www.altavista.com Where you can also find related Web
> Pages, Images, Audios, Videos, News, and Shopping. Smart is Beautiful
For specific instructions on HSE and Linux check out the following URL:
http://www1.sympatico.ca:80/help/local/bell/hsedownloadslinux.bell.html
There you'll Linux-specific instructions for HSE as well as the necessary
downloads. I can't get HSE here, so I don't know how good any of this is.
For the record, Sympatico HSE is certainly not dial-up--it's ADSL. Hal Burgiss
is working on updating the ADSL Mini-HOWTO for Linux; he may have more
information. Search the archives of this newsgroup somewhere for articles about
ADSL, and you'll be able to find the URL of his draft.
Anyway, HTH.
J-P Stewart
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot get into Gnome
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 00:13:43 -0400
Something is misconfigured in XF86Config, the simplest way to fix it is
to run Xconfigurator, it will allow you to try a buch of different
resolutions and refresh rates until you find one that is compatible with
your monitor.
Anson Ng wrote:
>
> I just installed Redhat Linux 6.2 onto my new PC. I use a Voodoo3 2000
> w/16MB video card. But after I login, and type "startx" in my shell
> prompt, a little portion (about 10%) on top of the GUI screen shows up.
> And when I move the mousedown to the black region of hte screen, it
> disappears, i.e. everything is visible only at the top 10% of the screen
> after switching to the GUI screen. What would the problem be and how I
> could solve it??
>
> Best Regards,
> Anson
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:02:27 GMT
John Beardmore wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> writes
> >John Beardmore wrote:
> >>
> >> So is this analogous to cluster size / directory entry issues in FAT
> >> file systems ?
> >>
> >
> >Unlike FAT, it has nothing to do with partition size limits.
> >
> >It's more of a performance issue. A larger block size, particularly
> >one related to the processor's 'natural' block size, can give you
> >faster reads and writes.
>
> OK, but what's a natural block size ?
>
A block size that the hardware handles with minimum fuss. For a PC,
disk access is most efficient using DMA. But PC DMA accesses physical
memory[1], not virtual memory. So the memory management hardware gets
involved in the mapping of physical to virtual. The X86 VM page size
is 4096 bytes. Making the filesystem block size the same as the VM
page size is common practice for Unix systems.
Unlike Windows, Linux runs on other processor types than just X86.
Those other processors - Alpha, SPARC, PowerPC, etc. - may have
different natural block sizes. I know very little about X86 memory
management, and even less about other processors. Don't ask me what
the best block sizes are for other platforms.
The executive summary: The hardware works better with certain block
sizes. The size depends on the hardware. For X86, it's 4k.
> >The percentage of space reserved for root can be adjusted from the
> >default 5%. After an ordinary user fills the disk, root still has
> >some space to work with to clean up. The side-effect, and an
> >important one, is that fragmentation goes up markedly as the disk
> >approaches full. The reserved space helps keep the fragmentation
> >down.
>
> Are there any defragmentation tools for Linux ?
Yes. But you don't need them. You'd have to work quite hard to get
an ext2 filesystem fragmented enough to notice the slowdown. Cleaning
the lint out of your mouse is a bigger problem than fragmentation in
Linux filesystems.
Just because Windows does some really stupid things is no reason to
expect any other OS to do them. Robust, fast filesystems have been a
solved problem for decades. Microsoft chose to ignore the widely
published solutions and research, and has been slapping Band-Aids on
the DOS filesystem without ever replacing it. They do know better;
NTFS is decent.
[1] Just to further complicate matters, the PC DMA hardware can only
access the lowest 16MB of memory. The ISA bus can only access the
lowest 1MB. This is reason enough to rid of the ISA bus - bad
hardware design causes software complications. The X86 is bad enough
without crippling it further.
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mohammed Ishaq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuperMicro Motherboard...ServerWorks Chipset....
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:34:06 GMT
The TYAN boards supports AGP. The HE SL should be available on
motherboards soon, which also supports AGP. If you are looking for AGP,
look for mobos which are not configured as servers.
ishaq
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julius Amado Irlandez Lagman)
Subject: Re: 20 gb harddisk on P120 with motherbord from 95
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:51:06 GMT
You may need to upgrade your BIOS to be able to install the 20G HD.
I have an old Intel P100 from IBM. I downloaded a BIOS upgrade from
them and upgraded the CPU to an Intel P200, and I also installed a 3G HD.
Before I upgraded the BIOS, I was unable to install the HD.
Pax,
jj
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000 12:30:48 GMT, the biscuit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>bios suports
>normal /528 Mb
>LBA /8.4 Gb
>large /1 Gb
>
>can I use a 20 Gb hard disk on tis system under linux
>or can i just acces parts of it.
>
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise ATA100
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 07:58:33 +0200
Simon St-Onge wrote:
>
> Hi, I recently bought a Duron with an A7V motherboard,
> here are a few problem i have had so far (i'm using RH 6.2):
> - When recompiling the kernel to get rid of the CPUID problem, gcc has
> crashed multiple times, even making the kernel panic. I eventually got to
> compile the whole kernel and modules.
That looks like a hardware problem :-( . Maybe memory. Did you read the
Sig11 FAQ
( http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11) ?
> - Now I'm trying to access the disks which are connected to the seconth ide
> controller (Promise ATA100). But linux doesnt seem to detect any thing. I
> tryed forcing the detection with some kernel parameters (ide1=...) without
> any success.
"ide1=" is definitely wrong, because this is the second channel of your
first IDE-controller. Try the recipe from the UDMA-Mini-Howto (
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html) :
If we can access the console with the installation disk, we can
also
use "cat /proc/pci" to display the Promise interface settings:
RAID bus interface: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev
1).
Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d33.
Medium devsel. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe000. (a)
I/O at 0xd804. (b)
I/O at 0xd400. (c)
I/O at 0xd004. (d)
I/O at 0xc800. (e)
and pass "ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" as a command line parameter to
the kernel.
If you build a new kernel , you might want to patch it with Andre
Hedrick IDE Patches (from http://www.linux-ide.org/) , which adds
specific support for that controler to the kernel.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:28:53 +0200
From: Pierre Willem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: L440GX+, AstorII and DPT PM1564U3 ?
Hi,
I would like to know if the following hardware will work.
Motherboard Intel l440gx+
Raid DPT "Decade" PM1564U3
Chassis Intel Astor II
Thanks in advance
Pierre
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From: Yasuyuki Saito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USING DVD-RAM with LINUX
Date: 26 Aug 2000 12:30:49 GMT
Hello.
In article Message-ID:<8nobmm$lv1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at comp.os.linux.hardware
"Federico Facca" wrote:
= I have a Dvd-Ram and i want use it with my linux box. Can anydoy help me?
How about my Web page ?
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~sight95/linux/dvd-ram/dvd-ram-english.html
--
Yasuyuki Saito
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From: "Martin Isaksson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UCOM Nordic ISDN (USB)
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:55:42 +0200
I can't get this modem to work with Linux. Why?
I'm running Mandrake 7.1. Any ideas?
Thanks.
--
Martin Isaksson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.martinsoft.net
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From: Alan Needleman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: athlon system disk speed
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 14:46:33 GMT
Hi,
I have AMD Athlon Linux system (750 MHz, original slot A) that uses the
AMD-75x chipset. The speed is excellent except for the disk speed
because the kernel I am running 2.2.16 seems to only support pio modes
for this chipset. I want to improve the disk speed but I don't want to
recompile the kernel. Will this chipset be supported in the 2.4.x series
of kernels? If so, I can probably wait for that to be released. Another
possibility is getting a Promise UDMA 33 controller which I believe is
supported in the 2.2 kernels (a quick look seemed to indicate that they
are hard to find). Any leads on where to get one would be appreciated as
would any suggestions on what route to take.
Thanks.
Alan
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From: "SergejV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA66
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:52:53 +0100
Hello,
well, linux kernel 2.4.0-test4
defines my hard disk IBM-DTLA-307015(15Gig)
on Promise ATA66 controller PDC20262
The problem was in the next:
you need to set on your disk "Cable select"
not Master or Slave.
But I have other problem now,
after difining disk, kernel does not want
to be loaded.
I mean lilo writes:
devfs:boot_option: 0x2
Kernel panic: VFS:Unable to mount root fs
Yes, before my boot disk was hda,
now it is hde.
I tried to start lilo:
lilo:linux root=/dev/hde <Enter>
But, the same message: Kernel panic...
Thanks,
Sergej.
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From: "Anton Suchaneck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: increase microphone volume
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:00:11 +0100
Does someone know whether I can increase the volume the microphone receives?
I have a cheap one, but I believe to have had better result with win95.
Anton
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From: "Anton Suchaneck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: imwheel stopped working
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:03:36 +0100
Since I changed th configuration of imwheel, imwheel stopped working.
It starts without complaining but my wheel doesnt work. Has anyone have
a suggestion?
Anton
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: imwheel stopped working
Date: 26 Aug 2000 17:22:51 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:03:36 +0100, Anton Suchaneck wrote:
>Since I changed th configuration of imwheel, imwheel stopped working.
>It starts without complaining but my wheel doesnt work. Has anyone have
>a suggestion?
Change /etc/imwheelrc back to the way it used to be, of course! If you
didn't make a backup of the file that worked before changing things,
then I strongly suggest you do that next time.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: "Charles R. Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Care and feeding of laptop disks
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 17:48:51 GMT
Hello,
Recently, I suffered a complete loss of the hard drive in my IBM
Thinkpad 600X. The drive was a 10 GB Hitachi DK23AA-12B. IBM replaced
it no problem since it was only 4 months old.
The incident makes me wonder whether it was a defective drive or whether
I was too rough with the computer. On one hand, I carried the thing
back and forth to work daily for those four months. About a half hour
of that was walking from a train station to work with the laptop in my
sachel (powered off of course) strapped across my back and flopping a
little bit.
On the other hand, the drive had a tendency to make rather loud,
startling "clack" noises periodically, like at least 4-5 times a day.
It did this from day one. I just thought it was the nature of the
beast. Since the crash, the people where I took the drive for recovery
(they failed), said that the noise was a bad sign.
I should add that the replacement drive is another one identical to the
first, and makes the same noise.
So what do you think? Is the new disk going to die the same way? Is it
my carrying it all the time or is it the drive? Any brand of laptop
drives known for robustness? I'm not too keen on Hitachi these days...
Meanwhile, I back up daily, sometimes twice daily.
Thanks for the tips,
Charles Wright
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From: Martin Warnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CUECAT for Linux
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 10:55:57 -0700
Matthew J Zukowski wrote:
> Actually I was thinking that it still would be pretty cool to do an
> inventory of your stuff, despite the fact that it's input is
> encrypted. It's readings are pretty consistent, and if someone out there
> were to write lets say a spread function to decrypt the data it would
> prove to be most useful. The fact that it operates on the standard AT
> keyboard interface makes the hardware intergration much easier.
>
>
>
> Personaly I think I would prefer an independent project behind this
> venture, or at-least independent software. It's a useful enough idea that
> I'm sure companies would pay good money to advertise on such a bar-code to
> product database.
>
Checkout Readerware, I just added support for the :CueCat. It is a book
cataloging program. Scan in a bar code, Readerware extracts the ISBN, goes out
on the net searches for the book, extracts the data, including images, and
builds a local database.
http://www.readerware.com
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From: Joseph Bourque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.act.scsi,linux.dev.scsi,linux.syquest
Subject: Syjet 1.5GB / AHA1520B / Mandrake 7.0 Linux
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 11:58:10 -0600
Hi All,
I have a Syjet 1.5GB removable syquest drive, attached to an Adaptec
AHA1520B, using Mandrake 7.0 Linux that isn't being recognized. I
checked the /proc/scsi/scsi file and it said there were no scsi devices
recognized so I think that explains why the syquest isn't there. What I
can't figure out is why I can't get the kernel to load the scsi card.
Lsmod and Modprobe return the following:
# lsmod
Module Size Used by
vfat 11004 0 (autoclean) (unused)
fat 32640 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
ppp 21036 2 (autoclean)
slhc 4392 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
vmnet 14560 1
vmppuser 4868 0 (unused)
parport_pc 7604 0 [vmppuser]
parport 8084 0 [vmppuser parport_pc]
vmmon 16156 1
lockd 33256 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 56612 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
supermount 14880 2 (autoclean)
sb 36884 0
uart401 6480 0 [sb]
sound 64184 0 [sb uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 3524 5 [sb sound]
==============================
# modprobe -l -t scsi
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/wd7000.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ultrastor.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/u14-34f.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/tmscsim.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/t128.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/sym53c8xx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/sym53c416.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/sim710.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/sg.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/seagate.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/scsi_debug.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/qlogicisp.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/qlogicfc.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/qlogicfas.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/psi240i.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ppa.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/pas16.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ncr53c8xx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/megaraid.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ips.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/initio.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/in2000.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/imm.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/ide-scsi.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/gdth.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/g_NCR5380.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/fdomain.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/eata_pio.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/eata_dma.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/eata.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/dtc.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/dc395x_trm.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/atp870u.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/aic7xxx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/aha1740.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/aha1542.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/aha152x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/advansys.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/a100u2w.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/NCR53c406a.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/BusLogic.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/AM53C974.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/53c7,8xx.o
==============================
# modprobe aha152x.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14-15mdk/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or
resource busy
Any ideas as to what I can try?
TIA
Joe
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CUECAT-- Spyware?
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 18:08:21 GMT
Am I the only one here who thinks that this is but another example of
"stealth" spyware?
Anyone know of what kind of hidden port activity this "cute" little
program generates, and who it reports to, and what it reports?
Any and all comments would be appreciated.
Valentin Guillen
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