Linux-Hardware Digest #244, Volume #14 Thu, 25 Jan 01 00:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? ("NervousSpear")
Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem (Bob Hauck)
Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed (Cokey de Percin)
SMC 1211 Network Card - Problems with Kernel 2.4 ("Brian")
Re: Soundcard: YMF744 and optical output ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: RH 7.0 & ATA100 on Asus A7V ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: driver for isdn-modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: popping sound card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: iomega zip slow (Dances With Crows)
Re: Can I use joystick at linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? ("kellyboy")
Re: WACOM drivers at http://lepied.com/xfree86/ - what format? ("David L. Johnson")
Re: beowulf clusters (Jeff Moore)
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? (GWM3)
Re: Hard drive gone totally unrepairablely bad?? (Jeff Moore)
savage 4 in redhat 7.0 ("Henry")
Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why? (Marcus Lauer)
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From: "NervousSpear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:48:23 -0500
"kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
>
Because the ISA modem contains a processor for decoding and encoding analog
signal. A PCI modem uses software to use CPU to decoding and encoding. The
software is cheaper that the hardware, but the hardware modem puts less work
on the system, so that you get better CPU performance.
> kellyboy
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Hauck)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI Hardware Modem
Reply-To: bobh{at}haucks{dot}org
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:43:51 GMT
On 25 Jan 2001 00:27:11 GMT, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is the PCI Bus fast enough for modern Modems?
Modern modems are well within the capabilities of ISA.
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-| Bob Hauck
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: RAID 1 terabyte on linux - advice needed
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:32:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.alpha Janne Sinkkonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> >> The situation is _exactly_ the same one for x86 boards with this
> >> difference that I do not recall ever seeing x86 machine with a builtin
> >> SCSI controller. But maybe there are some?
>
> > Asus makes (or has made) motherboards with LVD SCSI controllers.
>
> Well, ok. So I did not see these "higher end" x86 boards. :-) I am
> not that surprised.
>
> OTOH I did run experiments with sym53c1010 controller from Intraserver
> on Linux/Alpha, and suitable drives, and a speed reported on a bus was
[snip]
One model of the Tyan 'Thunder 2500' comes with a onboard dual channel
sym53c1010 controller.
Cokey
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From: "Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SMC 1211 Network Card - Problems with Kernel 2.4
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 02:59:10 GMT
Hi,
I just compiled the 2.4 kernel under Mandrake 7.2...
Everything worked great (I thought)... No error messages or anything when
compiling...
On booting, however, with the new 2.4 kernel I noticed that eth0 failed,
which suggests that my network card was incorrectly selected when I set up
the new kernel.
My question is, which card should I select, that supports the SMC 1211, when
setting this kernel up?
Thank you for any help... =)
Note: Please send a copy of any replies to -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks again!
- Brian -
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Soundcard: YMF744 and optical output
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:21:16 GMT
Stephan Rottmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi !
: I have a sound-card with the Yamaha YMF744-chip under SuSE 7.0 with alsa...
: Now, i want to use the optical output.
: What have I to do to get a signal to the optical line ?
I'm assuming your card is otherwise up and running.
Find the file named "asound.conf". Most likely in "/etc".
Look for an entry:
switch("S/PDIF MixerOut",true) .
It either may say "false" instead of "true", or it may not exist.
Change it to "true", or create it.
Then, as root, execute the command "alsactl restore".
This should switch the light on. :-)
You may want to read the alsactl manpage.
The alsa people write great software, but their documentation
sucks. :-)
Regards,
Friedhelm
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The answer is: "NO!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 & ATA100 on Asus A7V
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:45:16 GMT
Keith Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have seen banter on this and other newsgroups about patching the 2.2.x
: kernel to support the Promise controller. But the
: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/ide-2.2.18/ URL
: specifies it is for the 2.2.18 kernel and RH 7.0 uses a 2.2.16-22 kernel.
: Bottom line, should I try to patch the 2.2.16-22 RH 7.0 kernel with this
: 2.2.18 patch?
I would try this!
There is not much you have to loose.
If you have critical data on your hd, do a backup before you start. ;-)
There is a good chance, that it will work outof the box.
If it doesn't, have a look at both kernel sources and the diff file.
I have found, that applying a patch to something it was not created
for, often is just a matter of "editing the line numbers" in the
diff file, because the code has simply moved.
I have done this several times, without understanding anything about
the code. And wonder over wonder, it works! :-)
Once you get it running, you could contribute your altered patch
back to the kernel people, so we can find a 2.2.16 patch there. :-)
Best Regards,
Friedhelm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: driver for isdn-modem
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:01:47 GMT
Thaler Guenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: has anyone an idea/link where i get driver for an
: elsa microlink isdn modem (extern) ?
For *external* ISDN modems is no special driver needed.
They are treated like an analog modem.
Have a look at the modem's documentation, what "init string"
it needs and what "commands" it understands.
AFAIK this is the only difference to an analog modem.
Regards,
Friedhelm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: popping sound card
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 12:06:27 GMT
Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I've recently installed RHL 7.0 on an older Dell XPS 350 with integrated
: Crystal 3D 64V wavetable. sndconfig ran just fine and recognized the
: device as a CS4236. Now, my problem is that at the very beginning of
: every sound produced, I get a wretched popping or snapping sound coming
: out of the speakers. I thought it might be because this box isn't
: properly grounded, but when I boot into windoze, it sounds fine.
: Perhaps a different driver? I will go and look on the Dell website....
Hmm..
I get this too. It maybe because the buffer is still filled with
data from the previous run. I can cure it by playing a wave file
with a few seconds of silence in it.
Regards,
Friedhelm
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The answer is: "NO!"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: iomega zip slow
Date: 25 Jan 2001 03:15:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:02:26 +0100, Marvin Hoffmann staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I've got an newer parallelport zip250 using modprobe imm. but its very
>slow and slows down the whole OS. I cant really use it while
>writing/reading from zip. is there a way to accelerate the it? (like
>Wirus95-Drivers do?)
Make sure your board's parport is set to "EPP" or "ECP" (often somewhere
in the BIOS) and that the parallel port modules you have can recognize
and use EPP/ECP. Also, "tunelp /dev/lp0 -T on" (set the parport to use
interrupts instead of polling) if you haven't already. Any acceleration
that 'Doze provides consists of turning these features on.
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Can I use joystick at linux?
Date: 25 Jan 2001 03:16:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 15:28:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>In article <94m6j8$lma$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Carfield Yim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I have a microsoft joystick attach to my sound card, can I use it at
>>linux?
> More than likely if your sound card is supported within linux then
>your joystick will also be supported but you may have to upgrade your
>kernel or recompile it with the joystick support.
For kernel 2.2, have you checked the directions in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/joystick.txt ? It's really simpler than it
looks. Like so:
rmmod $SOUNDMODULE
modprobe $SOUNDMODULE joystick=0x200 (usually works, but not with emu10k
in some cases!)
modprobe joystick
modprobe $JOYMODULE
The aforementioned file will tell you which value of $JOYMODULE you
should use. If you're using a stock distro kernel, then the modules
should all be there. If not, get compiling.
This process is similar for 2.4, but the whole input architecture has
changed and there's a typo in the directions being distributed (since
patched IIRC, but not released.)
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Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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From: "kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:20:01 -0600
ahh...so its better to use ISA than PCI regardless of OS?
kellyboy
"NervousSpear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> "kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
> >
> Because the ISA modem contains a processor for decoding and encoding
analog
> signal. A PCI modem uses software to use CPU to decoding and encoding. The
> software is cheaper that the hardware, but the hardware modem puts less
work
> on the system, so that you get better CPU performance.
>
> > kellyboy
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
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From: "David L. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: WACOM drivers at http://lepied.com/xfree86/ - what format?
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:19:46 -0500
FEEB wrote:
>
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 17:08:59 GMT, BCT wrote:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "FEEB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> can anyone please tell me what format are the drivers at
> >> http://lepied.com/xfree86/ in?
> >>
> >> I am talking about
> >> wacom_drv.o.gz
> >> xf86Wacom.so.gz
> >>
> >> I tried to gunzip and unzip them to no avail.
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >>
> >> Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >When I downloaded xf86Wacom.so, it came as object file, not compressed.
> >Are you sure it had a .gz extension?
>
> Absolutely.
> Frank Bures, <grandial at softex.cz>
It starts out with a .gz extension, but maybe your browser unzipped it as it
downloaded (mine did). In which case, it should be an object file,
unstripped.
BTW, I just got a Wacom intuos "tablet". I was amazed that it seems to be
supported completely in XFree. I did not even install this module, just
copied the section of the XF86Config file and used the module that came with
XFree86 (3.3??). I haven't figured it all out yet, but it seems pretty cool.
--
David L. Johnson
__o | "It doesn't get any easier, you just go faster." --Greg LeMond
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: beowulf clusters
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:40:35 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I read somewhere about this, try
http://www.redhat.com/
and search for cluster or lvm.
Jeff Moore
"Scheen K. Thurmond" wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where to find information on how to parallelize a program
> to run on a Beowulf cluster?
> Thanks
> e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> Scheen K. Thurmond, MLT(ASCP)
> Bioinformatics Technician
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From: GWM3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 23:52:43 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
kellyboy wrote:
> ahh...so its better to use ISA than PCI regardless of OS?
>
NO.
ISA modems are probably more expensive because newer motherboards do not have
ISA slots, therefore the demand is (relatively) very low.
What the previous guy was talking about was hardware vs. software modems.
those cheapo modems are ver OS dependent because they use hooks in the
OS/drivers to do make the CPU do most of the signal processing. True hardware
modems are going to be a little more expensive, but are also going to be
OS-independent and won't be driving your CPU utilization up (important if
you're doing on-line gaming, etc.)
Bottom line: I'd recommend spending a little more money and buying a "real" =
hardware PCI modem.
T
>
> kellyboy
>
> "NervousSpear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > "kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
> > >
> > Because the ISA modem contains a processor for decoding and encoding
> analog
> > signal. A PCI modem uses software to use CPU to decoding and encoding. The
> > software is cheaper that the hardware, but the hardware modem puts less
> work
> > on the system, so that you get better CPU performance.
> >
> > > kellyboy
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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From: Jeff Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hard drive gone totally unrepairablely bad??
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 22:47:36 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Who makes your drive?
Go to their site and download the setup utility.
Do a low level format and check for bad sectors. Also be sure to write a new
mbr while you are at it.
Sounds like you have bad sectors to me.
Seagate and Western Digital have great utilities for this, but they run under
dos.
Also use fdisk under linux installer to make your partitions, it is the best.
Jeff Moore
kellyboy wrote:
> I have hard drive that I took out of my window98 system... the first
> partition (hda1) messed up..unreadable and unbootable...but second partiton
> (hda2) was fine with data still intact in it..(I backed it up
> thankgoodness)...
>
> Now I was thinking...what if the problem is Window specifics??
>
> Can it be fully used using ext2 filesystem?? In Linux, I fdisked it and
> eliminated all DOS partitions and created just one partition (hda1)..
> I mkfs ext2 it then I fsck it as well... no problem
>
> I mount it under /mnt/hd... copy some files to it to see it accept....got
> few lines that goes like this "cp: cannot create directory
> '/mnt/hd/(somedirname)':Input/output error"
>
> I fsck it again...got some notice as some Inode as unreachable or
> something...
>
> I copy files again...managed to get some files/dir copied but still got this
> "cp :cannot create...." error for some dir.
>
> So is HD totally 100% wasted and useless? Beyond repair? 100% Unreliable??
>
> Anyone??
>
> kellyboy
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From: "Henry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: savage 4 in redhat 7.0
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:48:15 +0800
Hi,
I have just install the redfat 7.0 and during the installation the
video card and mon (Savage 4 pro and MAGxj700t) was detected corretly,
however when it comes to X window, the screen just go black and have windows
overlay with the use of mouse or arrow key..
can anyone please tell me what the problem is? 'cause I dun know what the
problems and in "how-to"s is mainly concern about the case when the video
card can not be detected...
thanks a lot~
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MSI K7T-Pro2A+HP9100i+Linux doesn't work. Why?
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microslinux.hardware,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.msi-microstar
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 21:04:16 -0800
moonie;) wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001, Marcus Lauer wrote:
> >> This would be a problem for me as well, as I was just getting ready to
> >> order
> >> this board. I would like to point out that I have been using the vt686
> >> (FIC
> >> 503a) for about a year with NO problems at ATA/66. Anybody else having
> >> any problem with the vt686b?
> >> --
> >> moonie ;)
> >>
> >
> >
> > Just so everyone knows, the 686b started appearing on motherboards
> > in
> >the last _few weeks_. It's _brand_ new. So direct comparisons between the
> >vt686 and the vt686b are irrelevant.
> >
> > Marcus
>
> I understand this, if you read my post you will see that I understand that
> there may be a difference and was looking for people who were using vt686b,
> not trying to say that vt686 and vt686b were the same!
> --
> moonie ;)
>
>
Yeah, I can see that you understand that. But reading your post,
someone might think that there was some relationship between the original
vt686 working and the new vt686b working. Why else would you have mentioned
it, right? That's the only reason why I made that point.
Marcus
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