Linux-Hardware Digest #31, Volume #10 Thu, 15 Apr 99 07:13:27 EDT
Contents:
Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ?? ("James Kosin")
ELKS-- Does anybody have any experience with it? Can the people who do supply ideas?
("Gregg Levine")
Re: need reccs for new motherboard and ultra wide scsi HW for Linux (Michael
Meissner)
Re: Large drive with old BIOS (Doug McKinnon)
Re: Help!! High packet collisions!! (Randy Sandberg)
Microtek ScanMaker 35t+ (henk van der knaap)
Re: TNT in Linux? ("4Season")
SCSI (Termination?) Problem (ingo assenmacher)
Re: DFE-500TX network card drivers (LiandPat)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Jerry)
Re: Linux, here I come... (John Thompson)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Osvaldo
Pinali Doederlein")
Re: 3com / US robotics 56K (Armando Ortiz)
AVer TV 98 or ASKEY TView 99 under Linux (Disnel)
Re: video, X for Dell Latitude Cpi D233ST (Marc Mutz)
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Pci64 unsupported ??
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:13:54 -0400
Dear Rob v.d. Meer,
Its supported in RedHat 5.2 and kernel 2.0.36 and later.
I haven't figured out how to get Xwindows setup to do sounds like Windows
95/98 yet. I am able to play the .au files and stuff like that.
Thanks,
James Kosin
Rob v.d. Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7f2qdo$k5m$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hya,
>
> I've just bought an Creative Pci64 soundcard (The Ensoniq clone) but Linux
> doesn't seem to recognize him.. At bootup it tells: Unknown device at PCI
> adres 1237:1381 and the it does not install the sounddriver configured
> in sndconfig.. The HOWTO of the AWE64 doesn't get me any further either
caus
> the AWE is an ISA card..
>
> I'm running Redhat 5.0 with kernel 2.0.33... Anyone can help ??
>
> Thnx in advance, Rob
>
> ---
> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> The Young Technicians Delft
> Faculty of Electrical Engineering
> University of Technoligy Delft.
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From: "Gregg Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ELKS-- Does anybody have any experience with it? Can the people who do supply
ideas?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:15:25 -0400
Hello from Gregg Levine usually at Jedi Knight Computers
Does anybody here, have any experience with the ELKS version of Linux? I am
in the process of creating a system that will use this version of Linux for
collecting data for re-transmission using a proprietary interface. Feel free
to write back, either here, or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gregg Levine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time, naturally they became
heroes."
Princess Leia Organa of Alderaan, Senator
This signature supports the Rebel Alliance to Restore the Republic
"Remember, the Force will be with you, always."
General Obi-Wan Kenobi, Jedi Knight (retired)
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: need reccs for new motherboard and ultra wide scsi HW for Linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Apr 1999 00:11:51 -0400
Earl Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Time has come to replace my old ASUS motherboard.
> I loved this board, had onboard SCSI support and
> Linux came up on it with no problem.
>
> Now I need some new reccommendations from guys who are running
> Linux with ultra wide SCSI support. What motherboards
> and/or SCSI controllers are you using? What's the most
> popular ASUS board now? Or is Intel better? Who was able to bring
> up Linux with little or no problems on their hardware?
I'm using an Intel L440GX+ server motherboard with dual Pentium-III's. It has
a builtin AIC-7896 (two channels, one U2W, one UW), builtin video (which
automatically disables if you install a PCI video card), and builtin EtherPro
network connection. I had no problems bringing up RedHat 5.2 Linux on it, and
then installing 2.2.5 of the kernel. Windows (both 98 and NT) on the other
hand, I could not get to install. Note, since this is a server motherboard it
does not have an AGP slot, but does have two PCI/66 slots, 4 PCI/33 slots (one
slot can also hold the Adaptec Raid controller) and 1 ISA slot (1 shared slot I
think).
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
174 Littleton Road #3-198
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Doug McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Large drive with old BIOS
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 03:01:13 -0400
Go to
http://mrbios.com/
Get yourself a new bios chip. Did the same thing for my Pentium, and it
works fine. MR BIOS was no problem for me...
Doug
Paul Mc Kenna wrote:
>
> I am trying to install linux on an old 486 with a 6.4 gig WesterDigital
> hard drive. The problem is the BIOS only supports up to 528megs. Under
> Win95, I would just use EZ drive to get around the problem but the terse
> documentation with the drive says that EZ drive is not compitalble with
> linux. They recommend setting the BIOS to 1023,33,63(I think) and then
> setting up the correct settings for the drive from within the linux
> startup. Problem is the install program can not find the hard drive
> (RedHat5.2). After the first attempt, A few files were actually written
> to the C: drive and I could get a C; prompt and run a startup file which
> had been copied there. But now I can't even do that. Any suggestions?
>
> Paul
>
> --
>
> "In order to lead
> the orchestra, you
> have to turn your
> back to the crowd"
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From: Randy Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Help!! High packet collisions!!
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:55:29 -0700
Almer. S. Tigelaar. wrote:
>
> Hai,
>
> RealTek 8029 clones work fine with me! I have the same Setup as you.
> It's recommended to set both Full Duplex and Flow Control to 'Enabled' with
> the rset8029 util
> (Simply put in a dos boot disk and then the driver disk and run
> rset8029.exe)
>
> Also it's best to use the ne2k-pci kernel module. (i don't know if you are
> using ne or ne2k-pci...)
>
> If that does not help then your HUB is most likely the problem. not the
> cards.
> I use a compex 8-port 10mbit hub.
>
> Almer. S. Tigelaar.
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ahhhhhh...Never, Never, connect to a "hub" in a Full-Duplex mode. All
you'll get are lots of collisions. Hubs only work at Half-Duplex. Only
layer 2 and above switches can be connected to via Full-Duplex. If one
device has Full-Duplex on and the other has it off...BAD NEWS!!! All
you'll get are lots of collisions. Half-Duplex is ALWAYS used to connect
to a standard hub at 10Mb or 100Mb.
--
Randy Sandberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Understanding is always the understanding of a smaller problem
in relation to a bigger problem. -- P.D. Ouspensky
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Microtek ScanMaker 35t+
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:02:36 +1200
Dear Readers,
I have been trying to use the Microtek Scanmaker 35 plus under Linux with
the Sane software package. It does work under Windows on the same machine.
My Microtek Scanmaker II works without any problems whatsoever, when I use
scanimage or xscanimage with Gimp.
The kernel reports the following when booting up:
*************************************************************************
aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s) aha152x0: vital data:
PORTBASE=0x140, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7, reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled,
synchronous=disabled, delay=100, extended translation=disabled aha152x:
trying software interrupt, ok. scsi0 : Adaptec 152x SCSI driver;
$Revision: 1.7 $ scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: Microtek Model: ScanMaker 35t+ Rev: 1.40
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 01 CCS
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,PS2]
parport0: no IEEE-1284 device present.
*************************************************************************
find-scanner gives the following message:
**************************************************************************
find-scanner: searching for scanners:
find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... open ok
find-scanner: found scanner "Microtek ScanMaker 35t+ 1.40" at device
/dev/scanner
find-scanner: checking /dev/sg0... open ok
find-scanner: found scanner "Microtek ScanMaker 35t+ 1.40" at device /dev/sg0
******************************************************************************
This means that the scanner is present and somehow recognised.
However scanimage gives the following error message:
*****************************************************************************
scanimage -d microtek /dev/scanner
Scanimage: open of device microtek failed: Invalid argument.
******************************************************************************
Does anybody have any idea what is going on here, or what I am doing
wrong? Is there anybody who has had the same experience? Should I maybe
change the SCSCI ID?
Any help would be much appreciated. Also many thanks to the people who
answered my query about laser printers.
Many thanks from
Henk
Henk van der Knaap,
92 Halswell Junction Road,
Christchurch, New Zealand.
Phone/fax 64 3 3229185
Operating system is Linux Debian 2.1
===================================================
My e-mail address is as follows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "4Season" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TNT in Linux?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 23:16:52 -0600
I downloaded XFree86 3.3.3-1.1 and installed in Red Hat Linux 5.2, and my
Asus V3400TNT works okay, but at at 1024 x 765 (?) it doesn't quite fill the
entire screen area as it does under Windows98, at the same res. Also, I
found that XConfigurator had to be upgraded as well.
XDM wasn't working for me under 3.3.3-1.1, however--it'd accept the
password, the screen would blank for a sec, glitch, then return me to the
login screen. Dunno yet if one of the other updates has already fixed this:
I was going back to test when my AppleVision 1710AV monitor died, and it
probably won't be 'till Saturday when I can replace the burnt parts (just a
cap and resistor, fortunately).
Jeff
Arno Roefs wrote in message <7evufv$bb8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Does anyone know if Linux is gonna support Riva TNT in the near future?
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From: ingo assenmacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI (Termination?) Problem
Date: Fri, 09 Apr 1999 12:19:34 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi out there!
I am currently running Linux 2.0.36 (SuSe 6.0/slackware) distribution
together with an NCR-SCSI HD/CDROM.
I have recently had several BAD BAD crashes due to either "gpf"s or
"wrong page requestests".
This is usually a crash like: flashing display, nothing works anymore,
only way: complete reboot.
since these crashes showed up randomly I sought the solution to this
within faulty hardware.
What I have noticed is:
whenever my external peripherals (iomega-zip and mustek scanner) were
switched off, there was no crash. since I am aware of "bad termination
on scsi-bus can lead to strange failures" I guessed that there is
something going on with the termination of switched off peripherals
(sorry, I am NO expert on this field).
my solution as far is that I turn on all external peripherals... since
then no crash happens.
but, and that is my real problem, at my working place I am using a
Linux6.0/slackware box with ncr-scsi, too. there are however NO external
peripherals and this ncr controller claims to have "automatic
termination" (?). since there, too, random crashes appear every one or
two hours, I guess that there is something wrong with termination, too.
so, after this very long introduction, her are some short questions:
since I am not an expert on termination (or other e-tech kind of
things), is there an easy way to check if termination is correcty set?
can there be any connection to using a scsi-bios (since my
motherboard-handbook hinted at special bioses for scsi-support)?
would somthing like an external termination-only plug help?
thank you very much for your help.
regards, ingo.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (LiandPat)
Subject: Re: DFE-500TX network card drivers
Date: 15 Apr 1999 06:08:30 GMT
>Has anyone got a driver for the D-Link DFE-500TX network card
>
>Thanks
>
Try
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip.html
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From: Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 10:10:54 -0100
Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
>
> Jerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I think this is one of the stupidist threads I have ever seen. Why are
> > Linux/UNIX filesystems case-sensitive - because humans are case
> > sensitive thats why.
>
> This is a completely INCORRECT thing to state. Case has not been an issue
> for thousands of years in written language, and it's still inexistent in
> spoken language. I think it's still inexistent in lots of language using
> different characters than ours. Communication problems due to wrong case
> will not happen in ANY media except computers! You may be some borg droid
> who prefers to tailor humanity to computers, but most people ain't that
> fanatic and prefer the other way around... particularly nontechnical users.
>
> Let's imagine Jerry in his home speaking to somebody "could you please gimme
> a can of Coke-with-capital-C??" because if you don't make the case explicit,
> one can assume all-lowercase by default and find only "Coke" in the freezer
> and say "Sorry Jerry-with-capital-J, there is no coke". Totally stupid
> scenario, eh? And enforcing case sensitivity in filesystems or programming
> languages is also stupid. Yeah, humans are case sensitive, pff...
OK - so you find the following sentance easy to read then ? You are one
of the very few...
>
> > If you don't beleive it tHEn pResUmAbLy YoU fiNd tHIs seNtanCe JusT As
> > eAsY tO ReaD as The ResT Of tHIs eMaIl - wHat IdiOt woUld dISpuTe iT ?
>
> I always use consistent and beautiful case, but this is a matter of style
> and readability, and such things are not good to be enforced by dumb
> programs.
OK wise-ass - where in Linux or UNIX does the OS "enforce" you to use
upper or lower case letters ? Where does it interupt your "consistent
and beautiful case" ?
> If I forget the case of some file and type it wrong,
Get it wrong - when you "always use consistent and beautiful case" ? Do
you have filename completion turned on ? Why don't you use it ?
> or if I
> forget the capslock key on, I don't have the shell bitching stupid error
> messages. This is a huge usability issue, and I don't think Unix has a lot
> of fame for being an user-friendly OS.
This is a VERY trivial point - you are one of very few who raise it. Why
don't you just a different OS ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Thompson)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup
Subject: Re: Linux, here I come...
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 21:16:49 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ren� Fournier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>But first, I need to repartition my hard drive, and before I accidentally
>kill a wholelotta data, I like to ask y'all a few questions.
>
>First, I "think" I want four partitions on my 10gig drive (running a Dell
>350, 128MB RAM, ATI RagePro):
>
>3GB: NT (work)
>2GB: Win98 (play)
>1GB: Linux/BeOS/Who-knows-what (learn)
>4GB: Data (me)
>
>Is this, in your opinion, a reasonable allocation of disk space?
I'd set aside a bit more (maybe ~2GB total) for linux. You can
get a working linux installation into much less than that, but if
you want to have the source code available to compile your own
kernels and such (and you *will* want to do this) you'll need at
least 500MB for that alone.
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 11:07:33 +0200
Charles R. Lyttle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> But the main reason for using case sensitivity in
> computer languages is the need to use a limited symbol space to
> represent the program in a human readable form. That is where case
> sensitivity comes in handy in computer languages : it expands the symbol
> field and helps make code maintainable.
Well, Java supports Unicode there... I hope people will not be stuffing lots
of greek or chinese symbols in the code to make it more maintainable. :) I
think you make code more readable and maintenable when you write
ThisIsAnIdentifier instead of thisisanidentifier, but you make it less
readable and maintenable when you have two different things using each of
these names; except in restricted cases like parameters, e.g. "Employee
employee" which is a common pattern and benefits from context, but you could
also write anEmployee which is better if you don't want a more specific
name...
> I have noticed an increasing reliance on color and font, especially by
> the users of MS products. I keep getting mail messages from one person
> who must have 50,000 different fonts and insists on using every one of
> them in every message. Another insists on using font and background
> color to add information to his Access and Excel displays. Which is ok
> until you ask him to sort with font color and background color as keys.
> I've used color to convey information in CAD drawings for years. It
> helps sometimes, it hinders sometimes. Using color to make the display
> more viewable, works fine. Using color to try to add information, does
> not work (yet). I think switching to wide characters would add more
> information than adding colors.
There have been a few attempts to use more character sets in programming
languages (APL I think?) and those are disasters.
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1999 22:48:18 -0700
From: Armando Ortiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 3com / US robotics 56K
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm trying to find a 56K modem that will work under linux. I checked the
> "Linux modems list," aka "Winmodems are not modems," and discovered that the
> 3com / USRobotics Sportster 56K, model 1785, allegedly works fine.
>
> The problem is that I can't find any of these being sold anywhere. The
> closest model number I can find is 1787, and I can't find any technical
> details that tell if this one would probably be compatible, too. I'm curious
> if anyone else out there has had any success with this model.
>
> Also, if you know of another 56K modem that works well with linux, I wouldn't
> mind hearing about that, either.
Any hardware based modem works well under Linux...I'm using a Rockwell based 56k
external modem...if you're gonna get a modem...get an external one so you don't
have to monkey around with IRQ's and I/O port settings...it's such a bitch
sometimes.
Tip: use the 56k standard/proprietary modem that will let you connect to your
ISP at 56k should one or the other fail...i.e.: v.90/x2 or v.90/k56Flex...
Armando
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From: Disnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AVer TV 98 or ASKEY TView 99 under Linux
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:34:31 +0200
Hello,
I want to buy one of theese cards
does anybody some experience with this?
Thanks
Disnel
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:44:04 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: video, X for Dell Latitude Cpi D233ST
Larry Weisberg wrote:
>
> I am trying to get Linux setup up with X on my Dell (Latitude Cpi
> D233ST, Model PPL, with NeoMagic 128XD), but am having some trouble. I
> installed RedHat 5.1
>
> I saw various references to XFCom server RPM on Redhat's FTP, but I can
> no longer get to ftp.redhat.com. Does someone have a new URL and/or any
> other suggestions for getting my laptop up and running?
>
> Thanks,
> Larry
XFCom binaries are available from ftp.suse.de od ftp.suse.com
Marc Mutz
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