Linux-Hardware Digest #828, Volume #14 Sat, 26 May 01 17:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Back up in Linux (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Re: Udma 100 - RH 7.1 ? (Martin)
Re: IRQ change (John Thompson)
Re: Hardware Blues Too noisy and hot..Need a new setup (Harry Putnam)
vesa & inverse (Johannes Zellner)
how to set console colors (Johannes Zellner)
Re: Can't even recognize Promise Ultra100TX2 without kernel params, and can't enable
dma... HELP! (John Arrowwood)
Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card? (TN)
Re: IRQ change (Jerry Broszkowski)
Linux + X + Compaq 80XL-550? (Edgar Hilton)
TV OUT on Asus7100 ? (Niclas Knuts)
bttv brightness problem (Julien Perrot)
Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP! ("Darrell")
Searching: USB camera with microphone... (Matthias)
Re: Hardware Blues Too noisy and hot..Need a new setup (Markku Kolkka)
Re: Webcam hardware ("David T. Ashley")
Re: Lucent AMR modem still non suppoerted in linux??? (nobody)
Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP! (Lyrch)
Apple Cinema Display? ("Gregory Keith Day")
Seeking recommendation for CDRW (Ramin Sina)
HELP: copy floppy with 8k-sector using fdrawcmd (Markus)
Re: Seeking recommendation for CDRW (ellie)
ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux? ("J. P.
Montgomery")
Promise Ultra100TX2 uses 20268 chipset, not supported... :( (John Arrowwood)
Re: hard disk headache (Nils Holland)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eyal Lebedinsky)
Subject: Re: Back up in Linux
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:13:21 GMT
In article <9elu8v$mg1$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jerry Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used to backup the windows by Ghost software. In linux, can the =
> command "tar" be used like Ghost. I means to backup the whole Linux =
> system by tar it and restore it when necessary. I have windows98 and two =
> Linux system in my PC (Red Hat 7.0 and Mandrake 8.0), so I can tar one =
> of them when running the other.
>
> Is it possible? Please give me some advice.
Oh boy, you forgot to CC alt.kitchen.sink...
Back to your point.
Yes. I have done it often and never had any problems. You need to
understand what you back up though, for example you may want to
back up each fs separately (in case that you have multiple partitions).
'tar -l' will take care of that.
Naturally, you want the system to be at rest at the time (as I said
this is not mandatory). The best archive you get if you got into single
user mode.
If you find the archive too large then you may want to exclude some
unneeded directories.
--
Eyal Lebedinsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://samba.anu.edu.au/eyal/>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin)
Subject: Re: Udma 100 - RH 7.1 ?
Date: 26 May 2001 06:01:16 -0700
I got exactly the same behavior with redhat 7.0 and the
2.2.16-22 kernel from redhat.
After some work with lilo, the hard disks are working, but
there is no way to enable DMA for the drives.
The drives on the onboard IDE cannels are using dma without trouble.
So I'm really nosy what you will find out from the promise guys.
Martin
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ change
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 07:03:33 -0500
alik blochin wrote:
> my ethernet and sound card (on board VIA AC'97)
> are sharing one irq 11
> how do i change it?
> do i have to mess with bios setup
> or do it manually in linux ?
Depends on the cards themselves. If they're PCI cards they
should be able to share the IRQ without problems. If they're ISA
cards you may need to jumper them to separate IRQ's or run the
manufacturer's utility program to make the changes. These are
usually DOS/Windows programs, so you may need to be able to boot
DOS or Windows to effect the change. Record the new settings and
configure linux to use them.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Blues Too noisy and hot..Need a new setup
Date: 26 May 2001 06:18:02 -0700
Stephe Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The heat is less on the newer small die chips. I'm using a P3 800 and the
> whole box runs about 20 deg cooler than my P2 350 did and is MUCH faster.
> Asus makes a nice mother board and any of the later32 meg nvidia boards
> should do what you need. Antech makes a nice case that has a pull out board.
Thanks for the tips... I wasn't able to track down Antech. There are
dozens of companies with that name, a few are computer related but I
didn't find one that had a product line including cases.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Zellner)
Subject: vesa & inverse
Date: 26 May 2001 14:29:25 GMT
Hi,
did anyone manage to get video=vesa:inverse working ?
(I've a Rage LT Pro graphic chip here)
Any help much appreciated.
--
Johannes
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johannes Zellner)
Subject: how to set console colors
Date: 26 May 2001 14:39:12 GMT
Hi,
how can I set the palette for the console colors.
Either for the normal console or vesa (791 / 792 modes)
--
Johannes
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From: John Arrowwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't even recognize Promise Ultra100TX2 without kernel params, and can't
enable dma... HELP!
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 14:49:08 GMT
roel wrote:
> What kernel are you using, my gues is a 2.2 just take a 2.4 kernel
> compile it with promise pdc 20265/20267 support and youre drive is up.
RedHat 7.1 comes with 2.4.2. When that didn't work, I downloaded 2.4.5.
And of course I made sure to include support for Promise cards. If
what you say is true, that the kernel should just recognize it, then my
guess is that the TX2 comes with a brand-new chipset that isn't
recognized by the kernel. ARGH!
Any ideas how to know for sure?
-- John
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From: TN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best 100Mbs PCI Ethernet card?
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.networking.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 11:16:28 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 24 May 2001 20:17:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Grant Edwards) wrote:
>
>>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alex Taylor wrote:
>>
>>>If you can find it, a card with the "tulip" chipset (the DEC 2114x
>>>series) is pretty much tops in terms of quality. But Compaq stopped
>>>licensing the chips out to most other companies after they bought
>>>Digital, so they might be hard to find.
>>
>>Last time I bought one (a few weeks ago) Linksys is still
>>shipping a tulip-based 10/100 board (EtherFast 100TX or some
>>such).
>
> The current version of the Linksys LNE100TX does not use a real Tulip
> chip, but instead is built around a clone/copy of the Tulip. It appears
> to be a good, reasonably priced card.
>
> NDC (Sohoware) is another company that manufactures cards based upon
> Tulip-chipset clones...
>
> Scott
>
So which module is best with this clone tulip chip?
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From: Jerry Broszkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IRQ change
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:30:21 GMT
alik blochin wrote:
>
> hi folks
> my ethernet and sound card (on board VIA AC'97)
> are sharing one irq 11
> how do i change it?
> do i have to mess with bios setup
> or do it manually in linux ?
On my ABit BP6, I can change IRQ's in the BIOS.
Take a look in your MB manual.
--
Take Care,
..jb
// Jerry Broszkowski // (403)245-5131 // [EMAIL PROTECTED] //
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From: Edgar Hilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Linux + X + Compaq 80XL-550?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 15:39:31 GMT
Anybody have any experience with Linux, X, and the Compaq 80XL-550
laptop?
-Edgar
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From: Niclas Knuts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV OUT on Asus7100 ?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:10:02 GMT
Is it possible to use the TV-OUT option on an Asus7100 AGP card with
Redhat 7.0 ?
/Nicce
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From: Julien Perrot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bttv brightness problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 16:55:11 GMT
Hello,
I have a small problem with a Miro PC-TV (bt848) : everythings seem to work
fine until the brightness of the image increases strongly and then the
image starts flipping horizontally. It happens only on certain channels.
Does someone know how to solve this problem ?
Thanks in advance.
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From: "Darrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP!
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:03:30 GMT
I ran into a similar problem with RH7.1. I was changing the XF86Config
file, but RH7.1 uses XFreee86 4.0.3 so I should have been modifying the
XF86Config-4 config file. Once I started modifying the correct config file,
all went fine.
Darrell
"Lyrch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 that I'd like to put redhat linux 7.1
> on. Well, actuall it's already on. One problem. Video in Xwindows.
> I only get the right 1/3 of the screen to display, the rest is black.
>
> I have messed with the XF86Config file to many times to list with
> suggestions off the web with no avail. I tried redhat tech support.
> He didn't have a clue. And, no Xconfigurator settings seem to do any
> good. Either the 1/3 screen or an error.
>
> To my knowledge the video card is a Trident Cyberblade AGP i1
>
> Any help is very greatly appreciated.
>
> Chris
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From: Matthias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Searching: USB camera with microphone...
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:29:14 GMT
Is there any USB camera with sound/microphone, that is supported by
Linux?
Or is there a supported USB microphone?
I need to get speech in, but the sound card is already busy, so I'd need
to use the sound that is recorded by any USB camera (and the pictureof
course...)
Thanks
Matt
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From: Markku Kolkka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware Blues Too noisy and hot..Need a new setup
Date: 26 May 2001 20:24:25 +0300
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thanks for the tips... I wasn't able to track down Antech.
It's Antec, not Antech. http://www.antec-inc.com/
--
Markku Kolkka
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "David T. Ashley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Webcam hardware
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 13:21:25 -0400
Hi Pete,
You can actually implement a good solution for about $50.
The hardware you can use with Linux is dependent on the drivers available,
which is dependent on the chipsets in the cameras. The two most common
chipsets seem to be the OV511 and the CPiA. If you search the web, you can
find the drivers.
I purchased a Creative Labs Webcam Plus (which is really a webcam III I
think) and used the OV511 driver from the Internet to achieve a solution for
$50 (the cost of the Webcam). I used version 1.39 of the OV511 driver (1.40
doesn't work for me). I also found the application "videodog" on the web,
which works well for me.
I have a script running constantly that looks something like this (I can't
remember the details):
sleep 60 #machine startup delay
x = 10
while [x < 10] #loop forever
videodog ... >tempfile.bin
sleep 2
cjpeg ... <tempfile.bin >camera_image.jpg
cp camera_image.jpg ... (to the web path)
sleep 2
endwhile
So, my image is updated about every 5 seconds. Surprisingly, collisions
with the Apache server are very rare. I think the "cp" above dumps it to a
disk buffer so it is virtually instant and the probability of the file being
changed while the server is serving it is low.
I have a javascript on the web page that reloads the image every 5 seconds.
So, the viewer's browser does this.
The OV511 driver is not perfect. The color goes in and out a bit in some
kinds of light, and there was one kernel panic (but only one). Since I just
got the webcam set up last week, I haven't had the chance to see if it has
any effect on long-term stability. However, the driver is open-source, so
if there is something wrong and you have the technical skill to correct.
Please write if I can be of assistance in any way.
Here is my e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best regards, Dave.
"Pete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Has anyone done a direct camera hookup to a linux webserver? I now
> have my own webserver sitting in my basement (love DSL), and I want to
> put a webcam on it and do a pic update every 5 seconds or so. What I'm
> looking for is if anyone has done this, and what hardware/software is
> the best. Looking quality here as I can hook the stuipd thing up with
> USB, parrellel or whatever. TIA for any help you can give me.
>
> replace nospam with pete to email me.
>
> Pete Buelow
>
>
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From: nobody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lucent AMR modem still non suppoerted in linux???
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:06:37 GMT
R-R-B wrote:
>
> Got a cheap Acer trav. 201T with this !@#$!%@ lucent/agere AMR winmodem
> but still no support for kernel 2.4.0
>
> Please point me to some url or info.
> thanx a lot.
Have you already checked the info at http://www.linmodems.org ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lyrch)
Subject: Re: RH 7.1 on laptop? HELP!
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 18:13:55 GMT
Reply-To: Where you found it
On Sat, 26 May 2001 17:03:30 GMT, "Darrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks, I'll give that a try. I'll let you know what happens.
Chris
>I ran into a similar problem with RH7.1. I was changing the XF86Config
>file, but RH7.1 uses XFreee86 4.0.3 so I should have been modifying the
>XF86Config-4 config file. Once I started modifying the correct config file,
>all went fine.
>
>Darrell
>
>
>"Lyrch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I have a Compaq Presario 12XL310 that I'd like to put redhat linux 7.1
>> on. Well, actuall it's already on. One problem. Video in Xwindows.
>> I only get the right 1/3 of the screen to display, the rest is black.
>>
>> I have messed with the XF86Config file to many times to list with
>> suggestions off the web with no avail. I tried redhat tech support.
>> He didn't have a clue. And, no Xconfigurator settings seem to do any
>> good. Either the 1/3 screen or an error.
>>
>> To my knowledge the video card is a Trident Cyberblade AGP i1
>>
>> Any help is very greatly appreciated.
>>
>> Chris
>
>
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From: "Gregory Keith Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Apple Cinema Display?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 12:59:37 +0000
I would like to know is there is an adaptor for the Apple Cinema Display
LCD with the DVI connector to go on a PC VGA port (15 pin D shell).
Or, is there a card for a PC that has a DVI connector, and are Linux
drivers avaliable for it?
please reply to me personally, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanks!
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From: Ramin Sina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Seeking recommendation for CDRW
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 19:31:09 GMT
Any suggestions on what IDE or SCSI CDRW to get that works out-of-the-box
with RH 7.1?
Thanks,
Ramin Sina
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus)
Subject: HELP: copy floppy with 8k-sector using fdrawcmd
Date: 26 May 2001 12:49:14 -0700
Hi,
Now I've reached a point, where I need help... :-(
I'm trying to copy a floppy-disk, with a standard DOS-format
(80 cyls, 18 sectors/cyl.) and one "non-standard"-track:
head 0, cyl.22 contains sectors 1 to 12 and 18. Moreover,
sector 18 seems to have 8k.
First, I duplicated the floppy using a MS***-tool ignoring the
error-message concerning cylinder 22.
I switched to linux and formatted track 22 using
$ fdrawcmd format 0 2 18 0x1b 0xf6 track=22 < input1
# "input1" is a binary file containing:
===========
16 00 01 02
16 00 02 02
16 00 03 02
...
16 00 0C 02
16 00 12 06 <-- the modification
16 00 10 02
16 00 11 02
16 00 0D 02
16 00 0E 02
16 00 0F 02
===========
and fdutils is version 5.3
and wrote the first sectors using
$ fdrawcmd write 0 22 0 1 2 0 0x1b 0xff length=6144 need_seek track=22 < input2
# "input2" was just of dump from the original disk.
At this point I check the copied disk with
$fdrawcmd readid 0 track=22 need_seek repeat=20
and got sectors 1 to 12 followed by 18,13,14,15,16,17 -- fine!
Now the trouble starts: after writing the remaining sector with
$ fdrawcmd write 0 22 0 18 6 0 0x1b 0xff length=512 track=22 no-mt < input3
# you guess: "input3" is the corresponding dump....
and checking the available sectors again, I found only
sectors 6,7,8,9,10,11,12 and 18 --- what happened to #1 to 5??????
And how can I prevent this effect????
Any hint, either to this board or via mail appreciated.
Thanx
Markus
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From: ellie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seeking recommendation for CDRW
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:36:24 GMT
Ramin Sina wrote:
> Any suggestions on what IDE or SCSI CDRW to get that works out-of-the-box
> with RH 7.1?
>
> Thanks,
> Ramin Sina
Personally I like the Yamaha 2100 16x burner. but most anything should work.
I got mine as a refurb for $130.
If you use an IDE CD-RW there are some parameters you have to set in
your modules.conf and lilo.conf files.
The process is described quite well in the xcdroast README.atapi file.
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From: "J. P. Montgomery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ps/1 and 286 ... any possibilities for a minimal version of linux?
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 17:00:49 -0500
Is there any version of linux that will run on an old IBM PS/1 (286) ... I
believe this was a10MHz machine with ?? memory (minimal I'm sure). This
machine has fond memories ... my (then girlfriend) wife was surprised when I
proceeded to escape from the shell that IBM supplied and get to a command
line!
I'm thinking that linux only starts with 386 architectures, so I expect this
to be null answer ... but worth a try!
Any good uses ... or just donate it to charity?
Thanks
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From: John Arrowwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Ultra100TX2 uses 20268 chipset, not supported... :(
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 20:58:38 GMT
I went out and bought an Ultra66, plugged it in, and it worked! Both
the original RedHat kernel and my custom compiled one recognized it
without a problem, AND enabled DMA...
So, should I try and patch the kernel, or just take the card back? :)
-- John
John Arrowwood wrote:
>
>
> roel wrote:
>
>> What kernel are you using, my gues is a 2.2 just take a 2.4 kernel
>> compile it with promise pdc 20265/20267 support and youre drive is up.
>
>
> RedHat 7.1 comes with 2.4.2. When that didn't work, I downloaded 2.4.5.
> And of course I made sure to include support for Promise cards. If
> what you say is true, that the kernel should just recognize it, then my
> guess is that the TX2 comes with a brand-new chipset that isn't
> recognized by the kernel. ARGH!
>
> Any ideas how to know for sure?
>
> -- John
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From: Nils Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk headache
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:29:08 +0200
Paul wrote:
> So, can my hard disk be saved? How long will it continue to work?
Well, the question is this: Did you make any hardware modifications to your
system after which the problems started? Yes, I have seen numerous cases
when hard disk showed some signs of failling soon (like strange sounds
coming from the HD) that were caused by a system misconfiguration and could
be fixed by setting the system up correctly.
However, if you didn't change anything which could have triggered the
problem, then your hard disk is in fact about to die. I cannot tell you how
long it will continue to work (I think nobody can tell you that), but you
should probably back up your important data as soon as possible, if you
have not already done so. Then you should probably get a new HD as soon as
possible. If you are curious how long your current disk will continue to
make it, you can of course continue to use it until it does no longer work
at all, but make sure you always have the latest version of your important
data backed up somewhere.
Also, you may want to check out if your failing HD is still under warranty.
Western Digital always gives you a five year warranty, I don't know what
Quantum does, though.
By the way: Did you notice the strangeness in your HD's identification
string? You said that it says "UQNAUT MIFERABLLS". If you always replace
two following characters with each other (U with Q, N with A...), then you
get the correct one: "Quantum Fireball" (the S after the L seems to belong
to the model number that follows). I find this somewhat strange - does your
computer show the same strange ID string during POST, or does it really say
"Quantum Fireball" there? Since you said your drive worked correctly
before, I don't think that this is related to your problem. I still find it
a little strange, though.
Greetings
Nils
--
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Nils Holland - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NightCastle Productions - Linux in Tiddische, Germany
http://www.nightcastleproductions.org
"They asked me where this earthquake would begin,
I offered to let them feel my pulse."
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