Linux-Hardware Digest #112, Volume #13 Sun, 25 Jun 00 16:13:15 EDT
Contents:
Need drivers for scanner HP Scanjet3300C (James Poole)
Re: Problem with External Modem Rockwell ACF 56K (2 Meg ROM) can work in linux?
(Rickard Lau)
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (Wilmer van der Gaast)
Matrox g400 Dual Head (Louis Cyfer)
Re: Need drivers for scanner HP Scanjet3300C ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution ("Richard Clafton")
Who's writing to my harddisk? (Sascha Mantscheff)
Re: Num Lock & Linux (Jerry Lapham)
Re: new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz help if
you can (Adam Schuetze)
Re: Who's writing to my harddisk? (David Efflandt)
Re: Who's writing to my harddisk? ("Rob Windgassen")
Re: Fasttrack and IDE RAID (Markus Kossmann)
Re: X server crashes with nvidia-driver (herman dumont)
Re: RAM > 64 Mb ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports "failed loading
module"... (Chris Vine)
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From: James Poole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need drivers for scanner HP Scanjet3300C
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:08:43 GMT
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I was in the market for a scanner recently and since Linux is my main=20
operating=20
system I looked for a well known brand that would be supported. I use=20
HPUX based=20
machines and presumed an HP scanner would provide drivers for Linux so=20
went out and got
myself an HPScanjet3300C. Unfortunately not only is there no=20
software, there is an=20
aggressively brief message saying that their kit is aimed solely at=20
the Windoze market and HP=20
do not support any other platforms.
Has anyone else out there managed to locate drivers and application=20
softeware for
such a beast.? Or am I going to have to crawl back to the computer=20
shop and try and get my
money back?=09
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<P> I was in the market for a scanner recently and since Linux is my
main operating=20
</P>
<P>system I looked for a well known brand that would be supported. I
use HPUX based=20
</P>
<P>machines and presumed an HP scanner would provide drivers for Linux
so went out and got</P>
<P>myself an HPScanjet3300C. Unfortunately not only is there no
software, there is an=20
</P>
<P>aggressively brief message saying that their kit is aimed solely at
the Windoze market and HP=20
</P>
<P>do not support any other platforms.</P>
<P> Has anyone else out there managed to locate drivers and application
softeware for</P>
<P>such a beast.? Or am I going to have to crawl back to the computer
shop and try and get my</P>
<P>money back? </P>
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From: Rickard Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem with External Modem Rockwell ACF 56K (2 Meg ROM) can work in
linux?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 15:30:05 GMT
Richard reply:
I use Caldera Openlinux 2.4 Desktop with my ROckwell external modem. I
don't need to set anything and it work!
Materia wrote:
>
> Xoltrix external modem 8FM56e can work in linux? I heard that is a
> soft modem despite de fact that is external. Is that true? I been
> trying to find out about this model but w/o success. Anyone knows
> anything that I should know to make it work, please let me know. I
> didnt have any luck trying to connect to ISP in Mandrake 7.02 o BEos
> 5PE.
>
> Jess
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilmer van der Gaast)
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: 25 Jun 2000 14:20:24 GMT
Would you please stop posting /English/ question to a /Dutch/ newsgroup???
If you (cross-)post your questions to international ng's because you expect
better answers there, that's okay. But please stop posting your messages
here.
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From: Louis Cyfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox g400 Dual Head
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 16:00:23 GMT
Hi guys,can u tell me if xfree86 4.0 supports dual head mode on my video
card?
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Date: 25 Jun 2000 11:57:50 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need drivers for scanner HP Scanjet3300C
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to James Poole;
[...]
JP> such a beast.? Or am I going to have to crawl back to the
JP> computer shop and try and get my money back?
It looks like you need the knee pads. And when you get back, lose the
html from your posts please, this is the usenet, text based messages are
the norm.
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Cheers, Gene
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From: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Slim cases for rack-mounted solution
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:31:27 +0100
Reply-To: "Richard Clafton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Ancipital" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:11:14 +0100, "Richard Clafton"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >A man of my word - for all you techies out their who would like to build
> >themselves a 1U Server to their own specification, we now have available
a
> >BARE BONES kit with 1U Case, PSU, Motherboard and Floppy Drive - rack
> >mounting kit and all other accessories.
>
> I have to say that this is one of the nicest bits of non-spamming and
> totally on-topic marketing that I've ever seen :)
>
> I'll certainly consider you as a source for rackmount bits and bobs.
>
> Impressed.
>
>
> Ancipital- Inedible Buddhas reality control #1
> http://www.buddhas.org is currently tqt- back soon.
>
> To unmung email addr, get rid of "nospam-" and maybe even "-thanks"
>
> "I'm not crying victim, but I am stating that a lot of spammers
> are genuine scumbags." -Sanford Wallace
Thank you!
Obviousley worked, just ordered another batch of units. Been working my
butt off this weekend getting units ready to ship.
Regards to all...
Richard Clafton
www.OSRAQ.com
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From: Sascha Mantscheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Who's writing to my harddisk?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:28:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3 on a Sony Vaio N505X.
I'd like to make use of the harddisk sleep mode, and if I set the idle
timeout to 5 seconds the drive really stops after 5 idle seconds.
But immediately afterwards it gets up again because some process seems
to write more or less continuously to the HD. I dimly remember a
newsgroup message where this phenomenon was attributed to unceasing
re-sync'ing.
Does anyone know what I should do
- to use the suspend mode or
- to find out who's writing to the disk?
s.m.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Lapham)
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2000 19:38:22 -0400
Subject: Re: Num Lock & Linux
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/23/00
at 03:52 AM, "Tod D. Ihde" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Actually, there's good reason for caps lock defaulting to OFF... From
> "drivers/char/keyboard.c"...
> /*
> * Some laptops take the 789uiojklm,. keys as number pad when NumLock
> * is on. This seems a good reason to start with NumLock off.
> */
But it's not a good reason when the user has specifically set the BIOS to
start with NumLock *ON*. Presumably he wouldn't do that with such a
laptop.
-Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Schuetze)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: new asus p34vx board makes kernel think hda=hdb.. kernel panic :( plz
help if you can
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 17:22:32 GMT
More news :)
It looks like the bios/chipset on the new p3v4x board does things a
little differently than the p2b.
The p2b went something like this :
Ok, the first drive is primary slave, but it's the first drive, so
lets call it hda
The second drive is secondary master, it's the second drive, so lets
clal it hdb
On the other hand, the p3v4x does this:
Ok, the first drive (primary master) is empty, we'll still call it hda
The second drive (primary slave) is your main hard disk, we'll call it
hdb
And so on and so forth.
Essentially this new board calls prim mast=hda, prim slave=hdb etc..
I dug up a bit of older lilo docs from the net, and apparently this is
the way it's supposed to do it :) Looks like my p2b wasn't following
the standard.
So, the fix was just to boot up with a boot disk set (slack), and edit
/etc/lilo.conf, /dev/cdrom, and /etc/fstab.
Just thought I'd pass it on, in case anybody out there was planning on
using this board.
cheers,
Adam
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Who's writing to my harddisk?
Date: 25 Jun 2000 17:30:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 25 Jun 2000, Sascha Mantscheff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3 on a Sony Vaio N505X.
>I'd like to make use of the harddisk sleep mode, and if I set the idle
>timeout to 5 seconds the drive really stops after 5 idle seconds.
>But immediately afterwards it gets up again because some process seems
>to write more or less continuously to the HD. I dimly remember a
>newsgroup message where this phenomenon was attributed to unceasing
>re-sync'ing.
>Does anyone know what I should do
>- to use the suspend mode or
>- to find out who's writing to the disk?
There is probably something about this on one of the Linux laptop pages,
but it is not easy to put your primary drive to sleep. You have atd and
crond reading from the disk, and maybe sendmail or other smtp server (you
can kill those). You have syslogd and klogd. You have kflushd that
flushes data to the hard drive and kswapd. If running a GUI you may have
a background program that monitors the cdrom or some other automounter.
And if you did get it to work it would slow you down when the drive has to
wind up again.
Your best bet is to forget about it when on AC and use suspend manually
when idle on battery power.
I cannot even figure out how to blank the backlighting on my Sony F450
since the BIOS has ACPI instead of APM. But I can use apm -s or Fn-Esc to
use deep suspend that shuts down everything except RAM. The 2.4.x kernels
will have ACPI support.
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From: "Rob Windgassen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: Who's writing to my harddisk?
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:51:18 +0200
Sascha Mantscheff heeft geschreven in bericht
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I'm running SuSE Linux 6.3 on a Sony Vaio N505X.
>I'd like to make use of the harddisk sleep mode, and if I set the idle
>timeout to 5 seconds the drive really stops after 5 idle seconds.
>But immediately afterwards it gets up again because some process seems
>to write more or less continuously to the HD. I dimly remember a
>newsgroup message where this phenomenon was attributed to unceasing
>re-sync'ing.
>Does anyone know what I should do
>- to use the suspend mode or
>- to find out who's writing to the disk?
Look at your /etc/inittab file and replace
/sbin/update
by
/sbin/update -sX -fX
where X is the number of seconds that update will
repeats is disk syncing. Beware that large values of
X will postpone disk syncing and may leave your system
in an unstable state after some crash/powerfailure
Also have a look at your crontab file to see what's going on
there.
>
>s.m.
>
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> Fax +49-2291-3841
> e-Mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Greetings,
Rob Windgassen
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Fasttrack and IDE RAID
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 18:42:19 +0200
Martin Klingensmith wrote:
>
> Does anyone have experience with installing Linux on an IDE RAID volume, or
> setting up Linux to support it?
The Promise FastTrak IDE RAID is not ( yet ?) supported by Linux. If you
want to play with hardware IDE RAID on Linux you have to use the cards
made by 3ware (http://www.3ware.com/)
> Thanks
> Martin Klingensmith
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From: herman dumont <[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: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 20:09:55 +0200
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FROZEN_Steam wrote:
>
> Didn't work, should it be in a special subsection?
>
> PS. FROZEN_Steam and Floris Hammer are the same person, just sometimes
> posting from windows, sometimes from linux...
>
> herman dumont wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > try this one:
> > in XFConfig put in Section Screen:
> > Option "NvAgp" "0"
> >
> > HTH
Hi,
i attached my Section Screen of XF86Config:
ik voeg hierbij mijn Section Screen van XF86config :)
HTH ( HDDH :)
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# **********************************************************************
# Screen sections
# **********************************************************************
# Any number of screen sections may be present. Each describes
# the configuration of a single screen. A single specific screen section
# may be specified from the X server command line with the "-screen"
# option.
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen 1"
Device "TNT2"
Monitor "Dell"
DefaultDepth 24
Option "NvAgp" "0"
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600" "1024x768" "1280x1024"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1024x768"
ViewPort 0 0
EndSubsection
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RAM > 64 Mb
Date: 25 Jun 2000 18:58:38 GMT
Adam Skeggs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
:> May I be the first to commend you to the BootPrompt HOWTO, the Lilo
:> docs, and your distro's fine manual. There and elsewhere you will find
:> how to specify the amount of memory you have to the kernel at boot time.
:> Just grep for mem=. You'll find that adding
:> append = "mem=255M"
:> to lilo.conf and rerunning lilo should get you there.
: I am having similar troubles.
: I followed the doco as far as I can see. Here is my /etc/lilo.conf but it
1) it should be a global option, since you have the same memory in all
software configurations, don't you? Please put it at the top.
2) it's 128M, not 128m.
3) it should be 127M, just in case.
4) you're using an initrd. What is the point of that? You have a hard
disk partition, don't you so please use it.
: still boots with only 64Meg (I have 128Meg of RAM installed).
: boot=/dev/hdd1
: map=/boot/map
: install=/boot/boot.b
: prompt
: timeout=50
: default=linux
: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
: label=linux
: initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
: read-only
: root=/dev/hdd7
: append="mem=128m"
The m with 2.2.12 probably is the problem. I'm not bothered to check
the code. Just follow 1) to 5) above.
I also not convinced this code is ever activated, since hdd1 is a
pretty odd place to put it! Is that really in your principal boot
loaders chain?
: other=/dev/hda1
: label=dos
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Vine)
Subject: Re: Need help with CS4232 on Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 - reports "failed loading
module"...
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 19:29:06 GMT
On Sat, 24 Jun 2000 16:26:26 -0400, "LR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi folks, hope you can help:
>
>[snip]
>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
>Luis
I sent you my /etc/isapnp.conf and /etc/conf.modules for my CS4237B
and various background information via e-mail, but it bounced with the
message that your mail box is full. Please let me know if you need.
Chris.
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