Linux-Hardware Digest #374, Volume #9 Sun, 7 Feb 99 05:13:52 EST
Contents:
Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver? ("Beneke - News")
Re: Voice/Sound file to a telephone (Owen Lloyd)
Re: TV application shows only a black screen (Owen Lloyd)
Re: Does linux support TV ports ? (Owen Lloyd)
SVGATextMode Config Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Trident 9680 and Linux XWindows ("Scott")
Re: RH 5.2 on AMD K6-2 ("Vladimir Pasman")
Re: Motherboards... ("Vladimir Pasman")
Re: Swap Space, Defrag & Partitioning Hard Drive (Phoenix)
Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver? (Prasanth Kumar)
Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT cable
modem) ([EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul E Larson))
Re: Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem? ("Vladimir Pasman")
Re: ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP ("A.Caluya")
Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver? ("Scott L. Foglesong")
Re: Logitech Cordless Desktop: Need help! (Gerassimos Toumazatos)
Re: Redhat 5.2 over NT ("Sean Connolly")
pnp sound card & modem : help ! (Chris Milne)
Tuning to eliminate "Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2" (John D. Hardin)
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems (Richard Steiner)
Bios problem with a video card (Sam Konstantinovich)
Postscript problem w/ Deskjet 520 ("Svend S. Sorensen")
Re: 3COM sells crippled modems ("Pete Johnson")
Re: Linux Newbie needs Canon Printer driver help... (Gregory G. Woodbury)
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From: "Beneke - News" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver?
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 16:20:02 +0200
Do any one know if Linux has a driver for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
RIVA TNT AGP?
Thanks in advance
JP Beneke
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From: Owen Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Voice/Sound file to a telephone
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 03:50:21 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> I want to be able to make my Linux system ring up someone and say
> something. This has a serious use, we use Linux boxes at supervisory and
> control systems, and it would be very nice to be able for the computer
> to be able to ring up the operator on call at his home, or on his
> mobile, and tell him when some alarm has come up.
>
> Is it possible to connect the soundcard audio output to the modem's mic
> input, ring out the call with the modem, and them play a wav file or
> something. I've tried this. but I can't work out how to get the modem to
> behave like an ordinary telephone, and send the audio out to the
> telephone line.
>
> If anyone out there knows the answer to this please be so kind as to
> send me a mail at [EMAIL PROTECTED], or even the address below.
You don't need a sound card for this at all really. I messed around
with this for a while with my USR external Voice modem (has a mic and
speaker output). There are extensions to the AT command set to put the
modem into voice mode, and connect the various IO devices
(handset/speaker/mic etc) and also, to route a GSM format sound file to
the phone line. Check out the 3com site for details, and also search on
freshmeat for a package called "mgetty" which provides a nice getty
interface to the voice functions).
I manage to make a working phone using some crude chat scripts and a
tk/tcl front end, and had planned to get into the automated messaging
thing, but then I found mgetty and thought "oh, it's been done already -
and in a much better way"....
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From: Owen Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV application shows only a black screen
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 03:56:00 +0000
BL wrote:
>
> dumb (obvious) question: did you enable 'capture' ?
>
> on the xtvscreen app I use, there's a pulldown button to enable/disable
> capture. this turns the screen on/off ;-)
>
hmmm I have this problem now, ever since I changed my vid card from an
old GS600 to a ATI Xpert98 (Mach64 display server). Now it only works
in capture mode - not in overlay mode. This is annoying as it depends
greatly on CPU power and so stalls when the system is busy doing other
things.
I note that ATI make their own TV cards, which is probably a bad sign -
makes me think there's a reason why you can't run a bt848 based card
with this video card. Ah well.
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From: Owen Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does linux support TV ports ?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 03:39:46 +0000
Eugene Chudin wrote:
>
> I am going to buy a laptop with TV out port, and I wonder if Linux is
> going to work
> with it.
Sure, this is not a function of the OS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SVGATextMode Config Problems
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:01:40 GMT
I've been using SVGATextMode so I can use the text console with my IBM
6091-19i fixed-frequency workstation monitor. It worked just fine with my S3
Trio64V+ video card with 2MB of RAM. I wanted more colors in X so I changed
to an S3 968 video card with 4MB VRAM and TI 3026 RAMDAC. Of course,
SVGATextMode quit working because it was still configured for the old card,
so I went into the config file (forgot the filename, TextConfig or something
like that) and changed to the S3 968 and also made sure to pick the correct
RAMDAC. I had to do the same with X. Now X works fine, but SVGATextMode
doesn't work at all - the screen goes blank.
Any ideas? Is the RAMDAC too slow on the S3 968 card or something? I had
considered a new 4MB video card might work, but I don't really care to spend
more money if I don't have to.
Shawn
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From: "Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trident 9680 and Linux XWindows
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 02:13:28 -0500
I'm trying to get a 2MB Trident 9680 working with RedHat Linux 5.2.
XWindows sees the card, but can't get into any other resolution than
320x200.
I'm really new to Linux and am hoping someone can help. Please email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
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From: "Vladimir Pasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 5.2 on AMD K6-2
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 00:50:45 -0600
I'm running AMD K6-2/350 on a DFI AT motherboard. Works very fine,
though I had to reflash BIOS first.
Vlad
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From: "Vladimir Pasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Motherboards...
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:50:45 -0600
Since it got posted to a newsgroup, I decided to reply. There is a very
nice page about choosing motherboards at Krex Computers
(krex.com). Also, AMD published a list of tested motherboards. It's
quite extensive. I have just bought up a K6-2 350Mhz on a DFI
motherboards. DFI page shows they have a few awards for it. Very
decent motherboard but they had a bug that was fixed right after
I purchased it. I had to reflash BIOS to get my modem to work.
Max Lock wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Paul,
>
> I couldn't get that RAM working in the Dell at the weekend. So I'm
>gonna upgrade, what's the best shit hot motherboard at the minute, I've
>got the visa card all warmed up, and a guy is going to the states this
>weekend and is getting me an amd k6 400 with 3dnow for 152 dollars!!!!!
>
> -Max.
>
>--
>Maxwell Lock, Systems Specialist, CRAY Research / SGI UK. 01189 307806
>
>"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley, LSD and UNIX.
> We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -Jeremy S. Anderson
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Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:32:22 -0600
From: Phoenix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Swap Space, Defrag & Partitioning Hard Drive
Ahmed Abukmail wrote:
> Hi Guys, I got an advice on partitioning my windows 98 6.4 G harddrive. I
> wanted to have 2.4G left for Windows 98, and 4.0G for linux. I looked at my
> RH 5.1 CD last night and I saw that it has a fips.exe for partitioning the
> hard drive. Also, it suggested that I need to defragment the hard drive
> first. So here are my questions about this whole thing.
> 1) Do I need to defragment the hard drive eventhough it's a new PC (LapTop,
> Dell Inspiron 3500 if that helps)?
>
Woulnt hurt anything and will probably save LOTS of headaches.
>
> 2) If so, then how do I run defrag, is it just run without flags or switchs
> by opening a dos window from win 98, or you'd have to boot from dos, and
> run it from there?
I ran win98's defrag with the "arrange my programs so they load faster" off
worked fine
>
> 3) Can you just run the windows 98 defragmenting program instead of defrag?
Yes (see above)
>
>
> 4) Once you've defragmented your hard drive, I assume you insert the RH 5.1
> CD and run fips from windows 98 and that will give you the two partitions
> w/o destroying any data?
I think I ran FIPS from a win98 boot disk (cant remember but is prob the best
thing to do)
the rh cd will boot linux (or at least my 5.2 cd did) and FIPS is a dos program
>
>
> 5) Once you partitioned the hard drive, how do you create a swap space, and
> Linux native directly from the CD? What will be a good swap space size for
> 128M of RAM?
> OR does it ask you once you boot from the CD whether you want to format and
> create a swap space for linux...
>
Boot from the CD and use disk Druid to create your partitions and swap space.
as for swap
read the HOWTO's for details but i think the max usable swap space under 2.0.x
kernels is about
127 megs but you probably don't need that much. I have 64 meg ram and 40 meg
swap with no problems.
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From: Prasanth Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver?
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:24:57 GMT
Beneke - News wrote:
>
> Do any one know if Linux has a driver for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
> RIVA TNT AGP?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> JP Beneke
The latest version of XFree86, v3.3.3.1 supports the Riva TnT but the
documentation doesn't state if the Creative Labs card works in
particular.
Also the documentation states that the driver is not yet as accelerated
as it could be.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/NVIDIA1.html#1
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Prasanth Kumar
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.misc,linux.samba
From: whistler<blahblah>@twcny.rr.com (Paul E Larson)
Subject: Re: 10/100 Ethernet SWITCH (to be used for Fast Ethernet LAN, and 10-BaseT
cable modem)
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:29:31 GMT
In article <79jaeb$lok$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have some LinkSys EtherFast PCI 10/100 that were $30 each at
>Office Max and a LinkSys 10/100 AutoSense hub that is about
>$160 mailorder. Speeds are better than 10mb, but not
>spectacular -- about 4megabytes/second using FTP.
>
Ouch.... I bought my AutoSensing hub last week at Best Buy for $99.95 of
course CompUSA had them for $129.95 two floors down. As for NIC's I like
anything with the DEC Alpha chip, I wonder what Compaq has planned for it?
Paul
Get rid of the blahs to email me :}
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From: "Vladimir Pasman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Supra PCI 56i V.90 - winmodem?
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 01:29:15 -0600
Be careful. All of The supra Max's are winmodems. Some of the Supra Express'
are not. You can easily distinguish the price. Supra Express winmodem goes
for about $50/60 - $20 rebate, and the good modem goes for $80/100 - $20
rebate. I tried max first and it
crashed my Win98 even before I realized it was a Winmodem.
SupraExpress (non-win) version works fine, but it only gave me
33K at most on the same line where a USR faxmodem connected
at 51K all the time. So, I sent all the Supras back to the store: to me
they aren't worth the money.
Colin Radford wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Wed, 03 Feb 1999 15:33:59 +0000, James Lothian
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I've just bought one of these, unfortunately, and although I haven't
>>tried it with Linux yet, I'm almost sure it's a winmodem (no discernible
>>rom on the board, loads lots of VXDs and godknowswhatelse on Windows).
>>Bugger bugger bugger.
>
>I have two of them working with Linux (2.0.36 and 2.2.0) so they are
>not Winmodems. I had to use the PNP tools to get them working
>properly.
>
>Colin
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From: "A.Caluya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI Xpert@Play AGP vs. ATI Xpert@Play 98 AGP
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 23:37:15 -0800
I can also confirm this. I use the XPert@Play AGP RH 5.2. The updated XFree
3.3.1 (I think) will also work at 640x480 in 16bit color mode. Though I don't
recall running it at 800x600 res at the same color depth.
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From: "Scott L. Foglesong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Riva TNT 16MB Linux driver?
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 23:39:15 -0800
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
>
> Beneke - News wrote:
> >
> > Do any one know if Linux has a driver for the Creative Labs Graphics Blaster
> > RIVA TNT AGP?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
> >
> > JP Beneke
>
> The latest version of XFree86, v3.3.3.1 supports the Riva TnT but the
> documentation doesn't state if the Creative Labs card works in
> particular.
> Also the documentation states that the driver is not yet as accelerated
> as it could be.
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.3.1/NVIDIA1.html#1
>
> --
> Prasanth Kumar
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The SVGA server supports the Creative card just fine--I'm using it for
my Graphics Blaster and it works fine.
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San Francisco Conservatory of Music
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From: Gerassimos Toumazatos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Logitech Cordless Desktop: Need help!
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 07:32:55 +0000
>
Hi,
If I understood well you use the wireless Logitech keyboard
and you don' t have any problems.
Am i right? Because i also want to buy one.
Gerassimos
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From: "Sean Connolly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 5.2 over NT
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 03:21:55 -0500
Crossposted-To:
linux.redhat.install,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux
>right now i am running windows nt4.0 workstation.. i just downloaded
>redhat 5.2 .. this sounds stupid. but i know nothing about linux.. how
>do i get this installed? please help. i want to get rid of NT i hate it!
>i hate windows! i also need to know where to get drivers for a 3c905b-TX
>network card..
Read all the README and INSTALL files you saw when you downloaded it.
There a MAJOR help but it seems a lot of people either ignore them or
overlook them :(
Sean
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From: Chris Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pnp sound card & modem : help !
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 01:10:04 -0500
i've got a GVC modem jumper set to pnp & an awe32 sound card, both isa.
i've configured both under isapnptools & the modem responded fine (COM
2), i wasted large amounts of time with the kernel & the awesfx patch,
whatever (isapnp seemed to handle the sound card fine). i upgraded the
system to RH5.2 & isapnptools 1.17-1 & now have a lovely error when
isapnp runs :
/etc/isapnp.conf:42 -- Fatal - resource conflict allocating 8 bytes of
IO at 2F8 (see /proc/ioports)
/etc/isapnp.conf:42 -- Fatal - Error occurred executing request
'<IORESCHECK> ' --- further action aborted
funny stuff. see if i change the ioports to others, the modem doesn't
work, if i change it back, it works....sure is fun surfin' away with all
these errors in /proc/ioports.
the sound card you ask ? well i decided to attempt sndconfig, it finds
the card & knows it's an awe32, good start. then it saves isapnp.conf &
(i'm guessing) it runs isapnp, whoa, ERRORS. from the modem of course.
so sndconfig wants me to configure everything manually.
can anyone let me know if any of the above makes sense. for example, why
is my modem suddenly developing an error on COM2 ? '02f8-02ff :
serial(auto)' would seem to indicate that there's a serial port (perhaps
COM2, ooooh, spooky) at that IO port, why in hell would isapnp decide
that COM2 is conflicting with the modem ? what on earth is <IORESCHECK>
? why should sndconfig care if it can't initialize a device that has
nothing to do with the sound card ?
it's late, i'm irritated, hope everyone else is enjoying whatever
they're up to right now.
chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John D. Hardin)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Tuning to eliminate "Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2"
Date: 7 Feb 1999 09:01:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hardware:
HP Vectra XM, integrated VLB NIC:
eth0: PCnet/ISA 79C960 at 0x300, 08 00 09 74 45 a0 HP Vectra IRQ 5 DMA 5.
assigned IRQ 5, assigned DMA 5.
lance.c:v1.14 2/3/1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Whenever I access fd0 I start getting "Bus master arbitration failure"
errors. Sample:
Feb 4 11:52:27 gypsy kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.0.36
Feb 4 11:52:27 gypsy kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Feb 4 11:52:27 gypsy kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Feb 4 11:52:33 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 8cf2.
Feb 4 11:52:33 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
Feb 4 11:52:34 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88fa.
Feb 4 11:52:35 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
Feb 4 11:52:36 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88fa.
Feb 4 11:52:37 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
Feb 4 11:52:53 gypsy last message repeated 19 times
Feb 4 11:52:53 gypsy kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Feb 4 11:52:54 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 8af2.
Feb 4 11:52:54 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
Feb 4 11:53:09 gypsy last message repeated 2 times
Feb 4 11:53:09 gypsy kernel: Couldn't get a free page.....
Feb 4 11:53:10 gypsy kernel: eth0: Bus master arbitration failure, status 88f2.
A Dejanews search pulls up some old posts explaining the sensitivity
of the Lance chip to DMA ready delays and suggests the possibility of
tuning the system to prevent this happening. How would I go about
tuning the floppy subsystem to make it stop hogging the bus?
Note the "Couldn't get a free page" errors as well. When this happened
eth0 went dead. I was able to restore operation through ifconfig
down/up and restoring the routes, but the interface was stuck in
promiscuous mode until I rebooted.
Thanks.
(Dave: Sorry if this is an intrusion.)
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Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change
to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ]
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102 days until Star Wars episode I
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
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
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 02:42:55 -0600
Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
spake unto us, saying:
>On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:24:53 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
>Steiner) wrote:
>
>>Internal modems make no sense to me. :-) I save my slots for things
>>that actually need that type of bus throughput like network cards and
>>3D accelerators, and I put the modem on top of my monitor and plug it
>>into the same 6-outlet IsoBar that the PC and monitor go into.
>
>Good Idea! Just as soon as I can figure out how to get this Monster2
>3D PCI card into that ISA slot, I'll get an external modem to replace
>my internal one? Out of curiousity, how many un-used ISA slots do
>you have? <g>
On my 486, none. All eight ISA slots are full. :-)
In this PPro, I believe one ISA slot is free (I recently removed the
extra floppy controller I was using as a tape controller), but I have
a use for it at some point in the future. On the other PPro, two ISA
slots are free.
I have a serious bias against internal modems, mainly coming from my
486 days (when my slots were at a premium). I like pretty lights, and
my poor serial ports wouldn't have a purpose in life without a modem
attached to one of them. :-)
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-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
"Lurk, lurk." _King Lear_, III,vi.
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From: Sam Konstantinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bios problem with a video card
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 00:32:02 -0500
I recently wiped the BIOS from my viper 550, i cant flash it in dos
because the device isn't seen. Windows isn't smart enough to be able to
do it, so i turn to linux. Is it possible to write the bios for a video
card in linux? I am barely familiar with linux, i use emacs to program
in c, that is all i know how to do so any help would be greatly
appreciated.
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The dead have nothing except the memory they�ve left.
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Death is but crossing the world, as friends do the seas;
they live in one another still.
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From: "Svend S. Sorensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Postscript problem w/ Deskjet 520
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 03:43:22 -0800
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
I am having a strange problem with postscript.
At first the 520 gave the ol' "Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in
.putdeviceprops" but commenting out the color line in the postscript
cfg file got postscript printing. However, now when a postscript doc
prints the first page comes out fine, then the console lights on the
520 start flashing. When I turn the power to the printer off then on,
the printer starts printing garbage (random characters, printed on
top of each other so many times there is a drop of ink on the paper)
and doesn't seem to stop. Plain text prints fine.
Any suggestions?
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I am having a strange problem with postscript.
<BR>At first the 520 gave the ol' "Unrecoverable error: rangecheck
in
<BR>.putdeviceprops" but commenting out the color line in the postscript
<BR>cfg file got postscript printing. However, now when a postscript
doc
<BR>prints the first page comes out fine, then the console lights on the
<BR>520 start flashing. When I turn the power to the printer off
then on,
<BR>the printer starts printing garbage (random characters, printed on
<BR>top of each other so many times there is a drop of ink on the paper)
<BR>and doesn't seem to stop. Plain text prints fine.
<P>Any suggestions?
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From: "Pete Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Date: Sun, 7 Feb 1999 20:28:59 +1100
I must say that I have a strong personal preference to ext mods as they seem
to be easier to configure and control than the int versions.
I also have a partiality to the flashing lights. But I cannot stand the
sound, so I have turned it off !!
Also, not even a 128Kbps ISDN line requires a 16bit ISA connector so why
would I use one for a 33.6 ?? makes no sense to me.
Richard Steiner wrote in message ...
>Here in comp.os.os2.misc, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
>spake unto us, saying:
>
>>On Mon, 01 Feb 1999 23:24:53 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard
>>Steiner) wrote:
>>
>>>Internal modems make no sense to me. :-) I save my slots for things
>>>that actually need that type of bus throughput like network cards and
>>>3D accelerators, and I put the modem on top of my monitor and plug it
>>>into the same 6-outlet IsoBar that the PC and monitor go into.
>>
>>Good Idea! Just as soon as I can figure out how to get this Monster2
>>3D PCI card into that ISA slot, I'll get an external modem to replace
>>my internal one? Out of curiousity, how many un-used ISA slots do
>>you have? <g>
>
>On my 486, none. All eight ISA slots are full. :-)
>
>In this PPro, I believe one ISA slot is free (I recently removed the
>extra floppy controller I was using as a tape controller), but I have
>a use for it at some point in the future. On the other PPro, two ISA
>slots are free.
>
>I have a serious bias against internal modems, mainly coming from my
>486 days (when my slots were at a premium). I like pretty lights, and
>my poor serial ports wouldn't have a purpose in life without a modem
>attached to one of them. :-)
>
>--
> -Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Bloomington, MN
> OS/2 + Linux (Slackware+RedHat+SuSE) + FreeBSD + Solaris +
> WinNT4 + Win95 + PC/GEOS + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven!
> "Lurk, lurk." _King Lear_, III,vi.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory G. Woodbury)
Subject: Re: Linux Newbie needs Canon Printer driver help...
Date: 7 Feb 1999 09:49:33 GMT
Mike Werner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shaped electrons to say:
>IIRC what you need to do is get Ghostscript and set it up as a BJC-600.
>Haven't done it yet myself (friend of mine that I'm helping has that
>model printer) but another person I know says that's what he did to get
>a 4300 working.
Additionally, in "/var/spool/lpd/<whatever>/postscript.cfg", comment
out the "COLOR=<whatever>" line, and everything should work.
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