Linux-Hardware Digest #341, Volume #12 Fri, 25 Feb 00 11:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: a VERY stupid question!! ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Newsgroup's Q&A ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Iomega Buzz? (Piotr Trzeciak)
Geforce Annihilator ("P. Frank")
Re: Please advice: unable to create file/directory ("Steve Cowles")
Re: Some help!!!! ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Re: Linux sucks (Nickolaus Dekay)
firewire... ("Alexandre Carlotti")
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system (Andrew Stephenson)
Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: driver for Yamaha ymf724 soundcard (jesper)
HELP ! EN1666 ("Raphael REPOSO")
Re: Logitech Cordless Mice (Dewey Chan)
Re: ftape 4.02 (Mikael Pettersson)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Nick Kew)
Re: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) (Nickolaus Dekay)
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: a VERY stupid question!!
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 08:15:25 -0500
"Edward Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Actually, Windows users don't know Linux but Linux users know Windows.
>
> I still need Windows for
>
> 1. Multi-file downloads with Outlook Express.
Are you talking about attachments? If so, use metamail.
Save the entire email to a file and then execute the following:
metamail -w saved_email_file
Metamail will find all the attachments and give you the option
of saving them. It will also automatically decode any attachment
and save it in its binary format (text attachments will be saved
as text, of course).
I haven't used a distribution yet that didn't include metamail.
Greg
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newsgroup's Q&A
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:41:29 +0200
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
K.Tsakaloglou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Piotr Trzeciak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Iomega Buzz?
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 09:19:52 -0500
Very quick question:
Is anybody using Iomega Buzz video product with Linux. SCSI adapter on
that board is not a problem. How about the video capture? Can you do it?
Anyone with any suggestions?
Peter
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From: "P. Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Geforce Annihilator
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:17:55 -0000
Hello,
I�ve found a driver for my very new Geforce-Annihilator Graphic-Card.
But how can I install the File "nvidia-X-GLX-335-i386-dyn.tar.gz" ?
Please write very slowly, becuase I don�t know anything about Linux.
I got Linux for 3 Days !!! (SuSE 6.3)
And maybe you are able to answer in german ? Please ?
Thanks and bye
P. Frank
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From: "Steve Cowles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Please advice: unable to create file/directory
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:42:48 GMT
"H K Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I am running RedHat Linux release 6.1, I have encountered a wierd
> problem that is I, as root, unable to create file or directory in a
> partition which has plentiful of disk space. Below is the situation:
>
> [root@it /home1]# touch temp
> touch: temp: No space left on device
> [root@it /home1]# mkdir temp
> mkdir: cannot make directory `temp': No space left on device
> [root@it /home1]# df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1 5447436 913304 4257416 18% /
> /dev/sdb1 6048500 513904 5227348 9% /home
> /dev/sda5 3099260 300176 2767600 10% /home1
> [root@it /home1]#
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Gerald
>
hmm... the only time I've ever seen this is when the inode table for the
filesystem is full. e.g. bytes-to-inode ratio. (man mke2fs) I had this
happen when I setup a news server. I got "No space left on device" at 22%.
The news server had created over 500,000+ files. I had to re-create the file
system and change the byte-to-inode ratio so that 5,000,000+ files
(inodes)could be created on the file system.
Also run: dumpe2fs /dev/sdb1
and check for amount of remaining inodes.
Steve Cowles
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Date: 25 Feb 2000 9:39:39 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Some help!!!!
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to John E.;
JEM> I have an A3D Vortex sound card and Red Hat 6.1 won't play any
JEM> sounds at all
JEM> .
JEM> Also Red Hat can't find my floppy drive, I put a disk in and
JEM> nothing, says s omething about mounted wrong or something like
JEM> that. I have a new kernal on disk and want to install it but
JEM> can't.
Mount requires at least 3 arguments. '-t filesystem' such as -t vfat or
-t msdos. Then it needs a source device spec that matches the drive,
like a /dev/fd0H1440 as the left hand side, and a mount point specifier
as the right hand side argument, such as '/mnt/floppy', which must
exist, and you make the 'mountpoint' with mkdir.
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0H1440 /mnt/floppy
should usually do it. Many people make a softlink to /dev/fd0H1440 as
/dev/floppy which simplifies remembering which style of disk it is most
of the time. YMMV of course.
Cheers, Gene
--
Gene Heskett, CET, UHK |Amiga A2k Zeus040, Linux @ 400mhz
Ch. Eng. @ WDTV-5 |This Space for rent
RC5-Moo! 350kkeys/sec, Seti@home 16 hrs a block
email gene underscore heskett at iolinc dot net
This messages reply content, but not any previously quoted material, is
� 2000 by Gene Heskett, all rights reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nickolaus Dekay)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:36:45 GMT
On Sun, 20 Feb 2000 17:18:39 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss) wrote:
>I am responding to 'major companies not supporting linux'. IBM most
>certainly supports Linux. They have ported a number of their high end
>apps, and also offer technical support. Is IBM major? Frigging right. I
>don't know the original poster, but it is obvious this is an uninformed
>opinion, or he used a poor choice of words and meant something else. I
>used IBM only as an example. SGI (Silicon Graphics), Intel, Corel,
>Oracle, Inprise are some other big names actively involved in Linux. Are
>these major? Do they support Linux? Yes.
I was under the impression that IBM would rather support their own AIX...
ndekay
================================================================================
Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.
-- H. H. Williams
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From: "Alexandre Carlotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: firewire...
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 14:58:41 GMT
Hi all of you...
I would like to know if something is done nowadays on linux for firewire
(ieee 1394)...
I know there is a nice web site saying all the projects which are in
progress but I have stop LINUX for a while and I m coming back slowly and I
can't remind me this URL...please if you see what I m talking about....
Thanks
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Stephenson)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 00 15:09:35 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <FAlt4.759$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] enquires, innocently:
> What costs $30 grand?
Windows 2000 TCO ?
--
Andrew Stephenson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI128
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:23:03 GMT
Hi Gilberto:
These are just a couple of thoughts -- I'm not too comfortable with this
myself yet.
First thing to try: you don't mention whether you "unmuted" the mixer
channels. You may want to run the "amixer" utility that comes in the
alsa-utils package:
amixer
will list all the channels, their setting, and "mute" if each is muted.
I think the important ones are Master and PCM, but you may want to
unmute all of them. If you have a GUI mixer, this will be much easier.
Otherwise, use commands like:
amixer set Master 100 unmute
amixer set PCM 100 unmute
(100 is too high, but that will just set the channel to its maximum
volume.)
Note that you have to do this each time the modules are loaded. If you
get your sound working, you can have the mixer channels load with
settings that you like automatically with instructions from the ALSA FAQ
at http://www.alsa-project.org/~jfulmer/alsa-faq.html. See question
3.5.
Another possibility: after editting the /etc/conf.modules, how many of
the oss-emulation modules did you "modprobe"? I don't know whether all
of these are necessary, or if some of them load themselves because of
dependencies from others, but you may want to try:
modprobe snd-card-ens1371
modprobe snd-mixer-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
modprobe snd-seq-oss
modprobe snd-pcm-oss
(Actually, the amixer step has to come after the modprobe's -- I was
just assuming you had done the modprobes, at first.)
If this works, you should even be able to just write sound files to the
sound devices, like
cat myfile.au > /dev/audio
cat otherfile.wav > /dev/audio
The osstest.tar.gz utility at the ALSA ftp site is also really good.
If there's anyone reading this posting who does understand more about
which modules have to be in conf.modules, which have to be modprobe'd,
or anything else you see wrong here, please let me know!
Hope this helps,
- Andy
--
Andy Marchewka
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gilberto Alemanni wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
<88ubr2$3m8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-981225 ("Volcane") (UNIX) (OSF1/V4.0 (alpha))
> MIME-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
>
> In article <88ubr2$3m8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>
> > I just started to get this working last night on my SB PCI128 (rev
7).
> > Wasn't too obvious to me, either.
>
> > I got alsa 0.5.2 (from http://www.alsa-project.org/). The "Latest
> > News" section on their site says 0.5.3 has updates for ES1370 (and I
> > assume that would include ES1371).
>
> > The INSTALL doc is great. I have a multiprocessor box (Dual Celeron
> > 466), so I ran configure as:
> > ./configure --with-smp=yes
>
> > I added the following lines to my /etc/conf.modules file (replacing
any
> > previous references to sound):
>
> > alias char-major-116 snd
> > options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=1
> > alias snd-card-0 snd-card-ens1371
> > options snd-card-ens1371 snd_index=0 snd_id="SB-PCI128"
>
> > alias char-major-14 soundcore
> > alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> > alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
> > alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
>
> > Then ran the modprobe's, and I started to get sound. Now I can play
> > .wav's with xmms.
>
> > Everything's not well yet though -- I can't get anything from the
"KDE
> > system sounds", and a KDE app was complaining about the "sequencer".
I
> > did the:
> > ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
> > thing for KDE, but it didn't help. I was able to unmute and raise
the
> > volume with the KDE mixer, though. The ALSA page mentions
"sequencer
> > updates" for 0.5.3 too, so maybe I'll try that.
>
> > The commercial OSS site also lists fixes for ES1371
> > (http://www.opensound.com/linux.html), but I really appreciate that
Alsa
> > is doing a great job, for free. I think basic sound card drivers
fit
> > the open-source model pretty well. [OS: free. Basic sound-card
drivers
> > with "necessary options": US$30. (??)]
>
> > Let me know at the email address below if you have any questions, in
> > case I can be of help.
> > Thanks to Bill Bennet (the ComputerHelperGuy), and Jonathan Nicolas
for
> > email pointers.
>
> > - Andy
>
> Hi,
>
> I have also a SB PCI 128 sound card and also have problem
> to configure it. I'm runnning under RedHat 6.1 and I tried
> the solution you proposed. I've modified my /etc/conf.modules
> as you did and after starting the driver, I get:
>
> % lsmod
>
> Module Size Used by
> snd-pcm-oss 18832 0 (autoclean)
> snd-pcm-plugin 13064 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-mixer-oss 4340 0 (autoclean) [snd-pcm-oss]
> snd-card-ens1371 2048 0
> snd-ens1371 12316 0 [snd-card-ens1371]
> snd-pcm 35736 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
snd-ens1371]
> snd-timer 10752 0 [snd-pcm]
> snd-rawmidi 11736 0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd-seq-device 3368 0 [snd-rawmidi]
> snd-ac97-codec 25216 0 [snd-ens1371]
> snd-mixer 33680 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-ens1371
snd-ac97-codec]
> snd 41772 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin
snd-mixer-oss
> snd-card-ens1371 snd-ens1371 snd-pcm snd-timer snd-rawmidi
snd-seq-device snd-ac97-codec
> snd-mixer]
> soundcore 2372 5 [snd]
> 3c59x 19048 1 (autoclean)
> nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
> nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
> vfat 9180 1 (autoclean)
> fat 30464 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
> ncr53c8xx 52104 0
>
> Anyway, nothing works !
>
> I tried xmms somefile.wav, cat samefile.au > /dev/audio,
> I tried an audio CD, nothing happened, I didn't heard any
> sound !
>
> Any other solution ?
>
> Regards.
> Gilberto.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: jesper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: driver for Yamaha ymf724 soundcard
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:30:18 GMT
Hi Vinu
Those commercial bastards at yamaha haven't released enough information
about the chipsets 7xx. It is therefore impossible to write a driver for
the 7xx based soundcards. Yamaha have given the information to opensound so
they have been able to write a driver that costs 30$ :-(
A really sad trend that the companies who produces soundcards think that if
you're a linux-user you should pay twice for your soundcard.
Sound-Blster have got it though: HURRAH. I wish yamaha would follow...
Jesper
vinu wrote:
>
>
> hi jesper,
> Thank u very much for your reply.I didn't expect a reply so soon.
> Do tell me about urself if u dont mind.
> I didn't get the meaning of this line
> (since yamaha has not found out what opensource means)
> Is it possible for me to write a driver for this card.
> do reply
> bye
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: "Raphael REPOSO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HELP ! EN1666
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 16:13:27 +0100
I'm looking for an en1666 driver (accton PnP mpx2 ethernet adaptor)
Any help appreciated !
Thanks.
Raphael.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dewey Chan)
Subject: Re: Logitech Cordless Mice
Date: 25 Feb 2000 15:56:13 GMT
In article <893n4o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marty Wulferink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>Does your logo on the mouse is colored? or black and white?
>If it is not colored, return it and ask for a retail version (not OEM)
>OEM does not work with Linux, it is missing some protocol I heard
>Only the scrolling does not function on a OEM version, everything else
>functions.
>
>Marty
This is interesting. I have, I guess an OEM Logitech First Mouse+
(wired) mouse with HP Logo for my laptop. Is this why I can't get the
scroll wheel to work? I've the same mouse, different kernel, same
software (imwheel), but store bought, on my desktop at home it works
great. *shrug* I thought it had something to do with my
port replicator.
-dc
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Subject: Re: ftape 4.02
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Pettersson)
Date: 25 Feb 2000 16:59:49 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Charlie Bendler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to compile ftape 4.02 into my Slackware 7.0 system and some
>modules (fdc-io.c and ftape-io.c) are complaining that there is no
>'timeout' member in task-struct. Any suggestions?
To use ftape-4.03-pre2 in a recent 2.2.x or 2.3.x kernel, get my
patches at http://www.csd.uu.se/~mikpe/linux/ftape/.
--
Mikael Pettersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 13:47:25 +0000
In article <894lsv$2cl$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (C. Newport) writes:
>
> The optical mice which require a special cross-hatched pad are much
> better in dirty situations.
Have you ever had the misfortune to work with one?
Very jerky performance. The pad is horribly uncomfortable, and cold
to the touch (even at the height of summer in central Italy - where I
spent some years with the majority of my working life seated at a Sun box).
> Unfortunately such critters are somewhat scarce nowadays, although
> they are still an option for Sun kit.
Sell it to the PHB. Not to the poor sods who have to use them.
--
Nick Kew
We're so advanced here ... our nearest main road is called the A 386
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nickolaus Dekay)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2000 15:58:40 GMT
On Fri, 25 Feb 2000 04:33:41 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Jordan) wrote:
>But y'all miss my point. I want the information *without* having to
>log onto the net. Web sites are slow and frustrating to find things
>in. And the quality of the docs on the web is great if you have a
>degree in computer science, but pretty incomprehensible to a
>non-techie. Trust me on this -- I have degrees and consider myself
>educated, but have had very poor luck understanding what passes for
>Linux documentation.
The issue with paper-based documentation is that its accuracy is questionable by
the time you receive it. Web-based documentation is easier to maintain/update.
> And besides, what if the user can't get the modem
>working?
Then the user will be forced to use [possibly inaccurate] paper-based
documentation.
>There is a market for a real, paper book. People will pay for it.
>Right now, I find the one most lacking is a "Linux for Windows Users."
>I'm surprised no one has written one yet. (And if there are any
>aspiring authors out there, e-mail me -- I can almost guarantee
>getting it published.)
There's a HOWTO on converting dos/win knowledge to linux knowledge... but it's
only a HOWTO, and not a book; i also haven't read it personally, so I can't
provide any information on its usefulness value.
i do agree with you on this issue in essence, though: the current state of linux
documentation, documentation organization, and documentation centralization is
very poor. the LDP is working on this but i do not know how much they have
accomplished. i think that as soon as a good centralized database with frequent
updates and organization is developed, linux will become substantially easier to
learn and use.
>And don't suggest the useless thing that Corel ships with their
>product. It just repeats verbatim what is in the help. And even that
>doesn't help. E.g., for what to put in the box where it says "Gateway"
>it says, "enter your gateway here." Well, duh. That was obvious from
>the screen. What the newcomer needs is troubleshooting and
>explanation. What is a gateway in the first place? Why is it
>important? Where does the user figure out where to get the address to
>put in the box? Remember, I'm talking Windows users here -- they have
>never heard of TCP/IP. Windows handled all that stuff for them.
>
>If Linux is going to take over the desktop, it's going to have to
>address the needs of the masses, not just the geeks.
Unfortunately.
However, since I've started learning linux, i've kind of lost sight of why,
exactly, we want linux to take over the desktop... it seems to me that when
people say 'take over the desktop' they mean 'become as widely used as windows,
in order to replace windows'... this seems to me to, at first glance, to be a
good thing, but at second glance, a rather questionable goal.
we do of course want more people to use it; this increases the userbase,
therefore increases the development base and support base, thus making it easier
to use. this is desirable imo. however, most people don't want to bother past a
certain technical level with their computer, in much the same fashion that most
people don't want to bother past a certain technical level with their car.
i think that it would be far better for linux to grow larger, and obtain a
sizeable userbase as mentioned above, but nowhere near the userbase that windows
has now. the goal in my thought-process here is for linux to gain enough people
to improve, without its attempting to grab the totally-ignorant masses. it's
just not imo desirable for the masses to use it, from the
distributor/supporter's end, nor from the enduser's end. it would be far better
for linux to become a viable, strong alternative for technical users or people
who don't mind learning such things, instead of attempting to become something
it's really not -- an OS for everybody.
just another $0.04 from
ndekay
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-- H. H. Williams
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