Linux-Hardware Digest #116, Volume #10 Wed, 28 Apr 99 21:13:38 EDT
Contents:
How to run Trident 3DImage975 -based videocards (Andrew Comech)
CD Changers, and Pioneer DRM-604 in particular ("David Lemley")
can't figure out how to configure OPTi931 soundcard ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new computer..... (See signature for email address)
Re: unrecognized memory by linux (jason)
Prob with Buslogic BT-542B scsi adapter (Chris Abajian)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
GLIB,GTK+ and GIMP (Norman Elliott)
RedHat 6.0 adaptec U2W install ("Aaron Tunnell")
Re: Programmers are gods ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Still Modem problems. ("Elliott Paiken")
Re: RH5.2 and HP DAT SureStore (Michael Meissner)
creative webcam I - I got the specs... (Matthias Wientapper)
PS/2 and USB (Ben Janssen)
3COM 3CCFE54TB PCMCIA 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet card (Michael James Weiskopff)
Re: Seagate TapeStor 8GB SCSI tape drive question (Michael Meissner)
Linux Port ("Erik Wahlstrom")
Re: restoring keyboard repeat (See signature for email address)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How to run Trident 3DImage975 -based videocards
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 28 Apr 1999 13:00:27 -0500
Hi,
Many people complained they could not run videocards with Trident
3DImage975 (9750) chipset at decent resolutions (usually, the screen
just remained black at something like 1024x768).
I also spent some time on a Jaton videocard with this chipset, and now
I can squeeze any resolution out of it (up to 1200x1024), with decent
color depths:
bpp/resolution 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1152x864 1200x1024
8 * * * * *
16 * * * * *
24 * * * - -
32 * * * - -
The recipe is kind-of simple, but strange: one needs to use _particular_
orders of resolutions in the "Modes" line. (I did not touch Modelines.)
The details are at
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
If you have time and need to try this recipe, I'd appreciate to hear
from you whether this (or some modification) solves your problems with
this chipset.
Hope this will help someone,
Andrew
PS. I guess this would also work for 3DImage985 chipset... I do not know.
PPS. for personal answers, please finger out my login name.
--
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From: "David Lemley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD Changers, and Pioneer DRM-604 in particular
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:11:43 -0500
Hi all;
Has anyone had luch in getting the Pioneer DRM-604 to work successfully with
RH 5.2?
The system seems to recognize the disk, and mounting the devices causes the
disks to be selected, etc., but I get errors, and the filesystem cannot be
read. The device is in mint condition (despite being vintage 1994; I never
could get it to work acceptably with Win 95. I could read disks, but Win 95
kept remounting all of them periodically).
Has anyone had success with this device?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't figure out how to configure OPTi931 soundcard
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:39:22 GMT
any one please can help me with configuring an OPTi931 PnP sound card on
Redhat linux 5.2 ?? i'm using Kernel 2.0.36 help please!!!
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From: no#@^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (See signature for email address)
Subject: Re: new computer.....
Date: 28 Apr 99 20:50:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I am planning to buy a new computer and I was wondering what processors run
: best under Linux. There can be a fast [and cheap] 433MHz Celeron or a
: slower 350MHz Pentium II. Does anyone suggest anything? Any suggestions
: will be taken into consideration. Also, what's a good online computer store
: that pre-installs Linux on new computer?
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From: jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: unrecognized memory by linux
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 18:17:29 -0400
"Robert B. Andrews" wrote:
>
> I have 2 64M dims, and during the memory test the bios tests/sees
> all 128M. After booting linux (2.0.29), I see that only 64M
> is recognized. I then have only 128M swap. My swap partition
> is over 256M, so I don't see a problem there.
>
>
You'll need to specify "mem=128M" when booting LILO (e.g. type "linux mem=128M"
at the LILO prompt). You might want to put it in your /etc/lilo.conf , e.g.:
append="mem=128M"
and re-run LILO. As for your swap partition, 2.0.x kernels restricted swap
partitions to 128M, so if you want to use all 256+ MB of swap space, you'll need
to split that partition up into multiple partitions (or upgrade to a 2.2.x
kernel, which supports swap partitions over 128M). For more info, type
'man mkswap'.
Hope this helps,
-jason
(to reply via email, make the appropriate substitution in my email address)
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From: Chris Abajian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Prob with Buslogic BT-542B scsi adapter
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 02:28:04 -0700
The RH 5.2 kernel doesn't seem to see this card on bootup. I read the docs
from the driver author (Zubikoff) but don't see anything that suggests a magic
LILO incantation. make xconfig suggests that support for Buslogic is in by
default. Am I wrong about this? The only mention in dmesg is
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
There is one device (a scanner) hanging off the card, but it (natch) is not
seen.
I presume this means the kernel doesn't see it. Any suggestions?
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] unless of general interest.
Thanks in advance.
--
Chris Abajian
http://www.abajian.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 22:13:33 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anthony Ord) wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Apr 1999 13:00:01 -0700, "Simon Cooke"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Anthony Ord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> >Or are you proposing that people ditch all their software and start from
> >> >scratch?
> >>
> >> This shows the virtue of good design in the first instance.
> >
> >Which is all well and good in theory, especially when you're talking about a
> >20 year old design...
>
> Is this where I jump in and point out the ages of various
> OSs that were around before DOS? And which don't have this
> problem?
When was it that Unix moved from 16 character filenames to 256 character ones
again?
Simon (NSFMSFT)
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GLIB,GTK+ and GIMP
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 23:22:06 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
Can anyone help please? I bought a scanner and
have downloaded the latest stable glib,gtk+,gimp
and sane. I am having problems on my slackware
kernel 2.0.34 system. I had some problems with
glib. After reading about workarounds in the INSTALL
file I seemed to get that installed ok. I then had
problems with gtk+. Again after some changes to
environment variables etc I got that installed.
When I try to install gimp I get to the point where
configure tests gtk+ and reports version mismatches.
The INSTALL file suggests this is due to old versions
of gtk include or other files which I need to delete.
My problem is that I don't know where to find them.
I did a find / -name gtk* but could not see anything
which seemed to be related except in one of the
X11R6 and the usr/local/gtk subdirectories.
I deleted all of these and tried reinstalling glib
and gtk+ but still got version errors.
Could someone please spell out to this dummy what
to look for and delete?
I feel it would probably be best to trash all of
them and start again. I have the original tar.gz
files still.
tia
norm
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From: "Aaron Tunnell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.sys.pc-clone.dell,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.list
Subject: RedHat 6.0 adaptec U2W install
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:26:52 -0400
Trying to install on a Dell precision 410 with built in adaptec U2W 7895
chip, it sees the UW channel but not the U2W channel. Im booting off a
floppy, thanks
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 17:47:04 -0500
westprog wrote:
> "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?
It would be nice, but I doubt a compiler in any usable language could catch
all the possible scenarios. Besides, programmers don't want that. They
want "features" like type overloading, so that instead of the compiler
gronking about a function return mismatch it just calls the wrong function
instead.
And even after all that, the language you describe would *still* need lots
of documentation for standards, for obscure algorithms, for Cute Programmer
Tricks, etc. etc.
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From: "Elliott Paiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Still Modem problems.
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:12:56 -0400
I have linux recognize my modem, but I sometimes have trouble knowing when
my modem dials. For example if I have no dialer running it will just turn on
and dial into my isp. What is the problem with that? Also do I need to use a
script to log into my isp because it does not connect to my isp at all. If
you have a solution please feel free to answer because I have no clue what
my modem is doing and why it does not connect to my isp.
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Subject: Re: RH5.2 and HP DAT SureStore
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:15:20 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernard Paris) writes:
> I want to use my brandnew HP DAT drive (model is C1537A) with linux
> RedHat5.2 installed on a PC with an Adaptec SCSI adapter card.
> Several commands already works so I can do without problems things like
> "mt -f /dev/st0 rewind" or "mt -f /dev/st0 status".
> I can also dump several filesystems on one tape. OK.
>
> Problems arrive when restore time comes and when I need to skip files
> saved on tape. Forward space over some filemarks (or any kind of other
> mark) doesn't work.
> The usual mt operation
> "mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf 1" does nothing (no error message, and tape doesn't run).
The problem is the version of mt that RedHat 5.2 ships is buggy if you specify
the tape with -f <whatever> and give it a numeric argument. A couple of
solutions:
1) Pick up mt-0.5b (or newer) from the RedHat contrib site (or get it from
metalab and compile it yourself);
2) Set the TAPE environment variable and don't use the -f option;
3) Rev back to mt-0.4;
4) Use dd if=/dev/nst0 of=/dev/null.
Note #4 will leave the tape positioned at the end of data on the 2.2.x kernels
as opposed to beginning of the next section in 2.0.x.
> I've tried stinit program, but nothing has changed, and I really don't
> understand what this program really did before he told me "Initialized 1
> tape devices".
>
> Any idea to make "fsf" work ?
>
> Thanks,
> Bernard Paris
> UCL - Louvain-la-Neuve - Belgium
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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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Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 19:49:42 +0000
From: Matthias Wientapper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: creative webcam I - I got the specs...
Hi there,
I need help in writing a driver for the creative webcam I.
After trying several months, I finally got some specs and some
windows-driver-sources.
Unfortunately I have not much knowledge about the parport-stuff
(ieee1284...).
Anybody interested in writing a driver or helping me?
Please send me an E-Mail -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The specs/sources for the webcam I can be found at
http://home.eunet.no/~jtotland/webcamii.html
(Actually this is the project-page for the webcam II, but the specs for
webcam I are there, too)
Have fun,
Matthias
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From: Ben Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS/2 and USB
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 21:27:51 +0200
Hi!
This isn't a Linux question but since this is the only
hardware-newsgroup I know I post it here. I want to buy an Asus
p5a-b motherboard but there are no PS/2 connectors on it so I
watched the specification of the Asus p5a motherboard and there
were two USB connectors on it.
Q: Is there difference between USB and PS/2?
THundur--
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From: Michael James Weiskopff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3COM 3CCFE54TB PCMCIA 10/100 Base-TX Ethernet card
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 20:19:01 -0400
How do you get it to work? I am running Red Hat Linux 5.2 on a toshiba
satellite pro 435 CDS with a 6 gig HD and 48 Megs of ram. I have the
updated PCMCIA card services drivers that supports this particular
PCMCIA card, but how do I do it. BTW I am also a newbie to Linux, and
even more of a newbie to linux on laptops. Any help would be
apriciative. Thanks in advanced.
Mike
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Subject: Re: Seagate TapeStor 8GB SCSI tape drive question
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Apr 1999 19:22:53 -0400
Shuang Ji <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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?
(see my response on another thread about the bug in the mt command for numeric
arguments, which is why I set the TAPE env. variable here).
To turn on compression do:
export TAPE=/dev/nst0 (or setenv TAPE /dev/nst0 for csh users)
mt compression 1
(use mt compression 0 to turn it off). Dunno what the default is for your tape
drive. In theory mt status should tell you, but it doesn't for my DAT drives.
> Thanks a lot.
>
>
>
> Shuang
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Westford, Massachusetts 01886
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From: "Erik Wahlstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.misc,linux.sources.kernel
Subject: Linux Port
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 22:54:58 -0700
Has Linux been ported to the SGI Indigo? Could you post references. Thanks
Cheers Erik
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From: no#@^[EMAIL PROTECTED] (See signature for email address)
Subject: Re: restoring keyboard repeat
Date: 28 Apr 99 20:48:15 GMT
"xset q" should tell you if auto-repeat got turned off. "xset r on" will
turn it back on.
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**Nick Brown ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: I was wondering why my repeat rate is sometimes slow (I occasionally
: disconnect my KB to tap into its 5V line for an external disk). This is
: on a Dell OptiPlex. If you get an answer, I'd like to hear it.
: Phil Howard wrote:
: > 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.
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