Linux-Hardware Digest #487, Volume #13 Mon, 28 Aug 00 07:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Diamond Stealth III S-540: Problems? (Brian Hare)
Re: UPS / Backup drives (Michael Meissner)
Need Memory - Search No Further! 77204972 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SiS 5597/5598 - resolution ("Dean Thomas")
Parallel port scanner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO 100B Problem ("Timo Kerstan")
Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1 ("Harris L. Gilliam")
Re: ultra66 ("Heiner Keute")
Re: Virtual Desktop ("X-Man")
Linux on Sun ("Jason Bourne")
Modem query (Kim Adil)
Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ? ("Alfred Wallace")
Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ? ("Laurent Delpierre")
Re: UPS / Backup drives ("Roger Kristiansen")
Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A, is the Burn Proof software or hardware? (Walter
Francis)
2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot (David M. Siegel)
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From: Brian Hare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth III S-540: Problems?
Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 23:30:57 -0500
Could you share some info on how you got it to work? I'm having a
dickens of a time getting it configured under SuSE 6.1. I'm assuming
it's because I haven't got the right combination of drivers & confix
options set up. The company's web site is less than helpful (only info
is support for Windows.)
ANY information you could share would be appreciated. (Disclaimer:
Relative newbie with Linux here, it may be something basic.)
Thanks!
Darko Palic wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I�m using the same Card under Linux without any problems
>
> D.Palic
>
> "Arthur A. Simon, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Am building a box on an ABIT AGP main board, 128 Mb, and have available
> > a
> > Stealth III S-540, AGP. Anyone have experience with this board under
> > Linux?
> > Are there any problems with installation or operation? Will autoprobe
> > properly
> > locate and configure this puppy? My last Video Board under Linux was a
> > Stealth
> > 3-D 2000 Pro, and it worked like a charm.
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Art
> >
--
Brian Hare
Genius at Large
PGP key at
http://www.cstp.umkc.edu/~bhare/
I'm out of bed and dressed! What more do you want?
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Subject: Re: UPS / Backup drives
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Aug 2000 01:47:18 -0400
"Roger Kristiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm setting up a linux server that I need a UPS and some backup-system on.
> Now, are the any special manufacturers I should buy from? What works well,
> what doesn't work at all?
>
> I'm thinking about buying a OnStream Internal SCSI backup drive, although I
> would like second opinions on that. When it comes to the UPS I don't have a
> clue.. could someone enlighten me, please? :)
APC's tend to be the biggest market leader in terms of UPSes. I have an APC
Smart-UPS 1400 on my main system, and it will provide backup for > 30 minutes
for a pretty loaded workstation system + small mail/web server (500Mhz dual
processor, 6+ disks, hubs, routers, an LCD monitor, and a second Pentium-II
233Mhz system with a single disk). On the downside, it is rather heavy, and
costs something like $600. You can get reasonable systems cheaper than that,
probably in the $200 range. Note, my experience is the really cheap UPSes that
you can get for $80 or so are not worth it (I've had 2 cheap APC's and 1
CyberPower fail on me). I believe Best systems that have serial ports actually
documents their interface and provides Linux source drivers (APC provides a
binary driver that works on x86 Linux platforms, and there are some 3rd party
packages that figured out the protocol without any help from APC).
In terms of backup, I would stay away from the HP DAT-3 drives. They seem to
last about 4-5 months for me before I have to call HP to get a new drive (I'm
about to call to replace drive #3). In the past, DLT's have had the name
recognition for reliability, though at $3k - $5k for the drive itself, plus
$100 tapes, it should be reliable. What I'm about to switch to is instead of
using the DAT every day, using a large 62gig IDE disk for daily backups, and
the tape once every few days (at present, I have about 17 gig I want to backup
every night).
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.net,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer,comp.hardware,comp.sys.hp.hardware
Subject: Need Memory - Search No Further! 77204972
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 04:24:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dean Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS 5597/5598 - resolution
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 16:35:37 +1000
I have got mine to run on 800x600 (but it was with only one monitor....I
don't know why, my other monitors have no problems on any other system). I
set the refresh rate at 72
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8oagnh$l6u$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Im currently running RH6.2 with a SiS 5597/5598
> video card (yeah, i know it is crap, but we are
> beyong that :P). Anyway... got Xwindows to run
> and everything, however i can only get Xwindows
> to work with the resolution of 640x400. Is there
> something i can do about this?
>
> Sorry if this question has been answered
> already. If it has and an answer has already
> been posted... let me know of that post and i'll
> be happy to read it.
>
> If you'd like to e-mail a response that'd be
> great. Thanks.
>
>
> Nick
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Parallel port scanner
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:55:39 GMT
I am using a parallel port scanner. I installed SANE but the tool 'find-
scanner' does not find anything. In the config file for my scanner
(/etc/sane.d/mustek.conf) the device is linked to '/dev/scanner'. But
this device isn't existing in /dev.
What symlink has to be created for a parallel port scanner?
regards
Detlev
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Timo Kerstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.devel,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO 100B Problem
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:30:17 +0200
Thx. Seems to fix the Prob! Since Friday no entry in the Logs. :))
>I had the same problem! After installing the EtherExpress driver I
>found at http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/30504.htm
>(it's version 1.1) the problem was gone.
>Claus Riemann, GMD. NET.zediNET
>Dont' dream it - Be it!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.lang.verilog
Subject: Re: 1GMHz+ PC with Linux to run EDA SW?
Date: 28 Aug 2000 07:41:17 -0100
Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Also, Signalscan is available on Linux. I ran it just today.
> > However, I can't seem to get the pli code to work yet. Something
> > weird about my libc.so.5 I have is making the sim core dump. Don't
> > know what to do about this as Cadence won't support this pli as far
> > as I know.
>
> Which distribution of Linux are you using? Afaik all distributions
> support libc5 but some older versions of some distributions does'nt
> support libc6. Most distributions use libc6 as default today. You could
> check this with "ldd /bin/ls":
>
> draken:~> ldd /bin/ls
> libc.so.5 => /lib/libc.so.5 (0x4000e000)
>
> I'm using an old Slackware which is built for libc5.
>
> Some commercial applications need support for libc6 to work. Check your
The problem is that Cadence delivers libc5 object files with
signalscan and Synopsys delivers libc6 object files with vcs. Linking
the two into a simulator executable is impossible (I would love to be
proven wrong on this one).
Petter
--
________________________________________________________________________
Petter Gustad 8'h2B | (~8'h2B) - Hamlet http://www.gustad.com
#include <stdio.h>/* compile/run this program to get my email address */
int main(void) {printf ("petter\100gustad\056com\nmy opinions only\n");}
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From: "Harris L. Gilliam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI CDRW Locks up Redhat 6.1
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 03:29:17 -0400
Harris L. Gilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I just purchased a Yamaha 8x8x24 SCSI CD Recorder.
>> This replaces an IDE CD Recorder which I could not get to work under
>> Linux.
> I'm having similar problems with the INITIO Ultra SCSI card and a
> Yamaha 6x4x16 CDRW. I'm pretty sure what happens is that the Yamaha
> gets confuzzled when the termination isn't just right and then does
> some sort of SCSI bus reset that crashes the machine.
> In my config I have the Yamaha and an AIWA 4mm DAT connected at the
> same time. The DAT is external. Someone mentioned in another thread
> that sometimes the SCSI card doesn't have enough juice to power the
> internal and external terminators. So my next attempt is to enable
> the terminator power on the DAT and see if things improve. You might
> want to try something similar.
> This is either a bug in the Yamaha firmware or the INITIO device
> driver, I can't tell which yet.
Okay so... I hooked up my DAT to the internal SCSI chain with the
Yamaha at the end. The DAT is not terminated, the Yamaha is, and
everything works fine :-) So I suspect the INITIO card can't power the
terminator when the DAT is hooked up externally. I haven't tried
enabling the DAT's terminator power and connecting it externally again
but I bet that will work too.
---Harris
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From: "Heiner Keute" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ultra66
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:18:54 +0200
Hi Tie!
I�ve had nearly the same problem, I have an Maxtor 96147H8 whit 60GB and
could only use 30 GB whith my Promise Ultra 100 on SuSE Linux 6.4 whit an
kernel 2.2.16. But with cfdisk I can use now the full size.
I hope it works for you too!
CU
Heiner
"Tie-Qiang Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:17:20 -0400, jazz wrote:
> > >I am running Redhat6.1. I have two harddrives on Ultra66. I managed to
> > >install the harddrives and format the drives. However, the capacity of
> > >drives are far less than what supposed to be. A 40 gb drive provides
> > >only 6 gb capacity. Any suggestion and comments are appriciated.
> >
> > The kernel that RH 6.1 shipped with (2.2.12-something) could not handle
> > IDE drives over 32G thanks to a bug in the code. Upgrade your kernel!
> > ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/linux-2.2.16.tar.gz
> >
> > --
> > 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
>
> Thanks for the info. I did upgrade the kernel to the latest. Now I
> am running 2.2.20. The problem remains. The 40 gb drive can be
> detected but the capacity is still about 6 gb. On the window side (98)
> I can use the full 40 gb without any problem. I have aslo tried
> ultra66 module provided by Promise. It is really frustrating. After two
> days hard work without sucess, I plan now use the drive on the
> window side. If you have further suggestion to make it work on the
> RH side, I would appreciate very much. -Tie
>
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From: "X-Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Virtual Desktop
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 09:32:26 GMT
Ok that was Virtual Screen and I delete all lines in /etc/X11/XF86Config and
its not helping what should i do???
Dances With Crows napisa�(a) w wiadomo�ci: ...
>On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 20:56:08 +0200, X-Man wrote:
>>I can't off this thing. I have RH 6.2, how can i do this?
>
>You need to provide more information and/or check the grammer of your
>posts. I highly doubt you want to off your system, as putting a .45
>through a standard motherboard is generally not a good idea. :-]
>
>Also, a "Virtual Desktop" is different from a "Virtual Screen". Virtual
>desktops are provided by the window manager (kwm, Enlightenment,
>Sawfish, etc.) and are so handy that you should *NOT* turn them off
>ever. Virtual screens are provided by the X-server, and manifest
>themselves as an area that is, say, 1024x768 in size while it's being
>displayed at 800x600, and you can see the whole thing by moving the
>mouse around. Some people like this, others hate it.
>
>If you run your monitor at 800x600 all the time, don't configure any
>resolutions higher than 800x600, because the highest configured
>resolution will be used as the virtual screen size for all resolutions.
>Also comment out any "Virtual" lines in your /etc/X11/XF86Config , as
>those are used to specify a virtual screen size that's larger than the
>resolution your monitor can display.
>
>Switching resolutions from 1024x768 to 800x600 will *not* shrink the
>entire root window to 800x600, because that's the way X and X programs
>work. This is a Feature.
>
>--
>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: "Jason Bourne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Sun
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 11:41:44 +0200
Hello
Does anyone know if it is possible to run Redhat 5.2 or 6.X on the Sun
Enterprise Ultra 150 server?
I know it is a bit old, but I am so lucky that i have the possibility to
borrow one from my employer
Regards
J.B
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From: Kim Adil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem query
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 19:50:28 +1000
Hi,
I have a 56KV.90 external modem and I am using
RedHat on a Cyrix300 machine that has everything
on the motherboard. It't all rock bottom quality
hardware. My query is why does netscape 4.72
download stall if I click anywhere other than the
download window. It stalls and just sits there.
I also ignorantly assumed that 2 way synchronous
communication was possible but I emailed a large
document just before starting a download and the
chart on kppp showed a negotion sequence of events
with the modem being controlled one-at-a-time by
the email send and the ftp download. The email
finally won the battle and the download stalled
after a lot of switching.
If there are any network timing settings that I
can tweak to solve this fickle problem.
Thanks
Kim
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From: "Alfred Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:01:45 +0200
vierde machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
lGcq5.50427$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If you know the answer, please let me know.
> I've tried the XF86_SVGA, as suggested by XF96Config.
>
> Problem is that not all parts of the screen will be updated properly and
> some squashing of pixels occurs (but not much).
>
> Thanks.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Add these options in your XF86Config file :
option "no_accel"
option "no_bitblt"
I do this for my SiS6326 AGP 3D and it works fine.
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From: "Laurent Delpierre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SiS6326 needs which XF86 server ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:10:46 +0200
vierde machine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a �crit dans le message :
lGcq5.50427$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> If you know the answer, please let me know.
> I've tried the XF86_SVGA, as suggested by XF96Config.
>
> Problem is that not all parts of the screen will be updated properly and
> some squashing of pixels occurs (but not much).
>
> Thanks.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
Add these options in your XF86Config file :
option "no_accel"
option "no_bitblt"
I do this for my SiS6326 AGP 3D and it works fine.
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From: "Roger Kristiansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS / Backup drives
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 12:23:40 +0200
Thanks for the help guys, with your and others recommendations I've managed
to decide what to buy. Now I just have to pray I get it working. :)
--
Roger Kristiansen
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Plextor PlexWriter 12/10/32A, is the Burn Proof software or hardware?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 06:30:28 -0400
I have decided my christmas present this year is going to be a CD writer
that *works* (as opposed to my HP 7200i CoasterMaker (tm))
I just noticed the new(ish?) Plextor drive which has technology to stop
the burn process and restart it given a buffer underrun or other related
problems. Is this done in hardware or is it strictly software? IE: If
I get this drive in Linux, will this technology work or will it have to
wait for supporting software?
I'd rather have a SCSI drive, but as this drive is $300 street (and
likely lower by now, haven't looked for prices) it's going to be cheaper
to get this drive with my existing IDE system than get a SCSI drive and
a SCSI controller.
I hope this hasn't been discussed recently, Deja.com showed nothing I
could find.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 6.x
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From: David M. Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: 2 Ethernet cards, system won't boot
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 10:45:10 GMT
I've just gotten a new development system, with 2 ethernet cards, so
that it can also be used as a firewall.
The system works fine with one ethernet card. With two cards,
though, the system won't start; it seems to shift the address
of my ide drives, and consequently it can't find the kernel.
Here's the configuration:
Linux Mandrake 7.1
Asus P2B motherboard
2 750 MHz PIIIs
512 Meg RAM
2 Maxtor 40 Gig hard drives
Promise Ultra/66 controller (both drives are connected
to the Ultra/66 controller; that's what pushed me to Mandrake,
which contains a kernel with Ultra/66 support)
Soundblaster Live Value
Elsa Erazor TNT2
2 3com 3c905c PCI ethernet cards
and the usual floppy, keyboard, etc.
Because of the ultra/66, my two drives are hde and hdg.
If I put in the second ethernet card, the system claims to find
partitions at hdi and hdk. The numbers and sizes of these partitions
match the ones that should be at hde and hdg. Of course, since
it's looking for hde and hdg, the boot fails claiming that it can't
mount the filesystem.
Once I went ahead and reinstalled the OS. When I did that,
the 3c509 module wouldn't load, claiming that the device or resource
was busy. I looked at the information in /proc/interrupts and
/proc/pci and could see no conflict. According to the bios, it's
assigning the second card to IRQ 5; I see nothing else that wants
IRQ 5. Since that time, I reinstalled again with one ethernet card;
I don't have copies of the /proc listings.
I might, I suppose have conflicts with i/o ports and/or device memory.
I'd appreciate suggestions for detecting and fixing these problems.
If I install the second ethernet card, as I mentioned above, the boot
fails, claiming that it can't mount the first filesystem.
If I then use the Mandrake 7.1 boot CD as a rescue image, it allows me
to mount the partitions on hde!
Deeply confused,
-dms
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