Linux-Hardware Digest #363, Volume #12 Mon, 28 Feb 00 14:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: keyboard problem (David Ripton)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (David C.)
Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help! (Kor)
winlinux2000, hp laserjet 1100 and parport
SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux (Jakob Sandholm)
Re: video out in linux (Harri Haataja)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Harri Haataja)
i810 Video Card ("Marcelo Abrusio")
Re: SYM53c895 not detecting right (Richard Nairn)
Re: SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux (Lien-Fei Chu)
Re: SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux ("Michael Lechasseur")
Re: Changing Motherboard Problem ("John Lucas")
Re: Questions ("Delbert G. Freeman")
Re: Changing Motherboard Problem (Hal Burgiss)
Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time ("Richard M. Denney")
RE: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76 ("Pollytron")
Re: Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: Efficient networks 3060 PCI DSL card (The DreamThief)
Re: Ghostscript f�r Deskjet 895cxi ("Pat Crean")
Re: heating linux ("Robert W. Cunningham")
Re: 2.2.x SMP and DK440LX issues (jwk)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Ripton)
Subject: Re: keyboard problem
Date: 28 Feb 2000 16:19:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Whether I'm in login screen, KDE, or GNOME, the keyboard seems to
>occasionally enter a ` character for no apparent reason. I'm running
>windows on a separate partition and I don't get this problem in it.
>
>Mandrake 7.02
Which motherboard? Which keyboard? Any adapters in there? Have you
tried another keyboard?
My guess is marginal hardware, most likely on the motherboard, but
easier to fix by swapping keyboards instead of motherboards. I had
a similar problem with an Abit BX6 and an NMB RT-101+ AT keyboard
with a PS/2 adapter. Got a proper IBM PS/2 keyboard, and the problem
went away. (Plus it's got a much nicer feel.)
You can also try fiddling with BIOS settings, like 8- and 16-bit
IO timings. I've seen that fix a twitchy keyboard in Windows,
but it didn't help when I was seeing spurious keystrokes in Linux.
--
David Ripton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
spamgard(tm): To email me, put "geek" in your Subject line.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: 28 Feb 2000 11:25:17 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Colin) writes:
>
> A certain UK seat of learning (which shall remain nameless) once had
> the bright idea of glueing the pads to the tables to stop them being
> misplaced.
At my college, the public labs didn't have these pads at all. Students
were expected to buy their own optical pads. (Fortunately, I worked in
a professor's private lab, so I didn't have this problem.)
This plan worked until Sun changed their mouse design, breaking the
existing pads. (The older mice require a blue/black grid, while the
newer ones use an all-black grid. Mice for one pad don't work on the
other.)
-- David
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From: Kor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Frustrated trying to install sound! Please help!
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 08:15:27 -0800
Im having the same problem with my Yamaha driver as you...
on the same system... if you get anywear with it please
email
me. THanx
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: winlinux2000, hp laserjet 1100 and parport
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:30:04 GMT
Hi-
I'm using winlinux 2000, and I can't get my HP Laserjet 1100 to print. I
get the lpr error message 'unable to find official name for local machine'
or something like that (I get a Spool Command error under WordPerfect).
I've been doing some reading and have found out that although the printer
is 100% compatible, there is a parport problem that needs to be corrected.
Someone has already posted here a solution for this parport problem (see
My Printer Is Not Working, reply 6). However, part of the solution
involves adding the following to the lilo.conf file:
append = "parport=0x378,7"
Apparently, there is no such file in winlinux 2000 (which boots from
Windows). What should I do? Create a LILO? Is there anywhere else that
this line can be added?
Also, the last line of the posted solution reads:
dmesg:
======
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [SPP,ECP,ECPPS2]
What does this mean? Thanks for your help.
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From: Jakob Sandholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:53:12 +0100
Hi,
I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and have a problem with my sound card.
It is a "Sound Blaster PCI 128", but sndconfig detects this as a
"Ensoniq AudioPCI" card (es1370.o)...
I have detected no errors in the logs. But.... the volume is EXTREMELY
low! I can only hear actual sound, if I direct the sound through
line-out into my stereo and turn up it up to a VERY(!) high level. This
is, when the volume is at its maximum in "xmixer" etc.
So... I was wondering, do I need a specific driver for my SB-card (where
can I find it?)
Or... does the ensoniq-driver work properly, if I can fix the
volume-problem? In that case, how can I fix it??
Thanks,
Jakob Sandholm
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From: Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: video out in linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:58:12 GMT
You could post stuff here (links will do) so the rest of us learn the
solution etc too.
I'm also interested about video out and video in.
Dan Andersson wrote:
>
> There is a real cheap solution, but you need to wqire it yourself. I's based
> on a Motorola chip - wich is reasonably cheap.
>
> I'll send you the document if you want to. I'll create a pcb and schematic
> in eagle format within a week or two ( i hate doing this kinda work.- boring
> ).
>
> Drop me a mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED], ( i have it on my 'work' computer ) and
> I'll drop an e-mail to you tomorrow.
>
> marty wrote:
>
> > am trying to solve this problem - simple low cost solution for composite
> > video out for art cluster installation - cards or easy wiring and x for
> > this.
> > awaiting
> > *************************
--
Harri Haataja Smilehouse OY
Systems Administrator Lauttasaarentie 54B, 4 krs
00200 Helsinki, Finland
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From: Harri Haataja <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 16:59:39 GMT
I hardwired an Ice-A3 mouse I had to permanently be in MouseSystems
mode.
There's a howto (Mouse-howto??) that has links to instructions on how to
do this on certain dual-mode mouse chips.
Alex Butcher wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:07:20 +0000, Herbert Fruchtl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I bought a 3-button mouse for my Linux box (RH 6.1). With "mouseconfig"
> >I get two buttons to work (iirc, it works as 'generic serial',
> >'logitech' or 'microsoft'), but none of the drivers recognizes the third
> >button.
> >
> >The mouse is a 'Primax Rainbow', and of course the description on the
> >box only mentions DOS and Windows. Any ideas?
>
> Try holding down one or more of the buttons on power-up and configure the
> mouse as MouseSystems under gpm and X. That's how my el-cheapo Anubis
> mouse worked.
>
--
Harri Haataja Smilehouse OY
Systems Administrator Lauttasaarentie 54B, 4 krs
00200 Helsinki, Finland
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From: "Marcelo Abrusio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i810 Video Card
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:06:36 -0800
How do I configure i810 vga onboard with RH6 ?
Xfree86? How ?
thanxs
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Nairn)
Subject: Re: SYM53c895 not detecting right
Date: 28 Feb 2000 17:05:27 GMT
I did, I am using the same module as the other kernel, but the behavior of
the initialzation seems to be different. I am using the correct driver for
it...
>Your new kernel may not have the right device driver. Get the kernel
>source and from its root run config or menuconfig or xconfig, then look
>for the right driver and throw out any you're not using. Then rebuild
>and install.
--
Richard Nairn
Nairn Consulting
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From: Lien-Fei Chu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:12:24 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am using the same card... I used to have some trouble with it. You can
try this...
Use a mixer program in KDE.. Don't use the one in Main menu (Multimedia)..
That program always gives me more trouble... You can try to adjust the
volume by running (KDE) --> (multimedia) --> (mixer)..
Good luck
Alex.
Jakob Sandholm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and have a problem with my sound card.
>
> It is a "Sound Blaster PCI 128", but sndconfig detects this as a
> "Ensoniq AudioPCI" card (es1370.o)...
>
> I have detected no errors in the logs. But.... the volume is EXTREMELY
> low! I can only hear actual sound, if I direct the sound through
> line-out into my stereo and turn up it up to a VERY(!) high level. This
> is, when the volume is at its maximum in "xmixer" etc.
>
> So... I was wondering, do I need a specific driver for my SB-card (where
> can I find it?)
>
> Or... does the ensoniq-driver work properly, if I can fix the
> volume-problem? In that case, how can I fix it??
>
> Thanks,
> Jakob Sandholm
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From: "Michael Lechasseur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI 128 under Linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:15:05 GMT
The es1370.o is the correct module for this board. The PCI128 uses the
Ensoniq 1370 chipset.
Did you try plugging your speakers into the amplified output? Are your
speakers turned on, battery good, plugged in?
Jakob Sandholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Red Hat Linux 6.1 and have a problem with my sound card.
>
> It is a "Sound Blaster PCI 128", but sndconfig detects this as a
> "Ensoniq AudioPCI" card (es1370.o)...
>
> I have detected no errors in the logs. But.... the volume is EXTREMELY
> low! I can only hear actual sound, if I direct the sound through
> line-out into my stereo and turn up it up to a VERY(!) high level. This
> is, when the volume is at its maximum in "xmixer" etc.
>
> So... I was wondering, do I need a specific driver for my SB-card (where
> can I find it?)
>
> Or... does the ensoniq-driver work properly, if I can fix the
> volume-problem? In that case, how can I fix it??
>
> Thanks,
> Jakob Sandholm
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From: "John Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Motherboard Problem
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:16:07 -0800
I have tried all three HDD settings! LBA, Large and even Normal...
Michael J Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89e53i$677$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Perhaps you don't have your BIOS configured the same between the
: two boards? Maybe LBA in one and LARGE (or whatever it's called on
: the other board?)
:
: Mike
: ////
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From: "Delbert G. Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Questions
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 11:19:25 -0600
I am running Corel's version. I severely dislike anything
from Redmond, Wa. Are any of the other versions of Linux
any better than Corel's? The type face is restricted, the
overall look bland (at best), the documentation stinks and
the overall "user friendliness" is severely "challenged."
I do not like Windows, as I said, but it makes what I have
seen in the Linux world look good. From the write up I have
read and the comments I have seen posted on the user's
groups, this is not what I would expect. What am I missing?
Also, does anyone know if a US Robotics Sportster modem,
model 0481, is a winmodem or not? Another thing I would
like to do is be able to run a check on my uart in Linux,
which would answer the question I just asked, but haven't
found one. Is there one? In addition does one need the
"Gift of Interpretation" to read the docs that go with it?
Thanks
--
Deb - OSMA
If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence,
try orderin' somebody else's dog around.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Changing Motherboard Problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 17:21:25 GMT
On Mon, 28 Feb 2000 09:16:07 -0800, John Lucas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have tried all three HDD settings! LBA, Large and even Normal...
Maybe the MB needs a partition marked as active/boot partition.
>Michael J Porter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:89e53i$677$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>: Perhaps you don't have your BIOS configured the same between the
>: two boards? Maybe LBA in one and LARGE (or whatever it's called on
>: the other board?)
>:
>: Mike
>: ////
>
>
>
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:02:22 GMT
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I am having a problem with a CD-Rom burner of mine. I'm running
RedHat Linux 6.1 and it finds it, but when I test it with a CD (The 6.1
Install CD), it gives me this message:
mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting
read-only
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/scd0,
or toomany mounted filesystems
Carl
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I am having a problem with a CD-Rom burner of mine.
I'm running RedHat Linux 6.1 and it finds it, but when I test it with a
CD (The 6.1 Install CD), it gives me this message:
<p><i> mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected,
mounting read-only</i>
<br><i> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock
on /dev/scd0,</i>
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or toomany mounted filesystems</i><i></i>
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Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 12:16:25 -0600
From: "Richard M. Denney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time
I think I saw somewhere that it is possible to refresh the SCSI bus
information, for example, to access a SCSI device which was not on when
linux was booted up. Am I correct? Can anyone tell me how to do this. (I
would like to be able to power on a scanner for occasional use without
shutting down and rebooting linux!).
Rick Denney
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From: "Pollytron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
Subject: RE: TNT2 Clock Utility - Detonator 3.76
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 19:21:52 +0100
J Bland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi� en el mensaje de
noticias [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >In <899630$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/26/00
> > at 03:24 PM, "Pollytron" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> >
>I'm Spanish And I use Metric System therefore 1'2 MB
y a quien no le guste que se meta un dedo en el culo
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accessing SCSI device which was off at boot time
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:27:41 +0000
"Richard M. Denney" wrote:
>
> I think I saw somewhere that it is possible to refresh the SCSI bus
> information, for example, to access a SCSI device which was not on when
> linux was booted up. Am I correct? Can anyone tell me how to do this. (I
> would like to be able to power on a scanner for occasional use without
> shutting down and rebooting linux!).
>
> Rick Denney
If e.g. your Scanner has SCSI-ID 4 than you can add it with
echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 4 0" > /proc/scsi/scsi
(from the SCSI-Programming HOWTO)
Andreas
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From: The DreamThief <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Efficient networks 3060 PCI DSL card
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:30:02 GMT
ccitech wrote:
>
>
> HELP!!!!!! Need linux drivers for efficient networks 3060 PCI DSL card.
> Anything would be of assistance. Bellsouth setup my ADSL w/ one of these
> cards instead of an external one. Any hints, suggestions?
> HELP!!!!!!
>
>
I've been looking also...Efficient Networks website, www.efficient.com,
claims that they will have drivers for the card 2nd half of this year, but
unfortunately, I need them now. However, the tech who came out to set up
my DSL line was kind enough to give me the NTS (EnterNet) Linux software
to log in. So, if you need that, contact me via email
[EMAIL PROTECTED] I haven't tried them yet...so I don't know
much about it under Linux yet...
Later,
Rich
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From: "Pat Crean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ghostscript f�r Deskjet 895cxi
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 13:35:05 -0500
http://www.proaxis.com/~mgelhaus/linux/software/hp880c/hp880c.html
"Klaus Hoedl / Infracor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hallo,
> kennt jemand eine GUTE und genaue Config f�r den hpdj Treiber von
Ghostscript
> 5.50 unter Suse Linux.?
> Mit 300x300 sieht's ziemlich bescheiden aus..
> Ich hab mit dem Winnt-Treibet eine PCL Datei auf Disk geschrieben, und
unter
> Linux ein proggy names pclscan oder so �hnlich laufen lasse. Das
analysiert das
> PCL File und gibt eine passende Parameterliste f�r Aladdin Ghostscript
hpdj aus.
> Das hat dann aber �berhaupt nicht funktioniert!!
> Hat jemand ein Druckergebnis, das von der Qualit�t zumindest mit der
WinnNT
> "normal" Option vergleichbar ist??
>
> Danke im voraus
> Klaus
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From: "Robert W. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: heating linux
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2000 18:54:18 GMT
Paul Ingram wrote:
> Are there any clever academic types out there who know how to work out
> the heat output (in watts) of a computer system
> given certain parameters (psu wattage, current rating, etc.) ?
>
> I looked at various specs of various bits of h/w but none give a heat
> output figure..................
ALL (100%) of the energy that goes into a computer goes out as HEAT.
This equation tells us all we need to know:
Power (watts) = Voltage (volts) x Current (amps)
Generally, US wall outlet voltage is 115 VAC. Using an ammeter, measure
the current entering the PC. While this can be done using an in-line
ammeter, for safety I recommend using a clamp-on ammeter. The current on
the "hot" side of the line should be measured. Be sure the ammeter is
set to display the "RMS" or "AC" value. If you only have a peak-reading
ammeter, then multiply the peak value by .707 to get the RMS value (valid
only for sine waves, which is what we have here).
My PC pulls just under 2A of current (1.89A), which means I'm dissipating
about 200 watts. Since I have a Cyrix processor and couple of older SCSI
disk drives you can fry eggs on, my power consumption may not be
typical. I expect most other systems would consume something closer to
100 watts.
Some top-end power supplies contain monitoring circuitry that eliminates
the need for an external ammeter, and allows the computer to monitor its
own power consumption. This feature is often needed for high-reliability
systems, so that pending failures can be handled gracefully.
Unfortunately, there is no standard interface for such monitoring, though
the closest thing to it is the UPS monitoring interface. And there are
some power supplies that also contain full (but small) UPS capability.
But they co$t.
Of course, if you have APM or ACPI enabled, the power consumption will
not be constant, and you may need to disable power management to
determine your system's maximum sustained power consumption.
-BobC
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: 2.2.x SMP and DK440LX issues
Date: 28 Feb 2000 19:02:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Feb 2000 08:03:06 GMT, Dmitri A. Sergatskov
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 26 Feb 2000 08:10:38 GMT, jwk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:42:23 -0800, Robert Redelmeier
>><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>Dmitri A. Sergatskov wrote:
>>>> Alan Cox thinks that I have a problem with scheduling and the task get
>>>> (excessively) bounced between two CPUs. So, I guess, the system time
>>>> does come from scheduler.
>>>
>>>Why? IIRC, CPU task migration is inhibited by a fairly heavy penalty
>>>in the scheduler. If you run two copies of the task, do you still
>>>see the same system overhead?
>>>
>>There has recently been discussion on the kernel mailing list that this
>>penalty is in fact not severe enough. This has been corrected in the
>>last 2.3.4x kernels, IIRC.
>>
>>Jurriaan
>>
>
>I tried to increase PROC_CHANGE_PENALTY in include/asm-i386/smp.h
>from 15 to 45 (2.2.15 rh6.2b kernel) w/o noticeable difference.
>
>
The discussion on lkml focussed on arch/i386/smp.c: cacheflush_time,
which was much too low.
Greetings,
jurriaan
--
And you have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb
enough, to actually try it...
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Linux 2.2.14 SMP 1 min 2 users load av: 0.85 0.33 0.12
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