Linux-Hardware Digest #43, Volume #9 Mon, 28 Dec 98 13:13:31 EST
Contents:
HP690C ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
IBM ServerRaid Controller (Manuel)
ATI All in Wonder Pro on RedHat 5.2 ("Alexander Sebestian")
Re: ATI XPERT@PLAT AGP (Ralf Wirowski)
Re: Unidentified netwok card (Andras Istvan-Attila)
question of time... (Paolo Meriggi)
Re: Getting soundcard work (Mike Thoreson)
Booting from a SCSI cdrom ("Richard N. Hinton")
Re: question of time... (David Fox)
NE2000 clone install on RedHat5.2 / modprobe doesn't do anything (newbie)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wisecom accelerator pro modem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Redhat 5.2 with Asus P5A and OnBoard Sound (Geoff Shukin)
Yet Another Modem Problem ("Phil C")
Re: Hardware or software trouble?!? ("Richard Dakin")
Iomega ditto max under SuSE 5.3 (H�hne)
Re: any tools to disable PnP mode under linux? (David)
Re: Driver for STB velocity 4400 (David)
Linux and Boston Acoustics Digital Media Speakers (Phil Knouf)
Re: RHL5.2 Install problem-CD not found
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HP690C
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 09:28:58 GMT
Hello,
any idea how I can print in color? Ghostscript doesn't seem to support this
specific printer, but using HP500, I can print b/w - however I do not find an
appropriate printer type for color printing.
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From: Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM ServerRaid Controller
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:15:19 +0100
Does anybody know how/if it's possible to run Linux on a IBM PC Server
330 with a serverRaid Controller? It seems like it is not supported yet
but might be possible that someone created a driver.
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From: "Alexander Sebestian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All in Wonder Pro on RedHat 5.2
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 12:27:55 +0100
Hi!!
Have big problem with my fucking ATI Grafikcard.
Using a ATI All in Wonder Pro PCI Card on an Cyrix X686 with an Philips 7CM
3209 15' Monitor.
The same hardware is running under fuckin Microshrott Win 98 without any
problems.
Under RedHat 5.2 I'm not able to start any XWindow. And if I can start one
I only see stripes!! No more idea now.
Please help!!!
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From: Ralf Wirowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI XPERT@PLAT AGP
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 11:44:51 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andreas Klein wrote:
>
> We have an ATO Xpert AGP (RAGE PRO 3D chip) running with linux. The Card
> works without any problems with the mach64 server. But the performance is
> not as good as the performance of thee pci-cards. Has anyone made the same
> experience?
>
My expierence is the same: The ATI Xpert@Work works without any
problems, but the
performance (XFree86 3.3.3) is poor. If i compare it with the driver
under WinNT4.0
(I know this comparison isn't allowed.) i get the feeling its more than
two times
faster under WinNT4.0.
What special do the ATI-people, what the XFree-people do not?
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Ralf Wirowski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Andras Istvan-Attila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Unidentified netwok card
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 13:18:19 +0100
Yes I tried with:
insmod ne2k-pci.o io=0x320 irq=10
This claimes that no PCI harware found which is right because the card is an
16bit ISA card.
And also tried the ne.o module. Just results in error masseges.
I tried also the 8390.o module which doesn't give any errors but nothing
workes.
As far as I know the 8390.o driver can't be loaded separately, other driwers
use it.
Anyway, thanks.
Other suggestions?
Jamerz wrote:
> This is the web page I came up with:
This is a PCI card. I have an ISA 16bit card.
>
>
> http://www.skywell.com.tw/pci2000e.htm
>
> It looks to be a NE2000 PCI compatable network card. Have you tried that
> driver?
>
> Jamerz
>
> Andras Istvan-Attila wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >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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From: Paolo Meriggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: question of time...
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:15:12 +0100
Hallo all,
I have just a little question: is it possible under Linux to have a time
resolution of less than
1/10 second ? I have read throgh "time.h" and "sys/times.h" and I was
not able to find anything suitable (clock() and times() aren't enough,
it seems).
Thank you and Merry Xmas.
Paolo
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From: Mike Thoreson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Getting soundcard work
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 23:57:04 +0900
Tim Kelley wrote:
> Mike Thoreson wrote:
> > I have a Creative PCI 64 which for all practical purposes is the same card...
>
>
> Well, I have 2.0.36 and the Audio PCI (1370) works fine...
> I have an external synth plugged into the soundcard...
> I'm not sure whether the sound card actually has a hardware MPU-401 or not...
> Has ANYONE gotten the midi on an Ensoniq Audio PCI to work under linux?
>
> --
> Tim Kelley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> New Orleans, LA
You're right. The soundcard doesn't have any midi hardware. I use a program called
timidity. It takes a midi file and converts it into a wave file which it streams into
the dsp device for the sound card. It probaly wouldn't work well on anything less
then a P 133 Mhz system. I use Debian and it comes with the package. I believe it
also comes with RedHat. For Debian there are 2 files. One is the program itself, and
the other is the instrument patch files. The instrument patch files take up about 10
meg of disk space. If you're looking for a tar.gz file do a search for timidity with
you favorit search engine. As far as using an external synth, thats outa my league.
Mike
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From: "Richard N. Hinton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Booting from a SCSI cdrom
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 22:25:30 -0600
December 25, 1998
This is really more of nuisance, than a real problem. I have three
OS set up on my computer and everything seems to be working fine, except
for booting from the SCSI cdrom. First alittle about
my system:
ASUS P5A mother board with Award bios and 65 megs of DIMM, about
8.2+ gig HD's both IDE
and SCSI. BusLOgic (Mylex) Bt-930 PCI to SCSI controller with
Toshiba XM5702 CDROM.
Also one IBM 2.1 gig SCSI drives and (2) 4.3 gig IDE drives
Usually I leave the first cdrom from Suse or Redhat in th CDROm, becasue
each one
has a boot (binary) section from which I think they should be able to
boot from/ I recall with an
earlier motherboard, I could boot from the cdrom.
I set the boot option on the bt-930 and thought I generally
configured the devices. The SCSI
HD is ID #1 and the CDROM (terminated) is ID#4, if I recal correctly.
Has anyone had this minor
annoyance, and if so what was done to fix it???
Richard N. Hinton
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: question of time...
Date: 28 Dec 1998 06:56:47 -0800
Paolo Meriggi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hallo all,
> I have just a little question: is it possible under Linux to have a time
> resolution of less than
> 1/10 second ? I have read throgh "time.h" and "sys/times.h" and I was
> not able to find anything suitable (clock() and times() aren't enough,
> it seems).
With gettimeofday(2) and the timeout argument of select(2)" you can
get down to microseconds.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: NE2000 clone install on RedHat5.2 / modprobe doesn't do anything (newbie)
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:46:33 GMT
Hello,
Mijn NE2000 compatible ISA-netkaart kan ik niet configureren onder RedHat5.2.
Ik zie bij het booten: "Delaying eth0 initialization"
I can't configure my NE2000 compatible ISA netcard under redHat5.2
All I see while booting: "Delaying eth0 initialization"
I already tried a lot of things:
1) passing arguments with loadlin: ether=10,0x300 (I'd rather use LILO, but
can't get it to work; it says "Partition entry not found" on install. Does
anyone know how to solve this too? (Already tried fdisk /MBR)
2) modprobe: doesn't give any output! lsmod shows that NO modules are
installed
3) insmod /lib/modules/"long-version-number"/net/ne.o io=0x300 irq=10 gives a
lot of "unresolved symbols" (ei_open, ethdev..., etc.)
4) I've tried several combinations of irq/io addresses, which all work fine
under dos
5) using linuxconf (or directly changing conf.modules, this does basically the
same, or am I wrong?) I verified/changed io/irq numbers, to match the card's
EEPROM-config.
Who can help me?
Gtnx Jeroen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: wisecom accelerator pro modem
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 03:06:46 GMT
does this modem work under linux
wisecom's web page doesn't mention it being a winmodem
anyone had any success w/ it
tia
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From: Geoff Shukin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Redhat 5.2 with Asus P5A and OnBoard Sound
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:18:28 GMT
Hi!
I have a P5A with the ESS 1938 Sound built on to the motherboard. I can
not disable the sound without cutting three leads were some of the newer
boards have three jumpers to disable the sound.
I Would like to get the sound to work under Linux (Redhat 5.2) and seem
to be getting nowhere fast!
I have tried to recompile the Kernel without success. There is no
direct support listed for the Ess1939.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
Geoff Shukin
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From: "Phil C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yet Another Modem Problem
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1998 22:37:37 -0500
I recently started to explore Red Hat Linux 5.1 and successfully installed
it on my NEC Ready 9012.
I think that I did everything right but I just can't get my modem to work.
My system is: (nothing fancy)
90 MHz Pentium
32 Meg Ram
1 gig HD
My Modem is a Boca V.34 Communicator internal 28.8 Fax/Modem. It's
installed on Com 1, at 03f8, irq 4.
Also the docs indicate that it's PNP ISD Revision 1.0a-compatible (Windows
95 ready)
Do any of you have any sugestions or fixes. I'm really new at this so
you'll have to use laymans terms.
Cheers.
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From: "Richard Dakin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
microsoft.public.windowsnt.misc,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware or software trouble?!?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:02:39 -0000
Mike Doland wrote in message <767qc9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi!
>
>For the moment I have real trouble with my NT 4.0 WS (eng).
>
>My computer:
>AMD K6-233 MHz
>ASUS motherboard
>24 MB Memory (should probably be more)
>Quantum Fireball 3.8 GB
>Samsung 540 MB
>
>Partitions:
>C: NT-bootloader on DOS partition HD 1
>D: DOS partition on HD 2
>E: "NT-root" (NTFS) on HD 1
>F: NTFS on HD 1
>
>It all started with alot of bluescreens. It seemed that some programs
allways
>caused it. I think I got the error PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA (on the
>bluescreen).
>Later or maybe at the same time my PC speaker has started to go off for 50
>seconds, and then it stops, over and over again every 5-15 minute (pretty
>annoying).
>Finally some days ago, I didn't make make the boot up. Some file in the
system32
>catalog was corrupted (maybe due to too much swapping on the HD (just 24 MB
in
>memory).
>I thought that I should do a recovery, so I put in the 3 boot diskettes and
the
>CD. However, after the 3rd diskett, during (or directly after) the loading
of
>the NTFS driver, it blue screens and says: PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA
>It even did that when I tried to reinstall everything over again (except C:
and
>D:).
>To boot into DOS works fine (and also win 3.11 runs ok).
>Does anyone have a clue what might be wrong. Is it hardware, BIOS or
software.
>What should I do. Any hints or ideas are welcome.
If you can, try different ram.
As you say, you really don't have enough memory anyway for NT.
With 24mb's even solitaire will crawl.
Bump it up to at least 64mb for NT.
Richard Dakin
Return address is false.
No email please.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H�hne)
Subject: Iomega ditto max under SuSE 5.3
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 18:33:13 +0100
Hello
I've got SuSE 5.3 and I have iomega DITTO max-drive!
How is it possible to use? How must I install it.
My iomega DITTO max-drive is the parallel-port version!
With which parameter must I use the mount-task!
PLEASE HELP ME!
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: any tools to disable PnP mode under linux?
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 15:33:23 GMT
Some cards (ie. Linksys EtherPCI LAN Card II) do have software to disable PnP,
however it must be run on a DOS/Win workstation before moving the card to your
linux box.
Dave
On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Henrik Carlqvist wrote: >Xiaobo.Xie wrote:
>>
It's not a new question. Can anybody tell me how to disable PnP mode
>> under
linux for some devices ? One of my friend can't let his modem
>> and sound
card work under linux. I guess there are some tools which
>> can make it.
>
>PNP is not disabled by software tools but by hardware jumpers. If you
>are able to disable PNP depends on you cards. You should probably be
>able to use your soundcard in linux, if you are unable to disable PNP
>you could use PNP with pnp-tools. (I think that is the name of the
>package).
>
>If youf modem is a real modem you should be able to use that one too.
>However, if it is a winmodem which is only a D/A-converter connecting
>the CPU to the phone-line you will need special drivers and programs
>which doesn't exist for Linux.
>
>regards Henrik
>--
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From: David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for STB velocity 4400
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 16:18:47 GMT
OH YEAH! I forgot... the driver is listed as RIVA/TNT and not as STB Velocity
4400. The Velocity 4400 is a TNT board and that driver works fine with it.
Party On!
Dave
On
Mon, 28 Dec 1998, David wrote: >Here's how I solved that problem. RH5.2 should
have the latest XF86_SVGA rpm, >but I had to download it. You can get it at
most public linux ftp sites. Then >you should edit/add the following line to
the "Device" Section in >/etc/X11/XF86Config : > VideoRam 16384
>The Xconfigurator comments (#) out that line for some reason.
>
>Good Luck!
>Dave
>
>On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, v982123 wrote:
>>I'm looking for a Linux driver for the STB Velocity TNT 16 Mb
>>Can someone help me where to find the right driver????
>>The problem is that my Linux version (Redhat 5.2) doesn't support more
>>that 8 MB of videomemory
>>
>>Tnx in advantage.
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From: Phil Knouf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and Boston Acoustics Digital Media Speakers
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:19:45 -0600
I have a very strange problem. I have Linux (kernel 2.0.36, default
from RH 5.2) set up with my sound card (an ES1371) correct. It can play
sounds through headphones with no problems. When I try to play through
the speakers, however, I hear nothing. The speaker setup is two
satelites and one subwoofer. The speakers work correctly in Windows,
and I have gotten another Boston Accoustics 3-speaker system to work
correctly on another Linux box. Some info about my computer system is:
G6-450
128 MB RAM
ES1371 Sound Card
Running KDE (this shouldn't matter, should it?)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Nick Knouf
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RHL5.2 Install problem-CD not found
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 10:58:24 -0700
Hi:
I am a REAL newbie and am interested in setting up my old computer with Linux.
It is a Compaq Presario 433 (specs:
http://www.compaq.com/athome/showroom/classics/433_qs.html). It is very
similar to the box that you describe below, although I am still looking for
another/a larger hard drive than the 200MB stock drive. I think that the
drive is an IDE drive. Maybe your experiences since the post below will have
given you some wisdom. THE BIG QUESTION: Is it worth it to put Linux on
computers like these?
Joshua Johnson
Department of Biology
Arizona State University
PH: (602)-965-7892
FAX: (602)-965-2519
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, Christopher J. Mark wrote:
> I'm trying to install Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a 486-SX/33 with 8 MB of RAM
> and 2 old IDE HD's. The problem is with my CD-ROM drive. I have a
> combination CD-ROM/3.5" floppy drive that fits in 1 drive bay. The 2
> pieces of hardware have completely separate interfaces, power supplies,
> etc., just slightly less bulky cases. The Model # is TEAC CF506A, but
> the CD-ROM part is supposed to be identical to a CD-55A. It even says
> CD-55A on the DOS/Win driver installation floppy label. The 55-A is
> listed as a Tier 1 supported device on the RH website.
>
> Problem: RH Install can't find it. I get to the point where I tell it I
> have a non-IDE, non-SCSI CD-ROM (also know as "other") and am presented
> with a list to choose from. But neither the 55-A nor the CF506A is on
> the list! The Readme file on the CD installation disk says it can be
> connected to any TRUE Sound Blaster sound card with a Panasonic
> interface, and that IS one of the choices, but if I select it,
> installation crashes with something about a signal 11.
>
> I have 3 different computers, but none of them has a standard IDE or
> SCSI CD-ROM. Did I just waste my money buying Linux on CD?
>
> I don't think installing off my HD is an option. I doubt there's enough
> space to copy all the files and still have room left to install.
> --
> Christopher J. Mark
> Mathematician, Tutor, and Webpage designer
>
> http://www.math.umd.edu/~cjm
>
> "Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana."
>
>
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