Linux-Hardware Digest #229
Linux-Hardware Digest #229, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 09:14:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please help (Peter T. Breuer)
Linux and Zip 250MB or Imation SuperDisks? ("Glasgow")
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? (Nicholas Leippe)
Hard drive partitions ("Keith")
PCMCIA Sound Card (Pat Finnegan)
Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890-- SOLVED ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCMCIA DVD portable drive? (Patrick Stickler)
zip drive busy (Don)
Re: DMA support ("David St.Clair")
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems (Brady Montz)
Re: Recommendation for Color Printer? (David Mitchell)
Logitech cordless mouse (Gaetano Lampugnani)
Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world (DeAnn Iwan)
Re: Emachines?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem Mounting ATAPI CD-ROM (Mike Frisch)
Re: Agfa Scanner and AVA1505 Controller (f1ayr)
Re: Imation Superdisk (Brian)
Re: Creative Labs Riva TNT2 (Anthony White)
Re: Req.: Experience with SyJet Drive (SyQuest) (Grant Guenther)
Re: Logitech cordless mouse (Hans =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?=)
Re: making linux go away (Anthony White)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: Please help
Date: 11 Sep 1999 04:45:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Tu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi, this is Michael. I installed OpenLinux 2.2 on a Gateway 2000. The
: system runs OK but I have been trying to setup the modem for last one week
: without any luck. I am using a BTC HSP 56000bps PCI modem. I set up the
Bzzzt. Not a modem. It's a winmodem. *HSP*.
: so frustrated here.
Why?
: Best regards,
: Michael Tu
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Peter
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From: "Glasgow" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardawe,comp.os.linux.questions,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Linux and Zip 250MB or Imation SuperDisks?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 06:27:08 GMT
Hello,
Will Linux successfully recognise and use either of the following?
1) IOMega ZIP 250MB
2) Imation SuperDisk LS-120
I ask because I am going to buy a backup drive at the weekend and need to be
able to buy the right one. I realize that Linux is able to use the Zip100
version of the drive, but I wondered about the 250 version. If not that,
then I hoped it would be able to use the Imation SuperDisk which gives me
20MB more than the Zip100.
My distribution of Linux is SuSE 6.2, latest one.
Thanks.
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From: Nicholas Leippe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.publish.cdrom.hardware
Subject: Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 05:13:51 +
Ron wrote:
Well,
I've had it working, but from the moment i got termination right, I get
errors from cdrecord (which is the best, I'm told) like "drive not
supported"
which is not true, since it is on the supported drive list. Sent an email to
cdrecord's developer hoping he can help me out.
Soon as I've figured it all out, I'll do a posting...
In the mean-time, if anybody else got tips, I'm eager...
Ron
Michael Coburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi,
I'm considering purchasing a Yamaha CRW6416 for use in a Linux box. Has
anybody had any experience with this drive under Linux? Does it work at
all? Any known issues?
Cheers,
mc.
PS. Please email as well as post answers.
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Michael Coburn Applications Specialist
Agent Oriented Software Pty. Ltd.
Advancing the State-of-the-Art in Intelligent Agent Systems
http://www.agent-software.com +613 9349 5055 (ph)/+613 9349 5088
(fax)
I've got one, but with RH5.2 - I use XCDroast (I think it just wraps
mkisofs and cdrecord) but it has worked great so far. I haven't tried
any CD-RW media yet though - but I don't think that would make any
difference. Burns a full cd in 12 minutes :)
Nick
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Reply-To: "Keith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: "Keith" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Hard drive partitions
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 16:25:23 +1000
I'm preparing to buy a second hard drive to put Linux on.
Currently I have a 3 gig hard drive with Win95, set up as the master on the
primary IDE controller and my CD Rom drive as the slave.
I was going to install the second HD to the empty secondary IDE controller.
Is this an ok setup?
My second question is about partitioning. I've read in at some places that
you only need two partitions for Linux (the swap and the main partition), in
other places I've read that you need 4 or 5? Why the difference, is it just
a performance thing?
Finally, regarding lilo or any other boot manager I choose to install (such
as boot magic) where should it go in my setup? I've got a feeling it should
go on my windows hard drive
Linux-Hardware Digest #230
Linux-Hardware Digest #230, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 14:13:35 EDT
Contents:
VIA VT82C570 and Busmastering under Linux (Helmut Holle)
Scsi troubles (Robert Sheskin)
Re: stability problems with my system (Mindlink)
Re: Voodoo 2000 PCI card HELP!!! (Mindlink)
Re: UDMA66 HD ("Phillip")
Re: ABIT HotRod 66 IDE card ("Phillip")
SOUND on NeoMagic 2200 (Thomas Neurauter)
Re: help with modem installation (M.C.)
Re: ESS SOLO-1 (Jorge Sanz)
Creative sound PCI ? (Igor)
Re: Hard drive partitions ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: how to use a graphic tablet (f1ayr)
Re: Cobalt Qube2 reboot question... (Henrik Carlqvist)
Memory Upgrade IRQ Timeout (DBob)
help with configuration - dual celeron (BP)
Re: HELP!! Thinkpad 560z timing problem with Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 PCMCIA card
("Xyloplax")
Re: Problem With TNT2 Video Card Please Help ("Wally ][Equinox][")
Help- netwoking card configuration ("Xiaozhou Qiu")
sound problems!! ("exploser")
xf86config ("Lohengrin")
Re: Logitech cordless mouse ("Glasgow")
Re: Hard drive partitions ("Scott Simpson")
From: Helmut Holle [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: VIA VT82C570 and Busmastering under Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 15:03:19 +0200
Hallo,
i have an old FIC PA2000 Mainboard with a VIA VT82C570 Chipset. Does
someone have experience with HD-Busmastering on this chipsets. Is it
possible to activate it under Linux?
Thanks for help,
Helmut Holle
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* Helmut Holle*
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] *
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From: Robert Sheskin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scsi troubles
Date: 11 Sep 1999 08:17:02 -0500
I am going crazy trying to get my scsi (sym53c416) card to work. I
have looked at the man page a million and one times and also a web
site dedicated to the card and tried to follow all suggestions and
still come up flustered. I have tried insmod and modprobe, without
extra parameters I get device or resource busy. As the page suggested
I tried to add io and irq to the command (modprobe sym53c416 io=0x200
irq=4) and get invalid parameter. Someone in the know please lend a
typing finger or two.
Thanks.
--
Robert Sheskin
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Replace "nospam" with "tidalwave" for email
ICQ 5788323
AIM RobertLS
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From: Mindlink [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: stability problems with my system
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 09:48:53 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This looks a lot like a thermal failure problem. It could be that the
CPUs are being badly cooled. Try using some decent thermoconductive gel
(like Radio Shack's) and a pair of good heat sinks with fans on your
CPUs.
The reason that winzip sets it off (if I am correct) is that the math
ops needed to unzip a file are enough to elevate the core temperature to
the point where the core ceases to work properly. Linux is a lot less
forgiving than windows on CPU errors, so it will tend to fail even on
lower loads. The reason disabling the cache fixes the problem is that
the CPU is getting instructions slowly enough to operate without a
temperature rise.
If I am wrong on this diagnosis, let me know, but these are my
suspicions. If all else fails, lowering the core voltage a couple of
points might help, but IMHO temperature problems are best solved with
better cooling.
MindLink.
Gary Bankston wrote:
I've got a question about trouble that I'm having with my system. The
system is very unstable and locks up, hangs or even reboots itself. It
uses a supermicro S2DG2 dual processor mother board and pentium II xeon
400Mhz processors. The system dual boots linux and NT and the problem
affects both operating systems. I've tried everthing in order to track
the problem down.
Finally, the one thing that I've found that makes the problem go away is
disabling the cache on the processor. Of course the system runs dog slow
and it does no good to buy a xeon if you have to dsable it's cache. But,
this is the only thing that makes the system stable.
Now here's the question - Does anyone know whether this means that,
without a doubt, the problem is in the processor (or the processor
module at least)? Is it possible that the problem could still be on the
mother board or in the bios?
Remember, xeons have the cache built onto the cpu module. Also, if the
problem is undoubtedly with the cpu, that would mean that I've recieved
2 flawed cpus.
I would just like an unbiassed opion here before I go back to supermicro
with the results. Further info on my system and the tests I've done is
below.
System Description:
mother board: SuperMicro S2DG2
bios: AMIbios
processor: Pentium II xeon 400Mhz 512k cache
memory: 128MB PC100 ECC registered
hard drive: SEAGATE ST34502LW ULTRA2-LVD 4.5Gb
CD-ROM: PLEXTOR PX-4TS
video:Matrox G200
Linux-Hardware Digest #231
Linux-Hardware Digest #231, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 17:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Re: Logitech cordless mouse (Bryan)
sound problems!! ("exploser")
Advice wanted: new sound card (Brian Rutledge)
Re: Scanner for Linux ("Fabrice P. Laussy")
Re: sound problems!! (lou)
Re: Seti@home wont run. (Bryan)
Re: wierd bug: NS communicator crashes sending mail (Chris Abajian)
Re: Problem With TNT2 Video Card Please Help (Linux Student)
Re: How To Get Out Of KDE? (Rini Klaassen)
Re: UDMA problem? (Dale Pontius)
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 (allen kurt savegnago)
panasonic cd burner (mikael)
Memorex CD-R/RW drive supported? (Dale Pontius)
TV + Radio Card ("Attila")
Re: Hard drive partitions (Mark Lewis)
Re: UDMA problem? (Dale Pontius)
Seti@home wont run. (Kevin)
Disk Array / RAID questions (1540B ?) (Brian Dudek)
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 (David Cooley)
Re: UDMA problem? (David Cooley)
Re: Req.: Experience with SyJet Drive (SyQuest) (Leslie Mikesell)
Re: wierd bug: NS communicator crashes sending mail (fixed, sort of) (Chris Abajian)
help finding Afterstep for COL 2.2? (Jeff)
From: Bryan Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Logitech cordless mouse
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:12:49 GMT
works just fine.
a few caveats:
- when using an active (powered/buffered) keybd/monitor/mouse switch
and going between linux and NT, nt would mess up the mouse somehow.
very annoying.
- when using a cellphone near the rf cordless mouse, the mouse would loose its synch
and would need a power down/up to restore.
other than that, its great.
Gaetano Lampugnani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: Hi
: does anyone know how to get the wheel working of the logitech cordless
: mouse.
: I have Suse 6.2 and set up mouse as PS2 in psaux.
: Thanks and Rgds
: Gaetano
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Bryan, http://www.Grateful.Net - Linux/Web-based Network Management
--- to email me, you must hunt the WUMPUS and kill it.
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From: "exploser" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: sound problems!!
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 01:14:13 +0800
I have set my soundcard by sndconfig, it work in the test and i have heard
Linus Torvald's sound!! but when i started the X-window, it does not show
any sound effect, even if i try to use X11amp,it failed to play any
MP3!!Why??Please help me to solve it!thx!!
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From: Brian Rutledge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Advice wanted: new sound card
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:32:58 -0400
I'm looking to buy a new sound card for my pc. Currently I have an ESS
1869, but I've had various troubles with it and I want to replace it.
I'm looking for something more "high-end," I guess, but not terribly
expensive. Does anyone have any suggestions for what kind of card to
get, or could someone point me in the direction of such info?
Thanks,
Brian
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From: "Fabrice P. Laussy" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Scanner for Linux
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 20:13:05 +0200
David Cooley wrote:
"Fabrice P. Laussy" wrote:
Hi
I'd like some advice from peoples who have experience with running a
scanner for Linux. Which of them are supported, with average to good
results, for low to average price.
Or are there FAQs or something that could help?
There are FAQ's on it, and the drivers you need are from the SANE
project...
Do a search on the web for SANE project and LINUX and you'll be set.
Okay, you're right, thanks David.
Now there are not much scanners that are labelled stable. Most of them
are alpha or beta.
Is there not a special model you would advise, one which would satisfy a
not too demanding user?
Regards.
F.P.L.
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From: lou [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: sound problems!!
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:31:40 +
exploser wrote:
I have set my soundcard by sndconfig, it work in the test and i have heard
Linus Torvald's sound!! but when i started the X-window, it does not show
any sound effect, even if i try to use X11amp,it failed to play any
MP3!!Why??Please help me to solve it!thx!!
For the sound FX to work you need to go to KDE Control Panel, than sound,
click on + sign click on System sounds. Than click the box to enable system
sound. Than reboot or restat x.
Lou
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From: Bryan Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Seti@home wont run.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:47:05 GMT
simple: its not in your path.
cd to where it is located and do:
./setiathome
that's all ;-)
Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I relise this is a hardware group, but there are people here suggesting
: seti is a good way of system stability testing and so
Linux-Hardware Digest #232
Linux-Hardware Digest #232, Volume #11 Sat, 11 Sep 99 21:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Please help! UPS (Anthony White)
Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 (Heinz Diehl)
Re: Seti@home wont run. (Kevin)
kds vs-195 and vs-19sn: opinions? (fulton)
Re: 2nd NIC not recognized (Howard Mann)
Re: How To Get Out Of KDE? (Walter Hofmann)
Acard SCSI AEC 6710S (Oystein Sund)
Re: AMD K6-2 (Darwayne Willock)
Re: Please help experts!!! : My HDs are gone after changing the Slave to Master!!!
(BIOS doesnt detect them anymore) ("Pedza")
Re: Anyone used a Yamaha CRW6416 under Redhat 6.x? (Peter Chant)
Re: Help Choosing a new CPU (Darwayne Willock)
Re: is my hardware compatible? (Walter Hofmann)
Re: FREE EAST TIMOR!!! STOP THE KILLING!!! (Jerry L Kreps)
Re: Hard drive partitions (DanH)
Problem about upgrade from 2.2.5 to 2.3.17? (Jack)
[OFFTOPIC] Re: Seti@home wont run. (Tor Arntsen)
QA from this newsgroup ("Tsak Fox")
Re: Dual Celeron ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Seti@home wont run. ("Gene Heskett")
Can't get UMAX 1220S scanner to work with SCSI Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux and Zip 250MB or Imation SuperDisks? ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Agfa Scanner and AVA1505 Controller ("Gene Heskett")
Re: SupraMax PCI Modem under Red Hat 5.2 (C. C. McPherson)
From: Anthony White [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please help! UPS
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 07:38:19 +1000
Chris Mahmood wrote:
dbp [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
May you tell me which UPS is suitable to use with Linux? The UPS How-To
just
tell ... tons of hacking ... which I do not understand! Thx!
It's a bit out of date. Several companies offer Linux support now for
their UPS's including APC.
I have just got a Upsonic UPS 600VA which will have Linux 'drivers'
in about 3-4 weeks.
UPS works fine.
A simple way of using any UPS with linux is to check (Scan) the
status pin of the UPS. It would either be high or low in back-up
mode. It should then be simple to include a timer that will
say shutdown if status is back-up for more than, say 5 minutes.
Havent tried yet just got the UPS...
Anthony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Heinz Diehl)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013
Date: 11 Sep 1999 21:12:11 GMT
allen kurt savegnago wrote:
Subject: Re: AMD K6-3 + FX PA-2013 SIG 11 problems
I have the same motherboard and an OEM K6III did not work. I awaiting
the arrival of a boxed K6III-450 cpu and will try again.
A sig-11 says there is a hardware problem, in most cases it is the
memory which doesn't stand the 100 MHz bus-frequency or
it's caused by overclocked systems/cpu's.
The mobo is
supposed to be the one "approved" by FIC as compatible with the K6III.
Yep, "approved by the manufacturer itself", what are you awaiting ? :)
Have you compiled your kernel with CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y ??
~ hd
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From: Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Seti@home wont run.
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 23:10:34 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:47:05 GMT, Bryan
Bryan@[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
simple: its not in your path.
cd to where it is located and do:
./setiathome
that's all ;-)
I was in it's directiry when I tried to run it.
Is this a problem with being logged on as root ?
I have found other executables which I cant run and I get the same
command not found response.
and if I make a script, even though it starts with
#! /bin/bash
and has the executable permissions set, I can only get it to run by
typing
/bin/bash myscript
all the stuff like gzip, tar, startx, make etc run fine.
I should maybe now try creating myself a user account, it's about
time.
Help please
Kevin
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From: fulton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kds vs-195 and vs-19sn: opinions?
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 18:07:31 -0500
Hi,
Does anyone have some opinions about these monitors?
Are they good monitors? What in particular do you like
or dislike? Is one significantly better than the other?
Thanks,
Ed Fulton
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From: Howard Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 2nd NIC not recognized
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 1999 22:31:15 GMT
Geert Altena wrote:
"Colin Reinhardt" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've got to TrendNet NE2000-compatible ISA cards set at the following:
eth0 io=0x300 irq=3
NIC's are not generally assigned this irq.
Check cat /proc/interrupts
You may need to try another irq
eth1 io=ox320 irq=10
In my conf.modules I added:
alias eth0 ne
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300,0x320 irq=3,10
This format should work
I have also un-commented the line in rc.modules
/sbin/modprobe ne
? I do not know about this.
When El Slaucho (Slackware 4.0) boots, it detects 1 nic, the one at
io=0x300
and irq=3.
The other one doesn't show up.
I've tried passing
