Linux-Hardware Digest #377, Volume #12 Tue, 29 Feb 00 23:13:12 EST
Contents:
Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux ("Akbar Avliyaev")
help OPL3 SAX ("matt")
hda: lost interrupt (Jozef Dodziuk)
Re: Wireless Keyboards and Mice (Donald R. Weimann)
Re: panning in x windows in rehat 6.1 (Dances With Crows)
Re: which CD-RW for Linux? (Donald R. Weimann)
No printing available. ("Goofy")
Re: Modemblaster PCI 56K setup in RedHat 6.1 (Rob Clark)
HP Vectra VL5 and LINUX (Bart Torbert)
BX vs. AMD/VIA chipset (Ferdinand Badescu)
Re: DELL and WinModems (Rob Clark)
Re: AOpenFM56-IUT/2 Modem (Rob Clark)
Re: panning in x windows in rehat 6.1 ("Goofy")
13gigs and no where to go...... (Necro)
Re: Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Multiple SCSI cards (teri)
Re: Problems with D-Link 530TX (Todd Keller)
Re: Help please - linux install on Compaq 386dx - 20 (David Aikens)
Re: shutdown question? ("Goofy")
Re: 13gigs and no where to go...... (Kenn Madsen)
Asus 3000 driver? (Chris)
Re: SiS 6326 and SiS 5597 driver problems with X (Ed Wilts)
Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks) ("Graham Stewart")
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From: "Akbar Avliyaev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp/os/linux/misc
Subject: Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:12:59 -0600
Hi
I'm trying to install Linux on my computer,
but i'm having problems with graphics card.
What I get now is 400x600 resolution.
My card (Diamond Stelth III S540 32MB, Savage 4) is not on the list (i'm
using RedHat 5.2).
I checked list of supported card for newer versions (I checked both RedHat
and Corel), but the card isn't on the list.
The question is:
is there any version of Linux (actually X) that supports this card, or
patch (or something like that).
Thanx in advance
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From: "matt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help OPL3 SAX
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:14:11 -0500
suondconfig configuresit to play sound but it wont stop . sound keeps
playing an the system wont respond . help?
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From: Jozef Dodziuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hda: lost interrupt
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 20:14:23 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I keep getting the message "hda: lost interrupt" with certain frequency.
Should I worry?
Thanks for any information.
Jozef Dodziuk
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From: Donald R. Weimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Wireless Keyboards and Mice
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:14:02 GMT
Dear George,
Thanks a lot for this information. As soon as I get done reading this NG
I will try it out and see what I can do.
Thanks again,
# Don
In article <89giia$647$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"George & Kay Anzinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Donald,
> I was up to.. in X, really lost. Then I found "The concise Guide to
XFree86
> for Linux".
> It made my day. There is a little program call xev in the Linux
system (or
> maybe it is part of XFree86). Any way run it and it brings up a
window to
> play in. Put the focus in that window and punch those keys. In the
window
> you involked xev from you will see 3 or 4 lines of info for each key
you hit
> (also give mouse movement if you care).
> The other things you need to know about is xmodmap (see the man
page/info)
> and the header file keyboarddefs.h (I think that is right, but it is
> mentioned in the man page if I got it wrong.) Also, if you use emacs,
you
> can do a help, describe key and then hit the key. Even if it is not
> connected in emacs, it will report the name to use when you connect it
with
> your .emacs file. Usually you will want to connect the key to an
emacs
> function. For example, I like to run my shell from emacs, so I set up
a key
> to go to the shell and another to generate the break command. It is
also
> nice to put those keys with windows logos on them to work.
>
> I know I have not given you any fish, but maybe I have told you enough
that
> you can find the pole and a few worms. Good Luck.
>
> george
>
> "Donald R. Weimann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:86tq5h$b5g$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > Oktay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Do the wireless keyboards and mice work with Linux?
> > >
> > > Oktay
> > >
> > > --
> > > Posted via CNET Help.com
> > > http://www.help.com/
> > >
> >
> > I have a wireless logitech keyboard and mouse. I am running Mandrake
7.0
> > and they both work very well. The keyboard has 12 extra keys on it.
I
> > haven't figured out how to program them yet in Linux so if anyone
> > knows how, I would be grateful for any information.
> >
> > #Don
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: panning in x windows in rehat 6.1
Date: 29 Feb 2000 20:23:03 EST
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:31:10 GMT, Bill Ng <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
shouted forth into the ether:
>I have an ati rage II video card working in redhat 6.1; this card installed
>only in 640 x 480 mode although I had other modes in redhat 5.x; also, my
>screen no longer pans from side to side and top to bottom like it use to;
>how can I get higher screen resolutions from this card and how can I
>restore the panning feature? I haven't found any help from the
>documentation and I have TRIED! Thanks
Doesn't look like you tried very hard, then. Did you have a look at
/etc/X11/XF86Config ? Here's the relevant section from mine:
Section "Screen"
Driver "Accel"
Device "Primary-Card" # leave this line in yours alone!
Monitor "Primary-Monitor" # same here
DefaultColorDepth 32
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
...that ought to get you started. Or try Xconfigurator.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
But only Light too dim for us to see \
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From: Donald R. Weimann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: which CD-RW for Linux?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:21:08 GMT
I have a Yamaha CD-RW 8424s that I bought off of pricewatch for ~$240
including shipping that works beautifully. I have burned over 100 CD-R's
and about 15 or so CD-RW's with nary a coaster.
# Don
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Peter Bismuti wrote:
> >
> > Can anyone reccomend to me a CD-RW for my Linux box? I'm looking
> > at an internal SCSI perhaps. How about a Plextor?
>
> Heard nothing bad about Plextor.
> I'm using a Yamaha 4416 which works fine under Linux, but has some
> problems with the Windows driver for the Adaptec 7890.
> So I think Yamaha is a good choice, too.
>
> >
> > Thanks!
>
> Andreas
>
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Before you buy.
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From: "Goofy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No printing available.
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:31:25 GMT
I have tried everything that I can think of to get this stupid printer to
print.
I currently have an ASUS P2B motherboard. I have tried to install the
printer from gnome and when it does an autodetection of /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1
....etc I get an error message saying devices not found.... I tried doing a
simple print fromm the terminal .... echo "hello, world" > /dev/lp0 and got
an error message saying device not found.... how can I install the printer
ports... printing works fine in windows.... Help please
Goofy.
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Subject: Re: Modemblaster PCI 56K setup in RedHat 6.1
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:27:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Greg Nedel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am trying to set up a Modemblaster PCI 56K modem (DI5630) in
>RedHat 6.1 Linux. I have read the man pages on lspci and setpci, but I
[..]
>00:10.0 Communication controller: Unknown device 14f1:1035 (rev 08)
> Subsystem: Unknown device 148d:1035
It's a Rockwell chipset software modem (host-controller family). Your
modem is incomplete without its Windows software or functional equivalent,
and I'm afraid there is no functional equivalent for other OSes. Sorry :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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Subject: HP Vectra VL5 and LINUX
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bart Torbert)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:35:35 GMT
Has anyone had experience in putting some version or other of LINUX on a
HP Vectra VL5/166? I have a chance to by such a PC for cheap and wanted
to use it learn LINUX.
On a related note, does anyone know of a good web site that lists PCs that
are good/bad with LINUX?
Bart Torbert
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Ferdinand Badescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BX vs. AMD/VIA chipset
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:31:14 GMT
I want to upgrade my motherboard with a PIII or an Athlon motherboard.
The PIII motherboard (Asus P3B-F)is based on Intel 440BX chipset; the
Athlon motherboard (Asus K7M) is based on AMD751/VIA chipset.
I intend to use only SCSI peripherals where possible.
Which one do you think is more stable (from a server or workstation point
of view)?
Thanks.
Ferdi Badescu.
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Subject: Re: DELL and WinModems
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:35:49 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bruce Neylon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..]
>for the few WinModems that have work arounds. I contacted Dell and was
>told that all Dell systems are shipped with WinModems. I was also told
>that if I contact the original salesman that I worked with something
>might be worked out. We'll see.
Some of Dell's competitors offer hardware modems as an option. For
example, Micron offers an upgrade to a PCI hardware modem (currently. the
3Com/USR 3CP2976) from the standard winmodem (probably a 3Com 5699) for
$31.
As far as I'm concerned, that $31 well spent on a $1500+ system, even for
Windoze.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Subject: Re: AOpenFM56-IUT/2 Modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 01:39:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Chris Maynus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm really new at Linux and was wondering if my AOpenFM56-IUT/2 Modem
>would work with Linux? Does anyone have this modem? How do I set it up
Yes, it works with Linux. The easiest way to set it up is to use the
jumpers on the modem card to disable Plug and Play and set the address
conventionally (see the Modem-HOWTO at www.linuxdoc.org).
BTW, the name is FM56-ITU/2, and it is very popular among Linux users for
both its price and performance.
Have fun,
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html <-- Linux/modem compat. list
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From: "Goofy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: panning in x windows in rehat 6.1
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:02:52 GMT
I had the opposite problem.... all I got was the panning and the only size
that would fit the screen was 1280 x 1024... but what you can do is go into
Xconfigurator and do a custom install and select all the screen sizes that
you want to run....
Goofy.
Bill Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an ati rage II video card working in redhat 6.1; this card
installed
> only in 640 x 480 mode although I had other modes in redhat 5.x; also, my
> screen no longer pans from side to side and top to bottom like it use to;
> how can I get higher screen resolutions from this card and how can I
> restore the panning feature? I haven't found any help from the
> documentation and I have TRIED! Thanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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Subject: 13gigs and no where to go......
From: Necro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:25:15 -0800
i have got a 13g hard drive i want to give win98 8 of thoze gigz
and give da rest to Linux RH6.1
how is the best way to doo this????
thankies in adv.
Necro
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diamond Stelth III S540 32 Mb under Linux
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,comp/os/linux/misc
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:20:16 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Akbar Avliyaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
> I'm trying to install Linux on my computer,
> but i'm having problems with graphics card.
> What I get now is 400x600 resolution.
> My card (Diamond Stelth III S540 32MB, Savage 4) is not on the list (i'm
> using RedHat 5.2).
> I checked list of supported card for newer versions (I checked both RedHat
> and Corel), but the card isn't on the list.
> The question is:
> is there any version of Linux (actually X) that supports this card, or
> patch (or something like that).
> Thanx in advance
XFree 3.3.5 and 3.3.6 both support the card (At least, as packaged from Redhat.
) If you have access and are willing to reinstall again, try installing RH 6.1
which will support your card out of the box. If not, you can download the
Redhat XFree 3.3.6 source RPMS and build 3.3.6, which will work, but is a 39
meg download. (Or maybe it's 35.. it's still large at 28.8 if you are slow
like me.)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teri)
Subject: Re: Multiple SCSI cards
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 21:39:58 EST
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Nordic Boy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am having problems getting linux to recognize two scsi cards in the same
>machine. I have an Adaptec-2020, which is based on the Future Domain
I've posted about the exact same problem a few days ago. See the subject
line:
Can't load aha1542 driver (new 1542CF as 2d SCSI)
>chips and sits on the PCI bus, and I have a Future Domain 1800 based ISA
>card, (I don't remember the exact model).
I have different cards, but the same symptoms.
>If both cards are in the computer, only the PCI card is recognized. If
>just the ISA card is in the computer, it is recognized. I have tried when
>'insmod'ing to follow the instructions on setting the irqs and io ports:
>
>insmod fdomain 0x140,12
>
>for the ISA based card. But when I try to load the module, it just sits
>there. I can ^c out of it but it doesn't load the module. I have also
>tried putting:
>
>fdomain ioport=0x140,0x6000 irq=12,9
>
>in conf.modules. But that doesn't work either. Am I being totally
>clueless on how to use conf.modules? There doesn't seem to be any good
>documentation on how to best use this file. Can anyone help me?
I would certainly like to know the answer to our common problem. You
can check my posting for a lot of things I tried and checked, but I
presume that, even though we have different hardware, the issue is with
the kernel and the loading mechanism. I remember reading something about
the low level drivers having to be loaded first. Unfortunately, I boot my
computer from the first scsi controller (a 2940UW) and so by the time I try
to load the 2d scsi controller driver (1542CF) the high level SCSI modules
are already loaded. Catch 22? I'm not convinced that this loading order
is that critical, but if it is, how do I tell the kernel/boot process to load
the 2 low level drivers *before* the high-level ones and be sure that
the boot isn't going to hang? When I did set it up to load the second driver
at boot time, it hung. Additional bit of info. Nothing gets written to
the system log files, dmesg doesn't have anything related to this after the
^c.
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From: Todd Keller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problems with D-Link 530TX
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:56:23 GMT
Brian,
I had a similar problem with my D-Link DE220 card when I initially
installed RH 6.1
on my system. I ended up going to DLink's site and downloading from their
driver
database. In this package is a setup program that you run from DOS. I
formatted a
disk with system files only and I then unpacked the downloaded file onto the
disk.
Once that was done, I rebooted using that disk (the RH machine) and entered
the
'setup' program. From there, you can tell it to be PnP (which I do NOT have
enabled),
or you can specify everything from irq to i/o. I used irq 3, and 0x320 for
the i/o range.
That having been accomplished, since there wasn't dlink de-220 support in
the kernel
(as a module or compiled), I used 'ne', set the irq and the address range
and it worked
like a charm.
Here's the site for your download:
http://www.dlink.com/tech/drivers/
Hope this helps. =)
--Todd Keller
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David Aikens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help please - linux install on Compaq 386dx - 20
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 02:59:28 GMT
> Thanks for the inspiration Mojo. FYI the reason I'm using a scsi cdrom is that
> the compaq 386 is a Lunchbox design with a sidecar and there is no room to
> install a conventional cdrom, so I'm using the printer port with a scsi
> adaptor. I was brought up with DOS and find that I'm always confusing the
> backslash and forwardslash with unix, anyway I haven't tried reinstalling
> slackware yet but your info 'bout chmod may be really helpful. I think that I
> was having trouble formatting the partitions after the first attempt at a
> slakware install because of the read only status of the partition. I really
> should upgrade the hardware, but I got a couple of these Compaqs for a price
> that I couldn't refuse at a hamfest last millenium.
Dave
�
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From: "Goofy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown question?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:33:21 GMT
Do you have an ATX powersupply in your computer?
Goofy.
David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89hl3o$bv5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I recently had a AX6BC installed on my Pentium II 266, running
> SuSe 6.1. Now, when I shutdown, I have to switch off with the
> button at the front of the case AND the switch at the back of
> the case! Was the board incorrectly installed? Is there a fix
> for this or do I have to live with a double switch-off action?
>
> Thanks for any suggestions.
>
> Dave
>
>
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Subject: Re: 13gigs and no where to go......
From: Kenn Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:54:09 -0800
Use Fips which is a freeware program, running in DOS, and then
partition your disk in to 8GB and 5GB. If you are using LILO as
bootmanager, make sure the 5GB partition starts below Cylinder
1024.
Another way is to use Partition Magic. A Windows program and
much more userfriendly than Fips.
-Kenn
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris)
Subject: Asus 3000 driver?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:31:14 GMT
I have an Asus AGP "3dExplorer" video card (a.k.a. AGP-V3000). It
includes S-Video input on the card and plays TV in a window under MS
Win9X. Is anyone working on a driver for this card that would allow me to
watch TV or capture frames in Linux?
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From: Ed Wilts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: SiS 6326 and SiS 5597 driver problems with X
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 03:55:24 GMT
G Hargreaves wrote:
> I have installed RedHat 6.1 and Correl Linux on two machines,
> with a SiS 5597 and SiS 6326 video card respectively. Both machines
> have encountered the same problem. The card is detected OK but during
> the test phase (RedHat Xconfigurator) the background is great but the
> text is displayed as black blocks - totally unreadable. Correl Linux
> does the same thing, but it has more problems. When trying to run
> XF86Config, the display shows black and white vertical stripes and then
> hangs.
That's a known problem. The easiest fix (that I've found) is to go to
SuSe's ftp site and grab the sis.rpm file (I believe it's changed names,
so you may have to hunt around a bit). I'm running their driver, and
it's snappy and bug-free. With some tweaking of the XF86Config file,
you can make your config work, but it will still be slow.
--
Ed Wilts
Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Graham Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux vs Windows docs (was: Re: Linux sucks)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2000 04:09:29 -0000
> > Linux is doing OK on the server side of the market, but if we want it
> > to take over the desktop, there has to be documentation that desktop
> > users can understand.
>
> ...and apps that people are comfortable with (i.e. the apps they're used
> to using). Unfortunately, that usually means MS apps, which probably
> have a
> snowball's chance of ever being ported. :(
MS might not port their stuff to linux, but then they port it to MacOS.
Anyway the way I see it Corel appear to be heading towards developing wine
so hopefully in a year or two almost all windows apps will run seamlessly on
linux.
(Or is that just wishful thinking on my part and i'll be stuck having to
have two machines forever)
Also if the proposed Corel-Inprise merger goes ahead then MS will own
something like 5% of corel, which could be interesting.
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