Linux-Hardware Digest #387, Volume #12 Thu, 2 Mar 00 08:13:08 EST
Contents:
Modem/ppp config question (Todd Siegel)
igs2010 vga driver (Hesper Chang)
SCSI bus rescan problem with CDR ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
My Sound Card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM? (S Bond)
Re: ssh on RedHat 6.1 ("Jason Byrne")
Re: Dell Inspiron 7000 Questions ("Lyle R. Taylor")
Re: Network Card Woes ("Paul Wollner")
printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 4 Celeron motherboard? (Atle)
Re: Wireless Network (Andreas Neukoetter)
Canon BJC-6000 and Linux (Idle)
Re: printer (Frank Elsner)
Re: printer ("Steffen Jost")
Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem (Rob Clark)
Re: Burned system!? ("Victor A. Grinberg")
Re: 96Mb = 64Mb RAM??? ("Victor A. Grinberg")
Re: ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig ("Victor A. Grinberg")
Re: Changing Motherboard Problem ("John Lucas")
Re: Network Card Woes ("James & Sue Ann Birchfield")
Voodoo III, tv-out, xf86, modeline (Andreas Neukoetter)
Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Overclocked Celery hangs! ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM? ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: CD-R/RW & Creative DVD together. ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: quiet scsi cdrom ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux ("Richard Gaywood")
Re: ssh on RedHat 6.1 (Paul Phillips)
Matrox Millennium G400 and XF86Config ("Gareth Gaskell")
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 04:11:21 -0500
From: Todd Siegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Modem/ppp config question
I get the following message when I try to connect to my ISP. Can anyone
help.
This is a laptop with a PCMCIA modem.
pppd[712]: Serial connection established.
pppd[712]: Using interface ppp0
pppd[712]: Connect: ppp0 <--> /dev/ttyS3
pppd[712]: LCP: timeout sending Config-Requests
pppd[712]: Connection terminated.
pppd[712]: Connect time 0.6 minutes.
pppd[712]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
pppd[712]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
pppd[712]: Hangup (SIGHUP)
pppd[712]: Exit.
Thanks, Todd.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hesper Chang)
Subject: igs2010 vga driver
Date: 2 Mar 2000 09:17:55 GMT
hi,
Is there a linux driver for IGS-2010 chip (VGA card)
Thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SCSI bus rescan problem with CDR
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:18:19 GMT
Hi,
I'm using RedHat 6.1 and a Yamaha CDR400t to
write CDs. Everything is detected fine, but at a
random (?) interval, it seems the OS (or SCSI
card?) is doing a rescan of the SCSI bus. Of
course, this is disastrous when writing a CDRom.
The problem is I don't have a clue of where this
rescan is forced. Is this a Linux issue, or is
this something my BusLogic card does?
I had no problems writing CDs in Windows NT, 95
or 98..
Thanks a lot for your help!
Tom.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: My Sound Card
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:44:09 GMT
Hi all!
How can I check out my model of sound card under RH 6.0? Another
problem, my machine cannot use microphone under RH6, while it does works
on Windows 98 (my duel-boot machine). Any hints of it? Thanks.
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From: S Bond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 09:45:24 +0000
Derek Colley wrote:
>
> <deletia>
>
> But, I don't have a USB CDROM and booting from bootnet.img does not
> recognise the 3com network card in the type2 slot - I have a cd drive in
> my desktop I thought I could use. The installation howto mentions an
> 'old' way of installing linux, by downloading f iles to a number of
> floppies etc. but there is very little by way of instructions.
>
> <deletia>
I may be wrong, but I thought you were supposed to use pcmcia.img if
your network card was a pcmcia card. I believe that bootnet.img is only
for isa/pci network cards.
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From: "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh on RedHat 6.1
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:58:28 -0800
this might be an obvious question... but did you actually start the ssh
daemon?
The 'authentication error... no further authentication methods available'
suggests your system might have been trying to revert to 'rsh'... and it
wasn't available...
usual way to start sshd (daemon) is to put a script in one of your runlevels
(2 or 3... depending on what's appropriate for your system - I mention this
since SuSE starts in 2... while many others start in 3)
In /etc/rc.d/init.d... maybe an 'sshd' script something like:
#! /bin/sh
case "$1" in
start)
echo "starting sshd..."
/usr/local/sbin/sshd (or whatever is appropriate)
exit 0
;;
esac
----
Then...
chmod +x sshd
ln -s /etc/rc.d/init.d/sshd /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S90sshd
(or something fairly high... not conflicting with another service starting)
Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I am trying to get ssh2 to work on a redhat 6.1 box. I obtained the
> sources to ssh2.0.13 , compiled it, and installed it according to the
> quick start instructions provided with the source. I followed the
> instructions exactly.
>
> I am running the sshd2 on the linux box (remote) and trying to connect
> to it from a Solaris box (local) - also with the same version of ssh
> installed.
>
> The compilation and installation on both mechines seemed to go fine.
>
> From the local machine (solaris) hen I try:
>
> ssh -l mylogin remotel_inux_host
>
> I get:
>
> Disconnected; authentication error (No further authentication methods
> available.).
>
> I am very new to ssh, and can't figure out the problem at all. There is
> no HOW TO that I could find. I used all the defaults, and. as I said
> above, followed the install instructions to the letter.
>
> What should I be looking for as causes for my problem?
>
> (Oh, I tried recompiling it with tcp wrapper support, and that changed
> nothing - still get the same message.)
>
> Thanks
> Paul Phillips
>
>
>
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From: "Lyle R. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Inspiron 7000 Questions
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 03:30:01 -0800
I don't know how to get your screen to turn off (I've been wondering how to
do that myself - though, I think KDE screws things up there - I can't ever
get any monitor to shut off under KDE), but you may simply need to unplug
and plug in the mouse after coming from suspend. At least in my case, if
I've turned off the touch pad (which I do most of the time, because it
annoys me), I always need to plug the mouse in _after_ X starts up, or it
doesn't work.
Good luck,
Lyle Taylor
Ryan Stapleton wrote:
> Hello,
> I have a few questions about my laptop and linux.
>
> I have AccelX install for reference.
> I am trying to setup my system so that it goes into standyby after
> a period of time, or setup the system to shut off the backlighting.
>
> I can't seem to get this to work. I am using RH 6.1 running gnome.
> I had Mandrake 6.x install with kde and I had it working under that (ok
> it did it for me) But I switched back to RH to keep all my linux boxes
> running the same distro. Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> 2nd problem is if I go into suspend, 1/2 the time my external mouse
> dosnt get detected when it comes backon.
>
> Thanks for the help.
> -Ryan
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From: "Paul Wollner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Network Card Woes
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:54:47 +0200
PNP has got nothing to do with PCI cards IRQ assignments.
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I guess you've got PnP turned off in BIOS...
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:09:53 +0200, "Paul Wollner"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:50:11 -0000, "Dave Addison"
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >>James & Sue Ann Birchfield wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I am using a RealTek 8139 Netwrok card.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> When I telnet somewhere other than localhost, I get a network
> >> >>> unreachable error.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> If I type 'ifconfig eth0 up'
> >> >>> I get the following message:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Has anyone seen this? Am I having hardware conflicts?
> >> >>>
> >> >I've successfully used an 8139 based card using the infomation from
> >Donald
> >> >Becker's web site at
> >> >http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbs.html#rtl8129
> >> >The problem you're seeing sounds like an interrupt conflict. Might be
> >worth
> >> >trying the card in another PCI slot
> >> >
> >> >Dave
> >> >
> >> >
> >> changing the slot isn't going to change the card's interrupt.
> >
> >Yes it will
> >
> >
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: printer
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:53:05 GMT
Im using a HP dj 600 printer under linux. It works fine but only in the
highest resolution and it uses a lot of ink. Is it possible to speed up
the printing process and to reduce the ink lake on the paper? Or do I
have to save the print file on the windows part of the hard drive and
print it out using ghost view?
Karsten
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From: Atle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 Celeron motherboard?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 13:49:26 +0100
Orion Henry w
> Celeron's/PII/PIII's can only have dual processor configurations.
> For more than 2 you need to look at Pentium Pro's, Xeon's or non
Are the PPros sill in production, and why the h... not, if they can be
put in an array.
Personally, I would prefer to have 16x150Mhz Pentiums instead of one
700Mhz Athlon, because a multiprocessor system should be a lot more
stable if done right.
One processor hangs and corrupts its kernel, 15 are still alive, and one
of them restarts the dead one ...
named, inetd, all the *d programs evenly distributed between processors
seems to even out the slowdown in a beter way than one single, but very
powerful processor. I can't think of any mathematical reason why, at
least not now, but I have tried more-than-4-processor systems, and the
performance impact on starting one more task is almost not identifiable,
whereas it can halve the performance on 1-processor systems ...
Atle
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From: Andreas Neukoetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless Network
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 10:19:47 +0000
Jerome Corre wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I just started investigating the use of wireless network for a small
> group of computers. I have noticed several products (especially Luccent
> Wavelan turbo 11Mbs PC card).
>
While we are at it.
Does anybody know a european distributor for the Aviator package ?!
I contacted webgear more than once, but got no answer :(
ciao
Anti
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From: Idle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJC-6000 and Linux
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 19:33:09 +0800
Any drivers??? Or best match? I like the Page Layout feature of the
Windows drivers which enables me to squeeze 4 pages into 1.
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From: Frank Elsner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:33:19 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Im using a HP dj 600 printer under linux. It works fine but only in the
> highest resolution and it uses a lot of ink. Is it possible to speed up
> the printing process and to reduce the ink lake on the paper? Or do I
> have to save the print file on the windows part of the hard drive and
> print it out using ghost view?
You may want to consult
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
> Karsten
-Frank
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From: "Steffen Jost" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: printer
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:41:24 +0100
Hi Karsten!
If you happen to use the aps-filter for printing, then you should check
/etc/apsfilterrc, somewhere you should find something like "quality", maybe
there are even some clever comments on how to use this. Play with this
option....
Steffen
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Subject: Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 11:52:05 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kenn Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I found on Dell's support page a Linux driver for the 3COM 56K
>PCI Winmodem.
>
>I tried to install the driver, but my modem is still not
>working. Anyone tried that driver and succeded.
Please post the URL.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: "Victor A. Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burned system!?
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:00:44 -0500
ajam wrote:
>
> I tried w/out memory and even w/out the processor. No beep still. Thanks!
>
> Cheers, ajam
There's *no*way* it'll do anything at all w/o the CPU!! Many modern
mobos won't boot w/o memory either, not even beep. You simply can't
tell if the mobo's busted unless you have a godo known CPU AND RAM in
it. Sorry.
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From: "Victor A. Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 96Mb = 64Mb RAM???
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 22:05:39 -0500
Marcelo Muzilli wrote:
>
> Try this,
>
> alter your /etc/lilo.conf for:
> append="mem=96M"
>
> Regards,
>
> Muzilli
>
> trevorjf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have 96 Mb ram, but Linux only recognises 64Mb. Win 95 uses all 96Mb,
> > so its installed OK, how can I get Linux to play with the rest?
> >
And why is it that I have to do this?? Kernel docs say it's because the
BIOS doesn't report the size >64M. Well, windoze found it, so how come
linux can't?
-vg
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From: "Victor A. Grinberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ultra 66 promise controller only sees 8 gig
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 21:10:28 -0500
Dude, believe it or not, linux has a 32 gig hard disk size limit. Read
LargeDisk mini-HOWTO, they explain why, and they mention a patch, I
think. Good luck.
-vg
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From: "John Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Changing Motherboard Problem
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 04:12:04 -0800
Reply-To: "John Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Just to follow up. I flashed the BIOS with the latest version and the hard
disk is now seen. I tried this BIOS version when this board was in a Windows
98 computer and I had nothing but problems with them. No mention was made in
the release notes about addressing a hard disk identification fix. Oh well,
now to see what the error message is about when shutting down that was not
there before.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ??? ??? ??? Just
before the final "power down" message...
John
"John Lucas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:dvwu4.585$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Hi Gang;
:
: I recently tried to swap out my existing ASUS P5A-B, P233 w/Ali chipset
: motherboard to a FIC-6100, PII450 w/Via chipset on a RedHat Linux 6.0
: server. All other components remain the same, RAM, PCI Video, IDE HDD,
FDD,
: IDE CD-ROM, etc.
:
: When the system boots I get an error "Not Found [Boot Partition] error
then
: the system requests a boot diskette. I connected a Win98 configured HD and
: the system attempts to boot just fine. I triple checked the BIOS settings
: trying every combination possible to no avail.
:
: I put the old motherboard back in and everything works as it did (tried it
: twice). How can I force the boot partition to be seen without starting
from
: scratch? I have a boot disk and a rescue image, but I am leery to use them
: with concern over losing the data on the hard drive.
:
: Thanks for any help you can offer!
:
: John
:
:
:
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From: "James & Sue Ann Birchfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Network Card Woes
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:27:52 GMT
As a follow up, the problem is resolved.
I was using Linux4Win at first, and the 'warm'
boot into linux was causing the PCI slot to
not 'give up' it's setting. I am dual booting now and all is well.
Thanks!
Jim
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I guess you've got PnP turned off in BIOS...
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:09:53 +0200, "Paul Wollner"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> On Mon, 14 Feb 2000 10:50:11 -0000, "Dave Addison"
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>
> >> >>James & Sue Ann Birchfield wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >>> I am using a RealTek 8139 Netwrok card.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> When I telnet somewhere other than localhost, I get a network
> >> >>> unreachable error.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> If I type 'ifconfig eth0 up'
> >> >>> I get the following message:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> SIOCSIFFLAGS: Resource temporarily unavailable.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Has anyone seen this? Am I having hardware conflicts?
> >> >>>
> >> >I've successfully used an 8139 based card using the infomation from
> >Donald
> >> >Becker's web site at
> >> >http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbs.html#rtl8129
> >> >The problem you're seeing sounds like an interrupt conflict. Might be
> >worth
> >> >trying the card in another PCI slot
> >> >
> >> >Dave
> >> >
> >> >
> >> changing the slot isn't going to change the card's interrupt.
> >
> >Yes it will
> >
> >
> >
>
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From: Andreas Neukoetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo III, tv-out, xf86, modeline
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 12:26:53 +0000
Hi,
does anybody have the correct modeline for the
voodoo III 3500 and a
standard PAL TV ?
It looks ok in the shell, but when I start up X it gets very noisy ;)
I have some animations that I want to tape.
I couldn't find anything on the web.
ciao
Anti
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux
Date: 2 Mar 2000 12:48:51 GMT
Meir Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My CD-RW on the Windows95 PC, is HP CD-RW Plus 8150i, which i recently had
> bought. I use the Adaptec Direct CD Wizard 2.5d to format the CD-RWs. Since
> after format is completed, it displays "now you can read & write onto the CD
> like a floppy disk", I thought it is DOS FAT32 compatible. By the way, my
> Linux PC is the Corel Version, and yes the CD-ROM there does read Linux files
> which I installed Corel-Linux with it.
As I understand it, as the previous poster said, when you use DirectCD
in this way, it puts a UDF filesystem on the CD. UDF drivers
are *not* part of a standard linux install. So, you have two options. You
could use DirectCD, I *think*, to wrap an ISO9660 (i.e. standard CD)
filesystem around the UDF on the CD-RW disks. Note that this will
prevent further "packet writing" -- you'll have to erase the whole disk
and start over if you want to write more on it. This is probably called
"closing" the disk or some such in DirectCD -- I wouldn't know, I've
never used it. Or you could download and compile the UDF drivers for Linux.
Of course, a third option is to just put the burner on the Linux box and
use xcdroast.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Overclocked Celery hangs!
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:06:00 -0000
> [snip - 1 bit per 20Gb corrupt]
Interesting. In fact, very interesting. If you haven't already, you aught to
post this in the Delphi Tom's Hardware forum (just follow the link from
http://www.tomshardware.com) - there's some folks there who'd be very
interested in this.
> If your
system doesn't work
> overclocked but does work at its rated clock speed, you have nobody to
> complain to.
(sigh) Yes, I know. I'm not complaining. I enquired in the interests of
scientific curiosity, not because I'm outraged that my chip won't overclock.
Far from it.
> "I *know* the engine's redline is 6500rpm but I always push it to 8000 and
> it just blew! It worked fine up to now. I want my money back
Ditto above.
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM?
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:26:52 -0000
> I may be wrong, but I thought you were supposed to use pcmcia.img if
> your network card was a pcmcia card. I believe that bootnet.img is only
> for isa/pci network cards.
No, you're right. bootnet.img is for ftp/http/nfs installs. The only issue
if whether pcmcia.img has pcmcia cdrom support, but if it didn't, why would
it exist?
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: CD-R/RW & Creative DVD together.
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:34:01 -0000
> How can I get Linux to identify and list both CD devices together?
> I have a Philips CD-R/RW (secondary EIDE controller as slave), and a
> Creative DVD Dxr2 (secondary EIDE controller as primary.)
Both drives should have entries in /dev. The CDR should be /dev/hdd and the
DVD should be /dev/hdc. If you go into your /dev directory, I imagine there
will be symlink call /dev/cdrom pointing to one of these.
Just create a new symlink for whichever device doesn't work. Assuming this
is the DVD drive:
To create a symlink, use (as root, in the /dev directory)
ln -s hdc dvd
You will then have a device called /dev/dvd which is an alias for your dvd
drive. If you then edit /etc/fstab (again as root) and change the reference
to /dev/cdrom to /dev/dvd, that should make your dvd work. Flip this around
if it's the CD-R that doesn't work.
My RH6.1 system has nifty CDROM automounting; I'm not sure if this will work
on the second drive automatically. I suspect not, but my X is broken at the
moment, so I can't check. Any takers?
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:40:15 -0000
> I am downloading Linux files (Adobe Reader, etc.) with my Windows 95
> system onto CD-RW burner, which is FAT32 formatted. This CD does not
> "mount" on my Linux system, that is, Linux can not read from FAT32 CD.
> Any suggestions please how to overcome this.
CDs don't use FAT32. If you are using packet writing software - ie., you can
add & delete files at will, like a big floppy disk - then the CD will be
formatted with the UDF filesystem.
Further, if these are two physical machines, are you sure the CDROM on the
Linux box can read CD-RWs? Many can't.
You could
(1) Network the two machines and skip the CDs altogether - lot of hassle but
brings other benefits
(2) Blank the RW & burn it using you normal CD-R recording software
(probably EZCD Creator), which should make a ISO9660 format CD, as long as
the Linux CD-ROM wil read RW disks.
(3) Use a CD-R disk - a bit desperate, I know
(4) If it's the same machine, simply mount the windows partition & copy the
files directly.
(5) Find out how to make Linux read UDF disks. I imagine this will involve
kernel compilation, but I'm not sure if there's any UDF support under Linux.
Anyone?
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: quiet scsi cdrom
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:42:47 -0000
> anything over a 24x is a waste of money anyway since that speed only
> comes from part of the cd and not all of it, the rest of the data from
> the cd is acquired at a slower speed
http://come.to/cdspeed will show you how fast the CD is. Faster than 24x is
NOT totally a waste, expecially with the TrueX drives mentioned in earlier
posts.
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: "Richard Gaywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM DOS Formatted Mount on Linux
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:55:07 -0000
Further to the earlier posts...
Assuming the CD on the Linux box is new (sounds like it), it probably
supports reading CD-RWs. So blank the RW & burn it using EZ CD Creator
instead. That should work.
Or go buy some NICs and network the two machines. Rather a lot of work
though ;o)
--
-=R=-
"Is this what you thought married life would
be like, Homer?"
"Yeah, pretty much. 'Cept we drove around in
a van solving mysteries."
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From: Paul Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ssh on RedHat 6.1
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 06:53:13 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well, I meant to post this to the linux networking newsgroup, and not
here. Sorry...
Paul Phillips
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From: "Gareth Gaskell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox Millennium G400 and XF86Config
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 13:06:08 -0000
Does anyone have or know where to find a good XF86Config file to work with a
G400?
The way my machine's set up at the moment (new installation of Red Hat 6.1)
two of the higher resolution modes don't work properly.
thanks,
Gareth
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