Linux-Hardware Digest #39, Volume #10 Thu, 15 Apr 99 23:14:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
Re: soundblaster 64 PCI no Sound ("J. Benjamin Hale")
Re: USR Modem ("J. Benjamin Hale")
Re: a few newbie questions (Jonathan Charles Masters)
Re: $PATH ("Rufus V. Smith")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Rob Eamon")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Osvaldo
Pinali Doederlein")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) ("Osvaldo
Pinali Doederlein")
Help a newbie ("Phat Randy")
Re: keyboards w/ extra programmable keys (Gary Momarison)
Where do I find a Linux driver? ("Peter")
Re: S3 Virge/GX (Lobo)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Craig Kelley)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Craig Kelley)
Cannon BJC-210 printer and Staroffice 5.0 (Brian B.)
Artec viewstation at6 scsi scanner (Brian B.)
Re: Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP ("Renegade")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Craig Kelley)
Re: Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP ("Andy Bauer")
Microtek Scanmaker 35t+ (henk van der knaap)
"mt" doesn't work on DDS-3 tape Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sun SPARC 2's cheap (Fred Dikeman)
Re: cyrix (jason)
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From: "Rob Eamon" <[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 13:24:37 -0600
Craig Kelley wrote in message ...
[snip]
>
>This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem.
I must strongly disagree. Issues with mixed-case filenames,
whitespace and filename length existed long before Windows
became popular.
>Try to remember
>back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case?
Yes.
>Did you miss the
>whitespace limitations?
Yes. We worked around it, but whitespace would've been
very welcome.
>Probably not. When Windows 3 was
>released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
>deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
I think you're confusing when the solution was provided with
when the problem was identified. Again, the 'problem' existed
before Windows. In fact, there were tools that added long
filename support to DOS before Windows got the capability.
>
>Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
>case for GUI work.
Change that to "single-case names for CLI work" and "mixed-case
for application work" and I'll agree with you. Text-based applications
drove the need for mixed-case too, not just GUIs (e.g., WordPerfect,
WordStar, 1-2-3, Symphony, etc.).
>When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
>all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
>programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
>however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
>descriptive.
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From: "J. Benjamin Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: soundblaster 64 PCI no Sound
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:29:58 -0400
Check the volume control. When I installed mine, it was very, very low. I
used the KDE sound mixer to bump it up. I think that I get better stereo
separation in Linux than I do in Windows.
--
J. Benjamin Hale
85 SE 16th Avenue, F203
Gainesville FL 32601-0504
352/335-6532
News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:924181673.129563@polka...
> Hoi
>
> I cant get my soundcard Soundblaster 64 PCI working, what's wrong?
SndConfig
> recognize it correct as an AudioPCI. During boot it's initialized. but
won't
> play any sound .
>
> Need Help
>
>
>
>
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From: "J. Benjamin Hale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR Modem
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:31:35 -0400
Winmodems are 90% software driver. Because none of this info is on the
board, you have to use a very big driver. Windows and USR hold on to that
very closely so they will not work in Linux.
--
J. Benjamin Hale
85 SE 16th Avenue, F203
Gainesville FL 32601-0504
352/335-6532
Ollie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> did anyone write a program, module or driver for using a USR Sportster
> Winmodem 33.6 with Linux?
> I don't have money to buy a new modem (but it would solve my Problem
> ;-)).
>
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From: Jonathan Charles Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: a few newbie questions
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 22:19:24 +0100
Chun Lin wrote:
> I've just installed Redhat Linux 5.2 on my PII computer.
>
> after I log in, when I try to startx, it said:
>
> execuve failed for /etc/X11/X(errno 2)
>
> when I use ctrl-c to stop it, it said:
>
> xinit: unexpected signal 2.
>
> my mouse is a serial 3 button Logetech mouse, and video
> card is Creative 16M TNT AGP card.
>
> Please post or email me how to fix it up.
>
> Another problem. Redhat 5.2 doesn't recognize my Accton
> pnp ethernet card. any suggestions?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Chun
ReRun X configuration
You may need to use XFSetup
instead of RedHat 5.2 crap.
Ethernet card:
RH5.2 Uses an ****OLD*****
kernel. Upgrade to 2.2.5 and all will be well
:-)
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From: "Rufus V. Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: $PATH
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 16:59:05 -0400
Do you want to reset it or add to it? Don't lose access to all your system
programs by accident.
make sure your new path includes $PATH as one of the entries.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7f57u2$s5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.misc didst J. Benjamin Hale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
>: Where is my $PATH variable? How can I set it?
>
>setenv PATH whatever/you/want/in/your/path
>
>(in csh and tcsh)
>
>In bash, it's something like PATH = /whatever/
> export PATH
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------
--
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From: "Rob Eamon" <[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 13:34:40 -0600
Jerry wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein wrote:
[snip]
>OK - so you find the following sentance easy to read then ? You are one
>of the very few...
Filename case is not just a matter of easy to read. It's also a matter of
context and understanding. The sentence below means exactly the
same regardless of any variant of case. Two filenames that vary only
in case requires additional information to give each file a context, and
therefore, meaning.
[snip]
>This is a VERY trivial point - you are one of very few who raise it. Why
>don't you just a different OS ?
I disagree that it's a trivial point. It's a fundamental function that
makes Unix harder to learn. Count me among the "very few who raise it."
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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 20:33:30 +0200
Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > when using Linux I see that people more usually recurse to hyphens to
> > separate complex names (e.g. gnome-session instead of GnomeSession)
because
> This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem. Try to remember
> back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case? Did you miss the
> whitespace limitations? Probably not. When Windows 3 was
> released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
> deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
> Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
> case for GUI work. When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
> all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
> programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
> however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
> descriptive.
I din't know about most people, but I did miss large names and cases in
FAT16 when I was programming because it sucks having a source file
implementing MyClassWithABigName and having to call it MCLWABGN.CPP. That
sucked deeply, with or without GUI. I could even see some people getting
used to shorter names for their classes, or developing standards for
abbreviation (the VC++ wizards would even help you!) so the filename is not
so bad - which is having the tail to wag the dog.
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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 20:41:23 +0200
Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> "Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Yeah... I'm always impressed how people have hope to push Unix to
> > nontechnical users by providing beautiful GUIs like GNOME or KDE, and
> > ignoring more fundamental usability problems. What is user-friendly in
the
> > dizzying-beautiful eterm or other "user friendly" programs, if you type
a
> > wrong case and you still get an error message? You are not attacking
the
> > fundamental problems.
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but do "nontechnical users" ever type a
> filename after they create it? In my experience, they always go to
> the file manager or File->Open inside the app.
That's when you have a good GUI and can you use it. It was not the case for
old DOS -- although not a user-friendly CLI, less scaring than Unix
certainly -- and it's the case in Unix today because even if you have CDE,
GNOME or whatever, lots of tasks require you open an *term and type things.
The GUI shells and utilities do not cover everything by a large margin (even
ignoring the advanced stuff that's only important for admins or developers).
While Unix GUIs are becoming better, they insist in being "compatible" with
bad old habits; if you raise an "open file" in most Unix GUI apps, but
instead of clicking you type the filename and the case is wrong, you'll get
an error.
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From: "Phat Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.digest,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Help a newbie
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:34:59 GMT
I have recently installed Redhat and am having a problem with my Cable-modem
connection. I have a SMC Etherpower 8432 card. I think the problem is that
it isn;t detected since it is in Plug and PLay. Can anyone tell me how to
turn this off? When I run ifconfig, the loopback is there, but not eth0
(this is why I think it is the Plug and Play).
Also, I accidently crashed the system and the kernel won't load. It stops
with "/dev/hda1 did not cleanly unmount, check forced" Can someone help me
with this also.
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From: Gary Momarison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: keyboards w/ extra programmable keys
Date: 15 Apr 1999 17:35:21 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> The keyboard howto talks about using setkeycodes to map these unrecognized
> scancodes, and then loadkeys to give them functions. But it says this won't
> work in X. Any one know how to go about making it work in X? Has anyone
> actually tried this in general?
Not me, but check out "XKeyCaps" which has a database of many keyboards.
The biggest keyboard I see has 107, but it should come with info on making
datasets for new keyboards which they want you to send back. Nice tool.
(There's also "xev" which you are more likely to already have.)
Find it and more key info at
http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/keys.html
--
Look for Linux info at http://www.dejanews.com/home_ps.shtml and
Gary's Encyclopedia at http://www.aa.net/~swear/pedia/index.html
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From: "Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Where do I find a Linux driver?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:40:45 GMT
Hi
I am new to Linux. I have a Winnov Videum AV (video capture) board and I
want to know if there is a Linux driver for it. I have tried e-mailing the
manufacturers, but they are taking their time in replying.
does anyone know if there is such a driver, and if so, where do I find it?
Also, where does someone look if they want to know if a particular driver
exists - i.e. which newsgoups, websites etc ?
Many thanks to anyone who will take the time to reply.
Pete
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lobo)
Subject: Re: S3 Virge/GX
Date: 15 Apr 1999 20:49:02 -0500
Same problem, same machine, ever find a fix?
On 10 Apr 1999 17:38:42 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel L.
Ashbrook) wrote:
>Walter B. Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>: Are there any documented problems with X and the S3 Virge/GX video cards?
>: After starting and leaving X, the text display is completely scrambled and
>: stays that way until reboot.
>
>Are you using a Compaq system? I'm having the same problem with a
>Deskpro 4000, whether or not I use a Virge card. The Virge makes the
>problem worse, but using an MGA card doesn't fix it entirely. Anyone
>know how to fix this?
>
>
>Daniel Ashbrook
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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?)
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Apr 1999 14:19:27 -0600
"Rob Eamon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem.
>
> I must strongly disagree. Issues with mixed-case filenames,
> whitespace and filename length existed long before Windows
> became popular.
>
> >Try to remember
> >back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case?
>
> Yes.
>
> >Did you miss the
> >whitespace limitations?
>
> Yes. We worked around it, but whitespace would've been
> very welcome.
>
> >Probably not. When Windows 3 was
> >released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
> >deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
>
> I think you're confusing when the solution was provided with
> when the problem was identified. Again, the 'problem' existed
> before Windows. In fact, there were tools that added long
> filename support to DOS before Windows got the capability.
When were we talking about long filename support? I'm not going to defend
the braindead 8.3 limitation. It was inconvenient under DOS to have
files named
"BL AH.D T"
Even if you could (which you couldn't) -- nobody would have done it.
> >Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
> >case for GUI work.
>
> Change that to "single-case names for CLI work" and "mixed-case
> for application work" and I'll agree with you. Text-based applications
> drove the need for mixed-case too, not just GUIs (e.g., WordPerfect,
> WordStar, 1-2-3, Symphony, etc.).
Okay, pedantic point noted; so we agree then?
Can we *please* kill this thread now?
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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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?)
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Apr 1999 14:21:46 -0600
"Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > when using Linux I see that people more usually recurse to hyphens to
> > > separate complex names (e.g. gnome-session instead of GnomeSession)
> because
> > This is a symptom of the GUI, not the filesystem. Try to remember
> > back to your DOS days. Did you miss mixed case? Did you miss the
> > whitespace limitations? Probably not. When Windows 3 was
> > released and people actually started using it, they noticed these
> > deficiencies and it was fixed with VFAT.
> > Since then, people STILL use single-case names for CLI work and mixed-
> > case for GUI work. When I program under NT (with Emacs, of course)
> > all my filenames are lowercase, and I'd wager that almost every
> > programmer out there does the same. When I save my Word document,
> > however, it is another story because "CD Report May 1999" is more
> > descriptive.
>
> I din't know about most people, but I did miss large names and cases in
> FAT16 when I was programming because it sucks having a source file
> implementing MyClassWithABigName and having to call it MCLWABGN.CPP. That
> sucked deeply, with or without GUI. I could even see some people getting
> used to shorter names for their classes, or developing standards for
> abbreviation (the VC++ wizards would even help you!) so the filename is not
> so bad - which is having the tail to wag the dog.
I never mentioned 8.3 filenames.
I will not defend that crappy design.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian B.)
Subject: Cannon BJC-210 printer and Staroffice 5.0
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Apr 1999 13:50:05 -0700
Ok I got my bjc210 setup and printing even in color with the bjc600 gs driver
only problem is that when printing from staroffice my colors arent right. it
seems to print just the primary colors red/blue/green. It wont mix ink to get
any oother colors except black. Staroffice comes with it own filters I think and
there isnt one for any cannon printers. Are there any out there that im just
not finding or am i just screwed?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian B.)
Subject: Artec viewstation at6 scsi scanner
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Apr 1999 13:52:06 -0700
Im sure this scanner will work with sane but my question is will the pnp scsi
card that came with the scanner work with linux? Ive tried everything I can
think of but to no avail.
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From: "Renegade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan
Subject: Re: Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 19:15:56 -0700
Try the Zip as a master and the CDROM as a slave. Most CDROMs don't work
well as a master. I have the HD as IDE-1, Zip as IDE-2M and CDROM as IDE-2S.
My zip is an Iomega.
--
Renegade
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Skip Egdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a new machine with a 1590s, 1.14a BIOS, and an AMD K6-2/300
> jumpered 3x100 with 64 MB of PC-100 on a DIMM.
>
> The system has a disk as IDE-1 master, a CD as IDE-2 master, and
> an NCR-manufactured ZIP drive as IDE-2 slave.
>
> The Zip drive is recognised as B: with Win-95b. Linux 2.2.4 sees
> the zip as /dev/hdd, but reports that two different sizes (both about
> 100 MB, but different) are detected and cannot read the drive
> or partition tables.
>
> A similar system with an FIC-503+ mother board has the same ZIP
> drive seen as "removable drive D:" by 95b and a correctly operating
> /dev/hdd by Linux.
>
> The Iomega documentation has a load of warnings about disabling
> automatic recognition in the BIOS, yet I can find nothing in the
> Tyan 1.14a BIOS to disable.
>
> I can live with Windows seeing the drive as B: rather than D: as I
> don't use Windows for much. However, I would like to figure out
> why Linux is acting weird with this device. Any suggestions?
>
> Skip Egdorf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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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?)
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Apr 1999 14:22:49 -0600
"Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Correct me if I'm wrong, but do "nontechnical users" ever type a
> > filename after they create it? In my experience, they always go to
> > the file manager or File->Open inside the app.
>
> That's when you have a good GUI and can you use it. It was not the case for
> old DOS -- although not a user-friendly CLI, less scaring than Unix
> certainly -- and it's the case in Unix today because even if you have CDE,
> GNOME or whatever, lots of tasks require you open an *term and type things.
> The GUI shells and utilities do not cover everything by a large margin (even
> ignoring the advanced stuff that's only important for admins or developers).
> While Unix GUIs are becoming better, they insist in being "compatible" with
> bad old habits; if you raise an "open file" in most Unix GUI apps, but
> instead of clicking you type the filename and the case is wrong, you'll get
> an error.
Okay, we agree.
Can we kill this stupid thread now?
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Andy Bauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.tyan
Subject: Re: Tyan 1590s, K6-2, and IDE-ZIP
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 21:28:12 -0500
There are two versions of the Internal IDE ZIP Drive.
There is an "IDE ZIP" drive and an "ATAPI ZIP" drive.
If you have the "IDE ZIP" then Linux will see this as just another 100MB IDE
Hard Drive. Things are a little different if you have an "ATAPI ZIP".
Either way the ZIP Drive mini-HOWTO has all the answers to your questions.
Go to one of the many mirrors of the Linux Documentation Project, such as
http://ftp.umr.edu/pub/LDP/, to view the HOWTO documentation.
As far as your BIOS is concerned, just set the IDE channel, that your ZIP
drive is attached to, to "not installed". Your BIOS will still probably
find the drive during POST, but you don't need to worry about that.
As for Windows, have you downloaded and installed the latest ZIP drivers
from www.iomega.com? The drivers let you set the drive letters of your Zip
drive to whatever you want.
--
Andy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.umr.edu/~atb/
Skip Egdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a new machine with a 1590s, 1.14a BIOS, and an AMD K6-2/300
> jumpered 3x100 with 64 MB of PC-100 on a DIMM.
>
> The system has a disk as IDE-1 master, a CD as IDE-2 master, and
> an NCR-manufactured ZIP drive as IDE-2 slave.
>
> The Zip drive is recognised as B: with Win-95b. Linux 2.2.4 sees
> the zip as /dev/hdd, but reports that two different sizes (both about
> 100 MB, but different) are detected and cannot read the drive
> or partition tables.
>
> A similar system with an FIC-503+ mother board has the same ZIP
> drive seen as "removable drive D:" by 95b and a correctly operating
> /dev/hdd by Linux.
>
> The Iomega documentation has a load of warnings about disabling
> automatic recognition in the BIOS, yet I can find nothing in the
> Tyan 1.14a BIOS to disable.
>
> I can live with Windows seeing the drive as B: rather than D: as I
> don't use Windows for much. However, I would like to figure out
> why Linux is acting weird with this device. Any suggestions?
>
> Skip Egdorf
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: henk van der knaap <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microtek Scanmaker 35t+
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 09:36:03 +1200
Dear Readers,
I have been trying to use Microtek Scanmaker 35 plus under Linux with the
Sane software package. 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?
Does anybody have the same experience?
Any help would be much appreciated. Also many thanks to the people who answered my
query about laser printers.
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: "mt" doesn't work on DDS-3 tape Drive
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 20:01:15 GMT
Has anyone else had problems with "mt" command and tape drives?
I have a Dell 4300 PowerEdge server with their DDS-3 12/24GB
tape drive (Seagate's Scorpion tape drive?). I can't use mt
to move the tape over filemarks, so essentially I'm stuck with
a non-rewind version limiting me to one file on the tape. I don't
see the problem on an HP SureStor24 that I have, so I'm wondering
if Seagate's drive doesn't support or if I need to manually configure
the device driver for it (running under RedHat v5.2).
Thanks,
Mike Stanton
Stanton Technologies, Inc.
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:01:02 -0700
From: Fred Dikeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sun SPARC 2's cheap
I apologize for those I might have offended by my one time posting to
thisusenet group.
I have a large quantity of Sparc 2 workstations that I would like to
sell and I know that they make great Linux systems. I plan on selling
the systems for $50-100. Please call or email me if you are interested.
Thank you,
Fred Dikeman
Data Instruments, Inc
800-466-1144
770-919-2400
http://www.workstation.net
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cyrix
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 23:02:12 -0400
Check out
http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/
Hope this helps,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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