Linux-Hardware Digest #46, Volume #13 Thu, 15 Jun 00 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
** HP machines w/ integrated graphics ** (Carlos)
Re: R, G, and B (Mark Valiukas)
USB driver for Sony Vaio laptop? (Ujwal Sathyam)
Re: laptop mouse (Ujwal Sathyam)
Re: Can I format a Jaz drive with ext2? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Network card ("Nathan Caswell")
Re: High resolution KVM switch? ("Anonymous")
Re: SMP mobo and RAID suggestions needed for VPM cluster. ("Anonymous")
Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment ("David Wang")
Does new kernel support??? ("S.S")
BTC external modem (Bartlomiej Weglarz)
high memory missing (IWill motherboard) (R Brett Wormley)
Re: IBM 320 Server Need SCSI Driver (James Stafford)
Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard) (Thomas Hommel)
Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux? (Goofy root)
Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4 (Esther Klabbers)
Re: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux? (Virgo =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4rna?=)
Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? (Steve Martin)
Re: MS-6167 K7 motherboard: any good? (normski)
Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4 (Dances With Crows)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carlos)
Subject: ** HP machines w/ integrated graphics **
Date: 14 Jun 2000 23:08:18 -0500
Hi, does anyone know if the cheaper HP machines with "integrated 2d/3d
graphics" work with XFree86? I know they are not top performance machiens
but I don't care about that...
Thank you!
Carlos
Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not to the address in the
header!!).
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 15:58:54 +1000
From: Mark Valiukas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: R, G, and B
Sakari Aaltonen wrote:
> Unfortunately, the video cable is
> really three cables, R, G, and B. Is there any way of connecting
> it to my 'normal' PC video card with the single D connector?
Sure is - did it with an old Apollo 1024x768 fixed-frequency monitor and
a few dollars worth of components.
See:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/interfacing.html
in particular:
http://www.hut.fi/Misc/Electronics/faq/vga2rgb/interfacing.html#vga_3bnc
I've forgotten exactly what chip I used - but I think it was a
4000-series quad-XOR, and it wasn't the circuit on the page referenced
above - it had no mosfet, and had the output from the chip connected to
the green line. Interestingly, there is enough leakage within the chip
(or as stray capacitance on the vero-board, or whatever) for this
adaptor to work without external power :-)
You'll probably need to use svgatextmode to set the display mode to
something you can read without starting X - I had a nifty 63-column (or
thereabouts) text mode coming out of a 2Mb Cirrus Logic 5429 VLB card,
and 1024x768 X was good. I couldn't get the text mode any higher because
I couldn't clock the card any higher.
I finally stopped using it because the monitor is close to dead - and I
have yet to find another in a skip. Anyone know a good skip to dive into
in Melbourne, Australia? :-)
Mark.
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From: Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB driver for Sony Vaio laptop?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 04:25:42 GMT
Hi,
I have a Sony Vaio PCG F480 laptop, and Mandrake Linux works great on
it. However, the USB ports don't seem to work. Does anybody know if
there is a driver I can use to make them work? I have Mandrake 7.1.
Thanks,
Ujwal
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From: Ujwal Sathyam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: laptop mouse
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 04:28:17 GMT
In article <8i7pru$239$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ed Bras"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> How do I use my laptop mouse to copy text ?
> I have Redhat 6.2 and a gateway laptop, and want to copy text from one
> window to another with the "middle" mouse button just as I do with my
> desktop ? But apparently this doens't work and during install I choose for
> generic 3 button mouse, while I have a middle button.
> Where can i configure these kind of things ?
>
> Regards,
> Ed Bras
>
>
I believe the utility is called mouseconfig. If you have only 2 buttons,
click the "Emulate 3rd button". Clicking both buttons at the same time
will emulate the 3rd.
Ujwal
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Can I format a Jaz drive with ext2?
Date: 15 Jun 2000 00:31:00 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 23:05:44 -0500, ricker
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>And if I do will there be any problems I should look out for?
>Does Linux support the removable feature of the Jaz disk?
A JAZ drive is a SCSI device, and should work like any other removable-
media SCSI device. I'd think it'd work like a SCSI Iomega ZIP except for
the larger capacity. If your JAZ is on /dev/sdb for instance, you would
first insert a JAZ disk, then "fdisk /dev/sdb" and change the partition
type from whatever it was before to Linux Native (0x83) then "mke2fs
/dev/sdbX" where X is the partition number. You should be able to eject
the disk by doing "eject /dev/sdb". Just in case I missed anything, check
out http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Jaz-Drive-HOWTO.html
If you are trying to put a complete Linux system on a JAZ disk, you will
not be able to eject this disk unless you do some trickery with RAMdisks
and the like.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: "Nathan Caswell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Network card
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:40:36 -0400
I use D-Link 530TX+ cards. They are 10/100 and retail for between $15-25.
They are Linux friendly and I've never had a problem with them. Use the
Real-Tek module.
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From: "Anonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: High resolution KVM switch?
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:06:31 -0700
I've been using Belkin's Omnicube 4 port 1600X1200@65-75Hz with no visible
degredation. You need to use the High grade cables $20-60 each to get the
higher Hz without ghosting though. There is a company that sell's a usb kvm
that I believe is capable of handling what you want. I realize Linux does
not fully support usb yet. Soon....very soon.
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From: "Anonymous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMP mobo and RAID suggestions needed for VPM cluster.
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2000 22:10:36 -0700
Hardware raid for sure. Expensive though. Supermicro are known for linux
compatible boards and lately they have been concentrating on high end server
boards. Hope this helps a little.
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From: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 20:15:07 +0800
Reply-To: "David Wang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have sovled the problem by manully specified the chipset-clock and got
800X600 16Bit 100HZ . Thank you for your help.
> >
> >
> >
> Assuming the monitor vertical and horizontal frequencies are correct
> and for the Sony sf2 my records show 50-120Hz and 31-65Khz
> respectively, this seems to be a card/chipset setting limitation.
> If the refresh is more than 75Hz at 8bpp at the chipset-clock is the
> factor.
>
> Try looking at the X server output whem it starts ie at the command
> line type X >& /tmp/xout.txt. The server will oblige you with reasons
> for not using certain configurations.
> Good luck.
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From: "S.S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does new kernel support???
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 01:57:57 -0400
Does new kernel support UDMA/66. Or is that just a motherboard issue? Just
wondering if that has to do with the kernel or not
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From: Bartlomiej Weglarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BTC external modem
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:33:36 +0200
I can't configure this device under Red-Hat.It's strange but the system
can see my modem and all ATI are set but when it starts to dial it
finishes with the first number not dialed to the end.
I`ve spent a lot of time trying to make it go,but as you can read I didn`t
do anything.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: R Brett Wormley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: high memory missing (IWill motherboard)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 00:58:32 -0700
I'm running RedHat 6.0 off of an IWill BD100+ motherboard, with a 300MHz
PII and two DIMMs (64M and 128M). During POST the BIOS counts up to
192MB as expected, but when the OS boots, it only sees 64MB. I've tried
just running with one and the other DIMM, but always only 64MB found by
the OS. The message from the kernel is:
Jun 12 00:40:51 yggdrasil kernel: Memory: 64092k/66496k available (996k
kernel code, 412k reserved, 936k data, 60k init)
I've contacted IWill, and poured through the BIOS settings, even peeked
at kernel code -- no help.
Any ideas how I can get the missing memory to show up?
Thanks!
--
R Brett Wormley
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.caldera,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: IBM 320 Server Need SCSI Driver
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 08:06:12 GMT
N5AXJ wrote:
>
> Stumbled across an IBM 320 Server which has an unmarked SCSI adapter other
> than SCSI-2 FAST/WIDE in the IBM docs. It was running OS2 before I ran RAID
> to separate the HD's into two 2Gb drives. I was able to run fdisk and
> format the hard disks in DOS 6.2 however, unable to see the SCSI CDROM.
> When I tried loading linux I never got past the SCSI card selection. Tried
> all of the SCSI selections (Redhat 6.1) nothing worked. Tried Slackware 7.0
> SCSI kernal which couldn't find the SCSI card. Tried the Redhat 6.1 update
> for IBM ServerRAID patch again no luck. Any suggestions?
>
> tnx
>
> Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Markings on the SCSI card
> Chips
> INTEL 960
> SYMBIOS LOGIC 53C720
>
> J10KX902131
> 07HI059603
> 11S07HI0582J10KW91C2MP
> 432252
> W.O. ANE12960E
> D040351-0-IBM
> Rev D
Go to www.slackware.org and get a boot disk set. Read the readme file,
or whatever, and get the scsi boot disk that works with all scsi cards,
I believe it is SCSI.o. Then boot your computer with the boot disks and
watch the screen, you will see it going through all of the scsi chip
sets until it finds the right one. Another thing you could do is get a
rescue disk like tomsrt, it will do the same thing, look for the right
scsi driver to use. I don't have the url for tomsrt right off hand, but
I do use a tomsrt disk on occation.
jamess
--
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section,
it said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux."
-Anonymous
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: high memory missing (IWill motherboard)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:18:25 +0200
Boring, boring
This question has already been answered about a hundred times here. If
you had searched deja.com, you surely would have found loads of hits.
One more time:
Put the following line into /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo after that:
append="mem=192M"
Tom
R Brett Wormley wrote:
>
> I'm running RedHat 6.0 off of an IWill BD100+ motherboard, with a 300MHz
> PII and two DIMMs (64M and 128M). During POST the BIOS counts up to
> 192MB as expected, but when the OS boots, it only sees 64MB. I've tried
> just running with one and the other DIMM, but always only 64MB found by
> the OS. The message from the kernel is:
>
> Jun 12 00:40:51 yggdrasil kernel: Memory: 64092k/66496k available (996k
> kernel code, 412k reserved, 936k data, 60k init)
>
> I've contacted IWill, and poured through the BIOS settings, even peeked
> at kernel code -- no help.
>
> Any ideas how I can get the missing memory to show up?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
> R Brett Wormley
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Goofy root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:26:04 GMT
I was at a LUG meeting last week someone handed me a BeOS 5.0 personal
edition CD-ROM I immediately installed in one of my Thinkpad. Me
sometimes don't read README.TXT or manuals so I did this guy said: boot
Windows 98, insert the CD, install it just like a Windows program, etc.,
which I exactly did. He didn't say anything about modems so I
configured PPP just like a Linux KPPP and dialed out using Winmodem. To
my big surprise it worked. Since BeOS supports POSIX utilities, how
come Linux vendors can't come up with using Winmodem?
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From: Esther Klabbers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:36:37 +0200
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000 18:39:33 +0200, Esther Klabbers
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >Having just started using Linux, I was surprised at how quick and easy
> >it was to install SuSE Linux 6.4. However, the CD-ROM cannot be mounted
> >and there is no sound. No matter which drivers I try, it won't work.
> >My CD-ROM is a NEC CD-ROM DRIVE 28B. My sound card a Crystal PnP Audio
> >System. All is running on a DELL computer.
>
> Where is the CD-ROM plugged in, and is it SCSI or IDE? Most systems these
> days have IDE CD-ROMs, which are on /dev/hd{b,c,d} in most cases. If you
> installed from the CD-ROM, you should have no problems mounting the
> CD-ROM... as root, try this with a data CD-ROM inserted in the drive:
> mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom
> and report whatever error messages come up.
I don't know what you mean by where is it plugged in. It is an IDE2
CD-ROM.
The error message I get is:
mount: block device /dev/hdc is write protected, mounting read-only. On
my KDE desktop trying to mount the CD-ROM leads to the message:
mount: the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe
'insmod driver'?). However, going to /cdrom does allow me to view the
contents of the CD-ROM now.
>
> "Crystal PnP Audio" can mean a lot of different things; it seems to be
> MS's shorthand for "We don't know what this card is, but the 3rd-party
> drivers should work." I've seen an ES1371 and several CS423x ships come
> up with that exact designation in the Windoze Device Mangler. Try doing
> "cat /proc/pci" and if the numbers 1371 or 1370 show up in association
> with a sound card, all you have to do is:
> modprobe es1371 (es1370 if that number showed up)
> for sound to work.
This is not present.
>
> If not, try:
> insmod sound dmabuf=1
> insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
> insmod opl3 io=0x388
This gets a lot of errors about unresolved symbols in sound.o and
CS4232.o and an error saying: op131: no module by that name found.
>
> ...which should work if you have a CS423x. Change the io= from 0x534 to
> 0x530 if that doesn't work. I *think* a lot of Dells shipped with CS423x
> chips embedded on the motherboard; not completely sure.
>
> SuSE also has a utility called "alsa-conf" that might do the trick for
> sound. HTH,
>
alsa-conf seems to work. It recognizes the sound card as CS4236B. But
still I don't hear anything.
Thanks for your trouble so far. Bye the way, the floppy disk has the
same problem when trying to mount it. It says /dev/fd0 is not a valid
block device.
Esther Klabbers
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Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:39:09 +0200
From: Virgo =?iso-8859-1?Q?P=E4rna?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.dial-up,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux?
Goofy root wrote:
> =
> my big surprise it worked. Since BeOS supports POSIX utilities, how
> come Linux vendors can't come up with using Winmodem?
Check out www.linmodems.org - if I remember correctly, then =
there are drivers for Lucent winmodem for Linux. =
-- =
Virgo P=E4rna
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:14:20 -0400
Rod Smith wrote:
> > My video card is not supported by Linux... does this mean I can't run
> > Linux with this video card?
>
> In most cases, if your video card is "unsupported" by Linux, then that
> means you can run Linux only in text mode -- no X, no GUI programs. Be
> sure it really is "unsupported," though. Lack of your specific model on
> a "supported" list does *NOT* mean that the board is UNsupported -- it
> could be that it's an off brand that's simply too minor to get
> mentioned, or that it's a newer but compatible model.
...and, in any case, you should be able to run it in plain vanilla
VGA mode, 640 x 480 @ 16-color under X with the VGA server. Not my
mode of choice, but it should work at least. Of course, as you said,
he can always run Linux in text mode.
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From: normski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MS-6167 K7 motherboard: any good?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:17:07 +0100
SuSE 6.4 supports that motherboard, but make sure you've got the latest
version of BIOS. Older versions of BIOS have a problem if more than 256Mb of
memory are fitted - even although the board claims to support 768Mb. The
problem affects both windows and linux.
Andres Suarez wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am thinking about buying a new K7 machine.
>
> I have checked http://www.linhardware.com but it isn't clear to me if
> this motherboard (MS-6167 K7) will work well with Linux, so I would like
> to hear from anyone that has tried it.
>
> Bye!
>
> --
> Andres Suarez
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CDR and sound card under SUSE linux 6.4
Date: 15 Jun 2000 07:59:50 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:36:37 +0200, Esther Klabbers
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>> Where is the CD-ROM plugged in, and is it SCSI or IDE? Most systems these
>I don't know what you mean by where is it plugged in. It is an IDE2
Most motherboards these days have 2 IDE controllers, and each controller
has 2 places to attach a drive, the master and slave positions. Master on
controller 0 is /dev/hda, slave on controller 0 is /dev/hdb, master on
controller 1 is /dev/hdc, slave on controller 1 is /dev/hdd.
>mount: block device /dev/hdc is write protected, mounting read-only. On
>my KDE desktop trying to mount the CD-ROM leads to the message:
>mount: the kernel doesn't recognize /dev/cdrom as a block device (maybe
The first is not really an error message--a CD-ROM is a read-only medium,
and you can't write to it. Mount it with the option "-o ro" tacked on to
the end of the command line if the error message bugs you. The KDE error
message means that /dev/cdrom isn't pointing to the right place. As root,
do a "ln -sf /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom" to fix that.
>> insmod cs4232 io=0x534 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=9
>> insmod opl3 io=0x388
>This gets a lot of errors about unresolved symbols in sound.o and
>CS4232.o and an error saying: op131: no module by that name found.
That's "opl3" not "op131". Hmm, looks like I forgot something--run
"depmod -a" and then try again, changing the "insmod"s to "modprobe"s and
the soundcore module will get loaded at the appropriate point.
>alsa-conf seems to work. It recognizes the sound card as CS4236B. But
>still I don't hear anything.
Check the mixer settings. If the volume is at 10%, it's tough to hear
things.
>Thanks for your trouble so far. Bye the way, the floppy disk has the
>same problem when trying to mount it. It says /dev/fd0 is not a valid
>block device.
Try mounting the explicit device instead of the autodetect
device--/dev/fd0h1440 for a 1.4M disk, /dev/fd0h720 for a 720K disk.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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