Linux-Hardware Digest #65, Volume #11 Sat, 21 Aug 99 12:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: BJC-5000 Printer (Darryl Bryant)
Re: CMI8330 Not loading in Slackware 4.0 (Tim Izod)
Re: Acer CDRW 6206 : problems at boot ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LS-120 Probs (John McKown)
Re: Linux file-size limit? (Jon Bloom)
Installing Suse 6.1 on NetRAID ("twuelfing")
SuSE 6.1 on LXPro too ("twuelfing")
TA or internal modem? ("Renji Panicker")
PCI modem supported by linux ? ("Siu Pak")
any rpm file for Asus 3400 TNT ?? ("Siu Pak")
Re: PAS16: how?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problems using Soundblaster 64 AWE in RH Linux 6.0 (A Solution!) (LhD
Administrator)
13.6G 7200RPM Ultra ATA hard drive with Ultra ATA 66 Controller ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need last word on AMD K6-2 ("Hank Marquardt")
Re: RH 6.0 Madge TR (LhD Administrator)
Re: NE2000 PCI installation problems... (LhD Administrator)
Re: Network Cards (LhD Administrator)
Re: fdisk & unallocated sectors ("Don Feliciano")
Re: S3 trio 3d AGP (Paul Cameron)
Re: HP7200e burning pb ("Tim Hall")
Re: intel NIC and matrox video (LhD Administrator)
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From: Darryl Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: BJC-5000 Printer
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 17:57:58 +1000
Paul Gigg wrote:
>
> Howdy,
>
> Anyone got this type of printer working in Linux ?
>
> Any suggestions on which filter I should be using ?
>
> PG
have a look here
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi?make=Canon&format=summary
the BJC-5000 is a Paperweight, no support in linux
dAz
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From: Tim Izod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CMI8330 Not loading in Slackware 4.0
Date: 21 Aug 1999 12:33:00 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I can not get the card to intizaalize.
> and when i do insmod sound it gives a bunch of charcter not recongized
> (the site for it dosnet describe how to do it) the card works in Redhat
> but not slackware
What drivers are you using and what eror mesages are you getting?
I'd go for the ALSA drivers; the 0.4 series has CMI8330 support.
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Tim.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Acer CDRW 6206 : problems at boot
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 11:46:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I have two hard drives on the IDE0 bus. The CDRW is the Master of the
: IDE1 bus with no slave drive. This is not a problem by itself because
: the CDRW works as a conventional CDROM once the system is booted.
: However, I also have a fast Acer CD-ROM that I want to use as the slave
: on IDE1. When I plug it in, the kernel gives the same error message and
: doesn't even recognize that the CDROM exists. When I try to mount the
: CD-ROM, I get the message:
I think someone already mentioned to recompile the kernel using SCSI
emulation. Also, ensure you've turned off the ATAPI/CDROM option as well.
Next, WHY would you want to use the CD-RW as a read-only device? Your
best bet is to make the faster CD (which I assume is not a CD-R/RW) your
master on IDE1 and the CD-R/RW as the slave on IDE1. This actually comes
straight from the Adaptec manual.
Otherwise, I'm not sure what your problem is. I actually had IDE3 working
(which is the IDE port on my Sound Blaster) with my old Toshiba 4x working
under Linux because I have three hard drives and the Acer CD-R/RW 6206A on
the first two IDE ports, so I know it has to work somehow.
Ensure you have the jumpers set correctly on both CD ROMs.
Good luck!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John McKown)
Subject: Re: LS-120 Probs
Date: 21 Aug 1999 12:26:20 GMT
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999 00:02:56 +0200, Steffen Sobiech
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi!
>
>My LS-120 parallel-port drive works basically fine with Linux,
>but everytime the computer accesses it the system cpu usage goes to
>100% and it nearly freezes up until the drive operation is completed.
>I think the problem has something to do with the parallel-port driver
>not working correctly, as it does not use the irq I assigned it.
For what it's worth, I have the same problem. I've tried all sorts of
"magic" to get the overhead down, but to no effect. So, I did the
usually "throw more hardware at it" and bought myself a dual processor
system. I haven't gotten that system yet (in transit), but I'll bet
that allows me to continue doing work while the silly driver soaks up
a CPU. I wanted a dual CPU system anyway, and this was just another
excuse to get it. Someday (yeah, sure) when I get the time, I think
that I'll look at the source and see if it even has the option to
use interrupts. It may be written strictly for polling the I/O port.
I'm not even sure which program to look at.
Oh, well, at least you know that you are not alone in this.
John
LATE BREAKING NEWS - I just found a parameter that you can put on
the insmod command. Have you tried using nice=1 or some other number
greater than 0? It appears that this is supposed to effect the overhead.
I just found this and have not really had a chance to see it if does
anything significant.
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From: Jon Bloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux file-size limit?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:20:46 -0400
Christopher Browne wrote:
>
> On Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:54:55 -0600, John Thompson
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Rather than backing up to another partition, you can backup
> >to a device that does not use a filesystem; eg, a tape
> >drive. Tar can handle multi-gigabyte archives on a tape
> >drive without size limitation problems beyond the physical
> >limitations of the media used.
>
> Have you tried this so as to verify the veracity of this claim?
>
> The *true* problem is that the data structure used to hold the pointer
> that indicates how far into an input stream you are is only 32 bits.
Which is important only if you need to keep such a pointer. Why would
tar need that? If it's counting anything, it would be blocks, which are
usually 10k or more in size.
Anyway, I've had no trouble using cpio to write and read a 4-GB archive
on tape. I imagine tar would be similar.
Jon
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Jon Bloom, KE3Z
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From: "twuelfing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Installing Suse 6.1 on NetRAID
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:08:00 +0200
Hi,
I try to install SuSE Linux 6.1 on a HP Netserver LH Pro with
NetRAID-SCSI-Controller, without access until now.
During the boot sequence the kernel does find the AIC 78xx and the six
Harddisks but he isn't able to connect to their logical partition.
(FDISK says that there an no volumes can be found)
Is there a documentation for installing linux on HP Netserver with NetRaid
available and where to find?
Thanks,
T.Wuelfing
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From: "twuelfing" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SuSE 6.1 on LXPro too
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:21:08 +0200
Hi,
Infos about HP Netserver LX Pro would be okay, too.
==================================================================
I try to install SuSE Linux 6.1 on a HP Netserver LH Pro with
NetRAID-SCSI-Controller, without access until now.
During the boot sequence the kernel does find the AIC 78xx and the six
Harddisks but he isn't able to connect to their logical partition.
(FDISK says that there an no volumes can be found)
Is there a documentation for installing linux on HP Netserver with NetRaid
available and where to find?
Thanks,
T.Wuelfing
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From: "Renji Panicker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TA or internal modem?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 18:01:47 +0530
Hi,
Could someone tell me what is the advantages and disadvantages of Terminal
Adaptors and Internal Modems, or direct me to a site where I can get this
comparision info? I am trying to decide between the two for company and
would appreciate any help I can get.. I am using Linux as my dial up client,
and as dialin server...
Thanks,
-/renji
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From: "Siu Pak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI modem supported by linux ?
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:44:58 +0800
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From: "Siu Pak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: any rpm file for Asus 3400 TNT ??
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 20:45:22 +0800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: PAS16: how??
Date: 16 Aug 1999 12:02:16 -0800
On 1999-06-24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
te>Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.
te>hardware,alt.os.linux.slackware
te>Carlos,
te>I have the same PAS16 card. The SCSI/CD rom portion was detected
te>during installation and is running just fine. The sound is not. I
te>tried all the settings combinations,and basically all I am getting
te>is this message: the following error ocurred while running
te>modprobe: "Init_module: device or resource busy". The module is
te>pas2.o, io=220, or 230 or 240 (I do not have 388 option on my card),
te>I tried all irq/dma settings. Any clue?
PMJI, but I edited /etc/conf.modules and forced the 388 into the entry
for my PAS16. It worked. Sorta. Sounds like it's underwater, very
faint and fluttery. Might be an IRQ conflict, too, since I have that
set to 11, and even though my CD-ROM uses IRQ10 (Mitsumi 2X with
proprietary interface), Linux is expecting the CD-ROM to use IRQ11 for
some weird reason. And, don't bother looking up MediaVision on the Web.
They have no web page, and about all you'll find are complaints about
their lousy technical support, if it even exists at all anymore.
te>How are you approaching SB emulation? How are you loading the sb
te>module? Do I need to force the "native PAS" option address to 388?
te>thanks
te>Piotr
te>Carlos Wexler wrote:
te>> Hi,
te>> I have a PAS16 sound+scsi card. This card has two sound channels
te>>(one is an 8 bit sb-type channel and the other is a 16 bit
te>>"native" channel) and one scsi adapter.
te>> I used to have this card running under slackware 3.6 using the
te>>following config: ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
te>> scsi: pas16 io=0x388 irq=10
te>> native sound: pas2 io=0x388 irq=12 dma=7
te>> sb emul: sb io=0x220 irq=9 dma=1
te>> (swaps irq's of the first two lines and different io of the sb)
te>> I could never, however, get the sb portion of the card working...
te>Piotr Edelman
te>SDI West
Tom Rutherford
Net-Tamer V 1.11.2 - Test Drive
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems using Soundblaster 64 AWE in RH Linux 6.0 (A Solution!)
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:30:53 GMT
Prasanth Kumar wrote:
> I finally figured out how to get my SB 64 to work in RH Linux 6.0. The
> solution may help others out...
This is the most coherent explanation of how to get it working under
RedHat we've seen! There are similar hints at
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?35
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?36
(for SB AWE64 Value & Gold).
If you ever get the chance to add this post as a "workaround" to LhD, that
would be much appreciated.
LhD Administrator
LhD: Linux Hardware Database
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: 13.6G 7200RPM Ultra ATA hard drive with Ultra ATA 66 Controller
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 13:36:08 GMT
I just bought Gateway compuetr with 13.6G 7200RPM
Ultra ATA hard drive with Ultra ATA 66
Controller. The machine already has windos 98.
While installing Linux, the installer was not
able to see the filesys. The hard drive is
originally not partitioned. Only C drive exist
in Windos 98.
Does any one know the problem?
Thanks ahead for any responce.
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From: "Hank Marquardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need last word on AMD K6-2
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 08:57:31 -0500
I've got a K6 233 running RH 5.2 that absolutely positively refuses to boot
from the 6.0 boot disk or upgraded images. It hangs in the section that
initializes the ram disks. On the box set boot disk it panics and hangs.
With the updated images it's a little more graceful saying it can't mount
the ram disk "and this shouldn't happen ... shutting down"
Now this is a local brew box ... there is some mention of motherboard and or
BIOS combinations that work on the RH site, but they don't enumerate what
they are.
Hank
stephen chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello:
>
> Ok, I've read a ton of postings on K6-2 running Linux.
> Some people say they are solid and others have had
> problems. I am about to setup a server soon. Is the
> K6-2 a good choice? Will it hold up well under heavy
> use 24X7?
>
> Thanks
> Stephen
>
>
>
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 6.0 Madge TR
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:31:04 GMT
sforgosh wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the released Madge drivers to work with RedHat 6.0? I
> tried the easy install but got an error that it was compiled for 2.2.5
> and my kernel is 2.2.5-15. Then I tried to compile the source but had
You could always live dangerously and try "insmod -f" (man insmod) to
ignore version info. As a start...
LhD Administrator
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: NE2000 PCI installation problems...
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:31:00 GMT
Konstantin Gonikman wrote:
> Should I change the IRQ for this card in the BIOS? But how?
> Can you help me please?
Enter CMOS/BIOS setup at boot and poke around the menus, specifically
advanced options related to interrupts, configuration, Plug-n-Play, etc.
LhD Administrator
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Network Cards
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:30:53 GMT
Geoff wrote:
>
> Can anyone tell me how to setup a NE2000 Compatable network card on
linux?
PCI or ISA? Use "ne.o" or "ne2k-pci.o" modules.
It should work well. An example card in LhD would be
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?396
but yours is likely a little different.
LhD Administrator
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From: "Don Feliciano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: fdisk & unallocated sectors
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:14:38 -0400
That worked... thanks!
J. Scott Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7pjjqk$a14$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Don Feliciano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I used Norton Ghost to make an image of my Slackware 4.0 partitions at
> >work, and put them on a new drive I have at home. (Ghost works just
> >like dd, I think). This worked well, and after adjusting /etc/fstab
> >and compiling a custom kernel, evrything works great... almost
> >everything, anyway.
> >
> >There are only 2 partitions set up - / and /boot. On the original
> >(source) PC, the / partition is 1.4 GIG, and the /boot partition is 16
> >MB. On the new (target) PC, I used Linux's fdisk to make a 20 MB
> >partition and a 3 GIG partition. I then used Ghost to import my
> >images. Now df reports that / is 1.4 GIG. Linux fdisk shows that the
> >partition is really 3 GIG, but a verification tells me that there are
> >8311 unallocated sectors.
>
> Here's what happened: you copied the raw image of the filesystem, and
> the filesystem is what contains the information about how big it is.
> Even though you have a 3G partition, you have a 1.4G filesystem in
> there, and so the rest of the partition is just unused.
>
> You need to create a new filesystem using mke2fs (on the new HD), then
> use cpio/tar to create a backup of your original files onto whatever
> your intermediate medium is and then back onto the new filesystem.
>
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From: Paul Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: S3 trio 3d AGP
Date: Sun, 22 Aug 1999 00:55:19 +1000
Wayne Morgan wrote:
>
> Paul U Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > ENTERforNone wrote:
> > >
> > > Rob Youl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > Is there an X server for this card apart from XF86_VGA16???
> > >
> > > Try the S3 server. I think the SVGA server also has S3 drivers.
> > >
> > > --
> > > enterfornone - insert clever comment here
> > > http://www.enterfornone.com/
> > Unfortunately the S3 drivers dont work for this card. I ended up
> > changing to an intel 740 card as I didnt have time to get it up. Since
> > then the latest Xfree86 using the frame buffer driver provide support.
> >
> > --
> > Paul U Cameron
>
> Does the latest version of Xfree86 support the S3 Savage3D using this "frame
> buffer" driver as well? In more tham 16 colours?
>
> Wayne
I beleive so. Check out the HOWTos and documentation but any VESA
compatible card should be supported at high resolution and colour depth
using the Frame buffer drivers. Some months ago I installing the
unsupported S3 3D AGP card and got to the point of having the frame
buffering set up for console mode but ran out of time before I managed
to get the clocks sorted out for the X server. I was using the RPM
binaries.
The documentation is probably a bit better now but you may have to spend
some time reading the documentation and may have to compile the frame
buffering. You will need the 2.2 kernel and at least XFree86 3.3.3
Good luck.
Paul Cameron
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From: "Tim Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP7200e burning pb
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:53:02 -0400
David <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi all,
>
> I periodicly use a HP7200e and i don't want to built drivers in the
> kernel. So every time i want to use it, i use the commands above:
>
> insmod parport
> insmod paride
> insmod epat
> insmod pcd
> insmod pg
>
> The first time i install linux i use mkd to create the corresponding
> devices (pcd0 and pg0).
>
> My first pb is that i don't know how to configure my parallel port in
> EPP mode with delay 0.
> My second is when i use cdrecord it starts the burning process but stop
> rapidly with strange scsi error (but what i don't understand is that it
> fixate th CD without any error )
>
> To burn CD's i use Cdrtoaster (or gcombust seems to recognize the HP
> too) on Mandrake 6.
>
> Any help would be really appreciate.
>
> David
I just got a HP 7500e working on my machine. Can you give the cdrecord
command line that you are using ?
What is the exact error message you get ?
-Tim
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From: LhD Administrator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: intel NIC and matrox video
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:31:04 GMT
benjamin j snyder wrote:
[..]
> I've booted from a DOS floppy and ran the diag tool provided by Intel
and it
> says the card is fine, but if I let windows load any dirvers it tells me
there
> were recourses not allocated.
What does Linux say when booting? Cable, link integrity, other info?
Also, have you tried power-cycling the box before booting from Windows
into Linux? Not usually a problem for Intel cards, but sometimes helps
with newer 3Com's.
People who rated the card in LhD really like it
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?13
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