Linux-Hardware Digest #807, Volume #12 Fri, 5 May 00 11:13:11 EDT
Contents:
ORB drive (BEWARE) (Zoltan Kocsi)
Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!! (J Bland)
Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon (Yanglong Zhu)
Re: Linux on a notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility? ("David Cartwright")
Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon (Yanglong Zhu)
Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon (Yanglong Zhu)
SuSe 6.4 install failure (David Hobley)
OKI Printer ("Matthew Guy")
Soundcard driver for Linux ("David LE BRUN")
Re: Help with USB mouse ("David LE BRUN")
Re: Kernel Panic with >64M (Thorsten Rene Stauber)
Re: Best Linux server components questions ("David Cartwright")
Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive (Sascha Bohnenkamp)
Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro 100 stopped working...please help (Steve Fosdick)
Inspiron 7000 and PCMCIA (problems) (Bernard PERROT)
laptop specs req'd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Micron XKE and ZX notebooks? (Barry Keeney)
Re: support for color printers?! (Yan Seiner)
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From: Zoltan Kocsi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: ORB drive (BEWARE)
Date: 05 May 2000 10:33:19 +1000
Hi,
I have an external SCSI ORB drive. As usual, it comes with Windows
tools only. The documentation does not tell the magic commands to
write-protect and unprotect disks, but that's normal, unfortunately.
There is a problem, however. Linux assumes that when it issues a
SCSI START_STOP (0x1b) command to the drive, the drive, if it
had executed an automatic spin-down, will spin-up. Iomega JAZ
drives do indeed work that way.
The ORB drive does not seem to do it, it simply responds with a
NOT_READY and that's it, the access error is reported to the
application and there's just nothing you can do with the drive.
If it is mounted, you can't even open it any more so it is lost
until you turn it off then on again (not a good thing to do on a
live system) or do a SCSI reset (again, not on on a live system).
<WARNING MODE>
I have sent a polite email to Castlewood support asking for some
info about the proper SCSI sequence to spin up the drive before
access as well as protecting/unprotecting a disk. First, I have
not received anything. Then I repeated the question, I got an
answer that my request was forwarded to engineering. Engineering
did not respond, so I re-sent my request. This was the exact
same result of the third and fourth query as well, although in
the fourth one the support person also mentioned that unfortunately
he does not know why engineering does not answer.
Therefore, if you run a non-Windows system or your situation is such
thet you might need technical help, STAY AWAY from Castlewood.
Their customer support apparently ends when you pay for the product.
</WARNING MODE>
Anyway, if someone has figured out what magic SCSI commands are sent
to the drive to spin it up (say, slapping a SCSI bus monitor on a
Windows system), I would highly appreciate it. I couldn't find anything
on the Net.
I would feel obliged if replies would also be sent to me in email.
Please note that the reply address is invalid, the real address is
in the sig below.
Thanks in advance,
Zoltan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Have new parallel port - but it's PCI!!
Date: 5 May 2000 09:27:12 GMT
On Wed, 03 May 2000 04:43:51 GMT, Mark Graybill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Chris Rankin wrote in message <8egr8v$689$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>/proc/parport/1/hardware:
>>base: 0x278
>>irq: 9
>
>
>Did you try a different IRQ? (e.g. 5)
>
I have two parallel ports on my server, one being a PCI card. Adding the
following hardware parameter to lilo does the trick if the parport support
is compiled into the kernel (there's a similar thing that works in
modules.conf, have a look, it may be listed in there already):
parport=0x3bc,7 parport=0x9800,auto
These numbers were found by pretty much trying any of the standard parport
ones and the I/O info found from /proc/pci for the parallel port card.
It all works swimmingly.
Professor John Frink
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From: Yanglong Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 04:54:24 -0700
There is nothing on Compaq web site regarding this kind of problem.
Edward Jong wrote:
> You should register then log into http://forum.compaq.com for your
> help on your Compaq.
> I am a little annoyed that Compaq is no longer upgrading my bios of my
> Compaq 5536. A pentium without PCI slots!!!
> The bios cannot see harddisk larger than 8GB. I have to use a disk
> overlay for my 11.5G harddisk which is killing the performance of my
> computer.
> I also have to wire it as a 2G harddisk because the Compaq would
> report a error when booting up when there is none.
> I am having lilo problem up and down because of this weird hard disk
> configuration tor an obsolete bios.
> My bios can enable or disable floppy disk access.
>
> Yanglong Zhu wrote:
>
>> "Tim Bækstrøm Laursen" wrote:
>>
>> > On Mon, 01 May 2000, Yanglong Zhu wrote:
>> > >Hi all,
>> > >
>> > >I wake up to a horrific reality that some computer manufacturers
>> > may be
>> > >trying to suppress and uproot Linux and all other free Operating
>> > >Systems. How? They make computers that do not read nor write those
>> > free
>> > >OS bootdisks in drive A. It is a very bad trick upon us free OS
>> > users.
>> > >We must wake up and get together to fight this war.
>> > >
>> > >I bought a Compaq Presario 5834 two weeks ago. I bought this
>> > computer
>> > >with Linux in mind. But after days of trying and calling support
>> > service
>> > >reps, I'm left stranded with a computer not at all of any use to
>> > me. At
>> > >this moment, I don't know how widespread this phenomenon is. But I
>> > urge
>> > >everybody who loves these free OS and free softeware in general do
>> > a bit
>> > >investigation to monitor this computer industry's new move.
>> > >
>> > >I suspect that this kind of restriction of Linux and other free
>> > OSes are
>> > >implemented through BIOS and/or Hardware, therefore it could
>> > defeat the
>> > >Free Software Movement if we don't get together to fight it. Or
>> > are we
>> > >ready to devise FREE BIOS and FREE OS COMPATIBLE HARDWARE???
>> > >
>> > >This may be an over reaction. But it does pose the threatening
>> > >potential.
>> >
>> > Another conspiracy theorist I see...
>> >
>> > Considering Compaq's statements about Linux I find it hard to
>> > believe that they
>> > deliberately tries to make life more difficult for non MS users.
>> > However they do
>> > stuff their PC with custom hardware for witch you often need the
>> > standard
>> > Compaq drivers for, but that is mostly a problem with their
>> > portable PC's. Not
>> > being able to boot a Linux floppy sounds a bit strange to me. Have
>> > you tried
>> > the disc in another (non Compaq) machine? It could be that
>> > something is wrong
>> > with the disc, or (highly unlikely I know) that you did something
>> > wrong with it.
>> >
>> > - Tim -
>>
>>
>> I urge you to try install RHLinux on a Presario 5834 (or some thing
>> similar) to verify what I'm saying.
>>
>> Its not so much a conspiracy against Linux. But this is for their
>> profit, I guess.
>
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From: "David Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a notebook with an ATI Rage Mobility?
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 11:06:07 +0100
"Tech" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8e3ruk$us$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, everybody.
> I'm about to buy a Gericom notebook (Millenium series)
> providing an ATI Rage Mobility video adapter (8 MB SGRAM,
> 2x AGP). The question is simple: is X11 compatible with it?
> If so, can it take advantage of its specific 2D/3D capabilities?
> Thanks in advance for your help.
I couldn't persuade RedHat 6.1 to play X-Windows on my ATI-equipped Dell
Latitude, even with an upgraded XFree86. However, I got 6.2 (beta at the
time) and it works just great.
Daver
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From: Yanglong Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 05:10:45 -0700
Eric wrote:
> "Yanglong Zhu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> I urge you to try install RHLinux on a Presario 5834 (or some thing
> similar) to verify what I'm saying.
> Its not so much a conspiracy against Linux. But this is for their
> profit, I guess.
>
> I have a Compaq Presario 5152, it's a year old, but it works just fine
> with Linux. Debian/GNU linux, Mandrake Linux, Storm Linux, and
> TurboLinux. Maybe they changed since my compaq was made, but you are
> probably doing something wrong.
>
> Eric
I found one more Compaq model with exact the same problem. Watch out for
incompatibility in Compaq new PCs. eg. Presario 5834, Presario 7478 ...
Don't just talk. Go and find out what is going on NOW!
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From: Yanglong Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux woes (Compaq for one) on the horizon
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 05:21:12 -0700
Michael Borgwardt wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Yanglong Zhu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I wake up to a horrific reality that some computer manufacturers may be
> > trying to suppress and uproot Linux and all other free Operating
> > Systems. How? They make computers that do not read nor write those free
> > OS bootdisks in drive A. It is a very bad trick upon us free OS users.
>
> I really don't think it's intentional, it may just be a technical problem.
>
> I've recently run into the same phenomenon in a Toshiba notebook.
> Linux installation bootdisks tend to use Syslinux as a bootloader, and
> the Toshiba couldn't boot it, despite having no problems with LILO
> or a Kernel written raw to floppy.
Hey, I'm not talking about Toshiba or anything else. I have tried quite a few
different things. I'm not that new to Linux any more. I'm not saying I exhausted
all possible solutions. But it doesn't worth it any more. Why should I spend so
much time on something Compaq's own support reps don't have a clue? Yes their
Linux knowledgeable support reps even strongly recommended not installing Linux
on Presarios.
It seems old (more than a year old) Presarios still support Linux. Only the new
ones. Eg. Presario 5834, Presario 7478 ... I tested personally with exactly the
same Linux boot.img disks. Not intentional?? Go figure.
>
>
> --
> Michael "Brazil" Borgwardt --- Member of #WASHU# and Her would-be guinea-pig.
> Untiring defender of Washu-chan, Asuka-chan and Elektra-chan.
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> --------------- Let`s shake the dew off this lily, shall we ? ---------------
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From: David Hobley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSe 6.4 install failure
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 11:34:54 GMT
Can someone let me know how to configure my network
card so that it runs under Linux (kernel 2.2.14).
FreeBSD reports my card as:
de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> port 0xe400-0xe47f
mem 0xea001000-0xea00107f
irq 11 at device 9.0 on pci0
When I tried to install SuSe, I told it I had a tulip
card, and the network worked for about 3 minutes. Then
it silently failed.
This also happened under FreeBSD (but with error messages)
and I had to type:
# ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP
What should I do under Linux for the same effect?
Poking around in the docco indicates I might need to patch
either the kernel, or ifconfig. The kernel patch instructions
were outdated though. I didn't have the ifconfig sources
to hand to patch.
--
Cheers,
david
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From: "Matthew Guy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OKI Printer
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 12:36:13 +0100
Hello,
I have an OKIPAGE 6e laser printer, I want to connect it to Linux (RedHat
6.2 i386)
Has anyone managed or know how to do it (do I need a driver and if so where
do I get it from?)
Things I have already tried,
Connecting it as every printer in the available list.
Looking for a Linux driver on the net (no joy yet)
Can anyone please help
Thanks
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effect, Restart Now?
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From: "David LE BRUN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundcard driver for Linux
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:02:05 +0200
Hi !
I've got a soundcard based on the Yamaha XS-DG chipset...
And, unfortunately, the only drivers I've found was on
http://www.opensound.com
And, they are shareware and i don't want to pay for drivers !
Can you help me ?
Thanks in advance,
David
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From: "David LE BRUN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help with USB mouse
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:08:28 +0200
>
> I did: mknod /dev/usb/usbmouse0 c 13 32
>
Try : mknod /dev/usbmouse c 10 32
Now, when you cat /dev/usbmouse and move your mouse, it writes some
characters.
Then update the link with ln -s -f /dev/usbmouse /dev/mouse
More, in your config files, set the protocol of your mouse to imps2 :
/etc/sysconfig/mouse
/etc/X11/XF86config
David
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From: Thorsten Rene Stauber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel Panic with >64M
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 14:18:36 +0200
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
...
> Then it sounds like a problem with the motherboard. I have seen a PPro
> which had problems with memory in one bank. The memory had parity so the
> errors was easy to detect. However, replacing the memory didn't work and
> the memory worked fine in another machine.
>
> regards Henrik
> --
There seems to be more to this problem:
Have a look at the following discussion:
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0004.0/0719.html
Bye,
Thorsten René Stauber
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From: "David Cartwright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best Linux server components questions
Date: Fri, 5 May 2000 14:16:11 +0100
> We may be interested in custom building a couple linux servers. I'm in
> need of some help from people that are familiar with linux server
> hardware.
> What components work well for you? As in motherboard, CPU, hard drive
> (ultradma or SCSI?), SCSI card, video card, NICs, and tape backup drive?
> We are looking to build a linux server that is easy to maintain and
> therefore, we would like a windows type of operating system. Which
> software do you recommend we install?
Well, depends what you want to do, but I just bought off-the-shelf Compaq
ProLiant 1600Rs. They run Linux (RH6.1) fine, even with the SMART3200 RAID
card, and if you want a graphical interface, X-Windows will do this for you.
Dave
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From: Sascha Bohnenkamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO doesn't like my 10G hard drive
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 15:19:08 +0200
> You know that rings a bell, a couple of years ago someone
> did a good job of patching lilo for >1024, and that patch
> still isn't in lilo :-( Don't get me wrong, I like linux,
> but some of the technology that is stuck in linux is soooo
> old, like lilo. Just downloaded yours to try. Sorry for
> barging in on this thread.
The latest Lilo DOES > 1024 cyls
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress Pro 100 stopped working...please help
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 14:37:48 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have used netcfg, netconf, ifconfig, and even rebuilt the kernel with the
> hope that a clean NIC driver would do the trick.
Try examining the status of the card with 'ifconfig eth0'. Check that
the card has an address assigned and that it is marked as 'UP'. If it
is then you can go on to testing the TX and RX functions indepentantly:
Note the TX packet count from ifconfig, ping another machine for about
10 secs (the ping command is of the form 'ping hostname' or 'ping
10.0.0.1') then run ifconfig again and check that the count has gone up.
Note the RX packet count, have another machine on the network ping yours
for about 10 secs, then run ifconfig (on your machine) again and check
that the RX packet count has gone up.
Having done these tests, if you post the outcome here, along with any
error messages from the driver - things of the form eth: some-message
that get printed on the console, I or someone else here should be able
to help further.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernard PERROT)
Subject: Inspiron 7000 and PCMCIA (problems)
Date: 5 May 2000 14:34:45 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
I've some troubles with my I7K and pcmcia support which is very unstable :
- sometimes (not always), when cardmgr start, kernel says :
"Bridge register mapping failed: check cb_mem_base setting"
(I must restart pcmcia, or reboot)
- sometimes (not always), when I insert a card in slot 0, it is detected on
slot 0 AND slot 1 simultaneaously...
- sometimes, it is impossible to detect a card in slot 1,
but only in slot 0
Any ideas ?
PS: I7K 256Mo, Linux RedHat 6.2,
kernel 2.2.14 or 2.2.15,
pcmcia-cs 3.1.13 or 3.1.14
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: laptop specs req'd
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 14:26:07 GMT
Hello again,
Does anybody have the specs for the 12.1" TFT LCD monitor in the UMAX 338T
notebook?
I need a useable 800x600 modeline for XF86COnfig, but haven't managed to
figure it out yet.
I have a rock solid 32bpp 640x480 screen with KDE, but the 800x600 is not
readable.
I can get an 800x600 screen to show, but it is very unreadable, the
horizontal lines are shifted over giving a wave effect and there is much
"noise" on the screen much like a mis-tuned TV.
Other than that ,the Notebook works great.
If you can help, whether it be advice, XF86Config that you use, or directions
to help, please e-mail me directly as I do not visit the newsgroups that
often.
thanks in advance.
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Calgary, Alberta www.thefortressgroup.com
Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Before you buy.
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From: Barry Keeney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Micron XKE and ZX notebooks?
Date: 5 May 2000 14:36:37 GMT
Robert N. Lockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I would like to install Linux on both a Micron Transport XKE (NT4) and
: Transport ZX notebook (W2K).
I've done an XKE without any problems, it even see's the docking
stations ethernet card ans scsi ports. I used redhat 6.1.
: Has anyone been able to do this?
: I will need to be able to read external Kingston scsi disks using an
: Adapted APA 1480 pcmcia scsi controller.
I have the adaptec 1460 and it worked perfectly, I didn't it to drive
my CDR.
--
Barry Keeney
Chaos Consulting
email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Rap is Square Dancing gone terribly, terribly Wrong...."
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From: Yan Seiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: support for color printers?!
Date: Fri, 05 May 2000 10:11:01 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No filter needed.
p1|vangogh|HP_4500N:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/vangogh:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=vangogh:
Prints in color all day long. Your app has to send color postscript;
linux does not care what goes to the printer. The filters are pretty
useless, anyway.
enscript and mpage do the trick for text files if you need to get fancy.
--Yan
Peter Bismuti wrote:
>
> We have an HP Color LaserJet 4500n at work, I could not find a filter
> that supports it or any other color printers. I would very much like
> to print some color postscript files. Can this be done? How?!
>
> Thanks!
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ride a recumbent
use Linux.
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