Linux-Hardware Digest #194, Volume #10 Sun, 9 May 99 11:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Re: GLIB,GTK+ and GIMP (Norman Elliott)
OKI 4WPlus (Lars Olsson)
DLT4000+Adatec AHA-2940U2W=BIOS NOT INSTALLED!?!? (Dan Poynor)
Re: System Building Questions (John Thompson)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW & RH6.0 (Swietanowski Artur)
3c803 FDDI Link driver (Gerard Lachicoree)
Re: Adaptec 2940UW & RH6.0 (steel)
Re: HP Deskjet 1600CM print from Linux??? (Robin Jackson)
Re: Adding a SCSI card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: in search of low profile computer cases (Michael Hucka)
Re: New HDD 18GB will this work? ("Marin")
Re: Video (Remco van den Berg)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Murphy)
Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage (Murphy)
Re: Tough Question About Linux (Swietanowski Artur)
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From: Norman Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GLIB,GTK+ and GIMP
Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 23:45:28 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henrik Carlqvist wrote:
>
> Norman Elliott wrote:
> > 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.
>
> > I have the original tar.gz
> > files still.
>
> What is the complete filenames of your tar.gz files? The filenames
> usually include the version number.
>
> What output do yo get when typing "gtk-config --version"? Is this the
> version you installed or an older one?
>
> What output do yo get when typing "gtk-config --cflags"? Do you get
> The directories where the gtk include files are installed?
>
> regards Henrik
>
> --
> spammer strikeback:
> root@localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Henrik,
Thanks for your reply. The versions returned match the
versions
of the tar.gz files. I have just read in another thread in
comp.os.linux.setup a reply to someone who was having
trouble
installing gtk+. In that reply it said you run
./configure then make then make install as per the
instructions
in the INSTALL text files. But it also said in each case you
then
run ldconfig to indicate the new libraries. I have done that
now
and it seems to work.
I still have a problem as I was doing all of this to use my
new
scanner. My SCSI Card sees it but all I get from scanimage
-T
is no SANE devices found. Any ideas please?
norm
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From: Lars Olsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OKI 4WPlus
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 10:07:09 +0200
Does anybody know how to make this
printer work in Linux?
I run SuSe 6.0 and I=B4m a newbie.
Please respond by mail.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dan Poynor)
Subject: DLT4000+Adatec AHA-2940U2W=BIOS NOT INSTALLED!?!?
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 02:49:00 -0700
I'm trying to connect an external Quantum DLT4000 tape drive to my
Intel/Linux server for backups.
Currently I have a Adaptec AHA-290U2W card installed with my 2.0.36 kernel
and have run into a "BIOS NOT INSTALLED" error on boot with the DLT drive
connected using a new cable. If I hit F1 to continue I get some DHCP and
PXE messages before "Operating System no found" and a hang. I've checked
termination and the SCSI id and pooked around the Bios Setup screens with
no luck. If I disconnect the SCSI cable every works great as before.
Below I've noted some specifics of my current driver. I'm thinking of
upgrading to the 2.2.7 kernel but not sure that would help with my
situation. If anyone has ideas on how I might resolve this it would be a
big help.
Cheers,
DAN
[root@server /usr]# cat /proc/scsi/aic7xxx/0
Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.2/3.2.4
Compile Options:
AIC7XXX_RESET_DELAY : 15
AIC7XXX_TAGGED_QUEUEING: Adapter Support Enabled
Check below to see which
devices use tagged queueing
AIC7XXX_PAGE_ENABLE : Enabled (This is no longer an option)
AIC7XXX_PROC_STATS : Disabled
Adapter Configuration:
SCSI Adapter: Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra2 SCSI host adapter
Ultra2-LVD/SE Wide Controller
PCI MMAPed I/O Base: 0xf4100000
Adapter SEEPROM Config: SEEPROM found and used.
Adaptec SCSI BIOS: Enabled
IRQ: 15
SCBs: Active 0, Max Active 2,
Allocated 15, HW 32, Page 255
Interrupts: 25847
BIOS Control Word: 0x18a5
Adapter Control Word: 0x1c4c
Extended Translation: Enabled
Disconnect Enable Flags: 0xffff
Ultra Enable Flags: 0x0000
[root@server /usr]# cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DRVS09V Rev: 0100
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 01 Lun: 00
Vendor: IBM Model: DRVS09V Rev: 0100
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 06 Lun: 00
Vendor: PIONEER Model: CD-ROM DR-U16S Rev: 1.01
Type: CD-ROM
Tag Queue Enable Flags: 0x0000
Ordered Queue Tag Flags: 0x0000
Default Tag Queue Depth: 8
Tagged Queue By Device array for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255,255}
Actual queue depth per device for aic7xxx host instance 0:
{1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1}
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System Building Questions
Date: Sat, 08 May 1999 21:01:56 -0600
roekel wrote:
> Hi, I'm buying a new system to use at college. A few questions:
> 1- I want to run Win98 and Linux. The shop won't install Linux for me,
> but has offered to partition the drive for me. Would I be better off
> letting the Linux install do the partitioning?
Just tell the shop to partition it with xGB for Windows and
leave the rest as unpartitioned free space. Then when you
get home you can have linux partition and use the free space
without touching the Windows partition.
> 2- Is the Canon BJC-250 reliable? Will it work at all under Linux?
> 3- The university has said that they only support ethernet on Windows
> sytems. Does this mean that Linux ethernet is different that Win ethernet,
> or that they only offer help to Windows users?
Probably the latter. Unless they''re using some ultra-goofy
proprietary network protocol (highly unlikely) you ought to
be able to get linux working with their network. You may
have to do more of the grunt work yourself, though, but
you're going there to learn anyway, right? Just think of it
as a class you don't have to pay any extra tuition for...
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW & RH6.0
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 11:56:12 +0200
steel wrote:
>
> I still haven't gotten mine to work. Adaptec 2940UW, IBM HD's, Yamaha
> CDRW.
> <snip>
> when I try to upgrade to 6.0 it hangs when "scanning the SCSI bus".
> It sees the first HD, hits the CDRW, then BOOM. Game over.. no
> more install. It totally dumps out.
> <snip>
> I've seen many others in various Usenet groups with the same problem,
> and still no fix.
Aren't you expecting too much? RedHat does not begin shipping before
May 10th and it's just May 9th today. 8-)
Contact RedHat. You may have an unofficial" release, but if the same
problem happens on their official one, they will want to know and,
possibly, will provide a fix. After all the installation/upgrade is
one of the major reasons why people and businesses buy RedHat.
Regards,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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From: Gerard Lachicoree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c803 FDDI Link driver
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 11:38:49 +0100
Has anyone come across an FDDI Link (3COM - 3c803) driver for Linux.
BTW, I'm running RedHat v. 5.2
Thanks
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From: steel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW & RH6.0
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 04:36:19 -0400
Keith Miller wrote:
>
> I did.. Didn't have to do much..
>
> Wayne Sweet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7guqpi$2q8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Has anyone got this controller to work with Red Hat's 6.0 distribution??
> >
> > Wayne
> >
> >
I still haven't gotten mine to work. Adaptec 2940UW, IBM HD's, Yamaha
CDRW.
I installed RedHat 5.2 on this same system (no changes have been made)
and it runs
just fine. I am running kernel 2.2.7 and that is working fine as well..
however,
when I try to upgrade to 6.0 it hangs when "scanning the SCSI bus". It
sees
the first HD, hits the CDRW, then BOOM. Game over.. no more install.
It totally
dumps out.
I don't have another CDROM to swap into this machine, and I'd rather not
have to
do that since I don't see why I can install 5.2 with no problems, but an
upgrade to
a newer version of the OS does not work with the same hardware.. really
doesn't
make too much sense.
What did you have to do, if anything Keith? Did it work right away for
you?
I've seen many others in various Usenet groups with the same problem,
and still
no fix.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robin Jackson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 1600CM print from Linux???
Date: Mon, 03 May 1999 14:20:51 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>> I have an HP Deskjet HP1600CM printer (Postscript and Ethernet) that I
>>> would like to be able to print to from Linux.
>>>
>>> I also have Samba installed but not fully working yet.
>>>
>>> Can anyone tell me in laymans term HOW I would get to print to this
>>> printer?
>>>
>>> Many thanks.
>>>
>>> Robin
>>
>>By readining the printing-howto?
>
> Or, alternately, just use the control panel (if distro==redhat).
Okay, lets look at the answer.
I try to pick a printer it gives me the options, locally connected, served
via Unix server, served via windows server or served via Netware server.
Well my HP Deskjet is is NONE of these.
It is a printer sitting on my Ethhernet network not connected to ANYTHING
directly.
Now I can see NOTHING about this option in the HOWTO (unless I missed it)
or in the Control panel.
Any other ideas?
Robin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Adding a SCSI card
Date: 9 May 1999 09:12:55 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Undoubtedly well known - but not to me :-)
> I've a Redhat 5.2 server, runing on a Compaq Presario with IDE drives.
> Can I add a SCSI card to support an Exabyte DAT?
Yes
> If so, what must I add to the configuration/tell the kernal?
SCSI support >>
SCSI support: Y or M (I'd prefer M if the kerneld was running _and_
you boot from IDE)
SCSI disk support: N
SCSI tape support: Y or M
SCSI CD-ROM support: N
SCSI generic support: N
Proble all LUNs ...: N
Verbose SCSI error reporting ...: would be fine, depends on
available memory
SCSI low-level drivers:
<Your hostadapter>: Y or M
If you compiled as modules and do not have a runnuing kerneld, then you'd
have to load the modules manually, see man modprobe.
HIH,
Peter
--
Peter Gritsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
`... so I'd rather you didn't try any last-minute stuff.'
I *AM* LAST-MINUTE STUFF, said Death, standing up.
[Terry Pratchett, Hogfather]
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From: Michael Hucka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: in search of low profile computer cases
Date: 09 May 1999 05:00:25 -0400
I've seen a number of low-profile cases. I'm aware of InWin (www.in-win.com)
who makes a fairly small desktop case. The custom-Linux system maker that we
buy from (Net Express) offers some of these and comments about them on the
following URL:
http://www.tdl.com/~netex/cases/tower.html
http://www.tdl.com/~netex/cases/cases.html
--
Michael Hucka, Ph.D. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
GENESIS Development Group, Division of Biology, Caltech
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From: "Marin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: New HDD 18GB will this work?
Date: Sun, 9 May 1999 14:24:09 +0200
Todd Ostermeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On 9 May 1999, Eric Lee Green wrote:
>
> <snipped good advice>
>
> : Red Hat puts its kernels in the "/boot" partition. Most other
distributions
> : dump them into the "/" partition, meaning that if your "/" lives up
above
> : the 1024 cylinder boundary, you are SOL (Out of Luck).
>
> This is not exactly true. If you use a "broken" (read: older)
> distribution like this, simply boot using the boot floppy you make during
> the install (what? you didn't make a boot floppy during the install?
> *SMACK*), move the kernel to /boot, edit lilo.conf (or not, depending on
> where you're installing lilo -- I suggest you install lilo into the boot
> sector of /boot), run lilo (/sbin/lilo), change the active partition if
> you need to (fdisk /dev/hda, use the 'a' command), reboot, and everything
> should be fine.
>
> And for the record, every distribution I've seen lately puts kernels in
> /boot. older versions of slackware didn't, and I'm not sure what else
> didn't, but I don't think it's a big problem anymore.
>
I dont now enything now :o/, Q is can I boot linux on 18gb hdd with LILO,
with abit bx6 with newest bios if I first instal win then linux, lets say,
win have 12gb, linux other
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Subject: Re: Video
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 14:55:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, sven the hairy wrote:
>What would be a good graphics card for Linux? In windows, I like 1600x1200
>with 32bits of color. I do a lot of graphic work, and so good colour is
>important. I'm not any kind of expert on graphics hardware to begin with, so
>it's a bit of a struggle for me. Any pointers you could provide would be
>greatly appreciated.
>
>
The Matrox cards used to be very good. What the performance is of the cards
they offer now, I don't no.
Anyway, don't forget to take a look at:
http://www.xfree86.org/
for the supported graphic cards under X11.
-Remco
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Remco van den Berg Admin DSE http://www.dse.nl/
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Murphy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 15:47:28 GMT
On 6 May 1999 17:12:49 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
wrote this little gem:
>I do not agree with you: OK, they will learn that I prefer Beavis and Butthead
>and South Park to any other cartoon and that I do not watch baseball; I do not
>mind. But having access to a PSN, they might know about _every hit of a key_
>one makes. In two years, this will reveal everything about one's life: the
>favorite drug store, kids' school, one's travel plans, day's schedule... And
>this all would be linked to a particular individual (driver's license #.....).
>There is a lot more; this is just from the top of my head.
Uh...are we a tad paranoid or what?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Murphy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Boycott Intel on your own webpage
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 15:47:27 GMT
On 6 May 1999 13:39:22 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
wrote this little gem:
>>When he says MAC addresses, he doesn't mean MACintosh, he means MAC
>>address, as in ethernet address, the address that IP addresses are
>>finally translated to. And he is right, since MAC addresses are more or
>>less unique. A site could theoretically track these just as they could
>>do with the hostid on a Solaris machine, or the Processor# in a PIII.
>
>Oops.
>Anyways, IP addresses are dynamically assigned when you dial up from home,
>so who cares (although a netmask 255.0.0.0 would be good).
MAC addresses are the actual identifier of the Ethernet card, not the
IP address of your machine. In fact these numbers are so unique that
there is software out there that uses them as a means of registration.
>That is, this would be jungles of methods and and contra-methods which enable
>or disable PSN, where only brave [hackers] are able to overcome PSN in their
>computers. Do we want to face all that in a year or two, or do we just keep the
>voice up trying to avoid PSNs completely?
Cry me a f'n river. If you don't like this PSN, then don't buy Intel.
Personally, I could give a rat's ass about whether or not software
distributes the serial number of my CPU. At worst, it'll have no
effect on me, at best, if my machine ever gets stolen, I may be able
to recover it.
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From: Swietanowski Artur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tough Question About Linux
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 17:04:10 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> StarOffice 5.0 is included
> with the package. Is this the "full" StarOffice 5.0 or just a limited
> "personal edition"?
As mentioned by another poster, SO personal edition is fully
functional, and only the license terms are different. On the other
hand, some users, including me, report a lot of problems with the
current release. You might want to check out other (commercial)
proposals, like Applixware. If you want to use SO commercially,
you will need to buy a license. In either case, the license fee
is low. Also, you can use the Applix demo and SO Personal Ed. for
evaluation.
> Caldera uses KDE as the Gui and Redhat uses GNOME. Without actually
> using them, it's impossible to tell which is best and more
> importantly if one will become a standard.
I use KDE and am happy with it. The new release of RedHat (6.0) will
ship with both of them (switchable at login time). KDE is reputed to
be more stable at this point (from what I read in this NG). I'd say
it's a safe bet it'll be with us for at least another few years.
Depending on what type of use you intend to put Linux to, the change
of the desktop environment need not necessarily be such a problem.
Only the (a) desktop look and feel may change and (b) possibly some
applications designed to be very closely cooperating with the desktop
environment may suffer some losses/changes of functionality.
If you really need to put a lot of time and effort in the desktop
related stuff, just keep an eye at both those DE's so that portability
of your solutions (if an issue at all) is always in reach.
> The issues are hardware compatibility.
I'll only address issues I know about.
> (...) Cirrus Logic 546X AGP Video Card-4 meg video,
Check out current compatibility list at http://www.xfree.org
> It also has a 56k V.90 modem with the Lucent chipset (believe-not
> sure-this could be known as a Winmodem).
A Winmodem will by definition only work with Windows. You can consult
many recent discussions about this in this group as well as others).
Maybe if Lucent provided some form of a Linux driver... Use a modem
which:
(a) is not labelled as Winmodem,
(b) is external (connected to on of the COM ports) or
(c) internal, possibly ISA, which appears as another COM port to
the computer's BIOS.
> Do not believe that there is anything extraordinary in
> this configuration, but feel it would be the best test system for us.
You're right, any PC vendor is likely to push such "cost effective"
solutions to any of his clients. A Winmodem and (according to another
poster in this thread) a Winprinter!!!
To access printer's full capabilities, you need a printer that
supports one of portable printer languages, like PostScript
(expensive) or HP PCL (available in many, many models, incl. some
rather cheap ones). In addition, of course, the printer should
perhaps print plain text (with something like Epson FX or IBM
ProPrinter emulation).
HTH,
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Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
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