Linux-Hardware Digest #655, Volume #14 Fri, 20 Apr 01 05:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Microsoft gets hard ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
Re: Microsoft gets hard ("Aaron R. Kulkis")
CDR Strangeness - LG CED-8080B (John Thurmond)
Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill them up?
(J. Clarke)
Hello, there ("somez72")
Re: My hardware list ("Vinzenz Mai")
Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches ("Pavan")
Re: Microsoft gets hard ("JS PL")
Re: Microsoft gets hard (Matthew Gardiner)
Re: Geforce2mx dying on logout from X ("BetrOffDed")
Link or Book or... to module programming ("Goran Bervar")
SBLive Problems... (MegaSurge)
Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches (Kenneth R�rvik)
RE: Hello, there (Monte Milanuk)
Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux... (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: Hello, there (Joeri Sebrechts)
Re: MSI K7 Master-S / MS-6341 (Athlon 1.2Ghz/266FSB)? (Al)
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:41:37 -0400
Jan Johanson wrote:
>
> "Matthew Gardiner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > <snype>
> > > I do things which truly astound and bill for it.
> >
> > Admin NT servers, the most astound things? my guess, getting them to
> > stay up for longer than one week whilst maintaining the same throughput.
> >
> > Answer the question sonny. Until you start admining s/900z, s/390, and
> > clusters of UNIX servers, I suggest that you should keep your trap shut.
> >
>
> Now that is funny - I love it when the best come back a unix-nut has is:
> until you've suffered as I've suffered and continue to suffer you are
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
You repeatedly misspelled "been/are productive"
> nothing. The fact you can do what I can do in 1/4 the time with 1/8th the
> effort means you _obviously_ must be an idiot and I am a genius for slaving
> away working on much bigger and more compliated proprietary hardware.
>
> as if run time had anything to do with throughput - silly...
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: "Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:43:10 -0400
Jan Johanson wrote:
>
> "David Ehrens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:aFHC6.18762$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > I don't care if Microsoft can prove they have 500,000,000 partners.
> > Their allegiances lie with companies in their size and weight class, not
> > small consulting or integration outfits.
> >
> > David Ehrens
>
> Interesting... so given that linux is associated with dirty haired hippies
I'm a clean-cut, professionally dressed soldier....
> in their parents basements vs MS associated with the largest businesses in
...who moved out of the house at age 17....
There goes JJ's theory.
> the world - I guess we can see where this is going... you dug your own hole
> bub...
--
Aaron R. Kulkis
Unix Systems Engineer
DNRC Minister of all I survey
ICQ # 3056642
L: This seems to have reduced my spam. Maybe if everyone does it we
can defeat the email search bots. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
K: Truth in advertising:
Left Wing Extremists Charles Schumer and Donna Shalala,
Black Seperatist Anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan,
Special Interest Sierra Club,
Anarchist Members of the ACLU
Left Wing Corporate Extremist Ted Turner
The Drunken Woman Killer Ted Kennedy
Grass Roots Pro-Gun movement,
J: Other knee_jerk reactionaries: billh, david casey, redc1c4,
The retarded sisters: Raunchy (rauni) and Anencephielle (Enielle),
also known as old hags who've hit the wall....
I: Loren Petrich's 2-week stubborn refusal to respond to the
challenge to describe even one philosophical difference
between himself and the communists demonstrates that, in fact,
Loren Petrich is a COMMUNIST ***hole
H: "Having found not one single carbon monoxide leak on the entire
premises, it is my belief, and Willard concurs, that the reason
you folks feel listless and disoriented is simply because
you are lazy, stupid people"
G: Knackos...you're a retard.
F: Unit_4's "Kook hunt" reminds me of "Jimmy Baker's" harangues against
adultery while concurrently committing adultery with Tammy Hahn.
E: Jet is not worthy of the time to compose a response until
her behavior improves.
D: Jet Silverman now follows me from newgroup to newsgroup
...despite (C) above.
C: Jet Silverman claims to have killfiled me.
B: Jet Silverman plays the fool and spews out nonsense as a
method of sidetracking discussions which are headed in a
direction that she doesn't like.
A: The wise man is mocked by fools.
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From: John Thurmond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDR Strangeness - LG CED-8080B
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:33:59 GMT
It seems that with the price cut on the LG CED-8080B, lots of people are
trying
to get them to work on their linux boxen.
I got mine to work using the standard method outlined in cdrecord. I
can burn
ISO's no problem, but it absolutely refuses to burn music CD's. I
always get
the same error (from cdrecord -V, below)
Executing 'write_g1' command on Bus 0 Target 0, Lun 0 timeout 40s
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
cmd finished after 0.001s timeout 40s
/usr/local/bin/cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd:
retryable error
CDB: 2A 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1B 00
status: 0x0 (GOOD STATUS)
write track data: error after 0 bytes
I'm running RH 7.0 and the 2.4.1 kernel
It seems that other people have run into similar problems with this
drive, despite
the fact that it's supposedly one of the (few) officially supported
drives in cdrecord.
I wonder if there's a firmware issue with this drive? Has anyone who
has bought
this drive recently gotten music recording to work?
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From: J. Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.arch.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: today's harddrives will surely fail before dialup users manage to fill
them up?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 01:04:31 -0400
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> J. Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > A few kilobytes would be _plenty_ for the code and
> > > data and everything related to the cache. A megabyte
> > > would be way more than overkill.
> >
> > I'm sorry, but I don't quite see how a "128 bit key and a long URL"
> > tells me how much space I'm going to need to index a million cache
> > entries.
>
> If it's a problem, you only have to store one of them at once in RAM.
So what does this gain you?
--
--
--John
Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net
(used to be jclarke at eye bee em dot net)
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From: "somez72" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hello, there
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 15:13:16 -0700
Hello,
does Someone knows is there System Monitoring and System Management tools
that is running on Linux for Linux/Unix server , Oracle server , Web server
, and so on.
Where can I find it?
any information is good to me, please tell me.
I don't know where should I wirte down this kind of question.
is there good place to ask this question , please let me know.
Thank you for your time.
-- SH Lee --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("Vinzenz Mai")
Subject: Re: My hardware list
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 05:43:40 +0000 (UTC)
Hi Dave,
you could run into problems with your ethernet-card!
D-Link DFE-530TX is a standard-card, ok, but there exists
different revisions of this card:
Rev A:
no problems, should be auto-detected, via-rhine driver
Rev B1:
problems, problems, problems, ...
not auto-detected, via-rhine doesn't work, ...
D-Link supplies two different drivers, both via-rhine, for this card but
none of these compiled on my system. Somewhere I've read that this revision
is based instead on a Realtek chip, but I have not tried this one too.
The revision number is only printed on the card, but if your box is brand
new, then you should have
Rev B1 with all the problems.
Have fun
Vinzenz
--
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via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 11:26:13 +0530
>
> Who said that they are required ?
> I am running linux since 2.4.0 at it works at ATA/100, no problems.
>
> IBM DTLA 307045 ( Deskstar 75GXP 45 GB ) : 35 MB/s in hdparm -t
>
Then what are the patches for the 2.4.x kernels. The hedrick directory
has no readme.
And I get only 25 MB/s on my IBM DTLA-307030 with via686b chipset.
Which chipset do you have? Yes, I have a 80-conductor cable.
-Pavan
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From: "JS PL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 02:08:01 -0400
"Aaron R. Kulkis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> I'm a clean-cut, professionally dressed soldier....
who uses Windows98 at all times.....
> > in their parents basements vs MS associated with the largest businesses
in
> ...who moved out of the house at age 17....
at the request of my family....
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From: Matthew Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.arch,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy
Subject: Re: Microsoft gets hard
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 18:12:41 +1200
<snype>
> > ...who moved out of the house at age 17....
>
> at the request of my family....
hmm, so are you related to Aaron?
Matthew Gardiner
--
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If you don't like it, you can go [# rm -rf /home/luser] yourself
Running SuSE Linux 7.1
The best of German engineering, now in software form
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From: "BetrOffDed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Geforce2mx dying on logout from X
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 06:49:27 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> this is on an Abit VP6 with 2 Intel PIII 866, and an Elsa Geforce2mx.
>
> Each time I find the following line in dmesg:
>
> kernel: mtrr: no MTRR for d0000000,2000000 found
>
> Just switched to 2.4.3 to make sure, but no luck, using Nvidia's
> otherwise Xellent NVIDIA_kernel-0.9-769
>
> Or would this be software?
>
> Thanks, girlz
I had the same problem with asus mobo doing smp with a gf2mx.
It was fixed some time ago, but I don't recall for sure what fixed it. (I
know, you're thinking why the hell would I even write then?)
I thought it was the -769 driver that fixed it, but if you're still having
the problem, I'm gonna have to guess that it was upgrading X itself. I'm
running a cvs version of X checked out about 3 weeks ago, but it was fixed
before that, IIRC.
All that I can say for sure, is that I now have no trouble switching back
and forth between X and console on asus mobo, gf2mx, 2x pIIIs, and kernel
2.4.3. I still do get the following errors in the logs though:
mtrr: no MTRR for d8000000,2000000 found
mtrr: your CPUs had inconsistent variable MTRR settings
and unfortunately I am far too dense to know how to fix that, if its
possible.
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From: "Goran Bervar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Link or Book or... to module programming
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:40:16 +0100
Hi,
I am an experienced programmer in C(++) but nearly new to Linux. I am
looking for a good resource, printed or on-line, on programming native Linux
module(s) for our own hardware. I've cheked the net the best way I can but I
get just too many (OT) results. Any direction is wellcome.
gorc
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From: MegaSurge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.dev.sound
Subject: SBLive Problems...
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 00:41:28 -0700
I'm not really a big sound/multimedia expert and I'm having some issues
with my new SoundBlaster Live card I got. Anyway, I just purchased a
new SBLive card for my linux system. I run SuSE 7.1 with the 2.4
kernel. I tried compiling the drivers directly into the kernel, using
modules and using modules with Alsa. Every configuration produces the
same results. I can play cd music fine however if I try to play wav or
mp3 files I get a squeeling noise as output. Does anybody have any idea
why this might be happening?
I read about two things in FAQ's and other material I found online that
may
be attributed. One is the SMP kernel thing. I do not have a
multiproccessor system and I don't have SMP compiled into the kernel as
module or otherwise. I've read a couple of things that indicated some
people were having issues where the emu10k1 driver seems to think the
system is SMP despite that it's not and it's not compiled in. Is there
any merit to this? Is SMP with the emu10k1 even an issue that might
cause this
problem?
The other thing that may be attributed is that I have an Abit Be6
motherboard with the HPT366 onboard controller. My system for the most
part is all scsi (using a PCI adaptec card), however I do have one ATA66
drive
for storage so I do use this driver. Is there some compatibility issue
between these two that would cause problems?
I did check to verify I do not have any irq or dma conflicts with
anything
and I don't. The SBLive card has IRQ 10 designated for it and nothing
else
is sharing that irq. There are no other reports that I see in my log
files
or anywhere else either that would indicate there is a hardware conflict
so
I'm thinking it's software/driver related. Any assistance in this
matter
is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
P.S. I did download the latest CVS snapshot for the emu10k1 module,
compiled it and tried using that just tonight but I got the same results
of distorted noise.
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Subject: Re: 2.4.3, ATA100 & Hedrick's patches
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 07:56:44 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pavan) wrote in <9be3o6$r5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>My kernel 2.4.3(vanilla) compiled with via IDE chipset support detects
>my 686b chipset at bootup and even runs my IBM Deskstar 75GXP at
>ATA100(according to boot messages).
>
>So why are the hedrick patches required?
They aren't. 2.4.x supports ATA100 just fine.
>Isn't my hdd running at
>ata100 even though hdparm and dmesg say ata100(udma5)?
If hdparm says it is, it probably is.
>hdparm -t gives 25 MB/s
Actually, 25MB/s is quite good. Try hdparm -u1 -d1 -c3 -m16.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Hello, there
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 04:00:24 -0400
>===== Original Message From "somez72" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =====
>Hello,
>does Someone knows is there System Monitoring and System Management tools
>that is running on Linux for Linux/Unix server , Oracle server , Web server
>, and so on.
>
>Where can I find it?
>any information is good to me, please tell me.
>
>I don't know where should I wirte down this kind of question.
>is there good place to ask this question , please let me know.
>
>Thank you for your time.
>-- SH Lee --
>
>
>
Check out Webmin at www.webmin.com/webmin
Monte
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No logitech mouse works with any distribution of linux...
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:22:36 GMT
Juergen Pfann wrote:
>
> Yes, they do, and they do fine... - I just can't resist to reply
> to such a general statement like in your subject.
> But to be precisely, my own experience is restricted to serial
> "MouseMen" and "Pilots" - never had any problems with these in any
> OS, so I'll stick to these somewhat longer.
> I personally don't see any need for 10-button, 5-wheel, infrared, USB
> mice and such stuff - serial i/f and 3 "normal" buttons just do
> their job. Especially, I don't understand the wheel hype - IMHO that's
> more disadvantage than advantage; but any1 as he likes to.
But serial hogs a com port, and there aren't that much to go around (I
have an external modem, a drawing tablet, a palmpilot tray and a HP48
transfer cable all fighting over those two poor com ports). Better to
use a ps/2 mouse. Support is as abundant as for serial, and at least
there's nothing but a mouse to hang off of that second ps/2 connector.
The downside is that you can't hotswap ps/2 devices, like you can with
serial.
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From: Joeri Sebrechts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hello, there
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:24:02 GMT
somez72 wrote:
>
> Hello,
> does Someone knows is there System Monitoring and System Management tools
> that is running on Linux for Linux/Unix server , Oracle server , Web server
> , and so on.
>
> Where can I find it?
> any information is good to me, please tell me.
>
> I don't know where should I wirte down this kind of question.
> is there good place to ask this question , please let me know.
>
This might sound dumb, but have you looked on www.freshmeat.net already
?
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From: Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MSI K7 Master-S / MS-6341 (Athlon 1.2Ghz/266FSB)?
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 10:54:30 +0200
Sorry for not being very precise. The board is an MSI one.
http://tw.msi.com.tw/showroom/mainboard/eng/k7master-S.htm
Does anyone have this board running linux???
Al
"C. J." wrote:
>
> Al <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de noticias
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I'm thinking of getting the K7T Master Si with the dual Ultra3 SCSI
> > adapter. Before buying, does anybody have this board running under
> > Linux? I hear that (some?) Athlon boards have problems running Linux 7.
> >
>
> Cannot help much. I suppose K7T is from Abit, so I tell you I have Abit K7A
> + Athlon 1,2 GHz / 266 MHz FSB and Red Hat 6.2. Only problem I had was Red
> Hat thinks it's a PIII and tries to disable CPU Serial N�. instruction, so I
> have to pass to the kernel "x86_serial_nr=1" on startup.
>
> Everything else just marvellous. CPU runs at 40�C but stable as rock (till
> now).
>
> > Any comments, suggestions, alternatives and experiences appreciated.
> >
> > Al
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