Linux-Hardware Digest #998, Volume #12 Wed, 7 Jun 00 12:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: Probs with PCI sound card (heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp) (Holger)
Re: tuxtops recommendations (Richard Kasperowski)
monitor in DPMS Standby ("Robert Ulanas")
Re: Best qual. sound card w/ optical output ("Arny Krueger")
Re: Tape Drive (Leonard Evens)
Re: Tape Drive (Matt Burke)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization (Hugh Lawson)
Re: What to expect from a dual system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization (Joel Beach)
Quiet CD-Rom Drive (Chuck Rogers)
lexmark 3200 (Brian J.)
Re: Parallel Port DCC with Linux : How ? (Supratim Sanyal)
Xwindows support for nVidia TNT2 ("Mindy Desens")
Re: Tape Drive (David C.)
pelogic 1600 and linux (DanD)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization ("Hsinko Yu")
Re: Xwindows support for nVidia TNT2 (Scott)
Re: Delaying eth0 initialization ("IByte")
Re: lexmark 3200
Adaptec AHA1542 CF ("Matthias Minich")
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Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:52:16 +0200
From: Holger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Probs with PCI sound card (heeeeeeeeeeeeeeelp)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux.help,ed.linux,redhat.general
I think OSS (Open Sound System) would be a good choice. There is a version
calles
OSS Free which supports a lot of Yamaha Sound Cards. Another possibility is to
get a new kernel with SoftOSS build in. I'm sure that the new kernel release
2.4 (still beta) is supporting your sound card. This kernel has a SoftOSS 2, a
very good utility.
Aksam schrieb:
> Hello !
> I hope someone can help me?
> I have a Yamaha S817 YMF724 sound card and Red Hat linux 6 on the same PC.
> How to get sound from this? Sound configurator doesn't recognise my sound
> card. Please help me and mail me as soon as You can!
>
> Aksam
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Richard Kasperowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: tuxtops recommendations
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 12:58:52 GMT
All in all, I'm pleased with TuxTops. Here's my story:
I ordered their high-end laptop one Wednesday a few weeks ago. It
arrived the following Monday. I was pleased with the speedy delivery.
Unfortunately, the screen didn't work so well. It went black, as if the
laptop were in suspend mode. TuxTops tech. support tried to help me
over the phone, but I couldn't get it to work properly, so they paid for
shipping back to their office.
They couldn't reproduce my problem, so they sent the laptop back to me.
I used it for a few hours, and the screen went black again. I sent it
back to their supplier (the supplier paid for shipping) and TuxTops sent
a replacement. We had some problems with FedEx--they misdelivered my
return--but TuxTops sent me the replacement anyway, before they received
the return.
The replacement works fine. To compensate me for my troubles, the
replacement has a faster CPU (thanks guys). TuxTops worked hard to make
sure I was happy. I dare you to try to get service this good from Dell
or IBM.
I had a working TuxTops laptop in time to use it for a presentation at a
conference. It works great, and I'm happy.
--
Richard Kasperowski (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
GTE pager: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Tel: (617)576-1552, Fax: (617)576-2441
http://www.altisimo.com/
Date: 05/05/2000
Author: Lucas Gonze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Anybody have experiences with tuxtops that they'd like to share? I
found squatdoing
deja.com/epionions/google searches. the specs look good, but the
company is so new it scares me a
little.
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From: "Robert Ulanas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: monitor in DPMS Standby
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 23:06:23 +1000
I am trying to install red hat 6.1 and I get to the "choose your install
method" and my monitor goes into DPMS standby... I have an IBM aptiva 61A
with a G54 monitor displaying 800x600 with a refresh rate of 85Hz can
anyone help with this??
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From: "Arny Krueger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.soundcard.tech,creative.products.sound_blaster.live,alt.comp.periphs.soundcard.sblive
Subject: Re: Best qual. sound card w/ optical output
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:14:29 GMT
"Levantino" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> > I have a Delta 66 that I'm testing. As a 2448 card analog/digital
it
> > seems fine. It is not a LynxONE or a CardDDeluze, but it is a lot
> > less per analog channel. My 2496 tests have rasied some
questions I
> > need to answer before commenting further.
>
> Hmmm... It would be good to know, Arny but since I am not a dog,
2448 is
> good enough for "moi".
> 96kHz is little hype for me, though I should be able to do an A/B
testing
> with my Sennheiser HD580 that claim 12Hz-39kHz. I won't go to an
ear
> specialist if can't hear a difference. :-)
>
> > That would be the DIO 2496, right? I notice that they don't list
the
> > DIO 2448 and more. I wonder why?
> >
> Yes. the $209 at soundchaser is 2496. Do you know a place that is
cheaper
> (or is cheaper in general)?
> Probably the $99 2448 was undercutting their earnings. :-)
> Just a crazy theory. Or may the board for some aspect sucked! I
heard from a
> Linux dude who claimed the CMI DMA was acting erronously.
>
I'd believe just about *anything* about CMI chips. IMO, their QC
seems to be less-than-perfect, and until the 8738, the basic design
was not too wonderful, either.
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From: Leonard Evens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Tape Drive
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 08:03:59 -0500
Mike Sanders wrote:
>
> Does Red Hat Linux support Sony TSL-S9000L 192Gbyte DDS3 Tape Autoloader?
> If it does, where can I get the driver for it?
They seem to be SCSI drives, in which case they should work.
But of course there may be something peculiar. If you don't
get a response, check with Sony.
--
Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] 847-491-5537
Dept. of Mathematics, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL 60208
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From: Matt Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Tape Drive
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:53:43 +0100
Leonard Evens wrote:
>
> Mike Sanders wrote:
> >
> > Does Red Hat Linux support Sony TSL-S9000L 192Gbyte DDS3 Tape Autoloader?
> > If it does, where can I get the driver for it?
>
> They seem to be SCSI drives, in which case they should work.
> But of course there may be something peculiar. If you don't
> get a response, check with Sony.
SCSI doesn't always mean linux-compatible - the OnStream SCSI tape
drives require drivers which atm, are only alpha stage
--
Matthew Burke
Internet & PC Support
Internet Assist Ltd
Tel: +44 (0)20 8547 3700
Fax: +44 (0)20 8457 3600
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hugh Lawson)
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 13:55:59 GMT
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000 23:12:13 +0800, Hsinko Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello all,
> I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
Try a www.deja.com search on this card. I made a trial effort and found
several references, but they are over my head.
--
Hugh Lawson
Greensboro, North Carolina
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: What to expect from a dual system
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 09:06:33 -0500
I haven't run a dual system... but I have upgraded from a 233 to an
Athalon 650 (Runs Perfect by the way). From what you describe your uses
are, you probably won't notice except your processor will probably be
95% idle all the time. I would suggest that simply putting more memory
on your current machine would make a noticeable difference for much less
money.
Of course your style of web/mail server is the determining factor. For
example, mine I run a web & mail server also & the memory upgrade
helped, but it doesn't really seem to, or need to process those mail
messages any faster. The faster CPU will however make a difference on
the web pages that aren't static, such as you're serving up applications
or a search engine.
If you rarely run from X, you would probably only notice a huge
difference when you're compiling programs. Nice even if you just
download source to compile (updated programs, etc.) and aren't a
developer. So.. the bottom line is you'll probably mostly notice a
difference in X, and playing games, which you noted you rarely do.
Of course any upgrade is a nice pick me up for yourself. It's so much
more pleasant to have the power when you need it. Get the dual
processors if you've got the money to blow. For your uses though just a
faster single chip system will be nice and not such a big waste (may I
plug the Athalon again?). By all means though, get some more memory and
make sure you've got sufficient swap space on your HD. The money saved
from a dual system would be more wisely spent on going to a RAID setup,
or getting a better tape backup anyway.
Laters,
Erik
Oh, um, haven't you heard you shouldn't be logged in and sending mail
around as "root" all the time? :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My current system is a pentium 200mmx oc 262Mhz
> with 64 MB sdram's. I am considering a dual
> celeron 500 Mhz and 128 MB. If anyone would
> be so kind to answer me how much the speed
> would be improved, would i even notice it?
>
> I dont develop much on the machine and i don't
> do games.
>
> - Almost always in console
> - Sometimes X when i surf the net with netscape
> - small mail server
> - small web/ftp server
> - only one/two users on at the same time
>
> Thank you.
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From: Joel Beach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:13:48 GMT
Hsinko Yu wrote:
> Hello all,
> I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
There's nothing wrong with this card. It worked out of the box for
me....are you sure it's not set to use DHCP or bootp instead of a static
address. If this is the case, it's hanging because it can't get an IP
from the non-existent DHCP server you specified.
Joel
>
> Anyone having it may now know what i say. I have tried
> many solutions from the internet, but they all don't work
> to me. Until now, i get the following message while booting,
> Bringing up interface eth0
> Delaying eth0 initialization.....[FAIL]
> I just can't stand it anymore.
> Please those who have the experience setting it up help me.
> Thanks in advance.
> ps. I use Redhat6.0 and via-rhine driver.
> Hsinko
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chuck Rogers)
Subject: Quiet CD-Rom Drive
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:17:10 GMT
Hello,
My Acer CDrom is starting to become flaky so I'm going to buy a new
drive. Could anyone recommend an ATAPI drive that works well with Linux
and is quiet? I'm thinking of maybe Teac or Toshiba. Any suggestions
welcome.
Thanks!
Chuck
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From: Brian J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: lexmark 3200
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:23:59 -0400
Anyone know how to get this working ? I asked lexmark what it
emulates, and they told me it was a "host based printer" it needs
windows to run. I dont buy that cuz i think i saw MAC drivers for
it.... any ideas? suggestions?
Brian
"Monday is a terrible way to spend 1/7 of your life"
- Steven Wright
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From: Supratim Sanyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Parallel Port DCC with Linux : How ?
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:06:11 -0400
> the PLIP-HOWTO?
>
> Peter
Thanks, Peter. The HOWTO and Mini-HOWTO
I downloaded should help.
-- Supratim
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Reply-To: "Mindy Desens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Mindy Desens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xwindows support for nVidia TNT2
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:36:35 GMT
I have an hp Pavilion 9680C with an nVidia TNT2 Vanta AGP Graphics card. I
havent been able get the graphics card to work for Xwindows(Redhat 6.0).
Any help on setting up the XF86Config file would be great.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: Tape Drive
Date: 07 Jun 2000 10:41:13 -0400
Matt Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> SCSI doesn't always mean linux-compatible - the OnStream SCSI tape
> drives require drivers which atm, are only alpha stage
I saw this on their web site as well. It makes no sense to me.
If the drives are SCSI-2 compliant (as they claim), then there's a
standard command-set that the drives should respond to.
If a custom driver is required for basic operation, then the drive is
NOT SCSI-2 compliant and they are lying to their customers. (There
might be custom commands requiring a driver for special features, but
this shouldn't impact the basic functionality.)
OnStream's site (http://www.onstream.com/support/linux/index.html) is
sending a very confusing message.
- They claim that their narrow-SCSI 30G and 50G drives (SC30 and SC50)
are not compatible. Does anyone know if this is because the drive is
not SCSI-2 compliant or because of a bug in the Linux driver?
- They claim that their 30G ATAPI drive (DI30) is compatible, if a
kernel patch is applied. They also say that the 2.3.xx development
kernel incorporates this patch. Again, does anybody know if the drive
is violating ATAPI specs or if there's a bug in the driver?
- They claim that their LVD-SCSI 50G drive (ADR50) is Linux compatible
using the standard drivers. It's obviously using a different
controller board from the SC30 and SC50 drives.
-- David
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From: DanD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: pelogic 1600 and linux
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 14:41:54 GMT
I thought i posted this last night, but i guess since i wasnt logged in
it didnt take.
Im trying to get my pelogic 1600 ISA SCSI card working in linux(
mandrake 7.0, kernel 2.2.14 ) and it isnt working. I cannot see it
with pnptools or in /proc/scsi
Can someone help me here?
thanks,
dan
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Hsinko Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 22:58:53 +0800
Nice going!
I now know that 530TX has two revisions, rev A and B.
So choose the correct driver corresponding to your card,
you'll get it work.
for the rev B driver:
ftp://tsc.dlinktw.com.tw/dlink/dfe-530tx/DFE-530_B1/lin307.zip
Thanks to Linpus <www.linpus.com.tw>
Dlink <www.dlink.com.tw>
Hsinko
Hsinko Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:...
> Hello all,
> I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
> Anyone having it may now know what i say. I have tried
> many solutions from the internet, but they all don't work
> to me. Until now, i get the following message while booting,
> Bringing up interface eth0
> Delaying eth0 initialization.....[FAIL]
> I just can't stand it anymore.
> Please those who have the experience setting it up help me.
> Thanks in advance.
> ps. I use Redhat6.0 and via-rhine driver.
> Hsinko
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott)
Subject: Re: Xwindows support for nVidia TNT2
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:40:00 GMT
In article <T5t%4.172$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Mindy Desens"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have an hp Pavilion 9680C with an nVidia TNT2 Vanta AGP Graphics card. I
>havent been able get the graphics card to work for Xwindows(Redhat 6.0).
>Any help on setting up the XF86Config file would be great.
>
>
This card should be supported by ver 3.3.6 of XFree86 and the SVGA server, but
you really haven't given us enough information to help you.
What error messages are you getting?
What version of Xfree86 are you trying to use?
Which you using the XSVGA server?
How much memory does your graphics card have?
What have you tried?
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From: "IByte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Delaying eth0 initialization
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:57:10 +0200
Remember that you should turn off 'Plug & Play OS' in your BIOS settings.
Regards,
IByte
(remove .NOSPAM if replying by email.)
Hsinko Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8hld43$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello all,
> I think i did buy a bad card, Dlink DFE-530TX(PCI).
> Anyone having it may now know what i say. I have tried
> many solutions from the internet, but they all don't work
> to me. Until now, i get the following message while booting,
> Bringing up interface eth0
> Delaying eth0 initialization.....[FAIL]
> I just can't stand it anymore.
> Please those who have the experience setting it up help me.
> Thanks in advance.
> ps. I use Redhat6.0 and via-rhine driver.
> Hsinko
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: lexmark 3200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2000 15:58:24 GMT
On Wed, 07 Jun 2000 10:23:59 -0400, Brian J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Anyone know how to get this working ? I asked lexmark what it
>emulates, and they told me it was a "host based printer" it needs
>windows to run. I dont buy that cuz i think i saw MAC drivers for
>it.... any ideas? suggestions?
Get a junk computer and put windoze on it. Use printtool on the linux box
to setup a samba print queue to send jobs to it.
On the windoze machine, setup a postscript print queue (applewriter for
example); have linux print to it.
Get ghostscript and ghostview from alladin (6.x).
Use redmon to redirect data sent to the postscript queue to gsprint which
will invoke ghostscript and use the windoze lexmark3200 driver to print
your document.
Only problem is that when printing photos (300K jpeg, generating a 40-60M
postscript image), the windoze print spooler takes FOREVER! (two hours or
so). It is a bug with the windoze print spooler (I'm running w95,osr2).
I've tried a lprd daemon on the windows box and it takes less than three
seconds to receive the file over the net but still takes hours to spool it
up.
For photo's, I run a graphics viewer on the windoze box, open the jpeg off
a samba shared drive (directory on the linux box) and tell it to print. I
use vnc for remote control and/or a keyboard/mouse/video switchbox.
(windows is way too unreliable to run without a keyboard)
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From: "Matthias Minich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adaptec AHA1542 CF
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 17:28:17 +0200
Hello out there,
I'm trying to get a dat-streamer working. I've connected it to an old AHA
1542 CF Controller. It's the only device on the bus. At boot-time, I get a
message from the controller lokking like this:
"BIOS not installed! No int 13h devices found!"
Maybe anyone can tell me what it means. Possibly because there's no
disk-drive connected? Is it still possible to load the AHA154X-Module?
Thanks a lot, Matthias Minich
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