Linux-Hardware Digest #403, Volume #9 Wed, 10 Feb 99 16:13:38 EST
Contents:
Re: Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-) (Mark Butler)
NIC card and sound card: cohabitation (Michel Prevost)
Re: Linux on an E-Machine... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
WaveLAN 2.4ghz non-IEEE ISA (Ryan Lackey)
Re: Samba and Windows 95 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Linux begginer's questions (AME)
Re: Someone Please Help, Matrox Productiva G100 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: can't be difficult (TDK PCMCIA networkcard) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: How do I access floppy drive and Sparq 1.0gb in Linux 5.2 (Henrik Carlqvist)
Looking for HERCULES STINGRAY driver ("Tom Emerson")
Re: Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2? (Fhurqaan Hamid)
Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2 ("Michael M Murphree")
Re: G200 Video Card install w/RH 5.1 (help) ("David A. Frantz")
Re: Problems with SB64PCI (Manfred Becker)
Re: Lilith Banshee 16MB AGP XF86 ? (Shashank Misra)
Re: Number 9 GXE64pro (Michael Meissner)
Re: ESS1869 (1036-749)
Re: Red Hat 5.1 has PPP config utility? (garv)
Re: Laptop Battery in Linux (Mark Evans)
SiS SG86C201 Video card with Redhat 5.1: Not recognizing Video memory ("Jean Roux")
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From: Mark Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gtk+ and compilation errors making a newbie go MAD! :-)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:20:58 -0600
Lyle Taylor wrote:
>
> Where did Gtk install itself? If it installed in /usr/local/lib, then
> you may need to make sure that /usr/local/lib is either in your
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable, or in /etc/ld.so.conf.
>
> Just a thought. Good luck.
<snip>
Another thought: if you haven't rebooted since installing Gtk,
you'll also want to run ldconfig to update your shared library
search tables. This is usually done during reboot.
Hope it helps -
Mark Butler
"these opinions are mine and not my employer's"
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From: Michel Prevost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: NIC card and sound card: cohabitation
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 12:53:39 -0500
HI all
I have a little problem. When I installed RedHat 5.2, everything went
fine except the sound card didn't work. issuing the command 'cat
/dev/sndstat' would display no information on the device.
So, I compiled a new kernel, and configured the sound properly. I know
it because it worked. Didn't change anything else when I configured the
kernel.
The sound card worked, but no network anymore. When booting the new
kernel, I can see the "Delaying initialization of eth0". Huh?
When I boot the original kernel, no problem, the network works. But no
sound......
So I can't have the best of 2 worlds for now. I tried a couple of
things, like putting the following line in /etc/lilo.conf:
append="ether=10,0xc000,eth0"
then ran "lilo", rebooted, still no network (but great sound, though ;-)
I ran "netconfig", saw that the device was deactivated, so tried to
activate it, didn't work. Even rebooted, still no result, besides the
great sound.
It may be worth mentioning here that there is no hardware conflict for
sure (because if I boot Win98, both devices work, and I don't mean here
that Windoze is better than the beloved Linux, au contraire).
Any clue anyone?
Michel
P.S.: please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux on an E-Machine...
Date: 10 Feb 1999 18:11:40 GMT
According to Wolfgang Reissnegger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
> I'm running linux 2.2.1 on an etower 266 and have no problems so far.
Cool...this is what I wanted to hear. Sounds pretty encouraging.
> For X I'm running the SVGA server (version 3.3.3) which works fine at
> 16bpp. I think there should be some support for the ATI Rage AGP but I
> haven't tried yet. Sound works fine with the Crystal driver and I have no
> problems with printing.
I'm down with that...I had to deal w/ 8bpp on my laptop for so long until
XFree 3.3.3 showed up w/ support for my stupid Neomagic Vid Chip.
> I installed a PCI ethernet card which works fine so far. I didn't have to
> touch BIOS settings.
This is cool...especially since I'll be building a little network and tunneling
everything through the Linux box w/ ISDN :-)
> The only thing that does not work is the INITIO SCSI card. But this is not a
> hardware problem. Any help, hints or tips appreciated there!
> And, oh yes, the modem is a winmodem. I've got one for sale now ;-)
ISDN all the way...it's only like $120 (US Dollars) installed and $40 a mo. in
Ameritech land.
~ELH~
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan Lackey)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: WaveLAN 2.4ghz non-IEEE ISA
Date: 10 Feb 1999 18:31:09 GMT
I'm trying to get 2.4 GHz WaveLAN non-IEEE cards to work on two linux
2.2.1 systems, and I'm having a few problems.
1) Neither system recognizes the cards when booted. I've turned off ISA PNP
in the bios and on the system; I set the jumpers to 0x390 io base address,
but neither when I boot the system with the thing compiled into the kernel nor
when I load a module does the system recognize it.
I am going to try putting together a dos boot floppy to test the hardware to
make sure it's not a hardware or bios problem, but I suspect it's a driver
issue.
2) When I try compiling the wireless tools, they fail to build, giving the
following errors:
14:29@systemics:/home/ryan/wavelan/utils# gcc -lm iwconfig.c
/tmp/ccc00702: In function `float2freq':
/tmp/ccc00702(.text+0x55): undefined reference to `pow10'
/tmp/ccc00702: In function `freq2float':
/tmp/ccc00702(.text+0xf1): undefined reference to `pow10'
I've had this problem with both wireless tools .15 and .16
Has anyone gotten wavelan 2.4ghz non-IEEE 2.4ghz to work with 2.2.1?
cc responses to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please.
Thanks,
Ryan
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Samba and Windows 95
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:00:20 +0100
Karsten Kurz wrote:
> The call of "smbclient -L host" on my Linux-PC shows correct values.
>
> "Testparm" also tells everything ok.
>
> Each of the PCs can "ping" himself.
Are they also able to ping each other?
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AME)
Subject: Linux begginer's questions
Date: 10 Feb 1999 18:15:01 GMT
Greetings all,
I am new to device driver development on Linux. I have a couple of
conceptual questions which I hope some of you will be able to answer.
What exactly is a port? Is it a piece of hardware or is it some piece
of software? What does it do? How can you make a driver and a device
talk to the same port? Are all i/o ports the same? direct ansewrs as well
as referal to sources and urls is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Someone Please Help, Matrox Productiva G100
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 20:02:41 +0100
KLuE wrote:
>
> I Just got Redhat 5.2 and there is no support for this card but on
> the list it says it's Supported..Do I need to upgrade my X Server for
> it to support it or what?
Yes, go to www.xfree86.org and get the latest XFree86 together with
instructions how to install it.
regards Henrik
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: can't be difficult (TDK PCMCIA networkcard)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 17:27:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Martin van Nijnatten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
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> There's hopefully a simple solution to this problem , but I don't know
> it:
>
> The cardservices are loaded correctly but the network card isn't
> recognized !
>
> Any help is highly appreciated.
>
> My platform:
> - Compaq Armada 1700
> - TDK Global networker 3410 PCMCIA (ethernet + modem)
> - slackware, kernel 2.0.34
> - pcmcia-cs 3.0.0.
>
> Martin
>
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> <html>
> There's hopefully a simple solution to this problem , but I don't know
> it:
> <p><u>The cardservices are loaded correctly but the network card isn't
> recognized</u> !
> <p>Any help is highly appreciated.
> <p>My platform:
> <br>- Compaq Armada 1700
> <br>- TDK Global networker 3410 PCMCIA (ethernet + modem)
> <br>- slackware, kernel 2.0.34
> <br>- pcmcia-cs 3.0.0.
> <p>Martin
> <br>
> <br> </html>
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>
maybe its not so simple -
is this ethernetcard compatible to something that has a linux-driver
(like ne2000, or 3com509, or ....?)
i use a absolut simple ne2000 -compatible pcmcia-ethernetcard, and its
automatically recognized at startup -
didn't even have to compile the driver into the kernel .
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM problems in Windows after Linux installed
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:43:29 +0100
Anthony Warren wrote:
> I have two hard drives under one IDE controller. Windows is on the
> Master controller with Linux on the Slave drive. My CD ROM is the on
> the Master of my other controller . Windows tells me that there are
> conflicts (but not very specifcally) with the controllers and my CD
> ROM has been erased from existence.
Maybe Windows is confused bacause it has lost a drive like D: which
previously was partition with fat and now is no longer recognized. Then
Windows might want to move the CDrom to become D:. Maybe it will be able
to find the CD again if you do a "add new hardware".
regards Henrik
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I access floppy drive and Sparq 1.0gb in Linux 5.2
Date: Sun, 07 Feb 1999 19:54:03 +0100
John Quinn wrote:
> I try to access the floppy with the following
> command
>
> mount /dev/fd0
> cd /mnt/floppy
Try
mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
cd /mnt/floppy
instead.
> Some one said to me that when you are finished with
> the floppy you have to unmount it, which I know nothing
> about.
Then you will have to type
umount /mnt/floppy
However, mounting and unmounting floppies are not necessary. Check the
manpage for mtools
man mtools
mdir a:
Those programs are enough as long as you are only going to copy some
files.
regards Henrik
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From: "Tom Emerson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking for HERCULES STINGRAY driver
Date: 10 Feb 1999 19:05:14 GMT
specifically, I'm looking for a way to enable the "tv-out" feature of this
card; has someone done this already, or do I need to do some research and
pound on their support department for a while? I suspect this will have to
be a "seperate program" as it probably isn't an "ordinary feature" of X
windows...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Fhurqaan Hamid)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adaptec CLONE ISA SCSI, RH5.2?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 06:56:00 +0800
Reply-To: fha@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Lewin A.R.W. Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>To do some development, I recently reformatted my home PC and installed
>RH5.2, and everything's fine except that I can't get my SCSI card to
>work. This is a problem since my Zip and CD-R drives are SCSI!
>
>This is an ISA SCSI card shipped with my CD-R drive, it is totally
>unbranded, and the chips have had their identification filed off :-(
>Win9x detects it as "Adaptec AHA150X/1510/152X/AIC6X60" but Red Hat
>doesn't want to know about it. It is at port 340h IRQ 10, which is not
>the factory setting but is necessary to avoid conflicts with other
>adapters in my system.
>
>Anyone been able to get a card of this type working with Linux? At least
>I want to be able to use my Zip drive, preferably also CD-R so I can
>back up all my source (and *big* dev tools downloads) when I move to
>America.
>
>I suspect that it's compatible with one of the Adaptecs explicitly
>supported in this Linux release, but I don't know where to find the
>header files (or whatever) needed to force the drivers to probe specific
>ports/IRQs.
>
>While I'm at it, will cdwrite work with drives that don't support DAO
>(which my Sony CDU-926S doesn't)?
use the command at boot prompt append="aha152x=0x340,10,<scsi id>,1"
or if you are using lilo put that line in lilo and rerun lilo and
reboot.
>
>--- Lewin A.R.W. Edwards <http://www.zws.com/>
>Realtime & Embedded HW/SW Engineer
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From: "Michael M Murphree" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.binaries.warez.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble Starting X with correct resolution POST2
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 13:46:15 -0500
If I understand correctly, what you refer to as the "black screen" is the
command line, from which you start Xwindows with the 'startx' command. Try
running 'Xconfigurator', which should leave you with several resolutions to
choose from in Xwindowing mode.
Michael
Quinn wrote in message <79pn2i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>actual components (as I get a locked black screen):
>
>Question: Is the black screen considered a virtual terminal?
>
>Several from the newsgroups suggested that I use xf86config to set
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From: "David A. Frantz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G200 Video Card install w/RH 5.1 (help)
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:12:17 -0500
Bob;
I can't supply all the steps but I can pass on the following.
You are right Xfree 3.3.3 is needed if you want to run the Xfree server.
While the upgrade to Redhat 5.2 may be worthwhile you will still have to
upgrade the Xfree supplied with it. It may be possiible that the newer
CDs from RedHat may have the latest version of Xfree, I don't know. My
CD dose not have 3.3.3 it is a recent improvement.
If you get your Xfree distributiion from RedHat it should be relatively easy
install. Some of the first servers available for the G200 took a bit of
effort to install properly. The important thing is to upgrade your Xfree
files then run a configurator program to set every thing up. It may be a
good idea to save reccord your current settings for your monitor.
Dave
Bob V wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi Linux folks,
>
>I am going to upgrade my existing PCI Diamond 3D 3000 card to the
> Matrox G200 ( AGP ). I have been hearing that I need to get Xfree
>3.3.3 installed
>in order to support this card. Can someone briefly list the steps
>involved as far
>as what I need to do to get Xfree86 3.3.3, the steps on configuring the
>new card
>using xconfigurator, and whether I need to execute some type of
>uninstall steps for
>the card I am removing. I currently have Red Hat 5.1. Would this be more
>straightforward if I just go out and buy Red Hat 5.2 and follow the
>upgrade steps?
>I am new to Linux and I don't want to break anything. I probably would
>have a
>hard time troubleshooting things if I got myself in trouble during this
>process.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Bob V
>
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From: Manfred Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Problems with SB64PCI
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:13:20 +0100
Stefan Abeln wrote:
> Hi,
> recently I bought the SB64PCI from Creative and it works fine under
> NT4.0 but so far I'm not able to get it to work under Linux. The system
> detects the card with the correct I/O-Port (6200) and IRQ (11) (cat
> /proc/pci) and the insmod sound-command does not fail but when I cat
> /dev/sndstat it tells me that there are no audio-devices etc.
> Has anyone out there experiences with this card?
> Thanks for any hints.
>
> Stefan Abeln
> ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
What drivers are you using?
SB64 PCI works fine with ALSA.
Gtnx
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From: Shashank Misra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilith Banshee 16MB AGP XF86 ?
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 17:10:09 -0800
Hello Mike,
While many other people are guilty of this too, I am about to take my
frustrations out on you.
Doesn't anyone ever *&#@$(*&#@ search dejanews for previous postings on
a question before posting to this newsgroup? There are like 10 'well,
does banshee work' questions every freaking day. Having responded to
this question (for like the sixth time) yesterday, I suggest you look at
the other banshee threads to see if you can't find enlightenment there.
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From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Number 9 GXE64pro
Date: 09 Feb 1999 11:45:31 -0500
d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox) writes:
> "The Satanic Network" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a Number 9 GXE64 Pro and I cannot seem to make it work with Xwindows
> > (redhat 5.2).
> > When I startx all I get is a blank screen and then I have to reboot the
> > machine to access it again.
> > Any suggestions.
>
> Install XFree86-S3?
Actually if you upgraded your system and have an LX motherboard (or possibly
any new motherboard, but the LX motherboard bit me), the #9 GXE64 Pro video
card is not compatible with the motherboard. When I upgraded my 90 Pentium Mhz
to a 233 Mhz Pentium-II, I used an LX motherboard, and discovered the problem.
I could not get either Windows nor XFree to work, but I could get Linux text
mode to work. When I asked around, I discovered it was a known problem (but
obviously I had not seen any hint of it before upgrading the system). I
finally went out and bought a Matrox Millenium-II video card.
Note, there are two drivers for the #9 card, the SVGA driver and the older S3.
As suggested by David Fox, you might try each one, to see if either will work.
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From: 1036-749 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS1869
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:34:38 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Brian Rutledge wrote:
> =
> I have an ess1869 sound card, and I'm wondering how to properly
> configure it with the 2.0.36 kernel. Any suggestions?
> =
> Brian
Hi Brian. I am Alex
I have an ess1869 too. My Kernel is 2.0.36 (Suse Distribition).
Try to use the OSS-driver (Open-Sound-System). This can you in internet
http://www.4Front-Tech.com/linux.html . =
You can download the free OSS release 3.7.1z =
of OSS for linux. It does support ESS1869 PnP =
OSS have recognize my ESS1869, but when i attempt to start it with
soundon,
then it =B4s kill my linux. I must done cold restart after that procedure=
=2E
I=B4m not sure, but i think the problem is my hardware.
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Red Hat 5.1 has PPP config utility?
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 20:08:08 GMT
Iron Balls McGinty wrote:
> I'm having one of helluva time getting dialup PPP setup!
>
> I've been trying to tweak the countless rc, init, inet, etc files by hand,
The Network Confifurat(or/ion) in RH X is quite easy to do. Hell, I did it!
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From: Mark Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Laptop Battery in Linux
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 1999 18:43:52 -0500
Hi,
You need to recompile you kernel with APM support. Then you need to install
a copy of apmd the kernel dameon that controls advanced power management.
Under redhat 5.2 you go to /usr/src/linux and type make menuconfig. Here
you need to pick the options that you want for the kernel. If you don't
know what to pick, use the help for each option. It is best to build most
things as modules since doing it any other way fattens up your kernel. so you
after configuring you kernel you need to type the falling in this order:
make zImage
make modules
make modules_install
make install
Then you enter the /etc/lilo.conf
matter of fact you probably just want to check ou the faq
Ahmed Abukmail wrote:
> Hello, I have yet another question to get my laptop configured with a real
> operating system (Linux). I would like to know how I can make it notify me
> of how much battery life is left on the laptop. I heared of something
> called APM. If you have any information, I would greatly appreciate any
> hints....
>
> Thanks
>
> Ahmed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jean Roux" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS SG86C201 Video card with Redhat 5.1: Not recognizing Video memory
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 22:12:09 +0200
Hi,
Redhat 5.1 on Intel 133 MHz and a SiS SG86C201 Video card does not work.
Although Xconfigurator does have this card listed, probing the card does not
recognise the amount of memory namely 1 meg, which causes it not to pick up
the clock speed of the card, which causes the devise not to work.
The way that the SiS onboard card actually works, is that it will get Video
RAM from the onboard, installed RAM via setup in the BIOS. However, Linux
does not pick up the fact that RAM have been allocated to the Video card,
thus causing it not to operate.
Any ideas?
Jean Roux - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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