Linux-Hardware Digest #777, Volume #9 Fri, 19 Mar 99 20:14:19 EST
Contents:
Re: AMD k6 2 350 (Jeff McWilliams)
XFree86 on Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS (Brent Rader)
Re: old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Diamond fusion 16mb ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux. (bryan)
Re: VIPER 550 TNT IN LINUX (Jim Henderson)
ATI RAGE PRO USERS??? (Dennis Abuan)
Linux setup on Alpha ("Headley Sappleton")
Re: Tulip driver, with buildin 21143 controller. (Tiger)
Re: HELP!- Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (1371) MIDI (Koen de Boev�)
Re: Can't print after Kernel upgrade (Ryan Ho)
Ega Video Card/Montior ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux, Linksys PCMCIA, Fujitsu 420D (Brian Justice)
Re: Which SMP Motherboard? (Jason McKnight)
Re: "Select the application, and then the platform" (Donal K. Fellows)
Adaptec 2906 card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
CD3630E (Tarmo Toom)
Re: Xcdroast, hp7200i IDE not mounting problem (Mr Cheuk Kong Lo)
Problems installing Debian 2.0 on toshiba laptop ("Siw Nj�tun")
AIT Tape on Linux RH5.1 (Alessandro Agostini)
Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive (Lance Adams)
Re: SB16PnP-How? (Jim McCusker)
Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux. (Gary Momarison)
US Robotics Fax Modem ("Jody Walker")
Big Swap-space necessary? ("Alex Wouda")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff McWilliams)
Subject: Re: AMD k6 2 350
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leonardo Lanzi wrote:
>Hilaire Fernandes wrote:
>
>> Alistair P Furnell wrote:
>>
>> Yes some AMD don't work at all with Radhat 4.2 5.1 5.2.
>> If you have the 'good' AMD chips it may work ;)
>>
>> Don't use AMDK6 if you don't want to have problems. There is many.
>>
I have an AMD K6-300 in an Asus P5A ATX motherboard, 64M PC100 SDRAM, ATI
Xpert98 PCI video card, Symbios 53c815 based Fast SCSI-2 card, Intel
EEPRo10/100 Ethernet card, Fujitsu 6.4M UDMA hard drive. Everything works
fine. I started using it with a Debian Linux distribution sporting the 2.0.35
Kernel. I've since compiled about 10 different versions of the 2.2 Kernel
series, from pr3 through pre7, and now 2.2.3. No faults, no crashes.
Does your system have adequate cooling ? I'm using an AOpen mid-tower case.
I added a 2nd fan in the front of the case. I'm using a Vantec heatsink/fan
with heat conductive compound between the CPU and the heatsink.
I know some older AMD K6 CPU's (or was it the K6-2?) had a bug in them that
resulted in Sig 11 errors when compiling stuff. I bought mine around November
and it has been very solid. I run Netscape, scan stuff on my Microtek SCSI
scanner, edit them in Gimp, print stuff to my DJ660, all without crashing.
Jeff
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From: Brent Rader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: XFree86 on Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:21:55 GMT
Has anyone tried to get X windows to run on a Toshiba Satellite 2535 CDS
laptop? The chipset it uses is Chips & Technologies 6900. I am using
Red Hat 5.2 and I have tried some of the drivers for other C & T
chipsets and I havn't been able to make one work. Any ideas?
Also, with this laptop when it is in the regular text mode the display
doesn't fill the screen. It fills it ithe horizontal direction but not
vertical. It looks like one of those videos in the wide screen formats.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks for any help,
Brent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: old proprietary cd-rom recognised as scsi? (REPOST)
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:10 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi, i just compiled the 2.2.1 kernel and noticed that it seemed to recognize
> my old proprietary cd rom (which i previously had to use via dos cause i
> couldn't get linux to recognize it). but "seemed" is the key word here, this
> is what it told me upon bootup:
> Kernel detected SCSI CDROM drive /dev/, checking for a disc:
> mount: /dev/ is not a block device
What kind of cd-rom is that? some creative labs thing? an old Sony
maybe?
> now in NT the driver for this drive is a scsi driver so i guess it makes
> sense for linux to see it as a scsi device but as you can see it detects a
> cdrom at /dev/ not /dev/cdrom (or /dev/anything for htat matter)
NT sees everything as a SCSI device, even IDE hard disks...
Could you be more precise about the cd-rom model? Linux supports several old
proprietary drives, maybe yours is one of them.
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Alain Borel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond fusion 16mb
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:15 GMT
Use this http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]////// (sly) wrote:
> Cannot run xwindows svga. anyone have a solution?
>
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:20 GMT
mylex dac960 series is supported. but it isn't rock solid on k6 systems. it
does appear to be very solid under intel BX systems.
fyi,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I'm trying to find out which hardware PCI-controllers are supported under
: Linux. Can anyone tell me some options for hardware RAID-systems that will
: work under Linux?
: Thanks!
: Arjan
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From: Jim Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIPER 550 TNT IN LINUX
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:17 GMT
Go to http://www.xfree86.org and download the SVGA X11 server from the
FTP site. You don't need the entire update to XFree86 3.3.3.1, the SVGA
server by itself works fine.
I've got this same card running 8 virtual screens at 1280x1024x32bpp
under KDE. As time goes on, I'll be spending more and more time under
Linux and less and less under MS products (though I have to support the
MS products, so I have to keep them around).
Jim
Tony wrote:
>
> Hey,
> Being a WAY rookie Linux user, I was wondering if there is a driver
> for my viper 550. 16 colours (ALMOST!) makes me want to use Windows98 again.
>
> Thanks.
> Tony :)
--
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Novell Support Connection SysOp - http://support.novell.com/forums
Homepage at http://www.bigfoot.com/~jhenderson (email instructions
located here)
Please note that as an NSC SysOp, I do not provide support for Novell
products on a personal basis - if you need help with a Novell product,
please post a reply in the public newsgroup or visit the Novell support
forums at the URL above.
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From: Dennis Abuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI RAGE PRO USERS???
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:24 GMT
Hi everyone,
I was wondering if anyone has experienced setting up a
linux box with the following card:
ATI RAGE Pro 2X AGP w/ TV-OUT
and if so,
what are your experiences hooking up the TV out
to a TV to see if any of the drivers for the
video card show anything on the screen..
The reason why I am asking is that I am developing
a embedded linux box with this specific card built
in and would like to know if the drivers that linux
already has is enough to run the video board.
Your replies are greatly appreciated.
BR,
Dennis
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From: "Headley Sappleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.alpha,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Linux setup on Alpha
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:26 GMT
Can someone who may have installed Red Hat Linux on a Alpha Multia box help
me?
I am not getting anywhere with this. I added an external SCSI box with a
hard drive and CDROM.
Nothing seems to happen when i put in the RH booth disk into the multia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tiger)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Tulip driver, with buildin 21143 controller.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:29 GMT
Stephen Ashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
the latest tulip driver solved your problem or not?
>Yer. I did get the latest tulip driver dated the 24-Feb-'99. re-compiled as per
>my orignal posting.
>Cheers,
>Stephen,
>Alice Springs,
>Out Back Oz.
>John Strange wrote:
>> Try a newer driver at
>>
>> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers
>>
>> [Snip ]
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From: Koen de Boev� <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP!- Creative Ensoniq Audio PCI (1371) MIDI
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:35 GMT
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, mvrao wrote:
>The sound is working (incl recording). But MIDI is not working at all. I
>get the error /dev/sequencer not supported with playmidi.
>
>So I moved /dev/sequencer and linked it to /dev/dsp. Now I get the error
>no sound card found when I do playmidi ! Sound (.wav files) still work.
>
>I am using the 1371 driver that comes with linux (RH 5.2)
That's because soundblaster 64/128pci don't have a wavetable on board, they
provide you with software to do the wavetable thing.
But of course , this software is only for windows.
there is a software wavetable for linux though, TIMIDITY
check out http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/
I got midi working with a SB 64pci, but it is only working with TKtimidity, a
TK based interface., I couldn't get timidity to work with Kmidi or any other
interface.
Also it works in Netscape, but I got a lot of reverb and hicups .
regards
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From: Ryan Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't print after Kernel upgrade
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:37 GMT
Hi Steve,
I had the same problem as you, not being able to use my printer after the
kernel upgrade. I compiled my kernel with all the necessary support for the
printer as modules, but I must have installed modprobe wrongly so these
modules were not loaded on demand. As I had no time to look through each
and every configuration file because my exams are coming, I recompiled my
kernel and disabled module support. Now everything is fine.
I don't know if you have a problem with modprobe, but if you get messages
at boot time indicating that there were some problems with modules, you can
either try to fix the problem, or just compile a monolithic kernel.
Hope this was helpful, I don't know too much cuz I' m a newbie myself.
Ryan
Steve Loewinsohn wrote:
> My RH5.2 machine mysteriously stopped printing. I can only assume that
> this happened after upgrading the kernel to version 2.2.2. I definateley
> DID compile the new kernel with parallel port support, and at this point
> I'm thinking the problem may be with lpd itself. Anyway here's what I
> get:
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Ega Video Card/Montior
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:39 GMT
Will it be work with just text based linux(no graphics, x-windows.....)I am
going to get an old 486 and can get these parts for cheap(mon,vid card)Its
slakware newest ver as well as the kernel
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From: Brian Justice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Linux, Linksys PCMCIA, Fujitsu 420D
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:40 GMT
All,
Hello. I've got RH 5.2 on a Fujitsu 420D notebook, and am
trying to get the Linksys 10/100 PCMCIA Ethernet card to work.
The cardmgr identifies the card just fine, assigns it an unused
interrupt (10), and the eth0 interface starts. Problem is, I can't
get anywhere on the NW. Ping anything, and I get 'network
unreachable'.
I believe my routing tables are fine (they're equivalent to my
desktop, on the same NW). Would anyone care to cat out their
/etc/pcmcia/config so I can see what yours looks like? Should I
be using the Tulip driver for this beast? I've tried, and get
'device or resource busy' trying to load the module. Any ideas.
As usual, thanks for the help.
Brian Justice
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replace com with mil to email please
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From: Jason McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Which SMP Motherboard?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:42 GMT
I must agree with the other posters. I have an ASUS P2B-DS and have had
no troubles with it. I don't have any Celeron's :) but I would if it was
my system at home. I have 2 PII450's and it is a sweet system.
Hefin James wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm currently specifying a machine for a major Linux based server
> project.
> Has anybody using the Intel L440GX+ motherboard?
> It has a Adaptec AIC7896 U2W and UW channels, and a graphics card on
> board, which is supported by Linux.
>
> It also has Intel EtherExpress PRO 100+ chip onboard but it uses the
> Intel 82559 chip which is not mentioned in the eepro100.c driver. Has
> anybody else got this card? and more importantly does it work?
>
> What SMP motherboard you running?
>
> Cheers,
> Hefin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: "Select the application, and then the platform"
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:46 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Todd Bandrowsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I will say though, that Windows leads for a few reasons:
>
> a. Lack of Unix documentation on X programming. Just about every
> book at the store detailing Unix development emphasises the Web or
> other text based programming. X, is, afterall, something of a Unix
> afterthought, and not really what Unix is all about. On the other
> hand, Windows GUI documentation and sample code is everywhere, and,
> much of what everyone needs to know can be found in Charles
> Petzold's quintessential book.
There are some excellent books out there on X programming. Maybe your
local bookstore just doesn't give them much shelf-space.
> b. Lack of a standardized widget library. Like, every X
> application has its own open file dialog. Yikes. Windows
> programmers quit that crap with Windows 3.1! Windows has a set of
> core widgets that ship with, and it seems like X has ten different
> widget sets, none of which really stacks up completely against
> Windows. This leads to c.
If only MS used their own standard dialogs more often... :^)
The problem is that those people who could have done it, didn't. They
gave us Athena and Motif instead. This is widely viewed as a major
PITA.
> c. Lack of a viable component software architecture. This is a
> biggy.
Granted. An issue that many people are working on.
> d. Really shitty printer support. X does not seem to have the same
> concept of device independent drawing surfaces characterized by the
> infamous Windows (and OS/2), DC. In my limited experience with X, I
> see nothing like the concept of a Windows printer DC or metafiles.
> It seems like with X, the way to print is still based on generating
> postscript files. That could be a pretty big hurdle for a developer
> to cross.
PostScript has a number of big advantages (device-independent, easy to
scale and rotate and put n-up, embeddable within itself and other
documents, etc.) A pity that Adobe aren't keen on DPS being used...
> e. Font support. X does not have anything like true type fonts.
> I've yet to see an X application on my Linux box that does anything
> that I take for granted on Windows.
Bzzzt! There is a font server for X that supports TrueType fonts.
Don't know if it is supplied with any distributions, but it ought to
be.
> f. A cultural bias in the unix community against event driven
> programming in general. Unix tends to be more of a fire and forget
> kind of a culture.
You're looking at the wrong part of Unix culture! Event-driven
programming has been here for a very long time indeed...
Looking back over what I've written, I suppose the problem with Unix
for a long time is not that there were good solutions available, but
that they were only ever available commercially, and then when that
commercial interest decided that it could temporarily increase their
cash-flow by restricting access to the tech, everyone just went
elsewhere. This has helped fuel the FSF for a long time, and we
should all be grateful indeed.
MS at least play silly buggers with their customers and competitors
*differently* to that...
Donal.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adaptec 2906 card
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:48 GMT
I am considering buying the Adaptec 2906 SCSI card for a P-133, 64MB RAM,
2-2.5GB IDE hard drives. The system is a dual boot win98 and RedHat 5.2
(2.0.36 kernel). I will be using the card to interface with a Umax 1220S
scanner and a Panasonic 4x8 CD recorder, which I will purchase with the card.
Is this card supported under Linux? The only info I can find lists 29xx
series, can this card use those drivers?
Also, if anyone has experience running a CD recorder on older hardware like
this, either under win98 or under linux, I'd appreciate that feedback.
Thanks,
G Sagers
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From: Tarmo Toom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD3630E
Date: 20 Mar 1999 00:57:03 GMT
hi
I upgraded 2.0.x -> 2.2.x, but my Creative CD3630E CD-ROM doesnt seem to
work under 2.2.x :(
With 2.0.x it worked fine and some kind of Toshiba CD-ROM also works with
this new 2.2.x (both Creative and Toshiba are IDE/ATAPI compatible).
When mounting it's says:
mount: block device /dev/cdrom is write-protected, mounting read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
System is RH 5.2 with 2.2.3-ac2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mr Cheuk Kong Lo)
Subject: Re: Xcdroast, hp7200i IDE not mounting problem
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:53 GMT
I've found my solution, after reading the NG. append="hdc=ide-scsi" is
a helpful hint. NOTE it is "ide-scsi" not "scsi-ide".
The trick is to use modules, I have
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR_VENDOR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
Now, recompile the kernel, install new kernel and modules.
Case 1: You don't need CDR, just normal Linux
You are already done. No extra step need to use /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc as IDE-CDROM.
Case 2: You need CDR[W],
Just copy the lilo.conf entries from original one to another one, have
it named linux-cdr, e.g.,
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.3
label=linux-normal
root=/dev/hda6
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.3
label=linux-cdr
root=/dev/hda6
append="hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
Re-run lilo and now choose linux-cdr in bootup. Now both IDE CD will be
emulated as SCSI CDROM/CDR.
Fireup xcdroast and dance :-)
I have an extra script that works with RH5.2, put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules.
So you don't even need to manually type 'modprobe ide-scsi'. Work even for
both case 1 and 2.
--cut here--
#!/bin/sh
# Set the path
PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
# we use convention of linux-whatever-version-cdr
# whenever -cdr is found, we believe we need the emulation
#
echo -n "Checking for ide-scsi emulation..."
if grep -q -e -cdr /proc/cmdline ; then
echo "found"
modprobe ide-scsi
else
echo "not found"
fi
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Chris
jboers1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I have successfully upgraded to 2.2.3, installed xcdroast and needed rpms
: on my linux-mandrake (redhat 5.2). I have xcdroast working and can make
: cd's. however i cannot mount a cd anymore.
: I enabled generic scsi and disbled atapi cdrom (the HP 7200i is an IDE
: cd-rw unit)in the kernel. The cdrw is on hdc. The cd-rw works fine when i
: enable atapi cdrom (compiled in and as a module) but then xcdroast won't
: see the drive.
: I want to be able to mount cd's and make them as well. I tried append lilo
: at boot with "hdc=scsi-ide" and the dmesg shows the cd-rw detected. but it
: is still one or the other.
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From: "Siw Nj�tun" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject: Problems installing Debian 2.0 on toshiba laptop
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:55 GMT
I have a Toshiba Satellite 230 CX. I am experiencing problems installing
Linux (Debian 2.0) from a CD.
At first I tried to boot the computer from the CD by changing the boot
sequence BIOS setting. However, that was the only BIOS setting I changed. It
appeared the computer tried to boot Linux but aborted immediately every
time.
Next I disabled CPU caching. This seemed to solve the problem. Everything
seemed OK at first, but then it turned out the machine was working extremely
slowly. (The installation process took HOURS.)
I have had a look at some recommendations for Linux installation on
different Toshiba laptops, but I have not found mine.
Any suggestions (especially concerning BIOS settings and configuration of X
windows)?
Ari B�rde Kr�yer
Kopervik
Norway
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From: Alessandro Agostini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AIT Tape on Linux RH5.1
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:24:00 GMT
Have you experience to install a tape SCSI device on Linux?
I am thinking to purchase an AIT SONY 50Gb tape.
It is supported by Linux?
Can you send me more info?
Please answer to my e-mail if possible
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alessandro Agostini
IROE - CNR
Firenze Italy
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From: Lance Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat linux and Iomega Zip 250 drive
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:23:59 GMT
Hi Subbarao,
It looks like the driver you ran is ok but you need to make a partition on the
zip disk and then format it. This will then give you an sda1 and you then
should be able to mount it. I was doing the same thing you were doing untill I
read about having to partition and format the disk first. Type /sbin/fdisk
/dev/sda to partition the disk and then mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 to format it
using the native linux file system.
Hope this helps. Also if you could tell me where you got the driver from I
would appreciate it. I lost track of where I got the imm driver from.
Regards,
Lance
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi!
>
> I am trying to get an Iomega Zip 250 parallel port drive working on a
> Redhat 5.2 linux system (on intel pentium). I do not have any other SCSI
> adapters/devices.
>
> I followed the instructions in the Zip-Drive Howto. I got the imm
> driver, compiled the kernel with support for SCSI, SCSI disk and
> modular lp support.
>
> When I try to insmod imm, it only outputs (from /var/log/messages)
> -------------------------
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Version 0.18
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 03bc
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 0378
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: SPP port present
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: PS/2 bidirectional port present
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: EPP 1.7
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: imm: Probing port 0278
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: scsi0 : Iomega ZIP Plus drive
> Mar 14 01:27:57 loon kernel: scsi : 1 host.
> -------------------------
>
> It detected the drive but it's not available as any device. I tried to
> mount /dev/sda* (each of them, separately). But i get error message that
> it does not correspond to a block device and the reason may be that the
> driver is not loaded.
>
> According to the Howto, insmod imm should also output to which device
> file (sda?) the drive is mapped. But in my case, it does not tell me
> the device name.
>
> My kernel version is 2.0.36.
> I tried running insmod imm from /etc/rc.d/rc.local, rc.sysinit (to load
> at boot time) and manually also after booting but none of them worked.
>
> I have seen postings on this group saying they got Zip 250 working perfectly
> in linux. I will greatly appreciate any help in this regard.
>
> -subbarao
>
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From: Jim McCusker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SB16PnP-How?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:24:03 GMT
Patrick Draper wrote:
>
> > I have the SB 16 Vibra PnP. I built the soundcard into the kernel
> > (rather than a module) and ranpnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
> > cd /etc
> > isapnp isapnp.conf
> >
> > make sure isapnp isapnp.conf is somewhere in one of your bootup
> > scripts
> >
> > Don't forget to put in the stats for your soundcard when you add it
> > into the kernel.
>
> I have a solution for you, as well as a question of my own...
>
> I upgraded my kernel to 2.2.3, and built the kernel with the
> soundblaster
> support as modules.
>
> Look in the kernel documentation directory
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/Sound
>
> There is a file called VIBRA16 or something close to that. In it there
> is a configuration file that you can save out to isapnp.conf. You will
> need to upgrade your isapnp package, so go to a RPM repository and
> get 1.17 or 1.18 from there.
>
> The other thing you will need to do is set up your conf.modules (or
> modules.conf) file correctly. In the kernel documentation directory,
> there is another file called README.Modules. That has all the info
> you need to set that file up.
>
> OK. That will get you half way there. My Vibra when configured like
> this will play 8-bit sounds only. When I run RealPlayer it will only
> make noise when I disable 16-bit sound.
>
> My question to everyone out there is How do I get my Vibra Soundblaster
> PNP
> to play 16-bit sound?
I found the following patch on a German newsgroup. It would be nice if
it were included in the official version of linux...:
In ~linux/drivers/sound/sb_common.c, on line 778 (my be different for
2.2.x):
if (hw_config->dma2 == -1)
devc->dma16 = devc->dma8;
- else if (hw_config->dma2 < 5 || hw_config->dma2 > 7)
+ else if (hw_config->dma2 < 0 || hw_config->dma2 > 7)
{
printk ("SB16: Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel\n");
devc->dma16 = devc->dma8;
Jim
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://cif.rochester.edu/~fprefect
~Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it,
poorly.~
~~Henry
Spencer
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware RAID-controllers supported under Linux.
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:24:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I'm trying to find out which hardware PCI-controllers are supported under
> Linux. Can anyone tell me some options for hardware RAID-systems that will
> work under Linux?
Some are in http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/raid.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and in
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: "Jody Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: US Robotics Fax Modem
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:24:09 GMT
Hey I just went out and bought a new 56k us robotics fax modem. I know the
winmodem wont work with Linux but will the fax work. Also how do I
configure it settings like changing from tone to pulse dialing. I'm using
Redhat 5.2.
Thanks,
Jody Walker
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From: "Alex Wouda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Big Swap-space necessary?
Date: 19 Mar 1999 20:24:12 GMT
(newbie)
Hello,
I notice when I running several programms (processes?) in X-windows with
system monitoring-thingy, that my swappartition of 128 mb isn't used a lot.
Would it be wise to change this size, and if so, how do I do manage?
Thanks
Lex
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