Linux-Hardware Digest #691, Volume #12 Sat, 15 Apr 00 22:13:05 EDT
Contents:
A Linux Video Problem ("Ivan")
FS Toshiba 430CDT NEW PRICE $480 w/48meg and bag (Gp429)
Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file... ("Louise Clarke")
Swap file... ("Louise Clarke")
Help!!! Info needed for VIA MVP4 chipset ("William Miles")
Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work! (Dances With Crows)
Re: PCChips - poor graphics performance (Dances With Crows)
Re: Need Technical Specifications about... (Mark Bratcher)
Re: PCChips - poor graphics performance (Graham Wharton)
Onstream DI30 (Brandon Applegate)
Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw?? (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file... ("Tom Hoffmann")
Help w/ SuSE 6.3 install crash - or any jobs open? (Chris Wren)
Re: A Linux Video Problem (Mjd440)
printer port not showing - adding new port ("Rask0")
Wanted: Apple LaserWriter II driver (Pia Gronqvist)
Re: Swap file... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: XF86Config for Mac running Debian (Ginsburg)
HP 20GB TBU redux ("Rask0")
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From: "Ivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: A Linux Video Problem
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:38:59 -0500
I have a SiS 6326 chipset video card, I know linux supports it because
the driver the the X server is in the xf86config, however when selecting the
driver and setting the appropriate parameters up successfull, I start X
windows but what comes up is a black screen which I cannot see anything
except some of my KDE tool bar, as you have already guessed by now, I have
Linux Mandrake 6.0. If someone could email me the fix I would be very
appreciative.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gp429)
Subject: FS Toshiba 430CDT NEW PRICE $480 w/48meg and bag
Date: 15 Apr 2000 23:49:44 GMT
FS Toshiba 430CDT NEW PRICE $480 w/48meg and bag
I have my Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT with an active matrix LCD for sale. The
CPU is a Pentium running at 120mhz, it has the CD-ROM attachment and the
Floppy Disk attachment. The condition is fair because of a small crack near
one of the hinges (I think this a common problem) and there are a couple of
stickers on the case (a CRYSTAL METHOD and a SWITCH BLADE SYMPHONY). I still
have the orignal manuals as I'm the original owner. Also included is a PC-Card
FaxModem rated at 56k Flex. I will not erase the HD which has MS OFFICE 97
PRO, running MS Windows 98, MS MONEY 99 and more! You will be responsible to
delete those Apps. I will include a very nice laptop bag which the Satillite
Pro fits very well in and an external mouse (when you don't want to use the
trackpoint) NEW PRICE $480 (need the cash for taxes). E-mail me for more info
or if you wish to buy the laptop at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
thanx
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From: "Louise Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:49:08 GMT
How do i set this up correctly.
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From: "Louise Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Swap file...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:50:37 GMT
How do I configure the swap file to be on a second hard drive?
Gav...
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From: "William Miles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help!!! Info needed for VIA MVP4 chipset
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:55:44 +0200
I have an Aopen MX59Pro motherboard with a VIA MVP4 2D/3D chipset. I have
tried everything to configure my XFree86 Configuration file for my Graphics
device section.
Windows are using the Trident 8400 driver for my MVP4 but there is non
specified for linux, the closest is the 8900d drivers, tried it , no luck.
I'm using RedHat 6.0.
Tried to contact VIA to send me the white paper for the MVP4 8501 North
Bridge controller, I'm still waiting. They said they are busy with creating
drivers for the specified chipset, but when that wil be released is quite a
good question seeing that they don't even reply to my mail. And anyway, the
best way to do things is by trying it yourself, I just need a little bit of
guidance.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Thanx
William
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: DESPERATE: Need help getting 2nd HD to work!
Date: 15 Apr 2000 20:07:34 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:38:57 GMT, HELP!
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>All I want to do is replace one drive with another - how do I do this?
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.html
>From what I see it is just not set up right and still has the settings in
>place for the old drive, so when I boot it is not recognizing the new
>drive and as such asks if I want to go into single mode to fix the
>problem. I figured that advance users would be familiar with my problem
>when I said I was adding a new drive and as such would know the error
>messages I was getting.
If you are trying to mount filesystems that reside on the disk that is no
longer in the computer, you will get problems similar to this. The
solution here is rather simple...
1. find a way to plug the old drive, the new drive, and the drive
containing your root filesystem all in at the same time. Don't move the
drive containing / if you can help it.
2. Boot to single-user mode.
3. fdisk the new drive and mke2fs the partitions you created
4. copy everything that was on the old drive to the new drive, and
preserve the structure of the old drive if you don't want to mess with
/etc/fstab. (that is, same # of partitions and the same stuff in each
partition. shoot, mess with /etc/fstab, it's not hard and might give you
some ideas about how to do things...)
5. shutdown
6. remove the old drive, plugging the new drive in where the old drive
was. Boot normally and all should work fine.
These steps are described in detail under the URL above. I assumed you'd
read the documentation and were having Weird Problems that weren't
addressed in there. (When I assume people haven't read the docs, they
have read them, and vice versa.)
BTW, the other poster's comment re: fdisk was not quite correct. fdisk is
fine with large partitions. cfdisk and Disk Druid, the graphical RedHat
partitioning tool, can have problems. An 8G disk will not be much over
1024 cyls anyway, so you should be able to use whatever you like....
--
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: PCChips - poor graphics performance
Date: 15 Apr 2000 20:19:45 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:36:56 +0100, Graham Wharton
<<8daqo5$llt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have a PCChips 585lmr motherboard which has onboard graphics.
>The chipset is a blade 3D. I am using Redhat 6.1. I have the full 8MB
>assigned to graphics and my mainboard memory is 128MB 8ns PC100
Is this one of those @#$%ing cards that don't have any memory of their own
and need to steal X M of system RAM? Ouch.
>I have been experiencing poor graphics performance in XWindows. I am running
>the SVGA Server at 1024x768 32bits. Moving windows round the screen is very
>slow and jerky. The window moving by stepping about 2 times per second.
http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/trident1.html#1
...has some things you can mess with in /etc/X11/XF86Config that you
should try out. The "accel" option might help you out, or it might cause
X to cough and die. And if the performance is still bad, turn off the
"display content in moving windows" option in your window manager. That
speeds things up a *lot*. As a last resort, you could upgrade your
X-server to 3.3.6 or 4.0 and see if/how graphics support has improved
there.
--
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: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need Technical Specifications about...
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:35:54 -0400
Stormbringer wrote:
>
> ...either the Canon LBP-8IIIR Printer or PCL5 because I plan to write a
> Ghostscript device-driver myself to support the Canon LBP-8III printer
> family under Linux.
>
> Could anybody please help me?
>
> Thanx!
If you want PCL5, contact HP and get a PCL5 (Laserjet 4 or higher)
technical reference manual.
BTW, why do you need to make a PCL5 driver? What's missing from the
LaserJet 4 driver in Ghostscript?
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: Graham Wharton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCChips - poor graphics performance
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:40:17 +0100
Thanks for the reply. Yeahh it does steal the main board memory, but
seen as though it has 128, it's not too much of a bother. Whatr was
concerning me is that mainboard memory is probably slower than graphics
memory.
Thanks for the hints, I didn't realise XFree 4 was out. I'll give that a
go and try some twiddling.
Thanks
Graham
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 23:36:56 +0100, Graham Wharton
> <<8daqo5$llt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >I have a PCChips 585lmr motherboard which has onboard graphics.
> >The chipset is a blade 3D. I am using Redhat 6.1. I have the full 8MB
> >assigned to graphics and my mainboard memory is 128MB 8ns PC100
>
> Is this one of those @#$%ing cards that don't have any memory of their own
> and need to steal X M of system RAM? Ouch.
>
> >I have been experiencing poor graphics performance in XWindows. I am running
> >the SVGA Server at 1024x768 32bits. Moving windows round the screen is very
> >slow and jerky. The window moving by stepping about 2 times per second.
>
> http://www.xfree86.org/3.3.5/trident1.html#1
>
> ...has some things you can mess with in /etc/X11/XF86Config that you
> should try out. The "accel" option might help you out, or it might cause
> X to cough and die. And if the performance is still bad, turn off the
> "display content in moving windows" option in your window manager. That
> speeds things up a *lot*. As a last resort, you could upgrade your
> X-server to 3.3.6 or 4.0 and see if/how graphics support has improved
> there.
>
> --
> 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] (Brandon Applegate)
Subject: Onstream DI30
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 15 Apr 2000 20:39:16 -0400
Got my Onstream DI30. Upgraded the FW to 1.06. Tried the drive
as master on Sec. IDE, as well as Slave. Writing to the drive seems okay.
Have used tar as well as bru. When writing, get a few of:
Apr 15 19:26:54 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 3,
asc = c, ascq = 0
Apr 15 19:26:54 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: write error, enabling error
recovery
Apr 15 19:26:54 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: detected physical bad block
at 108910
Apr 15 19:26:54 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: relocating 57 buffered
logical blocks to physical block 108990
So, it looks like the driver detected a bad phys. block and said no big
deal, and skipped to next good section of tape.
When I go to read the tape ([tar|bru] -t), I get:
Apr 15 20:05:14 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: enabling read error recovery
Apr 15 20:05:14 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: skipping frame, read error
Apr 15 20:05:14 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: skipping frame, read error
Apr 15 20:05:14 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: skipping frame, frame type 8
Apr 15 20:05:14 fast last message repeated 9 times
Apr 15 20:05:38 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: skipping frame, eod
Apr 15 20:05:39 fast last message repeated 637 times
Apr 15 20:05:39 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: blank block detected,
positioning tape to block 3055
Apr 15 20:05:50 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: skipping frame, logical_blk_num
3015 (expected 2960)
Apr 15 20:05:50 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: couldn't find logical block
2960, aborting (block 3015 found)
Apr 15 20:05:50 fast kernel: ide-tape: ht0: unrecovered read error on logical
block number 0, skipping
Dead in the water.
Does the Onstream linux driver not correctly support read error recovery
?? This happens to me in tar and bru. If I can't find whats going on,
I'll have to not buy food for a month and get a SCSI-DDS.
TIA for any info.
Brandon
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw??
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:39:48 -0400
Michael Kelly wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 02:32:18 -0700, "Jason Byrne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >news:8d83qr$20jk$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >> I have ide read/write cdrom and so far I've only been
> >> able to find info on burning CDRs. Anyone know where
> >> I could find a HOWTO or other info on using CD-RW that
> >> were created with Adaptec sw in Winx/NT?? I'd like to
> >> be able to read and write them from Linux as well as
> >> the Win9x/NT OSs.
> >>
> >> So far I've only been able to mount the CD-RW drive for
> >> reading iso9660 CDs.
> >
> >If I recall correctly... there is an option in some of the Adaptec (windows)
> >software that lets you put CD's in a mode that is 'readable by most
> >CD-roms'. Technically... I claim ignorance on what mode it is actually
> >using.
>
> I think what they are talking about is iso9660. You need Adaptec or
> some other driver running to read and write cd-rw made with Adaptec
> that's rewritable AFAIK. For instance, even Windows won't read a
> cd-rw unless the Adaptec sw is installed.
>
That's not true. ISO9660 is readable by everyone, including Linux,
without any special drivers or software. Just basic CD-ROM read ability
is all. That's what ISO 9660 is about. ISO9660 is the "most compatible"
format to write.
The original poster probaby used Adaptec's Direct CD format which is
more specific to the Adaptec software and not guaranteed to be readable
on other machines without the special software. I believe the format is
UDF, which is available in Linux kernel versino 2.3.99something (if I
recall the previous post correctly).
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
=========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Newbie X-CD-Roast Question
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:07:29 GMT
Matt,
Thanks so much :) May I continue?
In order to get both my CDs recognized by X-CD-Roast/cdrecord, they must run
under scsi emulation, as I now understand. I also get the impression that I
should create a symbolic link from the new "emulated" CDs to the ide device
names. Is this correct? And, if so, where should these two links live..what
directory, that is. The idea I have is to be able to have programs which
expect hcd to be at cdrom and hdd to be at cdrom1 to be able to find them.
Thanks again.
John
>Immediately after you try to access your CD-RW after bootup, the output of
>dmesg should say something like
>scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
>scsi : 1 host.
>Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0
>sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/16x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
>....and that means that the SCSI emulation is working.
>
>You cannot mount a blank CD-R in any way; all writing is done to the raw
>device /dev/sg0.
>
>>Overall, I have this observation. While I'm new to burning CDs in Linux (but
>>not "alien systems ;), I've about a year's experience with Red Hat, moving
>>from 5.2 up now to 6.2, and am reasonably capable at most workstation and home
>
>>network tasks. I found sorting through the documentation for this bit of
>>configuration to be amongst the most difficult that I've encountered. I would
>
>>suppose that for new, Intel, PCI/IDE hardware, the solution I found would be
>>most common and could be captured in a four sentence mini-HOWTO. What do you
>>think?
>
>Oh yes. I've been telling people to do a Deja search on keyword "CD-R"
>and author /me, but that's not a good long-term solution. I'll contact
>the CD-Writing-Howto maintainer, see if he'll put a 4-step piece of advice
>early on called "The Most Common Case..." explaining about the ide-scsi
>thing and how modern distros include the ide-scsi, scsi_mod, sr_mod, and
>sg pieces by default... I hope your experience will help others out!
>
Well, your advise has been at least as helpful as my own stumbling through :))
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From: "Tom Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using 2nd Hard disk for swap file...
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:23:57 GMT
mkswap -c partition size
where "partition" is of the form /dev/hdb2 (for IDE drives this would
be the second partition on the second hard drive) and "size" is the number
of 1024-byte blocks. A swap partition is preferable to a swap file, BTW.
Don't forget to execute a "swapon /dev/hdb" to enable the swap partition.
Hope this helps.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Louise Clarke"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do i set this up correctly.
>
>
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From: Chris Wren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help w/ SuSE 6.3 install crash - or any jobs open?
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:28:15 -0500
I begged my boss to let me set up a new Linux box
as a workstation under the assumption that we could
replace my aging p75 (32m ram 400m hd) and also
use it as a lightweight server (mostly for CVS).
He bought me a nice shiny new box after I shot down
two or three WinJunked configurations he found - and
now, I can't get SuSE 6.3 to even install on this
beast without it crashing, currently during
HD partitioning step.
Things I know:
1) the box is at least somewhat functional - as
a desperation test around three this morning
I temporarily installed Win95 - worked fine.
(yes, that's not the same, but it does demonstrate
some functionality)
2) I may need to come stay with you for a few
weeks until I find another job after my boss
gets in Monday morning and finds we do not
have the promised Linux wonderland.
3) Having maybe a dozen painless installs under
my belt does NOT make me the Linux install
whiz kid I thought I was.
The System in question:
=============================
MotherBoard: MicroStar K7 Pro
on-board IDE AMD 756 chipset
CPU: AMD Athlon 600
Ram: 256m
Video: Matrox G400 32meg
(yeah, I know, 1 head unless I buy Xi)
HD: two 20g IDE FA520S60 Maxtor 92041U4 ultraATA/66
UDMA mode 4
Sound: SB PCI16 (Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371)
Ethernet : Intel EtherExpressPro 100+ (82557 ctrlr)
=============================
Some of my BIOS settings (I'm probably
leaving out the ones you need):
==============================
AMI (c) 1998
BIOS Drive Autodect -
LBA Blk PIO 23Bit
Size Cyln Head WpCom Sec Mode Mode Mode Mode
20492 39703 16 0 63 On On 4 On
Quick Boot Enabled
Add-On ROM Init Force BIOS
Hard Disk Access Control Read-Write
S.M.A.R.T. for Hard Disks Enabled
Internal Cache WriteBack
External Cache WriteBack
L2 Cache ECC TableDefault
System BIOS Cacheable DISABLED
all Shadows are DISABLED
SDRAM Timing
Configure Timing by SPD Enabled
PH Limit 23 Cycles
Idle Cycle Limit 8 Cycles
TRP SRAS Precharge 3 Cycles
TRAS Timing 5 Cycles
CAS Latency 3 Cycles
TRC Bank Cycle Timing 3 Cycles
TRCD Tiing 4 Cycles
Super Bypass Mode Disabled
DRAM Integrity Mode Disabled
DRAM Burst Refresh Enabled
Memory Hole Disabled
Graphics Aperture Size 128MB
MDA Support No
USB Function Enabled
USB KB/Mouse Support Enabled
========================================
Raw (no boot parameters) Suse 6.3 boot died
struggling to come up fairly quickly:
==============================================
Calibrating delay loop... 602.93 BogoMIPS
Memory: 63124k/66556k available (1260k kernel code, \
412k reserved, 1004k data, 44k init, 0k bigmem
DENTRY hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Buffer-cache has table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c6205f4f
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
#pde = 00000000
Oops = 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0120a37>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
register dump....
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c025f000)
Stack dump....
Call Trace: ....
Code: ....
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing
========================================
OK, right off the top, I didn't like the memory
it was reporting - I popped the case and looked,
and sure enough, I still had the two 128m sticks
in there that we paid for - and the BIOS and W95
had reported - So I tried booting with:
linux mem=256M
which got me a little further. This time I
got through to initting the swap partition -
and that's as far as I've been able to get it.
When the system inits the swap partition, it
writes to the HD for a few seconds, then dies.
Sometimes it's a complete lockup - nothing will
do but the three-finger salute. (or reset button)
A couple of times I was able to ctrl-alt to
another console and get the following information:
========================================
Unable to find swap-space signature
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f0248980
current->tss.cr3 = 0f688000, %cr3 = 0f688000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<c0126776>]
EFLAGS: 00010217
eax: 30000000 ebx: 0000000 ecx: c6353010 edx: 0804cd68
esi: c635e010 edi 0c000000 ebp: cf685e9c esp: cf685d04
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process mkswap (pid: 93, process nr: 14, stackpage=cf685000)
stack dump...
Call Trace...
Code: ....
Unable to find swap-space signature
=================================================
I have noticed that the SuSE info screen always misreports
the drive geometry in the HardDisks / CD-Roms system info
selection but then the Kernel messages (I believe this
screen is a dmesg capture) and Linux fdisk report an entirely
different geometry!
Without touching anything:
==================================
Cyl Head Sec
BIOS: 39703 16 63
HD/CDrom Info: 16383 16 63
dmesg: 2491 255 63
fdisk: 2491 255 63
=================================
Well, apparently the mem= trick worked, so I why not
make a good param list a little longer? This time,
linux mem=256M hda=39703,16,63 hdb=39703,16,63
This yielded:
==================================
Cyl Head Sec
BIOS: 39703 16 63
HD/CDrom Info: 16383 16 63
dmesg: 39703 16 63
fdisk: 39703 255 63
=================================
That looked somewhat better, although I have
no idea where SuSE is getting the info for the
HD/CDrom Info panel. It may have LOOKED better,
but it didn't WORK any better. Still crashed on
either swap init (most common) or sometimes it
will live long enough to die formatting one of
the ext2 partitions.
I have also tried forcing my BIOS to:
Cyl Head Sec
2491 255 63
just to try for a little agreement from the
other direction. This was also NDG.
Folks, I need a clue. I'd like to show these
WinZealots what a Linux box can do - of course,
I'd also kind of like to be employed after Monday.
Any ideas?
Chris -
wChris (at) ubginc.com
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mjd440)
Subject: Re: A Linux Video Problem
Date: 16 Apr 2000 01:36:43 GMT
Try adding the following option lines to your X config file (under the DEVICE
Section)--
Section "Device"
Indentifier "SiS 6326"
Option "pci_burst_on"
Option "ext_eng_queue"
Option "no_bitblt"
Option "no_imageblt"
Option "sw_cursor"
Option "fast_vram"
These lines fixed my problem with my SiS 5598. I know these changes have been
used successfully with a SiS 6326 as well.
I hope this does the trick for you. Good luck.
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From: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer port not showing - adding new port
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 18:45:27 -0700
I have two problems, both related to printer ports.
#1. Just installed RH 6.1 on a clone box - install went fine EXCEPT it did
not see a known working onboard printer port. Works fine from DOS (RH is the
only OS on the box, had to boot from floppy to test). So, how do I get this
port to be recognized and/or force fed to RH? I am new to Linux, but this
isn't a production machine, yet. So I can dink with it and make it happen.
#2. Similar to above, except we took delivery of a new DELL server with
RH6.1 preinstalled. Again, works like a champ. However, I added a second
printer port card, ISA set at IRQ 5, I/O at 278. Kudzu did not see it.
Onboard printer port works fine and prints just great to a Lexmark laser
running the HP4 drivers. Any ideas?
Thanks!
Yusuf
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pia Gronqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wanted: Apple LaserWriter II driver
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:49:30 GMT
Hi,
We adopted an Apple LaserWriter II printer, and I'm wondering if from
somewhere or someone I could find a driver for it. It doesn't seem to be
supported by RedHat 6.1.
Thanks!
Pia
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Swap file...
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 01:40:07 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Louise Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I configure the swap file to be on a second hard drive?
use fdisk to allocate the swap partiion on the other drive, set the
partition type to linux swap, mkswap it, add the parition to the
/etc/fstab file as type swap, then do a swapoff/swapon command.
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From: Ginsburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.m68k,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: XF86Config for Mac running Debian
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:55:55 -0500
>
> Does anybody have one you can mail me? Or, Does anyone have xf86config
> you
> can send somehow?
>
if I may quote Christian's incredibly useful email sig:
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Read the FAQ! http://www.linux-m68k.org/faq/faq.html
Download the FAQ! ftp://ftp.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Linux/680x0/FAQ/FAQ.gz
WHERE IS MY XF86CONFIG????? http://www.debian.org/~cts/debian-m68k-faq
--
the last one will be of the most use to you, where is my xf86config? It
is rather short and to the point. Potato will probally be out soon tho(no
idea when, but the code freeze has occured which is almost always a good
sign of a new release coming out soon)
Clay
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From: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 20GB TBU redux
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 19:07:23 -0700
Reply-To: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OK, I am not having any fun with this.
1. Can anyone tell me if RH6.1 retail distribution out of the box supports
IDE ATAPI tape drives ? Or, do I need to recompile with something added?
What info I have found to date indicates that it does, but I'll be darned if
I can get this to work. I really don't need to spend the money on an LV SCSI
TBU device if it can be avoided. This machine has plenty of time to do
backups when there are no other processes - IDE is the answer.
A recap.
Installed a new HP 20GB IDE ATAPI TBU in a new DELL server, RH6.1
preinstalled. During the boot process, it saw the TBU, and assigned it hdd.
But, any attempt to use it resulted in I/O error. Couldn't even rewind or
retension. Maybe I was doing something wrong, but I haven't found a great
deal of info regarding IDE TBU under Linux. Not even sure the OS was
commuincating properly with the TBU subsystem. Any tools, documents etc etc
out there to help with this? HP is basically out to lunch on Linux, at least
from where I sit. And, since the TBU is classified as a Tier 2 device, RH
support is sparse, at best. Should I return it and go with a Seagate 20GB
IDE TBU instead. At least they mention Linux on the Seagate site.
2. Is there a listing someplace of the modules and or support that is
built-in to the retail distribution of RH6.1 so I an see what was compiled
in and what was not?
I am really trying to make Linux work as a cost effective alternative to the
NT servers we usually install. I need to be able to use other cost effective
equipement along with it rather than the expensive SCSI devices more widely
supported at this time.
signed,
retooling hurts
:)
thanks!!
y
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