Linux-Hardware Digest #347, Volume #13 Thu, 3 Aug 00 01:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Almost Lost New Hard Drive When Trying To Install Mandrake 7.0 (mike)
Re: USB printer
Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1? (Sean LeBlanc)
Re: get 3d acceleration working in X ("D. Stimits")
Re: Help installing modem (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1? (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: hard disk problem (Chem-R-Us)
Re: 8bit ??? I want more than this ("Stefan Viljoen")
No sound at all from x11amp - SbVibra16Pnp ("Stefan Viljoen")
Re: Arkeia Backup Software with an IDE streamer? (Craig McCluskey)
Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1? (Craig McCluskey)
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Almost Lost New Hard Drive When Trying To Install Mandrake 7.0
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:16:56 -0400
Hi,
the problem may be due to the basic hardware and bios
configuration, but it happened after an install of Mandrake 7.0
I just installed a 20 gb hard drive in my old pentium 166 system,
80 mb memory. The bios only recognized about 8 gb so I
assumed that I could put Windows on the 8 gb and then
proceed to install different versions of Linux on the rest of
the drive. I installed Win95 and then Mandrake 7.0. The
installation went without hitches. When rebooted the
system, I got "LI" and lots of zeros.
During the install of Mandrake, I made a seperate /boot
partition of 7 mb below the 1024 cylinders. It was very close
as it complained with 8 mb. Win95 would not boot either.
I removed the "linear" switch in lilo.conf and Mandrake booted.
Win95 still wouldn't boot.
I figured that I would regenerate the MBR via fdisk /mbr.
What happened was very disturbing. My Win95 boot floppy
would not boot, but the Linux boot floppy would boot.
I tried to regenerate the MBR by doing Lilo - u , which I believe
is supposed to do it, but it didn't.
The next step that I thought of was to make the new drive
a slave and put my old 6.4 gb Win95 drive as master. I figured
that I could somehow repair the drive with a bootable Win95
system. My old drive wouldn't boot either.
I decided that the only possibility would be to try to fix the
hard drive through Mandrake. I did fdisk -o, which put a
DOS partition on the hard drive. After I did it, I was able
to boot my Win95 floppy. I did fdisk / mbr and it did not
regenerate the C: drive. I used Partition Magic and deleted
the existing Win95 partitions and then used fdisk again.
I then tried to transfer the Windows DOS with sys c:
and it said system transferred, but it wouldn't boot. Then
I did format c:/s and I got a message "not enough memory
to load system." Then I did just plain format c: and it formatted
the c: drive without the system. Again, I did sys c: and the message
was "system transferred", but again it didn't boot and said "
missing operating system".
Finally I did format c:/s again and it said "system transferred"
and it actually worked.
This was the most frustrating time I ever had with a computer.
I can't understand why a change on the MBR of a hard drive
would prevent a DOS boot floppy from booting. I thought
that if the bios was set for A,C booting that the floppy would
take priority independently from the hard drive, whether it
was bootable or not or not even there, but it seems that what
probably happened was that the boot process somehow still
needs some sort of confirmation from the hard drive. I
wish I had a handle on what happened because I never want
it to happen again.
Does anyone know why it happened and how I can setup
my present hardware to do what I origionally wanted it to do?
Thanks
Mike
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB printer
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:30:04 GMT
I tried to re-setup my printer using printer configuration in drakconf. I
was not given a dropdown with /dev/usb/usblp in it for the device, just an
entry field. I noticed during bootup that linux actually says "loading usb
printer" towards the end of the bootup process. I cannot find any usb
devices anywhere though! Anymore hints? I have a Lexmark Z42 printer which
I am hoping will work with Henryk Paluch's Lexmark 5700 driver. I suppose
it is possible that the setup will work as you described if I type in the
device, but the driver just does not work with my printer. I hope not.
Anyway, any more help would be appreciated. JH
Tim Stark wrote:
>
>
> I have 7.1 also, and I set up my USB printer (HP 812) during one of the
> installs I did. With the printer hooked up and on during install, The
> install routine asks which dev it's attached to. Going from memory, the
> default is /dev/lp0, but the drop down box should also show something
like
> /dev/usb/usblp. Choose the usb one, then try the print test page thingy.
> You should also be able to change this through the DrakConfig option on
the
> desktop. It will ask you to add or modify a que. If you set up a que on
> the parallel port, you can modify that one, there should be a similiar
place
> to specify a device. Hope this helps! BTW this is the first linux
distro
> I've tried that recognizes all my hardware (with the exception of my
monitor
> and video card, but that's not Mandrakes fault, it's XFree's).
>
> Tim
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have Mandrake 7.1 that is supposed to have some USB support. Does
> anyone
> > know how to setup my USB printer to work in Linux. Thank you. JH
> >
> > --
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> > http://www.help.com/
>
>
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Subject: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1?
From: Sean LeBlanc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 03:44:11 GMT
Hi, computer surplus outlet has western digitals in
stock, and I'd like to buy one. Trouble is, I'm not
sure they'll work with RedHat 6.1...do I need to
rebuild kernel for UDMA 66 support?
The hardware I
have RH on is 200MMX Pentium with 2 PCI slots free,
and (I think) one EISA free. What kind of controller
card would be recommended for the above drive, esp.
with Linux?
Thanks in advance,
Sean
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:44:49 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: get 3d acceleration working in X
Mike wrote:
>
> hello
> I wasn't quite sure which group should field this question, but I figured
> it is about 3d hardware. I'm in the new RedHat beta 7.0, and I am
> having a hard time getting 3d acceleration in X. Open GL applications
> and screensavers run really slowly.
>
> I have a Geforce card (the original) and am running XFree 4.01. Mesa
> is installed as well, during RedHats installation procedure. I distinctly
> remember that when I installed Suse 6.4, ( before redhat) that there was
> an option to enable 3d acceleration for supported cards in XFree. How
> can I get that in Red Hat?
>
> Thanks guys
> Mike
Depends on your card. A sample is nvidia cards, a la GeForce or TNT2.
There is an "nv" server module, and also an "nvidia" server module. The
nv is software only, while "nvidia" works with a kernel module. The
supporting infrastructure includes either the software Mesa, which will
mess up any hardware accel (advised to remove software mesa entirely
before installing the hardware version), or there is the hardware
version. If you don't have your kernel module in when you try the
hardware server module, you'll crash the system. So you need to be sure
that your kernel module is in, plus the server module needs to be the
hardware version for your card, and mesa needs to be the hardware
version as well. Assuming all those things are in, you need to uncomment
the right lines in XF86Config as well, to enable it. Reading comments in
XF86Config is a good place to start.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help installing modem
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:01:25 GMT
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"J. Escalante" wrote:
> Setting up a ISA USRobotic PNP modem I have done the following.
> 1.) Using isadump
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> At the command prompt typed
> isadump > /etc/isapnp.conf
> isadump filled /etc/isapnp.conf file with the available ISA pnp resource
> information.
>
> isadump provided me with 4 options to choose from, sequentially I tried
> each one until I found the one that made isapnp happy, thus reporting OK.
>
> 2.) Using isapnp
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> At the command prompt typed
> isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf
> I tried this several times for each of the choices that idsadump provided
> me with, until isapnp returned OK.
>
> 3.) Using setserial
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> At the command prompt typed
> setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0x2e8 irq 3
> effectively setting the serial port to /dev/ttyS2
>
> Someone suggested to check /var/log/dmessage to see what devices the
> kernel detected at boot up time. However, /var/log/dmessage does not exist
>
> 4.) Testing
> ~~~~~~~~
> Using kppp I set up the modem with the above parameters and proceeded to
> log in, this time I heard the modem dialing and latter the protocol
> transferring took place [the modem started to scream], but after a second or
> two a message box poped up saying that the pdeamon had unexpectedly died.
>
> NOTE: Sorry for the lengthy of the explanation, but I feel that this way we
> can avoid redundancy of the work already done.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Try replacing the file "/etc/ppp/options" with a blank file of the same name.
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1?
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 04:12:35 GMT
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Sean LeBlanc wrote:
> Hi, computer surplus outlet has western digitals in
> stock, and I'd like to buy one. Trouble is, I'm not
> sure they'll work with RedHat 6.1...do I need to
> rebuild kernel for UDMA 66 support?
>
> The hardware I
> have RH on is 200MMX Pentium with 2 PCI slots free,
> and (I think) one EISA free. What kind of controller
> card would be recommended for the above drive, esp.
> with Linux?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Sean
You need Kernel v.2.2.16 and the ide patch (see my previous postings.
I have a Promise Ultra66 PCI board. It worked fine except I forgot to
put the "linear" global paramater in lilo.conf.
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Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 21:26:16 -0700
From: Chem-R-Us <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: hard disk problem
David Breton wrote:
>
> Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > what does fdisk -l /dev/hdb say?
> > --
> > timothymoore
> > bigfoot
> > com
>
> It doesn't say anything.
>
> [root@localhost /root]# fdisk -l /dev/hdb
> [root@localhost /root]#
>
> there are no partition on the disk. I attempted to install winNT on it
> and the installation crashed after the formatting step. (The disk is
> the primary slave if this is of any relevance, and yes it is properly
> jumped)
OK. Here's the proper sequence of events:
1) Log in as root.
2) Create the partitions(s) you want to put filesystems on.
3) Put filesystems on those partitions.
I prefer cfdisk because it writes higher quality partition tables than
the other tools (fdisk, sfdisk, disk druid, etc). The bad news is that
it will require a reboot to make the partitions useable. Small price to
pay.
1) As root, type in: cfdisk /dev/hdb
and [delete] any partitions that are on that drive (follow the
directions).
2) Create [New] partition(s) as you see fit. If you need to create a
swap partition, chose [type] for the partition you want to make swap,
and select linux swap.
3) After you have the partition(s) the way you want it|them, then
[write] the partition table. It will ask you `yes' or `no', type in
either a full yes or a full no. These partitions will be hdb1, hdb2,
etc.
4) Reboot the machine to ensure that the partition tables are properly
written to the disk.
5) Run: mkfs /dev/hdb1
And let it install a linux file system on that partition. Repeat this
step for each partition you created.
6) For swap partitions you will need to run mkswap on the selected
partition.
7) Add the ones you want mounted at bootup to /etc/fstab
For help, there's `man cfdisk', `man mkfs', `man mkswap', and `man
fstab'.
--
.~. ))
Chem-R-Us /V\ ((
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: 8bit ??? I want more than this
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:39:34 +0200
albert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8m8p7q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> hello,
>
> I have a SiS6326 4 Mb in my Win98/Red Hat 6.2 and although I'm content I
> want more than 256 colors in linux, specially because I can't use any of
the
> enlightnment themes . Is there any chance I can change it??? If anyone has
> solved this glitch could he/she send me the answer?
Have you tried startx --bpp16? (Don't know if this is correct - if it failes
try with only one - i. e. -bpp16).
Anyways, here is my XF86Config - I recently sent it to another guy who also
had an SiS card (think it was 6326) that couldn't get his to work right
eighter. I have a Triden 3DImage 9750 and it works -only- in 24bit color
mode. Just replace the "Trident" parts with your Sis6326 - maybe even
without doing that it will work? My XF86Config depicted here gives me
800x600x24bpp and 640x480x24bpp:
# XF86Config auto-generated by XF86Setup
#
# Copyright (c) 1996 by The XFree86 Project, Inc.
#
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
#
# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
# all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
#
# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL
# THE XFREE86 PROJECT BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
# WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF
# OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
# SOFTWARE.
#
# Except as contained in this notice, the name of the XFree86 Project shall
# not be used in advertising or otherwise to promote the sale, use or other
# dealings in this Software without prior written authorization from the
# XFree86 Project.
#
# See 'man XF86Config' for info on the format of this file
Section "ServerFlags"
EndSection
Section "Keyboard"
Protocol "Standard"
XkbRules "xfree86"
XkbModel "pc101"
XkbLayout "us"
EndSection
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Primary Monitor"
VendorName "Unknown"
ModelName "Unknown"
HorizSync 30-54
VertRefresh 50-120
Modeline "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
Modeline "800x600" 46.88 800 872 936 1088 600 640 645 657
EndSection
Section "Device"
Identifier "Primary Card"
VendorName "Unknown"
BoardName "Trident 3DImage975 AGP (generic)"
Chipset "3dimage975"
VideoRam 4096
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "SVGA"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
DefaultColorDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "640x480" "800X600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "VGA16"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "VGA2"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Driver "Mono"
Device "Primary Card"
Monitor "Primary Monitor"
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "640x480" "800x600"
EndSubSection
EndSection
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From: "Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: No sound at all from x11amp - SbVibra16Pnp
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 20:43:32 +0200
Hi!
I have managed to run sndconfig on RedHat 6 to autoconfigure my
SBVibra16Pnp. It worked fine, playing the sample wav of Linus, and the midi
example. However, I cannot get X11AMP to work as root user on the X
desktop - it just closes as if I selected application close whenever I try
to load an MP3 for playing. Sound is active in Enlightenment and GNOME (i.
e. I get the startup soun etc.).
Any ideas why X11AMP won't go? Are there any other MP3 players availably
that I might try?
Thanks!
Stefan Viljoen
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http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Arkeia Backup Software with an IDE streamer?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:47:11 -0500
> JA> I'm using bru rather than arkeis, but this may apply to you.
We are using Lone-Tar by Cactus Software here in my physics lab. It's
straight forward to use (UNLIKE Arkeia, which we also tried) has only
a text interface (kinda neat, actually) which can be run remotely over
ssh and is only $79 at Linux Mall. I downloaded the demo version and
was quickly noticed by their sales people, who sent a CD version of the
demo with a longer expiration time. They have been good at answering
the questions I've posed.
Craig
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Western Digital UDMA 66 and RH 6.1?
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 2000 23:55:05 -0500
Sean LeBlanc wrote:
>
> Hi, computer surplus outlet has western digitals in
> stock, and I'd like to buy one. Trouble is, I'm not
> sure they'll work with RedHat 6.1...do I need to
> rebuild kernel for UDMA 66 support?
I have a WD102AB and it works just fine as UDMA 33. Whenever
the step to handling UDMA 66 is small enough for my busy
schedule (it does require (re-) building a (new) kernel)
I'll make the transition.
Craig
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