Linux-Hardware Digest #614, Volume #13 Fri, 22 Sep 00 02:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Linux on Compaq Presario 1200 series? (Ken Knecht)
Re: Mouse right-click on desktop: how to modify pop-up menu? (Scott Rockstad)
Re: Video and Sound (Florian E.J. Fruth)
Linux mo/board (Caldera OpenLinux User)
Re: ATHLON and RedHat 6.2. (Joe Machado)
Re: Linux and ABIT KT7 motherboard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
memorex 3 bottons mouse? (Davis Eric)
IBM cardbus ("Tony Kwok")
PS/2 and modem conflict? ("David E. Young")
Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard (Dances With Crows)
Soyo SY-K7VIA motherboard? Kaser S305-16A video card? (Mike Oliver)
Re: 4004 (Christopher Browne)
Lexmark 5700 under linux ("Dan")
Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard (Brad Remedios)
Re: Nvidia Geforce2 GTS & VMware (Brad Remedios)
Re: 4004 (Peter)
Re: Athlon TB 750 + Asus A7V with RH6.2 (Brad Remedios)
3ware irritation... ("dirac")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht)
Subject: Linux on Compaq Presario 1200 series?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 00:15:55 GMT
I'm thinking of getting a Compaq Presario 1200 with 32M/6G. Will
Linux run on this system sharing the HD with W98 without a lot
of problems?
TIA
Ken
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From: Scott Rockstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Mouse right-click on desktop: how to modify pop-up menu?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 00:21:58 GMT
Zane wrote:
>
> Scott Rockstad wrote:
>
> > Hi all! Problem: In Linux-Mandrake 7.1 running KDE, when I right-click
> > on the desktop and the pop-up menu is displayed, the only option under
> > New is Folder.
> >
> > Now in L-M 6.2 running KDE, I had the option to add New: Folder, Block
> > Device, FTP URL, Mime Type, Program, URL, and WWW URL as icons on the
> > desktop.
> >
> > How can I add the old menu items to the 7.1 pop-up menu? I've searched
> > and searched, and have yet to find a way to get it done. Any and all
> > help will be much appreciated.
> > Regards,
> >
> > Scott
>
> Scott,
>
> The old 6.2 and 7.0 menus are active in 7.1 if you click in a kfm window. I
> don't understand why Mandrake moved it there, but it is still available.
>
> Zane
Hey, thanks Zane! I did manage to find that little trick a little while
ago. I also found that one can click on the KDE Menu panel button and
click Personal to get to the same options. Nevertheless, it would still
be nice to know if it is possible to modify the desktop pop-up menu, and
how to do it. Thanks again!
Regards,
Scott
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.madrake,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Video and Sound
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 02:39:50 +0200
Kevin L. Brooks wrote:
> I recently purchased Mandrake 7.1, and I installed it on a machine with:
> PIII 733
> ABIT SL6
> 128 PC-133 RAM
> Creative SBLive
> Creative Annihlator 2
>
> When I go through the install process, I try to choose the right video
> card
> but it's not there, so I end up using FBDev. And my sound just doesn't
> work. It says that files are missing. I can play a test sound, but I
> can't
> change any settings. And when I try to listen to a CD or mp3s there is no
> sound.
>
> Can I possibly update the video driver so that I don't have to use FBDev?
> And what should I do about the sound problem?
>
> Any help is appreciated.
> Kevin
the easiest way to get a sblive to work is to download the 2.4-test kernel
(kernel-2.4.0-test8 at the moment at http://www.kernel.org)
with the sound card i don't know but why won't u use the fbdev ?
fejf
--
Words u don't want to hear from your sysadmin:
Ooops. Save your work - FAST !
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From: Caldera OpenLinux User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux mo/board
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 19:50:16 -0500
I'm currently running 6.4 Open linux on a Pentium Pro 150. I really
like the board but don't have some of the bios options on newer boards.
Anyone have any thoughts about what board and processor I should be
looking at.
m popejoy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Machado)
Subject: Re: ATHLON and RedHat 6.2.
Date: 21 Sep 2000 20:14:40 -0500
I initially had the same problem, but I successfully installed RH6.2 on an
Abit KT7 motherboard with a 1000MHz Athlon after I specified the x86_serial_nr
kernel option during the installation. This option inverts the compiled state
of the disable_x86_serial_nr boolean in the kernel. RH6.2 defaults to always
disabling the serial number. See /usr/src/linux/init/main.c and
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/setup.c for details. The correct way
to specify the option is x86_serial_nr without any =value.
I hope this helps.
Joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and ABIT KT7 motherboard
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:02:04 GMT
I run a small webhosting company and we just
built a couple of new webservers. We're using
the KT7-RAID with Maxtor 20GB Drives. With
Mandrake Linux 7.1 we had no problem installing
directly to the RAID-1 drives (2 maxtor 20.4GB)
we installed a third drive on the normal
controller just for backups rather than use tape.
So far - after several weeks of installations,
testing and break-in we have yet to see any
problems with either the board or the RAID
controller. As with any hardware YMMV - but I
think it's mainly a software problem (older linux
kernels not seeing the hardware correctly) rather
than a hardware problem.
B
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Dondelinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I'm in the same boat and about to buy a KT7-
RAID
> > if it'll work. I have a few questions though.
> > Which kernel are you running? Where did you
get
> > the kernel patch? Can you only see the
drives on
> > the controller afterward, or can you also use
> > striping? Any other comments would be
> > appreciated. Thanks.
> > Chad
>
> I've seen tons of problem reports in
> alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit involving the
onboard
> raid controller. It seems that the Highpoint
device is
> not a very mature product. While I can highly
recommend
> the KT7 non-raid from personal experience, I
can't say
> the same for the raid variant.
>
> Otoh the combination KT7/Promise FastTrack
might be quite
> interesting, no idea about the cost here.
>
> Greetings & hth, Eric
>
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From: Davis Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memorex 3 bottons mouse?
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:35:25 GMT
Hi, there,
Is there anybody using Memorex 3 botton mouse(PS/2)? Does it work under
Linux? I mean does the middle button work?
Thanks
Davis
--
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will feel shameful if I haven't realized it.
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From: "Tony Kwok" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM cardbus
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 10:03:21 +0800
Hi,
I have installed the RedHat 6.2 into my IBM notebook 380XD. I have
a PC card which is IBM 10/100 EtherJet CardBus Adapter. After the
installation, the system loaded with the tulip_cb. I have used ping to
indicate the status of the network and find a very unstable and slow
response. I have used Microsoft windows to verify that all the hardware and
network is well. Do anyone have a good idea? Thanks a lot.
Regards,
Tony Kwok
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From: "David E. Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: PS/2 and modem conflict?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 22:16:06 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings. I've just installed RedHat 6.2 and am having trouble getting
my Logitech Trackman Marble to play nicely with my modem. Here's the
hardware setup to start:
AMD K6/2 500, Epox EP-MVP3C2 mainboard, 128MB ram, USR 56k faxmodem
jumpered to COM2 (irq 3), LogiTech Trackman Marble PS/2, Xi Graphics
Accelerated-X server, /dev/mouse->/dev/psaux
And, here are the symptoms. Until I attempt to access the modem the
mouse works fine (although I've noticed that manipulating the wheel
within an xterm activates the bash history mechanism). However, modem
access is unsuccessful; I get "can't initialize modem" and (I think I've
seen) "modem busy" messages. If I disconnect my ps/2 mouse and attach a
LogiTech serial mouse, all is well.
I'm a long-time Linux user and pretty good with hardware (I built this
machine from scratch), so I think I've set things up correctly. However,
I've been wrong (many times) before.
I've spent a fair amount of time searching the various Linux sites but
have found nothing precisely indicative of my trouble. I'd sure
appreciate any help/advice. Thanks much.
--
=================================================================
David E. Young
Fujitsu Network Communications "The fact that ... we still
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) live well cannot ease the pain of
feeling that we no longer live nobly."
-- John Updike
"Programming should be fun,
programs should be beautiful"
-- P. Graham
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard
Date: 22 Sep 2000 02:16:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:37:37 -0700, Mike Oliver wrote:
>pete wrote:
>>
>> Mike Oliver wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if this combo will work? After taking care of
>> > the known problem regarding the CPUID, I mean
>> > ( see <news:39C7F2F6.4A6175E%40ninewalkers.com> ).
>>
>> What problems would they be? Please tell.
>
>I don't know what they would be; I haven't bought the hardware
>yet. I was hoping someone could tell me whether I should.
FWIW, a friend of mine bought an Athlon 600+SD-11, and SuSE 6.4
installed and worked beautifully, autodetecting everything save the
Hauppage TV-tuner. Same thing with RedHat 6.2. The Athlons don't have
CPUIDs, and I'd hope that the kernel doesn't try to disable the CPUID
unless it detects a PIII. (Just to be safe, select "PII" or "Athlon"
when compiling a custom kernel for the machine....)
--
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: Mike Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soyo SY-K7VIA motherboard? Kaser S305-16A video card?
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 21:05:54 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, when I got down to Fry's, turned out I'd misunderstood: The
price on the SD-11 system didn't include the CPU. So I took a flyer
and bought the Soyo SY-K7VIA motherboard with Athlon K7 800 MHz CPU.
When I got home I had a message from Soyo tech support saying that
the motherboard did not support Linux.
Now, my translation of that is, "We haven't tested it, and we
don't think there are enough Linux people to be worth our while,
so go away." But I'd like to hear any experiences with this
board before I start gluing the chip cooler to the CPU.
I also got a Kaser 305-16A AGP video card. Any idea whether
this is Linux-compatible? If it's not, does that mean it
won't work at all, or just that I won't have all the gamer-type
features available?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4004
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:02:46 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Peter would say:
>I see people bragging about getting Linux running with small old
>boxes. Those little Linux based one chip print servers must be limited
>in resources.
>
>The I have heard is a 386/25.
>
>What about 286s?
>186?
>8086?
>8080 with 4Kb memory?
>How about the original 4004 with 8 bytes of memory?
There is a "very low end Unix variant" called Uzi, that I believe
can run on a Z-80; the minimum for a recognizable form of Linux, on the
other hand, is an 80386, which was a BIG jump from the 80286 in its
support for addressing modes and virtualization.
>I know 5Mb disks are a challenge. I waited for 10Mb disks before
>buying a computer (although I did build one using RAIF (RAIF is the
>RAID you build when you have a shelf full of floppy drives))
That sounds rather sick! :-)
>My mate's teacher made a 5Kb disk by spraying the platter of a record
>player with iron oxide based rust proofing paint. The hand wound
>read/write head worked well. It just took a while to wind the handle
>that moved the head to the next track.
I can't decide whether to believe that or not; it's just imaginable
enough that it doesn't seem _completely_ impossible. But seems rather
like Mr Spock building a computer out of rocks; that is, something
that works on TV, but not usually in real life :-)
>But that 5Kb disk was back in the 50s when the valves used to build
>RAM were expensive and brown paint was cheap. (My mate also remembers
>black&white television, programming with COBOL and something named
>DOS.)
>
>Of course now a disused Pentium 200 is cheaper than a can of paint.
>(Cheaper than a can of nice blue paint. Brown is probably still the
>cheapest.)
>
>So who won the "I've got the smallest" competition?
Smallest I believe is a 486 clone that, complete with some RAM and
Ethernet NIC, fits in a matchbox. But stuff that small isn't
cheap...
--
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Let me control a planet's oxygen supply and I don't care who makes the
laws.
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark 5700 under linux
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:03:29 -0400
Has anyone gotten this printer to work in linux? (a Lexmark 5000 or 7000
would be the same).
I don't know anything about the printing system and have read all I can
find, but still can't do anything. Can someone help me setup and install my
printer?
Thanks!
-Dan
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From: Brad Remedios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux RH + Athlon 800 + FIC SD-11 motherboard
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:25:54 GMT
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000 12:37:37 -0700, Mike Oliver wrote:
> >pete wrote:
> >>
> >> Mike Oliver wrote:
> >> > Does anyone know if this combo will work? After taking care of
> >> > the known problem regarding the CPUID, I mean
> >> > ( see <news:39C7F2F6.4A6175E%40ninewalkers.com> ).
> >>
> >> What problems would they be? Please tell.
> >
> >I don't know what they would be; I haven't bought the hardware
> >yet. I was hoping someone could tell me whether I should.
>
> FWIW, a friend of mine bought an Athlon 600+SD-11, and SuSE 6.4
> installed and worked beautifully, autodetecting everything save the
> Hauppage TV-tuner. Same thing with RedHat 6.2. The Athlons don't have
> CPUIDs, and I'd hope that the kernel doesn't try to disable the CPUID
> unless it detects a PIII. (Just to be safe, select "PII" or "Athlon"
> when compiling a custom kernel for the machine....)
The problem i had is that unde RH6.2 (Haven't tried anything else) it
installs a kernel that trys to diable the CPUID (with PIII). Under the
Thunderbird this causes an unrecoverable error (you will be able to boot
with x86_serial_nr=0 or maybe a 1 I don't remeber then rebuild the
kernel from there.
I'm not sure if it installed a different kerenel under the anthlon 700,
but it installed fine anyways (and the first thing that I did was
rebuild a newer kernel)...
I guess my answer is, there are no real problems. Everything for me
works nicely.
--
Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Brad Remedios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.help,linux.misc
Subject: Re: Nvidia Geforce2 GTS & VMware
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:31:01 GMT
Question,
It appears that you got the Geforce2 to work under linux. I have only
been able to get it up to 320x400 with XFree86 4.0.1.
I use the modeline 1024 XXXX XXXX XXXX 768 XXXX XXXX XXXX. I was just
curious if you had any ideas as I could not get it to go higher... The
setup program would run at a higher res (I think 640x480 or 800x600) but
on setting the values the most it would successfully do is 320x400. I
ended up doing a manual config to get it up at all... just wondering if
you had any pointers / idea...
Info:
Thunderbird 850
ASUS A7V
ASUS Geforce2 GTS
XFree86 4.0.1
Sceptre 15" Monitor (1024x768 @ 75hz, 1280x1024 @ 60 hz).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello!
>
> Does anybody have VMware up and running with a Nvidia Geforce2 GTS
> graphics card?
>
> If I want to run VMware in the full screen mode I get the following
> error message:
> "XFree86 DGA extension for direct-to-frame-buffer-graphics not
> supported"
>
> I run Suse 6.4, XFree 4.0.1 with Nvidia graphics driver.
>
> I appreciate al hints
>
> Uli
--
Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4004
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:40:42 GMT
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:02:46 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Christopher Browne) wrote:
>>My mate's teacher made a 5Kb disk by spraying the platter of a record
>>player with iron oxide based rust proofing paint. The hand wound
>>read/write head worked well. It just took a while to wind the handle
>>that moved the head to the next track.
>
>I can't decide whether to believe that or not; it's just imaginable
>enough that it doesn't seem _completely_ impossible. But seems rather
>like Mr Spock building a computer out of rocks; that is, something
>that works on TV, but not usually in real life :-)
>
It worked as a "demonstration of a concept" but not necessarily as
"something you would be happy with".
Sort of like Ford fitting Firestone tires to their Explorer.
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From: Brad Remedios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Athlon TB 750 + Asus A7V with RH6.2
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 05:35:22 GMT
No real problems I run a thunderbird 850 and asus a7v under linux
(RH6.2)
the two issues I've had...
1. The stock redhat kernel tries to disable the P3 CPUID by default...
This will make your kernel basically unbootable. use the x86_serial_nr
parameter to disable this (setting it to 1 or 0 disables.) Then its a
matter of a kernel rebuild.
2. I was unfortunatly unable to get the Promise card to come up right
with the 2.4.0-test7 kernel (Test 6 or 7) but I only tried once and was
too lazy to try again.. It detects it right though... just doubt the
ata100 or even 66 without the actual driver...
I've been happy with both the processor and motherboard though. Well I
hope this helps...
Ruben Merz wrote:
>
> Hi, I 'm going to upgrade my Linux box with the following hardware: Athlon
> TB 750, Asus A7V with RH 6.2 and I was wondering If anyone had bad or good
> issues with the kinf of hardware, and for what I've read in this newsgroup
> especially with the Athlon TB 750. Thanks
>
> Ruben
--
Brad Remedios ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "dirac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3ware irritation...
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 01:36:44 -0400
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Hello, I am a Linux user who is encountering some trouble installing Linux
onto a machine with new and somewhat custom hardware. Specifically, my
areas of difficulty seems to stem from my 3ware RAID controller. Without
it's driver support at install time I cannot install Linux at all.
The setup I am attempting is of Debian GNU/Linux. I am attempting a floppy
disk install of Debian (annoying, but it allows for better compatibility).
As it stands, my installation hits a dead-end when it comes time to
partition the hard drive - as when using the 3ware controller, no hard
drive is found. It is my guess that the driver isn't being loaded into the
kernel before this step - I checked the drivers.tgz file for the
non-floppy installation method of Debian and it contained the 3ware
driver. I have read the Debian install manual online, and it makes brief
mention of an ability to "pre-load kernel modules from the floppy
drive"... this seems like the right thing to do for my situation, however
the install manual (of course) doesn't mention the method of doing this -
just that you probably won't have to (goody for me!). Alas, I did not
notice any obvious menu option for me to do this - there was a ``Configure
Device Driver Modules'' option, however my attempt to use this option was
rebuked by the Debian install, which claimed that I need to have the hard
drive initialized to be able to use this option. As you can see, I have
encountered something of a chicken and egg problem here. If anyone has any
suggestions as to how to pre-load kernel modules for this situation, or
better... if anyone has used a 3ware RAID device before and has a
suggestion, I would much appreciate it.
(PS - There are some driver disks supplied for SuSE 6.3 and 6.4, as well
as Redhat Linux 6.1 and 6.2... I would prefer not to have to use those
distros (just personal preference, no biggie) but if no one can help me I
will use them. In any case, thanks for any help anyone can give me.)
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