Linux-Hardware Digest #107, Volume #10 Tue, 27 Apr 99 12:13:57 EDT
Contents:
Sound card help ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Re: Linux Sound Help! (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Rod=E9ric?= MEGE)
restoring keyboard repeat (Phil Howard)
Re: HP 694C (Stew Benedict)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (David Steuber)
Rage Fury (Rage 128) Problems ("Woodpacker")
Re: S3 Virge/DX (again) (Pat Crean)
Re: making linux go away ("Jerome PAYS")
guillemot sound card ("Anne-Gael.HERVE")
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
Re: Bad Experience With ComputerWarehouse.com ("Thomas T. Veldhouse")
Re: Winmodems and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Winmodems and Linux (Rob Clark)
Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0 (Ken Ho)
Digiboard PCIMAC ("news.eunet.be")
Re: Xerox Docuprint P8 (Chain-Wu Lee)
Re: UDMA-Modes with Kernel 2.2.5 ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Linux cannot find my EtherExpress Pro/10. Is it because it's PnP enabled?
(1010011010)
Re: Programmers are gods (Donal K. Fellows)
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From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound card help
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:15:19 +0100
Hi all.
I have a SB 16 Pnp ISA card and kernel 2.2.6.
I set it up using isapnp to IOs 0x220, 0x330 and 0x388; IRQ 5; DMAs 1 and 5.
What I don't know exactly is how to modify conf.modules.
Currently I have these lines:
alias mysound sb
options -k mysound io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
alias mymidi opl3
options -k mymidi io=0x388
I saw elsewhere that I sould 'alias char-major-14 sb'. Is this necessary for
every piece of hardware?
I don't currently have that alias in conf.modules.
The problem I'm having is when I 'modprobe sb', I get it trying to hook into
IRQ7 and finding a conflict (of course). Why is it trying to get IRQ7
instead of IRQ5?
I saw also a line 'alias sound sb' in many docs. If I do that, I get several
unresolved symbols (maybe because of conflict between alias sound and module
sound.o)
Any help (by email pls) would be appreciated.
TIA,
Andr�
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Rod=E9ric?= MEGE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Sound Help!
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:54:17 +0200
Hi !
I'm not a gourou on Linux but I buy RedHat 5.1 and sound was very crap
to configure.
Now I've got 5.2 version and it works !!!!! This new version seems to be
more stable.
Roderic MEGE.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Howard)
Subject: restoring keyboard repeat
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 11:29:53 GMT
When I disconnect the keyboard and connect it back, the repeat rate
changes to slower. Simply doing a soft reboot (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-Del or
"shutdown -r now") will, when the system is back up, restore the full
keyboard repeat rate.
Is there a way to manually or explicitly do this without rebooting?
A command? An ioctrl() call?
--
Phil Howard KA9WGN
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stew Benedict)
Subject: Re: HP 694C
Date: 27 Apr 1999 12:07:34 GMT
Reply-To: stewb AT earthlink DOT net
I'm not at the right machine now, but I've got a working setup for the
693C at home. Email me privately and I can give you the specifics.
Stew
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 00:00:46 -0700, Beverley Eyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone have the filter that will allow me to print
>postscript? I got the hpdj 'patch', but I still need the filter.
>
>TIA
>
>Beverley
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From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: 27 Apr 1999 01:51:50 -0400
John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
-> Bill Volk wrote:
->
-> > I think the issue should be made much more visable. In addition I can't
-> > imagine why someone like 3COM couldn't figure out how to make a Linux driver
-> > for their PCMCIA modem.
->
-> I'm sure they could if they wanted. But the entire "raison
-> d'etre" for Winmodems is cheapness, so why why bother
-> investing in anything but the most popular platform?
Has the issue of Winmodems been brought up in the DOJ case against
Microsoft? It seems that designing hardware that can only work with
Windows is a great way to maintain a monopoly.
--
David Steuber
http://www.david-steuber.com
If you wish to reply by mail, _please_ replace 'trashcan' with 'david'
in the e-mail address. The trashcan account really is a trashcan.
"You are old," said the youth, "one would hardly suppose
That your eye was as steady as ever;
Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose --
What made you so awfully clever?"
"I have answered three questions, and that is enough,"
Said his father. "Don't give yourself airs!
Do you think I can listen all day to such stuff?
Be off, or I'll kick you down stairs!"
-- Lewis Carrol
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From: "Woodpacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Rage Fury (Rage 128) Problems
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:20:51 +0200
Hello,
Have anyone a X-Server for Linux6.1 beta ?
.....to support the ATI Rage Fury Card
I have trying all various options....... "li�murks�" doesn�t work on
standard VGA Options
and fall in deep Sleep.... like Win98 -> So I press Hardware Reset (Soft
doesn`t work, Linux hang and will not shut down)
I hope you can Help me
THANX
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From: Pat Crean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Virge/DX (again)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 07:07:06 -0400
1) Yes, it will work.
2) Yes, you can just grab the 3.3.3.1 server and it will work.
3) XF86_SVGA is the recommended XFree86 server for the S3 Virge. XF86_S3V,
however works better with some applications. In particular, Netscape and
WordPerfect work perfectly with the S3V server (at 24bpp) but have problems
displaying icons (either colors or bitmaps) with the SVGA server. xanim won't
work at all with the SVGA server, Star Office 5.0 works with the SVGA server,
but causes an extreme hardware lockup if you try to use it with the S3V server.
Pat
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, **Nick Brown wrote:
>It seems like this has been asked loads of times before, but I didn't
>see a precise answer:
>
>Xfree86 3.3.2.3 has support for "S3 Virge". I have an "S3
>Virge/DX"-based card, which apparently is supported in 3.3.3.1.
>
>1) Will this work (even if not using 100% of the acceleration) with "S3
>Virge" ?
>2) If I get Xfree86 3.3.3.1, can I just install the latest S3v driver,
>rather than having to
>install all of it (my X setup is nice and stable right now) ?
>
>--
>---------------------------------------------------------------
>Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
>
>Protect yourself against Word 95/97 viruses, free - check out
> http://www.geocities.com/NapaValley/Vineyard/1446/atlas-t.html
>---------------------------------------------------------------
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From: "Jerome PAYS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 23:17:16 +0200
LILO is installed in the Master Boot Record of your disk, so you have to
replace it with another OS loader if you want your disk to be able to boot.
If you want to use Win95 or 98, just install it again over your old
installation, and it will replace LILO.
mike mathog a �crit dans le message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I did an install of Red Hat at one point, and now I just want it gone.
>
>Using FDISK to blow away the partitions though doesn't seem to do the
>trick. The LILO boot still comes up. If I disconnect the drive and put
>another one there even, then the machine just keeps asking me to reboot
>over and over.
>
>How do I get rid of Linux in the boot sector (I guess that's where it
>is) once and for all?
>
>thanks,
>-mike
>
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From: "Anne-Gael.HERVE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: guillemot sound card
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:20:47 +0200
Does anybody know where to find drivers for guillemot 3D sound card??
thanks
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From: westprog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:38:44 GMT
In article <7g2f92$vpj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> What Pike (and Steve McConnel in _Code Complete_) is getting at is the idea
> that code should be self-documenting. IOW, that this:
>
> int Fred(STRUCT1& a, int b)
> {
> // Fred is used to determine if a given system drive is a CD Rom
>
> char c = (char)b; int d = GetDriveInfo(a, c); //Load Drive Info about
> drive c into Struct a return (a.DriveType && 0x01000); //0x01000 is the byte
> that determines if //a drive is a CD ROM) }
>
> is inferior to this:
>
> #define CD_ROM_DRIVE 0x01000
> #define RETURNED_TRUE 1
> #define RETURNED_FALSE 0
> #define RETURNED_ERROR -1
>
> int IsCDRom(char cDriveLetter, DRIVE_INFO &tzDriveInfo)
> {
> int nInfo = GetDriveInfo(tzDriveInfo, cDriveLetter);
> if(nInfo = RETURNED_ERROR)
> return RETURNED_ERROR;
> if(tzDriveInfo.DriveType && CD_ROM_DRIVE = CD_ROM_DRIVE)
> return RETURNED_TRUE;
> return RETURNED_FALSE;
> }
> Personally, I believe that even self-documenting code can use some commenting.
> (In the above example, I imagine I'd want to mention the fact that tzDriveInfo
> is filled with the drive information inside the funtion, since i can't imagine
> how to self-document that.
> --Elo
An extra clue would be given by
bool IsCDRom(char cDriveLetter, DRIVE_INFO &tzDriveInfo)
(or on some setups)
BOOL IsCDRom(char cDriveLetter, DRIVE_INFO &tzDriveInfo)
This makes it immediately obvious that the function returns true or false.
(I know that bool is not a real type in C/C++, but its purpose is quite
different to an int.) If you don't have a bool type defined,
#define bool int
will do the trick. I would prefer
#define boolean int
but the C standard seems to be bool.
CORBA allows you to apply "in" and "out" modifiers to function parameters. I
think that the latest C++ standard allows this. Pascal has the VAR indicator
and C++ the '&' reference indicator, but these don't prove that the parameter
is boing to be modified - it may just be a more efficient way to pass the
parameter. In the above example, you would probably pass the parameter as
const if it were not to be modified, but you can't be sure. C/C++ confuses
efficiency considerations with functionality, with a
In "A Discipline Of Programming", Dijkstra recommends that we distinguish
clearly between variables that need to be initialised, variables that can be
modified, and constants. He even allows for initialising constants which
cannot then be further modified. A language that enforced this kind of
classification would remove the need for additional comments.
J.
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From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux,news.admin.net-abuse.email
Subject: Re: Bad Experience With ComputerWarehouse.com
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:02:10 -0500
This is NOT CDW is it?
I have had excellent experience with CDW.
Tom Veldhouse
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thomas Keats wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>
>Marty Allred wrote:
>
>> In article <7el9q2$ogj$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> > I know alot of us are out building our own servers and workstations.
>> >
>> > Here's an unfortunate experience I had with one vendor:
>> >
>> > ComputerWarehouse (www.computerwarehouse.com)
>> >
>> --snip--
>>
>> Out here where ComputerWarehouse is a local business (Sacramento, CA), it
is
>> commonly referred to as Computer Whorehouse. Based on a comment from one
of
>> their former employees, I went in with their ad in hand to get a great
price
>> on a motherboard. "Oh, sorry, it isn't in stock, would you like this
other
>> one instead?" I told them no and left. After about 10 minutes, a coworker
of
>> mine went in without the ad, acted like he didn't know which motherboard
he
>> wanted and worked it so that they sold him the one that was in the ad,
but
>> for about $20 more. When he pulled the ad out of his pocket to get the
sale
>> price, the sales clerk got pissed off at him.
>>
>> They have a reputation for unethical/illegal practices, really poor
technical
>> support and bad/used merchandise.
>
>in a word. PATHETIC!!!
>
>One wonders why they are still in business?
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 12:39:09 GMT
In article <7fu6u9$i00$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John L. Spetz) wrote:
>
> I imagine the modem maker could write and provide a Linux driver if they
> wished. There are two reasons many modem makers would refuse:
> 1) Insistance that a Windoze only stance is more cost effective
> 2) Reluctance to release a driver with open source
>
> I wonder. With all the agreements a few months back between Linux and
> hardware vendors to improve support are there any announced plans for
> software driver or simply PCI modems that support Linux? I imagine
> there is a nice niche market taking shape for a responsive modem vendor.
Excuse my ignorance here, I'm extremely new to the whole Linux "movement".
My understanding is that applications/drivers/software can be distubuted
in/under Linux as binaries/RPMS only and that source code does not have to be
released (Intel i740 XServer drivers being a case).
If this is true,what is stopping hardware manufactures' from producing and
releasing binaries for Linux?? How does this differ from what they do with
Windows?? Obviously we already have the hardware, because if duplicating
hardware was as easy as duplicating software then we would have all got a
"56K, ISA non-PNP, works-with-Linux modem' from our mate down the road a long
time ago.
Again, I am quite happy to be corrected on anything I may have gotten wrong.
Troy
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:52:40 GMT
In article <7g4b5d$k0b$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
>If this is true,what is stopping hardware manufactures' from producing and
>releasing binaries for Linux?? How does this differ from what they do with
>Windows?? Obviously we already have the hardware, because if duplicating
[..]
This is a very good question, and one that should be put to the marketing
and/or support departments of the modem manufacturers.
However, there are just a few big-name manufacturers who really design
their own modems, it seems (3Com/USR would be one). The rest do a kind of
kit construction based on Rockwell/Lucent/PCtel/etc. chipsets and the
chipset manufacturers supply the driver software. An extreme example of
this phenomenon is the Lucent LT Winmodems.
In comp.dcom.modems, a Lucent representative has said the market for Linux
is not big enough for them to commit resources to it, and their customers
(the modem manufacturers) are not demanding Linux software:
http://x16.dejanews.com/[ST_rn=qs]/getdoc.xp?AN=445319052
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: Ken Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.protocols.smb,linux.samba,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color II printer and Samba 2.0.3 and NT Workstation 4.0
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:05:34 +0800
Bleh wrote:
> Here's my current /etc/printcap... What do I change?
>
> #######################################
> #
> # Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
> # Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
> # Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
> #
> # This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
>
> ##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL uniprint NAxNA letter {} U_EpsonStylusColor stc2 1
> lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
>
Should be something like this:
lp0:\
:rw:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:fx=flp:
Ken
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From: "news.eunet.be" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Digiboard PCIMAC
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 16:32:08 +0200
Hello,
Has anyone experience (or for that matter drivers) for a Digiboard PCIMAC
ISA card on Linux 2.2.5. ?
The only thing I find is support for certain PCI cards.
Thanks,
Yves Van de Weyer.
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From: Chain-Wu Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Xerox Docuprint P8
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:23:41 GMT
>Hmm. This is the second report I've seen of troubles with the P8. It
>seems like it should be just another PCL laser printer, but perhaps
>that is not the case.
>What exactly have you tried, and what happened? What error messages
>have you seen? What versions of the kernel, Ghostscript, and such are
>you running?
>If anyone answers Chain-Wu with P8 information, be sure to post in in
>this thread, and I'll update the compatibility database with any
>information that appears.
I am using redhat 5.2/kernel 2.2.5/ghostscript 4.03 which comes with RH5.2.
I tried to use printtool to setup the printer but seems it cannot detect
anything attached to the lp* ports, then I try to send something to lp0, I can
see the job in the spool but the printer won't move a bit so I have to lprm
it manually. I think if the printer is there, even though not setup
properly, will print some garbage out, but nothing happened. I guess
I am out of luck.
Somebody told me that Xerox docuprint P8 is a win printer. Xerox never mentioned
on their hardware description, nor on their ad. This makes me a very unhappy
customer. Even though I can dual boot back to win95, I still got trouble
printing postscript files.
-Chain-Wu
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From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA-Modes with Kernel 2.2.5
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:18:32 +0100
Check:
http://www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
HTH,
Andr�
Daniel Schnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I dont know if it hasnt already been asked by soemone else, but I want
> to use my both DMA-2 harddisks Fujitsu MPC3064 AT and IBM DTTA351010 in
> their fastest mode. Nevertheless my kernel just uses PIO-3. I have a new
> ASUS P5A-B motherborad with VIA-Chipset. I get the following messages
> when booting the kernel:
>
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
>
> Is there a possibility to use UDMA-33 with 2.2.5 and later ??
>
> Best regards,
>
> Daniel.
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1010011010 )
Subject: Linux cannot find my EtherExpress Pro/10. Is it because it's PnP enabled?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:48:03 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
How can I get my Red Hat 5.0 Linux to identify my PnP Intel
Etherexpress Pro/10???? Do I need to disable the PnP??? How do I do
that? There's no info on Intel's website on how to do that, and the
card just came with my cable modem installation, without and drivers
or manuals or anything.... what do I do? I'm new to linux, so I don't
understand exactly what 'compiling the kernel' and stuff like that
means (sorry!) I suppose I can learn, but I wish there were
step-by-step walkthroughs for that type of stuff. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!!!! I need to get online!!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
TIA
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donal K. Fellows)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: 27 Apr 1999 11:53:16 GMT
In article <7g3t49$8m2$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There's nothing worse than being given some code which has failed
> and has no comments - except discovering that it was you who wrote
> is 5 years ago ;-)
Yes there is. Finding that you've only got the stripped static
binary. No comments, no source, no linker symbols. I've done it
once, and hope never to do it again.
Donal.
--
Donal K. Fellows http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~fellowsd/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-- The small advantage of not having California being part of my country would
be overweighed by having California as a heavily-armed rabid weasel on our
borders. -- David Parsons <o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s>
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