Linux-Hardware Digest #577, Volume #13 Thu, 14 Sep 00 16:13:10 EDT
Contents:
Re: Linux on a 386 (David C.)
Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird! ("AE")
Re: RAID Controller w/Ultra160 -Suggestion ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Epson color 480 pb (Guillaume Thouvenin)
Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird! (Tristan White)
Re: GeForce MX (Barry Wilkes)
LS120 C/H/S values ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: MicroChannel workaround using Zip? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Newbie : Setup HP Laserjet 4L ("Luc Van Bogaert")
Re: Linux on a 386 (Scott Alfter)
Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver?? (Svend Garnaes)
Re: Append and LILO commands ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LS120 C/H/S values ("H.AJ. van Niekerk")
paride ("H.AJ. van Niekerk")
Re: Newbie and scanner (muser)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: 14 Sep 2000 11:33:18 -0400
Gereon Wenzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> The only distribution I know running with 2M only
> is TOMSRTBT (www.toms.net)
> It does not even need a HDD but is very basic.
>
> If this 386 supports PS/2 Simms it may need the parity version of the
> modules.
Many other 386 boards also required parity in the memory. I had one
which required it in ordinary 30-pin SIMMs.
-- David
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From: "AE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird!
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 12:07:41 -0400
That does the trick! Thanks a bunch.
Heh, well now linux mishandles my sound card and NIC, two pieces of hardware
that worked flawlessly under my old mobo/cpu. Im sure that it is just a
problem with a somewhat buggy KT133 chipset. I am going to upgrade to
2.2.17 and see if that helps.
Once again, thanks for the help.
Andy
Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Same situation here. Supposedly the following works:
> LILO: linux x86_serial_nr=1
>
> this will turn of serial number disabling. Redhat's build has it in, and
> mistakenly tries to do it for thunderbirds. Might be a 0 at the end
> instead of a 1. Let me know.
>
> Tristan
>
>
> AE wrote:
> >
> > I am having the same problem with a thunderbird 750 on an asus A7V
running
> > rh 6.2. I have tried to guess at boottime arguements, have tried to
boot
> > the rescue floppy. Nothing works. The problem can be avoided by
> > recompiling your kernel, but I can't boot to a linux environment to even
> > attempt that! If anyone knows a solution for this problem, please post
> > ASAP!
> >
> > Andy
> >
> > Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Can you find someone who knows this parameter? I would like to use it.
> > > Or... Do you know how to tell lilo to boot your system using a
stripped
> > > down kernel on a floppy.
> > >
> > > Tristan
> > >
> > >
> > > Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > > There has been a thread about this problem a week or so
> > > > > ago. Apparently, the problem can be solved by recompiling
> > > > > the kernel with the option _not_ to disable the processors
> > > > > serial number. At least, that was the solution in the
> > > > > previous thread IIRC.
> > > >
> > > > IIRC the same effect can be achieved through a bootprompt
> > > > parameter, can't remember details though.
> > > >
> > > > Btw. SuSE 7 works fine on my KT7, no trouble whatsoever.
> > > >
> > > > Greets Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RAID Controller w/Ultra160 -Suggestion
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 14 Sep 2000 11:12:56 -0600
>I'm looking for a SCSI Ultra160 RAID Controller 1 or 2 channel (PCI32) that
>is compatible with RedHat 6.2 right out of the box.
DPT SmartRAID VI should do. http://www.dpt.com/
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From: Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson color 480 pb
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:12:33 -0400
Grant Taylor wrote:
> Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I tried to use use my epson stylus color 480 but when I use "lpr"
> > command, nothing happens. So, I went on the www.linuxprinting.org
> > web site. I found my printer in driver listing. I follwed the
> > instructions that told me to use stp driver. In the stp page, I use
> > the automagic LPD configuration generator and I followed the
> > instructions provided by the LPD documentation. Ghostscript drivers
> > are available for my printer, I installed lpdomatic, I modified
> > /etc/printcap, I restarted lpd and when I tried lpr -Pleffe doc.ps,
> > I have no error message but nothing happens.
>
> Hmm. You don't state that you obtained and install the stp driver
> itself. Did you do so? This would involve either recompiling
> Ghostscript, or perhaps installing a different Ghostscript package
> provided by the stp/gimp-print folks, if they offer one.
>
> Check that the stp driver is on your system by examining the output of
> `gs -help'; if stp is not a listed driver, then you must still do that
> step.
'gs -help' gave :
===========================================================
GNU Ghostscript 5.50 (2000-2-13)
Copyright (C) 1998 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights
reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer
messages
-g<width>x<height> page size in pixels | -r<res> pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=<devname> select device | -dBATCH exit after last file
-sOutputFile=<file> select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PDF
Available devices:
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11cmyk2 x11cmyk4 x11cmyk8 x11gray2 x11gray4 x11mono
ap3250 imagen iwhi iwlo iwlq la50 la70 la75 la75plus lbp8 appledmp ccr
lips3 lq850 ln03 lj250 lj4dith lp2563 m8510 necp6 oce9050 r4081 sj48
st800 stcolor t4693d2 t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 xes lp8000 deskjet djet500
djet500c dnj650c laserjet ljetplus ljet2p ljet3 ljet3d ljet4 cljet5
lj5mono lj5gray declj250 hl7x0 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj500 cdj550
paintjet pj pjxl pjxl300 pjetxl cdj850 cdj670 cdj890 cdj1600 hpdj lex2050
lex3200 lex5700 lex7000 uniprint md2k md5k bj10e bj200 bjc600 bjc800
epson eps9mid eps9high epsonc ibmpro jetp3852 lxm5700m oki182 okiibm
dfaxhigh dfaxlow faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 cp50 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256
pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw
tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono
psgray psrgb bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg
jpeggray pdfwrite bbox pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor nullpage
Search path:
. : /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50 : /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript :
/usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
For more information, see /usr/doc/ghostscript-5.50/Use.htm.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED], using the form in Bug-form.htm.
===============================================================
So, 'stp driver' is not a listed driver. I tried to recompile Ghostscript
but I can't find 'stp driver'. If I understood right (it's not sure),
drivers are described in src/gdev* files and I didn't find anything about
'stp driver'.
I've seen in the ghostscript documentation which explains how to add a new
driver but I don't know if I must do that for 'stp driver' and if I must,
where can I find the code source because I only found Printing system
interfaces.
Thanks for your help.
Guillaume
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From: Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux won't boot with Thunderbird!
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 13:40:44 -0400
What soundcard and NIC do you have? What issues does Linux have with
them?
Tristan
AE wrote:
>
> That does the trick! Thanks a bunch.
>
> Heh, well now linux mishandles my sound card and NIC, two pieces of hardware
> that worked flawlessly under my old mobo/cpu. Im sure that it is just a
> problem with a somewhat buggy KT133 chipset. I am going to upgrade to
> 2.2.17 and see if that helps.
>
> Once again, thanks for the help.
>
> Andy
>
> Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Same situation here. Supposedly the following works:
> > LILO: linux x86_serial_nr=1
> >
> > this will turn of serial number disabling. Redhat's build has it in, and
> > mistakenly tries to do it for thunderbirds. Might be a 0 at the end
> > instead of a 1. Let me know.
> >
> > Tristan
> >
> >
> > AE wrote:
> > >
> > > I am having the same problem with a thunderbird 750 on an asus A7V
> running
> > > rh 6.2. I have tried to guess at boottime arguements, have tried to
> boot
> > > the rescue floppy. Nothing works. The problem can be avoided by
> > > recompiling your kernel, but I can't boot to a linux environment to even
> > > attempt that! If anyone knows a solution for this problem, please post
> > > ASAP!
> > >
> > > Andy
> > >
> > > Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > > Can you find someone who knows this parameter? I would like to use it.
> > > > Or... Do you know how to tell lilo to boot your system using a
> stripped
> > > > down kernel on a floppy.
> > > >
> > > > Tristan
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Eric Dondelinger wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > > There has been a thread about this problem a week or so
> > > > > > ago. Apparently, the problem can be solved by recompiling
> > > > > > the kernel with the option _not_ to disable the processors
> > > > > > serial number. At least, that was the solution in the
> > > > > > previous thread IIRC.
> > > > >
> > > > > IIRC the same effect can be achieved through a bootprompt
> > > > > parameter, can't remember details though.
> > > > >
> > > > > Btw. SuSE 7 works fine on my KT7, no trouble whatsoever.
> > > > >
> > > > > Greets Eric
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Subject: Re: GeForce MX
From: Barry Wilkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 17:45:51 GMT
"Steve Wolfe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > When I try to setup XFree86 with my GeForce MX card, it ssys I has a
> > GeForce 256. Are all the GeForce card compatible with each other in Linux
> > or should I wait till someone makes a GeForce MX driver?
>
> They're compatible.
>
No , they're not. I have a GeForce2 MX - based card. I could NOT get
this to work with stock RedHat Linux 6.2 (XFree86 3.x) - at least not
better than stock VGA mode. I am told that the earlier nvidia cards
will.
If you want your card to work, you'll need to :
a) Install XFree86 v4.0.1
b) Go to http://www.nvidia.com/Products/Drivers.nsf/Linux.html and
download the drivers from there and install them.
Be warned - the process is non-trivial. Follow the instructions on the
NVIDIA website. Be paticularly careful to ensure that your
distribution has not left any bits of the Mesa libs (an OpenGL clone)
on your system that you are unaware of. This will cause either poor
performance and/or failure of X to start at all.
In my experience, it is best to install both XFree86 4.0.1 and the
NVIDIA drivers from .tar.gz files, even if you are running RedHat or
another .rpm - base distro. I had some problems with the .rpms of the
drivers - my system did not work properly until I re-installed tem
using the tarballs.
I hope I have not put you off - the final result is well worth it!
Regards,
Barry Wilkes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LS120 C/H/S values
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:05:28 GMT
Does anyone have C/H/S values for an LS120?
The old BIOS in the PC on which I'm trying to use the LS120 doesn't
autodetect it, so I will need to manually enter the values.
(I believe that it has 1736 tracks when used with a 120MB disk?)
I'm hoping that by making the LS120 the IDE bus master, and setting the
boot seqence to C: then A:, that I'll be able to boot from a 1.44 Mb
floppy.
--
Roy Millar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: MicroChannel workaround using Zip?
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:02:48 GMT
> ...the FAQ is wrong...
I'll let the maintainer know.
uwuh
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Luc Van Bogaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: "Luc Van Bogaert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Newbie : Setup HP Laserjet 4L
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:29:34 GMT
Hi,
To get my HP Laserjet 4L setup with Mandrake 7.1, I've been told to
install the rhs-printfilters-1.62-6mdk package using rpmdrake. I've
located the package on one of the CD's that came with the distribution,
but so far have been unable to install.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Luc Van Bogaert
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: Linux on a 386
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 18:56:03 GMT
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Colm O'Gairbhith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to install Linux on a 386/SX 25Mhz. teh machine only has
>1920Kb of memory so I run into problems when trying to install tinyLinux
>or muLinux. Anyone know of a distro that can fit on such a weak machine.
>Also, any ideas as to what the max memory one can put on a 386. Someone
>gave me 2x8Mb SIMMs but the machine doesn't recognise them. On a
>pc-newsgroup two people told me that since the 1920kb is on the
>motherboard, trying to add 16Mb to it causes me to go over the 16Mb
>total limit for a 386, can anyone verify this ?
The 386SX is limited to 16 megs. Since some of the address space is used
for ROM, I/O, etc., most 386SX boards will max out somewhere before that
(the one I used to have supported up to 8, with two 4Mx9 SIMMs).
The 386DX supports more memory, but since that's not what you're running,
it's not an issue here.
One other consideration would be to make sure the distributions you're
trying to run include FPU emulation in the kernel. If they don't, you'll
need to track down a 387SX if you don't already have one.
>Also, what , realistically, can I expect to run on a 386 ? I want ppp,
>telnet, a skinny web-browser, and also to do some developement in
>perl/mySQL ?
You can set it up as a router or maybe a text-based Internet terminal
(including telnet and lynx), but you'll find it's a bit slow at nearly
anything else. (Kernel compiles on the 386SX I used to have used to take
over an hour, and that was for pre-v1.0 kernels with support for not much
oddball hardware...QIC-02 support was about the only extra hardware support
I needed.)
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: Svend Garnaes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Brother HL-1030 Printer Driver??
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:06:49 +0200
Grant Taylor wrote:
>
> Steven Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[snip]
>
> > I have a HL-1240. It works beautifully on my Redhat 6.0 box. In
> > printtool, I selected the HP LaserJet 4/5/6 series filter. All the
> > Windows PCs on the LAN prints great via Samba :-)
>
> Doubtless. However, I have a number of reports that this printer's
> 2MB memory is not enough, and that it cannot be extended. Thus I do
> not recommend this printer to people. The 1250 (adds a SIMM slot),
> and especially the 1260 (adds Postscript) and 1270N (adds Ethernet),
> however, are all gloriously Linux compatible devices.
>
... but perhaps it's in order to note that the printer's performance
as a Samba printer for Windows clients has zilch do to with the Linux
printer driver. After the magicfilter has done a little thinking,
it will cat to the printer exactly the binary image which was produced
by the printer driver on the Windows client.
--
Svend
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Append and LILO commands
Date: 14 Sep 2000 15:11:40 -0400
Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> image = /vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hda3
> label = Linux
> append = "mem=130048k,hdc=ide-scsi"
> read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for
> checking
> this, obviously, didn't work, the memory was recognised, but so,
> unfortunately was the atapi cdrw which I wanted it to ignore.
Where was it found? In the hardware section? It will be. Even if you
recompile the kernel to remove IDE-CD support, dmesg will show it finding
the IDE CD drive. (if you recompile the kernel for CDRW support, without
IDE CD capability, with SCSI, SCSI-CD, generic SCSI driver (with vendor
extensions) and ide-scsi; dmesg will show it finding the IDE CD and later
will show it handled as a scsi device).
Can you mount it as /dev/hdc (mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom) (if
you have the empty directory /mnt/cdrom, of course)?
As you're doing it all with modules, after modprobe/insmod the modules
necessary, can you mount it using the scsi device it reports? Does
"cdrecord -scanbus" show it?
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From: "H.AJ. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LS120 C/H/S values
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:13:12 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Does anyone have C/H/S values for an LS120?
>
> The old BIOS in the PC on which I'm trying to use the LS120 doesn't
> autodetect it, so I will need to manually enter the values.
> (I believe that it has 1736 tracks when used with a 120MB disk?)
>
> I'm hoping that by making the LS120 the IDE bus master, and setting the
> boot seqence to C: then A:, that I'll be able to boot from a 1.44 Mb
> floppy.
>
> --
> Roy Millar, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You shouldn't have to use the BIOS to use the LS120. Just create a
directory-mount e.g. /mnt/ls120 and add a line to /etc/fstab :
/dev/hdx /mnt/ls120 msdos noauto,owner,rw 0 0
(where x is the IDE-port, a,b,c or d)
This should work. Then you can directly mount it by 'mount /dev/hdx' and
accessing it by 'cd /mnt/ls120' or something like that.
Good luck
Huub
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From: "H.AJ. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: paride
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 21:16:02 +0200
I want to use my Philips CDD 3610 parallel external CDRW (works ok with
W95) but when trying to use paride by insmod I get 'unresolved symbol'.
BTW, it's RH 6.1 What's wrong?
Thanks,
Huub
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Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 03:44:47 +0800
From: muser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie and scanner
>
> What I would like to know is how do I configure everything since there is
> no SANE program or anything like that
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Merci a l'avance
>
> Martin
go to www.rpmfind.net. Search for "sane".
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