Linux-Hardware Digest #550, Volume #14 Sat, 31 Mar 01 00:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: Athlon processor compatibility with SuSe (Scott Alfter)
VIA KT133A Chipset - Trouble Locating Kernel Patches (Mack)
USB Cable Modem & Suse 7.1 ("The Pict")
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. (Bloody Viking)
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. (Bloody Viking)
Re: BogoMips? (Genesis)
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. (Bloody Viking)
Re: where can I find a video driver? ("web")
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. ("green")
Re: USB-IDE Adapter? (John Hong)
Re: Fun With Parallel Ports. (Bloody Viking)
Re: searching for SUZE kernel including MCA motherboard (Sean)
Re: Mouse on a 6PDNF (Sean)
Re: ttyS1 & external relay (Bloody Viking)
HP Scanjet 5P + SANE = No Luck....HELP! (Clarissa Knight)
booting probs with RH 7.0 (Dranthony)
Re: Recommend modem for Linux and Win2000? ("Eric Binet")
Re: BogoMips? (Daniel James)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Athlon processor compatibility with SuSe
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 21:45:04 -0000
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In article <3ac3f3bb$0$18893$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2001 16:53:11 -0700, Allen Blackburn staggered into the
>Black Sun and said:
>>I'm really new to Linux (but not Unix), and I'm gearing up to set up my
>>own PC with Linux. I was thinking about buying a new 1.1 GHz AMD 761
>>Athlon chip with 266 MHz bus, with a Gigabyte GA7DX motherboard. I also
>>wanted to load SuSe 7.1. However, these hardware choices are not on
>>their website in their hardware compatiblity list. My questions are: Is
>>it a bad idea to go ahead and try to make it work, or would anyone out
>>there recommend a different set of hardware and/or Linux distribution?
>
>The "761" there is not the chip designation, that's "Thunderbird".
The 761 is AMD's DDR SDRAM northbridge. It ought to work to some degree.
FWIW, I upgraded to a similar setup recently (1.0 GHz on a Biostar M7MIA),
and while the machine boots off the network like it did when it was running
a K6-III-450 on an FIC VA-503+, X won't start. The video card is an ATI
Radeon 32MB DDR, and it worked fine with XF86 4.0.2 (and Linux 2.4.0) while
paired with the K6-III setup. I'm guessing at this point that Linux might
not yet know about the 761. If it's different enough from the older AMD 751
northbridge in how it handles AGP, that might be an issue. I haven't looked
into it much since...the Athlon box mainly runs Win98. (The K6-III went
into the Linux server, which previously ran a K6-2-300.)
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From: Mack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIA KT133A Chipset - Trouble Locating Kernel Patches
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:39:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone please point me in the right direction. I would like to get
ata100 working.
I have RH7 running with UDMA33 on kernel 2.2.16. Hardware monitoring
would be nice as well ;)
Thanks
Mack
PS - To reply remove the NOSPAM from the E-Mail address.
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From: "The Pict" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Cable Modem & Suse 7.1
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 23:03:02 GMT
A beginnner asks for help
I had my cable modem configured and working perfectly in Suse 7.1 using
my internal ethernet card.
I have now purchased a new USB ethernet adapter . A NexLink HU001
I did a format and complete re-installation of Suse 7.1
The installation sets up the connection and I can log on.
However, when I reboot I cannot get a connection unless I enter
dhcpcd eth1
I am going to set up the original ethernet card to connect my two machines
together later.
The two cards work OK in Windows
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: 30 Mar 2001 23:48:24 GMT
Aaron R. Kulkis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Just use some op-amps to isolate the parallel port from the relays.
Normally, people like to use optoisolators. Works just as good. But I want
extra protection by using the port on the card instead of the one on the
mainboard. A cheap ISA card is easier to replace than a whole computer. The
ideal would be a real old computer networked with the good one where the old
computer serves as a "light show server" or otherwise an embedded system. You
then telnet in to mess with the software.
If you want a portable system like for a bar band, use an old laptop running
Linux as the embedded system.
After the posting, I solved the problem by editing /etc/printcap to direct the
print jobs to LPT2, the onboard printer fitting. That freed up the ISA card I
installed as the light show card. I'll have to edit it again when I activate
the second fitting on the card as the printer will be on LPT3 on the system,
with LPT1 and LPT2 as light show fittings. (or process control fittings as I
please)
--
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking)
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: 30 Mar 2001 23:56:40 GMT
Alexander Nosenko ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: The best solution is to use some ready-made digital IO add-on card - they
: are costly, through.
I've priced those gems over time, and they are brutally costly. You can get
them in 24-bit sizes nicely configurable for I/O. With an ISA card with
bidirectional printer fittings which are much cheaper, you get 16-bit I/O with
the optoisolator caveat. You can get 2 such cards in PCI format and get 32-bit
I/O fairly cheap by the same method. Which brings up a good question. How many
parallel ports can a computer handle on Linux? Imagine a computer with 4 PCI
slots and 3 ISA slots with a PCI video card and the rest filled with parallel
port cards. 12 parallel ports or a whopping 96 bits of I/O! That would work
for Studio 54!
--
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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Subject: Re: BogoMips?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Genesis)
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 00:03:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric SIBERT) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>So, how many bogomips for your computer?
>
>
>750 Mhz for me:)))
>
>
Hey,
I do not know about MHz as a unit for BogoMips but...
Here is the BogoMips numbers for my different boxen
1200 MHz, 794 BogoMips
150 MHz, 118 BogoMips
850 MHz, won't compile (don't feel like hunting down the problem).
>From the 1200 MHz box to the 150 MHz box we have 8x more CPU cycles but
only 6.7288x more BogoMips, what's up with that?
Guess it truly is Bogo :-)
Perhaps I should optimize my 1.2 GHz a little more ;-)
Cheers,
Genesis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: 31 Mar 2001 00:10:57 GMT
Roy Culley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Why did you cross post this to comp.os.linux.advocacy and alt.destroy.microsoft?
It illustrates a capability of Linux not found on Windows, namely, the ability
to run a light show in the background as you use the desktop without having to
code a TSR. Funny how you can run a light show (or other process control) in
the background on a Commodore 64 but not a PC as the IRQ is documented with
the Commodore as well as the memory location a break can be made to insert a
TSR-like routine.
With the PC, inserting a routine into the OS is impossible and coding of TSRs
is not documented at all. With the Commodore 64, you could insert a machine
code routine by poking it into otherwise unused memory then turn it on with a
suitable poke. With Linux, one can make a daemon readily enough and the docs
CAN be found, though I can't guarentee ease of finding.
Fun question: How many people ever coded a machine code routine in DECIMAL
instead of Assembler or even hex? In the programmer's reference book for the
old Commodore 64, I converted all the opcodes listed into decimal and written
them in the book so I could code machine routines.
--
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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From: "web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can I find a video driver?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 08:38:59 +0800
Thank you very much. I have given up to upgrade XF86. An another
release(slackware) has been installed. Now my Xwindow can start, that
software can be worked and my winmodem can be worked.
I am a newer for linux. I donot know how to let my soundcard(CMI8738 PCI on
motherboard) work?
I cannot run "sndcfg" or "sndconfig" in this release. Are there any other
commands to set up soundcard?
I have tried to compile("gcc cmpci.c") cmpci.c(I think cmpci.o is the driver
for that card), but failed. how to generate such a module? I have tried
"make module""make module_install"...
"Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ac41253$0$18891$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Fri, 30 Mar 2001 10:01:36 +0800, web staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
> >Yes, some libraris of Redhat7 are not campatible to that in
> >Radhat6(kernal 2.2.13). I think that's why it so hard to use linux
> >sometimes. So many kernals and so many software version.
>
> Take a look at KDE 1.1, circa June 1999, then take a look at KDE 2.1,
> March 2001, see the difference, and just imagine where they'll be a year
> from now. "The loss of easy backwards compatability is small price to
> pay for the joy of getting rid of outmoded, inefficient, and just plain
> wrong ways of doing things" is the philosophy here.
>
> >I have just downloaded kernal2.4.2, but I cannot find modules for TNT2.
This
> >is the first time I upgrade a kernal. I use
> > make menuconfig
> >where can I find how to upgrade video card or XFree86?
>
> XFree86 != Kernel. An X-server is a user-space application (unless you
> go in for DRI, which isn't supported yet for nVidia AFAIK, or you trust
> the binary-only kernel module nVidia provides to help with 3D
> acceleration) and should run the same whether you're using kernel 2.2.x
> or 2.4.x or 2.5.x . As such, you will find no relevant options
> regarding X in the kernel configuration menu yet.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "green" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 12:02:54 +1000
> : Why did you cross post this to comp.os.linux.advocacy and
alt.destroy.microsoft?
>
> It illustrates a capability of Linux not found on Windows, namely, the
ability
> to run a light show in the background as you use the desktop without
having to
> code a TSR. Funny how you can run a light show (or other process control)
in
There are many kits that explain how to code to printer port and read from
it in basic, ie qbasic not vb.
lost that ability in win 95.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: USB-IDE Adapter?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 01:33:44 +0000 (UTC)
Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>I'm looking for an USB-IDE-Adapter to use
>2.5 and/or 3.5 inch hard disks in an external
>case and to connect them to a Linux machine.
>Does anyone know an adapter supported by Linux?
I don't think they are supported just yet. I think they're close,
though. Mine is identified correctly under USB View.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.destroy.microsoft
Subject: Re: Fun With Parallel Ports.
Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:22:43 GMT
green ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: lost that ability in win 95.
Allegedly, somewhere in a subdir of C:\WINDOWS you can find the QBASIC.EXE but
it's damn near an easter egg hidden in a dir for old DOS stuff.
I have no idea if you can multitask a QBASIC proggie with Winblows 95. I never
tried it. But I do know that you can multitask all you want on Linux, only so
long as you are even minimally creative. At worst, put the proggie on another
virtual terminal.
I only recently found out how to get a parallel port light show to work on a
PC, so my development should be quick on Linux. Previously, I had it working
on a Commodore 64.
--
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse
Subject: Re: searching for SUZE kernel including MCA motherboard
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:28:14 -0800
get debian. works great here on an ibm 9595a. get the scsi boot disk to install
and use 'linux mac-pentium no-hlt' to boot with.
syco wrote:
> I have a PC with MicroChannel Architecture ( MCA ) mainboard and SCSI disks.
>
> My machine runs fine with slackware Linux, no problem : slackware provides a
> kernel, on the web, for MCA machines
> But I have other problems with SAMBA, Internet, dialling, ... so : I will
> this machine goes running SUSE ( 'cause I have SUSE too, that is simpliest
> for all that stuff ).
>
> BUT ... how can I obtain a kernel for MCA under SUSE 7.0 : nothing found on
> the SUSE site, and nothing in support or knowledge databases.
> Who can help me please.
>
> Thank for help.
> SYCO
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From: Sean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse on a 6PDNF
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 18:31:49 -0800
if you are using a ps/2 mouse add on not from supermicro it will not work.
you can get the pin outs from their website and build the connector from
parts for about $5. had it working here on that board.
"Alexander G. Haley" wrote:
> I have a super micro mother board; a Dual PPro model # 6PDNF.
> I am running Debian, 2.2.4. I have been unable to get the mouse to work
> under any OS installed on my computer. I've tried every setting
> combination possible.
>
> Has anyone else had this sort of problem?
>
> Cordially,
> Alexander
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bloody Viking)
Subject: Re: ttyS1 & external relay
Date: 31 Mar 2001 02:43:11 GMT
Bo Vandenberg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I'm trying to make a relay attached to the serial port open and close on a
: cron job so I can set some buzzer times.
Try installing a card with another parallel port. Once you do that, go to
/etc/printcap and edit so the printer is on the onboard port so you can use
the ISA card port for your fun n' games. Then, go to a web search engine and
grep "lptout.c" and download the source. Then, compile with "gcc -O lptout.c
-o lptout" and have fun!
You'll have a full 8 bits of control to play with. Why settle for one relay
when you can have 8? (: ISA cards with another printer fitting are awful
cheap, and for a light show, all you need is the driver. And the driver can be
found easally.
--
FOOD FOR THOUGHT: 100 calories are used up in the course of a mile run.
The USDA guidelines for dietary fibre is equal to one ounce of sawdust.
The liver makes the vast majority of the cholesterol in your bloodstream.
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From: Clarissa Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Scanjet 5P + SANE = No Luck....HELP!
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 02:43:56 GMT
Hi all.
I'm running a Redhat 7.0 box with the standard 2.2.16 default kernel.
I recently got an HP Scanjet 5P scanner which the SANE website says is
compatible.
I tried the sane version that came with the Redhat distribution with no
luck.
So, I followed the advice on the SANE website to remove all old SANE
files and recompile.
Recompile went fine. The SCSI card that came with the scanner is a
SYM53C416.
I load the corresponding SCSI modules (sym53c416.o and sg.o). lsmod
reports these are loaded and ready.
cat /proc/scsi/scsi reports:
Host: scsi1 Channel: 00 Id: 02 Lun: 00
Vendor: HP Model: C5110A Rev: 3701
Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02
I run "find-scanner" and it reports:
find-scanner: found processor "HP C5110A 3701" at device /dev/sg1
find-scanner: found processor "HP C5110A 3701" at device /dev/sgb
I have /dev/sg1 symlinked to /dev/scanner.
I have /usr/local/etc/sane.d/hp.conf configured to use /dev/scanner and
use option "connect-scsi".
I have power turned on for the scanner.
If I run "/usr/local/bin/scanimage -L" it just hangs and reports
nothing.
I try /usr/local/bin/scanimage -d hp:/dev/scanner and it hangs
permanently, but isn't using CPU cycles. A kill -9 on the PID does
nothing.
I ran through some previous newsgroup postings and found several people
who said they were running the Scanjet 5P using the SYM53C416 card that
came with the scanner with complete success.
What am I doing wrong?
-Michael
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dranthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: booting probs with RH 7.0
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 03:32:36 GMT
After playing around with a prog named explore2fs in winslow I can't
boot into linux. My machine boots up initially normally then goes
through the boot sequence up to the partition check normally then it
looks like this:
VFS- mounted root(ext2fs) read only
init- version 2.78 booting
No initab file
Enter runlevel:
I enter a run level but then it says it has nothing more to do at this
run level and hangs. The 3 finger salute doesn't even do anything.
I have tried playing around with Linux rescue from Red Hat but I can't
do anything with it. What do I need to do to fix this problem? If I
have top reinstall it wouldn't be a prob since I haven't done too much
with this install to worry about it but I would like to learn more w/
Linux so any suggestions would help.
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From: "Eric Binet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend modem for Linux and Win2000?
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2001 04:26:44 GMT
"Garry Heaton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9a05cv$k4q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Can anyone recommend a good modem which will work on Linux (Mandrake 7.2)
> AND Windows 2000?
>
> Garry Heaton
I have a AOpen 56k modem that works like a charm
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel James)
Subject: Re: BogoMips?
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 22:58:00 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy) writes:
> Eric SIBERT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> So, how many bogomips for your computer?
>
>> 750 Mhz for me:)))
>
> MHz? What kind of a BogoMips reading is that?
>
> But in the interests of starting a meaningless CPU speed dickwaving
> contest, 792.48 for dual PPro-200/256s.
>
Couldn't resist on this one:
http://home.swbell.net/astac and follow the link in the sidebar named Bogomips
or you can go directly to it http://home.swbell.net/astac/bogomips.html
Yes, it's waving in the wind. :-)
--
_______________________\|/___Daniel James___\|/_______________________
http://home.swbell.net/astac/ Everyone is entitled to his own opinion.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
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