Linux-Hardware Digest #461, Volume #10 Thu, 10 Jun 99 23:13:46 EDT
Contents:
Re: "Kernel size too large" (Ioannis Aggelakopoulos)
Re: kdat with Ditto streamer ("Tony Platt")
Re: I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all (Marc Mutz)
linux memory size problems (Andy)
Celeron 300A and ABit BH6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 10.2 GB IDE disk partition question (Ian Tester)
Re: [Q] IBM ServerRaid is it supported ?? ("Tony Platt")
Re: How do I install a 3com 509? (root)
Re: Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS (Marc Mutz)
Promiscuous mode
Re: Graphic Card : ATI Expert 98 ("James Kosin")
Re: Sony CPD 200ES (Howard Mann)
Scanner Cannon FB6200P Question (Andrey Vlassov)
Re: Linux on closed platforms? (Dave)
Re: Partition sizes (Randy Olinger)
Re: Matrox Millenium II and XF86 probs (Steffen Kluge)
Re: LS-120 wont mount during Redhat Setup (Randy Olinger)
Re: linux memory size problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Multiple CD-Rom Drives (Randy Olinger)
quantum fireball HDD & DMA ("parag")
Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems (Pierre Asselin)
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From: Ioannis Aggelakopoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: "Kernel size too large"
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 02:08:16 +0200
On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Phil wrote:
>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
Just do : make bzImage
.and don' t worry about the size...
You don't need to cut the size of your kernel or use too many modules..
You don't loose in quality using bzImage.
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kdat with Ditto streamer
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:49:14 +1000
I think the answer is actually in your question
Kdat <<<< might mean DAT type tapes
Altho I havn't used the package myself
Try BRU or Arkeia for visual apeal
www.arkeia.com
sorry can't remember bru's address
Hope it helps
Tony
Markus Jostock wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello
>
>I have got the iomega ditto 2GB streamer with the additional accelerator
>card ditto dash from iomega. Everything works quite well with the
>ftape-4.0.x driver. But unfortunately I cannot get kdat to work with my
>floppy tape. It always tries to mount the tape.
>The chosen device is o.k. and if I address the ftape device with the tar
>command everything is fine.
>Any ideas ? Or does anyone know some software that offers a graphical
>user interface for storing multiple archives on a floppy tape that works
>with the iomega ditto 2GB?
>Hints would be appreciated.
>
>Yours
> Markus
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:38:39 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I can't get my Logitech mouse to work at all
Mike wrote:
>
> 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.
>
My Logi Pilot works w/ Microsoft setting and w/o (!) any 3 button
settings. Have you selected the right device (i.e. /dev/ttyS* for serial
mice, /dev/ps* for ps/2?)
Marc
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux memory size problems
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:20:03 GMT
Greetings:
I am having some very strange problems which seem to be related to
memory, at least they are affected by what I do with memory.
First my hardware / software configuration:
P90, 2GB IDE hard disk, Linux 6.0, nothing fancy...
My motherboard has 4 memory slots. (2 banks of 2 slots) When I installed
my machine I started out with 2 8M sticks in bank 0. Every thing worked
fine installing and linux runs great. I noticed, though, that While Bios
reports the correct ammount of memory, linux only sees 13520 (K?).
So I went about trying to get it to recognize my memory by putting
"linux mem=16M" at the linux boot prompt. But whenever I do this the
boot process croaks with a general protection fault at the point where
the system starts to do a Partition check on hda. I've tried various
configurations of memory (2 8M sticks, 4 4M sticks, 2 8M sticks and 2 4M
sticks). In each case bios reports the correct amount of memory while
linux sticks to its 13520 number. And when I pass the amount of memory
as at the boot prompt I get the general protection fault described
above. (BTW all memory simms are matched, i.e. same type)
What gives!?
Thanks,
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Celeron 300A and ABit BH6
Date: 10 Jun 1999 09:36:08 -0400
Hi, I've recently had some unpleasant experiences with the K6-2 380 and
a FIC motherboard. Has anybody here had experience with the Celeron 300A
and the ABit BH6 motherboard (Socket 370)? Are they easy to work with?
Can I turn off that annoying ATX-only-turn-on-if-I-think-it's-ok feature?
Jimmy
reply to jimmy at linuxstart dot com
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From: Ian Tester <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 10.2 GB IDE disk partition question
Date: Tue, 8 Jun 1999 17:02:12 +1000
On 5 Jun 1999, Minbari wrote:
[snip]
> Disk /dev/hdd: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 19885 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
> Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
> /dev/hdd1 1 1 204 102784+ 82 Linux swap
> /dev/hdd2 205 205 19885 9919224 83 Linux native
[snip]
> /dev/hdd2 9559556 2738249 6325346 30% /mnt2
> /dev/hda1 1535872 1266496 269376 82% /dosc
> /dev/hdb1 2562112 912512 1649600 36% /dosd
>
> /dev/hdd only has ~9.5GB space, and Used (2738249) + Available (6325346)
> is even less (~9.0GB), I suppose that is because the filesystem needs some extra
> space to store the file headers and other infos etc., but why does the
> filesystem only show up for 9.5GB, where did the other 400MB (9.9GB -9.5GB)
> go? Is it normal? Thanks in advance.
By default, 5% of the filesystem is reserved for superuser (i.e root).
This is to prevent a user from bringing a machine to its knees by using up
all the disk space on / and leaving the system unable to do important
things like write logs and create temp files.
You can change the amount of reserved space with the tune2fs program. But
beware that ext2fs reportedly has trouble with its anti-fragmentation
algrorithms if the filesystem gets too full. You should only reduce the
reserved space, certainly not remove it!
hope this helps,
bye
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [Q] IBM ServerRaid is it supported ??
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 10:35:01 +1000
Thanks for the reply Bernard
Tony
Bernd Huebenett wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello Tony,
>
>there are beta drivers for Red Hat 6.0 from IBM. At the moment the
ServeRAID is
>only useable as a secondary storage device. ServeRAID II = Adaptec
AHA-3985.
>
>Regards,
>Bernd
>
>
>Tony Platt wrote:
>
>> SCSI-2 Fast / Wide ServeRAID PCI RAID Controller, FRU P/N 76H6875
(06H9334)
>>
>> Is it supported under linux
>>
>> Picture
>>
>> http://www.computercable.com/ecom/76h6875.jpg
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tony Platt
>
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I install a 3com 509?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 13:43:17 GMT
Probably should turn off plug and play on card with 3com utility too!
-Walt
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Chapel Hill, NC USA
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Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 23:30:53 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Searching: SMP Machines with many CPUS
Johannes Nix wrote:
>
> I am working on digital signal processing algorithms for speech
> processing. Until now, we have done this mostly on DSP systems, but
> hardware is costly, gets every year more complicated and is outdated
> rapidly. Also, libraries are often buggy and porting DSP code is as
> much work as developing it new - this costs often ten or twenty times
> more work than developing under UNIX. (Compared to DSP development,
> writing a multithreaded C Program is a easy game!)
>
"In the future, we will do this mostly on x86 systems, which is also
costly*, gets every year more complicated and is outdated even more
rapidly. Libraries are as buggy as everywhere and making it work on the
latest OS version is as much work as developing for a new system."
Ok, that might go too far, but I can't see how a UNIX cluster od SMP
machine can beat a DSP farm where each node costs about 30$ and has a
computing power, well look at TI's or Motorola's website to check the
latest record, say 200 MOPS?
Marc
===========
* speaking of MOPS/$
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promiscuous mode
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:46:32 +0200
hi
Anyone has an idea why my network card goes into promiscuous mode
automatically a few times a day ?
Is it a bug ? Is there a patch ? I don't know.
i am using redhat 5.2 / kernel 2.0.36 / 2 NIC / ipfwadm
i appreciate your help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "James Kosin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphic Card : ATI Expert 98
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:30:12 -0400
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Dear All,
I got mine to work properly by not allowing the driver to probe how much
memory I have onboard. That seemed to do the trick.
Thanks,
James Kosin
James Kosin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:u8mwLXhs#[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear Funman,
>
> I have the ATI Expert 98 PCI version with 8MB. So far I can only get it
to
> work in 640x480 16color...
> I had it sortof working when I tried it with my settings for the ATI PC2TV
> Turbo Pro [my old card].
>
> Let me know what you find out.
> I'm still trying as well.
>
> Thanks,
> James Kosin
>
> Funman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7i8290$ip3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have an ATI Expert 98 AGP Graphic card with 8MB but unfortunately
could
> > not get configured right.
> >
> > I wonder anyone out there might be using the same card knows how.. I am
> > using a Philips 107S 17" monitor.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Howard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Sony CPD 200ES
Date: 11 Jun 1999 01:10:51 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Haim Dimermanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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".
According to : http://www.ita.sel.sony.com/support/techspecs/support.cgi/cpd200es,
your monitor will support 1280X1024 at a maximum refresh rate of 60 MHz
At : http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/calc.html ,
I used the calculator to get this modeline:
"1280x1024" 108 1280 1328 1440 1682 1024 1025 1028 1066
Try it. Make sure you have the correct X-server for your videochipset
and are using XFree86, 3.3.3
Let us know if it works.
Cheers,
--
Howard Mann
http://www.newbielinux.com
(a LINUX website for newbies)
Smart Linuxers search at: http://www.deja.com/home_ps.shtml
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From: Andrey Vlassov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Scanner Cannon FB6200P Question
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:49:37 -0700
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Hi experts,
Recently on the market appear Cannon FB620P Scanner which connects to
parallel port. It has a good price for 600x600dpi resolution but "Does
somebody try it to use under Linux and get success?".
Thanks in advance
Andrey
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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux on closed platforms?
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 08:56:46 -0500
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jun 1999 07:10:41 -0500, Dave wrote:
> >
> >Linus Torvalds wrote:
> [ snip ]
> >The GPL is virus like and if you use GPL libraries your program is now
> >infected.
Just for the record, this was not Linus' argument, and neither was the one below.
>
>
> The workaround is that very few shared libraries are released under the
> GPL. Almost all shared libraries are released under the LGPL. The LGPL
> allows you to dynamically link proprietry applications to the library.
>
> >I see a lot of sense in this argument. Can it not be extended to operating
> >systems as well, in particular if the operating system not only is not "user
> >linked", but is included as an indivisible ("statically linked", so to speak)
> >part of the system?
>
> This seems unlikely. If what you're saying is true, proprietry desktop
> environments ( such as CDE ) and system tools (YAST) would also violate the GPL
> when you run them on linux. You could argue that the desktop environment is an
> "indivisible" part of the system. You could certainly argue that YAST is an
> "indivisible" part of SuSE ( YAST is a configuration tool which plays the same
> role on SuSE that "Control Panel" plays on windows... ) But it doesn't matter,
> as long as it doesn't use GPL'd ( source ) code in any way.
>
> -- Donovan
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Partition sizes
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:11:48 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'd say since you are new to linux just make 2 partitions,
/dev/hdb1 2 Gig /
/dev/hdb2 100 meg swap
There are some nice things about having smaller partitons for /usr/ /var /opt,
etc.
But since you don't know yet what the end state will be, it is more flexible
to put it all in 1 big partition for now and just install what you need. If
you
make several smaller partitions, odds are you will end up with one that
is filled up and another that is totally empty, and re-partitioning is not for
the faint of heart, even with a tape drive!
For your first install, just go through it all and see how it turns out. Then
install
all the other stuff you want. When you are done, take a look at your system
and see where your space is used, what you wish your could do over, etc.
Then, format the drive and install it all again. Plan to throw one away. The
second time you do it will be much easier and your confidence will be higher
as you answer the questions.
Just my friendly opinions....
Randy
"Bruce G. Perrin" wrote:
> Hi - I am a new to Linux and looking a practical way to partition my hard
> disk. MY system is a s follows:
>
> 1.6 gig Win98 used for network game server
> 2.1 gig Linux disk.
>
> Should I partition the Linux disk into several smaller ones for user etc...
> or just a swap disk and one large partition.
>
> Also Suse 6.1 gave me a warning about LILO having problems with partitions
> with more than 1024 sectors.
>
> Thanks!!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: Matrox Millenium II and XF86 probs
Date: 11 Jun 1999 00:33:48 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Cant get my slackware 3.5 linux to run my Matrox Mullenium II card at
>1280 * 1024, at any colour depth, My monitor (a Iiyama Vision Master
>Pro 17") complains about the speed of something or other then shuts
>down
>
>I looked at the XF86Config file, but dont realy understand what I'm
>looking at,
Kevin, find the HorizSync and VertRefresh lines in XF86Config in
the "Monitor" section for your monitor and put the correct
frequency ranges there (from your monitor manual). The X server
will then choose a mode the monitor can digest.
Hope this helps
Steffen.
--
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Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS-120 wont mount during Redhat Setup
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:26:20 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LS-120 device does not work for special installs. (any install
that requires the supplimental disk) If you have a
CDROM for the laptop, hook that up and boot from it. (in case the
CD shares a bay with the floppy as in the Thinkpads.) Otherwise
try to get a normal floppy. Once you get through the install, the
LS-120 works fine.
Unfortunately, RedHat does not support the LS-120 drive yet
for installs.
Randy
colin wrote:
> Trying to do an FTP install on my laptop. Need to load PCMCIA support from
> second diskette.
> It looks for a mounted floppy drive, but there isn't one because LS-120 is
> mounted as hdd...
> Installing on an unformatted harddrive. Help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: linux memory size problems
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 00:38:30 GMT
I'm far from an expert on this but here are a couple things I'm
thinking.
1. I doubt that it is a Linux configuration problem. For memory stuff
Linux just takes info from the BIOS, I think.
2. You might want to check if there are any BIOS memory shadowing or
limitations set.
3. You could consider (ACK!) installing DOS or Windows temporarily to
see what they report.
4. Or, you could just go out and buy a Quad Pentium III Xeon with 2 Gig
of RAM and forget the whole thing. While you're there pick one up for
me too please. :-)
--Rainer
In article <7jpdm8$up6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I am having some very strange problems which seem to be related to
> memory, at least they are affected by what I do with memory.
>
> First my hardware / software configuration:
> P90, 2GB IDE hard disk, Linux 6.0, nothing fancy...
>
> My motherboard has 4 memory slots. (2 banks of 2 slots) When I
installed
> my machine I started out with 2 8M sticks in bank 0. Every thing
worked
> fine installing and linux runs great. I noticed, though, that While
Bios
> reports the correct ammount of memory, linux only sees 13520 (K?).
> So I went about trying to get it to recognize my memory by putting
> "linux mem=16M" at the linux boot prompt. But whenever I do this the
> boot process croaks with a general protection fault at the point where
> the system starts to do a Partition check on hda. I've tried various
> configurations of memory (2 8M sticks, 4 4M sticks, 2 8M sticks and 2
4M
> sticks). In each case bios reports the correct amount of memory while
> linux sticks to its 13520 number. And when I pass the amount of memory
> as at the boot prompt I get the general protection fault described
> above. (BTW all memory simms are matched, i.e. same type)
>
> What gives!?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
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From: Randy Olinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multiple CD-Rom Drives
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 09:23:24 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What have you tried?
The 2nd CDROM has a different device name than /dev/cdrom.
You need to find out what it is and explicitly mount it.
Randy
Gary wrote:
> How do you get Linux to recognize 2 CD-Rom drives? I can get the master drive
> mounted ok, but can't get the 2nd one recognized.
>
> Gary
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From: "parag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: quantum fireball HDD & DMA
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:25:27 +0530
cant get my 4.3GB fireball to work in dma mode under RH 5.2. hdparm -d 1
comes out with error of operation not supported but under win98 the disc
does work in dma mode!! havein a via chipset and bios detect HDD as dma
capable any pointers are appriciated
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pierre Asselin)
Subject: Re: Epson Stylus Color 600 Config Problems
Date: 11 Jun 1999 02:20:35 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch) writes:
>Does it print colour correctly? I've noticed with the version of
>Ghostscript that comes with RH 6.0 does not seem to have correct colours
>with the Stylus Color 600.
I have RedHat 5.2 + 2.2.7 + gs5.50 in /usr/local, /etc/printcap set to
use the uniprint drivers. No, the colors aren't right but they aren't
wrong enough for me to bother, either. I print more technical diagrams
than photographs so color accuracy isn't paramount to me.
How to fix? edit the `up*Transfer' arrays in the .upp files. When I
tried this, I got good results with linear transfer functions: two
entries per color, {0 <max>} where <max> has to be tuned individually
for each ink. Start with max= 1.0, reduce all inks until the paper no
longer gets soaked, then start adjusting for color balance.
Note that there are *big* color shifts from paper to paper, even among
the Epson brands. Choose the paper first, then tune the arrays.
--
--Pierre Asselin, Westminster, Colorado
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