Linux-Hardware Digest #253, Volume #13 Mon, 17 Jul 00 16:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Multisession CD-R - Reading previous tracks (Dances With Crows)
Re: Play mpeg without Xwindows (Dances With Crows)
Re: winmodem (Dances With Crows)
Re: Install SCSI card (Guy Maskall)
use pcmcia card without cardmgr etc.? ("Waschk, Kolja")
Re: graphic tablet (ross)
Re: SCSI Drive installation? (Guy Maskall)
USR modem ("Mike Dufel")
Re: [Fwd: Please Help! How do I setup my system for cdrecord?] (Dances With Crows)
Re: ATI Rage Mobility and DVD ("Calvin N. Hobbes")
Re: ext2 hard drive with no superblock (Dances With Crows)
Re: SCSI Drive installation? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: ATI Rage 128 (wyatt)
Netgear ethernet problem (Jeff Avallone)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Multisession CD-R - Reading previous tracks
Date: 13 Jul 2000 15:01:42 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 07:32:55 +0200, Wolfgang Fohl
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Is it possible to mount previous sessions of a multisession CD-R?
>(I am using it for periodic backup and want to restore the previous
>states of changed configuration files)
mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrom -o session=X
You will need to be root to do this, naturally...
--
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Play mpeg without Xwindows
Date: 13 Jul 2000 17:53:03 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[inappropriate NG snipped]
On Thu, 13 Jul 2000 13:52:57 -0700, Thierry
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Is it possible to play a movie (mpeg or quicktime) without using Xwindows,
>only in Shell screen.
>Maybe using frame buffer ?
This came up earlier today. Since you're posting using Outhouse on a Mac,
I assume you're wanting something for Linux PPC, which cuts down the
choices even more wrt graphics. (PCs have SVGAlib at least; Macs
don't.) You will probably not have any luck--MPEG decoding in software is
resource-intensive, and if your machine doesn't have enough power to run
X, it certainly won't have enough power to run an MPEG decoder like mtv or
mpeg_play. That said, there is a framebuffer X server available.
Check http://freshmeat.net/ and search for "MPEG player", cutting out
those which use X. Good luck....
--
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
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: winmodem
Date: 13 Jul 2000 19:28:57 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 07:39:09 GMT, Mimo
<<xIW85.4341$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>I�ve got a Supramax 56 Voice PCI -winmodem-, and I�ve seen some drivers for
>LT winmodems at linmodems.org. Does anybody know if these drivers works with
>Supramax? Has anybody the same modem working in Linux. Unfortunately, I��ve
>got to write this message in W98 8:o(
Check the Device Mangler in Lose9x, and if it says "LT" anywhere in or
near the "Manufacturer" info, then you can probably get it to work using
the ltmodem.o driver, which is linked from http://linmodems.org/ . If
not, then you're probably better off spending $50 on an external
serial-port modem, since those are a breeze to set up and tend to work
better no matter what OS you're using.
--
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
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From: Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Install SCSI card
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:41:21 +0100
Alain DOULIEZ wrote:
> I recently install Linux Mandrake 7.02 but had some problems when detecting
> SCSI card. As a solution, I removed the SCSI card and install successfully
> Linux. I'm now trying to make my SCSI card being recognized. How can I do it
> ? How can I check when my SCSI card is recognized ?
>
> Thanks.
Assuming you have scsi support set up as modules, if you call "/sbin/lsmod -a"
you should see at least scsi_mod and <your_scsi_host_adaptor> listed. If not
then call "/sbin/insmod scsi_mod" and then "/sbin/insmod
<your_scsi_host_adaptor>" (e.g for me it would be "/sbin/insmod aha1542").
Assuming you also have the proc filesystem set up (a good idea anyway), try
"cat /proc/scsi/scsi". If your card is detected ok you should see a list of
your devices connected to it.
Guy
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Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:38:48 +0200
From: "Waschk, Kolja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: use pcmcia card without cardmgr etc.?
hi
did someone already managed to enable a PCMCIA network card in linux
without making use of the whole PCMCIA tools and modules, cardmgr etc.?
I believe for e.g. "NE2000 compatible" cards it should be possible just
to setup the IO port mapping etc. using some small, specialized code.
Then, standard (ISA) NIC drivers could work. Assuming no hot-plugging of
the card is required, i.e. it is in the socket when the OS boots and
stays there until shutdown.
Am I missing something? A small initialization tool like this would make
it easier to fit support for PCMCIA network cards into tiny setups like
LRP. Does it already exist? Or maybe no setup is required at all for
such cards?
I'd appreciate any hints and pointers regarding the use of PCMCIA
network cards with no or only very few PCMCIA support code. My actual
target however is a WaveLan card (wireless); the drivers probably use
hooks on functions in the standard PCMCIA code. Do they? What are the
minimum requirements?
I'll go and try myself but want to check first whether someone else
already did, and couldn't find relevant postings or information on the
web yet.
bibi,
Kolja
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From: ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: graphic tablet
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 21:44:25 +0100
ross wrote:
>
> Bruce Stephens wrote:
> >
> > ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > I've looked around a bit and can't find a definitive answer to the
> > > following.
> > >
> > > What graphic tablet can I easily use to drive gimp with a vanilla
> > > kernel 2.2.14 (without using IR or USB) i.e. serial or PS2
> > > connection. The wacom stuff seems to be most talked about and I'm
> > > aware there are modules for driving XF86 but is it a doddle ?
> > > Basically I don't want to spend the money on one if I can only use
> > > it in Windows like my bloody scanner !!
> >
> > The Wacom tablets seem to work fine. The Graphire tablets are pretty
> > cheap, and you get a nice mouse as well as a pen. However, the
> > drawing area might be a bit small, depending on what you want it for.
> > The Intuos series gives you tilt sensitivity (and rotation, for the
> > mouse) as well as pressure (which is all the Graphire provides). The
> > Intuos tablets are significantly more costly.
> >
> > USB support isn't nearly as good as the serial support. It's usable
> > once you've got it working (and it's not so hard, although you do need
> > to apply the USB kernel backport).
> >
> > Serial support is easy: just replace the XF86 module with a new one,
> > and alter your XF86Config file as described.
>
> Thanks Bruce,
>
> I've just been and looked at both A6 versions at the 'jungle' website,
> the graphire is about � 77 UK and the intuos � 136 UK and there are
> serial versions available of both.
>
> The A6 area will be enough I think for just screen res. sketching /
> retouching in Gimp. 'Tilt sensitivity' is getting a bit too
> sophisticated for me though so I'll get the cheaper graphire (even
> though I don't want the mouse !).
>
> I appreciate your reply and post my experiences here when I've set up.
>
> Cheers
>
> Ross
>
> --
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosco
> cut the nocrap to reply
Bruce,
I got the graphire A6 for � 79 from PCWorld today and it is was a sinch
imho, took one X restart after installing latest wacom.so module and
hacking XF86 from the example on the howto @
http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Wacom-Tablet-HOWTO.html
I know I might be able to get GIMP to take advantage of some specific
functions but the input devices dialogue in my gimp-devel 1.124 reveals
'none' . Gotta little bit more to do 'til it's perfect but do I care ? ,
no I'm pleased as punch.
--
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosco
cut the nocrap to reply
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From: Guy Maskall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI Drive installation?
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:47:27 +0100
"Scot W. Hetzel" wrote:
> We are trying to add 2 SCSI drives onto our system. This system comes with
> 2 builtin controllers (SCSI1, SCSI2). We added an additional SCSI
> controller (SCSI0), for our tape backup unit.
>
> We also, have an external SCSI drive unit with two 9GB drives that will only
> attach to SCSI0. The problem is that when we power up the external SCSI
> drive unit, and reboot the system, The drives are nolonger in their correct
> order. These drives are now assiged as sda and sdb. All of the other
> drives now move up 2 letters.
>
> Is there anyway that we can stop linux from reassigning the devices?
>
> What needs to be done to the server so that it will boot from sdc(old sda)?
>
> Thanks
>
> Scot
Do I understand that you have *three* scsi controllers on your system? Apart
from my understanding that you can only have a maximum of two (ready to be
proven wrong there), but that would give you ample scsi addresses for your
devices.
As for the reassigning of device names, I recall the answer is no - it's just
the way linux does it. I think the best you can do is to write scripts or
somesuch to work around it (e.g. creating a symlink (such as sd1) and
dynamically allocate it to the relevant sda or sdb or sdc etc upon boot,
depending upon the h/w config.
Guy
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From: "Mike Dufel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USR modem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 12:39:55 -0700
I am trying to install a US Robotics 14.4 modem on linux. I disabled the
onboard serial port on my motherboard through the cmos and setup the modem
for com2 irq3. The problem now is that linux does not see my modem on com2.
any suggestions? The modem works great under windows 98.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Please Help! How do I setup my system for cdrecord?]
Date: 17 Jul 2000 19:44:47 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 17 Jul 2000 19:00:14 GMT,
Chris Sutcliffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Sorry about that, it should be gone now...
Thanks!
>OK, I tried doing the cdrecord binary is now SUID root, and I've made
>sure that the sg module is loaded (and confirmed using lsmod). I'm
>still having no luck using "cdrecord -scanbus"
>I've now compiled version 1.8.1 of cdrecord and replaced the one
>installed by default on the system. As I previously stated, "cdrecord
>-scanbus" still doesn't work. However, now when I try:
> cdrecord -v speed=4 dev=0,6,0 <CD IMG>
> Cdrecord 1.8.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> cdrecord: Operation not permitted. WARNING: Cannot do mlockall(2).
-From the cdrecord README:
- If you get a message like:
cdrecord: Function not implemented. shmget failed
You need to look for three possible reasons:
- You are using a Linux Kernel 2.3.51 or newer.
Read README.linux-shm
- You removed SVSv IPC from your kernel. You need to
enable it again.
Run a Linux kernel config and recompile with SYSv IPC.
I recall getting the mlockall() error before, but can't remember what I
did to fix it. If you're running a 2.3 series kernel, you'll need to
add this line to /etc/fstab:
none /var/shm shm exec,dev,suid,rw 0 0
also create the mount point /var/shm if it doesn't exist. Also, you'll
need to make sure that the device files /dev/sg[0-7] exist; use mknod or
/dev/MAKEDEV to create them if they don't exist....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Beware of sysadmins, for they are quick to anger and have no need of
subtlety.
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From: "Calvin N. Hobbes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Mobility and DVD
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 08:10:08 -0700
I'm also interested in getting that type of configuration and based on
Dell's brochures I believe that their DVD's are software decoded. In fact I
have yet to see a notebook DVD that is hardware decoded.
"Denver Timothy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I will be investing in a laptop in about a month's time. I am
> seriously looking at a Dell Inspirion 5000.
>
> These are the specs I am considering:
> 600MHz Celeron
> 14" XGA+
> 12GB
> 64MB
> 8MB AGP ATI Rage Mobility
> 8x DVD
>
> Of course I will run Linux, probably dual-boot Windows too. My main
> concern is that the DVD will be hardware decoded. From what I
> understand the video card will provide that. Anyone know if this is
> true?
>
> Also, while I am at, any comments on this investment are welcomed.
>
> Thanks,
> Denver Timothy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: ext2 hard drive with no superblock
Date: 15 Jul 2000 12:38:25 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[posted and mailed]
On Sat, 15 Jul 2000 01:39:40 -0700, me imitated an infinite number of
monkeys and said:
>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
mke2fs -S /dev/hdb1 && e2fsck /dev/hdb1
Read the man page for mke2fs so you know what this does, and don't expect
to get all the data back. This is kind of odd--did the drive crash, did
you have a power failure, or what?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Beware of sysadmins, for they are quick to anger and have no need of
subtlety.
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Subject: Re: SCSI Drive installation?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Jul 2000 15:49:28 -0400
"Scot W. Hetzel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> We are trying to add 2 SCSI drives onto our system. This system comes with
> 2 builtin controllers (SCSI1, SCSI2). We added an additional SCSI
> controller (SCSI0), for our tape backup unit.
>
> We also, have an external SCSI drive unit with two 9GB drives that will only
> attach to SCSI0. The problem is that when we power up the external SCSI
> drive unit, and reboot the system, The drives are nolonger in their correct
> order. These drives are now assiged as sda and sdb. All of the other
> drives now move up 2 letters.
>
> Is there anyway that we can stop linux from reassigning the devices?
>
> What needs to be done to the server so that it will boot from
> sdc(old sda)?
off hand, i would suggest one of two options
1) try to renumber your controllers so that scsi0 becomes scsi2.
look for some options you can give your scsi drivers. this
might mean you have to use modules (and an initrd).
2) use devfs which might let you use more natural names
/dev/scsi2/disk1 and such.
--
johan kullstam l72t00052
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wyatt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 14:49:31 -0500
I have the same card and had the same problem until I upgraded to XFree86
4.0.0. I still got some minor garbage until I set Option
"XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps" and Option "Expose" in XF86Config.
Wyatt
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Warren Gross wrote:
>Almost fixed. Try scrolling in netscape.
>Then there is noise.
>
>I've seen this same bug with the windows drivers
>that shipped with the card. The problem has gone away
>with the latest windows drivers.
>
>So Its coming along, but the rage 128 support in XF86 is not perfect yet.
>
> Warren
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> > > > > > > I'm having a strange problem with my ATI Rage 128 (XPERT
>> 2000)
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > I installed Redhat 6.2 (xfree86 3.3.6) and it found and
>> configured
>> > > > > > > the card properly. I get video that appears ok, but whenever
>> I move
>> > > > > > > a window I see a lot of strange video noise appearing as
>> vertical bands
>> > > > > > > running from the top to the bottom of the screen. They are
>> relatively
>> > > > > > > evenly spaced.
>> > > > > > >
>> > > > > > > Anybody else seen this problem? Is the card ok?
>> > > > > > >
>>
>> I've had the same problem with SuSE 6.4 and XFree86 3.3.6. In 8bit
>> mode it was better, but not completely fixed.
>>
>> So I tried XFree86 4.0 with the same effect.
>>
>> But, with the XFree86 4.0.1 which I have compiled by myself two
>> days ago, all the noise is gone. No distortion when moving the mouse
>> or a window.
>>
>> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> Before you buy.
>
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From: Jeff Avallone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear ethernet problem
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2000 20:07:42 GMT
I just recently bought a Netgear FA311 Ethernet card, installed it in my
system (RedHat6.1,P166,64MB RAM,kernel 2.2.15). I bought it because it
said that it supported Linux on the box (it does, I've all ready talked
to the company, all they told me was what driver to use).
So anyway, I've compiled the tulip driver into my kernel (I got the
latest version from www.scyld.com/network like Netgear told me to), and
it doesn't get detected. I've been up and down the Ethernet-HOWTO, it
doesn't really help. Windows95 (my system's a dual boot) found the card
with no problem and reports that it's on IRQ 9 (so does my BIOS), and
the IO range is E400-E4FF (nothing is using this, I checked
/proc/ioports). The BIOS lists it after POST as Bus number 0, Device
number 9, Function number 0, VendorID 100B, DeviceID 0020, and IRQ 9. It
also shows up in /proc/pci, if that helps with the problem. From the
looks of it, the only thing that can't find it is the tulip driver!
Anyway, I've got no clue what's going on here, so if anyone's had
experience with Netgear's stuff then I'd be very thankful for any help
you can give me.
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