Linux-Hardware Digest #461, Volume #12 Sun, 12 Mar 00 04:13:07 EST
Contents:
memory problem ("John J. Budd III")
Re: RH 6.1 and SCSI tape drive. ("David ..")
Need assistance setting up HP DeskJet 970Cse ("David Hinz")
Re: memory problem (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Linux sucks ("Orest M. A. Zarowsky")
Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system (Dave)
Re: Linux sucks (brian moore)
Re: Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO in RH5.2 (Charles Pouliot)
Re: Modem trouble (Glitch)
Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal? (Glitch)
Re: Real audio, /dev/mixer (Glitch)
Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56iV Pro modem (Glitch)
Re: Digital Cameras and Linux (Thumbnail Access!) ("Robert W. Cunningham")
which cheap bubble-jet printer for linux? (stephen)
Re: Linux sucks ("Bob May")
D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet card...supported??? (Tony R. Bennett)
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From: "John J. Budd III" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: memory problem
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:25:33 -0600
40 megs according to bios. 13 Megs according to Linux. 40 Megs
according to Windoze. Researched Deja and tried the append=memxxx32M
etc but it just crashes the machine. This is a Packard Bell Pentium
200. I went to their website looking for a different bios but I have
the latest they offer. Does anyone have any suggestions? JJB
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From: "David .." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: RH 6.1 and SCSI tape drive.
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:23:43 -0600
You should checkout the backup software at www.arkeia.com it works
great on my Seagate SCSI Tape. You can get it for free for personal use.
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From: "David Hinz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need assistance setting up HP DeskJet 970Cse
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 23:31:13 -0700
I need some assistance in setting up a HP Deskjet 970Cse with RH 6.1. I've
added the printer using printtool on /dev/lp0. It is using the DeskJet550
input Filter (HP DeskJet 550C/560C/6xxC series). According to the Linux
Printing HowTo page www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht I also need to add the
Ghostscript options "-sDEVICE=cdj550 -r600x600 # (600x600 Color)". I've
configured everything as above but Postscript documents still do not print.
>From printtool when I select "Print ASCII test page" the page is printed
correctly. When I select "Print Postscript test page" I get
"GS>GS>GS>GS>GS>........." then a bunch of pages are ejected from the
printer.
I know that the printer will print Postscript that is filtered through
Ghostscript because I have used the following to test it:
"gs -r600x600 -sDEVICE=cdj550 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 awkcard.ps". The output
was formatted very nicely with color.
Using "lpr awkcard.ps" just prints a row of "GS>...." characters just like
the Postscript test from printtool.
What else do I need to do with printtool to get the print filtering to work
correctly?
/etc/printcap currently has the following:
##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL cdj550 300x300 letter {} DeskJet550 3 {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
Thanks for any help.
david.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: memory problem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 06:38:17 GMT
On Sun, 12 Mar 2000 00:25:33 -0600, John J. Budd III
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>40 megs according to bios. 13 Megs according to Linux. 40 Megs
>according to Windoze. Researched Deja and tried the append=memxxx32M
>etc but it just crashes the machine. This is a Packard Bell Pentium
>200. I went to their website looking for a different bios but I have
>the latest they offer. Does anyone have any suggestions? JJB
>
Disable 'memory hole at 16M' in BIOS.
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From: "Orest M. A. Zarowsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 01:52:25 -0500
"Orest M. A. Zarowsky" wrote:
> snipped - see original posting
The follow-ups have been interesting reading. Especially how personally some people
are taking things. Oh well, that's the way it goes.
I would like to thank Mr Robert W. Hall for his input. Unfortunately, I don't live
in the UK.
On to the main points:
1) I never said that Micrsoft's documentation (or Microsoft and its products) was
anything to cheer about. Mind you, just about all the MS-based documentation I've
been seeing of late is pretty pathetic and has gotten much worse than it used to be.
2) Linux documentation is indeed much more in-depth and current than MS-world
documentation. However, the issue of the authors assuming that the reader is more
than a little knowledgeable is still true. This point has, by and large, been
ignored in many of the postings.
3) A fundamental point was missed - Linux is becoming increasingly "popular" and
publicized in the mainstream press (note: not the computer press). This has
significant consequences for the Linux community. The most important consequence is
that many individuals with a "Windows centric" perspective will be trying to install
and use Linux. These are not going to be happy campers. Assuming that the Linux
community is serious about increasing the size of the installed base significantly,
the limitations of the Linux documentation will need to be addressed. It doesn't
matter if the gurus have nothing but loathing for these people, the needs of
migrants from Windows to Linux will have to be addressed. Failure to do so will
guarantee that the majority of people who try to switch to Linux will end up
returning to Windows and never trying anything different again. Microsoft wins, we
all lose.
4) I am far from thrilled by the arrogance shown by some of the people who posted
replies to my post and others in the thread. You know who you are. It would be
wise of you to remember that you too were once "newbies". Your current expertise was
achieved by a combination of your hard work AND help from people who were more
knowledgeable than you were but didn't walk around with their nose in the
stratosphere.
5) I'm quite willing to put in the sweat to learn things like networking and system
administration, for example. I just don't see why basics like file management
should be so poorly documented. It's very difficult to play with the configuration
files if one can't get to them. I'd like to leverage my existing knowledge and
skills into Linux. What is the problem with this, if you don't mind my asking?
Orest Zarowsky
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From: Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.setup.storage
Subject: Re: Update on Linux + OS/2 + Win2k system
Date: 12 Mar 2000 01:09:03 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >>Let me ask again. If I do not have any OS installed at first, then
> >>install Linux, install VMware next -- can I then run Windows on VMware
> >>without installing a Microsoft product?
>
> >No. Windows has to come from *somewhere*, and in this case,
> >you have to install Windows in the VMware VM. Of course, with VMware, you
> >can install Linux, NT, (now) OS/2, Win {3.1,9{5,8}, 2K} ...
Think of VMWare like Virtual PC on the Mac, except it runs on a PC. It
creates a "virtual PC" on the host OS onto which you can install pretty
much any other "guest" PC OS. I've got the NT version here installed
under a Win2000 server host which I installed Win98SE onto. What it
basically does is prevent you from having to reboot into the "other"
OS. You just crank it up under the "host" OS.
It's an interesting concept, and if they can make it run faster it might
even be practical. IMO right now it's in the "gee wiz" stage but not
terribly useful. Easier to just reboot and run the OS natively.
OTOH Virtual PC on the Mac is the best emulation product I've seen.
Even on my lowly 240 mhz PPC 603e based Mac, Win95 is very useable. I'd
say its Pentium 133 speed. Has full networking support, sound, CD ROM,
etc. Quite amusing to see Win95 booting up in a Mac OS9 window!
Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (brian moore)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: 12 Mar 2000 07:10:14 GMT
On Sat, 11 Mar 2000 17:44:14 GMT,
John Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<major snippage... don't people know how to trim any more?>
> I networked my NT box with my Windows 95 laptop without needing to
> know what a gateway is. I installed the cards and connected the cables
> like the guy at the computer store said to. Then I just poked at
> stuff. Each computer saw the other immediately in the network
> neighborhood. I don't know if I was even running TCP/IP, let alone
> what a gateway is.
Righto. It wasn't running TCP/IP. If you'd had a more complex network
you would have had to know what your gateway was, or have it assigned to
you via dhcp (so that your network admin would know what it was).
> I now have a Linux computer as well, and I finally managed to get at
> least the NT computer to see and browse it. I haven't gotten the Linux
> box to see the NT box, however. And I still don't know what a gateway
> is or why it is important (which may be why it isn't all working yet).
Another common term for the gateway is the 'default router'. In short,
it is where packets not destined for the local network go, and is
assumed to be a machine that is smart enough to know how to get them at
least one hop closer to their destination.
You -will- need to know this if you plan on hooking these systems to an
internet (note the little i): gateways are what connect networks to each
other to become a (little i again) internet.
Of course your "samba is hard to set up" is misleading. Why are you
making Linux do it the Windows-way? Why are you not complaining that
PC-NFS is hard to set up on Windows?
> Of course, you are right, the Resource Kit does not come with the OS,
> so the user may not even be aware it exists. Ditto for the
> KnowledgeBase. And I'll also grant that both the Resource Kits and the
> KnowledgeBase assume that the user knows what a gateway is. But the
> fact that Microsoft documentation is lacking is no excuse for Linux
> documentation to be equally lacking. I thought the whole idea was that
> Linux was supposed to be better than Windows. To me, that includes the
> documentation, not just features, applications and stability.
It is better. It comes with documentation. Read the Net howto. It's
not very complex (especially if you can adapt to binary math) and what
you learn will apply to any OS, not just Linux. If you want, go read
the Resource Kit and learn what a gateway is. You will need to know it
before you attach your network to another network.
> I wasn't thinking of corporate users at all. I was thinking of John
> and Jane Doe, who buy a computer at the local computer store to use at
> home. Who will they turn to for help?
The same people they turn to when they install a windows network to
share their internet connection.... They'll have to learn what a gateway
is then. A single computer and they won't need to know or care.
Wander into your "Control Panels" on Windows and you will see Windows
has a nice little box for setting the gateway.... it has the exact same
importance on Linux as it does on Windows.
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From: Charles Pouliot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq Soundscape VIVO in RH5.2
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 07:33:50 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm fairly new to Linux and am trying to configure the sound card
> mentioned in the subject. sndconfig recognizes the card as "Ensoniq
> Soundscape" but gets device busy errors when attempting to configure it.
> Manually configuring it(using sndconfig) doesn't allow me to set the
> right DMA for channel 0. The card requires 0x534 according the the
> refman (this is also what it uses in NT). pnpdump gives the same
> results.
>
> I tried modifying /etc/isapnp.conf to specify (IO 0 (BASE 0x534)) and
> reran ran isapnp. I also modified conf.modules to specify the correct
> address, but I still get device busy errors on boot.
>
> One last thing the HCL for 6.1 doesn't say anything special about a
> SoundScape VIVO card but I found this screenshot of 6.1 sndconfig.
>
>
>http://www.redhat.com/support/manuals/RHL-6.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/gsg/doc037.html
>
> Is there a new module for this card in 6.1? If so is it possible to load
> this module in the 2.0.x kernal or do I need to upgrade?
>
> -Teryk
I myself am trying to get an Ensoniq SoundScape card to work with Linux. I'm
running Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.0.36) and what I read indicated that I had to
recompile the kernel to get any kind of sound support (even module). I
believe this was a kernel 2.0.x issue, but it could have been a Debian issue.
You might need the new kernel anyway, only a few SoundScape cards are
supported in 2.0.36 compared to what I saw with RedHat 6.1 (kernel 2.2.?)
Good Luck! Charles Pouliot B.S. in Computing & Information Science, Saint
Vincent College
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:10:55 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem trouble
Aceinthehole wrote:
>
> Hello, new to linux and this ng, can anyone help me out to find out if my
> modem is supportable. Trouble is, farty old windoze won't let me browse the
> grommit site (or any site for that matter) to find out to see if it's listed
> (this after a reinstall of everything too, I'm starting to hate windope).
> Anyway, it's a PC Tel v90 kflex HSP 56k PCI yankee doo dah voice jobbie.
any modem that has HSP or HCF is a winmodem and thus not supported
within linux, get a real modem to fix the problem.
> Windole says it is using hardware flow control
thats not what you think it is. Linux can use hardware flow control also
on a modem. The difference between a real modem and a winmodem is that
a winmodem does not have a DSP chip on the board, the work of the chip
is instead done within a software driver and until someone releases the
specs of a winmodem to the public no one can write drivers for the
modems to work in linux. (supposedly lucent released the specs to one of
its modems: www.linmodems.org)
> , so presumably this is
> favourable to linux from what I can find out.
u dont know much then if you think it is favorable
> If anyone can help please do, I really can't afford to buy another modem.
> Replies by e-mail if possible please or I might never get them!
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:15:25 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: COM1 or COM2 for the ext. modem; whats optimal?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> If you were going to put an "external modem" on your PC,
> which is the most optimal: COM1 or COM2 to avoid clashing
> with the Mouse or other highly used periphs using COM1 or COM2?
>
if you have a serial mouse then you HAVE to put the modem on Com2 if
that is your only other choice.
> I.e. what would give the best system performance because of
> non-clashing interrupts. The mouse even though it is not
> plugged into a COM port uses a COM interrupt, right?
if its plugged into a serial port it uses a COM. Its not possible for it
to be plugged into a serial port and yet not use a COM port. IF you
have a PS2 mouse it doenst use a Com port but it still uses an IRQ, IRQ
12 in fact.
its not a matter of importance if the mouse takes up COM 1 and you have
no choice but to use COM2 for the modem, its a matter of it working or
not, period.
btw, dont crosspost, its a waste
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:18:12 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Real audio, /dev/mixer
Martin Booth wrote:
>
> Dear Folks,
>
> Sorry for the cross-posting, I'm a bit pushed for time - that is if
> anyone knows the answer that is. I have a problem in that I would like
> to download a real audio file and copy it to CD ( a present for
> someone). I've tried to download the real audio file but it just has a
> link to pnm://..... . I've installed real audio on my Linux system (more
>
> of that later) and tried to save it to a file.
unles the site allows it you can only play the REal Audio files thru the
Real Audio player. Unless they have a link to the actual file it wont
download, only play through the player.
> I've, naively, tried to
> replace the /dev/dsp with a file and hope that would catch the data
> before it hit my sound card. Needless to say it didn't work. Anyone know
>
> how to get the data to disk in a readable format?
>
> My system is slakware 7.0, kernel 2.2.14, sound card sound blaster using
>
> es1370. Realplayer 5.0.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> My realplayer only works if I change the settings to:
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root sys 14, 0 Jul 18 1994 /dev/mixer
> from:
> crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 0 Jul 18 1994 /dev/mixer
> But then mxaudio won't allow my changing the volume and I have to change
>
> it back, any idea why rvplayer5.0 won't work with write privileges to
> /dev/mixer?
are u running it all as root or as a regular user?
>
> Martin Booth
> P.S. In case of E-mail reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 03:27:28 -0500
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond SupraExpress 56iV Pro modem
Matt Hatcher wrote:
>
> I've been running Slackware Linux for a while now but have never needed to
> actually get my modem up and running - now that I do I am in grave doubts
> that it'll actually work. I've checked the list at /~gromitkc and yup - my
> modem is there under HCF and has two big question marks next to it.
>
> Is there _any_ likelyhood that I'll be able to get it to work (I've tried -
> the kernel won't acknowledge it) or should I just buy another cheap one that
> definitely will?
buy a real modem that costs at least $50 for a brand name modem other
than 3COM and at least $90 for a 3COM
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From: "Robert W. Cunningham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Digital Cameras and Linux (Thumbnail Access!)
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:44:53 GMT
"Douglas E. Mitton" wrote:
> I have modified this program to download the thumbnail images ... they
> are much smaller and faster for a quick look. Now I find that they
> are not a format recognized by any of the utilities on my system. I
> did a few searches but I guess I'm not asking the right questions.
>
> Does anyone know of a utility that will allow these thumbnails to be
> viewed or converted into some usable form?
I am NOT a user of the Fuji camera being discussed, but I do have a Mustek,
and here's what little I know:
While most cameras use 24-bit JPEG (or a modified version of it) for their
main image format, the thumbnails tend to be simple headerless bitmaps with
reduced color depth (matching their reduced resolution). You might want to
look at them with a binary editor and see if you can figure out the pixel
format manually.
If you can, then a fast and simple perl script can rearrange the data into
a recognizable format. Probably the easiest formats to use would be XPM,
or maybe BMP.
I once had to do similar stuff to make some satellite image data viewable,
and it wasn't that hard to do, especially if you already know what the
final image is supposed to look like.
To make this easier, try taking some sample pictures of easily recognizable
objects, such as a checker board, several solid-color images (all white,
black ,red, blue, green), and maybe some color bars. As you start to
narrow in on the encoding, images of vertical, horizontal and diagonal
lines, along with boxes and circles will help.
In all, maybe a dozen test images should allow you to properly figure
things out.
-BobC
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From: stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which cheap bubble-jet printer for linux?
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2000 08:55:02 GMT
Hello:
Which current ~$100 non-Windows only bubble-jet printer is compatible
with Linux?
Thanks
Stephen
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From: "Bob May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2000 21:42:43 -0800
Yep, here's a John Doe type that looks at all the files on the various
folders and says - Why when I click on a file, nothing happens? I
haven't even found the help files (if they exist) on the RH6.0 that I
have. The only thing that I have found is the way to change the
colors (to another set - not to what I want) of the display. I've
also noted that the open panes tend to have the bottom and the right
parts out of the display. Haven't figured out how to limit that kind
of behavior with the few various things that I do manage to open.
I might mention that I am quite experienced as a assembly language
programmer with a fair number of different processors and regularly
write code for microcontrollers for work but I find the total lack of
a help system on the Linux to be a rather large problem.
--
Bob May
I don't read attachments to posts as they may give me a
virus If I expect an attachment from you I will open it..
You may have a brilliant thought but if you put it into an
attachment I won't read it and thus both you and I lose.
I don't like to say it but unfortunatly, there are those who
insist upon being nasty to the rest of us. Bob May
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tony R. Bennett)
Subject: D-Link DFE-550TX Ethernet card...supported???
Date: 12 Mar 2000 01:05:37 -0800
I checked the HOWTO and it does not list this card as being
supported... But I see that there are quite a few 'clone'
NIC's... is this one???
I 'came' with my Toshiba M500 Server... I could just buy another
NIC but not if it isn't necessary.
TIA,
Tony
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