Linux-Hardware Digest #256, Volume #11 Wed, 15 Sep 99 03:13:28 EDT
Contents:
Can a Linux Expert Answer This?? (Luckydaze1)
Help with hardware, PLEASE!! ("Robert Kaylor")
Re: Linux box set up without modem or cd rom, only ethernet ("Andrew J. Norman")
Second hard drive (Mark Stankus)
SB-16 SCSI interface (Jake Marble)
Bttv drivers won' work (Ron Venema)
Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 <<<---- X SERVER RELEASED FOR ("David
St.Clair")
Re: 2 soundcards (Mark Shadley)
Re: AMD K6-2 (Scott Alfter)
Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !! ("Dan Price")
Re: Lilo problems (Prashant Meswani)
modem setup...HELP!!! ("ZeroRex")
Re: [A] Trackman Marble FX (Henrik Becker)
Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL! (Jake Marble)
TV Capture and Rage 128 All-in-Wonder (Justin)
Re: Easy Modem Question (Scott Alfter)
help with ghostscript / nec 870 ("Kirk R. Wythers")
xawtv (Berco van Gool)
Re: PCI Caching IDE controller (none)
Re: Full System Crash under X (RH 6) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1)
Subject: Can a Linux Expert Answer This??
Date: 15 Sep 1999 04:14:11 GMT
When I use the CD player in Suse 6.2 to play a music Cd, it uses my CDRW which
is dev/hdc. I want the player to default to my CD Rom drive which is hdd.
How do I do this? Please remember I'm a newbie to this. Thank you.
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From: "Robert Kaylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help with hardware, PLEASE!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 04:19:41 GMT
I just installed redhat 6.0 and I am very much a newbie to Linux. It seems
to be working just fine but I cant seem to figure out how to set up my
modem, sound card, or my zip drive. All of which are very common brands and
models, so I know linux must support them!! Can someone give me a little
insight or direct me to some documentation on this matter. I'de really
appreciate it!! Thanks
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From: "Andrew J. Norman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux box set up without modem or cd rom, only ethernet
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 03:44:11 GMT
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First establish a network connection between the dos box and the world (or
your other machine) an verify your setup. Now if you have a floppy drive
you can boot the install program (say one of the RedHat version) and from
there prepare for one of the network install procedures. Your options
will typically be any of the following (depending on vendor) FTP, NFS,
SMB (samba). At this point you either need to have your Win98 box
available to share out it's disk (meaning either the cdrom or harddisk
where your install files are located) or you need to connect to an host
that is willing to export an NFS image of the install directories. As a
final option you can connect to a host in the real world using FTP and
perform the installation this way (only recommending if you have a good
network connection)
See the install chapters of your distribution as all of these detail the
process.
Andrew J. Norman
______________________________________________________________
Dept. of Physics Phone: 757-221-3571
College of William & Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Blacka wrote:
> Hi, I currently have a windows 98 machine, and a pent 90 with DOS. I was
> wondering if it was possible to install linux on the DOS computer through a
> network. Does the network have to be set up first? The hub and all the other
> stuff are set up, but stuff like samba are not in place since linux isnt
> installed yet.
>
> My question : How do I install linux on a pentium 90 computer which has no
> modem, and no cd-rom, it only has a network card. Please help me.
>
> Orrin Jolly
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Stankus)
Subject: Second hard drive
Date: 15 Sep 1999 03:39:44 GMT
Hi,
I have a dell dimensions machine. Can Linux recognize two hard drives?
Mark Stankus
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:49:39 -0600
From: Jake Marble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB-16 SCSI interface
Hey, just a (theoretically) simple question.
I'm building up a simple RH 6.0 box to run KDE, StarOffice, Netscape,
MP3 stuff, etc.
I have a CD-R drive that I currently run off a SoundBlaster 16 w/ SCSI
interface in Win95 B. SB-16 SCSI == AHA-1502, right? I couldn't get it
to work the last time I tried (in Slackware 3.6), which is why I ask.
Hey, thanks in advance,
Jake Marble
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From: Ron Venema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Bttv drivers won' work
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:00:51 -0700
Hi all, I'm having a problem getting my TurboTV card working.
Forgive my ignorance as I'm still trying to understand the concept of
loading modules.
I am running RedHat 6.0 with most of the upgrades.
First I recompiled my kernel to include modular support for bttv
drivers. The system is not loading them however.
I also included pci and pnp support. I know that that part works because
I had a sb live sound card installed and it worked (sort of, went back
to awe64).
I then did a depmod -a and checked the modules.dep file and they were
listed.
When I do a insmod bttv.o I get the following errors:
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_unregister_bus
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol
video_register_device
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol
video_unregister_device
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_register_bus
/lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/bttv.o: unresolved symbol i2c_control_device
I don't understand why make modules would not have croaked when I
recompiled the kernel?
I even dl'ed the latest bttv drivers and compiled and installed them, no
difference.
When I try to run xawtv I get the following error:
This is xawtv-2.40, running on Linux/i686 (2.2.5-15)
DGA: version mismatch -- disabled
wmhooks: gnome
x11: 1280x1024, 32 bit/pixel, 0 byte/scanline, VidMode
open /dev/video: No such file or directory
can't open /dev/video: No such file or directory
v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway
open /dev/video: No such file or directory
no video grabber device available
I have checked the /dev directory and sure enough there is no entry for
video.
Any help in correcting these problems would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance
RV
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From: "David St.Clair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 <<<---- X SERVER RELEASED FOR
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:07:41 -0400
Well, my first suggestion is to go to the english page and not the german one.
http://www.suse.de/XSuSE/XSuSE_E.html#inst
This is what I did:
Make sure your "root"
You might want to put "vga=791" or 792 in your /etc/lilo.conf file or if you
use a boot disk for redhat; at the prompt type "linux vga=791" (This is
dangerous if you don't do it right, you might skip this step and see if you can
get it working without this if you you've never done anything like that)
lilo (Must do this if
not booting by boot disk and you have edited lilo.conf)
rpm -e XF86-SVGA (gets rid of XF86-SVGA server)
cd (directory where rage.rpm is)
rpm -Uvh rage.rpm (Install Rage Server)
cd /usr/X11R6/bin
ln -s XFCon_Rage XF86-SVGA (creates a symbolic link to the Rage
server)
Xconfigurator -expert (Runs the configuration
program in expert mode)
It may detect ATI Rage using Mach64 if your using XF86 3.3.5 but don't use
that. Its not there yet.
Choose the SVGA server.
Don't probe anything. It will fail.
Save and exit.
If you run startx, it should put you in 640x480 mode in 8 bit mode. (yuck!)
Edit your /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config file.
Go to the bottom and there should be a section that has "640x480" and Depth
8 Change it to "1024x768" and Depth 16 or 32 (24 doesn't work)
Save it.
When you restart "startx" it should be working (Hopefully)
"H.B." wrote:
> David,
>
> I have an ATI Rage 128 GL. I thought I was getting an ATI Xpert 98 (listed in the
> RH hardware guide), but they were out and substituted the Rage 128 GL, so I've not
> been able to get X going. I'm a little new to Linux and X, this is my first Linux
> server. I went to the SuSE site (http://www.suse.de/sdb/de/html/cg_rage128.html),
> but I can't read this. I followed two ftp links and downloaded the files, but I'm
> at a loss as to what to do next. Can you help me? Any help is appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> H.B.
>
> "David St.Clair" wrote:
>
> > It works! I got my Rage Fury 128 working in 32 bit mode at 1024x768 (and higher)
> >
> > It requires a little more tweaking than the other X-servers, but thats ok with
> > me. At least it works. Hopefully the Xfree86 version will be easier to
> > configure in Redhat and other distributions.
> >
> > David St.Clair
> >
> > nosecret undiscovered wrote:
> >
> > > ALERT! ALERT! ALERT!
> > >
> > > I don't know if it works or not, but SuSE released a server for the
> > > rage chipset 7 days ago!!!!
> > >
> > > I'll be back in a minute if it doesn't work to cancel this post!
> > >
> > > : )
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Shadley)
Subject: Re: 2 soundcards
Date: 15 Sep 1999 04:30:53 GMT
According to johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> How can i tell linux to use 2 soundcards ? Application example: one for
> mpg123 and one for quake2.
>
> 0x220, irq 5, dma 1/5: AWE32 (driver included in kernel, working fine)
> 0x240, irq 9, dma 0/3: SB16 Vibra
>
> I think "insmod sound" will conflict with the AWE and /dev/dsp and
> /dev/mixer for example, won't it ?
> Is there a clean solution for that problem ?
The commercial OSS drivers will handle this with ease. I had an SB PCI
128 and an AWE64 in the same machine for a while.
Mark
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2
Date: 15 Sep 1999 05:20:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
ISTANBULLU Oktay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have linux running on AMD-K6-2 processor (333 MHz) and I'm not really
>satisfied.
>I have some fatal Error 11 while compiling the kernel or during any
>other long comilation. I 'd prefer having any other processor, even
>slower, without this problem.
What motherboard are you using? What kind of memory? I have a 300-MHz K6-2
(overclocked to 333 with 112-MHz FSB) in an FIC VA-503+, and it's been
rock-solid with SuSE 6.1. (Netscrape locked it up once, but I telnetted in
from another box and got it unwedged. From what I understand, that's a
problem with Netscrape...it would be nice if Microsoft saw fit to port IE to
Linux.) I've done a couple of kernel compiles with no problems at all.
The last time I got sig11 errors while compiling a kernel was way back when
I had a 486SLC-33, and I think I had a flaky FPU (a ULSI 387SX was
installed, and my recollection was that they had problems). The errors
you're getting are usually hardware errors. Memory that's run out of spec
(such as PC-66 SDRAM at 100 MHz...though I'm successfully pushing it to 112
MHz) is one possibility, as is the possibility of having a really crappy
motherboard (such as anything from PC Chips or any of their many
affiliates). Check your hardware to make sure it's properly configured and
in good working order. There's a slight possibility that your processor is
flaky, but problems elsewhere in your system are much more likely. AMD
makes good stuff; I've run a K6 and a K6-2 here for some time now, just
built a K6-2-based system for my sister, and would have no qualms about
recommending AMD to anybody. (I'd really like a K7, but the price needs to
come down a little bit first to bring it into my range. :-) )
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From: "Dan Price" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Someone who knows Linux modems PLEASE HELP ME !!
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 22:56:46 -0700
I dont understand why this has to be so hard. I'm certain I will have
hypertension as a result of my efforts.
Bought a Creative Modem Bastard 5601-1 because it has a controller (ie not a
win modem). I have seen reports on sites that claim to have gotten it to
work. But no one can tell me how or at least answer a few simple questions.
Should I set the jumpers to PNP mode ?
I tried this. Windows liked it, but using pnpdump -c >/dev/isapnp.conf and
the isapnp but this showed error messages that suggest there are conflicts
even though the conf file said thet there were several options ofr
configuring this device.
I got minicom to connect. I had an irq conflict because the characters
appeared after a long delay. I tried launching Netscape but it said that I
may have a problem with my nameserver. I may need info on configuring this.
I am at my witts end. If you can help I would be very greatfull.
Dan
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From: Prashant Meswani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lilo problems
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 09:02:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I Believe that Suse 6.2 resolves this problem.
Prashant.
Jack Woosley wrote:
> I've just installed a 17 gig hard drive into my computer and installed
> RedHat 6.0 onto it. Everything seems to be installing fine, except that lilo
> refuses to be installed onto the drive. I am attempting to dual boot the
> computer with both linux and Windows98 and have done sucessfully in the past
> with my smaller drive, but I am having no luck with this new hard drive. I
> read in a couple posts that I may have to install lilo under the 1024th
> cylinder, but I'm not sure on how to go about doing this. Any help with
> this situation would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jack
>
> System specs
> ===========
>
> OS: RedHat 6.0 & Win98
> Memory: 64mb SDRAM
> Hard Drives: Seagate 6.4 gig & Seagate 17.4 gig
> Proccessor: AMD K6-2 350
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From: "ZeroRex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: modem setup...HELP!!!
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 01:07:15 -0500
OK, here we go,
I am using a Best Data Smartone 28.8 voice/data/fax
When I connect, I get connected with no problem, but then, on connect, I
automaticly get droped. I dont know what to do. I have varified that the
comport is corret, and the irq is right. I am on /dev/ttys1, with IRQ 3.
The modem works under winblows98, but the modem is NOT a winmodem. Any help
is deeply apreciated...
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From: Henrik Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [A] Trackman Marble FX
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 07:50:05 +0200
Anthony Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Question, Does it have all the features enabled like the scroll lock
> button??
Answer: ;-)
No, you can get the wheel-function to work using the ,,imwheel`` package.
But I just use the regular functions right now. They work fine. I did not
try the imwheel yet, but I was told somebody got it to work.
CU, Henrik Becker
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Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 23:29:43 -0600
From: Jake Marble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi controler(AVA-1502) HELL!
Oh, man. I have the same problem here, and that site doesn't work...
Jake Marble
David Cooley wrote:
>
> Dave Nejdl wrote:
> >
> > Could you tell me where to find this paper. I searched my whole box and a
> > couple sites but couldn't find it. Thanks a lot for your help.
>
> http://www.mir.com/mtek/ava-hints.html
>
> Give that a shot.
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From: Justin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV Capture and Rage 128 All-in-Wonder
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 05:31:18 GMT
I downloaded SuSE's rage 128 server and got that running. I am wondering
if the video capture device is supported for linux/where I can get it. It
is a bt829.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Easy Modem Question
Date: 15 Sep 1999 05:41:15 GMT
In article <fCdD3.9$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Brian E. Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> First of all, all I really care about right now is the first modem. It's
>a 56k USR Sportster. My problem is that it always answers at 28.8. It
>answers VERY quickly, too, like it's not even trying to negotiate any higher
>speeds.
The absolute fastest speed you'll get out of it when it answers a call is
33.6 kbps, and that's if your phone lines are clean. 28.8 kbps is typical.
That's the way V.90 works. To answer calls at 56K, you'd need something
with a digital connection to the phone system on your end. An ISDN terminal
adapter might work...one example would be the USR Courier I-modem, which the
specs (http://www.3com.com/products/dsheets/400369.html) say can "act as the
digital end for x2 analog connections." (No mention of V.90, though.)
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From: "Kirk R. Wythers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: help with ghostscript / nec 870
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 15:31:20 -0500
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Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Has anyone got amn NEC superscript 870 working with ghostscript? I am
running RH 6.0 and need some help with the printconfig tool and
ghostscript.
Thanks,
Kirk
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Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
1530 N. Cleveland Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
Tel: 612.625.2261
Fax: 612 625.5212
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Has anyone got amn NEC superscript 870 working with ghostscript?
I am running RH 6.0 and need some help with the printconfig tool and ghostscript.
<p>Thanks,
<p>Kirk
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Kirk R. Wythers
Department of Forest Resources
University of Minnesota
1530 N. Cleveland Ave.
St. Paul, MN 55108
Tel: 612.625.2261
Fax: 612 625.5212
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From: Berco van Gool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: xawtv
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:31:45 +0200
Hello,
I using xawtv-3.0beta7 for a few weeks, but I can't use stations from
different frequency tables in the station file (.xawtv).
Example: I can't use a Dutch channel from pal-europe and an American
channel from ntsc-cable-american in the same station file (.xawtv)
I hope you can help me.
System Redhat 6.0
Greetings Berco.
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From: none <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.periphs
Subject: Re: PCI Caching IDE controller
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 08:37:14 +0200
Kevin McFerrin wrote:
> Back to the point, I've tried to follow the Tekram installation
> instructions for the DC-690C as closely as they match (they seem to be
> nearly identical parts). I can get past POST and see the BT-910A BIOS
> banner. I can get into the BIOS settings. The controller detects and
> identifies my drives just fine. My mainboard's BIOS is set to have it's
> onboard EIDE (both channels) disabled. I can even go through post, through
> HDD detection (from the controller card, not the mainboard BIOS), and boot
> from a Win98 startup disk and FDISK the drives (sounds good, doesn't it?)
> just fine. But when I reboot the system and boot from floppy, it I get a
> messge from the Win98 startup disk that the drives have no valid FAT or
> FAT32 partitions.
Did you format the drive?
FDISK only allocates the disk space for useing with a certain
filesystem, but you will need to format the partitions you made to put a
valid filesystem(FAT16/FAT32) on them.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Full System Crash under X (RH 6)
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 06:27:15 GMT
Have had similar problems. My system: AMD
K6-2/300, 128 MB SDRAM, Fujitsu hard drive in LBA
mode, RedHat 6.0 with XFree86 3.3.5-1, Matrox
Millenium G400 AGP with 32 MB SGRAM. One way to
make it work is to insert the following line in
the 'device' section of XF86Config -
Option "no_accel"
This unfortunately disables hardware acceleration,
and you will notice things behave NOTICEABLY
SLOWER, but at least the xserver won't crash when
you attempt to start it up.
I can't wait for RedHat of Xfree86.org to come out
with a fix, if they ever get around to it.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Jakobsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> My system completely locks-up (no mouse, no
keyboard, no ping
> response,
> no virtual consoles, etc.) in X. I have tried
re-installing both RH6 and
>
> Mandrake (based on RH6) several times but the
same thing happens. I am
> running KDE which is normally quite stable but
it always seems to crash
> within a few hours of using the new install.
>
> Many on the newsgroups have suggested that
defective hardware could be
>
> the culprit but Windows NT (I am dual-booting)
runs fine... even buggy
> software like Netscape works really well under
NT. And Linux, just in
> console mode, never crashes... but X will bring
everything to a complete
>
> halt, making it necessary to do an ugly hard
reboot.
>
> Here's the system specs:
> AMD K6/2-350
> Matrox Millenium G400 OEM
> EPoX VIA MVP3-based mobo
> Siemens 128mb ECC Memory
> Maxtor UDMA 8.4 gb HD
> Mitsumi 40X UDMA CDROM
>
> I have seen one RedHat employee (Jay Turner, I
believe) acknowledge
> that the problem may lie with the AMD processor.
Also, someone recently
> mentioned that the LBA addressing mode on the HD
may be the culprit.
>
> Anybody had these problems and fixed them
successfully. I am one
> really, really frustrated person who would love
to know. :-)
>
> -- John
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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