Linux-Hardware Digest #764, Volume #14 Sun, 13 May 01 06:13:03 EDT
Contents:
For Sale: In-Win H500 ATX Desktop Case ("justron")
Re: 4GB RAM Problem... ("Sipke de Wal")
Re: Nvidia AGP video supported for Linux???? (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Iwill SIDE-RAID 100 ("news")
Video Card ????? ("X_Factor6")
Re: Video Card ????? (Eric P. McCoy)
Re: CD writers ("Richard A. Bilonick")
Re: serial ports not working (Tim Grant)
Re: 4GB RAM Problem... (Juergen Pfann)
Re: DAT Drive: Hardware compression HOWTO (Juergen Pfann)
Re: serial ports not working (Nader)
Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help ("Bluesky")
HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it? ("Dominik Herrmann")
computers and troubleshooting ("the Parry's")
Re: RAM question ("Sir Penguin")
Re: HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it? (Walter Francis)
Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help ("Harvey Braun")
Re: serial ports not working (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: PCTEL-modem Linux Driver!!! ("Bluesky")
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Reply-To: "justron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "justron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: For Sale: In-Win H500 ATX Desktop Case
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 01:42:25 GMT
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1237252024
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From: "Sipke de Wal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4GB RAM Problem...
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:45:54 +0200
Does your MOBO support caching for up to 4GB ???
If so is it enabled in the BIOS??
Some OS-ses like to allocate RAM from the highest locations downwards so
they might run into uncached ram very soon if the caching on your MOBO is
not effective for the top of RAM. And that slows things down dramatically!
Sipke de Wal
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http://xgistor.ath.cx
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Michael Sabielny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
9dbh3v$8ir$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi folks,
>
> recently we got a new computer with these features:
> 2 PIII-CPUs
> 4 GB ECC-RAM (4 DIMMs)
> Supermicro 370DL3 Mainboard
> OS: SuSE Linux 7.1
> Kernel: SMP-Kernel with Support for more than 4 GB of RAM
>
> Wen encountered a strange effect: when we use only 3 Gigs of the RAM (with
> one DIMM removed) the computer behaves absolutely normal and shows its
> expected performance.
>
> But if we put the fouth DIMM it gets very slow, e.g. needs the double time
> for a numerical matrix decomposition. Even the bootup time increases
> dramatically.
>
> We tried various different kernels:
> SuSE precompiled 2.2.18-SMP
> SuSE precompiled 2.4-SMP
> selfcompiled 2.4-SMP-4GB
> selfcompiled 2.4-SMP-64GB
>
> But all kernels have the same behavior! In the moment we put the 4. DIMM
to
> get the full 4 Gigs we get slow...
>
> Has anybody got some experiance with this kind of problem?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Michael Sabielny
> Technical University of Hamburg-Harburg
> Department of Theoretical Electrical Engineering
> 21071 Hamburg
> Germany
>
>
>
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Nvidia AGP video supported for Linux????
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 18:54:14 -0700
Doug Robson wrote:
> I've got a Hercules Prophet II MX video card that uses the AGP bus on
> the motherboard. When I boot up Linux, or when I run Xconfigurator,
> and I look in /var/log/XFree86.0.log, I see some messages that make me
> wonder if the nv_drv.o driver can see an AGP card. It has the following
> line: PCI:*(1:0:0) Nvidia unknown chipset (0x0110) rev 161
> It also complains (EE) Failed to load Module "v41". What's that?
> And the last 3 lines are as follows:
> (EE) No devices detected
> Fatal server error
> no screens found
>
> So have I bought a video card that cannot be supported by Linux?
Not really a problem. Newer distributions do have support for this
card, and you can get drivers from nVidia. First of all, what Linux distro
do you have? (If it's older than the GeForce 2 MX chipset, shame on you ;)
Marcus
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From: "news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Iwill SIDE-RAID 100
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:01:15 GMT
IWill is not support Redhat 7.1 and 0 stripping. I buy promise is no
problem.
"cistron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ���g��l��
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Any experiences with IWill SIDE-RAID 100 with Redhat 7.1 and 0
> stripping. Can anyone kindly share his experiences.
>
>
> Thanks and Regards
>
>
>
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From: "X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Video Card ?????
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 03:30:12 GMT
What's a good video card to get for Linux?? Currently running a ATI 8MB
Expert. Looking for something with a little for *ummph*, but don;t want to
spend a load of money. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
X_Factor6
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Subject: Re: Video Card ?????
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 13 May 2001 00:03:20 -0400
Many newsgroups snipped cuz I don't have them.
"X_Factor6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What's a good video card to get for Linux?? Currently running a ATI 8MB
> Expert. Looking for something with a little for *ummph*, but don;t want to
> spend a load of money. Let me know what you think. Thanks.
I've got an NVIDIA TNT2-based card. Very happy with it. If money's a
serious concern, you can pick up a Voodoo3 for peanuts, and it's old
enough to have good support (but don't expect any from 3dfx, which
went bust). Quake 3 is very playable on a PPro-200/64MB RAM with the
V3, which is really saying something. (My point of comparison for
that is the TNT2 on a P3-450/256MB RAM (Win2K), which delivers
comparable framerates for all but big open maps).
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: "Richard A. Bilonick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writers
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 04:50:47 GMT
Christopher Wong wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 00:33:26 -0700, Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I was wondering about compatibility with CD-RW drives. Do they are just use
> >a generic standard, kinda like IDE, so they're all compatible with Linux? I
> >am wondering specifically about the AOpen 12x10x32x and the LG 12x8x32x
> >drives, and whether or not they are compatible with Linux.
>
> Yes, newer IDE CDRW drives that follow the ATAPI standard should work
> fine. I bought a cheapo LG 8x4x32 from Microcenter ($80!) and it
> worked. Red Hat 7.1's installation seems to have automatically set up
> the ide-scsi stuff and the scd0->cdrom symlink for me, so I did not have
> to do anything special to set it up.
>
> Chris
Hi. Could someone explain the basic steps needed to get an ide cd-rw (Toshiba
SD-R1002 CD/DVD combo) configured to use cdrecord? I'm using RH 7.0. cdrecord is
installed. I'm able to "insmod ide-scsi". How do you get the SCSI devices? I
could use some very specific information. The cd-rw is on the second ide channel
as a master unit (/dev/hdc or /dev/cdrom) with the original cdrom on the same
channel as a slave (/dev/hdd or /dev/cdrom1). There is an ide hard drive
(/dev/hda) on the first channel as a master. I've tried to use the info in the
HOWTO to modify modules.conf and lilo.conf. I can access the Toshiba combo
CD-RW and DVD as a plain cdrom drive, but "cdrecord -scanbus" does not see the
CD-RW as an emulated scsi drive.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Rick Bilonick
--
Rick Bilonick - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Tim Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
Subject: Re: serial ports not working
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 15:11:48 +1000
Yes, the permissions are correct. They are currently crw-rw---- but I
also tried it with crw-rw-rw- to no avail. By the way, I am using the
2.4.2 kernel and have tried the 2.2.16 kernel as well with the same
results. I have also tried two different serial port cables from the
m/board to make sure that it wasn't a faulty cable. Thanks for your
help,
Tim
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 4GB RAM Problem...
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:09:56 +0200
Sipke de Wal wrote:
>
> Does your MOBO support caching for up to 4GB ???
> If so is it enabled in the BIOS??
>
> Some OS-ses like to allocate RAM from the highest locations downwards so
> they might run into uncached ram very soon if the caching on your MOBO is
> not effective for the top of RAM. And that slows things down dramatically!
>
While this is true e.g. for socket 7, AFAIK with Pentium II and above,
the (L2) cacheable area is no more an issue of the main board, but
the CPU - and that is 4GB for PII Deschutes and later incl. all
variations (Celeron Mendocino/Coppermine, various Xeons) IIRC.
Thus I guess, this is not the problem here.
Juergen
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From: Juergen Pfann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DAT Drive: Hardware compression HOWTO
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 08:01:10 +0200
Dan Smith wrote:
>
> I have a Seagate Scorpion 8 DAT tape drive. I need to turn on
> hardware compression, but I can't figure out how. Can someone help me
> out? I've tried "mt -f /dev/st0 compression on" and "mt -f /dev/st0
> setdensity 0x24" but nothing seems to help. It is a DDS-2 drive (8GB)
> that is stuck on DDS-1 (2-GB) mode.
>
I don't know that particular Seagate model, but check its manual
for jumpers or DIP-switches controlling compression.
The way I see it is, if you disabled HW compression by jumper,
you cannot control it by the mt tool - but if enabled, then mt
should have control to turn it off on demand.
At least that's the way my Archive Python DDS-1 and the Sony DDS-3
drive work, as well as some HPs in the office.
BTW : with my version of mt, it's "... datcompression 0" to disable,
1 just to print the compression status, and any other number to
enable.
About the media : Normally, you don't need to set densities for
the different DDS media manually - this should be auto-sensed
by the "Media Recognition System" of the tape cartridges.
With an older distro - and hence old mt version - "mt setdensity"
also doesn't seem to work, but the Sony obviously adjusts that
automatically. I verified already that you can write 4 GB (native)
to DDS-2 and some 12 GB to DDS-3 media. Thus, it's only a "cosmetic"
display issue, at least fo me.
HTH
Juergen
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From: Nader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
Subject: Re: serial ports not working
Date: Sat, 12 May 2001 23:52:18 -0700
Take a look at http://sourceforge.net/projects/serial/ . They maintain
the latest serial driver there and list patches, bugs, etc.
Tim Grant wrote:
> Yes, the permissions are correct. They are currently crw-rw---- but I
> also tried it with crw-rw-rw- to no avail. By the way, I am using the
> 2.4.2 kernel and have tried the 2.2.16 kernel as well with the same
> results. I have also tried two different serial port cables from the
> m/board to make sure that it wasn't a faulty cable. Thanks for your
> help,
>
> Tim
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From: "Bluesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 17:32:04 +0900
I have a GeForce 2 AGP card and just found few days ago that
RH 7.0 / 7.1 appears to have some problem in installation.
RH 7.0 hangs after formating partition preparing for installation,
while RH 7.1 goes smoothly until the end but at the first boot up,
it also hangs. Since I have only one cd-rom, one hard disk, one
sound card, one network card, all those are OK in other motherboard,
the only one left is the video card.
I plan to see next week if that video card is the source of the problem or
not.
Will return with result when I have it.
Hope somebody will give a positive answer, though I personally think
the GeForce 2 should not have problem, because RH 7.1 recognizes it
anyway.
SN
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"Harvey Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I was wondering if anyone can help me out with the following problem I am
> having with my Geforce 2 card and AGP with Linux. I do not seem to be able
> to get any type of AGP working on my system. I do have a working
> installation with xwindows and opengl but according to the Nvidia
> instructions checking the card reveals that agp is disabled.
>
> My details are as follows:
> Redhat 7.1 - new install
> AMD 900mHz cpu
> 256meg Ram
> Asus A7V133a motherboard
> Asus Geforce2 32meg video card
>
>
> I have used the src rpm's from the nvidia site and have followed all their
> instructions. Everything seems to work but when I check the agp status
> using "cat /proc/nv/card0" I get the following;
>
> ----- Driver Info -----
> NVRM Version: 1.0-769
> ------ Card Info ------
> Model: GeForce2 MX
> IRQ: 11
> ------ AGP Info -------
> AGP status: Disabled
> AGP Driver:
> Bridge: Via Apollo Pro KT133
> SBA: Supported [disabled]
> FW: Unsupported [disabled]
> Rates: 4x 2x 1x [-]
> Registers: 0x1f000207:0x00000000
>
> Using the Nvidia instructions I have tried the "NvAGP" for the
> XFree86Config-4 file with the following results.
>
> "NvAGP" "0" disables AGP and a check of the XFree86 log file shows the
> following:
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP is disabled
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): - Pixmap Depths set up
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
>
> "NvAGP" "1" still allows xwindows to start but the same section reads as
> follows:
>
> (II) NVIDIA(0): AGP is enabled
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure to allocate DMA push buffer using AGP
> memory...attempting to use PCI memory
> (WW) NVIDIA(0): Failure to allocate DMA pushbuffer using AGP memory...
> attempting to use PCI memory
> (II) NVIDIA(0): NVIDIA driver enabled successfully
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Setting mode "1280x1024"
> (II) NVIDIA(0): - Pixmap Depths set up
> (II) NVIDIA(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA)
>
> "NvAGP" "2" using the agpgart does not allow xwindows to start
>
> The "cat /proc/nv/card0" always produces the same result.
>
>
> Any help or a point in some direction would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
> Thanks
> Harvey
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From: "Dominik Herrmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 10:39:37 +0200
I encounter severe difficulties in shutting down my HDD on SuSe 7.1 if it is
idle.
Usually the standby can be forced by hdparm -y /dev/hda (for 1st harddisk).
After entering this the disk goes to sleep as it is intended but wakes up
after about 10 seconds.
I observed that the linux box has HDD activity all the time in these short
intervals although there is absolutely nothing to do.
I utilized the advice given in the Battery-Powered-Linux MiniHowto
(http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Battery-Powered-4.html) and modified the
crontab, syslogd and updated.
I have shut down all the running services (apache, squid) - the HDD activity
continues.
Is there a way to monitor the process of a hard disk access? What else to
do?
Thanks in advance
Dominik
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From: "the Parry's" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: computers and troubleshooting
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:12:59 GMT
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From: "Sir Penguin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM question
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 01:29:12 -0700
As far as I know, you can't use PC133 and PC100 DIMMs in the same box
without inducing errors or unworkability or something (at least that's what
the guy who sells RAM told me). You could try it, though, just make sure
you back everything up :-).
SP
"John Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9d9vhp$g6c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have just bought a new motherboard and processor - Athlon 900. I bought
> 128 RAM to go into it too. I still have the old slower RAM - 128SIMM and
> 2x32DIMM from my old PII233 that will fit in the board - (alongside the
new
> 128DIMM).
>
> Can anyone tell me if putting in the old RAM will slow up the system, and
> hence the new RAM won't operate at its maximum speed - or - will the
system
> be faster by having lots more memory?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> John
>
> ps - I am running Suse6.3
>
>
>
>
>
>
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HDD does not enter standy mode - how to get a grip on it?
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 05:15:11 -0400
Dominik Herrmann wrote:
>
> I encounter severe difficulties in shutting down my HDD on SuSe 7.1 if it is
> idle.
> Usually the standby can be forced by hdparm -y /dev/hda (for 1st harddisk).
> After entering this the disk goes to sleep as it is intended but wakes up
> after about 10 seconds.
> I have shut down all the running services (apache, squid) - the HDD activity
> continues.
Check to see if you have a CD automounter running.. In KDE I believe
its' called autocd, not sure about gnome or others.. Those tend to
apparently poll the IDE bus every N seconds looking for an inserted CD,
keeping the hard drive active.
Also, I assume you have more than enough ram and you're not swapping?
Check 'free' to see if you're using much swap. Just a few K is normal.
--
Walter Francis
http://theblackmoor.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 7.0
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From: "Harvey Braun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat7.1+Nvidia+AGP Help
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 09:41:22 GMT
I would look forward to any info. I seem to be luckier that you in that
everything works fine except that I do not get the 4x AGP that I was
hoping to get when I did my upgrade.
Thanks
Harvey
In article <9dlgum$ab6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Bluesky"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a GeForce 2 AGP card and just found few days ago that RH 7.0 /
> 7.1 appears to have some problem in installation.
>
> RH 7.0 hangs after formating partition preparing for installation, while
> RH 7.1 goes smoothly until the end but at the first boot up, it also
> hangs. Since I have only one cd-rom, one hard disk, one sound card, one
> network card, all those are OK in other motherboard, the only one left
> is the video card.
>
> I plan to see next week if that video card is the source of the problem
> or not.
>
> Will return with result when I have it.
>
> Hope somebody will give a positive answer, though I personally think the
> GeForce 2 should not have problem, because RH 7.1 recognizes it anyway.
>
> SN
>
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Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.comm
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: serial ports not working
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 05:35:40 GMT
Tim Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>I just got an old EliteGroup p5vx-be board to use as a linux router but
>can't get the serial ports to work.
[...]
Did you replace an existing board? If so, did you use the serial
cables that _came_ with the new (EliteGroup) board as well?
If not, then that's most likely your problem. The serial cables
that connect the onboard ports with the external plug are
not standardized at all. You'll have to find a matching pair of cables
for your new board.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Bluesky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCTEL-modem Linux Driver!!!
Date: Sun, 13 May 2001 19:07:12 +0900
"PCTEL modem Linux Driver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I found "Linux Driver" of "Win PCI Modem" using Taiwanese "PCTEL
> chipset".
>
>
> Go http://www.hancom.com (in Korean) and Click "English".
>
> Find "pctel-1.0-1hancom.i386.rpm" (279KB)
>
> Good Luck!
>
bad luck me ? No search item for searching there.
Will look around.
Thank you anyway
SN
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