Linux-Hardware Digest #214, Volume #11 Thu, 9 Sep 99 06:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL! (David Cooley)
Re: hd not recognised by linux? ("Bill Wooldridge")
Re: Anyone got a Umax Astra 1220S working? ("f.g.a.m.wouters")
Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world (David M. Cook)
Soundblaster Live - Wrong kernal version (Darren)
Re: G400 + Mesa / OpenGL ("Bobby D. Bryant")
Re: Sound Blaster Live (Value) ("Computers4You")
Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux? ("Computers4You")
Re: Caldera 2.2 and Logitech First Mouse + (w/ Wheel) and MS Wheel Mouse ("Andrei")
Re: Please help experts!!! : My HDs are gone after changing the Slave to (Michael
Powers)
Re: Tecra 520CDT and IrDA (Ricardo Martins)
Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS ("Gary Fenstermacher")
Re: Orb Drives (Gerard Schlundt)
Re: Sound Blaster Live (Value) (Me Here)
Sound: PCI sound card problems... ("Alligator")
CD ROM et extraction audio-numerique ("Casimir")
Re: UDMA problem? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
OSS/Laptop/Maestro: Suspend troubles (Bjoern Giesler)
Video card issue ("Susheel Yadav")
Re: Sound card suggestions ("Computers4You")
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL!
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:39:24 -0400
You need to search the web for AVA1502 and LINUX. There is a page out
there dedicated to getting it running. I was going to, but got a
different card.
David Nejdl wrote:
>
> I just got an internal scsi zip drive with the adaptec AVA-1502 scsi
> controler(zip zoom). I didn't get any manuals or anything with it. I
> reconfigured my kernel to include scsi, scsi disk support and the aha152x
> driver. Then I went into windows nt to try and find out the irq and I/O
> port. It always says the I/O range is 140-015f (0x140 I assume) and the IRQ
> is 11. SO I said "great" and "that was so easy." I entered the boot
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From: "Bill Wooldridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hd not recognised by linux?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 02:07:24 -0500
I am having a similar problem...but I am only at the install stage. I would
like to install Red Hat 6.0 on my system with the following IDE drive
configuration:
1. Primary Master hard drive (Quantum 12Gig Big Foot TX)
2. Primary Slave Toshiba CD-ROM
3. Secondary Master LS120 ultra high density floppy
4. Secondary Slave Quantum 2.5 Gig hard drive
I can boot from the CD-ROM and start installation, but the druid can only
see the first hard drive. Same for fdisk from the CD-ROM.
Do I need to configure the system so that the hard drives are both masters?
Anyone know the ins and outs of configuring a system like this?
Many thanks,
Bill Wooldridge
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
> I have a problem with my secondary harddisk Western-Digital 31600
> (1.6GB).
> My ide-system:
> 1. master: Seagate HD
> 1. slave: Toshiba CD-ROM
> 2. master: Ricoh 7040 CD-R/RW
> 2. slave: Western-Digital 31600 HD
> Everytime I start my PC, the bios sets the second HD to CHS, mode 0
> instead of LBA, mode 4. If I do a reboot, the HD is set to LBA, mode 4
> correctly.
>
> If I start linux (with loadlin) from DOS the HD (dev/hdd) is recognised
> and everything works fine. But if I start linux from windows98 (where
> the secondary HD works) the HD is not recognised at all. It's not listed
> in the startup messages and it's not possible to mount it manually
> (illigal block device error). If I shutdown and restart the system then
> the PC stops at the bios after recognising the secondary HD. Only after
> a cold start the system starts correctly again.
> Any ideas what's going on???
>
> Ralf
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From: "f.g.a.m.wouters" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Anyone got a Umax Astra 1220S working?
Date: 9 Sep 1999 06:39:22 GMT
I am also trying to get a UMAX 1220S to work, and I have a Tekram DC390 in
my system.
Michael Meissner wrote about a DB50 to DB25 cable. Is this an official
cable or do i have to "bake" it myself ?
I asked several shops but nobody knows something about such a cable.
What is the solution ??????????
Frans Wouters.
Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in artikel
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> > In article <7q9d2q$g90$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > "Scott Simpson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > Umax Astra 1220S flatbed model.
> > >
> > > I have this one working on Redhat 5.2 (2.0.36 kernel) but I'm not
using the
> > > crappy SCSI card that came with the scanner.
> > >
> >
> > Don't scare me, the SCSI card is much of the reason I'm buying this
model,
> > but I could still return it. What's so crappy about the included SCSI
card?
> > UMAX support has not replied to my query about system requirements
allowing
> > my 486-50, so that had been until now, my only reason for returning it.
> > Though I'd LOVE to get a negative/slide scanner for this kind of price
($170
> > Cdn).
>
> There is no Linux support for that particular card. This is true of most
if
> not all of the controllers provided with scsi scanners IIRC. I have mine
> hooked up to a TekRam DC-390U. You also need to get a DB50 (or DB68
depending
> on the scsi controller you get) to DB25 cable as the 1220S only comes
with the
> 25 pin connector. Note for scsi controllers with 68 pin external
connections,
> you need to have proper termination of the upper bits in your converter
cable.
> Whether something cheaper like a TekRam DC-390 (without suffix) or an
Adaptec
> 29{1,2,3}0 would do, I dunno. A TekRam DC-310 (uses the older 53C810A
chipset)
> should work if you can find it (price watch listed it for $35) as long as
you
> don't need to boot from it.
>
> --
> Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
> PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
> email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David M. Cook)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Q? - best combo of linux distrib and apps for 3rd world
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 07:30:14 GMT
On Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:00:17 GMT, Allan L. Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>- Reasonable performance on 486-33, 16 MB Ram, <400 MB HD.
>- All software free.
>- apps appropriate for NON-Technical end users need to do wordprocessing,
WordPerfect 8 might run OK on that machine with judicious choice of window
manager (no GNOME or KDE). Note that the free version of WP8 is not the
full version.
But frankly I don't think this is realistic hardware (I've never used X on
anything less than a 486/66 with 32MB RAM.). The above machine would
be a good X terminal, though.
Linux runs well on 486s, but not, unfortunately, when they are encumbered by
lots of fat GUI office software.
I suggest a Pentium class machine with 64MB RAM for "modern" (i.e. bloated)
office software.
Star Office may do OK on a Pentium with LOTS of RAM.
The other issue is HD space. I think you're going to have a hard time
squeezing what you need into 400MB.
>spreadsheet, email, web browsing, and callandering.
>- apps not dead (ie: old versions with no future or new development)
I wouldn't want to run Netscape 4.x in anything under 32MB RAM. And I haven't
tried to run it on a 486. I'd probably want to back off to Netscape 3, but
that's not being maintained.
Dave Cook
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From: Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Soundblaster Live - Wrong kernal version
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 00:44:31 -0700
Hello, I'm hoping someone can quickly explain how I can get past this
problem I'm having with getting my SB Live running.
When I do "insmod emu10k1", I get the following message:
root@cosmo2k:/home/darren > insmod emu10k1
Using /lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/emu10k1.o
/lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/emu10k1.o: kernel-module version mismatch
/lib/modules/2.2.5/misc/emu10k1.o was compiled for kernel
version 2.2.5-15
while this kernel is version 2.2.5.
root@cosmo2k:/home/darren >
I'm running kernal 2.2.7. Do I need to install 2.2.5 or is there a way
aroung that?
Regards,
Darren
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From: "Bobby D. Bryant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: G400 + Mesa / OpenGL
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:37:55 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <7on1an$663$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Jeff Brubaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Yes, it exists right now but is in active development. In other
> words,
> > it's not even alpha yet. BUT, it does work. They're finalizing GART
>
> How do they handle GART in X server?
> It's page table stuff and CPU page table and GART have to be in sync.
> Is it possible to do that in X server or would be there OS patches?
There's a kernel patch. They've been discussing (on the developers' list)
what other options are available, because they don't want to require people
to rebuild the kernel when installing the software, but I don't think
they've hit one anything yet.
You can follow the discussion at
http://lists.openprojects.net/pipermail/glx-dev/.
Bobby Bryant
Austin, Texas
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From: "Computers4You" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live (Value)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:31:38 +0200
Steven Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
ZtHB3.1709$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> How do I get the SB Live to work in linux? Is it simular to the SB16?
>
> Thanx in advance..Stevo.
>
>
Linux drivers for the SB live can be found at the Creative's SoundBlaster
website and remember www.deja.com is your best friend :-)
Wally
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From: "Computers4You" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: good 100Mb/s NIC for Linux?
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:38:22 +0200
chris stegmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I have used d-link cards in the past and have had
> quite a bit of success with them, both 10 base-t
> and 10/100.
I am using A Macronix MX987xx series 10/100 card at the moment (Tulip
chipset) and it works like a dream. You might check the websote of your
linux distro and see if they have a hardware listing of supported cards. In
general the 3Com card will be supported but they tend to be expensive.
Wally
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From: "Andrei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Caldera 2.2 and Logitech First Mouse + (w/ Wheel) and MS Wheel Mouse
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 18:14:59 +1000
I have exactly the same problem.
Could anyone with a solution please send it to me as well?
Andrei
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs,comp.ibm.pc.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup
Subject: Re: Please help experts!!! : My HDs are gone after changing the Slave to
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 1999 13:07:22 -0500
Your information is a little sketchy. Was the BIOS set to auto or were
drive specifications set in the CMOS? Were you using any overlay program
either for both drives or the large one? Did the large drive have a
primary
partition specified or was it all extended? Even if it had a primary
partition
was it set active? Did you try booting from a floppy and then see if you
could
find the drive? Could you have bumped something else? Is there power to
the
drive(s)? Does either drive have different settings for primary and
primary
with slave present??
blunzerl wrote:
> guys i really need some help!
>
> Had a small HD as master and a (bigger,newer) one as Slave. BIOS
> detected both without a glitch! After I had removed the master and
> jumpered the former slave as master - the BIOS couldnt detect it!
> Neither could i go back to the old setup - the BIOS now doesnt detect
> any HD!!!!!!!!
> int 13h returns code 80h ("drive failed to respond") - no matter how i
> jumper master/slave , only a master etc. NO the cables are connected
> correctly ;=)
>
> Do I have to reset the CMOS ram ? how could I accomplish this task
> easily without making the situation even worse? Why the hell isnt the
> BIOS detecting the change????????? I would like the BIOS to start from
> scratch - I dont care about data loss (backups) - i want my harddisks
> back!!!!!!!! at least the bigger one .......
>
> Please help me out! reply here or to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> thanx a lot,
> Phil
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Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:23:54 +0100
From: Ricardo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Tecra 520CDT and IrDA
Walter Hofmann wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm having trouble with my Tecra 520CDT laptop and its infrared port.
> I'm trying to get the infrared port running in SIR (standard infra red)
> mode. AFAIK the port is supposed to show up as an serial port,
> i.e. /dev/ttyS1, as /dev/ttyS0 is the ordinary serial port.
> But it's not there! The BIOS (version 6.70) shows only the ordinary serial
> port (at 0x03f8 irq 4), and the linux serial driver only detects a single
> port, too.
> What is wrong? How can I activate the port?
>
> Walter
Hello,
Like other's Toshiba i think the best way is to install win$98 , setup
de infrared port (control panel-> system -> show devices by conection->
thoshiba SIR->properties->default config 2-> ok-> do the same again to
config 1 (so it can save the configuration) take note of the values...
instal Linux over win$ put the values On the necessarie configuration
files...
hope it helps..
RICARDO
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From: "Gary Fenstermacher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.be.advocacy
Subject: Re: Hardware support: Linux vs. BeOS
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 03:32:23 -0400
Marco Nelissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7r5989$q7c$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In comp.sys.be.advocacy Gary Fenstermacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > You know, I've been doing the computer thing for over a decade now.
>
> And you've been trolling all that time, I'm sure...
Aside from flamebaiting back when we all had one-line, dial up BBSes, no.
--
http://www.infotainment.org
Return I will, to old Brazil.
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From: Gerard Schlundt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Orb Drives
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 22:44:06 -0500
I've never used the orbs, but with IOMEGA you must mount /dev/hdc4 (Whatever
the device is -- partition 4) otherwise it won't work....
I do have an orb I've been evaluating...very nice, but the feel a little
cheap. I definately do not like the parallel drive. I think mine is
defective, and I've not been able to get a tech support call in successfully
in over 3 weeks. Busy signals only :(
-Gerry
"David C." wrote:
> Jason Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > My college just started installing 2.22 Gig Removable media Orb
> > Drives. Has anyone tried these under Linux? I assume the function as
> > a normal hard drive or as a zip or a jaz, but I've no experience with
> > any of the above. As far as cost effectiveness goes, though, the
> > drives can be had for under $200 off of www.pricewatch.com and the
> > disks are around $30 each. For my mind, if these drives work under
> > Linux, they would be the ideal dual-boot option as you would have your
> > complete OS on a disk and booting a different OS would be as simple as
> > swapping cartridges.
>
> I don't own one, but I would be surprised if they don't work.
>
> There is a standard specification for removable media drives on both
> SCSI and IDE/ATAPI interfaces. If the drive conforms to the spec
> corresponding to its interface, it should work fine.
>
> If it's a parallel-port drive, I have no idea.
>
> As for use as a dual-boot facility, that's always an interesting idea,
> but with one problem. If you boot off of the removable media, you won't
> be able to eject it without shutting down first. This may limit much of
> the drive's utility. (Of course, you could make a strip-down install
> that creates a RAM disk and boots from that. That's how floppy-boot
> installations usually work. But you probably want a full installation
> on your system disk.)
>
> -- David
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From: Me Here <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live (Value)
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 02:42:34 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steven Lewis wrote:
>
> How do I get the SB Live to work in linux? Is it simular to the SB16?
>
> Thanx in advance..Stevo.
Get the beta driver from Creative:
http://support.soundblaster.com/files/download.asp?OS=Beta&prod=sblive
download the emu10k1 driver. Untar it and read the docs. There are
fairly simple instructions for installing it.
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From: "Alligator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound: PCI sound card problems...
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 00:31:54 +0100
Hi All,
As a beginner with linux having lots of troubles. so far solved things
myself but stuck dead with soundcard :(((
using Linux Mandrake 6.0
I've got Aztech PCI 338-3D ...
Ran redhat sndconfig but my card is not there. tried to set up
soundblaster from the list provided in there but no success.
Now actually I've got 2 problems.
1) during the boot I'm getting failure messages when the system tries to
initialize soubdblaster.
How do I remove those annoying failure mesasges? hod do I tell the
system that I don't have soundcard? where does the system store the current
soundcard info? I've tried to find the file that is referring to sb.o but
couldn't :((( what am I doing wrong?
2) Well, I still would love to have sound working :)))
Is there a driver for this card? Couldn't find anything in ALISA &
honestly not quite sure how to install/use that thing :((( If no then what's
the choice? I mean what would be a good sound card to buy? ( like the one
that can be configured easily & there's a driver for it?)
Any help will be greatly appreciated ;))))
--
Have Fun,
Alligator
http://www.zvis.com
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From: "Casimir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD ROM et extraction audio-numerique
Date: 9 Sep 1999 08:58:27 GMT
Bonjour tous le monde !
Je voudrais savoir si quelqu'un pouvait me donner des r�f�rences de mod�les
de lecteurs de CD Rom ou de DVD Rom E-IDE qui supportent l'extraction
audio-numerique.
Je sais qu'il n'y a pas beaucoup de lecteurs de CD Rom E-IDE qui font �a,
mais je n'en sais rien pour les lecteurs de DVD Rom...
Je voudrais savoir �a pour pouvoir graver des CD audios � la vol�e.
Merci d'avance
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: UDMA problem?
Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 09:24:49 GMT
> BIOS does not know about this drive: I boot
from SCSI (four very fast
I had the same problem here. Try to included both
drives into your bios setup. I had a secondary
drive that was not included in the cmos settings
and it had trouble while accessing it with dma.
After putting the drive to cmos all went fine. I
you read the Ultra-DMA howto you will find some
information that linux need the bios to setup the
drive for ultra dma mode.
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Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Bjoern Giesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OSS/Laptop/Maestro: Suspend troubles
Date: 9 Sep 1999 09:38:32 GMT
Hi,
ARRGH. A while ago, I bought the OSS soundcard drivers with the Maestro
add-on for my laptop. Works like a charm (actually it doesn't; it kept
conflicting with my PCMCIA network adapter until I told both of them which
IRQ to use, and it still sometimes simply hangs the computer upon playing
the first sound since bootup; only power off wakes it).
The only real and recreatable problem remaining is that the computer hangs
upon waking from suspend mode (suspend-to-RAM) if and only if a sound has
been played since the last bootup. I.e.:
$OSSPATH/soundon
apm -s
=> works, but
$OSSPATH/soundon
$OSSPATH/play somesound
apm -s
=> hangs when waking up.
Has anybody seen this problem before? It's really annoying, as it makes my
box much less usable (or OSS completely unusable).
TIA,
--Bjoern
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From: "Susheel Yadav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video card issue
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 05:35:33 -0400
Hi,
I have installed RedHat Linux 6.0 on my computer with ATI Rage 128 VR AGP 2X
video card. Xfree86 does not support this chipset as of now. SueS (is that
right) Linux has a driver for this chipset. The question is that is there
really no way to get the card working with redhat linux?
Susheel
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From: "Computers4You" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound card suggestions
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 09:34:04 +0200
Mike Wellborn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
7r7062$jss$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi:
>
> I'm getting ready to go again with Linux (RH 6.0). After failing miserably
> with a much older version (I've got a PII with some newer hardware), I
think
> I'll be able to get everything to work, with the exception of the
soundcard.
> I have a Diamond Monster Sound (PCI), and I know that Linux is quirky with
I am not sure if the monster sound (1) is supported, the MX-300 isn't (yet).
So for the time being use the SB 16 PnP which should work like a dream (use
pnpdump en isapnptools to config the lot). HOWTO's can be found on any
decent distro of linux or on the net. Remember www.deja.com is your best
friend :-)
Wally
> PnP sound cards. I also have access to SB16 pnp, and a "Mad" 16 bit card.
> Any suggestions with the Diamond, or should I just stick with the older
> sound cards which should install okay in RH?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --Mike
>
>
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