Linux-Hardware Digest #491, Volume #10 Tue, 15 Jun 99 00:13:45 EDT
Contents:
[Q] ECP-Code (Frank Winkler)
Re: no display ("David E. Kindred")
Re: Recommended SCSI scananer? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Netgear ISDN router (John Aldrich)
Can't print; /dev/lp0 not detected; procfs? ("John Zbesko")
Please help fine tune X-window display ("John Zbesko")
Need help: Tekram 390F & Slackware Linux (Michael)
(REPOST) CD-RW: JVC 2080? Does it work? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lockups using BladeEnc... ("Jeff Volckaert")
ASUS V3800 TNT2 with linux (Peter)
Hibernation on IBM ThinkPad i14xx? (David Finton)
Changing system boxes (Jason)
Re: Red Hat on a Dell Dimension (Andrew de los Reyes)
Re: Lockups using BladeEnc... (David Fox)
Wangtek 5525ES ("Eric Wick")
newbie:printer drivers (Erik Arner)
Re: beep codes...help! (Marc Mutz)
Re: Color on an Epson 440 w/RedHat 5.2? ("John T. Dawid")
Re: how to compile c/c++ in linux (Marc Mutz)
Re: No lp after booting! (Marc Mutz)
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From: Frank Winkler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] ECP-Code
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:20:05 +0200
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From: "David E. Kindred" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: no display
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:15:55 -0500
Any chance you are using the frame buffer (fb) for displaying text? If so,
you may have picked a mode that your video card doesn't like. Trying turning
if off for now. Otherwise, I haven't a clue. Good luck.
Dave K.
Yves wrote:
> Since I update my kernel to 2.2.X, i can't see anything on the display, it
> look like the standard output is sent to something else.
> I am saying that because I can load Xwindows (by logging in first first, i
> don't see what i am typing, but i know it by hart) and everything is fine
>
> Brgds Yves
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI scananer?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:11:54 -0600
I have a UMAX 1200S that installed easily and works well on an Advansys Ultra SCSI
card. I had to adapt the cable of the scanner to the card (25 pin to 50 pin SCSI), but
that was no problem.
I would recommend this combination. Advansys SCSI cards seem to be well-supported by
Linux, and reasonably priced.
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From: John Aldrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netgear ISDN router
Date: 14 Jun 1999 15:30:46 GMT
Dax wrote:
>
> Can anyone point me to a good HOWTO on setting up an ISDN router with
> Linux? I'm sure its pretty straight-forward, I just don't want to be
> sitting there fiddling with it for hours. I'm finally trashing this
> Diamond Netcommander just for Linux, I can't believe it.
>
> Anyway, thanks for any help.
>
> Dax
Hi, did you ever get this answered? If not, I've got some experience
setting up Netgear Routers and can probably help you out. Matter of fact, I
had a whole long detailed reply all typed up when I thought maybe I ought
to make sure you'd not already gotten the help you needed. :-)
Matter of fact, we HIGHLY recommend the Netgear routers to all our ISDN
customers. :-)
John Aldrich
Tech Support
Chattanooga Online Internet
www.chattanooga.net
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From: "John Zbesko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't print; /dev/lp0 not detected; procfs?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 10:31:16 -0500
When using the RedHat 5.2 printtool, I get a message saying that no devices
were detected at /dev/lp0 or lp1 or lp2 and that there may be a hardware
problem. This has prevented me from using my Epson ActionLaser 1500, which
is HP III cpmpatible.
My parallel port works- I can use my zip drive. In my dmesg listing, I see a
message saying the parallel port is detected, but in order to enable
interrupt driven processes I need to:
use procfs
What is this and can it be the solution to my problem? Just what is the
printtool looking for? Thanks for your help.
John Zbesko
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From: "John Zbesko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Please help fine tune X-window display
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:51:34 GMT
I have a Gateway 19" vx900 monitor and STB Velocity 128 video card. I can't
seem to xconf a desktop that is sized to just fit the screen. Switching to
higher resolutions helps, but I still have to move the cursor to the edge to
see the edges of the desktop. The HOWTO's are very technical and I can't
seem to find what I need. Please help.
John Zbesko
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From: Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help: Tekram 390F & Slackware Linux
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 14:02:02 GMT
I have a new Tekram 390F SCSI card and need, under Slackware Linux, to
install the card with a Seagate 4.5 GB UltraWide SCSI-3 drive and
Seagate 2.0 GB SCSI-2 drive.
I tried to use the Slackware v2.0.35 tekram.s driver, but upon booting,
the bootdisk showed: '0 scsi hosts detected'.
Anyone got a working driver or know what is needed to install this card
correctly?
-- Michael
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: (REPOST) CD-RW: JVC 2080? Does it work?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:15:04 -0400
Hello,
I'm interested in getting a cd-rw and I wanted to know if anyone had got
a JVC 2080 working under linux. I had read that some had had problems
with this one.
We're looking at a 2.2.3 kernel, running on a slackware 3.2 machine.
Thanks for any help
Dave
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lockups using BladeEnc...
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 08:53:54 -0400
Hello Everybody,
I posted a few days ago about a problem with during CD ripping. Well, I
narrowed the problem down to BladeEnc. I get "Unable to handle kernel
paging request at virtual address" error on the first track BladeEnc trys to
encode. I also get "Call Trace", "process Kswapd", "kernel Panic VFS", &
LRU block list corrupted" messages among other things. If the machine
didn't hard lock I would cut and the paste the entire thing.
This is running on a P120, 32mg ram, Matrox Mystique 2mg, Sound Blaster 16,
4X Eide CDrom, Adaptec 1502e (with microtek scanner), and 6.4G Quantum
bigfoot.
Any help is appreciated.
TIA,
Jeff Volckaert
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From: Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ASUS V3800 TNT2 with linux
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:15:03 -0400
I know there has been a lot of discussion on which chipset is better
Voodoo3 or TNT2. I have decided to go with the ASUS V3800 VTR TNT2.
It's an awsome card, video I/O, 32MB RAM, AGP 4X. Anyway has anyone
used this card, or if not will the Xfree drivers on nVidia's site work
with this card? Any comments would be appreciated.
-Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Finton)
Subject: Hibernation on IBM ThinkPad i14xx?
Date: 15 Jun 1999 02:41:18 GMT
I can't seem to get my i1410 ThinkPad to hibernate under
Red Hat 6.0. It hibernates just fine under Win98 (dual
boot via LILO). I can use either apm or the hot keys
to enter standby, though. And I can get a summary of
the battery status.
When I hit Fn+F12 (hot key for hibernate), I get the
following messages in /var/log/messages:
=======
localhost kernel: hda: status error: status=0x59 { DriveReady
SeekComplete DataRequest Error}
localhost kernel: hda: status error: error=0x04 { DriveStatusError }
Localhost kernel: hda: drive not ready for command
localhost kernel: ide0: reset: success
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If anyone has succeeded in getting hibernation to work
on the i-series ThinkPads, I'd be grateful to hear about
it. (Yes, I know folks have gotten this to work on some of
the older ThinkPads).
--David Finton
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From: Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Changing system boxes
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 02:49:43 +0000
Hi-
I'm going to be moving my Linux drive to a new box and wondering if
anyone would recommend a particular method. I am currently running
RedHat 5.2, recompiled to kernel 2.2.7, dual-boot with Win95 on a
PII-233 with 128MB RAM. The system has two hard drives, the master is a
10GB with Win95, and the slave (only in spec) is a 4.3GB with Linux.
I've just finished a new AMD K6-2 350 box that I want to move Linux over
to, and leave the Win box for my wife. Should I go ahead and recompile
the new kernel based on the AMD's hardware, and just floppy-boot into
the new system in order to switch kernels once the system is up and
running? Or is there a better way?
Any ideas from experience will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in
advance for your help!
Jason Dixon
http://members.xoom.com/_XOOM/jasondotcom/index.htm
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew de los Reyes)
Subject: Re: Red Hat on a Dell Dimension
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 21:58:43 -0500
sam,
I'm in the same boat as you. Though I haven't bought my dimension, yet,
and probably won't until august, I have looked into Linux compatability.
Everything seems compatable except the DVD. I'm not sure about the sound
cards, but that's another thread in this newsgroup ("seems like a stupid
question"). I suggest you go to
http://support.dell.com/support/system.asp?sysid=DIM_PNT_P03_XPS_T___ ; it
tells the specs of the system i've looked at.
UNRELATED: there's rumored to be a PIII price drop in june; you might
want to wait for that.
Please email me if you find that anything is incompatable. Also, please
email me when you get the computer to tell me if anything does/n't work.
Thanks,
Andrew de los Reyes
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sam Choi) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Has anyone tried or heard of people installing Red Hat on a
> Dell Dimension (desktop model as opposed to the server model).
>
> The Dell rep tried to persuade me to the much more expensive
> server line, warning that Dell would not support Linux on
> a desktop model. But the server line is over $700 more for
> the same configuration.
>
> I'm planning a 500mhz PIII, 384 Meg RAM, and 22 gig HD.
>
> (It's an institutional purchase, so I want to go with a
> know brand. It's my head of I go with a generic PC and
> something goes wrong).
>
> Cheers,
> Sam
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From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Subject: Re: Lockups using BladeEnc...
Date: 14 Jun 1999 08:30:32 -0700
Still wondering what kernel you're running.
"Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello Everybody,
>
> I posted a few days ago about a problem with during CD ripping. Well, I
> narrowed the problem down to BladeEnc. I get "Unable to handle kernel
> paging request at virtual address" error on the first track BladeEnc trys to
> encode. I also get "Call Trace", "process Kswapd", "kernel Panic VFS", &
> LRU block list corrupted" messages among other things. If the machine
> didn't hard lock I would cut and the paste the entire thing.
>
> This is running on a P120, 32mg ram, Matrox Mystique 2mg, Sound Blaster 16,
> 4X Eide CDrom, Adaptec 1502e (with microtek scanner), and 6.4G Quantum
> bigfoot.
>
> Any help is appreciated.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: "Eric Wick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wangtek 5525ES
Date: 14 Jun 99 22:52:55 -0100
Hello,
can these drive under Linux use a hardware-compression? It have a STAC
Chip on the board.
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ByeBye
Eric
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:11:10 +0200
From: Erik Arner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie:printer drivers
Hi,
does anybody know if there is any linux driver available for my OKIPAGE
4m (LED) printer?
Thanks,
Erik
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:33:49 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: beep codes...help!
Craig Shields wrote:
>
> Here's the specs on a new system I just put together:
> mobo: FIC PA-2013 1MB cache
> Award BIOS
> AMD K6-2 400Mhz
> 1 128MB DIMM
> Matrox Millennium II 4MB PCI
> SB 16 sound card ISA
> running Linux & Win98
>
> Everything was running fine for a week or so and then suddenly the computer
> wouldn't boot. At that point there were NO beeps. All hard disks would
> spin up, fans, light, all worked fine. I believe there was signal to the
> monitor because the brighter light that usually indicates it's getting a
> signal was on (not the sleep light), but the display was black. I tried
> moving the vid card to other slots.. didn't work. I tried an old Cirrus
> Logic I had (also PCI)... still didn't work. Finally I reseated my DIMM and
> the processor. Bingo!
>
> Now a couple days later during boot it only counted up to 64MB RAM rather
> than all 128MB. Then suddenly it wouldn't boot again, but now I'm getting
> one long beep followed by two short beeps. An Award error document I read
> said that this means there is a problem with the video signal. I've gone
> through all the same steps of swapping vid cards again with no luck. I
> reseated the DIMM and processor again like last time, but it's not helping
> either. I'm suspecting a memory problem, but at this point I don't have
> another DIMM I can try. Am I on the right track here? Is there something
> else with the video side of it that I'm overlooking?? Oh, and yes I plugged
> my monitor into my laptop and it works fine too.
>
> Any help would be MUCH appreciated. I was hoping to have a smooth running
> system at this point, not another nightmare.
>
> thanks in advance!
> Craig Shields
Try booting with just one DIMM. If that does not work, try the other
DIMM. If that does not work, release your vid card, then place it in the
slot again. Remove all unnecessary cards (i.e. audio, network,
SCSI,...). Check that your monitor cable is properly connected to the
vid card. Try again. It should succeed. If not, test the vid card and
DIMMS in a friend's box.
This should suffice to locate the error (if everything's working, but
not with your box, it may even be the motherboard).
Marc
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From: "John T. Dawid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Color on an Epson 440 w/RedHat 5.2?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 11:20:27 -0500
Gee....you people are good....all I had to do was post a
message here, and the problem was fixed!
Seriously, I feel pretty stupid...reseated the color print
cartridge....now it works like a champ.
John...
John T. Dawid wrote:
> Hi folks!
>
> I recently bought an Epson 440 Color Stylus printer to
> replace a deceased HP 682c. Has anyone been able to
> successsfully print color with the Epson 440? I've seen
> references to use the "stcolor" option, but everything I try
> doesn't work. It can print grayscale ok, but not color.
>
> I'm running Red Hat 5.2.
>
> Any help with this, i.e. what do I need to plug in to
> Control Panel Printer Configuration, or /etc/printcap would
> be greatly appreciated. I'm still somewhat of a newbie, but
> am learning fast. So far I have Sybase ASE going, as well
> as a small network using a Linksys 5 port hub. I rather
> like this Linux stuff!
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:40:12 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to compile c/c++ in linux
Zoran Cutura wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > hi,
> >
> > Please someone explain what kind
> > of commands i have to use to
> > compile a c/c++ program in linux?.
> > what should be the program name
> > prefixes in c and c++ in linux?.
> >
>
> consider to read the manuals of gcc (egcs) and g++
>
> bye
> Zoran
>
well, normally I'd say that too, but gcc is a *very* complex piece of
software, so I'll help him.
The basic command is gcc -c <source> [-o <object>]. Write a makefile
like this one:
<--snip here----->
EXECUTABLE = ising
OBJECT = Ising.o
SOURCE = Ising.c
OPTIONS = -O
LIBRARIES = -lm
GCC = cc
$(EXECUTABLE): $(OBJECT)
$(GCC) -o $(EXECUTABLE) $(OBJECT) $(LIBRARIES)
$(OBJECT): $(SOURCE)
$(GCC) -c $(OPTIONS) $(SOURCE)
<--eof--->
you can then just issue 'make' and it will compile and link the program.
Check other one's Makefiles to learn more. Then you might want to print
the gcc manpage and read it trough.
Marc
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:23:35 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No lp after booting!
Denis wrote:
>
> Hi, after I boot I don't see "lp1 at 0x0378" in my /var/log/message.
> I do see it after I do for example "ls >/dev/lp1". Moreover, "cat
> /proc/devices" doesn't show "6 lp", nor does lsmod show lp module.
> Does it mean I have to install my printer? If yes, how? I don't see this
> info in Printing-HOWTO. I know my HP697C does print from Linux with
> cdj550 because I already printed *.ps files after using printtool
> and setting everything there - I thought it was installing a printer,
> apperantly I was wrong or not? Please help me understand. (tunelp is
> not available in my RH5.1).
> Thanks.
> Denis
Maybe parport support is compiled as a module. Look in your syslog with
tail -f /var/log/messanges
then (on another console) do
echo "Hello, World\!" > /dev/lp1
and check if something about loading the module is written to the
syslog.
(You terminate tail -f with CTRL-C...)
Marc
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