Linux-Hardware Digest #680, Volume #12 Thu, 13 Apr 00 22:13:11 EDT
Contents:
Canon MultiPASS C3500 ("silkythreads")
Re: Recommend a modem? ("John Wilcox")
Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg (Majin Bu)
UMAX Astra 610P ("John Wilcox")
Re: windows compadibility. (Andreas Koch)
Re: Linux on a DSP (Andreas Koch)
Re: MB: DFI CW35-3 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Serious Mounting Problem!! (Dances With Crows)
Re: i810 Chipset - Error Installing (D G)
Re: i810/adi1881 sound configuration-help reqd (D G)
Re: Print in Linux with HP Deskjet 820Cxi... is it possible? (randy)
Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg (Marc Andre Selig)
Re: Voodoo3, X4 and 24 bits (Eon Chamel)
Re: windows compadibility. (Terry)
Re: Tekram DC-395 (Michael Meissner)
remote access ("PRINCE POLIUS")
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (Ben Walker)
Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not. (Steve Martin)
Re: Voodoo3, X4 and 24 bits (Steve Martin)
secnd hard drive format necessary? (Charles Brands)
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From: "silkythreads" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Canon MultiPASS C3500
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:13:02 GMT
FYI : I sent a request to EASYSW.COM and here is the response:
Unfortunately, Canon is currently not providing information on the MultiPASS
devices yet. We have been told that the release policy should be changing
soon, but until we can get documentation we are unable to develop a driver
for it...
Sorry...
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If anyone else has better luck with this one, please pass it along.
Donna Williams
Software Test Engineer
General Dynamics
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From: "John Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommend a modem?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:25:49 -0500
Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Vladimir Florinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > "M. Buchenrieder" wrote:
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Hourigan) writes:
> > >
> > > >I would appreciate someone recommending a very good modem
> > > >that will work with both windows and linux. My current
> > > >modem is one of those darn win-modems that won't work w/ linux.
> > >
> > > Buy an external serial V.90 modem. This one is guaranteed to
> > > work in any OS that does have support for serial ports...
> > >
> > > There is no reason for using internal ones, anyways, since
> > > they are a royal pain.
One good Internal Modem is a Modem Blaster 5601 by Creative Labs, I have not
had One Bit of Trouble with this modem, and It will work in Linux.
--
John Wilcox
If CON is the Opposite of PRO
Wouldn't that make
CONgress the opposite if PROgress?
--
I am Bill Gatus of Borg
you will be Assimi....
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From: Majin Bu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:27:25 -0600
I'm trying to load the lp.o module so that I can use my parallel port. For
that, it seems that I must load the parport.o module firstly. However,
It appears as if has somesort of problem:
> insmod parport
Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o
/lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o: unresolved symbol request_module_R27e4dc04
What's going on? I don't want to re-install the operating system just to get the lousy
port working.
BTW: (Setup)
Debian 2.2 (frozen) (kernel 2.2.14)
500Mhz Athlon
128MB DIMM PC100
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From: "John Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UMAX Astra 610P
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:00:35 -0500
I have a UMAX Astra 610P Scanner, and I was wondering if there was a
driver for this scanner.
Thank you in advance
John Wilcox
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From: Andreas Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows compadibility.
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:34:01 +0200
GEK1297 schrieb:
>
> Question:
> Does linux support windows sogtware, like games and stuff
Basically - no.
Some stuff is available as linux version, and some stuff can
be used with a "emulator".
If you just want to play all those brand new win games, linux
probably isn't the best choice.
Besides, why do you ask for "sogtware" in comp.os.linux.HARDWARE ???
Andreas
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From: Andreas Koch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a DSP
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 00:30:56 +0200
"Robert W. Cunningham" schrieb:
> I love this type of answer. Remember, the same thing applies to every
> Pentium as well! It is the system that the chip is part of that matters
> most.
No one asked for a Linux running on a (bare) Pentium, did one?
Besides, of course my knowledge is limited ;)
The only DSPs i ever heared of seem to be some kind of
micro controllers specialized for high speed analog data manipulation,
and they did not look like they were intended to add any
"bus" hardware.
One never stops to learn...
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: MB: DFI CW35-3
Date: 13 Apr 2000 18:33:39 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:12:31 +0200, Patrick Radulian
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I got an Aptiva PII Celeron with a DFI cw35-s motherboard - everything
>(sound, video) onboard.
>I cant get my X running but in 640x480x8bpp modus (which is very
>annoying on a 17" monitor).
>I don't even know exactly what video card it is, and on www.dfi.com on
Try a very recent version of Xfree86. You didn't mention which
distribution you're using, so can't help you that much... RedHat 6.2, SuSE
6.4, and Mandrake 7.0 shipped with Xfree86 3.3.6, which might give you
better results and/or autodetect the card.
Better yet, open the case up, then look for a big chip with "Trident",
"SiS", "Intel810", or "ATi" on it, and write down any numbers and letters
that seem to be associated with that chip. SiS something-or-others seem
to be popular in cheap nasty motherboards. You could also see what Lose9x
thinks the card is if you have Lose9x around.
Onboard video is both a bad idea and a royal pain in the arse under Linux.
They generally give you cheap crap that you can't upgrade, and it often
differs slightly from the plug-in graphics cards or it shares main memory
instead of having its own RAM.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Serious Mounting Problem!!
Date: 13 Apr 2000 18:41:23 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 18:40:00 +0100, Ricardo
<<8d526k$h5q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I've installed Red Hat 6.1.
>- When I try to mount my floppy disk it says "mount problem wrong fs type,
>bad option bad superblock on dev/fd0 or too many mounted systems".
>Does any one knows what dis means? How can i fix it?
>-I've got two disks, one of them has the Linux partion, i can't mount the
>other disk or the windows partion.How can i mount it at start up?
Did you try Reading The Fine Manual? RedHat is reasonably good about
documenting things like this, since they confuse new users.
You probably don't want to mount your non-Linux partitions at system
startup. The best way to deal with floppies or non-Linux partitions is to
put them in /etc/fstab, using some variant of the following lines. This
assumes you have a Win9x partition on hda1:
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto user,noauto,defaults 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/win vfat user,noauto,defaults 0 0
Automagic floppy detection can fail sometimes. If you use DOS floppies
almost exclusively, then change "auto" to "vfat" above. Also make sure
that the directory /mnt/win exists before you try mounting the filesystem.
Read the man page for mount and the documentation that came with your
distribution, too.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows \###| Programmers are playwrights
There is no Darkness in Eternity \##| Computers are lousy actors
But only Light too dim for us to see \#| Lusers are vicious drama critics
(Unless, of course, you're working with NT)\| BOFHen burn down theatres.
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 Chipset - Error Installing
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:01:36 -0700
"Scott C. Zielinski" wrote:
>
> I received the following error message when trying to install the i810
> Chipset.
> Did the first part (rpm -Uvh XFCom-i810-glibc2.1-1.0.0-rh60.i386.rpm),
> which worked find, but it was when I ran rpm --rebuild
> I810Gtt-0.1-5.src.rpm that I ended up getting this error at the end -
> the first half of the install seemed to work find
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot open crt1.o: No such file or directory
[snip]
> agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels exit -1
> agpgart.o not yet available for non-2.2 kernels
> make: *** [agpgart.o] Error 255
> Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.9674 (%build)
>
> Any ideas? It suck using 4 bit colors - and 320x200 resolution (maybe
> its 640, but it still sucks)
Two questions:
Q1. What kernel (or distribution) are you using? The agpgart rpm was
geared toward RedHat 6.0, which I think is kernel 2.2.5. I am using it
on RedHat 6.1 with kernel 2.2.12 without problems.
Q2. What does "rpm -q glibc-devel" tell you? Install it if it's not
there. You might need a few more developer packages as well.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810/adi1881 sound configuration-help reqd
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:04:56 -0700
highflyer wrote:
>
> we've got an intel 810 chipset with onboard sound and graphics.i
> got the Xserver, but the SuSE linux 6.3 distr.(evaluation
> version) which i installed didnt configure the sound.
>
> i tried plug n play, but pnpdump gave "no boards found"
>
> it is supposed to be an ADI 1881 analog codec. manufacturer-
> analog devices. could somebody help me out? which modules to link
> and how?i'd be grateful.
Go to http://www.alsa-project.org/ and download and compile the latest
version. Follow the instructions and use the i8x0 driver module. (Hope
you know how to compile!) You might find some rpms, but I didn't last
time I looked.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: randy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Print in Linux with HP Deskjet 820Cxi... is it possible?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 15:41:26 -0400
Levoz wrote:
> Hi
>
> Have this little problem: Linux is detecting my HP printer as an HP Deskjet
> 820C, which is correct (this is my windows driver) on /dev/lp0. There is no
> specific drivers for this model included in Mandrake 7.02, but there is a
> Deskjet/Deskjet Plus driver, but it doesn't work... I tried almost every HP
> drivers there, but nothing prints. I also tried different port like lp1 and
> lp2... same problem... So is it possible to print with this printer in
> Linux? (It is written on the printer's sticker: for Windows!!!)
>
> If nobody found a solution, how can I place it in my home network, if I want
> to be able to print from any stations except the server?
>
> thanx
>
> Levoz
You mentioned that you have a home network. If this includes Windows95-98 or
NT4.0
connect the printer to the Windows machine abd share it. Then set up samba on
Linux
and use printtool to set up the config for the printer on Linux. I have a setup
like this and
I can print to a Deskjet 812c
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Cant use Parallel Port - parport gives weird mesg
From: Marc Andre Selig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Apr 2000 00:47:42 +0200
Majin Bu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > insmod parport
> Using /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o
> /lib/modules/2.2.14/misc/parport.o: unresolved symbol request_module_R27e4dc04
One, you may want to use `modprobe' instead of `insmod', because it
will locate and insert other modules that are required by the one you
are inserting.
Two, is it possible that you have recompiled your kernel on your own,
but have forgotten to `make modules && make modules_install'?
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From: Eon Chamel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Voodoo3, X4 and 24 bits
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 02:27:53 +0200
Steve Martin wrote:
> Alex Kaufman wrote:
> >
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "D. Stimits"
> > >
> > > I'm wondering if the Voodoo 3 itself supports 24 bit. I was thinking
> > > somewhere I saw it works only at 16 bit or less. This might not be
> > > right, but it would be worth checking out.
> >
> > You're right, V3 won't do above 16 bit. Otherwise great card
>
> Incorrect! I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 PCI here under RH6 and XF86 3.3.3,
> and it's running in 32-bit mode as verified by xdpyinfo.
I think 16bit is the max for accelerated mode, otherwise it doesn't matter.
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From: Terry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: windows compadibility.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 20:36:18 -0400
GEK1297 wrote:
>
> Question:
> Does linux support windows sogtware, like games and stuff
Answer:
No. Not unless there is WINE for them. Check the Wine newsgroup.
--
We don't own this place, though we act as if we did,
It's a loan from the children of our children's kids.
The actual owners haven't even been born yet.
-- The Grateful Dead
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Subject: Re: Tekram DC-395
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 13 Apr 2000 20:46:46 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Roark) writes:
> On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 12:30:08 +0400, Max S. Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Hello All!
> >
> >After installation of RH6.0 on my computer with TekRam 395 SCSI
> >controller I began to receive kernel messages such as "<6>Arbitrarion
> >Lost but Reselection win ............." (while copying large files) and
> >"EXT2-fs error (device sd(8,2)): ext2_free_blocks: Freeng blocks not in
> >datazone - block XXXXXXXXX, count - 1" (while deletition)
> >
> >Whats matter? Help me.
>
> I didn't know the DC-395 series was even supported yet. Is this the
> U2W card, and what driver are you using?
>
> Try the corresponding DC-390 card instead. The 390F (sym53c8xx driver)
> is a great value for a UW card.
Ummm, the 395/315 is a completely different chipset than the 390F/U/W/U2W
series, and uses a driver you can download from TekRam.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions, a Red Hat company.
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: "PRINCE POLIUS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: remote access
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 01:37:45 GMT
I am using RedHat 6.1 on a Micron P200 machine. I am using a USR external
56K modem. How do I enable remote (dial in) access into my PC? Do I need any
particular applications or is it built into RH6.0???
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Walker)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not.
Date: 13 Apr 2000 19:16:40 -0600
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Leslie Mikesell wrote:
>
>> Most (all?) Linux distributions include named, which will resolve
>> names exactly the same for you as it does for your ISP. Fire
>> it up, set your resolv.conf to use 127.0.0.1 (yourself) and
>> you don't need to change it to match your ISP every time you
>> dial a different place.
>
>Folks, this message and many others in this thread indicate a lack
>of understanding of how DNS works in the first place.
>
>Sure, you can set up a private name server on your own system. I've
>done it, just playing around. Sure, it'll cache queries for better
>performance. Sure, you can set resolv.conf to point to the localhost
>and it'll query that instead of another nameserver.
>
>But if you don't have at least one nameserver to pull from that has
>been configured already, it won't work.
A caching only nameserver is trivial. The only zone it is authoritative for
is 0.0.127.in-addr.arpa, the local loopback address. The only other thing
you need is root nameserver cache. If you use Redhat ( and I'm sure other
distributions also) all you need is the bind package for the name server, and
the cahching-nameserver package for the the 2 local config files. That's
it. Name resolution will work fine. If you aren't running DNS for any
domains, you don't have to "pull" form any other nameserver that is set up
already. I really don't see why a caching only local name server is a bad
idea. I have been using this on my home linux box for several years. Using
these packages, a user doesn't have to know anything about bind. An improperly
configured name server can be problematic of course, but a caching only
name server should work right out of the box.
If you need to run authoritative name servers, it is little more
involved, but not that much more. I take care of DNS for 20 or so domains
and it is not that complicated. Reading the DNS howto or the O Reilly Bind
book will give you all the information you need. For the user using a typical
dynamic IP dialup connection, running an authoritative server for some
domain(s) makes little sense, unless they use DNS for their own local
domains not registered with the InterNIC. If you just want name resolution,
a caching only name server works just fine, and is easy to set up.
>
>Read the BIND documentation. When you set up a name server, you have
>to give it (a) manually-entered lookup tables for the zone for
>which you are authoritative, (b) IP address(es) of server(s) to which
>you are slaved and from which you can pull zone refreshes, or (c)
>the address of the root nameservers.
>
>Root nameservers use option (a), since they must point recursive
>queries to top-level servers for the individual zones. People
>setting up (for instance) nameservers for a college or research
>facility would use at least option (b) and maybe one or both of
>the others, since they are responsible for providing lookup services
>for their establishment. A home user would probably do either (c)
>(bad choice, as has been mentioned previously in this thread) or
>(b). However, option (b) cannot be used if your ISP will not give
>you the IP addresses of their servers!
>
>Remember that DNS is a huge distributed database of mappings from
>domain names to IP addresses. For each and every query, this
>information had to have been inserted into a portion of the
>database somewhere. These numbers don't come down from on high
>nor are they brought by the Easter Bunny. Your home-rolled DNS
>server will resolve names into IP addresses, but it has to get
>this information from somewhere. Just starting up named on your
>home system won't get you resolution... the data must be fed to
>it, either manually by you for your zone or by zone transfer
>or recursive query from another DNS server.
>
>(I highly recommend that persons interested in running a local
>DNS server read "DNS and BIND" from O'Reilly Books. It's the
>classic treatment. Be sure to get the latest version; the
>format of named's config files underwent a drastic revision
>in later versions of the package.)
>
>It is true that part of the negotiation process when establishing
>a PPP link *can* include the IP address of the DNS server. However,
>as far as I know this only works under client packages that are
>built to take advantage of it (such as Dial-up Networking under
>Windows 95/98/NT). Linux can't do this because there is no built-
>in mechanism to extract this information and transfer it to a
>"nameserver" entry in /etc/resolv.conf. You must therefore be
>provided with this information and manually configure your system.
>If I am mistaken in this, I'd appreciate any corrections.
>
>As mentioned before, if your ISP won't give you the IP address of
>their DNS server(s), then change to another ISP. They're not all
>this way. In fact, I have helped several of my co-workers set up
>Internet connections on their home PCs and have dealt with a half-
>dozen ISPs in this market, and have never seen one that did not
>provide the necessary information.
>
>Good luck!
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Linux sucks? Maybe not.
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:46:17 -0400
Tony Hague wrote:
> >If I am mistaken in this, I'd appreciate any corrections.
>
> Ok, I'll correct you. Firstly, get youself a reasonably current
> release of pppd.
Well, the version I'm running is 2.3.7 (which came with RH6),
and the most recent version I can find on the RH site is 2.3.11-4,
so I would have to assume that I am in fact running "a
reasonably current" version.
> Read the man page.
The man page I have here mentions nothing about the "peerdns"
option. If you have a copy of that man page, I'd appreciate it
if you could forward a copy to me off the ng. I'm curious to
see it.
I appreciate the enlightenment. Thanks.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Voodoo3, X4 and 24 bits
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 21:50:04 -0400
Eon Chamel wrote:
> > > You're right, V3 won't do above 16 bit. Otherwise great card
> >
> > Incorrect! I'm running a Voodoo3 2000 PCI here under RH6 and XF86 3.3.3,
> > and it's running in 32-bit mode as verified by xdpyinfo.
>
> I think 16bit is the max for accelerated mode, otherwise it doesn't matter.
Ah. That may be correct; I have no knowledge. I'm running the svga
server here from 3.3.3, so it's not accelerated. You're right,
though... great card.
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From: Charles Brands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: secnd hard drive format necessary?
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 22:01:00 -0400
Hi
I just installed a second hard drive and I installed the ext2 file
system with the mke2fs command. Is that all I have to do to make it
work or do I have to format it as in dos? If I do have to format it
then what is the command for that?
Thanks
Charles Brands
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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