Linux-Hardware Digest #336, Volume #13 Tue, 1 Aug 00 09:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Keyboard problems (Melinda Taylor)
Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux (Vollmer)
hard disk problem (David Breton)
Re: Amquest Hardware modem w/Redhat 6.1 ("Conor Daly")
Re: Slackware news.groups? (Romek Pitera)
Re: ATI TV card in Linux? (sideband)
Re: Not all memory detected under linux ("Frederik Tilkin")
Re: Newbie install problems (Steve Fosdick)
HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it ("danny-mio")
Re: Ripping CD's with Linux??? (Robert Hampf)
Yamaha driver ("Craig Sparks")
Software for selling 5771 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (L Slade)
Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get? (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences? (David Steuber)
Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it ("Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse")
Re: hard disk problem (Dances With Crows)
2 Video4Linux Devices randomly taking /dev/video0 ("Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse")
Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences? (Dances With Crows)
Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer... ("Ronny Tobler")
Re: Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer... ("Ronny Tobler")
Re: DMA problems (Dances With Crows)
Re: Dual NICs of same type? (Dances With Crows)
Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait! (Marc Espie)
Re: ATI TV card in Linux? (sideband)
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From: Melinda Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: aus.computers.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Keyboard problems
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 17:35:06 +1000
Hello,
I have just installed redhat 6.2 on an IBm thinkpad
and for some reason the keyboard is operating like a UK
keyboard instead of a US.
If I run kbdconfig it is set to US and if I check the
/etc/system/keyboard file it also says US in that file
also! Any ideas where else the keyboard config is set?
When I hit 'shift-3' I get the pound sign hence I know it
is currently set to UK.
ta :)
melinda
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Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.periphs.pcmcia,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux
From: Vollmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 01 Aug 2000 10:26:14 +0200
"dsgfu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm trying to get my pcmcia network card to work in Linux. Its a 3com
> Cardbus Model 3CCFE575BT. I'm installing on Linux Mandrake. I downloaded
> the latest kernel-pcmcia rpm which has the module for this card
> (3c575_cb.o). I don't know what to do after that. The pcmcia HOWTO talks
> about installing the source and recompiling the kernel, but says nothing
> about what to do if you installed from the RPM. When I boot up, pcmcia
> starts up, but there are no beeps, also no beeps when i insert/remove the
> card. If anyone knows what to do, please let me know.
>
> If not to much trouble, please email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> thanks
>
>
try
cardctl ident
to see if your card is identified correctly (see pcmcia_cs howto)
also look for messages of cardmgr in /var/log/messages
--
Peter Vollmer
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From: David Breton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard disk problem
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:24:59 -0700
Hi,
I'm running RedHat 6.2 and I tried to format an old hard disk of mine.
It use to have Windows98 installed on it. I tried:
mkfs -c /dev/hdb
and I got the following error message. Is my disk good for garbage?
Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
Block 0 in primary superblock/group descriptor area bad.
Blocks 0 through 2 must be good in order to build a filesystem.
Aborting....
Thanks for any help,
David
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From: "Conor Daly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.ppp
Subject: Re: Amquest Hardware modem w/Redhat 6.1
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 09:32:21 +0100
<Thinks...>
You have your modem set to COM1
You enable the built in COM1 on your mobo
seems like linux will be talking to the on-board com1 rather than the modem.
Try enabling COM1 in cmos but reassign the I/O so it becomes COM3. That
should prevent Windows from trying to shift stuff. Meanwhile in Linux, you
"should" be able to talk to the modem through /dev/ttyS0 if you do the above
</Thinks... (brain turned to mush!)>
--
Conor Daly
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
JM wrote in message <8lkhje$t21$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hello,
>
>I finally got the OS to sort of recognize the modem by turning off the
>PNP OS option in the BIOS and enabling the COM1 port in the BIOS. It
>didn't have to be enabled for Windows for whatever reason. The Amquest
>hardware modem has a Rockwell chipset, I think. Anyway, both rp3-
>config and kppp seem to hand up or error when trying to initialize the
>modem. The modem device is set to to /dev/ttyS0 (all other settings
>say the modem is busy or something). With kppp, I get a "Modem Ready"
>message until I try to connect. Then it sits there. The kppp terminal
>won't let me type at all. Shouldn't AT&F or ATZ work for an init
>string? Any help would be appreciated.
>
>Also, if I leave the COM1 port enabled in the BIOS, I think Windows
>tries to shuffle ports and reinstall hardware, etc. when I do this. If
>I disable the com/serial ports in the BIOS, then Windows puts the
>modmem on COM1. If I enable COM1 in the BIOS, then the modem gets
>shoved to COM3. But I digress . .
>
>TIA,
>
>JM
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
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From: Romek Pitera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware news.groups?
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:44:20 +0100
On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, J. Escalante wrote:
> Do you know if there are any Slackware news groups?
> Thanks in advance
alt.os.linux.slackware
R Pitera
Direct your response to: r dot pitera at qmw dot ac dot uk
Direct spam or unsolicited commercial e-mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI TV card in Linux?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 06:00:00 -0400
Thanks, Bruce, I will.
-SSB
Bruce Forsberg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone gotten an ATI TV card (daughterboard for a 3D Xpression+PC2TV)
> or
> > an All-In-Wonder to work in Linux? That is, can you actually watch TV
> in
> > a window on a Linux box in X?
> >
> > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Check out the following:
>
> http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos
>
> Bruce
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Not all memory detected under linux
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 10:04:19 GMT
"Steve Fosdick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
news:8m49ju$i06$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <X4Xg5.64253$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Frederik Tilkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Given that your kernel only sees 16Mb may indicate the the weird OS/2
> memory compatibility option is turn on in your BIOS. Try turning this off
> and if the system still doesn't see all 128Mb then add a boot parameter
> to the kernel of mem=128M - you can try this at the LILO prompt
> (linux mem=128M) and if that works add an append line to your LILO
> config file.
Since you seem interested. The option "OS slect for DRAM > 64" was set to
non-OS2. But the "mem=128M" stuff works fine, so I'm happy :)
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From: Steve Fosdick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie install problems
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:20:48 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Richard Schnedl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
> 1 - Is there anyway to put windows on one hard drive and Linux on the
> other and have a dual boot machine. Windows will be on ATA/66 IDE 3 HD
> and Linux on Primary IDE ATA/33 HD.
Probably. I don't know mandrake so I can't be sure which boot loader it
uses but if it uses LILO which is the most common Linux boot loader
program then you're in business. LILO is very configurable and can
do what you want but you'd need to read the documentation for it to see
how to do it. Hopefully the documentation will have been installed on your
hard disk somewhere - on mine (Debian) its somewhere like /usr/doc/lilo.
If you have trouble finding it then let me know and I can send it to you.
> 2 - Is my video card to new to install Linux, until a later version comes
> out.
I've forgotten what your card is and any way I wouldn't know of the top of
my head, but support for video cards in graphics mode is down to XFree86
so in general the answer to this type of question is a two stage thing:
1. Which version(s) of XFree86 supports the card? This can be found from
the XFree86 website (which I think is www.xfree86.org).
2. Which version of XFree86 is supplied with your distribution of Linux. If
the version of XFree86 supplied with your distribution is too old to support
your video card then you have the option of upgradeing your distribution
to one that supplies a newer version of XFree86, or getting the newer
XFree86 yourself and installing it.
It's also worth knowing all the information relating to the monitor and graphics
card that X needs to drive it is collected into a configuration file which on
my system is in /etc/X11/XF86Config. There are a number of friendly tools
to auto-generate this file and your distribution probably uses one of these
but if the supplied tool doesn't work you have the choice of other tools for
generating this file (I know of xf86config [text based], XF86Setup and
Xconifgurator) or editing it by hand.
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From: "danny-mio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:28:13 +0200
I have a scanner HP scanject 5p and I don't know how to use it on Linux,
it's comunicating with my pc by the card included with the scanner (SCSI i
suppose).
I'd appretiate any hint
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Subject: Re: Ripping CD's with Linux???
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 13:24:18 +0300
Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: I use cdparanoia to rip... it can sometimes be r e a l l y slow... but that's
: prbably because it's correcting a lot of errors (bad CDs, but also a dirt cheap
: drive). It even speeds up if I tell the software to run the drive at 2x or 1x
: speed, instead of the default 8x speed that the drive is capable of.
: Looks like running the drive slower results in fewer read errore, therefore
: fewer re-reads hence faster ripping...
I used to have a Toshiba 32X CD-ROM. It was horrible. It could only
rip 1X and even then it made so many errors that the ripping took more
time than converting to mp3. Then I bought a Plextor 40max with
jitter control. Now I rip a song in just a few seconds. My point is:
If you want to do some serious ripping get serious about the hardware.
rh
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From: "Craig Sparks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Yamaha driver
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 12:53:18 +0200
All,
Does anyone know where I can get a free linux driver for the Yamaha sound
card 740c (that is integrated into motherboard) ?
Thanks
Craig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Software for selling 5771
Date: 1 Aug 2000 09:17:06 GMT
Look at http://www.cdnow2000.com for newest software.
All price is under 90$
orsftnfvyt
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From: L Slade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:36:07 GMT
I do have PNP OS set to NO in BIOS. One other thing-I have "IRQ3 used by
ISA" set up to YES since I disabled one of my com ports in BIOS and used
IRQ3 for an internal hardware modem. This worked for windows but I don't
know if it will work for Linux.
The problem is that one of the nics is getting set up with the same irq
as my video card-irq 11. The nic's support irq sharing but things are
not functioning right because in kde control center TCP tab I can only
set up one of the cards eth0-the other does not appear.
A second problem is probably debian specific. When I edit
/etc/modutils/aliases with:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59x
then run 'update-modules' my conf.modules gets rebuilt like this:
alias eth0 3c59x
alias eth1 3c59xpath[boot]=/lib/modules
These lines are inserted before the path lines like:
path[net]=/lib/modules/`uname -r`
Which is probably why update-modules adds a path to my alias line but is
it readable by the kernel with no space between the 3c59x & path?
Thanks for help with any of the above,
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:17:16 GMT, Lola Slade wrote:
> >I also have two nics-3com905. I am trying to figure out how to set them
> >up. My distro has set up the drivers as loadable modules so I am adding
> >the following to /etc/modutils/aliases :
> >alias eth0 3c59x
> >alias eth1 3c59x
> >My question is what "options" line needs to follow this to
> >differentiate the irq's and io addresses? What irq's and io should I
> >use or should I just use my bios to set this?
> >3com recommends irq 10,11,12 and I have 10 and 12 free but I don't know
> >what io addresses to use.
>
> 3c905s are PCI cards. PCI cards have their IRQs and I/O addresses
> auto-configured by the BIOS so they don't step on each other's I/O
> ports, assuming you have the BIOS "I have a PnP OS" option set to NO.
> PCI cards can share IRQs as well. There's no need for any options=
> lines; just attempt to access eth0 and eth1, and everything will be OK.
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: getting dsl, what h/w should i get?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:48:10 GMT
On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 23:47:54 -0700, Ray Tayek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>> On Mon, 31 Jul 2000 20:42:39 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >
>> >hi, hope to get dsl rsn. i have a 120mhz cyrix 686 pr150 with 96 mb
>> >and a 350 mhz amd k6-2 with 64 mb. both have various nic's, cd's and
>> >modems. i could buy a new system (i have about $700).
>> >...
>> I think you are asking the wrong question. Or at least asking the wrong
>> way. Any of those systems should work ...
>
>great!, i was more concerned with linux problems. my understanding was
>that there was a limited set of device drivers available and that not
>all hardware combinations would work on linux.
The only gotcha is the DSL modem. Do not wind up with a PCI or USB, or
you will be SOL. Maybe this changes soon, dunno.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences?
From: David Steuber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:00:02 GMT
John Broadhead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
' > ' Actually don't get mad about this if it's a UDMA-66 cable. For some
' > ' strange reason that's how they're supposed to be.
' >
' > You're kidding me! Aren't you? The replacement cables that I bought
' > did not have such a cut. Or is the cut done differently?
' >
'
' No, really I'm serious. There are two types of IDE cables. The original
' 40 conductor type, which are good up to UDMA-33, and the new 80
' conductor, yet 40 pin ones. Don't ask me why it has 80 conductors if it
' only has 40 pins, since I don't know.
'
' I have one of each type of cables in my hand right now. The UDMA-66 has
' much thinner conductors on it's ribbon section. There are also a total
' of 80 of them. The UDMA-33 cable has thicker conductors and there are
' only 40 of them. The shape and size of each plug on the cables is
' identical, 40-pins with a key.
I knew about the 40 wire vs the 80 wire thing. Another difference is
that the UDMA-66 cables have a blue connector at the end that gets
plugged into the controler.
The thing that gets me is that the cables I bought _are_ UDMA-66
cables with the blue connector and the 80 wires, but they do not have
a visible cut.
As to the doubling of the wires, I can only guess that it has
something to do with capacitance/impedance matching.
Why the industry doesn't switch over to firewire, or something similar
that doesn't require paying Apple a huge license fee if that is the
problem is something that bothers me too. Those damn ribbon cables
are just too rigid and fragile for my taste. The connectors are no
dream either. It's really past time better cabling was made available
for high speed data transfer.
--
David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
NRA Member | a hoploholic.
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=hoplite&submit=Look+it+up
The problem with AI is that it has a mind of its own
--- Devon Miller
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From: "Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP scanject 5p, I can't configure it
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:06:48 GMT
danny-mio wrote:
>
> I have a scanner HP scanject 5p and I don't know how to use it on Linux,
> it's comunicating with my pc by the card included with the scanner (SCSI i
> suppose).
>
> I'd appretiate any hint
Try using SANE - http://www.mostang.com/sane/
I've got my HP 5P to work, but only from 1.01. Doesn't seem to work
under 1.02 (?).
But thats fine :)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
Date: 1 Aug 2000 12:08:52 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 01:24:59 -0700, David Breton wrote:
>I'm running RedHat 6.2 and I tried to format an old hard disk of mine.
>It use to have Windows98 installed on it. I tried:
>mkfs -c /dev/hdb
>and I got the following error message. Is my disk good for garbage?
>Checking for bad blocks (read-only test): done
>Block 0 in primary superblock/group descriptor area bad.
>Blocks 0 through 2 must be good in order to build a filesystem.
DOesn't sound good, but are you sure you want to mkfs the whole disk
like that? Usually you start by doing an "fdisk /dev/hdb" and creating
a partition (or more than one.) Try that, then mkfs -c /dev/hdb[1-n]. If
you still get those errors when attempting to mkfs -c, then your disk is
most likely trash....
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: "Alastair (LiQUiDx) Tse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 2 Video4Linux Devices randomly taking /dev/video0
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:14:20 GMT
Hi folks,
I've currently got 2 video4linux devices, a bttv video capture card and
a USB ov511 compatible webcam.
Currently, my modules.conf looks like this :
[snip ...]
alias sound emu10k1
alias char-major-81 videodev # Video for Linux
Module
alias char-major-81-0 bttv # TV Tuner Module
pre-install bttv modprobe -k tuner # Some options ?
options bttv radio=0 # No Radio Tuner on my
card
alias char-major-81-1 ov511 # USB Cam
pre-install ov511 modprobe bttv # load bttv before loading ov511
[snip ..]
What I want to get working is :
bttv card --> /dev/video0
ov511 camera --> /dev/video1
So therefore I tried to make the ov511 modules load the bttv module
before it loads. That was it would make the bttv acquire /dev/video0 and
the ov511 camera to get /dev/video1.
However, this doesn't work. When I try accessing /dev/video1, it goes
and loads the ov511 module, BUT the device is accessible thru
/dev/video0.
Listing of my /dev/video* devices :
crw------- 1 liquidx root 81, 0 May 9 15:56 /dev/video0
crw------- 1 liquidx root 81, 1 May 9 15:56 /dev/video1
crw------- 1 liquidx root 81, 2 May 9 15:56 /dev/video2
crw------- 1 liquidx root 81, 3 May 9 15:56 /dev/video3
Now, I woulda thought that by specifying char-major-81-1 ov511, it would
make it bound to /dev/video1, but apparently, it depends on the order i
access the device. So if before i first used the camera i used the video
capture card, then the camera would use /dev/video1.
Is there any other way to hard code it except for modprobing bttv before
i do anything else ?
Thanks,
alastair.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Building a Linux Server from scratch: Experiences?
Date: 1 Aug 2000 12:14:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 12:00:02 GMT, David Steuber wrote:
>I knew about the 40 wire vs the 80 wire thing. Another difference is
>that the UDMA-66 cables have a blue connector at the end that gets
>plugged into the controler.
>
>As to the doubling of the wires, I can only guess that it has
>something to do with capacitance/impedance matching.
>
>Why the industry doesn't switch over to firewire, or something similar
>that doesn't require paying Apple a huge license fee if that is the
>problem is something that bothers me too. Those damn ribbon cables
>are just too rigid and fragile for my taste. The connectors are no
>dream either. It's really past time better cabling was made available
>for high speed data transfer.
There's something out there called "Serial ATA" that will theoretically
use something similar to Firewire to shovel data at blinding speeds.
Implementation is still a ways off, since for it to be widely accepted,
motherboard manufacturers would have to put connectors and electronics
on all their new boards. Then the hard drive manufacturers have to
switch over. It will happen eventually, but don't hold your breath...
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: "Ronny Tobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer...
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:18:24 +0200
Hi there :)
I've got a few questions because I have no idea how a
steamer works :(
- Do I have to format the tape before I use it
for the first time?
- If I make a new backup do I have to delete the old
data before and how if so?
Now about the backup:
With "tar -cvf /dev/ht0 /home/ronny" do I make a backup
of my home directory right?
To restore I use the command: "tar -xvf /dev/ht0" but now
my most important question: If I restore where would he put
the data on the streamer? To directory where it was, or
somewhere else?
Thanks to those who took time to answer :)
Ronny
--
Ronny Tobler, Basel (Switzerland)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 33207233
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From: "Ronny Tobler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Some Questions regarding the use of a Streamer...
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 14:22:17 +0200
Sorry I forgot: I have an Seagate Travan 5 10/20GB
IDE Streamer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: DMA problems
Date: 1 Aug 2000 12:27:26 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 06:12:45 GMT, Ron Keller wrote:
>PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78,VID=10b9, >DID=5229
> PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
This means that you don't have the correct IDE-DMA options configured in
the kernel. Your IDE controller is an ALi 5229, or at least that's what
it looks like to me. However, there isn't anything in the docs about
the correct option to enable to allow you to use DMA.
>Since linux does boot and runs quit well on my machine, I didn't pay too
>much attention to these messages. However, I have been trying to get my
>floppy tape drive to work and I haven't been successful. Yet that same
>floppy tape drive works flawlessly on a 486 machine.
>In reading the documentation accompanying the floppy tape driver
>(ftape), it is suggested that one reason for this could be that the DMA
>controller isn't talking to the FDC. Would this explain the messages
>I'm getting on boot-up?
Probably not--the floppy controller always uses ISA DMA channel 2, while
PCI devices use a completely different way of doing DMA. When the
floppy controller is in use, does "cat /proc/dma" return a line with "2:
floppy" in it? Does a normal floppy drive work in the same controller
slot?
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Dual NICs of same type?
Date: 1 Aug 2000 12:33:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 11:36:07 GMT, L Slade wrote:
>I do have PNP OS set to NO in BIOS. One other thing-I have "IRQ3 used by
>ISA" set up to YES since I disabled one of my com ports in BIOS and used
>IRQ3 for an internal hardware modem. This worked for windows but I don't
>know if it will work for Linux.
>The problem is that one of the nics is getting set up with the same irq
>as my video card-irq 11. The nic's support irq sharing but things are
>not functioning right because in kde control center TCP tab I can only
>set up one of the cards eth0-the other does not appear.
Where is this "TCP tab" in the KDE Control Center? I'm using KDE 1.1.2,
and there's nothing like that anywhere. Also, the video card does not
require an IRQ--there should be an option somewhere in the BIOS to
disable its getting an IRQ if you're worried about that. Windoze
doesn't even complain if the video card doesn't get an IRQ.
Can you do an "ifconfig eth1 192.168.111.12 up" and get something
besides an error message? If so, your card is OK.
>A second problem is probably debian specific. When I edit
>/etc/modutils/aliases with:
>alias eth0 3c59x
>alias eth1 3c59x
>then run 'update-modules' my conf.modules gets rebuilt like this:
>alias eth0 3c59x
>alias eth1 3c59xpath[boot]=/lib/modules
Just edit /etc/conf.modules directly and don't bother with
"update-modules".
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
=============================/ ==Charles Peguy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Espie)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.advocacy,alt.os.linux,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Subject: Re: If Linux, which? If not Linux, what? NOT flame-bait!
Date: 1 Aug 2000 12:46:09 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Smitty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>p.s. Skip the BSD Linux emulation. It is not reliable and is more of a
>gimmick.
Gee, I'm sure glad to know that Maple does not run.
Nor does adom.
Nor does acroread.
Must be a figment of my imagination, then.
--
Marc Espie
|anime, sf, juggling, unicycle, acrobatics, comics...
|AmigaOS, OpenBSD, C++, perl, Icon, PostScript...
| `real programmers don't die, they just get out of beta'
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ATI TV card in Linux?
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2000 08:48:03 -0400
Bruce:
It works great! ::grin:: One minor (major?) snafu... When I run xatitv, it
changes my cursor to something resembling a long bar with static from some
unknown TV channel... I don't know if it's an xatitv problem, a KDE
problem, or an XFree86 3.3.6 problem. Gonna dig thru the docs on this and
see what's up...
Thanks again for the pointer... at least I can get TV on my box... Now I
can format and install Linux to that other box. ::grin::
-SSB
Bruce Forsberg wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Anyone gotten an ATI TV card (daughterboard for a 3D Xpression+PC2TV)
> or
> > an All-In-Wonder to work in Linux? That is, can you actually watch TV
> in
> > a window on a Linux box in X?
> >
> > Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Check out the following:
>
> http://www.core.binghamton.edu/~insomnia/gatos
>
> Bruce
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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