Linux-Hardware Digest #834, Volume #9 Thu, 25 Mar 99 16:13:23 EST
Contents:
Re: LEXMARK OPTRA S1855 (Grant Taylor)
Re: install RH to Compaq 486/33 SCSI 8Mb RAM (Michael Ng)
Re: How to get X to use modem (Christian D Freet)
Nec 4X4 CD Shuffler? (Dan Falk)
Two SCSI controllers, 2 OSes, one hard drive. Help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: g200 and svgalib (Rob Komar)
Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem (Yidao Cai)
Re: 28.8 K modem/serial speed ? ("Bob Glover")
Use of make xxx (Christian D Freet)
Re: which AGP video card for IBM Netfinity 3000 ? ("Karim Sharif")
Re: Can SiS6215 be configured in SVGA mode? ("Bob Glover")
Re: Banshee (Amaury JACQUOT)
Linux on embedded systems (Holger Blinzinger)
undelete ("Karim Sharif")
Re: Multi-channel soundcard for Linux (Scott Dorsey)
Re: Q: Fujitsu Dynamo 640SE and Kernel 2.2.3 (Matthias Meixner)
Re: ATI Rage Fury Support on RH51? (Christian D Freet)
Re: Riva TNT (Thomas Zajic)
SuSE 6.0 - PCMCIA Xircom CEM33 (Somf)
Digital Cameras & Debian Linux (LINCARD 1000)
help needed ("Ruel Loehr")
Re: Two SCSI controllers, 2 OSes, one hard drive. Help! (John Burton)
Anyone out there using the Kyocera F-800T Laser printer? (bdc)
Diamon Viper V550 & XServer Problems... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LEXMARK OPTRA S1855
Date: 25 Mar 1999 14:01:28 -0500
"wrexy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a lexmark Optra S1855 with duplex option. It is a great pitty that I
> can really use it for its fully potential as all the printer driver is for
> the regular postscript printer. Lexmark can give me any help. Any
> suggestions?
I'm not sure what you're missing; the S1855 is a Postscript printer
which is reported to work just fine with the usual Linux software.
What's missing?
--
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: Michael Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: install RH to Compaq 486/33 SCSI 8Mb RAM
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 11:01:10 -0800
Thanks.
I don't expect much from running X anyway. It is basically to be used as
a dumb terminal ;) I just think why not use Linux if it can ;)
I haven't tried Debian Linux for quite some time. I'll give it a try..
Thanks again
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This maybe a long shot. As far as I know, the Debian boot disk
> includes most of the supported SCSI driver. You might want to use
> their boot disk to find out what yours is. If you have the Compaq EISA
> setup disk, you may be able to find it out as well assuming your SCSI
> controller occupies one of the EISA slot. As far as video, the program
> "SuperProbe" may be able to tell you that. But you have to have the
> base Linux installed before you work on X. In an 8M machine, you really
> should not try to run X unless you have the time to wait.
>
>
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: How to get X to use modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:25:15 GMT
It's a winmodem, but I plan to switch soon to a modem with a controller...
Thanks
On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:36:04 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Melanie Timmons) wrote:
>
>On Thu, 25 Mar 1999 05:54:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
>wrote:
>
>>Now, I need help with the modem. I have a somewhat standard ISA
>>modem... I don't know how to get X (or Linux in general) to use it...
>>I tried using the modem dialer in X, but when querying the modem, it
>>wasn't found.
>>
>>Please help, and thanks in advance.
>
>
>What kind of modem and what are you typing to start it? If it's a
>WinModem, I've heard nothing but bad things. If it can by jumpered to
>a specific port, do it? Are you connecting to your ISP? Are you
>using xisp to do this? If you could, post alittle more info about
>specifics to the problem. Just saying "it dont work" doesn't help us
>much. Im not trying to sound harsh, just want to help.
>***************************************
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Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:05:40 -0500
From: Dan Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Nec 4X4 CD Shuffler?
Does anybody have any info on getting a cd shuffler ( an IDE/ATAPI NEC
4X4 ) to work with RH5.2?
Thanks,
Dan Falk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Two SCSI controllers, 2 OSes, one hard drive. Help!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 18:56:08 GMT
Hi all,
I'm working on a control system for an astronomy CCD camera that uses
two computers: one is a DOS box that talks to the camera via a sequencer,
the other is a linux box (Redhat 5.2) where the user sits to issue commands
(which are passed to the DOS box via serial line) and analyze/reduce the
data as it is taken. Both systems are SCSI, and the SCSI card for each
computer is connected to the other via SCSI cable, so that both computers
have access to all of the hard drives.
The camera's designers assure me that the two machines can't be connected
via, for example, NFS, because an ethernet card in the DOS box would introduce
interrupts that interfere with the sequencer's ability to write data to disk.
Now, the problem: when the DOS box takes a picture, it writes it to a DOS
formatted disk. The linux box, however, never becomes aware that there is
a new file on that disk; an 'ls' shows only those files that were present
when the directory was first listed.
This is probably because the kernel is caching the directory
information after the first 'ls', then never querying the disk again.
I've tried remounting the drive, syncing, etc., but the only way to
make linux see the new files is to reboot the linux box before trying to
read new files.
I need a way to force linux to check this shared disk for any new files
every time it is accessed. Is there a utility I can use to force this
check? Is there a particular SCSI card more well suited to this task? Or,
will it require hacking the linux SCSI driver?
System details:
Linux side: Adaptec AHA-294X driver (id=7)
sda (id=1)
sdb (id=4)
DOS side: Using a custom Advansys SCSI driver ("customized to share
SCSI resources with other controllers") (id=6)
Thanks,
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Komar)
Subject: Re: g200 and svgalib
Date: 25 Mar 1999 19:11:21 GMT
morgan ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: What was your impression of the scitech thing using svgalib? Or
: did you just use the X server? And did you use it with a g200?
I used the svgalib part with quake and quake2 (mostly with the
latter). I got one crash in quake, but other than that, it
worked fine. I ran quake2 at up to 640x480, but never went any
higher because the frame rate was starting to suffer (I only have
a PII 233), even with my G200.
Cheers,
Rob Komar
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From: Yidao Cai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: S3 Virge/GX2 problem
Date: 25 Mar 1999 13:14:04 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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.
Thanks for all who responded.
Someone from XFree86 suggested several options, and I found that add
"no_accel" options solves the xv problem. However, it slows the X down.
cai
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From: "Bob Glover" <app1rtg_at_air.ups.com>
Subject: Re: 28.8 K modem/serial speed ?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:01:23 -0000
The speed choices presented by your application are computer-to-modem
speeds.
The rated speed of your modem, 28800, is a modem-to-modem speed. You should
set
the computer-to-modem speed as high as you can in the application. Then
you'll get
28800 modem-to-modem, assuming your telephone line quality is good enough.
Some
modems/serial ports can only run at up to 57600: it just depends on the
hardware involved.
That's not a problem for you since you're working with 28800. Just don't
pick 19200 since
that will effectively limit your throughput to 19200.
Good luck!
**Nick Brown wrote in message <[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.
[snip]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian D Freet)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Use of make xxx
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 19:24:13 GMT
How do I use "make xxx"? (Yes, I'm a linux virgin). I have read about using the
command, but
when I try, command line says there is no such command (in bash)....
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From: "Karim Sharif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.windows.x.i386unix
Subject: Re: which AGP video card for IBM Netfinity 3000 ?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:40:37 -0500
You need an accelerated X server to support the chipset, not a new vid card.
Try Metro-X
Oh yeah, NO 3D / Open GL support comes with XFree86, you have 2 choices,
get Mesa (Not full support) or get an accelerated X server. I think there
are a couple
of others available but, Metro Links' Metro-X seems to be the best
www.metrolink.com
Karim Sharif
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Pim Zandbergen wrote in message <7dduhm$loq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>The IBM Netfinity 3000 server has an S3 Trio3d video adapter onboard.
>As this chipset is not supported in XFree86 for Linux, I am looking
>for an AGP card that is supported. I don't want to use a PCI card,
>because I need the PCI slots for other cards.
>
>Of course lots of AGP cards are supported in XFree86, but I need one
>that physically fits into a Netfinity 3000. This server requires
>AGP cards that have non-standard brackets.
>
>The manual says to check the compatibility pages on
>http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/compat, but they don't list
>display adapters at all.
>
>
>
>
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From: "Bob Glover" <app1rtg_at_air.ups.com>
Subject: Re: Can SiS6215 be configured in SVGA mode?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:10:10 -0000
What did it do when you tried in in SVGA mode? I have a
SiS6326 AGP. Make sure you try these options in your device
section: "no_bitblt", "no_imageblt", and "sw_cursor".
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
<7dcrsf$t8g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> The latest 3.3.3 X (rpm) is said to support 6215 and a host of other newer
> cards. But it is NOT upon testing out. Pls let me alos know if somebody
gets
> this working in SVGA mode.
[snip]
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From: Amaury JACQUOT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Banshee
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:25:15 +0100
It's not crappy hardware, but crappy implementation.
In fact, according to my local taiwanese, Creative is
very creative as far as PCI is concerned, and only special
_windows_ drivers are able to talk to them.
Rod Prather wrote:
>
> We were trying to get a Creative Labs Banshee card to work, we gave up and
> backed down to an older supported card. In the process I called CL to see if
> they had any info on Linux compatability. They're answer was, "we don't
> support Linux, maybe someone else has written a driver". They also had no idea
> of where to look for anything. Seems that Creative isn't on the program at
> all. Frankly, I have had nothing but headaches with 3DFX cards (Win apps) ever
> since they came out. Seems like if it's not the mainstream, top of the line
> product, they just screw up all the time. Is it a crummy standard or is it
> just a non-standard standard?
>
> Chris Plummer wrote:
>
> > I have tried the same URL, with the same results. Twice. No good. My
> > solution? Ditch the Banshee, I went back to my crappy but reliable S3 Virge
> > based Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. It sucks, but it works. I actually got NO
> > useable screen when I started X - I tried setting up my server to use a
> > framebuffer, but no luck.
> >
> > I'll wait to see what's supported - How about the Nvidia Riva TNT chipset
> > cards (specifically, Creative's). Anyone had any luck with that?
> >
> > Chris Plummer
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Holger Blinzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on embedded systems
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:33:02 +0100
Does anybody have experience concerning installation of linux on
embedded systems (PC/104-modules)? What kind of complications did you
encounter? (What about booting from a flash rom or modifying the
kernel?)
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From: "Karim Sharif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: undelete
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 09:35:51 -0500
HELP!, I just lost a significant enough amount of work that I REALLY
need to get back.
Any Ideas??
Thanks
Karim
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Crossposted-To: rec.audio.pro
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Dorsey)
Subject: Re: Multi-channel soundcard for Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 14:42:42 GMT
In article <7dc29o$6ol$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam E.
Trenholme) writes:
>
>Thank you for presenting your point of view WRT why you can not just
>release the specs to people making an open-sourced driver. It sounds like
>as though you are lookung for an audio Daryll Strauss--an experienced
>programmer who is willing to make a binary-only driver for your card. It
>is my hope a programmer better than me will come forward.
The problem is that when this happens, sooner or later someone out there is
dedicated enough to reverse-engineer things, and there are a lot of dedicated
people in the Linux community.
>Please ignore the flames posted by other Linux users. Linux users, for
>some reason, seem to have less emotional maturity than other communities,
>such as the somewhat mature rec.audio.pro community.
Have you actually SEEN the junk we get here in rec.audio.pro?
>You are the most open-minded maker of a multi-channel card with regards to
>the Linux movement. If your card can be the first multi-channel digital
>card with true Linux support, I belive you will have a significant edge.
I agree, but I also suspect that sooner or later someone will hack up a
driver, just as happened with a lot of other undocumented products.
--scott
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Meixner)
Subject: Re: Q: Fujitsu Dynamo 640SE and Kernel 2.2.3
Date: 25 Mar 1999 14:40:00 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The good reputatioin of MO(Magneto-Optical) drive finally persuade me to buy
> one to backup my data, and I just bought a Fujitsu Danamo 640SE. From this
> NG, I learned that the 2k sector size of 640MB disk will be a problem for
> linux kernel 2.0.xx. And two different(??I did not look into them yet)
> patches can be found from
>
> http://www.erlangen.netsurf.de/linux-mo/
> http://liniere.gen.u-tokyo.ac.jp/2048.html
>
> Also some people reported that development kernel 2.1.xx seems to be able to
> handel this problem. So I just wonder if kernel 2.2.3 already solve this
> problem? Or should I try patch for 2.0.xx or 2.1.xx? Which one is a good
> solution? Thank you for your experience and help.
Hi,
this is what I just found out trying to use a MO640:
- The drive can be accessed using kernel 2.2.3
- I could use the disk without partitioning using ext2 and FAT
(remember to use '-b 2048' with mke2fs)
- using normal fdisk does not work for partitioning
- The disk can be partitioned using fdisk from www.erlangen.netsurf.de/linux-mo/
(thanks for the hint :-) )
- Matthias Meixner
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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 14:47:50 GMT
Elaboration would be greatly apprectiated... without having looked
yet, where can I get said kernel? Thanks
On 25 Mar 1999 10:33:48 GMT, Thomas Scheunemann
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Riva TNT
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:11:14 GMT
[ e-mail CC´ed ]
Kabal wrote:
> [ ... ]
> I tried going to config file and manually settin everything to higher
> resolutuons, and startX, it still ignores it.
There´s a whole bunch of config files for X related stuff. The most
important one is /etc/XF86Config.
> I was told to use XF86Configure on efnets #linux.
> I can't find /usr/X11R6/XF86Configure... its not there, even though i did
> the default install of SlackWare.
And then there are two setup programs, one is text based (xf86config),
the other one is graphical (runs under the XF86_VGA16 server):
/usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86Setup
> [ ... ]
HTH,
Thomas
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From: Somf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: SuSE 6.0 - PCMCIA Xircom CEM33
Date: 19 Mar 1999 08:00:24 GMT
Can anyone help. I know there are others with the same problem:
The System see's the card just fine. Got Link, Got traffic light
blinking, but can't get system to talk to the network. I can ping the
localhost, but nothing on the network, not even the default router. Network
configs look okay to me!
Using: SuSE 6.0
System: Toshiba Tecra 8000
Ethernet Card: PCMCIA - Xircom CEM33
Per SuSE Documentation, I have:
Disabled the Network configs for the Ethernet in YAST,
Created a Scheme and used lilo to setup the network (it appears to be fine).
in rc.config set: PCMCIA_PCIC_OPTS="do_scan=0 irq_mask=0xefff"
ALL HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED IN ADVANCED!
Here are my current configurations. Maybe someone see's something I don't:
# cardctl ident
cardctl.txt
Socket 0:
product info: "Xircom", "CreditCard Ethernet+Modem 33.6", "CEM33", "1.00"
manfid: 0x0105, 0x110d
function: 2 (serial)
Socket 1:
no product info available
# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:C7:57:F8:4C
inet addr:139.103.100.188 Bcast:139.103.100.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x2d0
# netstat -rn
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags MSS Window irtt Iface
139.103.100.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0
127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 3584 0 0 lo
0.0.0.0 139.103.100.254 0.0.0.0 UG 1500 0 0 eth0
FROM dmesg:
....
xirc2ps_cs.c 1.31 1998/12/09 19:32:55 (dd9jn+kvh)
eth0: Xircom: port 0x2d0, irq 3, hwaddr 00:80:C7:57:F8:4C
ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
eth0: media 10BaseT, silicon revision 1
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LINCARD 1000)
Subject: Digital Cameras & Debian Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:53:30 GMT
Heya, has anyone mucked around with using digital [still shot] cameras
with Debian, or any other version of Linux for that matter? Cant seem
to find much info on the subject....
Kane
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From: "Ruel Loehr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help needed
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:58:40 -0500
Hey guys I need some help,
I just purchased a new system for compaq and I want to install Linux,
it has the following hardware
500 mhz p3
128mb 100mhz SDRAM
16.8 GB ultra DMA hard drive
6x DVD-rom
pci 56K V.90 Data/fax modem
aureall 8820 pci audio card
Diamond viper v550 w /flat panel support (16MB)
of course win98
does anyone see any problems that they have already run into?
Also, I am a newbie, if anyone can recommend any good web tutorials or
anything it would be greatly appreciated.
Ruel Loehr
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From: John Burton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two SCSI controllers, 2 OSes, one hard drive. Help!
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 20:52:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm working on a control system for an astronomy CCD camera that uses
> two computers: one is a DOS box that talks to the camera via a sequencer,
> the other is a linux box (Redhat 5.2) where the user sits to issue commands
> (which are passed to the DOS box via serial line) and analyze/reduce the
> data as it is taken. Both systems are SCSI, and the SCSI card for each
> computer is connected to the other via SCSI cable, so that both computers
> have access to all of the hard drives.
>
> The camera's designers assure me that the two machines can't be connected
> via, for example, NFS, because an ethernet card in the DOS box would introduce
> interrupts that interfere with the sequencer's ability to write data to disk.
>
> Now, the problem: when the DOS box takes a picture, it writes it to a DOS
> formatted disk. The linux box, however, never becomes aware that there is
> a new file on that disk; an 'ls' shows only those files that were present
> when the directory was first listed.
>
> This is probably because the kernel is caching the directory
> information after the first 'ls', then never querying the disk again.
> I've tried remounting the drive, syncing, etc., but the only way to
> make linux see the new files is to reboot the linux box before trying to
> read new files.
>
> I need a way to force linux to check this shared disk for any new files
> every time it is accessed. Is there a utility I can use to force this
> check? Is there a particular SCSI card more well suited to this task? Or,
> will it require hacking the linux SCSI driver?
>
> System details:
> Linux side: Adaptec AHA-294X driver (id=7)
> sda (id=1)
> sdb (id=4)
> DOS side: Using a custom Advansys SCSI driver ("customized to share
> SCSI resources with other controllers") (id=6)
>
Just a thought, having worked with similar intruments (CCD array
controlled by a Harris RTX 2010 controller talking to a PC via a custom
baud rate serial line and a 24 wire PIO card (3 8-bit parallel
channels)....
Why not just use the Linux box for everything, instead of sharing a SCSI
disk between two O/S's (particulalry when one is DOS). I found it
actually *easier* to write the low level controller stuff for Linux than
for DOS...
John
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From: bdc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone out there using the Kyocera F-800T Laser printer?
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 21:59:30 +0100
Hi,
I recently got an (ancient, but good) Kyocera F-800T laserprinter.
I took it to a friend which had windows and tested it, quality was good
and it didn't give any problems.
As I wanted to use it in Linux, I noticed the quality was reduced
(though it was configured at 300x300), and it first prints a page of
junk.
The drivers I've tried are the one of HP laserjet and the standard
Postscript printer, both seem to be the same and don't correct the
problems.
Anyone who can help me with this?
Bart De Cock
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Diamon Viper V550 & XServer Problems...
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 15:07:57 GMT
Hi there...
I am running a PII-based system with a Diamond Viper V550 (16MB SDRAM).
This card is based on NVidia's Riva TNT 128 chipset, which, I believe is
supported by XFree86. After completing the RedHat 5.2 basic installation,
when I ran xf86config, I noticed that the V550 wasn't listed, though the
XFree86 website does list the card as using the XF86_SVGA server. I hence
tried selecting the Viper 330, and I did not specify the RAMDAC or Clockchip
since I was not able to procure the details.
Under the videomodes, I selected 800x600 for al the color density
modes. Upon completing the xf86config, when I do run the server using
startx, I typically notice that one of two things happens. Either the server
does not start at all, crashing with a plethora of error messages, including
"Not enough memory", "No Screens found", and a whole bunch of others. The
"Not enough memory" (which is detected as 64k!!) is particularly riling,
considering I have 16Megs on board! I understand that some cards have some
problem with only having 1MB being accessible by Linux, and sure hope this
isn't one of them. Either way, when I do manage to get the Xserver to start,
the graphical display starts up in 320x204 mode, where I really can't see
enough info on screen to do anything constructive! :(
Do reply with any pointers or hints you might have, and anything I might be
doing wrong.
Thanks a ton. Do Cc: a copy to my email address as well.
--
Jayanth
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