Linux-Hardware Digest #388, Volume #9 Mon, 8 Feb 99 18:13:35 EST
Contents:
TV-out, can it be done? ("Tom Emerson")
SB16 & CD-ROM (Christopher B Specker)
[Help]IBM 100/10 EtherJet PCI car driver for Linux????? (Jerry Chen)
Re: Epson vs. HP (Scott Alfter)
Two cordless mice at one receiver (KL-Services)
Re: HELP pls:memory 020899 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 10base-T recommendation? (Paul Braun)
RIVA TNT Headaches at Console (Nihilist)
Re: Celeron and Linux How about it? (Jack Frillman)
Re: Celeron and Linux How about it? (Markus Wandel)
Re: RH5.2 SCSI bus timeout - aic7880/aic7860 - help? (Andrea Borgia)
Re: Intel 740 VideoChipset (Xiaoyong Wu)
Re: Installing 3com 3c509 card on Linux RH 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization?! Why??? (Andrew Heckerling)
Wacom Pen Partner Driver ("Banjo")
Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media? (Doug Siebert)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization?! Why??? (Kris Kasias)
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV-out, can it be done?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 20:07:36 GMT
I have a TV-out capable video card -- Hercules "Stingray" 3d -- under
windows, the driver has a setting to enable video out, and it is a
"simultaneous" video out, the same picture goes to both the monitor and the
TV screen. I have an application where this will be perfect -- a presenter
will be demoing some software, and we're planning on video-taping the
presentation. With the split-outputs, we could run the "normal" video
signal to the monitor & projection system, and the "TV-out" could then go
to a VCR, any time the presenter makes a "reference" to what he's doing
on-screen, I can then pick up that "screen shot" during post production
without having to rely on shooting the projected video or a camera pointed
at a monitor...
So, (1) can the hercules be set for TV-out under linux, and (2) how is it
done?
Tom Emerson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher B Specker)
Subject: SB16 & CD-ROM
Date: 8 Feb 1999 06:29:32 GMT
I have a sound blaster 16 pnp card and an attached 32x cd-rom that aren't
functioning under linux. I suspect my problem is with isapnp but I don't know
because it executes my isapnp.conf without giving any errors. My kernel and
isapnp both have the same parameters that win98 uses, so what am I doing wrong?
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From: Jerry Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: [Help]IBM 100/10 EtherJet PCI car driver for Linux?????
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 17:57:09 -0500
Hi Linuxer,
I have IBM 100/10 EtherJet PCI car, does Linux support it?
HW compatible HowTo maybe out of date?
Please help,
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks in advance!!!!!!!!
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Epson vs. HP
Date: 6 Feb 1999 22:43:12 -0800
In article <79cteq$3uu$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to take a decision about a cheap home printer.
>
>My question is: how reliable are the Stylus printers?
Compared to the competition, extremely unreliable. The biggest problem is
that the printheads tend to get clogged up...and when that happens, you have
to send the printer in for service. With other inkjet printers, the heads
are either (1) combined with the ink cartridge (HP does this) or (2) a
separate, replaceable unit (Canon does this). With most Epsons (the Stylus
Color IIs is the only exception I recall), the heads are part of the
printer. Replacing them (or just throughly cleaning them) involves a
considerable amount of disassembly. In a dry climate, you're practically
guaranteed trouble with one of those printers.
>I need to print mostly B/W texts with occasionally color stuff and I
>read that "nothing compares to the HP B/W quality". How good is the B/W
>output quality for the Epson printers?
Not too good, unless you intend to run special paper ($$$) through it all
the time. Even with color printing, they're not all they're cracked up to
be...unless, again, you're using special paper. They do better with the
special paper, but you'll get the same or better quality with less hassle
out of an HP DJ890C or 895C...and the HP will deliver better plain-paper
quality and less hassle, too.
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://people.delphi.com/salfter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KL-Services)
Subject: Two cordless mice at one receiver
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 18:45:53 -1200
Hi!
Three years ago I purchased a Logitech Mouseman Cordless, which Ii�m
still extremely fond of. Recently I got a wheelmouse into my hands and
found it convienient for special applications (i.e. Netscape, ...). So I
wonder, as there is also a cordless wheelmouse by Logitech, whether I
could use both mice simultariously (my beloved Mouseman for "normal"
applications; switching to wheelmouse for browser, ...). Furthermore I�m
not sure whether the wheelmouse functions are supported by Linux.
Any comments would be appreciated (please do not send Emails, as this is
not my stationary adress)!
Best regards,
Axel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: HELP pls:memory 020899
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 03:29:33 GMT
Hi
Compaq servers follow the original AT Bios spec, which says that machines can
only report up to 16M or RAB by a certain BIOS call. Even though there are
physically enough bits in the register to convey information up to 64M. Since
these m/c are EISA m/c. EISA calls can be used to determine installed memory.
However Linux does not do this. So the solution is to pass the kernel a boot
time argument to tell Linux how much RAM you have installed. If you use LILO
you can test this on your next boot by typing
LILO boot : linux mem=XXM
(Replace "linux" with your kernel image's name and the XX with how much memory
you have). If this works you can add a line at the top of your /etc/lilo.conf
file which says
append="mem=XXM"
Where again XX is to be replaced by your actual system memory.
I hope this would solve your problem.
If you need any futher help mail me back.
Waiting for your feed back.
Regards
In article <7VDu2.7924$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"binaryhead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> HELP pls:memory above 16 meg on Compaq Presario 833
>
> I have a 4 meg sim and two 8 meg sims and then there is the other 4 meg on
> board. However linux can only see 16 megs ???
>
> I know that the extra 8 meg simm is good, since it's from a simular system
> (compaq too)
>
> any one has simular experience ???
>
> how to get linux to run with all the ram ???
>
> tia
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Braun)
Subject: Re: 10base-T recommendation?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 20:20:57 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Josh Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>If you're looking for the ultimate in affordability, search out the local
>'used' parts stock around your area. I happen to be attending a college
>right now, and we have a .forsale newsgroup that all the computer jocks
>post things for sale or ask for things they want to buy. I was able to
>grab ethernet cards for $6 a piece... Look around. There's quite little
>risk as long as the card works...if it goes out, it's $6 to replace it
>again....With the vast resource of 6,000 students all with masses of
>hardware to get rid of, I'll never spend $30 on an ethernet card again!!
>
>
>
>-Josh
>
Try to find 3com cards. They are unconditionally guaranteed for life. Anytime
I've ever had one go out, a quick phone call netted a replacement to exchange
for the bad one. Always keep one or two spares on hand, and you will never run
out of NIC's. I think National Semiconductor's cards may have the same
guarantee, but my main experience is with the 3com's. Plus they are built like
tanks and hardly ever break.
paul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nihilist)
Subject: RIVA TNT Headaches at Console
Date: 8 Feb 99 16:41:12 GMT
I apologize if this is not the proper forum for this question, but I am about at wits
end.
Subject: Quake ][ from Console: Hellacious Problems
System Specs:
AMD K6-2 300 w/ 128 MB of ECC PC100 DRAM
STB 4400 RIVA TNT Video card with 16 MB RAM -- PCI
Adaptec 2740U SCSI Controller & 9.1 GB AV-rated SCSI Hard Disk
36X ATAPI CDROM
3COM Vortex 10bT network card
Parallel-IDE support for LS120/External Superdisk (module-based)
Redhat Linux 5.2 w/ glibc libraries
Kernel version: 2.2.0 (stable release)
Installed packages
quake2-3.20-i386-glibc.tar.gz installed under /usr/local/games/quake2
Quake ][ *.paks installed from Quake ][ CDROM under /usr/local/games/quake2
quake2.conf installed in /etc/quake2.conf (points to /usr/local/games/quake2, and
nothing else)
XFree86 3.3.3.1
SVGAlib 1.3.0 (installed with RH 5.2)
Problem:
Quake2 will only run in X11, spawned in a virtual console. When attempting
to run from console, the sound intializes as usual, the initialization screen
comes up and appears to acting normally, then the screen jumps to a higher
SVGA resolution (I say this by inference and the sound my monitor makes
as the picture temporarily flickers). Then... nothing happens. I sit there
looking at a black screen that does nothing for all eternity. No sound, no
nothing. Worst part is, that I can't cancel the process. I can't confirm
this, but it's like the console just zombies. I am unable to toggle into
another console and kill the process. Killing the process requires moving
to my server room, logging in remotely, and killing the process from there.
But control never returns to my linux box. Ultimately, I have to "shutdown
-r now" and start over. Needless to say: this becomes irritating very
quickly. It reminds me too much of Windows '95/NT in that every time you
make some little change, you have to reboot the OS.
My thoughts:
It's my belief that I am having some sort of SVGA library conflict with my
video card. I just discovered that SGVAlibs have been updated to 1.3.1.
Am thinking about installing this, but wanted to check with everyone here
to see if anyone has already run this gauntlet and found the answer.
Please respond, if at all possible, directly via Email. With immense appreciation.
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jack Frillman)
Subject: Re: Celeron and Linux How about it?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 20:34:40 GMT
Markus Wandel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: >>
: >> Get the latest 2.2.X kernel (2.2.1 as of this writing) and compile it.
: >> Not only will your system run faster due to improved memory management etc.,
: >> the kernel will now automagically detect the correct amount of memory.
: >
: >Well yes and no. If you are not prepared to upgrade several of the tools and
: >commands (partiuclarly if you use firewalling or masquarading), you probably
: >want to wait until the distributions come out. However, I believe the 2.0.36
: >version of the kernel also supports the new BIOS call.
: I can confirm that RedHat 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel recognizes 128MB of RAM
: without any help. On my machine anyway (recent 440BX board and Award BIOS.)
Not on mine. I had to put a append="mem=96M" line in lilo.confg to see it all.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Celeron and Linux How about it?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 17:22:45 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Get the latest 2.2.X kernel (2.2.1 as of this writing) and compile it.
>> Not only will your system run faster due to improved memory management etc.,
>> the kernel will now automagically detect the correct amount of memory.
>
>Well yes and no. If you are not prepared to upgrade several of the tools and
>commands (partiuclarly if you use firewalling or masquarading), you probably
>want to wait until the distributions come out. However, I believe the 2.0.36
>version of the kernel also supports the new BIOS call.
I can confirm that RedHat 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel recognizes 128MB of RAM
without any help. On my machine anyway (recent 440BX board and Award BIOS.)
Markus
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From: Andrea Borgia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH5.2 SCSI bus timeout - aic7880/aic7860 - help?
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 21:19:17 GMT
On 23 Jan 1999 20:56:16 GMT,
in article <78dd1g$jcf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
BL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Our server has a cd writer on the narrow cable, two disks on the wide
>: channel and a dat unit on the external connector attached to the wide
>: channel. The driver complains, but nothing wrong happens.
>
>then you're JUST under the limit of the allowable termination/impedance
>window. add one more device and it all could go to hell. specs are there for
>a reason; if you ignore them, then you run at your own risk. don't yell if
>things fall apart then..
Please re-read my posting: I never said I have three connectors in
use, therefore your comment is totally irrelevant.
The driver complains event though I have only 2 (two) connectors in
use, the narrow one with the cdwriter and the wide one with the two
disks and the external dat (attached to the same cable, not to the
wide port on the scsi card).
Bye.
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From: Xiaoyong Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Intel 740 VideoChipset
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 16:29:47 -0500
What you need is just a new XServer,
Just look for an Xserver that supports i740.
Werner van Poeyer wrote:
> I have a AGP videocard with the "intel 740" chip (Manufacturer DAYTONA).
> Does anybody know how to get it working on Turbolinux or RedHat 4.2.
>
> Werner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing 3com 3c509 card on Linux RH 5.2
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 09:12:21 GMT
You'd have to make sure that the module 3c59x is loaded.
Type 'lsmod' to see what modules you have loaded.
Though by default, usually I found that RH autodetected my 3c509BTX
card.
If you don't see it, try 'depmod -a' which will let RH try to
load all the modules needed.
If you want to get the driver (or more info), you can also try:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Marc Provencher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get my 3C509 card working with Linux RH 5.2.
>
> I started Linuxconf, and I can see that it found the module name (3c509),
> for eth0. I gave it an IP address via linuxconf as well, and made sure the
> adapter was enabled.
>
> When I run ifconfig -a I can't see anything but 'lo', which I think is just
> the loopback.
>
> Must I do something special to the kernel so it detects my card? I just
> upgraded to 5.2, and I already had a few surprises, like I no longer have
> ppp in my kernel, but I had it in my 5.1 version...
>
> How can I get the kernel to detect my card?
>
> Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> Marc Provencher
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Andrew Heckerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization?! Why???
Date: 8 Feb 1999 21:09:23 GMT
So 3c59x.o isn't there at all? In that case, you probably need to compile
a new kernel, and select "yes" or "module" for this driver. Then when you
install the new set of modules and boot the new kernel, it should be there.
I'm surprised that your kernel doesn't at least have it built as a module.
Kris Kasias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Well if it isn't there any feedbak on how to get it there as I
: mentioned when trying to compile v0.99H all I got was errors from and
: no .o file any suggestions on where or how to go about getting a good
: version?
:>You get this error when ifconfig fails to configure the interface properly,
:>usually because the proper module is not loaded. The first thing I would try
:>is insmod'ing the module you do have (you should have a file called 3c59x.o
:>lying around somewhere, hopeful in /lib/modules/{your kernel version}/net).
:>If that works, then you should be able to re-run ifup and have it work. My
:>guess is that 3c59x.o won't be in any of the standard modules directories;
:>(/lib/modules/{kernel version}/net, /lib/modules/preferred/net, etc) and that
:>is why kerneld isn't loading it automatically. If you find it somewhere else,
:>put it in one of these directories and next time it should be loaded when
:>ifconfig needs it.
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From: "Banjo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wacom Pen Partner Driver
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 1999 12:35:59 -0500
I have a Wacom Pen Partner for my PC and they point to the XFREE86 website
and dont tell where it is.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Siebert)
Subject: Re: Exabyte Mammoth and cheap media?
Date: 8 Feb 1999 20:35:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bryan K. Wright) writes:
>And, since the cost of 3 8505 drives is about the same as the cost of
>one mammoth, plus you get the added flexibility of using different
>drives for different things, why should I keep the mammoth and pay
>so much for the specialized media?
If you don't need the speed or extra tape capacity, there is no reason
to want the Mammoth. You can probably get tapes for an 8200 even
cheaper per megabyte, and just imagine how cheap the tapes for QIC
format are these days. Exabyte is coming out with the Mammoth II this
summer so now would probably not be a good time to buy the Mammoth
anyway if you truly need its speed or capacity (since the speed
quadruples and the capacity triples in Mammoth II -- hopefully the
media cost will go up by a smaller amount :) ) I think the Mammoth II
uses 230m AME which may already be available for the AIT+ (which is
AIT's interim generation before AIT II later this year) Anyone know
for 230m AME tape costs?
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Division of Mathematical Sciences, U of Iowa
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kris Kasias)
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization?! Why???
Date: Mon, 08 Feb 1999 18:23:49 GMT
Well if it isn't there any feedbak on how to get it there as I
mentioned when trying to compile v0.99H all I got was errors from and
no .o file any suggestions on where or how to go about getting a good
version?
On 8 Feb 1999 14:39:54 GMT, Andrew Heckerling
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>You get this error when ifconfig fails to configure the interface properly,
>usually because the proper module is not loaded. The first thing I would try
>is insmod'ing the module you do have (you should have a file called 3c59x.o
>lying around somewhere, hopeful in /lib/modules/{your kernel version}/net).
>If that works, then you should be able to re-run ifup and have it work. My
>guess is that 3c59x.o won't be in any of the standard modules directories;
>(/lib/modules/{kernel version}/net, /lib/modules/preferred/net, etc) and that
>is why kerneld isn't loading it automatically. If you find it somewhere else,
>put it in one of these directories and next time it should be loaded when
>ifconfig needs it.
>
>This all assumes that you don't actually have the driver linked into your
>kernel. If you do, I have no idea why it could be doing this.
>
>Andy
>
>Kris Kasias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><snip>
>: I've got a 3Com 3c900 PCI card doing a fresh install of Redhat Linux 5.1
>: (Macmillan CD). During the install it detects that the card is 3Com and
>: presents a list of possible choices, from which I choose the 3c900 and
>: choose to have the address assigned via DHCP. All is cool up to there.
>: When I boot I see the message "Delaying eth0 initialization" I've tried
>: going to the CESDIS web site and downloading the 3c59x.c Driver v0.99H
>: (Redhat linux ships with v0.99) and tried compiling it with no success just
>: compile errors. I can't imaging this is the problem though and I just
>: haven't learned enough to know how to kick this card in to operation under
>: Linux.
>
>
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