Linux-Hardware Digest #914, Volume #12 Wed, 24 May 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: What is this Xfree86 stuff? (Dances With Crows)
Sound Card - how to add to Kernel ("Ted Gervais")
DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems (Raymond Blum)
DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems (Raymond Blum)
Re: Keyboard/Mouse Freeze in X windows (Michel Catudal)
Adaptec U2W problem ("Hal�szy-Kiss �goston")
Re: Linux sucks (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Only mount cdrom1 as root? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: printer driver?!? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Sound Card - how to add to Kernel (Dances With Crows)
Re: 8BALL/6BALL/4BALL/GREENBALL ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: kensington mouse in a box - driver? (Joe Ringer)
Re: DVD ROM Setup (Dorin Boldor)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: What is this Xfree86 stuff?
Date: 23 May 2000 21:58:50 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 May 2000 19:00:31 GMT, The CEO@Acme Corp
<<jzAW4.88524$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Thanks for help. The version of Corel I bouth was 1.0 (50 Cdn dollars) I
>found the 1.1 version of the corel ftp. I burned the ISO, and was able to
>install from there.
>However: When i boot into Corel Linux it just gives me that prompt: name10
># . is that what is called LILO? I can log on as root but not hte user name
>i specified during setup
No, that is not LILO. LILO is the boot manager that takes care of
starting your OS of choice, and it is easily recognizable by the all-caps
"LILO" that it prints on the screen. From what you are saying, it sounds
like you got the installation done, but again there's not enough info to
tell what exactly is going on... so I'll assume that everything installed
correctly but X is not configured yet.
> If so then why won't i get the graphical install of Corel Linux? How can I
>tell this linux shell, as the root user, to download the new xfree84 4.0?
To set up your graphics card, merely run "XF86Setup" as root. Corel may
have even provided a better X-setup utility--check the book to find out.
Corel 1.1 should've shipped with Xfree86 3.3.6, which does support Rage
128 cards. Use apt-get to retrieve packages. "man apt".
If you bought the boxed set for $50 CN, then *read* *the* *book* that came
with it. It sounds like you will have a lot of questions, and neither I
nor the NG will be able to answer all of them individually. The book will
provide a decent start and explain the simpler bits of configuring and
running things. I have no familiarity with the way Corel does things; I'm
just falling back on general Linux knowledge and Corel may provide a more
efficient/distro-tailored tool for doing all the things you'll need to
do. Good luck....
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: "Ted Gervais" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Card - how to add to Kernel
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:42:31 -0300
I need to get my sound card working with Linux. I am running Slackware
2.2.16pre4, and the sound card I have is seen by Win98 as
MMSOUND.DRV
-sndblst.drv
-port=220
-int=5
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How do I add this to Linux. I checked the menuconfig and that sound driver
is not in the configuration setup. How is it added. And where do you get
it..??
--
Ted Gervais *Coldbrook NS Canada*
1-902-679-2253
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From: Raymond Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:56:31 -0400
Hi
Two problems I am looking to solve, sort of a "low-grade" EMERGENCY ...
I have to recover files from a backup tape that was made on a VA-Linux
box on DDS-4 tapes.
1) I have a couple of PCs running RedHat Linux 6.1 and 6.2. I have the
tape drive (a Seagate) that made the backups and am hooking it up on my
SCSI chain. Linux can see the drive and can use it to read DDS-3 tapes
just fine so I do not think that there is a SCSI
chain/cabling/termination problem. But when I put in one of the DDS-4
tapes that were created on this drive "mt status" on the drive tells me
"density 0x26 unknown density for this mt" and I can rewind/eject the
tape but if I try to read the tape I get an IO error.
The drive is SCSI-3 (?) 68 pin. The SCSI controller in my machine is a
SCSI-2 (HD50) connector.
2) So... I hooked it up to a VA--Linux box that has the same (68 pin)
SCSI controller. I can write to the tape but any command to read the
tape, including "mt status" hangs. I can not kill the process (i.e. the
"mt" command) but if I pull and reseat the SCSI terminator on the drive
it will SOMETIME release the process that is accessing the drive.
Is there something I have to do to use the DDS-4 tapes on the standard
RedHat 6.x distributions? Is the "unknown density" the reason for my IO
Errors?
Does anyone have a clue about the weird lockups on the VA-Linux box? I
booted the same machine with a DOS diskette and ran some Seagate
diagnostics that do read-write tests and the diagnostics say that the
drive is fine.
TIA
---Raymond
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From: Raymond Blum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: DDS-4 Seagate tape drive problems
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:56:55 -0400
Hi
Two problems I am looking to solve, sort of a "low-grade" EMERGENCY ...
I have to recover files from a backup tape that was made on a VA-Linux
box on DDS-4 tapes.
1) I have a couple of PCs running RedHat Linux 6.1 and 6.2. I have the
tape drive (a Seagate) that made the backups and am hooking it up on my
SCSI chain. Linux can see the drive and can use it to read DDS-3 tapes
just fine so I do not think that there is a SCSI
chain/cabling/termination problem. But when I put in one of the DDS-4
tapes that were created on this drive "mt status" on the drive tells me
"density 0x26 unknown density for this mt" and I can rewind/eject the
tape but if I try to read the tape I get an IO error.
The drive is SCSI-3 (?) 68 pin. The SCSI controller in my machine is a
SCSI-2 (HD50) connector.
2) So... I hooked it up to a VA--Linux box that has the same (68 pin)
SCSI controller. I can write to the tape but any command to read the
tape, including "mt status" hangs. I can not kill the process (i.e. the
"mt" command) but if I pull and reseat the SCSI terminator on the drive
it will SOMETIME release the process that is accessing the drive.
Is there something I have to do to use the DDS-4 tapes on the standard
RedHat 6.x distributions? Is the "unknown density" the reason for my IO
Errors?
Does anyone have a clue about the weird lockups on the VA-Linux box? I
booted the same machine with a DOS diskette and ran some Seagate
diagnostics that do read-write tests and the diagnostics say that the
drive is fine.
TIA
---Raymond
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From: Michel Catudal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Keyboard/Mouse Freeze in X windows
Date: 23 May 2000 21:57:41 -0500
Ronald Lim a �crit :
>
> 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
Check to see if the interrupt is shared. If so try to change that. On my Gataway at
work I can't use the ethernet card or sound card. They all share IRQ 9 with the hard
disk.
It works with winblows. The ethernet card works with kernel 2.3.99pre3 on slackware.
I haven't found anyway to get the bios to set things right and I don't have time
to mess with the bios and reset everything to factory values which may be the only
solution.
--
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We have software, food, music, news, search,
history, electronics and genealogy pages.
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From: "Hal�szy-Kiss �goston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec U2W problem
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 22:48:40 +0200
Hello!
I've the following scenario:
ASUS-P2B-F
ADAPTEC 2940U2W SCSI Card (PCI)
WD91 Vantage winchester
So when i try to install 2.2.x or higher kernel the SCSI bus got reset every
5 minutes. I've already tried Debian Potato and RedHat 6.2 (Zoot). Both of
them showed the error above. When i tried with Debian Slink (2.0.36 kernel)
it seemed to work okay.
I've asked one of my friends who is using the same chipset built on a
motherboard and it worked, so I'm confused what can be wrong.
I would thank any help to my personal box:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Agoston
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:08:52 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >Then tell Microsoft that. Any time you change just about
> >anything in the network config you get a dialog box asking
> >you to reboot.
>
> It'll ask you to reboot. Click on 'no' and it'll work just fine. Don't
> you just love Microsoft.
You may be right. But I always thought MS put the reboot requests in
(particular the 4 or 5 that occur during installation of any MS software
package) to make sure the Windows OS is rebooted frequently. You know MS
Windows: "a reboot a day keeps the crashes away (almost)".
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Only mount cdrom1 as root?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:10:33 -0400
Jeff wrote:
>
> Whenever I try to mount cdrom1 as a normal user, I get the error that only
> root can mount it. Any help?
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
man fstab
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer driver?!?
Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 23:11:26 -0400
electricwes wrote:
>
> I just installed LINUX Mandrake and connot find a printer
> driver that will work with my Lexmark Z11 printer...
> Anybody know the correct driver to use?
> Also, this may sound dumb, but are there any USB driver's
> for LINUX floating around?
> Thanks,
> Wes
>
You won't find one. It's a Windows-specific printer.
If you want USB, you need to download, compile, and install the 2.3.99
kernel.
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Sound Card - how to add to Kernel
Date: 23 May 2000 23:16:28 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 23 May 2000 23:42:31 -0300, Ted Gervais
<<IaHW4.7807$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I need to get my sound card working with Linux. I am running Slackware
>2.2.16pre4, and the sound card I have is seen by Win98 as
>MMSOUND.DRV
>-sndblst.drv
>-port=220
>-int=5
So what's the actual card? These are generic SoundBlaster settings, which
don't help unless you have a genuine SoundBlaster or a 100% compatible.
(You'll find that WinXX sometimes has different ideas about the hardware
than Linux does-- an Ensoniq AudioPCI is recognized by Win98 as "Crystal
Audio PnP", by Linux as "Ensoniq 1371", and the actual chip on the card is
a CS48something.)
>How do I add this to Linux. I checked the menuconfig and that sound driver
>is not in the configuration setup. How is it added. And where do you get
>it..??
The Soundblaster 100% compatibles are indeed in there. Sound-> OSS Sound
modules-> 100% Soundblaster compatibles. But you probably don't need to
recompile your kernel if this is a standard Slack install. There should
be a file called /lib/modules/2.2.16pre4/misc/sb.o in your system. If
it's there, enter the command
modprobe sb irq=5 io=0x220 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
and if you indeed have a 100% compatible Soundblaster, you will then have
sound. If the sb.o file isn't there, read the Kernel-HOWTO. If the
file's there and the command doesn't work, read the Sound HOWTO:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Sound-HOWTO.html
Distros other than Slack often provide tools like "sndconfig" that can
automate a lot of the tedious guesswork. Slack is for those who like the
minimalist approach, like to tinker, and already know a bit about
Unix/Linux.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| You have me mixed up with more
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| creative ways of being stupid?
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Beer is a vegetable. WinNT
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| is the study of cool. --MegaHAL
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: 8BALL/6BALL/4BALL/GREENBALL
Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 03:17:24 GMT
I've always wondered what it was like to take LSD. Now I know.
Thanks,
Starstuff :-)
In article <8ge42d$gkd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
BEN BulleT. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Radio is 8BALLx12. Cell phone is 'Atlanta Braves'. Richter Scale
defines
> base(1010). There is nothing that I don't know about a helicopter.
Your
> helicopter is (7^2=50,square peg,round hole,?). 4BALL supports flips
> along the square root of two line. 6BALL is a table vector kind of
thing
> and so an is accordian. Break the question mark is (street
> lamp,up,down,up). Something to keep in mind is that a vector and
> 'SWASTICA GREEN' are not the same thing. Steering wheels are not
> possible without swastica vectors. You know, language is toxic to the
> container it is in but... mathmatics is universal. You aught to keep
> that in mind before you start running your mouth about things that you
> know nothing about. Red shift is alright for the ground but Hubble is
a
> differant story. Greenball is nothing that I support. It's like, get
> away from me with this green eyelids and eardrums crapola... In a much
> earlier discussion, iron stakes were green, cactus spines were yellow,
> orange was a cone with a transparent bubble and the graph paper of
> reality was orange with purpleviolet lines. Also, Swastica shaped
> forests need to be planted. It should be obvious that Nazi Germany was
> better prepared for space exploration then we were. It is too bad that
> the wrong side won that war.
>
> --
> Kevin B. Murphy, Homo(nid) sapien superior,
> Also, I have postings as author:[EMAIL PROTECTED],I was kicked off
of
> the science
> groups apparently because network managers are way smarter then any
> physicist ever
> born.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Ringer)
Subject: Re: kensington mouse in a box - driver?
Date: 24 May 2000 04:14:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 22 May 2000 15:37:15 GMT, Andrew P. Billyard wrote:
>I just bought a Kensington Mouse In a Box for my system (RH 6.1, kernel
>2.2.12-20) and am having trouble getting the machine to recognize the
>wheel up/down as buttons. In my /etc/X11/XF86Config, I have
>
>Section "Pointer"
> Protocol "PS/2"
> Device "/dev/mouse"
> Buttons 5
> ZAxisMapping 4 5
>EndSection,
I hooked mine up to a serial port using the included adapter and used the
"Intellimouse" protocol and the wheel works great.
--
clear skies, |http://www.erols.com/jringer3/astro1.htm
Joe |
|Remember when "Truth, Justice, & the American Way"
|wasn't contradictory?
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From: Dorin Boldor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: DVD ROM Setup
Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 15:10:29 -0400
Eric wrote:
> First of all: cd /usr/sbin
> mv kudzu kudzu_sucks
> ln -s /bin/true kudzu
>
> That "solves" the kudzu problem, (it's really useless to run kudzu)
>
> Now to the actual problem, it's probably a defective cable/controller or
> and luckily for you :-) ,most likely just jumpered wrong. IDE devices
> most be jumpered to be set as master(single)/slave if this is not done
> correctly, you might get the behaviour you have seen. Since you have it
> connected as the single device on IDE1, set it to single (or master if
> the single option does not exist)
>
> Eric
>
> Dorin Boldor wrote:
> >
> > I am having problems setting up my DVD ROM with red hat 6.2. The drive
> > is SONY DVD-ROM DDU220U.
> >
> > It is installed on IDE1, secondary master. THe install was performed
> > from this drive, it went on just fine, when it booted up from the CD ROM
> >
> > it found the drive: hdc: DVD-ROM DDU220E, ATAPI CD ROM device. The thing
> >
> > is that when I restarted the computer, the output from the dmesg | grep
> > hdc looks like this:
> >
> > dmesg | grep hdc
> > ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1028-0x102f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> > hdc: Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q�Q, ATAPI UNKNOWN (type 17)
> > drive
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> > hdc: driver not present
> >
> > Ok, this is the first part, the second part is that when I boot up,
> > kudzu shows up with the message that the following hardware has been
> > removed from your system: DVD-ROM DDU220E. It gives me 3 options, 1.
> > remove any existing configuration for the device, 2. Keep the existing
> > configuration. You will not be prompted again if the device seems to be
> > missing. 3. Do nothing. The configuration will not be removed, but if
> > the device is found missing on subsequent reboots, you will be promtepd
> > again.
> >
> > So, every time I choose 3, because I have no idea what is going on.
> >
> > But, this is not all. I tried to recompile the kernel , it didn't help.
> > and finally I was looknig thorugh the files in the /etc, directory, and
> > in /etc/sysconfig I found a file called hwconf. In this file I have 2
> > different calls for hdc, and they are listed as follow:
> >
> > class: OTHER
> > bus: IDE
> > detached: 0
> > device: hdc
> > driver: ignore
> > desc: 'Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q.Q."
> >
> > the second one is at the very end of the file and it looks like this:
> >
> > class: CDROM
> > bus: IDE
> > detached: 0
> > device: hdc
> > driver: ignore
> > desc: "DVD-ROM DDU220E"
> >
> > So, if anybody knows what is going on here, any help would be really
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Dorin
Thanks Eric,
In the BIOS setup the CDROM is seen as master device, I didn't actually look
in the box to check it. What makes me soooo mad is that when I installed
Linux from the CD, it recognized correctly the CD ROm as ATAPI DVDROM
DDU220E.
I finally got it working by using at LILO: linux hdc=cdrom hdc=noprobe
Still, I would like to get the nice message that I get when I boot up from
the CD, since no my bootup message looks like:
hda: Maxtor 91020D6, 9728MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1240/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 0X DVD-ROM drive, 384kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
I may take a look inside the box at the drive, just to make sure that it is
jumpered correctly.
Dorin
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