Linux-Hardware Digest #107, Volume #13 Sat, 24 Jun 00 12:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Help! Really Confused... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?! ("Tim Faehnle")
ISDN Routing (Konstantin Schauwecker)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (Cihl)
56k modem ("coleung")
BT878 (Hauppage winTV) problem WMTV (AB)
Re: Adaptec AHA1542 CF (Leon Garde)
Re: 486 for Linux and X? (Daniel Haude)
Re: 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help! (Steve Martin)
Mustek ScanExpress 12000 SP (SANE) ("H.A.J. van Niekerk")
Re: ES1371 -- any good ? (Michael Meding)
X server crashes with nvidia-driver ("FROZEN_Steam")
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (Conan)
ATI rage II (Lior)
Re: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard (Chris Rankin)
Re: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard (Wolfgang Fritz)
Re: 486 for Linux and X? (Ronald Cole)
ISDN and automatic dailing (Konstantin Schauwecker)
Re: ATI rage II ("bdl")
Re: Help! Really Confused... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 56k modem
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (Floris Hammer)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! Really Confused...
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 01:45:50 GMT
I need to know if Linux will work for me... my situation is this:
I looked at the OSs supported by my video card, a Diamond Stealth II
G460 (Intel i740 chipset), and Linux is not one of them. Also, it's not
listed in XFree86's 3.3.6 video card list (though Stealth II S220 is...
I don't know if that implies mine is also compatible).
However, in the XFree86 4.0's video driver status page, it says:
"Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the 'i740'
driver"
For 3.3.6 it says:
"Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the XF86_SVGA
server with the i740 driver"
Now I don't know too much about Linux, which is why I'm asking... I'm
confused, does this mean I can run Linux (I'm planning on getting Red
Hat) with X Windows or not? And if so, could there be complications?
Thanks a lot,
Brian Chen
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Tim Faehnle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: More 3C509 problems, confused!?!
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:42:38 GMT
I couldn't get my 3c509 to work in RH 6.2 so I tried Mandrake 7.1.
Autoprobe in installation and then, after installation, go to network
configuration and select the 3c509. Rebooted and it worked.
Tim
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From: Konstantin Schauwecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN Routing
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 11:08:11 +0200
Hi everybody!
I want to configure a linux PC as Router, so that it's possible to
connect to the internet from every terminal (windows or linux) in the
LAN using the ProxyServer function of Netscape (or does anybody know a
better way?). Is this possible with route.conf or do I need a special
deamon?
Konstantin Schauwecker
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From: Cihl <[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, 24 Jun 2000 09:32:50 GMT
Aaron Kulkis wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 23 Jun 2000 15:29:52 -0600, ckeough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >OH No !!!!, the kernel has alot to do with he speed, comming with dozens of
> > >drivers and stuff you dont need. I ve gotten alot of speed increase from
> > >recompiling you moron.
> >
> > Even at it's most bloated, the Linux kernel is a lightweight
> > when compared to either X or Netscape which an application of
> > this kind would spend it's most time in. The few K you save
> > in a kernel recompile is going to be dwarfed by what X or
> > Netscape consumer and whatever speed increase you think you
> > get out of a kernel recompile is going to be moot if you start
> > using too much swap.
> >
> > Choosing the right video hardware (to ensure an effective driver)
> > would be more germane than tweaking the kernel.
>
> Hell, even tweaking the buffer allocations is going to have more
> effect than stripping out unused drivers.
Compiling your own kernel is always a good thing to do, though. You
only have to do it once. It's the first thing i do when i have
installed a Linux-server at work. I don't like kernel modules, somehow
they seem messy to me.
[snipped WAY to long sig]
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�I hunger!�
�Run, coward!�
-- The Sinistar
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From: "coleung" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 56k modem
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:49:43 +0800
Does linux support 56k modem? It support V.90 or K56flex
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Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 12:55:01 +0200
From: AB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BT878 (Hauppage winTV) problem WMTV
Hi,
No matter what I try (wmtv or xawtv) I can get the tv working in Linux.
The machine used to run BSD, where the fxtv app. worked just fine, so
the hard ware should be OK.
The following is the error message I get from wmtv:
bash-2.03$ wmtv
open failed: No such file or directory
ioctl VIDIOCGCAP: Bad file descriptor
wmtv: video device does not support scalling
What do I do wrong ?
AB
PS; this is the .wmtvrc:
bash-2.03$ cat .wmtvrc
source = Television
freqnorm = pal-europe
maxpreset = 2
mode = pal
fullscreen = 640x480
[channel]
E10
E11
bash-2.03$
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From: Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA1542 CF
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 24 Jun 2000 21:02:19 EST
Matthias Minich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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?
Thats right. int 13h is the bios interface to hard disks.
No hard disk, no need for int 13.
linux won't use bios anyway ( except to boot) so
you don't need
the card and dat tape drive will still work fine under linux.
> Is it still possible to load the AHA154X-Module?
yes.
you can press control-a as it boots, (just as it says something about
the card and before it scans the bus ) to get the menu
for setting up the card; then turn off int 13/bios support,
and it won't trouble you with the message anymore.
leon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Haude)
Subject: Re: 486 for Linux and X?
Date: 24 Jun 2000 11:04:04 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 23 Jun 2000 18:27:45 GMT,
Ken Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
in Msg. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Could some kind soul please tell me if Linux (TurboLinux
| Workstation) and X will run well enough for practical use on a
| 486DX-100?
It does, and I use it (mainly TeX/LaTeX). You can probably forget
netscape, though. With X you should have 32MB RAM minimum. And don't use
KDE. Use fvwm2.
--Daniel
--
"The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy
way to factor large prime numbers." -- Bill Gates, "The Road Ahead"
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help!
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 07:18:22 -0400
Jonathan McKinney wrote:
> I question if anything is actually wrong with the drive since the data is fine.
> I plan on sticking the HD on another system to see what happens.
I'm no expert, but it would seem to me that ext2fs is *really* confused.
If
that's true, you're living with a ticking time bomb. Sooner or later,
the
filesystem will become so corrupted that your data will be damaged.
What version of e2fstools (mke2fs, et cetera) are you running? Perhaps
an upgrade is needed?
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From: "H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mustek ScanExpress 12000 SP (SANE)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:30:22 +0200
Hi,
I downloaded the SANE-software for this scanner but how do I use it?
Thanks,
Huub
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From: Michael Meding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES1371 -- any good ?
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:10:49 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi everybody,
first of all I like to thank all of you for your posts.
I think that in my case where it seems a lot of interrupts are generated
that a sound card change would
add performance. But I am not sure. Is this es1371 a device where most
of the work is done by the processor and only little by the sound card ?
Hm, I guess I have to dig depper in this matter. Any other ideas anyone
?
Regards
Michael
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From: "FROZEN_Steam" <[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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200
Hello,
I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
still doesn't work.
Can anyone help?
thanx,
Floris
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 08:56:27 -0400
You may be selecting a configuration that your monitor doesn't support.
Use Xconfigurator to do the setup, It allows you to try various
different combinations of settings, if a setting doesn't work it reverts
back to VGA so that you can try another.
FROZEN_Steam wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
> start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
> only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
>
> I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
> still doesn't work.
>
> Can anyone help?
>
> thanx,
> Floris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Conan)
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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:06:34 GMT
Hi
I've got the same problem with my geforce card. After many e-mails
with [EMAIL PROTECTED], it turned out to be an IRQ conflict. With me
- it was the HISAX driver who could not share IRQ. Do a "cat
/proc/pci" and check out who shares resources.
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200, "FROZEN_Steam"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
>start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
>only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
>
>I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
>still doesn't work.
>
>Can anyone help?
>
>thanx,
>Floris
>
>
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From: Lior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI rage II
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 13:30:08 GMT
Hello everyone
I have an ATI rage II (4 mb).
I am almost totaly desprated but I want to know if I can run X windows
in normal resolutions and how do I do that.
any help will be welcome
thanks
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: Chris Rankin <au.zipworld.com@{no.spam}rankinc>
Subject: Re: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 23:33:39 +1000
Wilbert Kruithof wrote:
> I used www.metacrawler.com searching ac97+linux and found that there are
> patches (2.2.13) for AC97. Experimental, may be unstable. Within a few
> weeks 2.4 shall be released. This version could have full support for
> the soundcard you have(i810 motherboard?).
Actually, it's an i840 motherboard
> All this could be done by yourself...
Well I did check the Linux Hardware Database, but came up empty.
Cheers,
Chris
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Integrated Audio on new Motherboard
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 10:59:17 +0200
Chris Rankin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> Does anyone know what kind of sound-chip the AC97 is, please? Which
> driver would I (could I?) use to support it?
>
AC97 is no sound chip but a specification (Audio Codec 97). There are
different chips supporting this standard; some of them using the es1371
driver.
What does the command lspci (under root) show?
> Thanks for any info,
> Cheers,
> Chris
Wolfgang
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From: Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 486 for Linux and X?
Date: 24 Jun 2000 07:54:17 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ken Knecht) writes:
> Could some kind soul please tell me if Linux (TurboLinux
> Workstation) and X will run well enough for practical use on a
> 486DX-100? Only one user. Probably no graphics editing, etc. to
> speak of.
Gnome/Enlightenment is too slow for my tastes on a 486DX4/100 with
32M. xdm and twm are acceptable, though (I was running tvtwm).
--
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Ronald Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Phone: (760) 499-9142
President, CEO Fax: (760) 499-9152
My GPG fingerprint: C3AF 4BE9 BEA6 F1C2 B084 4A88 8851 E6C8 69E3 B00B
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From: Konstantin Schauwecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISDN and automatic dailing
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:57:02 +0200
Hi!
I've an ISDN card and I configured it to dail automatically if any
program access the internet. Now I installed ipchains, that other
clients cann access the internet through my computer. My problem is, if
I start ipchains the automatic dailing doesn't work anymore. I want the
computer to dail even when somebody out of my LAN wants to access the
internet with my gateway.
Does anybody has an idear?
Konstantin Schauwecker
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From: "bdl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI rage II
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:11:17 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lior
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I have an ATI rage II (4 mb).
>
> I am almost totaly desprated but I want to know if I can run X windows
> in normal resolutions and how do I do that.
>
> any help will be welcome
>
> thanks
>
>
>
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com http://www.help.com/
I also have an older ATI Rage II card on one of my machines and it works
fine, both with framebuffer and X. My particular card worked with the
Mach-64 Accell X server, and depending on which model of Rage II you
have, you would probably use the same server. That card is not capable of
very high res, but I run it 1024x768 at 16bpp with no problem, which
should be enough for most people.
Can you identify the chipset used? Go to the ati website and there are
alot of pages to help you ID your specific board and chipset. Then move on
to the Linux Hardware db website and find ot how to get it running under
Linux.
links:
http://www.atitech.com
http://www.linhardware.com
Luck!
--
bdl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Linux 2.4.0-test1 #4 Fri Jun 23 19:18:37 PDT 2000 i686
7:58am up 0 min, 1 user, load average: 0.42, 0.13, 0.04
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help! Really Confused...
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:29:53 GMT
It's the Intel i740 chip, which is supported by XF86. Does this mean I
can run it just fine? My video card may not be supported, but the
chipset is.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Jonathan McKinney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ya.
>
> In the end, all that really matters is what chip the video board
uses. You just
> need to choose the chip specifically, or a board that has your chip.
This is
> all done in XF86Setup
>
> -Jon
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > I need to know if Linux will work for me... my situation is this:
> >
> > I looked at the OSs supported by my video card, a Diamond Stealth II
> > G460 (Intel i740 chipset), and Linux is not one of them. Also, it's
not
> > listed in XFree86's 3.3.6 video card list (though Stealth II S220
is...
> > I don't know if that implies mine is also compatible).
> >
> > However, in the XFree86 4.0's video driver status page, it says:
> > "Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the 'i740'
> > driver"
> > For 3.3.6 it says:
> > "Support (accelerated) for the Intel i740 is provided by the
XF86_SVGA
> > server with the i740 driver"
> >
> > Now I don't know too much about Linux, which is why I'm asking...
I'm
> > confused, does this mean I can run Linux (I'm planning on getting
Red
> > Hat) with X Windows or not? And if so, could there be complications?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> > Brian Chen
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: 56k modem
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 15:43:50 GMT
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:49:43 +0800, coleung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does linux support 56k modem? It support V.90 or K56flex
Linux support serial ports. You can put any modem you want at the other
end. It has to actually be a modem, not some braindead winmodem.
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From: Floris Hammer <[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: X server crashes with nvidia-driver
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 17:56:24 +0200
I forgot to tell that if I run the 'install.sh' script from the src
directory of the kernel driver before starting x, everything works fine.
I tried doing cat /proc/pci and found out that my soundcard and NVdriver
were on the same irq, so I removed my sound from the kernel, but that
didn't work...
any other ideas?
Conan wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> I've got the same problem with my geforce card. After many e-mails
> with [EMAIL PROTECTED], it turned out to be an IRQ conflict. With me
> - it was the HISAX driver who could not share IRQ. Do a "cat
> /proc/pci" and check out who shares resources.
>
> On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 14:05:19 +0200, "FROZEN_Steam"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Hello,
> >
> >I've installed Nidia's driver for my tnt2 ultra card. When I attempt to
> >start X, the screen gets black and the system doesn't react to anything. The
> >only way to get out of this is by restarting with ctrl-alt-del...
> >
> >I've already put 'char-major-195 NVdriver' in /etc/conf.modules, but it
> >still doesn't work.
> >
> >Can anyone help?
> >
> >thanx,
> >Floris
> >
> >
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