Linux-Hardware Digest #413, Volume #13 Sun, 13 Aug 00 15:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Mainboard founds uart 16450 instead of 16550a (mike)
Serial port PCMCIA card support? (Win Heagy)
write partition table (quagly)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (bernieo)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: write partition table (Dances With Crows)
Re: Partition Size Advice (Dances With Crows)
help in isa modem, please (Tribologica)
Re: HELP: Sound on VIA (Duane)
KVM Mouse Problems (Jim Garrison)
Sound card not working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mouse Wheel (Daryl Munday)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D (Robert Hampf)
Re: Mouse Wheel ("Wim Koorenneef")
Tyan S1668 (Christoph Helmert)
Re: Linux on AMD (blowfish)
Re: RTL 8193 poor performance (bgeer)
scanner ("RR")
Best print filter for PCL5E printer (News User)
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mainboard founds uart 16450 instead of 16550a
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:09:08 -0400
Hi,
i'm not sure what you mean when you say that your
motherboard found a 16450 uart. Maybe I have the
wrong take on your issue. Your motherboard might
have a 16450 uart on it, but that is not the uart in
your internal Zoom isa pnp modem. I would make sure
that the uart on the mother board is disabled in the bios
if it is assigned the same COM port as your isa pnp modem.
Maybe you can also disable pnp for the modem and set
the jumpers for the port and irq manually. I think that this
works best in Linux and Windows and DOS.
Mike
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From: Win Heagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Serial port PCMCIA card support?
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:12:27 -0400
Does anyone know if there are any PCMCIA serial port cards supported
under Linux? I need one additional serial port on a notebook computer,
and this seems to be the way to go. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Win
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: quagly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: write partition table
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:12:52 GMT
What information to you need to write a partition table?
I have fdisk and cfdisk. Do I want to print the raw table or some
other format?
are these commands all I need?
I am having no problems, but I am trying to be prepared.
The man pages are unclear, where is TFM?
Thanks,
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From: bernieo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:41:21 GMT
Carlos wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I think it would sure make life a lot
> >> easier for the average Linux user if distributions just used ide-scsi,
> >> and left ide-cd to people that wanted to configure it themselves.
> >
> >It would surely make life easier for us who have IDE CD burners, but it
> >might be a bit of a pain for those with SCSI drives. I've no experience
> >using a computer with IDE and SCSI drives, and I don't know how well
> >a "real" SCSI driver would coexist with SCSI emulation.
>
> My system has 2 scsi HD's, and ide CDROM and CDRW using the ide-scsi
> trick. Works flawlessly but was a pain to configure the first time
> (probably would take less than 5' now...). No problem with mixed ide and
> scsi systems.
>
> Carlos
I have and IDE CDRW and a SCSI Scanner.
I tried to enable the CDRW under linux as a Writer, but when I did, I lost
access
to the TRUE SCSI Scanner.
How can I setup the IDE CDRW drive to go through the IDE-SCSI Emulation,
yet still have access to my SCSI Scanner.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:37:58 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf) wrote:
> David Shochat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
> :
> : My computer supposedly has the subject sound card. When I try to run
> : sndconfig, it thinks I have an Ensoniq ES1371. The sound sample test
> : fails. Does anyone know what I can do to get this working?
>
> The Sound Blaster PCI128 card has an Ensoniq 1371 sound chip. The
> question about how to get it working must be _the_ most frequently
> asked question here so you will find a lot of info on deja.
>
> People usually run some soundconfig or sndconfig program. I compiled
> a new kernel with Ensoniq 1371 compiled into the kernel and it worked
> without any tweaking.
Thanks. I looked around deja, but haven't really found the answer. I do
have sndconfig. As several others have reported, it thinks everything is
fine, but no sound comes out. My guess is that the es1371 kernel module
that comes with RedHat 6.2 is no good. What kernel version did you
compile the driver into? Maybe I need a newer kernel (I have 2.2.14-5).
-- David
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: write partition table
Date: 13 Aug 2000 16:45:36 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 13 Aug 2000 15:12:52 GMT, quagly wrote:
>What information to you need to write a partition table? I have fdisk
>and cfdisk. Do I want to print the raw table or some other format?
>are these commands all I need? I am having no problems, but I am
>trying to be prepared. The man pages are unclear, where is TFM?
To write a partition table, all you need is fdisk or cfdisk. It would
also help to have some idea of how large you want each partition to be
and what OS will be going on which partition. In fdisk, the command to
write the partition table to disk and exit is "W". You can print the
current partition table with "fdisk -l /dev/XXX" or by entering "p" at
the fdisk prompt. (XXX is the device name of the drive you wish to
partition, like hda for the master on IDE controller 0, or sda for the
first SCSI disk.)
The man pages *are* TFM. Most intermediate/advanced books on PC
hardware contain some discussion of PC-style partition tables, their
limitations, and their internal structure. The documentation for LILO
has a reasonable overview, /usr/doc/packages/lilo/README .
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Partition Size Advice
Date: 13 Aug 2000 16:59:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 12 Aug 2000 11:48:11 +0100, John Beardmore wrote:
>What's the rationale for sizing swap partitions ?
>In Win32, the rule of thumb seems to be to have an initial swap file
>size that is say 1.5 time the size of physical ram, and perhaps to let
>it grow bigger if needs be.
>
>How sensible would it be on say a 512 meg ram Linux box to have a mere
>64 or 128 meg swap partition ? Can a Linux box be configured without a
>swap partition at all ? My gut feeling is that it would be a bit of a
>waste of space ! By the time you needed it at all, you'd be more or
>less totally out of space !
Swapspace is (usually) kept on a partition instead of in the filesystem
because doing so results in a performance increase. The swapper doesn't
have to deal with the filesystem and can just write to the raw disk, you
see... Since partitions must have a fixed size, that *can* mean that
your swap space is fixed in size.
Naturally, it doesn't have to. You can do this to add 128M of swap to a
system that needs it:
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1M count=128
# sync && sync
# mkswap /swapfile && swapon /swapfile
Remove it by doing
# swapoff /swapfile && rm /swapfile
You *can* have a Linux box without any swap space at all. It's a really
bad idea on machines with < 128M, and it's not really a good idea even
on machines with a lot of RAM. Basically, if there's swap space, things
that don't get used will be shuffled off to the swap, leaving more room
in RAM for heavily used things and/or disk caching.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Those who do not understand Unix are
http://www.brainbench.com / condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
=============================/ ==Henry Spencer
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From: Tribologica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help in isa modem, please
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 12:16:46 -0500
i have a modem isa ESS 33,6 kbps
internal
how i setup this under linux
regards
Gabriel
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP: Sound on VIA
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 09:45:56 -0700
Frederik Tilkin wrote:
>
> "Bartek Kostrzewa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in bericht
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> > Unfortunately you will have to install ALSA to get support for this sound
> > chipset. Better disable it, disable PnP OS in your BIOS and then get a
> cheap
> > SB 128 PCI
>
> Why "unfortunately"? I have the same soundcard and I would like to get it
> working.
>
> Frederik
Are we talking about the VIA 82C686A here? If so, then the ALSA driver
works just fine for me. Perhaps by "unfortunately" he meant that it is a
bit more of a pain then usual to figure out how to set it up. The ALSA
driver is available from:
http://www.alsa-project.org/
The biggest problem is usually to figure out the entries in
/etc/conf.modules. For the VIA chip, I use:
alias sound snd-card-via686a
alias char-major-116 snd
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
alias snd-card-0 snd-card-via686a
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Jim Garrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: KVM Mouse Problems
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 17:34:47 GMT
We have a Belkin OmniPro 8 port KVM switch that does not work
with RH6.2. The mouse behaves as if it is receiving a continuous
random stream of up, right and click messages. The cursor stays
in the upper right corner and jumps back there if moved away.
Needless to say, it is unusable.
Anyone have any suggestions?
--
Jim Garrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PGP Keys at http://www.acm.org/~jhg RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Sound card not working
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 18:11:41 GMT
Hello,
I am running Redhat 6.2 and it does not seem to support my sound card.
I have ran sndconfig already and my card is a Yahama model: YMF-744B
[DS-1S AUDIO CONTROLLER]. I have also installed alsa but it doesn't my
sound card either. Can anyone help?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 19:28:15 +0100
From: Daryl Munday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse Wheel
Can anyone help me configure my Logitech WheelMouse so i can use the
scrolling wheel.Using suse 6.4
Thanx
Daz
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:39:57 -0700
sideband wrote:
>
> blowfish wrote:
>
> > "David C." wrote:
> > >
> > > blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > >
> > > > Only sucky-crappy distros like RH, Debian, etc. , and so on you need to
> > > > recompile for anything other than the generic stuff.
> > >
> > > *sigh*
> > >
> > > RedHat most certainly does release 586 and 686 kernel builds. My PII
> > > and PPro systems all run with an i686-built kernel.
> > >
> > > > Even soundcard, SMP, pentium, ata/dma a bunch of scsi, GForce video,
> > > > etc runs right out of the box without any messing around.
> > >
> > > Congratulations. Yours is not the only distribution that works "out of
> > > the box".
> > >
> > > But I'm surprised you are concerned with "messing around", since (as you
> > > wrote in another post in this thread) you recompile everything anyway.
> > >
> > > -- David
> >
> > I install for friends too. :-)
> > Most of them just want it quick. So. Default installation suit them
> > well.
> >
> > I recompile everything as a learning experience. :-)
> >
> > --
> > - Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
> > user. (Have Fun with geek's culture: Part-1-2.4.b-pre.beta1234567.)
> > - Dont fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
> > - World Domination:60% *foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
> > free side order of duck soup.
> > - Official Duck a l'Orange Counter
> > Registration:
> >
> > #345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
> > (c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
>
> HRm....
>
> Why someone wouldn't want to tailor their kernel to the hardware they have is
> beyond me.... The machine boots and runs faster if it doesn't have to wade
> through 400 different card drivers, insert modules, etc, just to get eth0
> working.
>
> But then again, maybe I'm willing to work for something good, rather than
> accepting what someone else has done as "ok".
>
> -SSB
Exactly. Isn't that the main advantage and reason to use opensource stuff? ;-)
If they just want everything by default, and .RPM every apps. Why not just stick
with Windoz?
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user. (Have Fun with geek's culture:Part 2.4.test.pre.release-1234567.)
- Don't fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
- World Domination:60% foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
free side order of duck soup.
- Official Duck a l'orange Counter Registration:
#345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Hampf)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster AudioPCI 128D
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:38:43 +0300
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> h�lt �essu fram:
:
: Thanks. I looked around deja, but haven't really found the answer. I do
: have sndconfig. As several others have reported, it thinks everything is
: fine, but no sound comes out. My guess is that the es1371 kernel module
: that comes with RedHat 6.2 is no good. What kernel version did you
: compile the driver into? Maybe I need a newer kernel (I have 2.2.14-5).
Go to www.kernel.org and get the newest 2.2.* kernel. (There is a
security problem in the Red Hat kernel so you'd better get the newest
anyway.) Read the Kernel-HOWTO. If you know all the parts of your
machine it shouldn't be difficult. In order to keep it simple I never
use modules but some do because they think that is simplier. The
es1371 is an ordinary driver so you don't need to get any separate
drivers (like Alsa).
rh
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From: "Wim Koorenneef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Wheel
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:37:53 +0200
Check out this page I found yesterday:
http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Daryl Munday <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schreef in berichtnieuws
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Can anyone help me configure my Logitech WheelMouse so i can use the
> scrolling wheel.Using suse 6.4
> Thanx
> Daz
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From: Christoph Helmert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Tyan S1668
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:46:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
I've got some problems with a Tyan S1668 dual motherboard. It seems to
be, that the BIOS couldn't cache memory bigger than 128MB. The BIOS is
made by AMI, but on the tyan webpage are only upgrade-versions from
AWARD. I
don't know if there is a possibility to change the BIOS from AMI to
AWARD with software.
Propably there is a problem with Red Hat Linux, but i've not read
anything concerning such a problem. At the moment the system works fine,
but only with 128MB. I've already changed the SIMMs, but no effort.
Perhaps you have a solution.
Thanks
Christoph Helmert
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From: blowfish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: ..
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux on AMD
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 11:49:48 -0700
J Bland wrote:
>
> >> The kernel is optimised for it, everything else isn't.
> >>
> >> Frinky
> >Oh Yeah!
> >
> >Are you using SuSE?
>
> Yes. from p100s to Athlon700s to G3s. They mostly run the default packages.
> Which are compiled for 386s and ppc.
>
> >I am. I've been using SuSE since 5.x
> >
> >I'm posting from a SuSE 6.4 2.2.14 kernel, i586 with 3DNow activated.
> >;-)
>
> Well done. That extra math performance makes your mostly integer using
> kernel so much faster. This is from a i586 2.2.16 kernel, with only things
> in it I need. It makes little difference to anything.
>
> 2.2.14 has a serious security bug in it. This is why SuSE has released and
> update to the k_default.rpm package with a 2.2.16 kernel. Keep up with the
> security advisories.
I've updated all the SuSE security fixes on everything that I use. SuSE has
released a 2.2.14 bug fix as well. I've updated mine, as well as YaST and so on.
;-)
I'm on the mailing list.
>
> >You CAN choose the kernel option from YaST2 during installation.
>
> I know.
>
> >Only sucky-crappy distros like RH, Debian, etc. , and so on you need to
> >recompile for anything other than the generic stuff.
> >
> >Even soundcard, SMP, pentium, ata/dma a bunch of scsi, GForce video, etc
> >runs right out of the box without any messing around.
>
> RH, Debian etc do sound, SMP, pentium and other optimised kernels. The
> entirety of Mandrake is pentium optimised. Stuff that's in the SuSE kernel is
> available as patches elsewhere, and they are being used by other
> distributers.
>
> Yes. This is all the kernel. SuSE 6.4 'out the box' has optimised kernels.
> Which makes a difference. But not much. *Everything else on the CDs* is not
> optimised. They are i386 rpms. They will not have pentium, or mmx, or 3dnow
> optimisations in them.
>
> If you recompile from source then they will, but that's not SuSE 6.4, is it.
I havd the SuSE DVD. I have been compiling everything from source since 6.0
I always buy the official CDs / DVD. Not the elval version from cheapbytes, or
from SuSE's ftp site.
> AT least it sort of is but then you're having to faff about in ways you're
> detracting other distributions for. If you want that extra speed get
> Mandrake, it's *all* optimised.
>
Don't want any thing based on RedHat. ;-)
Can RED also means REDmond, Washington?
R = Repair / Rebuild
E = Everyday or...
D = Die
H = Have
A = A
T = Turkey.
:-0
> Frinky
>
> --
> John Bland MPhys(Hons) GradInstP Webmaster and Sys Admin.
> http://ringtail.cmp.liv.ac.uk/ Condensed Matter Group
> Email: j.bland at liv.ac.uk Liverpool University
> "And it can suck a monkey through 30ft of garden hose!!
--
- Alex / blowfish.- Just an average, whimpy, non-geek American computer
user. (Have Fun with geek's culture:Part 2.4.test.pre.release-1234567.)
- Don't fear the Duck. Resistance is futile. Eat your duck soup.
- World Domination:60% foo.bar.com now serveing Duck a l'Orange with
free side order of duck soup.
- Official Duck a l'orange Counter Registration:
#345678.(https://foo.duck.org/orange/duck_soup/duck_counter.php)
(c)Copyrighted by Alex / blowfish. 2000. All Rights Reserved.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (bgeer)
Subject: Re: RTL 8193 poor performance
Date: 13 Aug 2000 12:52:45 -0600
"nitrox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>the realtek cards performance is really bad, it starts at about 100 kb/s and
>than stalles...
>using the same card under windows works pretty good...(in an 100mbit tp lan)
>i�m using suse 6.4, kernel 2.2.16 and the kernel realtek 8129/8139 driver...
>pci ne2k driver does not find the networkcard...
>HELP!!
I got good results using an Ovislink RTL8139 card (haven't heard of a
RTL8193...:-). Had to download & compile latest rtl8139.c driver from
"the driver guy" (URL in /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/*.c files).
Even tho it works, I especially liked the "...stunningly bad design
choice..." comment in rtl8139.c. For my own machines I prefer FA310
cards.
--
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From: "RR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scanner
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 20:00:49 +0100
As to configure a plate scsi of a scanner Mustek 600 II CD in the
distribution Mandrake 7?
I thank any help or information at once.
Greetings
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (News User)
Subject: Best print filter for PCL5E printer
Reply-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2000 13:53:38 -0500
Well, that says it all. I'm running GhostScript 6.01 from Aladdin.
I am on RedHat 6.0 + updates. I am running printtool 3.44.1 and
rhs-printfilters 1.63.1 .
I just purchased an NEC1800. This is a PCL5E/PCL6 printer with a duplexer.
Right now, I'm running it as a LaserJet 4/5/6. But I don't seen a duplex
option for that. I do see a duplex option for a LaserJet IIID.
Also, GhostScript has a ljet4 and a ljet4d driver. I really think that I
should be using these drivers, but they don't seem to be an option in
printtool. I'm very ignorant of Linux printing, so I am totally dependant
on printtool. Especially since this printer is really hooked up to a Windows98
system and I'm using smbprint to print it.
I know, *RTFM*, but a kind answer would be appreciated,
John
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