Linux-Hardware Digest #458, Volume #10 Thu, 10 Jun 99 13:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux with the Dell Dimension Series ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Soundblaster midi (Randy Olinger)
Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems (Mike Frisch)
HP 697C. Need help configuring. (Denis)
Re: Problem with AHA1510b scsi (Randy Olinger)
I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all (Mike)
Does linux support FDDI ? ("Bryan Spooner")
Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation (T. Fox)
Re: Backup recommendations? (killbill)
Re: "Kernel size too large" ("Phil")
Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup (Martin Collins)
Sony CPD 200ES (Haim Dimermanas)
Re: SCSI: Shutdown SCSI Device ? (Eric DE VITO)
shutting down scsi idle hard drives (Eric DE VITO)
Re: connecting serial ports of two Linux pc's (Skaya)
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux with the Dell Dimension Series
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 20:08:30 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I am new to the Linux hardware bit and would very
> much appreciate some advice. I am looking to buy
> the Linux Diemsion Series Pentium III box as advertised
> on their home page. My budget is $2000 and with the
> components that they have recommended for this series
> of machine is comes to a nice 1857 dollars, within
> budget. How do I check if the components are compatible
> with Linux? It does not say on their web page. I am
> interested in getting the whole multimedia stuff. Are
> these things supported by Linux? I would be interested
> in installing Linux, but I am in a hurry to get a machine
> and if it would be too expensive to do so or take too
> long, I could forget about it.
>
> Many Thanks,
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Subuddh
If you know what distribution/version of Linux you want to run, go to
the distributor's Web site and find their hardware compatibility lists.
Unfortunately, I think you're going to find that Dell is using some
things that don't have Linux support (winmodems, sound cards, etc), but
you should check the lists just to be sure.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Soundblaster midi
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:34:16 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To run FTP deamon you need to install the wu_ftpd package. (look for
something similar in the RPMS directory on the RPMS directory
(assuming you are using Redhat, but other distributions include the
wu_ftpd software in their respective locations)
Beware that ftpd has some security implications, check for latest updates.
Especially if this box has access to the internet.
Michael Lawrence wrote:
>
>
> one other thing, i would like to set up the ftp server, stupid me when i
> installed the sytem i overlooked that, but i don't see anywhere that i
> can download it, and i can't find a deamon on my system to run... how do
> i set this up?
>
> Thank you for all your help
>
> Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems
Date: 10 Jun 1999 13:17:57 GMT
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999 03:06:08 GMT, Robert M. Taylor
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you don't have this, you have to upgrade manually - a bitch to do.
Been there, done that... I built RPMs for GhostScript 5.? when it first
came out. It's not difficult if you can read docs.
>I have used RedHat in the past. This setup had more software on CD than
>any I've ever seen by default. I think newbee's should look at SuSE
>first. If this doesn't help chack the SuSE website search engine. Lot's
>of answers in there.
I didn't mean for this to become a dist war, I was simply asking about the
Epson Stylus Color 600 support.
There is nothing wrong with RedHat for newbies, either.
Mike.
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Mike Frisch Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 697C. Need help configuring.
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:21:10 -0400
Can anybody who configured HP 697C (or another HP DeskJet) for RH5.1
point me to the (preferably step by step) configuration procodure for
such a printer?
Thank you.
Denis
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Problem with AHA1510b scsi
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:58:37 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Since this is a PNP card, do not try to automatically load
it at boot time (take it out of conf.modules)
Installing the card manually should work, I don't see a flaw in
your commands. When I used the card I had scsi, scsi_disk,
and scsi_generic compiled into the kernel and I just loaded
aha152x as a module, but I don't know any reason your way
would not work.
I used to use a card like this, I used the command
insmod aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1"
use the lsmod command to ensure that it is not already loaded,
and look at the /var/log/messages after each module install to
see if there are any errors.
You cannot install the module until after isapnp has bee successfully run
to configure the card. I put some PEEK commands in my
isapnp.conf file to make sure the registers are configured correct.
For what it is worth, that card belongs in the dumpster. Getting an
inexpensive
PCI card like the SYM20810 ($28.95) will be a much easier route. I
finally junked my AHA1510 card.
Randy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have serious problems getting my Adaptec AHA1510b isa PnP SCSI
> controller to work under linux. I've tried several things, and have the
> feeling I barked myself up a tree now... so any help sure is appreciated
> :)
>
> Under w1nd0z3, the card works fine and is reported to have IRQ 11, IO
> 0x340.
> cat /proc/interrupts shows interrupt 11 as free.
> cat /proc/ioports shows io 0x340 as free.
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux version 2.1 (potato) with kernel 2.2.9
>
> The scsi card is the only reason for me to run M$ crap btw... so please
> help me getting rid of it ;)
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Arjan Drieman.
>
> Here are my various attempts:
>
> Attempted: Driver statically compiled into the kernel.
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" in lilo.conf.
> hardware switches on card active/inactive gives same result.
> Result:
> aha152x: processing commandline:
> aha152x: <NULL>
> aha152x: invalid line (controller=1)
> ok
> aha152x: BIOS test: passed, detected 1 controller(s)
> aha152x0: vital data: PORTBASE=0x340, IRQ=11, SCSI ID=7,
> reconnect=enabled, parity=enabled, synchronous=disabled, delay=100,
> extended translation=disabled
> aha152x: trying software interrupt, lost.
> aha152x: IRQ 11 possibly wrong. Please verify.
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> scsi : detected total.
>
> However, when I initialize it with isapnptools:
> ADP1510/1467392874[0]{SCSI Controller }: Port 0x340; IRQ11 --- Enabled
> OK
>
> I have no clue what the stuff about invalid commandline is about and where
> to correct that.
>
> Attempted: Driver as module.
> Initialization with isapnptools.
> append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" in lilo.conf
> aha152x in /etc/modules
> hardware switches on card inactive/inactive gives same result
> Result:
> ADP1510/1467392874[0]{SCSI Controller }: Port 0x340; IRQ11 --- Enabled
> OK
> Calculating module dependencies... done.
> Loading modules: aha152x scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.2.9/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> After this, I get
> isapnp: Device 'Creative SB AWE64 PnP'
> isapnp: Device 'Adaptec AHA-1510B'
> isapnp: 2 Plug & Play devices detected total
>
> If I try to load it manually:
> # insmod scsi_mod
> # insmod sd_mod
> # insmod sg
> # insmod aha152x
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.2.9/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>
> # modprobe aha152x
> scsi : 0 hosts.
> /lib/modules/2.2.9/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
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From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all
Date: 10 Jun 1999 14:31:20 GMT
Hello,
I have a Logitech 3-button mouseman and I get no response at all in
X-windows. I've tried mouseconfig, XF86Setup, XConfigurator, and
xf86config and none of them work to fix it. I've tried using Logitech and
Microsoft as my mouse configurations and neither of them gives me a
response. I also tried to killall gpm to no avail. I know the mouse is
good (it works in Windows) so I'm sure that I'm just making a small
oversight somewhere, I just don't know where else to look. Please send
help.
Thanks,
Mike
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From: "Bryan Spooner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does linux support FDDI ?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:09:58 -0700
I need to interface with a FDDI network. Is there a FDDI controller that
will work?
Please email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you,
Bryan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED][NOSPAM] (T. Fox)
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: choosing an OS for a retired Sun workstation
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED][NOSPAM]
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:10:28 GMT
I ran RH5.1 on my old SS10 before I got rid of it. It was okay. X
operations weren't as fast as I'm accustomed to but it was certainly
better than Solaris2.5.1.
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Backup recommendations?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:41:29 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan LaPine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Then go out and buy an inexpensive CD burner. They are available for
under
> > $200 for an ide model, and you can't get cheaper media. That's not
to
> > mention all the other uses they have. (DAT really bites on my car CD
> > player...)
>
> Well cheaper if you are only backing up 640 megabytes uncompressed.
> Right now, I'm backing up 13 gigabytes to my DAT drive every night.
> It would take the better part of a day, having to plop in new CD's
> every so often (hey my time is valuable, even if I'm just playing
> games).
> (text deleted)...
> Don't get me wrong, I also have a CD-R and use it, but I don't think
> its that practical for soho type dumps.
As the author of a CDRW backup utility for Linux (backburner, see
www.freshmeat.net) I could not agree more with Micheal (not that I would
ever dare to disagree about anything Linux related with anyone with a
cygnus email address :).
Utilities like backburner make it pretty easy to drop up to about 1.2
gigs to a single CDR or CDRW, and work pretty well for the home user
that wants the most utility, flexibility, and bang for the buck.
It can be a headache however. It _will_ take the better part of the day
to completely backup a decent sized system, and will require periodic
visits to flip disks. There are plenty of strategies to make this
easier, and most users could probably get away with unattended backups
to a CDRW of only files that have changed since their last full backup,
but it will always be more work then having a great big tape drive of
some sort.
That being said, if it is the choice of either a tape drive _or_ a CDRW
drive, I would take the CDRW in a heartbeat for 90% of all usage
scenarios. It does not do any one thing really well, but it does SO
MANY things just well enough.
--
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: "Phil" <phil2{nospam}@mindless.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: "Kernel size too large"
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:11:27 GMT
Leonard Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Handle modules. bzip or other are not styleful.
> Make not often used function in the kernel to modules
> and compile from hands:
> make dep clean zImage modules modules_install
> you will find the compilent in the ./arch/(mashine)/boot/zImage
>
> Leonard Lin
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Craig Sharpe schrieb:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm in the process of configuring my own kernel. I'm using RedHat 6 and
> > need to reconfigure the kernel to suport scsi, parallel ports, and zip
> > drivers so that I can install my zip 250 parallel drive.
> >
> > I've selected the options I want in xconfig .. and have typed "make
> > dep", then "make clean" and then "make zImage" but then after it has
> > looked at the sectors of my HD it comes up with two error messages
> > saying " Use bzImage or modules". I took the advice and ran "make
> > xconfigure" with very few y options and after the rest of the procedure
> > the error message came up again. It takes about a whole morning to do
> > the process and so I was wondering if it was possible to see the amount
> > of bytes used in the kernel by the different drivers.. and hence know
> > how much I can add without going over the kernel size limit??
> >
> > Or does anyone know were to find xconfig lists that display the drivers
> > installed and produce a working kernel?
> >
> > thanks for your time.
>
I am new to Linux (using Red Hat 6.0) and I wanted to make a custom Kernal.
When I did make zImage it seemed to go ok without any errors, but when I did
make zdisk it gave me an error about the Kernel being to large. It was 653k
and when I rebooted Xwindows loaded up incredibly slow and it was some what
unresponsive is this due to the size or did I just screw something up.
by the way the Kernel is 2.2.5
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Collins)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: <Q>Logitech bus mice setup
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:32:44 GMT
On Wed, 9 Jun 1999 15:19:33 -0700, Ling Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I tried to use Logitech bus mice on my Linux PC. I used to have serial
>mouse and it works fine in X Window. The port I used is
>/dev/mouse->/dev/ttyS1. I tried and this port didnt work out. I want to
>know what's the correct dev port I should use for Logitech bus mice.
There is a bus-mouse HOWTO. Off the top of my head though, if you
actually have a PS/2 mouse like mine rather than a genuine bus mouse
you should link /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux.
Martin
_________________________________________________________________
We see here a curious instance of that frequent mental phenomenon
:- the precise inversion of the truth by a superficial view.
Benjamin R. Tucker 1899
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From: Haim Dimermanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Sony CPD 200ES
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 12:24:31 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello,
As this is my first post, and English is not my mother tongue, please be
kind :)
I am using a Debian 2.1 system on a Pentium based system. My hardware
configuration is OK, I have a Matrox Mystique 4 Mo and the problem comes
from my screen.
I have a Sony CPD 200ES, a good 17 inches monitor. I want to run Xfree at
1280x1024, but I am not able to find the proper refresh rates for my
screen to work. I select "Monitor that can do 1280x1024 at 60Hz (the
second from the bottom on XF86Setup), it works very bad. If I select 70Hz,
it is "out of range".
The big problem is that I am able to work at 1280x1024 under Windows 98,
but now, under Linux, I am limited to 1024x768. Painfull.
I tryied to select different Horizontal and Vertical Scan Range. I looked
into Sony's web site, and they say that it is 30.0-70.0 ; 50-120 but it
gives me the same thing : with these settings, when I switch to 1280x1024,
my screen is unreadable (I see something, but it is SHAKING !!!!)
Please help me.
Ps : a copy by mail would be greatly appreciated, because I do not have
constant access to the newsgroups.
--
Haim Dimermanas
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Re: SCSI: Shutdown SCSI Device ?
Date: 9 Jun 1999 14:28:18 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
niemand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
>
> i have a very important question.
> I want shutdown my scsi-devices over nigth.
> Have everyone a tool for this problem ?
>
> thankz in advance ;)
>
> greatings Lars
>
do you mean hard drives for ex ? In this case you have a patch to kernel-2.0.36.
named scsi-idle but is only for this kernel.
If you want I can add you to a mailing-list I am doing for asking the conceptor
of the kernel SCSI driver to add scsi-idle into the kernel. At this time he
does not want because he does not like the idea.
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: shutting down scsi idle hard drives
Date: 9 Jun 1999 14:37:34 GMT
I am currently creting a list of linux users interested in scsi-idle system
to be added to the kernel scsi driver.
Please email me if you want to be added to a mailing-list which will be
used to convince the kernel scsi drivers conceptors to add scsi-idle
functionnality.
Thank you
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Skaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: connecting serial ports of two Linux pc's
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 15:25:23 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > I have two Linux pc's linked by 10/100BT ethernet and I am looking for a
> > program that can connect the serial ports of the two pc's together. In other
> > words, data input to one serial port would appear at the output of the
> > serial port of the Linux pc at the other end and vice versa. Any info is
> > very much appreciated.
> >
> Use perl to write a script that establishes a TCP/IP connection and put
> everything it gets from one serial port into the socket and another
> script which does the same, but *accepts* TCP/IP connections.
>
> The perlfaq{1-9} manpages have example code.
you can also use netpipes (hose & faucet), simple programs allowing you
to
redirect stdin and stdout (and others, of course) to/from tcp/ip
sockets.
they should be shipped with every decent distribution, and manpage has a
good pile of examples.*
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