Linux-Hardware Digest #61, Volume #13 Sat, 17 Jun 00 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Video card suggestion (Dances With Crows)
Re: RH Kudzu hardware detection? (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Re: Lilo Problem (Thomas Luzat)
Canon BJC-5000 printer (Joel Hernandez)
Re: Water cooling system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Trouble with cdrecord..:< Additional info (root)
PS2 Mouse Problem In Quake but not X (Vic Evans)
ScSi Card? ("The Chief")
Re: Water cooling system (Simon Lemieux)
Adding a Wavelan ISA adapter and wireless card ("Michael Bates")
Re: Canon BJC-5000 printer (Jim Conner)
Re: ScSi Card? (Jim Conner)
Re: ScSi Card? (Bob Martin)
GeForce driver installation for a linux newbie. (wooly mammoth)
Re: Can't use "setserial" command to setup modem. (Bob Martin)
PCI Sound PRO with 3D Multimedia system (Federico Czerwinski)
Tape backup: tar versus dump (Craig McCluskey)
Dual display on NM2000 chipset (SONY PCG-C1X*) (Mathias Koerber)
Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? ("Flacco")
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (mlw)
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Video card suggestion
Date: 17 Jun 2000 18:15:10 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 17:32:08 -0400, Kevin
<<j8S25.15342$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I have decided to build my own computer and will be building a 850MHz Athlon
>with an Asus K7V motherboard. I'm going to install the newest version of
>Mandrake and I'd like to know what 32MB AGP video card works the best with
>Mandrake. Any help would be much appreciated. I'm looking for something
>that will have minimal configuration problems. Thanks
The only reason you would need that much memory on your video card is if
you're going to be playing a lot of 3D games. If you're not going to be
doing that, save yourself some money and get a nice ATi Xpert98 with 8M or
so. If you're set on playing games and you want Linux compatability,
your best choice is probably the Matrox G400. The nVidia TNT2 chipset
(found in cards like the Diamond Viper 770) is also very easy to set up
with a recent distro, but nVidia are being evil wrt 3D drivers and their
binary-only OpenGL stuff occasionally makes X die.
--
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
------------------------------
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: RH Kudzu hardware detection?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Prasanth A. Kumar)
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:22:35 GMT
Kevin J Dressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've got RH 6.1, and my something went nuts with Kudzu, so I decided to
> upgrade to the version that comes with 6.2. However, it tells me I need
> libpopt.so.0 or something. Anyway, does anyone know which dependencies
> I need to install for kudzu to work right (what rpm files, etc.)?
<snip>
You need the popt, newt, and slang rpms.
--
Prasanth Kumar
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: Thomas Luzat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x,nl.comp.os.linux.overig,nl.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Lilo Problem
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 19:50:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 12:59:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Anita Lewis)
wrote:
>boot with floppy and go into X if you can. cd /usr/doc/lilo-<number>/doc
>and do gv User_Guide.ps. If you can't use X then copy User_Guide.ps to a
>dos formatted floppy and view it with acrobat in windows.
With Acrobat? Acrobat Reader? The Acrobat Reader can only be used to
view PDF files AFAIK.
Thomas
------------------------------
From: Joel Hernandez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Canon BJC-5000 printer
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 22:45:39 GMT
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone is able to install and print with the
BJC-5000 printer. I was able to install
it using the BJC-4000 drivers but, it won't print a test page or
anything. I appreciate any help in this matter.
thanks in advance...Joel H.
------------------------------
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: 17 Jun 2000 22:47:46 GMT
> Simple physics, the heat has to go somewhere.
If you're still interested, the simple solution is to put the water
reservoir outside the room. And this is only useful if the
temperature is significantly lower there. But because it can get hot
even outside in the summer, it looks like you need a heat pump (refrigerator).
--
Risto A. Paju ::: http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
------------------------------
From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble with cdrecord..:< Additional info
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 18:04:33 -0500
root wrote:
> Hello! I am experiencing a frustrating problem, so 4 or so coasters
> later, here i am.
>
> Here is the standard output of a dummy write using gtoaster:
>
> everything "appears" to be normal.to this point, and then.....
> fixating CDROM.
> Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
> Schilling
> scsidev: '0,1,0'
> scsibus: 0 target: 1 lun: 0
> Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
> Device type : Removable CD-ROM
> Version : 0
> Response Format: 1
> Vendor_info : 'HP '
> Identifikation : 'CD-Writer+ 7500 '
> Revision : '1.0a'
> Device seems to be: Generic mmc CD-RW.
> Using generic SCSI-3/mmc CD-R driver (mmc_cdr).
> Driver flags : SWABAUDIO
> Starting to write CD/DVD at speed 2 in dummy mode for single session.
> Last chance to quit, starting dummy write in 9 seconds.8
> seconds.7 seconds.6 seconds.5
> seconds.4 seconds.3 seconds.2
> seconds.1 seconds.
> CDB: 55 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 00
> Sense Bytes: 70 00 05 00 00 00 00 12 00 00 00 00 26 00 00 80
> Sense Key: 0x5 Illegal Request, Segment 0
> Sense Code: 0x26 Qual 0x00 (invalid field in parameter list) Fru 0x0
> Sense flags: Blk 0 (not valid) error refers to data part, bit ptr 0 (not
> valid) field ptr 0
> cmd finished after 0.007s timeout 40s
> cdrecord: Input/output error. mode select g1: scsi sendcmd: retryable
> error
> status: 0x2 (CHECK CONDITION)
> CD recording process finished.
>
> --
> I have two 2.2.16 kernels compiled..one using no scsi modules (all scsi
> suupport is compiled into the kernel)
> and one where its modulized..
>
> what is interesting is that when i was using 2.2.14 , a similar setup
> used the sg.o module..but i havent been able to use that yet despite its
> presence in /lib/modules/2.2.16/
>
> ANY suggestions are always welcome :)
>
> Tia,
>
> meany
PS:
BY the way, i forgot..this is an HP7200i
and here is the current output of cderecord scanbus (note im using scsi emu
for both cd drives :
[root@glowworm /root]# cdrecord --scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i586-mandrake-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg
Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'MITSUMI ' 'CD-ROM FX140S !B' 'e12 ' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 7500 ' '1.0a' Removable CD-ROM
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
thanks,
meany
------------------------------
From: Vic Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PS2 Mouse Problem In Quake but not X
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:30:02 GMT
I'm a complete Linux-newbee and I can't figure out how to get the mouse
to work properly in Quake I for Linux.
It is a PS2 Logitech 3 button MouseMan mouse that works fine in X or KDE
but when I start Quake, it does not function correctly.
The left-right movements in Quake are very quick and far too extreme. I
tried to customize the controls to change the Quake controls as I have
done in the DOS version but it would not map the mouse keys and lowering
the sensitivity did not work. Quake did did not recognize the mouse
clicks when I clicked them in the Quake control setup. I wanted to
reassign the forward movement to the right mouse button and attack to the
left mouse button.
I'm running RedHat 6.0 on an AMD K6-2 300mhz on an Asus P5-AB motherboard
with Quake I.
I'll be very pleased if anyone will help me. Many thanks.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
------------------------------
Reply-To: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "The Chief" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ScSi Card?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:59:29 -0700
Iam using a adaptec 1505 scsi card for my Zip& Scanner!
I have the Mandrake 7.0 Linux setup Installed ! it doesn't like my scsi card
won't recognize it!! What SCSI Card would be better to Use, has to be ScSi
II {25 Pin)
Bye!
------------------------------
From: Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 00:06:01 GMT
> If you're still interested, the simple solution is to put the water
> reservoir outside the room. And this is only useful if the
> temperature is significantly lower there. But because it can get hot
> even outside in the summer, it looks like you need a heat pump (refrigerator).
Or add a bunch of ice cubes when I enter the room for work?!
------------------------------
From: "Michael Bates" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Adding a Wavelan ISA adapter and wireless card
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 16:51:17 -0800
I am trying to add a Wavelan ISA Adapter and wireless card to a Compaq
Presario 4716 running Redhat Linux 6.2. I have download the pcmcia-cs-3.1.8
and pcmcia-cs-3.1.16 with the lucent drivers wavelan2_cs-6.00.
The compile and stall run fine, but when I reboot I get the messages below.
Any ideas??
Thanks
Mike
Messages from the boot.log in /var/log
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: Starting PCMCIA services:
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: modules
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/i82365.o:
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: init_module: Device or resource busy
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: /lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/ds.o:
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: cardmgr.
Jun 17 13:00:56 ike pcmcia: init_module: Device or resource busy
Jun 17 13:00:57 ike rc: Starting pcmcia succeeded
messages from /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia restart
Shutting down PCMCIA services:.
Starting PCMCIA services: modulesinsmod: a module named pcmcia_core already
exists
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/i82365.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
/lib/modules/2.2.14-5.0/pcmcia/ds.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
cardmgr.
/var/log/messages
Jun 17 13:06:35 ike kernel: Intel PCIC probe: not found.
Jun 17 13:06:35 ike kernel: ds: no socket drivers loaded!
Jun 17 13:06:35 ike cardmgr[790]: starting, version is 3.1.16
Jun 17 13:06:35 ike cardmgr[790]: no pcmcia driver in /proc/devices
Jun 17 13:06:35 ike cardmgr[790]: exiting
output from lsmod
Module Size Used by
nls_iso8859-1 2240 1 (autoclean)
pcmcia_core 44192 0
lockd 31592 1 (autoclean)
sunrpc 53540 1 (autoclean) [lockd]
ppp 20268 0 (autoclean) (unused)
slhc 4568 0 (autoclean) [ppp]
------------------------------
From: Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-5000 printer
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:30:25 GMT
Try this web site. It says it's a paperweight, but there was one case
of someone getting it to work. Good luck. You might post your results
here in case someone else is having the same problem.
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=67584
Jim
Joel Hernandez wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was wondering if anyone is able to install and print with the
> BJC-5000 printer. I was able to install
> it using the BJC-4000 drivers but, it won't print a test page or
> anything. I appreciate any help in this matter.
>
> thanks in advance...Joel H.
------------------------------
From: Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ScSi Card?
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 01:34:12 GMT
Try the driver on this web page.
http://lhd.datapower.com/db/dispproduct.php3?DISP?978
Jim
The Chief wrote:
> Iam using a adaptec 1505 scsi card for my Zip& Scanner!
>
> I have the Mandrake 7.0 Linux setup Installed ! it doesn't like my scsi card
> won't recognize it!! What SCSI Card would be better to Use, has to be ScSi
> II {25 Pin)
>
> Bye!
------------------------------
From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ScSi Card?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:58:27 -0500
The Chief wrote:
>
> Iam using a adaptec 1505 scsi card for my Zip& Scanner!
>
> I have the Mandrake 7.0 Linux setup Installed ! it doesn't like my scsi card
> won't recognize it!! What SCSI Card would be better to Use, has to be ScSi
> II {25 Pin)
>
> Bye!
I have one of those installed in a box, works ok. Can you be a little
more specific than doesn't like it ? The one I had would not load using
the defaults on the card,once I moved it to another IRQ it was happy.
--
Bob Martin
------------------------------
From: wooly mammoth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: GeForce driver installation for a linux newbie.
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:13:19 GMT
I am a complete newbie to Linux. Just installed Mandrake 7.0. I have the
GeForce drivers for Linux. How do I install them? The name of the file I
have is Riva-X-GLX-1.0-libc5-i386-dyn.tar.gz . I don't even know what
tar is but I assume it's used for a compressed file. How do I
un-compress it? Where do I place the resulting files and what do I do to
install the drivers? Thanks.
------------------------------
From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't use "setserial" command to setup modem.
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:15:00 -0500
James wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I have an internal ISA Rockwell modem, I realise it could be a winmodem
> although I have my doubts because I used to use Corel linux and it worked
> fine.
> I am now running Mandrake 7.0 and cannot manage to setup my modem. If I
> log in and load Kppp and click connect it will initialise, dial very
> slowly and hang up. If I try to reconnect It says "Sorry the modem doesn't
> respond."
> I also tried to set it up with the "setserial /dev/ttyS2 autoconfig"
> command but I get a message saying "Device or resource busy."
> I then tried doing it the long way with "setserial" but I did not know
> what value to put for "uart" how do I find this out?
> How can I get my modem to work? And why does linux think that it is
> busy?
If it is going off hook and dialing, then it's not a winmodem. Sounds
like an IRQ conflict.
--
Bob Martin
------------------------------
From: Federico Czerwinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCI Sound PRO with 3D Multimedia system
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 02:30:06 GMT
HI there!!!, thanx for reading it!, well, I recently found out that my
PC100 mother, has a soundcard incorporated! =0), well, but he point is that
if I can use that sound card (PCI Sound PRO with 3D Multimedia system)
under Linux. Becaouse with the sndconfig didnt work. Ok, thanx for all!!!,
sincerely.
Federico
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
------------------------------
From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Tape backup: tar versus dump
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 21:40:40 -0500
In reading the tape backup discussions in the comp.os.linux.*
newsgroups,
I read of some using tar for backups and some using dump (of the
standard
Linux commands, that is, 3rd party applications are a different story --
and
unacceptable to my dissertation advisor). We're using an HP 35480A (a
DDS DC [DDS-1 with hardware compression] SCSI drive).
How can one decide between tar and dump? Both have terse man pages (what
do you expect? :-) ) but dump's seems more inscruitable than tar's. I
know
what tar does (and how to write a short shell script to make it a
proper backup utility), but I don't really have a handle on dump.
In reading dump's man page, I find it backs up either filesystems or
directories. In backing up directories, it seems to work like tar.
In backing up filesystems, I understand that it works on a partition-by-
partition basis. I have been told that in doing so, it makes an image of
what is on the partition, but have seen no documentation that describes
what's exactly going on.
In any event, it seems that neither tar nor dump backup the MBR and the
partition size table. Thus in recovering from a total disk loss, one
would
have to partition the (new) hard disk, roll the backup tapes onto the
new
disk partitions one-by-one, and then run /sbin/lilo to write the MBR. Is
dump better for this than tar? How does one decide?
In addition, the different backup levels of dump are confusing. Why ten
different levels? Why not just two (full and incremental)? And how does
the, "Tower of Hanoi algorithm," help maintain the integrity of one's
data backup?
As you can tell, I have a lot of questions!
Craig
------------------------------
From: Mathias Koerber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x.i386unix,de.comp.os.unix.x11
Subject: Dual display on NM2000 chipset (SONY PCG-C1X*)
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 10:56:53 +0800
I tried out the SONY PCG-C1XA (Singapore version ofthe C1XS) in the
shop yesterday.
It has a neoMagic NM2000 with 2.5MB Video RAM. The built-in screen is
1024x480. On the external screen, it supports 1024x768 (256 colors I
think).
A coolfeature is that it can drive both the internal and external
screen at the same time as a double headed desktop. For this you can
use the internal screen at 1024x480 and the external (VGA) at
1024x768.
It then allows you to move windows off the right edge of the internal
screen onto the external display.
I wonder whether something like this would be supported by X under
Linux and how to make this work.
Has anyone tried something similar with this or any other PC under
Linux/X? Note that it does not have two graphics controllers, but that
the same controller controls both screens!
regards
F'up set to colx
--
Mathias Koerber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
------------------------------
From: "Flacco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:00:25 -0400
Can Linux do this?
We would like to put some "obsolete" hardware to use as web browser kiosks.
We have Win95 and IE installed on them now, but I though I'd give Linux a
try.
Requirements:
- Run pretty well on 486/66's with 16MB RAM.
- GUI that is fairly easy to use for a non-technical Windows user
- Support 3270 connections to VM mainframe
- Simple web browser with low memory requirements; must be easy to use for
people familiar with IE and Netscape.
- Must be able to "lock down" the desktop so that users cannot change the
configurations at all. The only things we want these machines to be able to
do is browse the web and establish 3270 sessions.
- As an added bonus, it would make my life easier if I can manage these
machines remotely from my office.
- All software components must be freeware.
Does anyone have any opinions on the feasibility of this, and suggestions
for products (3270 client, web browser), and techniques (ideal Linux config,
locking down desktop)?
I'm just getting started with Linux, and I really like what I see so far.
Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions!
------------------------------
From: mlw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 23:02:25 -0400
If you can't do this with Linux after reading "Linux for Dummies" then
you aimed too high. ;-)
There is nothing that you have asked that can't be done in Linux.
Flacco wrote:
>
> Can Linux do this?
>
> We would like to put some "obsolete" hardware to use as web browser kiosks.
> We have Win95 and IE installed on them now, but I though I'd give Linux a
> try.
>
> Requirements:
>
> - Run pretty well on 486/66's with 16MB RAM.
>
> - GUI that is fairly easy to use for a non-technical Windows user
>
> - Support 3270 connections to VM mainframe
>
> - Simple web browser with low memory requirements; must be easy to use for
> people familiar with IE and Netscape.
>
> - Must be able to "lock down" the desktop so that users cannot change the
> configurations at all. The only things we want these machines to be able to
> do is browse the web and establish 3270 sessions.
>
> - As an added bonus, it would make my life easier if I can manage these
> machines remotely from my office.
>
> - All software components must be freeware.
>
> Does anyone have any opinions on the feasibility of this, and suggestions
> for products (3270 client, web browser), and techniques (ideal Linux config,
> locking down desktop)?
>
> I'm just getting started with Linux, and I really like what I see so far.
> Thanks in advance for your opinions and suggestions!
--
Mohawk Software
Windows 9x, Windows NT, UNIX, Linux. Applications, drivers, support.
Visit http://www.mohawksoft.com
Have you noticed the way people's intelligence capabilities decline
sharply the minute they start waving guns around?
------------------------------
** FOR YOUR REFERENCE **
The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests
to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via:
Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites:
ftp.funet.fi pub/Linux
tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux
sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux
End of Linux-Hardware Digest
******************************
