Linux-Hardware Digest #540, Volume #13 Wed, 6 Sep 00 21:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: modem working but... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: XCAM: How to get working with V4L BT878? (Jim Broughton)
Re: cd writer? (Jim Broughton)
Baffling parallel printer problem (David Shochat)
Re: what's up with Sun? ("Raz A Mattazz")
Re: Mouse problem under XFree86 ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: tape drives (Michal Jaegermann)
Re: Any project or infor about install embedded Linux on Palm V machine?
(Christopher Browne)
Re: flash/diskless Linux hardware project?? (Christopher Browne)
Re: what's up with Sun? (David C.)
Re: what's up with Sun? ("Peter T. Breuer")
Amrestore - Please Help ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and ABIT KT7 motherboard (Corey Cossentino)
Re: thoughts? AMD K7-800, Abit kt7-raid, w2k, linux, RAID-1 (Corey Cossentino)
Baffling IDE HD performance difference (John Harlow)
Re: thoughts? AMD K7-800, Abit kt7-raid, w2k, linux, RAID-1 (David C.)
Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver?? ("D. Abuan")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: modem working but...
Date: 6 Sep 2000 19:16:17 -0400
d <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i finally got my ISA modem working with the help of isapnp. so i set ppp
> to dial to my ISP and everything seems fine. i establish a connection, but
> one problem... i can't access web pages. i try other stuff like ping and
> telnet and it says that it cant do it. (it doesnt know host name or
> something like that)
Can you access sites using IP addresses ... let's see, www.nytimes.com has
IP address 208.48.26.200
Does using the URL: "http://208.48.26.200" get you anywhere?
If so, you are connected by not able to resolve domain names to IP
addresses. In that case check with your ISP for the DNS server IP
addresses. You will have to use those to get a connection to the DNS
server to resolve domain names to IP addresses.
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From: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: XCAM: How to get working with V4L BT878?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:25:39 GMT
Darren Enns wrote:
>
> I got 'xsane' working with my cheap flatbed scanner, and then
> noticed that another video source was my TV capture card.
> In both Xsane and Xcam, the picture is black -- even though
> a signal must be present. In fact, even if one were present
> I am not sure how I would be able to control where the video
> signal was coming from (TV or Composite).
>
> Any advise? It seems to want to use '/dev/video0', which
> seems reasonable.
>
> Thanks
>
> Dare
> --
> Darren Enns
> EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> HTTP: members.home.net/dmenns
www.linuxdoc.org miniHOWTO's BTTV-Mini-HOWTO-0.3
--
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: Jim Broughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: cd writer?
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:29:23 GMT
greg wrote:
>
> I had same problem and this fixed it no problems
> http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/Tutorial/CDburner/pages/cdBurner4.php
> 3
>
> Just follow the directions
>
> Cheers
>
> Greg
Seems as though the link you posted is busted. Any other idea?
--
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: David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Baffling parallel printer problem
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2000 23:46:00 GMT
I have RedHat 6.2 with the kernel upgraded to 2.2.16-3. I have had this
same strangeness before and after the upgrade and even in 6.1. The
printer is a TI Microlaser PS 35.
The problem is that sometimes when I try to print something everything
works great, but other times (using straight lpr, from Netscape,
abiword, whatever), nothing happens. lpq shows the job waiting in the
queue marked "active".
If I go into printtool (as root) and try "Print ASCII directly to port",
I get the error message:
Error printing test page to queue /dev/lp0
Error reason: couldn't wite file "/dev/lp0": file busy
I try rmmod'ing parport_pc, lp, etc. and then modprobe'ing lp. No help.
I try killing and restarting lpd. No help. Sometimes things seem to fix
themselves just by waiting an hour or so (I assume it has something to
do with the modules unloading themselves).
Does anyone have any clue what is going on and how to make it work
reliably?
Is it normal that I always seem to have two lpd processes?
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From: "Raz A Mattazz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: Wed, 6 Sep 2000 23:10:24 +0200
"Fred Nastos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8p5giq$m1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: How much slower are IDE drives really? Are you comparing them
to SCSI?
Not slower at all. IDE (ATAPI) and SCSI drives are the same
mechanically, with different controller electronics. Most (all?)
manufacturers of harddrives have the (mechanically) same
harddisk in an ATAPI version and in a SCSI version. Such "twins"
perform equally. Only in big server RAID systems is SCSI
superior to IDE. Even advanced home users have no other reason
to buy SCSI but for the sake of attaching up to 15 units and
thus saving IRQs on their PCs.
Another point may be if you want to be able to move your
harddisks between the PC, Sun, MacIntosh etc. Then SCSI is to
prefer. Otherwise, for home and small business use, there's
really no need or advantage in using SCSI. Expensive controllers
and more hard to find and expensive harddisks, for what? A
queved command advantage that you have no noticable use for in
any "normal" computer use.
SCSI is grossly overhyped.
Raz (SCSI user...)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse problem under XFree86
Date: 6 Sep 2000 23:53:41 GMT
Chuck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Anyone know what the 'ZAxismapping' is?
: -Chuck
Man XF86Config.
ZAxisMapping X
ZAxisMapping Y
ZAxisMapping N M
Some mouse devices have a wheel or a roller. Its
action is reported as the Z (third) axis movement
in the X server. The Z axis movement can be
assigned to another axis (X or Y) or a pair of
buttons (the button N for negative movement and M
for positive movement) with this option.
(reading problem diagnosed and cured ...:'o)
Peter
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Jaegermann)
Subject: Re: tape drives
Date: 7 Sep 2000 00:00:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bob Terrell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "David C." wrote:
: ...
: > DLT drives are popular, fast, reliable, and expensive.
: >
: Is anyone using a DLT IV drive with linux?
I tested DLT drives with Linux in the past. I do not know if this was
"IV" but SCSI tape is just a SCSI tape and this is all you need until
somebody starts to "improve" on a standard.
Do not overlook as well VXA tape drives.
http://www.vxa.com
Not exactly free but high capacities, a very long shelf life, very
sturdy (in a promo video they boil and freeze a tape before recovering
data :-) and work fast and _quiet_. This is probably the first quiet
tape I ever used. :-) Oh, they work with Linux and you can even find
Linux support software on VXA site - although Linux for them means x86
only. Still...
Michal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: Any project or infor about install embedded Linux on Palm V machine?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:01:35 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Hans would say:
>I have a Plam V and want to replace the Plam OS into embedded Linux
>for Palm V.
I'm not sure that the results of this will necessarily be what you
expect; don't expect to get something usable as a PDA...
At any rate, see: <http://www.uclinux.org/>
--
(concatenate 'string "cbbrowne" "@" "acm.org")
<http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc
informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common
Lisp." -- Philip Greenspun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Subject: Re: flash/diskless Linux hardware project??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:01:38 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when alan would say:
>Godfrey Livingstone wrote:
>> What size are the CompactFlash to IDE adapter?
>> Is installation similiar to How to roll a Materhorn + M-Systems
>> Disk-On-Chip kernel link on http://lrp.c0wz.com/?
>
>Physical size... about 10cms x 6cms I think! can't measure it at the
>moment.
>
>Disk size.... I think that I have an 8M compact flash card in it,
>although it may be 16M.... I can't remember!
Size varies. There are probably CFlash cards as small as 4MB; 16MB
seems to be popular; 64MB is on the "high side" for RAM cards; IBM
sells a 384MB CF Hard Drive that fits in that same form factor.
>It was so long since I installed it... but the proceedure on the page
>you refer to seems far more than I went through!
>
>I seem to recall following instructions for a HD install of the LRP
>system from a floppy. After all, an HD is what the CF device has become.
>I do remember write protecting it after the system was set up, so that
>it cannot be corrupted, and will restart with no probs.
>
>Sorry to be so vague, but it was nearly a year ago! and I've had no
>reason to do anything to it for a long time!
The "Disk-on-Chip" scheme may wind up being fairly involved; if you
get an IDE adaptor, then the CompactFlash pretends to be an IDE disk
drive, which means that setting it up is relatively straighforward;
it's basically a small disk drive.
--
(concatenate 'string "aa454" "@" "freenet.carleton.ca")
<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/hardware.html>
"Unless you used NetInfo. _Then_ changing network settings could
often require torching of the existing system, salting of the ground
it had rested on, and termination of anyone who used it."
-- JFW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on comp.sys.next.advocacy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: 06 Sep 2000 20:10:53 -0400
"Raz A Mattazz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Only in big server RAID systems is SCSI superior to IDE.
You see an advantage any time you access multiple devices at once. IDE
can not access both devices of a single channel simultaneously. SCSI
can.
Of course, in RAID systems, this kind of parallel access happens all the
time. In non-RAID situations, it will depend on what kind of
applications you're running.
> Even advanced home users have no other reason to buy SCSI but for the
> sake of attaching up to 15 units and thus saving IRQs on their PCs.
This is not a minor detail. My PCs have no free IRQs in them. As a
matter of fact, I routinely have to disable one or both IDE interfaces
in order to have enough for the devices that I actually use.
Being able to add new devices without consuming any more IRQs is of
critical importance to me. Especially when a large number of devices
are present. My main PC has two hard drives, a Zip drive, a CD-ROM and
a tape drive. It will soon be getting a CD-RW as well. I have this all
on two SCSI busses - it could have been one bus, but I don't want the
Ultra-Wide hard drive to be slowed down by the non-Ultra devices.
Could I do all this with IDE? Probably. I'd need to add a third IDE
controller to the system, though. And I'd have to arrange the devices
so that the devices that typically get used simultaneously (like hard
drive and tape drive) do not attach to the same interface.
> Another point may be if you want to be able to move your harddisks
> between the PC, Sun, MacIntosh etc. Then SCSI is to prefer. Otherwise,
> for home and small business use, there's really no need or advantage
> in using SCSI. Expensive controllers and more hard to find and
> expensive harddisks, for what? A queved command advantage that you
> have no noticable use for in any "normal" computer use.
You and I have very different definitions of "normal".
My normal computer use involves running 10 or more apps at once. On
many occasions, several will be accessing my disk drives at once. SCSI
definitely improves overall performance in these situations.
And the controllers are not _that_ expensive. Sure, Adaptec has some
that sell for $350. They also have less expensive models. And you can
get good quality controllers from other vendors for the same price that
an ATA/66 or ATA/100 card sells for.
> SCSI is grossly overhyped.
Yes. But that's no reason to underhype it in response.
-- David
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Date: 7 Sep 2000 00:00:49 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Raz A Mattazz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Fred Nastos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
: news:8p5giq$m1q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: manufacturers of harddrives have the (mechanically) same
: harddisk in an ATAPI version and in a SCSI version. Such "twins"
: perform equally. Only in big server RAID systems is SCSI
: superior to IDE. Even advanced home users have no other reason
Believe me, scsi makes a huge difference on my (ide + scsi)
P2 450MHz 128MB workstation. I can actually type and get a process
back from swap at the same time!
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 128316 118244 10072 39976 26768 40196
-/+ buffers/cache: 51280 77036
Swap: 258008 24444 233564
2:00am up 46 days, 11:54, 1 user, load average: 0.92, 0.28, 0.15
: SCSI is grossly overhyped.
Nonsense. A response from a person who isn't trying to load netscape
while quitting staroffice all on their IDE transport, perhaps? It's
worth every penny to my nerves.
You know it makes sense ... 8-)
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Amrestore - Please Help
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:21:36 GMT
amrestore from tape
I have 2 level 0 tapes from an Amanda back that refer to a lvol -
/dev/vg00/lvol4
which is my /home on HP-UX 10.20 E-35. I am running Amanda 2.4.1p1.
After trying an amrestore and an amrestore | restore both as -xvf -
and -ivf -
I am still getting piles of files that return a "file" not found on
tape. It creates all of the
directories like it's going to fill in the file, but only recovers
about 1/4 of the files.
After this I did a dd of the file from tape directly to a hard drive,
and then did
a gzip -dc | restore -xvf - with the same result as the amrestore. I
have tried both
of these tapes in 2 different machines - One E-35 with DDS2 and a G-50
with a DDS3.
The tape is a DDS2 so it should work with both. I feel like I've
exhausted all my ideas.
If you have any suggestions, Please feel free to repond to the or e-
mail me directly at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Eric M. Whitener
Technical Consultany
PICS
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From: Corey Cossentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and ABIT KT7 motherboard
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:42:35 -0400
Hans-Martin Gutmann wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm contemplating to buy an ABIT KT7 motherboard with an Athlon
> processor and I want to run Linux. Has anybody got experience with that?
> Are there any problems?
>
> Thanks very much.
Yes, I just bought the KT7-RAID... the only problem was with the RAID
controller - needed a kernel patch to run. If you're just getting the
plain KT7 you shouldn't have problems.
--
"Let me open these blinds so the snipers can see in." - Kevin Giffhorn
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From: Corey Cossentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: thoughts? AMD K7-800, Abit kt7-raid, w2k, linux, RAID-1
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 20:48:47 -0400
Okay, here's my thoughts... I could be wrong though.
"Todd H." wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I understand that only one Linux distro. currently supports the
> hardware RAID controller on this Abit board, but I'd like to ensure
> that the rest of the hardware is all capable of running Linux in the
> future.
Which one? From what I've seen, Linux currently only supports single
drive mode on the RAID with the HPT370.
> Or, alternatively, could I put a Linux HD on one of the IDE
> controllers, and let Win2K have full run of the 2-disk RAID-1 array in
> a dual-boot arrangement?
Is Win2K as picky as Win9x about being on the primary drive? I had
trouble with WinME on the RAID and Linux on the regular IDE... it didn't
like being on the non-booting drive, and LILO wouldn't run off hde with
the root partition being hda1... Of course, this is completely
irrelevant if Win2K is OK with that.
> IBM307030 IBM HDRIVE 30GB ULTRA ATA 7200RPM quantity: 2
If you look on HighPoint's website, under the drivers section, it says
that Linux only supports single drive mode at the moment, so if you
wanted the RAID array, you'd need to put Linux on the IDE, I think.
--
"Let me open these blinds so the snipers can see in." - Kevin Giffhorn
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From: John Harlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Baffling IDE HD performance difference
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 00:37:54 GMT
I recently switched notebooks from a Dell Lat CPx-450 to a Tecra 8100
PIII-600. I was in a hurry when I switched, so I just swapped the HDs
(Try doing that with NT!) They both have 12 gig drives with the same
geometry (Dell is IBM, Tecra is Toshiba drive)
In an effort to keep warranties straight, today I ghosted my install
back to the Toshiba drive. This gave me an opportunity to run the same
install in both. I stayed in a char session with sound off, so they
were basically identical. I ran hdparm -t. Both were pretty close
(13ish). Then I ran hdparm -T. The 450 mHz Dell score a 133 while the
600 mHz Toshiba score a 55.
Both systems were running hdparm -c1d1u1k1. I started experimenting
with settings and got the Toshiba up to 67 on hdparm -T, but no better.
My understanding of hdparm -T is that I am testing os buffers, not disk
i/o. OS is RH 6.2. Kernel is 2.2.17 w/Toshiba flag set on.
What is going on here? Any ideas?
john
--
John R. Harlow
United Systems Inc.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: thoughts? AMD K7-800, Abit kt7-raid, w2k, linux, RAID-1
Date: 06 Sep 2000 20:56:25 -0400
Corey Cossentino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Is Win2K as picky as Win9x about being on the primary drive? I had
> trouble with WinME on the RAID and Linux on the regular IDE... it
> didn't like being on the non-booting drive, and LILO wouldn't run off
> hde with the root partition being hda1... Of course, this is
> completely irrelevant if Win2K is OK with that.
Win2K is NT 5 - completely different code base from Win9x.
If it's boot sequence is the same as NT 4's, then the NT OS loader will
have to be present on a primary partition that is BIOS accessible. But
the rest of NT can be anywhere.
Sort of like the way /boot and LILO works.
The successor to Win9x will be WinME. I suspect that it will still be
based on DOS, and will therefore retain Win9x's annoying boot sequence.
-- David
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From: "D. Abuan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver??
Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 01:01:38 GMT
Just bought this Brother HL-1030 printer but forgot
to check the hardware compatiblity list... Does anyone
have any solution to get this thing working???
thanks again
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