Linux-Hardware Digest #55, Volume #10 Sun, 18 Apr 99 08:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux supported printers (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 900 (Warren Young)
Conner DAT tape drive, SIIG SCSIPro (The Hedge Fox)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Ed Wilts)
Re: video & soundcard compatible ? (Ed Wilts)
ditto 2GB drive - how? ("Vic Russell")
Re: sblive soundblaster live ("Prasanth Kumar")
Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from (Ken
Witherow)
Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from PCI (Mike Battle)
Re: Sound Blaster Live ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB and LINUX
X on a Paradise Pipeline 64 WD 9710 (Raul Segura)
Re: S3 Virge/GX (Jim McIntyre)
Linux and Compaq problems ("Britt-Jesper")
Fireport 20 == which option in the Linux 2.2.6 kernel configuration? ("limits")
Re: FREE Computer Documentation (Chris Sherlock)
Can't set Seagate drive as slave (Paul Shinn)
Deskjet Pronters and Creative Banshee Support ("Kristian Guillaumier")
LILO with IDE & SCSI ("Kissandrakis S. Gewrgios")
LILO & SCSI (Kissandrakis George)
Re: SiS 5597/5598 video
Sorry, but how can I clean my First Sector of my boot patition? ("D0uG")
Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from (Edward P
Lee)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Subject: Re: Linux supported printers
Date: 18 Apr 1999 04:52:28 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Grant Taylor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: "Donald R. Brewer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > What is the minimal processor and memory requirements to run
: > ghostscript on Linux OS?
: A 386SX-16 with 4M and a 20M disk will run Linux and Ghostscript.
Correct (says he, remembering his old 386).
: A midrange 486 or better is probably preferred, though, as is 16M RAM;
Correct (says he, trying it on his 486sx50 with 8m+4m ram+swap).
: any Pentium will be more than ample.
Amen. How nice to see a well phrased usenet posting!
: --
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: Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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Peter
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From: Warren Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 900
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 17:04:03 -0600
Mark Griswold wrote:
> Does anyone have or know of a driver for the Epson Stylus Color 900?
The basic ghostscript Epson driver does a reasonable job for text -- 360
dpi at least.
As for graphics, especially printing photos, I use Gimp which has its
own printer drivers, including one for the Stylus Color 800, which
should be close. That driver does a very nice job. It's not quite as
good as the Windows driver, though, so for truly critical work I load a
picture up in Photoshop and print it across the net to my Linux box
which has the printer shared via Samba. It's a bit clumsy, but it works
well enough that I'm not tempted to "fix" things.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Hedge Fox)
Subject: Conner DAT tape drive, SIIG SCSIPro
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 23:03:20 GMT
I'm trying to get a Conner (pre-Seagate) DAT drive to
work with a SIIG SCSIPro controller (Advansys chipset)
under Linux 2.2.6. I have good cabling and an active
terminator on the bus.
I have SCSI tape support compiled in as well as the
Advansys driver. /proc/scsi/advansys/0 reports correctly
the controller parameters; at boot time the kernel sees
one host on the controller but does not recognize it
as a tape drive. There is no /proc entry for the tape drive.
Attempts to access it it mt result in device does not
support operation. MAKEDEV generates /dev/st0 and /dev/nst0
but not the {l,m,h} devices.
I tried fiddling with the drive's dip switches, turning parity
on and off with no effect.
Is the above just a bad hardware combo that will not work under Linux?
Anyone else using Advansys controllers with SCSI tape drives,
be they 4mm, 8mm or linear tape?
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C. Chan < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: sndconfig - PnP problems
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:46:37 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Any ideas on getting an OPTI931 sound card working?
> Please!
Do an altavista search for Opti931. When I was looking for Opti933
support, I ran across a page that details Opti931. If I remember right,
just configure it as a MAD16 card and it should work.
.../Ed
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video & soundcard compatible ?
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 18:49:45 -0500
paul wrote:
>
> I'm using a Pentium II M747 mainboard, with on-board:
> 1) SiS 6326 AGP 8 Mb 3d videocard
> 2) Onboard 3d Sound Pro (SB 16 compatible) soundcard.
The SiS 6326 is supported with the latest XFree86. Get the updates from
Redhat's site. Then search http://www.searchlinux.com for my earlier
postings on how to edit the XF86Config file so that the card is really
configured correctly (XConfigurator doesn't do it).
I don't know about the sound card.
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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
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From: "Vic Russell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ditto 2GB drive - how?
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 06:29:18 +0100
Hi,
I have just installed OpenLinux 1.3 and want to use my Iomega external
parallel interface Ditto 2GB drive. How do I go about this. I have looked
at ftape on the Caldera site but they take about other ditto drives rather
than my 2GB one.
Kind regards,
Vic Russell
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From: "Prasanth Kumar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sblive soundblaster live
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 05:33:26 GMT
The SB Live doesn't work under Linux yet. However, Creative Labs has someone
working full time
in writing a driver for it. It will hopefully come soon.
Travolta666 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7fapfs$hhf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anyone knows how to get the sblive sounding under Linux?
>
>
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From: Ken Witherow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 20:07:52 -0400
Mike Battle wrote:
>
> It may not be around yet, but we *will* need PCI modem support,
> and soon, as Micro$haft is deprecating the ISA bus.
> When you can't get a new motherboard with ISA slots, how much
> longer do you think we will be able to get ISA modems?
My external will still be fine :)
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From: Mike Battle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from PCI
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 16:06:14 -0700
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It may not be around yet, but we *will* need PCI modem support,
and soon, as Micro$haft is deprecating the ISA bus.
When you can't get a new motherboard with ISA slots, how much
longer do you think we will be able to get ISA modems?
Mikie
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 02:37:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Denny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just posted this info to someone else, but here it is again. Pass it
> on...
> Creative Labs is working on the driver as we speak.
>
> http://www.soundblaster.com/resources/news%2Dserver/faq%2Dsblive.html#3.4
Thanks for the link. Sure looks like what they are saying
is "when it's done" tho. ;-)
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB and LINUX
Date: 18 Apr 1999 03:25:31 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Marc A. Lacasse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does anyone know if USB works with LINUX and if
> so does anyone know how it to set it up.
It's still a bit unstable but people are using it, I have stuck the
list of mirrors at the end of this article.
I have one question of my own though...
I have the USB controller on my motherboard and I have the USB drivers
retrofitted into the kernel and the driver module will load and will
tell me that everything is OK. I also have a USB mouse that I would like
to try but the USB mouse has a standard 4 pin USB connector and the
motherboard has a largish pin header that is nothing like the USB connector.
The motherboard docco says that the pin header contains two USB connections
within it but no adapter came with the motherboard and no one that I have
asked has any adapter that would be suitable. What I need is something that
will fill an empty slot on the edge of the PC box with a pair of USB
connectors and connect internally to the pin header on the motherboard.
I could even make one up myself if I could get panel-mountable USB connectors
but I have no idea where to get them from. It seems like USB is taking a
long time to soak into the Australian marketplace...
OK, the list of USB driver mirrors:
======================================================================
The project's web is located at these URLs:
[U = URL, M = maintainer, P = mirroring period, L = location]
U: http://peloncho.fis.ucm.es/~inaky/uusbd-www
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P: master
L: Spain/RUNET
U: http://club.idecnet.com/~pegon/uusbd-www
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P: daily, at 02:00 CET
L: Spain/IdecNet
U: http://wwwhome.cs.utwente.nl/~ia_ric/USB
M: Ric Klaren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P: unknown
L: The Netherlands
U: http://www.bcinternet.com/~inaky/USB
M: Mike Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P: daily, at 03:00 EST
L: Canada
U: http://darwin.igeofcu.unam.mx/USB
M: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
P: daily
L: Mexico
U: http://nv.org/linux/USB
M: Steven Byrnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P: unknown
L: Houston and Maryland, USA
U: http://electricrain.com/Linux/USB
M: Gregory P. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P: daily, at 01:42 PST
L: Mountain View, California USA
U:
http://josefine.ben.tuwien.ac.at/~mfischer/mirrors/peloncho.fis.ucm.es/%257Einaky/uusbd-www
M: Markus Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
P: daily, at 00:00 CET
L: Vienna, Austria
Thanks to all the people who provided mirror space!
======================================================================
- Tel
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From: Raul Segura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: X on a Paradise Pipeline 64 WD 9710
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:36:47 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
at work we have a machine with a video card:
Paradise Pipeline 64 WD9710 (Western Digital)
it almost works with X SVGA(the one that comes with redhat 5.2),
chipset pvga1, Modeline and Clocks from config files for other
paradise cards (it starts a 640x480 screen that is twice as wide as it
should (just a half is displayed).
how can I find the right Clocks and Modelines to make it work with a
better resolution?
the machine has win95 too, is there any way to get the information I
need from windows?
thanks
--
raul segura
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From: Jim McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Virge/GX
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 00:51:35 -0300
Hi Lobo:
I've had a lot of problems with an S3 virge /gx also, and I got lucky when I ahd
to reinstall for other reasons and selected "generic Multisync" as my monitor
type. Apparently, this makes things a lot easier for XF86Config, for whatever
reasons.
I hope this helps
Jim McIntyre
Webmaster program
Dalhousie University
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lobo wrote:
> 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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From: "Britt-Jesper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Linux and Compaq problems
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 11:23:29 +0200
Hi
I'm trying to install Red-Hat 5.2 Linux on a 4 year old Compaq Deskpro XL
Pentium Pro computer. The installation however stops during installation of
the packages and I have to reboot.
I have earlier installed Linux from the same CD-ROM on another computer
without problems, so I guess it is a hardware problem.
The computer is a Pentium Pro 200Mhz with 16kbyte primary cache and 256kbyte
secondary. 128 Mbyte standard RAM. 2Mb WRAM Matrox Millenium graphics card.
. SCSI hard-disk 2Gb. PD CD Drive SCSI (COMPAQ PD-1 LF-1094C). PCI and EISA
architecture (integrated AMD PCNET Ethernet and SCSI-2 controllers and
drivers). Soundblaster compatible soundcard. EICON DIVA ISDN modem.
Have you got any idea why this doesn't work and how I can get it to work,
please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Jesper Hansen
Copenhagen
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From: "limits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Fireport 20 == which option in the Linux 2.2.6 kernel configuration?
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 01:05:53 GMT
What do I need to use for the Fireport 20? Its not listed...
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From: Chris Sherlock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: FREE Computer Documentation
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 19:38:08 -0700
FREE Computer Documentation
books, standards, specifications, source code, and more
ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/LDP - The Linux Documentation
Project!
Welcome there.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Shinn)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Can't set Seagate drive as slave
Date: 18 Apr 1999 05:45:51 GMT
I currently have a Seagate Medalist Pro setup as Master and an old
Western Digital as slave. The slave jumper is on the WD and I
didn't use any jumpers on the Seagate to make it master. Aware BIOS
recognizes them as master and slave.
Anyway, I want to install Linux. So I bought a Maxtor 17 GB drive. I
planned to use that as my boot drive and have Win98 on that and use the
Seagate (6.4GB) for Linux. After setting the Maxtor as master and
putting the slave jumper on the Seagate, BIOS does not see either drive.
I can have the Maxtor alone as master, the Seagate as master with a
Maxtor slave, but I can't have it the other way around. The 2nd IDE
channel is being used by my 2 CD drives (ROM and RW).
I could continue to use the Seagate for Windows and use the Maxtor
for Linux with some DOS partitions on it, but that's not how I want it. I
want this to work. Thanks.
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From: "Kristian Guillaumier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deskjet Pronters and Creative Banshee Support
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 03:02:18 +0200
Does anyone know how to install and configure an HP DeskJet 710c Printer and
a Creative 3D Blaster Banshee Video Card (In XFree86).
Thanks
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From: "Kissandrakis S. Gewrgios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: LILO with IDE & SCSI
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 1999 13:25:39 -0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi
I have an IDE with linux and a SCSI with NT4
In the bios there is a selection for booting from IDE bus or SCSI bus
if i install lilo on IDE MRB (and IDE bus seletion in bios) and choose
lilo in hangs on "loading winnt" (linux boots normally)
if i install lilo on SCSI MRB (and SCSI bus selection in bios) lilo
hangs on LI
any suggestions?
thnx in advance
Kissandrakis Georg
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Kissandrakis George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO & SCSI
Date: 18 Apr 1999 10:32:14 GMT
I have installed REDHAT 5.2 on an IDE DISK
there is a scsi disk with WinNT 4 workstation on the same PC
there is a choise in bios where the PC boot from (IDE bus or SCSI bus)
if i install lilo on the IDE (linux disk,IDE bus selection) and try to boot
in NT hangs on
"Loadint winnt"
if i install lilo on the SCSI (winnt disk,SCSI bus selection) hangs on LI
any suggestions?
thnx in advance
Kissandrakis George
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SiS 5597/5598 video
Date: 18 Apr 1999 03:35:57 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Jet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm a clueless newbie, take that into consideration.
> Tommy Kelly wrote:
> >
> > "Barry Kauler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hans,
> > > I recently installed RH5.2 on a PC with the SiS5598 on the motherboard,
> > > but can't even get generic VGA to work. Just get lines on the screen.
> I have this exact card, and had the exact same experience, I downloaded
> the updates for Xfree86 from Red Hat's site. It is explained in great
> detail there. Now it works like a charm.
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/rh1/XFree86-upgrade/XFree86-upgrade.html
I'll just add that I had the same thing on a Debian system and I went to
the XF86 home page and downloaded their binary for the XF86_SVGA program
and now I use that as my X server and it works fine. I do notice that
there are tiny pixel flickers that look a bit like timing problems but
maybe this is a limitation of the SiS graphics chips. Maybe some dod clock
frequencies work better than others...
They seems to change a bit depending on what is being displayed but mostly
they turn up on the grey hatched X background when I use the higher
resolutions. I can live with it as is but if someone knows and easy way to
clean it up I would be interested. I don't want to sit and adjust the dot
clock and timings until it clicks.
- Tel
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From: "D0uG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sorry, but how can I clean my First Sector of my boot patition?
Date: 18 Apr 1999 11:28:52 GMT
Hai there,
Does somebody know how I can clean my First Sector of my boot patition? I
must know that because linux doesn't start. I have Linux install again and I
can't start it anymore. It gives a ERROR 0x10.
I think the problem is the first sector of the boot patition. Is this right?
Does somebody know how I can FIX THAT.
Thanks!!!!
[D0uG] :-((
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From: Edward P Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Why, you'll need a PCI modem someday soon was Re: Suggestions from
Date: Sat, 17 Apr 1999 21:47:47 -0700
Well, don't write-off the ISA bus too soon. I, as well as many others,
still need a simple but fast enough interface (several M bytes/sec) for
something quick and dirty. USB and PCI are too complicated and expensive
for low volume custom interfaces. I prefer MBs with more ISA slots, even
if i have to pay a little bit more. Long live the ISA bus, despite the
effort of I? and M$.
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> Mike Battle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > It may not be around yet, but we *will* need PCI modem support,
>
> POTS modems may be obsolete soon. i am coming to you from an ethernet
> card talking to a cablemodem.
>
> > and soon, as Micro$haft is deprecating the ISA bus.
>
> who cares about ISA buses. i am sure RS-232C will be around for a
> *long* time to come.
>
> > When you can't get a new motherboard with ISA slots, how much
> > longer do you think we will be able to get ISA modems?
>
> serial ports have been around for 30 years. i bet they'll still be
> here 30 years from now.
>
> long live blinkenlights!
>
> --
> J o h a n K u l l s t a m
> [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Don't Fear the Penguin!
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