Linux-Hardware Digest #498, Volume #9 Thu, 25 Feb 99 08:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: monitor refresh rates??? (Mark Paulus)
G200 AGP in redhat 5.0 ("AS")
Re: Installing Linux on Palmax PD 1000 (Leung Yau Wai)
Re: Writing and reading floppys ("Jock Mackenzie")
Re: Can't access new drive as hdb (Alan.J.Thackray)
Dell PowerEdge 1300 with RAID (Thomas Bendler)
Scanner ("Fortin Bruno")
Help 3c529 MCA Linux 2.2.1 ("Barry Titmarsh")
Re: Which HP DeskJet to buy/not to buy? - quick advice needed, please! (Clifford
Beshers)
Re: 3-button mouse
Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1? (Markus Grabner)
Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1? (Markus Grabner)
Help! Setting up bootp ("Ivan")
Re: Dumb (text) printer problem (Grant Taylor)
Re: 3-button mouse (Alois Huber)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) (Yair Paz)
Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?) (Michael Creasy)
How to make the LS-120 (internal) work on linux ? ("cranfan")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: monitor refresh rates???
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:07:10 GMT
It looks like your monitor can be a Super VGA type 8 or 9
(1024x768 @ 70, or 1280x1024 @ 60.
Your Horizontal Scan rates are 30-64,
and your Vertical is 50-100.
I got this info by doing a search on http://altavista.digital.com
for dx15f, and went to this page:
http://iclogic.com/Reference/mag/Mag%20dx15f.html
On Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:06:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Wilson) wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm trying to get xwindows configured properly. My problem is that I
> don't know my Horizontal and Vertical refresh rates. I've tried to locate
> the info on the manufacturers web site but I couldn't find it. I've
> emailed them asking for the info, but they haven't gotten back to me yet
> (yes I am impatient!:) I'm using a Mag Innovision DX15F. Anyone out
> there using this know the settings? Or can anyone suggest another place
> to look for the info?
>
>
> thanks a bunddle
>
> Matt wilson
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From: "AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: G200 AGP in redhat 5.0
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 16:23:59 +0100
Hello everyone!!
I wonder if there is a possibility to download a rpm for my graphic- card. I
have a matrox millenium G200 AGP
And if there is where could I download it, and whats the name of it???? I
hope that the X-window system work whth my card
Best regards
Anders from sweden
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leung Yau Wai)
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on Palmax PD 1000
Date: 23 Feb 1999 15:05:28 GMT
Michael Wack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) at Thu, 18 Feb 1999 20:50:32 +0100 wrote:
: Hi,
:
: does someone know if it is possible to install Linux on a PD 1000 ?
:
: thanks in advance
:
: cu Michael
Yes! Linux (RH5.2) is running on my Palmax PD-1000+...
including XWin (upgraded to 3.3.3.1) running at 640x486 hi color.
But still can't make it touch screen work!... (that mean no mouse)
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From: "Jock Mackenzie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writing and reading floppys
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:09:11 +1100
After you mount the floppy simply send the file(s) by the copy command to
the floppy drive eg. cp file /mnt/floppy or cp file /dev/floppy
Mlblum65 wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm have SuSe 5.3 installed on my machine. I've learned how to format and
mount
>floppy disks. But i can't find any information about reading and writing to
>floppys. I'm interested in saving files from Applixware to them. Am very
new to
>this system and it takes me days to figure out how to do something, so
please
>keep it simple.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan.J.Thackray)
Subject: Re: Can't access new drive as hdb
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:27:01 GMT
you have to create an empty directory on the existing disk and mount
the new disk there. The new disk then appears as this new directory.
All versions of unix work this way
You can edit these into the /etc/fstab file, so it is mounted at boot
up time.
cd /
mkdir diskb
mount -t ext2fs /dev/hdb1 /diskb
The new disk then appears as space in the /diskb directory
I think the above is right ( or nearly so )
It's all in the help pages. !
try
man mount
man fstab
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999 21:54:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Newbie question.
>
>I installed a second hard drive. Used fdisk to partition, used mkfs to
>create the file system. Everything worked great. Fdisk shows it as
>/dev/hdb1. I have also entered it in /etc/fstab and it shows up as /dev/hdb1
>on bootup.
>
>Question is, how do I get to it? I can't find any command in order to switch
>to it to start making directories. Have tried cd /dev/hdb1 - that doesn't
>work.
>
>I know it's probably simple but...
>
>Thanks in advance.
>--------
>Frank M.
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From: Thomas Bendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dell PowerEdge 1300 with RAID
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:38:39 +0100
Hi guys,
I get until end of the next week a Dell PowerEgde 1300 Server in the
following configuration:
400MHz, 128MB
3x9GB SCSI LVD
RAID PERC/2 Controller
I plan to use Linux on this maschine. After looking at the configuration
I see no problems except of using the RAID Controller. Searching several
databases help me to find out that the PERC/2 Controller is an Adaptec
7897. Looking up the Hardware-HOWTO offers me that this controller won't
support by Linux. After first disapointment I get the information in a
Newsgroup that RedHat sells a driver with support for the PERC/2
Controller. So is anybody out there who knows a little bit more about
this controller and the possibility to install Linux with this
controller. Maybe someone knows a Team who is actually developing a
driver for this board. My problem is I'm using Linux for a couple of
years but I never tried to develop a hardware driver myself. So please
give me informations on this board.
Regards Thomas
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From: "Fortin Bruno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Scanner
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 08:26:52 +0100
Je recherche d�sesp�r�m�nt de la documentation sur la mise en oeuvre du
scanner Relisys avec II S3 de chez T�co souS Linux. Merci de toute aide.
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From: "Barry Titmarsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help 3c529 MCA Linux 2.2.1
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 15:29:40 -0000
I need help to install MCA Network card to kernel 2.2.1 into an IBM m77i MCA
the IBM MCA bus bios see the card and remorts it. Linux boots see my fdomain
scsi but not the network card which is on IRQ9 Slot3 address 200H
Is this because the 3com MCA card are not yet supported in Linux 2.2.x
here is the dmesg out put.
Linux version 2.2.1 (root@ibmbox) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #6 Tue Feb 23
14:11:14 GMT 1999
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 33.18 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30708k/32768k available (1048k kernel code, 408k reserved, 572k
data, 32k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
CPU: Intel 486 DX/2 stepping 05
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Micro Channel bus detected.
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: G4KLX/GW4PTS AX.25 for Linux. Version 0.37 for Linux NET4.0
early initialization of device nr0 is deferred
early initialization of device nr1 is deferred
early initialization of device nr2 is deferred
early initialization of device nr3 is deferred
G4KLX NET/ROM for Linux. Version 0.7 for AX25.037 Linux 2.1
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
scsi0: <fdomain> No BIOS; using scsi id 7
scsi0: <fdomain> TMC-18C50 chip at 0x140 irq 5
scsi0 : Future Domain 16-bit SCSI Driver Version 5.50
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: IBM Model: DCAS-32160 Rev: S65A
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: MEDIAVIS Model: CDR-H93MV Rev: 1.41
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI cdrom 1 SCSI disk total.
sr0: disc change detected.
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.52
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 4226725 [2063 MB] [2.1 GB]
AX.25 ethernet driver version 0.01
3c59x.c:v0.99H 11/17/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 60476k swap-space (priority -1)
sr0: CDROM (ioctl) reports ILLEGAL REQUEST.
VFS: Disk change detected on device sr(11,0)
ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 1
ISOFS: changing to secondary root
end result is NO ethernet device is installed.
I see that l-2.2.1 supports ne2000-MCA in the menuconfig
will there be or is there being developed an MCA driver pack for 3com
ethernet/MCA Cards
Comments directly to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] or to comp.os.linux.hardware
Thanks Barry
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From: Clifford Beshers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Which HP DeskJet to buy/not to buy? - quick advice needed, please!
Date: 23 Feb 1999 10:35:31 -0500
Rob van der Putten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi there
>
>
> On Mon, 22 Feb 1999, A.G. wrote:
>
> > Thanx for *any* input!
>
> I just called HP this morning;
> Appearently the HP 710 and 720 are winprinters.
> The officejet printers have a buildin scanner, but the printer part
> should work as a normal HP printer.
>
>
> Regards,
> Rob
>
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>
I just bought an 895Cxi and it seems to work fine with the ghostscript
cdj driver. I haven't yet tried to install a driver that supports the
890, which seems to be the closest. Images printed from NT came out
better because the HP driver was doing some color balancing, so I
print from NT still when I want good color, but I hope to repair that
soon...
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of Computer Science
http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~beshers Columbia University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 3-button mouse
Date: 25 Feb 1999 11:04:47 GMT
Yeppers... at least, it can in RedHat. AFAIK, all Linux distros support
the IntelliMouse's wheel as a button.
- Mike
On Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:54:57 -0500, Legend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can scrolle-button mouse be used as 3-button mouse? You know, one of
>those internet mouse... I think it's called intelli mouse...
>
>
> thanx in advance
>
>
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From: Markus Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:26:06 +0100
Markus Grabner wrote:
> =
> Hi!
> =
> Does Linux 2.2.1 support the SoundBlaster PCI64 soundcard, and if
> yes, how do I have to configure this card (IRQ, DMA, IO, ...)?
> =
> Thanks in advance,
> Markus
> =
I received an important hint via email, so I post the answer myself:
*) the driver is called "Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)" (or ES1371, use the
procedure described in xconfig help to determine the type)
*) the following lines are required in /etc/conf.modules (this may be
inaccurate, I found it out with trial&error):
alias sound-service-0-3 es1370
alias sound-slot-0 es1370
alias sound-slot-1 es1370
Some standard KDE audio-tools (WAV-Player, CD-Player, Mixer) work fine,
and the MIDI-device (/dev/midi00) accepts input (though I can't test for
correctness, because currently no MIDI-hardware is connected to my
computer).
Ciao,
Markus
-- =
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K=F6r=F6sistra=DFe 166/VI/29
A-8010 Graz
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From: Markus Grabner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI64 and Linux 2.2.1?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:29:06 +0100
Markus Grabner wrote:
> =
> Hi!
> =
> Does Linux 2.2.1 support the SoundBlaster PCI64 soundcard, and if
> yes, how do I have to configure this card (IRQ, DMA, IO, ...)?
> =
> Thanks in advance,
> Markus
> =
I received an important hint via email, so I post the answer myself:
*) the driver is called "Ensoniq AudioPCI (ES1370)" (or ES1371, use the
procedure described in xconfig help to determine the type)
*) the following lines are required in /etc/conf.modules (this may be
inaccurate, I found it out with trial&error):
alias sound-service-0-3 es1370
alias sound-slot-0 es1370
alias sound-slot-1 es1370
Some standard KDE audio-tools (WAV-Player, CD-Player, Mixer) work fine,
and the MIDI-device (/dev/midi00) accepts input (though I can't test for
correctness, because currently no MIDI-hardware is connected to my
computer).
Ciao,
Markus
-- =
Markus Grabner
K=F6r=F6sistra=DFe 166/VI/29
A-8010 Graz
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From: "Ivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help! Setting up bootp
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:29:27 +0200
Please help - Setting up a Redhat 5.1 server with 5 terminals.
Server has 3Com 3C905 10/100 PCI NIC, terminals have
EtherEZ SMC8416BT with TCP/IP boot PROM.
Have read various mans & HOWTOs, and the dhcpd man page was the most
informative.
However, I would like someone who has done this before to help with any
expected pitfalls, incompatibility issues, examples of dhcp.conf, etc.
Can I use the same kernel as server for the terms, or should I use one of
the minimal kernels ? Should I keep a copy of the kernel in a separate
directory, or, if using server kernel, load from /boot ?
Any help or info will be most appreciated.
Regards,
Ivan
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dumb (text) printer problem
Date: 24 Feb 1999 23:54:09 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Brown) writes:
> This was solved by using "tunelp -w 500". Now I find that I've got
> to run this before most job. Is there a way to automate this? The
> system will primarily be used as a remote printer.
I bet that this setting is going away each time you stop using lp and
the lp device gets unloaded by kerneld.
Put "modprobe lp" in rc.local or somewhere like that so that the lp
device will stay loaded. Then run tunelp after that, and it should
stick.
Alternatively, you could mangle the lp.c module code to accept
arguments for the "w" delay time and put those in /etc/conf.modules.
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Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Alois Huber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3-button mouse
Date: 25 Feb 1999 11:36:40 GMT
Legend wrote:
> Can scrolle-button mouse be used as 3-button mouse? You know, one of
> those internet mouse... I think it's called intelli mouse...
>
> thanx in advance
Yes, should work.
I got a Logitech Mouseman and the wheel pressed workes as Button 3 using
the IntelliMouse Protocol.
You may configure it with XF86Setup.
Moreover moving the wheel up or down workes as Button 4 and Button 5, don't
know if it's already implemented in latest Linux Software. Anyone got
experience?
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From: Yair Paz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 11:46:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bugs Bunny wrote:
> you can overclock it it will run hotter and finally burn out like all chips
> that are over clocked it is a gamble
>
> do it aown risk
Bulls. some chips are meant to beoverclocked - the P2-300 for example,
in the last 6 months of it's manufacture, it was made with a P2-350 core
hard wired to be 300. you can easily un-wire it (OK , not so easily). or
the Celeron 300A which overclocks to 450 w/o a glitch just by changing
the FSB speed, or the K6-2 300 which can overclock to 375 w/o additional
cooling, or any P5 MMX chips which can usually be overclocked to about
20% more, if you have the right board, w/o needing for extra hardware
(coolants) or voltage tweeking. nowdays, you can even overclock
HardDisks.
Oded
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From: Michael Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.slackware,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Overclocking (was: Re: K6-2 and Linux, Are there any Bug?)
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:26:51 +0000
If this is the case can someone tell me why my K6-2 350 when overclocked
to 400 crashes linux on boot, it has a huge fan on it.
Michael
> Bulls. some chips are meant to beoverclocked - the P2-300 for example,
> in the last 6 months of it's manufacture, it was made with a P2-350 core
> hard wired to be 300. you can easily un-wire it (OK , not so easily). or
> the Celeron 300A which overclocks to 450 w/o a glitch just by changing
> the FSB speed, or the K6-2 300 which can overclock to 375 w/o additional
> cooling, or any P5 MMX chips which can usually be overclocked to about
> 20% more, if you have the right board, w/o needing for extra hardware
> (coolants) or voltage tweeking. nowdays, you can even overclock
> HardDisks.
> Oded
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From: "cranfan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to make the LS-120 (internal) work on linux ?
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 05:18:44 +0800
I'm new in linux... sorry to ask such silly question...
hope someonw can help.
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