Linux-Hardware Digest #565, Volume #12 Tue, 28 Mar 00 15:13:11 EST
Contents:
Re: free Linux installation CD (Laura Conrad)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? (Harry Travis)
Linux as a terminal (Dave Waller)
Interrupt ("Shannen")
Lexmark Z11 ("Alan Yates")
Re: ?'s Abt Using A Lucent Modem With Caldera Linux (DG)
Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs? ("William L. Hartzell")
Re: New Athlon 700 Box ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Adaptec ADP1505A and Linux RH6.1 SCSI ("Arthur J. Yarwood")
Re: Linux on HP Brio 200? (DG)
ECP under linux (DG)
Shared library creation. (Saringni Addepally)
Re: Where can I download these files... (Ulrich Eckhardt)
realigning partitions to cylinder boundaries : sfdisk? (Shashi Rao)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: free Linux installation CD
From: Laura Conrad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 28 Mar 2000 12:07:51 -0500
>>>>> "Shrikant" == Shrikant Joshi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Shrikant> If you want it temporary for Installation purpose , you
Shrikant> may also like to visit your local Library. Many Linux
Shrikant> books come alongwith a installaiton CDs which you can
Shrikant> borrow alongwith the book. The book also have aa
Shrikant> dedicated chapter for the installation for that
Shrikant> particular flavour.
The problem with this strategy is that it tends to get you last year's
(at best) CD. If you get far enough in your installation to start
writing questions about how to get things to work to the internet, you
will then get a lot of answers like "This problem was fixed last Fall;
upgrade to the latest version". I recommend getting the latest CD
from cheapbytes or somewhere like that. Or borrowing one from
someone. Or convincing the library to order the latest cd and loan it
to users.
Shrikant> sava wrote:
>> Somebody know were i can get free Linux installation CD ?
>>
>> Thanks.
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Laura Conrad mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laura (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] , http://www.world.std.com/~lconrad/ )
(617) 661-8097 fax: (801) 365-6574
233 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02139
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Travis)
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 12:21:27 -0500
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
In <8bpbtb$pf5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 03/28/00
at 04:19 AM, Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Harry Travis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Dan Harkless <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> > > William L. Hartzell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >Dan:
> > > >There is no such thing as a 1k or a 2k refreash rate.
> >
> > > Okay. I'm just repeating the wording used on RAM sellers' sites.
> >
> > > >These numbers refer to the size of the on chip cache.
> >
> > > No, technical is great, but what's the upshot? I should be able
>to use
> > > 4K (or 6K, or whatever) SIMMs with my printer and it should work
>fine?
> >
> > Now, two years later we are worrying about whether we have to meet
>the
> > same performance as 50ns memory we see in a printer, and we fuss and
> > fuss, when 100ns memory, if it existed, would be more than adequate.
>And
> > what does Lexmark, willing to make 500% profit on its memory simms
>(and
> > there is NOTHING wrong with their profit making, have to say? Well,
> > nothing, or just that their memory is 50ns.
> >
> > So far, no one has reported here of misbehaving Lexmark Optras due
>to
> > slow simms. --
>Umm, right. As I said, it sounds like I'll be fine with 60ns chips -- that
>wasn't what the exchange between William and myself was about, though. The
>question is, does it matter whether those 60ns SIMMs are 2K or 4K
>refresh/cache/whatever-the-right-term-is?
>As I said in my original post, more than one RAM retailer told me that only
>computers made within the last year-and-a-half would take 4K EDO SIMMs.
>They said I needed the older-tech. 2K SIMMs, which are unfortunately quite a
>bit more expensive. Are they full of crap, or not?
>I did a bit of research and learned that 2K refresh SIMMs use "symmetrical
>(11x11) addressing", and 4K SIMMs use "asymmetrical (12x10) addressing". I
>have no idea what those terms actually mean, but it sounds quite likely that
>4K SIMMs would not work in a device that wasn't expecting them.
>I know some people are saying, "Use whatever you want," but has anyone
>actually used 4K SIMMs in an Optra?
I am doubt those who are doing so successfully are going to trouble themselves to
learn the specs of what works.
You are certainly right about one thing: I speculated only about the refresh rating.
But to extend the argument: if the objective is use, why not try to cheaply acquire an
8, 16 or 32 meg stick of whatever is cheapest and guaranteed to work in your
brother-in-law's 486. nowhere else. all other speces be hanged?
--
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Travis)
DemostiX
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From: Dave Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux as a terminal
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:40:29 -0600
I have a couple of IBM AIX boxes that HAVE to have a terminal attached
to them. Can I use a virtual terminal on a linux box as the terminal?
What I would like is a cable coming out of the AIX box going into the
serial port of my Linux box and then I hit {ctrl}{alt}{f6} and I am on
onb box and {ctrl}{alt}{f5} to get the other.
Dave Waller
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From: "Shannen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Interrupt
Date: 28 Mar 2000 17:36:59 GMT
Hi
i am doing an mp3 play. this is suppose to do output byte to a parallel
port at a regular interval. using normal process forking does not work as
the output interval is greatly affected. so i'm thinking of interrupting at
some millisecond interval to output the byte code. any suggestion?
Thanks
Shannen
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From: "Alan Yates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark Z11
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:40:44 +0100
Has any got a lex. Z11 working?. I'm using mandrake.
I won't hold my breath as lexmark refuse point blank to even release drivers
for NT
Wankers.
TIA
Al
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From: DG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ?'s Abt Using A Lucent Modem With Caldera Linux
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:37:37 -0800
Mike Garber wrote:
>
> I would be very appreciative if any of you could answer any of the following
> questions about using a Lucent winmodem (v. 5.39_0208) with Caldera Open
> Linux 2.3 (kernel v. 2.2.10). Even though I have worked with DOS and Windows
> for a long time, I've only been using Linux for a couple of weeks now, so
> please bear with my ignorance.
>
> 1) Have any of you had any success in using a Lucent modem with Linux?
Yes.
> 2) I found some "drivers" for doing so on a web site belonging to Rob Clark
> (http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html). One of the drivers was an rpm
> package, and several were zipped files. Does anyone know which of these are
> better or easier to use?
Use the zipped file. The rpm doesn't give you any clue about what it
has done, and it won't uninstall properly.
> 3) Will there be any problems using them with my version / distribution of
> Linux?
Probably. Try the ltmodem565a driver first, since I believe that driver
works with kernels >= 2.2.5. I believe that the ltmodem568 driver only
works with kernels >= 2.2.12. I could be wrong.
> 4) Will using one of the above "drivers" keep my modem from continuing to
> work with
> Windows when I boot into my Windows partition?
No. I use the Lucent 5.70 driver in Windows and the 5.68 driver in
Linux with no problems. ATI3 gives appropriate results for each driver,
so I don't think the driver is flashed into the modem.
> 5) What do I need to do, after installing the rpm package or after running
> the scripts in the zipped files, to get my modem working?
After banging my head against the wall for a few hours, I finally got my
Lucent PCI Win Modem to work! Let me tell you what the key was to get
it to work for me:
1) Disable the BIOS plug and pray (PNP OS=NO).
2) Download the ltmodem568 driver from www.linmodems.org
3) Unzip and run the ltinst script (Per another users suggestion, I
cleaned up the mess this script made and used conf.modules instead--I'm
not sure if this is applicable to Caldera. Starting the driver by hand
looks like this: "insmod -f ltmodem.o")
4) do "cat /proc/pci" and make sure you're modem has been assigned an
IRQ!!!!
5) Use minicom, kppp or whatever and enjoy!
Note that in my case, step #1 was the key! No IRQ would be assigned
unless that was done, and my computer would slow to a crawl. With PNP
turned off, the IRQ is assigned and everything works! (Anybody know how
to get linux to assign the IRQ while PNP is turned on? This is PCI, not
ISA.) Unfortunately, this causes Windows98 to share IRQ with the PCI
video card. I don't know if that's bad as the modem and video still
worked fine under w98.
Good luck!
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: "William L. Hartzell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.periphs.printers
Subject: Re: True requirements for Lexmark Optra Color 40 SIMMs?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 18:44:08 GMT
Yes;
Stores here allow us to return for in-store credit memory (15 day time
limit) towards another purchase. Buy what you think will work, try it.
However it works, you just became the expert, instead of relying on
third hand info. It seems that there is no one who has tried your
scenario and is will to report. So whatever you do, please report.
Bill
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New Athlon 700 Box
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 10:57:02 -0800
See how they are rated (or rate them!):
> : Athlon 700 $263 or dual Celeron 533 $246
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?795
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?956
> : Teac 4x4x32 CD-RW INT IDE $247
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?959
> : Board ASUS K7M AMD-751 CHIPSET ATX WITH AUDIO OR WITHOUT $159
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?974
> : IBM 20.5 GB Deskstar GXP 7200 RPM AT/66 2MB cache $166
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?954
> : Sound blaster Live Value CT4830 $46.75
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?315
> : 3DFX Voodoo3 3000 16 MG AGP $122.50
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispproduct.cgi?DISP?786
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From: "Arthur J. Yarwood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.periphs.scsi,it.comp.hardware.scsi,linux.dev.scsi,linux.redhat.install,linux.redhat.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Adaptec ADP1505A and Linux RH6.1 SCSI
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:11:42 +0000
IgoR wrote:
> I would like to use my SCSI CDWR on my Linux box
> ( stock RH6.1 kernel 2.2.12-20 ).
> More than a week I am trying to make my SCSI card running.
> I have Adaptec AHA1505A card. It is an ISA card.
> It does not matter what I do , I am not able to load module
> for this card. I am always getting the following
> message:
>
> /lib/modules/2.2.12-20/scsi/aha152x.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
>
> According to info I have the correct module for this card is
> 'aha152x.o'.
>
> What did I try to do 'til now:
>
> - I did try to set ALL combinations of addresses and IRQs
> using 'pnpdump' and 'isapnp'. 'isapnp' recognizes
> the card and sets IRQ. The output of the 'isapnp' is
> ADP1505/849934698[0]{SCSI Controller }:
> Port 0x340; IRQ10 --- Enabled OK
> - I did try to put an append line into lilo.conf
> The line was : append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1"
> Yes, I did try other combinations also. I was able
> to boot the system without any error messages,
> but 'lsmod' did not show module 'aha152x.o' loaded.
> - I read ALL available RTFM I found on the NET,
> - I read SCSI-HOWTO
> - I read a lot of messages related to the 1505 on deja.com
>
> BUT
>
> I am still 'lost'... I am not able to load that
> SCSI module..
>
> Any hint, link, advice, URL, pointer is more than
> welcome
>
> Thanks
>
> Igor
Yep just solved this one. You put all the options in for the kernel yep?
Sorted, ran kerned, yep? sorted. Right from what I can see the sd and sr
modules, needed for scsi hard drives and scsi cdrom drives are built into
the kernel, so they load first, unfortunetly this is before the aha152x.
o module is loaded - so they don't work.
When you come to load the aha152x.o module later, the sd and sr bits
aren't working cause they failed earlier.
try running 'scsi_info' this seemed to bring everything back into line.
and gives you lots of feedback as to whats hanging off your scsi card.
See if that works now: try 'cat /proc/scsi/scsi'
then try mounting '/dev/scd0'
I've actually put a line into the '/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit' file, to run the
scsi_info command just before it tries to auo-mount everything. Seems to
have fixed the problem.
I'm sure, it would all be a bit neater if we recompiled the kernel to
have the sr, sd and the aha152x modules built in (ie not modules).
Hope that helps,
Arthur.
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From: DG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on HP Brio 200?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:17:51 -0800
Bill Crocker wrote:
> Anyone running Linux on an HP Brio 200? Looks like a compact little box for
> Linux!
Yes. It's about the least expensive brand-name computer you can buy.
Only problem is that there are no ISA slots! That aside, I had a few
problems getting RedHat 6.1 working:
*) Default partition is a 15MB DOS Partition (diagnostic tools) followed
by a FAT32 partition that takes up the rest of the disk. fips20 worked
great for adjusting the partition. Don't do the Win98 defrag--it
screwed up my system.
*) RedHat install wouldn't let me add the 15MB diagnostic partition, so
I added that manually later (don't worry that the type is 12h, it boots
fine).
*) Video is i810 which is supported under XFree86 3.3.6 (2D only) using
the agpgart.o module. Or you can download the driver from
support.intel.com for other XFree86 versions.
*) My Brio didn't come with a modem, so I bought one. Be careful to get
the right kind!
*) Printers will work in EPP mode. I'm trying to find out if I can use
ECP mode under linux (anyone know?)
*) ALSA (www.alsa-project.org) has an i810 sound driver, but I haven't
tried it out yet.
One last note about the BRIO 200. It uses soft-power-down--there is no
seperate reset button. This drove me nuts until I actually read the
manual: if you push the power down button for 5 seconds, it will hard
reset. (Soft-power-down keeps the kids from shutting off the computer
without using "shut down" in win98.)
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: DG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ECP under linux
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:20:25 -0800
I have an HP Printer/Scanner/Copier 500 that I would like to use in ECP
Parallel Port mode. Can linux be made to print in ECP mode? Can it be
made to scan in ECP mode? The reason for ECP over EPP or bi-directional
is speed. ECP uses DMA.
Thanks.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: Saringni Addepally <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shared library creation.
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 11:56:47 -0800
Hi ,
I want to create a shared object, and link it later on
to generate and exe. I have 2 files.
1) extLib.c
2) mas.c
extLib.c needs to be made a shared object.
So I am using :
cc -g -o libextLib.so -shared extLib.o
command line to generate the .so.
Now to generate the executable, I am doing :
cc -g -o mas mas.c -lextLib
I have set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH to point to the place
where libextLib.so is present.
I am getting an error while compiling the executable,
saying that ipcLib:No such file or directory.
It looks crazy to me.
Can some one point out the mistake I am making ??
I am making use of Linux 2.2.14
Regards
Saringni
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From: Ulrich Eckhardt <s1524293 (AT) rzbt.fh-hamburg.de>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Where can I download these files...
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 21:22:33 +0200
Jim Morrissey wrote:
> libnewt.so.0.50
> libpopt.so.0
>
> Can anyone tell me what package(s) they are in?
yeah, dpkg can, provided you�re runnig Debian and have read the manual :-)
>
> TIA,
>
> -Jim
>
>
>
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From: Shashi Rao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: realigning partitions to cylinder boundaries : sfdisk?
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 19:48:15 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hi all
i'm trying to move some partitions around on my ide disk so i can create
a primary partition on which to install freebsd. (i have lots of logical
space in my extended partition which is the only primary partition besides
my win32 vfat one. but freebsd insists on being given a primary partition
to itself.)
i got fairly far into this task using just fdisk, tar, and lilo to move my
ext2 partitions and data around. now, i have a void in the early cylinder
ranges that i would like to define primary partitions in. unfortunately,
sfdisk and cfdisk complain about the boundaries of my logical partitions
not being cylinder-aligned. and so does gnu parted -- which is what i
wanted to use to create new primary partitions and redefine the starting
range of the extended partition etc...
any help here would be very welcome, i've spent the better part of an
entire day trying to figure this out :(
to summarize my problem: i just want to use some of that blank space
between cyl 524 and 997 for freebsd and openbsd slices. how can i do it?
output of sfdisk -d /dev/hda:
# partition table of /dev/hda
unit: sectors
/dev/hda1 : start= 63, size= 8401932, Id= b
/dev/hda2 : start= 8401995, size=27005265, Id= 5, bootable
/dev/hda3 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/hda4 : start= 0, size= 0, Id= 0
/dev/hda5 : start= 22025178, size= 6297417, Id=83
/dev/hda6 : start= 28322658, size= 4208967, Id=83
/dev/hda7 : start= 32531688, size= 2875572, Id=83
/dev/hda8 : start= 16016805, size= 417690, Id=83
/dev/hda9 : start= 16434558, size= 273042, Id=82
/dev/hda10: start= 16707663, size= 4289292, Id=83
/dev/hda11: start= 20997018, size= 1028097, Id=83
output of fdisk /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2204 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 1 523 4200966 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 524 2204 13502632+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 1372 1763 3148708+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1764 2025 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2026 2204 1437786 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 998 1023 208845 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1024 1040 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 1041 1307 2144646 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 1308 1371 514048+ 83 Linux
Command (m for help): q
and finally, the evidence for the non-cylinder aligns:
sfdisk -l -V /dev/hda:
Disk /dev/hda: 2204 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 0+ 522 523- 4200966 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 * 523 2203 1681 13502632+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty
/dev/hda5 1371+ 1762 392- 3148708+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 1763+ 2024 262- 2104483+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2025+ 2203 179- 1437786 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 997 1022 26 208845 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 1023+ 1039 17- 136521 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 1040+ 1306 267- 2144646 83 Linux
/dev/hda11 1307+ 1370 64- 514048+ 83 Linux
Warning: partition 5 does not start at a cylinder boundary
thanks very much for any help!
shashi
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