Linux-Hardware Digest #254, Volume #9 Sun, 24 Jan 99 00:13:28 EST
Contents:
Re: New RedHat with linux version 3.3.3 coming soon? (David Fox)
Re: IBM Ultrawide SCSI drive warning (Dennis J Perkins)
Re: Help needed. (Dan Nguyen)
Re: miro 20SV with XFree86 3.3.3 (Gregor Zych)
Re: HP laserjet 1100 (driver) (Frank Miles)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Sven Utcke)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Sven Utcke)
Altra Micro Point Standard "Mouse" (Paul Thilking)
Bios Problem? (Daryl Yager)
Re: Linux compatible modems ("Glen Morris")
Ultra ATA/UDMA drives+controllers don't work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PnP sound in the new pre 2.2 kernel ("Mark Vandersteen")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ultra ATA/UDMA drives+controllers don't work? (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9=20Ure=F1a?=)
Strange Freeze - Linux 2.0.33 (SuSE release) (James Cornthwaite)
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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: New RedHat with linux version 3.3.3 coming soon?
Date: 22 Jan 1999 09:16:42 -0800
Stephen Jenuth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> David Fox <d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u> wrote:
> : [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Jones) writes:
>
> :> I understand RedHat 5.2 is the latest RedHat for
> :> sale and contains version 3.3.2 of linux. Anyone
> :> know when RedHat will put out a package with the
> :> linux 3.3.3? Thanks.
>
> : 3.3.3 is an X-Windows version number, not a Linux version number, and
> : the update directory of redhat 5.2 contains an upgrade to that version.
>
> Why wait for redhat. Just get the xwindows stuff from ftp.xfree86.org.
>
> Its about 2 months old now.
Where do you see a wait? The Redhat packages are quicker and (dare I
say it?) easier to install on a Redhat system. If you don't use RPMs
you can't later use RPM checksum verification to scan for tampering.
Indeed, the xfree86.org binary packages themselves are not even
cryptographically signed.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: Dennis J Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM Ultrawide SCSI drive warning
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 21:23:16 -0600
I could not use the termination jumper because the LVD drive does not
have jumper termination. The standard version did. And UW terminators
cost $35-$50.
--
Dennis
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From: Dan Nguyen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help needed.
Date: 22 Jan 1999 17:31:37 GMT
Alfred Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I'm using the pcnet32 module for networking but gives a
: "SIOCADDRT: Invalid arguement" error message.
: What is this and how do I work around this?
When do you get this message? What kernel are you using?
Try doing a 'route -add net 127.0.0.0'
Does that give you that error?
--
Dan Nguyen | There is only one happiness in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | life, to love and be loved.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~nguyend7 | -George Sand
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From: Gregor Zych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: miro 20SV with XFree86 3.3.3
Date: 22 Jan 1999 17:37:15 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerald Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hi
>
> i can't set up XF86 (3.3.3) for my miro 20SV (S3 964)
> neither the S3 server nor the SVGA server work
> the best result i get is a black screen and a correct displayed mouse
> (the mouse cursor changes when being moved)
> i don't know what is going wrong (i think the card is fucked up - it
> just likes unstable, expensive os (windoze is displayed correctly))
>
> i tried a lot different configuration settings
> RAMDAC, options (bt9845vclk),...
> it just doesn't work
Is there any setting in your ROM that affects VGA? I had the same card
and it worked perfectly after I changed such a setting. I've been
using the S3 server.
>
> now i use the wonderful monochrome server :-)
>
> please help!!!
>
> thanx geronimo
Ciao
Gregor
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: Re: HP laserjet 1100 (driver)
Date: 22 Jan 1999 16:21:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Chuang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>On 21 Jan 1999, Frank Miles wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
>Hi- I just got an 1100 too, but am having some difficulty setting it up in
>Linux. I used printtool-3.28 and also have ghostscript-5.10 installed. A
>local printer gets recognized on /dev/lp1 and I've tried a few of the HP
>LaserJet and the Text-Only filters.
>
>But all the "prints" is a blank page. (It prints fine under Windows, e.g.
>via ghostscript using ljet4).
>
>Can you please give me some set-up advice for the LaserJet 1100?
Hmmn. I'll try (from gray-cell memory). Have you set up the print
queue for the new printer? At least in Debian, they are at
/var/spool/lpd. Have you reconfigured or otherwise set up /etc/printcap?
Sorry, I don't use printtool-3.28; don't know if it attempts to do the
same. If this doesn't do it, e-mail me and I'll respond from my home
machine (where hopefully my responses can be more fact-based).
-frank
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From: Sven Utcke <[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: 22 Jan 1999 18:11:09 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Ilya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I respect your views, but the other people are right: Capitalizing
> > the words sentences begin with makes the whole text just a little
> > bit easier to read. Status quo got nothing to do with it.
>
> Yes it does. Case in point: in German, all nouns are capitalized, and
> lots of people consider that this helps readers to recognize nouns
> more easily. I seriously doubt, however, that German can be read
> faster than any other language. Did it ever even occur to you that
> you're missing something by nouns (except proper nouns) being
> lowercase?
>
> This goes to show that we find easy what we're used to.
Precisely. And "we" (well, certainly most of us) are used to
sentences that start with a capital letter. It's not for nothing that
virtually all written languages have this rule (well, this obviously
excludes languages without capital letters --- or without letters, for
that). It evolved over a long time and proved a good idea.
Sven
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From: Sven Utcke <[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: 22 Jan 1999 18:14:58 +0100
Erik Naggum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> such simple processes as updating
> a part of a sentence from singular to plural or from third to second
> person depends on knowing a lot about the words. the extra context that
> needs to be established by the computer to deal with a stupid rule that
> destroys information is just too hard to write.
But you yourself said it could easily be automated. Why is goint from
the words. The extra => the words. the extra
any more difficult than vice-versa?
Sven
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| |_ __ | |__ Sven Utcke
| | ' \| '_ \ phone: +49 761 203 8274 Am Flughafen 17
|_|_|_|_|_.__/ fax : +49 761 203 8262 79110 Freiburg i. Brsg.
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~utcke
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From: Paul Thilking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Altra Micro Point Standard "Mouse"
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 20:01:17 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Has anyone managed to get an Altra pointing device to work with X and
Linux?
Mine kind of works. But when I get close to the edge of the screen, the
cursor stops before reaching the edge, and then slowly crawls all the
way to the edge while the mouse is stationary. When you use the device
under Windows, you have to traverse the edges of the screen once before
using the device. I do that with Linux, but the next time I move toward
some of the screen edges, the cursor stops short of the edge again.
I using Linux 2.0.31 with XFree86 release 3.3.2. The Altra device is a
PS/2 device, and that is what I have specified in my XF86Config file for
the Pointer Protocol.
I'd like to hear the experiences of others.
Thanks,
Paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daryl Yager)
Subject: Bios Problem?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:04:12 GMT
I installed a Soyo mb, and now I can't access my 2gig Linux drive!
Matter of fact, even when I re-partitioned it as a vfat win95 drive,
it still won't boot!
My primary drive (a 4gig udma drive) works fine. I've even tried a 3rd
1gig drive (not udma), and it gives the same error, that it's not a
bootable drive. Is this possibly a problem cause between old drives
and new (bx) hardware?
Daryl
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From: "Glen Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux compatible modems
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 22:52:52 -0500
Rob Clark wrote in message ...
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Ryan Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Could someone email me a list of modems that are known to be compatible
>>with RedHat5.2 My current 33.6 is not campatible with linux and I am
>>forced to use an older 14.4
>
>http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
>Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any ISA modem with jumpers for IRQ are almost guaranteed to work as they use
real UARTS.
Glen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Ultra ATA/UDMA drives+controllers don't work?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 18:08:11 GMT
Sorry if this question has been beaten to death previously, I have been
searching on the newsgroups and on the RedHat site for a definite answer, to
no avail. I am about to buy a PentiumII machine for RedHat distribution 5.2,
but reading the RedHat hardware compatibility list, it says that "the Promise
series of "Ultra-ATA" controllers (and *other* Ultra ATA, Ultra DMA or ATA 33
controllers) appear to be incompatible with RH Linux." There is another doc
that I read, the Ultra-DMA Howto, that doesn't directly answer my question
either.
My problem is that almost all of the possible machines I could buy have the
Ultra ATA/UDMA drives and controllers on them. Ultra ATA has become the
defacto standard (sorry, SCSI is slightly out of my price range) for cheap
desktop machines. Does this mean that RHLinux 5.2 will not work with *any*
machine that has a Ultra ATA/UDMA drive and controller? Is this a problem in
the kernel? (which I guess means that any distribution of Linux would have
the same incompatibility, or is it only RH?)Or does this only apply to add-in
PCI-bus controllers, and not to the hard drive controllers that are
integrated into the motherbd? If I have a machine with an integrated Ultra
ATA controller, than will it run with Linux but only in the slower EIDE mode?
Is there something special I'll have to do during the install? I must not be
the first person to ask this because the Ultra ATA drives are so ubiquitous.
Obviously, I don't wanna buy a new machine only to find out that I can't
install and run Linux on it.
much thanks from a newbie,
Scott Serata
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From: "Mark Vandersteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: PnP sound in the new pre 2.2 kernel
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 14:46:45 +1030
You will need to initialize the card with isapnptools then proceed as
normal.
Mark Vandersteen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Powered by Linux ! Obsessed with women !
The thoughts here are not necessariy mine !
David Barnard wrote in message
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Somebody please help me! I've been loosing sleep for three days
>staying up all night compiling kernel after kernel trying to get the new
>pre-2.2 kernel to find my PnP Sound Blaster card.
>
> I've recently acquired a new Sound Blaster PCI128 sound card for my
>machine which is running RedHat 5.1. The card is basically an SB(16?)
>PCI PnP card with fancy software. My BIOS alledges to support PnP, and
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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: 22 Jan 1999 19:17:16 +0100
Sven Utcke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> As do many Germans. It is however easy to come up with examples (in
> German) which are very hard to understand or highly ambiguous without
> proper capitalisation. It seems that due to it's long history of
> making extensive use of capitalisation, German in it's present form
> can not easily be modified to do away with capitals.
It is easy to come up with sentences which are ambiguous *with* proper
capitalization. I think the infamous M$ Windows error message alluded
to in my signature qualifies for this :-) Not that ambiguity is
restricted to M$ software.
kai
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Jos=E9=20Ure=F1a?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Ultra ATA/UDMA drives+controllers don't work?
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 13:41:10 -0500
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The UDMA drives will still work as EIDE or IDE
I have notice that UDMA compatibility is tested by the kernel at startup.
and I read somewhere that if the Controller+Disk is not one of the known good
combinations, then UDMA is dissabled
it is done to protect the disk + data
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Sorry if this question has been beaten to death previously, I have been
> searching on the newsgroups and on the RedHat site for a definite answer, to
> no avail. I am about to buy a PentiumII machine for RedHat distribution 5.2,
> but reading the RedHat hardware compatibility list, it says that "the Promise
> series of "Ultra-ATA" controllers (and *other* Ultra ATA, Ultra DMA or ATA 33
> controllers) appear to be incompatible with RH Linux." There is another doc
> that I read, the Ultra-DMA Howto, that doesn't directly answer my question
> either.
>
> My problem is that almost all of the possible machines I could buy have the
> Ultra ATA/UDMA drives and controllers on them. Ultra ATA has become the
> defacto standard (sorry, SCSI is slightly out of my price range) for cheap
> desktop machines. Does this mean that RHLinux 5.2 will not work with *any*
> machine that has a Ultra ATA/UDMA drive and controller? Is this a problem in
> the kernel? (which I guess means that any distribution of Linux would have
> the same incompatibility, or is it only RH?)Or does this only apply to add-in
> PCI-bus controllers, and not to the hard drive controllers that are
> integrated into the motherbd? If I have a machine with an integrated Ultra
> ATA controller, than will it run with Linux but only in the slower EIDE mode?
> Is there something special I'll have to do during the install? I must not be
> the first person to ask this because the Ultra ATA drives are so ubiquitous.
> Obviously, I don't wanna buy a new machine only to find out that I can't
> install and run Linux on it.
>
> much thanks from a newbie,
> Scott Serata
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
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The UDMA drives will still work as EIDE or IDE
<p>I have notice that UDMA compatibility is tested by the kernel at startup.
<br>and I read somewhere that if the Controller+Disk is not one of the
known good combinations, then UDMA is dissabled
<p>it is done to protect the disk + data
<p>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Sorry if this question has been beaten to death previously,
I have been
<br>searching on the newsgroups and on the RedHat site for a definite answer,
to
<br>no avail. I am about to buy a PentiumII machine for RedHat distribution
5.2,
<br>but reading the RedHat hardware compatibility list, it says that "the
Promise
<br>series of "Ultra-ATA" controllers (and *other* Ultra ATA, Ultra DMA
or ATA 33
<br>controllers) appear to be incompatible with RH Linux." There is another
doc
<br>that I read, the Ultra-DMA Howto, that doesn't directly answer my question
<br>either.
<p>My problem is that almost all of the possible machines I could buy have
the
<br>Ultra ATA/UDMA drives and controllers on them. Ultra ATA has become
the
<br>defacto standard (sorry, SCSI is slightly out of my price range) for
cheap
<br>desktop machines. Does this mean that RHLinux 5.2 will not work with
*any*
<br>machine that has a Ultra ATA/UDMA drive and controller? Is this a problem
in
<br>the kernel? (which I guess means that any distribution of Linux would
have
<br>the same incompatibility, or is it only RH?)Or does this only apply
to add-in
<br>PCI-bus controllers, and not to the hard drive controllers that are
<br>integrated into the motherbd? If I have a machine with an integrated
Ultra
<br>ATA controller, than will it run with Linux but only in the slower
EIDE mode?
<br>Is there something special I'll have to do during the install? I must
not be
<br>the first person to ask this because the Ultra ATA drives are so ubiquitous.
<br>Obviously, I don't wanna buy a new machine only to find out that I
can't
<br>install and run Linux on it.
<p>much thanks from a newbie,
<br>Scott Serata
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Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 10:32:35 -0800
From: James Cornthwaite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Strange Freeze - Linux 2.0.33 (SuSE release)
Hi
I'm not sure if this is documented or not; i can;t find reference
to it anywhere, and it's never occured to me before:
PROBLEM:
Linux box freezes upon entering shutdown, maybe related
to frozen rlogin session.
DESCRIPTION OF EVENTS:
Box 1 (September) and 2 (Rakshasa) are connected on a network.
I am logged in to September from Rakshasa using rlogin. At
the September prompt, i enter "shutdown -h now", everything
proceeds as expected (machine shuts down), except that i am
not logged out (i did not type "exit" or "logout"). So,
September is now powered down, but i still have a frozen
login prompt (for September) on my screen (Rakshasa).
I login to Rakshasa on tty2, and try killing the rlogin.
This "apparently" removes the processes, but the rlogin
session is still frozen. I try to kill the shell from
which i started my rlogin session, this also does not
unfreeze the rlogin session.
So, now i try to shutdown Rakshasa:
1. I type "shutdown -h now"
2. I get the system wide shutdown notification
3. I type "logout"
4. I am now logged out
5. The machine hangs (shutdown procedures have not started).
I waited for 30 minutes, but nothing else happened, so i
manually powered the system down.
So... ever heard of anything like this before? I know it's
a strange sequence of events, but surely this should not happen.
-james
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