Linux-Hardware Digest #252, Volume #10 Sun, 16 May 99 18:13:50 EDT
Contents:
Printers and lp support. Please Help. ("Greg S.")
Re: AMD K6-2 Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly (Michael Abadjiev)
Re: ??? HP DESKJET 720C and linux ??? ("William B. Cattell")
Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work? ("Ian Nicholls")
Re: 3D accel for Voodoo3? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Voodoo Banshee Drivers ("Phooey")
Re: Quad/Dual Motherboard? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Advice: tape archive sol'n for Linux ("William B. Cattell")
Re: CD writer suggestions? ("Lee Sharp")
OMNIS Studio RAD Tool available on Linux soon....... ("Richard D")
Re: CD writer suggestions? ("William B. Cattell")
Re: InkJet printer help. ("William B. Cattell")
Re: Who makes the best cases?? ("Lee Sharp")
Driver request ("Tony")
linux driver for pca645vc ("Man�")
Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work? (bryan)
Re: CD writer suggestions? (Rod Roark)
Re: AMD K6-2 Problems (bryan)
COL 1.3, Dell XE590-2 & Dell DSA Controller Woes (Scott Hessel)
No multisession w/ ide-scsi Yamaha CRW4001 (Brian Seitz)
Re: Lexmark 5000 color (Mark Hahn)
Re: IDE and scsi hard disks on one CPU (Mark Hahn)
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Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 13:16:00 -0700
From: "Greg S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printers and lp support. Please Help.
Hey thanks for reading. I'm new at Linux, trying to get my printer to
work. One problem: the ports do not detect anything as far as a
connection goes upon them. My printer is supported (BJC 210) and my
ports work fine in Windows. So I did a cat /proc/devices and found that
lp is not being loaded on my system. There must be an easier way to load
support for lp than reinstalling..isn't there? I dont recall being asked
anything about lp support on install of RH 6, can you thik of anything
else I can do to get Linux to recognize my Lpt ports? If you can help
at all please reply to this message and/or e-mail me. THanks.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 Problems
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:25:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bart Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It doesn't work on my PC! I get segment violations (sig 11) all over
the place. Only disabling the L2 cache has solved the problem (if you
can call this a
> solution).
I think I had similar problem, plus I had a hard time
to get my AGP video card to work under D3D without
locking up after a while. It turned out that I had
a faulty RAM. When I exchanged it everything worked
just well. You may want to try reinstalling the same
Ram module(s) in different slots.
For now I'm running dual boot win95/linux slackware 3.6
system and pretty much successful!
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From: Michael Abadjiev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.0... the good, the bad, and the ugly
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:40:58 GMT
Dave Smith wrote:
> James Stafford wrote:
> >
> > Bill Unruh wrote:
> >
> > > In <7go4ns$4oq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Robert Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > >Where is everyone getting RH6.0? I thought it wasn't available until the
> > > >10th May....
> > >
> > > Nope been out at least a week by now.
> > > www.redhat.com and all its mirrors. The pressing shops probably will not
> > > be shipping for another week however.
> >
> > I was just at Fry's today and they had it there for$79.00 !!! That's more than I
> > paid for Winblows, more worth it... but still!!!
> >
> > jamess
>
> cheapbytes.com $7.14 (US) delivered in two days
No Manual, Apps CD and support...
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ??? HP DESKJET 720C and linux ???
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 20:41:12 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Grant,
> I am agree that the pbm3ppa do running H 720C and also 710C, I have one
> but I have problems to print anything except postscrip test printing
> with printtool (Red Hat 2.0.36).
> With shell command Lpr and Lpc answer are Lpr: lp: Unknown Printer
> Do you have an answer on this problem ?
> Cedric
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Philippe Vandekerckhove <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Is there any support for the HP Deskjet 720C ??
> >
> > Yes, the 720 and other PPA printers are able to print in black and
> > white. See http://www.httptech.com/ppa/
> >
> > --
> > 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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I have an HP720c. Using the ppa2pbm I have everything working. To get
printing working through Star Office and Netscape I had to put 'print'
in the space in the print dialog box. print is one of the scripts
listed in the ppa2pmb documentation. Works like a charm. I have ascii
printing working as well via the printascii (or asciiprint) script.
Bill
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From: "Ian Nicholls" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:44:16 +0100
Bart Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> That's all very nice but I am experiencing these dreaded sig 11 problems.
What do you suggest I do
> (other than switching to Intel and/or Windows)?
>
> bryan wrote:
>
> > if your cpu and ram REALLY work together (no sig 11 timing problems)
then sure, linux will run fine.
>
I am having similar problems with an AMD K6-3 400Mhz. Red Hat 5.2 worked
fine with my K6 233Mhz, but once I swapped the processor I could not run the
Xserver (Darryl Strauss's Banshee server). It sometimes starts and the
desktop comes up, but it very unstable and crashes after a few seconds.
Other times it won't start at all and reports a segmentation fault and dumps
the core. I also get the Sig 11 and errno = 111 faults. Any ideas? I've
tried changing the RAM, and even the motherboard (AX59Pro) but nothing makes
any difference.
Occasionally Linux won't complete loading and comes up with the interesting
message "respawning too fast", and stops for 5 minutes!
Any ideas will be gratefully received.
Ian Nicholls
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3D accel for Voodoo3?
Date: 16 May 1999 20:53:37 GMT
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Glide will apear soon, look at Daryll Strauss' Linux3DFX-Status-page:
http://glide.xxedgexx.com/status.html:
May 14th, 1999
I've been pounding on the VB/V3 version of Glide. I basically got it working last
weekend. The
problem is that there is still a show stopper bug. It will hang the system after
playing Q3A. So,
this needs to be resolved before I release it. The problem is that it takes a while
for the crash
to occur and it doesn't happen with debugging turned on. So, it'll be nasty to find.
3dfx and I are
working on it.
: Also, I've heard that there is an X server for the Voodoo-3, but it
: requires a lot of tweaking. Any comments on this? Thanks.
Shouldn't be a problem. I installed the rpm-package and even didn't had
to change my /etc/X11/XF86Config. You can say it was running out of
the box.
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From: "Phooey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Banshee Drivers
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 15:51:07 -0500
Does anyone kno if RedHat Linux 6.0 has support for the voodoo banshee
chipset? or, if not, is some sort of third party out there that manufactured
drivers for it? I specifically have the Maxi Gamer Phoenix, but it is based
of the voodoo banshee.
If you've got an answer for me, email me: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Quad/Dual Motherboard?
Date: 16 May 1999 21:00:48 GMT
Gavin McCord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Rather than buy a single expensive superfast PII on a single mainboard, I'd
: like to go dual/quad motherboard with cheaper processors i.e. 266-300MHz
: Any recommendations on boards to buy?
Dual can be done with PII and even with Celeron (with a special but
cheap adaptor)
Quadro can only be done with (expensive) Xeons (or outdated PPros),
but the Mainboards
are expensive, too (about USD 3500)
Suggestion:
Get a Dual-MB and two celeron 400 (PPGA) along with two MSI 6905
(important: Rev 1.1) Socket 370 -> Slot 1 Adaptor.
The biggest bang for the bug is to get Cel300A and overclock em
to 450MHz :-) (so i have done / non-mission critical)
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Advice: tape archive sol'n for Linux
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:00:58 GMT
Sam Brown wrote:
>
> I need to provide a solid backup solution for a small SW startup. I'm
> investigating the options for us--we intend to be a Linux shop, and I'm
> wondering what people advise in terms of optimal combination of price,
> quality, and Linux-support.
>
> I hear "buzz" that DLT is the best technology, that DAT sucks.
>
> any comments?
Depends on your tape storage requirements. If you're looking at 10s and
100s of gigabytes then yes, DLT is a good place to start looking. If
you're talking about a smaller quantity of data that needs to be backed
up each night then 8mm or 4mmDAT may work for you.
I managed a 20-server farm (NetWare/NT) and we used 4mm DATs w/12
cartridge changers for a couple years. Once the amount of disk space
got too large to backup in one night (for an incremental or differential
backup) then we moved to 5 cartridge DLT changers.
A suggestion - review how much (disk)data storage you'll have, the
amount of data that changes daily, how often you want to do a 'full'
backup (as opposed to diff. or incr.) and decide from there.
I'll let other folks comment about software to use... I'm still using
tar on my current Linux setup.
Bill
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writer suggestions?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:03:24 GMT
James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hi,
> > Any suggestions on CD writer?
> I have a 'YAMAHA CDR400t 1.0q'. Very happy with it. CD-RW.
I have had the Yahama CDR400c for about 2 years now. <CD-R only> One
service issue under warrentee. Less than 5 coasters over the life of the
drive. I love it.
Lee
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necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
Black holes are where God divided by zero. - I am speaking as an
individual, not as a representative of any company, organization or other
entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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From: "Richard D" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.powerpc,comp.os.linux.security,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os
Subject: OMNIS Studio RAD Tool available on Linux soon.......
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:13:48 +0100
Please see the following link to read our latest press release regarding the
forthcoming launch of OMNIS Studio on the LINUX operating system platform.
http://www.omnis-software.com/whatsnew/press/linux.html
The beta version will be available from July 1999, with full release in
September this year.
We believe we have a real first here, as OMNIS Studio represents a true
4GL Rapid application development system that is binary compatible with
both Windows and Macintosh machines, and soon LINUX.
This means that developers are totally free to choose their preferred
development platform, and then deploy applications without alteration in
all of the above environments.
If you require any more information about OMNIS Studio, or would like to
know about some of the many commercial applications written in OMNIS
that will soon be available for the LINUX environment please don't
hesitate to contact me.
Kind Regards,
Richard Darsa
OMNIS Software Ltd.
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: CD writer suggestions?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:07:11 GMT
Nick Zentena wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Any suggestions on CD writer? I'd like SCSI. Read speed is not an
> issue. Should Write speed be one? The Pansonic is quite a bit cheaper
> then the Yahama. Is it any good? Or should I just spend the extra money.
>
> Thanks
> Nick
> --
> ---------------------
> Nick Zentena
> SuSE 6.0 Linux 2.2.7
> www.hophead.dyndns.org <Don't expect much-)>
> ---------------------
I recently purchased an HP8100 ATAPI/IDE drive. I put it as master on
the second IDE channel (/dev/hdc). I'm real happy with its speed. it
will do a 4x sustained speed (600KB/s).
Bill
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: InkJet printer help.
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:18:15 GMT
Dae wrote:
>
> I'm looking for an Ink Jet printer that uses separate ink cartridges for
> color (I'm tired of having to replace a good color cartridge on my Epson
> cause one color has run out.) that is low cost. (Wish I could find one
> under $200) I'm looking at the Canon BJC-6000. Does anyone know if this
> will work with Linux? If so, do you like the speed and output?
>
> BTW, is there another color Inkjet that uses separate cartridges for the
> colors that you might recommand?
>
> TIA - Dae
> Phat Fish Website
> http://www.attach.net/users/webster
> -----
Check out this link for a list of printers supported under Linux. Given
that,
http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
I use an HP DJ720c - I cannot yet print in color but text printing is
working great.
I believe (check the url above) that the HP DJ694/697 printers are well
supported. Their shelf price ought to be under $200 since they are a
couple years old now (replaced by HP's PPA printers).
Bill
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From: "Lee Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Who makes the best cases??
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:20:46 GMT
Jete Software Inc. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<7hhqhb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> It seems that I am forever opening my Linux boxes to upgrade one thing or
> another. I would just love to have a computer case like the Mac G3,
> where it just splits open in half allowing easy access to all of the
> components.
> I doubt that there is anything like that available in the PC market, and
so
> far all of the PC cases that I have ever seen (including Enlights) seemed
> like cheap crap.
Boy are you right. About 2 years ago, I found InWin cases. They are
import wholesale cases, and can be found in some of those "computer shops"
in business complexes. The nice thing is that the entire backplane slides
out! With cards attached! While running, if you don't pass the limit of
the cables. It is also about 1 inch wider than most cases, and cools very
well. Mini tower at my wholesale shop is $69. Cheap case is $49.
Lee
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necessary to sacrifice a young goat to your SCSI chain now and then. *
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entity. I am solely responsible for my words.
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From: "Tony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver request
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 23:25:00 +0200
Hello y`all,
I`m new to Linux and I`m trying to install Redhat 5.2 on my system. NMow
I`ve got an Adaptec 1505 scsi adapter in it but can`t seem to find the
drivers for it. Is there anyone who can at least tell me where to get them?
Thanks
Ton
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From: "Man�" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux driver for pca645vc
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:24:19 +0100
Hi guys,
I need a linux driver for the philips pca645vc camera for a college project
Can you help me?
Thanx
Mane
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-III -- does it work?
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:36:25 GMT
I suggest you reduce your aggressive ram timings (bios) to
conservative ones. if that doesn't work, try resetting bios to
factory shipped default, then customize very slowly/carefully from
there.
if that doesn't work, then try better quality ram. or maybe swap slots in the mobo.
Bart Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: That's all very nice but I am experiencing these dreaded sig 11 problems. What do
:you suggest I do
: (other than switching to Intel and/or Windows)?
: bryan wrote:
: > if your cpu and ram REALLY work together (no sig 11 timing problems) then sure,
:linux will run fine.
--
Bryan
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From: Rod Roark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD writer suggestions?
Date: 16 May 1999 21:36:49 GMT
Nick Zentena <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Any suggestions on CD writer? I'd like SCSI. Read speed is not an
>issue. Should Write speed be one? The Pansonic is quite a bit cheaper
>then the Yahama. Is it any good? Or should I just spend the extra money.
I have tried the Sony 948S which is inexpensive and works fine; it uses
a caddy. But I think ATAPI units are a better deal pricewise; of these
I have used the Sony CRX100E and more recently a Mitsumi CR-4802TE.
The latter works fine but has a "cosmetic" problem with cdrecord where
a benign error message appears... I'm working with the author on that.
Write speed matters. All of the above are 4X (2X RW), don't settle for
less if you value your time.
-- Rod
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Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers
http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 Problems
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 21:38:44 GMT
you have a system/timing misconfig. try better ram or slower bios settings.
Bart Symons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: It doesn't work on my PC! I get segment violations (sig 11) all over the place. Only
:disabling the L2 cache has solved the problem (if you can call this a
: solution).
: Mark Hahn wrote:
: > Linux does _not_ have problems with properly configured K6-2 systems.
--
Bryan
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From: Scott Hessel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: COL 1.3, Dell XE590-2 & Dell DSA Controller Woes
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 17:02:53 -0400
Anybody have any luck setting up Caldera OpenLinux 1.3 on a Dell system
using an ancient Dell DSA Array controller (ca. 1993-1994) configured
for RAID5? I don't have the luxery of installing from a bootable
CD-ROM, although I do have an external CD-ROM which is recognized. The
Install pgm just cannot see the DSA controller, even with the Modules
diskette.
The DSA supposedly uses IRQ 14, but I don't have any other specs, and
it's difficult to find the info I need from the Dell website.
-- Scott H.
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From: Brian Seitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No multisession w/ ide-scsi Yamaha CRW4001
Date: Sun, 16 May 1999 22:04:09 +0000
I set up my ATAPI Yamaha CRW4001 to work in SCSI emulation so that I
could write to it under Linux instead of booting up into Windows. I
haven't gotten the chance to actually record anything to it yet, but
cdrecord seems to recognize it fine. The problem is that now when I
mount the multi-session CD-Rs I've created in Windows, I can only see
the first session. I didn't have this problem when the same drive was
used without SCSI emulation. Anyone know a fix for this? I'm using
kernel 2.2.4.
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark 5000 color
Date: 16 May 1999 21:39:13 GMT
> (I know - I probably should have bought another printer :( )
as far as I know, all Lexmark inkjets are winprinters, and Lexmark
won't document what you bought. that makes them officially LINUX-HOSTILE.
on the other hand, I recently played with a pretty nice Lexmark E310
laser printer. does good Postscript, considering its price...
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From: Mark Hahn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE and scsi hard disks on one CPU
Date: 16 May 1999 21:49:23 GMT
>> In a mixed environ of IDE and SCSI, you will NOT be able to boot from the
>> SCSI. To boot from the SCSI, you would have to to disable the IDE.
> You don't have a clue what you are talking about.
that's _real_ helpful, guy. there are two correct answers: it depends on
your bios, and even if your bios insists on reading the bootsector from
the ide drive, you can still have lilo read the kernel and/or rootfs from
other drive(s).
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