Linux-Hardware Digest #37, Volume #9 Sun, 27 Dec 98 21:13:31 EST
Contents:
Re: SLOOOOWWWW modem... (Jim Vellenga)
Re: Printer sharing between linux and solaris (George Dau)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (Tovar)
RISC 6000 ("Israel Ameh")
Re: Buying a new video card... (garf)
Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem (John Thompson)
Re: Problem with xstart and jumpy mouse - HELP!!! (Vinay Doma)
Unidentified netwok card (Andras Istvan-Attila)
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From: Jim Vellenga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SLOOOOWWWW modem...
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:14:53 -0500
I'm no expert, but I had a similar problem with one of my modems. It turned out
that I had not set the irq # correctly with setserial. That might be your
problem.
JRV
John Freed wrote:
> I have a Diamond Supra 56i modem, which does respond when I use minicom.
> However, it typically takes 9 seconds to respond to each and every AT command.
> Any ideas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (George Dau)
Subject: Re: Printer sharing between linux and solaris
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:27:03 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
]I have a DEC Alphastation running RedHat5.2 and an x86 machine running
]Solaris 7. I need to share a printer between these two machines. What are
]my options? The printer is an old Canon BJ-200e . . . Thanks in advance,
Our printers are stand-alone with HP JetDirect cards in/on them. Works nicely.
I have queues configured on a DEC (running DEC-Unix), and use them remotely
from Linux (even from home - this is nice. Print the things I want from here
and pick them up from the printer when I get in to work)
Here is the part of my /etc/printcap for the remote queue. The IP number has
been munged to protect the guilty...
colour:\
:sd=/var/spool/lp:\
:rm=192.254.7.40:\
:rp=raw:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sh:
The "rp" entry is the remote port on the JetAdmin card, they have two modes,
"raw" and "text". "Text" nicely fixes the "Stair-case effect", raw just pumps
data.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 11:53:44 -0800
On Sun, 27 Dec 1998 13:03:58 +0000, mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>David M. Cook wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 26 Dec 1998 23:52:51 GMT, David J. Looney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>> wrote:
>>
>> >as many brands of both "full" and "winmodems" now state that they
>> >require MS Windows, without any discrimination.
>>
>> Do they work with NT?
>>
>> >important to get one of the major manufacturers to release their specs
>> >so that at least a minimal driver can be written.
>>
>> Short of industrial espionage and sit ins, I don't see what can be done
>> about it.
>>
>> Dave Cook
>My suggestion is buy Modems that don't call themselves Winmodems, when
>they don't work -- return them and complain, call the manufacturor and
>complain. Bean counters count the cost of this stuff. The margins are so
>slim, the cost of making a Winmodem will grow beyond the cost of stock
>modems. We win.
However, this requires computer consumers to start
standing up for themselves. The lack of this sort
of thing occuring is why the market is in the mess
it is at the moment. Consumers getting fed and no
longer taking this shit (or shit in general) would
be as much another paradigm shift as OSS.
--
Herding Humans ~ Herding Cats
Neither will do a thing unless they really want to, or |||
is coerced to the point where it will scratch your eyes out / | \
as soon as your grip slips.
In search of sane PPP docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Tovar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: 27 Dec 1998 15:00:02 -0800
Based on this limited observation, it appears that (a) it has been only
in the last couple of months that Winmodems have become common (is this
true?) and (b) Winmodems now dominate the PC modem market.
My focus in this e-mail message is on (b). IT WOULD APPEAR THAT
WINMODEMS ARE A MAJOR THREAT TO THE VIABILITY OF LINUX. Given the
sudden rise of Winmodems, it would appear to be a real possibility that
non-Winmodems may become nearly extinct in the next few months. Though
workarounds exist (e.g. external modems) this could have a devastating
impact on the popularity of Linux, a real shame in view of the fact that
Linux had been on its way to becoming much more mainstream.
After the so-called 'Halloween papers', i can't help but wonder if M'Soft
has been pushing behind the scenes to encourage such development. The more
proprietary software required to support a peripheral, the better, from
their stand-point. The 'bean counters' can then say, LINUX boxes cost too
much, you'll have to use Window 98 (or whatever). That's how SUN killed
Symbolics and eventually DEC. (But that was partly 'Bolics's and DEC's own
stupidity, and why Apple wasn't never dominant even though they had a big
edge initially.) No, i don't think sitting around is going to make the
problem go away, as some people seem to suggest. They are not going away,
but the external modems always have had a premium price (and also more RFI
problems), and for a picture of the future, look at how Macintosh modems
have always cost close to twice as much as comparable MSDOS modems; and
those aimed at other markets, even more than that. What is a real distinct
possibility is that in the future, if you want to run LINUX, you'll have to
buy a new modem (and if Bill has his way, other peripherals as well).
Actually it's a little more complicated. Intel is pushing hard for
offloading processing onto the software rather than having it done by
specialized hardware. This means going towards WinModems, AGP graphics,
MPEG software, DVD player software and away from ISA modems, PCI
graphics, MPEG decoder cards, and DVD-ROM cards. They want the software
to do the processing which will require faster main CPUs rather than
have specialized chips each performing a single task well. You see,
there's no reason right now that the average home PC user needs a 450
mhz+, 128 meg RAM PC. Having the processing done by software rather
than dedicated hardware creates a demand for faster Intel CPUs.
Unfortunately this is a short sighted strategy that will hold back
interesting new technologies which really will require faster CPUs as
the CPUs will be bogged down running things that used to be done in
hardware.
Oh, they've been doing that all along, both of them. That's how Bill makes
his money, overbloated software which requires more and more resources and
sells more and more new systems. And Apple plays the same game, but they
are even much less of a major player these days.
No, i don't think we can't stomp out the LoseModems, uh, i mean 'WinModems'.
We're going to have to get someone big (like 3Com) to cooperate with us and
(perhaps jointly) put out LINUX drivers. And we might have to accept maybe
dealing with software that isn't GPL, but is still maintainable by others.
-- Tovar
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From: "Israel Ameh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RISC 6000
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:52:08 -0500
Does anyone know if Linux can be installed on an IBM RISC 5000 machine? I
hava a Bull variant of the IBM RISC 6000 type 7006 and I hate to junk it
since it only runs on IBM's AIX (As far as I am aware)
Any assistance will be appreciated
Israel
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From: garf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Buying a new video card...
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 00:55:06 +0000
Steven Zinck wrote:
>
> hey all...
>
> I'm going to buy a new video card soon, nothing too fancy.. right now I have
> a S3 ViRGE GX/2 4mb that has been locking up X (seems to happen when I load up
> a graphic in gimp and sometimes netscape)..I've heard of other people having
> this problem too w/this card....anyway.. just wondering if anyone can make
> a recommendation for a good, stable card in X?
>
>
> --
>
> -steve
> remove the '-remove' to reply via email
ATI's are always a good bet. Something like a Rage Pro, PCI or AGP,
ATI@work/Play, etc. X86Free has had support for these for a long time.
--
H&Ks
Garf.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Thompson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: need to take action on the Winmodem problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 20:06:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bruce Thornhill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>winmodems have been around for quite a while now, and I would think
>their marketshare is sliding dramatically. Many people now realize that
>they are lobotomized modems that rely on the PC's hardware to do much of
>their logic processing. AFAIK, they work ONLY on Win9x machines. The
>direct-hardware software drivers violate NT architecture so they won't
>even work there.
I think this will be the real test. As Microsoft trys to move
people to WinNT v5/Win2000/Whatever will they further compromise
NT by allowing direct hardware access for devices like Winmodems
or will they leave this part of NT alone and force the hardware
manufacturers to continue to provide "real" modems and such...
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Vinay Doma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with xstart and jumpy mouse - HELP!!!
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 19:04:21 -0600
Vinay Doma wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> I've tried to be as descriptive as possible, so forgive me if u think
> this posting is too long.
>
> I recently installed RedHat Linux 5.2 on my Gateway G6-400 and
> ran Xconfigurator. I figured out that my Video Card
> (Ensoniq AGP 16384K, that I got directly from Gateway) was
> not supported by XFree86. So I downloaded XBF_i740 from your
> ftp server and installed the package. I also downloaded the
> new xf86config and ran it to configure my system. I checked my
> video card documentation for all the required information. I made sure
> that I selected the correct mouse (MicroSoft Intellimouse (PS/2
> compatible)). I checked to make sure the file XF86Config and the links
> were all correct.
>
> On running startx, I got an X Window that had a huge screen
> area and my mouse was always kept jumping in the left top
> corner of my screen. I also couldn't change resolutions using
> Ctrl-Alt-+.
> I tried killing gpm and restarting startx, but it didn't
> work. I have enclosed the log file I got on running startx.
>
> Script started on Sat Dec 26 18:58:50 1998
> [root@localhost HOWTO]# startx
>
> XBF_i740 Version 1.0.0 / X Window System
> (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)
> Release Date: December 21 1998
> If the server is older than 6-12 months, or if your card is
newer
> than the above date, look for a newer version before reporting
> problems. Please see ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF/ for the
latest
> i740 server.
> Please report any problems to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]".
> Operating System: Linux 2.0.35 i686 [ELF]
> Configured drivers:
> SVGA: server for SVGA graphics adaptors (Patchlevel 0):
> i740, i740_pci, generic
> (using VT number 7)
>
> XF86Config: /etc/XF86Config
> (**) stands for supplied, (--) stands for probed/default values
> (**) XKB: keymap: "xfree86(us)" (overrides other XKB settings)
> (**) Mouse: type: IntelliMouse, device: /dev/psaux, baudrate: 1200
> (**) Mouse: buttons: 3, 3 button emulation (timeout: 50ms)
> (**) SVGA: Graphics device ID: "Intel 740 (generic)"
> (**) SVGA: Monitor ID: "My Monitor"
> (--) SVGA: Mode "1600x1200" needs hsync freq of 105.77 kHz. Deleted.
> (--) SVGA: Mode "1280x1024" needs hsync freq of 107.16 kHz. Deleted.
> (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 96.15 kHz. Deleted.
> (--) SVGA: Mode "1800X1440" needs hsync freq of 104.52 kHz. Deleted.
> (**) FontPath set to
>
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/,/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/"
> (--) SVGA: PCI: 3Dfx Banshee rev 3, Memory @ 0xf4000000, 0xfc000000,
I/O
> @ 0x9000
> (--) SVGA: chipset: generic
> (--) SVGA: videoram: 64k
> (--) SVGA: clocks: 25.18
> (**) SVGA: Using 8 bpp, Depth 8, Color weight: 666
> (--) SVGA: Using builtin driver modes
> (--) SVGA: Builtin Mode: 320x200
> (--) SVGA: Virtual resolution set to 320x204
> (--) SVGA: SpeedUp code selection modified because virtualX != 1024
> System: `/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb
> -xkm -m us -em1 "The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:"
-emp
> "> " -eml "Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server"
> keymap/xfree86 compiled/xfree86.xkm'
> Warning: /dev/psaux unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate
> ioctl for device)
> xinit: connection to X server lost.
>
> waiting for X server to shut down
>
> [root@localhost HOWTO]# exit
> Script done on Sat Dec 26 18:59:12 1998
>
> Please HELP!!!!
>
> Thanks, Vinay Doma
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Vinay,
I had some similar problem just recently when moved from serial mouse to
ps/2. And took me some frustrating hours to fix it !!!
I am almost sure that you selected the wrong type of mouse from the XF86
config utility.
One possible solution to try the ps/2 and see what happens.
But I actually made the X11 working with gpm (I just couldn't live
without the easy cut and paste).
Here what I suggest to check:
1. First make sure that your mouse works on the consol using gpm of
course....
2. Adjust your script rc.local (well you are running RedHat so it might
called different) where gpm is started...
gpm -R -m /dev/psaux -t ps2
3. Then edit your XF86Config file like this .... (of course keep a
backup just in case)
...
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "BusMouse"
Device "/dev/gpmdata"
Emulate3Timeout 20
Emulate3Buttons
EndSection
Most of this I figured out from the gpm man pages except that you have
to select Portocol "BusMouse" rather then ps2 !!!
I hope this helps....
Gabor
Also, would you mind to post this to the newsgroup (I do not have access
at this point to post my normal newsserver is havning some difficulties
so I connect to a read-only one for now. Thanks)
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From: Andras Istvan-Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Unidentified netwok card
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 02:01:48 +0100
I'm runnig RedHat4 .2 on a i386 mashine as DNS and mail server ;)
Recently changed the network card to an ISA card which I can't manage to
identify.
On the card stays: 906-E16 REV 2.0
It has a chip: DP83906VLJ
Could anybody give me some sollution which module and HOW should I load
to get it work.
All the other network configurations are unchanged since they worked
with the old card.
Thanks
P.S. irq=10 io=0x320 is set by the jumpers
Tried the modules: 8390.o and ne.o but they doesn't seem to work.
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