Linux-Hardware Digest #318, Volume #10 Tue, 25 May 99 04:13:33 EDT
Contents:
Re: Diamond MX300 in Linux ("Anders Nielsen")
[Fwd: Sound Problems] (Felix Sanchez)
Re: Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Switchbox problems ("Barry Carson")
Re: Iomega products and Linux (Dominic Mitchell)
Problem routing from cable modem (was "Can't communicate with 2nd ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sound cards (Alan Webster)
RH 6.0 install with Adaptec 152x ??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Wisecom internal modem on Linux (garv)
Re: printer setup, no respond (printtolls testpages) (Unclebob)
ViVa 56LC-V modem (brand un-knowen) (Russ Schultz)
FDD Tape Drives (Adam J)
Re: Linux friendly hardware list? (Frederik Vos)
Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP? (hac)
Oxygen GMX and X Windows ("Matthew Juhl")
Cheap 56K Modem (DB7654321)
multihead in Linux ("Ramesh Dharan")
Re: Lexmark 1020 (John Hong)
Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP (Silviu Minut)
APM Question (Christian Stoecker)
Re: HP Deskjet 693C (John Hong)
IRC on Redhat ("goo")
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From: "Anders Nielsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond MX300 in Linux
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 16:25:40 +0200
Here is an earlier posting:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Ken Salter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
>I have a Diamond MX300 Sound Card (Aureal 2.0 Chip) and I would like to
>get it to work with Linux. This is the last piece of hardware I have
>that doesn't work with Linux. Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>TIA,
>Ken Salter
No solution yet. Some companies refuse to disclose the required info
for Linux driver development and also refuse to do the drivers themselves.
There are drivers being worked on, but they'll probably not be ready any
time soon. This is not Diamond's fault, it's the fault of the chipset
company
(Aureal). BTW: they are by no means the only guilty party...most hardware
vendor have sold their souls to Microsoft and only support whichever
versions
of Windows they are told to support. If only they'd been wearing their
aluminum
foil hats to ward off the mid control rays from Redmond... <grin>
I also have one of these cards and am awaiting a solution.
-Tim
Herod wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Has anyone been able to use the Diamond MX300 sound card in Linux? I'm
>using Red Hat 6.0. Thanks.
>
>
>
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From: Felix Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Fwd: Sound Problems]
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:06:02 -0400
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From: Felix Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hi Everybody,
I have problems configuring my sound card. I writing down some
information about my computer:
Distribution Red Hat 5.2 Kernel 2.0.36-1
Intel Celeron at 300 Mhz
RAM 64
Onboard 3D Sound Pro meets PC98' SPEC and supports HRTF Positional
Audio, Direct Sound Wave-table Synthesizer, and Digital Audio Interface
(SPDIF) IN/OUT.
Attached is my isapnp.conf file which I construct using pnpdump and
isapnp with the command PEEK.
When I try to configure the sound card I do the following:
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
modprobe -a sound
But nothing happen.
When I cat the file /dev/sndstat, it shows that there are not driver
loaded.
Please let know if I am missing something or my card have any problem,
etc.
Thank for your help.
Regards,
Felix Sanchez
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# $Id: pnpdump.c,v 1.15a 1998/05/25 17:22:16 fox Exp $
# This is free software, see the sources for details.
# This software has NO WARRANTY, use at your OWN RISK
#
# For details of this file format, see isapnp.conf(5)
#
# For latest information on isapnp and pnpdump see:
# http://www.roestock.demon.co.uk/isapnptools/
#
# Compiler flags: -DREALTIME -DNEEDSETSCHEDULER
#
# Trying port address 0203
# Board 1 has serial identifier 8d 01 00 01 00 01 00 a9 0d
# (DEBUG)
(VERIFYLD N)
(READPORT 0x0203)
(ISOLATE)
#(ISOLATE CLEAR)
(IDENTIFY *)
# Card 1: (serial identifier 8d 01 00 01 00 01 00 a9 0d)
# Vendor Id CMI0001, Serial Number 16777472, checksum 0x8D.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string -->CMI8330. Audio Adapter<--
#
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 0
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0530))
(IO 1 (BASE 0x0388))
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 0))
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 1
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0300))
(INT 0(IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
# End dependent functions
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 2
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0200))
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE CMI0001/16777472 (LD 3
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
(INT 0 (IRQ 7 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(ACT Y)
))
# End tag... Checksum 0x00 (OK)
# Returns all cards to the "Wait for Key" state
(WAITFORKEY)
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From: "Barry Carson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Keyboard, Video, Mouse (KVM) Switchbox problems
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 00:17:51 -0500
Thanks for the responses. If anyone is interested, the OmniCube is now
working great. I had to shave some plastic off the PS/2 cables to allow
them to insert farther. They weren't quite making a good enough connection
into the ports on my Linux machine. After that, everything is cool. The
push-button selection selection is slick and (so far) completely reliable.
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Subject: Re: Iomega products and Linux
Reply-To: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: Dominic Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 May 1999 23:48:07 -0400
The address for Iomega is Iomega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
The deceived customer.
Dominic.
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Dominic Mitchell Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Department of Economics mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario
Canada, K7L 3N6 Running Linux Redhat 5.2
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Problem routing from cable modem (was "Can't communicate with 2nd
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 01:17:37 GMT
Monday May 24 1999 11:10, Steve Snyder wrote to All:
SS> claimed that the IP address of the cable modem (a 3Com USR CMX)
SS> was
SS> 24.4.162.173. In fact, according to @Home's tech support:
SS> 10.71.5.44 = The IP address of the cable modem itself.
SS>
This should be assigned by YOU, and has nothing to do with @Home.
SS> # /sbin/ifconfig -a
SS> -+--+--+--+--+--+--
SS> eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:10:4B:9A:82:E5
SS> inet addr:192.168.0.12 Bcast:192.168.0.255
This disagrees with the above!
SS> GATEWAY=24.4.162.173
What is this address? It's not on your network. It has to be the NIC
that routes from your local net.
KS
... Computer hackers do it all night long.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Webster)
Subject: Sound cards
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 05:03:51 GMT
Since I have one of the unsupported Diamond MX300 sound cards, could I add a
second sound card to the machine? My computer is dual boot and I like the card
just fine for w98. Is adding a second sound card gonna cause probs?
Alan
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: RH 6.0 install with Adaptec 152x ???
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 04:51:18 GMT
I'm trying to install RH 6.0 on a on a Dell 486 from an IDE cdrom onto
a SCSI HD with an Adaptec 152x controller. The hardware works fine
with both Windoze and Tom's boot/root.
When the installer probes the SCSI card, it reports that the card
cannot be found. When I switch to the console with logging output, I
see that the insmod of /modules/aha152x.o has failed. When I open up
a shell, I see that the module doesn't exist!
Ok, no problem. I'll just copy the module from a running system onto
a floppy, move it over, and install it manually. But nooo! The
installer has it's own kernel module versions.
There appeares to be a big file /modules/modules.cgz -- is this some
kind of archive of the modules? If so, how does one extract them?
Any idea what is going on here?
-p.
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From: garv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wisecom internal modem on Linux
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 18:33:46 -0700
Andrew Comech wrote:
> On Sun, 23 May 1999 22:38:44 -0400, Walt Shekrota wrote:
> >In an earlier post someone suggested checking the init string used for a
> >
> Looking for a Linux-compatible V.90 modem? See
> http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/CheapBox.html#modem
My Wisecom 56K works fine in Linux; had to set jumpers to com2 irq3.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Unclebob)
Subject: Re: printer setup, no respond (printtolls testpages)
Date: 24 May 1999 15:05:08 GMT
On or about Sun, 23 May 1999 18:38:59 +0000, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
=>I used printtool to add the local printer and tried
=>printing the test pages (ASCII, Postscript, ASCII directly to port)
=>but nothing happened. :(
=>using printtool with the following settings
=> Names lp0hp710c|hp710c
=> Spool Directory /var/spool/lpd/lp0
=> File Limit in KB 0
=> Printer Device /dev/lp0
=> Input Filter *auto* - DeskJet 550
=> Suppress Headers (selected)
=>hwdiag result are
=> /dev/ttyS0 SERIAL Generic PnP RSS/Rockwell External V.90 K56 V
=> /dev/ttyS1 SERIAL FAILED No info available for this port.
=> /dev/ttyS2 SERIAL <Port does not exist>
=> /dev/ttyS3 SERIAL <Port does not exist>
=> /dev/lp0 PARALLEL FAILED No info available for this port.
=> /dev/lp1 PARALLEL <Port does not exist>
=> /dev/lp2 PARALLEL <Port does not exist>
=> /dev/psaux PSAUX PS/2 AUX de PS/2 Mouse/MOUSE/
=> /dev/hda IDE IDE device FUJITSU MPC3064AT/HARD DRIVE/
=> /dev/hdb IDE FAILED No info available for this port.
=> /dev/hdc IDE IDE device MATSHITA CR-588/CDROM/
=>Your help is appreciated!!!
=>Thanks in advance
=>Karl -fkp-
=># remove "nospam-" from address to reply
hwdiag reported all my serial and parallel ports as
'failed no info available', but they work, so I don't
put much stock in the probe. Maybe that just means that
they had no data to read.
is there any entries in your /var/spool/lpd/lp0 directory?
(One kernel i compiled would only print the spool when I booted,
go figure.)
have you tried the 'lpr a file' command? If so, do you get
'printer not found or unknown'? In my case to get lpr to
work I had to set PRINTER environment with export
(in .bashrc 'export PRINTER=HP' hp being the name and not
the device I got from printtool.)
Then too, seems like there may be a problem with the HP700
series and Linux.
but don't let my ignorance get you down.
--
unclebob at theramp dot net 80
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From: Russ Schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ViVa 56LC-V modem (brand un-knowen)
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 21:18:41 -0400
I am trying to put Linux on a computer for my friend and I have not been
able to get the modem to work, all I know is that it works when he is
in winblows, and the settings are as follows
IRQ: 4
I/O : 03f8
I/O : 0100
it is a plug-n-pray modem and it is isa, I have used the pnpdump to get
the infomation form the card and set the infomation to the settings that
are under winblows, then I run isapnp with the infomation then I run
setserial on it with the same infomation, but when I run eather ezppp or
kppp they freeze up when they look for the modem, any sugestions.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam J)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: FDD Tape Drives
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 19:13:32 -0500
I'm looking to maybe put a floppy controller add-on tape drive (I think
it's an HP 250MB) into my linux box. I run RedHat 5.0, and it says that
the kernel will support the drive but that it isn't a RedHat supported
device. Am I getting myself into deep do-do here, or is it not that hard
to do? (If it's not too hard to do, what would the device be?)
Thanks,
Adam J
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From: Frederik Vos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux friendly hardware list?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 07:46:18 +0200
David Fox wrote:
>
> "KalDar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Is there a linux friendly hardware site? I'm going to build a Linux system
> > and want to buy components that will have long term support for Linux, don't
> > want to pay for unuseable features (USB), or have other avoidable technical
> > difficulties.
>
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html
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From: hac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c509b: How to turn off PnP?
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 02:12:48 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Michael Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >You should have gotten a disk with the card. On it is a DOS program called
> >3c5x9cfg. If you run this it will allow you to configure/test the card. Under
> >the configure options is the ability to turn off PnP and set static resources.
>
> What about for purists? If you're going to require DOS before you can
> setup Linux, you've required MS into the equation. Ugly, ugly. (Not
> 3com's or Linux' fault really...)
>
Two answers:
1) FreeDOS
2) DR DOS
--
Howard Christeller Irvine, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Matthew Juhl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oxygen GMX and X Windows
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 08:08:34 -0700
I am trying ro setp my Oxygen Gmx to at least run XWindows in VGA mode but
whenever i start x windows the screen goes blank and basically crashes the
systems (can not open another console) any ideas?
Thanks
Matthew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DB7654321)
Subject: Cheap 56K Modem
Date: 25 May 1999 02:15:03 GMT
Can anyone recommend a cheap 56K modem that works well with linux? Under $20.
David Bell
Please don't email me just reply on the board.
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From: "Ramesh Dharan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: multihead in Linux
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 02:12:39 -0400
I have dualhead set up in Win98 and I'd like to have something similar in
Linux. I have two video cards in my machine, a Real3D Starfighter (Intel
i740 8MB AGP) as my primary - set to initialize first in the bios - and a
Matrox Millennium II PCI as my secondary. The Starfighter is connected to a
15" Daewoo monitor and the Millennium to an old AAmazing 14" display (both
are multisync). I have a BX6-2 motherboard and Celeron 300a (overclocked and
stable at 450).
I compiled kernel-2.2.5 with all of the relevant kernel options I could find
enabled. I enabled framebuffer devices, the VESA compliant console, etc.
etc. and also multihead for Matrox (This option appeared to be for use in
computers with more than one MATROX card, rather than one matrox card and
one other card, but I included it anyway)...
When I boot up the startup messages are printed to my primary monitor, but
midway through the boot a "xxx device detected" (i forget the exact text) is
printed and the display switches over to the Matrox, I get a nice little
penguin logo, and the boot continues... Once the system is booted up, it
starts xdm (I use runlevel 5 etc.) and the display switches BACK to the
intel i740 (which is the only card for which I've installed an X server). As
soon as I switch out of X (with a ctrl-alt-f[x] combination or by shutting
down the server/switching runlevels, the active display switches back to the
Matrox and 14" monitor for text mode.
Ideally, I would like to have an X server running off the i740, and a text
getty off the Matrox on the (crappy) 14" display, with some way of switching
between them for input. At the very least, I'd like some control over being
able to use both displays simultaneously, whether both in X or not (I don't
think XFree86 supports dualhead but even text mode for one as I mentioned
would be nice).
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Sincerely,
Ramesh Dharan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: Lexmark 1020
Date: 25 May 1999 06:27:19 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (DB7654321) writes:
>>Depends on the model. There were two Lexmark 1020's, Model
>>4078-001 and 4078-002. 001 had PCL3 emulation on board meaning you could
>>use it as a HP 500/500C printer. The 002 however was a WinPrinter and
>>had no emulation on board.
>Thanks. I have 4078-001. Will I still be able to print in color?
Of course. Don't expect photo quality output from it under Linux
however. HP 500/500C was restricted to 300x300dpi. It is the Windows
drivers that allow the 1020 to go 600x300dpi. But for basic color (ie.
bar charts) and text this will work fine under Linux.
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From: Silviu Minut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: RH 6, sndconfig, sound balster 16 PnP
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 12:51:05 -0400
Here it is: (/etc/isapnp.conf)
(VERIFYLD N)
(DEBUG)
(READPORT 0x020b)
(ISOLATE)
(IDENTIFY *)
# this is my modem (motorola)
(CONFIGURE MOT15f0/90692603 (LD 0
(IO 0 (BASE 0x03e8))
(INT 0 (IRQ 11 (MODE +E)))
(ACT Y)
))
# from here on, is the sound card, AWE64
(CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 0
(INT 0 (IRQ 5 (MODE +E)))
(DMA 0 (CHANNEL 1))
(DMA 1 (CHANNEL 5))
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0220))
(IO 1 (BASE 0x0330))
(IO 2 (BASE 0x0388))
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 1
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0200))
(ACT Y)
))
(CONFIGURE CTL00e4/12636550 (LD 2
(IO 0 (BASE 0x0620))
(IO 1 (BASE 0x0A20))
(IO 2 (BASE 0x0E20))
(ACT Y)
))
(WAITFORKEY)
To create the isapnp.conf file you do
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
This creates a stub. You must uncomment only the settings that work for
you. How do you know them? From the manual for your card, or from Win95.
Then you run isapnp:
isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
That's all.
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From: Christian Stoecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: APM Question
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 09:40:48 -0200
Hi.
Some apm related questions (kernel 2.2.x) :
1) What is the difference between suspend and standby ??
2) Is it possible to put a reasonably recent desktop (PII-BX board or Asus P5A)
into either mode?
3) Would it harm the harddrives if I suspend the machine about 5-10 times
a day (running 24-7-365, IDE drives & SCSI drives).
My machine powers off fine (adding -p somewhere in /etc/rc.d/...) but it
does not suspend or standby with apm -s or apm -S. It just seems to shut off
the drives for a moment, the screen goes black and then it comes back on.
The kernel reports in /var/log/messages:
(after doing "apm -s" :)
May 24 12:11:32 sophus kernel: apm: busy: Unable to enter requested state
May 24 10:11:42 sophus apmd[130]: Resume after 4294967295:4294967237:4294967246
(after doing "apm -S":)
May 24 10:12:27 sophus apmd[130]: Resume after 00:00:07 (-1% 0:01)
Help is appreciated. I did read the man pages, but that did not help much. It
would be great to be able to put the desktop in some quiet 'sleeping' mode where
it only comes to life if someone actually does something.
Chris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hong)
Subject: Re: HP Deskjet 693C
Date: 25 May 1999 06:55:46 GMT
Rafael Lepra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Does anybody know where I can find drivers for this printer in order to
>make it work within SuSE 6.0
There should've been a menu asking about setting up the printer
during installation. It's done there. Or, the alternatives are to use
Ghostscript and use that to print the documents or WordPerfect 8 for Linux
which can use the WP driver it came supplied with (use 660C).
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From: "goo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRC on Redhat
Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 14:46:26 +0800
hi,
Who can help me to setup a IRC Server run on Redhat 5.2 and is MS Netmeeting
can logon that IRC Serve ?
Thanks,
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