Linux-Hardware Digest #46, Volume #14 Sun, 17 Dec 00 11:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: ASUS CUV4X chipset 694X/694Z (PZ133) ("Warrick Bradney")
Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers? (Dermot Black)
Re: Dual processor advantage (Paul Repacholi)
Re: Cyberpower UPS (Ron)
Bad sound from Soundblaster Pro ("Tom Suzda")
Re: Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers? (Fordman)
Re: Trident CyberBlade i7 on HP Omnibook Xe2 doesn't work under X!! Help me!! ("Ben
Blackburne")
Re: Soft-Power Shutdown RH7 (root)
Re: Format a linux hard drive for Win98 ("jazardous")
Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA ("Guennadi V. Liakhovetski")
Re: Hard disk partition problem (Richard Kimber)
Aplio/Phone Support (Young4ert)
Re: Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip? (LNyT)
Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip? (LNyT)
HP OfficeJet 590 (Andy)
Re: Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux? (Andy)
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From: "Warrick Bradney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS CUV4X chipset 694X/694Z (PZ133)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 22:14:24 +1100
> >Has someone experienced if the ASUS motherboard CUV4X
> >(chipset 694X/694Z (PZ133)) works properly under LINUX?
>
> I can't vouch for the chipset, but my just recently purchased CUV4X
> mobo works great with Slackware Linux 7.0 (kernels 2.2.13, 2.2.14, and
> 2.2.15). It's the mobo without the builtin sound support.
>
I am running a CUV4X, Celeron 566E with RH6.2 & kernel 2.2.18,
with a Symbios 875 and wide SCSI disk, dual booting with M$98
The board is reasonably stable, but i am having problems at bootup
with the bios not knowing what device to boot from, it just doesn't
seem to know about the settings in the bios telling it where to boot from.
I will soon put in an IDE hard disk to see if it is the bios that has a
problem, or maybe my board is just faulty.
The CUV4X board is also fairly stuffed w.r.t overclocking, as you cannot
set significantly higher core voltages without playing with the CPU pins.
If i had my time over i would have bought an ABIT mb,
or gone for a Duron system. Have a look at
http://www.kasparius.com/cuv4x/enter.htm
for other peoples problems...
cheers,
warrick.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dermot Black)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 11:57:36 -0000
Hi folks,
I'm trying to find drivers for this card. Are there any? I'm using Suse
6.3 & kernel 2.2.13 and I also have a PCI Realtek 8139 in the machine.
Working on it as a gateway for my network through a cable modem.
Can anyone confirm whether Linux drivers for these cards use 100mb
feature or do they default to 10mb?
Thanks :)
Dermot Black
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Subject: Re: Dual processor advantage
From: Paul Repacholi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Dec 2000 21:00:22 +0800
"Robert L. Klungle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> John Dixon wrote:
>
> > I run Mandrake 7.2 on an old ibm box with a Pentium Pro 180mhz chip.
> > The motherboard has provision for a second PPro. Would I see much
> > improvement if I went to the trouble to find one and install it? Or
> > would this just make sense if I was doing a lot of number crunching -
> > which I am not?
>
> Been running a PPRo/180 SMP system for about 2 years.
> No major processing speed differences noted, but all user/operator
> interraction seems to be much snappier (no delays) than the single
> systems
> I have, which are faster (400Mhz).
> Also cool to run 2 copies of Seti@Home.
You are not constantly trashing your caches, TLBs etc as one
CPU is running the task, then the xserver, then the task...
Run something in an xterm. Then do the same with the xterm on
another system and see the speedup and better response. SMP
gives you most of than in one box.
--
Paul Repacholi 1 Crescent Rd.,
+61 (08) 9257-1001 Kalamunda.
West Australia 6076
Raw, Cooked or Well-done, it's all half baked.
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cyberpower UPS
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:32:58 GMT
I am using two cyberpower ups's, with no problems, as a matter of fact
they saved me thte other day when the power went off, which is a
rarity here. The last I saw, they didnt have any Linux software with
them, I had to get some monitoring software from University of Iowa or
something like that. If I buy another one I will be very tempted to
look into the APC brand since they directly support Linux. I don't
know how well yet, but I want to look into them. But the Cyberpower
has been just fine so far.
Ron.
On Sun, 17 Dec 2000 03:59:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Anyone have anything to share regarding Cyberpower UPSs and
>Linux? Good, bad? Would I be able to shut my machine off
>in the case of a outtage unattended?
>
>Any recommendations for other UPSs? The setup is a dual PIII/500
>desktop with a 19" monitor.
>
>TIA,
>
>Greg
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From: "Tom Suzda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bad sound from Soundblaster Pro
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 07:41:22 -0600
I just purchased a Win/TV card, and after trying it out in my Windows box
decided it was time to put it into the Linux box. Problem was, the Linux box
has all it's PCI slots filled. SO I dug around in the old parts box and came
up with one of the original Soundblaster Pro ISA cards. Took out the Ensoniq
PCI sound card, removed the appropriate modules, reconfigured for the
Soundblaster, recompiled and rebooted. Found the card fine, but the sound is
terrible. I just get high screeching types of sounds when trying to play a
wav file. This happens from the console or from KDE. Strangely enough, if
while in KDE, I start the sound-config gnome binary, the sounds start to
sound fine. What am I missing? Is there another option that I need to set or
clear that will allow the sounds to come through clearly?
Thanks.
Tom
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From: Fordman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 13:47:03 GMT
Dermot Black wrote:
> Hi folks,
> I'm trying to find drivers for this card. Are there any? I'm using Suse
> 6.3 & kernel 2.2.13 and I also have a PCI Realtek 8139 in the machine.
>
> Working on it as a gateway for my network through a cable modem.
>
> Can anyone confirm whether Linux drivers for these cards use 100mb
> feature or do they default to 10mb?
>
> Thanks :)
>
> Dermot Black
The tulip driver will run the Netgear for sure, and I'm almost positive the
Realtek is tulip as well. As far as whether they support 100Mb or not, I
don't know since I still have a 10Mb hub :(
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From: "Ben Blackburne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trident CyberBlade i7 on HP Omnibook Xe2 doesn't work under X!! Help me!!
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:04:59 +0000
In article <g%HW5.27061$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Morpheus"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've an HP Omnibook Xe2 with a Trident CyberBlade i7 video card, it
> should be supported by newer versions of XFree such as XFree86 3.6 or
> XFree86 4.0 but I can't make it work! I've installed Linux Red Hat 6.0
> with XFree 3.3 first and XFree 3.6 after but the graphic can't start.
I have the same card. I managed to get it to work to some extent under
3.3.6, but I really recommend 4.01 as that seems to work almost perfectly
(you need to disable hardware acceleration for the mouse pointer and
there are some other acceleration issues but it is stable).
So my advice is upgrade to a distro with X4.01 ( I am using Mandrake and
it is great) or download X4.01.
If you wish I can send you my XF4.01 XF86Config file by email.
Ben
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soft-Power Shutdown RH7
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:26:18 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I have a question about that poweroff question...
I'm quite new to linux administration, so I am asking before I do
anything stupid...
Markku Kolkka a �crit :
> "HiLLStEr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > i have a prob where i think the kernel in 7.0 has no soft power off
>
> The problem isn't in the kernel, it's in the shutdown script
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt. Try this patch:
>
What do those --- and +++ , - and + mean ?
I understand that i have to modify /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt
and replace there :
command = "halt" by
command= "poweroff"
Am i correct ? Have i got to write + or - ?
Sorry for the dumb question, but i've had a hard enough time configuring
something
that works....
Regards,
Brau.
>
> --- /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt~ Thu Aug 3 01:44:17 2000
> +++ /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt Sat Nov 4 19:49:10 2000
> @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
> case "$0" in
> *halt)
> message="The system is halted"
> - command="halt"
> + command="poweroff"
> ;;
> *reboot)
> message="Please stand by while rebooting the system..."
>
> --
> Markku Kolkka
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "jazardous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Format a linux hard drive for Win98
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:58:16 GMT
If the only thing your wife needs is a word processor that
manages msword documents, you can simply install
StarOffice 5.2 freely avalaible from sun (www.sun.com)
It's (now) Free Software and it could be a mainstream
office suit for linux in the future.
Good Luck
(Hope to prevented you from format your linux box)
A [EMAIL PROTECTED] se le ocurrio decir en el articulo
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I need to format a hard drive that has linux on it to re-use it for
> win98.
> When I use a win98 boot disk the format command won't recognise the
> drive structure. The format command fails. I tried the Quantum "Zero
> Fill"
> utility and when run I get an out of memory error (I have 80 meg ram)
> and zerofill won't run. How do I format this drive so I can use it with
> Win98?? Please help!!! My wifes laptop went out for repair and she
> needs this desktop for graduate school !!!!!!!!!
>
> Thanks in advance Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
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From: "Guennadi V. Liakhovetski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIMM's types and IDE for DMA
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:40:43 +0000
> The "Ultra-DMA" transfer modes have to be supported by both the
> controller and the drive. To make it reliable you also need a cable with
> additional shielding (sorry, you probably know this perfectly
> well!) Hence the "ultra-DMA" cables which have 40 extra earth lines.
I am not attempting UDMA - DMA multiword2 is the maximum I can expect from
this drive. And I was told that for this I don't need any special cable,
and, in fact, since Win was able to turn DMA on, this proves that the
cables are ok.
> A DMA channel in the conventional (ISA) sense is not allocated for PCI
> transfer. In fact the whole use of the word DMA to apply to the PCI bus
> is very misleading given the earlier established use of DMA to mean
> transfers independent of the CPU between memory and ISA peripherals.
Ok, thanks, clear now.
> You seem to have proven that the PCI chipset is capable of bus-master
> "DMA" transfer with at least one other hard drive. So another question
> is whether the "Linux" hard drive is actually capable of performing
> these transfers. Given what you've already tried, I have to admit that
> much beyond this I do not know.
When I tried Win95, the Linux disk was connected to ide1. And tests showed
DMA on both channels. In fact, the Linux one is both larger and newer. I
was actually surprised the other one could do DMA multiword1.
Another strangeness. The 'Linux' hard drive is some 1.6GB. However Linux
is only showing 1549KB. Is it a known feature? Also, I just tried 2.2.13
kernel. With it hdparm -v produced
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Input/output error
??? And didn't produced geometry info. With 2.2.17 runs fine. Is it
because hdparm 3.9 is not compatible with older kernel? Also,
the disk is using LBA and it has 2 CHS configurations - physical and
logical. When I am trying to specify at LILO prompt
hda=noprobe hda=C,H,S
neither 787/64/63 (logical) nor (3148/16/63 (physical) works - kernel
panic, can't mount root filesystem... Is anything wrong here?
Maybe I'll try 2.2.18 or one of 2.4.xtest... kernels...
Thanks
Guennadi
___
Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, U.K.
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard disk partition problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:02:45 +0000
Dan White wrote:
> In article <FBM_5.417$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Richard Kimber"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have a problem with my Mandrake 7.2 SCSI Buslogic system
> >
> > After re-seizing my partitions on my first disk, using Partition Magic
> > in win95, I should have sda3 (vfat) sda4 (hpfs: OS/2a) sda5 (hpfs:
> > OS/2b) sda6 (linux swap)
> >
> > my root is on sdb5 and linux seems to recognise the second disk OK.
> > Partition Magic doesn't show any errors.
> >
> > However, linux complains that /dev/sda4 isn't a valid block device, and
>
> You need to tell linux where your swap partitions are located in the
> /etc/ftab file. Also, you should make sure that the new swap partition is
> a vaild swap by running
>
> mkswap /dev/sda6
>
> - Dan White
The problem is not with the swap file per se. I could mount it as sda7.
The problem is that it should be sda6 and that sda4 isn't recognised as a
valid block device. sda3 is recognised and is the Win95 partition. The
other three partitions ought to be sda4, sda5, and sda6
I'm in any event puzzled by the numbering, however, since the books claim
that the Win95 partition ought to be sda1. But it was recognised as sda3
when Mandrake was installed.
Should I just alter the fstab entries and number them from 1 to 4?
- Richard.
--
Richard Kimber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aplio/Phone Support
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 14:55:24 GMT
Hi,
I just bought an Aplio/Phone unit (wish to get the Aplio/Pro after having a
cable modem connection, instead) and am wondering if this is possible to
do. I have an Aplio/Phone unit (http://www.aplio.com) that uses a
telephone line to connect to the local ISP and makes an internet phone call
with other Aplio/Phone or a computer with Netmeeting software. The
question I have is if it is possible to connect this Aplio/Phone unit to a
Linux box that is already connected to the Internet (by means of cable/DSL
modem) through the Linux modem so that the Aplio/Phone unit can call the
others through the Linux modem to the Internet or acts like an Aplio/Pro
through the Linux machine.
TIA.
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Date: 17 Dec 2000 9:42:27 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear 310TX PCI Card - Linux Drivers?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Dermot Black;
DB> Hi folks,
DB> I'm trying to find drivers for this card. Are there any? I'm using Suse
DB> 6.3 & kernel 2.2.13 and I also have a PCI Realtek 8139 in the machine.
DB> Working on it as a gateway for my network through a cable modem.
DB> Can anyone confirm whether Linux drivers for these cards use 100mb
DB> feature or do they default to 10mb?
IF you got the floppy that came with it, there are instructions on how
to compile it for linux on it. Its worked, at 100mbs, for us everytime
we've used it, which is a bunch considering it was a fairly cheap card.
Cheers, Gene
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From: LNyT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:36:25 +0100
Chris Rankin wrote:
> mpierce wrote:
> > RH7.0, kernel 2.2.16-22
> >
> > Can someone tell me where to go to get information to install this
> > drive? Or, how I do it if simple?
> > Will I need to upgrade my kernel?
>
> The 2.2.18 kernel has USB support, but don't expect the USB ZIP drive to
> work because this device really needs the Linux 2.4 SCSI layer as well.
> This layer has *not* been backported.
>
> However, the 2.4 development kernels are very stable as of late. You
> could try that.
>
> Chris
Actually, I got mine to work with the 2.2.18 kernel :) The modules that
need to be compiled specifically for the Zip250 USB are SCSI support, SCSI
emulation and USB Mass Storage. With the new kernel, just load these
modules, then mount /dev/sda4 to the mount point you want.
-LNyT
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From: LNyT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iomega 250 USB Zip?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 16:36:25 +0100
Chris Rankin wrote:
> mpierce wrote:
> > RH7.0, kernel 2.2.16-22
> >
> > Can someone tell me where to go to get information to install this
> > drive? Or, how I do it if simple?
> > Will I need to upgrade my kernel?
>
> The 2.2.18 kernel has USB support, but don't expect the USB ZIP drive to
> work because this device really needs the Linux 2.4 SCSI layer as well.
> This layer has *not* been backported.
>
> However, the 2.4 development kernels are very stable as of late. You
> could try that.
>
> Chris
Actually, I got mine to work with the 2.2.18 kernel :) The modules that
need to be compiled specifically for the Zip250 USB are SCSI support, SCSI
emulation and USB Mass Storage. With the new kernel, just load these
modules, then mount /dev/sda4 to the mount point you want.
-LNyT
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP OfficeJet 590
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:50:50 GMT
HI all,
I'm trying to get an HP OfficeJet 590 working on linux. I'm not
concerned about anything but printing; copying and faxing can be done
without software. I went and downloaded the hpoj package from
http://hpoj.sourceforge.net/ but the apps can't seem to find the printer
(i get a no IEEE xxxx complaint device found). The parallel port seems
to work as i have a diamond rio using the same port, and i can upload
and download songs from it just fine. I've also tried the printer
without the passthrough for the rio installed.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Andy
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which kind of netcard is best support in Linux?
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 2000 15:57:29 GMT
For a cheaper solution, you can pick up a generic network card that
probably has a reltek 8029 or 8139 chipset. If you're not sure if the
network card you are looking at is using one of those chipsets, take a
look at the board it may have it printed there. Asking the sales person
or checking the box might also give you the info. At any rate, both of
those chipsets have worked flawlessly for me in linux, and RH linux can
detect and configure them as well.
Andy
Alk wrote:
>
> All new Intel/PCI and 3com/PCI, and older too, 3com needs drivers from its
> website, not the ones from kernel source, Intel works with newest 2.2
> kernels without problems. Anyway you can check your possible cards against
> SuSE hardware list to see if they're supported
>
> AG
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:91fcou$jf0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > most stable and best support ?
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
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