Linux-Hardware Digest #633, Volume #10 Wed, 30 Jun 99 15:13:51 EDT
Contents:
Re: Advice on bttv ("Genny Bailey")
SCSI Scanner (Radek Zitek)
Re: ADSL versus Cable modem. (Akira)
Re: HD Cache Question (Henrik Carlqvist)
adsl (j)
Re: SoundCard (HellNo)
Re: Compatible Modems for Linux (Rob Clark)
Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: aic 7890 and aic 7860 ("Niels Bleijswijk")
Re: Advice on bttv (Wayne Parrott)
Re: kppp (Peter Christy)
Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape (Danny Willis)
(Miro) Studio PCTV Pro (Lars J. Aas)
Re: driver for Canon BJ43000 (JET)
Compaq Proliant 2000R (John)
Re: Printer Driver (Joceli Mayer)
RH6.0 - mouse problem in text mode (Neno)
Re: FWD- Hardware site petitions Intel over SMP Celerons (bryan)
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From: "Genny Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Advice on bttv
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:05:00 -0600
Yeah, besides the bttw tv I installed a tuner program called xawtv.
Actually when I run this, I lose sound altogether but when I turn it off,
the steady throbbing is back alternating between the left speaker and right
speaker and never goes away which is what leads me to believe that something
is wrong with the bttv driver at boot time and if I can fix that, then I
think xawtv is already working ok.
Wayne Parrott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:wtp01.930759675@banshee...
> Have you installed the tuner module? this controls what the card is tuned
to
> which would probably explain why there is static.
>
> "Brian Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Hi,
> >I have a Diamond bt848 based tv tuner card installed with an Ensoniq 1371
> >sound card. I am having a bit of a rough time getting the tuner set up
> >properly and need some advice on the subject. First of all, I started
the
> >bttv module that comes with the version Caldera 2.2 that I have
installed.
> >It started making a throbbing static sound that alternates from speaker
to
> >speaker. Even when I unload the module and reboot the throbbing
continues.
> >I tried downloading a new bttv driver and version of xawtv from Ralphs
bttv
> >page. That hasn't helped, however. I'm not sure if it's because it
> >complains with errors after I try running 'make ins' after recompiling
the
> >source. I also thought that maybe it wasn't recognizing the card
properly
> >so I tried specifying 'card=5' like it says in the documentation.
Anything
> >else I should try? Thanks for any info.
>
> >Brian Merrill
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Radek Zitek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI Scanner
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 21:16:08 +0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Could someone point me to good source of information about how to deal
with SCSI scanners under Linux.
I have HP 5p and Nikon LS-1000 connected to Initio 9XXX host adapter. I
have SCSI support compiled in the kernel, I have initio.o loaded as well
as sg.o. Both scanners are found and reported as /dev/sga /dev/sgb.
What do I do next? Ultimatelly I would like to get SANE and xscanimage
working? Thanks for any help.
BTW if I run scanimage it tells me
... error opening /dev/scanner ... well I understand that, there is no
device like that
if I run scanimage -d /dev/sga I end up with
... open of device /dev/sga failed: Invalid argument
What am I missing??? And sorry if it's obvious!
Radek
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From: Akira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADSL versus Cable modem.
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 16:25:55 GMT
Charles Sullivan wrote:
> An article in our local newspaper announced that the phone company (Bell
> South)
> had begun offering ADSL service and that the cable company (Time Warner)
> would be offering Cable modem service within the next few months. The
> article
> claimed that download speeds would be about the same but uploads via Cable
> modem would be somewhat faster. In both cases the company would come and
> install the required modem.
>
> Because of the way things seem to be nowadays, I assume both companies
> will be supporting operation only under MS Windows and that I'll be on my
> own
> if I want to use Linux.
>
> What kind of questions will I need to ask to insure that whatever service I
> go with
> will be compatible with Linux? Are there "Winmodems" for Cable and/or
> ADSL?
> Any pros and cons? (ADSL looks like it will be more expensive).
>
> Regards,
> Charles Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cable and ADSL use NICs. Cable uses dynamic IPs while ADSL provides you with a
static one. They can come and do the install but unless they specifically state
that they support Linux, they won't even attempt to help you if you have
problems (besides connection faults not due to your system).
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HD Cache Question
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 23:15:32 +0200
Len wrote:
> What do I need to do to make BOX B re-read the inode tables???
I haven't tried it, but maybe it would help to try the sync or async
option to mount. I think that one of these is able to disable at least
the write cache. Maybe it is able to disable the read cache also?
regards Henrik
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 11:28:07 -0700
From: j <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: adsl
looking to connect 3 computers to an adsl line and use just the one ip
address that the isp is going to give me. any ideas on how to do this
quickly and/or cheaply?
any help is appreciated.
j.
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From: HellNo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SoundCard
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 17:31:57 GMT
I have an SB16 and I'm happy!
Avoid the SB Live... it needs *3* IRQ's!
I thought a SB AWE32 would be good. I know Linux supports it and W9x
does too. Don't know about the others!
Hope this helped.
Ed.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Anthony Lacey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Im thinking of adding a soundcard to my system and wondered what
people
> thought was the best choice. Im running Linux (2.2.5) and 98 (just
for
> games). I want some decent sound but Im not sure if I need to feel
> immersed in some 3D experience (I just dont believe that a set of �50
> speakers can do that). Basically I will be playing games in 98,
> listening to CDs and maybe some web audio under both and I may record
> some of my vinyl onto cd in the furture. From my local dealer the
> choices seem to be:
>
> soundblaster 64 PCI - �17
> soundblaster AWE64 ISA - �27
> soundblaster 128 PCI - �30
> soundblaster live value - �43
>
> all oem.
>
> So what do people think is a good choice? I dont want too much hassle
> in setup and want the card to work as well as can be expected in both
> linux & 98. Im only going to spend about nother �30 on speakers too.
>
> Any advice gratefully recieved.
>
> --
> Dr. Tony Lacey - Imaging Science & Bio-medical Engineering, University
> of
> Manchester Stopford Building, Oxford Rd., Manchester. UK. M13 9PT
> [+44 (0)161 275 5570] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.niac.man.ac.uk/~ajl/
>
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Subject: Re: Compatible Modems for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:32:38 GMT
In article <7ldmc5$li5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>While on the topic, does anyone know about Hayes Accura 56K modems
>under Linux?
>
>Since Hayes is now sold, prices are low and the quality of these modems
>is very good. Anyway, they don't *appear* to be winmodems, but one
>never really knows for sure.
Yes, but the support is very poor.
I'm not sure if there were ever any PCI ACCURAs. The ISA ACCURAs all seem
to have address jumpers, which means they should be okay. Hayes did make
or sell PCI modems, but stay away from these.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
[Hayes modems are mostly in the "BFJ" section, but they also sold
rebranded Wisecom, Psion Dacom, etc. models]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.hp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Need Iomega Ditto 3200 (3.2G) Tape Drive info
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 10:40:03 -0700
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/30/99
at 09:51 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Boritz) said:
>Stay away from the Travan format and floppy controller tape drives,
>since there are no OS/2 programs on the market that can reliably
>operate them.
I respectfully disagree. While floppy tapes may not be the best
choice, I don't think they are a bad choice based on my own
experience. I'm using a QIC-3020 (Conner 3200) device with a
high-speed 2MBits/sec controller and have found it to be reliable and
quite speedy. I have had no problems, but I would consider going to
SCSI just to get a better user interface backup program such as
BackAgain/2.
I have used Seagate (now Veritas) Backup Exec, BackMaster and
Backmaster Ultra, andNova Back for OS/2. There's something about each
of them I hate, but Backup Exec works the best in spite of its
perfectly horrible and hated user interface. I have found all the
programs I tried to be reliable in that they can safely backup and
restore properly. But, again, this is not to say it is the best
solution, only that I have found it to be a satisfactory solution.
--
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Happily using OS/2 Warp on the Central California Coast.
http://www.redshift.com/~bstephan
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From: "Niels Bleijswijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aic 7890 and aic 7860
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 20:18:07 +0200
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Where can I find linux drivers for scsi adaptec AIC-7890 and AIC-7860 ?
>
>
> I Allready did a post for this one. Here's the last posting;
C'T Magazine ( best magazine in the world) dutch edition tested
the adaptec 2930 card and found out that Adaptec has assigned a new Device
ID to the 2930 -> 0011h. The 2940U2W has Device ID -> 0010h. That's why the
drivermodule aic7XXX can't recognise the card altough they use the same
controller (AIC-7890AB) and Bridge (AIC-3860).
C'T DID test the card. They used a patch in
quote"/usr/src/linux/include/linux/pci.h"
Then just recompile the aic7XXX module and it uses the 2930 as it were an
2940. Easy huh! Now... As I stated before I'm a Linux newbie and don't know
X11 from an X-file(sorta) and I don't know how to "just recompile the
AIC7XXX module". Just bought Linux for Dummies and I will find out I
guess...
Hope someone who has a few more braincells can use this information <<ALL
FROM C'T MAGAZINE>> and perhaps can tell me HowTO.
Niels.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wayne Parrott)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera
Subject: Re: Advice on bttv
Date: 30 Jun 99 16:21:15 GMT
Have you installed the tuner module? this controls what the card is tuned to
which would probably explain why there is static.
"Brian Merrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Hi,
>I have a Diamond bt848 based tv tuner card installed with an Ensoniq 1371
>sound card. I am having a bit of a rough time getting the tuner set up
>properly and need some advice on the subject. First of all, I started the
>bttv module that comes with the version Caldera 2.2 that I have installed.
>It started making a throbbing static sound that alternates from speaker to
>speaker. Even when I unload the module and reboot the throbbing continues.
>I tried downloading a new bttv driver and version of xawtv from Ralphs bttv
>page. That hasn't helped, however. I'm not sure if it's because it
>complains with errors after I try running 'make ins' after recompiling the
>source. I also thought that maybe it wasn't recognizing the card properly
>so I tried specifying 'card=5' like it says in the documentation. Anything
>else I should try? Thanks for any info.
>Brian Merrill
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 19:22:15 +0100
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Laine Walker-Avina wrote:
>I allready looked and all of my pppd config files don't have the lock
>option in them.
You need to look in /etc/ppp/options (at least, that's where it is on my
system!). About half way down (its quite a big text file!) there should be a
couple of comment lines about a UUCP-style lock device, followed by a line that
says "lock". Put a # mark infront of the lock command to comment it out. That
should solve the problem.
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP ! verrry slloooww reading DAT tape
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Danny Willis)
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:35:03 GMT
Chris Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Just to let everyone know, I have found a work around....but I would
>still like to be able to read the tape using the "tar" command.
>I was able to use the "mt setblk 1024" to set the tape size and then
>"dd if=/dev/st0 of=dump bs=1024" followed by a "tar -xvf dump". Great,
>it reads at between 10 and 15Mb / minute. Changing "bs=xxx" to anything
>else slows everything dowm by orders of magnitude.
I never tried using "defblk". I just checked the man page, and it says
"defblksize" sets the default block size, whereas "setblk" only sets
it for the current tape. I've used setblk -- actually setblk 0, which says
"block size could be anything so do your best", and that worked at your
10-15 MB per minute speed on a DDS1 drive (doing straight tar -xvf -- I
don't know why you needed to go via dd).
Maybe defblksize doesn't actually work. Or maybe there's something funny
about your drive firmware that confuses the scsi driver.
--
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http://www2.shore.net/~dannyw
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars J. Aas)
Subject: (Miro) Studio PCTV Pro
Date: 30 Jun 1999 18:10:22 GMT
Hi,
I have the Miro / Studio PCTV Pro card. Does anyone know if audio
support in Linux is possible with this card without linking the TV
audio through a sound card? Can the audio data be fetched directly
from the PCTV card?
Lars J
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Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 12:27:30 -0400
From: JET <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver for Canon BJ43000
sydney wrote:
>
> Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: quoted-printable
> Hi, can anybody tell me where I can find the driver for Canon
> BJ4300. I am using RH5.2.
> Thanks
> Sydney Qiu
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Check this site "Linux Printing HOWTO"
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
JET
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John)
Subject: Compaq Proliant 2000R
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 16:34:00 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am attempting to install linux on a Compaq Proliant 2000 R
It has an EISA SCSI 32-Bit Compaq Smart Array Controller that slackware 4.0,
RedHat 6.0 will not recognize. I am going to try suse 6.1 but suspect the same
problem.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer Driver
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:40:46 +0000
caroline wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am a newbie of Linux and have a question to ask.
>
> I have just installed Linux2.2.5 SuSE6.1 and my printer is Cannon BJC
> 4300SP. I found that my Linux does not contain the driver for this
> printer but just "bjc" or some other older versions. I have tried to use
> them but failed......
>
> Could anyone tell me how to download the suitable driver and how to
> install it to my Linux??
>
> Thank you very much~~~~~~~
>
> Caroline
See:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon
this pointer was gave in a previous post "driver for Canon BJ43000" in this
same newsgroup,
good luck
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From: Neno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,it.comp.linux,it.comp.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc,tin.it.computer.pc.linux
Subject: RH6.0 - mouse problem in text mode
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:21:27 +0200
I am running RH6.0 and have a normal serial logitech mouse (3 buttons)
on /dev/ttyS0 configured by mouseconfig as "Microsoft" type. (I guess it
is an alias for "ms").
In X mode my mouse works perfectly.
In text mode with the gpm daemon running, I see the mouse moving as I
want and the copy & paste feature works too.
The problem is when I run Midnight Commander. The buttons don't work (I
cannot pull down the menus, moving through the directories and so on).
Something much strange happen when using Lynx. The left button doesn't
work and pressing the middle one, lynx seems to enter in a loop moving
everywhere, changing url, saving configurations (???).
Running the mev utility I can see the mouse events are trapped correctly
(each button is identified, press and release events too, movements too
and so on).
Before using RH6.0 I have used for a few days a Debian distribution and
in that case the mouse was working correctly both in text and X modes.
Another thing I don't understand:
Running linuxconf (both in text mode or within KDE and with my mouse
moving on the screen), and quitting without making any change, it says
the status is not in sync with the current configuration and when I ask
to see what is to be updated it says that '/etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S85gpm start'
is to be executed.
Is out there someone with a suggestion ?
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From: bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FWD- Hardware site petitions Intel over SMP Celerons
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 18:17:19 GMT
they never promised that SMP would work on a celeron and so they have
no moral, ethical or legal obligation to continue to support it. it
was a one-time gift (which is rare in this industry) and many
hobbiests took advantage of it. I certainly did - I have 3 dual cel
300a (@450*2) systems at home. I love them. but I knew what I was
getting into when I was tinkering around with it. if they disable
this functionality, well - the market will do what the market will do.
hi-end hobbiests will stop buying intel and the new K7 might just eat
intel's lunch (we can only hope...).
the concept of petitioning intel is absurd. there's no hope of
swaying their opinion and they need to do what they think is in their
best econ. interests. they already know the negative PR they'll get -
its a risk they may or may not be willing to take.
and even if there is negative PR, its not relevant for 99% of the
buyers out there, so it essentially will go unheard.
my advice: don't buy a dual 370 board. buy a dual slot1 board and get
slotkets and GET THE CPUS FIRST BEFORE COMMITTING TO SMP ON CELERONS!
if, later on down the road, the cpus break and you can't get
replacement SMP celerons anymore, then either sell the board or get p2
or p3 chips - by the time your cel will crap out, the replacement
p2/p3 chips will be just as cheap ;-)
this just isn't worth whining about. there are other more important
things that need our whining, instead ;-)
Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: -------------FWD----------------
: Posted 30/06/99 8:27am by Mike Magee, The Register, London, UK.
: Hardware site petitions Intel over SMP Celerons
: A leading hardware site has asked Intel nicely not to implement a
: plan to prevent the production of dual Celeron systems.
: (See Intel could nip dual Celeron move in bud)
: CPU Review has posted a petition to its site which can be viewed
: here.
: http://www.cpureview.com/smp_petition.html
: At Computex in Taiwan at the beginning of the month, a motherboard
: manufacturer
: showed a design which allowed twin Celerons to run together.
: The idea was originally invented by a Japanese engineer, and
: according to reports,
: Intel was unhappy with the idea, and therefore wanted to nobble such
: designs by
: disabling the feature that allowed for dual Celerons.
: When we spoke to Intel earlier this week, a representative pointed
: out that
: implementing dual Celerons was not part of the original system spec
: for the cut down
: Pentium II processor.
: CPU Review's petition reads: "We, the undersigned consumers hereby
: respectfully
: request that Intel does not disable the SMP capabilities of the
: Celeron processors.
: We believe that business users will use Pentium II, III and Xeon
: processors for
: production servers due to their large L2 cache sizes. Disabling SMP on
: Celerons will
: only hurt technical enthusiasts."
: We don't know if Intel responds to petitions and it's an interesting
: idea. �
: ----------------------
: Alex Lam.
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: *remove all the Xs (upper case X) if reply by e mail.
: ** no more M$ Windoze.
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