Linux-Hardware Digest #894, Volume #14 Tue, 12 Jun 01 14:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: UGH!!! (Michael Meissner)
Re: USB Printer changed device number on each power cycle (Georg Acher)
Linux ppc/68k WITHOUT any trace of MacOS??? (The [American] Flying Dutchman)
HELP!! Problem with LILO ("MEX")
Re: Budget Linux compat. Laser printer recommendations ? (Bill Grzanich)
Lexmark Z52, USB, possible? (Professor J Frink)
Re: 3c509 card ("Tauno Voipio")
Re: Won't read music CD, will read data cd? (Uwe Malzahn)
Re: Capacity of Dell Server running as a web server? ("Matt King")
Re: Duron + kernel compiling (Chris Lindley)
new SCSI disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address? ("Paul Sutton")
Vidcap C210 : is there any driver for Linux? ("Davide Chiarello")
An Abit KT7A and hardware monitoring in linux (Mark Hillary)
What's this SMP CPU error? (Anthony Ewell)
Re: VIA686b bug and Linux (Torsten Clay)
Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards (Stuart Cianos)
Re: Can anyone help me on a best notebook choice (Henry_Barta)
Re: Can anyone help me on a best notebook choice ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Subject: Re: UGH!!!
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 12 Jun 2001 10:56:44 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mr_e_dude) writes:
> I have Linux!!! Linux RULEZ!!!
> Linux Redhat 6.1 to be exact.
> I have the Diamond Viper II AGP Video Card. Savage 2000 Chipset.
>
> I can not find any drivers for X-Windows for my Diamond Viper II.
>
> This has forced me to do EVERYTHING from the command prompt.
>
> Now I have already figured out that doing EVERYTHING from the command
> prompt is the way to go and that the X-Windows interface is really
> just for newbies who don't know how to do anything in Linux. You don't
> transfer from Windows to Linux to have a GUI interface. If you did,
> you've missed the point.
>
> Yes I know all that and totally agree with it. But it still would be
> nice to have an X-Windows interface that does more then 640x480 cause
> that's all I can do. For one thing, 640x480 make it hard to view all
> my online html documentaion for Linux. That not I haven't discover VI
> and LESS. And I like VI better then EMACS. And LESS RULEZ!!! MORE
> SUCKS!!!
To each their own. I tend to prefer emacs myself, but I will help you anyway
:-)
> So if anyone knows how to get a Diamond Viper II Savage 2000 Chipset
> to work with X-Windows, I would really like to know.
(Std. disclaimer -- I work on GCC, and not Linux, so everything I say about
Linux is IMHO).
I suspect that Red Hat 6.1 is simply too old of a release to support your video
card. The XFree86 web site says that 3.3.6, 4.03, and 4.10 all support the
Savage 2000 chipset, using the SVGA driver under 3.3.6 and the savage driver
under 4.03/4.10. So at a bare minimum, upgrade your system to Red Hat 6.2,
which includes XFree86 version 3.3.6. If you are upgrading, it might make
sense to go to the current revision (7.1). Don't forget to download and apply
the security updates that were made after the releases were shipped,
particularly 6.2.
If you still would prefer console mode, you can make the text use more rows and
columns by using the framebuffer mode (assuming the video card is VESA 2.0
compliant). You should be able to find the directions in the Framebuffer-HOWTO
in a recent version of the HOWTOs. On the Tecra 8000 laptop I'm posting from
for instance, framebuffer mode gives 48 lines and 128 columns for a 1024x768
display. One downside of framebuffer mode is that scrolling tends to be
slower.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Acher)
Crossposted-To: comp.protocols.smb
Subject: Re: USB Printer changed device number on each power cycle
Date: 12 Jun 2001 15:07:00 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Turner) writes:
|> I'm trying to use an HP Deskjet 842C as a shared printer via SAMBA under
|> Redhat with the 2.4 kernel. The problem is, every time I need to power
|> cycle the printer (to clear a junk file that's printing, for example), the
|> USB drivers assign a it a new device number (see attached log excerpt.)
|> This means that anyone using SAMBA to print to it can't do so any more.
|> What's the fix for this if any?
|>
|> hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 7
|> printer.c: usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 7 if 0 alt 1
|> keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
|> keyboard: Timeout - AT keyboard not present?
|> uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 95 port2: 49a data: 4
|> usb.c: USB disconnect on device 7
|> uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 95 port2: 488 data: 4
|> uhci.c: root-hub INT complete: port1: 95 port2: 493 data: 4
|> hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 8
|> printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 8 if 0 alt 1
The USB device number is a random number, there's no guarantee that it stays the
same. It is only important for the USB drivers, but not for anything above that.
But the device (/dev/usblp0) is always the same if this is your only printer. I
can't see why SAMBA should need anything else.
--
Georg Acher, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.in.tum.de/~acher/
"Oh no, not again !" The bowl of petunias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The [American] Flying Dutchman)
Subject: Linux ppc/68k WITHOUT any trace of MacOS???
Date: 12 Jun 2001 11:11:09 -0400
OK, I admit that I haven't actually tried each and every Linux
distribution for the 68k and ppc processors, but from whatt I've
read/seen/attempted, *some* part of a MacOS installation is still
required. I'm not interested in dual-booting between MacOS and
Linux, I just want Linux! :) To spare me the agony of trying
each and every distribution (installing then deleting the MacOS
debris), are there any distributions that more closely follow the
x86 installation process, as in with boot diskettes?
I've got several older Macs lying around, from an LCII (68030)
to a 7300/200 (604). I've not tried MacOS/X yet (it won't run
on these platforms anyway ... THANKS AQUA!), but it should
be clear that MacOS9 is at least as crufty as the MS garbage.
aTdHvAaNnKcSe
p8r
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From: "MEX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP!! Problem with LILO
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:21:36 +0200
Hi all. I'm writing because I've a big problem with Lilo when I trying to
boot W98.
My configuration is:
Athlon 1200
Abit KT7A-Raid
Quantum FireballP LCT20 (on the 1� master hpt370 ch.) hde
Ibm 13.5 ata66 (on the 2� master hpt370 ch.) hdg
Raid hardware is NOT active.
I've installed Linux on the 2� master disk (hdg) with a boot partition
(/boot) and W98 is installed on the 1� master disk (hde). I've installed
Lilo on the mbr (w98 disk) with this configuration:
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
vga=normal
default=linux
keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt
lba32
prompt
timeout=50
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
message=/boot/message-graphic
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk
label=linux
root=/dev/md0
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.3-20mdk
label=failsafe
root=/dev/md0
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append=" failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label=windows
table=/dev/hde
map-drive=0x80
to=0x81
map-drive=0x81
to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
label=floppy
unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5
label=linux-2.4.5
root=/dev/md0
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.3-20mdk.img
read-only
With this conf. Linux starts without problem while when I try to load W98 I
can see 'Loading Windows...' but nothing happens.
Could someone hep meplease? I don't know what I have to do.
Thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Grzanich)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Budget Linux compat. Laser printer recommendations ?
Date: 12 Jun 2001 15:33:40 GMT
Hi, Sean.
Sean Akers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>I'm on a very tight budget so can any of
>you wonderful fellows recommend a cheap Linux compatible
>laser printer.
<snip>
>able to print full page graphics and be compatible
>with Linux and Windows.
>
I've been very happy with an Okidata Okipage 10e. I've had it
for a year now, attached to a Red Hat 6.0 machine that serves as
a file a print server for my little home network. Linux treats
it as an HP LJ 4/5/6. Cost was around $300 from buy.com.
I think the current model is the 14e, though, which prints a bit
faster, but the price is about the same. The Oki came standard
with 4 MB of ram, upgradable to 36 MB. The other popular
choice, though I don't know why, is the Brother HL-1240, which
has only 2 MB of ram and is not expandable. Probably a cost
issue, as I think the Brother is a bit cheaper than the Oki. We
have one of these at work, and it seems okay, but I think we
occasionally over run the 2 MB memory with graphic-intensive
pages.
Nevertheless, both offer an honest-to-god paper tray instead of
a top feed slot, which seems to be more reliable.
Hope this helps.
-Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Professor J Frink)
Subject: Lexmark Z52, USB, possible?
Date: 12 Jun 2001 15:54:50 GMT
Hi,
After finally putting a mad old Epson 1520 to sleep we're getting a new
bubblejet. The Lexmark Z52 looked good on paper (pun ;0) and it also had
dedicated linux drivers for it.
Unfortunately they are (or at least last time I looked) for parallel only
and I'd really like this to be using USB. Parallel would suffice but I
really don't trust our 2nd parallel port.
Has anyone managed to get this printer working through USB without too much
jiggery pokery?
Anything generic would be great, SuSE specific would be better.
Cheers,
Frink
--
'Professor' J Frink
Ringtail to the Stars & Professional Mossbauer Guru
shrike at cmp dot liv dot ack dot ook
"Oi! Deeeemon!!" - Monkey!
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From: "Tauno Voipio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509 card
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:17:26 GMT
"sarakin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > On 11 Jun 2001, sarakin wrote:
> >
> > > i got a bit curious when looking at my 3COM Etherlink III (3c509)
> > > card. (don't really have any networking card experience)
> > > under the text BOOT ROM on my 3c509 card, there's only an
> > > empty place that i think you can put a small (ROM?) chip
> > > on. do i have to put something there for the card to work?
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Nope, card will work even without anything in the BOOT ROM slot.
> > This slot is used to insert a chip with the code, used for the
> > over-the-network booting of diskless clients.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jurij
>
> will the card work with an ADSL modem plugged into it?
> (using the ADSL service from the swedish telephone operator/ISP Telia)
Very probably, yes.
I'm running several ADSL router/gateway/firewall Linux installations with
those cards.
Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio @ iki fi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Malzahn)
Subject: Re: Won't read music CD, will read data cd?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 20:52:06 +0200
In article <9fvr74$7ck$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin Krammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having a problem in Linux, happens with Mandrake or Red Hat, the
>> cdrom icon on the desktop allows me to mount normal data cdroms but
>> won't mount or read normal music CDs.
>> Has anyone else had this problem and can they please help me.
>
> you can only mount filesystems and an audio CD doesn't have a file
> system.
>
To be honest, you can sort of mount audio CDs (with cdfs and it's
successors). But to just play an audio CD all it takes is a CD player.
Cheers,
Uwe
--
Linux *is* user-friendly.
It's just a little picky about it's friends.
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From: "Matt King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Capacity of Dell Server running as a web server?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:55:08 -0700
"tale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
>
> I was wondering if someone could que me in on what kind of capacity I
> might possibly get from a Dell 2500 series server running Red Hat 7.0
> (or 7.1) as a web server that accesses mysql on the same machine. I'm
> just looking for a rough estimate based on experience. The machine
> will be dedicated to this task. I'm assuming that the network isn't a
> bottle neck to the machine, but if you could tell me what kind of
> connection you think would be necessary to max out this machine, I
> would appreciate that information too.
>
> The specs on the machine are:
> 2 - 933Mhz Pentium III processors
> 1 GB of RAM - PC 133 ECC
> 3 - 18 GB 10,000RPM SCSI drives using RAID 5
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -- tale
You have plenty of room to move with that kind of hardware.
I have a server running PIII 550 with 256MB SDRam, 30GB Hard drive. Runs 27
web sites, a few of those use the MySQL database that runs on the same
machine. Has been up for 105 days without a glitch.
-- Matt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Lindley)
Subject: Re: Duron + kernel compiling
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 16:53:02 GMT
On Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:48:07 +0200, Albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> If I select this kind of procesor then there is no way (on my computer
> Duron 750 + RH7.1) to run system correctly. But if I choose i586/685
> everything works fine. What is wrong with it?? Should I choose something
> more to run a new kernel on Duron??
Hi,
using Debian woody and kernel 2.4.5 on a Duron 750 @950 on an Abit kt7a
I get exactly the same.
Selecting Athlon/duron on compiling the kernel gives me a kernel panic
on booting this kernel, but selecting K6-ii/iii gives me a perfectly
stable kernel!!
Cheers
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: new SCSI disk
Date: 12 Jun 2001 16:08:58 GMT
Hello,
I have a problem with a DELL precision 420 running a 6.0 R.H. :
When I add a new disk on my SCSI channel (simply plugging it...), the BIOS
acknowledges it, but it seems like Linux has something against it : I get a message
like
"SCSI bus is being reseted for host channel 0"
"SCSI host 0 channel0 reset (pid 15) timed out - trying harder".
I don't think the new hard drive is to be suspected, since I tried with two different
ones and the bios shows it...
Is there something I missed in my configuration?
Thanks in advance.
F.B.
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From: "Paul Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Maximum RAM my processor can address?
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 22:11:22 +0100
Reply-To: "Paul Sutton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
If you are using win95 then I think this has a maximum limit of 64 mb that
it can see,
you should also try going into bios to see if the bios sees all of it, then
save.
Just a thought
HTH
Paul Sutton
"Rajesh Radhakrishnan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a 586 processor and motherboard. I previously had 32MB and
> recently added another 64MB RAM but my machine only sees 64MB. I'm
> pretty sure the memory cards are inserted properly.
>
> Could it be my processor can only address 64MB?
>
> Thanks
> Rajesh
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From: "Davide Chiarello" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Vidcap C210 : is there any driver for Linux?
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 17:21:50 GMT
I'm looking for a driver for my Vidcap C210 board made by Tekram:
it is a simple PCI uncompressed frame grabber.
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From: Mark Hillary <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: An Abit KT7A and hardware monitoring in linux
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 18:34:16 -0400
Hi,
I have just got a new abit motherboard. I have set up hardware mointoring
using Lm_sensors pacakge. But all of the voltage readings are way off what
they say in the bois. Does anyone know how I can set them correctly. Temp
and fans seem allright.
--
Mark Hillary
--
Knode Rules!!
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Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 10:32:52 -0700
From: Anthony Ewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: What's this SMP CPU error?
Hi All,
I have Red Hat 7.1 smp kernel running on
a MSI MS-6120 BX chipset motherboard with
dual PIII-600's. The following error
keeps showing up in my /var/log/messages:
Jun 11 14:43:53 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
Jun 11 14:43:54 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(04)
Jun 11 14:43:54 server kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(02)
Jun 11 14:43:54 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 04(02)
Jun 11 14:43:57 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 02(04)
Jun 11 14:43:59 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 04(08)
Jun 11 14:43:59 server kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 02(04)
Jun 11 14:46:09 server kernel: APIC error on CPU1: 04(02)
Jun 11 14:46:58 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
Jun 11 14:47:39 server kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 08(08)
Jun 11 14:48:27 server last message repeated 5 times
Does anyone know what this error is and how to stop it?
Many thanks,
--Tony
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
p.s. if replying, please send to both the newsgroup
and my eMail address (nntp problems) ---Thanks
--
=========================
I Fish. Therefore, I am.
=========================
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From: Torsten Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA686b bug and Linux
Date: 12 Jun 2001 10:08:30 -0700
> Hi everybody,
> I'm building a new pc based on an Abit KT7A motherboard, but I'm
> worrying about its bug of corrupting files when copying them between
> different disks.
> Has anybody experienced some of these troubles under Linux or this bug
> only relates to windoze's world?
> Thanks in advance for answering me.
I've been using a KT7-RAID for a few months now, and haven't seen a
single problem. I also have a SB Live sound card in the system. I have
mostly been running 2.4.x kernels and occasionally Win 98. Yes, W98
does crash/hang fairly often (normal?) , but linux has seemed pretty
stable.
Torsten
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stuart Cianos)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux IDE RAID Cards
Date: 12 Jun 2001 17:51:42 GMT
Dear Sir:
I use the Escalade cards in several _heavily_ loaded servers with great
success. I would strongly reccomend these cards to anyone - and their
support is very good. I haven't tried their new 7000 series yet, but am
looking forward to it.
- Stu
mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>"Aaron R. Kulkis" wrote:
>>
>> Chris Lopeman wrote:
>> >
>> > Can anyone recommend a good raid IDE controller for Linux.
>> > Preferably ATA 100. We have tried using the Promise controller with
>> > limited success. We probably want to run 2 controllers in the
>> > server (for more speed) with a total of 6 drives. 4 of the drives
>> > running raid 1+0 and the other 2 forming a separate mirror. The 2
>> > in the mirror we also want
>> >
>> > to boot off of.
>> >
>> > If you can't recommend a good one maybe you can let us know your
>> > experience with the AMI or Escalade cards. We are considering going
>> > to one of these.
>>
>> http://www.research.att.com/~gjm/linux/ide-raid.html
>>
>
>The link you posted was for software raid. There are a lot of pros and
>cons for hardware vs software for RAID, but in the case of IDE, a
>hardware raid solution makes more sense than a software one.
>
>
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From: Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me on a best notebook choice
Date: 12 Jun 2001 17:52:37 GMT
In comp.os.linux.portable Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The ThinkPad 600X is also a good machine--has a very good keyboard, and a
> TrackPoint. Plus, IBM supports Linux in a way that Compaq has yet to
> do.
Does anyone other manufacturer support Linux on laptops?
--
Hank Barta White Oak Software Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Predictable Systems by Design.(tm)
Beautiful Sunny Winfield, Illinois
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Can anyone help me on a best notebook choice
Date: 12 Jun 2001 11:08:51 -0700
Henry_Barta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.portable Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The ThinkPad 600X is also a good machine--has a very good keyboard, and a
> > TrackPoint. Plus, IBM supports Linux in a way that Compaq has yet to
> > do.
>
> Does anyone other manufacturer support Linux on laptops?
Dell does, at least to some extent.
--
Eric Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://labejb.lks.agilent.com/
(425) 335-2495
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