Linux-Hardware Digest #391, Volume #12 Thu, 2 Mar 00 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
HP NetRaid 1Si ("Duarte Cordeiro")
Re: dual xeon or single athlon? (John Jensen)
Re: mice for lefties? (Keith Rhodes)
Re: modem (TK421)
Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Changing from Internal Modem to External Modem (Ed)
sound ESS1878, is it supported? (mike)
Re: SB128 PCI and MIDI (Darren Enns)
pace tv tuner driver ("bt")
Re: Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1 (Joe Glenn)
Re: Rage 128 chipset video cards... ("Pat and Connie")
SiS 620 ("Ex-Patriot")
Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem (Rob Clark)
Re: Changing from Internal Modem to External Modem (Rob Clark)
Re: AMD and LINUX (Scott Alfter)
Re: mice for lefties? (Paul Lew)
Re: 3Dfx and winfast 3D s900 (i740) (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Matrox Millennium G400 and XF86Config ("xman Charlie")
Re: Installing RedHat 6.1 w/ Mylex 1100 ExtremeRaid Controller (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Plug'n'Pray: 2 identical isa nics (Vladimir Florinski)
Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM? (Derek Colley)
Problem with Conner CFS540A IDE disk at Boot on 2.2.14 (Frank M. Krauss)
Printing Printing Printing ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem (Kenn Madsen)
AWE 64 + MIDI patches (Fuzzy Wolf)
Upgrading SCSI cards on Mandrake 7? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 21:01:16 GMT
I have mounted the CDROM and brought up the CD player in both Gnome and
KDE. The counter goes up on the player but I get no sound. CD ROM is a
Creative 48X. For those tech support people out there, yes the volume is
turned up :)
Works fine under Win98. Any thoughts on what the problem might be. I am
somewhat new to Linux so I know enough to be dangerous.
Thomas
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Duarte Cordeiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP NetRaid 1Si
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 12:41:02 -0000
Hello all,
I would like to know if there is support (I couldn't find it) for NetRaid
support on linux?
Only found Mylex and DPT support :(
Thanxs in advance,
Duarte Cordeiro
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From: John Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon or single athlon?
Date: 2 Mar 2000 21:32:31 GMT
Thanks for the input guys. I think I might wait for the price on the
800MHz athlon to slip a bit and then nab one.
John
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:43:54 +0100
Buy a cheap(ish) symmetrical 3-button mouse (like Logtech). Remap the
buttons (dead easy, look in XF86Config and gpm).
Make it fit your left hand with some plastic granules that soften in hot
water (DIY stores sell these) or epoxy putty, or even play-do.
Keith.
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From: TK421 <"eddieplease(nospam)"@mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: modem
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:53:10 -0500
linuxboy wrote:
> How can i install a Conexant SoftK56 modem under Suse 6.2.
> I'ts a pci modem.
> Answer quick
i don't think you can. is that a winmodem? i have a conexant and it
won't work (even in windows!!)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ASUS P2B-D or TYAN S1832DL Tiger 100?
Date: 02 Mar 2000 16:43:17 -0500
I've tried both boards.
I had problems with DMA (irq timeout, DMA disabled messages in logfile)
on the Tyan board!
The Asus board has been problem free.
Richard
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From: Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Changing from Internal Modem to External Modem
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:01:28 GMT
Hi folks. I've just found out the internal modem in my newly-created
Linux box is a WinModem, and won't work with Linux. Fine, cool, it's a
14.4 K and I wanted to get a faster one anyways. So, I'm about to buy
an External Modem (as from my reading, just about any External modem is
supported by Linux) and use it.
As I am extremely new to Linux, I have a question for which an answer
would be greatly appreciated.
Do I need to rebuild my kernel to remove support for the old, internal
modem before I pull it out of the PC? I looked at the options in my
menuconfig settings, and I didn't see anything for Modems. So, I'm
guessing no. But I'm sure a linux guru out there could confirm or deny
this for me...
Currently, my plan of attack is:
1) Login as root, and remove my /dev/modem symbolic link (the external
modem will not use the same port as the internal modem).
2) Shutdown and halt my system.
3) Pull out the old, unusable modem.
4) Connect the new, shining, linux-happy external modem to the Serial
port, and plugging it in.
5) Start up my box, logging in as root and creating /dev/modem as a
symbolic link to the correct /dev/ttySn device.
6) Wave to the cheering crowd, smell one of the roses thrown to my feet
and bow gracefully.
So, except for #6, is this all I need to do? If I'm seriously missing
something, I'd appreciate a forewarning. :)
Other details: it's a 486 box (revived from the dead) and I'm running
Red Hat 6.0 on it.
Thanks!
Ed
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Before you buy.
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Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:30:55 +0000
From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound ESS1878, is it supported?
The sound driver in 2.2.13 appears to support ESS chips as 100%
soundblaster compatible. Unfortunately, ESS1878 is not mentioned in any
of the documentation. Does anyone know if this is an aberation? Is it
supprted at all? How?
Thanks
Mike Sandford
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From: Darren Enns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Subject: Re: SB128 PCI and MIDI
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:21:19 GMT
Here is a related question: I want to be able to connect MIDI cables from
my SB128 to my MIDI-capable Radio Shack music keyboard. After
loading all the SB128 stuff that I can, 'sndstat' shows this entry:
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: ES1371
Now, when I use one of the Linux MIDI players (that apparently want to
talk to /dev/midi), I would expect that this would get sent to my music
keyboard, but all my attempts so far to do that have failed.
Any idea what I may be doing wrong?
Thanks
Dare
Markus Wandel wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Massimo D'Antoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >According to its specification, my new SB 128 PCI has hardware support
> >for midi; indeed, I'm able to play midi files when under Windows.
> >Instead, when under Linux, if I try to play a midi file with playmidi,
> >it complains there is no /dev/sequencer device, and I'm forced to
> >translate midi to wav with timidity.
> >Everything else (MP3, WAV) works fine with my SB.
> >Can anyone tell me something definitive about midi support of SB 128
> >PCI?
> >Is it possible that my previous SB16 ISA PnP had this support, while
> >this newer one has not?
>
> The card dose not have a hardware MIDI synthesizer. The marketing just
> does the usual Windows thing of listing the combined capabilities of the
> Windows driver and the hardware. Here is what it says in the kernel
> documentation directory...
>
> This soundcard does not have any hardware MIDI synthesizer;
> MIDI synthesis has to be done in software. To allow this
> the driver/soundcard supports two PCM (/dev/dsp) interfaces.
> The second one goes to the mixer "synth" setting and supports
> only a limited set of sampling rates (44100, 22050, 11025, 5512).
> By setting lineout to 1 on the driver command line
> (eg. insmod es1370 lineout=1) it is even possible on some
> cards to convert the LINEIN jack into a second LINEOUT jack, thus
> making it possible to output four independent audio channels!
>
> Your SB16 had a real synthesizer on board, but considering the quality
> of the music it can synthesize, it's really not much of a loss (i.e. if
> I had a SB16 in my main machine I'd still use timidity (kmidi) to listen
> to MIDI files.
>
> Markus
--
Darren Enns
EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP: members.home.net/dmenns
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From: "bt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pace tv tuner driver
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 22:13:45 -0000
hi all,
are there any drivers for the pace tv tuner, or
if not, are there any drivers being developed?
andrew sprott
www.btinternet.com/~talisoft/
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From: Joe Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 16:21:16 -0600
Mine didn't work at first either.. but then I think it it started working
after I setup some sound card stuff in conf.modules. Id explain exactly
what I did but unless you have a neomagic256 I dont' think it'll help.
if you do an 'lsmod' does it list sound card modules as being loaded?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have mounted the CDROM and brought up the CD player in both Gnome and
> KDE. The counter goes up on the player but I get no sound. CD ROM is a
> Creative 48X. For those tech support people out there, yes the volume is
> turned up :)
>
> Works fine under Win98. Any thoughts on what the problem might be. I am
> somewhat new to Linux so I know enough to be dangerous.
>
> Thomas
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Pat and Connie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,alt.comp.periphs.vidoecards.ati,alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: Rage 128 chipset video cards...
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 22:47:37 GMT
Greetings,
Suse has on at the following site:
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/SuSE-Linux/suse_update/X/XFCom/xrage/xrage.rpm
There are instructions for installing at: http://
www4.ncsu.edu/~distclai/suserage128.html
Pat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have an ATI Rage Fury video card and am trying to install redhat 6.1
> on my box. i get a no screens found error because 6.1 does not have
> an X server that supports rage 128 video cards. does anyone know if
> there is an X server that supporst rage 128 chipset video cards?
> thanks.
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From: "Ex-Patriot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 620
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 01:59:18 +0200
I just got a second hand computer. It has a Sis620 on-board video card.
Does this work with Linux. I remember reading that it didn't, but I thought
I would double check.
Thanks
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Subject: Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:14:14 GMT
In article <89lrb4$glk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark) wrote:
>> Kenn Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >I found on Dell's support page a Linux driver for the 3COM 56K
>> >PCI Winmodem.
>> Please post the URL.
>http://support.dell.com/us/en/filelib/download/index.asp?fileid=2669
Nope-- sorry guys, that .RPM is for the controller-based (hardware) PCI
modem, not for PCI Winmodems. If you think you have the hardware modem,
please read http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/3cp5610.txt for setup
instructions.
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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Subject: Re: Changing from Internal Modem to External Modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:20:31 GMT
In article <89mobl$7qk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[..sensible steps..]
>So, except for #6, is this all I need to do? If I'm seriously missing
>something, I'd appreciate a forewarning. :)
>
>Other details: it's a 486 box (revived from the dead) and I'm running
>Red Hat 6.0 on it.
Two possible hitches:
1) Some Packard Bell machines behave strangely when the modem is
removed. OTOH, I don't think they used winmodems the those machines.
B) If you have on-board COM ports, be sure to reenable the corresponding
port in your BIOS so that you can use COM2 or whatever the 14.4K modem
was claiming. Ditto for a multi-I/O card-- jumper-enabled COM2.
Have fun!
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: AMD and LINUX
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 23:58:08 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
LOIC B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everywhere I see linux I can see Intel but never AMD and
>I would like to know if it is possible to use linux without
>problem with an AMD processor and if yes wich type of linux
>could you recomand to me.
The server through which I'm composing and sending this message runs on a
300-MHz K6-2...has been since I upgraded my main workstation to a 450-MHz
K6-III a couple of weeks ago. I had also run Linux on the workstation when
it had the K6-2, and when it had a 200-MHz K6 before that. The very first
computer on which I installed Linux used an Am386SXL-25 (kernel version was
0.99pl14). That's four different AMD processors (had a couple of Cyrix
processors in between, too), and Linux has run like a champ on all of 'em.
(Well, I haven't tried it with the K6-III yet (that box has only Win98 on it
right now), but I have no reason to believe it wouldn't work.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (salfter at (yo no quiero spam) delphi dot com)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Lew)
Subject: Re: mice for lefties?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:35:29 GMT
>> >......
>> > DO these exist?!
>.....
> Why not get an un-contoured mouse and remap the buttons?
>
Or a kensington trackball and remap the buttons..unless one prefers mice.
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Dfx and winfast 3D s900 (i740)
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:19:45 -0700
jesper wrote:
>
> Hello.
> I'm having a Winfast 3D S900, which is based on the intel i740 chipset, I'm
> using the X-server XFC_i740 without problems.
>
> But I want 3dfx to work.
> In my /proc/pci it says
>
> Bus 0, device 16, function 0:
> Multimedia video controller: 3Dfx Voodoo2 (rev 2).
> Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe7000000 [0xe7000008].
>
> and about the 2d part of the Card
>
> Bus 1, device 0, function 0:
> VGA compatible controller: Intel Unknown device (rev 33).
> Vendor id=8086. Device id=7800.
> Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
> No bursts.
> Prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe6000000 [0xe6000008].
> Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe5000000 [0xe5000000].
>
> I'm using kernel 2.2.5-15
> Would it be posible to get working 3dfx with this card.
>
> Once I followed som instructions
> and got a module, that could be loaded with insmod 3dfx, but the tests
> (testGlide2x etc.) failed.
>
You should always recompile foreign modules to match your kernel. If you are RPM
based, rebuild and (re)install the Device3Dfx package.
--
Vladimir
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From: "xman Charlie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox Millennium G400 and XF86Config
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 16:14:04 -0800
Seem to recall that a newer version is suppose to support the
dh feature of the G400. Suppose to be out this month.
xman Charlie
Gareth Gaskell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89lote$pji$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> 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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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Installing RedHat 6.1 w/ Mylex 1100 ExtremeRaid Controller
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 00:57:07 GMT
Corwin Armstrong wrote:
>
> Has anyone had experience installing RedHat Linux onto a drive connected
> to a controller that is not listed in the controller options during the
> install. Is there any way to provide alternative drivers at install.
> My install fails because RedHat can not access the drives without the
> proper controller.
>
> I did find the proper driver but the instructions seem to assume that
> you already have Linux up and running and that you are just adding
> additional storage.
I've installed rh 6.1 on a AcceleRaid 250 with a 3 drive raid 5 setup
and I had no problems. I believe the 1100 uses the same driver. Note
that the DAC drivers is not SCSI, but block. It's been a while, but
I don't remember doing anything special except setting up the raid
before installing and installing a small boot partion first.
Best
Cokey
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Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Plug'n'Pray: 2 identical isa nics
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:47:03 -0700
Angus March wrote:
>
> I have 2 3Com Etherlink III 509B cards, which are isa and pnp. They
> both default to irq 10 and io_addr 0x300. When Linux starts up it
> recognizes one of them and associates it w/eth0. If I put
> 'append="ether=0,0,eth1"' in lilo.conf it will recognize the other
> one, but give it the same default parameters. If I replace 0,0
> w/parameters, then it won't assign eth1 as a device. Unfortunately,
> isapnp (which I have duly prepared for in /etc/isapnp.conf) configures
> the card *after* Linux assigns device names). When I first get the
> opportunity, pnpdump -d confirms that the cards were configured as I
> wanted them.
> From what I can tell the problem comes down to this, Linux
> won't make a device name (eth1) w/a card that it can't communicate w/.
> So to make eth1 I'd have to use default parameters that the card has
> at the time. And I can't change the parameters (like io_addr and irq)
> until after the name has been assigned. I tried doing something like:
> ifconfig eth1 irq 9 io_addr 0x220 up
> but I got a lot of complains that seem tantamount to developmental
> cursing. I'm out of ideas.
>
What distribution are you using? Any reasonable init setup would run isapnp
before bringing up network interfaces. Or am I missing something here?
--
Vladimir
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From: Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Install linux on VAIO PCG-C1XN without a CDROM?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:23:09 +0000
Many thanks to all who replied.
I have not been able to use the network card using the images boot.img and
pcmcia.img. I get a mount error when I get prompted to insert the pcmcia.img
disk, so I tried the install from the windows disk (copying the whole Linux
Answers CD to the C: drive) and that seems to have worked fine.
I am now having problems getting X to start, so any pointers will be welcome.
Regards,
Derek
PS: Would it be usefull if I posted a note on how I finally got it all to
work (assuming it doesn't all go pear-shaped in the next couple of evenings?
[yes, I'm a cynic])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Derek Colley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I've got a desktop dual booting with W98 and RH6.0. I also have a VAIO
> >PCG-C1XN (the little one with the camera) that came pre-configured [used
> >in a broadest sense of the word] with a 4.3 Mb C: drive and a 2.2Mb D:
> >drive - perfect for a dual boot with W98 and Linux methinks...
> >
> >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.
> >
> >As far as I can tell, I need to get to a stage where I can connect to
> >teh CD on the desktop - I am already able to network the two machines
> >using Windows, so I don't think the hardware will cause any problems...
> >
> >As I already have the Redhat 5.1 and 6.0 distributions on CD, can a
> >create the required floppies with what I've got?
>
> Connect the laptop to th network (using the Ethernet adapter) and
> donwload the entire redhat cd to it. You should be able to install
> from the win partition. Also, try using RH 6.1, your card might be
> detected with it.
>
> >Has anyone done this lately? Any help will be appreciated.
> >
> >Many thanks,
> >Derek
> >
>
> --
> --
> Daniel M. German
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://aries17.uwaterloo.ca/~dmg
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From: Frank M. Krauss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with Conner CFS540A IDE disk at Boot on 2.2.14
Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2000 20:25:50 -0500
Good day,
I have been working on Converting from 2.0.35 to 2.2.14 in order to support
greater than 16MB of Storage on my Compaq P.C.
During my testing of 2.2.14, I've noticed that some of my error messages appear
to be Hard Drive related.
I then noticed a strange difference in the /var/log/messages file between these
two Releases:
1. On 2.0.35, approximately 40 lines after the Boot, I get the following
message:
hda: Conner Peripherals 540 MB - CFS540A, 516MB w/64kB Cache,
CHS=1596/13/51
This all looks correct to me.
2. On 2.2.14, at the same place in the Log, I only get the following message:
hda: 233MB, CHS=720/13/51
Not only is the Cylinder number wrong, but I also feel that since none of the
descriptive information is displayed, the Kernel may not be recognizing my true
Hardware and instead is using some type of defaulted IDE Driver.
Would someone be able to tell my why I'm not getting the same information
in both Systems?
Could someone tell me if I'm doing something wrong when chosing a Kernel
Option that is causing this problem?
Thanking you very much if you can help me in solving this problem.
I have a strong feeling that if this problem is fixed then probably my Storage
problems will be fixed also.
Yours truly,
Frank Krauss
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Printing Printing Printing
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 01:40:28 GMT
ok every one who is more than likely smarter than me at linux.....
i have a HPDeskJet820Cse can linux use this printer or do i have to use the
HPOfficeJetR40xi thru the network??
if i can use the 820 how might i go about configuring it???
thanks in adavnce UberLinux users
Melissa & Necro
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Subject: Re: New driver for 3COM Winmodem
From: Kenn Madsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2000 17:44:38 -0800
I do have the PCI version, but also the winmodem version :-(
So, does that mean I might as well just go to a shop and buy a
new modem. Or is it just a matter of time, before the driver
will come.
-Kenn
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From: Fuzzy Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AWE 64 + MIDI patches
Date: 3 Mar 2000 02:52:44 +0100
I have an AWE 64 that I (finally) got fully working (yay!)
now I'm using sfxload to throw patch files into the MIDI
memory (a pitiful 512k by default - I'm thinking of upping
it, but that's prolly gonna be the subject of a later thread...)
anyhow... I have a couple of 512k patch files I can use fine
I d/loaded a 4MB patch file and remember reading *somewhere*
that it's possible to use a larger patch file, by swapping in
only the instruments that you are actually using...
is this true? or do I remember completely wrong?
Fuzzy
hmm... now where can I get some more memory for my card instead...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Subject: Upgrading SCSI cards on Mandrake 7?
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 02:06:10 GMT
Hi,
Does anyone know how to go about upgrading a SCSI card in Linux? I had
the Zip zoom ISA (adaptec 152x) and now have an adaptec 2903b (aic7850)
PCI.
Mandrake 7, on boot, detected the loss of the old card and the install
of the new. I made the mistake of saying keep the settings for the old
card... now can't figure out how to get it to quit trying to find it.
It detects the new one and ignores it... so I can't use the zip drive or
scanner. I switched the hardware back to the old setup, then to the
new again, just to see if it would allow me to remove the old card
setup, no luck.
I've edited /etc/conf.modules per the few things I could find on the
web, to no avail. Anyone know where Mandrake stores the information so
I can update it by hand?
BTW, the hardware all works fine; I have a dual boot with Win95 and both
the zip and scanner run fine.
On another note, if you don't have a PS/2 mouse, don't 'upgrade' to
Mandrake 7... it can't detect anything else. Pretty major bug.
Thanks,
Vanye
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