Linux-Hardware Digest #235, Volume #14 Tue, 23 Jan 01 16:13:13 EST
Contents:
driver for isdn-modem ("Thaler Guenter")
Re: Hot Swap Kits ("Jeff Kozel")
Re: Cable question ("Jeff Kozel")
Re: MPEG-2 decoder (Edward Lee)
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Mike Edwards)
WinTV USB Drivers? Anyone? ("Dave")
Re: Microsoft FUD here? ("Rinaldi J. Montessi")
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Mike Edwards)
keyboard & mandrake problem ("HRC")
Re: problem with floppy.... (mwr4722)
Re: mouse wont work gnome (mwr4722)
Re: Microsoft FUD here? (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Intel i815e and Linux (Karrade)
popping sound card (Mike Edwards)
Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive (Harry George)
Re: popping sound card (Mike Edwards)
mt difference btw. eom and eod ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: hdparm (Thorsten Gunkel)
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From: "Thaler Guenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: driver for isdn-modem
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:03:26 +0100
has anyone an idea/link where i get driver for an
elsa microlink isdn modem (extern) ?
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gue
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From: "Jeff Kozel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hot Swap Kits
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:13:25 -0600
Try checking http://www.promise.com
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Jeff Kozel
Customer Care Representative
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(612) 395-9009
Vector Internet Services, Inc.
http://www.visi.com
"OJC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94kdng$3nb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Are there any other Hot Swap kits out there besides Jungo? Thanks for
> your help.
>
>
> Sent via Deja.com
> http://www.deja.com/
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From: "Jeff Kozel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable question
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 13:15:23 -0600
I've noticed that the UltraIDE 80 connector cables are touchy. They don't
deal with kinks and folds as well as the 40 pin cables do.
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Jeff Kozel
Customer Care Representative
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[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(612) 395-9009
Vector Internet Services, Inc.
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"Keith Wheeler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94kie0$v92$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Rinaldi,
>
> They shouldn't be THAT sensitive. Sounds like the cable MAY be flaky. Do
you
> have another to replace it?
>
> KW
>
>
> Rinaldi J. Montessi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Just how sensitive are the ide and power cables? Meaning is it normal
> > that if a 40/80 pin ide cable is moved slightly on a running system that
> > the status may be interrupted? This is more a wiggle than a tug, and
> > can occur on both on/off board devices.
> >
> > --
> > Rinaldi]$
> > "Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
> > glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
>
>
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MPEG-2 decoder
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 11:22:04 -0800
Jarl Friis wrote:
> Udo Wolter wrote:
>
> > Jarl Friis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Does anybody have a suggestion, experience with a good, supported MPEG-2
> > > decoder card.
> >
> > I think, those with the hollywood chip are supported, but:
> > Do you really need it ?
> > I'm using a PIII 600 and with XFree 4.0.2 I have perfect MPEG2 decoding
> > in fullscreen (with the XV extension). I'd suggest you save your money.
> > The only thing you need is a "good" graphic card. And everything with
> > Nvidia TNT I/II should do it (and they are cheap now). There's
> > absolutely no need for a big card like Geforce or a MPEG2 decoding card.
>
> I have an Athlon Tbird 800MHz, 256Mb RAM, GeForce2 GTS (64MB DDR RAM). and
> most standard computergame-like MPEG movies play just fine, but when it
> comes to highquality DVD movies, it just can't catch up so it's relaxing to
> watch a movie, I haven't tryed the Xv extension, whatever that is, but
> still I think I need a MPEG2 card for playing DVD movies without
> disturbings. Or maybe a quatro-Tbird 1GHz can do it as well.
I don't know about Athlon, but a K6-500 or PIII-450 should be enough for good
quality DVD. However, you must have properly optimized software (with MMX,
3Dnow is not necessary). Actually, dual CPUs will be better to separate the
Video (MP2) and Audio (AC-3) threads.
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:41:34 GMT
A rather elaborate prank, don't you think? Assuming for argument's sake
that it was a prank, why would go to the trouble of using broken
English?
Mike
Harry George wrote:
>
> In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
> Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
> someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
> Even if Tina is legit, there will be other FUD's along those lines.
>
> Here's my thoughts: If a few exchanged postings don't do the job,
> recommend contacting someone in the local LUG. The complainer can
> post his/her location, and a local contact can be found. An
> appropriately neutral meeting place can be identified (we don't want
> to send strangers into someone's home). This way, the physical system
> can be examined and debugged more reasonably.
>
> If the complainer won't help arrange contact with a LUG, I'm willing
> to believe we are dealing with a FUD prank.
>
> --
> Harry George
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Mike Edwards
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From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat
Subject: WinTV USB Drivers? Anyone?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:42:02 -0500
Any gurus out there got the WinTV USB to work under RedHat?
Suggestions?
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 14:46:09 -0500
BDS wrote:
>
> Corey W. Clamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:x3kb6.1067$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Excuse the ignorance, but what exactly does FUD stand for?
> >
>
> Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.
>
> -BDS
Hmmm. I experienced the same thing as a linux newbie :-)
--
Rinaldi]$
"Defeat may serve as well as victory, to shake the soul and let the
glory out." --Poet Edwin Markham (c. 1898)
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:50:07 GMT
A quick search on yahoo produced this nugget:
http://macworld.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/storyforums/macworldforums/_2000_03_30_upgradejeopardy/forum.pl?read=44
MS-sponsored FUD or not, she seems to despise anything non-Wintel. Gee,
when I was 16, I hated the status quo--I would've loved Linux if it had
been around at the time.
Cheers!
Mike
Harry George wrote:
>
> In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
> Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
> someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
> Even if Tina is legit, there will be other FUD's along those lines.
>
> Here's my thoughts: If a few exchanged postings don't do the job,
> recommend contacting someone in the local LUG. The complainer can
> post his/her location, and a local contact can be found. An
> appropriately neutral meeting place can be identified (we don't want
> to send strangers into someone's home). This way, the physical system
> can be examined and debugged more reasonably.
>
> If the complainer won't help arrange contact with a LUG, I'm willing
> to believe we are dealing with a FUD prank.
>
> --
> Harry George
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Mike Edwards
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "HRC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: keyboard & mandrake problem
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:54:35 GMT
I have a pieced together AMD 133MHz PC on a PCI/ISA bus motherboard. It
still uses the old AT style keyboard connector. I have a functional
keyboard attached, and PhatLinux 3.0 installed (which is Linux Mandrake).
The keyboard stops functioning when the login prompt comes up for Linux.
The keyboard works fine until that time. The keyboard tests out just fine
in DOS - I can type my butt of with no problems in DOS, but no dice for
Linux. I also used the same keyboard on another AT connector (ISA bus only)
motherboard with a 486/66 with the same PhatLinux install (I swapped over
the hard drive to the 486) and it works fine.
Any ideas, hows/whys on the PCI board? Please reply to newsgroup.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mwr4722)
Subject: Re: problem with floppy....
Date: 23 Jan 2001 19:35:31 GMT
Here's what I get when I type fdformat on my Debian system:
Note: /usr/bin/fdformat is obsolete and is no longer available.
Please use /usr/bin/superformat instead (make sure you have the
fdutils package installed first). Also, there had been some
major changes from version 4.x. Please refer to the documentation.
You might want to try superformat. Also, maybe just /dev/fd0.
Matt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
David Boucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Looking on various search sites I found references to the same problems but
>never any solutions...
>
>new floppy drive, Redhat 6.2, no problems seen on bootup, tried several
>floppies and they all work fine on other machines
>
>When I enter the following commands this is what I get along with the floppy
>light working:
>
>[root@cdm42-080 boucher]# fdformat /dev/fd0H1440
>Double-sided, 80 tracks, 18 sec/track. Total capacity 1440 kB.
>Formatting ...
>ioctl(FDFMTBEG): No such device
>[root@cdm42-080 boucher]# mkbootdisk --device /dev/fd0H1440 $(uname -r)
>Insert a disk in /dev/fd0H1440. Any information on the disk will be lost.
>Press <Enter> to continue or ^C to abort:
>mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0H1440,
> or too many mounted file systems
>
>
>Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated
>
>thanks
>
>David
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (mwr4722)
Subject: Re: mouse wont work gnome
Date: 23 Jan 2001 20:01:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
spikee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hey,
>
>My mgetty has been peachy, only problem is it wont work along side a
>gnome xwindows session..when i try and start gnome with mgetty running i
>get a "cant open mouse (device busy error)" i have to comment out mgetty
>in inittab to resolve that problem , then i can start gnome but my mouse
>still doesnt work it just sits there like its frozen..im wondering if
>its a software or hardware problem im having..I have a SIS 5595
>motherboard that has a built in sound and video, the video and sound are
>supported in X11, maybe its an IRQ conflict , but im just seeing if
>anyones heard of this happening before and know a way around it?
Which device is X using for your mouse? If it is something like
/dev/ttyS0 then X may be trying to get mouse input from your modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Subject: Re: Microsoft FUD here?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:06:53 GMT
On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 18:28:45 GMT, "Corey W. Clamp"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Excuse the ignorance, but what exactly does FUD stand for?
Fear,
Uncertainty, and
Doubt
>Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > In dealing with "Tina", I began to wonder if we were dealing with a
>> > Microsoftian prank, but I didn't want to say anything. Now that
>> > someone else has raised the issue, I'm wondering how we address it.
>> > Even if Tina is legit, there will be other FUD's along those lines.
>>
>> > Here's my thoughts: If a few exchanged postings don't do the job,
>> > recommend contacting someone in the local LUG. The complainer can
>>
>> I think contacting the local hospital would have been more appropriate.
>> I'd be more worried about her parents than anything else.
>>
>>
>> > to send strangers into someone's home). This way, the physical system
>> > can be examined and debugged more reasonably.
>>
>> !!
>>
>> > If the complainer won't help arrange contact with a LUG, I'm willing
>> > to believe we are dealing with a FUD prank.
>>
>> Peter
>
>
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Karrade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel i815e and Linux
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:02:11 GMT
Thanks for the info Kevin, most appreciated!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <94g5ud$hpv$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Karrade)
> wrote:
>
> > Hey all,
> >
> > Well, I finally decided to wonder out of Windows land, and give
Linux a
> > try. I'm going to use Mandrake 7.2, and dual-boot it with WinME. I
> > have a quick question for you all though:
> >
> > I'm using an Intel 815e motherboard, and an ATI Rage Pro 128 video
card
> > (the onboard Intel graphics card is disabled). My question is, will
> > Linux (either the 2.2 kernal or 2.4 kernal) be compatible with this
> > setup? I won't end up frying my monitor when I install it?
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com
> > http://www.deja.com/
> >
> I'm using an Intel 815e motherboard with integrated video, audio and
> ethernet. I don't have a separate video card so I'm not sure about
the
> Rage Pro 128 but I believe it is supported.
>
> I use RH 7 and it works fine (2.2 kernel). The only minor problem I
had
> was that the installation appeared to default to the wrong ethernet
driver
> module on installation and I had to change this to the correct driver
> (e100).
>
> Kevin Phillips
>
>
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: popping sound card
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:40:36 GMT
I've recently installed RHL 7.0 on an older Dell XPS 350 with integrated
Crystal 3D 64V wavetable. sndconfig ran just fine and recognized the
device as a CS4236. Now, my problem is that at the very beginning of
every sound produced, I get a wretched popping or snapping sound coming
out of the speakers. I thought it might be because this box isn't
properly grounded, but when I boot into windoze, it sounds fine.
Perhaps a different driver? I will go and look on the Dell website....
Cheers!
mike
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Mike Edwards
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From: Harry George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.is.linux.setup
Subject: Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive
Date: 23 Jan 2001 12:26:53 -0800
If you haven't actually done much work on the old system, just back
that up, take out the old disk, install the new disk (as master),
install a clean new distro, and reload your work. That is much easier
than moving data....
I don't know of a HOWTO for this. Here is the idea. I used it to
move stuff to a new disk, but I've never done it for the boot or
root dirs. Proceed with caution and backups.
0. I don't know what you mean by "deleted the old partitions". I hope
you mean deleted whatever was on the 4GB disk. If you deleted the
partitions on 1GB disk, you have lost your installation. There may
be a recovery, but I don't know it.
1. Go through your existing (1GB) disk, backing up anything you've
personally added/modified. In other words, you don't need to
backup all the software, but do save /etc configs, your home dir,
any projects you are developing, etc.
2. Install the new (4GB) disk as slave, thus /dev/hdb
3. Partition it via "fdisk /dev/hdb".
There are lots of answers to exactly how. For 4 GB, it is sufficient
to do a swap and the rest:
/dev/hdb1 swap (128MB)
/dev/hdb2 / (the rest)
With more than 4GB, you get into separate /home, /opt, /usr/local.
But then you have to guess how big each will grow.
4. Make a mount point.
cd /mnt
mkdir root2
5. Set your /etc/fstab temporarily:
/dev/hdb1 /mnt/root2 ext2 rw,noauto 1 1
6. mount it:
mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/root2
7. Copy each top dir to the new drive.
cp -Rd /usr /mnt/root2
(-Rd means recursive and leave symlinks as symlinks)
Alternatively, use tar to get the data and then untar in new place.
Keep symlinks as symlinks.
8. After the data has been copied, switch the disk cables and patch
plugs so the new disk is master. Unplug the old disk entirely (so
you don't screw it up). Power back up, and check your BIOS to be
sure it reads the 4GB disk as 4GB (some old BIOS's can't read big
disks).
9. Reboot with a boot disk and edit the /etc/fstab to show:
/dev/hda1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
(Actually, it may already look that way)
Run lilo (after maybe editing lilo.conf) to get lilo into the MBR.
10. Reboot, letting the new disk take charge. If it fails, reverse
the cables and patch plugs to get back to your known good setup.
That is, with the 1GB as master and 4GB as slave (/dev/hdb).
11. When you can successfully boot from the new disk, you can possible
install the old disk as "slave" and mount it as, e.g.:
/dev/hdb1 /usr/local2 ext2 defaults 0 0
Marcell Stoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi, I installed RH7 on a 1Gb some time ago and of course have now run
> out of disk space. It was predictable, but I had no choice. I want to
> add a 4.3Gb drive to my system and not do a re-install. I have been
> looking through the Howtos (Adding a Second IDE ... etc), but am not
> completely clear on creating a linux partition with fdisk and then
> moving files to the new mounted drive.
>
> I used fdisk to delete the old partitions. When I run fdisk and ask it
> to print the partition table it shows nothing after I deleted them all.
> If I then type a 'd' to delete another partition it asks which one:
> (1-4). I was trying to make sure I got them all, but was confused when
> it gave me a choice when I thought there were none left.
>
> Anyhow, should I create a single large partition, format it as linux
> native, mount it as /hdd2 and then create directories such as /hdd2/usr
> there. Then move all the files under /usr to /hdd2/usr and symbolically
> link /usr to /hdd2/usr? This is all new to me and I am trying to find
> the easiest way to get back space on my first drive (it has less than
> 20Mb left). I want new S/W to install on the new drive as well.
>
> How should I approach this? Have I missed a Howto that describes this in
> detail? I've gone through the RH docs, but cannot find an answer there
> either.
>
> Thanks,
> Marcell
>
> mstoer at uvic dot ca
>
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Harry George
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From: Mike Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: popping sound card
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:47:44 GMT
Mike Edwards wrote:
>
> I've recently installed RHL 7.0 on an older Dell XPS 350 with integrated
> Crystal 3D 64V wavetable. sndconfig ran just fine and recognized the
> device as a CS4236. Now, my problem is that at the very beginning of
> every sound produced, I get a wretched popping or snapping sound coming
> out of the speakers. I thought it might be because this box isn't
> properly grounded, but when I boot into windoze, it sounds fine.
> Perhaps a different driver? I will go and look on the Dell website....
OK, the Dell website confirms that I do indeed have the CS4236 chipset.
Can anyone hazard a guess as to what's going on?
Thanks!
Mike
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Mike Edwards
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: mt difference btw. eom and eod
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:36:52 GMT
Hi Folks,
on 02/10/2000
knielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
asked in
Forum: comp.unix.admin
Thread: Question on "mt" command
Message 13 of 13
> Hi!
> Could you enlighten me and tell me what exactly the difference
> is between
> mt -f mytapedevice eom
> and
> mt -f mytapedevice eod
>
> The manpage says "end of media, for appending files onto tapes" and
>"end of valid data, to
> append data on the logical end of tape".
>
and so on.......
and hasn't yet got any answer.......
and now we have the same question, and think there must be someone who
knows. Or do you suggest to find it in the 'mt' source code? :-)
If somebody additional can point to a 'streamer howto' or similar, where
one can learn about blocks, blocksizes, filemarks, setmarks and so on
we'd be quite more happy.
TIA, Bernhard S.
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thorsten Gunkel)
Subject: Re: hdparm
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2001 20:56:23 +0100
Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could someone teach me how to optimize my hard disk performance
>using hdparm ?
Hi Eric,
I've just found
<http://oreilly.linux.com/pub/a/linux/2000/06/29/hdparm.html>.
>Best Regards,
>Eric Ho
Don't forget to read the man page!
Thorsten
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