Linux-Hardware Digest #79, Volume #9 Fri, 1 Jan 99 07:14:13 EST
Contents:
Re: WHEE!!!! Linux on an 386 (for real) w/ 4M (Norman Elliott)
SB 16 Vibra isapnp.conf (Randy Edwards)
Re: help : UPS script problem.......... ("randymale")
Re: Merry Christmas and a SMP survey ("TURBO1010")
Re: parport/ppa problem with 2.2.0pre1 (Griffin Caprio)
Re: Nikon Slide scanner configuration (David Fox)
Re: Decent Soundcard for Linux (David Fox)
Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...) (David Fox)
Re: C350 LIFEBOOK (Jim Richardson)
Re: Recommendations for a SCSI drive? (John Thomas)
Re: linux hangs during enet traffic (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Re: Redhat Linux 5.1 and 3com 3c509b-TPO card troubleshooting (LinuxCyrix)
Re: Travan TR2 Floppy tape backup troubles (Paul Nevin)
Re: LS120 (LinuxCyrix)
Re: LS 120 and Red Hat 5.2 (LinuxCyrix)
Re: PnP Modem, NOT winmodem (Jeffrey Bridge)
Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...) (James Youngman)
Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem (James Youngman)
Re: mouse running wild in X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WD7000 SCSI controler problem (yoyo)
Re: ATI Charger: Xconfigurator problems ("Tazman37")
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WHEE!!!! Linux on an 386 (for real) w/ 4M
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:13:42 +0000
Mike Werner wrote:
> Sounds like a fun project. We've got a few old PS/2's (MCA, even) down
> in the basement that I'm gonna try that with at some point. Anyway - I
> doubt you want to even try X on a machine like that. And recompiling a
> kernel will probably require a lot of patience on your part. Also, you
> might want to glance through
> http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Small-Memory for a few
> tips. Also, if possible, try compiling kernels on a larger (i.e.
> *faster*) machine. Just pick the appropriate options during the config,
> then instead of make zImage do make zdisk to put your new kernel onto a
> floppy. Then just take that floppy to the 386 and install the new
> kernel. Probably a few dozen other items to keep in mind, but I can't
> think of 'em off hand.
>
> At any rate, good luck!
> --
> Mike Werner KA8YSD | "Where do you want to go today?"
> ICQ# 12934898 | "As far from Redmond as possible!"
> AIM Screen Name Reznaeous |
> '91 GS500E |
> Morgantown WV |
>
> -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
> Version: 3.1
> GU d-@ s:+ a- C++>$ UL++ P+ L+++ E W++ N++ !o w--- O- !M V-- PS+ PE+
> Y+ R+ !tv b+++(++++) DI+ D--- G e*>++ h! r++ y++++
> ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
You can get at least 2 versions of Linux which are already compiled and fit
on 1 floppy. You can boot your system from them I think - the 4 Meg might
be tough tho
norm
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From: Randy Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB 16 Vibra isapnp.conf
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:07:21 -0500
I'm trying to configure a Soundblaster 16 card and am having no luck. This is
their ISA PnP Vibra model. I'd like to use its default settings -- IRQ5, DMA
1 and 3, default I/O addresses. But despite setting the kernel up and running
pnpdump and generating/editing an /etc/isapnp.conf file I can only get the
card to emit a high-pitched squeal when I attempt to load the sound module.
What I was wondering is if anyone can hit me with a cluebat about what I might
be doing wrong. Or perhaps better still, does anyone have an isapnp.conf file
for a SB 16 Vibra that they could send me? TIA.
Happy New Year!
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From: "randymale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help : UPS script problem..........
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 01:22:22 -0000
randymale wrote in message <76gvac$t8s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Help!
Well not to cry wolf but I found out my problem by reading in
comp.os.linux.misc... Someone had similar problem. Two users replied that
the script was original written from a dos/win platform. this was actually
the case as I downloaded the software on my win pc so I could write it to a
cdrom..... dos2unix fixed that problem.... installed the package from a link
at http://filewatcher.org nuff said.
New problem and one that I thought I was through with.... When starting
ups monitoring a console message appears : cannot open port "/dev/ttys1" for
UPS access - Input/output error. Setserial reports same error whenI try to
autoconfigure or set manually..... I had this problem initialy when setting
up the modem. After using device cua0 with a link to /dev/modem (I know
every howto says not to use cua* or /dev/modem) I got the modem to work
fine. But when I #setserial /dev/ttys2 (modem location) I get the same
response....
I am assuming that the links are wrong.?.? Important note serial port
(ttys1) is on motherboard. Does this matter ? I assume it must be a
configuration problem since the modem works fine....
The modem is a newcom 56ifx pnp or jumpered setup(even has references to
linux setup in manual) . And as I said the serial port is on the motherboard
and is configured automatically or manually from the bios.
ttys1=com2
ttys2=com3=cua0=modem
thanks in advance
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "TURBO1010" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Merry Christmas and a SMP survey
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 22:11:28 -0800
Tomcat IV here, no real increase in speed with dual 233MMX processors, but
have noticed that I can now recompile the kernel, and play a game of
astroids in KDE without any jerkyness. Maybe the 2nd processors is working.
Edward Hooper wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Adam Husik wrote:
>>
>> I'm running linux on an asus p2b with a P2-333 and am considering getting
a
>> dual cpu motherboard to experiment with SMP. There hasn't been much
>> discussion about people running more than one processor lately. Any
comments
>> about setups you're either happy or disappointed with? I primarily use my
>> system as a personal workstation and am debating wether I'll see a big
>> speed-up with the change.
>>
>> I hope everyone has a happy holiday,
>>
>> Adam
>
>I have a Tyan Tomcat III with 2 P5-166's (old style, not MMX) and I had
>no problems getting SMP to work. I really haven't seen a speed
>increase, but I haven't done any thing CPU intensive yet. (Of course,
>my system is bound by using an old Adaptec AHA-1542CF that won't go
>above 8Mb/s transfer because of some old hardware...)
>
>If you can, try to find either an old Socket 7 motherboard or someone
>who can patch the Celeron-A processors for SMP, because going dual on a
>Pentium II is going to be expensive.
>
>Just my $0.02 worth.
>
>Edward Hooper
>--
>Why Linus Torvalds moved to Silicon Valley: It's the cheese!
>
>Edward Hooper: SysAdmin for the Love Boat(tm).
>
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From: Griffin Caprio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: parport/ppa problem with 2.2.0pre1
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 01:36:46 -0600
Jens Kristian S�gaard wrote:
> Griffin Caprio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I can't even get my printer to work under 2.2.0pre1. It works fine in
> > 2.0.36, but not in the newer kernels. I tried to switch from lp1 to lp0
> > and it still doesn't work. Any tips?
>
> Try putting something like this in your /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> options lp parport=0
>
> I've set the option to lp back to 0, as I suppose you only have only
> parallel port ( and thats the one the printer is connected to ). I'm
> not sure if it's needed -- but anyways...
>
> I ofcourse assume you have a normal PC parallelport.
>
The weird thing is I can cat to it, just not with lpr. maybe I need a newer
distro of lpr?!?
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Subject: Re: Nikon Slide scanner configuration
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 31 Dec 1998 22:43:42 -0800
"guenter weissenseel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Nikon LS10 slide scanner and try to make it work under Linux 2.0.35
>
> The SCSI interface works fine and I found software, which is working under
> 1.0, but I can't compile it.
>
> Does anyone have this scanner and get it to work?
>
> Please give me some feedback
You can find the SANE scanner package compiled in RPM form. Look
for one of those rpm2html sites.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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Subject: Re: Decent Soundcard for Linux
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 31 Dec 1998 22:46:53 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (mike dombrowski) writes:
> Ya me too. Does the esoniq AudioPCI work? It's cheap ($28) pci and is
> pretty decent as far as sound quality.
I had one and I thought it sounded pretty crappy. I got a Turtle
Beach Fiji, which has OK (but not great) driver support and sounds
pretty Hi-Fi. Its a few hundred dollars, though.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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Subject: Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...)
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 31 Dec 1998 22:50:54 -0800
Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now I am new to Linux and have done only a verrrry small amount of C
> programming. Also I have never seen a Win Modem. Here's my tiny
> contribution to start things off. 1) What we have -- It seems to me
> that these Win Modems must have some chips on them which can be
> recognised. So Someone must be able to say - roughly - what they
> do. therefore This should give some idea as to the level at which
> any code should address the card. 2) Windows The code is written
> for x86 processor. It does standard calls to PC hardware (maybe - i
> am guessing here ) So dissassembly should point in the right
> direction Therefore The brainy Linux guys can do it. Sorry if this
> is really silly but what do you all think?
Maybe a really big offer at http://visar.csustan.edu/bazaar/ would
help. Like $10K or $20K.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Richardson)
Subject: Re: C350 LIFEBOOK
Date: 1 Jan 1999 07:01:10 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 17:25:36 -0800,
TURBO1010 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sayeth...:
>anyone know how to set up X on this laptop? I know it uses a NeoMagic chip.
>I can get X started with a small screen, but I can't seem to get it to a
>full 1024 X 768. Can anyone tell me what the scan rates are for the
>display? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
Did you get the neomagic server ? I have the C340, running X fine (800x600
of course, no 1024x768 for me :( ) The rpm file I got with the server
included a config file. (thanks again Dave, you know who you are.)
--
Jim Richardson
Anarchist, pagan and proud of it
WWW.eskimo.com/~warlock
Linux, because life's too short for a buggy OS.
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From: John Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendations for a SCSI drive?
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 07:27:23 GMT
Diamond Fireport 40 (about $80)
Seagate Barracuda or Quantum Atlas UltraWide SCSI drive
Erik wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion for (a) a SCSI controller, and (b) a SCSI
> drive for Linux boxes? I'm not quite sure what to make of all the SCSI
> terms (Ultra SCSI, Wide, Ultra Wide, Fast SCSI, etc).
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Erik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: linux hangs during enet traffic
Date: 1 Jan 1999 03:23:42 -0500
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>the thing is, on the latest version of the HOWTO i believe this fix was not
>mentioned. the only thing that i got was that the EtherExpress card was
>supported. oh well...
Another thing to try is getting the latest versions of the driver.
There are often newer versions available from CEDIS than are included in
the kernel. I found this to be true for the 3c90x, Tulip and PCI-NE2k drivers
not very long ago.
--
Gregory G. "Wolfe" Woodbury `-_-' Owner/Admin: wolves.durham.nc.us
ggw at wolves.durham.nc.us U
"The Line Eater is a Hug your wolf. (Thanks Peter!)
Boojum Snark"
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: Redhat Linux 5.1 and 3com 3c509b-TPO card troubleshooting
Date: 1 Jan 1999 08:26:58 GMT
I have the same distribution and I just bought the same card today. Am I right
to assume that Linux will talk to it properly?
I wish I knew of an inexpensive card that had manually configurable jumbers and
dip switches...
Thnx, if you don't mind answering basically the same question again...
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From: Paul Nevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Travan TR2 Floppy tape backup troubles
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 16:29:10 +0800
> hey paul,
> i'm having similar troubles... if you find out how to identify the base and
> dma, PLS let me know!
I believe that the floppy uses the following settings on MY pentium II
IRQ 6
DMA 2
I/O base 0x3f0
I have now included these settings in my /etc/conf.modules but am now getting
problems when attempting to mount the tape.
ftmt -f /dev/qft0 status
Device not configured
I have checked my modules
ismod
ftape 20 0
ztape 33 0
which should be correct.. I think.
Now back to the crazy documentation.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: LS120
Date: 1 Jan 1999 08:44:43 GMT
I just installed RedHat 5.1 about a month ago and it read the LS-120 right out
of the box. I have it installed and primary slave, hdb, and I have had no
problems with at all whatsoever. Win hates it, but who cares. I would suggest,
if it doesn't work on your kernel, to first compile the new kernel and do the
normal installation (backup the old one to some other directory, blah blah
blah.) Also, if you have an emergency disk, try booting to that in the new
drive first before you make any real changes.
They read standard floppies, too, don't forget.. : )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LinuxCyrix)
Subject: Re: LS 120 and Red Hat 5.2
Date: 1 Jan 1999 08:47:10 GMT
It's in 5.1, so I would assume that it is still in 5.2. Also, Winblows hates
them... I have it installed and I get the blue screen of death 75% of the time
I try to access it. They work out of the box under most distributions of Linux.
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From: Jeffrey Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PnP Modem, NOT winmodem
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 02:47:28 -0600
mike dombrowski wrote:
> Hello LinuxPeople!
>
> Is the SupraExpress 288i Pnp supported under linux? I am running
> rh4.2. If it is supported what do I do? Is there a HOWTO?
>
> Thanks so much
> Mike Dombrowski
I have one, I do believe it works... Just set it up for any COM port,
and use setserial to make it work.
Tilde,
Jeffrey :j
to reply, take out both antispam measures
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need for WinModem research? (was: Re: need to take action...)
Date: 31 Dec 1998 11:38:17 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank McKenney) writes:
> In other words, it's at least _possible_ (ah, the power of ignorance
> (;-)) that all that the MSWinXX driver does is accept standard "AT"
> strings from an application, parse them, and send phone digits to one
> I/O address and modem setups (volume, command set, etc.) to others.
No. The point of a winmodem is that no signal processing is done by
the Winmodem. It's all done by the CPU. So basically winmodems are a
DAC-ADC pair on a board, or at least something very similar.
I also assume that there are patents on the various modem standards,
too, and so drivers for Winmodems are quite likely to be subject to
patent restrictions.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Damaged ext2 filesystem
Date: 31 Dec 1998 11:41:11 +0000
Miikka-Markus Alhonen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm using Linux 2.0.36 on my computer (Intel Pentium Advanced/ML
> motherboard, 133 MHz). As I opened my computer earlier today, Linux
> said something about missing hard drives. I rebooted and found out
> that my motherboard did not find two of my IDE hard drives (in IDE
> 1) anymore. So I turned off the computer, and cleared BIOS memory by
> jumper. BIOS found now these hard drives and so did Linux too. Linux
> started to check all drives and reported the following message:
> e2fsck 1.04, 16-May-96 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09
> e2fsck: Filesystem revision too high while trying to open /dev/hda3
> Get a newer version of e2fsck!
>
> This /dev/hda3 was a properly working ext2-filesystem, and the same
> e2fsck could handle it correctly before. Now the problem is: How can
> I recover data from this damaged partition (if the data still exists
> there)? It contains some very important information which I have not
> backuped anywhere. I know very little about ext2 filesystem myself,
> so I have done nothing to it yet. If it helps, the /dev/hda-hard
> drive is Seagate 39140A (9 GB Medalist Pro), /dev/hda3-partition was
> a 1024 MB primary partition and about half of it empty space.
>
> Please respond to this newsgroup and to my e-mail address (remove
> NOSPAM.), beacuse my news server does not always show all the
> articles in newsgroups.
You may be able to use the "-b 8193" option to e2fsck in order to fix
this. The good news is that most of the data on the root partition is
still intact. I know this because you can run fsck *at all*.
--
ACTUALLY reachable as @free-lunch.demon.(whitehouse)co.uk:james+usenet
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mouse running wild in X
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 11:53:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gerardo M. Trias" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Henrik wrote:
>
> > I have been having some trouble with my mouse using x-windows under red
> > hat. The mouse seems to a will of its own, I cant controll it but it seems
> > to allways what to move to the lower right corner.
> >
> > It is my first time usin linux, and the problems occurrred after the first
> > installation. I have never seen linux running perfect yet.
> >
> > I would be plaesed if someone could help
>
> Hi,
>
> Try mouseconfig. If that doesn't work, disable 'gpm' in your using "ntsysv"
>
Well, I too encountered similiar kind of problem when I upgraded my Linux
system to Mandrake 5.2 (RedHat 5.2 equivalent) My mouse is Genius Netmouse
Pro. I tried mouseconfig and disabling the gpm, but the problem persisted. So
basically I had to reinstalled the whole package again. But this time during
the installation process, instead of choosing Netmouse Pro as my mouse, I
picked the generic PS/2 mouse instead. That fixed my problem. My friend had
the exact problem, but he tweaked around with gpm and got it to work,
strangely it didn't apply in my case.
johan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (yoyo)
Subject: WD7000 SCSI controler problem
Date: 31 Dec 1998 23:45:48 GMT
I have a wd7000 SCSI disk/floppy controler and I am having some problems
installing Red Hat Linux 5.1. In the Red Hat web site they say wd7000
controlers are compatible but not supported. I wonder if someone have one of
this in use and maybe can help me with this one (jumper/comfiguration) When I
try to install I get to the "Autoprobe" and a message comes back " can not find
any SCSI devices". I am using a SCSI CD-ROM.
Thank you
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tazman37" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Charger: Xconfigurator problems
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 07:09:36 -0500
Garrick-
I too have an ATI charger in my linux box with the IIc chip. I
came across an aritcle that solved the problem. First, run "XF86Setup" and
choose a Rage II with internal RAMDAC for your card. Then click on "detailed
setup" (in the card section) and make sure "internal" is selected for RAMDAC
and then add the line "ChipId 0x4755" (the "0" is zero) in the "devices"
section of xf86config, you can do that at the same window, and it should
work fine. Failing that, I can try to get you a copy of my xf86config file.
Let me know if this works for you, it did for me.
Art Armfield
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
remove the obvious........
Garrick Hays wrote in message <76gtvi$3q2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>Using RH 5.1, and upgraded to XFree86-3.3.3 when I got my ATI Charger (PCI)
>with Rage IIc chip this morning. Xconfigurator says it is a "Mach64 Pro".
>And "startx" fails with message something like, "Must have "Screen" section
>with at least one "accel" entry", or something like that. In
>/etc/X11/XF86config the Screen entry is there with the "accel" part just
like
>it wants, but it is not seeing it. Anybody lick this problem? Is
Xconfigurator
>mistaken about what card I have?
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>Garrick Hays
>Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>--------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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