Linux-Hardware Digest #238, Volume #14 Wed, 24 Jan 01 09:13:05 EST
Contents:
Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C) ("Moeller Dirk")
Quad Xeon Box ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: A7V-133 IDE raid support? ("Zoran V. Petrovic")
Re: Promise ATA/100 card ("Zoran V. Petrovic")
Help, please, post install... ("Greg")
Re: Linux on Sequent S2000 ("JP")
Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable? ("Gunnar Hilling")
Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable? ("Gunnar Hilling")
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Mike Edwards)
Re: can't print to my printer, but Win machines can! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Questionable boot up messages (Mark Bratcher)
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From: "Moeller Dirk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Minolta PagePro Color (PCL5C)
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:34:06 +0100
i want to use an Minolta PagePro Color with Linux SuSe.
The printer emulate PCL5C
What driver works for this configuration?
(mayby without colorprinting)
Dirk Möller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Quad Xeon Box
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:31:19 GMT
Hi,
We (my research group) are looking to invest in a small scale, parallel
architecture in order to run a parallel C compiler
which supports OpenMP such as the portland group compiler. We will be
running Linux on this box as we are UNIX based and
have the greatest experience in Linux and Solaris. We are not over
concerned with getting the best performance as this system will be used
for code experimentation. The task of spec'ing the machine has fallen
to me. I have checked out
what the bigger players have to offer and there seems to be quite a few
offering Quad Xeon II or III units. If I understand
correct a 2.2.xx Linux kernel with SMP support should have no problems
running reasonably efficiently on such as box (?)
What I would like are any `pearls of wisdom' from people who have done
this kind of thing before. In particular;
What are the problems we are likely to encounter?
Are there any hardware configurations which people have found
stable/unstable?
What benefits would we get from a Xeon III system over a II or could
we simply project expected performance improvments based on a cheaper II
system?
Is a Xeon quad unit a sensible choice for a testbed of our software -
numerically intensive medical image analsis?
Many thanks for any help.
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Zoran V. Petrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A7V-133 IDE raid support?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:16:23 +0100
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Keith Wheeler wrote:
> Henning,
>
> I have that motherboard. It is an Asus A7V with 200MHz FSB and PC133 SDRAM
> support. You may be thinking of the Abit K7 series. I believe they have an
> IDE RAID M/B.
>
> I am running the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 on the Asus A7V. I have two
> Intel PRO/100+ NIC's. I have installed RH 7.0 and it runs, but my onboard
> Promise ATA100 controller is not yet supported. Other than that it runs
> great. I have "played" with the 2.4.0 kernel which DOES have support for the
> Promise controller, but this introduces boot difficulties (can't boot to
> Promise controller).
Hello.
You have solutions on: http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
Install 2.2.18 plus ide-patch from Hedrick linux-ide.org, make new kernel
and You have boot with promise100. On my computer ( ASUS A7V address
is ide2=0x9800,0x9402, You must find address on Alt F2 , cat /proc/pci )
>
>
> Currently I have the HDD on the VIA ATA66 controller and all is fine.
> Waiting for RH to encorporate 2.4.x into the next RH release for now
Work , boot with 2.2.18 + ide-patch ( Promise 20265 ) .
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801
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Keith Wheeler wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Henning,
<p>I have that motherboard. It is an Asus A7V with 200MHz FSB and PC133
SDRAM
<br>support. You may be thinking of the Abit K7 series. I believe they
have an
<br>IDE RAID M/B.
<p>I am running the AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1000 on the Asus A7V. I have
two
<br>Intel PRO/100+ NIC's. I have installed RH 7.0 and it runs, but my onboard
<br>Promise ATA100 controller is not yet supported. Other than that it
runs
<br>great. I have "played" with the 2.4.0 kernel which DOES have support
for the
<br>Promise controller, but this introduces boot difficulties (can't boot
to
<br>Promise controller).</blockquote>
Hello.
<br>You have solutions on: <A
HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html">http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html</A>
<br>Install 2.2.18 plus ide-patch from Hedrick linux-ide.org, make
new kernel
<br>and You have boot with promise100. On my computer ( ASUS A7V address
<br>is ide2=0x9800,0x9402, You must find address on Alt F2 , cat /proc/pci
)
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>
<p>Currently I have the HDD on the VIA ATA66 controller and all is fine.
<br>Waiting for RH to encorporate 2.4.x into the next RH release for now</blockquote>
Work , boot with 2.2.18 + ide-patch ( Promise 20265 ) .
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System
Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801</pre>
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From: "Zoran V. Petrovic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise ATA/100 card
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 10:18:07 +0100
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p43cibmgs-Frank wrote:
> hi, I just bought a new gateway, and it came with a Promise ATA/100 card, with my
>new 60GB HDD attached to it
> When I tryed installing RH 7.0, it couldn't find the HD. I have a DVD and a CDRW on
>the 2nd chanel of the
> onboard IDE controler, and they showed up. I have looked for info on this, and all I
>found is that I need
> drivers to make this work. so, a) does anyone know where I can get them, and b) how
>do I get them to work
> to install?
> One last thing, once I do get this working, I have an older ATA/66 HHD that I'd like
>to add to the system. Should I
> put this on the 100 card, or on the MB?
>
> Thanx a bunch...
> Tim
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello.
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html have solutions for You .
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801
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p43cibmgs-Frank wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>hi, I just bought a new gateway, and it came with
a Promise ATA/100 card, with my new 60GB HDD attached to it
<br>When I tryed installing RH 7.0, it couldn't find the HD. I have a DVD
and a CDRW on the 2nd chanel of the
<br>onboard IDE controler, and they showed up. I have looked for info on
this, and all I found is that I need
<br>drivers to make this work. so, a) does anyone know where I can get
them, and b) how do I get them to work
<br>to install?
<br>One last thing, once I do get this working, I have an older ATA/66
HHD that I'd like to add to the system. Should I
<br>put this on the 100 card, or on the MB?
<p>Thanx a bunch...
<br>Tim
<br>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</blockquote>
Hello.
<br><A
HREF="http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html">http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html</A>
have solutions for You
.
<pre>--
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Zoran V. Petrovic, System
Administrator
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Office: DD IRITEL, Batajnicki put 23, 11080 Beograd, Serbia, Yugoslavia
Phone: +381 11 105 042 Ext. 370 ; Fax: +381 11 108 801</pre>
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From: "Greg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Help, please, post install...
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:56:31 -0000
I´m installing a Linux server with RH6.2. After formatting and installing
packages,
the system shows the message: "Performing post install configuration..." and
nothing more happens... 10 minutes, 20...
What could be the reason for this to happen??
Thanks
Greg
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From: "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Sequent S2000
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:16:57 -0000
jwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> VME? I seem to remember that as a very old type of bus, almost before
> isa and eisa, right?
Yes, Sequent used the VME bus to connect SCSI, Ethernet, Token Ring devices
etc.
I've heard of *someone* running linux on this platform but they probably
know how to write kernel drivers...
I think I'll carry on hunting.
:-)
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From: "Gunnar Hilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:43:20 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anders Skovsted Buch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I will continue by installing the gimp-print-4.1.2 package.
>
> By the way, I'm using redhat 6.1. Do you know about a place to download
> printtool filters for Epson 980?
>
I'm using cups (www.cups.org) and the gimp-print cups-drivers (and
certainly gimp-drivers) (from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/).
These drivers let you control all the printer settings you need for
really good results (paper type, resolution etc.).
I would *strongly* recommend switching to cups (quite easy).
-Gunnar
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From: "Gunnar Hilling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printing to Epson Stylus 980 over USB cable?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 13:43:20 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anders Skovsted Buch"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I will continue by installing the gimp-print-4.1.2 package.
>
> By the way, I'm using redhat 6.1. Do you know about a place to download
> printtool filters for Epson 980?
>
I'm using cups (www.cups.org) and the gimp-print cups-drivers (and
certainly gimp-drivers) (from http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/).
These drivers let you control all the printer settings you need for
really good results (paper type, resolution etc.).
I would *strongly* recommend switching to cups (quite easy).
-Gunnar
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:58:35 GMT
A-ha... BTW, there are certainly some ugly ng discussions out there...
Mike
Mark Post wrote:
>
> On 23 Jan 2001 08:53:39 -0800, Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
> >Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
> >someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
>
> Go to deja.com, and do a search on "tina carter." I think you'll find
> everything you need to know there.
>
> Mark Post
>
> Postmodern Consulting
> Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
> To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
--
Mike Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't print to my printer, but Win machines can!
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:16:59 -0500
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I reckon, without knowing anything else, that I would suspect one of the
filters.
Since you have a Postscript printer, have you tried a more standard/default
setting for the printer in Linux? I have RedHat 6.2, for example, and the
printtool just gives me an appropriate filter that I don't have to mess with. At
least you could try that to determine if it's your filter giving you the grief.
Mark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Whoops! In /etc/printcap I have the following:
>
> ### BEGIN apsfilter: ### /etc/gs.upp/y2prn_lp.upp lp ###
> # Warning: Configured for apsfilter, do not edit the labels!
> # apsfilter setup Sat Oct 21 02:45:42 CEST 2000
> #
> ascii|lp1|y2prn_lp.upp--ascii-lp|y2prn_lp.upp ascii:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--ascii-lp:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--ascii-lp/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--ascii-lp/acct:\
> :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/y2prn_lp.upp--ascii-lp:\
> :la@:mx#0:\
> :tr=:cl:sh:
> #
> lp|lp2|y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp|y2prn_lp.upp auto:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp/acct:\
> :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/y2prn_lp.upp--auto-lp:\
> :la@:mx#0:\
> :tr=:cl:sh:
> #
> raw|lp3|y2prn_lp.upp--raw-lp|y2prn_lp.upp raw:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--raw-lp:\
> :lf=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--raw-lp/log:\
> :af=/var/spool/lpd/y2prn_lp.upp--raw-lp/acct:\
> :if=/var/lib/apsfilter/bin/y2prn_lp.upp--raw-lp:\
> :la@:mx#0:\
> :tr=:cl:sh:
> #
> ### END apsfilter: ### /etc/gs.upp/y2prn_lp.upp lp ###
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> > What do your printcap entries look like for this printer?
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a PS printer hooked up to my Linux machine. When windows
> > > machines print to my printer via SAMBA, their jobs come out
> perfectly!
> > > However, when I print from my own machine, I only get a line of code
> > > at the top of the page and then nothing else. This happens when I
> > > print ascii, PS, or basically anything from my own machine. Any
> > > suggestions on how to remedy this, or on what to look for? Printing
> > > used to work flawlessly!
> > >
> > > SUSE Linux Pro 7.0
> > > Apple LaserWriter 16/600 PS
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Ken
> > >
> > > Sent via Deja.com
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:25:49 -0500
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Shane Baker wrote:
>
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:50:07 GMT, Mike Edwards wrote:
>
> >A quick search on yahoo produced this nugget:
> >
>
>>http://macworld.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/storyforums/macworldforums/_2000_03_30_upgradejeopardy/forum.pl?read=44
> >
> >MS-sponsored FUD or not, she seems to despise anything non-Wintel. Gee,
> >when I was 16, I hated the status quo--I would've loved Linux if it had
> >been around at the time.
>
> I agree on both points.
>
> FWIW, this girl seems a sandwich short of a picnic. (Apple and Communism in
> the same sentence?)
>
Well, it seems she's calling all Mac users "Communists" and, if I read the
threads in this NG right, all us Linux users "Nazis".
A case of the pot calling the kettle "black" if you ask me... ;-)
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: mlist.linux.kernel
Subject: Re: Questionable boot up messages
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 08:31:13 -0500
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David,
I only have some feedback on a couple of your messages:
> 6)
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> (Q: does this mean the bus it at 33 while the CPU and SDRAM are at 133?)
This has to do with your motherboard's ATA speed. Newer ones support ATA/66 or
ATA/100. Most "older" (2 years or so) ones are ATA/33.
If your motherboard has ATA/66 or ATA/100 and your hard drive also supports it,
you can try to take advantage of it by setting the idebus=xx option in Lilo or
at the lilo prompt when you enter "linux". Kernel 2.4.0 will not do it for you
automatically (at least what I would infer from the note).
Also, I think at least a couple of the other messages sound like notices
regarding multi-processor systems. Maybe those would go away if you compile the
kernel without SMP support (?).
Mark
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