Linux-Hardware Digest #614, Volume #10 Mon, 28 Jun 99 12:13:23 EDT
Contents:
Hauppauge (WinTV Radio, BT878) - Sound ??? (MSP3415)
Re: linux 2.2.9 drivers for lexmark 1100, ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Logitech PS/2 M-S48 Mouse Setup (Merryweather Management Systems Ltd.)
RocketModem II and Linux ("Miguel A. Rivera")
Re: Getting Ftape to work with a Ditto 2GB Parallel Port Tape Drive (Chris Aiken)
Modem Instalation Problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Optra E 3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Modem and kppp ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Backup recommendations? (killbill)
Re: Mounting Troubles (jik-)
Re: Getting Ftape to work with a Ditto 2GB Parallel Port Tape Drive ("Jeff
Volckaert")
Re: Diamond Viper 32MB TNT2 Video Card ("Bill Holland")
Re: aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore... (Mark Evans Jeffcoat)
Re: corrupted partition table ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Suse 6.1 + Vodoo III DFX card ("Xavier MARTINEZ")
Re: Ali Aladdin 5 chipset (Michal Rembiszewski)
Test - Please Ignore (Jerry Normandin)
Re: Can someone tell me what this means (HardDrive error) ("Tony Platt")
SCSI Parameters ("Akshay Agarwal")
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Hauppauge (WinTV Radio, BT878) - Sound ??? (MSP3415)
Date: 28 Jun 1999 12:30:40 GMT
Hi,
I got the Card running straight from the box.
(Debian 2.1, Kernel 2.2.10, xawtv & others)
But I can't figure out how to have sound.
The msp3400-module is loaded.
The sound and mixer-devices work.
I have sound under Windoze (I only installed it to test the card).
But I can't get any sound.
I read about a patch for msp3415 based cards, but I can't find it.
What should I do ?!
ciao
Anti
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Date: 28 Jun 99 08:34:24 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux 2.2.9 drivers for lexmark 1100,
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Janet Anderson;
JA> I'm looking for printer drivers for my lexmark 1100 or
JA> recomendations for other that will
JA> work????--------------pullman---------------
Does this printer not say it requires windows someplace on the box?
If so, then its one of those for which no drivers are available since
the driver specs are proprietary.
If thats the case, go get a real printer. One that will print
'hello world\f' on an otherwise empty page if those 12 bytes are fed to it.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040 50 megs fast/2 megs chip
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |A2091,GuruRom,1g Seagate,CDROM,Multiface III
|Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
|Stylus Pro, EnPrint, Picasso-II, 17" vga
RC5-Moo! 690kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Merryweather Management Systems Ltd.)
Subject: Re: Logitech PS/2 M-S48 Mouse Setup
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:36:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I should add that I don't actually needt the scroll wheel to work at
all. I only need the mouse to act like a normal 3-button mouse!
I would even settle for 2 buttons right now!!
--
Peter Whelerton (again)
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From: "Miguel A. Rivera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: RocketModem II and Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:04:51 -0500
Hi everyone,
I have been trying to setup a Linux box to act as a fax server. I bought a
RocketModem II that has 4 modems in a single board. The board is a PCI
board. I am having a lot of trouble trying to use the driver with redhat
6.0. I downloaded a new driver from Theodore's site at MIT (version 1.16). I
can get the driver to load and recognize the card, but I cannot get the
loadrm2 program to load the firmware to the board. Does someone has a
similar experience? If anyone have been able to make this setup to work,
could you please let me know and share your experience?
Any help is rgeatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Miguel Rivera
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Getting Ftape to work with a Ditto 2GB Parallel Port Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 07:41:35 -0400
I don't own a Zip drive, however there is some good information on
parallel port disks, scanners, etc. at: http://www.torque.net/linux-pp.html
Maybe something out there can help you.
...hope this helps
...cwa
Melvin Branch wrote:
> If you ever get an answer please e-mail me. I've been trying to get mine
> working for over 6 months. I even tried redhat support they told me, join a
> newsgroup or follow the "HOW TO" documents. Needless to say these alternates
> have been utterly useless. Hope you have better luck then I did.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris O'Neill) wrote:
> >Okay, I give up....... What's the secret???? I've been mucking for
> >two days trying to get my Ditto 2GB parallel port tape drive (LPT1) to
> >work with RedHat Linux 6.0 but haven't had any success. I've tried
> >recompiling the kernel, setting-up boot-time parameters in lilo, and
> >all sorts of other gunk. (Sigh!) And, yes, I *have* read the
> >Ftape-HOWTO and other documents, but I find them somewhat cryptic.
> >(Sigh!)
> >
> >Can someone out there who's using this drive with Linux puhleeeze send
> >me an e-mail walking me through the steps to get it going???? (Sigh!)
> >
> >Thanks, in advance, for any assistance anyone can offer.
> >
> >Regards,
> >
> >Chris O'Neill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Modem Instalation Problems
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:44:21 GMT
I have two modems on my machine and I can't
configure the dialer. I have a message saying
"Modem busy". What can I do ?
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Optra E 3
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:52:41 GMT
My Optra works good under the HP settings if I print a test page under
the instalation procces but not with Star Office 5.1
Tony
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem and kppp
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:12:36 GMT
I'm Going to write to Cesar in Portuguese...
�i C�sar,
Ser� que voc� pode me dizer como se insere esse parametro para que o
modem funcione?
Antonio
/In article <7l5iba$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"C�sar Mateus Concei��o" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I put the modem worked ... with a hand of my friend ... he gaves me
this
> paramater !!!
>
> /bin/setserial /dev/ttyS2 [COM 3] irq 5
>
> And works good ... but now i have to automate thee.
>
> best regards
>
> barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:7l4kdk$1fqa$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <7kp4va$fdf$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Laine Walker-
Avina"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >i'm using kppp for a dialer, and when i try to use my modem on
/dev/ttyS2
> it
> > >says its busy. I have OpenLinux. My modem is also a PnP.
> > >
> > >
> > Just been through this loop (as a complete newbie) and kppp setup
showed
> all
> > tty ports busy with a generic pnp modem. however it works fine if I
select
> > cua1 as the device...
> >
> >
> > --
> > barnacle
> >
> > http://www.nbarnes.easynet.co.uk
>
>
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Backup recommendations?
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:12:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
> What about timing issues? I've read that if the CDR (or CDRW) doesn't
> get written to consistently enough, the resultant media (especially
> in the case of CDR) is coastered. At least with tape, you can use tar
> (with a reasonably decent buffer size) and go.
>
Interestingly, under Linux I have never created a coaster, no matter how
much I picked on my system during a burn, with either a SCSI or ATAPI
drive. Windows 95 was a different story. When I had a 4x scsi drive on
an adaptec 1510 card, I never had a coaster. When I went to a 36X ATAPI
drive, I started getting occasional coasters. I just upgraded to win98,
so I will have to wait and see if works any better then 95 did.
Note that there are also two formats that windows can write CD-Roms.
The normal ISO9660 format must be created in a continous spiral from
middle of the disc to outside of the disk, and any interruption means
death. A packet write disk, however, can be written too like any
removable media, and is not time critical. The ISO9660 format stores
more data, and can be read by any CDROM made since the beginning of
time. The packet write format requires a pretty up to date drive and
support from you OS. Rumors of linux support for packet write disks
(UDF format, I think is what it is called) persist, but I have not tried
it yet.
Don't get me wrong... tapes have some significant advantages over CDRW
drives for archiving, mainly in the area of convenience. However, if
you are a normal user with reasonable sized systems, and don't want or
can't afford to have both a tape drive and a CDRW drive, I think a CDRW
drive can be used in such a way as to be a completely sufficient backup
solution, and may have a few advantages over tape.
In a nutshell:
Tape drives are more convenient.
CDRW drives are more flexible.
each have some advantages over the other.
--
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: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Mounting Troubles
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 02:32:46 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help--seeing that I didn't have several of those fd0* bits,
> I used mknod to enter them in the hopes that their lack was causing the
> problem. After creating them, I tried mounting my floppy again and. . .I
> got the same error. What the hell?
Ok, this may not be the right answer, but what _I_ would do....
su
rm /dev/fd*
cd /dev
MAKEDEV fd
WARNING!!!!!!!!!
Read the documentation on MAKEDEV....I _think_ it might work, but I
don't know. You might want to talk to linpeople about
it...irc.linpeople.net or something #linpeople
You have obviously done a little research on four own...wish I could
help you more but I can't. If you get desperate...BACK UP...and try the
above...worse you can do is fuck your access to the floppy drive.
One thing....you did make them as block devices right?
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From: "Jeff Volckaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Getting Ftape to work with a Ditto 2GB Parallel Port Tape Drive
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 08:59:37 -0400
Try doing "insmod zftape" before using the drive.
Jeff Volckaert
Chris O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Okay, I give up....... What's the secret???? I've been mucking for
> two days trying to get my Ditto 2GB parallel port tape drive (LPT1) to
> work with RedHat Linux 6.0 but haven't had any success. I've tried
> recompiling the kernel, setting-up boot-time parameters in lilo, and
> all sorts of other gunk. (Sigh!) And, yes, I *have* read the
> Ftape-HOWTO and other documents, but I find them somewhat cryptic.
> (Sigh!)
>
> Can someone out there who's using this drive with Linux puhleeeze send
> me an e-mail walking me through the steps to get it going???? (Sigh!)
>
> Thanks, in advance, for any assistance anyone can offer.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris O'Neill
>
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From: "Bill Holland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Viper 32MB TNT2 Video Card
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:23:15 -0400
Well, if you want all the good stuff on the TNT2, looks like your gonna have
to wait for Xfree86 v4.0 to come out.
--
Maj.Bill "BigB" Holland
157th TFG Training Officer
Raptor Flight Leader
Ben4202299 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have just ordered parts for a new system, and among those parts is the
video
> card mentioned above. My question is: How do I utilize all the neato 3D
> features and stuff of this card in linux? I know I can load a generic
driver
> and get simple graphics working, but I'd like to have at least some of the
> functionality available in Linux! Thanks for any help.
>
> Ben
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Evans Jeffcoat)
Subject: Re: aha2930 undetectable..Can't think anymore...
Date: 28 Jun 1999 13:16:54 GMT
Douglas E Harmon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
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: Hi all....
:
: I have aproblem that has me stumped... I have a celron 333,intel
: board(440lx),onboard yamaha-pci sound, onboard mach64-agp. Two pci
: slots, and one isa with a modem, ne2000 clone, and an aha-2930uc scsi.
: My problem is that I can not auto probe or manualy insmod the scsi. I
I've had very similar problems with my 2930. I still haven't
gotten it to work myself, but Redhat 6.0 autodetected it and
managed to get it quite effortlessly. I don't know how RH does
the autodetect, so this isn't a very useful reply, but I offer
it as a clue. If you get it running, though, I'd appreciate you
posting what worked. I haven't given up quite yet. (Everything
would be fine, except that I really want to run Debian, which
doesn't, afaik, have a clever hardware autodetect, so I get
to do it myself.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
Subject: Re: corrupted partition table
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 12:16:24 GMT
Thanks. This utility did exactly what I needed. I'm back in business
and very happy! Thanks again for the URL.
In article <7l515r$lm7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is
> > there any way I can repartition the disk at all? I need some utility
> > that can open the partition table, in whatever state its in.
> >
> I use PART (short for ranish partition manager) it is small easy to
use
> and works well, and its FREE . you can get a copy at
> www.lester.co.uk/ranish/part
> if part wont see your partition tables you can try norton utillitys
> rescue disk set. if you have norton utillitys its the two yellow
floppys
> that came with it. just use ndd (norton disk doctor) to scan the disks
> and it should find and try to rebuild your partition tables
>
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From: "Xavier MARTINEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Suse 6.1 + Vodoo III DFX card
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:03:25 +0100
How can i install a vodoo III dfx card on the SUSE 6.1 . I'm' trying the
banshee driver but the resolution is not higher than 640 * 480.
Thanks for a tip .
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From: Michal Rembiszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ali Aladdin 5 chipset
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 13:52:12 GMT
luca78 wrote:
> so had to buy an unnamed one
> with Ali Aladdin 5 chipset. It works, but I cannot enable DMA on IDE
> controller, so disk drives are slow. I have 2.2.9 kernel, and it does not
> support my chipset. Is there a patch or a new (also officially unstable)
> version allowing me to use my disks with full performance?
>
check out at www.dyer.vanderbilt.edu/server/udma/
worked for me
Michal
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From: Jerry Normandin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Test - Please Ignore
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 10:28:10 -0400
Is this new server throttling back
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me what this means (HardDrive error)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:15:42 +1000
Brian Davis wrote in message ...
>It does work in Windows, but what I failed to mention was the fact that the
>Windows machine is in fact another machine. Now that you mention it, I
have
>a feeling that it could be a termination problem in this machine, it is an
>PS1, and I wouldn't be surprised it something is wrong with the IDE
>controller or termination. At least I can get one drive to work with it
:).
I have a feeling it is this.
If I remember rightly
Way back when IDE drives were a new sort of thing, there was two standards
of IDE. Sort of like the two 56K standards.
Seagate and Maxtor had their own ideas as to the standard, and as suck you
had a very hard time getting a maxtor drive to be a master and a seagate
being the slave. And Vice Versa
Me thinks this might be your problem
The drive will happily coexist with the drive in your 95 box
but doesn't like working with the drive in your linux box
Try swapping another drive for the master and have this drive as the slave
(just for a test) in the same machine.
or have this drive as master and another as slave.
If it works then the above is probably your prob.
the other thing you could try is
Have the drive as a master to your CDROM on the second channel, or as a
slave on the second channel to the CDROM. It might like working with the CD
OK.
Also there are some slightly different IDE disks out there in computer land.
An example
In one of my servers ( Compaq Systempro )
it has
8 IDE drives hanging off a special RAID type controller
now these are special Matched Pairs of IDE drives
Conner CP3501's if I remember right.
They are designed to be run in pairs (probably for the raid) as the raid
controller and (software) operating system only see's 4 drives ie 8 drives
in pairs (mirrored)
these drives especially don't like to work in other machines
they work allright by themselves (ie stick two of them together master
slave)
but try to mix them with another IDE drive and nothing nada zip!!!
Hope it helps
Tony Platt
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From: "Akshay Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Parameters
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 18:34:24 +0530
Hello everyone,
I have a SCSI disk. What are the parameters it requires to configure the
disk. I have not been able to get the LILO prompt because of this. Also what
is linear mode? I am using RedHat 5.2
Akshay
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