Linux-Hardware Digest #618, Volume #12 Wed, 5 Apr 00 14:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: don'ts (Henrik Carlqvist)
Modem Problem... help! ("Shaman")
probs. w/ cdrom & floppy in Mandrake 7 ("Robert Weaver")
Conflict with Microsoft intelligent Mouse and Microsoft Natural Keyboard ("Johnny
Chan")
Re: Partition -Boot problem. (Neil Koozer)
Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 5 Apr ("K.Tsakaloglou")
Re: unholy floppy problems! (geoffrey wilfart)
Re: Installation problem -- can't mount CD-ROM (geoffrey wilfart)
LaserJet 3150 (Ed Falis)
Re: Integrated Motherboards (Julian)
Re: Sound card problem: Ensoniq ES1371 audio PCI-97 chip set (eyez)
Re: Abit BP6 (Lars Grobe)
Re: Removable-media IDE drives question (Bill Anderson)
Re: Parallel Printer Port (Peter Cathcart)
Exabyte problems -- please help (Stephen Griffiths)
Re: Maxtor HD IRQ Timeouts - System Hangs :( ("Martin Wood")
Re: printing problems with ye old Epson740 (Robie Basak)
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: don'ts
Date: Mon, 03 Apr 2000 20:03:33 +0200
alexander rauscher wrote:
> i am a linux newbie. i want to use suse 6.4. my question is which
> hardware i must not use. i hope this question is not too general. but
> i think its bett er than asking something like ' i bought the
> soundcard XYZ. will it work under linux ?'
Read the Hardware-HowTo, there you will find long lists of hardware
working with Linux and hardware not working.
regards Henrik
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From: "Shaman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Problem... help!
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:29:16 GMT
I have the dreaded LT Winmodem. I downloaded the Linux drivers for it, but
when I try to insmod the ltmodem.o file, I get Init module: Device or
resource busy. Any idea why this is happening?
If possible, please respond by e-mail.
-Blair
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From: "Robert Weaver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: probs. w/ cdrom & floppy in Mandrake 7
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 16:30:10 GMT
Can anyone help me to get my floppy & cdrom working.
I get an Input/output or device is busy error when mount the cdrom.
I can mount the cdrom, but cannot see the contents.
I looked in Lothar and it indicated my cdrom was on /hdd
I went to dmesg(?) it indicated that it was sr0.
I went to fstab it indicated it /mnt/cdrom /mnt/cdrom supermount
fs=iso9660, dev=/dev/cdrom
Mtab I keep put the line in for the cdrom and saving it and then running
lilo, but disappears the mtab.
How can I mount them?
thanks,Robert
email:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Johnny Chan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Conflict with Microsoft intelligent Mouse and Microsoft Natural Keyboard
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 12:33:28 +0800
I have Microsoft Intelligent Mouse(PS/2) and Microsoft Natural
Keyboard(PS/2). There are two PS/2 port on my ASUS P3B Motherboard. However,
I found that the two hardwares would be conflicted with each other and this
could lock up my linux system.
Does anyone know if I cannot use the two hardwares with same
interface(PS/2). There is no problem when I use mouse with com port.
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From: Neil Koozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.beos
Subject: Re: Partition -Boot problem.
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 08:42:50 -0700
Den Zoner wrote:
>
> I'm trying to triple boot, Win98, Mandrake 7 and BeOS-5-PE.
> My hard drives are as thus,
> 16.8 gig IBM HD 2 partitions:
>
> C:(2gigs primary with windows98 installed)
> D:(14gigs extended w/ fat 32)
>
> 3.2gig IBM HD 4 partitions:
>
> /boot/ (Primary 10meg linux ext2)
> /home/ (extended 2gigs linux ext2)
> /swap/ (extended 170megs linux swap)
> /BeOS (primary 780megs Be )
>
> I can't get Be or Linux to load from Bootman, only Windows!!!
> I cant get LILO to boot at all...(corrupted MBR!!!)
>
> what am I doing wrong, can someone give me an Idea what I'm doing wrong
> and how to rebuild my MBR???
If it's booting windows ok, then there's nothing wrong with the MBR.
It's probably just a matter of putting LILO where Bootman can execute
it. You will need to get into linux with a boot floppy or a rescue
disk. Then install LILO into a convenient partition, such as the one's
with /boot or /home. Then tell Bootman which partition to look in to
execute LILO. Something similar would need to be done with Be, I think.
btw, I assume that you're referring to the '/' partition as '/home'.
/home is a directory that is within / unless you make it a separate
partition.
Neil.
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From: "K.Tsakaloglou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Comp.os.linux.hardware Q&A 5 Apr
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:38:29 +0300
Questions and answers from this newsgroup (archived by subject) can be found
at http://server.hellug.gr/LUGistics/en/pub/QA_articles_main.php3
Links suggested in those messages are categorized at
http://hq.hellug.gr/~tsakf
K.Tsakaloglou
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: geoffrey wilfart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: unholy floppy problems!
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:48:24 +0200
Hi !
> it just won't mount! (cdroms work fine,
> b.t.w) check this output:
>
> foo:/home/user# mount -vt auto /dev/fd0 /floppy
> mount: you didn't specify a filesystem type for /dev/fd0
> I will try all types mentioned in /etc/filesystems or
> /proc/filesystems
> Trying vfat
> Trying msdos
> mount: you must specify the filesystem type
>
Have you tried to use mount -t instead of mount -vt ?
Here is what I find in the man page :
-v Print the list of mounted file systems in
verbose format. Must be the only option
specified.
Hopefully it may answer your question, but I don't know Debian at all...
Geoffrey
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From: geoffrey wilfart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installation problem -- can't mount CD-ROM
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:56:42 +0200
Hi !
>
> Any thoughts? I've poked around in the installation FAQs, but the
> problems they address are all further down the line than I'm getting.
>
Yes, one... I think /dev/hdb designs a second hard disk if any. I've
never seen it designing a CD-ROM. The device in this case should be
/dev/hdc
Geoffrey
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From: Ed Falis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LaserJet 3150
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:07:20 GMT
I have one of these connected directly to the parallel port of my PC. =20
Printtool detects that it's there. But attempts to print the test=20
ascii files to both the print queue and directly to the port give no=20
result. Anyone have any experience with this model?
Thanks,
- Ed
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From: Julian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Integrated Motherboards
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 01:06:54 +0800
I think that any distro that is running XFree86 3.3.4 or above should
work fine. I'm running SuSE6.3 on fully integrated computer (doesn't
have any legacy devices... even the keyboard and mouse are USB only!)
based on the SiS 530 chipset and it's working fine! SuSE6.4 should be
better though since it's running XFree86 4.0.
Just my 2 cents...
Julian
Dylan McClung wrote:
>
> Everything in my system is common except for the integrated sound and
> graphics. Between SuSE 6.3 + 6.4, Mandrake 7.0, and TurboLinux 6.0
> Workstation, which one works best with the SiS 530 Chipset? I would like to
> use the X window system, so this is important.
>
>
> -thanx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (eyez)
Subject: Re: Sound card problem: Ensoniq ES1371 audio PCI-97 chip set
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 17:21:27 GMT
I've had some of the same problems with my card and to both of you, i can
suggest one possible Solution. Before i do, tho, I don't have the SAME card
as you, I have a SB PCI 128, but it still uses the 1371 driver, and since
you mentioned the newer es1371 chip, it sounded Familiar. my advice is this:
Try the 2.3.99-pre3 kernel. I toiled and toiled over my card in 2.2, errors
after errors, nothing worked right. Sound thought it was playing, but i
got no output. When played an mp3, i had no output, and mpg123 -v reported
a freeze at frame 24 (less than 1 second into playing the song). ALSA also
gave me many errors.
When i upgraded to the 2.3.99-pre3 kernel, it worked. Not a single problem
with it. So, Try that kernel.
quoting <Jonathan DeSena>:
>I have the same card and have not been able to get it to work in Linux yet for
>over 6 months despite many attempts using various techniques (including ALSA). I
>have the same problem: everything loads ok, but no sound at all . There was a
>thread in October about this card (specifically rev 6) regarding DMA timeouts
>which I followed, but never got a solution and eventually the thread died. It
>was reported that later revisions of the chip did not work with the ES1371 driver
>as written for early incarnations. I do not know if there has been a fix, but I
>have updated drivers continuosly with no results.
>
>If you are still having problems, I wonder if you see any resources listed for the
>card under /proc/dma -- my SBAWE64 on another computer reports to be using DMA 5
>(I think), but the ES1371 does not report any DMA. Perhaps this is part of the
>problem.
>
>If it now works for you, please let me know what you did in great detail.
>
>Jon
>
>Elaine Wenderholm wrote:
>
>> I cannot get my Sound card to work! I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3.
>> I just recently purchased a Dell Dimension. I have:
>>
>> 3com c3509B ISA ethernet card.
>> Soundblaster 64V PCI Sound Card
>> 32 MB NVidia tnt2 M64 graphics card (it isn't plug and play)
>>
>> This is what I did:
>>
>> (0) Checkted that the board is seated properly and that the wire from
>> the board to the
>> CD-ROM is attached.
>> (1) lspci -vvt to get the chip set
>> (2) rm conf.modules
>> (3) edited /etc/modules.conf:
>>
>> commented out:
>>
>> # alias char-major-14 off
>> # alias sound off
>> # alias midi off
>>
>> uncommented lines under es1371
>>
>> (4) modprobe *
>>
>> (5) enables system sounds in KDE | Settings | Sound | System Sounds
>>
>> (6) rebooted
>>
>> (7) no sound! even though the correct module is installed.
>>
>> YOUR HELP IS GREATLY APPRECITED!!!!
>> Please email your answer to
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> thanks very much !!!!- Elaine
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > lspci -vvt
>> -[00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX - 82443BX/ZX Host bridge
>> +-01.0-[01]----00.0 nVidia Corporation Riva TNT2 Model 64
>> +-07.0 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ISA
>> +-07.1 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 IDE
>> +-07.2 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 USB
>> +-07.3 Intel Corporation 82371AB PIIX4 ACPI
>> \-0e.0 Ensoniq ES1371 [AudioPCI-97]
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > lsmod
>> Module Size Used by
>> es1371 25888 0 (autoclean)
>> soundcore 2340 4 (autoclean) [es1371]
>> 3c509 5932 1 (autoclean)
>> serial 42932 0 (autoclean)
>> memstat 1604 0 (unused)
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > ls -l /dev/sndstat
>> crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio 14, 6 Nov 8 14:48 /dev/sndstat
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > cat /dev/sndstat
>> cat: /dev/sndstat: No such device
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > cat /proc/version
>> Linux version 2.2.13 (root@Bareis) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
>> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 20:35:50 GMT 1999
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > dmesg
>> Linux version 2.2.13 (root@Bareis) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
>> 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Mon Nov 8 20:35:50 GMT 1999
>> Detected 598631165 Hz processor.
>> Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
>> Calibrating delay loop... 598.02 BogoMIPS
>> Memory: 127632k/131008k available (1236k kernel code, 412k reserved,
>> 1668k data, 60k init, 0k bigmem)
>> DENTRY hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>> Buffer-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
>> Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
>> VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
>> CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 01
>> Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
>>
>> Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
>> POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
>> mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>> PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993
>> PCI: Using configuration type 1
>> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
>> 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, IGMP
>> Initializing RT netlink socket
>> Starting kswapd v 1.5
>> Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
>> pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
>> Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
>> RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size
>> loop: registered device at major 7
>> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
>> PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
>> PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
>> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1060-0x1067, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
>> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1068-0x106f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
>> hda: Maxtor 52049U4, ATA DISK drive
>> hdc: CRD-8400B, ATAPI CDROM drive
>> ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
>> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
>> hda: Maxtor 52049U4, 19473MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2482/255/63
>> hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
>> Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
>> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
>> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
>> LVM version 0.8i by Heinz Mauelshagen (02/10/1999)
>> lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
>> md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
>> linear personality registered
>> raid0 personality registered
>> raid1 personality registered
>> raid5 personality registered
>> scsi : 0 hosts.
>> scsi : detected total.
>> Partition check:
>> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
>> VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
>> Freeing unused kernel memory: 60k freed
>> Adding Swap: 136544k swap-space (priority -1)
>> Serial driver version 4.27 with HUB-6 MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ
>> enabled
>> ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
>> eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, 10baseT port, address 00 10 5a 0c d0 ce,
>> IRQ 3.
>> 3c509.c:1.16 (2.2) 2/3/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
>> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 0 addresses.
>> eth0: Setting Rx mode to 1 addresses.
>> es1371: version v0.19 time 20:18:07 Nov 8 1999
>> es1371: features: joystick 0x200
>> es1371: codec vendor ~C~Dv revision 9
>> es1371: codec features 18bit DAC 18bit ADC
>> es1371: stereo enhancement: unknown
>>
>> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> root@linux:~ > more /etc/modules.conf
>> #
>> # Copyright (c) 1996-1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany. All rights
>> reserved.
>> #
>> # Author: Hubert Mantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 1996-1999
>> #
>> # Configuration file for loadable modules; used by modprobe and kerneld
>> #
>>
>> # Aliases - specify your hardware
>>
>> alias eth0 3c509
>> alias scsi_hostadapter off
>>
>> # only used for Mylex or Compaq Raid as module
>> alias block-major-48 off
>> alias block-major-49 off
>> alias block-major-72 off
>> alias block-major-73 off
>>
>> # only needed for fifth and sixth IDE adaptor
>> alias block-major-56 off
>> alias block-major-57 off
>>
>> # mouse (for older busmice)
>> alias char-major-10 off
>>
>> alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
>> options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=none,none
>>
>> # If you have multiple parallel ports, specify them this way:
>> # options parport_pc io=0x378,0x278 irq=none,none
>>
>> # For parallel port devices, uncomment the following two lines and
>> change
>> # "frpw" to the protocol type you use
>>
>> # post-install paride insmod frpw
>> # pre-remove paride rmmod frpw
>>
>> #****************************************************************************
>>
>> *
>> # If you want to use the kernel sound drivers instead of OSS 3.8.1z (the
>>
>> # recommended solution) please put comment signs in front of the
>> following
>> # entries. Then choose one of the sample configurations below. Uncomment
>> all
>> # lines starting with 'alias', 'options' or 'pre-/post-install' within
>> one
>> # such configuration and modify the parameters according to your needs
>> (e.g.
>> # the ressources chosen for this device in /etc/isapnp.conf). For a lot
>> of
>> # ISA soundcards the Soundblaster driver is a good starting point.
>> #****************************************************************************
>>
>> # alias char-major-14 off
>> # alias sound off
>> # alias midi off
>>
>> --- SNIP ---
>>
>> #****************************************************************************
>>
>> *
>> # module : es1371.o Creative Ensoniq 1371 Chipsatz (-->
>> PCI64/12
>> 8)
>> #
>> # Supported cards :
>> #
>> # Creative Labs PCI64/128
>> #
>> # Documentation availabke at
>> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sound/es1371 and
>> # /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/es1371.c .
>> #
>> alias char-major-14 es1371
>> options es1371 joystick=0x200
>>
>> --- SNIP ---
>
--
Rando Christensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<perception is reality>
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From: Lars Grobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Abit BP6
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 19:26:43 +0200
Hal Burgiss schrieb:
I heard about a kernel setting allowing direct access to the hardware
clock. This fixed problems with smp under Linux. Look in the smp-howto!
CU, Lars.
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From: Bill Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.general
Subject: Re: Removable-media IDE drives question
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:40:48 -0600
SomeGuy wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm currently working towards building a PC (AMD K7 Athalon 700 Mhz with
> an ASUS K7V motherboard) and I want it to have multiple operating systems
> (Red Hat Linux, NT, Windows 2000 and W98). It was suggested that I use
> multiple hard drives over System Commander due to the fact that Windows at
> some point and time will need to be re-installed (and I like to do this
> every so often anyways-kinda like a good enema) and it may be easier with a
> removalbe hard drive.
>
> According to Red Hat "Most removable-media IDE drives are not compatible
> with Red Hat Linux; this includes the removable IDE drives by Syquest." Has
> anybody had any success using removable media with Linux? If so who is the
> manufacturer and what is the model of your unit?
I know a lot of people that have had excellent success with Orb drives
by Castlewood.
--
Bill Anderson Linux/Unix Administrator, Security Analyst
ESBU (ARC) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My opinions are just that; _my_ opinions.
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From: Peter Cathcart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel Printer Port
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 18:00:53 +0100
Russell wrote:
> I want to print in linux, I've used printtool, printtool shows that nothing
> is being detecting on my parallel port, which is where my printer is, how do
> i get linux to recognize my parallel port.
If it's Red Hat 6.1, then I had the same problem. It's a known bug. To sort it,
add the line:
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
To the file /etc/conf.modules
This should allow printtool to recognise your printer.
Pete
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Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 11:59:25 -0600
From: Stephen Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Exabyte problems -- please help
Hi all,
A couple of weeks ago I asked a question about reading a sun tar exabyte
tape on my linux box. Thanks to all who helped -- problem solved. I
set the block size to 0 using the mt command "mt -f /dev/nst0 setblk
0". Now I can read my old tapes.
Other problems: (It never seems to end......)
I can not get linux to set my tape drive as an EXB-8505. I have tried
setting the density using "mt -f /dev/nst0 setdens 0x8c", but then an mt
status command tells me that the density is set to default 0x0. I have
also tried "mt -f /dev/nst0 setdens 140" -- no luck. When I boot, linux
sniffs the scsi chain and finds the tape drive and reports it as an
8505. Without doing anything mt status reports a density of 0x90 and I
can write about 5gigs to a 112m tape (8200 specs). Any ideas?
The "clean me" leds are always flashing. I have cleaned the drive with
a Sony cleaning cartridge -- many times. No luck. Searching on the
Exabyte site they suggest upgrading the firmware using Expert. Ok,
back in DOS land I ensure ASPI is loaded and I run Expert. Expert sees
the drive, allows me to start the upload of the firmware file
(8sc-0808.bin converted to TAP format -- downloaded from the exabyte
site) but never finishes. I left it overnight and it still was not
complete. I had to reboot. Any ideas?
Do I ask to much?
Thanks in advance for any help.
--
Stephen Griffiths
Spectral Imaging Solutions Inc.
www.spectralimaging.com
Live life now, procrastinate later.
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From: "Martin Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Maxtor HD IRQ Timeouts - System Hangs :(
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:00:26 +0100
Re-tried disabling DMA, same problem. :(
Tempted to do a dreaded repartition and install combo...
> > Failing that, can you disable DMA for your hard disk in the BIOS?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robie Basak)
Subject: Re: printing problems with ye old Epson740
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 5 Apr 2000 18:09:35 GMT
On Mon, 03 Apr 2000 05:51:06 -0400, Abraham Schneider said:
>Hi, I'm having a small problem with my Epson 740 as far as getting it to
>print anything (it doesn't even make the regular grring sounds Epsons
>are so great at). I had it working previously under Redhat 6.1 using the
>easyprint program (the company that makes CUPS) demo version allowing
I have Redhat 5.2 and the same printer; it worked first time without
installing any additional software; use printtool and select the Epson
Stylus driver.
>for a 45 day trial. It was working great until a day or two ago. As far
>as I know, I did nothing to change my configuration that should make it
>not work. I know everything is plugged in correctly because in prints
>under windoze without any problems.
>
>Thinking perhaps the 45 day trial ran out (I don't think it did, but you
>never know..), I tried installing the demo over again. I'm not sure how
>well they track users, I was also wary about it perhaps just not working
>anyways. Well, after I installed it, it still didn't work. So, close to
>giving up hope, I uninstall proprint (the easyprint program), and I
>install RedHat6.2, which seems to have a UNIPRINT driver for the
>Epson740 [plus I would rather use an opensource alternative -- I tried
>xw_print, and could never get it to work]. Using printtool, I set up the
>printer to what I thought were correct parameters (mostly I just set it
>to 360x360, and tried every other option (basically the two for fast
>printing, and sending the eof.. I never tried the fast stepping, I but
>don't think that should be checked..).
>
>When I try to print, I don't get anything. The jobs just sit there in
>the queue. I try to print out a test page with printtool, and I still
Check that /etc/printcap contains the device /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1; if
it is wrong, it will just sit there. If /dev/lp0 doesn't work, try 1
(for some reason my printer has previously worked under /dev/lp1 and
then switched to /dev/lp0 when I recompiled the kernel or something)
>(as expected) get the non-result. I'm a little worried that installing
>all these different print drivers might have messed up an important
>configuration file some place.. yet another reason I installed 6.2... I
>checked my BIOS, its set to ECP+EPP, with EPP 1.7 (I think thats EPP,
>and not EPC).. I'm not entirely sure what these mean, but this is the
>setting I had it on when it worked before...
You can always do everything manually; install GNU Ghostscript from
source if you don't have it on your system (/usr/bin/ghostscript) and
use the following script:
#!/bin/bash
/usr/local/bin/gs -q -sDEVICE=stcolor -r360x360 -sPAPERSIZE=a4
-dNOPAUSE \
-dSAFER -sOutputFile=- -
This appears to work for me. Note the /usr/local/bin/gs may have to be
/usr/bin/gs if you just use a Redhat RPM.
>
>Aware of the Redhat problems (although I'm sure this got fixed with
>6.2), here is my altered /etc/conf.modules:
>alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of of scd0
>alias scsi_hostadaptor ide-scsi # SCSI hostadaptor emulation
>alias eth0 tulip
>alias sound sb
>pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
>options opl3 io=0x388
>alias midi awe_wave
>post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
>options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>options ide-cd ignore=hdd
># alias /dev/printers lp
># alias /dev/lp* lp
>alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
Have you tried catting a text file straight into /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1?
It should come out on the printer (just press the paper feed button to
eject the page when done). If this doesn't work, it may be something
to do with your kernel configuration; check it to make sure that
nothing obvious is missing (as in make menuconfig or something). See
the Kernel-HOWTO for details (linuxdoc.org or
/usr/doc/HOWTO/somewhere). If you're just using the Redhat kernel then
this shouldn't be an issue.
>
>If anyone has any clue, I would eternally grateful. I'm in dire need of
>printing under Linux, as doing LaTeX under windows is a major pain.
>
>Thank you for your time,
>abes
Robie.
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