Linux-Hardware Digest #516, Volume #13 Fri, 1 Sep 00 21:13:09 EDT
Contents:
How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ??? ("kurt")
Re: Driver for Lexmark Z31? (Scott Alfter)
Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
myself!!!!!!!!..really!!! ("AGP")
Re: VIA chipset (Duane)
Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ??? (dog)
Re: cdrw mounting as ro ("Robert E. Blair")
HP 7510e External Parallel Port CD Burner (Nathanael Hoyle)
Re: can't find CD-ROM (root)
OnStream IDE Tape drive cannot read its backups (colum paget)
Re: UPS / Backup drives (colum paget)
Re: FAQ's - NEWBIE QUESTIONS: Networking and Drivers ("David C")
Ibm I Series 1440 Laptop ("Ferret")
15.0 GB QUANTUM LM PLUS 7200 RPM HD (hihihi)
Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ??? ("Shane Baker")
what 15.0 GB Harddisk for CUSL2 and Red Hat 6.2 ? (hihihi)
Mandrake 7.1 with Nvidia GeForce2 MX ("jfurness")
Re: what's up with Sun? (Christopher Browne)
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From: "kurt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ???
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:17:50 GMT
Hello,
I'm Kurt 23 years from Belgium, and I must say, i'm new at this ...
i just wanna ask a question...
I'm Using Best Linux
and my wife wanna use Windows ....
now, this is my problem ...
I Have 2 HD
on hda1 there is Windows
on hdb1 there is BestLinux
on hdb2 is the swap file
but when I'm trying to boot, it just strats windows ....
isn't there a way to have a screen on the startup , so I can choose with OS
I wanna Use ???
Thanks
Kurt
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Driver for Lexmark Z31?
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:25:14 GMT
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Mecholsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>just a guess but have you tried a raw ps dump... that has worked with
>some HP printers I use... though it is not printer specific
That only works if your printer speaks PostScript. Mine (a Lexmark Optra
Color 40) does, but most don't. The Z31 in the subject line doesn't even
grok PCL, let alone PostScript...it is of that evil breed of devices known
as WinHardware.
There is some (limited?) support for some of Lexmark's more recent inkjet
printers in Ghostscript, though the better approach would be to avoid
printers that don't at least understand PCL. (PostScript in the printer is
definitely nice to have, but unless you stumbled into buy.com's (or someone
else's) closeout of Optra Color 40s or find someone with, say, an Apple
LaserWriter Plus (or another similarly-old PostScript laser printer) for
sale cheap, you're going to end up paying through the nose for PostScript.
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From: "AGP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TurboLinux 6.0 install with a GeForce..Help Please or I will kill
myself!!!!!!!!..really!!!
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 15:28:08 -0500
well mines is an ELSA Erazor x2 GeForce chipset) and i tried
to use the SVGA of the X server on TurboLinux 6.0 release. i chose
all possible resolutions and the video test mode bombed on all of them.
Im not sure that TL has "generic geforce" but i will check. anyway, my mobo
took a dump. i dont know if it was because of the 10th attempt at installing
this OS or what but it just took a dump.
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Robert Andrew Bell wrote in message ...
>The 3d Nvidia drivers are only needed if you want full access to the 3d
>capabilities of the Geforce card. During your initial install of Linux you
>must make sure that the svga server package is installed. Once you get into
>the XFree86 setup screen select 'Card' from the top menu and you should see
>a window with a bunch of video card names, scroll down and select Generic
>Geforce and then select 'Monitor' from the top menu and select your monitor
>type from the list or manually enter the vertical and horizontal
frequencies
>for your monitor.Finally select the last menu item and select done and it
>should test to see if your X server will come up,if it does then you can
>select save configuration and reboot. You could also just do text based
>install (say no to X configuration during install) and then once you have a
>running system you can setup X by running either xf86config (text) or
>XF86Setup (graphical) which would allow you to install a newer version of
>XFree86 before doing the configuration. Also, if you want a more automated
>hands off installation then try Mandrake 7.1, it's very good at setting up
>hardware and will set up a very nice gui with very little effort.Anyway, I
>hope I've been of some help as I'm not too good at expaining things ( I
know
>what I want to say but I'm not very good at writing it down)
>
>Rob.
>
>
>"Murray Eisenberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Be gentle...I'm a Linux newbie...
>>
>> To do a RH 6.2 Gnome workstation installation, one normally uses a
>> graphical interface as I recall (from an installation on an older PC).
>> But if one has to get 3rd party video drivers, how can one bootstrap the
>> whole process?
>>
>> I just don't understand something here! Can you point me in the right
>> direction.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>> Robert Andrew Bell wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi, I'm not sure what your problem is but any distro using XFree86
>3.3.x
>> > and above has generic support for Geforce256 & ddr but you must install
>the
>> > svga server during your initial installation. I've used a Prophet 256
>with
>> > Slackware 7.0 & 7.1, Mandrake 7.0 $ 7.1 and FreeBSD 4.1 all with no
>problems
>> > what-so-ever. If you want to use Nvidia's latest 3d drivers then you
>will
>> > need to install XFree86 4.0.
>>
>> --
>> Murray Eisenberg e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Mathematics & Statistics phone: 413/545-2859 (W)
>> University of Massachusetts 413/549-1020 (H)
>> Amherst, MA 01003-4515
>
>
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From: Duane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA chipset
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 13:05:32 -0700
Bart Friederichs wrote:
>
> Gary S White wrote:
>
> > Have you tried ALSA? It's still early days but it seems to be supporting
> > more and more soundcards everyday and it works fine with my VIA Chipset.
>
> Well, I tried it on your recommendation and I must say I got further with it
> then with the OSS drivers. It seems all drivers are loaded. In
> /proc/asound/sndstat however it says:
>
> Sound Driver: 3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.9b emulation code)
> Kernel: Linux thorax 2.2.16 #4 Thu Aug 31 16:34:23 CEST 2000 i686
> Config options: 0
>
> Installed drivers:
> Type 10: ALSA emulation
>
> Card config:
> VIA 82c686A at 0xcc00, irq 10
>
> Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> Midi devices:
> 0: MPU-401 (UART)
>
> Timers:
> 7: system timer
>
> Mixers: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
>
> How can I enable them?
After rebooting, my /proc/asound/sndstat shows:
Sound Driver:3.8.1a-980706 (ALSA v0.5.7 emulation code)
Kernel: Linux kotao.localdomain 2.2.12-20 #1 Wed Mar 29 10:56:08 PST
2000 i686
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Type 10: ALSA emulation
Card config:
VIA 82C686A at 0xdc00, irq 11
Audio devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
Midi devices:
0: MPU-401 (UART)
Timers:
7: system timer
Mixers:
0: 0x49434511 ICE
Note that I have commands in my rc.local which set the mixer:
amixer set Master 50% unmute
amixer set CD 100% unmute
amixer set PCM 100% unmute
I suspect that your Mixer setting will be enabled when you execute the
amixer commands. Then when I run xanim and play the IBM commercial where
they announce their support for Linux, the contents of
/proc/asound/sndstat change to show:
Audio devices:
0: VIA 82C686A (DUPLEX)
Synth devices: NOT ENABLED IN CONFIG
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From: dog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ???
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:54:03 GMT
Do a search for a boot loader, like Boot Magic.
I've not used Best Linux, however.
kurt wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I'm Kurt 23 years from Belgium, and I must say, i'm new at this ...
> i just wanna ask a question...
>
> I'm Using Best Linux
> and my wife wanna use Windows ....
>
> now, this is my problem ...
> I Have 2 HD
> on hda1 there is Windows
> on hdb1 there is BestLinux
> on hdb2 is the swap file
>
> but when I'm trying to boot, it just strats windows ....
> isn't there a way to have a screen on the startup , so I can choose with OS
> I wanna Use ???
>
> Thanks
> Kurt
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From: "Robert E. Blair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrw mounting as ro
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 16:09:03 -0500
Writing a CD is not quite the same as writing to a normal disk. You need
to assemble the whole image in advance (using mkisofsand then use cdrecord
to lay the image down on a blank CD. You should look at one of the FAQ's
on CD recording (available at places like www.linux.org). I don't have a
lot of knowledge of BRU, but it is not likely you will be able to use it
directly. It is really intended more for tape or similar media.
What I do for backups is to tar the areas in question, make a CD image
(using mkisofs) and then write it to the blank CD (using cdrecord). This
might be done by piping one step to the next (you may find this
impractical since it may consume all the swap and choke), but likely will
use a lot of disk.
If you are using the Adaptec software to "format" the CD I suspect you are
not going to make much headway. The Adaptec software will make an ISOFS
disk, bot only at the end when you go to finish the disk off and provided
you tell it to make a transportable version. I believe this writes an
isofs type directory on a disk with a proprietary Adaptec directory hidden
away on it.
Mark Schneider wrote:
> OK, I have BRU as a backup utility. But how do I find (and write to)
> the CDRW without mounting it?
>
> | You don't mount them before writing.
> |
> | You just need to point cdrecord, or whatever writing program you are
> going to
> | use, to the correct device and burn away. After the disc is written,
> then you
> | should be able to mount it(ro of course). That is unless it's a cdda
> (aka music)
> | cd which also doesn't get mounted.
>
> n article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Susan Wojcik wrote:
>
> > I purchased a scsi-3 CDRW for my Linux web server. I want to be able
> to write
> > to this drive/media. If I have a blank, unformatted cd it will not
> mount. If
> > I have a formatted CD it will mount, but as read-only.
> >
> > mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw
> >
> > In my fstab I have:
> >
> > /dev/scd0 /mnt/cdrw iso9660 rw
> > 0 0
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I may mount the CDRW media
> as rw?
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From: Nathanael Hoyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP 7510e External Parallel Port CD Burner
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 21:12:10 GMT
I have previously had both Linux and Windows installed in a dual-boot
configuration. During these times I have simply used Windows to do my
CD burning. I have now gone over exclusively to Linux. (My current
installation is RedHat 6.2.) I am trying to figure out what I need to
do to set up and use my CD burner under linux. It is an HP 7510e. This
is an external, parallel port burner. I gather that it has its own
SCSI host adapter or something built into it, because it mentioned such
things, and ASPI under Windows. Can anyone provide me information on
configuring it and getting up and running?
Thanks,
Nathanael Hoyle
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't find CD-ROM
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 23:20:21 +0200
Hi,
I'm not at all an expert in CD-ROM stuff, but could it be that, since it
seems not to be the latest computer model you use, the CD-ROM drive
which is built in is not really an ATAPI-Interface device but contains a
vendor specific, proprietary interface which needs specific drivers (as
it is often the case with very old CD-ROM drives) ? Maybe it helps if
you post what kind of model your CD-ROM is ?
As far as I know there are some Kernel options to turn on the support
for some proprietary CD-drives, maybe have a look there. There is also
some information about proprietary CD-drives in chapter 3.3 of the
CD-ROM howto.
Hope this helps
Cyrill
>
> If anyone has seen this configuration and could help me configure my
> CD-ROM properly, it would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
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From: colum paget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: OnStream IDE Tape drive cannot read its backups
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:05:16 +0000
Hello all,
I've installed an OnStream DI30 IDE-ATAPI tape drive on a Mandrake
linux system. I have the 2.2.15 kernel and the appropriate ide_tape
patch for it. At first it seemed to be working fine, but on inspection
of the backups (using the good old tar commands 'tar -b 64 -cf /dev/ht0
*' to backup and 'tar -b 64 -tf /dev/ht0' to read back) I find that the
backup can only be partially read back from the tape. I have two tapes
out of a count of six that work, the remaining 4 will fail with read
errors and complaints about a blank or bad block on the tape. These
tapes are new, so it seems unlikely that they are all bad, especially as
they were bought in 2 sets of three.
Has anyone successfully used this tape drive, and have you used it with
tar?
Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks
Colum Paget
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From: colum paget <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UPS / Backup drives
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:13:04 +0000
Roger Kristiansen wrote:
>
> Thanks for the help guys, with your and others recommendations I've managed
> to decide what to buy. Now I just have to pray I get it working. :)
>
> --
> Roger Kristiansen
I hope you didn't go for the OnStream drive, I've got one of these, and
it seems to be *very* unreliable under linux.
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From: "David C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAQ's - NEWBIE QUESTIONS: Networking and Drivers
Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2000 23:25:47 +0100
Thanks I'll try it later.
David C
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news:8oeahj$olc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <0Buq5.4662$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "David C" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > *Very* useful, thanks! How do I change graphics drivers?
> >
> > For all corel newbies it is linux.corel.com
> >
> > David C
> >
> >
>
> theres two tools universal -
> XF86Setup and xf86config ( one is easier, graphical, dont know which)
>
> --
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From: "Ferret" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ibm I Series 1440 Laptop
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 00:51:29 +0100
Hey Gurus and Gugirls
I have a rather funky little IBM i series 1440 laptop, it has the nicely
supported and mobile ati inside but unfortunatly this is coupled up with a
HPA screen. When I try to use and dist of linux (redhat usually) the xserver
makes a horrific pile of junk on the screen, all white and fuzzy.. anybody
know about this problem, I would love linux on my laptop!
Thanks
Ferret
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 02:20:06 +0200
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 15.0 GB QUANTUM LM PLUS 7200 RPM HD
I would like to use the ASUS CUSL2 mainboard with Linux Red Hat 6.2
and windows 98se.
Would the 15.0 GB QUANTUM LM PLUS 7200 RPM harddisk work well with
this ????
Or is there a better 15 GB harddisk to do this ??
(But not much more expensive :-) )
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From: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 11:25:52 +1100 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: How To Boot Window$ Or Linux ???
On Fri, 01 Sep 2000 20:17:50 GMT, kurt wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm Kurt 23 years from Belgium, and I must say, i'm new at this ...
>i just wanna ask a question...
>
>I'm Using Best Linux
>and my wife wanna use Windows ....
>
>now, this is my problem ...
>I Have 2 HD
>on hda1 there is Windows
>on hdb1 there is BestLinux
>on hdb2 is the swap file
>
>but when I'm trying to boot, it just strats windows ....
>isn't there a way to have a screen on the startup , so I can choose with OS
>I wanna Use ???
You can use LILO - which means the computer actually boots LILO and offers a
choice of operating systems. One is the default - but you have a
predetermined time to chose another.
Redhat loads LILO pretty well as a default, but I know nothing about
BestLinux.
Regards
Shane Baker
Canberra - Australia's national capital
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 02:32:41 +0200
From: hihihi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: what 15.0 GB Harddisk for CUSL2 and Red Hat 6.2 ?
I would like to use the ASUS CUSL2 mainboard with Linux Red Hat 6.2
and windows 98se.
The price list of the shop where i would like to buy it has only ATA66
harddisk..
And Red Hat 6.2 can't use ATA66.
What would be a good +/- 15.0 GB harddisk to use with ASUS CUSL2
mainboard, Linux Red Hat 6.2 and windows 98se ??
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From: "jfurness" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake 7.1 with Nvidia GeForce2 MX
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 01:38:34 +0100
Can anyone help?
I have successfully installed Madrake Linux 7.1 on my new PC and have had
one major problem relating to the Nvidia GeForce2 MX graphics card.
The X config file states that it has auto-detected a generic Nvidia Geforce
256 card but when I "startx" the whole display just ends up garbled. The
machine doesn't crash and when I break out of X back to the character prompt
the display is STILL in a mess, and I have to guess that I've typed "halt"!!
If anybody knows what the problem is (is this card as yet unsupported??) or
where I can get the right driver(s) etc. I'd be most grateful,
Cheers,
James
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christopher Browne)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: what's up with Sun?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 00:39:25 GMT
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when David Steuber would say:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rasputin) writes:
>
>' One important difference between Sun and M$ is that Sun make hardware.
>' They have less to lose in a world where software if Free.
>
>But they have a lot to loose where hardware becomes a commodity.
>However, I think Sun, SGI, et al, can beat Intel for bang for the buck
>if they continue to make servers that can beat large clusters of IA32
>machines in terms of raw performance.
>
>Also, not all servers are doling out web pages.
>
>AMD and Intel are heading upmarket, and they have a lot of money and
>a huge legacy hardware base to get them there.
I _suppose_ that I2O _arguably_ represents the way for Intel to head
"upmarket" by introducing functionality traditionally associated with
mainframes to "Pee-Cee" hardware.
It's "arguable" because it doesn't seem to have taken the world by
storm.
--> "Pee Cee hardware" is associated with being "cheap;" that
generally leads to things like using enormous but slow IDE drives,
and trying to share RAM with the video board.
--> Drivers are needed, and the purported merit of I2O was that it
would make for "portable, tuned" device drivers.
Unfortunately, NDAs discourage participation amongst the free
software community, and the "deaths" of so many Unixes in the wake
of the oncoming IA-64 "train wreck" has not led to there being a
"juggernaut" of I2O drivers demolishing all alternatives.
There's a _potential_ for Intel to do very well on this, but it looks
like they've squandered a whole lot of potential.
Maybe there is a vast IA-64 juggernaut about to hit us; with the
reports of upcoming "Pentium 4's" with _HUGE_ heat sinks and of IA-64
boxes with immense heating capabilities, this does not appear to bode
very well.
It just doesn't look like Intel has stuff that is as readily scaled
for Heavy Duty Processing as the stuff that Sun sells.
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