Linux-Hardware Digest #422, Volume #9 Sat, 13 Feb 99 20:13:59 EST
Contents:
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Jose Urena)
ATI VGA Wonder Busmouse and RedHat 5.2 (CdtDelta)
Re: Linux on antry level PCs (Marco La Cascia)
help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ("Jacob Moos")
Re: 56k modems. (Jose Urena)
Full duplex soundcard? (Tobias Wahlstr�m)
FS:Linux Compatable Video Card-S3 (dlewis)
ADSL and Linux (David Clark)
Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36 (Andrew Heckerling)
USRobotics Modem ("John E. Hagensieker")
Re: Help!!! Problems with my Acer Extensa 500T notebook (video, audio and modem)
(Thomas Jespersen)
Re: 56k modems. (Doug)
For Sale DEC Alpha PC164 500MHz System ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
For Sale DEC Alpha PC164 500MHz System ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
STYLUS 850 (Denis PATRAT)
Ensoniq soundcard problem ("Mark Smith")
restoring ext2 partition (Renato Lukac)
Hardware choices for good Linux performance. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1 ("synthetic")
Re: EPSON Stylus Color 740 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can't see Modem ("Mark Smith")
Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup... (John)
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:07:26 -0500
when you are ready, upgrade to Linux 2.2.1
it has better Large disk support
in the mean time,
change your /etc/lilo.conf by adding
append="hda=C,H,S"
replace, C,H,S with the proper physical number for cylinders,heads,sectors
from the label on the Harddrive itself
do not use the information reported by the bios when LBA is active. Those
numbers are translated numbers, very few harddisk have 255 physical heads,
the head count tends to be around 16.
after saving the /etc/lilo.conf, remember to run lilo to upgrade the boot
info
Raphael Clifford wrote:
> I am having difficulty using my large IDE to its capacity. It is
> correctly recognised as follows at boot up:
>
> hda: Maxtor 91296D6, 12360MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
>
> I am running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I can't seem to find any
> way of persuading the system that the drive is greater than 8 GB. For
> example fdisk shows
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda2 3 1012 8112825 83 Linux native
> /dev/hda3 1013 1024 96390 82 Linux swap
>
> which seems to imply that the whole drive is used up !!
>
> Help!
>
> Raphael
> P.S. I read the a HOWTO that said that there was a problem before 2.0.34
> but I'm using 36.
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From: CdtDelta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI VGA Wonder Busmouse and RedHat 5.2
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 15:58:48 GMT
I hope someone can help me with this, I've been pulling my hair out trying to
get this to work (which is saving me money on haircuts).
I have an old 486 machine that I've installed Linux on with no problems. I'm
now trying to get XWindows configured, and I am having problems with my ATI
Busmouse.
I've gone through the mouseconfig, xf86config, and Xconfigurator without
success. Basically what happens is I startx, the screen comes up no problem
(I'm not having any problems with the video card itself), but I can't move
the mouse pointer at all. I did a cat /proc/interrupts, and tried playing
around with the IRQ settings from DOS. I now have the mouse IRQ on the card
set to IRQ 5, /proc/interrupts isn't showing any conflicts. I've also tried
using different mouse configuration in mouseconfig to no avail. And I've
also recompiled the kernel, and only selected the busmouse option in make
config. One thing I've noticed is when I boot up the machine, it detects the
ATI Busmouse, but it also detects a Microsoft InPort mouse. I can't figure
out where it's getting that from, and I'm thinking that may be the problem.
If anyone can help I'd appreciate it. If you need any output from my machine,
just let me know.
We crucify ourselves between two thieves:
regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.
Fulton Oursler (1893-1952)
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From: Marco La Cascia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on antry level PCs
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:11:48 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I feel Compaq is best suitable for your requirement. Compaq is the No.1 PC
> manafacturing company in the world. Its cheeper and more stable compare to
> any other systems on any OS. On Linux I feel it is the best system to have.
I was talking about PC in the $500-700 range. Is there any Compaq PC
that sells for that price?
-- Marco
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From: "Jacob Moos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:14:38 +0100
how do i get a pinnacle micro reo-6500 (optical judbox) to work under redhat
Thanks Jacob Moos
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From: Jose Urena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modems.
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 11:14:38 -0500
I have the Zoom 2919 ISA w/Rockwell Chipset
dissabled PnP, works great
Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Can some one recomend a "hassle free" LINUX compatable 56K modem.
> Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tobias Wahlstr�m)
Subject: Full duplex soundcard?
Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:14:26 GMT
Hello!
I am looking for a full duplex soundcard for which there is a linux
device driver. If anyone know any (or where to find out) please
tell me!
/Tobias Wahlstr�m ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: dlewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,alt.ads.forsale,alt.comp.linux.isp,alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: FS:Linux Compatable Video Card-S3
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 17:14:12 -0600
Linux Compatible Video Card-S3 chip. See www.execpc.com\~dlewis for
more info.
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From: David Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ADSL and Linux
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 10:24:06 -0600
I'm looking into getting set-up with ADSL for my connection,
but no one seems to be able to tell me if it will work with
Linux. The rep at Soutwestern Bell keeps referring to Linux
as a "card" that should still work. After numerous attempts
to explain that it is an OS, he thinks I am running UNIX...
So has anyone out there set-up their Linux box with ADSL
successfully? If so, which DSL modem do you have? Any
problems with it? Thanks in advance...
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From: Andrew Heckerling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive problem with 2.0.36
Date: 12 Feb 1999 16:48:06 GMT
Raphael,
I have a similar Maxtor hard drive, and I had the same problem you did
partitioning it. At least in my case, it turned out that the kernel
really did know the correct capacity. As I understand things, the ide
driver in 2.0.36 will use the LBA capacity of the drive if the drive is
too large to be addressed with the geometry which it gets from the BIOS.
So your problem probably isn't the capacity that the kernel is using to
talk to the drive, but rather the capacity given to fdisk. In many cases,
the kernel will get the fdisk geometry from the BIOS, and that will not
be more than 8 GB.
I solved this problem simply by using the expert mode in fdisk to set the
number of cylinders to the correct number, which will be > 1024. You may
want to sit down with a calculator to make sure you have the right number
of cylinders; it should be the number of LBA sectors (which you can get
from hdparm -i /dev/whatever) divided by (255*63), rounded down. I think
you can probably use the other solution suggested, which is to pass
the translated geometry to the kernel. I don't know if there are other
consequences to this, which is why I chose to simply change the cylinder
count in fdisk. If you do it this way, you will be warned every time you
start fdisk that a partition has different physical and logical endings,
but the warning will go away once you reset the cylinder count, and it
won't have any effect on normal access to the hard drive.
Raphael Clifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I am having difficulty using my large IDE to its capacity. It is
: correctly recognised as follows at boot up:
: hda: Maxtor 91296D6, 12360MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
: I am running Redhat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36. I can't seem to find any
: way of persuading the system that the drive is greater than 8 GB. For
: example fdisk shows
: Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1024 cylinders
: Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
: Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
: /dev/hda1 1 2 16033+ 83 Linux native
: /dev/hda2 3 1012 8112825 83 Linux native
: /dev/hda3 1013 1024 96390 82 Linux swap
: which seems to imply that the whole drive is used up !!
: Help!
: Raphael
: P.S. I read the a HOWTO that said that there was a problem before 2.0.34
: but I'm using 36.
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From: "John E. Hagensieker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USRobotics Modem
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 09:03:58 +0900
Just installed Red Hat 5.2. Have an internal 56K USRobotics modem and have
it installed to the "Com3" port. When I query the modem with an AT command
in minicom it takes about 15 seconds to respond with the modem string. It
comes back at me with just a couple charachters and it takes a while.
I can dial out and connect to my ISP but the login prompt comes in just a
few charachters at a time also. Normal login can take minutes instead of
seconds.
Would appreciate some help....If I get this figured out Windows will be that
much closer to being gone.
John
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From: Thomas Jespersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.rpm
Subject: Re: Help!!! Problems with my Acer Extensa 500T notebook (video, audio and
modem)
Date: 14 Feb 1999 01:29:34 +0100
"Davide Pierattoni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an Acer/TI Extensa 500T notebook, equipped with a NeoMagic Magic
> Graph ZV+ PCI video card, which is not supported from the XFree86 3.3.2-8
> server provided from RedHat Linux 5.1. I'd like to have some support from
> anybody who knows something more about the existence of better X servers
> (better means more useful for my applications!).
XFree86 3.3.3 supports Neomagic, you can get updated RPMs at:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/updates/5.1/i386/
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From: Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 56k modems.
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:32:20 +0000
Zoom 2949 external. Best I have tried out of 6 modems. Or a external US
Robotics.
Zoom was 84.00 dollars dual mode 56K V90 and Flex
Jonathan Adams wrote:
> Can some one recomend a "hassle free" LINUX compatable 56K modem.
> Thanks!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: For Sale DEC Alpha PC164 500MHz System
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:25:22 GMT
On eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66840430
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: For Sale DEC Alpha PC164 500MHz System
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:25:15 GMT
On eBay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=66840430
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From: Denis PATRAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: STYLUS 850
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:18:03 +0100
I'm looking for a printerdriver for stylus 850. Does anybody know where
I can find that.
Thankful for help
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Ensoniq soundcard problem
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:40:30 -0500
Anyone out there able to get Red Hat 5.2 to recognize your Ensonic Audio PCI
card? Even though there are no specific drivers to support this (it IS
Soundblaster compatible) the kernel doesn't even recognize a sound device at
boot-time.
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From: Renato Lukac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.development.system,alt.os.linux,alt.linux
Subject: restoring ext2 partition
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 01:31:47 +0100
hi,
Is it possible to restore an ext2 partition?
I accidently did an mke2fs on the *wrong* partition. /dev/hdd (only
hdd1).
Thanks,!
Regards, Renato
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hardware choices for good Linux performance.
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 00:45:13 GMT
I am planning to assemble a new PC from individual components and I want it to
work well with Linux. Are there any books or other sources that can help
me make good choices in this?
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From: "synthetic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:01:09 -0500
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: EPSON Stylus Color 740
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 1999 17:47:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I bought that printer and I'm still unable to make it work under Linux.
> (I hope it's not a "Window only"
> printer...).
>
> Does anyone have that printer working with Linux ? I would really like
> some help...
>
First off, I had Linux printing with an old dot matrix printer, so I had
already crossed the bridge that others I see (searching "epson 740" in
comp.os.linux.hardware) haven't.
Second, the search pointed me to pages about setting up other Epson printers
under Ghostscript, including the Uniprint driver.
Third, the 740 will print with the uniprint file for the ESC 800, but it is
washed out and has blank bands. It won't print with the file for the ESC 600,
but prefers to shoot paper, instead. Further searching found someone else
who had doctored up a uniprint file for the ESC 740, but I'll say that it's
basically a slightly doctored version of the ESC 500 file.
Fourth, in price, speed, and function the 740 is in between the 640 and the
850. Specifically, the 640 has 32 nozzles per color and the 850 has 64. The
740 has 48 nozzles per color. With this information, I think it is possible
to start from ESC 600 and ESC 800 uniprint files and build uniprint files
to give the 740 its full capability. But the whole weaving thing seems to
be rather empirical, so it's going to take some time and grunting to figure
out.
Dale Pontius
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From: "Mark Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't see Modem
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:46:41 -0500
I didn't see the previous replies but I can tell you I had the same problem,
an it was because my system BIOS was set for "Auto" configuration on
the serial ports. When I specifically set COM1 to 3F8/4 and
COM2 to 2F8/3 it worked just fine.
Jonathan Adams wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>JimQ wrote:
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I just installed RedHat 5.2. Everything is running fine, expect, I
>> can't see my
>> modem. When I try to connect (PPP) I don't see anything happening on
>> modem.
>> How can I check my com ports? How can I check my modem. The modem and
>> com
>> ports work just fine when I boot 95 or NT. Any help would be
>> appreciated.
>>
>> Thx --- JIMQ
> In addition to the excelent advice you have been getting try this ;
>As root run 'modemtool' this allows you to tell the system which device
>your modem is. Usually /dev/cua1. You can then use 'netconfig' to
>configure a ppp interface.
> That's how I did it.
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: U.S Robotics 56K modem setup...
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:38:43 GMT
I was able to disable PnP on my USR internal 33.6 by setting the jumpers on it
to use the irq and i/o that I wanted it to. FWIW
In article <q5tw2.2621$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roundeye) wrote:
> Ed Jones ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : Hi, I purchase a robotics ISA internal 56k modem. I could not get it to
> : work, probably because of its plug and play behavior..
> : I traded it in on an external robotics 56k dualmode modem and it worked
> : without a hitch.
> : Lesson here is if you are not sure about the modem.. get an external
> : modem for linux.
>
> I second that emotion. I had a "comes standard with the HP" nameless 56k
> internal modem which was giving me big-time linux headaches. I thought "hey
> what the heck am I doing?" and pulled out an old USR33.6 external: perfect.
> Ended up moving up to a no-name 56k external which comes up to its proper
> speed under the 2.2.1 kernel (don't know why it didn't before).
>
> Rick
>
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