Linux-Hardware Digest #9, Volume #14 Sun, 10 Dec 00 12:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Video Graphics card recommendations? (Gary Sandine)
Re: want a NIC + RH7.0? Read me! (Gary Sandine)
Re: Best hardware items (Gary Sandine)
Re: modem driver ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq ("R.W.de Wijs")
Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner? (Dan Chirica)
Re: Activating the Multimedia keys (Istvan Zsolt Kovacs)
Re: modem driver (-J=P-)
Re: modem driver ("Peter T. Breuer")
Proliant 1000 SCSI ? ("Yes")
Re: Linux + big HDD partition (Chris Elvidge)
Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq (Chris Elvidge)
Re: Adding Hard drive question?? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Proliant 1000 SCSI ? ("Alk")
Re: Is an AHA-152X Bootable? ("Martin Graiter")
Re: Unix/Linux/BSD server question... (Forstner Michael)
configure your modem under linux ("Regterschot")
Re: Diamond Speedstar A200 (Jorge L. Rivas)
USB Pc Camera (Jay&Shell)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video Graphics card recommendations?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:30:57 GMT
JT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Looking at hardware devices. Need to know, what is an excellent AGP Video
> Graphics card to use?
We have had an easy time putting nVIDIA RIVA TNT2 M64 - based
PowerColor Sniper2 with 32 megs of SDRAM in many Red Hat,
Slackware, and Debian boxes. Same goes for ATI Rage 128
and Rage 128 Pro based cards.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: want a NIC + RH7.0? Read me!
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:36:24 GMT
We have installed many Realtek based 10/100 PCI NIC cards, and have
had no problems (under Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware). If one looks
around, these cards to for $12-$15 US. Great for home use.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best hardware items
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 09:45:29 GMT
Not a bad idea to look a GNU/Linux hardware vendors' web sites,
either. We build boxes and buy the hardware with Linux compatibility
in mind, and we offer complete lists of the parts which go into our
machines. I recommend you check and see what you can get from various
vendors after pricing parts yourself - you might be surprised.
http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes)
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem driver
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:04:56 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dances With Crows wrote:
> I do not understand why we continue to tell people that they need to buy an
> external modem.
What's your problem with understanding? 99% of PCI modems are
winmodems. 5% of those have a linux driver.
> I have a 3Com/USR PCI modem -- model 3CP2976 -- and it works fine.
Bully for you. How does that affect the advice one should give to
people? Or do you propose crossing the road with your eyes shut simply
because 5% of the time you will survive?
Peter
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Reply-To: "R.W.de Wijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "R.W.de Wijs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:08:16 GMT
Anyway...they're both PCI cards, I'll send you some more data tonight
local european time ) hoping you can help me solving my problem, I am
fairly new to Linux..I tried but didn't find a way to get them working...
Thanks
Ron
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From: Dan Chirica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only 4x burning with a 8x LG CED-8080B cdrw burner?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:10:08 GMT
Please, can somebody give me some pointer how to configure a ide cdrw to
work in Linux.
It seems like I can't find a useful howto.
Thanks,
Dan
Alexander Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I bought a LG CED-8080B (8x4x32x) IDE cdrw burner. I compiled the kernel
> with SCSI-Emulation an added "ide-scsi" to lilo.conf.
>
> When I tryed to burn something using cdrecord, it worked but only with 4x. Even
> if I gave cdrecord the parameter speed=8 and fs=8m it only wanted to burn
> with 4x:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -fs=8m ./test.iso
> Cdrecord 1.9 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
> scsidev: '0,0,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
> Linux sg driver version: 2.1.39
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'LG '
> Identifikation : 'CD-RW CED-8080B '
> Revision : '1.05'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 4 in write mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> With -debug and -v i found out, that cdrecord only recognizes 1 of 2MB
> internal cache:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> # cdrecord dev=0,0,0 speed=8 -fs=8m -debug -v ./test.iso
> [..]
> Drive buf size : 1024000 = 1000 KB
> FIFO size : 8388608 = 8192 KB
> [..]
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Has anyone recognized the same effect? Are there any suggestions for a
> solution of this problem?
>
> Thanks
>
> ALex
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
From: Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Activating the Multimedia keys
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 11:47:23 GMT
Hi!
>On 9 Dec 2000, Andreas Mohr wrote:
> > In comp.os.linux.hardware Istvan Zsolt Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > These keys DO NOT generate any scancodes (checked with showkeys and xev)!
> They DO GENERATE scancodes. (at least for my Logitech Cordless)
> You didn't use showkey -s, right ?
My keyboard is Chicony KB-8993 and no, the multimedia keys are not
'active' they DO NOT generate any scancodes (showkey -s)! This is my
problem!
Once I can 'convince' the keyboard to generate scancodes I have a kernel
patch which can map them to different actions (based on the Rapid Access
Keyboard demon built for a similar IBM keyboard, www.surmount.com).
It all looks like the controller _in_ the keyboard (Chicony 6868A) needs a
special initialization sequence. I might be wrong here. This is of course
implemented for Windoz but I was wondering if somebody already did figure
out the Linux implementation.
Thanks for the input ayway!
Istvan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (-J=P-)
Subject: Re: modem driver
Date: 10 Dec 2000 05:47:16 -0600
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:04:56 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Dances With Crows wrote:
>> I do not understand why we continue to tell people that they need to buy an
>> external modem.
>
>What's your problem with understanding? 99% of PCI modems are
>winmodems. 5% of those have a linux driver.
>
>> I have a 3Com/USR PCI modem -- model 3CP2976 -- and it works fine.
>
>Bully for you. How does that affect the advice one should give to
>people? Or do you propose crossing the road with your eyes shut simply
>because 5% of the time you will survive?
Perhaps because if you over-simplify and say no PCI modems work and someone
hears elsewhere that in fact they (some) do work then they will be very confused
and may totally disregard your statement?
jp
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: modem driver
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:44:55 GMT
-J=P- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 10:04:56 GMT, Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> Dances With Crows wrote:
>>> I do not understand why we continue to tell people that they need to buy an
>>> external modem.
>>
>>What's your problem with understanding? 99% of PCI modems are
>>winmodems. 5% of those have a linux driver.
>>
>>> I have a 3Com/USR PCI modem -- model 3CP2976 -- and it works fine.
>>
>>Bully for you. How does that affect the advice one should give to
>>people? Or do you propose crossing the road with your eyes shut simply
>>because 5% of the time you will survive?
> Perhaps because if you over-simplify and say no PCI modems work and someone
> hears elsewhere that in fact they (some) do work then they will be very confused
> and may totally disregard your statement?
And what exactly is the penalty of that? They then have a 50% chance
(confused person) of going ahead and buying the non-working pci
winmodem, instead of the 95% chance which they'd have had if they went
ahead and bought a pci modem in the first place without receiving
advice, or the 0% chance that they'd have if they heeded advice to not
buy a pci (or USB!) modem.
Do you know ANY game theory, decsion theory, risk analysis? NNNO.
Telling them not to buy a pci modem is the optimal strategy against
the game countermoves you proposed.
And I suppose they aren't confused by being told that pci modems can work?
Peter
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From: "Yes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Proliant 1000 SCSI ?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 12:39:49 GMT
hi,
Trying to instal Suse 7.0 onto Proliant 1000.
No luck so far, because I did not succeed in loading SCSI module sim710
during
setup.
Hardware:
NCR 53c710 On Board, looked at the chips on the motherboard.
IRQ 15 I/O 8000 Derived from both Windows (settings) and from Compaq
Configuration Utility.
Tried to pass parameters during loading of module sim710 in various ways
0x8000
io=0x8000
0x8000 15
0x8000,15
addr:0x8000,irq:15
etc, nothing worked :(
Regards,
Jack
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux + big HDD partition
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:06:41 +0400
Mike wrote:
> TROUBLE: Linux 2.2.16. I have IDE-HDD 13G. From 600 to 1600 cylinder - not
> root
> Linux partition (83). If data on this partition is between 600 and 1024
> cylinder - all right.
> But if i try write data to cylinder > 1024 - "No free Space Left". FDISK
> utility show all properly -
> all 1600 cylinders, but DF utility shows only 3G from 8G partition.
> Q: What I should do to solve this problem?
Is this hda? I've just dropped in a 30Gb (240h63s3877c) as hdb, c1-19 as swap,
rest as native. df currently reports 27G 24G 2.3G 91% hdb2. If yours is hda,
perhaps try a smaller one and use this as hdb.
Cheers
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From: Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2 nic's sharing the same irq
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 17:22:40 +0400
"R.W.de Wijs" wrote:
> Anyway...they're both PCI cards, I'll send you some more data tonight
> local european time ) hoping you can help me solving my problem, I am
> fairly new to Linux..I tried but didn't find a way to get them working...
>
> Thanks
>
> Ron
What sort if nic? What does ifconfig say?
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Date: 10 Dec 2000 7:46:54 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding Hard drive question??
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Charles Lutzen;
CL> I want to add a third drive to my linux mandrake 7.1 system. Is
CL> there any way that I can add the the new hard drive space to an
CL> existing mounting point? Basicly I have a 4gig partition and
CL> want to add a 4 gig HD can i make that mounting point have 8 gig?
I don't know about merging to the *exact same mountpoint*, but from /mnt,
you can have many 'subdirs'. I have about 8 subdirs on /mnt, one of
which is a samba link to this whole machine.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Proliant 1000 SCSI ?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:36:03 +0200
Reply-To: "Alk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
This is PCI board, you don't need to give it IRQs and all the stuff.
Compaq's usually have a SmartStart CD which sets different settings for
different OS
AG
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From: "Martin Graiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is an AHA-152X Bootable?
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 15:53:15 +0100
"Wayne Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Yes, that's the question. Is that adaptek SCSI device
: bootable. I am unable to boot at start up from the RH 6.2
: CD-ROM regardless of how I set the device choices.
: I can boot up on another machine with an IDE drive.
It should be. Look at it and see if you can find any 28p DIL
circuit, which should be the boot EPROM. Did you choose SCSI
first in the BIOS boot order selection? Elsewise, you could
prepare a 10MB (or so) partition on your IDE drive and format it
as /boot, using the SCSI drive for all the other stuff. Has
worked nicely for me and my non-bootable SCSI adapters.
MG
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From: Forstner Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.suse,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,openbsd.misc,openbsd.tech
Subject: Re: Unix/Linux/BSD server question...
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:49:03 +0000
C.W.R. wrote:
> Hello --
>
> I want to build or purchase (will probably end up building) a system for
> around $350 or less for use as a dedicated test machine and server on my
> home network. I wish to create a machine with a Pentium I 200 MHz or
> better. I am also thinking of bending my budget and going for a Pentium II
> or maybe even an AMD Duron. My main question is:
>
> What type of processor and motherboard would you recommend that I use to
> get the best bang for my buck? And are there any online retailers that
> still sell parts this old. Remember, this is only going to be used so I
> can learn about Unix/Linux/BSD, so I don't need anything better than the
> lowest end Duron, and I don't even need that. Thanks for your help
> everybody!
>
> CWR
>
>
Depends on your needs - if you also want the GUI (graphical user interface)
X-Window you need at least a 200 MHz with 32 megs RAM for proper working
If you need console "only" a 486er with 66 Mhz and 8 megs of RAM should be
enough.
I have an Pentium 100 with 24 megs RAM acting as an masqerading ISDN router
and fileserver for Unix/Win clients without any problems.
My workstation is an AMD K6-3 128 megs RAM - runs perfecly Quake 3 in
640x480 with all effects enabled
I think you should get a very good testmachine/server for about $200 -
depending on your needs
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MfG,
Forstner Michael
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From: "Regterschot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: configure your modem under linux
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:07:03 GMT
Hello!
I'm running linux and i want on the internet. When I running netscape then
the following message wil come: Can not find server! I have a cable
connection and it use a dynamic IP adress! PLEASE help me to configure the
modem under Linux!
Thanks!
BYE
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From: Jorge L. Rivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Diamond Speedstar A200
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:30:04 -0000
Hello
This is my own example of /etc/X11/XF86Config for xfree86 3.3.6. I suggest
you to use KDE instead of Gnome because with gnome you're going to have
problems when trying to pick a color (i.e. set the background)and other
problems as well. With KDE you're gonna still have a problems but they're
just annoying and not so constant.
#*********************************
#Graphics Device Section
#********************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Savage 4"
VendorName "Diamond Multimedia. Savage4"
VideoRam 8192
End Section
#*******************************
#Screen section
#*******************************
#The svga server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Savage 4"
Monitor "VSC22597"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Then i installed RedHat 7.0 and my own
/etc/X11/XF86Config for xfree86 4.0.1 looks like this:
#*********************************
#Graphics Device Section
#********************************
Section "Device"
Identifier "Savage 4"
VendorName "Diamond Multimedia. Savage4"
VideoRam 8192
Option "no_accel"
End Section
#*******************************
#Screen section
#*******************************
#The svga server
Section "Screen"
Driver "svga"
Device "Savage 4"
Monitor "VSC22597"
DefaultColorDepth 16
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024" "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection
The only problem i get is that my cursor becomes a big, white square.
Anyway i think we should buy another card. The option "no_accel" made my
computer a turtle when i move a window but it's the only way that i found.
Maybe this reply is not helpful but i want you to know that you're not the
only frustrated guy in the neighborhood. :-)
Jorge L. Rivas
http://www.avantel.net/~trieb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Nejdl wrote:
>
>
> I just got a Diamond Speedstar A200 graphics card, and was wondering if
> anyone has had any luck getting it to work with either xfree86 3.3.6 or
> 4.0.1? It is based on the savege4 chipset, and it's agp. The card isn't
on
> any xfree86 supported video card list, but the savage4 chipset is
supported
> I think.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated,
> Dave
>
>
>
>
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From: Jay&Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Pc Camera
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 16:59:42 GMT
Can anyone send me to the right place. I would like to set up a PC
Camera(IBM) usb on Mandrake 7.1 using kernel 2.2.16. I have searched
hell and high water, but by the time I'm done I'm in a different link
for other stuff :) (easily side tracked) Any help would be greatly
appretiated.
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