Linux-Hardware Digest #99, Volume #10 Sun, 25 Apr 99 21:13:32 EDT
Contents:
Afraid to install Red Hat 5.2 ("john")
Re: Want to buy a scanner - what should I get? (Norman Elliott)
Re: 2.2.5 Kernel is dead ("Charles R. Lyttle")
Monster Sound support?? (root)
Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!! (Neil Steadman)
Re: kernel 2.2.6: ATAPI Zip Drive still a problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: i740 drivers for Linux ("Wim Koomen")
Re: x11amp crashing... ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: Help a newbie ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: Can Linux RH5.2 run on PIII? ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: 3Com EtherLink III (Mark)
Re: AWE64 PnP ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: dual monitors under linux? ("Chris J. Milne")
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From: "john" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Afraid to install Red Hat 5.2
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:56:53 -0400
I recently purchased Red Hat 5.2 to install on my Win98 PC and use as part
of an Intro to Unix Class on ZDU. I picked Red Hat because it was
universally acknowledged to be the "easiest to install". I created a Linux
Boot and a Linux Swap partition with Partition Commander, and was rarin' to
go.
However, in reviewing the documentation, the Supported Hardware websites,
and my PC Configuration, I'm now more than a little bit reluctant to
proceed.
I've got:
- An Ultra-DMA disk controller (problems reported with some - can't tell if
mine is one)
- A 12+GB Ultra-ATA33 HD (is it the unsupported "Extra-large?)
- A Matrox Millenium G200 AGP Video card (requires downleaded update, don't
know if I can use it if I download it to my current Win98 FAT32 system prior
to install; don't know if Linux will work without it to try to download afer
install...)
- A USB Printer and Scanner (no USB support)
- A 300MHz CeleronA overclocked to 450MHz (not supported..?)
- A 100MHz Motherborad (not supported..?)
- A Sony CD-RW which may or may not be "100% ATAPI Compliant" (how do I
know), but which was NOT supported by the only "Backup to CD/RW" software I
could find, Seagate BackupExec, and so highly suspect of being at least
partially "Proprietary")
- A Logitech Cordless mouse and Keyboard (didn't even bother to check)
One note mentioned that if I did have problems with
Ultra-IDE/ATA/UDMA/ATAPI, etc., it could trash my hard drive.
It now seems my choices are:
- do days or weeks of advance research to try to determine if it should work
- or just "try it and see", and possibly trash my hard drive.
Am I totally missing something, or is this what "easy to install" means in
the Linux world?
I know there is a bewildering (and rapidly-growing) array of hardware out
there, but I also heard that "Open Source" meant there were oodles of
propeller-headed Lin-nuts out there knocking out new device drivers as soon
as the devices appeared on the market, and required by the rules of
OpenSource to make them available to all. They way I heard it,
collectively all these potential resources dwarfed those of any commercial
outfit, including Microsoft.
BTW - I don't mean to be just complaining. I am a bit frustrated that this
now appears to be a lot more of a bear than I signed on for, but basically
I'm hoping someone can reassure me that I'm just being paranoid, or overly
cautious...
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Want to buy a scanner - what should I get?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:05:39 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am running red hat 5.2 and staroffice5.0. I would like to buy a colour
> flatbed scanner for photograph scanning and editing/printing.
>
> From everything I hear, it seems to be very easy to buy something that WON'T
> WORK.
>
> Can anyone advise me which currently available scanner models would work?
>
> And what about a colour printer - I was thinking about the Epson Stylus Photo
> 750 - would that be supported?
>
> Sorry for the dumb questions, but thanks if anyone can help.
>
> James
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
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James,
I use a HP Deskjet 697C which I have just bought.
Be aware that normally Linux ( in fact any Unix )
expects postscript printers so you will need to
use magicfilter or apsfilter to print to a standard
PC printer.
I asked a similar question about scanners in this group
and got the following info
>
Look at:
http://www.mostang.com/sane/
for the software and hardware recomendations. I personally
use a Umax 1220S
plugged into a TekRam 390U scsi controller.
which I got from Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
174 Littleton Road #3-198
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
best wishes,
norm
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From: "Charles R. Lyttle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 2.2.5 Kernel is dead
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:43:57 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <01be8752$24493c80$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I compiled the 2.2.5 kernel on my system and now it is totall dead.. This
> > is what I see:
> >
> > LILO boot: linux
> > Loading Linux........
> > Uncompressing Linux... OK, booting the kernel.
> >
> > Then the machine is dead as a can of spam. Never does another thing. If I
> > boot off of a floppy and change Lilo back to use my old 2.0.36 kernel it
> > boots fine. I've tried recompiling the 2.2.5 kernel with different options
> > and still get the same thing. Any reason for this?
> > --DavidM
> >
>
> Don't worry, your kernel is not dead....
>
> I've the same problem. I'm trying to boot linux via bootp and nfs-root, and I
> want keep the kernel as little as possible for making it running an a 486 with
> 12Mo.
>
> The kernel seems frozen after the message "OK, booting the kernel", but I can
> see in the syslog of the server that it is requesting the dhcp server and
> mounting the networked file system. That's means that the kernel is working,
> but that there is no display. However, I've checked the CONFIG_VT and
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE, but that is'nt enough....
>
> Any suggestion?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
Perhaps you aren't waiting long enough. My system takes a *long* time to
get the file systems mounted, especially if someone is missing from the
net. Sometimes it delays for 1 or 2 minutes. It could be much longer on
your 486 (5 or 6 minutes plus?).
--
Russ Lyttle, PE
<http://www.flash.net/~lyttlec>
Thank you Melissa!
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Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 04:43:00 -0800
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monster Sound support??
ANyone know how to get this card working with the 2.2 Kernel??????
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Steadman)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: GET REDHAT 6.1!!!!
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 15:35:09 +0059
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:54:54 +0200, **Nick Brown wrote:
>Do I need an upgrade to my kernel to see the teen pictures ?
No, but you may have trouble getting hardware for it.
--
How many shopping days till Xmas?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.6: ATAPI Zip Drive still a problem
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 21:43:34 GMT
$ mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt/hdb4
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hdb4,
or too many mounted filesystems
(Note: vfat is installed, there is no superblock, and few mounted fs.)
$ tail /var/log/messages
...
hdb: The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its capacity
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3 hdb4
ide-floppy: hdb: I/O error, pc = 28, key = 5, asc = 21, ascq = 0
end_request: I/O error, dev 03:44 (hdb), sector 0
FAT bread failed
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kyle Dansie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I have compiled the new ATAPI (floppy) support into my new 2.2.6 kernel.
> > Unfortunately, after showing the device, etc., there are two error messages
in
> > /var/log/messages (and thus obviously also when I use fdisk):
> >
> > hdb: 98288kB, 196576 blocks, 512 sector size
> > hdb: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> >
> > The drive reports both 100663296 and 100646912 bytes as its capacity. (I
> > tried the IOMEGA instruction to disable BIOS support, but the problem
> > remains.)
> >
> > Guessing from these error messages, IOMEGA may have been sloppy in its
> > firmware, reporting inconsistent numbers depending on how it is queried. Is
> > this guess correct?
> >
> > Even if it is IOMEGA's fault, can the kernel driver be made smart enough to
> > handle this problem, e.g., by suppressing the incorrect size?
> >
> > /ivo welch
> >
> > -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==----------
> > http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own
>
> Did you try mounting the drive?
> mount -t vfat /dev/hdb4 /mnt
>
> Cheers,
> Kyle Dansie
> --
> --------------------------------------------------------
> Linux Rules Iomega Zip Drive Mini - HOWTO
> -
> http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
> or
> http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive.html
> --------------------------------------------------------
>
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From: "Wim Koomen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i740 drivers for Linux
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:04:20 +0200
This is a part of my XF86Config file
# -----------
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
# -----------
I just placed 1024x768 in front. Now X starts in 1024x768 mode by default
Neil Walter heeft geschreven in bericht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>John,
>
>I had the same problems trying to get the Intel i740 to work, and solved it
>by using the line
> DefaultColorDepth 24
>in XF86Config, but I can't get it to default to 800 x 600. (I have to use
>Ctrl-Alt + to get higher. I'd be interested to see your XF86Config file.
>
>Neil.
>
>John Thompson wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>>> Currently I am (attempting) to use Redhat 5.2 with a 8 Mb AG240 i740
>video
>>> card (also running through a 12Mb Voodoo II).
>>>
>>> I have already got the Xbf_i740 drivers, and can't get X to run in more
>than
>>> 16 colours.
>>>
>>> Is there any other driver other than the generic i740 driver which can
be
>>> used?
>>
>>How did you set up/configure the server? I have the
>>XBF_i740 server running at 65k colors with an 8MB AGP board.
>>
>>--
>>
>>-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>
>
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: x11amp crashing...
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:27:46 -0400
dpc,
is it a pnp card ? i would guess that since enabling the pnp support in
your BIOS helped that the problem is that the card isn't being
pnp-enabled under linux. the AWE-HOWTO should have a pnp section, the
gist of it is simply to run pnpdump & pipe it into a text file (pnpdump
> pnpdump.txt). if you look at it it should have Card sections in it for every pnp
>device in your machine (this may reset any pnp devices, which may/may not include
>your modem/ethernet card). the AWE-HOWTO tells you how to uncomment sections in order
>to get the card working as well as gives you a warning about how pnp may not find all
>your devices. if this is gibberish check out any pnp-HOWTOS & make sure you've got
>pnp-tools installed on your machine.
your other option is to use sndconfig, more recent versions of it
support pnp-enabling cards & it should detect your card on its own.
good luck, contact me if you run into troubles.
Chris
dpc wrote:
>
> Pardon me, but how did you get your AWE64 set up? Did
> you recompile the kernel yourself and add support for
> sound? Or did it work for you right away? I have had
> the worst time trying to get my sound to work and I've
> got the latest starbuck as well. Please say you can
> give me some advice, thanks! :)
>
> dpc
>
> p.s. I have read the Sound HOWTO, the AWE HOWTO, every
> damn howto I could think of. The only way I can get
> sound to work is by changing a bios setting (Plug n
> Play OS from enabled to disable or vice versa, I can't
> quite recall now) Course, when I do that...I can only
> use either my ethernet card, or my ultra66 but notboth. AUGH!
>
> Remove _NOSPAM_ to reply directly to me
>
> cdog wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Sounds like the sound card.. I'm using x11amp .09 beta1 under RedHat 5.9
> >(starbuck) with kernel 2.2.5-ac7 on a dual 450MHz OC'd Celeron 300A ASUS
> >P2BD MB and a Creative Labs AWE64 gold. That should be a funky enough
> >setup... Haven't had x11amp crash yet.
> >
> >
> >Michael Bannister wrote:
> >
> >> Okay, this may not be the right place to post this but I'm getting
> >> VERY fustrated. Scenario: At the begining of the school year I installed
> >> slackware on my machine off the internet. My sound card is a Yamaha
> >> OPL/3 whatever built into my intel motherboard (PII 233). Since
> >> I couldn't get sound working I shelled out the 20 bucks to get the OSS
> >> auto-install driver from 4front. It installed easily and I had sound.
> >>
> >> But the thing crashed like crazy when ever I used x11amp (installed
> >> about the same time as the system, no idea what version it was). Some
> >> times the system locked, sometimes X bombed, sometimes x11amp bombed and
> >> sometimes x11amp just locked up. It happened anywhere between 5 seconds
> >> of starting it and 2 hours of playing mp3s.
> >>
> >> Last weekend I installed redhat 5.9.7. Freshly downloaded the driver
> >> from 4front to work with the new kernal. Today I downloaded the new
> >> x11amp, compiled it and it looked very nice and had lots of options.
> >>
> >> After 5 minutes of mp3's the son of a bitch LOCKED! The whole computer,
> >> dead!
> >>
> >> My analysis: I'm starting to think it's the sound driver or a hardware
> >> problem. The kernel's got to be good and/or any bugs from before
> >> (2.0.34!!!!!!!) fixed by now (and I'm not even using the sound
> >> software). x11amp's also been through a few major upgrades and other
> >> people I've talked to say it works fine. So I'm guessing either the
> >> driver I BOUGHT is messed up or I have a hardware problem.
> >>
> >> Has anyone had anysuccess with this hardware? Does the new kernel
> >> nativly support my sound chips? Or do I just need to shell out 50 bucks
> >> for a decent soundcard and disable the piece of crap? I'm getting really
> >> sick of having to use my roommates NT box at parties becase my linux box
> >> is too unstable!
> >>
> >> Michael "ahh... I feel better now" Bannister
> >>
> >> </rant>
> >
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,linux.redhat.digest,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Help a newbie
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 19:31:59 -0400
for the last bit it's not actually crashing when it tells you :
/dev/hda1 did not cleanly unmount, check forced
it's checking the hard drive, if you've got a larger the 2 GB drive it
may take some time before it finishes the check. it will do this quietly
but your hard drive light is probably lit. let it go.
for the PNP stuff try 'pnpdump' & check the output for info about your
ethernet card, if it's there then it's PNP, if it isn't then ...
check out the PNP-HOWTO for more info on the former.
Phat Randy wrote:
>
> 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: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can Linux RH5.2 run on PIII?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:22:41 -0400
is this error before you reach LILO ? it sounds like your controller
card is acting up which would be a problem with hardware & not linux.
more details would be needed to solve the problem. to start : when does
the trouble occur ?
leetc wrote:
>
> I have installed RH5.2 on a PIII and it gave me an error on my floppy"
> controller not found". I have re-installed the OS again but still the same
> problem. Where can I get the correct Floppy controller? Can I do a
> workaround? Pls help?
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From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com EtherLink III
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:14:33 GMT
I too have an old 486DX50. I've installed a 3c509 and after a few days linux
fails to initialize it. I believe I need to either set up a dual boot with dos
so I can set the IRQ and IO or set up to boot from dos. Just what does this NIC
require so I can give it what it wants?
Ramesh Dharan wrote:
> First, you need to disable PnP mode on the card - you can do this in DOS with
> the drivers package (disk 2 I believe) off the 3com webpage...
> Then, you need to make sure you're using the right dhcp package - the one that
> comes with RedHat > 5.1 will work for sure.
>
> Walter Harms wrote:
>
> > Tom Hua <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Hi all,
> > > I've got a 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B installed in an old 486DX2 and
> > >am having problem obtaining an IP connection from the DHCP server. Does
> > >anyone know a way round? Any help would greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AWE64 PnP
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:30:40 -0400
the kernel version you're running is fine. in order to get the card to
work you've got to get the PNP settings working. this isn't really
sndconfig, it's the isapnptools stuff. there's a HOWTO for this as well.
check /etc/isapnp.conf first, make sure this file is present & that the
setting it contains are the same as the ones you've been using in
windows (there's a section on possible problems in the AWE HOWTO, it
generally doesn't get all the wavetable IO stuff). sndconfig will try &
create an isapnp.conf file for you but it's not really good at it yet.
once the card is responding to isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf & telling you
everything is hunkydory then worry about the sound stuff (Sound-HOWTO,
or AWE HOWTO, the latter is only necessary if you'd like to get the
wavetable working, the SB stuff will function quite nicely without
worrying about the wavetable, the joystick port or the IDE controller
parts of isapnp.conf).
good luck,
chris
Eman wrote:
>
> Hi I have an ISA pnp sbAWE64 and I just doesnt want to work. I got all the
> resource settings from windoze and it didnt want to take it in sndconfig. I
> installed OSS which actually works but its shareware and its MONO
> sound..which sucks too. Will a kernel upgrade resolve these issues? Im
> currently running 2.0.36
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. I SO MUCH want to make the
> conversion to Linux from win95 but these bindups are really discouraging and
> nerveracking. My wife is gonna leave me from spending so much time every
> night after work trying to set it up! :)
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual monitors under linux?
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 20:36:31 -0400
i believe accelerated X (Xi graphics) has that capability for a price of
course.
isaac1 wrote:
>
> hi,
> is there a way to have dual monitors under the console or x in linux?
> thanks
>
> isaac
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