Linux-Hardware Digest #360, Volume #14 Sat, 17 Feb 01 08:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Fresh Newbie - Sound Card & Hardware Problems - Help! (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Has anyone been able to run DirecPC on a real OS? ("Dan Miller")
Problem with display adapter in X Windows ("Ping !")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Donovan Rebbechi)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: Linux drivers for Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card (jtnews)
Microsoft game voice, voice over IP? ("scott")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Allen Crider)
dt 0398
Re: What's a good website to find out?? ("James Gray")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Anwar)
My VooDoo isn't working! (Constantin Bergemann)
Plextor PX-40TSi (Harry)
Re: Help: NFS and Input/output error (Rogier Boon)
DiskOnChip on Ethernet Card ("CeBee")
Re: Plextor PX-40TSi (Goran Larsson)
Anyone using a Matrox G450 with 2 Monitors? ("John")
SCSI ZIP100, recognised, but can't mount (Peter)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: Fresh Newbie - Sound Card & Hardware Problems - Help!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:11:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dances With Crows wrote:
>On Sat, 17 Feb 2001 01:11:50 GMT, Mark Bratcher staggered into the Black
>Sun and said:
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Wyatt wrote:
>>> I also cannot get any of my FAT32 drives to mount. This is probably
>>>the wrong command line but here's what I've tried.
>>>
>>>[root@linux root]# mount -t vfat /dev/hdc /mnt/win
>>>
>>>I've tried msdos and umsdos too. That will fire up the drive and give me
>>>a wrong file system error.
>>>(Does it have to mount to / ?)
>>
>>Your mount command looks correct. Are you sure you have VFAT file system
>>capability built into the kernel? What error messsage do you get when
>>you perform the mount command?
>
>It is unlikely that you want to mount /dev/hdc.
[snip]
Whoops, you're right. Didn't see that. Should be /dev/hdcX whatever 'X' is...
[snip]
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Dan Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.satellite.direcpc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Has anyone been able to run DirecPC on a real OS?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 23:23:21 -0500
Give up on Win9X products move to WIN2K!
"Dustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:bPji6.359$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I already have the DPC equipment. So that would be my first choice to use
> as I am on a budget. Starband is not available in the area YET. And, to
be
> honest, I have not checked the other two yet. I think the posts here have
> indicated that Nebulink and Fast@XS are more expensive. I will check into
> them on my own.
>
> Can you answer my original question? Do any of the broadband solutions
that
> might be available to me (e.g. Fast@XS, Nebulink, Starband, etc.) work
under
> the Linux OS. I will see what I can find out from Helious.
>
> Personally, I am really tired of the windblows mantra . . . Reboot ...
> uninstall/reinstall ... reboot . . .
>
> Dustin
>
> Jamie Town wrote in message ...
> >X-No-Archive: Yes
> >
> >"Dustin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:37hi6.352$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> I am one of those who can only get dialup (<28.8), T-1, or DirecPC. I
> >> prefer DPC for the price/performance. I won't likely be able to get
any
> >> other options for a while.
> >
> >And the mantra lives on.
> >
> >Starband. Nebulink. Fast@XS.
> >
> >Three different satellite solutions and they're not alone.
>
>
>
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From: "Ping !" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,jaring.os.linux,linux.dev.svgalib,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Problem with display adapter in X Windows
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:40:20 +0800
Hi,
I'm currently using RedHat Linux 7.0 kernel 2.2x. I can only get 16 colors
in X Windows because the X configuration can't detect my display adapter. My
display adapter is Macronix 86251MX (Voodoo Rush by Atrend Technology
Taiwan). Please email me [EMAIL PROTECTED] if any of you have solution.
Thanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: 17 Feb 2001 04:47:22 GMT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:49:36 -0700, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>> I often end up at this same crossroads and even for
>> large RAID machines, it seems that while SCSI is great
>> in theory, it's too expensive. I'm not clear on why
>> you don't keep your existing SCSI setup.
>>
>> [ snip ]
>>
>>
>> You can build software RAIDs with IDE, in fact there are even
>> hardware RAID cards (for example, rpmfind.net is running on a
>> 3ware IDE RAID). I've evaluated SCSI vs IDE for RAIDs, and while
>> SCSI would be nice, the cost per storage unit i way too much. For
>> example, a SCSI machine will not only cost more than the IDE
>> alternative, it will have about half the storage capacity.
>
> If you're talking about a single-user workstation, the above is true.
>If you're dealing with a multi-tasking server, SCSI (especially RAID) makes
>a world of difference in I/O-intensive apps, enough to far out-weigh the
>costs.
If you're willing to spend an awful lot of money on performance, then SCSI
is worth considering. It really depends on how important I/O performance is
to you. If you need a lot of reliable storage space, and performance is not
so important, you will get a lot more disk for your dollar with an IDE RAID.
If performance (especially asynchronous I/O) is important then SCSI may be
useful.
--
Donovan Rebbechi * http://pegasus.rutgers.edu/~elflord/ *
elflord at panix dot com
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 04:59:05 GMT
Donovan Rebbechi wrote in message ...
>On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:49:36 -0700, Steve Wolfe wrote:
>>> I often end up at this same crossroads and even for
>>> large RAID machines, it seems that while SCSI is great
>>> in theory, it's too expensive. I'm not clear on why
>>> you don't keep your existing SCSI setup.
>>>
>>> [ snip ]
>>>
>>>
>>> You can build software RAIDs with IDE, in fact there are even
>>> hardware RAID cards (for example, rpmfind.net is running on a
>>> 3ware IDE RAID). I've evaluated SCSI vs IDE for RAIDs, and while
>>> SCSI would be nice, the cost per storage unit i way too much. For
>>> example, a SCSI machine will not only cost more than the IDE
>>> alternative, it will have about half the storage capacity.
>>
>> If you're talking about a single-user workstation, the above is true.
>>If you're dealing with a multi-tasking server, SCSI (especially RAID)
makes
>>a world of difference in I/O-intensive apps, enough to far out-weigh the
>>costs.
>
>If you're willing to spend an awful lot of money on performance, then SCSI
>is worth considering. It really depends on how important I/O performance is
>to you. If you need a lot of reliable storage space, and performance is not
>so important,
Performance with IDE RAID 0 is tops.
> you will get a lot more disk for your dollar with an IDE RAID.
>If performance (especially asynchronous I/O) is important then SCSI may be
>useful.
No, EIDE RAID 0 does very well.
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Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:08:20 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux drivers for Creative Ensoniq AudioPCI sound card
I use RedHat 7.0 and it autodetected it.
No configuration required.
$ lsmod | fgrep es1371
es1371 27264 1
soundcore 2640 4 [es1371]
$ fgrep Creative /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/es1371.c
* es1371.c -- Creative Ensoniq ES1371.
"Creative Stereo Enhancement",
len += sprintf(buf + len, "\t\tCreative ES137x Debug
Dump-o-matic\n");
root wrote:
>
> I'm looking for these drivers. I'm a Linux newbie, and I'm having
> trouble getting my sound card configured (as in: I have no idea how to
> do it.) I'm running Corel Linux 2 and I was hoping someone could help me
> out.
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From: "scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microsoft game voice, voice over IP?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 05:11:52 GMT
I have this nifty piece of gear that is really handy for gaming,
but it only works under windows. Is anybody here familiar
with this device or with voice over IP? I realize that 100%
functionality may be too much especiallyconsidering
Microsoft doesnt want to acknowledge that there is lifebeyond
Windows. I would really like to abandon Windoze. I've been
flirting with Linux, BEOS, and FreeBSD for the past year and a half and
it's getting to the point where I dread booting Windoze. I am a huge
gamer and unfortunately Linux doesn't support all of my favorite games.
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From: Allen Crider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 21:17:40 -0800
jtnews wrote:
> Hey everybody, I got my Adaptec 2940
> to work on my 700Mhz Celeron machine!
> It turns out that although the BIOS with SCSIselect
> didn't install, Linux doesn't really need it
> to work with the Adaptec 2940! All this time
> it was working all along. This is great!
> Now I can use all my legacy devices, and I don't
> have to purchase a new scanner or Adaptec 29160!
>
> Now I can scrap my 90Mhz Pentium machine.
>
> Thanks for all your help!
>
I'm glad SCSI didn't abandon you!
> jtnews wrote:
>
> > I currently have two SCSI legacy devices,
> > an Exabyte 8200 SCSI tape drive and an HP Scanjet 3c.
> > Both of these devices used to work with my old Pentium
> > 90Mhz machine with an Adaptec 2940. However, the
> > 90Mhz machine is too slow now and I want to use
> > a 700Mhz machine. The Adaptec 2940 card will no
> > longer work in the new system.
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dt 0398
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 06:30:09 -0000
has anyone made the diamond technologies dt 0398 sound card work under
Mandrake 7.2? any help will be appretiated.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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Reply-To: "James Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "James Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.matrox,comp.os.linux.admin,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: What's a good website to find out??
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 17:47:39 +1100
Try the linux documentation project (LDP): http://www.linuxdoc.org/
But the alternative is just to download the RPM's from ftp://ftp.redhat.com
and then do (as root) "rpm -Uvh <packages>"
It's all covered in various how-to's on the LDP site :-)
Cheers,
James
"fimafeng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I'm tring to use a G400 MAX on Red Hat 7.0 Linux machine. Where can I
> find out about how-to upgrade the X server used by default in RH 7.0?
>
> Any advice is appreciate and thanks!!
>
> PS (I've tried using Xfree86.org as a site..but can't find the relevant
> material there!!)
>
> Chris
>
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From: Anwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 08:31:42 GMT
jtnews wrote:
> I'm at a crossroads now and I need some opinions
> on whether or not I should abandon SCSI or
> continue to invest in the technology.
>
> I currently have two SCSI legacy devices,
> an Exabyte 8200 SCSI tape drive and an HP Scanjet 3c.
> Both of these devices used to work with my old Pentium
> 90Mhz machine with an Adaptec 2940. However, the
> 90Mhz machine is too slow now and I want to use
> a 700Mhz machine. The Adaptec 2940 card will no
> longer work in the new system.
>
> I now have 4 new computers with CD-RW drives
> and I'm planning on using these drives for archiving
> files instead of the Exabyte 8200.
>
> My HP Scanjet 3c is only capable of 600DPI.
> I noticed many of the new scanners can do 1200DPI.
>
> I can either dump both the Exabyte and HP Scanjet 3c
> and purchase a new scanner or buy an Adaptec 29160
> and continue to use my old peripherals. Since an
> Adaptec 29160 and a SCSI-3 to SCSI-2 adapter
> runs about $179+$23=$201, purchasing a new USB
> scanner would cost roughly the same.
>
> What do you think I should do?
>
> I'm leaning towards dumping all my SCSI devices.
> I've been looking at the tech specs for USB
> and it appears to be more promising than SCSI,
> even though with USB 2.0 you only get 60MB/sec instead
> of 160MB/sec with SCSI-3.
>
> My only problem is that once I decide to dump
> SCSI, I'll have a perfectly good Exabyte 8200
> drive and an HP Scanjet 3c I'll have to get rid of.
> Will anyone still want one of those? I'd hate to
> just throw them away. They both still work fine.
>
> Is there any reason I should stay with SCSI?
> If I want to build a RAID system or high
> performance NFS file server later on,
> can I do that with IDE or USB or is SCSI the
> only way to go?
I don't see why the 2940 shouldn't work I have used one in a Intell 733mhz
and an AMD 1000mhz with no problems unde MDK7.2 2.17
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From: Constantin Bergemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My VooDoo isn't working!
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:10:59 +0100
Hi.
I'm having problems with my voodoo (3000, AGP). When I start, for example,
Quake 3, I get the message "no hardware acceleration found".
I've installed mesa and the glide libs. Can anyone help me please?
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From: Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.slackware,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs
Subject: Plextor PX-40TSi
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 10:52:20 +0000
Sorry about the cross-posting, not really sure where this question
should go....
I've just bought one of these. Beautifully made.
In the hand book it says of the "BLOCK" jumper, quite specifically:
"Leave this OFF unless you are working in a UNIX environment"
My questions:
1) Why, and what's this jumper all about? (Questions I think should
be addressed in the handbook instead of blindly dishing out orders).
2) What if I want to multi-boot my system with various operating
systems?
3) Will a microsoft installation suffer for being presented with a CD
player with this jumper in place, or (more importantly to my mind)
will a UNIX sytem sytem suffer for it not being in place?
Many thanks,
Harry
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From: Rogier Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help: NFS and Input/output error
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:36:44 +0100
Josh Stern wrote:
>
> He didn't say NIS wasn't working; he said the automounter,
> which depends on NIS, wasn't working.
>
> -= Josh
Well, point made in original message :
> 3) All the NIS users cann't login with no error message. (I think maybe
> it is because the home directory is on NFS server and amd doesn't work.)
> How to set up system so that user can login even if the home directory
> cann't be mounted correctly? I know telnet can allow it. But how about
> Gnome and KDE login?
The way I read this is that an error message is given during login. It
does hoewever not state the error message itself. From my own experiance
with NIS/NFS I recalled that when the homedir of the user can't be found
due to the fact that it is not mounted, a message is given. So if the
error is something else there might be a problem with NIS beside the
automounter problem.
Being a friendly Linux user I shared my experiance that, in my opinion,
could be of assistance.
greetings
Rogier
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From: "CeBee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DiskOnChip on Ethernet Card
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 13:32:45 +0200
Hi All,
Is there any ethernet card which I can use DiskOnChip as a boot eprom ?
I also need VGA+Ethernet combo card supporting DiskOnChip.
Thanks in advance for any info
CeBee
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.slackware,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.periphs
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Goran Larsson)
Subject: Re: Plextor PX-40TSi
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:06:20 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Why, and what's this jumper all about? (Questions I think should
> be addressed in the handbook instead of blindly dishing out orders).
BLOCK jumper present: 512 byte sectors like magnetic media SCSI disks.
BLOCK jumper not present: 2048 byte sectors.
> 2) What if I want to multi-boot my system with various operating
> systems?
That depends on the operating systems and hardware.
> 3) Will a microsoft installation suffer for being presented with a CD
> player with this jumper in place, or (more importantly to my mind)
> will a UNIX sytem sytem suffer for it not being in place?
That depends on the Unix version and the hardware. Examples: Old SunOS
(from 10 years ago) require 512 byte sectors. Current SunOS doesn't
care, it can handle both 512 and 2048 byte sectors. Old Sun hardware
(from like eight years ago or so) have code in the boot prom that
requires 512 byte sectors. Current Sun hardware doesn't care, it can
handle both 512 and 2048 byte sectors. I don't know how other Unix
versions or microsoft handles this. Try it both ways and see what
happens.
--
G�ran Larsson Senior Systems Analyst hoh AT approve DOT se
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From: "John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone using a Matrox G450 with 2 Monitors?
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 12:32:05 GMT
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a system next week and I want to get this card. I was
wondering what had to be done to a RedHat 7.0 system in order to make this
card work with 2 monitors?
Thanks,
John
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI ZIP100, recognised, but can't mount
Date: 17 Feb 2001 13:37:12 +0100
hi,
I connected my (Macintosh) SCSI ZIP 100 drive to my Adaptec 2904 SCSI
card.
It seems to be recognised ok, and formatting using the iomega SCSI
tools (iwcl-lnx-x86-10-english) seems to work as well ("Disk formated
successfully.") after the "iw -f /dev/sda -l" command.
But how do I mount the thing??
Whatever I do, I get an "invalid block-device" error. Am I missing
some modules? lsmod gives:
[root@chaucer /root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by
sd_mod 11264 0 (autoclean)
aic7xxx 136816 0
scsi_mod 92592 2 [sd_mod aic7xxx]
8139too 15104 1 (autoclean)
and "iw -m /dev/sda -mp /mnt/zip" gives:
IomegaWare for Linux Release 1.0 09/13/00
mount: /dev/sda4 is not a valid block device
Mount Failed!
I tried all sorts of different devices (sda0,..,7) as device name, but
no go.
cdrecord -scanbus gives:
Linux sg driver version: 3.1.17
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) *
...(deleted)...
0,6,0 6) 'IOMEGA ' 'ZIP 100 ' 'R.41' Removable Disk
0,7,0 7) *
I have a feeling I'm almost there...what have I missed?
tia,
-peter
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