Linux-Hardware Digest #546, Volume #10 Mon, 21 Jun 99 06:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support (Maxim Bazhenov)
Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support (Maxim Bazhenov)
Re: Laser printers (Maxim Bazhenov)
Driver for Epson Stylus Color 740 (Falk Brettschneider)
some BIOS settings (Junichi SAITO)
Re: Any problems using a AMD K6 CPU? ("Peter Christy")
Re: CMI8330 ("Peter Christy")
Re: Native ESS 1688 driver specs? (Giandomenico De Tullio)
Re: Which UPS (Merryweather Management Systems Ltd.)
Organizer to Linux? ("Eric Wick")
Re: Configuring Canon LBP-660 (Thomas Philip K.)
Re: Old Dell 486, couple of 1gb hd. (Joe Hutley)
Re: Logitech First Mouse+ ("S3/\\\\\\T3X")
And with Dell Latitude ? (was SOLVED: IBM ThinkPad i1720 & Linux Sound!) (Alan
Schmitt)
Re: PCMCIA ATA/IDE HDD (Andreas Loebel)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Martin A. Boegelund)
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Martin A. Boegelund)
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:18:54 -0700
Swietanowski Artur wrote:
> Maxim Bazhenov wrote:
> > Is "Sound Blaster Live! Value" supported by Linux? If yes, then what
> > should
> > I select during kernel configuration? Reading documentation about sound
> > support
> > in kernel, I couldn't find direct mentions about this card. Thanks a
> > lot.
>
> This card is supported to some (?) extent by the Creative Labs
> themselves. They provide a binary version of their propeirtary
> drivers. Go to their web pages ald look for Linux, there you'll
> find the driver.
>
> Personally, I'd advise to look for a card that is supported under
> GPL or other open source license.
>
> HTH,
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
> Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
> tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks. Then another question: which one of SB cards would be fully and
easily
supported by Linux? I have SB16 in my old computer and it works fine. Now I
need
another card. What about SB AWE64 Value? It was mentioned in kernel
documentation.
However, this is ISA and I'd like to get PCI. Is SB PCI128/512 supported
natively by
Linux? Thanks again.
maxim
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live! Value support
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:19:58 -0700
Swietanowski Artur wrote:
> Maxim Bazhenov wrote:
> > Is "Sound Blaster Live! Value" supported by Linux? If yes, then what
> > should
> > I select during kernel configuration? Reading documentation about sound
> > support
> > in kernel, I couldn't find direct mentions about this card. Thanks a
> > lot.
>
> This card is supported to some (?) extent by the Creative Labs
> themselves. They provide a binary version of their propeirtary
> drivers. Go to their web pages ald look for Linux, there you'll
> find the driver.
>
> Personally, I'd advise to look for a card that is supported under
> GPL or other open source license.
>
> HTH,
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> Artur Swietanowski mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Institut f�r Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren,
> Universit�t Wien, Universit�tsstr. 5, A-1010 Wien, Austria
> tel. +43 (1) 427 738 620 fax +43 (1) 427 738 629
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks. Then another question: which one of SB cards would be fully and
easily
supported by Linux? I have SB16 in my old computer and it works fine. Now I
need
another card. What about SB AWE64 Value? It was mentioned in kernel
documentation.
However, this is ISA and I'd like to get PCI. Is SB PCI128/512 supported
natively by
Linux? Thanks again.
maxim
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From: Maxim Bazhenov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laser printers
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 00:42:16 -0700
Duncan wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I've been looking round for a low-end laser printer that will work fine
> with Linux.
>
> In this months PCdirect they review sub-�300 laser printers yet the two
> best buys (and commended) all have PostScript support in their *drivers*
> which I am assuming is worthless with Linux.
>
> So, the only printer I can find near that price with hardware PostScript
> support is the Brother HL-1070 at �323 (not so much of a crisis).
>
> Can anybody comment on this or suggest a better one? Do either the Oki
> or Lexmark in the (above) report really have internal PostScript support
> or is it just in their Windoze drivers?
>
> Thanks
>
> Duncan
About month ago I bought HP Laser Jet 1100A which includes also copier and
scanner.
This is not a PostScript printer but it works absolutely fine (600 dpi and
very fast) with my
Linux box. Scanner doesn't work with Linux but copier does because it
does't require any OS.
You can buy this printer from one of the Web sites (what I did) for
about $350 (check
http://www.shopper.com). You can also buy additional memory - 16Mb for
about $30.
maxim
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From: Falk Brettschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for Epson Stylus Color 740
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:04:13 +0200
Hi,
I want my Epson Stylus Color 740 to print on my Linux machine (SuSE 6.1,
kernel 2.2.5) but it doesn=B4t like to. I tried stc800??.upp, stc600??.up=
p
and stc500??.upp but without success.
Is there anybody who has such a printer successfully working on Linux? I
need a little bit help...
-- =
Ciao,
--Falk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Junichi SAITO)
Subject: some BIOS settings
Date: 21 Jun 1999 08:23:33 GMT
I have a machine dedicated to Linux, based on a MVP3 mainboard
from EPoX. The BIOS is from Award.
There are two options in the "CHIPSET FEATURES SETUP" menu:
Video BIOS Cacheable and System BIOS Cacheable. The former is
documented briefly in the manual, the latter is not.
How do I have to set these options, disable or enable, in respect
especially with Linux ?
--
junichi
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any problems using a AMD K6 CPU?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:34:22 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message ...
>No problems now with a K6-2 350 with ALI-V M1542 chipset,
>but be careful with hdparm settings.
Brien,
Could you be more specific? I'm running a K6-2 350 over clocked
to 400 on an Asus P5AB mobo (Ali chipset). In 2.2 kernels it defaults to
pio. Following my experience with a Compal P120, which was transformed by
tweaking hdparm, I tried the same on the Asus, and trashed my system disk
8-( It seemed to be activating 32 bit transfers that caused the problems,
but I'm not completely sure, and have no wish to try it again!
I've been trying kernel 2.3.5, which has support for the Ali chipset. So
far, this has performed flawlessly, with a useful increase in speed. It
correctly detects UDMA, but I haven't tried tweaking anything yet (nor do I
intend to, 'till I know a bit more about the effects!)
Pete
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CMI8330
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:38:19 +0100
l. yao wrote in message ...
>I have a sound card with CMI8330 chip. It doesn't work in my Linux
>box (Red Hat 6.0).
I don't know about Red Hat, I'm running SuSE 6.1, but there is a mini howto
about the CMI 8330. I followed it, and it now works perfectly. I don't even
have to use isapnp! By selecting a decent midi patch, the sound is
infinitely better than this chip manages under Windoze or OS/2!
Pete
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From: Giandomenico De Tullio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Native ESS 1688 driver specs?
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:32:21 +0200
Shaun Noonan wrote:
>
> Has anyone contacted ESS Tech about getting specs for writing a driver for
> the AudioDrive chips? What as their attitude on it?
www.alsa-project.org ?
:)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Merryweather Management Systems Ltd.)
Subject: Re: Which UPS
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:50:58 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for the advice.
Its actually a client of ours that is getting the UPS and they've
decided to go for an APC 1400 Smart UPS.
I've got it here in the office now and I've tried to use apcupsd but
to no avail. Nothing happens when the power goes down. The cable
supplied is a
940-0024C
and in apcupsd.conf I have the following settings
UPSCABLE 940-0024C
UPSTYPE smartups
DEVICE /dev/ttyS1
But whenever I type
apcaccess status
the command just hangs with the line
apcaccess (fifo) : polling for status
Just to re-assure you, I do have the /sbin/powersc INIT line in the
rc.local and a process is running. I've tried other software like
checkups and smartups but they seem to think the power is always
failing so I guess I don't have the cable configuration right.
I don't know whether you have any further advice about how you've
configured apcupsd but it would be awfully helpful since I seem to be
digging myself a hole!
Many thanks
Peter Whelerton
>I use an APC Back-UPS Pro 280. This is enough to run the computer AND
>monitor for about 10 minutes. Most Unicies are currently supported,
>but Linux is not. However, there are two daemons available that
>support most APC products ... I use apcupsd which is available only in
>binary form but is very configurable and has network support (shut down
>remote machines if power goes out, etc.) and good monitoring (logging,
>etc.).
>
>Disclaimer: Yes, I'm an authorised APC reseller, so I'm biased.
>>
>> Hardware Packard Bell P350
>> O/S : Slackware v3.5 : Kernel 2.0.34
>>
>
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From: "Eric Wick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Organizer to Linux?
Date: 21 Jun 99 10:43:32 -0100
Hello,
is there a organizer that works very well with Linux? Meant the data
exchange to a linux box over IRDA or Serial or whatelse.
Just read a test and always see "win95 requiered" :-(
--
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ByeBye
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Philip K.)
Subject: Re: Configuring Canon LBP-660
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:41:51 GMT
The Cannon LBP660 and the HP1100s do not support PostScript printing.
LBP660 understands PCL4 though. I've read somewhere you need to set
the printing filter to raw or something similar for PCL printing.
On 16 Jun 1999 06:30:46 GMT, S�bastien Fournier
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi everybody.
>When I installed RedHat 6.0 five days ago ;) I have selected "PostScript
>Printer" for my LBP660, but it doesn't seem to work...
>Got an idea ?
>
>Seb
>
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> http://www.searchlinux.com
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From: Joe Hutley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old Dell 486, couple of 1gb hd.
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 05:49:22 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello.
>
> I have an old 486 DX 2 Dell pc, and two ide hd of 1 gigabyte each, and
> 16Mb RAM.
> Despite its BIOS limit (500mb hd max) I have connected the two hard
> discs on the only ide port this machine has. (I fitted the two hard
> disk inside the pizza box this machine has for chasis) replaced the
> original IDE ribbon cable which has just one connector for hd with one
> which allos to connect two HD.
>
> Also placed an old CDROM Aztech that was ok on days of win3.1 but never
> got adequate drivers to operate on win95, I was amazed to see that Red
> Hat Linux 6.0 did recognized this unit as if normal and common. And a
> 3com 3c509 network card.
>
> Well, when I install, my procedure is booting from floppy, so far from
> the display I get to see it adequately identifies each hard disk, then
> continues reading the rest of install procedure from the CD, I
> chose "Server" installation, and it does partitions, and starts to
> installs packages, until it suddenly freezes on the same point each
> time (say at 70% of all install) say after 25 minutes of copying files.
>
> When I reboot the machine and do the installation again, Now doing
> a "Custom" install in order to get into DiskDruid and see what
> happened, I notice it partitioned both hard disks, and I think to
> recognize what where those supposed to be based on the sizes, but there
> are no indications left which ones were supposed to be /, /boot,
> swap, /usr, /var, etc. Some partitions are larger than 540Mb, I wonder
> if this is the reason the install frezes, should I made by hand the
> partitions keeping in mind the bios limits?
>
> What I pretend here is to have a web and ftp server, and get my hands
> on kde, and staroffice.
>
> I would appreciate to know experiences on using old 486 like my case.
>
> Also I have another machine, same as above described but with two 500mb
> HD, what are the recommended option for this, install
> using "workstation" setup? I would like to run staroffice and
> administer the server from there.
>
> Best Regards everyone.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
The only partition that needs to be kept under 1024 cylinders is the
partition with your kernel on it... When I did a default "Workstation"
installation on a friend's computer (Pentium 120, 8.4gig WD drive) it made
a /boot partition that was about 25megs(?) or so, enough to be kept under
the cylinder limit. As long as your boot partition (whatever it may be
called, mine is /) is under 1024 cylinders, you should be fine.
-Joe Hutley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]!.com
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From: "S3/\\\\\\T3X" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech First Mouse+
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:47:30 +0200
Can u describe how u got it to work?
thanks, semtex
Jeff Potter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've got my Logitech First Mouse+ (3 buttons, wheel) to work under most
> programs, but not Netscape Navigator. Is there any way to enable wheel
> scrolling in Navigator?
>
> Jeff Potter
>
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From: Alan Schmitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.sys.laptops,alt.os.linux
Subject: And with Dell Latitude ? (was SOLVED: IBM ThinkPad i1720 & Linux Sound!)
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:38:42 +0000
Hi,
I did the manipulations described in this thread for a Dell Latitude CPi 366
... and it does not work. Looking at the messages from /var/log/messages, it
seems I've got the io address wrong:
Jun 21 11:32:17 alan-schm1p kernel: snd: Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard #1 not found
at 0x120 or device busy
Jun 21 11:32:17 alan-schm1p kernel: snd: Yamaha OPL3-SA soundcard not found or
device busy
I tried to find the correct address under windows, but I cannot find the
information. I also tries to look in /proc ... but did not find anything. I
have two questions:
- Did anyone succeed with this laptop ?
- How can I find the correct io address ?
Thanks a lot,
Alan Schmitt
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From: Andreas Loebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA ATA/IDE HDD
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 10:09:43 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a Shuttle Technology PCMCIA HDD of 2 GB(4 partitions).
> After configuring card services, my linux (RH6.0, 2.2.9) sees it as
> "hdl". I have no devices listed as such, so have used mknod to create
> it. But when I try to mount the device, it says that hdl is not
> recognised as a block device. Anyone has any ideas, especially on the
> major and minor numbers required for mknod, or any suggestions most
> appreciated.
> Thanks.
Hi phantom1 without a name,
you should mount it as hdl1, hdl2, hdl3, and hdl4, respectively.
Andreas
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From: Martin A. Boegelund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:17:56 GMT
In article <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906171237090.24208-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jun 1999, Brian Hartman wrote:
>
> > Working with Linux is *much* more difficult than working with
Windows for
> > an install.
>
> I disagree - the last two times I built PCs for a friend and my father
> respectively I did not succeed in installing Win95. First time the old
> Win95 version I had would not recognize the 4 Gb hd while the second
> time around the windows install/setup program would not read from the
> 32x Cdrom (too fast??) although DOS gave a directory listing no
problem.
> Both times I installed Linux instead to see whether the hardware was
ok
> and both times no problem at all.
>
> 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
> > configure as much hardware.
>
> you must be kidding - plug and pray
I've read this somewhere, a footnote I think:
The success rate of PlugnPlay is somewhere near 50%. This is because
"Plug" usually works out fine...
>
> Secondly, in a Windows environment, you don't
> > have to worry about mounting and unmounting. Your drives are just
> > there.
>
> neither do you have to under linux - try some automounter if you like
>
> Thirdly, hardware support for Linux is way behind that for
> > Windows.
>
> kidding again - does windows run on sparc, powerpc, ...?
>
Touch�, touch� and touch� :)
> Gerald
>
>
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From: Martin A. Boegelund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 08:26:36 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[del]
> It's another story if you want a dual-boot between
> Linux and Win9x or NT. (Incidentally, many users dual-boot, just to
have access to the
> kind of apps, like databases, that Linux doesn't have yet.)
You mean games, right?!?
[del]
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