Linux-Hardware Digest #221, Volume #13 Wed, 12 Jul 00 09:13:09 EDT
Contents:
bizarre problem with X windows ("balh bald")
Advantech PPC-102T (Gilles POLART-DONAT)
Dual Processor MotherBoard (Neven Boric)
Voodoo or TNT? (Neven Boric)
Re: After Installing Corel Linux I can't use my keyboard ("frog")
Re: recommended DVD players and mice for Linux Mandrake 7 ("Hor Jiun Shyong")
S3 savage4 & dri ("Markus Poeltl")
Re: 3dfx V3 2000 AGP (mindglow)
Re: Industrial Hardware (mindglow)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard ("qwerty")
Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ? (Markus
Holzapfel)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard ("Stefan Kneip")
IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh! ("Andrew Ellington")
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh! (Jonathan Moore)
Re: Recognizing 3C509B NIC (Steve Martin)
Re: 16 bit computer (Steve Martin)
Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh! (Steve Martin)
Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard (mindglow)
Re: Recognizing 3C509B NIC ("Christopher R. Cockerham")
Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ??? (Hal Burgiss)
Sound VIBRA16 problem with CDs (Romek Pitera)
Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ??? (Olivier Breard)
newbie HP 930C help (theCelt)
Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ??? (Eric)
Re: bizarre problem with X windows (Eric)
RH 6.2 IDE Tape Drive (Ron)
Re: shutdown...? (emwafol)
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From: "balh bald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bizarre problem with X windows
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:17:13 GMT
g'day
i recently installed redhat 6.0 on an aptiva and have got a weird problem -
when i move the mouse in x-windows env, the monitor makes a "buzzing" sound
(there is no sound when i don't move the mouse). There is also no buzz if i
drag it over a blank desktop - only when the cursor changes from an x to an
arrow. i have a sis6205 videocard(2mb) and an ibm g70 monitor. the problem
does not appear when running win95 on the same system, even in the same
vidmode. ibm and sis have been exceptionally unhelpful. does anyone have
any ideas?
thanks in advance,
ben wilson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gilles POLART-DONAT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Advantech PPC-102T
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:28:38 GMT
Hello
I try to install Linux (Redhat 6.2) on three panel PC Advantech
PPC-102T. It doesn't work very well.
Sometime it freeze during install, sometime the install was good.
But after install, when I use it (try to work with the Elotouch input
for X) it freeze !
It is a random process, it can freeze during boot sequence or when I
invoke ls or vi or when I work under XWindow (simple window manager :
fvwm). Sometimes, I got som kernel panics !
I suspect a hardware problem (on 3 PC ?) so I try to use other SIMM
memory but without success.
Does anyone have some experience on this kind of problems ?
Thanks
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From: Neven Boric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:25:32 -0400
I wouls like to buy a dual chip motherboard, but I have no experience on
this, so I would appreciate some advice. I'm loking for something cheap,
but powerful, i.e two Celeron or two K6-3. How much would this cost (the
mb and the chips), wich is the better option, waht mb. model should I
get, etc. Can anyone help me on this?
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From: Neven Boric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo or TNT?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:25:49 -0400
Can anyone recommend a 3D card for use on Linux.
I own a Voodoo 2 and it works, but very slowly. I'm thinking about
buying a Voodoo 3 or TNT 2, wich one is better for Linux? (better
performance, drivers, etc)
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From: "frog" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.corel,alt.os.linux.redhat,at.linux,be.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,corelsupp
Subject: Re: After Installing Corel Linux I can't use my keyboard
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:52:18 +0100
Wow, that all sounds a bit messy! Ive no idea what could be causing that.
Ive installed Corel Linux about 20 times (!) and Ive never seen that. Im not
gonna bring you through stuff like check if your keyboard is plugged in
properly etc. cause I know you're a beginner, not an idiot! It could be some
sort of hardware conflict but thats a complete guess. My advice is go out
and get a copy of Redhat. The installation program may be a bit more
complicated than Corels 3-step approach but its a solid distro. The lack of
input in Corel's installation means you dont even get to choose a mouse or a
keyoard! Try it and see. Otherwise, see if you can get another copy of the
Corel cd or try a different keyboard, just to make sure.
Hope this helps,
Frog
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From: "Hor Jiun Shyong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: recommended DVD players and mice for Linux Mandrake 7
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 18:06:25 +0800
is Creative's DVDROM drive reliable?
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From: "Markus Poeltl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: S3 savage4 & dri
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:36:00 +0100
does anybody know if this card will be supported by XFree 4.0.1 in the
near Future
??????
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3dfx V3 2000 AGP
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:00:04 GMT
I don't know about your V3 prob but you can download the Zoot .iso
(RH6.2) from any redhat mirror. Check redhat.com for a mirror close to
you. Just burn the iso file with your burn app adn the finished cd will
boot just peachy.
-mindglow
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Industrial Hardware
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:08:23 GMT
I have run RH on several systems utilizing those features and all was
fine. I used vendor specific aplications to test and configure the
hardware before I installed Linux.
-mindglow
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From: "qwerty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: 12 Jul 2000 10:17:17 GMT
AFAIK K6 series don't do SMP. Neither do the new FCPGA Celerons. The *old*
PPGA Celerons do. A frequently used setup is the Abit BP6 mobo with two
Celeron processors. Prize is compareble to the Asus P3B-F mobo here in the
Netherlands. Although there will be lots of satisfied users of the above
setup, I should warn you that a friend of mine had two BP6's die in two
different systems... So personally I doubt the quality of these Abit mobos.
If you want to spend more money you could buy a more expensive Asus dual
processor mobo.
HTH
Neven Boric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> I wouls like to buy a dual chip motherboard, but I have no experience on
> this, so I would appreciate some advice. I'm loking for something cheap,
> but powerful, i.e two Celeron or two K6-3. How much would this cost (the
> mb and the chips), wich is the better option, waht mb. model should I
> get, etc. Can anyone help me on this?
>
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From: Markus Holzapfel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does anybody know how to decompress packages ending with .tar.bz2 ?
Date: 12 Jul 2000 10:26:07 GMT
Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I have a sound card not supported. I depend on ALSA. But I don't know how to
: install the
: packages with names ending with .tar.bz2.
man tar.
tar xIf xxxx.tar.bz2
hth,
Markus
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Reply-To: "Stefan Kneip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Stefan Kneip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 10:46:20 GMT
>From personal experience:
we're running a number of dual pentium II and III servers with linux SMP
using the P2XBL/D mainboard manufactured by DFI. I never tried using
Celerons, just plain old (expensive) Two's and Three's (hey, I run 'em, I
don't have to pay for 'em).
Stefan Kneip
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Enline E-Commerce Solutions
Breinderveldweg 14 � 6365 CM SCHINNEN
> I wouls like to buy a dual chip motherboard, but I have no experience on
> this, so I would appreciate some advice. I'm loking for something cheap,
> but powerful, i.e two Celeron or two K6-3. How much would this cost (the
> mb and the chips), wich is the better option, waht mb. model should I
> get, etc. Can anyone help me on this?
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From: "Andrew Ellington" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh!
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:45:09 +0100
I am having some trouble getting my CD writer to go. I'm a relative newbie
so have some patience.
I'm running kernel version 2.2.13-4 from a Mandrake 6.5 distribution.
The device is a brand new HP CD-writer plus ( not sure exactly which model )
connected in the hdd position.
I've compiled the kernel to give the following support:
Sect. Description
????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL... Y
BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM ide?cd M
BLOCK SCSI emulation support ide?scsi M
BLOCK Loopback device loop M
SCSI SCSI support scsi_mod Y
SCSI SCSI CD?ROM support sr_mod Y
SCSI Enable vendor?specific Y
SCSI SCSI generic support sg Y
FS ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem iso9660 Y
FS Microsoft Joliet cdrom... joliet Y
The kernel build is producing cdrom.o rather than ide-cd.o when
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is defined and seems to be linking this in.
I've tried various combinations of modifications of lilo.conf and
conf.modules but haven't managed to get anything other than 'Cannot open
SCSI driver' from cdrecord -scanbus.
At this point I'm a bit lost as to what I'm missing here.
Andrew
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From: Jonathan Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh!
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:00:21 +0100
> I am having some trouble getting my CD writer to go. I'm a relative newbie
> so have some patience.
>
> I'm running kernel version 2.2.13-4 from a Mandrake 6.5 distribution.
> The device is a brand new HP CD-writer plus ( not sure exactly which model )
> connected in the hdd position.
> I've compiled the kernel to give the following support:
>
> Sect. Description
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
> BLOCK Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL... Y
> BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM ide?cd M
> BLOCK SCSI emulation support ide?scsi M
> BLOCK Loopback device loop M
> SCSI SCSI support scsi_mod Y
> SCSI SCSI CD?ROM support sr_mod Y
> SCSI Enable vendor?specific Y
> SCSI SCSI generic support sg Y
> FS ISO 9660 CDROM filesystem iso9660 Y
> FS Microsoft Joliet cdrom... joliet Y
>
> The kernel build is producing cdrom.o rather than ide-cd.o when
> CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD is defined and seems to be linking this in.
>
> I've tried various combinations of modifications of lilo.conf and
> conf.modules but haven't managed to get anything other than 'Cannot open
> SCSI driver' from cdrecord -scanbus.
>
> At this point I'm a bit lost as to what I'm missing here.
I have an older hp drive working successfully under RedHat 6.2.
It's attached as hdd, and I have the line
append="hdd=ide-scsi"
in the linux section of my /etc/lilo.conf. As I understand it, that
tells
the ide-scsi module when loaded to take over hdd and make it a scsi
device.
Before use, I need to execute
insmod ide-scsi
(ought to be in the startup scripts somewhere, but I've not got round to
that). cdrecord then works fine.
I didn't need to recompile the RedHat-supplied kernel to get it working:
the options you give look about right to me. I get a "cannot open SCSI
driver" if I "rmmod ide-scsi", so maybe you need to check that the
module is inserted OK (insmod as above).
Jon Moore
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recognizing 3C509B NIC
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:25:43 -0400
Dances With Crows wrote:
> >RedHat 5.1... but now that I have installed the new Linux Mandrake 7.1,
> >it just doesn't seem to want to find it.
> modprobe 3c509 irq=10 ? Linux likes 3c509s and almost always works with
> them once you've turned off PnP and set the card to known good I/O and
> IRQs.
I have no experience with anything newer that RH 6.0, so forgive my
ignorance, but might you not have to recompile the kernel to include
support for the 3C509, either built-in or as a module? I don't know
what set of "stock" modules get installed under Mandrake. If the
3C509 support isn't present in a module or built-in, then the kernel
won't find it under boot. Do a "dmesg | more" command to see if it
detected it at boot. If not, then a kernel rebuild might be in order.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 16 bit computer
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:28:13 -0400
Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
> Some manufacturers have tried to be honest about their machines
> capabilities, and quoted the widths of several different parts. For
> instance, Motorola referred to the 68000 as a 16/32 bit machine, since
> it had a 16 bit data path to memory and 32 bit integer registers.
...as did the Intel 386SX.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: IDE/ATAPI CD Writers - Aaagh!
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:36:16 -0400
Jonathan Moore wrote:
> > I've compiled the kernel to give the following support:
> > BLOCK IDE/ATAPI CDROM ide?cd M
I'd recommend getting rid of IDE CDROM support altogether. Running
emulation, you don't need it anyway, and it causes conflicts with
the emulation finding the CD burner to begin with.
Other than that, all looks okay.
> I have an older hp drive working successfully under RedHat 6.2.
> It's attached as hdd, and I have the line
>
> append="hdd=ide-scsi"
This is another way to make it work. This makes the IDE CD driver
ignore your burner so that the emulation can find it.
> Before use, I need to execute
>
> insmod ide-scsi
>
> (ought to be in the startup scripts somewhere, but I've not got round to
> that). cdrecord then works fine.
Again, it's more trouble to do it this way; just include all
the SCSI stuff (emulation, CD driver, generic, et cetera) in
the kernel and get rid of the IDE CD part altogether. You'll
be able to read CDs using /dev/scd0 and write them with
cdrecord.
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From: mindglow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual Processor MotherBoard
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:32:14 GMT
Heya Neven,
I have an abit BP6 (http://www.abit.com.tw/english/product/bp6.htm) with
two 400MHz cellery's clocked to 466MHz, 256MB, two 17GB drives, an ide
cdrom and a scsi burner.
I have _never_ had any problems with this board at all even though I did
all kinds of wierd stuff with it. Linux (RH6.2 and 6) run like a charm
also SlackWare 7.
I don't know how long the celerons will remain available but at least
they won't cost all that much.
regards,
-mindglow
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From: "Christopher R. Cockerham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recognizing 3C509B NIC
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 07:48:43 -0700
I worked with a 3C509B a few months ago when I set up my LAN with Linux. One
necessity is to make sure that pnpdump can see the card. (PNP on earlier
versions of Redhat would only look at the PCI bus -- not at the ISA bus until
you told it to...) To do this, do the following command:
pnpdump > /etc/isapnp.conf
This isapnp.conf is looked for on bootup. If it is present, then the kernel
will try to configure the devices listed in there. When you edit the
isapnp.conf file, to enable a specific device, uncomment out the "ACT = Y"
line (or it looks something like that). Once you reboot, the startup message
will say that the kernel has found a board with serial xx xx xx xx xx xx and
it should automatically load the 3c509 module into the kernel.
>From there, you configure it the same way with any other network card in Linux
(easiest way is 'netcfg')...
Steve Martin wrote:
> Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> > >RedHat 5.1... but now that I have installed the new Linux Mandrake 7.1,
> > >it just doesn't seem to want to find it.
>
> > modprobe 3c509 irq=10 ? Linux likes 3c509s and almost always works with
> > them once you've turned off PnP and set the card to known good I/O and
> > IRQs.
>
> I have no experience with anything newer that RH 6.0, so forgive my
> ignorance, but might you not have to recompile the kernel to include
> support for the 3C509, either built-in or as a module? I don't know
> what set of "stock" modules get installed under Mandrake. If the
> 3C509 support isn't present in a module or built-in, then the kernel
> won't find it under boot. Do a "dmesg | more" command to see if it
> detected it at boot. If not, then a kernel rebuild might be in order.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:50:26 GMT
On Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:57:09 +0200, Olivier Breard
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am considering buying a Mandrake 7.1 distrib, kernel 2.2.15 and i would
>like to know if kernel&lilo now supports over 1024 cyls...
The kernel was never the problem. The newest versions of Lilo _do_
support this -- as long as the BIOS can handle things. Not sure what
Mandrake is shipping with.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Romek Pitera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound VIBRA16 problem with CDs
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 13:09:10 +0100
Hi,
I wonder if perhaps there's anyone out there who would be willing to
advise me on the following problem. I've been trying to configure sound,
and got to the stage when I'm able to play *.wav files, but unable to play
audio CDs. Attempting to play CDs results in intermittent crackling
sounds only through speakers, whilst at the same time one can listen to
the music using headphones plugged directly into the CD-ROM. This CD-ROM
works perfectly well under Win95 on the same box. Here are some details:
H/W:
VIBRA16 chip on P6-LX-A motherboard (from ECS)
CRD-8240B ATAPI CD-ROM
OS:
Slackware 7.0 (kernel 2.2.13)
I've read and re-read TFMs (ie. HOWTOs, Mini-HOWTOs,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation), tried a bit web searching, fiddled with
BIOS, kernel, modules, isapnp all to no avail.
A few details of the most recent configuration:
BIOS: PnP OS - YES
Kernel: PnP support - NO
Sound support - M (including soundblaster)
Resources as in isapnp.conf: irq=5 dma=1 & 3 io=0x220, 0x330 & 0x388. These
resources were taken from Win95 where they work perfectly well on the same
box. Relevant modules loaded are: soundcore, sound, uart401, sb, ocl3.
During booting a message saying that Audio, followed by list of resources
as in isapnp.conf, is Enabled OK.
lsmod shows the above modules, /proc/interrupts & /proc/ioports have the
right stuff. However /proc/dma shows dma 1 allocated to soundblaster, and
no sign of dma 3 allocation.
cat /dev/sndstat shows blank space in Installed drivers: and Card
configuration:.
Audio devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16 (4.16)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL3
Midi devices:
0: Sound Blaster 16
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
First I've tried KDE CD Player, then workman (under KDE), and finally
installed dcd-0.80. Using either of the above gives the same result ie
crackling noises. Fiddling with mixer and volume doesn't help, changing
only volume but not the quality. On the other hand KDE Midi Player and
KDE Control Centre play WAV files without any problems.
Here is some stuff I picked from dmesg after failed attempts to play CDs:
hdd: command error: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hdd: command error: error=0x54
end_request: I/O error, dev 16:40 (hdd), sector 0
ATAPI device hdd:
Error: Illegal request -- (Sense key=0x05)
Illegal mode for this track or incompatible medium -- ( asc=0x64,
ascq=0x00)
The above repeats itself for sectors 2, 4 and 6.
I've also tried setting dma to 1 & 5.
This results in /proc/dma showing both 1 & 5 allocated to soundblaster.
However dmesg shows:
Soundblaster audio drive <snip>
SB 4.16 detected O.K. (220)
SB16 - Bad or missing 16 bit DMA channel.
This CD-ROM works O.K. for data CDs under linux. I've also tried
compliling kernel with PnP Support Yes, Sound Support Yes ( a few
cmbinations), setting PnP OS in BIOS to both Y and N, a few different
resource settings in isapnp. I've also tried using parallel port HP7200e
CD-RW to play CDs without any success. It seems like I've run out of
sensible ideas for the time being. Has anyone come across and solved a
similar problem?
Any advice will be appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
romek pitera
Direct your response to: r dot pitera at qmw dot ac dot uk
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From: Olivier Breard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ???
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 14:17:16 +0200
Thanks for this words, that make me feel better...
Maybe will I be able to install Linux on my PC....
Delightfull !!
Thanks, bye !
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From: theCelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: newbie HP 930C help
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 12:12:20 GMT
Good morning -
I am running Mandrake 7.1 and can't seem to get my HP 930C printer
working. Using printtool I try and add the printer, but it is not
listed. So I use "HP 550C (UP)" on the assumption that it will
recognize it. But when it comes time for a test page, nothing happens.
While messing around with the settings (I am newbie and not sure where
to check) I sometimes see a messager "Waiting to come online" which
makes me wonder if the port is being seen.
I looked at http://www.linuxprinting.org/ and they say the printer works
perfectly. Unfortunately, I have no idea how to see if I have the needed
driver or not.
Interestingly, when I do lptest > lp0 (or something like that) nothing
happens either.
I would greatly appreciate any help or advice you can offer.
Thanks for your help.
David
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is the 1024 cylinder limit gone ???
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:34:43 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Olivier Breard wrote:
>
> Hi all !
> I am a linux user for many years, but i change my hardware and can't install
> linux now that my win partition is too big: the 1024 cyls limit is reached
> (>9Gb, on a 13.5Gb disk).
>
> I can't (/*even if i would be very pleased to*/) remove or resize my fat32
> partition, being not the only user of my PC
>
> I am considering buying a Mandrake 7.1 distrib, kernel 2.2.15 and i would
> like to know if kernel&lilo now supports over 1024 cyls...
>
> I heard a new boot loader was developped. Can anybody give me some infos
> about it ?
>
> Thanks for your help !
>
> Olivier
lilo 21.4.3 IIRC is the latest lilo that wil support booting from beyond
1024th cylinder, but check freshmeat.net on that. As far as I know this
version of lilo is not yet included in any of the distros, so you have
to setup a system booting from floppy first, and then upgrade lilo.
Eric
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From: Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: bizarre problem with X windows
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:36:55 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
balh bald wrote:
>
> g'day
> i recently installed redhat 6.0 on an aptiva and have got a weird problem -
> when i move the mouse in x-windows env, the monitor makes a "buzzing" sound
> (there is no sound when i don't move the mouse). There is also no buzz if i
> drag it over a blank desktop - only when the cursor changes from an x to an
> arrow. i have a sis6205 videocard(2mb) and an ibm g70 monitor. the problem
> does not appear when running win95 on the same system, even in the same
> vidmode. ibm and sis have been exceptionally unhelpful. does anyone have
> any ideas?
> thanks in advance,
> ben wilson
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sounds to me like your soundcard is sharing an interrupt with the mouse.
Not sure if that's easy to fix though, depends on your hardware, if you
can manually assign interrupts to devices, it wont be that difficult to
resolve.
Otherwise, I don't know
Eric
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From: Ron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH 6.2 IDE Tape Drive
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 08:44:11 -0400
I have a Exabyte IDE TR4 tape drive and all I get is I/O errors when I
access it. System recognizes it at HDD. I have no SCSI devices on my
system. How do you issue a "rewind" command for this device?
Can someone point to docs for IDE tape devices? It works fine in Win98.
Thanks for any help... Ron
--
*** William R Whitlock ***
* Powered by Red Hat LINUX *
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From: emwafol <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: shutdown...?
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 20:44:56 +0200
I have checked and dubbel-checked inittab and rc.'x' files and
directories :)
it's probably the kernel then......
ok thanks anyway steve :)
--Anders Folkesson
Steve Martin wrote:
>
> Bit Twister wrote:
>
> > The problem is between the keyboard and the chair :)
> >
> > Have you tried man shutdown
> >
> > and read the last line of this reply.
>
> A little less arrogance and condescension, please, "Bit Twister".
> I read the "shutdown" man page, and there is nothing there
> that addresses his problem.
>
> Now, to address the question in a useful manner...
>
> I tried entering "shutdown -h now" on my RH60 system here
> at home, and it shut down properly, so I assume that something
> has changed between here and there. I'm no expert, but I'd
> suggest double-checking to make sure nothing has messed with
> /etc/inittab, /etc/rc.d/rc, or the files in /etc/rc.d/rc0.d.
> There's also a small possibility that it might be the kernel,
> although I doubt it. I only bring it up because I'm not running
> the kernel that's packed with RH60; I downloaded and installed
> 2.2.14 on this system.
>
> Hope something here is helpful.
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