Linux-Hardware Digest #417, Volume #10 Sat, 5 Jun 99 03:13:48 EDT
Contents:
Re: Is this modem IRQ problem? (Henrik Carlqvist)
Diamond Monster Sound (Sean Middleditch)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! loading on startup (Jim Zubb)
Re: CRAZY IDEA: Linux Box as TCP/IP Network Audio/Visual Server? ("Seth Rightmer")
Where do I find jumper spec for old hard disk? (Alex Yung)
Re: Diamond Monster Sound (Leejay Wu)
Re: Kernel too large, why? (Le physicien nocturne)
Re: Internal ISA PNP 56K Modem under Linux ("dpc")
Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0? ("Raymond Yung")
Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory! ("Seth Rightmer")
Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output... (fahlis)
Re: ViewSonic G790 Monitor problem... (Andrew Comech)
Re: X and ATI Rage 128 Graphics card (Miles Long)
Wheel Mouse problems (Brett Hall)
Re: What distribution? ("Justin Settle")
Re: S3 Trio3d 2X AGP for Linux Red hat 6.0 ? ("R. Tolga Korkunckaya")
Re: IBM 0669 ESDI hard disk parameters? (Georg Schwarz)
about SB AWE64 ISA (chunfuyu)
Re: HP JetDirects (using DLC) on Linux??? ("Don Young")
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this modem IRQ problem?
Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 21:00:50 +0200
Frank Yan wrote:
> I'm wondering if I did something wrong with the configuration or
> something not configured well with the modem,
What speed did you set the serial port to? You should set this to 115
kb/s.
> People told me that it's the modem IRQ problem, I'm wondering how
> to check the modem IRQ
cat /proc/interrupts
You shold also know that COM3: and COM4: (/dev/ttyS2 and /dev/ttyS3) are
unusable when they share irq with COM1: and COM2:.
> and how to set it?
Some serial boards have jumpers to change IRQ. But you will also have to
change the software to use the new IRQ. In linux this is done with
setserial. However, a better idea is probably to connect your modem to
COM2: and make sure that you don't use COM4:.
regards Henrik
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Date: Thu, 03 Jun 1999 20:42:58 -0400
From: Sean Middleditch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Diamond Monster Sound
I was wondering if there are any drivers for the Diamond Monster Sound
card (Aureal Vortex chipset, I believ). I remember last I checked, I
found a list saying the ships were new (which isn't all that true, is
it?) and that drivers haven't been developed yet. However, I also
remember reading somehwere that Diamond now fully supports the Linux
community, so I would guess there'd be drivers out now, but I can't find
any. Any help, anyone?
Sean Middleditch
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From: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! loading on startup
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:44:10 -0400
John Bjorgen wrote:
>
> I recompiled my kernel and force loaded the new Sound Blaster Live driver
> from creative as a module using insmod -f sblive.o. It works beautifully.
> My problem is that I have the 2.2.5-15 kernel that comes with Red Hat 6.0
> and the driver was compiled for 2.2.5. On startup it gives me an error
> about incompatible versions when it is finding module dependencies and
> loading modules. How can I make this work? I don't want to manually load it
> every time I start up.
You can add the insmod -f in your rc.local script. I think
there is an option you can put in conf.modules, but I am not
sure about what it is.
Alternately you can edit the binary module using a hex
editor (if you installed gnome with your RH 6 you can use
ghex). Load the file in the editor, search in the ASCII
data for 2.2.5 then change it to read 2.2.5-15. No more
complaints. I have put up a version of the sblive modified
like this here:
http://www.ecom.net/~jimz/sblive.o.gz
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Jim Zubb
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From: "Seth Rightmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: CRAZY IDEA: Linux Box as TCP/IP Network Audio/Visual Server?
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:30:06 -1000
Cyrus, I think you are on to something, my man. I haven't heard of anything
like that, but if people are putting toasters and coffee pots on the
internet, how hard could it be? I expect to see this kind of thing Real
Soon Now(tm), with a half dozen different incompatible protocols at first,
of course. Know any electronics wizards?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Yung)
Subject: Where do I find jumper spec for old hard disk?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 20:24:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Would someone remind me of the url for that? Thanks.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Monster Sound
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 16:33:03 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 3-Jun-99 Diamond Monster
Sound by Sean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I was wondering if there are any drivers for the Diamond Monster Sound
> card (Aureal Vortex chipset, I believ). I remember last I checked, I
> found a list saying the ships were new (which isn't all that true, is
> it?) and that drivers haven't been developed yet. However, I also
> remember reading somehwere that Diamond now fully supports the Linux
> community, so I would guess there'd be drivers out now, but I can't find
> any. Any help, anyone?
Go write Aureal; AFAIK, they've released information under NDA to OpenSound,
which may let you get a time-limited beta for dl, or buy a non-time-limited
beta. The ALSA Project has Aureal on their blacklist, as Aureal has
apparently refused to release enough specs yet.
> Sean Middleditch
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From: Le physicien nocturne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel too large, why?
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 01:03:40 -0400
David Murray wrote:
> I keep asking this but nobody has come up with a logical answer! I can't
> recompile my kernel on RedHat 6.0.. When I run LILO it tells me that the
> kernel is too big. The thing is, I am using a compressed kernel and it is
> only about 470K. What is more odd than this is that the kernel that RedHat
> 6 comes with by default is much larger, over a megabyte. Why is it that
> LILO can use that one, but not my new kernel? I need to get Video4Linux
> compiled into the kernel with my capture devices.. I also like to have my
> kernel compiled with Pentium optimizations. What is going on here?
> --DavidM
I got the same error when compiling the kernel 2.0.35 in slackware.
I took the file /usr/src/linux-2.0.35/vmlinux instead of the one mentioned in
the README file
" - In order to boot your new kernel, you'll need to copy the kernel
image (found in /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage after compilation)
to the place where your regular bootable kernel is found. "
Hope this will help, unless it's more esoteric. Good luck!
Jacques
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From: "dpc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Internal ISA PNP 56K Modem under Linux
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:03:14 -0400
Check out this site, it helped me a bit
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/modems/index.html
dpc
Remove AllYourClothes. to reply directly to me.
Korth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7j29iv$h5k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everyone,
>
> Could anyone give me some information on how to configure my internal
> modem (ISA, PNP, Rockwell chips, 56K) under Linux? I found that it could
> not be detected. Is it because of the PNP nature? Do I need to configure
> something for the PNP device first?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Korth
>
>
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From: "Raymond Yung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,hk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Cannot setting the Modem on Linux Redhat 6.0?
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 12:46:59 +0800
Hello all,
I'm a newbie on Linux, I use the "cat" command to view the file of
"/proc/interrupts" and list as follow:
CPU0
0: 800739 XT-PIC timer
1: 2306 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
8: 2 XT-PIC rtc
12: 458342 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
14: 108901 XT-PIC ide0
15: 5 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
As the above, the Int 3 and 4 is not enable for Serial device,
therefore, I use the "setserial /dev/ttys0 irq3" to enable this device, but
the console will prompt an error message "/dev/ttys0: Input/Output error".
Could anyone tell me, how to setting the modem on Redhat 6.0? My
modem is connected to COM1 == ttys0.
Thank You! :)
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Raymond Yung
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From: "Seth Rightmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: 2.2.5-15 kernel eats memory!
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 10:59:47 -1000
Free Memory is a Bad Thing(tm). If there isn't anything in it, what the
hell good is it doing you? Linux is very smart this way. If there are bits
of programs that haven't been used in a long time, while there is lots of
disk access that could be cached, it just makes sense to swap those bits out
and cache more disk.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fahlis)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Can't connect to my ISP yet, here's the pppd-output...
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 22:50:12 +0200
Well,I had almost the exact same output,I solved it by
putting in my ISP�s nameserver in networkconfiguration in Yast.
Hope it helps.
/fahlis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: ViewSonic G790 Monitor problem...
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 4 Jun 1999 12:21:53 -0500
On Fri, 04 Jun 1999 08:12:58 GMT, Marc Duran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> I just got a Viewsonic G790, and under Windoze, I'm able to get
>1280x1024 just fine. however, I get this resolution under X, but the
>picture takes on a dull brownish color.
Hi Marc,
that's a sad story: shipping the beast back would not be cheap..
>Resoultions of 1024x768 show up fine. Could it be my video card or the
>Mach64 X server?
I seriously doubt this. You can certainly try less brownish vershion
of Mach64.. Probably, the fastest way to get all the answers is to
try it with some generic videocard under SVGA xserver.
Best,
a.
>
>I'm currently using an ATI Xpert 98 w/8MB of RAM.
>
> I appreciate the help! :)
>
>
>Marc
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From: Miles Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: X and ATI Rage 128 Graphics card
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 00:23:45 -0500
You mean I'm wrong again?
I thought that was what I have but no.
I have the nVIDIA RIVA TNT Explosive 128-bit
You can send me to win95 for the rest of the night.
Jimmy
Phil Adamson wrote:
> In uk.comp.os.linux Jimmy Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Upgrade X to 3.3.3 for drivers
>
> The 128 bit ATI cards are supported in XFree 3.3.3? Where?
>
> AFAIK, there is no X server for the 128 bit ATI cards yet, although I did
> hear a rumour that someone was working on one. You should be able to get
> it to work with the vesa framebuffer support in the 2.2 kernels, and the
> XFree86-FBDev server. It won't be accelerated, though.
>
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From: Brett Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wheel Mouse problems
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 21:10:11 +0000
I have a Logitech mouse man+ (the one with a wheel and thumb button).
I've been trying to get it working with imwheel but so far it has been a
no-go. I edited my XF86Config file to include the lines:
Protocol "IMPS/2"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
I then built and installed imwheel as it says to do in the readme (using
method 1 here). Then I start imwheel with "imwheel -k" but it doesn't
seem to be doing anything (ie the wheel still does nothing). The readme
file seems to be saying that this is all I have to do. Is there
something that I'm missing? Also is there any way to use the 4th mouse
button (the thumb button) by remapping it to a keystroke?
-brett
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From: "Justin Settle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: What distribution?
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 1999 21:38:42 -0400
Well . . . If you only have 100 meg and you don't need X I would say to just
get a GPL CD. They are a buck a piece so you could get a bunch. With a
server I would say Debian, or Slackware - I have no experience with Slack
however. If you have a fast enough internet connnection, Debian is designed
that you can download some small files from the net, and setup a base
system, then get the rest through CVS. The advantage here is that you don't
need a CD-Rom. Debian, SuSE, and Redhat have tools to setup partitions in
the beginning. I would say though that don't by a full out-of-the-box
distr. now. By mid to late summer, the next versions of the distros will be
out so you can pick and choose what you like.
Baldur Gislason wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Help!
> I have a ccomputer I wnat to put linux on, this is the hardware:
> Some motherboard with a soldered-in 486sx33 processor oveclocked to 50mhz
(I
> did heatsink it, don't worry), ISA bus
> 8megs of ram (8x1meg 30pin simms)
> Some ISA Hyundai interface controller (IDE, FDC, serial, parallel)
> Trident 8900c3.0 ISA video card with 512k video ram
> 102meg hd (terribly small)
> Some floppy drive
> Not maths coprocessor (it's an SX, remember)
> I have a RealTek8019 lan card (NE2000 compatiple) that I will be
installing.
> I will be adding a CD-ROM drive probably.
>
> I need to know what distribution would be best on such a low hd space, I
> don't need X. This machine will be used as a server on my LAN, it will be
a
> router (or proxy) and www server. I will be upgrading it this summer to a
> p100 with 128megs of ram and 4,3gig hd so this will be a temporary
> installation. The whole small hard drive will be for linux because I don't
> need dos, I also need some good partitioning program (to make a Linux
native
> partition and a swap partition, I only have fips now and that prog only
> splits a dos partition and makes ext2 (linux native) but doesn't delete
the
> dos partition so I get stuck with a useless 7megs dos partition.
>
> ---------------------------
> Remove the spammers_go_suck_a_dick. from my address to e-mail reply
> ---------------------------
>
>
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From: "R. Tolga Korkunckaya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio3d 2X AGP for Linux Red hat 6.0 ?
Date: Fri, 04 Jun 1999 09:37:03 -0800
"Cl� William" wrote:
> How can i install S3 Trio3d AGP on linux red hat 6.0 ?
Visit the site:
http://savage3d.reviewboard.com/
I made it work under Turkuaz 1.0 a Turkish distribution based on
RedHat5.2 and on Slackware40.
I think it ll work for Mandsrake 60 also
You ve to download the XF86_SVGA form the site
http://members.xoom.com/s3dlinux/SavageX-0.1.3.tar.gz
and replace it with the original XF86_SVGA server...
Then just configure your card as usual.
write to me if you ll have any problems...
Thanx to Duncan McQueen for writing the S3 Savage 3d driver.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: IBM 0669 ESDI hard disk parameters?
Date: 4 Jun 1999 22:30:43 GMT
Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Georg Schwarz wrote:
>>
>>Does anyone happen to know the specs (heads, sectors, ...) for an IBM
>>type 0669 ESDI hard disk (full height)? I'm trying to install Linux on an
>>IBM model 80, and it does not recognize it. With DOS, which is still
>>running on that hard disk (because fdisk /dev/eda does not work :-)), the
>>disk works fine. I'm hoping that spefifing those parameters with lilo
>>might help Linux recognize the disk (the ESDI controller is recognized).
>How many ESDI disks do you have? The Linux-MCA kernel has a known bug
>that stops it recognizing more than one.
this is the only disk in that system, so that bug is not relevant here.
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From: chunfuyu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: about SB AWE64 ISA
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 15:37:22 -0700
Hi:
I want to install redhat 6.0 and my sound card is Sound Blaster Awe 64
bit ISA interface. Is that ok to 6.0?
Besides, can I use my SCSI hard drive as the boot disk?
Thanks a lot!
Peter
=2E
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From: "Don Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.networking,linux.redhat.development,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: HP JetDirects (using DLC) on Linux???
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 1999 01:04:45 -0500
I've set up these old printers using DLC on an NT Box then shared the
printer. RH 5.2 seen it just fine as a SMB shared printer.
Billy Dunn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:%NQ_2.1605$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Sorry for the cross-post, but this is an question that has been asked by
> many and never addressed in these newsgroups - and I've searched back 6
> months.
>
> There are thousands upon thousands of old Hewlett Packard JetDirect boxes
> and cards out there that allow you to setup a stand-alone printer. While
> many of the newer cards and external boxes allow TCP/IP communication, the
> old JetDirects do not.
>
> I have been using Windows NT's DLC protocol to connect to these boxes
> without much difficulty. Apparently, the DLC protocol is not something
that
> Linux supports at this time. I have hundreds of these boxes out there and
I
> am at a total standstill in my efforts to move to Linux because of this
> problem.
>
> Does ANYONE know of a way to communicate with the old JetDirect boxes that
> do not support TCP/IP? They support IPX/SPX and DLC (not LPD).
>
> Thanks very much - and sorry again about that cross-post.
>
> Emailed replies are fine, but I will also be checking here several times a
> day in the hopes that there is light at the end of this very dark tunnel.
> Billy Dunn
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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