Linux-Hardware Digest #383, Volume #13 Tue, 8 Aug 00 22:13:08 EDT
Contents:
HP Colorado 5GB Parport drive (Pete)
Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Old Cpu ("Greg H.")
Re: Undesired video behavior (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: USB printer for Linux? (Andrey Vlasov)
X running out of memory?? --> GeForce, XFree 4.01, NV 0.94 driver (Allen Bierbaum)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (Peter Teuben)
Re: "Turbo" and X-windows. (Stanislaw Flatto)
Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility (David C.)
After Action report: LILO freezing at LI (George/USA)
Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device" (Glitch)
Re: IDE tape drive setup (Tim Moore)
Re: How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2 (Tim Moore)
Re: PCMCIA modem trouble!! (Bob Martin)
Re: Are all external modems linux compatible? (Bob Martin)
Re: Linux on AMD (shook)
Re: 3com 10/100 LAN Cardbus in Linux ("Antony Lee")
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From: Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Colorado 5GB Parport drive
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:51:32 -0400
My Colorado 5GB parallel port drive is giving me grief.. has anyone set
one up under linux before?
-pete
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:18:30 -0700
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Hi Stefan,
it should works at least according specification for HP drives. DDS3 should
support DDS2/DDS1 tapes. It recognize tapes through holes in the bottom part
of the tape and switch in according mode. In DDS1 mode - you can read tapes
but not to write. Sometimes this can stop to work but it happen only if one of
the drive misadjusted at hardware level and it require hadware repair. You can
met problem on software level like diffrent block size but you can easy fix it
by pointing which block size on the tape. You should use same software for
reading as was used for writing and in this case you should not have a
problem. Most problems happen by software incompatibility or hardware fault
like heads have diffrent angle at write and read. But in last case send you
new drive to manufacture for replacement. You can dig out all this information
from HP website, just check for description on your DDS-3 drive.
Andrey
Stefan Viljoen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Excuse me, this may be a bit OT:
>
> Are HP DDS3 4mm DAT tapes downward compatible with HP DD2 - written 4mm DAT
> tapes?
>
> I have a situation at work were we are upgrading servers (SCO Unix) to
> DDS3-using primaries, with a planned weekly switchon of "retired" DDS2
> equipped servers and a load-to-synchronize on the old systems.
>
> All this falls apart if the DDS2 drives on the old systems cannot read the
> DDS3 written 4mm tapes originating on the new systems.
>
> Anybody encountered this before? Can a HP DDS3 read a HP DDS2 written tape?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Stefan Viljoen
>
> --
> Starwars Forever!!!
>
> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://home.intekom.com/rylan/
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Hi Stefan,
<p>it should works at least according specification for HP drives. DDS3
should support DDS2/DDS1 tapes. It recognize tapes through holes in the
bottom part of the tape and switch in according mode. In DDS1 mode - you
can read tapes but not to write. Sometimes this can stop to work but it
happen only if one of the drive misadjusted at hardware level and it require
hadware repair. You can met problem on software level like diffrent block
size but you can easy fix it by pointing which block size on the tape.
You should use same software for reading as was used for writing and in
this case you should not have a problem. Most problems happen by software
incompatibility or hardware fault like heads have diffrent angle at write
and read. But in last case send you new drive to manufacture for replacement.
You can dig out all this information from HP website, just check for description
on your DDS-3 drive.
<p>Andrey
<p>Stefan Viljoen wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>Hi!
<p>Excuse me, this may be a bit OT:
<p>Are HP DDS3 4mm DAT tapes downward compatible with HP DD2 - written
4mm DAT
<br>tapes?
<p>I have a situation at work were we are upgrading servers (SCO Unix)
to
<br>DDS3-using primaries, with a planned weekly switchon of "retired" DDS2
<br>equipped servers and a load-to-synchronize on the old systems.
<p>All this falls apart if the DDS2 drives on the old systems cannot read
the
<br>DDS3 written 4mm tapes originating on the new systems.
<p>Anybody encountered this before? Can a HP DDS3 read a HP DDS2 written
tape?
<p>Thanks!
<p>Stefan Viljoen
<p>--
<br>Starwars Forever!!!
<p><a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]</a>
<br><a
href="http://home.intekom.com/rylan/">http://home.intekom.com/rylan/</a></blockquote>
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From: "Greg H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Old Cpu
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 22:21:31 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, it's called "Minix". Linux requires a 386 or higher on the x86
> architecture, since protected-mode wasn't quite all there on the 286.
> Minix is a Unix workalike, and was the original inspiration for Linux,
> and it was recently made Free. I can't remember if you'll be able to
> run a GUI or not, though....
There's also ELKS (E? Linux Kernel Subset).
Greg
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Undesired video behavior
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:31:17 -0700
Hi,
I beleive that you have a vitual desktop which is bigger of you screen
parameters or you run X11 in low resolution. As you point that you tried
to change resolution (Alt+Ctrl++ or Alt+Ctrl+-) and it didn't change any
thing it should be vitrual desktop setting in your /etc/X11/XF86Setup
file. Check there setting in Monitor part.
Andrey
wm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently loaded Redhat 5.2 on my Cyrix P150 machine, but seem to be
> experiencing a undesired behavior with the video output. In simple
> terms, it's as though the X Server is configured to output to a 21"
> monitor, when in fact my monitor is only 15". I am able to view the
> entire windowing environment, but only by using my mouse to move the
> viewing area of the screen to the desired location.
>
> Thanks for the help!
> Walt
>
> BTW, I did attempt to correct this problem by changing the resolution,
> but to no avail.
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From: Andrey Vlasov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB printer for Linux?
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 15:35:15 -0700
Hi there,
check this links and you will get answer on your question
http://www.linux-usb.org/
http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
http://www.kroah.com/linux-usb/
http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
http://usb.in.tum.de/usbdoc/
http://linuxusbguide.sourceforge.net/
Andrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> hi
>
> what USB printers are supported by Linux? any recommendations?
>
> martin
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: Allen Bierbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Subject: X running out of memory?? --> GeForce, XFree 4.01, NV 0.94 driver
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 17:47:24 -0500
I am currently running with a GeForce (Asus 6600) running in Red Hat 6.2
with kernel 2.2.14-5.0, XFree 4.01 (installed from tarballs), and the
NVidia accelerated X drivers (version 0.94).
Everything seems to work fine most of the time. I can run OpenGL apps
with full acceleration, and the 2D performance is amazing.
But...
When I run VMWare or JDK 1.3 (some other versions of Java too), I can
run for a while but eventually the entire X system "locks" up. When I
log in remotely and try to see what is going on, I can see that X is
taking up a little over 100% of my memmory (101.7% last time I checked).
At first I thought it may just be memory leaks in the driver, so I
watched the memory usage as I was running, but it was not a leak. The
resident X memory usage was hovering at around 12-13mb then the machine
suddenly freezes and the memory usage is at 255mb. :(
I have tried disabling AGP (NvAgp), and that did not help either
I am at a lose on this one. I am not a newbie, but I can't figure out
why this is happening.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-A
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From: Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 18:44:03 -0400
Ramin Sina wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> Despite what is advertised on its box, netgear FA311 cards don't work
> with Linux (Atleast not with kernel 2.2.*) Tulip driver doesn't work
> with it. It comes with it's own linux driver that was written for 2.0.36
> and does not compile under Red Hat 6.2. Could someone please confirm
> this assessment;and are there any solutions to fix this?
did you check new drivers tulip.c at Becker's website
on www.scyld.com? I've had to do this twice already this week.
Like Netgear, Linksys seems to be equally irresponsible, and not
check their newers cards (they update the firmware/hardware and
old drivers don't work. E.g. for the latest Linksys LNE100TX
i had to use tulip.c V0.91g, the vanilla 0.91 did not work,
you may also need the latest beta driver.
It's a little involved, the website explains it, you also need
to insmod a new pci-scan.o
peter
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From: Stanislaw Flatto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: "Turbo" and X-windows.
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 08:52:39 +0000
Internet Support Pete wrote:
>
> It doesn't really matter. You shouldn't have to switch between resolutions
> very often in XFree86 anyway. You can get around this by specifiying one
> resolution at a tim eand booting XF86. If it works to your satisfaction...
> keep that resolution and don't bother changing it.
>
> -Pete
>
Hi Pete!
This solution is "trivial". But "we" are in Linux and should be able to
control our hardware. When coming on combination that is interpreted in
two ways "what gives?"
--
Stanislaw on Slak 7.1
Registered on Linux counter No.162760.
Even put Ulladulla on their database.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: HP DDS2 and DDS3 backward compatibility
Date: 08 Aug 2000 19:01:28 -0400
"Stefan Viljoen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Are HP DDS3 4mm DAT tapes downward compatible with HP DD2 - written
> 4mm DAT tapes?
>
> I have a situation at work were we are upgrading servers (SCO Unix) to
> DDS3-using primaries, with a planned weekly switchon of "retired" DDS2
> equipped servers and a load-to-synchronize on the old systems.
>
> All this falls apart if the DDS2 drives on the old systems cannot read
> the DDS3 written 4mm tapes originating on the new systems.
>
> Anybody encountered this before? Can a HP DDS3 read a HP DDS2 written
> tape?
It's not clear what you are trying to do here.
Do you want to use your old DDS-2 tapes in a DDS-3 drive? If so, it
should work fine. The DDS spec requires that high-density drives be
able to read and write lower-density media. A drive that does not
support this is not fully DDS compliant.
Or are you trying to use DDS-3 tapes in a DDS-2 drive? If so, it should
not work at all. The drive may even reject the tape as soon as you
insert it.
-- David
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From: George/USA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: After Action report: LILO freezing at LI
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 19:36:53 -0400
Well, after a LOT of good advice (thanks Tony, SSB, Jake, Eric
John in SD, James, and John C.!), I finally got the machine
to boot. I have a Pentium 100 chip on a UI MB, a PCI video
card, and ISA sound card and modem, along with a Western
Digital 3.1GB HD. There are no other OS's installed. After
a lot of bitching and fussing on my part, I grabbed a WD Data
Lifeguard Disk, used it to check the drive and write 0's to the whole
thing.
Then I used a DOS boot (heh, heh) disk to fdisk /mbr the drive.
I went into the BIOS and made sure the drive was set on mode LBA.
I then attempted to install Debian 2.1 from a CD I have. Made
sure I partioned the HD with a small /boot partion at the beginning.
Then all basic debian stuff was installed, and I rebooted...
And there I was with LILO and a normal reboot! I really
appreciate all of your help with this, and hopefully I wont
have to come back with any other problems (tho the
modem I think will be the next).
George
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Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2000 20:07:10 -0400
From: Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP! - "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid block device"
by reading subsequent posts by the author hdc will not work anymore as
we have determined that hte drive is being recognized as a scsi device
since it is a cdrw drive, therefore scd? is the only thing that will
work
"Kenneth R�rvik" wrote:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Toby Hobson) wrote in
> <8mi6bf$bkp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> >Hi
> >
> >Could anybody help someone new to linux?
> >
> >When I try to mount /dev/cdrom I get "mount: /dev/cdrom is not a valid
> >block device"
> >
> >I have 2 hard disks, /dev/hda and /dev/hdb and 2 cdroms: a DVD on
> >/dev/cdrom2 (/dev/hdd) and a CDRW on dev/cdrom (/dev/hdc I think).
> >
> >I can mount /dev/cdrom2 with no trouble but dev/cdrom is not working
> >if I try "mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom" I get the same error
> >message.
> >
> >can anybody offer any advice
>
> Check to see that /dev/cdrom is a symlink to the /dev/hdc.
>
> # ls -l /dev/cdrom
>
> lrwxrwxrwx <_snip_> cdrom -> hdc
>
> If not, do:
>
> # cd /dev
> # rm -f cdrom
> # ln -sf hdc cdrom
>
> --
> Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
> Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE tape drive setup
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:22:42 GMT
> I have a HP colorado 20 GB interbal IDE. I tried to set it up with SCSI
> emulation, but it didn.t work. Now I saw someone just setting it up as a
> ide-tape drive ( standard kernel ). At a certain point I've got this
> ...
For the HP, SCSI emulation works much better. I don't get timeout
errors. How did you set up SCSI emulation?
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDESCSI=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=y
...
kernel: Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
kernel: PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 21
kernel: PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
kernel: ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd800-0xd807, BIOS settings: hda:DMA,
hdb:DMA
kernel: ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd808-0xd80f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA,
hdd:DMA
kernel: hda: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
kernel: hdb: HP COLORADO 20GB, ATAPI TAPE drive
kernel: hdc: FUJITSU MPD3084AT, ATA DISK drive
kernel: hdd: YAMAHA CRW4416E, ATAPI CDROM drive
...
kernel: scsi1 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
...
kernel: Vendor: HP Model: COLORADO 20GB Rev: 4.01
kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision:
02
kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
...
Jef Peeraer wrote:
>
> I have a HP colorado 20 GB interbal IDE. I tried to set it up with SCSI
> emulation, but it didn.t work. Now I saw someone just setting it up as a
> ide-tape drive ( standard kernel ). At a certain point I've got this
> ide-tape drive error :
> ...
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.09
> ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: HP COLORADO 20GB rev 4.01
> ide-tape: ht0: I/O error, pc = 1a, key = 4, asc = 40, ascq = a0
> ide-tape: Can't get tape parameters - assuming some default values
> ide-tape: hdd <-> ht0: 450KBps, 6*26kB buffer, 4394kB pipeline, 110ms
> tDSC, DMA
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How do I power down monitor when logged out? RH6.2
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 00:29:50 GMT
man xset, then look for dpms.
'xset dpms force off' is what I use when I'll be away from the monitor
for a while.
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA modem trouble!!
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:05:11 +0000
The Hack wrote:
>
> Linux PCMCIA knowitalls WELCOME!
>
> I recently bought a PCMCIA modem (Argosy FM56C), and on it's box
> there is a claim : "Linux compatible", so thought - FINALLY!
>
> BUT, needless to say there are problems, either with me or with the card
> configuration. It seems like everything is OK, but its not. Apparently
> Linux recognized the PCMCIA controller and it recognizes the card and,
> the cardmgr recognizes when a card is inserted; in another words the
> module serial_cs is successfully loaded and the serial script is
> successfully runned (two high beeps are heard). But when I try to write
> to /dev/modem (which points to ttyS0 - ttyS0 is passed to the serial
> script) nothing happens (my usual test is to run minicom).
> So tell me where I've gone wrong.
>
> P.S. Here are some things that might (will) help.
>
> #cardctr config output
>
> Socket 0:
> Vcc = 5.0, Vpp1 = 0.0, Vpp2 = 0.0
> Interface type is memory and I/O
> IRQ 3 is exclusive, level mode, enabled
> Speaker output is enabled
> Function 0:
> Config register base = 0x0100
> Option = 0x60, status = 0x08, ext = 0000
> I/O window 1: 0x03f8 to 0x03ff, 8 bit
> Socket 1:
> not configured
>
This might be something to look at, it appears to be using IRQ 3, which
would be com2 or ttyS1 but you said /dev/modem is linked to ttyS0
--
Bob Martin
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From: Bob Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Are all external modems linux compatible?
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:12:14 +0000
Psyches wrote:
>
> I need to get a cheap external modem that'll work with Linux. From
> information I've gathered it seems that all external modems will work with
> Linux - but is this true or does anyone know of any external winmodems to be
> avoided?
> Thanks,
> Psyches
>
As long it has standard serial port interface ( not USB ), should be
fine.
--
Bob Martin
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From: shook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 01:29:59 GMT
I am thinking of setting up Linux on an AMD machine. Did you have any
problem with the install or after the install?
Shook
Saty Desai wrote:
>
> Hi :
>
> I'm beta testing Linux on an AMD Athlon box with an Adaptec 131x/141x
> SCSI adapter..
>
> I'd like to hear from others who have setup and loaded Linux (and the
> version and vendor) on AMD boxes or any other hardware containing
> Adaptec 131x/141x internal SCSI hard drive adapters ...
>
> I would really appreciate your help and thanks for your help in advance
>
>
> Saty
>
>
> --
> Saty Desai
>
>
--
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http://www.help.com/
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From: "Antony Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2000 10:14:50 +0800
Dear all
My 3CCFE575CT also is not working under by RH 6.1.
Can you suggest me a solution ?
My case is:
My card could be recognized until I have installed the pcmcia-cs-3.1.19.
The cardctl could show correct info about the card after my notebook
started-up
or the card was inserted. However, I could not find that any network
function was
brought up due to the present of the card.
If I manually startup the eth0 by using ifup eth0 or ifconfig eth0 .....
commands, my
machine hung up unless I ejected the card and never reinsert, or simple
reboot the
machine.
I checked the configuration with cardctl and lspci, they told that the
PCMCIA
controller and the 575CT were using irq 11 which is also owner by the
display
card and the sound card of my machine.
My notebook was configured with O2Micro OZ9612 pcmcia controller,
smi811 with 4 MB video ram and ESS Maestro 2E sound chip.
Can anyone help me to solve the problem ?
Regards
Antony Lee
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you download the pcmcia source files and recompile it in your machine?
> I had the same problem with RH 6.x (even 6.2) out of the box. You can
> download the pcmcia sources, compile the pcmcia modules, install, and
> reboot the machine... This card is working beutifully with my laptop.
>
> Good Luck!
> Shao
>
>
>
> dsgfu wrote:
>
> > 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
>
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