Linux-Hardware Digest #538, Volume #12 Thu, 23 Mar 00 19:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Newbie sound problem on Debian with CMI8738 chip ("Lesley")
Re: Linux sucks (Amit Mehrotra)
SVGATextMode and ATI Rage Pro IIc (Otto Wyss)
Re: Small and silent Linux hardware ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Repost: Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1 (now Mandrake 7.0) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Dan Harkless)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Dan Harkless)
Re: Serial Ports that don't work. (M. Buchenrieder)
memtest86 and Athlon 700 (Joe Pfeiffer)
plip problems - no IRQ (Steve Feil)
Re: digitiser tablets - recommendations? (Steve Feil)
Re: memtest86 and Athlon 700 (Ronald Bruck)
Re: Trying to get DEC VT420 to work ("Jeff Susanj")
Re: Linux modem...... ("Ernie")
Re: green newbie dial-up and modem problems (Gary Dolan)
Re: green newbie dial-up and modem problems (Gary Dolan)
Re: Gateway machines w/Promise Ultra66 and nvidia tnt2 - best distribution? (wayne
rattz)
Re: Printer: Epson Styles Color 740 ("J. Schaap")
Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work ("Gregory M. Hebel")
Re: Looking for notebook with external SCSI port to install Solarisx86 (Steve Feil)
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From: "Lesley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie sound problem on Debian with CMI8738 chip
Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 09:36:38 +1200
John Strange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8bdmkg$2ms$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Anytime someone gives a command you need to understand what it does.
>
> Here is the best kept linux secret, try
> man chmod
> or
> info chmod
> and
> man man
>
no way , the easiest way is /dev/./MAKEDEV -v audio (this MAKES the /dev/dsp
entry......)
after that, then you may need the chmod command..... but try that first
Pat
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From: Amit Mehrotra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux sucks
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 15:51:04 -0600
<snip>
Well here is one more advantage of Linux that probably none of you
experienced (I hope none of you do). When the machine develops hardware
problems (mine did this weekend) one knows that it the problem of the
machine right-away. If instead it was running Windoze, one wouldn't know for
sure. One would try several calisthenics such as trash the disk trying to
reinstall Windoze several times (and a million and a half reboots in the
process of getting the drivers up and running) et cetra. thereby wasting
millions of valuable human and CPU cycles, before coming to the conclusion
that it could be a hardware problem.
Amit
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto Wyss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SVGATextMode and ATI Rage Pro IIc
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:46:31 +0100
I tried to setup a bigger screen size with SVGATextMode for my ATI Rage
Pro IIc AGP-adapter and EIZO T563-T monitor. I configured the Mach64
chipset in TextConfig but SVGATextmode complains: "Mach64: Cannot find
ATI PCI videocard". Under X everything is fine working and in wdm.log I
find an entry "ATI Mach64 GT IIc rev 58...". Im using SVGATextMode 1.9.
O. Wyss
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Small and silent Linux hardware
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:35:24 GMT
Hi Juha,
> I think in reality you won't
> get rid of spinning disks or fans, so the quality of fans and disks,
> as well as quality of casing matters a lot.
Agreed. I guess it's a question of minimisation. I just don't want a
full size PC whirring away in my house 24h/day if I can get away with
something less obtrusive.
> As for the components, see http://www.pc104.com/ .
Thanks for the link! From the quick look I've had so far there seem to
be a few good options.
Alan
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Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Repost: Audio CD won't play under RH 6.1 (now Mandrake 7.0)
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 21:49:31 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Dennis L. Garman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't know if this'll help you guys, but mine won't play either
UNLESS I check
> the box marked rec in my mixer...Before you say something, yes I know
that that
> shouldn't make a difference, but it does on my RH6.1 machine.
> HTH
> Dennis
>
Well, I tried this and it didn't work. I appreciate the info though.
Anyone else?
Thomas
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From: Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: 23 Mar 2000 21:58:38 GMT
Chuck McKinnis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mine just has an very generic, EDO 32Mb SIMM that cost less than $50.
Um, thanks, but like I said, I was hoping for more detail than that. Any
idea what speed your SIMM is? How 'bout the refresh rate? Physical
dimensions...?
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From: Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: 23 Mar 2000 21:56:23 GMT
Stan Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Goto http://www.crucial.com/index.asp and you can pick the right
> memory for you printer. Great people to work with.
Thanks, but I just checked them and they don't offer a 64MB SIMM for the
printer. Their 32MB SIMM is $75.59, which is more than I was hoping to pay
for the 64 megger, and like Kingston, they don't list specs for the SIMM
(e.g. is it really 50ns?), so I can't tell whether buying from them is a
waste of money or not.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Serial Ports that don't work.
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 17:34:43 GMT
Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>A friend had recently upgraded his PC and lent me his old motherboard
>and processor (an AMD K6/200). I have installed this in my existing
>case in place of the old motherboard and processor but now neither of
>the serial ports will work.
[...]
Unless you got the same _cables_ that came with that board, there is
no guarantee whatsoever that the "new" board uses the same cable
layout as the older one that you had in place previsiously. Only
the external _plug_ is standardized; the connector layout on the board
isn't.
Michael
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From: Joe Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memtest86 and Athlon 700
Date: 23 Mar 2000 15:14:57 -0700
I tried sending this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the author of memtest86), but
mail to him seems to be bouncing... So I'm hoping someone here will
have some ideas.
I'm using memtest86 2.2A to check out a new Athlon 700MHz system,
using a Biostar M7MKA motherboard.
If I have one DIMM in any of the memory slots, it gives me no errors.
If I have DIMMS in any two slots, I get (what seems to me) to be very
peculiar errors: in test 2, with test patterns of 00000000 or
ffffffff, I get one or two bytes in the least significant half of the
word inverted, as in
Err 2 - Addr:08dbf68c Good:ffffffff Bad:ffff0000 Xor:0000ffff
Count:1
Err 2 - Addr:093bf70c Good:ffffffff Bad:ffff00ff Xor:0000ff00
and so forth. Odder still, if I put the DIMMS in slots 1 and 3, it
will test successfully for hours before beginning to turn up errors.
Does this sound at all familiar to anybody? Am I looking at a pattern
that looks like a reasonable memory failure? Or is there possibly a
known problem with Athlons and memtest86?
Thanks,
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Department of Computer Science FAX -- (505) 646-1002
New Mexico State University http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~pfeiffer
VL 2000 Homepage: http://www.cs.orst.edu/~burnett/vl2000/
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: plip problems - no IRQ
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:13:16 -0600
I'm installing plip on my laptop. According to the plip-howto I must
find the interface name in dmesg in order to set up the configuration
files. Looking into my dmesg I found the message "plip: parport0 has
no IRQ" instead of something like "plip1: Parallel port at 0x378,
using assigned IRQ 7"
I do not understand how the parallel port could not have an IRQ
because, when I used a kernel that had both lp and plip compiled into
it, I was able to print using " > /dev/lp". I haven't changed my bios
settings since.
I read having plip and lpr in the kernel could cause problems, so now
my kernel only has plip.
Any sugestions on what I should to get plip running?
dmesg
Linux version 2.2.5-22 (root@osprey) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #22 Fri Mar 3
23:13:08 CST 2000
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 37.38 BogoMIPS
Memory: 6628k/8192k available (832k kernel code, 408k reserved, 292k
data, 32k init)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode...
Ok.
CPU: Intel 486 DX/4 stepping 00
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.5
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP]
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
loop: registered device at major 7
hda: IBM-DSOA-20810, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: IBM-DSOA-20810, 775MB w/96kB Cache, CHS=1575/16/63
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
plip: parport0 has no IRQ.
plip: no devices registered
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 32k freed
Adding Swap: 35276k swap-space (priority -1)
VFS: Disk change detected on device fd(2,0)
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | operating system, when they were not // \\
| allowed to see the source code? (X_X)
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: digitiser tablets - recommendations?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 16:23:18 -0600
This would probably be an X window issue.
You can look into http://xfree86.org/ to see if xfree86 has
suport for digitiziter tables. There may be comercial
X - replacements that run digitiziter tables on Linux.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | operating system, when they were not // \\
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From: Ronald Bruck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: memtest86 and Athlon 700
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 14:27:39 -0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Joe Pfeiffer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:I tried sending this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the author of memtest86), but
:mail to him seems to be bouncing... So I'm hoping someone here will
:have some ideas.
:
:I'm using memtest86 2.2A to check out a new Athlon 700MHz system,
:using a Biostar M7MKA motherboard.
:
:If I have one DIMM in any of the memory slots, it gives me no errors.
:If I have DIMMS in any two slots, I get (what seems to me) to be very
:peculiar errors: in test 2, with test patterns of 00000000 or
:ffffffff, I get one or two bytes in the least significant half of the
:word inverted, as in
:
:Err 2 - Addr:08dbf68c Good:ffffffff Bad:ffff0000 Xor:0000ffff
:Count:1
:Err 2 - Addr:093bf70c Good:ffffffff Bad:ffff00ff Xor:0000ff00
:
:and so forth. Odder still, if I put the DIMMS in slots 1 and 3, it
:will test successfully for hours before beginning to turn up errors.
:
:Does this sound at all familiar to anybody? Am I looking at a pattern
:that looks like a reasonable memory failure? Or is there possibly a
:known problem with Athlons and memtest86?
I think this may be a problem with memtest86. I have a 700MHz Athlon on
an Asus K7M motherboard, with two 256MB PC133 ECC DIMMs from Kingston.
For testing with memtest86 I turned off ECC, but I consistently get
errors of EXACTLY this type at hex location $4E0, during test 2. JUST
BEFORE the error, a message flashes across the screen "Relocating 640K",
so I presume there is some sort of interaction between this relocation,
memtest86, and the cache.
At first I thought it was because I had clockchipped the bus to 105 MHz
(one of the nice features of the K7M is that this is a built-in feature
of the bios). But the problem persists even when I turn it down to
100MHz, so I don't think this is it.
I haven't yet tried swapping memory chips, or removing one.
--Ron Bruck
--
Due to University fiscal constraints, .sigs may not be exceed one
line.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
From: "Jeff Susanj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trying to get DEC VT420 to work
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:15:53 GMT
There are four parameters that must match between the computer and the
terminal. They are baud rate, parity, number of data bits and number of
stop bits. Your initab entry indicates 9600 baud. Is that what the
terminal is set to? Normally the other parameters are no parity, 8 data
bits and 1 stop bit. 'getty' should be able to detect this if you type a
few characters. The 'vt420' etc. does't really have anything to do with
the detection of these parameters. It is used to determine how to handle
special control stuff such as cursor positioning and how to interpret
special keyboard inputs like the arrow keys. I often wish I had a real vt
rather than an emulation.
Jeff S.
Matt Luker wrote in message ...
>Oh yeah, the "vt320" in the inittab is simply desparation. I tried vt420,
vt100, dumb--nothing works.
>
>In article <j_uC4.645$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Luker
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I recently managed to get my hands on a DEC VT420 dumb terminal. I tried
the Text-Terminal
>> HOWTO, but all I'm getting is gibberish.
>>
>> My settings in the inittab:
>>
>> S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT9600 vt320
>>
>> When I run "init q" I do not get any errors. When the init is done, I
see some gibberish on
>> my screen (???$@@#$!! kind of stuff), and I can't get it beyone the very
top line.
>>
>> Needless to say, it probably isn't configured correctly. But how? I'm a
little out of my
>> area of experience.
>>
>> Matt
>
>
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From: "Ernie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux modem......
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:56:15 GMT
Actiontec PCI56012, internal pci slot. Modem is not a winmodem. It is listed
as working with "DOS, OS/2, UNIX, Linux and all versions of Windows."
"Johan Kullstam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Just finished installing Linux on my old 486 computer.What I need is a
> > modem that will work.Any ideas?
>
> any external rs-232c serial interface modem should work just fine.
>
> --
> johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Dolan)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: green newbie dial-up and modem problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:56:14 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:49:50 GMT, r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am running Mandrake 7.0 w/KDE.
>
>I have three problems:
>1-I do not know how to configure the modem
> US Robotics 56k Fax PCI model #5610
> IRQ 11
> I/O EC00-EC07
> COM 5
One thing you can do before abandoning your modem, if it is
a winmodem, is search for a site under "linmodem"; it has
software workarounds for some winmodems that are otherwise
not usable in linux. Sorry I don't have the website
address handy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary Dolan)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: green newbie dial-up and modem problems
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 22:56:14 GMT
On Thu, 23 Mar 2000 07:49:50 GMT, r miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi
>
>I am running Mandrake 7.0 w/KDE.
>
>I have three problems:
>1-I do not know how to configure the modem
> US Robotics 56k Fax PCI model #5610
> IRQ 11
> I/O EC00-EC07
> COM 5
One thing you can do before abandoning your modem, if it is
a winmodem, is search for a site under "linmodem"; it has
software workarounds for some winmodems that are otherwise
not usable in linux. Sorry I don't have the website
address handy.
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From: wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Gateway machines w/Promise Ultra66 and nvidia tnt2 - best distribution?
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:30:38 GMT
HELLO AGAIN MICHAEL:mandrake6.1 and 7.0 does work well with the tnt2 from
gateway if its the tnt2 32mb it just about sets itself up.The ultra can be
another story at times though.You can use xviditune to smooth it out
though.Good luck wayne!
Michael Kelly wrote:
>
>
> Hi. I have a Gateway Pentium III with Promise Ultra66 controller and
> nvidia tnt2 video card. I got a boot image from www.promise.com
> and doing ide2=xxxx,xxxx ide3=xxxx,xxxx and then making a device
> with mknod it can see the partitions on the hd, but I'm wondering
> if anyone with a similar machine can tell me if you are running
> a Linux dist. that installed without too many headaches and does
> XWindows okay with the TNT2 NVidia card?
>
> The boot disk I have is supposed to work with Red Hat 6.0 but
> they said something about Red Hat not liking "third party modules"
> and since I may mess with modules later I'm wondering if another
> dist. may be a better choice?
>
> Anyone using TurboLinux 6.0? I have access to that for free
> so if you have it running on a Gateway similar to mine please
> let me know.
>
> TIA
>
> btw-thanks also to those who emailed me helping to get the
> Promise card recognized.
>
>
>
> Mike
> --
>
> "A man's only as old as the woman he feels."
> -- Groucho Marx
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From: "J. Schaap" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Printer: Epson Styles Color 740
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:51:44 GMT
Konstantin Schauwecker wrote:
> Hi!
> I've an Epson Styles Color 740. I looked on the SuSE HP (my linux
> version) and there stood I should use the ghostscript driver for Styles
> Color 500. I did this and it worked but the colors are very light.
> Further more the Styles Color 500 only supports 720x360 dpi (ST 740 has
> 1440x720). There is a driver for Styles Color 800 in the gostscript
> driver libery. Does anybody know if it works with a better result?
>
> Konstantin Schauwecker
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There is a driver for the epson 740 on this site:
http://lcewww.et.tudelft.nl/~haver/linux/epson.html.
JS
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From: "Gregory M. Hebel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cannot get UDMA mode2 to work
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 23:58:20 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My hard drive supports UDMA mode 2, 33MBytes/sec. But hdparm says
> using_dma is off.
> I have an IWill motherboard that is set to UDMA mode 2. My harddrive,
> Maxtor 10Gb, supports UDMA mode 2 (33MBytes/sec).
> Can anyone help me get more performance from my hard drive? Thanks a
> Million!!
hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdc
The above command will turn on DMA for your harddrive. Read the man
page for hdparm (man hdparm). It's not too hard to understand.
Greg
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From: Steve Feil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.solaris.x86
Subject: Re: Looking for notebook with external SCSI port to install Solarisx86
Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2000 18:05:25 -0600
Just a thought, have you thought about puting a small linux
partition on your ide hard drive (just root) and then /usr
and /home on the scsi? You will of course have to put the kernel
modules on the ide. If you can find a distribution that has
scsi/PCMCIA kernel built in (this is not a standard kernel
configuration), you MIGHT be able to get away with only putting
the kernel on the IDE, and put root on the SCSI drive.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] | operating system, when they were not // \\
| allowed to see the source code? (X_X)
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