Linux-Hardware Digest #188, Volume #9 Sat, 16 Jan 99 09:14:31 EST
Contents:
Re: Choosing a HP color printer (King Nothing)
Re: graphics card supported? (Douglas Jerome)
Re: COMPUSA Trackball Not Working (King Nothing)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice capable/fax
modem software for use in warp4?)) (Loose Nut)
3C509 Combo configuration problem. ("Brian Bui")
winmodems and linux ("Christophe MICHEL")
Re: 3DLabs Permedia2 and Redhat5.2, X problems (#1) (mysterious)
Signal 11 and Illegal instruction (Benoit PLESSIS)
Re: Overclocked celeron and Linux (Wolfgang Detlefsen)
OPTi 925 ("Alfredo E. Torrejon")
Chhosing between two video cards (Yann Barraud)
Trident Cyber 9385G ??? (Smadar Leiserowitz)
Re: Postscript printing problems
Nikon Coolscan LS-1000+SANE+Linux (Bob Hepple)
FlyVideo missing audio (Gerard Larkin)
Re: LILO trashes Toshiba portable IDE drive (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: 60 % OFF Retail on Quality Watches - Distributor and Sample Order Avaiable (Kurt
Wall)
Help still needed please, please, please... ("Mircea")
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From: King Nothing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Choosing a HP color printer
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:31:05 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a HP 694C and it works awesome in the shell. I won't know about x
until I get the correct drivers for my video card.
Mark
Johan Pelgrim wrote:
> I'm about to buy a color printer.
> Since I have good experience with my HP Deskjet 500, I think it's going
> to be a Hewlett Packard again.
>
> I've heard some bad stories about windows-only printers and don't want
> to make that mistake.
> So has anyone good experiences with one of the following printers:
> HP 420C
> HP 670C
> HP 710C
> HP 720C
> Which one is the best?
>
> Jaap Voets
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From: Douglas Jerome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: graphics card supported?
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:40:25 -0700
Dan LaMee wrote:
>
> Thanks for the response to my last question about the hardware selection
> I was looking at. Since then I've decided not to build another computer,
> but use my old one (a Pentium 233MHz MMX) and upgrade it. I've got a S3
> Trio 64V+ video card and am trying to find out if it's supported or not.
> I know the S3 Trio 64 is supported as it is listed on the compatible
> card list on the xfree86.org website. Is my card compatible with full
> range of color depths. Thanks for the info.
> Dan
I've used a Diamond Stealth 128 something or other that was
an S3 Trio64+; worked great (but not as cool as my new Matrox
Millennium G200).
--
Douglas Jerome
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From: King Nothing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COMPUSA Trackball Not Working
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 01:36:35 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I ran into a problem a while back with a mouse that has a PS/2 connector and
an adapter for the serial port. That might be the problem. Once I up on a
normal serial mouse I was all set. With the old one in the shell I would move
the mouse and the cursor was on one side of the screen only and wanted to
highlight everything. X crashed when I used it on my old computer, and gpm
would stall during shutdown. kinda weird I thought. If this what you have you
may want to change it.
Mark
Charles Riley wrote:
> Larry Dare wrote:
>
> > OS: RH 5.2
> > Hardware: Toshiba 410cdt
> >
> > Problem: I am attempting to use a COMPUSA Trackball with my system.
> > Doesn't work, The symptoms are:
> > * erratic mouse/cursor behavior jumps to up and that is it. All over
> > the screen,
> > * Tried several trackballs, reacts the same.
> > * Tried another brand of trackball (REVEAL) works fine.
> > * Getting the trackball to reset in WIN95, and then back to LINUX seems
> > to work for a while and then it down again.
> >
> > I believe that there is some reset that the trackball is looking for,
> > but don't have a clue on what.
>
> Hiya Larry,
>
> I picked up a trackball just like it the other day. Just wondered if
> you had any luck making it work. Seems like it oughta, its just a mouse
> there's no magic right? =)
> (I couldn't make it work either)
> Charles
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Loose Nut)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.os2.comm,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (was 3COM "support" (was: any voice
capable/fax modem software for use in warp4?))
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 07:40:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 14 Jan 1999 22:22:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Varela)
wrote:
>Following is the entire text of my exchange with 3COM "support", edited only to
>remove my e-mail address from the .sigs. The initial message was transmitted to
>them from their web site; the rest is e-mail. I submitted the web site inquiry
>on November 29 and their first response was on 9 January.
>
>I hope everyone appreciates the identitification of OS/2 and Linux as "legacy
>systems".
>
Windows compatible - translation, there is nothing in this box worth
buying, your about to be screwed, have a nice day.
Loose Nut
___________________________________________________
"Monetary systems cannot exist without poverty."
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From: "Brian Bui" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3C509 Combo configuration problem.
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 01:30:28 -0800
Hello,
I recently started linux with slackware 3.6 on a pentium system. The
installation went smooth and everything. However, I have a problem with my
Network card (a 3Com 3c509 Combo card) which seems to be set to talk only on
the BNC connection. However, my network is using RJ45. I went to
www.linux-howto.com but the webpage doesn't deal with my specific problem.
Is there anyone having or that had the same problem as I do? What step
should I do?
I forgot to mention that all my network setup is ready. Only the NIC
does not want to be on the 10Base-T mode but 10Base-2. Please reply to me
direclty if someone has the answer.
Brian,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Christophe MICHEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winmodems and linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 03:23:06 +0100
salut a tous
Je sais que les winmodems, type Usrobotics et 3com et autres ne peuvent pas
marcher sous linux because il y a des probl�mes de copyright de portions de
codes partag�es entre windows et le modem.
Cependant
1) n'y a t'il personne qui ait r�ussi � hacker cedit code
2) peut on les utiliser avec wine?
merci tout plein
Christophe
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From: mysterious <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 3DLabs Permedia2 and Redhat5.2, X problems (#1)
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 11:51:11 +0100
Hi Martin. I had the same problems with my diammond fire gl 1000 pro,
which use the sam permedia2 chip. I downloaded xglint.rmp and
xsuseconf.tar.gz. After i installed both, and i run xf86conf, a new
xserver appear under accelerated servers. It was xf3com for 3dlabs. I
chosed this one and, problem went away. Now I�m using kde 1.0 at
1024.786 with no problems. I hope ti helps
Gonzalo
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From: Benoit PLESSIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Signal 11 and Illegal instruction
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:52:09 +0100
Before, Thnaks a lot for responding me.
yesterday I have tried somes things and it seem that the Gcc with the
debian 2.0r3 fail with Signal 11 while comiling a devel kernel (2.1.132)
and not while compiling a stable kernel (2.0.36).
The RedhAt5.2 Mandrake Gcc's 2.7.2.3-14 and make fail with 'Make:
**Illegal instruction' or 'Segmentation Fault' while comiling the devel
kernel and not while comiling the stable kernel.
The gcc-2.7.2.3-11 and Rh5.2 Make as the Debian
The RedHat 5.0 Gcc 's 2.7.2.3-8 seem to work good with compiling of
stable and devel kernel
Please Helppp !!!
Benoit PLESSIS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Wolfgang Detlefsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked celeron and Linux
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 09:53:42 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Clyde Bumgardner schrieb:
>
> Has anyone had any success overclocking the new celeron 300A and 333 and
> getting them to work with Linux ? The motherboard I want has jumpers to
> select 100Mhz or 66 Mhz clock speeds, but no jumper to select voltages. Did
> you have to change the voltage to overclock the Celeron ? Which the 300A or
> 333 is best for overclocking to 450Mhz ?
> Please send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> thanks,
> Clyde
I am running an celeron 300A at 100 MHz bus clock in a board with BX
chip set. I changed only the jumper for clock, I did not change to
voltage settings. The system is running without problems since 2 months.
Due to a fixed clock multiplier of 5 the 333 have run to with 500 MHz
and this will not successful in most cases.
Wolfgang Detlefsen
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Advanced Development GSM: +49 172 909 9638
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From: "Alfredo E. Torrejon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OPTi 925
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 00:59:26 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What's the best way to configure an OPTi 82C925 based sound card
under Linux? The Linux Hardware How-To says to use the Windows Sound
System driver and to initialize the card using isapnp. I am doing this,
HOWEVER, I can only control the DSP level (not the master output level
nor the CD audio level), and playback is typically unreliable--When I am
putting a heavy load on the CPU, I get a few seconds of normal audio and
then suddenly, there is very heavy clipping. Did I mis-configure
something, or is there a better solution (perhaps using the Sound
Blaster-compatible mode of my sound card)?
Regards,
Alfredo Torrejon
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.inetarena.com/~alfredot
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From: Yann Barraud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Chhosing between two video cards
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 11:00:57 +0100
Hi,
I own a Nec PC in which is included an Intel AN430TX main board. Ths
main
board includes an ATI video card, but
this is not the one I use. I put another one in a PCI slot, and my
screen is
plugged on this one. I want to know how to
configure my X server for my screen to be detected.
Until this moment, I've tried with xf86config or Xconfigurator (I use
the
Redhat 5.1), and this two tools have detected
the video card that is integrated on my main board.
But I've noticied that SuperProbe detects the second card (the one I
use).
Is there a way to force xf86config or
Xconfigurator to detect my video card?? (I'm fed up with the message
"Fatal
Server error: No screen detected", due to
the detecting of the wrong video card).
My screen is a Nec MultiSync A700.
If you have a solution please mail me back at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks a lot.
Yann Barraud
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Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 03:57:03 -0800
From: Smadar Leiserowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident Cyber 9385G ???
The Trident Cyber 9385 video card is supported by Ret Hat 5.2.
How about Trident Cyber 9385G ???
One letter can make all the difference. Does it make a difference in
this case?
Thanks in advance,
Zeph Grunschlag
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Postscript printing problems
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:01:16 GMT
Well, it seems that that printer of yours in not really PS2.0 compliant. I have
a DEClaser 1152 with officically licensed PS2.0 and that puppy works fine.
I would return it and get and Lexmark Optra E with PS2.0 option.
Good Luck
On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 02:06:45 +0100,
Norbert Goebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I tried lpr -l too, but this gives only empty pages or, if I print a a2ps converted
>file, a printer hangup. But like before, if I print ps-files not made by a2ps,
>everything works fine.
>
>I played a little bit with a2ps and found out, that if I use the option -ni, I get
>no hangups any longer, but only white pages. After using the -ns option too, I get
>a page with the Header, the date and filename but not with the documenttext itself
>on it.
>
>I also installed a 16MB PS/2 module instead the 4MB to check if theres a
>memoryproblem like not enough or not working ram.
>
>Norbert
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
>
>> On Sun, 03 Jan 1999 02:23:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Today I bought a Kyocera FS-800 printer (standard 4MB RAM and KPDL2 =
>> >Kyocera Postscript Level 2 Emulation) and put 4MB more in it (I have the same
>> >problems without them).
>> >
>> >Now I installed the printer as a postscript printer under Suse Linux 6.0 and
>> >tied to print
>> >something.
>> >
>> >lpr .bashrc
>> >just gives me an empty page
>>
>> Some PS printers are more sensitive to line brakes in the PS source than
>> others. HPs are, DEClasers aren't. Just use lpr -l file.ps and you should
>> be fine. ^^^
>>
>> >printing a valid postscript file p.ps (created with "a2ps .profile -nP >p.ps")
>> >with "lpr p.ps", the data
>> >seems to get to the printer, because the data receive lamp goes on and the
>> >printer
>> >display says "Es wird gedruckt"="Printing". I wait for 30 minutes but nothing
>> >more
>> >happens, the cancel printjob button on the printer (which works fine with any
>> >other
>> >printer emulation than kpdl) fails and I have to switch the printer on an off
>> >again. The same happens if I make "cp p.ps /dev/lp1" so this shouldn't be a
>> >queue problem, I think.
>> >
>> >I install the printer as a HP Laserjet 4 (because it has a Laserjet5si
>> >emulation build in too) and everything works fine (but its a ps-printer and i
>> >want to use it as one).
>> >
>> >So I tried windows and ther the all Windows drivers worked well (including
>> >the PS-Drivers) but switching to dos and trying type p.ps >lpt1 and choosing
>> >kpdl or kpdl(auto) as the emulation I get the same as in Linux?
>> >
>> >What am I missing? Do I have to do something else? I tried it as a 300dpi and
>> >600dpi (both in Linux printer setup and the printer menu itself) because I
>> >thought 8 MB could be not enough memory, but the p.ps file is only 10 kb. I
>> >tried tunelp and setting of different transferspeeds to the printer (also the
>> >data seems to be send to it correctly because of the status-lamps of the
>> >printer and no printjobs with lpq), but it didn't help.
>> >
>> >Sorry, I am new to Linux and ps-printer installation, so hopefully this is
>> >only a stupid question.
>> >
>> >Thank you for any help.
>> >Norbert
>> >
>> >-----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
>> >http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
>
>
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From: Bob Hepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scanners,comp.os.linux.misc,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Nikon Coolscan LS-1000+SANE+Linux
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 21:15:23 +1000
This 35mm SCSI film scanner is working fine under Linux-2.0.30/SANE-1.0
xscanimage but has a problem under scanimage, the command-line version.
I'm using the coolscan-0.3 backend by Didier Carlier.
At 2700 dpi resolution, the scan is completed but the scanner then hangs
- I have to cycle the scanners's power in order to continue using it.
I'd use xscanimage but it's so darn slooooooow with these 3500x2500x24
images (particularly processing the images with gimp - pnm tools are
much faster if you don't need interactivity).
At 1350 dpi and less, scanimage works just fine.
Does anyone have a fix for scanimage/coolscan? Alternatively, a hack
that would reset the scanner by software instead of cycling power? It
can't be doing the thing any good to cycle power after every scan!
Another problem - but easy to work around - is that the coolscan backend
flips the image left-right (yes, the negative is in the right way,
emulsion side down!). Easy to fix with pnmflip but does anyone have a
patch?
Cheers
Bob
--
Bob Hepple
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.finder.com.au
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerard Larkin)
Subject: FlyVideo missing audio
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 12:16:43 GMT
I'm unisg a FlyVideo TV card
(RH 5.2, 2.0.36, bttv 0.22), and cant get any sound.
Picture is fine
I can play record sound from a CD, microphone etc using a mixer, so I
believe the soundcard etc is fine.
Does anyone have any ideas on a solution?
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: LILO trashes Toshiba portable IDE drive
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:26:16 GMT
Dominick Samperi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I recently installed Linux and Windows NT 4.0 on a Toshiba 4025CDT and
>they both seemed to run, provided I boot Linux from a floppy. Then I
>ran the Slackware 3.1 CDROM install (the only CDROM I had) and made the
>mistake of asking the setup program to place LILO in the master boot
>record. After this no OS would boot, and the drive was inaccessible,
>even by fdisk. The drive was effectively destroyed.
[...]
Does it say "unable to open /dev/hda" ? If so, try booting with a DOS
system floppy or a Win95 boot floppy and run "fdisk /mbr" .
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kurt Wall)
Subject: Re: 60 % OFF Retail on Quality Watches - Distributor and Sample Order Avaiable
Date: 15 Jan 1999 14:09:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Using recycled bits, [EMAIL PROTECTED] blurted out:
%
% Seeking Distributor WORLDWIDE and Sample Orders Avaiable on our UNIDIN
%high grade watches made with SWISS ETA 2834-2 calibers ( movements) , 60%
%OFF retail price is offered directly from our FACTORY. Five years factory warranty
One supposes these watches run Linux.
--
Kurt Wall
Informix on Linux FAQ - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaq.html
Spanish Translation - http://www.xmission.com/~kwall/iolfaqsp.html
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From: "Mircea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help still needed please, please, please...
Date: Sat, 16 Jan 1999 08:34:54 -0500
Sorry about insisting on this subject, but I couldn't yet fix the problem.
Below is a quote from my previous posting. Since then, I also tried changing
the loading address of the BIOS, with no result. The card still works fine
in other OSes.
Excuse me for waisting your time, but I'd really like to get rid of the
"scsi: 0 hosts" doom, since both my cdrom and zip100 run off this card, and
I'm forced to run micro$haft stuff.
Help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
MST
"
Hi - I'm posting this message because I need your help on a problem I
cannot figure out by myself: my SCSI AHA1542CF adapter, for a couple of
days, all of a sudden isn't recognized any more at boot by Linux
(Slackware 3.6, kernel 2.0.35). When I first put the card in my machine,
it wasn't recognized either, but at the suggestion of someone from this
newsgroup I changed its base address from 0x130 to 0x334, and this did
the trick. But now, a couple of months later, I got the same problem
once again. I tried all of the base addresses I could select from the
dip switches (0x130, 0x134, 0x230, 0x234, 0x330, 0x334), to no avail.
The card by itself works just fine, I can enter its bios, and is also OK
in windblows.
Any help greatly appreciated. Thanks
"
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