Linux-Hardware Digest #559, Volume #9 Wed, 3 Mar 99 22:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: DVD-RAM Drive Panasonic LF-D101 (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: ATI XPERT Wierd Feature ("dooogh!")
Re: Is the are a TV tuner program that will work with linux? ("Jeff Volckaert")
Re: x window ("SuBTroNIc")
Re: ESS 1868 - Help! (Brian Miller)
Re: FIC Motherbard??? (David Kirkpatrick)
SCSI Devices ("F.Besserve")
Re: ENSONIQ PCI and LINUX ("Jeff Volckaert")
Re: One Linux "system" bootable on two different machines? (John Kenyon)
Problems with ESS1938 (Neville Dalal)
Re: sndconfig + SB32 PNP (Monte Milanuk)
Which graphics card for OpenGL? (Konrad Hinsen)
Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls flat)
(Walter van der Schee)
Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI video... (Greg H.)
Modem Question (Mike Barker)
Re: SCSI Devices (Markus Wandel)
Re: Maxtor 8.4 Gig Drive. (Stephen La Joie)
Re: Modem configuration problem, I've all tried, HELP!!!! (M. Buchenrieder)
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD-RAM Drive Panasonic LF-D101
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:40:15 +0100
Jason McKnight wrote:
>
> If you are using Linux then you are out of luck until a driver is written
> for it. If you are using Windows then you are posting in the wrong group.
>
> Wolfgang Balzer wrote:
>
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am the proud owner of a DVD-RAM drive as indicated in the subject
> > string. Does anyone has a clever idea how I can use it to write on
> > DVD-RAM disc. Up to now I just managed to use it like a CD-ROM drive,
> > but that is somehow boring.
It was mentioned in this group that such "drivers" already do exist.
Go to:
http://www.jaist.ac.jp/~sight95/linux/dvd-ram/dvd-ram-english.html
and report your succes, please. I'm really interested, I'd even like
to ask you to cc the story of your success to my own email.
Regards,
Artur Swietanowski
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From: "dooogh!" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI XPERT Wierd Feature
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 18:32:09 -0500
What motherboard do you use? I have FIC VA503+ Super 7 and can't get the
darned Ati Expert 98 to work. I had to build a new linux box running a bunch
of old parts. That one works just fine.
David Lapointe wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently installed an ATI XPERT 98 ( 8 Mb). It works fine except for
>two
>features/warts.
>
>The mouse cursor turns into a little barcode temporarily. This was cute
>at first
>but is annoying now. In X moving the cursor over the window bar removes
>this "feature". This happens at all resolutions ( 800x600 -> 1280x1024)
>@ 24 bits
>
>The other feature is that in Netscape 4.5 the backspace key and delete
>key have <delete under the cursor> behavior now, as does the GIMP file
>chooser window. Other windows ( emacs, xterm ,etc) behave correctly,
>
>This is puzzling to me. I have Xfree86 3.3.2, AfterStep. Is this a
>configuration problem?
>
>--
>.david
>
>David Lapointe
>
>"First things first, but not necessarily in that order" -Dr. Who
><Remove the NOISE for email>
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is the are a TV tuner program that will work with linux?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:55:01 -0500
There was alot of chatter a while back about ATI not releasing the specs for
the card. I think your out of luck.
I had my eye on the all-in-wonder but bought a hauppauge tuner card instead
and love it.
Jeff Volckaert
Zane The Insane wrote in message ...
>I have a ATI All-in-wonder video card, that has a tv tuner. I'm looking
for
>a program that will let me use this funcution of my video card in linux.
>
>
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From: "SuBTroNIc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x window
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:26:27 +1030
Im having the same bloody problem.
So if anyone can help, please do so.
Thanx
SuBTroNIc
hotmilk wrote in message <7bc1nf$j5j$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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From: Brian Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ESS 1868 - Help!
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 13:46:10 +1100
Jeremy Jancsary wrote:
>
> I want to install SuSE Linux 6.0 (Kernel 2.036). I don't know if my
> soundcard is supported (ESS 1868). I checked the HOWTO but it is not
> listed there. However, it is 100 % soundblaster compatible, so it should
> work I guess ...
>
> Does anyone know if it'll work/how to make it work?
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Jancsary
Jeremy,
Yes, it works.
Take a look at my web page on how I got it going on my system.
http://www.netspace.net.au/~bmiller/linux/ess1868.html
Brian
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From: David Kirkpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FIC Motherbard???
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:55:20 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what are you getting for error messages in /var/log/messages?
"dooogh!" wrote:
>
> Is anyone running Mandrake 5.3 on a FIC VA503+ w/100mhz sdram
> AMD K62-400, Ati Expert 98 8mb agp??? Windows 98 runs 100%
> Mandrake 5.3 running like poop. KDE running like poop too. Netscape starts
> to run and then i loose all the icons on the desktop.
>
> HELP!
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From: "F.Besserve" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Devices
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 15:21:32 +0100
Hello,
Could somebody tell me how to prevent the move forward of the name of a
device yet installed when I add another SCSI disk. My
problem is the following : I installed four SCSI disks (18Go) on a
Linux PC (RedHat 5.2, kernel 2.0.34), the devices name are
respectively /dev/sda1, /dev/sdb1, /dev/sdc1 and /dev/sdd1. The
boot is on /dev/sda1.
I connected one more SCSI disk and then this last device becomes
/dev/sda1 and all the others are move forward : sda1 becomes sdb1,
sdb1--->sdc1 and so on, and the server cannot boot (boot failure
message) because it try to boot on the new disk.
May be there is a solution to force the last disk installed to take the
last letter free and name it /dev/sde1 in my case ?
Many thanks in advance.
Francoise Besserve
Labo. de Meteorologie Physique,
63170 AUBIERE (France)
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ENSONIQ PCI and LINUX
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 08:52:59 -0500
I have the same card and did a fresh 5.2 install. It has built-in sndconfig
support for it.
Jeff Volckaert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
<7bieo6$6u3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Can anyone help me? I would like to get my Ensoniq PCI sound card working
in
>Linux. Here is my information:
>I am Running Redhat Linux 5.1 and using Window Maker.
>Do I have to recompile my Linux kernel?
>If so, is this risky and hard to do?
>I would really appreciate help with this;
>Thanks,
>-Michael
>
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From: John Kenyon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: One Linux "system" bootable on two different machines?
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:22:52 +0000
Norm Dresner wrote:
>
> I need to create a Jaz disk that can be booted to linux on two different
> machines with two different motherboards, video cards, ... The only
> constancy I can count on is that the SCSI Jaz drive will be the boot drive
> for both machines.
>
> I assume I can create two different kernels and choose which one to boot
> thru LILO -- an alternate would be to boot to DOS with a floppy which then
> uses the OS loader to load the right kernel. Has anyone done this before?
>
> As for the video, I need to run X-window on both computers. Can I reliably
> write a program which would look at the hardware and then copy/rename the
> right set of configuration and server files for the appropriate computer?
>
> Thanks for any hints, suggestions, etc.
>
> Norm
I would suggest using LILO to allow the choice between two different
kernels.
If your differing hardware requires a different kernel, then give
each kernel a different name (Edit /usr/src/linux/.name before
compilation)
Once the system boots use uname along with any neccessary grep/sed/awk
commands to extract the name of the currently executing kernel into a
shell variable.
Then use this variable in "if ... then" or "case" commands
to ensure that only the appropriate rc commands get executed.
Hope this helps
/John
Followups reset to avoid as this has little to do with X at the moment.
replies to NG please, .x. becomes x for mail.
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From: Neville Dalal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with ESS1938
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 00:37:38 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone configure the ES1938 to work under Linux 2.2.1, I get the
problem of two devices trying to share one IRQ of 5. Please email me
with any help or advice.
Thanks in advance.
Nev.
email - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Phone - +44(0)131-557-3610
Web - http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~nev/
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From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: sndconfig + SB32 PNP
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 18:40:46 -0600
Something to keep in mind, and it may vary from one distribution to
another, and _no_, I don't know how to check it, but you may have to
compile a kernel w/ sound support either as part of the kernel or as a
kernel module. I know it was not a default option when I compiled my
2.2.2 kernel.
Monte Milanuk
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From: Konrad Hinsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Which graphics card for OpenGL?
Date: 03 Mar 1999 15:26:11 +0100
We're planning to buy a few Linux machines soon, which will be used
mainly for software development and number crunching, but also for
visualization. All visualization programs use OpenGL, so we'd like
to get decent OpenGL performance, although it's not that important
that we want to spend $1000 on a high-end graphics card.
It seems that much is happening at the moment to improve OpenGL
performance under Linux, which makes it a bit difficult to decide what
to buy. We want to get mid-price graphics cards (around $200) which
can be used with Linux now and will give good OpenGL performance in
the near future.
Could anyone give some recommendations? I don't know much about the
relative performance of the various 3D chips, nor about the expected
performance from the drivers under development by Metro Link, Xi
Graphics, and others.
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From: Walter van der Schee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X munges the graphics card? (Re: Windows 2000 Rah! Rah! Session falls
flat)
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 15:51:56 +0100
Bluescreen O'Death wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Zenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Under Unix, if your video driver fails it will likely take down your
> > > X server with it, however it is almost impossible for it to panic
> > > the kernel. Infact, it's quite trivial to setup your X server to
> > > simply restart if it crashes LEAVING ALL RUNNING GUI APPLICATIONS
> > > UNAFFECTED. This is simply *impossible* to do under NT.
> >
> > Oh really? I have a Compaq box back in the UK that I'd like you to take a look
> > at. When X crashes on that (which it does regularly), it takes the graphics
> > card down with it. It won't go back into text mode. It won't switch graphics
> > modes. So restarting the X server is useless - it has to be big-red-switched.
>
> What kind of video card? Or failing that, what model Compaq?
>
> And what flavor Unix?
I had kind of the same problem, using Linux 2.1.something, and Xfree86
3.3.3.1
on a Cyrix 6x86 P150+ with a Riva 128. Then I came into some money, and
bought
a PII 400 using the same videocard, and the problem vanished.
If you're using Linux, recompile the kernel to include magic SysRq-key
hack,
if X crashes and doesn't allow you to switch VT's, tap Alt-SysRq+R to
switch the keyboard out of raw-mode, then try to switch VT's. If that
doesn't help,
tap the sequence Alt-SysRq-S (emergency disk-sync), Alt-SysRq-U
(emergency disk remount read-only (setting the clean-bit)), Alt-SysRq-B
(emergency reboot).
Walter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Pentium III Boycott and survey info
Date: 03 Mar 1999 09:30:00 -0500
Sergio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Im not really sure if this discussion will take you anywhere, after all
> if you have a net card you already have a component with unique identity
> (mac number) which can be used to track you with a simple "arp".
iff you're on the same local subnet, with no routers inbetween. not to
mention the mac address can be overriden easily enough. and the fact that
the millions of people who just dial up via ppp/slip don't even have an
ethernet card.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg H.)
Subject: Re: ATI video...
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 1999 02:07:45 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Will Linux work with an ATI XPert 98 video card? E-mail me if you can,
Yes. The Mach64 X server will run with it. I have the Xpert@Play 98,
which is basically the same card. It works with no problems.
Greg H.
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From: Mike Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Question
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 09:48:25 -0400
Hello,
I've just gotten started with Redhat 5.2. I have it set up to
dual-boot: Linux and Win98.
My trouble is that my (crummy) LT Winmodem is no longer working
in Win98 when I boot to it. I know that my (crummy) LT Winmodem is
unsupported in Linux. But I'm not trying to use it in Linux.
Might simply having LILO installed be fouling things up?
Does anyone have experience with this?
Yours
Mike Barker
======================================
J.M. Barker, Ph.D.
Dept of Philosophy
Florida State University
850-644-5868
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: SCSI Devices
Date: 3 Mar 1999 14:40:07 GMT
In article <7bjjof$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
F.Besserve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>May be there is a solution to force the last disk installed to take the
>last letter free and name it /dev/sde1 in my case ?
Maybe this is the dumb answer, but have you set the SCSI IDs so that the
new disk has a higher one than the others?
Markus
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From: Stephen La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Maxtor 8.4 Gig Drive.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 14:11:37 GMT
Allen wrote:
> The software that comes with the drive is going tocause you much more grief down
> the road , even under windows 9x, and I would recomend losing it in a hurry.
Yeah. The instructions that came with the drive said that EZ-Drive wouldn't
beinstalled if my BIOS didn't need it. I disabled it, and was able to read my drive
just fine with my BIOS set to LBA mode for this drive. Then I removed EZ-Drive.
Now DOS fdisk works, so I can set my dos partitions the way I want them.
The software that came with the disk made the whole thing DOS, want it or
not.
> you will be much better off in the long run upgrading your OS's to later
> versions, (If this isn't at least win95b with native FAT32 support, go to win98,
Why? Isn't Win 98 incompatiable with SAMBA?
> and get the cheapbytes RH 5.2)
What do I get for my five bucks with RH 5.2?
> I say this because I have already had many
> problems with other customer's win'9x machines that had a 3rd party kludge like
> the MaxBlast
MaxBlast (thumbs down...)
> that get to be real headaches and cause data corruption in some
> cases and in some combinations of things like busmastering driver support, and
> the like, and I did install 5.2 on the same model drive this weekend 4 times.
> (3 re-installs)--I guess I needed the practice... Not because any of my
> hardware wouldn't work, but 'cause I'm very new to Linux, and when I get myself
> into a situation that I can't get out of, then it was much easier to reboot and
> do over from scratch...
>
> On Tue, 2 Mar 1999 15:14:29 GMT, Stephen La Joie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >I got this Maxtor 8.4 gig drive so I could run linux and Win95 from the
> >same disk.
> >I've done this before.
> >
> >The Maxtor drive came with floppy to partition the drive. I could not
> >use the
> >Dos fdisk to partition the drive. I created dos partitions using the
> >program
> >on the Maxtor floppy disk. I figured I could delete two of the dos
> >partitions
> >to make room for my linux partitions. The Maxtor program installed this
> >EZ-Drive, which plays silly numbers games with the sectors, heads, and
> >cylinders.
> >
> >Okay, so the Linux fdisk can't read the partitions. It see the small
> >boot
> >partion I made for windows (the first 150 Megs) but the 2nd, 3rd, 4th
> >and 5th partitions are all one big partition that happens after that.
> >
> >I read the Large Disk Mini HOWTO. Like most other Linux Howtos,
> >it doesn't say squat about "how to", but I am now fully informed as to
> >what's
> >going on and can almost write my own replacement for the BIOS int 13
> >for Win 95 and fdisk program. What the HOWTO seems to say, is that
> >the Linux fdisk is suppose to be able to figure out that EZ-drive is
> >installed,
> >and that I have no problem.
> >
> >I'm using the Red Hat 5.0 distribution from Cheap Bytes. (I bought the
> >Red Hat 4.2 distribution from Red Hat, but needed an updated video
> >driver that was found in Red Hat 5.0.)
> >
> >So, can anyone tell me "how to" partition my Maxtor 8.4 gig drive
> >so I can boot with LILO to get half Windows 95, and Half Linux?
> >I'm almost tempted to make the whole Maxtor drive Linux, and put
> >my old hard disk back in. But I promised my old hard disk to my
> >son as an upgrade. We have plenty of disk space on the network,
> >but he finds the network too slow. (10BaseT). I may upgrade the
> >network to 100BaseTX in late spring.
>
> Allen
>
> (email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
> onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
> fight spam everywhere!!!
>
>
> The irony is that Bill Gates claims to making a
> stable operating system and
> Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
>
> Linux; The Official OS of the New Millennium
>
> http://www.linuxlink.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Modem configuration problem, I've all tried, HELP!!!!
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 12:48:05 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen) writes:
Allen, your followups seem to be messed up .
>I read your followup message too, and I think you have a softmodem. Reason
>being, you say win9x reports it is a 16550 UART, and you can change the
>resources from within windows, but you can't even ID the uart in linux.
Reasonable assumption.
[...]
Note: I have manually added the missing ">" signs in the quoted
parts below.
>>So, I have a PCTel Inc. modem (intern) on COM4 (under Win95) :
>> COM4 : port adress : 2e8
>> irq : 3
>>Under Linux, I have configured my /etc/inittab file, I added this:
>>s4:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS3 38400 vt100
[...]
Uh. I wouldn't recommend using the standard "getty" for a modem line
anymore. Use mgetty instead.
>>too (2e8) but the UART is unknow, so I type :
>>setserial -b /dev/ttyS3 UART 16550A (my UART under Windows)
>>I think I don't forget any step... but it still not work...
>>Every five minuts, I can read on the screen :
>>INIT : Id "s4" respawning too fast : disabled for 5 minutes
>>What is the signification of this ? If setserial -a /dev/ttyS3 give me the
>>good irq, the good port adress etc., why doesn't the modem work ?
"setserial" doesn't actually do anything to the device itself.
You're basically using a program that tells the Linux kernel about
the device's settings (it is sort of an ugly hack). , but if you
are telling it incorrect things, then the results are unpredictable.
The "respawning too fast" error means that the getty program
couldn't be started successfully, therefor the process respawned
and respawned and respawned...
>>This isn't a P'n'P modem because I can change irq and port adress under
>>Windows...
This makes it either a PNP modem (try using the isapnptools first)
or a winmodem. If it is a winmodem, you're stuck.
>(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
>onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
>fight spam everywhere!!!
No. Definitely not that way.
Please cut down your .sig , Allen.
Michael
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