Linux-Hardware Digest #515, Volume #10 Thu, 17 Jun 99 16:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: Philibs Brillance 105 (Allu)
RH6 & Xircom PCMCIA eth. help! (Jason Bechtel)
Make Linux support Win98 or NT hardware driver and TrueType fonts? ("Arthur Yeung")
Re: canon bjc-250 ("Douglas J.Martins")
Diamond Viper TNT AGP + XWindows (John Hovell)
Re: "HCL" (Mike Frisch)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? (CK)
Re: beep codes...help! (Glitch)
Re: dvd burner with linux? ("Chris Long")
cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device? (tom
bergerson)
Re: Music CD (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Re: Recommended SCSI scananer? (peter)
Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: dma_intr: error=0x40 ("Terry Fielder")
IRDA ("Steve Vladmir")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allu)
Subject: Re: Philibs Brillance 105
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:25:23 GMT
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 13:54:46 +0200, Swietanowski Artur
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Maybe you can help me solving my problem. I have a Philips Brillance
>> 105 monitor.
>Throw it out the window, just make sure you don't hurt anyone
>passing. Philips invented a WinMonitor....
That was my greatest fear!
>Another possibility is to try to run this damn CustoMax program using
>Wine.
I've been told on the italian NG that somebody tried to do it but,
even if Customax started, it didn't work.
>> I actually run X11 in 800x600 72 Hz and
>> 1024x768 70 Hz, which are displayed rectangular. All the other
>> combination of resolution/refresh are displayed distorted and should
>> be adjusted.
>
>I don't think you really care for much higher resolutions on this
>screen. 1152x8xx may be usable, 1280x1024 is pushing the limits, both
>of the monitor and of your eyes.
I don't want a higher resolution, but a higher refresh rate... Anyway,
if there's no solution, this refresh rate will do good.
ciao, Allu
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:47:54 -0500
From: Jason Bechtel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: RH6 & Xircom PCMCIA eth. help!
It's the strangest thing. I'm hoping someone out there has run into
this before and found a way to make it work...
I've installed RH6.0 fresh on my laptop. It is a little flaky on
detecting the Xircom IIps ethernet PCMCIA card, but even when it does
detect it properly, it still can't complete a connection to this
network. I and the sysadmin of the network have been working on it
together and can't figure it out. Here's the situation:
The network runs dhcp. I go into Enlightenment and then GNOME-Linuxconf
and Basic Host Information. I set the hostname to jabby.cs.ua.edu and
then go to adapter 1. I can set it up as dhcp and enter a hostname and
domain and put it on eth0. I accept the changes and it updates the
ifcfg-eth0 file. I restart the network and while there is traffic
coming to the card, it can't assign IP information. I go back into
Basic Host information and the hostname and domain under adapter 1 are
gone. That is consistent.
So, since dhcp isn't working, we try it manually: We setup default
gateway, static IP (valid and ok w/ sysadmin), eth0, netmask all
correctly... Now we restart the network. There's no complaint about
the IP address and there's traffic on the line again, but we can't even
ping the gateway! Am I missing some critical driver that is necessary?
My card is in the /etc/pcmcia/config database and it is (usually)
detected just fine.
Please help!
TIA
Jason
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From: "Arthur Yeung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,ed.linux,fj.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux.setup
Subject: Make Linux support Win98 or NT hardware driver and TrueType fonts?
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 01:49:57 +0800
Is it possible to make Linux support Win98 or WinNT hardware driver and also
TrueType Fonts? It is just like the way Bleem(TM) use emulation method to
play Playstation's game and use unlimited software resources of Playstation.
If it comes true, Linux programmers could save much effort to write hardware
drivers and fonts.
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From: "Douglas J.Martins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: canon bjc-250
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:53:27 -0600
Donald E. Stidwell wrote:
> Charles Burnaford wrote:
> >
> > I believe that the 250 is designed for use with windows. This makes it hard
> > if not impossible to control from Linux at this time.
> >
> > Charles Burnaford
> >
> > J.Wien wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > >I've Linux SuSe 6.1 and a Canon BJC-250 printer.
> > >My problem is, how do I get the printer to work.
> > >I've tried using YAST, but that don't work either.
> > >Please help
> > >
> > >Jan Wien
> > >
>
> The BJC-250 works fine under Linux - amazingly, considering that you can
> buy it for under $100 now, it is not a WinPrinter. I had one before I
> bought my BJC-5000 (definitely a WinPrinter) and had no problems with
> it.
>
> Don
does the BJC-5000 work in Linux? you say it's a winprinter, but you bought
one.....I'm
thinking of getting one too
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From: John Hovell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Diamond Viper TNT AGP + XWindows
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:54:19 GMT
Does anyone know what chip set / if an X server exists (or where I can
get one) for a Diamond Viper TNT AGP card (16 MB)?
If anyone just knows a place where I can search for free (or even
commercial, god forbid) X-servers, I would really appreciate it.
TIA,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: "HCL"
Date: 17 Jun 1999 13:17:03 GMT
On 17 Jun 1999 06:09:03 GMT, John Coyne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am new at the linux bandwagon... is there a known Hardware compatability
>List for Red Hat 5.2 & UP?
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/hardware.html
Mike.
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Northstar Technologies WWW: http://saturn.tlug.org/~mfrisch
Newmarket, Ontario, CANADA
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From: CK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 17:38:26 GMT
Not all Creative cards are a snap.
Like my SoundBlaster Live! is a nightmare to setup. the ISA cards are
fine.
a guy in my LUG sent me this which may be appropriate here:
ALSA (Advanced Linux Sound Architecture folks) have called for a boycott
of Creative Labs. Specifically they are refusing to release any code and
only binary drivers that are 'flaky'. Since the drivers are not included
in the kernel they will never be officially supported. (Unless Creative
releases the programming specs like they originally agreed to.)
Trident now has an employee on staff to develope linux drivers for their
sound devices. All the code is then donated to ALSA under the GPL. I
recently picked up one of their 4DWave cards and have been impressed
(low cost too).
http://www.alsa-project.org
In article <7k8ap0$kus$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <O5N93.6$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Jeroen Verhoeven" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I agree. creative labs cards are installed with hardly any efford
> under
> > linux.
>
> I'll second that. One gotcha I've found: the configuration
> script (make config) defaults the IRQ to 7, but I've seen
> clone hardware (e.g. Aztech, CMI8330) that was on IRQ 5.
>
> The SoundPro/CMI8330 IRQ mixup is probably a PnP issue on
> my new (to me, at least :-) P233MMX motherboard. Your
> mileage may vary.
> --
> Laura Halliday VA3LDH "Que les nuages soient notre pied
> Grid: FN03gs a terre..." - Hospital/Shafte
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:15:35 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems
Subject: Re: beep codes...help!
Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> 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.
you idiot, he just said he only has one DIMM to work with, plus he says
in his system specs '1 128 meg DIMM' so he cant swap them, can he now?
> 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: "Chris Long" <"remove"[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dvd burner with linux?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:24:22 -0500
I guess you learn something new every day... I did a search for DVD-RAM and
there are probably almost a dozen DVD-RAM drives from hitachi, Creative
Labs, and others. I checked on the price of the disks at CDW and they were
$30 (single sided 2.6G) to $60 (5.2G). Not cheap but good for the capacity
and speed compared to CD-R/RW. The one Hitachi drive I saw wrote at 1.38
MBps so a modest 5G HD would only take an hour.
Chris
Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> DVD-RAM drives (which use a cartridge-based DVD media) are
> hovering at around $500 (Creative Labs has one, but you
> have to dig for it). DVD burners proper (as in, the device
> you'd use to master an industry-standard DVD disc) are
> $16,000USD (Pioneer makes one), and require special licensing
> to own and operate.
>
> - chris
>
>
> "Chris L." wrote:
> >
> > Last time I saw DVD writing hardware it was in the $5000 (US) and up
range.
> > Not quite what I'd call cost effective. Plus the disks were ~$30.
> > Chris L.
> > Stefano Ghirlanda wrote in message ...
> > >Hi,
> > >we have to buy some backup equipment for our lab. I would like to know
if
> > >DVD is a better alternative to CD... e.g. in terms of storage space,
> > >reliability, price.
> > >
> > >Any info or pointers appreciated,
> > >Stefano
> > >
> > >--
> > > Stefano Ghirlanda, Zoologiska Institutionen, Stockholms Universitet
> > > Office: D554, Arrheniusv. 14, S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> > >Phone: +46 8 164055, Fax: +46 8 167715, Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Support Free Science, look at: http://rerumnatura.zool.su.se
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From: tom bergerson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom mount error: kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:19:39 -0500
when i try to mount (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom) my Acer 685A
8x cdrom, i get the following error:
The kernel does not recognize /dev/hdc as a block device (maybe 'insmod
driver'?)
my setup is Asus P5a with ali 15x3 chipset on rh 6.0 in order to load
from the cdrom when installing i passed the following to boot: linux
hdc=cdrom. so install worked. OK so i recompiled the kernel, version
2.2.9, and applied the ide patch at www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu to get the
kernel to "see" my chipset correctly. so now it sees the chipset and
performance is better. i had to remove the linux hdc=cdrom bit from
lilo otherwise it wouldnt boot at all, and in any event, with the new
ali chipset support, the system should find the cdrom on its own.
of course in the block devices section of xconfig i compiled in
Normal PC Floppy disk support
Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk ... support
Include IDE/ATA-2 DISK support
Include ide/atapi cdrom support
...
Generic PCI IDE chipset support
Use DMA by default when available
ALI M15x3 chipset support
i do not really want to use SCSI emulation, and i do not believe it
should be necessary since the ACER 685A is a standard IDE/ATAPI drive.
Obviously, the error is inviting me to try a driver module. should this
be necessary? wWhat am i missing here?
tom bergerson
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From: Harald Arnesen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Music CD
Date: 17 Jun 1999 21:25:40 +0200
"Len Maziarski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've been trying to mount an Audio CD. I have it mounted for data
> retrevival using:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom
If you really want to mount an audio CD, you'll have to get the
audiofs patch. I use it instead of CD-rippers, as it seems to work
better on my drive.
--
Harald Arnesen, Apall�kkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:59:48 -0700
On Thu, 17 Jun 1999 14:04:19 -0400, Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>"Martin A. Boegelund" wrote:
>
>> In article <7imhtp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> "Roberto Leibman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[deletia]
>> And now you tell him to get drivers for this and that over the net?!?
>> Well, one often heard reason for _not_ liking Linux, is that you might
>> have to get special patches and other software for your specific
>> hardware-configuration over the net. This argument is often used by MS-
>> advocates...
>>
>> I'd say you just proved his point!
[deletia]
>Working with Linux is *much* more difficult than working with Windows for
>an install. For one thing, Windows plug and play (while it's hardly
>stellar) is much further along than Linux, so you don't have to manually
PnP that actually works, is no further along in Windows.
ISAPnP is a bad hack that is better left alone, even in
Windows. For hardware that you can expect to work reliably
in Windows (because Windows isn't doing the work) Linux
will do just as well.
>configure as much hardware. Secondly, in a Windows environment, you don't
>have to worry about mounting and unmounting. Your drives are just
One does not have to worry about doing this in the middle
of an install either or even after the 'install'. While it
is an issue that should be resolved, and is actually quite
trivial to resolve, just how often to you mount media these
days?
>there. Thirdly, hardware support for Linux is way behind that for
>Windows. Couple this with the fact that people buy hardware thinking
So? This is an obvious non-reason. The 'other platforms' will
always be behind the market gorilla. This is no good reason to
ignore other platforms, especially if you get get done what
you need to.
While the knowledge to stay away from a parallel port scanner
is somewhat of a burden, it is no more burdensome than what
any Windows user needs to know in order not to end up with junk.
>it'll be easy to set up, only to find when they switch to Linux that it's
>designed for Windows. Linux requires a great deal more initial planning
>before you set it up, whereas most of the problems with Windows happen
>*after* you install it.
You just need to make sure that what you have will work well with
the new OS if you're upgrading an old machine. However, Win9x
upgrades can be just as troubling in this respect.
Besides, would you really want to reinstall Win98 every 3 months
if you could viably avoid it? (re after install problems)
--
bash: the power to toast your registry in style... |||
/ | \
Seeking sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter)
Subject: Re: Recommended SCSI scananer?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:58:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
says...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (peter) writes:
>
> > I use the low-end agfa snapscan 310 which comes with a cheap adaptec
> > 1502AE-scsi-card (up to 2 devices) and is VERY fast (a4-preview in less
> > then 8 seconds, a4-scan in about 30seconds) and has fair quality.
> > its costs were about 225$ here in austria about 2 years ago.
>
> Have you got this to work with the latest 2.2.x kernels? Mine doesn't
> anymore, I'm not sure at just which kernel it stopped.
>
> When I try to scan anything, the scanner light just blinks.
>
I use mine with NT at the moment so I cant tell how it works with the
2.2.x - kernels.
peter
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ANTISPAM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: BIOS Upgrade Suggestion
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 15:58:47 GMT
Don McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a 486-25 into which I'd like to install a 2.5 gig drive; the
>BIOS, however, will only allow up to like .5 gig drives.
Install it. Linux doesn't care about the BIOS settings. All
you need is a small boot partition (say, 150 MB) for your
kernel etc. to be living in. You'd only need an add-on
EIDE card with BIOS if you wanted to use that drive for more
than just Linux.
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: "Terry Fielder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dma_intr: error=0x40
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 19:20:35 GMT
One of my linux firewall servers gives that message on boot, always has.
And yet the system runs just fine, error free, never crashes... So I am of
the faith "if it ain't broken, don't fix it" :)
It seems like the message didn't actually do any harm for you, either...
Terry Fielder
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Nektarios Lathiotakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all!
>
>Does anyone know what the following mean:
>
>Jun 17 16:04:16 cujo kernel: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComple\
>te Error }
>Jun 17 16:04:16 cujo kernel: hda: dma_intr: error=0x40
{ UncorrectableError }, \
>LBAsect=23203825, sector=6801398
>
>I was writting a CDR and it stopped suddenly with this message in the
>/var/log/messages repeated hundreds of times for different sectors.
>I moved the audio tracks to an other disk and the message was repeated
again
>during the trasfer. I suceeded to move them though and write them
succesfully.
>The hda drive (which is supossed to have the problem) is a brand new
>WD Caviar AC313000R 13GB.
>
>No other problem has been noticed so far.
>Any hint welcome
>thanks
>Nektarios
>
>e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Steve Vladmir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IRDA
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 06:06:35 +1000
Does anyone know the technical specification for IRDA devices, if practical
I'd try to build a IRDA transceiver for a PC.
But so far I've had a hard time getting information on the subject!
Thanks!
Joanne
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