Linux-Hardware Digest #256, Volume #14 Fri, 26 Jan 01 18:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Tina will beat that stupid german ("Tina Carter")
Re: Tina will beat that stupid german ("Tina Carter")
Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL??????? ("Tina Carter")
Re: USB mouse, Kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL??????? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: To Linux Nazi (Mark Bratcher)
Re: webcam i linux (Trygve Selmer)
Re: Manual switchbox (Dustin)
Re: To Linux Nazi (Crunyon)
Installing ... again (Marcell Stoer)
Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem?? (Johan Kullstam)
Help: Floppy and CD on laptop (Chen Luo)
Re: SBC Project ("Christian Beaumont")
Clusters.... ("Walter Rusin")
Re: MPEG2 encoder card (Juergen Sauer)
Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Modem not responding to programs ("Jeff Irvine")
Re: Clusters.... (Frank Sweetser)
Can't undock my thinkpad laptop with the 2.4 kernel. ("Mike Dahlgren")
Debian on sun and Xserver (eric)
SCSI harddrive commands.. (Boris)
Re: DRI drivers for ATI Xpert2000 (Richard Kaszeta)
Re: MPEG2 encoder card (Marcus O.C. Metzler)
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tina will beat that stupid german
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:12:11 -0500
> Oh, get a life please. If you will keep flooding this (and other)
> newsgroup(s) with irrelevant and insulting posts, I guess I'll be not
> the only one wishing to report this to the abuse address, specified in
> the header of each of your posts ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Oh I've a life but question is do you have a life? If you don't like my
posting ignore me WHY bother to read hmm?
neeed some spanky spank :)
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tina will beat that stupid german
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:13:28 -0500
> good luck during beating us :-)
I will beat but not you :).. But thanks for your offer :)
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From: "Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL???????
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:15:37 -0500
> Er.... I would think Micro$oft and Windows are closer to Nazism than Linux
is.
> But I don't wish to belabor this useless thread any further.
Now you are being racist.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USB mouse, Kernel 2.4.0 and XFree86 4.0.1
Date: 26 Jan 2001 11:19:58 -0800
Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have mandrake 7.2 installed at home and my USB mouse was working fine.
> On Tuesday I upgraded to Kernel 2.4.0 and configured USB support into the
> kernel.
>
> Now my usb mouse is not working in X anymore:( What device is the usb
> mouse under 2.4? I tried changing my XFree config file manually (the auto
> configure stops saying it could not find my mouse) trying:
>
> /dev/input/mice
> /dev/input/mouse0
> /dev/input/mouse
>
> Still my mouse is not working.
>
> Can anyone please offer me some suggestions?
I'm running Mandrake 7.2, kernel 2.4.0, and XFree86 4.0.1. I have a
Dell Inspiron 5000e laptop, and have a USB mouse attached. I'm able
to use both the built-in touchpad and the USB mouse. The USB mouse
uses /dev/input/mice, at least on my machine. I assume you know to
use /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, not /etc/X11/XF86Config, right? But you
must have had it right for it to work with kernel 2.2.x.
I guess I can't help you, other than to say that it CAN work, it does
for me, so keep trying. Maybe you're missing some kernel module?
--
Eric Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://labejb.lks.agilent.com/
(425) 335-2495
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HOW DO I INSTALLED WVDIAL???????
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:45:25 -0500
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Tina Carter wrote:
>
> > Er.... I would think Micro$oft and Windows are closer to Nazism than Linux
> is.
> > But I don't wish to belabor this useless thread any further.
> Now you are being racist.
Could you tell me what "race" Micro$oft Windows belongs to?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To Linux Nazi
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:47:25 -0500
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Tina Carter wrote:
>
> > Yes, that's what this newsgroup needs. More love and humanity in the form
> of
> > contention and slander so that
> Since when Love and humanity comes like that hmm? in your home?
>
> <snap off> we can solve a simple problem in 50 or more mail
> > threads instead of just 3 or 4 maybe. This is progress!
>
> It's called democracy and good leadership.
You seem to have missed the point: I was indicating the nature of your emails:
full of contention and slander. And I was being sarcastic that it's what we
need.
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From: Trygve Selmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: webcam i linux
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 15:42:21 +0100
Tina Carter wrote:
>
> Oh I forgot to say something very nice to you.
> Dra dit pepper'n gror
Hei Tina, du fortsetter � forn�rme folk for moro skyld!
If you _really_ read my post, you would see I _suggested_ he should
write in english. This because very few people read/write norwegian in
this news-group. I also translated his message to help him out. I also
pointed out he would get help in a specified norwegian group.
I don't think this qualify as "making law against english". Subject
closed!
Love and peace,
Trygve.
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From: Dustin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Manual switchbox
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:03:16 -0600
Frank Van Geirt wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have linked a Linux pc and Win 98 pc to a manual switchbox (mouse,
> keyboard and monitor).
>
> When switching to Win 98, there is no problem. My mouse is still working.
> When switching to Linux, my mouse pointer goes crazy. It flies to the upper
> right corner (as well in KDE as in textual mode). and stays there.
> Keyboard and monitor are working fine.
>
> I tried several things already:
>
> - killing gpm and restarting with ps2 as well as ms3 options
> - crtl-alt- f7 + ctrl-alt-f1
>
> None of these resolve the problem. I always have to reboot the system.
> Since this system is working as a server, I really do not like this.
> I have been searching the internet for other solutions, but without succes.
>
> Does anybody have any other suggestions?
>
> My system:
> - RedHat 7.0 (standard installation)
> - Upgrade to KDE 2.0.1 with rpms
>
> Frank
The quick solution is to add a second mouse and not run the mice
through the KVM switch. This should fix the problem w/ a minimum
of cost.
The long solution is to get a different KVM switch. I believe
that some KVM's leave the un-selected connections open while
others use some kind of resistor on the un-selected connections,
thus making the box think that the mouse/keyboard is still
connected.
Hope this helps.
Dustin
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From: Crunyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: To Linux Nazi
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 11:01:01 -0800
Tina Carter wrote:
>> Excellent style, love and quality Tina... ;)
>I know I'm good and very nice and kind person.
>
>
>The above might be true but someone needs to improve their
English skills.
>
>
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From: Marcell Stoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Installing ... again
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 12:46:20 -0800
Hi, I decided to re-install RH7 a 4.3Gb drive (after consulting here on
how to upgrade from a 1Gb drive) and then proceeded to add the power
tools I wanted. After that was done I installed some updates. I've
done this before and had no problems. This time when I tried to
install the glibc update, I got an error, stating that the cdrom was
busy and then not found (I burned the updates to a CD for convenience).
I closed down GnoRPM and tried to access the CD from the desktop with no
luck. I decided to re-boot. Just as everything was shutting down (and
just before the graphical background disappeared), the window with the
GnoRPM installer shows up and starts installing the glibc update. Well,
that failed of course when the entire system went down and after that it
would not longer boot.
I would get
INIT: ld "1" respawning too fast ...
several times. I did some searching on the web and found it would have
to be a problem with getty or so. I tried booting from my rescue/boot
disk (boot: linux rescue). Same problem. I tried "linux emergency" and
it just hags after asking for my root password. I tried using "linux
rescue" with the installation floppy and it boots up, but I have no
access to my hard disk (they do show up as being there during the boot
process).
So, I am re-installing ... again.
Anyone run into this? I've searched the web, but couldn't find anything
to help me. I want to be better prepared if it happens again ... Is
there anyway to prevent a shutdown from terminating a process that can
apparently cause this much grief?
Marcell
mstoer at uvic dot ca
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Subject: Re: Im curius...why is ISA modem cost more than PCI modem??
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jan 2001 16:00:56 -0500
"kellyboy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> that software procession pci modem is 'winmodem'?
>
> Im going have to go back to Best Buy and read the specs on the box to
> identify 'which' one is which....I aint going to ask one of those "you need
> help" workers...most time they dont know what they are talking about ( I
> brought stuff based on thier 'recommendation' and I ended up
> returning it!!)
forget ISA. forget PCI. RS-232C forever! ask for an _EXTERNAL_.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
sysengr
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From: Chen Luo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: Floppy and CD on laptop
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:14:21 -0500
Hi,
I installed RH7 on my laptop successfully. But my floppy drive and CD is
swapable and mutual exclusive. How can I unplug on of them and plug
another in without shutdown? Currently if I unplug them, the system will
be frozen.
Thanks very much
Carter Luo
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From: "Christian Beaumont" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SBC Project
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:49:59 -0800
glad you like it - cheers!
-chris
"Tina Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:94sh9f$106$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You know what I like ? That foto you have in ur web. :)
> I think, your network will do just fine hopefuly :)
>
>
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From: "Walter Rusin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Clusters....
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:43:19 +0100
Hi,
I'm rather new on this group so maybe at first I'll introduce myself. I'm a
mathematics student from the University of warsaw (for all who doesn't know
where Warsaw is: it's the capital city of Poland). I simultanously run my
home computer under Linux (Mandrake 7.2) and Windows ME. I rather use it for
some mathematical computation then for gaming but sometimes ;-).
So my question is: does anybody of you have expereince with building up and
configuring computation clusters ? I'll try to get financial means to
construct a standalone HPCC with special refference to financial
statistics/probability computation and I need someone who'd be helpfull if I
get the money... ;-).
Thanks in advance...
Walter Rusin
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From: Juergen Sauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MPEG2 encoder card
Date: 26 Jan 2001 20:39:53 GMT
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb
am Fri, 26 Jan 2001 14:54:33 +0100 in comp.os.linux.hardware:
> Does anyone have any expierience with an MPEG2 encoder card with linux?
> Any info positive or negative is welcome.
Hi!
have a look at http://www.convergence.de/
mfG
Jojo
--
J�rgen Sauer - AutomatiX GmbH, +49-4209-4699, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.automatix.de to Mail me: remove: -not-for-spawm-
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905?
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 26 Jan 2001 17:15:03 -0500
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:31:08 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Harri Haataja wrote:
>> Only thing is a lot of people try 3c905.o which doesn't exist when
>> they should look around and find out it's 3c59x.o instead.
>
>I have had problems getting a 3c905C to work with the 3c59x driver. The
>solution for me was to download 3c905.c from 3coms site and use that
>driver instead. Im using Slackware, I think that RedHat has included the
>3c905 module with their distribution.
>
Maybe both. I've used 3c59x thru several versions of RH, including 7,
with zero problems.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jeff Irvine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem not responding to programs
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:17:08 GMT
"Glitch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> those programs probably use /dev/modem which is a link to the real
> device. Most likely the /dev/modem link is currently linked to something
> other than ttyS1. do a 'ls -la /dev/modem' to see what it is linked to.
> If u dont see it going to ttyS1 rm the link and create it again with ln
Thanks for the suggestion, but I did check on that.
I actually managed to find a fix sometime after posting (isn't that always
the way? ;) ) by disabling the onboard COM2 in my system BIOS.
Much appreciated nonetheless, though!
-Jeff Irvine
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Sweetser)
Subject: Re: Clusters....
Date: 26 Jan 2001 22:09:03 GMT
Walter Rusin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm rather new on this group so maybe at first I'll introduce myself. I'm a
>mathematics student from the University of warsaw (for all who doesn't know
>where Warsaw is: it's the capital city of Poland). I simultanously run my
>home computer under Linux (Mandrake 7.2) and Windows ME. I rather use it for
>some mathematical computation then for gaming but sometimes ;-).
http://www.scyld.com/
Home of the beowulf project.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 14
Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy |
I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere
near the place. -- Stephen Wright
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From: "Mike Dahlgren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't undock my thinkpad laptop with the 2.4 kernel.
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:32:51 -0600
I just received an old IBM stinkpad. Model 755(Pentium 75,
40 megs ram, and 800meg HD), with a docking station(I think it's a DOCK II
9545). I installed RedHat 7.0, and most things seem to be working fine. It
wasn't until
I installed the 2.4 kernel that I found that I couldn't get the laptop to
undock from
the docking station. I like the docking station, and use it for power and
an ISA Ethernet card. Could someone please tell me why this worked with the
2.2 kernel and not the 2.4 kernel, and what can I do if anything to fix it.
Thanks,
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From: eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian on sun and Xserver
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:31:33 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
i am trying to get X working w/debian 2.2.28
i get this as stdout and stderr after running startx:
(using VT number 7)
PEXExtensionInit: Couldn't open default PEX font file Roman_M
sunMouseProc ioctl VUIDGFORMAT: Invalid argument
Fatal server error:
failed to initialize core devices
X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown).
sounds like a mouse problem? any ideas on this PEX thing?
thanks much
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Boris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI harddrive commands..
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2001 00:32:37 +0100
Hello.
Its good to be back : )
OK..to the point:
Is there a way in linux, to shutdown(turn off the motor) unmounted scsi
drive,
like it can be done for ide hd with hdparm util?
..hdparm 'sleep' parameter won't work with scsi bus..
Have fun..
Boris B.
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From: Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DRI drivers for ATI Xpert2000
Date: 26 Jan 2001 16:44:35 -0600
Fabrice DUVAL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> the drivers is exactly the same than the ati rage fury,
>
> it's an rage128 processor
>
> install xfree 3.6 and use the svga driver
I tried the Xfree 3.3.6 SVGA driver (from Debian 2.2), with the 'r128'
driver, and it says "not a valid chipset"
--
Richard W Kaszeta Engineer and Sysadmin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marcus O.C. Metzler)
Subject: Re: MPEG2 encoder card
Date: 26 Jan 2001 20:17:06 +0100
Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Does anyone have any expierience with an MPEG2 encoder card with linux?
>
> Any info positive or negative is welcome.
>
> Eric
Have a look at http://www.linuxtv.org/mpeg2/
Marcus
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