Linux-Hardware Digest #48, Volume #13 Thu, 15 Jun 00 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Olivetti Monitor Frequencies (Tony Curtis)
Re: external CDR (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: All-In-Wonder 128 ? (David C.)
Re: Inexpensive laptop recommendation ? (Glenn)
Re: cdrecord bug? (or is it my computer!) (sysop)
Re: Lucent Winmodem works for BeOS why not Linux? ("Charlie Root")
High resolution KVM switch? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: USB drivers for Redhat 6.1? (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Two Monitors (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: US Robotics pnp modem (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Tape backup solutions (Craig McCluskey)
No printing Epson EPL 5700L with RH 6.1 (Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?=)
Re: 3Com USR 5610 PCI Modem Problems (Andrey Vlasov)
Interfacing PCF8584 to parallel port (Anders Nilsson)
Problems with RH 6.2 and Dual PPro (Kelly)
Driver for 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 ("Brian C. Ranum")
Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support? (Stephen Nodvin)
Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support? (Stephen Nodvin)
Re: HELP: Hardware buggy on Linux install (Steve Jones)
Re: Monitor Fraquency (Adrian)
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Olivetti Monitor Frequencies
Date: 15 Jun 2000 11:10:57 -0500
>> On Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:45:46 +0100,
>> Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Hi, Does anyone know the H and V frequencies for the
> Olivetti 27-039?
Use the power of the web:
http://www.google.com/
===> "Olivetti 27-039"
===> http://www.olivetti-solutions.de/server/snx400ms/evd400.txt
This looks somewhat jumbled but may have the info you
want.
hth
t
--
"Trying is the first step towards failure"
Homer Simpson
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: external CDR
Date: 15 Jun 2000 16:22:48 GMT
theCelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have been searching (via HowTo, usenet, pricewatch) for an external
> CDR that I can use under Linux-Mandrake 7.0+. If anyone has found one
> that works with either USB or parallel, I would love to hear about it.
If you're going external, I would strongly suggest going SCSI. Yes, you
have to buy a controller, but you don't need a top-end Ultra160 one
or anything. Buy.com has the Adaptec 2906 for $50, and I'm sure you
could find Tekrams cheaper somewhere else.
The problem is that writing a CD is very time sensitive. I wouldn't
trust parallel, and USB support at this point is too experimental for my
tastes. My $0.02.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: All-In-Wonder 128 ?
Date: 15 Jun 2000 12:37:11 -0400
Ralf Meermeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Does anyone of you know if the MPEG-2 compression capability of the
> ATI All-In-Wonder 128 is supported under Linux ?
The Rage-128 chipset is supported in XFree86 version 3.3.6 or later.
For more information, see http://www.xfree86.org/
-- David
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From: Glenn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Inexpensive laptop recommendation ?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:03:21 -0700
How about a nice abacus????
Sorry I couldn't resist....
>
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From: sysop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: cdrecord bug? (or is it my computer!)
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:06:20 GMT
"Douglas E. Mitton" wrote:
> Please post any information you find. Thanks in advance.
maybe my information could be usefull too, so does a solution...
I'm using slackware 7 with the 2.2.16 kernel and cdrecord 1.8.1.
The hp cd-writter 7200i used to work great in my old system but since I
updated my linux not anymore.
// the usual stuff
// cdrecord -version
Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7200 ' '3.01' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
// the burning process and the error I get
// cdrecord -v dev=0,0 -audio -dao -speed=2 *.cdr
Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
TOC Type: 0 = CD-DA
scsidev: '0,0'
scsibus: 0 target: 0 lun: 0
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
atapi: 1
Device type : Removable CD-ROM
Version : 0
Response Format: 1
Vendor_info : 'HP '
Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7200 '
Revision : '3.01'
Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
Drive buf size : 786432 = 768 KB
FIFO size : 4194304 = 4096 KB
Track 01: audio 49 MB (04:53.20) no preemp swab
Track 02: audio 62 MB (06:08.93) no preemp swab
Track 03: audio 51 MB (05:06.62) no preemp swab
Track 04: audio 57 MB (05:41.78) no preemp swab
Track 05: audio 75 MB (07:28.26) no preemp swab
Track 06: audio 17 MB (01:46.29) no preemp swab
Track 07: audio 63 MB (06:17.02) no preemp swab
Track 08: audio 6 MB (00:38.77) no preemp swab
Track 09: audio 88 MB (08:46.97) no preemp swab
Track 10: audio 236 MB (23:28.56) no preemp swab
Total size: 709 MB (70:16.44) = 316233 sectors
Lout start: 709 MB (70:18/33) = 316233 sectors
Current Secsize: 2048
ATIP start of lead in: -11319 (97:31/06)
ATIP start of lead out: 336225 (74:45/00)
Disk type: Short strategy type (Phthalocyanine or similar)
Manuf. index: 22
Manufacturer: Ritek Co.
Blocks total: 336225 Blocks current: 316233 Blocks remaining: 0
Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in write mode for single session.
Last chance to quit, starting real write in 9 seconds.8
seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5
seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2
seconds.1 seconds.
Waiting for reader process to fill input buffer ... cdrecord: Input/output
error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable error
status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
input buffer ready.
CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 3C 00
Sense Bytes: F0 00 05 00 00 00 00 19 00 00 50 98 26 00 00 00
Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
Sense flags: Blk 0 (valid)
cmd finished after 0.022s timeout 200s
cdrecord: Warning: using default CD write parameter data.
cdrecord: Cannot open new session.
cdrecord: fifo had 128 puts and 0 gets.
cdrecord: fifo was 0 times empty and 0 times full, min fill was 100%.
Mode Select Data 00 12 00 00 05 32 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 96
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
Could someone please help me with this problem or if there already is a
solution for it, please say so...
thanks in advance,
wolter kamphuis
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From: "Charlie Root" <[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?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 17:08:35 GMT
Yeap I'm aware of the site but not very easy to do. Why not Linux vendors
put something in their package?
Virgo P�rna wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
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�rna
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: High resolution KVM switch?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 16:59:04 GMT
Greetings,
I'm looking for a high-quality KVM switch which can handle high monitor
resolutions without degrading the image. I usually run at 1600x1200 @
85Hz, which is beyond the range of all of the units I've found so far.
Many claim to do 1600x1200, but it's usually at a much slower refresh
rate.
If anyone knows of a KVM switch that can run that fast and maintain a
quality image, please let me know.
Thanks,
Brian.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB drivers for Redhat 6.1?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:09:48 -0700
Hi Timothy,
check here
http://www.linux-usb.org/
Andrey
Timothy Stark wrote:
> Hello Folks:
>
> I have some devices on USB ports. Does anyone know how to set USB device
> for my 2nd printer with USB-to-Parallel cable? I am looking for
> more information about USB settings.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -- Tim Stark
>
> --
> Timothy Stark <>< Inet: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that
> whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
> Amen." -- John 3:16 (King James Version Bible)
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Two Monitors
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:25:22 -0700
Hi Kevin,
check it here
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Xinerama-HOWTO.html
but if you have XFree 4.0 you can read documentation how to do that.
http://www.xfree.org/4.0/RELNOTES2.html#7
http://www.xfree.org/4.0/RELNOTES2.html#8
Also you can check info for comercial software Xaccel.
Andrey
Kevin Straight wrote:
> Hello, I picked up a cheap 14" monitor from the thrift store and I want to hook
> it up to my machine to use as a second monitor. I have heard that this is
> possible with Linux.
>
> I have two interface cards installed, and linux seems to be recognizing both of
> them, but I don't know how to get a terminal up on one of them.
>
> Can anyone point me to a good FAQ?
>
> Thanks Much.
>
> Kevin Straight
> University of Idaho
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US Robotics pnp modem
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:33:54 -0700
Hi there,
What model for you modem is? As nobody will able help you with info which you
provide.
Check next webpage
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
Andrey
dean25 wrote:
> I have a USR internal pnp 56k modem, bought in mid 98. If an internal modem
> acts like another com port is serserial the only utility I need to use?
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tape backup solutions
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 12:50:09 -0500
Keith Geffert wrote:
> The only tape devices I've used are DDS1/2/3 DAT drives. However I
> can't justify spending $1000 or more on a backup solution when the box
> to backup doesn't even cost that much :P
It's not how much the box costs, but how much your data is worth.
Craig
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From: Pascual =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mu=F1oz=20Mu=F1oz?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: No printing Epson EPL 5700L with RH 6.1
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 19:39:12 +0200
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Hi all:
I can't print in my Epson EPL 5700L. I use printtool and try all the printers listed
there,
but it does not work. Can anyone help me?
Thanks in advance.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3Com USR 5610 PCI Modem Problems
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 10:50:39 -0700
Hi there,
I will tell my modem story. Windows 98 reported it as COM4 and I spent about
2 hours before I found trhat in Linux it was /dev/ttyS2 (COM3). My conclusion
was that Linux assign next available /devttyS?? and documentation or
Windows98 mislead people. Try do not disable port in BIOS and check
through setserial which /dev/ttyS?? (port) will be taken by your modem.
in bash
for tty in 3 4 5 6
do
setserial "your parameters here" /dev/ttyS$tty
setserial -g /dev/ttyS$tty
done
something like that (can not check as on Solaris system at the moment)
Andrey
web wrote:
> I am an absolute newbie to Linux. Running Mandrake 6.0 (the one that came
> with Maximum Linux last fall) in a dual-boot situation on a P233MMX. I've
> got just about everything working. A background in IRIX has seemed to help
> me some. Linux runs so much faster on this old horse. However, my modem is
> giving me problems.
>
> I originally had a winmodem and ditched it after reading the listings at
> www.o2.net
> On that site they had listed the 3Com 3CP5610 as being "OK" for Linux.
> Another entry on the Mandrake FAQ confirmed that, indeed, at least somebody
> was able to make this work. No me though....
>
> I think the problem may stem from the fact that in Win95, the modem shows up
> at Com5. A check at 3Com confirmed this to be true and that it is not
> changeable. (This modem is jumperless) They say that it will show up at
> Com4 in other OS's but they don't include Linux in that list of "others."
>
> I'm trying to use kppp and of course can only select com1-4 for my modem.
> Has anyone else run into this before? Is the answer right in front of my
> eyes? Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Most humbly
> web
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anders Nilsson)
Subject: Interfacing PCF8584 to parallel port
Date: 15 Jun 2000 17:53:06 GMT
Somebody out there who has interfaced a PCF8584 i2c controller to the parallel
port af a PC running Linux (Redhat 6.1)?
Please tell me how you did it.
/Anders
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From: Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems with RH 6.2 and Dual PPro
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:08:32 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My friend sent me this message on June 13, 2000 and I
thought I would post it here:
I'm running RedHat 6.0 on a HP Vectra XU PPro200 at home.
Arggghhh! Upgraded to RH 6.2, and this is what I get:
Error: only one processor found.
enabling symmetric IO mode.......done.
Enabling IO-APIC IRQ's
...changing IO-APIC physical ID to 16
Kernel panic: could not set ID
In swapper task-not syncing
And then it just hangs there. Even went back and did a new
install of 6.2 and get the same. This is on HP Vecta XU
PPro200 which has dual processor motherboard but only one
CPU.
Dam thing was running good with 6.0 before this shit. I
registered on RH support site but have no answer yet and I
leave
for Detroit today so I ain't gonna fuck with it before
Friday or Saturday at the earliest, but any ideas?
Thanks,
DeadSmiley
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From: "Brian C. Ranum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for 3DLabs Oxygen VX1
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:12:51 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone have or know how to configure Redhat for use with the above
graphics card?
Thanks,
Brian
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From: Stephen Nodvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:30:35 GMT
I just got my Diamond MM boards. The chip in this card is the Broadcom
chip! I couldn't get the pcnethme.o module to load properly under RH 6.2.
Since DiamondMM mentiones the AMD Chip in some of their online
documentation and since the AMD site indicates that the driver supports
10M:
http://www.amd.com/products/npd/software/pcnet_home/linuxreadmetxt.html
I presumed that DiamondMM was using the AMD chip in their 10M boards.
Just keep digging to find a Broadcom driver.
Stephen
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From: Stephen Nodvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HomePNA 2.0 driver support?
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:30:36 GMT
I found some additional info online about the
BCM4210 iLine10TM PCI/MSI Controller:
Check here:
http://www.insight-electronics.com/bcm4210-4100/
Regards,
Stephen
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From: Steve Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Hardware buggy on Linux install
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 13:44:46 -0500
It sounds to me like a power supply problem. I live out at a tail end
of the grid with verry dirty power so my supplys temd to go belly up
after about 24 months of 24/7 usage even with a ups. Usually the first
simptom is a crash during any type of disk format along with verry
random and unrepeatable software errors. This is especially true if you
are useing a noname powersupply <300W. I've had good results with
cahnging out the powersupply as soon as I buy a box, great source of
extra cooling fans <G>. I recomend Antec PS's.
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if i lean to the left it's because one leg is longer than the other.
Frank Iway Wu wrote:
>
> I've had Linux on this computer before. It started acting kinda funny
> a while back which I attributed to the unstable release of Debian I
> had. Now, NOTHING will stay stable on this machine.
>
> SuperMicro S2DGE 440GX MB
> 256 MB Registered SDRAM
> Dual Xeon 450 MHz 512k
> Buslogic BT-958 SCSI Card
> Seagate and IBM HDs on both normal and wide chain
> Digital DE-500 10/100 NIC
>
> I've checked the termination on the SCSI chains. I've tried pulling
> all drives except on and a CD-ROM and installing RedHat Linux 6.2.
> I've tried installing Debian 2.2 (still unstable). Regardless of it
> all, I still get the same problems when the installation program
> begins to start initializing (formatting) the paritions. This is the error
> I get ...
>
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0108237>]
> EFLAGS: 00010082
> .
> .
> .
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
> I've check the memory with memtest86
> (http://reality.sgi.com/cbrady_denver/memtest86) and it checks out ok.
> I've tried attaching a known working IDE drive and IDE CD-ROM and get
> the same type of error when beginning initialization of the paritions.
>
> I've tried installing BeOS and it seems to install but is completely
> unstable. After anywhere from 1 min to 1.5 hours depending on whether
> the CPU is being taxed, BeOS completely locks up (no mouse, no
> keyboard, only a hardware reset).
>
> I've emailed SuperMicro and they suggested the SPD on the memory chip
> was bad and to switch the BIOS setting for "Memory Autosizing" from
> "Auto" to "Enable". I did that but everytime I reboot, the BIOS beeps
> 6 times which my manual indicates a keyboard error?!?
>
> I think it's gotta be the motherboard or CPUs. Ok, possibly the
> memory chip. I plan on replacing the chip with another nonregistered
> SDRAM later tonight to check. But assumming it's not the memory, any
> suggestions on how to isolate the problem?
>
> Oh, and any explanation on what that type of error is would greatly be
> appreciated. Thanks in advance
>
> Frank
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From: Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Fraquency
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2000 02:32:40 +0800
No matter what distro you're using, the way to solve this
is to edit the XF86Config file
Gore wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How to change dispaly fraquency under Manadrake 7.1
> Now I see display refreshing
>
> Gore
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