Linux-Hardware Digest #570, Volume #13 Wed, 13 Sep 00 08:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2 ("Simple Simon")
Re: SB 16 ISA PnP: Alsa ok, Kernel not??? (Frank Steiner)
Re: Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2 (Johnny Luong)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Kasper Dupont)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support (Chris Rankin)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Chris Rankin)
Re: 3c90x or 3c59x ("Peter T. Breuer")
Linux on a 386 (Colm O'Gairbhith)
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive (Kasper Dupont)
Re: XF86Config ("Bartek Kostrzewa")
IRQ timeout errors on hdb - RH 6.2 ("Vinson Armstead")
Problem with cdda2wav (Gerry Jacobs)
a couple of questions ("larry")
Dual Head notebook ("Shadow")
Squid on Linux with this performance? ("Petr Nachtmann")
Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive ("Peter T. Breuer")
isdn card detected ok, but as eth-device (redhat 6.1) (Andreas Bergmann)
Re: Linux on a 386 (Eric Dondelinger)
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From: "Simple Simon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 08:11:49 GMT
Hi!
"The Drag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> (I despise crossposting so many groups)
Strip them down to the one you're replying in. I'll see it. I can't do it
because I don't know where you're getting it from.
> I tagged you because of that one remark you made to someone taking
> time to assist you. Now you made the silly mistake of looking my
> direction and stating that you are "experienced" in various operating
> systems. If that were the case, then you would be familar with the
> FAQ list that is available with all OS projects. It is a pitiful
> shame that 20 supposed years of being in the technical field hasn't
> taught you patience or how to make use of your resources.
I looked... I didn't see what I needed.
> Hmm, the HOWTO page at linuxdoc.org lists all of the HOWTOs on ONE
> webpage. I guess that scrolling down the page or using your browser's
> "find" feature was too tough.
What is a "linuxdoc.org"??? Where during the RedHat 6.2 install did it
mention this? I didn't see it when KDE logged me in.
> Linuxdoc.org has a search index as does
> the Redhat site. And before you make another snide remark, the
> linuxdoc.org website is mentioned throughout the Redhat site.
The RedHat site came up empty on any search I tried.
> Also, since the HOWTO's are all text files in the distributions, a
> simple " ls |grep 'text' " command in the directory would deliver
> similar results.
Ok..Lesson #1. What is a LS? I assume the pipe does the same here as in DOS?
Again, GREP? I know, I know - man LS and man grep. Of course those would be
so intuitive to guess in the first place.
Bottom line is, if you don't have anything constructive to say, buzz off.
SS
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From: Frank Steiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SB 16 ISA PnP: Alsa ok, Kernel not???
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:24:58 +0200
Juergen Heinzl wrote:
=
> PnP support -- disabled in the kernel as well as in the
=
I have not tried that, only disabled PnP in the Bios...
Checkin' it out :-) Thx for the hint!
Best,
Frank
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 01:43:13 -0700
From: Johnny Luong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory questions, Device questions; Remove LILO on RH6.2
Sorry for the crossposting, but this guy decided NOT to put a valid
email address for me to reply to...
Please visit http://www.linuxdoc.org. There's many HOWTOs on many
of the questions you have that are redundant, such as coming from dos
to unix, etc. It's a useful place to learn a little bit about the inner
working of linux. In addition, you may want to try www.kernelnotes.org
since it has many useful links to other sites that have the information
you need, such as kernel releases (albeit slightly outdated) and
linux hardware support. In addition, you may want to visit
linuxnewbie.org since you are seemingly a newbie to the linux community.
And if this sounds like a little bit of work, it is. But you'll have
the satisifaction of knowing a computer than most windows users and
having a more stable machine as well.
P.S: Please limit the number of newsgroup you post too.. so that this
same msg doesn't get repeated to u again and again, in different forms
or shapes.
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Simple Simon wrote:
> Hi!
>
> "The Drag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > (I despise crossposting so many groups)
>
> Strip them down to the one you're replying in. I'll see it. I can't do it
> because I don't know where you're getting it from.
>
> > I tagged you because of that one remark you made to someone taking
> > time to assist you. Now you made the silly mistake of looking my
> > direction and stating that you are "experienced" in various operating
> > systems. If that were the case, then you would be familar with the
> > FAQ list that is available with all OS projects. It is a pitiful
> > shame that 20 supposed years of being in the technical field hasn't
> > taught you patience or how to make use of your resources.
>
> I looked... I didn't see what I needed.
>
> > Hmm, the HOWTO page at linuxdoc.org lists all of the HOWTOs on ONE
> > webpage. I guess that scrolling down the page or using your browser's
> > "find" feature was too tough.
>
> What is a "linuxdoc.org"??? Where during the RedHat 6.2 install did it
> mention this? I didn't see it when KDE logged me in.
>
> > Linuxdoc.org has a search index as does
> > the Redhat site. And before you make another snide remark, the
> > linuxdoc.org website is mentioned throughout the Redhat site.
>
> The RedHat site came up empty on any search I tried.
>
> > Also, since the HOWTO's are all text files in the distributions, a
> > simple " ls |grep 'text' " command in the directory would deliver
> > similar results.
>
> Ok..Lesson #1. What is a LS? I assume the pipe does the same here as in DOS?
> Again, GREP? I know, I know - man LS and man grep. Of course those would be
> so intuitive to guess in the first place.
>
> Bottom line is, if you don't have anything constructive to say, buzz off.
>
> SS
>
>
>
>
Johnny Luong
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:44:22 +0200
Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > The speed for reading is as far as i remember:
> >
> > SPP: less than 200 kb/sec
> > ECP under DOS: 300 kb/sec
> > EPP under DOS: 400 kb/sec
> > EPP under Linux: 500 kb/sec
> >
> > For some reasons many new computers come with the BIOS default
> > set to SPP, does anyone have a very good explanation for that?
>
> I'm not sure about this, but perhaps because SPP is the oldest (is
> it?) so the 'default' that is supported by all OSses, also broken
> ones?
> Wouldn't make sense, but ya never know ;-)
Could make sense, but all software I have seen using
SPP works fine even with the bios set to EPP. And I
also think it would be a very strange choice to
configure new computers for old broken software
instead of configuring them for the new and more
effective ones.
--
Kasper Dupont
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: 13 Sep 2000 09:28:15 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Could make sense, but all software I have seen using
: SPP works fine even with the bios set to EPP. And I
: also think it would be a very strange choice to
: configure new computers for old broken software
: instead of configuring them for the new and more
: effective ones.
Then you would be very very very wrong. As well as gullible. May I sell
you a new improved glass of water? ;-)
(this is one of the things that mswin sometimes does right btw; its
settings by default are very conservative).
Peter
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: HP CDWriter SCSI support
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:43:05 +1100
Duane wrote:
> Okay, I worded that poorly. I guess that everytime you switch from
> mounting a CDROM to burning a CDROM, you can unload the ide-cd driver
> and load the ide-scsi driver. And then back again after you are finished
> burning. But I guess I don't really understand why you would want to?
> What is the ide-cd driver doing that the ide-scsi driver doesn't?
As far as I can tell, the ide-scsi module is a host-adapter similar to
the ppa and imm modules for the ZIP drive. There was a guy on this group
very recently who has having an infernal time using his ZIP drive. His
CD-Writer worked fine, and although we never got to the bottom of the
problem, it was starting to look as if the ide-scsi module (which was
compiled into the kernel) was fighting with the ppa module. I guess this
is an example of the kind of thing I don't want - unnecessary modules
loaded that cause conflicts further down the line. And there's also the
"sheer bloody-mindedness" factor ;-)
Chris
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 20:45:10 +1100
Kasper Dupont wrote:
> Could make sense, but all software I have seen using
> SPP works fine even with the bios set to EPP.
That's because SPP is *always* available. The EPP / ECP protocols are
extras.
Chris
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c90x or 3c59x
Date: 13 Sep 2000 09:37:43 GMT
Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am using the 3com 3C905B network interface and RedHat uses the 3c59x
: 00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)
: I am normally running 100Mbit/sec but I suspect that the 3c59x driver
: cannot handle 100Mbit/sec reliably or that 100Mbit transfers somehow
: interfere with my X driver (crashing the machine).
You suspect wrong. Mind you, I thought the 905 was a vortex! Is
revision B a different chip altogether?
Why not go read the driver notes on the respective authors home pages?
The 3c59x.c is largely Donald Beckers work. I presume the 3c90x.c
has some 3Com pedigree. It's probably less well adjusted to the kernel.
Check the source, luke!
Change your IRQ or mobo slot for the card if you suspect conflicts. It
must be in a busmaster slot.
Peter
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From: Colm O'Gairbhith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on a 386
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:57:51 +0100
Hello,
I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz. teh machine only has
1920Kb of memory so I run into problems when trying to install tinyLinux
or muLinux. Anyone know of a distro that can fit on such a weak machine.
Also, any ideas as to what the max memory one can put on a 386. Someone
gave me 2x8Mb SIMMs but the machine doesn't recognise them. On a
pc-newsgroup two people told me that since the 1920kb is on the
motherboard, trying to add 16Mb to it causes me to go over the 16Mb
total limit for a 386, can anyone verify this ?
Also, what , realistically, can I expect to run on a 386 ? I want ppp,
telnet, a skinny web-browser, and also to do some developement in
perl/mySQL ?
Thanks in advance / Colm O'Gairbhith
p.s. would appreciate replies to my e-mail as well as to the newsgroup
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From: Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:51:14 +0200
Peter T. Breuer wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.misc Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Could make sense, but all software I have seen using
> : SPP works fine even with the bios set to EPP. And I
> : also think it would be a very strange choice to
> : configure new computers for old broken software
> : instead of configuring them for the new and more
> : effective ones.
>
> Then you would be very very very wrong. As well as gullible. May I sell
> you a new improved glass of water? ;-)
>
> (this is one of the things that mswin sometimes does right btw; its
> settings by default are very conservative).
>
> Peter
There is quite a difference. Many people wants
to use ancient software on a new OS. But hardly
no one wants to use an ancient OS on a new
computer.
--
Kasper Dupont
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From: "Bartek Kostrzewa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 12:27:47 +0200
[posted and mailed]
Alain Monvoisin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hello,
>
> Is someone able to give me the H. and V. frequencies, and bandwith, for
> my HP Ergo Ultra VGA - D1196A - 15" monitor ?
>
> Thanks
If this monitor is any similar to HP's new ERGO line (well ok, it's out of
production, but newer than yours) then check this:
http://www.hp.com/desktops/products/monitors/D2830A.html
--
Bartek Kostrzewa - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<<< http://technoage.web.lu >>>
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From: "Vinson Armstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: IRQ timeout errors on hdb - RH 6.2
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:40:51 GMT
Hello,
I have RH 6.2 running on a system with two IDE hard drives connected as
master/slave to the primary IDE controller on my motherboard.
I recently began seeing this message in my logs and it seems to me that my
hdb device maybe "heading from that big pile of computer equipment in the
sky" (about to crash)
Can anyone provide some insight?
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide0: reset: success
kernel: hdb: read_intr: status=0x79 { DriveReady DeviceFault SeekComplete
DataRequest Error }
kernel: hdb: read_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound}, LBAsect=196685,
sector=131614
kernel: ide0: reset: success
kernel: hdb: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
kernel: ide0: reset: success
If so, then what is the best way to replace the hdb without re-installing RH
6.2?
Thanks for you assistance in advance
Vinson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gerry Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with cdda2wav
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:37:16 GMT
Hello,
I'm new to writing cd's under Linux.
When I try to copy a track from an audio cd to my hard disk using
cdda2wav, cdda2wav stops after 12% and shows me the following error:
status: 0x2 CHECK CONDITION
recovered data with no error correction applied
I'm using a HP6020i as cdreader on a Adaptec 1542CP SCSI card.
I downloaded the latest cdda2wav.
I don't understand the error exactly.
Can I add some error corrections?
Why does cdda2wav stop if it has recovered the data?
Thanks,
Gerry Jacobs
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: a couple of questions
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 00:11:50 -1000
I have a HP Pavilion 6645C... anyone installed mandrake 7.1 on it? Did it
work?
Question 2:
Would the onboard intel video agp or my voodoo3 2000 PCI be faster?
any help appreciated.
Larry
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From: "Shadow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Dual Head notebook
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 11:30:54 GMT
I want to set up my notebook as a dual head machine (ie 2 screens running
side by side to double my desktop size). It works using win 98 and I would
like to know if I can set up something similar under Linux.
I have a Compaq Armada M700 with a Rage Mobility-P 8Meg AGP graphics card.
Under Windows the internal and external screens can be configured as 2
independant screens (as in a dual head configuration). There appears to be
separate I/O and memory addresses for internal and external ports but they
share the same IRQ.
XFree86 version 4.0.1 lists support for the Rage Mobility-P but I can't seem
to find info on setting up a dual head system.
Any thoughts?
David
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From: "Petr Nachtmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Squid on Linux with this performance?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 13:31:45 +0200
I need a transparent HTTP proxy cache with similar performance: 150
URL/second, 2000-4000 simultaneous TCP connections.
Which PC hardware configuration should be sufficient? What about the file
system?
Petr
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Zip 100 Parallel Port Drive
Date: 13 Sep 2000 11:19:20 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Peter T. Breuer wrote:
:> In comp.os.linux.misc Kasper Dupont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : also think it would be a very strange choice to
:> : configure new computers for old broken software
:> : instead of configuring them for the new and more
:> : effective ones.
:> (this is one of the things that mswin sometimes does right btw; its
:> settings by default are very conservative).
: There is quite a difference. Many people wants
: to use ancient software on a new OS. But hardly
: no one wants to use an ancient OS on a new
: computer.
I don't get the point you are making (as opposed to the rhetoric, which,
however, seems a little vague too). When they sell you the OS, they
don't ask you what hardware and software you have first. It would be
silly to suppose you have the latest of everything, because you don't.
It would also be silly to suppose that the latest of everything works as
well as what went before, becuase in many dimensions of the measure, it
doesn't. It's simply todays advertised product as opposed to
yesterdays.
Peter
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From: Andreas Bergmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: isdn card detected ok, but as eth-device (redhat 6.1)
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:03:11 +0200
concerning RedHat 6.1 - de and fritc!card pci
at system bootup kudzu (redhat's hw-detection) detects my avm a1 - pci
fritz! isdn adapter and i find a new ethernet device...
how do i change this to be an ippp-or isdn-device ??? trying to rename
or clone or alias the device in linuxconf or the control-panel's netcfg
is mere cosmetics, true or false ? what i can do is load the hisax
driver, type isdnctrl addif eth2 and ping the card...
### QUESTION NO.2 ### not related ####
how do i keep more than 4 weeks of backlogs... just changing the entry
in /etc/logrotate.conf seems not to be enough... (produces errors)
thanks a lot
Andreas Bergmann
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From: Eric Dondelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2000 14:15:01 +0200
Hi,
> I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz. teh machine only has
> 1920Kb of memory so I run into problems when trying to install tinyLinux
> or muLinux. Anyone know of a distro that can fit on such a weak machine.
> Also, any ideas as to what the max memory one can put on a 386. Someone
> gave me 2x8Mb SIMMs but the machine doesn't recognise them. On a
> pc-newsgroup two people told me that since the 1920kb is on the
> motherboard, trying to add 16Mb to it causes me to go over the 16Mb
> total limit for a 386, can anyone verify this ?
It's an SX, so it's got a 16bit bus, so I suppose it can address only
16MB (just like the old 286). Is that 2x 8MB or 2x 8Mb? 8Mb = 1 MB.
If that's 2x 8MB, you might try removing the onboard-RAM and use only
the SIMMs.
> Also, what , realistically, can I expect to run on a 386 ? I want ppp,
> telnet, a skinny web-browser, and also to do some developement in
> perl/mySQL ?
hmpf I might just give it a try for a dial-up router, but don't even
think of trying ssh connections for instance from that machine (the
encryption stuff slowed down my P90 very noticably). X11, don't
even try. You might want to use older kernel 2.0.x here, rather
than 2.2 or even 2.4.
I'd be quite surprised if this setup would be sufficient for
Perl / MySQL stuff, certainly not with 2MB of RAM.
With console apps only (w3m or links as browser for instance) it might
be somewhat usable (I know a guy who used such a notebook for a while,
as a stopgap - he was quite relieved to get something else ;-)).
Did you try tom's rootboot? www.toms.net
I suppose best for this machine would be sth like muLinux, if you can
get it to work.
Greets Eric
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