Linux-Hardware Digest #112, Volume #10 Wed, 28 Apr 99 00:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: Which Scanner Please advise (Norman Elliott)
Re: help sounblaster live and redhat 5.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Yamaha DS-XG (YMF740) support? (Jim Campbell)
Help CD-RW HP-8100
Re: Can SlackWare do it? (**Nick Brown)
Help with problem adding 2nd HD ("Wb jr")
Re: Eicon DIVA under Linux? (Martin van Roon)
Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support. (Michael Meissner)
Re: 2.2 & dual CPU (Michael Meissner)
Re: Can SlackWare do it? (Allen Wong)
Re: good networking card for linux (Greg Yantz)
EPSON Stylus Color 400 drivers (Jason)
Adaptec AHA-3950U2 ("Nathan Atkinson")
Re: SB 16 *PCI* ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: mirroring with slakware? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can SlackWare do it? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: More on Xerox Docuprint P8 (Grant Taylor)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (Alan Burns)
Printing Problem. (JLocke1122)
Need solid cheap video card for X. Any reccomendations? (Byron A Jeff)
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Scanner Please advise
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:02:53 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks Michael,
I looked at the web site and have now bought a
Mustek SE600SP. It seems the SCIS card which comes
with it is not considered to be any good so I
bought an Advansys 2930U to use with it.
I have a mind to move my hard disc and CDRom off
the Adaptec 1542 on to it and use the 1542 for
the scanner. Have you any thoughts on this?
I am still trying to get the GTK+ stuff to compile.
First I had problems with glib not finding stuff
but changed an environment variable to cure that.
Now, both before and after changing the value of
another variable I still get an error about header
version iinformation mismatches.
Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Hi,
> > I have been trying to buy a scanner here in Britain.
> > Every time I go in a store they talk about Windows.
> > I keep saying "Is it the software or the hardware
> > that needs Windows?"
> >
> > The guys in the stores seem to be as brain dead
> > as all the windows only devices.
> >
> > Can anyone say if scanners will be Okay if they
> > are SCSI or might they still not work?
> > I have an Adaptec 1542 card with a small Hard
> > drive and CDRom drive attached and am hoping
> > to buy a cheap scanner to work on my system.
> > I am run slackware 3.5 ( kernel 2.0.34 )
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
> 174 Littleton Road #3-198
> Westford, Massachusetts 01886
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: help sounblaster live and redhat 5.2
Date: 27 Apr 1999 07:47:40 +0100
Anuradha, the penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Raymond Cheung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> how can i make my soundblaster live
>> work in redhat 5.2
>> i tried sndconfig but i cannot find sb live
>> please help
>>
> After recompiling and restarting the computer, check if the sound blaster
> was detected by testing /dev/sndstat
> #cat /dev/sndstat
> The message will give an idea about the installed audio devices. Now test
> the sound system by sending an .au file to /dev/audio
> #cat /usr/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds/gong.au > /dev/audio
> Hope you will get a big BAAAANG!
Unfortunately he won't as the SB live isn't supported at all under Linux
at the moment (no drivers and no hardware compatibility with previous
soundblasters).
--
Alain Borel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Jim Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.system
Subject: Yamaha DS-XG (YMF740) support?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:05:17 -0400
Anyone --
I'd like to use a Yamaha DS-XG (YMF740) sound card on a Linux system. I
see there is some undocumented support in Alan Cox's version of the
2.2.6 kernel. Has anyone had any success with getting this to run? If
so, how? I've tried and not gotten too far, but I haven't delved deep
yet.
Alan Cox himself says he does not have this card, so he does not know
whether this will run.
Thank you,
Jim Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help CD-RW HP-8100
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 20:25:06 GMT
Hi,
I have IDE CD-RW HP-8100 run on Lunix 5.2,
How do I get IDE CDRW working on Lunix ?
I read the man page and notice that cdrecord only work with SCSI.
Thanks in advance
Minh
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can SlackWare do it?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:05:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You may have to build a kernel, or at least a module. The module name
is sbpcd, with device major ID 25. In "make xconfig", for example, it's
in the CDROM section, "Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC
CDROM support".
Otherwise, a second-hand quad-speed IDE CD drive is about $30 these days
;-).
"Alan W. Jurgensen" wrote:
>
> I have an older OPTi 82C929 sound card with proprietary panasonic CR-562
> CD-ROM...
> So, Ive verified it works in dos with Opti Sound/CD-ROM drivers...
--
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From: "Wb jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Help with problem adding 2nd HD
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 15:01:47 -0500
I am running rh5.2 and cannot seem to get a 2nd
HD to work correctly. I know this is probably simple
and I know I will probably kick myself when I see the
problem.
Here is where I am at so far:
fsdisk /dev/hdb
created hdb1-Primary-linux ex2- 1218.66mb
created directory /home/library on my 1st HD.
And this is where my problems start!
I use Linuxconf-filesystem-access local drive
to map hdb1 to /home/library
now when I open a shell window and cd /home/library
I find a copy of all my root directories and files.
"df -a" shows hdb1 is 28% used
Thanks in advance for any help.
Walter
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From: Martin van Roon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Eicon DIVA under Linux?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:05:03 +0000
Steen Suder wrote:
>
> A friend of mine just bought an Eicon DIVA ISDN 2.01 PCI, which he'd
> like to use under Linux.
> As far as I can tell from the documentation in the kernelsource (Linux
> 2.2.6), the Diva ISDN 2.0 PCI is supported. How about the 2.01?
>
> The main difference is that the 2.0 is jumper configured and the 2.01 is
> software configured.
>
> --
> Best regards / Mvh.,
> Steen Suder
> sysadm kollegie6400.dk
> GNU - makes me feel better! Ehhh, Linux is GNU, right...?
Works for me without a problem.
Martin
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support.
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 1999 21:26:01 -0400
Digital Wokan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I, too, am now running a 16MB Viper V550. I pulled a 4MB Velocity 128
> to put it in, and X started up without a hitch.
> You'll be using the SVGA XServer instead of an accelerated one, but
> that's the way it goes.
Actually, the SVGA server is accelerated for many chipsets.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
174 Littleton Road #3-198
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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Subject: Re: 2.2 & dual CPU
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 27 Apr 1999 21:49:42 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I am putting together a Linux box with either Redhat 6 or OpenLinux 2.2.
> Since Linux now is SMP-capable I thought I'd have a couple of P2-350 (they
> are really cheap these days). Would Linux use both processors by default or
> do I need special software that can use both processors?
If you install a SMP kernel, then Linux will use both processors by default.
I believe RedHat 6.0 should have a pre-compiled kernel image that supports
SMP. For RedHat 5.2, you had to build a kernel yourself (and since RedHat 5.2
used a 2.0.36 kernel, you had to edit the Makefile to turn on SMP support, in
2.2.x kernels it finally became a configuration option).
> My main application is custom simulations in S+ (stat package) which can
> really benefit from more processing power.
>
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Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
174 Littleton Road #3-198
Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Allen Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can SlackWare do it?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 14:38:21 -0700
**Nick Brown wrote:
>
> You may have to build a kernel, or at least a module. The module name
> is sbpcd, with device major ID 25. In "make xconfig", for example, it's
> in the CDROM section, "Matsushita/Panasonic/Creative, Longshine, TEAC
> CDROM support".
Uh, I think he's having trouble just installing Linux.
>
> Otherwise, a second-hand quad-speed IDE CD drive is about $30 these days
> ;-).
>
--
Linux: If you're not careful, you might actually learn something.
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From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good networking card for linux
Date: 27 Apr 1999 22:14:37 -0400
"David Travers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Using the Netgear 310TX 10/100 BaseT card.
>
> Uses the DEC Tulip chipset and works a treat under linux.
Tulip cards tend to be really nice, and much cheaper than anything
comparable from Intel or 3Com, to boot.
The one thing to watch out for is if the card uses the very latest
Tulip chips, such as the 21143. This type is supported, but you have
to use the very latest drivers. As in, out of the box Redhat 5.2
doesn't have recent enough drivers.
Getting and installing the latest drivers is a piece of cake, though,
so don't worry. All you need is at:
http://www.bmen.tulane.edu/~siekas/tulip.html
-Greg (no relation :)
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EPSON Stylus Color 400 drivers
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 17:55:38 -0400
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone found a consistent driver solution for this type of printer?
Here are the various roadblocks/successes I've had with this printer
under kernel 2.0.36, RH5.2, Ghostscript 4.3, APS script 5.0:
1) Won't print html pages correctly (Netscape). Far as I can tell, it
prints the graphics/text in a manner determined by the order of the html
scripts. Won't print in color.
2) Prints B/W in Corel WP 8.0 using the pass-thru-postscript. Won't
print in color. Have tried all available drivers, including those found
at the Corel website.
3) Prints B/W in StarOffice 5.0 using Epson Postscript CARD Postscript.
Won't print in color.
4) Does print correctly in GIMP, which comes with it's own support for
Epson Stylus Color 400 printers. (woo hoo!)
My printcap file (config'd by APS) includes options for color output,
but it appears that all output to lpr is ignoring this request, and
printing only in Postscript B/W. I've included copies of my current and
original /etc/printcap files if someone could check them out.
Thanks,
Jason :)
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="printcap"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="printcap"
##
## 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 ap3250 360x360 letter {} EpsonAP3250 Default {}
#lp:\
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
# :mx#0:\
# :sh:\
# :lp=/dev/lp1:\
# :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Sun Apr 25 22:13:03 EDT 1999
#
# APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/apsfilter
#
#
ascii|lp1|ap3250-letter-ascii-mono|ap3250 ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ap3250-letter-ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp2|ap3250-letter-auto-mono|ap3250 auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ap3250-letter-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp3|ap3250-letter-ascii-color|ap3250 ascii color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-ascii-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ap3250-letter-ascii-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp4|ap3250-letter-auto-color|ap3250 auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-letter-auto-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ap3250-letter-auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp5|ap3250-letter-raw|ap3250 auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/ap3250-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ap3250-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL ap3250 360x360 letter {} EpsonAP3250 Default {}
lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
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Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="printcap.old"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="printcap.old"
#
# 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 ap3250 360x360 letter {} EpsonAP3250 Default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
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From: "Nathan Atkinson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AHA-3950U2
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:21:11 -0500
Will the adaptec 3950 Ultra2 SCSI card work under any of the 2.x.x kernels?
also does anyone have any experience on sharing 17 CD drives?
Nathan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SB 16 *PCI*
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:58:15 GMT
Are you sure it's SB16 ?? Most likely it's SB64 and it uses
Ensonique AudioPCI chipset - you need completely different
drivers for it under Linux.
Vladimir Dergachev
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: mirroring with slakware?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 02:38:13 GMT
If you're using IDE drives, the Arco DupliDisk offers a fairly inexpensive
hardware mirroring solution that writes data to both drives at the same time.
http://www.arcoide.com
But, I agree that you still need a removable backup in addition to mirroring
in case of a software glitch, fire, flood, etc.
Donna Barron
In article <7g4pu5$lqd$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Bob Bevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Rod Roark wrote in message <7fv5bc$j0c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >>Bob Bevins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>IS there a way to mirror a drive? So the system writes to both drives at
> >the
> >>>same time or close to the same time?
> >>
> >>Sure. See http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/mini/Software-RAID.html.
> >thanks
> >>
> >>But don't plan on this being an alternative to backups. It's not.
> >Why is it not an alternative for backups. If I am writing to two discs the
> >same thing and the first one fails
> >then i could just boot off the second one no?
>
> Mirroring protects only against disk failure. There are plenty of
> other ways to hose your system (power failure, bad memory, software
> bugs, operator error, theft, etc.) which are more likely.
>
> -- Rod
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
> http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can SlackWare do it?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 03:00:48 GMT
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999 13:36:21 +0000, "Alan W. Jurgensen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an older OPTi 82C929 sound card with proprietary panasonic CR-562
>CD-ROM...
>
>I'm tring to install Red-Hat 5.2 ... no dice. Have tried
>soundblaster/panasonic CD-ROM type... but wont detect it.
Why don't you copy files onto harddrive and install from there ?
it is a good idea to have two partitions anyway.
Vladimir Dergachev
PS Slackware is good if you don't mind reading manuals, reading
more manuals and doing everything by hand. Suits me, because once
you read'em you know'em..
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More on Xerox Docuprint P8
Date: 27 Apr 1999 23:21:14 -0400
"Donald E. Stidwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In regards to my previous post on the Xerox Docuprint P8, and
> especially for Grant Taylor's listing in the Printing HOWTO:
> The Docuprint P8 and P8e are two entirely different printers in spite of the
> name similarity. Xerox makes this point explicitly on thier web page.
Check. I've got the database all straightend out...
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Cellphone information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/cell/
Libretto information: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
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From: Alan Burns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 21:37:14 -0500
On Tue, 27 Apr 1999, David Steuber wrote:
>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.
....except for the fact that Microsoft doesn't have anything to do with
any of that. You can't hold Microsoft responsible for the decisions of
modem manufacturers. DUH!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (JLocke1122)
Subject: Printing Problem.
Date: 28 Apr 1999 03:24:05 GMT
I am running redhat linux 5.2. I have a HP Laserjet 4p setup as a network
printer.
When I print something from one of the systems on the network, the printer will
print the Job page fine, when the second or more pages print, some of the
printing becomes garbled. This may also be a random problem. I know it is not
the printer, as it workes perfect connected directly into a windows 98 system.
I can't find any information for my problem.
Any Ideas anyone?
Jeremy...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Byron A Jeff)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Need solid cheap video card for X. Any reccomendations?
Date: 27 Apr 1999 22:18:45 -0400
Hey folks,
I gave my reliable 2MB S3 Trio to my father and thinking there's little
difference bought a 4MB S3 Virge/DX. It's been nothing the trouble with
corrupted displays under X. I've tried the latest copies of X3.3.3.1 both
SVGA and S3V with little success.
I'm at the point where I ready to scrap it but I'm not sure what to replace it
with. I need to following features:
- 2MB RAM minimum. 4MB perferable.
- 135 Mhz dot clock minimum to drive my ViewSonic 17 monitor.
- Solid Xfree86 Support.
- AGP perferable (have a slot for it) PCI acceptable. No ISA slots available.
- Cost under $30
I've seen Matrox G200 which fit the first 4 criteria, but the cost puts me off.
I'm not real finicky and I don't push video cards real hard, mostly just
netscape, text windows, and the occasional X app.
Any suggestions? E-mail my a copy of your response if you can...
Thanks in advance.
BAJ
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