Linux-Hardware Digest #29, Volume #9 Sat, 26 Dec 98 13:13:19 EST
Contents:
Re: 3Com ethernet cards, PCMCIA, and hell! (Andrea Borgia)
SoundBlaster 16 SCSI II (Notmyname)
rehhat 5.1 -sound on a SE440BX-2 motheboard ("Chris Christou")
Re: Diamond Viper 550 (Olivier Mills)
Flickering with STB Velocity 4400 on X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem config problem- please help! (Artur Gmaj)
Re: Modem config problem- please help! (Artur Gmaj)
Re: Cardex's Intel i740 video card and X (Andri Saar)
Re: HP Deskjet 697C -- Usable under Linux? (Gary P. Fiber)
Re: Cardex's Intel i740 video card and X (Andri Saar)
Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Problems (mvrao)
Re: Latest/Greatest Linux hangs with X (Manoj Kumar Sutar)
Re: HP Deskjet 697C -- Usable under Linux? (Norman Elliott)
soundcard cs4236b not supported by red hat 5.2? (bio13)
Help! Need comprehensive(?) list of Hardware/Drivers for Linux--especially network
cards ("Dennis E. Faugh")
Anyone really using Extreme Linux? ("Dennis E. Faugh")
FA: On Ebay, Video Terminal ("jim")
Floppy for the Toshiba Libretto (Guy Baruchel)
Linux - Sparc - CD-ROM ("client.ne.news.psi.net")
Re: How to config my ATI-RageII chip to 16bit or 24bit color? (Bernd Harries)
Re: Linux SMP revisited ("Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein")
Multiple SCSI controllers, drive letter changing (Jack Ryan)
Linux on Sparc ("client.ne.news.psi.net")
Re: Linux sees just 64Mb out of 128Mb of memory (Thomas Schulthess)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrea Borgia)
Subject: Re: 3Com ethernet cards, PCMCIA, and hell!
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:23:41 GMT
On Wed, 23 Dec 1998 12:48:47 -0500,
in article <75ret4$m1l$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Jason Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You need to download and install card services v3.06. Mine was detected the
>first time by v3.05, but ceased to work after that. After I installed v3.06,
>everything worked correctly.
FWIW, I don't think it is a 3.0.5-specific problem, since I have the
same card (on a RH5.2 system, though) and it has always worked
correctly.
Sometimes, the problem is that the card controller picks an unsafe
interrupt to monitor the status changes and the cards stop working. In
this case, forcing the driver to use polling mode usually does the
job.
Bye.
--
Alias: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sysadm on cantina.students.cs.unibo.it
ftp and mirror administrator on ftp.students.cs.unibo.it
Homepage: http://caristudenti.students.cs.unibo.it/~borgia/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Notmyname)
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 SCSI II
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1998 01:14:31 GMT
Does anyone know how to install the driver for the SoundBlaster 16
SCSI II in Redhat 5.2?
Thanks in advance
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From: "Chris Christou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: rehhat 5.1 -sound on a SE440BX-2 motheboard
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:00:36 +0200
hi,
ha anyone got sound to work on this type of motheboard?
thanks
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 12:54:56 +0100
From: Olivier Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper 550
Frank Pikelner wrote:
> Does the beta include XFree 3.3.3 or is the support from SuSE?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Frank
>
> Christopher Campbell wrote:
>
> >
> > > 2) will it work with latest Suse distributions?
> > I'm using the SuSE-Beta release (soon to be the suse6.0 release)
> > and it works great with my viper 550
> >
> > Chris
I've had problems with the Viper 550 with XFree86 3.3.2 so got the 3.3.3,
they say they support RIVA TnT (SVGA) but at x startup he deletes all the
modes "800x600" "1024x786" .... and leaves me with the built-in "300x320"
mode. My monitor settings are 100 %, because I tried every single one
possible. .... so if anyone knows the trick.... Thanks !
Olivier
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Flickering with STB Velocity 4400 on X
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 11:57:17 GMT
Hi,
I've been trying to make the STB Velocity 4400 (nVidia RivaTNT chip) work on
XFree86 3.3.3 under Linux. The server works alright... however, I get some
flickering under X at all resolutions and all color depths. Also, under
console mode, whenever there is a full color background (e.g. using
mouseconfig), I also see some flickering. The card works perfectly well
under Windows98, so I think it is not a hardware problem. Anyone seen
similar things happen on their TNT cards?
Hardware configuration:
Abit BH6 motherboard
Celeron 300A @ 450MHz
128M PC100 SDRAM
Ensoniq Vivo90 soundcard
Quantum Fireball EX 12.7G HD
Toshiba 32X CDROM.
Running Rawhide 1.1.9 (kernel 2.1.131, XFree86 3.3.3, glibc2)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Chung-ke Chang
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From: artur@nil. (Artur Gmaj)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Modem config problem- please help!
Date: 26 Dec 1998 12:09:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:05:32 -0500,
Jason and Christa Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been trying to config my CPI Viva 56K (K56 flex) modem under
>Linux. I've disabled PNP, and now have the modem at COM 2, with I/O
>02F8-02FF and IRQ 3 (under Windows device manager). In Linux, I have
>everything config'd for /dev/cua1. I checked /proc/ioports and
>/proc/interrupts and found the settings for I/O to be serial(auto)
>02f8-02ff and serial(auto) 03f8-03ff. There weren't any settings in
>interrupts for either serial or modems. Now, when I try to enter
>minicom, it still let's me in, but no command prompt to use (frozen).
>And when I try to exit minicom, after 'resetting modem', it hangs up
>with a blank xterm screen(which I have to either kill or close).
>Earlier, I was getting the message "device locked".
>What am I missing? Is there something I need to edit here (such as
>IRQ's), or in the kernel?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
I suggests to use setserial command to set proper IRQ and IO ports on
/dev/cua1. By the way make sure that your serial port ( to which
modem is connected ) is managed by /dev/cua1.
Regards
Artur
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From: artur@nil. (Artur Gmaj)
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,alt.os.linux.dial-up
Subject: Re: Modem config problem- please help!
Date: 26 Dec 1998 12:09:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 01:05:32 -0500,
Jason and Christa Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been trying to config my CPI Viva 56K (K56 flex) modem under
>Linux. I've disabled PNP, and now have the modem at COM 2, with I/O
>02F8-02FF and IRQ 3 (under Windows device manager). In Linux, I have
>everything config'd for /dev/cua1. I checked /proc/ioports and
>/proc/interrupts and found the settings for I/O to be serial(auto)
>02f8-02ff and serial(auto) 03f8-03ff. There weren't any settings in
>interrupts for either serial or modems. Now, when I try to enter
>minicom, it still let's me in, but no command prompt to use (frozen).
>And when I try to exit minicom, after 'resetting modem', it hangs up
>with a blank xterm screen(which I have to either kill or close).
>Earlier, I was getting the message "device locked".
>What am I missing? Is there something I need to edit here (such as
>IRQ's), or in the kernel?
>
>Thanks in advance!
>
I suggests to use setserial command to set proper IRQ and IO ports on
/dev/cua1. By the way make sure that your serial port ( to which
modem is connected ) is managed by /dev/cua1.
Regards
Artur
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:16:29 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cardex's Intel i740 video card and X
Gurpreet Singh Dhillon wrote:
> I haven't been able to find any suitable chipset for this card. I > > tried using a
>SVGA server but it uses only 300 X 280 mode. It works > withs VGA16 server but only
>in 640 X 480. How do I
> i) find the chipset.
> ii) find the clockset.
> iii) specify the server.
Chipset is i740.
As far as I can remember, there is a hacked X server on the Net
somewhere. Official X distribution doesn't supprort it yet, though.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary P. Fiber)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 697C -- Usable under Linux?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:35:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 05:30:02 GMT,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Equinox) wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I received a Hewlett-Packard 697C printer as a Christmas gift. I am
>wondering if this printer can be used with Linux. (HP's website is
>absolutely useless, and the manuals that come with the printer are
>even worse -- bloody kindergarten readers, and they're all M$-this and
>M$-that... they don't even mention HP's own HP-UX operating system!)
>
>Any and all information about using this printer with Linux would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>--Equinox
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
>Email (spam-disabled):
>lord *underscore* equinox *at* mindspring *dot* com
I have a HP-694C which works fine under linux. use the HP-600 series
driver.
Gary
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Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:37:12 +0200
From: Andri Saar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cardex's Intel i740 video card and X
You can download i740 X server from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/
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From: mvrao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATAPI CD-ROM Problems
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 13:53:02 +0000
Did you try going into setup of your bios ( F1 while booting) ? You can
probably change the boot settings.
Aleksandar Mihajlovic wrote:
> Hi
>
> I started to play with Red Hat Linux 5.0 and used my old Compaq Deskpro XE
> 466 (486 DXZ 66 MHz), but I can't install OS because installation does not
> recognize my IDE ATAPI CD-ROM unit. I looked into some documentation, tried
> to input
>
> hdb=cdrom (response Could not find kernel image: hdb=cdro.m)
> or
> ide0=0x1f0,0x3f6,14
>
> before installation (boot prompt) without success.
>
> Under DOS I have Cyberdrive driver version 1.94 with base address 1F0
> drive version is IDE CE-ROM TW12OD2.30
> and device driver name is CD003
>
> and everything works fine.
>
> Any help will be appreciated.
> Thanks
>
> Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Kumar Sutar)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Latest/Greatest Linux hangs with X
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:16:11 GMT
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998 02:07:50 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>HEEELLLLOOO !!!!! Read the bloody email - the machine is hung - the only
Guptaji --- Please Keep cool . Problems are only temporary !!!!!
Manoj
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 697C -- Usable under Linux?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 14:52:50 +0000
Hi,
Where I work we use HP and Toshiba kit. I work in the IT department and we
have been told that as far as HP are concerned 'Deskjet printers are for
personal use only'. Many of their drivers will only install to a hard disc.
They caused us a lot of grief when we used to run win3.1 off our network.
This is why HP will not support them on a network. They assume Unix is only
used on a company network and that Linux MUST be the same.
However all is not lost. I have an old HP Deskjet 500c printer and am trying
to get it to work. A number of people have emailed me about this and are
sending the required files.
I am sure it is possible to get yours to work. Keep an eye on this newsgroup.
When i get mine working I will send you the details. It has to do with using
the correct printcap and filter files.
HTH
Norm
Equinox wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I received a Hewlett-Packard 697C printer as a Christmas gift. I am
> wondering if this printer can be used with Linux. (HP's website is
> absolutely useless, and the manuals that come with the printer are
> even worse -- bloody kindergarten readers, and they're all M$-this and
> M$-that... they don't even mention HP's own HP-UX operating system!)
>
> Any and all information about using this printer with Linux would be
> greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
> --Equinox
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Email (spam-disabled):
> lord *underscore* equinox *at* mindspring *dot* com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bio13)
Subject: soundcard cs4236b not supported by red hat 5.2?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 07:00:27 -0800
Hi,
when using the sndconfig to setup the crystal
soundcard, I can see it can detect the sound card and
the cs423x is on the list. But it just could not pass
the test.
after error, it said to add VERIFYLD N to the top of
the script. what does that mean?
Any suggestion?
RG
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From: "Dennis E. Faugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Need comprehensive(?) list of Hardware/Drivers for Linux--especially
network cards
Date: 26 Dec 1998 15:12:58 GMT
Are there any reasonably comprehensive list of hardware and/or drivers for
use with Linux? I've spent several hours searching web sites, found
(finally) 3Com drivers, would like to use less expensive cards (Note: I
want to try using "Extreme Linux", in a cluster at some point, but mostly
would just like to know what I can and can't use with Linux). Was planning
on using latest Red Hat distribution, but will consider any/all if I can
get good hardware support/documantation! Advice comments welcome!
Dennis E. Faugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Dennis E. Faugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Anyone really using Extreme Linux?
Date: 26 Dec 1998 15:15:27 GMT
Considering building WebSite/Database cluster, looking for "real world
experience" with Extreme Linux. Ant all comments apreciated!
Dennis E. Faugh
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "jim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FA: On Ebay, Video Terminal
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 09:36:17 -0600
FA: Microterm Video Terminal suitable for use on Unix, Linux, Xenix, or any
system that will use a DEC VT 52,100,101,102,320 terminal.
Beautiful 132 column paper white monochrome display.
Has aux printer port and supports TERM. Will connect via 38Kb direct line or
modem.
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=50549638
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Baruchel)
Subject: Floppy for the Toshiba Libretto
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 18:51:01 +0100
I am not able to boot with a boot and a root disks with my Toshiba
Libretto. The kernel seems to be loaded, but then when I have to introduce
the root floppy disk, the kernel doesn't recognize it and says that there
is no floppy driver. The Libretto has (I think) a PC card for the floppy
disk. Does I have to enter special parameters at the boot shell ? Would
you be kind enough not to answer at this adress but to mail at :
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
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From: "client.ne.news.psi.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux - Sparc - CD-ROM
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 15:41:34 GMT
I am trying to install Linux on an old Sparc 1+. It has no CD-ROM and I am
trying to figure out if I can rip a SCSI CD-ROM off my PC for the
installation. The CD-ROM is a Toshiba SCSI. Right now the Sparc has SunOS
installed on it and I don't know how to even check if the CD-ROM works on
it. Could somebody be kind to tell me how to check whether the connected
CD-ROM is recognized and compatible with the machine?
Thanks in advance,
Jordan
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From: Bernd Harries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to config my ATI-RageII chip to 16bit or 24bit color?
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 00:04:46 +0100
Wah Wai Tan wrote:
>
> I have managed to relink the X program point to XF86_Mach32, but when I
I don't believe it. The Mach32 server is not for the Rage family. Mach64
is.
You are probably running XF86_VGA16
--
Bernd Harries
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From: "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux SMP revisited
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 16:39:36 +0100
Please no... I don't understand people that try to make hardware work over
its specification... every time I read somebody crying "I overclocked my CPU
and XYZ happened" I think to myself, "you deserved it". Want SMP, buy SMP
chip for god's sake.
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From: Jack Ryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Multiple SCSI controllers, drive letter changing
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 10:52:56 -0600
Hello,
I have built a *hot* linux box. But it has now got a problem with which
I hope someone can help me :)
I installed a ICP vortex SCSI controller and a NCR83xxx SCSI controller
both are pci, ide is off.
When I did the installation the only drive connected was a Ultra2 SCSI
on the ICP vortext.
The install went fine, assigning the drive id *sda*.
I then connected a cdrom, and 5 Jaz drives to the NCR controller.
The linux letter now on the *boot* drive moved from *sda* to *sdf*
I then disconnected all the drives on the NCR controller, rebooted and
got going again.
I then edit lilo.conf to change the device all reference from *sda* to
*sdf*. I also changes the *fstab* file in the same way. I ran
/sbin/lilo.
Thinking I was homefree I smiled and rebooted. It got further but I
think it's failing on trying to mount the swap.
Any help, would be appreciated, I'm up and going again, just with the
one Ultra2 drive.
Is there a way to tell linux to use the ICP controller as controller
zero and the NCR controller as controller 1, then the machine would keep
the letttering straight.
Thanks
Jack
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From: "client.ne.news.psi.net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Sparc
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:03:39 GMT
I am amazed at the speed and the accuracy of the answers I am getting frm
this newsgroup. I thank all of you.
Here is my problem (and bear in mind - I am a novice with Linux):
I have a Sparc 1+ machine that has no CD-ROM but only a tape drive. The
machine right now has an old SunOS installed on it and it is on my LAN at
home. I am trying to get Linux on it and I am presently downloading the
CD-ROM content from the RedHat ftp server. I understand I can create a
Linux boot floppy on my DOS machine and then use it for a CD-ROM
installation. But I don't have a CD-ROM. I have an FTP server on my
Windows NT machine on the same LAN and I wonder if Linux can install itself
from the FTP. In the instructions I see a network install procedure but I
know I will get stuck at the NFS on another machine - I don't have it. So,
what are my chances?
Thanks in advance,
Jordan
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From: Thomas Schulthess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sees just 64Mb out of 128Mb of memory
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1998 17:03:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sergey Gribov wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have Gateway SOLO 9100 laptop with 128Mb of memory.
> I've installed last Slackware linux on it (kernel 2.0.35). Most of the
> things seems to
> work fine (X, network etc.), but the starnge thing is, that it sees just
> 64Mb out of
> 128Mb... :(
> In startup messages and when I run 'top' it says, that I have just 64Mb
> installed.
> Anyone knows how to fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance,
Some BIOSes just see up to 64Megs of your RAM. You have three
possibilities.
a) Add the line append="mem=128M" to your lilo kernel section,
b) If you are booting with loadlin from DOS or lilo from the prompt you can
specify the "mem=128M" directly on the command line, i.e. "loadlin <your
image> <root device> ro mem=128M" or at the LILO
prompt: lilo: <type in your image> mem=128M
c) Upgrade to a new kernel. The newer kernels (I'd say above 2.1.110) see
all the memory and you don't need to do anything special here.
Cheers,
-- Juerg Schulthess
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