Linux-Hardware Digest #992, Volume #13 Wed, 6 Dec 00 13:13:08 EST
Contents:
Re: parallel ("robert smith")
Maxtor 60 Gb problem ("Jimmy Cooleman")
Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron ("Joachim Backhaus")
I need some source about MNP2-4 and V.90 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with 3com TokenLink Velocity PCI 3c359 ("Moritz Petersen")
Re: Intel 810 chips (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Abit KT6-RAID & linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ethernet card SN3200CT (Juergen Seyffer)
Audio System of Dell Inspirion 3200 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: zero-length partition? (Eric)
Re: zero-length partition? (Eric)
ARO-1130U2 ("Tue N�rgaard")
DPT PM3334UW boot options. ("Timothy A. DeWees")
Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway? (Steve Fosdick)
Re: need an ISA network card that works! (Steve Fosdick)
How to get SiS 630 graphic card running? (Sven Bauhan)
GeForce 2 MX ("Tino Langer")
Re: RHL 6.2 on a Compaq Prosignia VS?? ("John Anderson")
dvdrom pioneer 16/40x with Linux (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc=20TREGOU=CBT?=)
ESS INTERNAL MODEM ISA PLUG & PLAY ("Alan Parker")
Re: Sound Blaster SB 16 ISA sound card problems (DualIP)
Linux and Motorola SM56 PCI (Mariusz Grabowski)
Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron (Thomas Minor)
Modem/audio riser in Asus A7V ("Lu�s Cansado Carvalho")
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From: "robert smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: parallel
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:29:10 -0000
> > yes, but everything on the databus is 133mhz (if you're lucky), very few
> > programs get up to the fastest speed possible when run because there is
> > always something to hold it back, but their guessing is getting better.
>
> What? Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems more likely at this
> point that you simply don't know what you're talking about.
well, for example, take the isa slots on the mobo, they're going to hold the
computer back because of their speed, in this case agp was developed so that
the components on the graphics card could be accessed at whatever the speed
agp runs at. this allows the cpu to continue working without waiting for the
agp to accept/send data. the agp bus doesnt run for example at 1ghz. even if
your processor is 1ghz and you have an agp card if you're working in
photoshop with a 1600x1200x32bpp psd file which (forget about paging) you're
taking in an out of full screen windows the information has to be sent to
the cpu to re-display. this holds the cpu back, it has to send some
information, wait for it to be accepted, send some more, wait, send ...
imagine trying to execute a program over a modem, its the same situation.
you can have threads yes, i accept in that case the cpu can be doing
something else, but since we're held back by 133mhz busses, you're not
getting everything you could from the cpu.
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From: "Jimmy Cooleman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Maxtor 60 Gb problem
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:34:16 +0100
Hello
I have this problem with my Maxtor 60 Gb and Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.2.16
The HD is connected to a Abit Hotrod 66, and Linux detects it as a 60 Gb
drive at boot up.
So far no problem
But when i try to create a partition, it only creates a partition of max 8
Gb.
What's wrong.
Do i need a kernel update + ide patch ?
Thank you
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From: "Joachim Backhaus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:44:06 +0100
Hi,
I want to build a system with an AMD Duron processor
& an Abit KT 7 motherboard running under linux.
Does anyone has some experience wether the Abit KT 7 works under linux?
thanx in advance
joe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I need some source about MNP2-4 and V.90
Date: 6 Dec 2000 11:45:11 GMT
I want to write a linux driver for my pci modem ,can you help me?
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From: "Moritz Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with 3com TokenLink Velocity PCI 3c359
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 13:42:41 +0100
Hello,
does anyone have experiences with a 3com TokenLink Velocity PCI with 3c359
chipset?
With my SuSE 7.0 Professional distribution there were no default drivers for
this card and unfortunateley I cannot find any '3c359.o' file in the
internet anywhere... neither at the SuSE support database nor at the 3com
support pages.
Any help will be appreciated, thanks
Moritz Petersen
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel 810 chips
Date: 6 Dec 2000 13:32:12 GMT
Sobh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Are i810 graphic and sound chips compatible with RedHat Linux 7.0?
I don't know about the sound, but the graphics are supported. With
XFree4 (included in RH7), you can even get hardware accelerated 3D. The
sound *is* supported via ALSA (www.alsa-project.org).
I will say, though, that onboard video is crap. I've got two users
with i810 boxes, and any time they were number crunching, the monitor
image got fuzzy. It was so bad I had to buy them PCI video cards to
replace the onboard crap. Just my $.02.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Abit KT6-RAID & linux
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:44:33 GMT
Hi,
I'm having a bit of a problem here.
My system configuration:
- ABIT KT7 RAID
- 1 IBM Deskstar 75GXP 30 GB harddrive connected
to the HPT controller, this is the bootdisk.
- 2 cdroms connected to IDE1
- Sklackware 7.1 with kernel 2.4.0-test11
The system boots up until it has detected the
cdrom on "hda" and then it hangs, the disk LED
stays on.
Weird this is that when i boot a 2.2.16 kernel
with the hpt370 patch, everything works fine.
anyone got an idea?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:12:20 -0100
From: Juergen Seyffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card SN3200CT
"dino.belkacem" schrieb:
> Hello
>
> What vendor has made a ethernet adapter model SN 3200 CT ?
> Other indication on the adapter are :
> DC101
> YCL
>
> 004005
> 5550 2A
>
> SZ27A25741
>
> MYSON MTD 492 N
> 9732 ER
>
> Thanks for all
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
maybe D-LINK (PCI-Card 10mBit with TP/BNC)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Audio System of Dell Inspirion 3200
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 14:33:47 GMT
Hi guys,
I have a Dell Inspirion 3200 notebook, a SuSE 6.4. distro has just been
installed and everything works fine. Well, almost everything - the
audio system is not working.
According to Dell the sound chip is a crystal 4237B. I have tried Alsa
(that should support the chip, according to the documentation), I've
tried OSS (should support it as well) and the kernel sound modules, but
without sucess. I have played around with different IRQs (should be 5,
according to Windows), DMAs (should be 1) and I/Os (530) - not even a
single "blip" from my trusty old Dell.
So after I've been working on this for several days, searched through
the SuSE support DB and the internet, I start wondering: Is there
*anybody* out there who has actually got this thing playing audio
files? And if so, how???
Thanks, Philipp Maier
--
Information on Psion, GPS and SuSE Linux:
=====>> http://www.philipp=maier.de
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Before you buy.
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zero-length partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:41:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henry wrote:
>
> Did you format (mkfs) after you partition your drive? If you did not you
> can try:
>
> mkfs -c /dev/hdb1 #####
>
> where #### is the number of blocks of the partition and /dev/hdb1 is the
> partition you want to format. Note that the command line above doesn't
> have the filesystem type specs; i found that mkfs detects filesystem type
> by default, so no need to specify it. Also, before you try to format your
> hard drive, restart your system first.
>
That would destroy all data on that disc for sure!
Do NOT follow this advise.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: zero-length partition?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:46:39 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My PC was rebooted due to power failure. Now when I rebbot I am getting
> following error:
>
> Checking filesystems
> Could this be a zero-length partition?
> fsck.ext2: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted
> in short read while trying to open /dev/hdb1
>
> *** An error occured during the filesystem check.
> *** Dropping you to a shell; the system will reboot
> *** when you leave the shell.
> Give root password for maintenance
>
> I searched thru various posts on the web and tried to do following
> things as a root but none of them seem to work.
>
> # cfdisk hdb
> # fdisk /dev/hdb
> # fsck /dev/hdb1
> # e2fsck /dev/hdb1
> # e2fsck -b 8193 /dev/hdb1
>
Well, what does fdsik -l /dev/hdb return?
Does hdb1 still exist, or was the partitiontable of hdb zapped?
If it doesn't exist, try a tool like gpart, to restore the partition
table.
Eric
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From: "Tue N�rgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ARO-1130U2
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 15:49:59 +0100
Hi
Has anybody here been able to get ARO-1130U2 working with Redhat 6.2 , or
Redhat 7.0 ?
Best regards
Tue N
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From: "Timothy A. DeWees" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DPT PM3334UW boot options.
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:31:27 -0500
DPT Expert,
Hello I am running Red Hat 6.2, and need to load the eata driver at
boot. I am using a PM3334UW, and I need to pass the kernel at boot the
proper parameters to get this thing to work. I was previously using a AMI
MegaRAID driver, and the card died so I used this DPT backup. I know that I
should pass a "linux eata=0xEF90" but then what. Any help would be
appretiated.
--
Kind Regards,
Timothy A. DeWees
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: compaq prosignia vs as a gateway?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:30:29 +0000
In article <90itdf$2il$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> does noboby ever post replys in here?
People tend to reply to posts they know the answer to and
ignore the ones they don't. Also not all of use come here
every day.
> In article <8v924v$jvl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Well for starters i dont really know what hardware is in this computer
>> if somebody could tell me a website that lists the stock parts and
>> information on it.
I think the Prosignia has been through a number of incantations. My old
department had a couple of these as Novell file servers. The first was
a plain prosignia and was a 66Mhz 486. The second had some number
after the name which I can't remember (Prosignia 500?) and had a 60Mhz
Pentium.
As for a web site you could always try www.compaq.com.
>> i bought this from somebody on e-bay. i was hoping to use it
>> as a gateway computer for sharing a internet connection over
>> my home network. first of all i know now that it is a server computer.
>> what does that mean and can i use it as the gateway?
There really isn't a hard and fast definition of a server computer as far
as the hardware goes but there are some trends:
A workstation computer tends to have a single processor, a single
EIDE hard disk and multi-media hardware like sound cards etc
crammed into a small box so it doesn't take up much desk space. It
may have a network card which may or may not turn in good
performance.
A server computer tends to have a SCSI controller and mutliple
fast SCSI disks to get much higher disk throughput than with
the IDE disk. It may have more than processor too. It probably
wont have a sound card or any other multi-media stuff. Any
network cards would be expected to be high performance
bus mastering designs.
For what you are doing the hardware differences outlined above
probably won't make that much difference. Provided you use a
proper (complete) modem (which often means external) then the
prosignia you have should do fine, even if it turns out to be a
486.
Software is the more important issue, and unlike NT and familiy
Linux doesn't have separate server and workstation versions
instead you install whichever packages are required to support
the services you need. For working as an internet gateway
you need the IP Masquerading stuff so read the howto that
deals with that - http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/IP-Masquerade-HOWTO.html
As far DSL, whether that is do-able with Linux as a gateway
depends on how the DSL link is presented to the PC. If it's
PPPOE (PPP over Ethernet) then there is software to make this
work with Linux, whereas if it's PPPOA (PPP over ATM) then
you may be out of luck.
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: need an ISA network card that works!
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 15:37:09 +0000
In article <stZW5.751$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Robert Surenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got a old SMC Ultra ISA card. I like it because it has jumpers
> for IRQ and such.
I seem to remember some of the SMC card being nice and fast, but
some of them used shared memory so you can have problems with
a PCI machine that has the ISA bus as a bolt on.
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From: Sven Bauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get SiS 630 graphic card running?
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:06:09 +0100
Hi,
I have a notebook with a SiS 630 graphic chip and some problems to get
the X server running:
The SIS X server does not support this chipset.
The SVGA X server only displays the top left corner of the display.
Has anyone experiences with this graphic chip?
Or can anyone give me a hint to get X running with this graphic card?
Thanks,
Sven
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From: "Tino Langer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GeForce 2 MX
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 17:22:02 +0100
Reply-To: "Tino Langer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hello,
I just tried to install Redhat Linux 7.0, but the X-Server couldn't be
startet.
Is there anyone with the same problem?
THANX
Tino
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From: "John Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RHL 6.2 on a Compaq Prosignia VS??
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 16:34:42 GMT
THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE he said !!!
... the kernel does what you tell it to. he said !!
The procedure in reporting an experiment and your observations of it
is taught in most secondary schools . he said !!
Well Peter T. Breuer , maybe its your powers of observation that should be
reviewed !!
It turns out the information required to answer this question were included
in the message I posted.
Take a look at that thing called a subject line at the top of this posting.
It DOES say Compaq Prosignia VS. Doesn't it !!
It DOES say RHL 6.2. Doesn't it !!
Well Peter T. Breuer , maybe its you who should make the effort.... to know
what your talking about before you make an ass of yourself again.
As it turns out, some Compaq Prosignia VS machines running RHL6.2 don't
recognize the M in the statement mem=xM. The megabytes must be converted to
kilobytes i.e. the statement that corrects this issue
is mem=xk.
Peter T. Breuer wrote in message ...
>John Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Will RHL 6.2 operate on a Compaq Prosignia VS server?
>> We're having trouble getting it to recognize 106MB of RAM.
>> mem=xM at boot does not help.
>
>That's impossible, because the kernel does what you tell it to.
>If you tell it you have 1GB of ram, it will believe you, and then crash
>trying to access it.
>
>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>That you either start realizing that you are not doing what you think you
>are doing, or start telling us what you are doing, instead of telling
>us what you think you are doing.
>
>The procedure in reporting an experiment and your observations of it
>is taught in most secondary schools ... and you clearly know how to!
>So, come on, make an effort ...
>
>(I'm not going to try any harder to tell you how to tell us what you
>are doing)
>
>
>Peter
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Lo=EFc=20TREGOU=CBT?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dvdrom pioneer 16/40x with Linux
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:45:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've a ABIT KT7 Raid with Duron 600MHz 256Mo RAM
, IBM 30Go ATA100 , and dvdrom pioneer 16/40x IDE
The boot on the cdrom work fine at 30%.
And when i can boot on it (Mandrake or Debian)
, he's very very slow .
I've tried a lot of different cdrom .
I dont't find any GNU/Linux supported rapport for it.
Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad english
--
Lo�c TREGOU�T
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From: "Alan Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESS INTERNAL MODEM ISA PLUG & PLAY
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:07:22 -0500
HI there !
i have a ESS INTERNAL MODEM ISA PLUG & PLAY 33.6
it will work with linux ?
it is a winmodem ?
what is the test for answer my questions ?
regards,
Alan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DualIP)
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster SB 16 ISA sound card problems
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:18:52 GMT
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000 15:06:51 +0800, Kai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi all,
>Here's the go:
>
>I have a streaming audio server, using raencoder and pnserver.
>If I have one user listening to the stream no problems, but if someone
>else tries to listen to the stream I get this in /var/log/messages:
>kernel: Sound: DMA (input) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
>
>I have edited /etc/conf.modules and made sure the settings for my Sound
>Blaster SB15 ISA card are corect.
>I have tried swapping cards and trying different ISA slots.....still
>doesn't improve the situation.
>Does anyone have any ideas?
>
>I am running Red hat 6.2 and although I know a little but, I'm
>definately no expert on how to use it.
>
just guessing...
Seems like the server tries to use its soundcard twice when the 2nd
streaming audio client connects
It should simply send the same audio data to both clients , or use
multicasting
DualIP
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From: Mariusz Grabowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Motorola SM56 PCI
Date: 6 Dec 2000 16:40:57 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know how to configure Motorla SM 56 PCI modem under Linux
Redhat 7.0?
I will be thankful for any tip.
Mariusz
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From: Thomas Minor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with Abit KT7 & AMD Duron
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 13:05:50 -0500
linux hardware database
http://lhd.datapower.com/
motherboards report links
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/searchproduct.cgi?_catid=1
KT7 motherboard
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1694
I just ordered a custom box with a thunderbird and the KT7 without an
OS. I ordered from http://neocomputers.com When I configured the
same exact system configuration with the Duron versus the Thunderbird,
the price difference was only about US$30. You might want to see if
the extra $ is worth the T-Bird chip. I was originally going to go
with the Duron, but when I saw the price difference, I decided on the
T-Brid. Also, if you are thinking about overclocking, check out
tomshardware.com
Good luck!
On Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:44:06 +0100, "Joachim Backhaus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I want to build a system with an AMD Duron processor
>& an Abit KT 7 motherboard running under linux.
>
>Does anyone has some experience wether the Abit KT 7 works under linux?
>
>thanx in advance
>joe
>
--
Tom Minor
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Lu�s Cansado Carvalho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem/audio riser in Asus A7V
Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:08:56 -0000
Hi
Can anyone tell me if the modem riser for Asus A7V can be used on a RH Linux
7.0 system.
Best regards
Lu�s Cansado Carvalho
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