Linux-Hardware Digest #835, Volume #13 Thu, 2 Nov 00 23:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: SCSI Hard Drive Woes ("D. Stimits")
Re: IBM PC Camera/Videeo4Linux ? ("larry")
Re: Dead Keys / Compose Keys (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux support for PDAs/organizers other than Palm Pilot? (Christopher Browne)
Re: Newbie needs help.... (Dances With Crows)
Re: pdc20267 (David Lerner)
Re: Studio DC10plus (J Wendel)
HELP! Where do I find these?!? (John Broadhead)
Re: winmodem and setserial (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Internal PCI Modems (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Installation impossible HELP.... (Jan Taimr)
Re: initializing /dev/lp2 (James Richard Tyrer)
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Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:05:38 -0700
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI Hard Drive Woes
It could be the drive is dying. But another question I have is which
motherboard chipset do you have? Which controller?
Matt Fuerst wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have got a Compaq Deskpro 6000 box that I run RedHat 6.2 on. Here's teh
> short version:
>
> My driveis about 40% full and always has been. Just recently I downloaded
> several large gzipped files (about 90 megs each) in the process of
> gunzipping and untarring them, I began running into IO Errors. At first I
> thought the GZ files were corrupt but through research they were not. There
> was something wrong with my hard drive. If I try to copy any large file that
> makes my drive hit a certain percentage (actually, probably, hit a certain
> block or blocks on my drive) I get an IO Error.
>
> Looking at my /var/log/messages I see errors like this:
>
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read
> error
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 945520
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0,
> CDB
> : Read (6) 0e 6d af 08 00
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: Info fld=0xe6db4, Current sd08:01: sense key
> Mediu
> m Error
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read
> error
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: scsidisk I/O error: dev 08:01, sector 945520
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 1, lun 0,
> CDB
> : Read (6) 0e 6d af 08 00
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: Info fld=0xe6db4, Current sd08:01: sense key
> Mediu
> m Error
> Nov 2 14:54:09 cable kernel: Additional sense indicates Unrecovered read
> error
>
> From this I am pretty sure that I have some bad blocks cropping up on the
> hard drive. Dealing with my local LUG, the super smart whiz kid tells me to
> run /sbin/badblocks and have it output the bad blocks into a file, and then
> feed the file into e2fsck -l which should map out the bad blocks.
>
> I have done that, and still no dice.
>
> A few things about the aboce process. You have to feed badblocks the number
> of blocks in your partition, and I am pretty sure about the number I have
> but not positive. Is there an easy and reliable way to get this information?
> Since, once I feed the output file into e2fsck it gives me an error message
> that Blocks X - Z do not exist (their numbers are too high) so something may
> be whack.
>
> Please give me help. badblocks finds a ton of problems, but I dont know how
> to fix them!
>
> THanks
>
> Matt Fuerst
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> --
> -=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-
> Peter Gibbons: I was sitting in my cubical today, and I realized ever since
> I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day
> before it. So that means that every single day you see me, that's the worst
> day of my life.
> Dr. Swanson: What about today? Is today the worst day of your life?
> Peter Gibbons: Yeah.
> Dr. Swanson: Wow. That's messed up.
> -- My Life Story from "Office Space"
> Matt Fuerst - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "larry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: IBM PC Camera/Videeo4Linux ?
Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2000 15:23:00 -1000
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8ts0jt$5vb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone been able to successfully get this device running ? Both
> modules show up with lsmod; and the ibmcam is noted as being
> successfully registered in the kernel ring buffer. The FCC ID for the
> camera is listed as supported in the ibmcam documentation.
>
> However, I have been unable to get it to work with any video4linux
> application. For instance, v4l-conf (or video4linux?) tells me
> (something like) "/dev/video No overlay" (with 2.4-test10) ; on this and
> another machine (2.4-test5) xawtv gives the message "/dev/video: No such
> device". This latter machine successfully runs xawtv with a bt848
> framegrabber, though of course that module is not installed when I am
> trying the above.
>
> gqcam opens but just gives me a blank picture frame. Sliders, etc. move
> but do nothing. The bottom of the window has the message "Calculating
> speed". If I press "Freeze picture" gqcam hangs.
>
> I've ensured that everything in /dev/ is there according the the ibmcam
> documentation, with the prescribed permissions.
>
> Anybody have any hints or suggestions they can pass on ? I've been
> killing myself on this one for days...
>
> thanks for any help at all,
> terry
>
>
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
I have the IBM PC Cam also, I sure hope someone gets it to work and lets us
know...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Dead Keys / Compose Keys
Date: 3 Nov 2000 02:36:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 09:30:34 +0100, Fiepel wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> xmodmap -e 'keysym Control_R Multi_key' or xmodmap -e 'keycode 109
>> Multi_key'
>
>I tried
>xmodmap -e "keysym Control_L = Multi_key Control_L"
>and I got it working, but only in the console.
Eh? xmodmap shouldn't do anything at all to the console. "showkeys"
and "loadkeys" are for console work, since X uses a whole bunch of
different things.
>I wanted to add the line in /etc/X11/Xmodmap, but I came across the
>following comment:
> ! keycode and keysym remapping should generally be used only if the X
> ! server does not use the XKEYBOARD extension
>I use XFree-4.0.1 (RedHat 7.0), so I assume I AM using the XKEYBOARD
>extension. So to get it working under X (withoud disabling the XKEYBOARD
>extension I will have to do it some other way, but again I cannot figure
>out how.
That's rather strange. On 3.3.6 (under both SuSE and RedHat) I have
XKeyboard enabled, and xmodmap works fine. Have you tried "xev" and
seen if another key is already mapped to Multi_key? For some reason,
RedHat 6.something mapped Scroll Lock to that. Or in your XF86Config,
there's a section called "Keyboard" where you should be able to put a
line like
RightCtl Compose
which should do the right thing once you restart X.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux support for PDAs/organizers other than Palm Pilot?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 02:36:51 GMT
In our last episode (Thu, 02 Nov 2000 16:09:08 -0600),
the artist formerly known as Mac Cody said:
>"Marcus O.C. Metzler" wrote:
>> Mac Cody <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > The subject line pretty much says it all. Is there support
>> > on Linux for PDAs/organizers other than the 3Com Palm Pilot?
>> > For example the Sharp Wizards (OZ-730PC), Royal DV3 DaVinci,
>> > or Casio PV-400Plus. Any pointers would be appreciated
>> >
>> I don't know about the ones you mentioned, but the compaq ipaq is
>> supported and some others that use ARM CPUs.
>>
>> Marcus
>
>Sorry I wasn't clear enough. What I meant is Linux support
>for upload/download to the above-mentioned PDAs/organizers.
>Not Linux running in the devices themselves. I'd like to use
>a PDA/organizer for text editing while commuting and
>upload/download text to my Linux box. Hope that is clear
>enough.
For Casio models, see:
<http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/imsl/faq.htm#faq7>
Dunno about the Sharp Wizards; there may not have been enough interest
for anyone to bother developing data communications tools for it.
It's far more "hit'n'miss" with these organizers that just didn't get
as popular as the PalmComputing lineup...
--
(concatenate 'string "aa454" "@" "freenet.carleton.ca")
<http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/pims.html>
First Rule of Computer Security
- Only forbid that which can be made impossible.
- Facilitate the possible.
- Have the wisdom to explain the difference.
-- Mark Miller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Newbie needs help....
Date: 3 Nov 2000 02:55:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000 20:54:33 -0500, Deadman wrote:
>Zip Zoom (scsi card) and Zip SCSI Drive - I tried using the redhat
>documentation and editing xconfig. But it gives me an error when i try to
>load with "insmod ppa" It just comes up with a bunch of unresolved symbol
>errors.
ppa is for a *parallel-port* ZIP. Not only that, it's for an old
parallel-port ZIP. If this Zoom thing is truly a SCSI card, you have to
find out which kind of SCSI card it is, then load the appropriate
module. "cat /proc/pci" should show you some information about any SCSI
cards connected to your PCI bus. After the SCSI card is loaded, you
should be able to access a DOS ZIP disk on /dev/sda4 without much
trouble. Post the info from cat /proc/pci if you can't
figure out which module to load. And have a look at the ZIP-HOWTO in
the "mini-HOWTO" section of http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/ .
>did. That got rid of half the errors, but now it just comes up with "Device
>busy or in use" or something of that nature, and a few other errors....
Post the exact text of the errors and someone will be able to help.
Search at http://deja.com/home_ps.shtml for "SB Live" in
comp.os.linux.hardware and see what you can find--there are thousands of
people using this card, so your problem is neither unique nor impossible
to solve.
>Voodoo 5 5500 - Obviously it works alright, but i would like to optomize
>this as much as possible. Also, if there is a way to change the screen
>area, it would be apreciated as i can barely see the words or icons because
>they are so small now.
Xconfigurator or xf86config or XF86Setup or SaX will allow you to mess
with the settings on the video card. Or try pressing Ctrl+Alt+(Keypad
+) to cycle through various resolutions. Have fun with X's "virtual
screen"; some people like that while others hate it.
>Epson Stylus Color 860 - Can't even find the sucker, and i haven't started
>looking for howto's for this yet, if anyone could help me out, it would be
>great.
http://linuxprinting.org/ is a good place to start. Just about every
Epson is supported. Have you tried running "printtool" or YaST's
printer setup utility?
>Sorry about all this, but i would like to start getting a good linux setup.
>I already know i need a new modem as i have a PCI winmodem...
>Any help at all would be apreciated...
http://linuxnewbie.org/
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
news:comp.os.linux.{misc,hardware,networking,setup}
file:/usr/doc/howto/
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lerner)
Subject: Re: pdc20267
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 03:23:34 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gianluca Alberici <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Ive been following discussions about pdc20267 probs for a long time and
>i was wondering:
>
>-- Whether or not it is possible to support a 20267 with a kernel 2.2.xx
>
>-- If somebody has already tried to update BIOS on Promise Controller
>buodled with MSI 6330
>Mainboard with the Fastrak100 version downloadable from Promise,
>obtaining raid1 functionalities
>
>Thanx in advance
>
> Gianluca Alberici
> -------------
> VLSI designer
> -------------
The Promise 20267 will work with a patched 2.2.xx kernel. Get the patches
from any kernel mirror site. They are in subdirectories of
pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick. The file for the 2.2.17 kernel is:
ide.2.2.17.all.20000904.patch.bz2
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel)
Subject: Re: Studio DC10plus
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 03:33:46 GMT
On Thu, 02 Nov 2000 19:21:19 -0600, Munir Nassar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>is there a way to get my studio DC10plus to work with Mandrake 7.2,
>Kernel 2.2.17... how would i do it...is there a place on the web that
>tells be how?
>
> -munir
>
>
Is this what you are looking for ?
Repost. Linux driver for DC10plus video capture card. V 0.4
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Subject: Repost. Linux driver for DC10plus video capture card. V 0.4
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Sorry, this is a repost. Previous message was sent with wrong version
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the
subject.
August 14, 2000.
Linux driver for Miro/Pinnacle Systems Inc. DC10plus and some DC10
cards.
Release candidate.
Homepage: http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus
This is a driver for DC10plus capture cards from Pinnacle Systems
Inc. It also works with many old Miro DC10 cards with SAA7110A TV
decoder and ADV7176 TV encoder (please, make sure that your card has
these chips, otherwise the driver will not work).
The driver is Video4Linux compliant and contains extensions to
provide hardware support for full motion MJPEG compression and
decompression. Since this driver is a derivative from the driver for
Buz Iomega cards written by Dr. Rainer Johanni,
http://www.johanni.de/munich-vision/buz/ they both have compatible
API. I hope that this API will become a standard. At least, there is
another driver, for LML33 cards, which shares the same API:
http://www.mlb.org/
Formats supported by DC10plus driver:
PAL/SECAM: up to 768x576 at 25 full frames per second;
NTSC: up to 640x480 at 30 full frames per second.
The JPEG compression ratio is adjustable, so the data rate can be
varied from 6-7 MBytes/s down to 1-2 MBytes/s depending on the
required image quality.
Hardware compression
Since the card provides hardware compression, even low end machines
can be successfully used for movie capture and playback. I've tested
the driver with 2.2.14 kernel running on 233 MHz Pentium MMX with
64M
RAM on 430TX motherboard and with 10GB IDE drive from Western
Digital
Corp.
On one test run I've got 0 frames dropped during about 20 minutes of
full motion NTSC (I live in Mexico) video capture with fully
synchronized audio. The command was
lavrec -fa -in -d1 -l -1 -q30 -w /dos/g/capture/Linux/test%03d.avi
for recording, and
lavplay -n128 /dos/g/capture/Linux/test*.avi
for playback. (See lavtools distribution for more information).
Typical run of similar test can provide as few as 6-8 dropped frames
per
half of an hour. You mileage may vary, though.
Compilation and installation
Please, read file README regarding compilation and installation
issues. Note, that you will need mem=XXX setting in lilo.conf, or
bigphysarea patch only if you are planning to use uncompressed
motion
or still capture using XawTV and other programs.
If you use only MJPEG compressed capture provided by the driver, you
should not need large memory areas for DMA. In this case, you will
be
able to capture and playback movies with lavtools, however you will
not be able to use capture features of XawTV and other similar
programs (you can still watch video on the screen).
Tested applications:
XawTV to watch video on your computer monitor.
kwintv the same (you might need to use option lock_norm=1, see
the description in Changes section below).
lavtools To record and playback AVI or Quicktime files. Note: you
will need patched version, lavtools-1.2p2 to support
new
features of this driver. Please visit driver homepage
for
more info.
Broadcast2000 reportedly (I didn't try that) can accept movies
recorded by lavrec for editing and then edited movie
can be played back by lavplay program.
MainActor 3.53 also can accept movies recorded by lavrec for
editing.
Changes in v0.4:
1. Now the driver (with new lavtools-1.2p2) is able to deal with
cropped
TV clips produced by miro/Pinnacle software. Try new lavplay on
clips
which you couldn't play before.
2. For software developers: now the driver returns maxwidth and
maxheight
parameters according to the current TV standard (norm). Therefore,
the
software which communicates with the driver and "asks" for these
parameters should first set the correct norm. Well, it seems
logically
correct: TV standard is "more constant" for current country than
geometry settings of a variety of TV capture cards which may work
in
ITU or square pixel format. Remember that users now you can lock
the
norm (see item 3 below) to avoid any ambiguity.
3. Two new parameters have been added for the driver configuration on
loading:
lock_norm=1 will disable TV standard switching but will not
produce any error response to the application
trying to change norm.
lock_norm=2 will disable changing TV standard but it will
also return error to the application attempting
to switch norm. It can be useful with applications
like XawTV which switch norm at the beginning
to find out which TV standards are available.
This feature can be useful in combination with default_norm
parameter to lock the norm for current country and prevent
it from switching by some not well behaving programs. Default
is 0, i.e. switching is enabled, however I would recommend
to always lock the norm unless you are dealing with
different TV standards.
pass_through=0 will enable TV output only when the device is
in use by some program. Otherwise, the TV
monitor will show a standard color bar.
pass_through=1 will enable passing of input TV signal to the
output.
Default is 0.
4. Interrupt processing code was modified to make the driver working
even after codec crash. It should greatly improve the driver
reliability. I've tested switching channels on the VCR which was
used as video signal source during recording with lavrec, and the
driver survived the switch and other glitches in the signal,
restarting and continuing capture. Some frames in the clip were
corrupted but they can be cut by video editing software. The driver
also survives corrupted frames during playback.
5. The driver now is able to play MJPEG files on the computer monitor
screen simultaneously with playing on the attached TV monitor.
However,
there is only one utility which can provide such functionality:
mplay_screen from examples directory of buz-1.0.1 driver
distribution.
It plays files in its own format which must be recorded by mrecord
from
the same distribution. This is a proprietary format, incompatible
with
AVI format. Nevertheless, now the driver is almost ready for
applications which will play AVI files on the computer screen.
Please, see item 7 below for other experimental feature.
6. SECAM support. The driver now provides partial support for SECAM TV
standard used in Russia and some other countries from former Soviet
Union. Probably, this standard is also used in France but I'm not
sure of this. The partial (not full) support means that the driver
can accept color SECAM signal for capture, so users from these
countries can record clips and watch video on the computer monitor
screen using XawTV or similar application in full color, but the
image on the attached TV monitor during the capture can be B&W or
with messed up colors. Note, however, that this will be only during
capture. The playback of the captured clip will be in PAL standard
and with full color! So, now users from Russia and other countries
with SECAM standard can watch TV programs and capture clips from
broadcast channels. Of course, since DC10plus does not have
built-in
tuner, you will need to take the signal from your VCR, TV or other
source with external tuner.
7. Now the driver can to be used by two programs at the same time
(please, see warning note below regarding this feature). Using
XawTV
you can watch what you are recording or playing back with lavtools.
I've tested the following sequence and it worked for me:
* start xawtv and switch inputs, TV standards, and adjust video
(contrast, saturation, etc.). You may also run your favorite
audio mixer application to adjust audio inputs.
* run lavrec with options:
-i<set your input and norm here> (to choose proper input
and TV standard)
-l -1 (to use audio mixer settings)
Other lavrec option can be added at your choice.
* watch the movie in xawtv window while recording it as AVI or
Quicktime file.
* when recording is finished, run lavplay or xlav and watch your
clip in xawtv window.
* Note: you should not quit xawtv during recording or playing back.
If you quit xawtv during recording or playback, another lavtools
program will stop and may even crash.
I'm not sure that the same will work for you. You can try but,
please, be careful.
WARNING! This is an experimental feature and I'm not sure if it
will
be supported in the future. The driver was not designed to be used
like this and it has no protection against any interference between
two running programs. THEREFORE, IT IS POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS AND
SINCE
THE DRIVER OPERATES IN KERNEL SPACE, USING THIS FEATURE MAY CRASH
YOUR
ENTIRE SYSTEM.
8. /proc/buz0 entry: using 'cat /proc/buz0' you can see the contents
of
ZR36057/67 chip registers. It is also possible to modify the
contents of some registers directly. WARNING: modified contents is
not stored in the driver memory, if you restart any program which
uses this driver or even change position or cause redraw of a
window
of xawtv or other program, the original registers contents will be
restored by the driver. However, it can be used to change ZR36067
registers on the fly for fine tuning and then to include these
changes into driver code. This feature is very limited and still
requires some documentation. However, if you are impatient, look at
buz_procfs.c code and (IMPORTANT!) read ZR36057/67 manual. To set
TopField bit, for example, you need to type as root:
echo TopField=1 > /proc/buz0
If you use this feature and have found some interesting result,
please,
let
me know.
I've tested the driver with 2.2.14 kernel. There is still no support
for new i2c subsystem from newer kernels. If someone wants to add it,
please do. I will appreciate that.
Please, try the driver, and let me know if something is wrong. It
would
be nice if you fix something and send me a patch.
To download the driver and for other news and updates, please, visit
http://www.cicese.mx/~mirsev/Linux/DC10plus
Good luck.
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From: John Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: HELP! Where do I find these?!?
Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2000 20:41:47 -0700
I need to find a Linux compatible Parallel port ethernet adapter. I
recieved an old 486 laptop that doesn't have any PCMCIA slots. The only
way I'll be able to hook it to my LAN is with a parallel port ethernet
adapter.
I've look on Ebay, but all people are selling are Xircom brand ones,
which I've heard don't work.
I need to find an Accton PocketEthernet, D-Link DE-600 or DE-620, or a
Realtek brand one. Does anyone know of an online store that has an
old-stock of these?
Thanks,
John Broadhead
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: winmodem and setserial
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 03:50:20 GMT
Douglas De Vine wrote:
> I'm unable to activate my PCI modem.i'm using,setserial /dev/ttyS2
> irq=3 port=0xdff0 autoconfig has anyone had any luck?
It is my understanding that WinModems do not have a UART. Therefore
there is no serial to set. For info on possible use of a WinModem, see:
http://linmodems.org/
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal PCI Modems
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 04:04:41 GMT
Samuel Hauge wrote:
> I'm new to Linux and have just installed Redhat 7. My Modem Blaster
> DI5655 doesn't work, and isn't recognized. RH phone support makes the
> rather categorical-sounding statement that internal PCI modems simply
> won't work with Linux (I neglected to ask whether he was referring to
> ALL Linux, or just RH, or just RH7) because their UART's are implemented
> in software... This is NOT a Winmodem (at least I don't think it
> is...) The Modemblaster website doesn't say anything about Linux...
>
> Is the statement true? I noticed there were no modems (at all) listed
> on RH's HCL.
>
> Looking around here in this NG, I sort of get the impression that RH's
> phone support statement might be overgeneral (I'm aware that Winmodems
> are restricted in this way), and that there might be a way to do this,
> but don't see anything specific to my modem.
Your problem is not that you have an internal PCI modem. I have an
internal PCI modem (USR/3Com 3CP2976) and it works fine.
Your problem is that you have a WinModem. For help go to:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/20001025a.html
http://linmodems.org/
JRT
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From: Jan Taimr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation impossible HELP....
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2000 19:26:49 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> "Sebastien" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [try X in regular VGA mode]
>
> > Yes, but there's no way I can get it to run in any resolution at all. I
> > tried every possibility with every drivers in the list.
>
> The thing is that regular VGA mode actually uses a separate server, as
> opposed to XF86_SVGA or one of the other accelerated servers.
> Probably the installer doesn't give you the option of choosing regular
> SVGA.
> At this point, I can't offer you much (any) help. Try to find a
> text-based installer (although I suspect you have). Once you've
You can simply install Mandrake with using of text mode, even when graphic
mode is default ! Minimally starting with Mandrake 7.0 ! Read the install
instructions.
> installer, last I checked. I'm a Debian slut, but I personally feel
> that distro is _way_ better than all the others out there.
>
Everyone has own distro; I cannot judge RH vs. Deb vs. SuSe vs. Mandrake
vs... and absention of graphic installer as main point of importance seems
to be slightly weak for me...
--
Jan Taimr
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The worst computer virus is an end-user
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: initializing /dev/lp2
Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2000 04:09:21 GMT
Mike Gerhard wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I hope I'm in the right forum for this. My problem is that I'm trying to
> install a second parallel port card to give me 3 par.ports in all. The first
> card of this type that I installed worked just fine, but this newest one is
> not working at all. Now I don't really know what I am doing in Linux so
> please bear with me here.
> When typing lspci the line contains:
>
> 00:0F.0 Parallel controller: Timedia Technology Co Ltd: Unknown device 7268
> (rev 01)
>
> Like I said I don't know what to do exactly. Is there some kind of way
> to initialize a card at startup? If anybody could help me, I'd be very
> thankful.
>
> Thanks
> mike
Try:
lspci -v
and post those (longer) results.
Basically, if the system can't find your card on boot up, you are going to have
to tell it where it is with the "append" statement in "lilo.conf".
JRT
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