Linux-Hardware Digest #236, Volume #13 Sat, 15 Jul 00 13:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Sound Blaster Live problems (Daniel Wagner)
ext2 hard drive with no superblock (me)
Re: UDMA patch is bzip2, install has no bzip2 (Jeroen Roodhart)
Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro (Lorenzo)
Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro ("QCC")
Re: X on TV (Valentin Guillen)
Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller (Timothy Moll)
Re: Another SCSI-emulated IDE CD-R problem (Jason White)
USB Zip Drive in Linux ("Derek Donnelly")
Re: X on TV (Steve Martin)
mount probs ("cr�sh")
Getting input from sound card (Duane Morin)
Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux? ("K T Puah")
Re: X on TV (Benjamin Woo)
Re: mount probs (Tony Curtis)
epson860 ("Ivan Danicic")
how can i make run motorola sm56k modem? ("daniel")
Re: 'Half-Screen Driver' wanted (for broken TFT) (Stephan Loescher)
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Subject: Re: Sound Blaster Live problems
From: Daniel Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 15 Jul 2000 10:30:26 +0200
Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de> writes:
[...]
> the easiest way to install it is to download the 2.4.0-testX kernel ...
> fejf
I think its better if download the latest driver from
opensource.creative.com.
hth, Daniel
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Subject: ext2 hard drive with no superblock
From: me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 01:39:40 -0700
can anyopne tell me how to retrieve 4 gigs of dadta on a 6 gig
segate hard drive under suse linux 6.4 when fsck, mount etc
don't recognise there is a valid ext2 filesystem and dding over
2gigs of the drive and mounting as a loop device gives the same
errors. Any useful suggestions will be greatfully received
otherwise i will do a mkreiserfs /dev/hdb1
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From: Jeroen Roodhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA patch is bzip2, install has no bzip2
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:56:38 +0200
Sam Devol wrote:
>
> Perhaps I should have mentioned the installer doesn't see my floppy unless I
> boot off of it. Also, when the redhat asks me to put in a driver disk, it
> can't seem to read it (not a valid driver disk).
>
Ah yes, you see, this patch isn't a driver per se, it is a patch against a
kernel.
(The latest patch is against 2.2.16 I believe)
This means you have to recompile the kernel on a already running Linux system,
and
then start using the new kernel (by adapting LILO etc.).
If you need to clean install Linux on your box, as far as I see it you have
three
options:
1) Don't put your target HD on your UDMA controller the first time you install.
For
instance the Abit BP6 has both a "normal" IDE controller and a HPT366. Most
stock
linux kernels boot just fine from the former.
2) Find another Linux system, bake your new kernel and create a new boot-disk.
3) Find someone to do this for you ;)
Good luck again!
Jeroen
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From: Lorenzo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:25:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I've got the same video board, trying to install with RedHat 6.2 X doesn't
start too. I found the X-Metro server compatible but it' $ 40 to have it,
the last Xfree86 doesn't look to support. Somebody told me to use that board
winth Mandrake 7.1 and everything was right but reading your mail I think
that's not always true. I think we've just to wait an Xfree86 version
supporting our video board.
Chris Moesel wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run Mandrake 7.1 Linux Distirubution on my system with an
> ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB AGP card. I cannot get X to start, and I hear
> that this is a somewhat common problem for the Fury Pro folks. My
> screen just flickers and has no vertical hold whatsoever. Does anyone
> know how I can configure XF86Config to get it to work, or can anyone
> send me their XF86Config file? Also, whenever I run XF86Config (the
> program) it core dumps (segmentation fault) if I tell it I want to
> choose from a list of video cards.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -chris
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From: "QCC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: XF86Config for ATI Rage Fury Pro
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 10:29:45 +0100
Hi
I get those probs as well when I try out XFREE 4.x
no probs with 3.3.6....
I have a voodoo 3 3000 AGP...
"Chris Moesel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run Mandrake 7.1 Linux Distirubution on my system with an
> ATI Rage Fury Pro 32MB AGP card. I cannot get X to start, and I hear
> that this is a somewhat common problem for the Fury Pro folks. My
> screen just flickers and has no vertical hold whatsoever. Does anyone
> know how I can configure XF86Config to get it to work, or can anyone
> send me their XF86Config file? Also, whenever I run XF86Config (the
> program) it core dumps (segmentation fault) if I tell it I want to
> choose from a list of video cards.
>
> Thanks.
>
> -chris
>
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From: Valentin Guillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X on TV
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 00:30:44 -0600
Benjamin,
While it's certainly technically feasible to do so, my question is Why
would anyone ever wish to do that?
NTSC has a theoretical horizontal max resolution of less than 500 lines,
and that is only if you are under the most ideal conditions in a
laboratory. What can actually be broadcast is much lower, and this has
profound implications for interfacing computer equipment with
television.
Example:
Web TV has to run special servers which "reformat" web pages which are
sent to their customers, because so often, the web page designer designs
for computer monitors, and when it is sent to be served via WEBTV, it
will be viewed on a tv. Most pages are unusable when viewed on a
television monitor, and thus need to be reformatted, using different
(bigger) fonts, and replacement of elements on the page, as to attempt
to ammeliorate the deficiencies of the tv screen.
While the quality may be acceptable for some uses, like perhaps watching
tv, where everything is always moving, for nearly everything else, it's
useless.
Regards,
Valentin Guillen
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From: Timothy Moll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66 Controller
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:09:00 +0100
John Mazza wrote:
> Sometimes the Promise (and other) controllers support different LBA
> translations for the drives. I ran into a situation where I had to
> completely repartition and reformat a drive to make it work with one. That
> may well be the case with your setup.
There should be nothing on the partiton table: it's a new disk, though I tried
adding partions using it on the onboard ide controller, but deleted them.
>
>
> You may have a problem with the ISA modem. Make sure to go into your BIOS
> and under PCI/PNP (or similar) be sure to reserve whatever IRQ it is using
> to ISA or Legacy ISA. Make sure to do the same for all Non-PnP cards in the
> system.
I have 3 ISA slots and 4 PCI slots, but I do not know which one is controlled
by which IRQ, and the manual does not help a great deal. Also whn I remove the
modem from the computer, the problems persist.
>
>
> Also, some BIOSes let you manually set the IRQ by PCI slot number. You may
> want to give this a try.
>
> In a setup like this I would initially use:
>
> IRQ Device
> 4 Modem (Assuming it is set as COM1 or COM3)
> 5 Sound Card (Some old SoundBlasters are not PNP - see above)
> 10 Ultra66 Adapter
> 11 Network Card (if installed)
>
The setting the bios gives me are:
IRQ-3 Legacy ISA
IRQ-4 Legacy ISA
IRQ-5 Legacy ISA
IRQ-7 Legacy ISA
IRQ-9 PCI/ISA PnP
IRQ-10 PCI/ISA PnP
IRQ-11 PCI/ISA PnP
IRQ-12 PCI/ISA PnP
IRQ-14 Legacy ISA
IRQ-15 Legacy ISA
DMA-0 PCI/ISA PnP
DMA-1 PCI/ISA PnP
DMA-3 PCI/ISA PnP
DMA-5 PCI/ISA PnP
DMA-6 PCI/ISA PnP
DMA-7 PCI/ISA PnP
The options for changing are; PCI/ISA PnP and Legacy ISA.
> The Primary onbord IDE will be IRQ 14, and the Secondary will go to 15.
> Both of these are defaults that should not be messed around with.
>
> If you want to try a repartition, first obtain a copy of Norton Ghost and
> put it on a DOS boot disk, along with FDISK, FORMAT, and SYS.COM.
When the controller has a disk conected to it I can't use a dos boot disk (I
can use a Linux one, though). When I do use a boot disk, not having the second
disk (Quantum LM) conected at all, I can't use fdisk, as it just crashes on me.
I would really appreciate any help,
Thanks,
--
Timothy Moll
t . moll @ usa . net
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From: Jason White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Another SCSI-emulated IDE CD-R problem
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 12:13:06 GMT
I tried the suggestions below, but I'm still getting the same error:
kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us more data than expected -
discarding data
last message repeated 83 times
kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > (Y) SCSI - Enable vendor-specific
> Dont use unless the generic driver doesnt work.
>
> > (Y) SCSI - (select a low-level driver)
> Dont use unless needed...what low level driver did you select?
>
> Basically try turning these two off, recomp and reboot. Everything else
> looked ok.
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
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From: "Derek Donnelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Zip Drive in Linux
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:08:35 -0400
Greetings,
Trying to get an Iomega Zip drive configured in RH 6.2 via usb. Downloaded
kernel 2.4.0-test2 and recompiled the kernel for usb(through scsi?). When I
reboot I noticed that a scsi device gets recognized as does the zip drive
itself. I edited the fstab file with /sdaI've scoured www.linux-usb.org for
more info.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X on TV
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:30:09 -0400
Valentin Guillen wrote:
>
> Benjamin,
>
> While it's certainly technically feasible to do so, my question is Why
> would anyone ever wish to do that?
Take a look at the *large* number of broadcast TV devices that
are based on Intel-type computers, and you might have your
answer. The TV industry uses PCs extensively for producing
content. At the station where I work, we have a PC-based
stillstore, three PC-based weather boxes, a PC-based
sports ticker, and all these are being used dialy on-air.
(Not to mention the two SGI suites we have for graphics and
weather.)
Sure, for most computer operations, NTSC is lacking in quality
compared to straight 1024 x 768 RGB. However, perhaps the
original poster wants to use his box in a broadcast suite
(or maybe it's as simple as wanting to dump some stuff out to
VHS). I myself have been looking for a way to play MPEG movies
out full-screen to an NTSC output, without much luck.
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From: "cr�sh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mount probs
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:20:41 +0200
HI!!
Does anyone knowhow I (root) can manage that my users can mount/unmount
drives (e.g. cdrom). Whenever I want to do it as user I get a message, that
only the root can mount drives. But thats not the real problem. I know my
root passeord and I can do it in a sec. But if for example my brother wants
to run a CDROM or change it, he cant do it (and I wont tell him my password
:) ).
Thanks
cr�sh
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From: Duane Morin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Getting input from sound card
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 08:55:27 -0700
Hi, I just bought a new PenguinComputing machine with an Ensoniq sound
card. I'm trying to get a microphone connected to the sound card so
that I can use IBM's ViaVoice package. The microphone cord has an icon
on it - a microphone with a bunch of waves coming off it - that matches
one of the plugs on the sound card, so i assume I'm plugged into the
right place. When I tap on the microphone I can hear it reflected in my
speakers, so something's connected.
The IBM docs tell me to execute:
dd bs=8k count=4 < /dev/audio > /tmp/sample.au
and then
cat /tmp/sample.au > /dev/audio
as a test. I then make some noise (talking, tapping, I've tried a
variety of things) But all I ever get back is a file full of zeroes.
What am I doing wrong? I'm running it as root (for now), so I don't
think permissions would be a problem.
Duane
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From: "K T Puah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Rack-mount server with built-in RAID, redundant power supply, Linux?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 21:23:19 +0800
Go to RedHat website www.redhat.com and you will find the link.
K T Puah
"Dan Harkless" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8koouu$bo7$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Howdy. My company has been trying to move to redundant hardware solutions
> where possible, to reduce potential outages.
>
> We have a couple of rack-mount NT servers that have built-in hot-swap RAID
> arrays, redundant power supplies, and redundant network cards with
automatic
> failover.
>
> I told my boss that I thought several companies sold boxes like the one
> described above, but with Linux pre-installed. However, I'm now having
> trouble finding any. Did I lie, or are they out there?
>
> We'd be trying to keep the cost down as much as possible. (I suppose we
> could do the Linux installation ourselves, if there was a particular
server
> with the above properties on which Linux was known to work completely.)
>
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From: Benjamin Woo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: X on TV
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 13:48:42 GMT
Valentin,
the reason is that I have put together an older computer with bits and
pieces and one of the pieces missing is a monitor. however, as i've got
this computer in the bedroom, and i had the TV-card, i wanted to just
use it to check e-mails, etc. no real technical value..
b
Valentin Guillen wrote:
>
> Benjamin,
>
> While it's certainly technically feasible to do so, my question is Why
> would anyone ever wish to do that?
> NTSC has a theoretical horizontal max resolution of less than 500 lines,
> and that is only if you are under the most ideal conditions in a
> laboratory. What can actually be broadcast is much lower, and this has
> profound implications for interfacing computer equipment with
> television.
>
> Example:
>
> Web TV has to run special servers which "reformat" web pages which are
> sent to their customers, because so often, the web page designer designs
> for computer monitors, and when it is sent to be served via WEBTV, it
> will be viewed on a tv. Most pages are unusable when viewed on a
> television monitor, and thus need to be reformatted, using different
> (bigger) fonts, and replacement of elements on the page, as to attempt
> to ammeliorate the deficiencies of the tv screen.
>
> While the quality may be acceptable for some uses, like perhaps watching
> tv, where everything is always moving, for nearly everything else, it's
> useless.
>
> Regards,
>
> Valentin Guillen
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: mount probs
Date: 15 Jul 2000 10:10:40 -0500
>> On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 14:20:41 +0200,
>> "cr�sh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> HI!! Does anyone knowhow I (root) can manage that my
> users can mount/unmount drives (e.g. cdrom). Whenever I
> want to do it as user I get a message, that only the
> root can mount drives. But thats not the real problem. I
> know my root passeord and I can do it in a sec. But if
> for example my brother wants to run a CDROM or change
> it, he cant do it (and I wont tell him my password :) ).
$ man mount
Thus, given a line
/dev/cdrom /cd iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide
any user can mount the iso9660 file system found on his
CDROM using the command
mount /dev/cdrom
or
mount /cd
The man pages are your friend (in this case anyway :-)
hth
t
--
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Homer Simpson
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From: "Ivan Danicic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: epson860
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 11:04:17 +0100
Hello all, I've just replaced the HP690 with epson860 printer. It doesn't
yet work with
ghostscript; presumably I need to replace the DEVICE=cdj550 by something
else; the devices listed which contain 'epson' or something like it don't
make it work.
Any advice gratefully received. Ivan
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From: "daniel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how can i make run motorola sm56k modem?
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 15:35:04 GMT
hello, i have problems qith connecting motorola sm56k with linux, i think
mine is not winmodem is from billion
thanks
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From: Stephan Loescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,comp.os.ms-windows.video,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: 'Half-Screen Driver' wanted (for broken TFT)
Date: 15 Jul 2000 15:22:37 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
> >>> Half-screen video driver wanted. <<<
>
> Why? My Laptop (HP omnibook 3000ctx) fell on the cold, hard floor
> Now the TFT-screen is half kaputt.
> Only the top half works, the bottom half is just white.
>
> Who knows of a video driver for LINUX and/or Windows9x that displays
> the whole screen-content only in the upper half ???
I don't know such driver, but you can use Xnest. Start your normal
X-server and then:
Xnest :1 -geometry 1024x384+0+0 &
export DISPLAY=:1
xterm &
> pls email me... norb ( at ) geocities.com If you help me succeed,
> I'll make a web-page for the benefit of all.
You ask in Usenet - you get the answer in Usenet. :-)
Stephan.
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