Linux-Hardware Digest #89, Volume #14 Wed, 27 Dec 00 14:13:08 EST
Contents:
Changing from PCI to AGP Q. (Mike Williams)
How to setup internal modem?? ("Leo Lam")
Compatability with Integrated Intel� 3D AGP Graphics (Melvin C. McDowell, Attorney
at Law)
Re: Compatability with Integrated =?iso-8859-1?Q?Intel=AE?= 3D AGP Graphics (Bit
Twister)
power.. ("eftech_1-=-")
Linux Routers/Servers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: No sound after 2.4.0-test10 kernel build ("Eric Wertman")
Re: 3D Blaster driver - AGB = PCI?? ("Mr. Happy")
Looking for Video card recomendation (Jakob Strebel)
What kind of memory does Intel LX chipset motherboard use? ("Singaporeguy")
Re: Linux Routers/Servers (Neil Cherry)
Re: Network card/insmod problems (Victor S. Miller)
Re: Linux Routers/Servers (Matt O'Toole)
Is the driver linked into the kernel? (Steve Sycamore)
Re: Help Needed with PrintTool Error trying to configure HP DeskJet 697C (Mike
Gifford)
parport hp colorado 20gb (Marius Krabset)
Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q. ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: Linux Routers/Servers (Neil Cherry)
Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q. (Mike Williams)
LinuxSR.com - New Website...looking for reviewers... ("LinuxSR Admin")
Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q. ("Ruediger Arp")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Williams)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Changing from PCI to AGP Q.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:26:07 GMT
Hi,
I am upgrading my video card from a PCI card to an AGP card. My base
Linux installation is SuSe 3.4. I was planning on upgrading to
Xfree86 4.0.x anyway so I have all the files I need to hand for the
new card.
What I am not sure about is if there are any kernel (or other) changes
I need to do prior/after changing videocard given the different IO
ports being used.
Any hints/tips much appreciated.
Mike
--
Anti-spam: to email me, remove the 'dot's in my address.
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From: "Leo Lam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup internal modem??
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:59:36 -0800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melvin C. McDowell, Attorney at Law)
Subject: Compatability with Integrated Intel� 3D AGP Graphics
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:27:48 GMT
What is the compatability of Linux (I am particularly interested in Mandrake
7.2) with Integrated Intel� 3D AGP Graphics?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Subject: Re: Compatability with Integrated =?iso-8859-1?Q?Intel=AE?= 3D AGP Graphics
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:33:38 GMT
Might look here
http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/fhard.php3
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:27:48 GMT, Melvin C. McDowell, Attorney at Law
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>What is the compatability of Linux (I am particularly interested in Mandrake
>7.2) with Integrated Intel� 3D AGP Graphics?
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From: "eftech_1-=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: power..
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 11:36:05 GMT
i have a 230 watt power supply, someone said to me that it wasnt that much
power, but i havent seen any power supplies with much more. i have an abit
board, cd drive, burner, zip, floppy, atlon heatsink, fan, and an extra
cooling fan. do you think i need any more power? and does having more/extra
power help the system run bettter or faster? thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Linux Routers/Servers
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:45:16 GMT
Anyone heard of this web site:
www.imagestream-is.com
We are looking at purchasing a router and found this site. Just
wondering if anyone else heard of it.
It appears their price beats Cisco by leaps and bounds. No surprise
for open source though.
Just looking for feedback
Thanks
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Eric Wertman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound after 2.4.0-test10 kernel build
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:53:21 -0500
This was the case. I recompiled with sound as a module and works fine.
"Joseph C. Kopec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> That may help. I may be wrong, but I seem to recall hearing that using
> modules may be necessary to get sound to work. I certainly couldn't get
> my SoundBlaster compatible card to work with it support (sb) compiled
> into the kernel, but was able to get it to work as modules. Good luck.
>
> Eric Wertman wrote:
>
> > Joseph-
> >
> > Thanks for the input, but I did download and install the latest version
of
> > modutils i could find before I build the 2.4. kernel (2.3.9 or something
> > similar). I may try to re-do it and load emu101k support as a module
rather
> > than into the kernel. Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "Mr. Happy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3D Blaster driver - AGB = PCI??
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 09:06:42 -0500
What version of redhat are you trying to run. Redhat 7.0 runs x4.0.1 which
does not have native support for it. You can get x4.0.2 which does have
support for savages.
Filippo Cattaneo <expand#KEEP-ME-SPAMFREE#@#NOSPAM#mailcity.com> wrote in
message news:zP426.183327$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm about to buy a reasonably nice 2nd-hand PC mostly for Linux.
>
> Most hw seems clearly compatible, but the video card is a
> 32-megabyte 3D Blaster Savage 4 running off AGB.
>
> I've seen that a driver exists for the same in PCI version,
> or at least PCI is mentioned in connection with it.
>
> I also read that Red Hat recognizes the card - but the doubt remains,
> as there may be a supported PCI version and an unsupported AGB version
>
>
> Questions:
>
> Which distros' installers recognize this AGB card?
>
> Is a PCI driver capable to handle the same card in AGB version? Or, is
there
> a an AGB driver for this card? I couldn't find one in spite of several
> searches and following the links from the Creative site.
>
> Should I factor in the need to change video card?
>
>
> Heavy-duty gratitude to all who'll help!
>
> Filippo
> (a compatibility-concerned wannabe-penguin)
>
> --------------------------------------
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------
>
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From: Jakob Strebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for Video card recomendation
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:19:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I tried to install SuSE 7.0 on my new assembled PC, which comes with
X4.01. My vendor gave me a Matrox G450 Video card.
I was a bit skeptical using such new card, however a quick check under
XF86free 4.01 showed that the 450 is supported in Beta stadium.
The Installation from the CD fails after I see (very shortly) the last
messages on the screen where it probes the video Hardware.
I get a message OUT OF RANGE on the screen. (just for clarification,
this is at the very beginning before the system I am booting for the
CD asks me any question)
Taking a REDHAT 6.2 CD ended with the same result.
I am considering to bring the cards back and change it for a G400.
Browsing trough the XFfree I saw that cards from other vendors like
ATI, Nvidia and ASUS seem to have better "3D" support
Question:
who on this list is using one of the following cards
ATI XPERT 2000
Asus 6xxx or 7xxx
NVidia
ELSA
Please give me a quick advise with a recommendation. Thanks for your
valuable time
My Hardware:
ASUS A7V, AMD Thunderbird 800, 128M
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From: "Singaporeguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: sg.marketplace
Subject: What kind of memory does Intel LX chipset motherboard use?
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 23:08:24 +0800
Hi,
I'm adding some memory for a friend who has a Pentium II 300Mhz
system using Intel LX chipset. Can't recall what kind of memory it
uses (EDO or SD Ram?). Can it use PC-66 or PC-100 ram?
Can someone help?
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: Linux Routers/Servers
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:28:33 GMT
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:45:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>Anyone heard of this web site:
>
>www.imagestream-is.com
>
>We are looking at purchasing a router and found this site. Just
>wondering if anyone else heard of it.
>
>It appears their price beats Cisco by leaps and bounds. No surprise
>for open source though.
>
>Just looking for feedback
My feedback to you is stop hiding and instead at least admit you work
for the company!
If you wish to business with the community it would be appreciated if
you would not hide behind a my-deja mask. By looking at the mail
headers I was able to determine that you are sending from
crisco.imagestream-is.com . This leads me to believe that you have
something to hide. In my not so humble opinion this lowers the quality
of your product significantly.
So what do you have to hide?
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Network card/insmod problems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Victor S. Miller)
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 15:42:14 GMT
>>>>> "Tim" == TIM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Tim> I cannot get linux to recognize my network card: smc 1211TX I
Tim> have tried epic100, tulip and smc9194. All give the same error:
Tim> insmod failed: device or resource busy One variation clued me
Tim> into the fact that there may be an irq conflict, so I tried
Tim> adding options to insmod: insmod epic100 irq=11 but I only get an
Tim> error, saying param_irq unrecognized
Tim> Any ideas????
Tim, is your network card plug 'n play? I had a similar problem with
my network card. I finally had to go into /etc/isapnp.conf and
comment out the sections having to do with the card. When I rebooted,
everything came up fine.
Good luck!
--
Victor S. Miller | " ... Meanwhile, those of us who can compute can hardly
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | be expected to keep writing papers saying 'I can do the
CCR, Princeton, NJ | following useless calculation in 2 seconds', and indeed
08540 USA | what editor would publish them?" -- Oliver Atkin
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Routers/Servers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:16:36 GMT
Neil Cherry wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:45:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >
> >Anyone heard of this web site:
> >
> >www.imagestream-is.com
> >
> >We are looking at purchasing a router and found this site. Just
> >wondering if anyone else heard of it.
> >
> >It appears their price beats Cisco by leaps and bounds. No surprise
> >for open source though.
> >
> >Just looking for feedback
>
> My feedback to you is stop hiding and instead at least admit you work
> for the company!
>
> If you wish to business with the community it would be appreciated if
> you would not hide behind a my-deja mask. By looking at the mail
> headers I was able to determine that you are sending from
> crisco.imagestream-is.com . This leads me to believe that you have
> something to hide. In my not so humble opinion this lowers the quality
> of your product significantly.
>
> So what do you have to hide?
I don't know about having anything to hide, but that kind of thing is so
tacky it only makes the company look like a cheesy, fourth rate operation.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with plugging your product on Usenet, as
long as you're doing so as a bona fide participant. If you can give useful
advice, all you need is a link in your sigfile, and it will do more for you
than you can imagine. Anything else is just spam. You might have just
lost a bunch of potential customers here with your cheesy marketing
tactics. Congratulations.
Matt O.
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From: Steve Sycamore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is the driver linked into the kernel?
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 17:16:45 +0100
Is there an easy way to find out whether a driver has been
linked into the kernel?
It's obviously not going to work if you attempt to load a driver
as a module and it's already in the kernel. But if you haven't built
the kernel yourself, how do you know?
Steve
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From: Mike Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Help Needed with PrintTool Error trying to configure HP DeskJet 697C
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:42:20 GMT
Hello Again,
Lostdog wrote:
> Better try just setting up the printer again. I have noticed "Upgrades" are sometimes
> "Overwrites". I did a 6.2 to 7 "Upgrade" and it stepped on most of my *.conf files.
> As in smb.conf.
U uninstalled ghostscript, printtool, etc., reinstalled it all and it is
working a bit better. Right now using the printtool I was able to print
the test pdf file.
Now I just have to configure it to print from other things..
Mike
--
Mike Gifford, OpenConcept Consulting, http://www.openconcept.on.ca
Offering everything your organization needs for an effective web site.
Featured Client: http://www.arbourshop.com/
"Progress means advancing toward a more desirable form" - Gerar Toye
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From: Marius Krabset <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: parport hp colorado 20gb
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:54:31 +0100
Hi.
I wonder if anybody has any good experience with parallell port
HP-colorado 20gb tape. Does it work ok with Linux??
I'm using Mandrake 7.1
Thanks.
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:57:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am upgrading my video card from a PCI card to an AGP card. My base
> Linux installation is SuSe 3.4. I was planning on upgrading to Xfree86
> 4.0.x anyway so I have all the files I need to hand for the new card.
>
> What I am not sure about is if there are any kernel (or other) changes I
> need to do prior/after changing videocard given the different IO ports
> being used.
>
> Any hints/tips much appreciated.
>
> Mike
> --
Hi,
which agp-card are you going to use??
Anyways, disable graphical login in Yast1prior to inserting the new card.
When you are done, start sax (3.3.6) or sax2 (4.0x). In case you are
planning to use a Geforce, carefully read the installation instructions on
nvidia's website.
Cheers,
Ruediger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: Linux Routers/Servers
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:14:18 GMT
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 16:16:36 GMT, Matt O'Toole wrote:
>Neil Cherry wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:45:16 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> >Anyone heard of this web site:
>> >We are looking at purchasing a router and found this site. Just
>> >wondering if anyone else heard of it.
>> >Just looking for feedback
>>
>> My feedback to you is stop hiding and instead at least admit you work
>> for the company!
>>
>> If you wish to business with the community it would be appreciated if
>> you would not hide behind a my-deja mask. By looking at the mail
>> headers I was able to determine that you are sending from
>> crisco.imagestream-is.com . This leads me to believe that you have
>> something to hide. In my not so humble opinion this lowers the quality
>> of your product significantly.
>>
>> So what do you have to hide?
>
>I don't know about having anything to hide, but that kind of thing is so
>tacky it only makes the company look like a cheesy, fourth rate operation.
>There's absolutely nothing wrong with plugging your product on Usenet, as
>long as you're doing so as a bona fide participant. If you can give useful
>advice, all you need is a link in your sigfile, and it will do more for you
>than you can imagine. Anything else is just spam. You might have just
>lost a bunch of potential customers here with your cheesy marketing
>tactics. Congratulations.
Yikes I forgot to snip the web address!
I agree Matt, a small add saying hey we're here, here's what we do,
come take a look. It goes a long way towards customer relations.
BTW, I'm going to be working on an article on how to build diskless
Linux boxen to perform routing functionality. I guess my price may be
a bit better as I'm only selling the article to a magazine and all the
code and such will be free (I'm not in business). So I guess I'll be
one of their competitors (now I'm saying bad things about the
competition :-).
--
Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://members.home.net/ncherry (Text only)
http://meltingpot.fortunecity.com/lightsey/52 (Graphics)
http://linuxha.sourceforge.net/ (SourceForge)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Williams)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:36:05 GMT
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:57:44 +0100, "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I am upgrading my video card from a PCI card to an AGP card. My base
>> Linux installation is SuSe 3.4. I was planning on upgrading to Xfree86
>> 4.0.x anyway so I have all the files I need to hand for the new card.
>>
>> What I am not sure about is if there are any kernel (or other) changes I
>> need to do prior/after changing videocard given the different IO ports
>> being used.
>>
>> Any hints/tips much appreciated.
>
>Hi,
>which agp-card are you going to use??
3D Prophet II MX
>Anyways, disable graphical login in Yast1prior to inserting the new card.
>When you are done, start sax (3.3.6) or sax2 (4.0x). In case you are
>planning to use a Geforce, carefully read the installation instructions on
>nvidia's website.
Got them thanks.
I am slightly complicating matters by trying to update XFree from
3.3.x to 4.0.x and KDE to v2 - while still getting to grips with
Linux. I thas been a while since I last played with it and I am still
tracking down where various things get setup.
As long as Linux will boot with the new video card I should be able to
muddle my way through.
Mike
--
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Anti-spam: to email me, remove the 'dot's in my address.
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From: "LinuxSR Admin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuxSR.com - New Website...looking for reviewers...
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 13:38:02 -0500
L | S | R - Linux Software Review
http://www.linuxsr.com is up and running. It is, however in its beta for
now.
-What it is:
LinuxSR is a site for newbies and advanced users. Reviews are geared
toward graphical, easy to set up, easy to use applications for the home /
SOHO user. The site is meant to show that Linux is ready for the desktop
and for the average user.
-Needed:
Volunteer reviewers
More site graphics
Any other inputs to make this THE premier Linux software review site for
the home user!
Thanks,
Mark Bender
Founder and creator, LinuxSR.com
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: Changing from PCI to AGP Q.
Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 19:58:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 18:57:44 +0100, "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I am upgrading my video card from a PCI card to an AGP card. My base
>>> Linux installation is SuSe 3.4. I was planning on upgrading to Xfree86
>>> 4.0.x anyway so I have all the files I need to hand for the new card.
>>>
>>> What I am not sure about is if there are any kernel (or other) changes
>>> I need to do prior/after changing videocard given the different IO
>>> ports being used.
>>>
>>> Any hints/tips much appreciated.
>>
>>Hi, which agp-card are you going to use??
>
> 3D Prophet II MX
>
>>Anyways, disable graphical login in Yast1prior to inserting the new card.
>>When you are done, start sax (3.3.6) or sax2 (4.0x). In case you are
>>planning to use a Geforce, carefully read the installation instructions
>>on nvidia's website.
>
> Got them thanks.
>
> I am slightly complicating matters by trying to update XFree from
> 3.3.x to 4.0.x and KDE to v2 - while still getting to grips with
> Linux. I thas been a while since I last played with it and I am still
> tracking down where various things get setup.
>
> As long as Linux will boot with the new video card I should be able to
> muddle my way through.
>
> Mike
> --
Hi,
others did, but I didn't get my shiny MX to work with Suse 7, still rely
on a V3 2000 & Xfree3.3.6.
As to kde2: you can install it and happily run it along with kde1.1x, the
latter won't be overwritten.
I tried it, worked at once with no hickups, and then I restarted Gnome ;-)
Good luck,
Ruediger
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