Linux-Hardware Digest #185, Volume #11 Sun, 5 Sep 99 14:13:31 EDT
Contents:
Re: Amquest modem (Rob Clark)
Winview 601, bttv support (Kopziter Shrew)
Recommendation for Color Printer? (Flash)
AIC 7890 RedHat 6.0 Problem (Max)
Re: PCI Modem & Linux (Mircea)
Sound Blaster PCI512 (Tali Zvi)
Linux & Stollman ISDN adapter (Zlatko Rek)
Re: My machine wont turn off (Eduard Br�cker)
Re: Recommend a good case ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague (Byron A Jeff)
Re: Video Camera on Linux... (Viljo Hakala)
Re: Can I compile the kernel using a cc other than gcc? (Randall Parker)
Linux + Magnetic Cards? (Jeffery Cann)
Re: problems installing Zip drive (parallel port) (Steffen Sobiech)
LAVA 2SP-PCI (Matthew Singer)
Re: XF86Config file for S3 Trio3D/2X (86c362) videocard (Howard Mann)
Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and video?
(Byron A Jeff)
Re: ISA NIC Card in RedHat6 (Greg)
Problem dialing out, Modem dials to quickly ("B. Joshua Rosen")
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Subject: Re: Amquest modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 14:16:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brandon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My Dad got an Amquest modem from Tiger Direct a few months ago.He paid
>$50 approx for it. I keep sayings its a winmodem but he says its not.
[..]
Amquest sells modems made by many different manufacturers under their own
name. Please check the list at:
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
and do a page search for Amquest or the model number. If there is a
question mark next to the modem, please follow up with details about the
modem.
You are correct that "HCF" is the Rockwell designation for controllerless
modem chipsets.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kopziter Shrew)
Subject: Winview 601, bttv support
Date: 5 Sep 1999 14:22:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hello, my tv card is a Winview 601 TV of LeadTek,
i haven't sound when i watch the tv, the images already
seen but the sound NO.
what can i do?
my machine:
- 166 mmx, 32mb ram
- debian 2.1
- kernel 2.2.4
- sound blaster 32
- xawtv 2.37-1
in config file (.xawtv) -> mixer = line
thx! for all
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Flash)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Recommendation for Color Printer?
Date: 5 Sep 1999 13:58:25 GMT
Reply-To: Flash <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi everyone,
I am finally ditching the Epson 9-pin Dot Matrix, and am looking for a
modern, color printer for a replacement.
Printers are the periphials that I am least knowledgable about.
I have seen several sub-$200 color inkjet printers at the local Office
Depot, but I have no idea which one will run on my workstation, which is:
Pentium 200 - Linux 2.0.36 - based on Redhat 5.2
Can anyone recommend a good-quality, color printer, which works very
well with RH 5.2, preferably around $250 or under. It will just be for
personal use, maybe 100 or 200 pages monthly.
Thanks for any help.
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From: Max <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: AIC 7890 RedHat 6.0 Problem
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 14:31:08 GMT
Dear all,
I have problem when I tired to install Redhat 6.0 on a ASUS P2B-DS System.
No matter which installation class that I choose, there will be some
strange code display during the process of "make filesystem".
My system configuration is as follow :
ASUS P2B-DS (AIC 7890 chipset)
IBM 9.1 GB DNES-309170 SISC Drive
Dual PIII450 CPU
256 RAM
I tired to install Rehdat 5.2 and Redaht 6.0 but the problem is the same.
It hang at "make filesystem".
I also tired to set the SISC ID to 0 or 1 and disable the "Extended BIOS
translation for DOS drives > 1 GByte". But it still doesn't work.
Can anyone give me some help or some insights to make the installation
works?
Thanks in advanced
Regards,
Max
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From: Mircea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI Modem & Linux
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 10:41:16 -0400
Ilkka Saatsi wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to install PCI modem to my Linux- system. I read
> information about that much but I just cant make it work.
>
> Linux tell this information of my modem:
>
> Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
> Vendor ID=1013
> device ID=4000
> Medium devsel
> IRQ=10
> Non-prefettachable 32 bit memory at 0xF000000
> I/O at 0x7000
>
Most likely a winmodem - look it up at
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Please turn off the HTML when you post - in netscape, open
edit>preferences>mail and news preferences>formatting>use plain text
editor.
MST
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From: Tali Zvi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster PCI512
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 15:27:32 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to configure my new SB to work with Red Hat 6 woth no
success.
The card is Sound Blaster PCI512. I tried to use any SB option in
sndconfig and I tried also to change the IRQ/DMA configureations but I
couldn't make it work.
The message I get is
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/sb.o:
init_module: Device or resourcebusy
sound: Device or resource busy.
Did anyone manage to make this card work?
Thanks, Tali
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From: Zlatko Rek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Linux & Stollman ISDN adapter
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:38:39 +0200
Hi,
I have external ISDN adapter (Stollman TA+PP2) connected to /dev/ttyS0
on my desktop PC. The problem is following: after receiving a few KB
from Internet (ftp,http,news) the transfer is stalled. Upload to the
Internet (ftp) works flawlessly (7.5KByts/s).
I've checked COM ports with diagnostic software and serial test plug
and no errors were found. The same adapter works without any problems
when it is connected to the notebook. The versions of kernel, pppd,
serial driver and pppd options are the same on PC and notebook.
Additional info:
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Distribution: Debian 2.1 (slink) on PC
Debian 2.0 (hamm) on notebook
kernel: 2.0.34
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
pppd: version 2.3 patch level 5
Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq 4) is a 16550A
/usr/sbin/pppd connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/ppp/chatscript" \
/dev/ttyS0 115200 crtscts defaultroute noipdefault \
name XXX remotename YYY debug
/etc/ppp/options: empty
ppp0 Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol
inet addr:194.249.158.138 P-t-P:193.2.4.238 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1750 errors:321 dropped:321 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2110 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
Collisions:0
Memory:1bc9038-1bc9c04
Where these errors for RX packets came from?
Any help is appreciated.
Best regards.
Zlatko
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From: Eduard Br�cker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: My machine wont turn off
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 16:53:15 +0200
Hi Thorsten,
replace command="halt" with commad="halt -p" in /sbin/init.d/halt
Thats all!
edu
Am Mon, 30 Aug 1999 hat Thorsten Wengler geschrieben:
>Hi All,
>
>I have a rather weird problem: I cant turn off my computer after
>shutdown from Linux. And while Linux is so great that I hardly
>ever want to, it would be nice to be able to in principle. Here is
>what happens:
>
>I do a shutdown -h now and wait until I get to run level 0.
>Then I press the power button -> And the machine is rebooting!
>When I get back to the lilo prompt I can press the power-button
>again and the computer will turn off.
>
>I have a GigaByte BX6000 Motherboard which allows you to shut down
>the computer by software, e.g. when I say shutdown in Windows95 it will
>not wait for me to press the button but shut down the computer right away.
>
>This kind of feature is probably the origin of the problem. I scanned
>the BIOS setup but I could not find anything obvious which would allow
>me to turn it off.
>
>Does anyone know how I can avoid this feature (that it reboots when pressing
>power-off from run-level 0) in Linux?
>I am using SuSe 6.1.
>
>Thanks a lot,
>Thorsten
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> | CERN | fax.(office): +41 22 767 9330 |
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recommend a good case
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 15:51:17 GMT
I am very satisfied with my Aopen HX-08
:-) Greg B.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>I am putting together a new system and need some feedback. I need a
>good case that will accept the ATX form factor and have a 300W power
>supply. Anyone care to recommend one? Thanks!
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Avoid ATI Graphics like the plague
Date: 5 Sep 1999 12:19:12 -0400
In article <OBKgtT37#GA.124@cpmsnbbsa02>,
Rashputin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Gee, I guess that means I should put off trying Linux until I have a card
>and system that is all supported, right ?
Yes.
> I mean, what the hell, it all
>runs under Windoze just fine, but if I have to purchase new hardware to
>leave windows, I guess I should just hold on to it as is.
That's a decision you have to make. But you have to be aware that in fast
moving hardware markets, especially video cards, that Windows is the only
target market. Businesswise a hardware manufacturer is toast without
a Windows driver and support. Any other market, including Linux, is an
afterthought.
X11 drivers are written by the extremely hard working folks at Xfree86
and the other X for PC manufacturers using whatever specs are available
at the time of release. The hardware manufacturer has very little business
incentive to help. And most free hardware driver writers don't bother to
ask for a whole bunch of help.
> Thanks for the
>tip. I may have wasted a lot of time scrambling to try and find somebody on
>the net with a driver.
Windows is ubiquitous when it comes to driver support, it's just an economic
necessity. It you're going to run anything else, you have to use/choose
hardware within the constraints given.
So the advice of, check for support first, then buy is sound. Otherwise if
you're talkiung about a recently released chipset, you're likely to get bit.
BAJ
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Viljo Hakala)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Video Camera on Linux...
Date: 5 Sep 1999 15:28:50 GMT
On Sun, 05 Sep 1999 00:53:01 -0600, William Epperson Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
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>Currently the Linux kernal does not support the USB interface. Correct
>me if I am wrong on the next point, but I don't think the latest Kernal
>2.2.* does either. Parrallel cam would be your only recourse. Hooking
>it up however is unknown to me as well.
The USB support is in development. The first drafts appeared in 2.2.7,
and the most active development is done in the 2.3 kernel serie.
There's a driver for CPiA based USB video cameras, many vendors use it today,
such as Creative. Both the USB and CPiA support are in their early stages,
cpia cameras are known to work, but not very well (random crashes).
The latests 2.3-kernels may have the fixed versions, and thus removing
the reported crashes, you can only
see it for yourself by testing it or asking others' opinion.
Visit http://www.linux-usb.org/ for more information.
--
Viljo Hakala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Public PGP-key at http://www.pcuf.fi/~vipe/pgpkey.asc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Randall Parker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Can I compile the kernel using a cc other than gcc?
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 1999 13:24:23 -0700
In article <7pqvso$k6r$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> Hmmmm, how many of those extensions are used in arch-independent code,
> I wonder? And I know some GNU extensions (__attribute__ comes to mind)
> were designed to be easy to dispose of in the preprocessor if needed.
> Some (like typeof) obviously are not.
IMO, the kernel should be gradually migrated to eliminate non-portable
extensions.
> Wasn't Metrowerks at least somewhat interested in implementing enough
> GNU extensions so that the kernel could take advantage of their (said
> to be superior) CodeWarrior PowerPC compiler?
The DEC C compiler is way faster on Alpha. So if Compaq/DEC/et al could
get Linux ported to that compiler then Alpha Linux could be much faster.
The reports of Mandrake users seeing much snappier performance with
basically a more optimized version of Red Hat demonstrate, IMO, that
compiler optimization really can help quite a lot.
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From: Jeffery Cann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux + Magnetic Cards?
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 15:39:31 GMT
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Hola.
We have a client that would like to use magnetic cards as employee
electronic time cards. We would like to use Linux has the server. Any
answers to the following questions are appreciated.
1. Anyone have any experience with hooking up magnetic card swipe
readers to RS232 ports on Linux?
2. Any recommended vendors?
3. Will I be able to interpret direcly the signals from the card
reader?
4. Anyone know of vendors that provide a Linux SDK for magnetic card
readers?
Thank you.
Jeffery Cann
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From: Steffen Sobiech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: problems installing Zip drive (parallel port)
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 19:46:02 +0200
Autometic wrote:
>
> I am having lots of trouble installing my ZIP (parallel port) drive in RH6
>
> I have entered the following:
>
> in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit
>
> /sbin/insmod ppa
you could try to replace insmod with modprobe
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From: Matthew Singer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LAVA 2SP-PCI
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 12:47:26 -0400
Anyone using a LAVA 2SP PCI serial board and gotten it to work? I've
done mknod for ttyS4 and ttyS5,
run setserial to give it the port/irq/uart_type and no go. Suggestions
welcome.
Thanks
Matt Singer
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config file for S3 Trio3D/2X (86c362) videocard
Date: 5 Sep 1999 17:52:23 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jasja Glasbeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I've got a (cheap) Daytona Roadster 3d videocard with a S3 86c362
> (Trio3d/2x)
> videochip onboard (4 MBVRAM).
> But this chip is not supported by the XFree Server.
> (I installed Caldera Openlinux 2.0).
> I'm quite new Linux, but can anybody help me to make a proper XF86Config
> file
> for this card (if possible)
>
> Thanks,
> Jasja
>
It is supported by XFree86, version 3.3.5
There is an upgrade guide in the "Support " section at www.redhat.com
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
http://www.newbielinux.com
(a LINUX website for newbies)
Smart Linuxers search at: http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: WhereToFind? Socket 7 motherboard with onboard ethernet, sound, and video?
Date: 5 Sep 1999 12:00:14 -0400
In article <7psdqo$n9m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
-Why not hook up a portable mp3 player... I'd be to interested in playing
-quake or surfing the internet to keep my eyes on the road ;)
Because a portable MP3 player cannot hold over a hundred hours of music.
I have a RIO. It's cool but it only holds about 40 minutes. With a linux
based MP3 computer, you can hold your whole collection on a single disk.
Might I offer an alternative to the ethernet. Get a right angle extender
an plug it into the MB.
I'm testing with a cheapie Amptron 9100 with CMI 8330 sound and SiS video.
At $50 a pop, you can't beat the price even though the performance may not
be optimal.
BAJ
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From: Greg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: ISA NIC Card in RedHat6
Date: 05 Sep 1999 13:13:46 -0400
Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware CyberBry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I recently installed Linux RedHat 6, and I'm having some trouble getting one
> : of my NIC cards to work. During setup, RH detected and set up the PCI NIC
> : that my internet connection runs off of, but didn't detect my ISA nic for my
> : LAN. I've tried turning PnP on and off to no avail. I'm a real newbie here,
> : so if someone could post instructions as to how to setup Linux to see/use my
> : ISA card, I would greatly appreciate it.
>
> RH does not do any autodetection of ISA devices, since it is very
> dangerous and can lock up the system. Turning off PnP very little
I'm not sure thats true, RH has autodetected various modems, serial
boards, network cards, etc.. for me, both plain old ISA and PNP.
True, it sometimes doesn't detect all ISA hardware all the time- but
it does detect quite a bit.
As to the original post, try adding the appropriate module to
/etc/conf.modules, with the correct port setting. (Or use Linuxconf
to create it as eth1, supplying the same info). Often thats enough
for Linux to grab the card and deduce the IRQ (but you might have to
supply that also).
Gregm
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem dialing out, Modem dials to quickly
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 13:14:45 -0400
I'm having trouble connecting to the phone system. 9 times out of 10 the
modem dials the number of my ISP and then I get silence, no ring and no
modem sounds. If I dial the number by hand I get the ISP's modem. I'm
wondering if my modem might be dialing to quickly for the local phone
switch to handle. Is there something that I can add to th chat script to
slow down the dial rate.
Josh
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