Linux-Hardware Digest #833, Volume #9 Thu, 25 Mar 99 14:13:38 EST
Contents:
Re: Diamond Modem (Rob Clark)
fly TV ("MAD")
Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51? (Thomas Scheunemann)
Re: ASUS P2B-DS Jumper Settings ??? (morgan)
Re: RH5.2 and Sound Blaster 16 (Joel Ebel)
Re: Fat 32 and linux: can I mount? (Michael Meissner)
Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51? (Thomas Scheunemann)
install RH to Compaq 486/33 SCSI 8Mb RAM (Michael Ng)
Re: ASUS P2B-DS Jumper Settings ??? ("Lee Sharp")
Re: Multi-channel soundcard for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
28.8 K modem/serial speed ? (**Nick Brown)
KPPP and Sportster (**Nick Brown)
USB zip drive ("Daniel E. Lucente")
Any problems with non-SCSI scanners? (Holger Peine)
Re: OPL3-SAx sounchip and redhat 5.2 ("Bob Glover")
Y2K worries? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LT Winmodem? ("Brian Wildasinn")
Re: Sager NP8550 (Kyle Fink)
Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem (Kyle Fink)
Re: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI ("Lee Sharp")
Re: SCSI tape timeout problem (Michael Meissner)
Re: Xerox XJ8C (Grant Taylor)
Re: Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI (Markus Wandel)
CNET 930 Ethernet Card ("Steven")
Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51? (Christian D Freet)
Re: Epson 700 Printer....under linux? (Bert Haverkamp)
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Subject: Re: Diamond Modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:24:03 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Darren K Emge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just installed Redhat 5.2 on my PC and I cannot get it to talk
>to my modem. My modem is a Diamond Supramax 56i. I read on one the
>webpages that some modems can have the PNP turned off. Does anyone know
>how to do this?
Please check your modem model against the list at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
The SupraMax modems are winmodems. However, the SupraExpress 56i is a
conventional modem with jumpers. The SupraExpress 56i Pro is a winmodem,
and the SupraExpress 56e Pro is a conventional external modem. Is that
confusing enough?
AFAIK, there is no SupraMax 56i, so please check the list :)
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "MAD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fly TV
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:52:14 +0100
I'm looking for some software for card Fly TV IIto use in Linux, if someone
knows where I can find it, please give me message.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks , C.U.
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From: Thomas Scheunemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51?
Date: 25 Mar 1999 17:25:58 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Christian D Freet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Elaboration would be greatly apprectiated... without having looked
> yet, where can I get said kernel? Thanks
You can get the Kernel at the typical places like ftp.kernel.org or any of
its mirrors.
To start the elaboration: I followed mostly the Banshee Vesa mini-howto at
http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/Welcome.html
The only deviation is, that i had to add a "Depth 24" line in the display
section to get it to work.
Thomas Scheunemann
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:23:35 -0600
From: morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-DS Jumper Settings ???
I believe you can overclock a 450 to like 464 or something like that
max.
Morgan
Mykool wrote:
>
> Matthew Pound wrote:
> >
> > So i have Asus P2B-DS with two PII 400's in it, and i decide, heh, i
> > wonder if this thing is stable at 450 or higher, so i try, but i cannot
> > make my computer think that the cpu's are higher, or lower or anything,
> > it seems to be reading the chips themselves, and ignoring the jumpers
> > entirely?
> >
> > Anything i kan do?
> >
> > Comments?
> >
> > --
> > To contact via email pounm000 AT unbc DOT ca
>
> If you have 2 PII 400's, why do you want to overclock them? Isn't that
> fast enough? I don't think you will see much of an improvement if you
> did overclock them to 450. If you still want to overclock it, go to the
> asus site (www.asus.com) and they have the jumper settings. Hell, I
> have
> a single PII 400 and am pretty happy with the speed.
>
> --
> Michael Barnhill
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.prism.gatech.edu/~gte294f
> ICQ 13526262
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From: Joel Ebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH5.2 and Sound Blaster 16
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:14:43 -0500
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> Don't know if Red Hat's default kernels contain sound support, but you
> generally need to rebuild the kernel, adding sound support, and
> /dev/audio support.
>
> Arnulf QUADT wrote:
> > in the process of installing RH5.2 I also tried to setup my Sound
> > Blaster 16 card using sndconfig. I can chosse the DMA and IRQ, but at
> > the end of the configuration procedure sndconfig tells me that there was
> > an `error opening /dev/audio'.
Don't know if this helps any, but redhat does include sound support in
the kernel by default. You shouldn't have to do anything but run
sndconfig andlet it autodetect it.
Good luck,
Joel Ebel
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Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Fat 32 and linux: can I mount?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Mar 1999 12:40:34 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet) writes:
> Does linux recognize FAT 32? I have been unable to mount my second
> partition which uses the FAT 32 file system...
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.....
Newer kernels support FAT32, so you probably need to rev up to 2.2.x or
2.0.36. Mount the disk with type vfat, just like for FAT16 disks.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PO Box 98, Ayer Massachusetts, USA 01432-0098
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Scheunemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51?
Date: 25 Mar 1999 10:33:48 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Christian D Freet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please post any finding you may have; all of us who have the Rage 128
> cards would like to know if / how it works... Thanks.
I can already tell you: No, the Rage 128 does not work with the XFree86
Version which comes with RedHat 5.2 (and the released updates won't work
either). There is currently no free X-Server which knows about the Rage 128
natively.
The only way to make the card work under XFree with RedHat 5.2 is to get
a newer Kernel (2.1.119 or later, I am using 2.2.3) and activate support
for Vesa Frame-Buffer. Then get the X-Server for Frame-Buffer Devices
(which is not included with RedHat 5.2) from www.xfree.org or one of its
mirrors. After a bit of configuration (by hand, no fancy tools will work)
I have this combination running in 1024x768 24Bit 60Hz. I could even get
1280x1024 24Bit but only in 87Hz interlaced (because of a limitation in
the Vesa BIOS not my monitor).
If there is need I can elaborate on how to configure it, but the machine is
at home, so I don't have direct access.
Thomas Scheunemann
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Ng)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: install RH to Compaq 486/33 SCSI 8Mb RAM
Date: 25 Mar 1999 17:49:12 GMT
[ Article crossposted from comp.os.linux.setup ]
[ Author was Michael Ng ]
[ Posted on 25 Mar 1999 17:45:42 GMT ]
Hi All,
I just received a recycled Compaq Deskpro 486 33/M PC. Unfortunately, I
don't even any documentation (I tried www.compaq.com, but didn't see any
info about 33/M model). I really desperate to install Linux to replace
the DOS and Win31 on that PC, but I don't know if Linux will have a driver
for the SCSI controller and video card.
It doesn't use IDE drive, but SCSI instead. Sorry. I wish I could find
out more about the host adaptor chip set.. Here is the only thing I have
(by eye inspection)
486 33, EISA bus with 8Mb RAM
SCSI: MicroNet HA-06 EISA SCSI Host Adaptor
- Bustek 80C20 203, AMD N80188-10, EMULEX 2400119 are the 3 big chips I
saw on the controller.
Video: Hi-Res 1280 from Helio Communication, 2Mb
- unknown chipset (the whole chip is covered by a heat sink <sigh> ;)
Any one has any information on this?
Thanks in advance
--
Michael
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-DS Jumper Settings ???
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:54:18 -0600
Matthew Pound wrote in message <7dc737$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|So i have Asus P2B-DS with two PII 400's in it, and i decide, heh, i
|wonder if this thing is stable at 450 or higher, so i try, but i cannot
|make my computer think that the cpu's are higher, or lower or anything,
|it seems to be reading the chips themselves, and ignoring the jumpers
|entirely?
You CPUs are multiplier locked by Intel. You can only OC them by
changing the bus clock. Bumping to a 103mhz clock will give you 412, and I
have not seen any that will NOT run safely at this speed.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: rec.audio.pro
Subject: Re: Multi-channel soundcard for Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:49:27 GMT
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:32:18 -0500, "marc lindahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Show me how it's in our interest. Give me a breakdown of the linux pro
>audio market, and our potential sales there. Guess what? I've done it, and
>it's *miniscule* compared to Windows and even Macintosh.
>
Have you also investigated how many would move away from Windows and
Mac if there were attractive high end audio hardware and drivers
available for better systems? Or how many are reluctant to move their
production over to computers because the available audio systems are
not reliable enough under the two dominating operating systems?
I am running a studio, and I am really sick of the unreliability of
Microsoft and Apple's operating systems. It is embarassing and a waste
of time for us and the clients to wait for the computer to reboot
again and again because of the flaws of these OSs. Several of my
colleagues agree. You would be surprised to see how many are watching
the market for better alternatives. Linux and BeOS are here, they are
great alternatives. We just need the support of the audio hardware
industry. The pro audio market is in any rate miniscule compared to
the hobby and games audio market that will always be dominated by
Windows and Mac. If you make an effort to support Linux and BeOS,
which both are superior to Windows and Mac, you will get more
credibility in the pro audio market. We need high quality, reliable
and customisable tools to do our job properly and to show some respect
for our clients' time and money.
frank
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 28.8 K modem/serial speed ?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:43:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I get kppp (for example; or c-kermit, for that matter) to drive
my 28.8 Kbps modem at 28800 ? The only speed choices I get are 19200,
38400, 57600, plus of course higher and lower numbers.
--
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KPPP and Sportster
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:46:02 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two modems. One is an old Motorola 28.8, the other a new shiny
Sportster 56K Message Modem. I'm using kppp with KDE on Debian 2.1 and
kernel 2.0.36 to call my ISP.
The 28.8 Motorola works fine (most of the time, but that's another
story). The Sportster causes kppp to hang at "Setting speaker volume".
Also, when I tell kppp to query the modem, all the ATI[1-7] strings are
empty. Same modem cables, same serial port, just different modem. Any
ideas ?
--
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
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From: "Daniel E. Lucente" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB zip drive
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:06:14 -0600
I am running RedHat 5.2 w/ kernel 2.2.3 (soon to be 2.2.4). My question is,
is it possible to use a USB zip drive. I know that there is USB support in
linux, but I have only heard of people getting keyboards and mouses to work.
Any answers, or URL's pointing me in the right direction would be great
apreciated.
Dan
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From: Holger Peine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Any problems with non-SCSI scanners?
Date: Mon, 22 Mar 1999 14:36:47 +0100
Hello,
I'm considering buying a PC to run under Linux. When reading
about scanner integration in Linux, I'm wondering why I always
see SCSI implied. I don't really want to spend the money for
SCSI (IDE is fine for me when it comes to disks), but does
using such a low-cost device as a scanner really require the
not-so-low costs of a SCSI system?
Thankful for your advice,
--
Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) Holger Peine
University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Phone +49-631-205-3292 Fax -205-3558
http://www.uni-kl.de/AG-Nehmer/Mitarbeiter/peine
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From: "Bob Glover" <app1rtg_at_air.ups.com>
Subject: Re: OPL3-SAx sounchip and redhat 5.2
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 20:48:39 -0000
>i cannot find a program isapnp or a package to install it.
I assume that you are looking for an RPM that contains isapnp.
I believe it's called pnptools. If you don't have it on your CD
or if you don't have a CD, then look at www.redhat.com/mirrors.html
and find an ftp site.
> stressing altavista didnīt help.
I find that www.dejanews.com gives more concise results. A higher
signal-to-noise ratio if you know what I mean.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Y2K worries?
Date: Wednesday, 24 Mar 1999 16:02:16 -0600
Worried about how y2k will effect your office and home? You need to arm yourself with
the best information available. After scavenging the net for weeks I found 1 website
that answered most of my questions.
I went to http://207.36.139.160
They have many sections explaining what to do to ensure that you are y2k compliant.
Don't be left in the dark on Jan 1st, get the information you need to protect yourself.
Best of luck,
Mark Stevens
vAX
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From: "Brian Wildasinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: LT Winmodem?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 10:08:09 -0000
Hi,
I plucked out my PCI internal modem
to find the manufacturers is Lucent
Technologies, i.e, LT Winmodem.
The CDROM says, "PCI 56K LT Win Modem
Version 5.20..." and mentions drivers for
Windows 98 and NT.
Is this going to work in any of the
Unixes out there? I've got NetBSD-1.3.2,
Debian-2.0, RedHat-5.2, Slackware-3.6,
and FreeBSD-3.0 all on an Intel PII Asus
P2B 440bx Motherboard.
By the way, is this Lucent Technology modem
making the CPU do modem emulation?
Thanks!
Brian Wildasinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kyle Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Sager NP8550
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 03:01:04 -0700
If you are interested in a commercial X server, Xi Graphics'
Accelerated-X Display Server supports the Rage Pro LT in all modes and
resolutions fully hardware accelerated. The resolutions include
1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, the color depths include 24bpp,
16bpp, 15bpp, and 8bpp. Accelerated-X performance is 2X any other
server on the market. The install and setup take about 10 minutes with
our auto-detect/menu driven process. Try our free demo at:
http://www.xig.com/Pages/DemoInstructions.html. The demo like our
regular product comes with free unlimited tech. support via phone or
email.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kyle
Alexandr Ivanov wrote:
>
> Has anyone got xfree86 working on Sager np8550 notebooks's huge 15"
> screen?
> It has ATI 8 megs video card. The exact chipset spec is either RAGE
> LT PRO or RAGE 3D PRO.
> There is also that button which expands or shriks the display. X works
> just fine in the shrinked mode (about 8 inches diagonal, centered), but
> the expanded full-screen video is all messed up.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Kyle Fink
Account Executive
Xi Graphics, Inc. http://www.xig.com
1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 Denver, CO 80202 USA
Voice: Toll free: 1-800-946-7433, World wide: +1.303.298.7478
Fax: +1.303.298.1406
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From: Kyle Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 03:11:42 -0700
If you are interested in a commercial X server, Xi Graphics'
Accelerated-X Display Server supports the S3 Virge/GX2 in all modes and
resolutions fully hardware accelerated. The resolutions include
1920x1440, 1600x1200, 1280x1024, 1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, the color
depths include 24bpp, 16bpp, 15bpp, and 8bpp. Accelerated-X performance
is 2X any other server on the market. The install and setup take about
10 minutes with our auto-detect/menu driven process. Try our free demo
at: http://www.xig.com/Pages/DemoInstructions.html. The demo like our
regular product comes with free unlimited tech. support via phone or
email.
If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact me.
Kyle
Yidao Cai wrote:
>
> S3 Virge/GX2 video card, XF86-3.3.3.1.
>
> S3V server, double screen side by side
>
> SVGA server: 24 bit, flicky lines when a window is moved, Netscape has
> no color in the buttons (16 bit
> does not have these problems).
>
> For both 16 and 24 bits with SVGA server, screen suddenly freezes and
> the computer takes no input,
> had to turn power off. More often than under 95. This often happens
> when move the scroll bar in
> Netscape, and with xv operations. With xv, if you do a crop or select
> the file type when saving gif to
> jpeg, it happens 100% of the time.
>
> I have tried different combinations of options and it doesn't seem to
> help.
>
> Does anybody know a solution?
>
> cai
--
Kyle Fink
Account Executive
Xi Graphics, Inc. http://www.xig.com
1801 Broadway, Suite 1710 Denver, CO 80202 USA
Voice: Toll free: 1-800-946-7433, World wide: +1.303.298.7478
Fax: +1.303.298.1406
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX PCI
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 12:14:53 -0600
Fam. Nieuwenhuis wrote in message <7dbdev$eur$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Lee,
|The "big chip" on the card is a Texas Instruments chip. It has the
following
|codes on it:
|TLAN
|TNETE100APGE
|E303W-72A6DRW
Yuck... It is the TLAN. You can use the instructions found all over for
it. <insmod tlan duplex=2> However, you might consider ditching it, since
it is just a 10 BT card until you buy the upgrade. It is a CPU hog. It is
slow, and it causes a lot of work for your system. I have 6 sitting in a
cabinet in my computer room... The only ones I kept are a part of the
motherboard. And this is for Windows machines as well. I have had much
better performance with the DEC chipsets, but originals are getting hard to
find. <none made since Compaq bought them and sold the chip side to Intel>
The Intel's are my second choice... Good luck.
Lee
--
SCSI is *NOT* magic. There are *fundamental technical reasons* why it is
necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an individual,
not as a representative of any company, organization or other entity. I am
solely responsible for my words.
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Subject: Re: SCSI tape timeout problem
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 25 Mar 1999 13:15:38 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael W. Lurie) writes:
> This is really getting annoying. I'm using a SCSI DAT tape unit attached
> to the external port on an Always IN2000 SCSI card. All the terminations
> appear to be correct. Tape is set to /dev/st0 and seems to be recognized
> just fine...with one SERIOUS exception - it times out, and resets the SCSI
> bus - which disables (crashes) my Linux RH5.2 kernel 2.0.36 system.
I don't know anything about the Always controller, but I ran into some similar
problems with my TekRam DC-390{F,U} and Adaptec 2940UW controllers. First of
all, if the Always controller is Ultra capable, make sure the termination on
all ends is active. Newer kernels became much more sensitive to the use of
active termination, even if you don't have Ultra devices. In particular, don't
rely on the device to do active termination, but instead get a cable that is
actively terminated (or a cable that has an extra connection, and put the
active terminator there).
Second, see if your tape has options for SCSI-1/SCSI-2, and if so, try it in
different configurations. My 3 year old Archive (nee Conner, nee Seagate)
Python stopped working in SCSI-2 mode, but worked better in SCSI-1 mode.
Ditto for disconnection. You might also play around with device assignments in
the scsi controller when booting (Adaptec for instance uses control-A to get
into the scsi screen when booting, while TekRam uses F2 or F6).
Third, given you mention an external port, if the Always has a 68 pin
connector, and you use a 68->50 pin cable or converter, are you sure the cable
properly terminates the upper bits? Many of the cables don't do the
termination. The adaptec online store does sell cables that do the
termination, but they are somewhat pricey.
Fourth, it might be that the Always doesn't support things like disconnection.
I've had good luck with TekRam DC-390U (ultra-wide) and DC-390F (ultra-narrow)
controllers, which use the NCR53C8XX drivers. The DC-390U doesn't seem to be
available any more, which would mean more headaches with conversion cables.
The DC-390F is about $70 mailorder.
> Doesn't matter if I try to do a tar -tvf /dev/sd0 (or /dev/tape, to which
> it's linked...) That will show me the files on the tape alright but when
> I attempt to redirect it to a file - it dies partway through. If I use
> the "tar -xv T foo -f /dev/tape" where "foo" contains the section of this
> 4Gb tape backup that I want to restore...same thing. Error as follows:
>
> ---UNKNOWN INTERRUPT:b0:ff:00--scsi : aborting command due to timeout :
> pid 51487 [or whatever], scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (6) 02 c0 51
> 02 00 [BTW, I also do not understand where it gets pid's that high.]
> scsi0: Abort [blah] - Sending ABORT_SNOOZE [blah, blah until finally it:]
> SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0. [by this time the system is
> locked up for anything requiring disk access, though IP-Masq still works.]
> scsi0: Reset. [blah, blah...only then it has the nerve to give me _this_
> message:] SCSI command probably completed successfully before abortion.
>
> Then the only thing that responds is the hardware reset or power switch.
>
> If you know how to prevent this from happening - the apparent SCSI time-
> out - I'd sure love to know. My machine has crashed more time during the
> past day from this than since I first loaded this machine with Linux. :(
> ---
> Michael W. Lurie
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PO Box 98, Ayer Massachusetts, USA 01432-0098
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xerox XJ8C
Date: 25 Mar 1999 13:09:12 -0500
"Josh Meekhof" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> has anyone found drivers for this printer and linux?
The XJ6C is a PCL 3 printer, and is known to work with Ghostscript.
The XJ8C, however, does not seem to be a PCL printer, and I'm not
aware of any driver for it.
Please put whatever information you find out into the Printing HOWTO's
compatibility database at http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI
Date: 25 Mar 1999 18:23:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am thinking of buying a sound card and the cheapest one I can see that
>is half decent is the Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI. I can't see if it
>is explicitly supported under Linux (or nothing obvious in the
>Sound-HOWTO), anyone else got it working and if so how difficult is it
>to do?
There really should be a FAQ vor this because it comes up every day.
No wonder, I couldn't find the answer either before buying my PCI128.
But, here is what happened:
RedHat 5.2 "sndconfig" said I had an Ensoniq AudioPCI and proceeded to
set it up, which was no more than "alias sound es1370" in /etc/conf.modules.
The es1370 driver that comes with RedHat 5.2 works, but has some problems.
It won't play mu-law audio files so "cat file.au >/dev/audio" won't work
right. And the mixer behaviour is so bizarre I can't imagine how they got
it that way except on purpose. Various sliders interact with each other
in completely non-obvious ways and if you ever use the "aumix" utility
(command-line-based mixer) you lose the right channel of the "line" input
and can't get it back without a hard reset of the computer. Joystick is
supported (if you add "joystick=1" on the line in conf.modules) but won't
work with the standard joystick driver because it reserves the I/O locations
(I modified the joystick driver to not try to reserve them and then it
worked OK.) The right channel is muted every time you start up a mixer
program (but unmutes again if you nudge the volume slider.)
Other than that it works, which means "mpg123" plays .mp3 files, "play" plays
.wav files, games and emulators have sound and so on.
The es1370 driver in 2.2 is considerably newer but not backward-compatible
with 2.0 and personally I am unwilling to try 2.2 until a RedHat distribution
comes out with it.
The "alsa" drivers do fix all this stuff but contain weirdness of their own
(which can, however, be worked around once and then forgotten about.)
I am willing to post the exact incantations I needed to make them work
if there is demand, write me at "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" (an e-mail account
I read when actually at my Linux machine.)
There, now someone else can answer the question when it occurs again tomorrow.
Markus
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From: "Steven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CNET 930 Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:53:19 +0200
Greetings
Does anyone know where I can get drivers for a CNET 930 ethernet card ?
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:47:36 GMT
Thanks... I am trying it out.
On 25 Mar 1999 17:25:58 GMT, Thomas Scheunemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.hardware Christian D Freet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Elaboration would be greatly apprectiated... without having looked
>> yet, where can I get said kernel? Thanks
>
>You can get the Kernel at the typical places like ftp.kernel.org or any of
>its mirrors.
>
>To start the elaboration: I followed mostly the Banshee Vesa mini-howto at
>http://www.uno.edu/~adamico/banshee/Welcome.html
>
>The only deviation is, that i had to add a "Depth 24" line in the display
>section to get it to work.
>
>Thomas Scheunemann
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From: Bert Haverkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 700 Printer....under linux?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:55:08 +0100
Hi all,
I'm still having some problems with my stc 740. I use Dales upp file,
but the testpage-a4 comes out shifted upward. (about 1.5 cm) Has anyone
seen this happen? and more importantly does anybody know the cure for
this?
Besides, how do I change the setup to print in a lower resolution?
Bert
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