Linux-Hardware Digest #623, Volume #10 Tue, 29 Jun 99 12:13:33 EDT
Contents:
I740 Instalation ("G.Mendez")
Cardphone ("riksa")
serial port blues (Visual Numerics)
BTTV / BT829? (Bjoern Giesler)
Re: Netflex 3/P ("Tony Platt")
Re: Creative SB PCI128 Good Card? (Markus Wandel)
Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI) (Ralph Blach)
AMD K6 3D+ BUG??? (Andre)
Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI) (Andre)
Re: Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out (Matthew Hiller)
Re: Abit BP6 (dual Celeron) ATA66-Controller? (Greg Bartels)
Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out (Matthew Hiller)
Newbie question...SB128PCI setup (BH)
Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted (Greg Bartels)
where can get (Maximum RPM) this online document? ("robert_c")
intel L440GX+ mb/ PCI66/ UWSCSI/ thernet/video (Greg Bartels)
Re: Scsi (Gerald Willmann)
NETWORK EQUIPMENT (John)
best sound card (Jeremy Fincher)
Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux? (Bartek Golenko)
Re: Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out (Steve Garrotto)
Re: help: Sis 530 vs Red Hat 6.0 (Diogo Andrade Fran�a)
Re: Logitech PS/2 M-S48 Mouse Setup (Andre Trudeau)
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From: "G.Mendez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I740 Instalation
Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:11:19 +0200
Hi
I am trying to install Red Hat 6.0, and when I am going to setup my video
card it isn't in database. I have not the driver for it.
And I don't know how to setup the X-Windows.
Can Anybody help me?
Thank you in advance.
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From: "riksa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Cardphone
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:33:34 GMT
Has anyone managed to get PCMCIA cardphone working under Linux?
Cardphone is a PCMCIA card, you plug into your laptop or to your
desktop computer, and it works as a GSM phone. Such cards are made
by at least Nokia ( Cardphone ), Ericsson ( GC25 ) and Option ( FirstFone ).
I only need some low-level support, to be able to read SMS messages from
the card with AT-commands.
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From: Visual Numerics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: serial port blues
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 12:39:10 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am running a 2.2.5-15 kernel on a PPro and a
PII and am having the same problem on both
machines, so I assume it is a setup problem.
I cannot get any response from the serial ports.
If I attach a modem and use minicom I can
talk to the modem, control it, etc, but get
absolutely no responses (OK, ati info, etc)
printed on the screen. This also happens for
cu. I have tried two external modems and the
software works for internal modems - I get my
responses.
This makes me assume it is a serial port setup
problem.
Does any one have a suggestion or two?
Thanks
Jeremy
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From: Bjoern Giesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BTTV / BT829?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 11:37:17 GMT
Hi,
is there a version of BTTV / Video4Linux with BT829 support? I have a laptop
with a video input that I would love to have working under Linux...
TIA,
--Bjoern
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Netflex 3/P
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:45:55 +1000
Or you have a bad cable /port on the hub/switch
you don't have a crossover cable connected to a hub???
Tony
Tobias Anderberg wrote in message ...
>
>[.. Netflex problems ..]
>
>>Do you have a link light?
>
>Hmm, no! So I guess that means that the card isn't initialized correctly?
>
>/tobias
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Subject: Re: Creative SB PCI128 Good Card?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 11:38:12 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I would like to know if the Creative SB PCI 128 was a good linux sound
>card and easy to set up?
If all you have available is PCI slots, then yes, this is a good card.
I have mine connected to a pair of high-quality miniature stereo speakers
and a passive subwoofer via the onboard amplifier, and while it won't rattle
the windows it is more than adequate for listening. To my 32-year-old but
otherwise fairly fussy hearing, the card sounds as good as any stereo I've
ever owned.
With RedHat 5.2, the card comes right up in "sndconfig" but the driver is
not good, the mixer behaviour is so strange I find it hard to believe it can
be that way by accident. In 6.0 the driver is definitely improved but I've
never had a chance to try it.
With "alsa" you have to wade through the somewhat weird documentation but
when you get it all set up it's perfect, in the sense that /dev/dsp and
/dev/mixer do what they should so virtually all Linux audio applications work.
With "alsa" you can do "cat file.au >/dev/audio" and it works just like on
a Sun workstation (where file.au is 8-bit mu-law 8KHz). This means for example
that the sound effects in "xboing" work correctly.
The card's 128-channel "synthesizer" is a WinSynthesizer and doesn't do
anything under Linux. If you want to play MIDI files, "timidity" which
nowadays comes with KDE as "KMidi" is not bad, if you download the patch set
they recommend in the online manual. It chews up 25% CPU on my Celeron 300A
machine though.
The joystick interface works great if you tell the audio driver to enable it
(both the kernel driver and ALSA have an option for this.)
Markus
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From: Ralph Blach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI)
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 04:02:56 -0400
Has anybody had any experience with the Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370
(SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI) ?
Will it configure easily and reliably?
Before I by one I want comments.
Thanks
Chip
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:50:28 +0200
From: Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD K6 3D+ BUG???
Just got my new box installed on sunday and today I tried
to compile the latest kernel, but I ended up with random error,
you know the thing it stops compiling and if you trigger it again
it compiles a few files more and quits again. Smells like hardware
problems. Is there any bug known? remember its not an old K6, its
a new K6-3:
<4>Detected 451039409 Hz processor.
<4>Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
<4>Calibrating delay loop... 901.12 BogoMIPS
<4>Memory: 128428k/131072k available (688k kernel code, 408k reserved,
1500k dat
a, 48k init)
<5>VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
<6>Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 128 Mb
<4>CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D+ Processor stepping 01
greetings
-andre
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Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:46:05 +0200
From: Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI)
Ralph Blach wrote:
>
> Has anybody had any experience with the Ensoniq Audio PCI 1370
> (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI) ?
>
> Will it configure easily and reliably?
>
> Before I by one I want comments.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chip
Hi Ralph!
I have a SB 128 PCI and it is absolutely no problem.
Just compile the module and edit conf.modules
no problem here
greets
-andre
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Hiller)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out
Date: 29 Jun 1999 13:17:35 GMT
: MH> My question - does anyone know whether this should matter or not?
: MH> Should a working drive on a terminated SCSI bus be spitting the caddy
: MH> back at me like that, even if the OS isn't loaded? Or even if the bus
: MH> isn't terminated? Or the device is disconnected entirely?
: For that, it should not need a quarter to call anybody. While it could
: be a more serious mechanical problem, I've seen it with the Toshiba
: caddy type drive, and fixed it too. ISTR the belt had stretched a hair,
: and it ejected because it couldn't bring it fully to the home position.
: The belt I had was a bit snugger, and hasn't failed since.
: If you're not comfortable doing such tiddly stuff, send it back to
: Sony, and demand one that works. Me? I'm a tech.
<feeling the need to be talkative> I'd probably be comfortable
doing this, only it'd void the warranty, and since I picked it up
recertified from a reseller, I might well need that warranty to be in
effect if something else should go wrong.
Now to call up Computer Disk Service and claim that your advice
was actually what the Sony tech told me. :)
Thanks very much,
Matt Hiller
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From: Greg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Abit BP6 (dual Celeron) ATA66-Controller?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:48:31 -0400
"Andrew J. Norman" wrote:
>
> As for ATA-66, my gut (and some articles I read recently) make note the
> Linux does not as yet support the new protocol. HOWEVER.........the BP6
> has a normal set of IDE controlers also......If you have problems
> getting the ATA-66 controlers to work you may want to try using the
> standard ones until development is complete.
>
> (Just a note: You won't see much difference between the new 66 standard
> and the previous 33 unless you are running a heavy server. Also be
> aware that the new drives support the 66 protocol they don't always have
> the ability to achieve that theoretic level, (e.g. a 5400 rpm drive
> would have trouble supplying 66meg/s)
>
> Suran wrote:
>
> > Has someone experience with the ATA-66 Controller on
> > Abits new dual Celeron-Board?
Western Digital's Expert drives that have the Ultra 66 interface
are supposedly able to effectively double your throughput,
providing you have the drivers, and the motherboard, to support it.
Computer Shopper recently did a review on them.
the Intel motherboard, L440GX+, is a dual P3 server which comes
with 2 PCI66 slots and a UW SCSI controller integreated.
I'm wondering if you could get that board, use the SCSI to run
linux until someone writes a driver for hte PCI66 slots.
has anyone run linux on this motherboard?
Greg
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Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
From: Matthew Hiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 01:32:09 GMT
Hello,
I recently purchased a recertified Sony CDU 926S CDR drive for a
system that I'm putting together right now.
And I haven't been able to feed the CD Caddy with a CD in it into
the drive -- it feeds a little bit and then gets spat back out at me.
This is the case whether it's connected to the SCSI bus or not.
And I'm about 99% certain that the SCSI bus is properly terminated.
And yes, the SCSI controller card is detecting the fact that the
drive is there.
I called up Sony technical support, and when they asked what OS I
was running, I responded, "Debian Linux -- but it's not installed yet." I
think this stumped them, but they said to call back when the OS was
installed.
My question - does anyone know whether this should matter or not?
Should a working drive on a terminated SCSI bus be spitting the caddy back
at me like that, even if the OS isn't loaded? Or even if the bus isn't
terminated? Or the device is disconnected entirely?
FWIW, I've loaded the "sg" generic scsi driver while installing
Debian (in the stage where you choose which modules to load) and despite
the fact that the sg module is loaded (and lsmod confirms this), the cd
drive still behaves the same way. Hard drive problems have thus far
prevented me from doing a full OS install, though.*
Other infos: the SCSI controller is a Tekram DC 390 (50-pin), and
in the unlikely event that it's relevant, the motherboard is an MSI 5169.
Thanks very much,
Matt Hiller
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (BH)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Newbie question...SB128PCI setup
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:26:03 GMT
I have a P2 machine on which I recently installed Mandrake Linux 6.0,
and I have zero experience with Linux (the point of this is to LEARN
Linux). Now, the machine has a Sound Blaster PCI 128 installed, and I
can't get it working. I ran SNDCONFIG, which autodetected the card as
an AUDIOPCI. Immediately after the autodetection, it tries to play a
sample and gives the following error:
sox: Effect '/dev/dsp' is not known!
It then proceeds into manual configuration, where it suggests the
Ensoniq AudioPCI 1370 (SoundBlaster 64/128 PCI). When it tries to play
a sound through that driver, I get the same message.
The machine is multi-boot, and the card works perfectly in 98 and NT.
Can anyone offer me some 'guidance' or advice so that I can get this
thing working?
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From: Greg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Building a Dual system: advice wanted
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:41:00 -0400
Mike Frisch wrote:
>
> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999 15:02:42 -0400, Greg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >does anyone know of a pci66 to udma66 combination
> >of hardware and software that will work with Linux?
>
> Why PCI66?
because harddrive access is twice as fast as going through PCI33 slot.
> Which PC motherboards support this
the only 3 motherboards that have some PCI66 slots are:
ASUS P5S-VM
DFI PW65D
INTEL L440GX+ (dual P3 server board)
they average 3 pci33 slots and 2 pci66 slots.
>and why would you want EIDE on such a system?
because you could get a UDMA66 card, such as
the Promise Ultra66 card, and plug it into a
Western Digital Expert drive (which has a UDMA66
interface). but if the Promise card (or whoever)
is plugged into a PCI33 slot, you just wasted
your money, since the data rate drops to the
slowest link in the chain.
That's my understanding of the hardware, anyway.
Greg
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From: "robert_c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: where can get (Maximum RPM) this online document?
Date: 29 Jun 1999 13:07:52 GMT
Could someone know where is the mirror site for the online document Maximum
RPM(because I want to package my program with RPM format)? I have tried many
times to download from www.rpm.org, but the site seems shutdown; at the same
time, I tryied to RedHat site (http://www.redhat.com/docs/) to download the
same document(it is linked to http://www.rpm.orgorg/maximum-rpm.ps.gz), but
the result is same.
Thanks for your help
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From: Greg Bartels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intel L440GX+ mb/ PCI66/ UWSCSI/ thernet/video
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:55:21 -0400
anyone using the Intel L440GX+ motherboard?
anyone using it with Linux?
it is a dual P3 server with
3 pci33 slots
2 pci66 slots
a UW SCSI controller
a video controller
an ethernet controller.
its all integreated on the motherboard.
I was thinking I could use the SCSI
controller for a harddrive that could
run Linux, and put Windows on the cheaper
Ultra66 drives. at least until someone
writes a linux driver for the Ultra 66
hardware.
Trying to find out if the integrated
hardware is Linux compatible too.
SCSI, video, ethernet.
and whether or not I could override
the integrated video with a Voodoo 3
card at somepoint later.
anyone have any hands on with this board?
Greg
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From: Gerald Willmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Scsi
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 07:17:24 -0700
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Johannes B. wrote:
> I try to get my Symbios Logic 53c400a Scsi- Adapter, delivered with a HP
> Scsn Jet 4P to work under Linux. I have Suse 6.1. Please help me.
>
Johannes: AFAIK there is no driver for this SCSI card. I bought another
SCSI card (an UW Buslogic/Mylex bt958 since I wanted to switch the whole
system to SCSI) and have been using first a HP IIp and now a IIc without
problems. Not sure SANE supports it, though - I went for xvscan
(commercial) on a libc5 system.
GErald
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John)
Subject: NETWORK EQUIPMENT
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 13:10:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NETWORK BLOWOUT
Brand New Equipment - Located in Toronto - Prices in US Dollars
MFG DESCRIPTION PRICE $US
Bay XLR 1104 FX-R 4p 100FX Ethernet $ 2999
Cisco Catalyst 2900 series XL 16 port 1999
SEAGATE Backup Exec for Netware V4.0 349
Sytos Premium for OS/2 150
Pervasive SQL 7 Sever 20 user 1099
Palindrome Storage Manager for netware 450
Goldmine Goldmine for Win95 149
LightPulse PCI Host Adapter 370
Mylex DAC960SX Ext Raid controller 1999
Velocity 4400 AGP No TV video Card 99
SCO Unixware 999
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeremy Fincher)
Subject: best sound card
Date: 29 Jun 1999 13:22:18 GMT
What's the best sound card to get for linux? Also, it seems that some sound
card drivers cost money; is this true?
Thanks a bundle,
Jeremy Fincher
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bartek Golenko)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.sco,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.sco.programmer
Subject: Re: Mounting a SCO OpenServer 5.0.2 Filesystem in Linux?
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:04:54 GMT
In article <jZOd3.3380$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Binesh Bannerjee wrote:
>In comp.os.linux.misc Bartek Golenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>: Thats because Linux 2.0.x could not recognize SCO division table on a
>: partition - you could always mount SCO floppies. There is an option in 2.2.x
>: that will probably allow you to do this.
>
>What option is that? (Upon further investigation I found this in the docs
>From Documentation/filesystems/sysv-fs.txt as of linux-2.2.9
>> The superblock is only searched in the blocks 9, 15, 18, which
>> corresponds to the beginning of track 1 on floppy disks. No
>> support for this FS on hard disk yet.
>
>So, it looks as tho the SysV FS doesn't support hard drives still...
Oh, my mistake... Linux can read [E]AFS filesystems (eg. through loopback)
but there is no division table support. I have been talking (Mar 99) to
someone doing [E]AFS support on Linux and he told me that he will work on
div table support as well.
Option i mentioned earlier is "Unixware slices support" (experimental)
--
Bartek Golenko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Garrotto)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Sony CDU926S spitting the CD Caddy right back out
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 15:14:30 GMT
I have this problem happen quite often with two Toshiba drives
installed in a Win95 machine. I have found that if I switch caddies
that it will usually stop doing it. I happen to have hundreds of
caddies.
SLG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Hiller) wrote:
>: MH> My question - does anyone know whether this should matter or not?
>: MH> Should a working drive on a terminated SCSI bus be spitting the caddy
>: MH> back at me like that, even if the OS isn't loaded? Or even if the bus
>: MH> isn't terminated? Or the device is disconnected entirely?
>
>: For that, it should not need a quarter to call anybody. While it could
>: be a more serious mechanical problem, I've seen it with the Toshiba
>: caddy type drive, and fixed it too. ISTR the belt had stretched a hair,
>: and it ejected because it couldn't bring it fully to the home position.
>: The belt I had was a bit snugger, and hasn't failed since.
>
>: If you're not comfortable doing such tiddly stuff, send it back to
>: Sony, and demand one that works. Me? I'm a tech.
>
> <feeling the need to be talkative> I'd probably be comfortable
>doing this, only it'd void the warranty, and since I picked it up
>recertified from a reseller, I might well need that warranty to be in
>effect if something else should go wrong.
>
> Now to call up Computer Disk Service and claim that your advice
>was actually what the Sony tech told me. :)
>
>Thanks very much,
>Matt Hiller
(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new
and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are
due to too many English classes/teachers)
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From: Diogo Andrade Fran�a <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: help: Sis 530 vs Red Hat 6.0
Date: 29 Jun 1999 13:30:43 GMT
SuSE new driver: are in this site: http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html
or you can download from FTP from:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse_update/X/XFCom/xsis/glibc2/xsis.tgz
Stephen Lim wrote:
>
> Does anyone get RH60 Linux to work in SiS 530 motherboard? I download
> XFCom_SiS X servers from SuSE and it works in Red Hat 5.9 but it does
not
> in RH6.0.
>
> I really appreciate any suggestion.
>
> Stephen Lim
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
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From: Andre Trudeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Logitech PS/2 M-S48 Mouse Setup
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 10:52:27 -0400
Is your mouse connected with a PS/2 to serial adapter?
If so I had the same problem with mine.
Solution: Change your mouse dirver from a logitech PS/2 to a Logitech
Serial and it should work..
Andre Trudeau
Merryweather Management Systems Ltd. wrote:
> 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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