Linux-Hardware Digest #114, Volume #10 Wed, 28 Apr 99 13:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Winmodems and Linux (The Ghost In The Machine)
Boot messages with VIA chipset (Alessio Checcucci)
Re: Sound Help! (Janos Ero)
Re: Help CD-RW HP-8100 (Christer Gr�nbladh)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (John Thompson)
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 help ("Ruslan O. Nesterov")
Re: Programmers are gods (westprog)
Re: Can SlackWare do it? (**Nick Brown)
Re: 4th message: PLEASE HELP -->AVA1502 SCSI card <-- ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: DTC SCSI Card Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel 2.2 + dual CPU ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SuSe 6.0 and HP 695c (KreLL)
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems ("Wolfgang Goettert")
Re: sndconfig - PnP problems (Robin)
Re: Diamond Monster Sound MX300 help ("Ruslan O. Nesterov")
Re: Seagate TapeStor 8GB SCSI tape drive question (Marc Mutz)
Xerox DocuPrint P8e (Ron Tarrant)
Re: Need solid cheap video card for X. Any reccomendations? (**Nick Brown)
Iomega Zip Drive Problems RH 5.2 (Walter Dail)
Re: SB AWE32 Don't Do Stereo No More! (**Nick Brown)
Re: SB 16 *PCI* (Greg H.)
Re: Winmodems and Linux (Shimpei Yamashita)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (The Ghost In The Machine)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: 27 Apr 1999 14:56:03 GMT
On 27 Apr 1999 01:51:50 -0400,
David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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.
It's also a good way to make money, apparently. Skip the hardware
that's no longer needed 'cuz the micro can do all the work,
and one can save a bundle selling hundreds of thousands of units.
(Mind you, how much does a UART/USART cost? 5 cents? 5 bucks? :-) )
I wouldn't mind WinModems so much if they weren't so damned
proprietary, but I hope this trend doesn't continue much longer.
(WinPrinters???)
[.sigsnip]
----
[EMAIL PROTECTED], wondering how much that poor microprocessor can take
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From: Alessio Checcucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot messages with VIA chipset
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 11:29:46 +0200
Please could you help me to understand the messages i get at Linux boot.
I am using Slackware 3.6 with kernel 2.2.6 .
I have 2 completely different machines:
the first one has a Tyan Trinity AT 100 motherboard (chipset VIA Apollo
MVP3) and AMD K6-2 350Mhz processor.
the second (older) has a FIC PA-2002 motherboard (chipset VIA Apollo
Master) and IDT C6 200Mhz processor.
At boot, when entering the IDE controller recongnizing and
inizialization phase, i get the following messages (with both the
machines):
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
but when (after the boot phase) i log into the system and make a cat
/proc/pci
I see something like (on the first machine):
Bus 0, device 7, function 1
IDE interface: VIA tecnologies VT 82C586 Apollo IDE (rev. 6)
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. Master capable. Latency=64.
I/O at 0xe000 [0xe001]
and something similar on the second computer, so i suppose the
controller has been properly
recongnized and it's working well.
Is anyone able to explain me this kind of behave and if affects the
Intel and Ali chipsets too?
Thanks a lot
--
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Alessio Checcucci
Osservatorio astrofisico di Arcetri
L.go E. Fermi, 5
50125 Firenze (Italy)
Fax +39-055-2752(292)
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From: Janos Ero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Help!
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:14:17 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I am running Redhat 5.1.
> I have an Ensoniq audio PCI sound card.
> Is there any way to get sound working in Linux?
> Any help you can offer would be great,
According the table this is the same as the
SoundBlaster PCI cards. I managed to setup them
using the ASLA drivers: http://www.alsa-project.org/
Unfortunately I still did not manage to
use it for KDE system sounds. The KDE
sound mixer however works well.
Janos Ero
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From: Christer Gr�nbladh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help CD-RW HP-8100
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:04:24 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>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
Hi,
you have to recomplie your kernel, and disabel, ide cdrom support, and a=
dd
scsi emulation and generic scsi support, you might have to add something =
else
look in the README.Linux... and it's linux not lunix :)
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 18:37:04 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
Developing, maintaining and supporting the necessary drivers
costs money. Since each platform supported will bring
different support issues and require people with different
knowledge in the support department, to offer this for a
minority platform (like linux, or OS/2 or BeOS, etc.) is a
money-losing proposition. The only real reason Winmodems
are even offered is cheapness; they allow a PC manufacturer
a little more profit in a market where the margins are
already very tight. It just doesn't make economic sense for
the Winmodem manufacturers to support anything but Windows.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Ruslan O. Nesterov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Monster Sound MX300 help
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:04:10 +0400
Good day,
I have the following sound card. And cant make it work under RedJHat Linux
5.2.
Any one can help me??????????/
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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: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:51:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> westprog wrote:
> > 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.
> Mm hm. Tried that in some of my early assembly code. Want to maintain it?
There is a huge difference between imposing a discipline on yourself when
writing assembler, and working with a language with a set of compile time
rules.
A language that required that variables be declared, typed, initialised and
modified in that order would catch a variety of bugs at compile time which
otherwise would get into the running program. In the world of C, all kinds of
tools and programming disciplines have been applied to try to fix this
problem. Why not let the compiler do it?
J.
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can SlackWare do it?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:11:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Oh shit, you're right. I should read more closely. Duhhhh. *gunshot*
Allen Wong wrote:
> Uh, I think he's having trouble just installing Linux.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 4th message: PLEASE HELP -->AVA1502 SCSI card <--
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:31:32 GMT
Ernesto Mottola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Iomega Zip Plus on a Iomega Zip Zoom SCSI card; it is an
> Adaptec AVA-1502, which should work with aha152x driver. I give:
> modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x140,9,7
> and get:
> 1 controller detected [.....] probing software interrupt: 9: software
> interrupt lost, maybe wrong. [.... ] SCSI 0 hosts
> SCSI detected total (!!)
I'm sorry to hear this isn't working for you yet Ernesto. My next
suggestion would be to jumper the zoom board to IRQ 11 (see the
instruction manual), go into your BIOS setup and reserve that IRQ, and
change your modprobe line accordingly. I don't know why IRQ 9 isn't
working, but you may as well try all the combos you can.
Good luck!
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: DTC SCSI Card Problems
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:36:39 GMT
Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Gene Heskett sends Greetings to DV8MCSE ;
>> Aha152x: Bios test passed, detected one controller
>> Aha152x0: vital data; PORTABASE=0x340, IRQ=10, SCSI ID =7,
>> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
>> extended translation=disabled Aha152x: Trying software interrupt,
>> lost. Aha152x: Irq10 possibly wrong. Please verify SCSI0: Adaptec
>> 152x scsi driver; $Revision 1.18$
> That may indeed be the wrong IRQ. I put an aha1502 on 0x340,11,7 and a
> few more options, and just now put a drive to use on it.
Also, check in both /proc/pci and /proc/interrupts that nothing else
is using that IRQ. IF something is, reserve the IRQ in your BIOS setup.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2 + dual CPU
Date: 28 Apr 1999 12:44:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am putting a Linux box together. I will have either RedHat 6 or Caldera 2.2
> in it. My question is this. I know that kernel 2.2 is SMP ready and a dual
> P2-350 is really attractive right now. Will Linux automatically use both
> processors for all software or do programs have to explicitly use SMP. In
> other words, will I benifit right away from both CPUs or would I need to get
> SMP-aware software.
> My primary application is custom simulations in S-Plus (stat package).
Well, for a single application to use both processors, it has to be SMP
aware. However, on a dual box, e.g., you can have two instances of an
app running with no speed penalty. Also, even when running one instance
of a very intensive app, your system will still be completely responsive.
I'm running kernel 2.2.5 on a dual PII-450 box, and it is very, very nice.
Gobs of RAM is always nice too -- I've got 512 MB on this box, which is
intended for large FEM simulations.
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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (KreLL)
Subject: SuSe 6.0 and HP 695c
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 07:33:49 -0400
Can someone PLEASE tell me what I am doing wrong??
What settings should I use in YAST to configure this thing properly?
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From: "Wolfgang Goettert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: sndconfig - PnP problems
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:55:43 +0100
Post or e-mail me the configuration file sndconfig writes (isapnp.conf or
something in /etc, I am not at home in the moment) and I may be able to help
you.
Kind regards
Wolfgang
Use for reply: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Robin wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>And if you have used that and it still doesn't work?
>I have this problem ( Turbolinux ) uses RH's pnptools
>
>Regards Robin
>
>Jan Johansson wrote:
>
>> Do it the right way with "pnpisatools"
>
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:03:19 +1200
From: Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: sndconfig - PnP problems
And if you have used that and it still doesn't work?
I have this problem ( Turbolinux ) uses RH's pnptools
Regards Robin
Jan Johansson wrote:
> Do it the right way with "pnpisatools"
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From: "Ruslan O. Nesterov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Monster Sound MX300 help
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:07:56 +0400
Good day,
Well It seems to be a vortex chip on it. And i read all the online
documentation on the diamond. Nothing, It's not a sound blaster compactable.
Unfortunatly.
Best wishes,
Ruslan O. Nesterov
Anders Nielsen wrote in message ...
>I sorry to say that I have the same problem. But I think that we are going
>to wait some more time before we can use it. It seems that the irq and the
>dma etc. is only configured to SB emulation when using the dos driver.
>But it is only a guess.
>
>Hmm I think i'll write a message to Diamond to hear what they say about it
>and I can only ask ALL of you out ther with a MX300 to do the same. This
way
>we can show them that there MX300 users on the Linux platform.
>
>Ruslan O. Nesterov wrote in message <7g6fb8$oc0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>Good day,
>> I have the following sound card. And cant make it work under RedJHat
>Linux
>>5.2.
>>Any one can help me??????????/
>>
>>
>
>
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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:26:43 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Seagate TapeStor 8GB SCSI tape drive question
Shuang Ji wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36) and just installed a Seagate
> TapeStor internal SCSI tape drive onto it. The drive uses Travan TR-4
> tapes with 4GB native and 8GB hardware-compressed capacity. Linux has
> found it and reading/writing the drive seems fine. However, I have a few
> questions. Since the tape drive uses hardware compression to achieve 8GB
> capacity, do I have perform any setup to turn this compression on? Is
> this compression on by default by the hardware? How can I find out
> whether compression is being used?
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Shuang
I'll try
dd if=/dev/random of=/dev/<yourTapeHere> bs=<blocksize here (try 1024)>
(see man dd). This copies random numbers onto the tape drive (so use an
empty medium) until it get a 'drive full' or the like. It then print the
number of Block read and written, and if they amount to more or less
exactly 4GB, hw compression is disabled (obviously) This is also great
to check the speed of your drive.
Marc
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From: Ron Tarrant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xerox DocuPrint P8e
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 08:00:53 -0400
Does anyone have the Xerox DocuPrint P8e working with any version of
Linux? This printer is not to be confused with the Xerox DocuPrint P8
(no 'e') which is a so-called Windows printer. The info on the Xerox
site says it uses the PCL5e language and therefore it should work, but
scuttlebutt on some of the news groups says that there are problems
getting Linux to talk to it. If anyone has more information one way or
the other about this printer, please post it here.
Thanks.
-Ron Tarrant
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Need solid cheap video card for X. Any reccomendations?
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:50:44 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've had my S3 Virge/DX for 48 hours now (so I'm an expert :-) ) and it
works fine with 3.3.2.3 (SVGA) on KDE/Debian.
So either I'm about to encounter problems, or your card is bad, or
you're a foreign spy and X has detected it and is punishing you, you
naughty man you. Or maybe you should try 3.2.2.3 ?
The Virge replaced a Matrox Mystique PCI which was fine (but only had 2
MB and my neighbour only has 1 MB, so I'll pass my 2 MB card on to
her). If you don't need AGP screaming 3D performance then try your
local PC dealer for a used PCI Matrox Millennium or Mystique - they've
probably got one from a gamer who changes video cards every six months.
Byron A Jeff wrote:
> 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.
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From: Walter Dail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Zip Drive Problems RH 5.2
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 15:50:07 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Zip100 parallel port drive that works fine under NT but
using RH5.2 I'm having problems with the ppa module loading and
mounting the drive. I keep getting "device or resource busy" error
messages and ppa will not reconize the parallel port on 278 or 378
after changing the bios for the port. lp module is not being loaded
either. I checked this using the lsmod command. I've tried doing a
clean installation from scratch also and after choosing the "Install
SCSI"
menu and the parallel port ppa driver off of the Redhat menu, it still
doesn't see it. I'm using a Tyan S1564D Dual P166MMX board. The /mnt/zip
directory is there also. I've even tried "ppa=0x278" to try to force it
on that port to no avail. Help!
Thanks,
Walter
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB AWE32 Don't Do Stereo No More!
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 13:53:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No idea, but as I have the same sound card and the same (cool) album,
I'll definitely be able to reproduce the problem at home this evening.
I wonder if Dave Gregory has introduced a virus ?
Gregory Kagel wrote:
> Basking in the fruits of my labors, which basically amounted to asking
> someone else how to to it, I was playing with the CD Player in KDE,
> listening to XTC's "Oranges and Lemons." Checking out all the features of
> the player and the mixer, I discovered that when I moved the balance slider
> to the left, I GOT SHIT!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg H.)
Subject: Re: SB 16 *PCI*
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 12:20:37 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
There actually is a PCI version of the SB16 out there. I
saw it at CompUSA this past weekend.
Greg H.
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From: Shimpei Yamashita <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Winmodems and Linux
Date: 28 Apr 1999 15:44:14 +0100
Dave Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I read an article in a local comp rag a week or so back announcing an
>agreement between Intel and Microsoft to produce a Winboard ...
>motherboard with cut down WinIO that only runs with a new version of MS
>windows containing Winboard drivers. MS are due to release other apps
>(Office etc) that will only run on Winboard PC's.
And happy April Fools Day to you too!
Although I have to admit I was fooled for a while as well....
--
Shimpei Yamashita <http://www.submm.caltech.edu/%7Eshimpei/>
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