Linux-Hardware Digest #492, Volume #10 Tue, 15 Jun 99 02:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: ASUS Motherboard problem (Marc Mutz)
Re: Ghost linux disk/partition (killbill)
Re: HP T4000s SCSI Tape Drive ("J�rgen Pfann")
Re: CPUs: Pentium vs. AMD, etc. ("Gabriel")
IBM L40SX Laptop ("xmag")
VIDEO ("Ben Adler")
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI S5016 Sound Card Support? ("Kris Erpenbeck")
Re: Is HPDeskjet 695C printer compatible to Linux softwares? ("J�rgen Pfann")
Re: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big (John Thompson)
Re: HP 720C doesn't print ("Alan Bumpus")
Re: lilo installable on FAT32? (killbill)
Microphone doesn't work for 2.2.x? (Brian Olsen)
Re: How do I use an on-board NIC? ("Drew M. Mooney")
5 printing related questions - need help, please? (Denis)
Re: Please help fine tune X-window display ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SB Live driver does SB Live Value? (Andrew de los Reyes)
3c507 eth0: stop... status 5220 a000 d220 (Pawel Zajdel)
Re: Problem with vremap function ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is sound blaster live value incompatible with linux? ("jeff")
Any driver known for SB Live? ("Jan de Sonneville")
Re: SB Live driver does SB Live Value? (Darryl Bryant)
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Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:28:55 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS Motherboard problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello-
>
> I recently switched to an ASUS P5A-B motherboard and the kernel
> i am using (2.2.9) refuses the see the PCI IDE controller. Here is
> the message during boot and the text from /dev/proc/pic:
> (Notice it that it looks like i have two CDROM drives but
> there is only one I/O Magic 36x)
>
> PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
> DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
> ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
> hdd: BCD-36XH CD-ROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> hdd: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
>
I don't see where it detects two CDROM's. I only see /dev/hdd identified
as ATAPI cdrom. The first 'hdd: ...' seems to be the identifier string
form the cdrom itself and the second 'hdd: ...' string is what linux is
thinking what kind of device it is.
Marc
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghost linux disk/partition
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 02:09:21 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nathaniel eccs) wrote:
> Is it possible to use Symantec's Ghost program to dupe a linux hdd? I
> wanna upgrade to scsi.
You don't need it. Check out my GPL'd stream based archiving utility
http://w3.one.net/~bilshell/backburner/backburner.html
You can also find it on freshmeat. If you go to the web page, you can
see a sample scenario with detailed usage instructions on how to do
exactly what you want to do (via the Unix dd command). You can back the
thing up to CDRW, Zip disks, ftp site, other hard drive, or for the
truly dense I even support floppies.
You can do all this with the native unix tools, my software just helps a
little bit if you want compression, verification, or want to span media.
--
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: "J�rgen Pfann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP T4000s SCSI Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:46:51 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have just acquired an HP T4000s SCSI Travan (TR-4) 4/8 GB tape drive
> and installed it in a PCI system using a BusLogic BT-950 (FlashPoint LW)
> PCI to SCSI host Adapter. It detects fine, but when I try
> $> mt -f /dev/nst0 status
> or any other mt command, I get "/dev/nst0: No such device". I am using
> RedHat 5.2 with kernel 2.0.36 and am loading the BusLogic driver as a
> module.
>
> I desparately need to get a backup done on this machine, so I really
> appreciate any help.
>
> Regards,
>
> Bill~
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Hi Bill,
I guess you forgot to compile the SCSI-tape-drive module (st.o)
for your device (resp. to first answer "M" to "Support for SCSI tapes"
in kernel configuration -> SCSI devices).
It doesn't make sense (and probably won't work) to compile the tape
drive code in with the Hostadapter as a module.
It should be no problem to load and unload the 'st'-module after loading
of your HA module, once your new kernel is built (and you've booted with
it, of course :-).
Moreover, it shouldn't matter if your drive is Travan, DAT (like mine)
or DLT or whatever technology; but I'm not 100% sure about that.
Please, take a look at the SCSI-HOWTO, and also at 'drivers/scsi/st.c'
for that question.
So long (BTW : Sorry for answering that late :-( )
Juergen
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From: "Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Gabriel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CPUs: Pentium vs. AMD, etc.
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:13:04 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 01:29:54 GMT, Chris Mauritz wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> mine...whats the best processor out there ? maybe xeon? and if it is
>> why?
>> maybe cache? and if thats the fact and amd was to come along with a
>> processor with triple tier cache much like the xeon and call it maybe a
>> k63 and then if a company like ..er.. FIC would put out a couple boards
>> like the pa-2013 atx, and the VA-503+ at, and include versions with 2 mb
>> cache maybe theres a beter than best? like i said "just some thoughts"
>> oh what am i running? RH 6.0 on a supermicro P6DBE with dual pII 350's
>> and 128 megs of pc-100 but i am considering the amd k63/FIC PA-2013
>> combination for a second machine.
>
>Are there any readily available socket7 boards that support the K6-3
>and have 2mb L3 cache? If so, has anyone done any benchmarks?
I have a 2013 w 1mb cache. AFAIK the first rev. 2mb cache
2013 is not as stable
above 100MHz as the 1mb cache mobo. check before you buy.
Gabriel
=======================================================
Gabriel
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From: "xmag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM L40SX Laptop
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:03:24 +0100
Hi,
i have tried for a long time to install Linux on an very old IBM L40SX
Laptop with
4 MB RAM and an 65MB harddisk. I tried many different distributions from
SuSE to some smaller distributions (Dragon Linux, Small Linux ...) but no
success. The Laptop crashed every time after first reboot. Sometimes it
crashes with Kernel Panik after booting from the install-disk with the
messages that no scsi disk is found or so.
Everybody has installed Linux on this Laptop and can help me?
I�m a poor student an have no money to buy an "real" computer so i thought
it might be possible to install a small Linux only for writing on this
Laptop.
Thanks in advance,
tobi
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From: "Ben Adler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: VIDEO
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:22:06 -0400
Got an X problem -
For some reason (and I can't remember which setting) when I display the =
graphics screens, I get a scrollable desktop. I seem only able to get =
1024x768 to show properly - 800x600, 640x480 seem to not 100% fill the =
screen - they overfill it.
Any ideas -=20
Thanks again
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From: "Kris Erpenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI S5016 Sound Card Support?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 22:15:03 -0600
Tim wrote in message ...
>"Kris Erpenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just installed SuSE Linux 6.1 on my PII-400 system.
>> I am unable to get sound working, and I think its because
>> I have a Ensoniq AudioPCI S5016 card which from what
>> I can tell is unsupported. I was wondering if anyone can
>> tell me if indeed this card is or is not supported?
>
> Yes. Supported well by the ALSA drivers. Get them and install
>them. Then run the setup utility and of you go. Either that or get a
>2.2.x kernel and use the drivers in that.
>
>--
>
> http://www.dur.ac.uk/~d61920 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://surf.to/timzpayj
Thank you all, got it working.... Just had to use the es1370 module instead
of 1371
and then it worked. (Well sort of, also had to get sox downloaded in order
to play
sound files).
Thanks again....
Kris
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From: "J�rgen Pfann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is HPDeskjet 695C printer compatible to Linux softwares?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 18:24:30 +0200
Daniele Bernardini wrote:
>
>
> I have an HP670C which is quite similar to HP695C,
> It is supported through cdj670 device of ghostscript, which is
> still beta.
> If you want my two cents stay away from HP, buy an epson instead.
> Better quality and less problems.
>
> Daniele
>
Hi,
I would disagree to Daniele, as I recently bought an Epson 740 and
got it to work only at 360x360 dpi (at first), whis is a bit
disappointing compared to the quality under Wintendo. But I _had_
made sure there is linux support before (like I do for _every_
piece of hardware, of course ;-).
Later I realized there is better resolution available through
the 'upp' ghostscript drivers, but again I'm limited to less than
M$ 'cause the '600 and '800 files for 1440x720 didn't work,
and I don't understand these yet to write my own :-(.
My opinion is, that you can choose between far more (ghostscript) device
drivers for HP printers (if you're careful not to buy the GDI '7xxs !)
than for Epsons; what about higher quality, if you can't use it ?
CU
Juergen
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: geo_comp_addr: Cylinder number is too big
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:06:53 -0600
Brad Felmey wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 1999 11:57:34 GMT,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerben Welter) posted:
>
> >On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 21:57:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >Your new kernel image is probably located somewhere above the 1024th
> >cylinder (1135?) Lilo can only access data below the 1024th cylinder.
> >You probably created one big partition. Now you see why it is usefull
> >to create separate partitions. Atleast create a small partition for /
> >or /boot so that your kernels stay below that 1024 limit.
> This is a ridiculous limitation bordering on bug status.
Unfortunately, this is a limitation of the PC hardware
architecture, and not something the linux/lilo crew can do
much about.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "Alan Bumpus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,at.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,nl.comp.os.linux.installatie
Subject: Re: HP 720C doesn't print
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:20:38 -0500
Install The ppa Package that comes with SuSE 6.1 and follow the
instructions.
al
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Dear reader,
>
> I've a HP 720C colour deskjet and I have SuSE 6.1 runing on my computer.
> During instalation of the OS I had to choose a printer. Because HP 720C
> isn't on the list, I've tried other printers (like cdjet550) on /dev/lp0
> but neither will print.
>
> The solution may be quite simple (I hope so) but being a newbie, things
> are not that easy to me
>
> Tank you in advance !!
>
>
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lilo installable on FAT32?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 02:32:07 GMT
In article <7jvada$bpi$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Fraser Hutchinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Hope this is not a FAQ.
>
> I want to install LILO on my system, but I have Windows 98 installed,
> and it formatted my
> boot disk as as FAT32.
>
> I have installed Linux (floot boot) on another partition, but I don;t
> know if it is safe to install
> LILO on my boot disk.
>
I can't speak for win98, but I did put lilo on my win95 OSR2 FAT32
system, and it all works fine. Microsoft will of course wipe lilo
whenever installing windows, but you just put it back and the two
happily coexist (linux because it is friendly, windows because it does
not have a clue).
So, if it does not work, it was a win98 thing, not a FAT32 thing.
--
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: Brian Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Microphone doesn't work for 2.2.x?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 05:13:44 GMT
I have a system with an ensoniq audiopci card with redhat 6.0
I'e got the card producing sound and all, but I can't seem to get
the dumb thing to record from the mic port.
I have a sblive value in my main machine and I didn't have to do anything
special to turn on record and pipe the output to the speakers. (Yes
I know how to use aumix)
I've tried teh micz param with no luck, tried mucking with the volume
levels and record under aumix, nothing there.
Thanks!
brian
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From: "Drew M. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I use an on-board NIC?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:11:09 -0400
Reply-To: "Drew M. Mooney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a pc with a built-in NIC as well - and the PCNet32 ethernet driver
worked - of course I cheated and looked around at the motherboard for
probable culprit chips - and sure enough there was one of them labeled
"PCNET".
I configured the PCNET support as a module, and when I did the INSMOD
pcnet32 command, [if I remember correctly...] the next time I did
"ifconfig -a" there was my eth0 - big as life and waiting for some config
stuff.
Good Luck - and if you get tired of trying, ISA NIC's can be gotten for less
than 20 bucks at lots of places....
-Drew-
GTE News wrote in message ...
>I just got an el-cheap-o PC. It seems to have everything build onto the
>motherboard, including the NIC. It works fine with Win98, but how can I
get
>Linux to see the NIC? It's not any brand listed in the list of Linux NICs
>supported by the kernel. Do I need to use "ifconfig" and give the i/o
>address, irq, hardware address, and stuff like that?
>
>Thanks
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 5 printing related questions - need help, please?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 01:17:56 -0400
Hi, If you can answer any of these questions, please do so. Thanks a
lot! Sorry if it's a lot. I have HPdj 697C, GS version 5.50,
printtool-3.29-3, printfilters-1.46-3, RH5.1
1) in the printtool I can have only 300x300 resolution with cdj550
filter. Is it possible to have 600dpi as my printer's spec supposedly
have for black&white? (I was told providing -r600x600 in gs command when
printing doesn't really do it!?)
2) what is the difference between cdj670 and cdj550 and why cdj670 is
not available with this latest (?)5.50 distribution of gs?
3) does having higher resolution mean spending more ink? if yes, than
is it 4 times more ink for 600x600 than for 300x300 resolutions?
4) at school on Unix I have in my .cshrc file:
alias lpe0 "/usr/local/bin/enscript -2r -fCourier8 -L58 -h -G -g
-pscriptfile.ps \!:1"
alias lpe "/usr/local/bin/enscript -fCourier8 -L75 -h -G -g
-pscriptfile.ps \!:1"
that help me to transfer _plain_ text to ps format with some convinient
details. Is anything like that available in Linux for plain text?
(printtool doesn't do it for the plain text.)
5) What is CMY? CMY+K? CMYK?
Thanks! (in your reply add a copy to my [EMAIL PROTECTED], please if you
can.)
Denis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Please help fine tune X-window display
Date: 14 Jun 1999 16:35:20 GMT
In his obvious haste, John Zbesko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled thusly:
: 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.
You need to turn off the "virtual resolution" in the /etc/XF86Config file, I
think...
I think it's just a case of commenting the line out with a '#'.
If you're having troubles with the actual screen resolutions and sizes,
rather than the virtual ones, xvidtune is an interactive method of
collecting all the correct settings for X.
(It prints them to stdout, so you can redirect to a file and insert that
file into the /etc/XF86Config. (replacing the old settings))
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew de los Reyes)
Subject: SB Live driver does SB Live Value?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 23:48:07 -0500
does anyone know if the linux soundblaster live driver works for sound
blaster live value? the driver is at:
http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
Thanks in advance,
Andrew de los Reyes
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From: Pawel Zajdel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3c507 eth0: stop... status 5220 a000 d220
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 19:58:51 +0200
I've got RH6.0 Linux, kernel v. 2.2.9 on 486-33MHz EISA board.
It works as X-Terminal.
NIC starts as a module
3c507.c:v1.10 9/23/94 <cut>
eth0: 3c507 at 0x300, <cut>, IRQ 10, external xcvr, memory
0xd0000-0xd3fff.
and after some time (randomly) produces:
eth0: Rx unit stopped, status 5220, restarting.
eth0: Command unit stopped, status a000, restarting.
eth0: Rx unit stopped, status a000, restarting.
eth0: Rx unit stopped, status d220, restarting.
1. Is it a latest driver??
2. Is it a hardware problem? Works in DOS+Netware ;-).
3. Is it a RH6.0 problem? It worked with RH5.2! It is, now compiled
with egcs-2.91.66.
4. On cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov there is no info on 3c507.
TIA
Paul Zajdel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Re: Problem with vremap function
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 13:56:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. (I'm under Linux SuSE 6.0 (kernel 2.0.36))
>
> I'm developping a driver for industrial PCI card. Each card have 2Ko
of
> memory.
>
> The first card has an adress: 0xFF000000
> The second has an adress: 0xFF000800
>
> My problem is that vremap can't maps the second memory.
>
> vremap use this define:
> PAGE_SHIFT = 12
> PAGE_SIZE = 1 << PAGE_SHIFT #0x00001000
> PAGE_MASK = ~(PAGE_SIZE-1) #0xFFFFF000
> ~PAGE_MASK= #0x00000FFF
>
> This is the minimum of page size
>
> Error provide in the second card with the test: if (adress &
> ~(PAGE_MASK)) return NULL
> with adress is the physical adress.
>
> For the first card: 0xFF000000 & 0x00000FFF => return virtual
> adress
> For the sedond card: 0xFF000800 & 0x00000FFF => return NULL
>
> How can I resolve this error ?
> Can I reduce the page size ?
> Or, must I use other function than vremap ???
>
> Thanks for your help.
Hi!
AFAIK vremap only maps whole pages. on x86 based Systems the Pagesize is
4K (0x1000).
(i�m writing on a pci-device driver too and had the same problem until
someone told me)
regards
Martin Schreiber
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From: "jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is sound blaster live value incompatible with linux?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 12:55:46 +0800
Dear all,
I cannot make my sound blaster live! value work.
Is it incompatible with my redhat 5.2?
Is Creative labs has drivers for this card?
and how can I get my sound card work?
many many thanks!!!
Jeff
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From: "Jan de Sonneville" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Any driver known for SB Live?
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 1999 20:01:26 +0200
I can't get my sb live installed (not compatible with soundblaster)
Have you got/ do you know anything
to solve this problem?
Thanks,
Jan de Sonneville
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From: Darryl Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live driver does SB Live Value?
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 1999 15:39:56 +1000
Andrew de los Reyes wrote:
>
> does anyone know if the linux soundblaster live driver works for sound
> blaster live value? the driver is at:
> http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andrew de los Reyes
Yep! works fine on RedHat5.2, kernel 2.0.36
dAz
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