Linux-Hardware Digest #829, Volume #12 Tue, 9 May 00 14:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Cant figure out how to get the thing to work, not even sure what it (Dallas
Times)
Re: GDI-Drucker ("Warren B. Hapke")
Re: Xmms Installation - lbxml.so.1 missing file (Paul Wilson)
Problems with a sound card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Ricoh CD, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD drive (Henri Periat)
Re: hdc: lost interrupt (ATA drive) (Billy Foss)
Re: older BIOS - big disk ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Xmms Installation - lbxml.so.1 missing file ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Abit BP6 stability (Hal Burgiss)
GeForce 256 tv? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Keyboard/Mouse Freeze in X windows ("Ronald Lim")
Studio PCTV (Young4ert)
Re: Adaptec 19160 / 29160 support in RH6.x?? (LhD Administrator)
Voodoo3 and Abit KA7 Athlon board (Tim Ruggieri)
Sound in KDE question (julien mills)
Re: older BIOS - big disk (julien mills)
req: help with setting up primax compact 4800 (scsi) w/interface card under linux
(Hawke)
Canon BJC-2000 AND WORDPERFECT 8 LINUX
Re: SuSE 6.3 vs Soundblaster AWE64 (Sylvain POURRE)
part of display is 'fuzzy' (Dennis Hore)
seting up 'on-board' sound (Dennis Hore)
Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing (Tom)
Re: how more than 3 CDROMs? (Detlev Offenbach)
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From: Dallas Times <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cant figure out how to get the thing to work, not even sure what it
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:07:48 -0700
My mistake - the /usr/src/linux/Documentation/devices.txt is for devices listed
under /dev. For PCI device ID's, look at /usr/src/linux/include/pci.h for how
the information should look as well as the email address to send this
information to. Look for the section titled:
/*
* Vendor and card ID's: <bunch of information>
*/
- Ken
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From: "Warren B. Hapke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GDI-Drucker
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:12:48 GMT
SAA Trainee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hi,
: Wie kann ich meinen GDI-Drucker "HP 710C" (ich wusste es beim Kauf leider
: nicht) unter CALDERA Linux in Betrieb.
: Danke für jeden Tip...
Look at
http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
and at
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322
Warren B. Hapke
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From: Paul Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xmms Installation - lbxml.so.1 missing file
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 09:10:00 -0500
Daezz wrote:
>
> I am trying to install xmms on a red hat 6.0 system. xmms is like winamp for
> linux. When i run the rpm file i get a message telling me that "lbxml.so.1"
> is missing and is needed to install xmms.
>
> Does anyone know where to get this file or where to look for it on the red
> hat cd? Which package should I install in order to install lbxml.so.1 !!
>
> Thanks Daezz
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/stable/sources/libxml/
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with a sound card
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:15:01 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to configure a sound card PCI, pnp, Diamond Technologies
197H, in Red Hat 6.2.
With Win 98 I got Irq 10, DMA 01, IO 220, but I tried the same
configuration with isapnp but didnt work.
First, I run pnpdump, that detected my sound card, but with another
configuration, Irq 5, .....
I manually changed to match it with my Win 98 configuration and doesnt
work.
I tried sndconfig, selecting a Sound Blaster, because my sound card
says is a SB compatible, but didnt work.
What am I doing wrong?
What can I do? Please dont say me, buy another sound card. I have read
that it is possible to write the driver, but how? I know C, but is it
hard to do it? Where can I find information about it?
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From: Henri Periat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ricoh CD, CD-R, CD-RW and DVD drive
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:19:41 +0200
Hi everybody
I will buy a new PC to get rid of M$ (my old one is too slow and the
disk too
small).
I would like to install the new drive of Ricoh MP7060, which can deal
with all
known disks. But it's not in SuSe's list of supported HW. Did anybody
tried it?
Ricoh's support told me that no special driver is required. Is this
true?
Thanks a lot
Henri
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From: Billy Foss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: hdc: lost interrupt (ATA drive)
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:15:59 GMT
FYI:
I had to place the zip disk in and then reboot. (ie The zip disk must
be in the drive before linux boots.) It does not rescan the drive
looking for the disk.
You probably tried this, but I wanted to clarify it for others.
Thanks,
Billy
PS you might let Mandrake tech support know that a number of G4
(PowerPC) users are having the same problems with their zips. So
others are looking at the problem, and it is not isolated to x86.
Strange they mentioned that if they revert to an older Mac ROM (BIOS)
they can get it to work.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kirk McElhearn) wrote:
> I have the same problem. Nothing works. The only solution is to
remove
> the Zip drive, it wouldn't even start up for me with a cartridge in
it.
> Even Mandrake tech support has not been able to find a solution.
>
> Kirk
>
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Date: 9 May 2000 10:25:30 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: older BIOS - big disk
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Martin Doering;
MD> Hi!
MD> My old 486 laptop does(under DOS) not use more than 500MB of my
MD> 1,3 GB harddisk. Is there a way, that linux can use this space
MD> completely, independent from the old BIOS?
MD> Martin
Linux doesn't use the bios after it gets past the LILO stage of the
boot. The old LILO's disk limit is that the bootable partition must be
within the first 1023 cylinders of the disk.
That has just been fixed, but the stock distributions will still have
the older version of LILO.
You might have trouble with the clock chip though.
Cheers, Gene
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This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
© 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Xmms Installation - lbxml.so.1 missing file
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:33:07 GMT
hey there Daezz. you got stuck with some easy thing guy. actually
'libxml' is a library available as an rpm and you can very well download
it from any sites providing rpm's like redhat, rpmfind.net etc. And the
next time you need some library use http://www.google.com/linux to
search for it.
best of luck
vasu.
In article <iJSR4.17620$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Daezz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to install xmms on a red hat 6.0 system. xmms is like
winamp for
> linux. When i run the rpm file i get a message telling me that
"lbxml.so.1"
> is missing and is needed to install xmms.
>
> Does anyone know where to get this file or where to look for it on the
red
> hat cd? Which package should I install in order to install lbxml.so.1
!!
>
> Thanks Daezz
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 stability
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 14:58:09 GMT
On Tue, 09 May 2000 06:25:04 -0700, John Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've noticed a range of reports on this mainboard, having read opinions
>indicating extreme reliability to extreme flakiness.
I have had many lockups and tried many 'cures'. I am apparently now
mostly stable since flashing QQ BIOS in late Feb. Only one lockup since
then. This is a big improvement.
>I'm curious how much of the flakiness might be due to the use of the
>ATA channels on the mainboard. In other words, if you run an all-SCSI
>system, will you notice any improvement in stability with this
>mainboard?
Can't say, as I am all IDE. There were Linux IDE<>SMP problems that were
fixed in 2.2.14.
>Also, does the type of memory make a diffference? I generally run the
>best I can get my hands on (within economic reason :-). Does the SMP
>operation of the board necessitate ECC memory? I'm running non-ECC
>PC100 memory in my current setup that I'd like to recycle in a BP6, if
>it will work reliably with the board.
Good quality components are very important IMO. I don't think ECC RAM is
a requirement though. Spend extra on a good Power Supply.
>
>I'd love to use this board for my next setup, but am very hesitant to
>just jump in with it because of some of the tragic experiences that
>I've read.
I would have a hard time recommending it for any serious work for
reasons you mention. While there are many who have had good experiences,
the sheer number of problems is something to consider. I fought weekly
lockups from Oct to late Feb. This is the only board that I know of that
has its own mailing list dedicated to solving intractable problems.
Worth noting that running X seemed to be a problem for many. SCSI + no
X, seemed to be more reliable.
--
Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: GeForce 256 tv?
Date: 9 May 2000 14:56:29 GMT
I recently got an Asus V6600 Geforce 256 (or something like that ;-).
Has anyone got any info about the TV in/out capabilities of this card,
and if it's possible to use this under Linux? I've snooped around on
the net, but I can't even find any info on chips etc.
Also, does anyone (from Nvidia or Prec.Insight perhaps?) have any idea
when the DRI support for Xfree is coming?
Thanks,
Vidar
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From: "Ronald Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Keyboard/Mouse Freeze in X windows
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 23:14:48 +0800
I am using Gateway Performance 550 with a gateway keyboard and a ps/2
microsoft intellimouse running Windows 98 on one hard disk while the other
running Linux-Mandrake 6.1.
I have scour through newsgroup, faqs but still couldn't find the soln to my
problem. You see, whenever I start X window, the mouse pointer just freeze
at the centre of the screen. The keyboard is lock - I couldn't even kill the
session using ctrl-alt-backspace.
Yep, I have disabled gpm, tried changing to another generic ps2 mouse, tried
all different combination XF86Config files - wouldn't work!
But if I use a serial mouse hooked onto com port 1, linked this mouse to
/dev/ttyS0, Xwindow work beautifully. My keyboard and the mouse seems to be
in harmony. The reason why I am not sticking to this soln is because I need
my com port 1 for my palm cradle. Moreover, I loved the scrolling feature of
the ps2 mouse.
I am not sure if there are some hardware conflict inherent in between the
keyboard and the ps2 mouse.
Appreciate your assistance.
Thanks/Ronald
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Studio PCTV
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 11:21:54 -0400
Hi,
Can anyone please tell me if the Studio PCTV (made by Pinnacle) is
supported under Linux?
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 19160 / 29160 support in RH6.x??
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:05:30 GMT
In article <8f958s$o71$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Rickard Westerberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is the Adaptec 19160/29160 SCSI controller card supported by Linux?
> Has anyone had success with this setup using RH 6.2?? Please share
your
> experiences!
See
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?1143
You will see the basic specs, which Linux driver to use and actual
*ratings* from people who have tried to use this product under Linux.
Linux hardware info in a *database*: what a concept!
Don't forget to add a report on how well the 29160 works for you!
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Linux Hardware Database
http://www.linhardware.com
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From: Tim Ruggieri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo3 and Abit KA7 Athlon board
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:41:21 GMT
I've recently upgraded to an Athlon 700 and Abit KA7 VIA KX133-based
motherboard. I am running RedHat 6.2 and so far everything is working
great except that I can't seem to get Glide to work. I downloaded the
current versions of the Device3Dfx and Glide rpms from 3dfx's site and
installed them per the instructions there. When I run test3Dfx as root,
however, the program complains that it cannot find the Voodoo/Banshee
device and crashes with a segmentation fault. While I had problems with
they Voodoo3 on my old motherboard (a Bp6), the basic Glide test was
always able to find the card.
The Voodoo3 is working properly in 2D mode under X, and It also works in
Glide mode under Win98. I was originally running a kernel 2.2.15 with the
unified IDE patches but suspected I did something wrong and switched back
to the stock 2.2.14 from Redhat. This did not fix the problem either. I
also turned off 4xAGP support in the bios since the card can't use it
anyway. No effect.
Anyway, I did notice that back on April 20, 3Dfx released a new,
Athlon-safe Glide for the Voodoo2. This could imply that the current
Voodoo3 Glide also needs to be updated to be Athlon-safe. My question is,
is anyone out there using a Voodoo3 on any of the new KX133 Athlon boards,
and if so, have you got Glide working? If you do, does it sound like I'm
doing something wrong?
Thanks for any ideas you may have.
Tim Ruggieri
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From: julien mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound in KDE question
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:18:16 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK,
I'm using slackware7, have my SB sound card working,
the KDE CD player works, and I can cat a .au to the device
and that works. But, while sifting through the KDE
menus, I found the "System Sounds", and this doesn't
work for me. Should it? Or is there more setting
up I need to do?
Thanks
Julien
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From: julien mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: older BIOS - big disk
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:23:57 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> MD> My old 486 laptop does(under DOS) not use more than 500MB of my
> MD> 1,3 GB harddisk. Is there a way, that linux can use this space
> MD> completely, independent from the old BIOS?
>
> Linux doesn't use the bios after it gets past the LILO stage of the
> boot. The old LILO's disk limit is that the bootable partition must be
> within the first 1023 cylinders of the disk.
>
> That has just been fixed, but the stock distributions will still have
> the older version of LILO.
>
> You might have trouble with the clock chip though.
I don't know how old your 486 is, but, it is possible, maybe not likely,
but possible you could download a bios upgrade from the manufacturer's
website. If so, it could make things a lot easier.
Julien
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From: Hawke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: req: help with setting up primax compact 4800 (scsi) w/interface card under
linux
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 10:29:53 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Well,
the subject line says it all.
Brief description:
I am wanting to convert all my boxes over to linux (redhat
specifically), but have 1 stumbling block, the scanner.
THE SCANNER:
a primax compact 4800 (scsi capable) with internal jumperless
proprietary interface card. I have no idea if this is a scsi card, or
specifically of what brand of scsi. I would like a little help
getting this running so that I can dump winblows for good.
anyone have any answers that would work for me?
Hawke
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJC-2000 AND WORDPERFECT 8 LINUX
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:30:08 GMT
I know the BJC-600 works under Linux for a BJC-2000. Under WordPerfect
however I am having difficulties. Anyone been sucessful or have clues for a
similiar driver?
Thanx,
Jim helix
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From: Sylvain POURRE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.3 vs Soundblaster AWE64
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 19:19:39 +0200
Maurice wrote:
>
> hi...
> Hope that someone can be of any help
> Installed SuSE 6.3 and have a Soundblaster AWE64
> soundcard.
> Apparantly the driver is not by default installed and I follow
> the howto's, the driver still doesnt seem to be installed?
> ( output of > cat /dev/sndstat says me that nothing is there )..
>
> Any tips as no sound is driving me insane !?
>
hi
J've the same trouble. I've upgrated a Suse 6.2 to 6.3 and the sound
module OSS does not work because the new kernel is a 6.2.13 one. I've
compile a new kernel with sb support. The awe-wave.o module is required
for driving the midi synthetizer of the sound blaster. Before playing a
true midi file with Kmidi for instance, you must load the sound fonts
into the AWE64 memory. For doing that you must use a programm called
sfxload (I've downloaded a awesfx-0.4.3a-2.i386.rpm ). You'll get some
sounds fonts with this programm or you can pick them up from your
windows Hard Disk. My card is an ISA PNP one and i used isapnp tools and
edit the isapnp.conf file for giving the rigt adresses and IRQ of the
devices. I've edited the modules.conf files too. Now it works but i'm
still working on it because the awe_wave.o module is'nt loaded into the
kernel at boot (I musst do it myself). Like you see it'snt so easy but
it's funny! Sorry for my english, I hope it can help you.
Friendly your
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Sylvain
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From: Dennis Hore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: part of display is 'fuzzy'
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:31:37 -0400
Hello,
I'm trying to configure X on a PII-333 with an ATI Mach64-VT4 and a
MAG XJ700T monitor. I can find exact matches for the card and monitor
with Xconfigurator.
When X starts up, however, the rightmost 1/3 of my display is
blurry. You can't notice it on the background alone, but windows there
have 'fuzzy edges'. Could someone point out the problem?
Thanks for your help!
- Dennis
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Dennis Hore | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry |---------------------------------------
Queen's University | phone: (613) 541-6000 ext 6691
Kingston, Ontario | fax: (613) 541-6040
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From: Dennis Hore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: seting up 'on-board' sound
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 13:36:11 -0400
Hello,
I'm using sndconfig to enable sound support for a machine with no
sound card, but a Crystal (i forget the exact specs) soundchip on the
motherboard. I *think* I'm picking the right irq's and dma's (according
to windows), but when sndconfig plays a test sound file, i just hear
'clicking'. The midi test works fine, however.
Has anyone encountered this befoer.
Thanks for the help!
- Dennis
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Dennis Hore | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Chemistry |---------------------------------------
Queen's University | phone: (613) 541-6000 ext 6691
Kingston, Ontario | fax: (613) 541-6040
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: LILO 1024 cyl thing
Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 17:52:04 GMT
Ok, here's my game plan. Install Win '95. Install Linux using a boot
diskette. After Linux is installed, download the new LILO and install it
(somehow). Does that sound good? My prob is a bit different than that at
the start of this thread. I have not installed Linux yet, but I wish to,
but beyond the 1024 limit. Will a boot disk allow me to do that? What is
on the boot disk?
Also, I am trying desperately to get a CD created from an ISO image. I
have Sony CD-Write and Nero at my disposal, but they seem to just copy
the file to the disk. I want the .ISO file "expanded" so it has all
files and directories on it. How would I go about doing that?
Step-by-step would be nice, but I'll take anything I can get. Thanks.
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From: Detlev Offenbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: how more than 3 CDROMs?
Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 19:49:56 +0200
David Murray wrote:
> I have a SCSI tower connected to my linux box. However, I can only get 3
> CDROMS to work.. here is the configutation:
>
> Sun Sparcstation LX running RedHat 6.2
>
> Internally, there is one SCSI device, a 2.1 GB harddrive. It is device #3
>
> Then, the external SCSI box has 6 CDROMS (only 4 connected) and 1 harddrive.
>
> When at the open-boot prompt or after booting into Linux I can go to the
> scsi info under /proc/scsi and see that the kernel recognizes all 4 SCSI
> CDROMs and tells their device numbers. Now.. I go to mount them using a
> command like:
>
> mount /dev/scd0 -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom0
>
> this works fine until I get to /dev/scd3 and it tells me this special device
> does not exist. So I am stumped.. here the kernel sees the 4 devices but I
> can only mount 3 of them. What could be the problem?
Perform the command "ls -l /dev/scd*". This will show you all the device
files related to SCSI CD-ROMs. You probably have only scd0 to scd2. If so
use mkdev (see manpage) to create additional ones and then it should work
okay.
> --DavidM
>
>
>
Detlev Offenbach
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