Linux-Hardware Digest #246, Volume #9 Fri, 22 Jan 99 22:13:40 EST
Contents:
Re: HP laserjet 1100 (driver) (Frank Miles)
HP Deskjet 890C ("Kyrylo Mashychev")
Linux and DVD (Rob Hiller)
Re: Problems partitioning HDD 8.4GB -Thanks to all who answered! (Moedl Albert und
Christine)
Laptop: Compaq Presario 1681 (Nik Anderson)
DPT 2021 on EISA Intel Xpress motherboard? ("bryan white")
Re: HP Superstore T20i/e SCSI Tape drive (Frank Hahn)
Re: Tekram DC390F SCSI and UMAX Astra 610S scanner (Marc SCHAEFER)
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI - Is it worth it? (Nik Anderson)
Re: Pentium II vs K6-2 (Steve Atkinson)
U.S Robotics 56K modem setup... ("Adrian Neilson")
Re: Winmodem or no?? (jedi)
Problem Solved !!! (PJ)
3Com 10/100+Modem (3CCFEM656BT) Linux woes ... (Andreas Koch)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
Re: Can't Install Redhat 5.1 - Autoprobe can't find SCSI (Catiline)
Re: Again: parallel zip problem (Chris Rankin)
Re: Can't get my Soundblaster 16 card to work (Neil Zanella)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: HP laserjet 1100 (driver)
Date: 21 Jan 1999 17:01:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Klaus Konzept <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hi, folks
>
>Anybody out here who uses a hp laserjet 1100 with linux ?
>I just wan't to know if a driver exist, and how your experiences are.
Recently got that printer for my home system. It works fine with
(I forget exactly which) one of the HP-LJ5*** printer drivers.
The 1100 implements PCL5e. Works fine both with normal text and
GhostScript pseudo-PostScript stuff. Nice 600dpi resolution, very
clean output, decent price, and fast 8ppm. But I've only had it
a short time -- no info on long-term reliability.
-frank
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From: "Kyrylo Mashychev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Deskjet 890C
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:57:29 +0200
Can anyone help me to setup HP Deskjet 890C with RedHat 5.1 ?
Thanx
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From: Rob Hiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and DVD
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 00:16:48 +0000
Apologies if this has been covered before, but can anyone tell me if
Linux yet supports DVD-ROM drives, and if a patch is necessary, where I
can obtain it.
Many thanks
Rob Hiller
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From: Moedl Albert und Christine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems partitioning HDD 8.4GB -Thanks to all who answered!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 16:49:51 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hey,
its seems that this is a hardware problem because NT fails while
installing, too :)
Have a nice day
Albert
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 15:14:23 -0800
From: Nik Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Laptop: Compaq Presario 1681
I am considering installing linux on a friend's Compaq Presario 1681
laptop and was curious if anyone had any experience with one of these.
Specifically, I was curious if and how well the sound hardware works in
linux. I understand that the video chipset is a NeoMagic. Is there
anything else that I should be particularly aware of before I set out?
Thanks,
Nik
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From: "bryan white" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DPT 2021 on EISA Intel Xpress motherboard?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 19:19:43 -0500
I'm trying to get Red Hat 5.2 to use the ISA connector DPT 2021, in an EISA
only, Intel Xpress MB.
The system loads/runs fine when the drives are connected to the Embedded
SCSI controller (Adaptec AIC7770) but I'd really like to use the 12 meg of
disk cache on the DPT. The load hangs on the scsi query when I use the EATA
DMA drivers on the install.
I've gotten no responses on the Intel Boxed server MB page, about Linux.
DPT was helpful except they don't have a driver for Linux.
I'd really like to use the DPT for the only scsi controller on this box.
Any suggestions are welcome.
bryan
p.s. the system was given to me so I don't want to spend much money on it
converting to Linux
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Hahn)
Subject: Re: HP Superstore T20i/e SCSI Tape drive
Date: 23 Jan 1999 00:19:13 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 21 Jan 1999 16:09:36 GMT, Janche Sang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am interested in buying the HP Superstore T20i/e SCSI tape drive
>which can backup 10GB/20GB(compressed). I would like to know
>whether Linux supports the driver or not.
>
I think whether Linux supports it or not would depend more on your
SCSI card. If your SCSI card is supported and works, then I would
think anything you hook up to it should also work.
--
Frank Hahn
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From: Marc SCHAEFER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Tekram DC390F SCSI and UMAX Astra 610S scanner
Date: 21 Jan 1999 10:49:57 GMT
In comp.periphs.scsi Lyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: ncr53c8xx: at PCI bus 0, device 11, function 0
Either you cut out the version of the ncr53c8xx or you should upgrade
to 3.0i, ftp://ftp.tuc.org/pub/roudier/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 08:57:54 GMT
Scott Alfter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: In article <KpIo2.325$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Jacob Christiansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Hi
:> Anyone know here, who knows how to install a Sound Blaster PCI 64 sound
:>card under Linux Redhat 5.1, with the original kernel 2.0.34.
:>I have downloaded a driver from opensound.com, but it doesn't seem to work.
:
: It's an Ensoniq AudioPCI under a different name...recompile the kernel with
: the ES1370 driver and you should be all set.
:
:
Do you know whether that does that hold for the Soundblaster PCI 128 too?
--
Boudewijn Rempt | www.xs4all.nl/~bsarempt
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:00:43 -0800
From: Nik Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI - Is it worth it?
"Thomas T. Veldhouse" wrote:
>
> I would like to invest in a SCSI card and drive for my Linux Box. However,
> I would like to know if it is really worth the cash. I have a 6.4Gig IDE
> (Ultra DMA) drive right now, and it is a good disk. However, I have had
> many failures with IDE drives. Is SCSI more reliable, and assuming the
> answer is yes, by how much? How long can I expect a drive to stay up
> (non-stop) ? with power management?
>
> I can get a lot more disk for the money with IDE, so I am hesistant to fork
> out the dough for SCSI unless I get some promising answers.
>
> Tom Veldhouse
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are scsi drives more reliable? Perhaps. Many manufacturers design
their high end drives for scsi and their low end drives for ide. This
is not always the case, however. Often you can find the same drive with
either an ide or scsi interface. The difference in price between the
scsi drives reflect the more complicated logic that must be on a scsi
drive. I would say, though, that you shouldn't see any difference in
reliablilty in an investigation based on interface alone.
Where scsi makes a difference is performance. Many people cite the bus
throughput as a performance indicator. The fastest ide bus throughput
is 33MB/sec (UDMA-33 or ultra-ide). The fastest scsi bus throughput is
80MB/sec, using Ultra2-Scsi. Note that an individual drive cannot reach
these speeds by itself under normal conditions (although some drives
reach close to the ide max). If you expect to use multiple devices on
the bus, all going at full speed at a time, scsi is an appropriate
option, as it can handle the stress of multiple devices. The other
consideration is cpu usage. To reach it maximum throughput, ide uses a
large amount of cpu time, because it is essentially a dumb bus which
requires cpu control to do everything. Scsi offloads this control to
the scsi controller, so that drive access doesn't incur a performance
hit in running apps. I have found that this effect is quite observable
and makes for a very responsive system.
~Nik
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Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 10:48:16 -0600
From: Steve Atkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Pentium II vs K6-2
Hans Ekkehard Plesser wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> I am considering to buy a new computer, and am wondering which
> processor to use. The machine will mostly be used for architecture
> CAD (ARCAD from www.arcad.de). I am currently considering an
> ASUS P2B board with a Pentium II at 350 or 400 MHz. AMD-based
> motherboard/CPU combinations are a lot cheaper, but there seem to be
> more reports about trouble with these boards/CPUs around than about
> the Intel variety.
>
> Any experiences, suggestions?
>
> Tanks in advance,
> Hans
>
> ps: No, I DO NOT want to run my board at higher speeds than advised,
> or play around for ages with BIOS. I want the machine to run
> for three to four years.
Try the FIC (www.fica.com) VA 503+ (AT) or 2013 (ATX). These have 1 meg
of L2, run at a variety of bus speeds and are super 7 sockets which have
the VA3 chipset and work well with AMD K6/2's. I am running the 333,
but have not got PC100 RAM so I have 66Mhz bus and 5X multiplier, but
you can run this chip at a 95MHz bus per manufacturer reccomendation. I
have both these boards.
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From: "Adrian Neilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup...
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 17:30:20 -0800
Hello.
As probably seen many times before, I'm trying to setup a modem in Linux.
I'm *VERY* new to Linux and don't know my way round. I've installed Caldera
1.3 Linux, all default settings used.
My modem is not a Winmodem, I would never buy hardware dedicated towards one
particular O.S. My goal is simple, or so I thought : Setup my modem in Linux
to dial my ISP so I can send e-mail and browse. I've no clue what to run,
what so called scripts to setup or anything.
Some advice would be appreciated - with detailed instructions. Please
remember, I'm very new at this. As most people, I have a lot of Windows
experience but no Linux knowledge.
Thank you,
Adrian.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jedi)
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 10:01:06 -0800
On 21 Jan 1999 06:38:21 -0800, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Peter Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> 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 [sum?] "works as fast as
>> the slowest component",
>
>We don't all know this, and it is not even always true.
>
>> 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".
>
>There are many unstated assumptions in your post. For example, that
>convenience and aesthetics (fewer wires) are unimportant. That power
>outlets and desk space is unimportant. And it is not important to
>save money. And finally, that no one who doesn't have at least your
>understanding of the situation deserves to use a modem. You will have
>to adapt if you want to survive long into the age of information
>appliances.
That's ironic as hell considering that the standard
external modem is one of the best perservering
elements of computer technology across the entire
span of the age of microcomputers.
You have your own tunnel vision.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PJ)
Subject: Problem Solved !!!
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:05:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I found a 3COM diagnostic utility in windows 95 (this is a dual boot
system) and was able to use it to set the card for 100Mbs. The card
was set for autosense. I did not have any of the "clasic" symptoms
that were listed (plug&play, FF:FF:FF:FF, etc...) in the other
responses to my original post. I have seen this kind of thing before
with WinNT and SMC 10/100 cards. The NT card driver was set to
autosense and the card would think it was on a 100Mbs network from
time to time. We would be able to ping the server intermitently.
Thank you all for your reponses.
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 18:05:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (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] (Andreas Koch)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: 3Com 10/100+Modem (3CCFEM656BT) Linux woes ...
Date: 23 Jan 1999 01:50:54 GMT
I'd be grateful for any help with regard to using the 3Com 3CCFEM656BT
LAN/modem combo under Linux. This card is offered by Dell for their
Inspiron 7k laptop. While it works perfectly under Win98, operation
under Linux (kernel 2.0.36, PCMCIA 3.0.8) is erratic at best:
* Often, the card is not listed by ``cardctl ident'' at all.
* When it does appear, it's not recognized (it's not in
/etc/pcmcia/config DB).
* After fudging together an appropriate entry from the previous 3Com
combo card entries (xxx565, both w/ and w/o ``cis'' attribute) that would
bind the 3c574 and serial drivers to the card, it is recognized,
but neither networking nor the serial port come up at all.
I understand that 3c574_cs is flaky. However, has anyone managed to
get better results?
--
Andreas Koch Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
International Computer Science Institute Phone : (510) 642-4274 Ext. 182
1947 Center Street, Suite 600 Phax : (510) 643-7684
Berkeley, CA 94704-1198, USA * PGP key available on request *
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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: 21 Jan 1999 16:56:26 +0000
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Floyd Davidson)
| Actually dear sir, I do understand it.
I'm going to love this.
| My particular field is communications, which is what this is all about.
no, you just _restricted_ it to communications. but let's pretend.
| And as with a better mouse trap, if you find a better way to communicate
| people will rush to your door step to adopt it.
when was the last time you actually saw that happen? and when was the
last time you saw how people _fight_ new ideas that de-stabilize their
own carreers and change the way they have to do business?
if your field is communications, why don't you see that whether you have
a better or worse mouse trap doesn't matter as long as your _marketing_
is better? but I digress.
| On the other hand if you remove all redundant information on the false
| hope that it improves communications, you have missed one of the most
| important aspects of communications theory and practice. And you have
| defeated your purpose. It will make your communications less effective.
as I said, if you can't attack what I do, invent something else and by
all means extrapolate without understanding anything about the purpose or
direction. "from one data point, you can extrapolate in any direction."
Floyd, I have never given you grounds to believe that I have ever had any
intention of ever removing _all_ redundant information. where did you
get the idea that I was? _you_ invented it, didn't you? and since you
can hardly attack me for not obeying the information-destructive process
of destroying the case of words, you have to make it into something you
_can_ attack. but this is foolish, and if your field is communications,
you have just failed miserably, because you have _introduced_ something
into the communication of others. some would call that intellectually
dishonest, especially from someone whose field is communications and who
should know better.
| If what you are doing was actually better it would probably result very
| quickly in a great number of people doing it on a regular basis.
and would you not criticize every one of them, no matter how many?
| You are not the first one to use it, and won't be the last either. There
| is, however, a very good reason that it hasn't been widely adopted: [it]
| sucks.
*laugh* yup, that's the reason, and we know how badly stuff that sucks
go in the market, don't we? MS Windows sucks, and sells more than
anything that doesn't suck. K-Mart sells inferior stuff still, don't
they? looks like I have a winner, Floyd. all I gotta do now is beef up
the marketing.
| Calling people moralistic morons because they point out the flaws in your
| posted ideas is perhaps just a demonstration that such insults are
| usually a reflection of the originator.
this is truly fascinating. your particular field is communications and
you suggest better ways to communicate ideas, yet you can't even _read_?
if they had pointed out the flaws in my posted ideas, that'd been OK.
what the moralistic morons do is point out flaws in their very own
projections and extrapolations of what they no longer even _see_ as my
flaw: they see _only_ their own projections and extrapolations. just
like you did above, "if you remove _all_ redundant information" [my
emphasis]. and your argument is based on my wanting to remove _all_
redundant information, isn't it?
now, I'm truly intrigued by the fact that if you do some small little
thing, people don't see it, they see this HUGE THREAT against established
order, and are not at all satisfied to limit their responses to what's at
hand, but invent something else that's _worth_ being afraid of. yet,
they are so morally outraged that anyone could favor these things that
they have invented (and nobody actually favors, of course), that they
don't even see _what_ is being called "moralistic morons". they see
their projections and extrapolations and _righteous_, and when their
_righteous_ errors of logic are exposed, they do it yet _again_: they
defend themselves as if they were criticized for what _they_ haven't
done, which would have been to criticize the fact at hand.
I find this interminably fascinating. if communications is a field that
contains people who do this, I wonder where I can find people who _don't_
extrapolate in every direction from a single data point, who _don't_ read
_into_ people's communicated ideas something that they can object to
becaus what's actually there is completely innocuous and defensible.
| Rather than call people names because they disagree with you,
and this _really_ takes the cake! *applause* god, I love this!
it's not because they disagree with me, you moron, it's because they
don't even bother to see that what they disagree with is their very own
projections and extrapolations of what I say and do. I can't be held
responsible for what people _want_ to see. that's their problem.
if you see a girl with really short hair and you cry out "you lesbians
are immoral!", I think "moralistic moron" is entirely appropriate because
what happened is that _you_ imputed something to what you saw that you
had no reason even to believe is there: it could have been chemotherapy.
if you found out, you'd be _immensely_ guilty of harrassing somebody so
unfairly, and you'd never do it again. but if you don't take the time to
find out that it was indeed chemotherapy and her hair had just started to
grow back and you had _really_ hurt her, would you still go around and
tell others that she got nasty to you _because_ she was an immoral
lesbian? you do the math and the communications, Floyd.
| why not try posting cognitive well written articles that communicate your
| thoughts clearly.
I do, but it doesn't help against people like you, who accuse me of
things I don't do, who accuse me of calling people names because they
disagree with me, which I never, _ever_ do, and who can't read anything
they don't already agree to. disagreement it good. moralistic morons
who don't think so and who accuse people of things they haven't done has
_nothing_ to do with disagreement.
| That would demonstrate the value of your formatting better than anything
| else.
yeah. I expect you to stop capitalizing your sentence-initial words, now.
| But in fact, the best way to communicate concepts via written language is
| to include redundant clues indicating separations between thought
| structures. Punctuation and Capitalization, for example.
would that _seriously_ have helped you understand what I wrote? would
you not have reacted _exactly_ the same way: projecting and extrapolating
in the exact same fashion? or are you trying to tell me that because I
didn't capitalize the sentence-initial, you somehow managed to lose track
of the _entire_ meaning of my article?
I find it immensely interesting to watch people destroy information in
the grand scale after I have pointed out to them that capitalizing the
sentence-initial word destroys information in the small scale. I do
wonder what possesses people to do that. perhaps they really _are_ into
destroying information and when capitalizing words doesn't do it, they go
for all-out assault and battery on the meaning and context of what people
write. or something like that. it's ever more interesting to watch.
#: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: Catiline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't Install Redhat 5.1 - Autoprobe can't find SCSI
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:41:50 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, I have had the same problem too, with RH 5.0, 5.1 and now 5.2.
Can't get the bugger to see my Adaptec 1522. I try INSMOD and it seems
to run without error, but then cannot access the CD-ROM attached at SCSI
ID 6. MODPROBE finds nothing for aha152x -- "busy" whatever that means.
Any hints?
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From: Chris Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Again: parallel zip problem
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 14:23:59 -0500
Daniele Malleo wrote:
> The problem is: I compiled the kernel with scsi support, scsi_disk
> support, parport and parport_pc support, ppa and imm support, all as
> modules.
I suppose you *have* checked the files in linux/Documentation/ ? My
parallel ZIP drive worked fine under 2.2.0-pre7 once I inserted the
correct "options" line(s?) into my /etc/modules.conf file. And these
options were given in the parport.txt document (or something like ...)
Chris.
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From: Neil Zanella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get my Soundblaster 16 card to work
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 15:01:57 -0330
Was this a Soundblaster 16 "WavEffects" card?
I am trying to get this one to work on my system.
What steps should I take to configure it for Linux?
Thanks,
Neil Zanella
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 14 Jan 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well in the end I made it work, using ispnp. What's more, on SuSE I had to put a
> modprobe sound into my boot file. Now its OK !
>
> Regards Eggert
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
> Answers please in this newsgroup!
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> -----------------------------------------------------
>
>
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