Linux-Hardware Digest #668, Volume #10 Sun, 4 Jul 99 21:13:36 EDT
Contents:
Re: TV out (Ralph Metzler)
RH6 w/TNT2, X res is about 320x200, can't change, can't navigate eaily ("mnip")
HELP w/ modem! ("ZombieSeed")
Re: help - printing problems (Clive DaSilva)
Re: 17" monitors with BNC and VGA (Shashank)
AMD k6-3 compatible main board (Rolston Jeremiah)
Floppy boot to linux-only scsi hardrive on Win95 PC? (John)
Re: Driver for Epson Stylus Color 740 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Best dual cpu board for Linux recommandation needed. Thx. (Alex Lam)
Re: AMD k6-3 compatible main board (Joceli Mayer)
Re: help - printing problems (Ed Wilts)
Add 2nd vfat IDE to linux box (Tom Elsesser)
Second SCSI drive, can't "mke2fs"? ("Dave O'Shea")
Re: APM: Halt crashes when trying to poweroff. (Matthias Kilian)
support for soundblaster pci 512?... ("J. Blair")
mouse problems (Moumtaiz NASSER)
Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI Drive Problems -- Kernel Panic: scsi_free (Eric DE VITO)
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From: Ralph Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TV out
Date: 04 Jul 1999 22:19:17 +0200
Richard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I'm looking for TVout under Linux too! I need to make "live" screen videos
> for presentations.
>
> I heard that some Matrox cards have this. (Some G200 models have TVout, all
> of the newer G400 models have multimonitor capability, including video
> output.) The current Xfree86 driver for the G200 does not support this
> feature. The G400 driver is not out yet.
>
> Does anyone know if the new drivers (XFree86, version 4.0) will support video
> output on any of the Matrox cards?
TV out for the G400/G200 should be no problem to implement since the specs are all
available. But I do not know if anybody did this yet.
It does work for Voodoo3 3000 and for the Miro Highscore2 (Voodoo 2).
For the Voodoo3 look for the lm_sensors package (I think it is only in the CVS tree)
or mail me for details.
Ralph
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From: "mnip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH6 w/TNT2, X res is about 320x200, can't change, can't navigate eaily
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 21:00:06 GMT
I have a Leadtek S320II on an Abit BX6r2 motherboard, several OS'
multi-boot. My RH6 install was 'everything'. RH6 detects the card as a Viper
V770, which seems close enough. It does not detect the RAMDAC, though, so I
choose the generic recommended. I think that may be the cause of the
following problem
I have tried every possible resolution and color depth configuration of
Xconfigurator, but the Gnome desktop with the enlightenment window manager
always comes up in a ridiculously low resolution, I'm guessing 320x200. As
you can imagine, almost nothing can be done to explore settings at that
size, I can't even find the exit command on the menu. Its all I can do to
kill x without a hardware reset.
Is there anything I can do to fix this, or do I need the latest TNT X-server
rpm to even get X started. I was hoping to get RH working as-is before
patching up to newer X components, because I still have network issues to
work out with my 2 NICs and a cablemodem. Thanks for any advice.
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From: "ZombieSeed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP w/ modem!
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:49:18 -0400
I have a Boca 33.6 PnP modem. Linux (from what I can tell from doing a
'dmesg') recognizes my modem as "tty03 at 0x02e8 (IRQ=3) is a 16550A".
Windows recognizes the modem at I/O 03f8 and IRQ 4.
I downloaded isapnptools1.15a and did the following commands:
cd /etc
pnpdump > isapnp.conf
I opened the isapnp.conf file, found the Boca Modem, and removed the comment
(#) from the beginning of the lines that contained the I/O 0x02e8 and the
IRQ right under it. I then removed the comment from the ACT Y thing. I saved
the file then did "isapnp isapnp.conf". It displayed 2 boards I had.
I ran Minicom and it still won't initialize my modem. I read some sites that
had info on PnP modems, and one said to try "setserial /dev/ttySx auto_irq
autoconfig". I did that... nothing.
Is there anything I can do with this modem? I know the modem itself works...
I'm just stuck on this and can't find help anywhere.
Thanks
-Z
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clive DaSilva)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: help - printing problems
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 22:19:01 GMT
darrin
check your /etc/printcap file and make sure the lp thing points to
/dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1 (used by the kernels prior to 2.2.X)
"darrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>lpr: connect: Connection refused
>jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
>i get the above error when i try to print to our remote printer using redhat
>linux 5.2 kernel 2.2.3
>would changing the lp account such as password cause this problem? if so,
>how do i change it back?
>it was working fine yesterday.
>
>the whole reason i was messing around with this is i was trying to find a
>way that regular users can run lpc and disable/enable printers. it says
>'privledged command' error. i then try to su to lp (like in sco unix) but
>still got the same error. i then gave lp root privledges in and same
>error. any other way?
>
>another problem i'm having is in elm. when i try to print email in there it
>stairsteps even though our printtool set it up to prevent this for that
>printer. also, if i print using the command line it's fine (lpr -Phplaser
>textfile.txt). i setup elm to use this command - lpr -Phplaser %s and tried
>cat %s | lpr -Phplaser
>the manual says something about piping it to a todos filter but 'todos' is
>not found on my system.
>
>please reply by post and email,
>thanks,
>darrin
>
>
>
>
Clive DaSilva CMA
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Homepage: http://www.Geocities.com/Broadway/2207
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From: Shashank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 17" monitors with BNC and VGA
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:33:24 -0700
I have a TeleVideo SVP270-
17in Aperture Grille, 1600x1200@75Hz, takes BNC and VGA input.
I love it! The picture is sharp @ 1280x1024 (my day-to-day resolution), and the
colors are vibrant. As with any Aperture Grile monitor, the only objection may be
the two faint horizontal lines through the picture. I believ it uses the
Mitsubishi tube, which won a few awards in its day. Isnagged one for $450 about a
year ago, so it should be pretty cheap by now.
s
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm searching for a decent 17" monitor with two video ins, which I'll
> use only under linux (Alpha, x86, hoping soon: MIPS).
> I'm used to a Sony 200sf and therefore discarded a Sony 420GST
> (19", 2xVGA) and a CTX 1995UE (19", 5-BNC, VGA) because of their
> bad pictures at 1152x864 (moire', not sharp enough, no stable picture
> at higher frequencies), which is a non-standard resolution.
>
> Does someone know a good 17" monitor with two video ins? I only
> found the Iiyama S701GT, A701GT and A702HT but have no chance to
> get a look at them in real life.
>
> Looking forward to your responses,
> Uli
> (PS: this posting has a usable from & reply-to)
> --
> Dipl. Inf. Ulrich Teichert|e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Stormweg 24 |listening to: Spanish Bombs (The Clash), Windy (The
> 24539 Neumuenster, Germany|Decibels), Candygirl (The Kwyet Kings)
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From: Rolston Jeremiah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AMD k6-3 compatible main board
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 1999 06:35:48 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everyone,
I need to build a system immediately with AMD k6-3 CPU. Will someone
please suggest a main board/chip set to buy.
Thanks in advance
Rjae
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Floppy boot to linux-only scsi hardrive on Win95 PC?
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 14:56:31 -0400
Hi folks, Is it a luxury to have a seperate disk dedicated to each OS
(95 & Linux) or am I just over-complicating things? Please tell me if
you have a better idea to accomplish this:
I have an old Acer Aspire P-90 Win95 PC.
The original IDE 1Gig hard drive is FULL of all Win95 stuff I'd like to
keep as-is; SO I have installed an Adaptec 1502 SCSI controller with a
Quantum XP32150 2Gig hard drive.
* I think I want the SCSI hard drive dedicated to Linux and the IDE hard
drive remain dedicated to Win95.
* I want the ability to transfer files between the two drives.
* I don't want to swap hardware to boot the other OS.
What's the best way to have both OSs co-exist?:
Can LILO be installed on my original drive, but most of Linux on the
SCSI drive? I have 10-50 MB I could give-up on the Win95 disk.
Boot from floppy when I want Linux running from SCSI hard drive?
Install a boot manager?
Which one? Any risks to my Win95 disk? Free?
Thanks in advance for your help/suggestions!
-John
PS: Please save the "Why keep 95 at all?" comments for another time. I
agree. Once I verify Linux works with ALL my hardware and teach my wife
Linux basics, I may ditch 95 altogeather.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Driver for Epson Stylus Color 740
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 05:36:31 GMT
This may be a duplicate post but. . .
WE HAVE IDENTICAL KERNAL, GHOASTSCRIPT & APSFILTER.
I ran your command
lpr -Pstc740p.upp-ascii /etc/hosts
And it worked fine.
I'm guessing maybe you didn't change In /etc/printcap
the device /dev/lp1 to /dev/lp0.
Check the Suse Support Database for the printer check list.
Also you still need to load stc740ih.upp and stc740pl.upp for the high
resolution stuff.
Hang in there, I worked about a month on this : )
You will get it!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Falk Brettschneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> thanks for your help. It=B4s all very complicated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > =
>
> > Send a thank-you to:DEPontius at usa.net he figured out the
Ghostscript=
>
> Unfortunatelly I can=B4t because I still doesn=B4t work. I did all the
st=
> eps
> you wrote about and also I=B4ve got 4 printers now:
> stc740p.upp-ascii
> stc740p.upp
> stc740p.upp-mono
> stc740p.upp-raw
>
> I tried:
> lpr -Pstc740p.upp-ascii /etc/hosts
> and from xv:
> lpr -Pstc740p.upp
>
> but for both of the calls I get this (when I check with lpc status):
> stc740p.upp-ascii:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 1 entry in spool area
> waiting for stc740p.upp-ascii to become ready (offline?)
> stc740p.upp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 1 entry in spool area
> waiting for stc740p.upp to become ready (offline?)
>
> The printer says nothing. No reaction. Only the green power LED is on.
> Paper is also filled in.
>
> Do you=B4ve got any idea?
>
> PS: I=B4ve installed on SuSE 6.1 Kernel 2.2.5 this:
> Ghostscript 5.50-3 (libc5)
> apsfilter 1.5.SuSE-20
>
> -- =
>
> Ciao,
> --Falk
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Alex Lam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best dual cpu board for Linux recommandation needed. Thx.
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:22:54 -0700
wizard wrote:
>
> Alex Lam wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I am building a server, want some recommendations on dual cpu
> > board,
> > scsi adapter and cd-rw. Stability and speed are the #1 concerns, no
> > over-clocking.
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Alex Lam.
>
> Alex;
>
> Probally the best deal goning these days if you want a P2 capable board
> with a BX chipset is the ASUS P2B series. Yes this board is liked by
> overclockers but you don't have to use it that way. I think its fair
> to say that there are very few boards on the market, if any, as stable
> as this one. The board also has a fairly nice BIOS.
>
> Its just to bad that intels product line is wavering all over the
> place. It would be nice to know that we will have an upgrade to slip
> in the SLOT-1 slot a year or two down the road.
>
> The only thing you might want to consider is a board based on the GX
> series chipsets. But you will have to evaluate weather they are worth
> the money. Personally I would look at a Alpha systems if a dual P2
> machine is not going to be enough.
>
> Best of luck
> dave
Thanks for all the tips and info. I think an Alpha box will be overkill
for what I've in mind.
Thanks.
Alex Lam.
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From: Joceli Mayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD k6-3 compatible main board
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 16:03:37 -0700
Rolston Jeremiah wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I need to build a system immediately with AMD k6-3 CPU. Will someone
> please suggest a main board/chip set to buy.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Rjae
> send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
FIC 503+
ASUS P5A-B
check asus and fic web sites for technical details
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,comp.periphs.printers,linux.redhat.misc,redhat.general
Subject: Re: help - printing problems
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 17:37:09 -0500
darrin wrote:
>
> lpr: connect: Connection refused
> jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
> i get the above error when i try to print to our remote printer using redhat
> linux 5.2 kernel 2.2.3
I would start investigating on the print server, not the client. Check
to make sure that you still have access to the server. In particular,
ensure that the DNS is up and running and that your address is still
registered.
.../Ed
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From: Tom Elsesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Add 2nd vfat IDE to linux box
Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 19:34:22 -0400
Hi,
I dual boot with lilo between win98 and Mandrake linux. Lilo resides on
/dev/hda1(WD 6.4 IDE), and linux is run from /dev/sda1 (WD 4.2 scsi). I
have a 4.3gig IDE that has win progs on it which I want to install,
however lilo will not get past "li"if I have the 2nd IDE drive hooked
up. How can I reconfigure Lilo to"see" the 2nd IDE and not stall ?
Thanks,
--
Tom
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From: "Dave O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Second SCSI drive, can't "mke2fs"?
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 18:33:01 -0500
Hi all, I'm probably missing something (aside from the grey matter), but..
I installed a second Seagate ST34371 in my computer - same model as the one
I'm already using with no problems. I go in and "fdisk" it, writing a Sun
disklabel to it, but when I actually try to create a file system, I get a
"device not configured when trying to determine filesystem size" error.
The drives both are noted as being present in /var/log/dmesg, but that's
about as far as I'm getting.
Can anyone suggest what I might be doing wrong?
(Red Hat 6.0, Compaq hardware, AdaptecAHA-2940 adapter..)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: APM: Halt crashes when trying to poweroff.
Date: 4 Jul 1999 18:52:15 GMT
> When I issue the halt command, when it gets to the point that the rc
> script runs and issues halt -p, the machine crashes and I get a screen
> full of errors. It begins like this:
> General Fault Protection
> CPU:0 and then I get a bunch of values inside of brackets.
I guess you have a AOpen AX59Pro mainboard. It's a known BIOS bug.
Unfortunately the guys of AOpen don't want to give this a high scedule. Try to
contact them and complain.
Good luck,
Kili
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From: "J. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: support for soundblaster pci 512?...
Date: Sun, 4 Jul 1999 19:02:11 -0500
does linux support this sound card? if so, is it a good one? and worth
getting?
thanks, jimmy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Moumtaiz NASSER)
Subject: mouse problems
Date: 5 Jul 1999 00:05:54 GMT
i have just installed Linux and everything want as planned however i do not
have any control over my mouse it just sits in the middle of the screen. I
have a microsoft mouse (serial). Can anyone help i don't know what to do
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list
Date: 29 Jun 1999 10:16:20 +0200
I am currently creting a list of linux users interested in scsi-idle system
to be added to the kernel scsi driver.
Please email me if you want to be added to a mailing-list which will be
used to convince the kernel scsi drivers conceptors to add scsi-idle
functionnality to the scsi kernel drivers as a choice in the kernel config.
You can email me at both following email addresses :
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thank you
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive Problems -- Kernel Panic: scsi_free
Date: 29 Jun 1999 08:51:42 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hello,
> I've been having a lot of trouble lately with my SCSI hard
> drives and haven't been able to find a good
> explanation or any help for my problem. If anyone knows a good website
> I can check for information please let me know. Please e-mail me a
> reply as well as posting here.
>
> The system is a RedHat 6.0 which was upgrade from a RedHat 5.2.
> The problem exibited itself under 5.2. Part of the hope of upgrading
> was to fix the problem. The kernel is 2.2.5-22
>
> The problem as best I can tell is with the second hard drive (id
> 1). The whole computer freezes while
> this is happening. A few times I have been able to switch to the
> virtual console and have seen text similar to the following log. Most
> of the time the computer freezes before I get a chance to see the
> output. Sometimes it is able to recover from the problem, sometimes
> not. I have gone a week or two without seeing the problem, other times
> it happens 2 or three times a night. In general it appears to happen
> when Netscape is running & clearing the cache or doing some other file
> intensive operation. I've also seen it when moving large numbers of
> files.
>
> Here is the log of the problem:
>
> Jun 28 00:38:26 tbowditch kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout
>: pid 52739, scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Write (6) 00 00 41 04 00
> Jun 28 00:38:26 tbowditch kernel: scsi0: Aborting CCB #52743 to Target 1
>
> If anyone can help I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm near at my wits end
> trying to figure out what is going on.
> I don't know if the Hard Drive is just plain bad and should be replaced,
> if a kernel upgrade would help, or if there is something else I should
> be doing altogether.
>
> If there is any other information I can provide, please let me know, I'd
> really like to get this fixed.
>
>
> Please reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Timeout problems in SCSI stuff are often due to too long cabling. Try to
shorten your cables in the SCSI chain.
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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