Linux-Hardware Digest #695, Volume #12 Sun, 16 Apr 00 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V (Tellplace)
Re: I am a reseller and need help (John F Hickey)
Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program (Young4ert)
Epson printer questions ("Philip Harling")
Re: Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program (david a. lethe)
XF86Config OffTime and ViewSonic monitor (Mark Bratcher)
Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw?? (Michael Kelly)
Re: Problems with AHA-2940U2W w/ RH61, RH62 (Steve Harrington)
Re: Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program (Michael Kelly)
Video mode problems ("Philip Harling")
Modem Driver ("Wayne Morgan")
networking two boxen (Donovan Rebbechi)
No Sound in Quake2 for Linux (H Bohm)
Re: Video and sound ("Alex")
Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use (Tech-Rat)
Samba printing problems ("Rask0")
Re: Epson EPL 5700L (Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?=)
TV remote for PCTV (Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?=)
Turn a Windows laptop to Linux for $480 (Gp429)
Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V (Becky & Gus Palandri)
Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw?? (Mark Bratcher)
Wrong detection from my tape drive? (Christian)
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From: Tellplace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:19:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on the Asus K7V (Ahtlon 700 MHz) with
no problems.
This was on IDE disk. I say this because I'me having the bigges problems
with my Advansys SCSI controller witch only recognices the drives half
the time.
On the IDE disk Linux Mandrake 7.0 installed like a dream recogniced all
devices (have disabled onboard USB and audio). Never the less I must
agree that K7V is a very new board and therefor berhaps not the best
Linux board.
I have acturlly found a small BIOS fault. Some times when rebooting the
BIOS thinks the previos shutdown was because of wrong overclock values
and resets the timeing values to safe settings. They where already at
these settings. :-/ Annoying, but no disaster.
BTW I use Matrox G400 as graphics card.
Daniel CHOI wrote:
> > Has anybody installed Linux on an amd's ATHLON processor on Asus K7 V
> > (via 133 chipset) motherboard ?
Regards
Tellplace
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John F Hickey)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I am a reseller and need help
Date: 16 Apr 2000 10:20:02 -0400
I'm using OS/2 Boot Manager and running OS/2 or Linux or Win98 or MS-DOS
on this machine. It's a K7-500 with sound, video capture and a few other
toys. To look for compatibility I check the lists and when in doubt go to
www.indelible-blue.com - they support the OS's with hardware and
software. to try new things I will often purchase from them.
I haven't gotten all the peripherals configured, yet in all the OS's,
probably never will. But if you have special needs, look to them as a
resource. Even hardware listed on some compatibility lists as good has
turned out to be OEM and non-functional when I get it.
Good luck.
- John
--
John F. Hickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyberpro.com/jhickey
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:36:35 -0400
Hi,
I am having a great deal of problem with my old harddrive that crashed
recently. It is a Seagate ST31220A IDE drive. Every minute it resets
itself that makes it imperatively to mount under Linux. The question is
where can I find a harddrive utility program to diagnose and fix such a
problem. Does this mean that I have to throw away this harddrive and
get a new one?
TIA.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
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From: "Philip Harling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Epson printer questions
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:52:26 -0700
I am currently using a HP Deskjet 610c and I am about to upgrade my printer
and I have seen 2 that interest me. The first is an Epson Stylus colour 860
and the second is an Epson Stylus Photo 870.
Is anybody using these printers with Linux and do they work OK? If not, can
anybody suggest an alternative?
Thanks in advance,
Phil.
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (david a. lethe)
Subject: Re: Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:15:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:36:35 -0400, Young4ert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am having a great deal of problem with my old harddrive that crashed
>recently. It is a Seagate ST31220A IDE drive. Every minute it resets
>itself that makes it imperatively to mount under Linux. The question is
>where can I find a harddrive utility program to diagnose and fix such a
>problem. Does this mean that I have to throw away this harddrive and
>get a new one?
>
>TIA.
>
>--
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>PS> Remove the "4" from e-mail address to respond.
SMARTMON at http://www.santools.com
However, it doesn't run under LINUX, so hopefully you have a
Windows-based PC you can temporarily plug the disk into.
(And don't expect smartmon to fix the problem, it can however, tell
you if you have a hardware problem which would mean that either you
throw the disk into the trash, or get a replacement from Seagate. --
on many drives seagate has a 5year warranty, provided you didn't buy
an OEM model that didn't come with support).
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XF86Config OffTime and ViewSonic monitor
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:05:44 -0400
Hi,
I have a ViewSonic PF775 monitor and XFree86 3.3.6.
I configured my XF86Config so that the monitor would go off after 30
minutes of inactivity. This seemed to work OK for awhile. That is, after
30 minutes, my green light on the monitor would turn yellow and the
monitor would electronically be off.
However, at some point it became difficult to wake up the monitor. I
wiggle the mouse and I hear the monitor click and the light turns green.
No video. I hear another click a couple of seconds later, still a green
light, still no video. I fiddle with the mouse a bit and finally, after
20 seconds or so, the video finally appears.
I can't tell if this is an XFree86 problem or a ViewSonic problem.
Any educated opinions?
Thanks.
Mark
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw??
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:06:28 -0400
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:39:48 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>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.
I think we're talking cross purposes here. I know what iso9660 is.
What I'm talking about is "floppy" type read/write across the OSs
using packet writing on CD-RW disks. From what I've seen on
the pages that talk about packet writing and Linux and UDF
file system, Linux cannot write the disks randomly as you can
in Windows(IOW, you have to write them using cdrecord as if
they were CDR.)
If anyone knows of random data read/write to CD-RW just
as done in Windows please let me know.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Harrington)
Subject: Re: Problems with AHA-2940U2W w/ RH61, RH62
Date: 16 Apr 2000 16:17:15 GMT
Pat Cassidy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
... deleted ...
>I've got 2 new WD 9 gig 10k Drives, the correct u2w cable and
>Termination. I've even tried moving the cable to the regular ultra
>connector on the card to no avail. Only other hardware at this point is a
>I've put an older AHA-2940UW and a Seagate UW 2 gig drive in the machine,
>and that works fine with everything.
>Suggestions?
I had similar problems when I first installed the U2W on my system. I was
using a terminated cable. Solution was to cut the terminator off and
use the drive's termination (one drive only of course).
Does the bios correctly find and identify the drives (ctl-a panel on boot)?
Are the speeds and bus widths correct.
The U2W is nice if you get it working. Good luck.
Steve
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Michael Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking For A Harddrive Utility Program
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 12:13:55 -0400
On Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:36:35 -0400, Young4ert
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I am having a great deal of problem with my old harddrive that crashed
>recently. It is a Seagate ST31220A IDE drive. Every minute it resets
>itself that makes it imperatively to mount under Linux. The question is
>where can I find a harddrive utility program to diagnose and fix such a
>problem. Does this mean that I have to throw away this harddrive and
>get a new one?
>
Is anything else running from the same controller?
You might try it under another controller to figure
if it's the drive or the controller and then act accordingly.
Mike
--
"I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
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From: "Philip Harling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video mode problems
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 17:56:25 -0700
I have a voodoo3 3000 and would like to drive my monitor (Mag 177EV) at
1024*768 @ 85+ Hz. I am trying to use Kvideogen to produce the modelines
needed to run at this resoultion, but I don't know the maximum dot clock of
the Voodoo3 3000. Also Kvideogen needs to know the Horizontal sync pulse for
the monitor, but I also don't know this. There is no reference to either the
dot clock or the horizontal sync pulse in my hardware manuals. Can anybody
help me please?
Thanks, Phil.
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From: "Wayne Morgan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem Driver
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 18:13:25 +0100
I have a Diamond SupraExpress 56i V PRO modem. Can anyone tell me if I can
get this to work under Linux?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi)
Subject: networking two boxen
Date: 16 Apr 2000 14:08:37 -0400
I have a Linux box and a Win98 box that I want to network. I'll be using
the Linux box as a gateway, and possibly running an Xserver on the Win9x
box.
Both have a free PCI slot.
I want to use a hub, because I will probaly want to add other nodes
to the network in the future.
What kind of hardware do you suggest I use to get them both networked ? Is
there any advantage of getting a fast card or should I just go cheap ?
Any particular recommended models ?
What hardware do I need exactly ?
--
Donovan
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Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:05:55 +0200
From: H Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No Sound in Quake2 for Linux
Hey everybody
I'm running SuSE Linux 6.4 using the autodected soundcard
config (by yast2)
It works fine everywhere expect Quake2.
I tested OSS but it doesn't know my Soundcard
Any idea what's the problem?
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From: "Alex" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video and sound
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 14:33:24 -0400
>> Hi all !
>>
>> I'll buy a new PC soon and I want to install a dual boot
Linux/Windows
>> !!!
>> Yes I'm sorry but I also nedd windows ;))
>>
>> I've some pb to choose my video card! Are there supported under Linux
>> completely ??
>> The Voodoo3 2000
>> And the ATI RAGE PRO 128 - 32 mo - with TV Output ???
>> A GeForce 256
>> Or a MATROX G 400 - dual heat !!
>>
>> For the sound I'll take a SB 128 ! I think it's supported !!
>>
>> What do you advise to me for the video card ??
>>
>> Thanks a lot !!
>
>These graphic-chipsets you mention should all be supported,
>except maybe the ATI. (I'm not sure about this, but Linux
>has always had trouble with ATI-cards)
Oh dear... I do not know why you would have that kind of impression. I used
to run ATI Xpert 98 AGP 8MB.
I did not have any problem with it at all. It worked really well. Recently,
I have upgrade to ATI All in Wonder
128 AGP 16MB. All I need to do was download and install the driver... BUT,
again, I did not have any trouble with it after the installation. Even the
installation was pretty easy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tech-Rat)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Wireless neworking for Linux and Windows for home use
Date: 16 Apr 2000 13:27:29 -0500
I use the WaveGear wireless cards. They run on the 2.4 GigHz
frequency. They have both windows and Linux drivers. On of my linux
boxes has two network cards and one of the wireless cards. I run NAT
on one of the ethernet cards and the wireless cards. The second
ethernet adapter goes to the internet. I can then run either win or
linux on the laptop anywhere in the house.
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:26:08 GMT, "JP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm looking for some wireless LAN products for home use that will work with
>both Linux (RedHat) and Windows 98.
>
>So far I've seen 2 possible product lines:
> Lucent ORINOCO - http://wavelan.com/products/
> 3Com Air Connect - http://www.3com.com/mobile/wireless/product.html
>
>For now I have 2 PC's I need to connect that are about 50 feet apart. The
>network cards will need to be PCI or ISA cards. I may be adding a notebook
>computer so PC cards should also be available.
>
>Does anyone out there have any experience with these products using Linux?
>Any other recommendations?
>
>
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From: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Samba printing problems
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 11:27:30 -0700
Reply-To: "Rask0" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Below is a cut from my smb.conf file. I can send print jobs from a Win95 box
to the Samba server and see the print jobs in the queue as indicated in the
path - but they wont print to the printer. The printer prints from the test
part of Printtool, but won't print from emacs or from jobs submitted via
Samba. ????
I have used samples from the LDP Howto to ge tthis far, but I am missing
something. I also think I have redundant entries to make printing work - the
[printers] section should be all I need if I understand the Howto and the
O'Reilly Samba book, but the sample in the Howto show a [printers] section
and the [deskjet] seciton. I can only successfully Samba wise send files to
the queue using the [deskjet]
Thanks.
yusuf
[Global]
#Printing
printing = BDS
printcap name = /etc/printcap
min print space = 2000
load printers = yes
log file = /var/log/samba_log.%m
lock directory = /var/lock/samba
[printers]
comment = ALL Printers
path = /usr/spool/samba/deskjet
browsable = no
printable = yes
public = yes
writable = no
create mode = 0700
[deskjet]
path = /var/spool/samba/deskjet
# printer name = HP672c
writable = yes
public = yes
printable = yes
print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P %p -r %s
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From: Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson EPL 5700L
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:20:44 +0100
I'm really new in this world of Linux. Could you please specify how did you do it?
Thanks again.
"Dr. Wolfgang Schneider" wrote:
> Pascual Mu�oz Mu�oz wrote:
> >
> > Hi all:
> >
> > I'd like to know how to make my Epson Laser EPL 5700L printer run on my
> > RedHat 6.3 Linux.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
>
> I used the Epson Lp8000 configuration with 300x300. hplj4 didn't work
> properly.
--
==================================
Pascual Mu�oz Mu�oz - Working@HOME
Telfs. 961262300 / 655456032
==================================
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From: Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV remote for PCTV
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 20:22:39 +0100
Hi all:
I've purchased the MiroPCTV (now Pinnacle) and it comes with a remote that connects to
the serial
port. Is there any possibility of using in Linux?
Thanks in advance.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gp429)
Subject: Turn a Windows laptop to Linux for $480
Date: 16 Apr 2000 18:38:12 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: Becky & Gus Palandri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Athlon and K7V
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 13:51:24 -0500
I bought my Athlon computer at http://www.unionbuiltbox.com/computer.htm
and have had no problems with it. Very Stable and Fast
Gus
choi daniel wrote:
> Tellplace wrote:
>
> > I bought (a week ago) an Athlon 700 MHz on an Asus K7V motherboard with
> > VIA KX133 and have up to now no problems running Linux (ReadHat 6.0 and
> > Mandrake 7.0).
> > Have tried compiling kernel (was very fast) to 486 and running on it,
> > again with no problems.
> >
>
> Thanks and congratulation ! I am buying my new computer ! :))
> but one question : why recompiling to 486 ?
> is that to say there is no optimization for K7 ?
>
> Daniel CHOI
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: use cd-rw created in Win9x with Adaptec sw??
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 15:05:00 -0400
Michael Kelly wrote:
>
> On Sat, 15 Apr 2000 20:39:48 -0400, Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >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.
>
> I think we're talking cross purposes here. I know what iso9660 is.
> What I'm talking about is "floppy" type read/write across the OSs
> using packet writing on CD-RW disks. From what I've seen on
> the pages that talk about packet writing and Linux and UDF
> file system, Linux cannot write the disks randomly as you can
> in Windows(IOW, you have to write them using cdrecord as if
> they were CDR.)
Sorry. I understood your note as saying this read/write random access
format
to be perhaps ISO9660, and it isn't.
>
> If anyone knows of random data read/write to CD-RW just
> as done in Windows please let me know.
>
As I stated later in my note, the format used by Adaptec is UDF, which
is in
Linux kernel 2.3.99something, experimental capability, I think. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles. Use Linux!
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From: Christian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wrong detection from my tape drive?
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 21:12:03 +0200
I have a Colorado 5GB ide/atapi tape drive connected as slave to the second ide
interface. The device to acces it should be "/dev/ht3" (major 37, minor 3).
This dont work and i have the following messages from the kernel at boot time
hda: WDC AC12100L, ATA DISK drive
hdb: WDC AC28400R, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI CDROM, ATAPI CDROM drive
hdd: HP COLORADO 5GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: WDC AC12100L, 2014MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=1023/64/63
hdb: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1027/255/63
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdd: overriding capabilities->max_speed (assuming 650KB/sec)
ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0, 650KBps, 16*32kB buffer, 3200kB pipeline, 250ms tDSC
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
Anybody know why is not ht3 but ht0 associated with hdd.
An write access to ht0 with "dd" give me the folowing message to console:
Apr 16 19:01:33 lx5200 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = a, key = 2, asc
= 3a, ascq = 0
Apr 16 19:01:34 lx5200 kernel: ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 10, key = 2, asc
= 3a, ascq = 0
Apr 16 19:01:34 lx5200 kernel: ide-tape: Couldn't write a filemark
Anny acces to ht[123] complain that the device is not configured.
#ls -l /dev/*ht*
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 0 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/ht0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 1 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/ht1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 2 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/ht2
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 3 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/ht3
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 128 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/nht0
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 129 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/nht1
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 130 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/nht2
crw-rw---- 1 root disk 37, 131 Apr 16 18:05 /dev/nht3
Thanks for anny information
Christian
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