Linux-Hardware Digest #950, Volume #12 Mon, 29 May 00 16:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: TNT2 + Alladin Chipset :( + XFree 4.0 a possible combo? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: scanner hp 5100C (Martins)
Re: Please help me install my 3Com 3c509B ISA NIC :-) (Amanda Hammond)
Problems installing RH 6.2: "boot partition too large" (Topher Cawlfield)
Re: accepting a call from a modem ("Marik")
Re: Printer driver SAMSUNG ML-5000A ("Marik")
HCF 56K Modem ("cactuz")
Problems with my Intel eepro100 ("David Bouius")
Re: Writing driver to read MOD. (Torbjorn Lindgren)
Re: HCF 56K Modem ("D F")
RAM > 64 Mb (Michael Spanner)
Re: RAM > 64 Mb ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: accepting a call from a modem (Buchan Milne)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: TNT2 + Alladin Chipset :( + XFree 4.0 a possible combo?
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 17:55:38 GMT
> I've just tried installing the NVidia libs/modules for the
> TNT2 on my machine, but all I get is a screwed-up display when I start
> XFree 4.0. The setup: Asus P5B(?) motherboard with the infamous
> Alladin 15xx chipset (bios patched to make the TNT2 work), a TNT2 M64
> graphics card (from AOpen), RedHat 6.2 with installed XFree 4.0 rpms,
> latest NVidia drivers (.tar.gz, manual install).
>
> I've double checked the files I've installed and I tried multiple
> resolution/depth combinations, but all I get is a screwed up display
> and I must restart with Ctrl-Alt-Del. I checked the XFree log, but
> everything seems fine. The last line is about "loading GLX".
> I tried the noAGP option and also tried not to load the GLX module,
> but it makes no difference at all....
>
HI! I have the same system, with a tnt viper v550.
xfree 4.0 works fine with drivers from nvidia, but system crashes
when i start an opengl aplication.
I have installed version 3.3.6 of xfree with with matching drivers from
nvidia, 3d apps turn a litle bit slower (10 fps on quake III,
amdk6-2450), but it doesn't crashes after a fiew seconds.
did you set the good modelines for xfree 4.0 ? you have to make the
XF86Config by yourself, maybe you forgot something there
see u
Nelson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Fun with Brain Dead Printers.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:16:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (efw) writes:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>OK, next question: I have a PCL5 printer, and a PCL5 file. How do I get one
>>to print on the other *under Windows*?
>Drag the file to the printer?
Nope --- "the file does not have a program associated with it for performing
this action".
What Windows does in case of dragging a file on a printer is to try abd
start the app that is supposed to be handle files of that type (determined
by the file extension), and tell it to print (which in turn will go through
the GDI). If your file has an extension Windows doesn't know, you get
the above error message (like I did for file.pcl5). If Windows *does*
think it knows what to use, the error messages will come from the app
and probably be more creative ;-)
Bernie
--
Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship
Harry S. Truman
US President 1945-53
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From: Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: scanner hp 5100C
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 20:26:03 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a �crit :
> MARTINS wrote:
> > hello, maybe someone could help me for using my hp scanner 5100 c
> > (scanjet)
> > i download ppSCSI-0.91.patch and
> > patch-2.2.13-ppSCSI-19990712
>
> You should use the second one, because that one is for a 2.2.13 kernel
> or newer.
> You can copy it to the source directory, On SuSe that would be
> /usr/src/linux.
> Then you can patch it with the command:
> patch -p1 < patch-2.2.13-ppSCSI-19990712
> Then it will be placed in the directory /~/drivers, and also over the
> previous patch.
> After compiling it will be in /~/modules, and after installing in
> /lib/modules/~/
>
> > AFTER THAT i have to do a "make xconfig"
> > what exactly options i have to choose
>
> I have a 2.2.13 kernel.
> Under the menu scsi support, submenu lowlevel drivers are the options
> for Parallel port scsi adapters
> If it isn't, try instead make menuconfig, or make config.
> Then it should show up.
> You can choose to build them as modules.
>
> > i couldn't make an "insmod epst"
>
> Normally that would mean that or the module doesn't exist, and then it
> wasn't build.
> Or the modules it depends on are not loaded yet. It will then complain
> about unresolved symbols in scsi_mod, or sg, or ppscsi.
> When you load it with the command modprobe epst, it will also load these
> modules on which it depends.
> But this time, you built modules for a 2.2.9 or 2.2.12 kernel, so that
> could have been the problem.
>
> > sorry for this kind of trivial question but i m a newbye
> > i didn't collect a precise answer on sane page neither on "parport" one.
>
> That's ok, I struggled with it myself.
> My Microtek works fine now with Sane.
>
> ************************* __ _
> / Marcel Pol / / / (_)__ __ ____ __
> / / / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ /
> / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\
> *************************
> SuSE 6.3 Kernel 2.2.13
> Don't visit http://www.angelfire.com/scifi/marcelpol
>
> This sig is stolen.
> But it was released under GNU, wasn't it?
well i made all i need to have functionalities
by the way you may help me about the following trouble
on the first compiling and installing kernel
i got the message "nothing to be done for modules" when i
# make modules (after dep clean bzImage)
so no error is reported at the end but modules cannot be compiled
properly.
after i # make modules_install
and i have several entries scsi (2 times)
net4 (2 times)
so i cannot find needed modules with
insmod command or modprobe command
i have a 2.2.14 kernel (mandrake)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Amanda Hammond)
Subject: Re: Please help me install my 3Com 3c509B ISA NIC :-)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 18:42:41 GMT
On Mon, 29 May 2000 11:13:58 -0500, Andrew Daugherity
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>My $.02 aggiebucks:
>
>Well, since I'm posting this through a 3C509B, it obviously is supported
>in Linux. I never supply any parameters and it always finds my card. I
>think I even still have it in PnP mode (but it never hurts to disable
>it--some BIOS's are worse than others.
..Disabled
>NOTE: Always set "PnP OS" is
>the BIOS setup to NO/Disabled.).
I have it disabled in my BIOS.
> I don't think you want AUI, either. I
>leave that setting on AUTO always.
Okay, done.
>You can test the setup w/o rebooting-- just do "/sbin/modprobe 3c509"
>and it should load it.
Here's what I got, is this an ignorable response? What does it mean?
Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
>Check "/sbin/lsmod" to make sure it loaded,
Module Size Used by
3c509 6064 0 (unused)
lockd 31592 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 53540 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
>and
>you can look at /proc/interrupts
It's not in there.
> and /proc/loports
<snip>
0210-021f : 3c509
<snip>
This does indeed match the I/0 from the DOS NIC configurator.
Also, on a side note, why does the startup routine always fail on the
eth1 step, when I don't have an eth1 defined? It then says delaying
initialization of eth1, or some such thing.
Any more help's appreciated,
Thanks,
Amanda :-)
>to see what values
>it's using. If that works then remove the "options eth0" line in your
>/etc/conf.modules
>
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>Amanda Hammond wrote:
>
>> Hi guys, I am also having problems installing my 3com 3c509b NIC, and
>> I'm a newbie.
>>
>> I'll tell you the steps I've taken, and please advise me where I went
>> wrong and/or what I need to do next.
>>
>> I went in thru DOS and configured the card manually:
>> "
>> IO Base Address: 300h <open on my machine, i think>
>> Interrupt: 11 <open on my machine>
>> Boot Prom: Disabled
>> Transceiver: External (AUI/DIX) <per ethernet howto>
>> Net Driv Opt: Windows or OS2 Client
>> Max Speed: 9600 baud
>> PNP: Disabled
>> Full Duplex: Disabled
>> "
>>
>> Then I made these entries in my /etc/conf.modules file:
>> "
>> alias_parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> options eth0 io=0x300 irq=11 # <should this be 0x300 or 0x0300? I've
>> tried both, however, with no luck>
>> alias eth0 3c509
>> "
>>
>> But no luck, I get this when i run /sbin/modprobe eth0
>> "
>> Note: /etc/conf.modules is more recent than
>> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/modules.dep
>> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o: invalid parameter parm_io
>> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o: insmod
>> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o failed
>> /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/net/3c509.o: insmod eth0 failed
>> "
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> Thanks a bunch,
>> Amanda
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From: Topher Cawlfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems installing RH 6.2: "boot partition too large"
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:46:02 -0500
Hi,
I recently put together a new computer, installed Win'98 on it, and now I'm
trying to install Linux (RedHat 6.2) in a separate partition. I am stuck
now at the point where the installation program asks me to partition my
hard drive. I'll describe the problem, but first say that I can think of
at least three possible sources of the problem. One is that I'm trying to
put the boot partition beyond cylinder 1024, the other possibility is that
the installer is having problems with the UDMA/66 IDE controller, and yet
another possibility is that there's some incompatibility with my
motherboard, an ASUS K7V.
I originally partitioned the 20.5GB disk into a 15GB partition, and a ~5GB
partition at the end. I then installed Windows onto the first partition,
leaving the small partition for Linux. When I try to setup partitions from
within the RH 6.2 installer (using disk druid), I get the vague error
message "boot partition too large", no matter what I do. The "Next" button
is disabled at this point, so the installation will not continue. I've
tried using fdisk, but wasn't able to create a swap partition using it, and
later on got the same error message about /boot partition too large.
I guess my real question is: What does this error message really mean, and
how can I work around it?
There may be a problem having to do with my entire second partition being
located beyond cylinder 1024, so maybe this error message really is
supposed to hint at this. If that's really going to be a problem, I would
be happy just to get RH 6.2 to install anyway, and have to boot off a
floppy disk for a while, until I re-partition my hard drive. I cannot
experiment much with this, since I don't have partition magic (it's rather
expensive), and I _really_ don't want to have to re-install Win'98 since
that takes days. I'd buy partition magic if I were certain that it would
do the trick, but I won't blow $60 on the off chance that it might help.
I read several posts here mentioning difficulties configuring UDMA/66
controllers, but all of these address situations where Linux is already
installed, and performance is poor. Could some controller
incompatibilities be causing me grief?
And then there's the possibility that my motherboard and chipset is not
supported, and for some reason this is causing problems. I have a 700MHz
Athlon and ASUS K7V motherboard. This is fairly new hardware, but it looks
like many other people have such a system, and have gotten Linux to work on
it. Actually, when deciding on each component for the computer, one of my
primary concerns was whether or not they would work under Linux. I did not
buy a "winmodem", and I read good things about the Matrox G400 video card
working in Linux. I heard bad things about the original AMD Athlon
chipset, but read that the VIA KX133 chipset worked much better with Linux.
Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions of what I could try next?
Thanks,
Topher Cawlfield
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From: "Marik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accepting a call from a modem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 12:54:09 -0600
Hi Troy:
Perhaps I am oversimplifying but can you not set your linux modem to
Auto-Answer.
Bob Marik
Viper wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>What I am trying to do is have one computer ring into my linux PC. Now the
>modem rings and the linux modem rings too, but just wont pick up. How do I
>get it to pick up?
>Thanks in advance
>Troy
>
>
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From: "Marik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer driver SAMSUNG ML-5000A
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 13:04:58 -0600
Hi Erik:
You can try www.easysw.com/print/linux.html. It is a graphical interface
that sells for $49.00 and up but you can download a trial version. They
claim to support 2,300 printers so maybe that will help. I have never seen
the program so can't vouch for it but I saw it when trying to get
information on printing from Red Hat.
Good luck
Bob Marik
Erik Leunissen wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>L.S.
>
>Can anybody help me finding a printer driver for the SAMSUNG ML 5000G
>laser printer? Because this brand laser printer is not in the list of
>available drivers in the Suse insatallation, I tried some of the
>HP-drivers (not really knowing what I was doing, and a bit desperate),
>but it didn't work out.
>
>I'm out ideas (never had many concerning this matter either) and I'd
>appreciate any help.
>
>Many thanks in advance,
>
>Erik Leunissen.
>
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From: "cactuz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HCF 56K Modem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:13:23 +0200
Hi, I have a rather anoying problem.
I don't know how to get my modem: HCF 56K PCI to work in linux.
It was originaly shipped with a Hewlett Packard Brio computer.
I don't think it's a winmodem, I think it has a real I/O-chipset instead of
emulating a com-port
can anyone help me out?
// cactuz
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From: "David Bouius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with my Intel eepro100
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 21:33:29 +0100
I am having transmit time out errors wil transfering large files.
eth0: Transmit timed out: status 0050 0000 at 616982/616994 command
000c0000.
eth0: Trying to restart the transmitter...
This is the second card that I have tried.
Any hints?
Is this a problem, as the higher level network stack should recover from
this.
David
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Writing driver to read MOD.
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Torbjorn Lindgren)
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 19:33:13 GMT
Craig Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> bart@[NoSpam]cts-bv.nl (Bart Lagerweij) wrote:
>> I would go for "lhd administrator"s option.
>>
>> You can use something like "dd if=/dev/xxx of=/tmp/mod_dump.bin"
>
>Ahh.. ok. I will give this a try. Any idea on what the typical block
>size might be?
I can think of two possible "block size" issues. My guess would be
that for this purpose both are probably not relevant (dumping a raw
disk to a file should be reasonably safe regardless).
The first is the sector size, some MO's use 512 byte sectors while
other uses 2048 byte sectors. You don't have a partition table that
can be misinterpreted, and the rest is probably just another form of
"block size" problem, see below.
Then there's "block size", but since the source ISN'T a tape (the MO
drive's I've seen have been sector based) and you are sending it to
disk that shouldn't be a problem, you might get a partial block at the
end if you use a different blocksize, but dd should handle that just
fine, it just writes out a partial block at the end.
So, if my guesses is right it's just select an "efficient" blocksize
and let it run. Extremely small blocksizes can slow it down (per block
overhead can add up for extremely small blocksizes) so just try with a
reasonably sized blocksize, say 32k or 64k should be more than enough
(dd if=/dev/xxx of=/tmp/mod_dump.bin bs=32k)
The only time I use small blocksizes is if I'm using dd to work with
inherently "blocked" media (some tapes), or if I'm trying to rescue
something from a failing disk (with conv=sync,noerror you get
everything except the end of the blocks where there are read errors,
bs=<sector size> means that you loose only the broken
sectors). Fortunately I'm not seeing much of either these days...
Hopefully that dd will do the trick for you.
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From: "D F" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HCF 56K Modem
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:40:20 -0400
Any HCF (or HSP or HSF or DSP) modem is, by definition, a
'winmodem', more appropriately called a soft modem. HCF
stands for Host Controlled Factor. Essentially, it means
that a good deal of the work to run the modem is done in
software. Now, I'm not sure about the Brio, but I have a 56k
PCI HCF modem in my HP pavilion, made by Rockwell. The
salespeople will try to tell you it's not a winmodem and,
strictly speaking, they are correct. The classic winmodem,
made by US Robotics, does not even have a UART chip on it,
while the Rockwell (aka Conexant) HCF does. In practice,
though, this is small consolation, since the modem still
requires software drivers to work. None of them are
available, at this point, for the Rockwell. I'm afraid
you'll have to replace that soft modem with a real modem at
some point if you want to connect with it.
On the other hand, if that modem is made by Lucent or by
PCTel, it's possible you may find drivers for it. Both f
those companies have released binary-only drivers for their
soft modems over the last couple of months. Check the
definitive winmodem website for more information.
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Dave Fluri
North Bay, Ontario Canada
cactuz wrote in message <8gufh7$2bsd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi, I have a rather anoying problem.
>I don't know how to get my modem: HCF 56K PCI to work in
linux.
>It was originaly shipped with a Hewlett Packard Brio
computer.
>I don't think it's a winmodem, I think it has a real
I/O-chipset instead of
>emulating a com-port
>
>can anyone help me out?
>
>// cactuz
>
>
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From: Michael Spanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAM > 64 Mb
Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 15:07:53 -0400
Hey all,
I recently installed RedHat 6+ on my PC and all went smooth except for
one thing. My machine has 256 Mb of RAM and Linux seems to think I only
have 64 Mb. Is this a common problem? How can I get Linux to see all
my RAM?
Thanks.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM > 64 Mb
Date: 29 May 2000 19:46:50 GMT
Michael Spanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I recently installed RedHat 6+ on my PC and all went smooth except for
: one thing. My machine has 256 Mb of RAM and Linux seems to think I only
: have 64 Mb. Is this a common problem? How can I get Linux to see all
It's a common non-problem, and you'd find out by reading the common
FAQ.
: my RAM?
May I be the first to commend you to the BootPrompt HOWTO, the Lilo
docs, and your distro's fine manual. There and elsewhere you will find
how to specify the amount of memory you have to the kernel at boot time.
Just grep for mem=. You'll find that adding
append = "mem=255M"
to lilo.conf and rerunning lilo should get you there.
Peter
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Date: Mon, 29 May 2000 22:05:52 +0200
From: Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: accepting a call from a modem
You can configure mgetty to answer the phone, and then do something else, like
launch a login prompt, or start pppd etc.
read
man mgetty
If you are going to use it for logging in, it needs to be started by the
kernel at boot time. There are instructions on this in the docs. Mail me if
you want to see my config file (if I can find it, it's been a while since I
used it ...)
Buchan
Viper wrote:
> Hi,
> What I am trying to do is have one computer ring into my linux PC. Now the
> modem rings and the linux modem rings too, but just wont pick up. How do I
> get it to pick up?
> Thanks in advance
> Troy
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