Linux-Hardware Digest #693, Volume #9 Thu, 18 Mar 99 18:13:43 EST
Contents:
Re: HP Laserjet 1100 Problems (Grant Taylor)
How to Make a bootable MO disk. (Vincent Lai)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(jedi)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(jedi)
Re: Sound problems with OPTi 82C930 (Ed Wilts)
Imation Superdisk as a backup device on RedHat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How about this modem?? (Andrew Comech)
Screen problem : Cotton GD-5164 (Laurent GRAWET)
WangDAT 3200 and NCR 875 Problems (John May)
Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card ("Lee Sharp")
Re: Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D 5465 rev2 and Xfree86_SVGA (Thomas Zajic)
Re: trouble with mouse... (Andrew Comech)
Re: How about this modem?? (Edward Lee)
Portable compaq and rollerball mouse setup (Doug Hughes)
Re: vi (Thomas Zajic)
Switching ethernet cards... (Jon Slater)
trouble with mouse...
USB support under linux ("Aaron Saikovski")
LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk) (Vincent Zocca)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 1100 Problems
Date: 18 Mar 1999 13:29:00 -0500
Rainer Kiehne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got two problems with my Laserjet 1100, Linux Mandrake 5.3,
> ghostscript-4.03-1 using th Laserjet 4/5/6 driver
I would suggest an upgrade to Ghostscript verion 5.10 or 5.50 just as
a matter of course. I doubt that the ljet4 driver has been changed in
any big way, but it never hurts to have the improved Postscript
support offered by the latest Ghostscript version.
> Printing more then one page via ghostscript takes a lot of
> time. Every single page is treated as a singel printjob. This
> problem does not happen using dvilj, but there are lots of .ps
> documents out there...
This printer is indeed listed as being slow in the compatibiliy list*;
the comment says "seems to be limited by parallel port speeds/speed of
host computer".
Ghostscript will always render a page then dump it to the printer as a
bitmap; this is how Postscript programs are structured and this is how
all Postscript implementations work (those inside printers do not face
a bottleneck, however, between themselves at the printer mechanism).
Dvilj is not limited to dumping one page at a time in bitmap form;
although I don't know much about it, it would be reasonable for dvilj
to be defining fonts as downloadable PCL fonts and then printing each
page by just telling the printer to put each character in the proper
place. This would typically result in less data...
> Postscript graphics are only printed with 300x300 dpi. Using 600x600
> results in pictures where the lines are displaced against each
> other.
Now this I'm not aware of. I'm not quite clear on what you are
describing, though - what do you mean by displaced lines, and what
sort of graphics - vector graphics or embedded bitmapped pictures?
* The Linux Printing HOWTO's compatibility listing lives at
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
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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] (Vincent Lai)
Subject: How to Make a bootable MO disk.
Date: 18 Mar 1999 17:48:58 GMT
Can anyone tell me how to make a bootable MO disk in Linux?
Thx.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:48:59 -0800
On 18 Mar 1999 03:43:05 -0600, Jeff Szarka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 14 Mar 1999 19:50:02 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
>wrote:
>
>:>I change resolutions quite a bit, why should it be such a
>:>inconvenience to change a stupid setting?
>:
>: Why? It's not like color is a real issue anymore.
>
>
>I thought linux was about being "free" I would like to be "free" to
>change resolutions easily.
>
>It's not about the color, it's about the fact that If I'm trying to
>show a group of people a web page or something it's easier to show
>them it at 640x480 so they can see it from further away. With 9x/nt
>it's a few clicks away.
Geez. Just change the fonts. One could do this even in Win 3.1.
Mind you, the current xfree and applet functionality available
will handle this situation just fine. So one is "free" to change
resolutions easily in X.
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 10:49:40 -0800
On 18 Mar 1999 17:38:00 GMT, Jon A. Maxwell (JAM) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jeff Szarka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (comp.lang.java.advocacy)
> |
> | I thought linux was about being "free" I would like to be "free" to
> | change resolutions easily.
> |
> | It's not about the color, it's about the fact that If I'm trying to
> | show a group of people a web page or something it's easier to show
> | them it at 640x480 so they can see it from further away. With 9x/nt
> | it's a few clicks away.
>
>It's something like ctrl-alt-minus and plus (on the number pad) cycle
>through your screen resolutions in your standard free X server.
This is too 'difficult' and the 3rd party applets aren't
'bundled in'.
--
"I was not elected to watch my people suffer and die |||
while you discuss this a invasion in committe." / | \
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound problems with OPTi 82C930
Date: 18 Mar 1999 20:32:06 GMT
Andreas Jung wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> I got a HOT-247 (PnP with OPTi 82C933) and did not succeed in getting
> this card into the Linux kernel, just as you. After spending hours
> having no success I finally decided to spend 20 US$ to OSS and=20
> therefore having my sound work. Sorry that I do not have any better
> recommendation
I installed the Rawhide release this week, and finally the HOT-247 card
works again. It worked fine wtih the 2.0.36 kernel, but broke when I went
to 2.2.3. With the full Rawhide release, I had no problems with the
card. Sndconfig automatically configured it and played the samples.
.../Ed (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Imation Superdisk as a backup device on RedHat 5.2
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:02:12 GMT
Can use use the Imation Superdisk (120 mb & 1.44 mb floppy) as a backup device
under RedHat 5.2? Specifically, will tar, cpio, xbru, etc. write to it at the
120 mb format, and prompt for another media when it fills? I would like to use
this device as a "120 mb tape".
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:29:52 -0500
From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: How about this modem??
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I was browsing at the local computer shop today
> and saw this modem.
> It is a Motorola Maxsenger (yes that's the way it's
> spelled) with voice.
'cause it is not `max-sender' or something but misspelled
`messenger'.
> It seems to be designed around
> a motorola ASIC. The big chip has the Motorola logo
> and name. Among the requirments and features it
> says that it has a virtual 16550 UART. It claims
> compatibility with win95 and WinNT.
If it does not mention Windows 3.1 (it certainly would not
condescend to DOS and Linux), then most likely it is a nonmodem.
Buy it and make sure it does not work; we'd then add it to the
list http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html as a winmodem ;-)
> It has an ISA bus interface.
Sadly, it does not matter.
> it's selling for $39.00.
I am skeptical because this modem is too cheap...
Even on the internet, V.90 hardware modems start at about $40.
If you need one, check the list of dealers
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
Cheers,
Andrew
PS.
This is funny, -- I just checked Motorola's website,
http://www.mot.com/General/prodport.html
At that page, they have the following choice of modems:
`Cable Modems' and `SM56 Software Modems'. Suckers
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From: Laurent GRAWET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Screen problem : Cotton GD-5164
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:22:19 +0100
Hi,
I cant configure very well this monitor. I own a SIS6205 video card.
If someone have information about it (syncs, modelines,...) please, send
it to me. (it's very important !)
Answer to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John May)
Subject: WangDAT 3200 and NCR 875 Problems
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:29:37 GMT
My system is unable to recognize a Wandat 3200 tape drive (ver 3.0
firwar)e on power up.
The SCSI controller is an ASUS PCI-SC875 board based on the NCR875
chip.
Kernel is 2.0.36 with the NCR53c8xx driver (3.1c)
When the driver scans the SCSI chain it reports that 'request failed'
on the ID used by the tape. If a tape is in the unit when linux is
started then a timeout occurs when the ID is probed, the SCSI scripts
are downloaded again and the process repeats.
Any thoughts on a cure?
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Recommend Fast Ethernet Card
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 15:39:50 -0600
Jon Slater wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
|Can anyone recommend a fast PCI Ethernet card for Linux?
I have heard the Intel PCI cards are the easiest to configure. <Less
variety than the 3com> I have heard the DEC chipsets are the fastest with
the lowest CPU load. I know from experience than the TLAN chips Compaq used
in many DeskPro x000 systems suck green cheese! ISA cards often have PnP
issues... In your position, however, I would get the most recognized brand
of PCI card the local computer store had on sale. :-)
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: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D 5465 rev2 and Xfree86_SVGA
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:25:30 GMT
[ e-mail CC�ed ]
FLERIT Frederic wrote:
> I can't run startx with my 'Cirrus Logic Laguna 3D 5465 rev2" graphic
> card.
> The server starts properly but after a while, because of the mouse it
> stops.
> The screen is frozzen and the cursor has gone.
> I have installed RH5.2-fr and upgraded XFree up to 3.3.3-1.1 without
> benefit.
> [ ... ]
Hehe ... it�s been a while since this one last popped up. A quick
DejaNews search for "5465" in comp.os.linux* yields 200 hits. A
quick look in the XFree86-FAQ would have revealed:
http://www.xfree86.org/FAQ/#GD546xLockUps
Q.E4- I've got a Cirrus Logic GD546x based card and am experiencing
system lockups. What can I do?
Try adding
Option "xaa_no_color_exp"
to your XF86Config file (in the Device section).
That, plus Option "no_pixmap_cache" gets rid of the occasional
screen garbage.
HTH,
Thomas
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 16:41:32 -0500
From: Andrew Comech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: trouble with mouse...
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> it all runned good until i tried to setup my mouse...
> the mouse just doesn't work !!!
> only wen i kill the mouse pid and run the gpm again it starts to work , but
> only did worked twice...
This is kind of strange.
What serial port you use? With what interrupt? What's the output of
setserial -g /dev/ttyS* and cat /proc/interrupts?
What protocol does your mouse speak?
Also, you can try to investigate your mouse with XF86Setup.
> Thnx !
Wlkm!
Cheers,
Andrew
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How about this modem??
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 13:52:03 -0800
May i ask some stupid questions?
If you have a fast enough CPU and flash A/D and D/A connected
to the phone line (some isolation circuit, i guess), why would you
need an ASIC? If you have to program an ASIC chip in software,
why don't you just program a Gate Array directly. I am lookup
for a cheaper solution that Win Modem. I don't feel like paying
for half a solution.
Andrew Comech wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I was browsing at the local computer shop today
> > and saw this modem.
> > It is a Motorola Maxsenger (yes that's the way it's
> > spelled) with voice.
> 'cause it is not `max-sender' or something but misspelled
> `messenger'.
>
> > It seems to be designed around
> > a motorola ASIC. The big chip has the Motorola logo
> > and name. Among the requirments and features it
> > says that it has a virtual 16550 UART. It claims
> > compatibility with win95 and WinNT.
> If it does not mention Windows 3.1 (it certainly would not
> condescend to DOS and Linux), then most likely it is a nonmodem.
> Buy it and make sure it does not work; we'd then add it to the
> list http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html as a winmodem ;-)
>
> > It has an ISA bus interface.
> Sadly, it does not matter.
>
> > it's selling for $39.00.
> I am skeptical because this modem is too cheap...
> Even on the internet, V.90 hardware modems start at about $40.
> If you need one, check the list of dealers
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
>
> PS.
> This is funny, -- I just checked Motorola's website,
> http://www.mot.com/General/prodport.html
> At that page, they have the following choice of modems:
> `Cable Modems' and `SM56 Software Modems'. Suckers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Hughes)
Subject: Portable compaq and rollerball mouse setup
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:17:34 CST
Well, failing my redhat install, I have managed to get debian on this
little Compaq Contura 430cx. WOrks nicely. Still a couple of problems.
I cannot boot off any rescue floppy. Right after it starts trying to
load root.bin it says "Load failed.." and just stops right there.
The only solution is to power cycle the portable (floppy=thinkpad does
not work). The only way I can boot this guy is to boot using install.bat
or loadlin directly from DOS. (Not a problem, I can add to the win95
F8 menu.)
2) I can't get it to see the roller ball mouse in X. I've set the device
to PS/2 style and the port to /dev/ttyS0. That won't work. If I plug in
an external mouse and set it to Microsoft, then that works fine (on ttyS0).
Anybody have experience with rollerball mice, compaq, and X? (I don't
imagine this would be too machine specific)
--
____________________________________________________________________________
Doug Hughes Engineering Network Services
System/Net Admin Auburn University
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Zajic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: vi
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:47:02 GMT
Burkard B. Kreidler wrote:
> >> (email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
> >> onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
> >> PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie--(how DO you exit vi?)
> When in editing mode, press [Esc]
> Then type :q if you want to quit
> or :wq if you wanna save and quit
> Don't forget the colon.
Or :q! if you want to quit without saving.
Thomas
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From: Jon Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Switching ethernet cards...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 14:56:21 -0700
I am pulling a NE2000 (ISA) clone out of my linux box and putting a
Linksys 100Mbps (PCI) in it's place.
Are there any issues I should know about before I do this?
I know I have the correct Linux driver for the new card. Do I remove
anything first?
Thanks in advance for the help!!!
Jon
--
Jon D. Slater QualComm Inc.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6150 Lookout Road
Phone: (303) 247-5037 Boulder, Colorado
Fax: (303) 247-5167 80301
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trouble with mouse...
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 20:35:53 -0000
Hello...
i've installed r.h.5.0 linux on my pc!
it all runned good until i tried to setup my mouse...
the mouse just doesn't work !!!
only wen i kill the mouse pid and run the gpm again it starts to work , but
only did worked twice...
Can someone please help me with that ???
Thnx !
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From: "Aaron Saikovski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: USB support under linux
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 09:26:56 +1100
Does linux support the USB peripheral connection type or is it just a win98
thing?
Thanks,
Aaron Saikovski
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 23:05:21 +0100
From: Vincent Zocca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.scsi,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: LILO on /dev/sda6 (ASUS P2B-DS, 2xSCSI disk)
Hi,
I have a problem with LILO. I want to have it on /dev/sda6 and let it
boot /dev/sda2 (W98) and /dev/sda3 (NT4).
This doesn't work on my system with ASUS P2B-DS and two SCSI disks.
What happens is that when configuread as meant (/dev/sd6 active, LILO on
/dev/sda6), the system won't boot.
When I install LILO on /dev/sda things look better. Linux boots fine.
NT4 however, starts a boot sequence but the gives me the BSOD with some
message that it coudn't find the boot device. Ok, silly NT4.
I think I have RTFM. But I still don't know what's going on. If you
know, by all means, speak your mind!!
Right now I have NT4's boot manager successfully configured to boot the
three OSes but I feel -say- akward with this situation. I include a
summary of my configuration.
Cheers,
Vincent Zocca
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/sda or boot=/dev/sda6
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
label=linux
root=/dev/sda6
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
read-only
other=/dev/sda2
label=w98
table=/dev/sda
other=/dev/sda3
label=nt4
table=/dev/sda
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fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sda2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sda3 * 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sda4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sda6 921 950 240943+ 83 Linux native
/dev/sda7 951 960 80325 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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fdisk /dev/sda
The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1106.
This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
(e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/sdb: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1106 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 70 562243+ ff BBT
/dev/sdb2 71 140 562275 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
/dev/sdb3 141 210 562275 7 OS/2 HPFS
/dev/sdb4 211 1106 7197120 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 961 1106 1172745 83 Linux native
/dev/sdb6 946 960 120487+ 82 Linux swap
/dev/sdb7 921 945 200781 83 Linux native
Command (m for help):
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