Linux-Hardware Digest #607, Volume #14 Wed, 11 Apr 01 19:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist? (Steve Lamb)
Re: linux with athlon ("Ted Yezek")
network card problem... help, kind of a newbie ("Adam C. Wesselink")
NETWORK CARDS PROBLEM: Suse 7.1 (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: SMP motherboard recommendations solicited (Cokey de Percin)
winking screen (Mark Fardal)
Re: Glide and the Voodoo3 with Redhat 7 (Bryan Siemon)
Re: HPT370 Driver Request (Juergen Sauer)
** HP Pavilion computers: modem works? ** (Carlos)
linux driver for Canon S400 (francois reygagne)
Help Mandrake sound Via driver (Adrian Spilca)
Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux (David E. Fox)
Re: Help needed with LM7.2 /A7V133/ATA100HDD/GeForce2MX (David E. Fox)
Re: linux with athlon ("Jacob Williams")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Lamb)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: A Linux emulator for Linux, does this exist?
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:29:29 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:12:09 GMT, Norm Dresner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Let's see. I can buy a cheap PC clone on which I can run Linux -- in a
>networked environment so I don't even need anything more than the OS
>itself -- for about $600US.
Or you could buy a copy of VMWare for 300.
>While it might be a nice thing to have, it's totally economically
>infeasible. Maybe it might make sense for a stable OS like Windows ;-) but
>not for something that's changing as rapidly as Linux.
And we won't even mention the user space kernel. Please, before going
sarcastic how about educating yourself. It's already been done.
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Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your
ICQ: 5107343 | main connection to the switchboard of souls.
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From: "Ted Yezek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux with athlon
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 18:38:15 GMT
Did you install to a drive attached to the promise ata-100 controller ? If
so, which distro did you use and how did you get it to work. I'm ripping my
hair out trying to get Suse 7.1 to install on this very Mobo...
"J. E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> James O'Reilly wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone recommend an Athlon-based computer which runs Linux?
> >
> > Jim O'Reilly
>
> I'm using a locally built computer. The
> motherboard is an ASUS A7V. It's been running
> without problems (other than the interface
> between the chair and the keyboard :) since
> early January.
>
> Good luck in your search,
>
> John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Adam C. Wesselink")
Subject: network card problem... help, kind of a newbie
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:04:29 +0000 (UTC)
I just installed RedHat, and it's not detecting my network card. I'm
using a RealTek RTL08029. During the setup, I gave it an IP number and
all the gateway, dns, hostname information. When I boot up, it says ok
to bringing up eth0 interface. But I have no connection. I did a dmesg
and got the output message: WARNING: The PCI BIOS setup to assign this
PCI NE2k card to IRQ 0, which is unlikely to work!. You should use the
PCI BIOS setup to assign a valid IRQ line.
Any suggestions on how I can get this card working?
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: NETWORK CARDS PROBLEM: Suse 7.1
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:05:16 GMT
Hi there,
I was asked to install Suse 7.1 on K6-2/350 Mhz. I did installation
through ftp and it went ok on second try (first try freeze up - I guess
that somebody grab same IP which I assign to the computer). During
installation Suse recognized NICs as DEC tulip and worked as it
expected. But after installation I found that linux (kernel 2.4) freeze
up on eth0 activation. I disabled it through YaST and boot process went
ok. I tried to configure eth0 by hand and found next:
NICs: two Makronix MXIC MX98713FC
1. I can load tulip module and it recognize both cards.
2. One card use IRQ 15 and another IRQ 11.
3. As only I try to make ifconfig eth0 ..... up it freeze the system
completely.
4. I disable PNP OS in BIOS but it didn't help (it helped before with
another computer and NIC).
5. In log files only information that tulip driver loaded properly.
6. There is no any symptom of the problem in log files.
7. I took out one NIC but result was same - system hung.
What could be wrong here? Is it related to IRQ 15 which normally used by
secondary IDE controller?
For me it looks strange... I only know that this computer was running
Windows 2000 before and owner said that he didn't had a problem with it.
COMPUTER:
1. Mother board UNKNOWN (with on board sound which is not recognized by
OS)
2. Matrox Millenium 2048Kb VCARD
3. two Makronix MXIC MX98713FC NICs
4. Fujitsu 6GB IDE HDD
5. 260MB PC100 RAM
6. K6-2 350MHz CPU
Suse works Ok except that I can not activate eth0 and eth1 network
interfaces. Can anybody give a hand of help?
PS: I am new to Suse, previous Solaris, Caldera, Redhat, NetBSD,
OpenBDS.
Thanks guys,
Andrey
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP motherboard recommendations solicited
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:03:18 GMT
jurriaan kalkman wrote:
>
> On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:30:50 -0400, Gregg Nemesure
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I would like to put together a Linux-based SMP system, but I might need to
> > run Solaris on it as well.
> >
> > Some questions:
> >
> > 1. Is Linux SMP still considered experimental, or is it now stable?
>
> stable, more so in 2.2.19 than in 2.4.x.
>
> >
> > 2. What dual x86 CPU motherboards are recommended?
>
> Is it a 24/7 server, that costs money whenever it's down?
> BX-chipset dual motherboards have proven their worth.
>
> >
> > 3. Are there any that are known to work well with both Solaris and Linux?
>
> You have basically three options:
>
> BX chipset, doesn't run the very latest Pentiums, but proven their worth
> VIA chipset, runs the very latest Pentiums, a bit new.
> ServerWorks, runs the latest Pentiums, 64-bit PCI slots, but not totally
> compatible with Linux at the moment.
??? AFAIK, many of the ServerWorks boards are certified for Linux; my Tyan
Thunder 2500 (S1867) is. I don't know of any Linux/ServerWorks problems that
are actually ServerWorks problems. The 2500 had/has some, but the 104 bios
upgrade seems to have fixed most of them (not the USB however!?). The SW
boards I've worked with are _very_ fast and stable. Not cheap though by any
means....
>
> I suggest you find out what Solaris wants, Linux will problably run on
> that also.
>
> >
> > 4. Are there single CPU motherboards known to work well with both?
> >
> Again, if you need a proven motherboard, buy a BX chipset motherboard,
> perhaps an Asus P2B (single) or P2BDS (dual, scsi).
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: winking screen
From: Mark Fardal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:29:47 -0400
Hi,
My monitor screen has started winking at me. I like to think it's
because my sex appeal has increased... It's not a blank screen, or a
flickering screen, or a blinking screen. It just turns black for
about a second. At the same time, I hear a rapid whirring sound
that sounds like it's coming from the direction of my computer or my
UPS power supply; both are on the floor. (Hard to change the position
around to make sure, unfortunately.) The operation of the computer
itself is not affected in any way. Nothing in particular appears in
my console log window.
This winking maybe happens a few times a day. I've wiggled all the
cables with no result, so it's probably not a loose connection. This
started a few weeks ago, but I don't know of anything that changed on
my system then. The winks seem to be clustered--a few in an hour, then
none for several more.
some info that may or not be informative:
Nokia Multigraph 445Xpro monitor
Accelerated-X display server
uname -a gives
Linux weka 2.2.16 #1 SMP Fri Jul 14 10:44:25 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
Debian linux 2.2
Any ideas for how to fix this? It's not a problem now, but I wonder if
it indicates something that could get worse.
thanks,
Mark Fardal
UMass
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From: Bryan Siemon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Glide and the Voodoo3 with Redhat 7
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 19:45:13 GMT
The Glide and DRI drivers for Voodoo3 are both found on the Red Hat 7.0 CD Disk
2 under the "preview" folder. Make sure you wipe out the drivers you just
installed to get them to work.
Tim Fultz wrote:
> I hope this isn't off topic here, but my ISPs news server doesn't carry the
> 3dfx.glide.linux group anymore for some reason. So can someone please help.
> How do I get games like UT and others like it to work with my voodoo3???.
> This is what I have and what I have installed so far.
>
> I have a PIII 800, with Intel 815 Chipset, 128mb PC133 DIMM, Maxtor 30gb
> ATA100 hard drive, a SoundBlaster Live! and a Voodoo3 AGP (16mb) card.
> Fresh from scratch, I have installed, RedHat 7.
> I downloaded the following drivers.
> Device3Dfx-2.3-5.src.rpm
> Glide-V3-2.60-16.i386.rpm
> Glide-SDK-2.2-16.i386.rpm
>
> After rebuilding the Device3Dfx.src.rpm (rpm --rebuild etc.) and rpm -Uvh
> as instructed, I did the same with the Glide-V3 and SDK. ALL went well.
> After restarting my system, I was unable to perform the test3dfx, glide2x or
> glide3x in the glide/bin directory.
> Also I installed UTdemo, which is glide ONLY. It gets to the main screen(
> where you can set preferences, get into the game, etc. but when you actually
> start a practice session or what ever, the screen turns into this really
> scrambled background of my X background. The only way out is
> alt,ctrl,backspace.
>
> I have another system with 2 voodoo2's. I've installed the Voodoo2 drivers
> (same exact method, just voodoo2 drivers) and the tests work fine and the
> UTdemo runs great. So what's the deal???? I really wanted this to run on
> My system with the voodoo3. Not my 2nd system.
> Do I have to do anything with the tdfx files or the Glide-V3-DRI file? I
> have Redhat 7 with xf86 4.0.1. I assumed that it came already rolling with
> the tdfx-dr? and the V3-dri.
>
> Can someone HELP PLEASE.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HPT370 Driver Request
Date: 11 Apr 2001 18:37:37 GMT
Emyr James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:05:41 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
> Please can some nice driver guru sort out raid support for an ABIT KT7
> RAID mobo (very popular board) ?
> Win2K handles it fine, surely it must be possible to get Linux to do it
> properly as well...or are there some complications ?
> Is there support for this in the pipeline ?
> Any news appreciated.
Kernel 2.4.x has it in, called there HPT366, runns fine.
No Raid functions avaible, because the 'HTP370' does Raid only as
shitty Software in Windump ...
mfG
Jojo
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos)
Subject: ** HP Pavilion computers: modem works? **
Date: 11 Apr 2001 15:15:19 -0500
I am thinking of buying an HP Pavilion XE783 computer (dirt cheap: for
$400: Cel 700MHz, 64MB, CDRW, modem, sound, integrated video).
Does anyone know if the included Modem works with Linux?
Carlos
please respond in the newsgroup or at [EMAIL PROTECTED], not the address
above!
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From: francois reygagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux driver for Canon S400
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:14:47 +0200
I recently bought a Canon S400 and I'm looking for a linux driver.
I appreciate if someone knows the path.
Bye.
Fran�ois REYGAGNE. Software Architect.
opt[e]way S.A., 2881 route des Cr�tes, BP308
06906 Sophia Antipolis Cedex, FRANCE
t�l: +33 (0)4 92 95 27 01 http://www.opteway.com
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From: Adrian Spilca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help Mandrake sound Via driver
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 22:25:24 +0100
Hi,
I installed Mandrake 7.1 on an AMD Duron machine with Jetway 663ASpro
motherboard, Via KT133 chipset.
There is a sound interface on motherboard, AC97.
On the manufacturer CD there is some linux support for sound, but only
for RedHat and Caldera. (I actually tried RedHat 6.1 and the driver
provided and didn't work on the first try, so I get back to Mandrake).
There is nothing else new on the manufacturer web site, or maybe I
didn't find the right one.
Do I have any chance to listen sounds with this hardware / software
configuration?
thanx,
Adrian
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From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G450 TV-Out under Linux
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:04:51 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Maslen wrote:
> I purchased a G450 recently. I was interested in the TV-Out feature,
> and was hoping to use both my PAL Television set and 17" monitor with
> Xfree86. I now discover this feature is unsupported.
I bought a G450 a few weeks ago as well. The card did come with this funny-
looking cable that has a VGA card connector and two other rca/din-type
cables coming out of it. I presume that's supposed to go to the TV.
What do you mean by "unsupported"? Does that mean that "it doesn't work" as
if the card isn't supposed to do TV Out (for me, that wasn't needed, and I
didn't really see much hype claiming that as one of the features) or simply
that it's not officially supported by Matrox on Linux/XFree?
> My decision to purchase a Matrox card was largely based on the
> excellent reputation I believed Matrox to have in relation to it's
And for me it was cheaper than some of the newer cards :).
> While I prefer the open source model, I would probably be satisfied
> with binary drivers which would support the the matrox card on an open
> source operating system like linux.
I was able to find Matrox G450 drivers and link them in with X 4.0.2
sources fine, although it took my old P-100 the better part of a weekend to
do that :(.
The drivers work fine. Whether they work optimally is a different matter,
and is something I'm not clear about -- especially 3d / opengl animation.
For instance, the GL screensaver Gears runs really fast, but many of the
other GL screensavers seem to run slowly. Flightgear doesn't run very fast
at all.
The accelerated stuff seems to mention G200/G400, but not G450. I am not
sure whether or not that is intentional, or if the G450 leaves some stuff
out that's present in the G400.
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From: David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed with LM7.2 /A7V133/ATA100HDD/GeForce2MX
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 15:33:19 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eirikr wrote:
> about the issues surrounding the ATA100 controller and the ASUS A7V
> motherboard; I�d like to verify that the following combination will work
> without much problem.
Supposedly, it should work, but I'd recommend doing the install with the HD
connected to the ata33 interface and then try moving the HD to the ATA100
interface. I still have a legacy ata33 drive, so I opted for both drives
(newer one being an IBM 30gb) on the ata33 interface, at least for now.
> Here�s the components that I am thinking of getting:
> ASUS A7V133 KT133A UDMA/100 Socket A no audio ($139.99)
> Duron 800 Mhz ($60.00)
> Thermaltake DU0462 Chrome Orb cooling fan ($72.99)
Well, you mentioned overclocking, but why so much for a cooling fan? Does
that motherboard have a fan on it? My A7V133 does; it's the one with
on-board audio. I'm running a 1Ghz Thunderbird (retail box) with the
included heatsink/fan combinations. AMD processors are rumored to run very
hot, and I'd expect Thunderbirds to run hotter than Durons. Mine doesn't run
(I think) noticeably hot, but then I spent more $$ on a case that has three
fans.
> Micron IC Chipset 256MB PC 133 SDRAM CL3 ECC NON-REGISTERED ($100.00)
I spent somewhere around $80 locally for 256 megs of 133 SDRAM. I'm not sure
if it's registered or not or who the vendor is (I didn't pay too much
attention to that). Still, I've pretty much stressed the system in the last
three weeks since I put it together, and it's solid as a rock. Still, you
do want to buy quality memory - it helps to stress it a bit by doing some
kernel compiles and/or running memtest on it for a while.
> Quantum Fireball 30GB ATA100 7200RPM Hard Drive ($123.99)
> ASUS V7100 32MB Nvidia GeForce2MX Video Card Pure ($92.99)
That should be OK - I took an IBM deskstar 30 gig drive from my older
system and just migrated it over. I had previously installed Mandrake 7.2
on it.
> CREATIVE LABS SOUND BLASTER LIVE! Value ($45.99)
> CNET PRO200 10/100 PCI Card Full Duplex NIC ($11.99)
Why a cheap NIC? Then again, if it has a Tulip chipset it will probably
work. I've got an Asante card here ($25 or so, IIRC).
> 1. Should I install 8.0b3 instead?
Well, it is beta. From what I've read, it's pretty good.
> 4. What�s the difference between 32MB and 16MB video card? When will I
> need 32MB?
You'll need it when and if you want to run at incredibly high resolutions
with incredibly high colors. For instance, 1600x1200@32 bits per pixel. My
Matrox G450 had 16 megs of RAM; I think that's plenty (used to only have 2
megs on an ATI Mach 64 -based card).
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From: "Jacob Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux with athlon
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 09:05:36 +1000
I found this site quite helpful
http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html
got me going fine on our new machine....
"Ted Yezek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:rw1B6.43994$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you install to a drive attached to the promise ata-100 controller ?
If
> so, which distro did you use and how did you get it to work. I'm ripping
my
> hair out trying to get Suse 7.1 to install on this very Mobo...
>
>
> "J. E. Garrott Sr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > James O'Reilly wrote:
> > >
> > > Can anyone recommend an Athlon-based computer which runs Linux?
> > >
> > > Jim O'Reilly
> >
> > I'm using a locally built computer. The
> > motherboard is an ASUS A7V. It's been running
> > without problems (other than the interface
> > between the chair and the keyboard :) since
> > early January.
> >
> > Good luck in your search,
> >
> > John
>
>
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