Linux-Hardware Digest #237, Volume #9 Thu, 21 Jan 99 14:13:38 EST
Contents:
Re: HP DeskJet 8xx: Linux Compatible? (Uwe Schuerkamp)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Lilo Pbs ... (Jack Ostroff)
Re: Problem with modem and ethernet cards on Gateway Solo 9100 (Jason McKnight)
Re: Maxoptix T5-2600 (Bruce Kall)
Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard (Peter Kuppelwieser)
Linuxfiles -> Win98 ("Stefan Sonesson")
memory access missing (Chao-Yie Yang)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Peter Johnson)
Re: Trying to set up a SoundBlaster Pro (Vladimir Florinski)
YASP (Yet another sound problem..!) ("Christophe MICHEL")
Re: Linux and IDE (ATA) Hard Drives > 8.4 GB (John Dunlap)
Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX (Jason McKnight)
Re: Help Best Modems (Scott Alfter)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: memory access missing ("J�rgen Exner")
Re: Best backup media (Steve Atkinson)
Re: Yamaha CDR-100, Adaptec 2940 & SCSI timeouts (Lionel Cottin)
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Subject: Re: HP DeskJet 8xx: Linux Compatible?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Uwe Schuerkamp)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:08:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
H�kan Ugnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I use a HP890c with success. Using ghostscript.
>
Did you have any success using higher resolutions than 300x300? I have
the 895cxi, and higher resolutions cause it to print weird things.
uwe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 21:27:37 GMT
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 20:57:09 GMT, Gabor vouchsafed:
># Well, periods mark the end of a sentence. If the end of a sentence is
># marked by a period, then couldn't one use a little logic to conclude
># that the next word following the period is going to be the beginning
># of a sentence?
>
>Writing evolved the way it has so we can communicate with each other.
And Windows 98 evolved to allow lower life forms to use computers. The
relevance of evolution in this discussion is...?
># meaning. Capitalizing a word just because it's located at the
># beginning of a sentence can result in information loss.
>
>What loss might this be? The letter is still the same letter. It
>hasn't gone on strike and changed its meaning.
>
># Also, it's annoying when you want to type a variable name at the
># beginning of a sentence and realize it will look weird if you don't
># capitalize it, but capitalizing will make it incorrect for most
># programming languages.
>
>We are talking about natural languages, not programming. Different
>issue.
It has not gone and changed its meaning when that meaning is taken from
the general English et al lexicon. However, writing frequently
encompasses more than pure English. To wit: suppose (in a contrived
yet nonetheless demonstrative example) that you wish to describe a
quandary which a man named "Ed" faced whilst using an editor program
called "ed".
So. You begin by writing, "Ed has a problem." But wait! Does Ed have
a problem, or does ed? Should we consult a psychiatrist, or a debugger?
Suddenly, you've lost information by way of initial capitalisation! The
reader (who may not be familiar with the subject) must now attempt to
discover your meaning through context. This is a Bad Thing.
This becomes especially obvious when one is writing, for instance, a
text (using a natural language) which discusses something (such as any
of a number of programming languages) which have a case-sensitive
lexicon.
HTH. HAND.
--
Carl Jacobs - Software Engineer by title, SysAdmin by fait accompli
Opinions expressed are not those of Raytheon Systems Company.
cjacobs at fallschurch.esys.com, hyde at rtfm.netset.com (munged)
"You're not me. Therefore you're irrelevant." -Dogbert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Ostroff)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.install,fr.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Lilo Pbs ...
Date: 20 Jan 1999 21:25:15 GMT
[posted - not emailed]
[much snipped...]
>
> > * The only way I can start is to boot from a floppy..
> > then I can access to the partition table :
> >
> > Part | Type | Size | Mounted as
> > -------------------------------------------
> > hda1 | Fat32 | 5Go | /DosC
> > hda3 | Linux Native | 3Go | /usr/local
> > hda5 | Linux Native | 2Go | /
> > hda6 | Swap | 127Mo |
> >
> > - Why isn't there a hda2 ?
>
> That's rather strange indeed... It should be hda1 for DOS, hda2 for Linux
> native and hda3 for Linux swap.
Most likely hda2 is an extended partition, which contains
two logical partitions (hda5 and hda6).
Also - I believe the LILO limit is that the entire kernel
must be below cylinder 1024. You might want to see if you
can make hda3 / and hda5 /usr/local. (I know, it might mean
a lot of work, but it might mean that LILO will work...)
Good luck
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From: Jason McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with modem and ethernet cards on Gateway Solo 9100
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:11:23 -0500
The two cards are probably sharing an interrupt. I am not sure what to do about
this, but that is where you should start looking.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have the following problem with my Gateway 9100 running linux:
> I have 3Com 3c589D ethernet card and 3Com Megahertz 56K cellular modem
> card (3CXM556).
> If I get out this modem card, ethernet working fine, but if I have both
> cards in, linux doesn't see any ethernet cards at all and says something like:
> "Or you don't have the right driver, or you don't have any card installed..."
>
> Any ideas?
>
> PS I didn't tried to work with this modem yet, so if anybody have any
> suggestion about this modem, I would greatly appreciate them as well.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Kall)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Maxoptix T5-2600
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:18:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eric Wurbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>Petr Zalabak wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> I need to use MO drive Maxoptix T5-2600 with WORM cartridges on Linux. Could
>> someone tell me where to find some Maxoptix-HOWTO,
>> or (better) send me your experience?
>> Tar /dev/sdb works normally on a rewritable optical disk.
>>
>> Thanks, Petr
>
>I don't know anything about the Maxoptix drive, but if it's SCSI, you
>don't
>need anything... The device will be detected automatically by the SCSI
>module.
>I use a Philips MO drive (230Mo) without any problem on a RedHat 5.1.
>
>best regards
>
>Eric
>
>--
The Maxoptix drive works fine for me under Linux (it IS SCSI).
Bruce
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Mayo Foundation
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From: Peter Kuppelwieser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Asus P2BLS Motherboard
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 12:23:15 +0100
John Basso wrote:
>
> Does anyone have any experience with the ASUS P2BLS motherboard
> with Linux? Specifically, integration with the on-board SCSI and
> LAN controller.
>
> TIA
>
You need the newest AIC7xxx driver to support the onboard SCSI
controller
(now included in Distributions with Kernels 2.0.35 and newer)
I installed a Dual-Pentium 350 with 256MB RAM and three 8GB U2SCSI USING
Softraid5
and a Matrox Millenium G100
I used SUSE Linux 6.0 (german version) the international Version shold
be out on 20.January
(It all works really grat and very fast)
Peter Kuppelwieser
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From: "Stefan Sonesson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linuxfiles -> Win98
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 23:34:39 +0100
Hello,
Is there any utility/program out there, to let me retrieve files from my
Linux hd to my win98 hd?
I tried one named LinuxinDOS-something, but that was probably just what the
name states...it didn't work.
Thank you 4 your time.
/Stefan
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From: Chao-Yie Yang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memory access missing
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 09:22:19 -0600
I recently installed a 128 MB DIMM in my Quantex QP6/266 system.( the
DIMM was purchased
through Quantex) For some reasons, the CMOS and Win98 can see the new
memory, yet in Linux
OS the new memory is missing. I am running Redhat 5.1. I wonder if
someone has seen the same problem before.
Thanks in advance.
Chao-Yie
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 16:38:54 +0000
* Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| So I noticed. Strangely enough you still employ capital letters for
| the words "I" and "Emacs". Or rather Emacs does, I guess :-)
case is an important property of a word. randomly capitalizing words
just because they happen to start sentences destroys valuable information
about that word. I therefore maintain the case properties of a word
regardless of its position in the sentence.
#:Erik
--
SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random
intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
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From: Peter Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.modems
Subject: Re: Winmodem or no??
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:59:12 +1100
External modem is by far the simplest solution of them all. Personally I
can't
understand why anyone would want to have an internal modem in the first
place.
They waste internal slots, and for what purpose??? We all know the
addium "works
as fast as the slowest component", so then why put and I quote from Mike
here "a
56K or slower modem in a 33MHz PCI slot is an incredible waste of
resources".
Pete
Mike Burger wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Jan 1999 20:04:16, d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d
> u (David Fox) wrote:
>
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Chipman) writes:
> >
> > > General comment:
> > >
> > > PCI Modem == Winmodem.
> > >
> > > If anyone has a counterindication to this rule, I'd love to hear it.
> > >
> > > Otherwise, from all the digging I've done, this seems to be true. If you
> > > want a "true hardware modem" that is 100% OS-independant, you've gotta go
> > > ISA (or 8-bit :-)
>
> Better idea: External modems...
>
> IMO, a 56K or slower modem in a 33MHz PCI slot is an incredible waste
> of resources.
>
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to set up a SoundBlaster Pro
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:51:56 -0700
Jeff wrote:
>
> What doesn't work is when I try something like 'cat boing.wav >
> /dev/audio' I get an error along the lines of:
>
> bash: /dev/audio: No such device or address
>
> So, my question is, after all that technical info, what do I need to do to
> get sound to play, and do I really have an MPU-401? (if not, how do I get
> linux to not look for it?)
Is your sound support modular or compiled in? If it's the former what does
/etc/conf.modules say? Does lsmod show sound modules loaded (sb and opl3)? Any
sound related messages in the system logs? Also, wav files go to /dev/dsp, not
/dev/audio.
--
Vladimir
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From: "Christophe MICHEL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: YASP (Yet another sound problem..!)
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:10:08 +0100
Hello world
===============
Sound worked fine with RH5.1, kernel 2.0.36 on my old config (TX
chipset, K6233 Mhz, SB clone). Unfortunately it doesn't works any longer
with my new IWILL XA100+/AMD K62 350 MHz. Due to the fact that Did not
change my sound card, I guess that this new hardware configuration may have
changed available IRQ/DMA values available for the sound card.
Sound works fine with Windows but if I try IRQ/DMA values of that OS,
nothing comes out.
Consider the fact that I want to know working IRQ/DMA values suitable
for soundworking after kernel compilation (2.0.36) with everything correct
for it to (/dev/dsp and /dev/audio enabled, clean support for SB clones,
MPU401, OPL3 support and so on) as it was for my old hardware config.
Please don't tell me to RTFM because I have already done and nuthin'in
it......of course!
Please don't tell me to try windows values because it does'nt work
I would prefer to know if there is an available utility that could give
me IRQ/DMA available AND suitable as read directly from hardware. and of
course where I could obtain it.
Mucha thanx in advance
Christophe MICHEL
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From: John Dunlap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Linux and IDE (ATA) Hard Drives > 8.4 GB
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 13:58:42 -0800
Take a look at the Large-Disk HOWTO.
Large Disk HOWTO
Andries Brouwer
v1.1, 18 May 1998
Wolfgang Viechtbauer wrote:
>
> Hey there ...
>
> I just bought an IBM 10GB hd. I can make Linux see the whole 10GB (or
> something like 9.6GB to be accurate, since IBM also practices the false
> advertisement method). Also, Windows recognizes the total 10GB. BUT, I
> cannot make Linux and Windows coexist. If I install Win first, then
> Linux won't see the total 10GB, and if I install Linux first, Windows
> does not see the total 10GB. I messed around with it for hours. It seems
> that if you make the Windows partition with Linux fdisk, things might
> actually work, but there was still a problem with an overlapping
> partition. It's quite messy ... I ended up just using 8.4GB. It's okay
> for right now, but I am a little disappointed that there seems to be
> such an incompatibility (I am not blaming either OS here). Hopefully,
> this will be resolved in the future. On /., a guy wrote about how you
> have to use a different geometry when partitioning for Linux and Windows
> ... i.e. you use a different geometry for the two OS's. But then you
> gotta make sure that things align evenly and that just got too
> complicated for me. Anyway, read that post on /. ... it's quite
> interesting.
>
> --
> Wolfgang Viechtbauer
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jason McKnight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:08:56 -0500
If you run a dual boot system and have Win95/98 or NT on the other
partition that is probably your problem. Windoze does something funky to
the card and Linux doesnt (cant?) reinitialize it properly. Turn your
computer completely off for a few seconds (unplug it if you have an ATX
system or if you are unsure). Then boot to Linux.
I had the same problem and mine works find now as long as I do a cold boot
to Linux.
PJ wrote:
> Red Hat LINUX 5.2 -- I have a 3Com 3c905B-TX on a 100Mb LAN. The card
> seems to start ok as I can ping my IP address, and I see no errors
> during bootup. I verified all my IP settings with network support. I
> cannot ping anything else on my subnet (including gateway) nor outside
> the subnet. Is the card supposed to autosense the speed of the
> network? Is there a configuration setting for setting the speed to 100
> that I missed? Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Help Best Modems
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:20:00 -0800
In article <784cmn$a5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan D. Gift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking at the Ext 3Com US Robotics 3Com 56K modems and they require
>Windows even though they don't say WinModems. Will they work with Linux?
Any of the external modems will work...the newest voice/fax/data model will
have to be connected to the serial port instead of the USB port, but it
should work. (I have the older voice/fax/data model, the 1784, and I use it
only with Linux to provide dial-out access to the Internet, dial-in access
from any terminal-emulation program, and voice/fax message receive. Works
great with vgetty, and it wasn't particularly difficult to set up vgetty to
use it.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (bitte keine Spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://people.delphi.com/salfter
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From: Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 22:26:00 +0000
* Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Although I can't say that I agree with you:
I like that start. thank you.
| a) In English, so few words are capitalised at all, that it makes the
| whole thing rather pointless.
well, we capitalize proper names. German has a wider and different use
of capitalization and I'd argue that it's time for you to drop the
initial capital in all nouns, too. Norwegian used to do that, but it's
like several generations ago.
| b) I believe that having capital letters at the beginning of sentences
| makes for a rather valuable visual guide in reading.
I hope it makes you happy that automatic conversion to sentence-initial
capitals is fairly easy with proper punctuation of sentences, and that I
do this before producing hard-copy, but insist that when people print
something that never was intended for other than electronic text, they
maintain the capitalization rules I use. this way, it is easy to see
that the text originated in the electronic domain.
| But then, this is a free world...
and it will remain so only as long as people are allowed to disagree...
#:Erik
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SIGTHTBABW: a signal sent from Unix to its programmers at random
intervals to make them remember that There Has To Be A Better Way.
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From: "J�rgen Exner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memory access missing
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:38:52 -0800
Chao-Yie Yang wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently installed a 128 MB DIMM in my Quantex QP6/266 system.( the
>DIMM was purchased
>through Quantex) For some reasons, the CMOS and Win98 can see the new
>memory, yet in Linux
>OS the new memory is missing. I am running Redhat 5.1. I wonder if
>someone has seen the same problem before.
Oh yes, a lot of people had. Just about every other day.
You can find the solution easily by
- scanning the articles for the past two or three weeks in this very
newsgroup or
- search for the answer using dejanews or
- simply reading the answer to question 1.8 "How much memory can Linux use?"
in the Linux FAQ
jue
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J�rgen Exner; microsoft.com, UID: jurgenex
Sorry for this anti-spam inconvenience
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:54:26 -0600
From: Steve Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best backup media
Hans Ekkehard Plesser wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am currently building a new system, and am wondering about the best
> backup media to use. The machine will mostly be used for CAD, and
> very little for games or other multimedia applications. Therefore, I
> assume that I will not need a top-speed CD-ROM drive.
>
> Thus, I consider to get a CD-R or CD-RW to serve both as a CD-ROM and
> as backup device. I have been thinking of the HP 8100i or the
> new TEAC R56S, maybe the old R55S as well.
>
> Any experiences? And what type of SCSI driver is need for a CD-ROM.
> Is an old and cheap Fast-2 okay, or do you need an Ultra, in order for
> the SCSI driver not to be the bottleneck?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Hans
The best backup media is hard drives. They are the cheapest, fastest,
easiest to restore medium. They don't unspool or get scratched.
Compare the cost of tape drives and tapes, or CDRW's to hard drives on a
per gig basis. If you need off-site backup, mount the hard drives in
removable mounts (about $25 from Tiger Direct).
For real long term storage, I would go CDR. You can buy 20 CDR's for
the price of a CDRW. However, if you want the best of both worlds, look
at the Memorex CRW-1622, which is an ATAPI IDE CDR &CDRW for about $229.
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From: Lionel Cottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Yamaha CDR-100, Adaptec 2940 & SCSI timeouts
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 00:54:16 +0100
i had the same problem with a Yamaha CDR200t.
I solve this with new CDR
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