Linux-Hardware Digest #581, Volume #13 Fri, 15 Sep 00 17:13:13 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI emulation ("Georgatos Christos")
Re: boot floppy (D G)
Memory (ASF)
Re: USB CD-R Installation? (Ed Gorman)
Re: Epson color 480 pb (Guillaume Thouvenin)
Festfrequenzmonitor ("TaiPan")
FA: Pentium II 400 CPU - "Mint", no reserve (matched pair also available for dual
CPU setup!) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (Harshal)
Re: boot floppy (Ken Siersma)
Re: How to clean up the superblock? (David C.)
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (David C.)
Re: Can't write to Zip on Net - Fixed??? (Chris)
Re: Can't write to Zip on Net - Fixed? Help. (Chris)
Printing with the stp-driver and PDQ (Vidar Skjelanger)
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From: "Georgatos Christos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI emulation
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 22:35:24 +0300
actually,you should change to cd /usr/src/linux
Sorry for the mess up...
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"Georgatos Christos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8ptnld$27ro$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> change to
> cd /usr/src
>
> make menuconfig or
> make xconfig or
> make config.
> Provided that you have installed the kernel sources,you are now able to
> allow a SCSI emulation. :-)
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>
> "Billy SG McCarthy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've got a Memorex CD-RW and Teac CD-ROM, both IDE, but I
> > can only get one of them to appear as SCSI at a time.
> > Whatever I use "append" on in my lilo.conf appears as SCSI,
> > but how do I get both.
> >
> > Runing RH6.2 btw.
> > --
> > "Keep on Truckin' "
> > "Not Fade Away"
> > Push "Furthur"
> >
> > Kindly yours,
> > Billy SG McCarthy
>
>
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From: D G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 11:20:13 -0700
Tristan White wrote:
>
> I don't mean for installing. I can do that with rawrite. I'm talking
> about getting lilo on a floppy so I can boot from it. Using tools under
> linux.
>
> Tristan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:15:09 -0400, Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >How do I make a boot floppy (using lilo or some other method is fine).
> >
> > I dunno. However, if you have a CD from a popular distribution like
> > redhat, it'll be directly bootable.
If you have redhat, 'man mkbootdisk'.
--
DG
e-mail is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(remove the Z's--they're what I do when I read SPAM!)
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From: ASF <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Memory
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:38:02 +0200
Hello,
I own an old PPRO200 and I have a memory (probably) problem.
I "upgrade" the RAM of my computer to 64M (SIMM EDO) and some windows
disappears without reasons (apparently). For example, with netscape, I
get a "bus error" and StarOffice often closes. Bios upgrade seems to be
unefficient, even if I notice little improvements in the stability.
But this problem disappears when I use only 16M (SIMM EDO). Of course,
it's less fast but it works....
How can I be sure that this problem comes from my memories? If it
doesn't come from here, where does it can come from?
Thanks in advance,
ASF
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From: Ed Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB CD-R Installation?
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:48:49 -0400
Mandrake 7.1 also has enhanced USB support
Tony Spinillo wrote:
> Try www.linux-usb.org
>
> It is a very useful site.
>
> tony
>
> Glitch wrote:
>
> > Linux doesn't fully support USB right now which will probably hinder
> > your progress, at least until 2.4 comes out (whenever that will be). At
> > this time the best thing to do is to get USB setup by looking at the
> > site that is developing USB for Linux. I can't remember the name but
> > doing a search should surely find it. This may get usb setup for your
> > current kernel however it may not provide support for the actual cdrw
> > drive you are working with.
> >
> > That's as far as my knowledge goes.
> >
> > HTH
> > Brandon
> >
> > mpierce wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm using RH6.2, kernel2.2.16-3.
> > > My CD-RW is an HP8200 USB.
> > > I've looked at the old posts here and cannot find what I'm looking
> > > for.
> > > Has anyone configured this hardware setup to work under linux?
> > > If so, can you please tell me what I need to do to get the hardware
> > > configuration operational?
> > >
> > > If I can get this working and Samba working, I'll finally be able to
> > > leave
> > > WIN98 which is what I am trying to do.
> > > PS - still a newbie
> > > Marvin
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson color 480 pb
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:46:16 -0400
Grant Taylor wrote:
> Guillaume Thouvenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > 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.
>
> The 'Driver home page' link points to the home page fo the driver,
> which is where you can find the source. The stp driver for
> Ghostscript is distributed as part of the Gimp-print package.
>
> In short, you can find it at http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
Thanks for your precious help but unfortunatly it looks like I still have a
small problem.
I recompile 'gs' with the 'stp driver' and everything is allright. 'gs
-help' shows me that the driver is there but when I try to print something
nothing happens. I tried to print from 'gimp' (my printer appeared in the
different choices). I launched " a print" and nothing happens. But, when I
look at the queue printer status, the fist time, there is no message, the
second time, I can see a warning message, and finally, the third time there
is no message (except no entries), I mean the job appears in the queue and
desappears right after. This is what happens :
localhost:~ $ lpq -Pleffe
no entries
localhost:~ $ lpq -Pleffe
Warning: no daemon present
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st guillaum 16 (standard input) 4704212
bytes
localhost:~ $ lpq -Pleffe
no entries
I don't understand the message "Warning: no daemon present", because if I
type 'ps -aux | grep lpd' I can see the daemon. Is there anything special in
the daemon's configuration???
Thanks again,
Guillaume.
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From: "TaiPan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Festfrequenzmonitor
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 20:53:05 +0200
hi,
hab versucht einen spea gdm-1963he festfrequenzmonitor unter suse 7.0 zum
laufen zu kriegen. monitor l�uft nur mit 1280x1024 bei 75hz. die
entsprechenden einstellungen in sax briengen kein stehendes bild. unter
win98 l�uft der monitor.
hat irgendwer erfahrungen mit festfrequenzmonitoren unter linux?
danke, TaiPan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: FA: Pentium II 400 CPU - "Mint", no reserve (matched pair also available for
dual CPU setup!)
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:01:50 GMT
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Version#: 737006-002
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From: Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:04:51 GMT
Hi,
I installed an Adaptec 2940U2W card in a Red Hat 6.1 system and
attached a Quantum DLT drive to it. On bootup, SCSI card BIOS detected
the drive fine but none of the backup commands worked. I always get
erorrs saying no such device at /dev/st0. /var/log/dmesg has nothing to
say about the Adaptec card. Does this mean that the system can't see
the card as well as the attached drive?
The card does not come with drivers for Linux but I was told that 'RH
6.1 knows about the card'.
Do I have to install any driver for the tape drive to work properly.
Regards,
Harshal
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Ken Siersma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: boot floppy
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 19:04:42 +0000
Copy /etc/lilo.conf to /etc/lilo.conf.floppy. In lilo.conf.floppy, change boot to
boot=/dev/fd0. Run: /sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf.floppy with floppy in drive.
Tristan White wrote:
> I don't mean for installing. I can do that with rawrite. I'm talking
> about getting lilo on a floppy so I can boot from it. Using tools under
> linux.
>
> Tristan
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Sep 2000 12:15:09 -0400, Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >How do I make a boot floppy (using lilo or some other method is fine).
> >
> > I dunno. However, if you have a CD from a popular distribution like
> > redhat, it'll be directly bootable.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: How to clean up the superblock?
Date: 15 Sep 2000 15:22:49 -0400
Tristan White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> What are some of these other locations? I tried to run e2fsck and it
> suggested using -b <some other number> which resulted in the same error.
> I'll try the ext2ed utility when I get home tonight.
RTFM.
/usr/doc/ext2ed-0.1/user-guide-0.1.ps, if your distribution is RedHat
6.2.
Chapter 11 describes commands that involve the superblock.
gocopy will let your view a particular copy of the superblock (0 is the
active one)
setactivecopy will copy a backup superblock over the active one. It
will be committed to disk after you issue the writedata command.
It is possible that your backup superblocks are also corrupt. If you
don't have any good ones, then you're out of luck - reformat and restore
from a backup. This is why I tell everybody to make periodic backups -
there is always the possibility of an unrecoverable disk error.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: 15 Sep 2000 15:27:30 -0400
Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I installed an Adaptec 2940U2W card in a Red Hat 6.1 system and
> attached a Quantum DLT drive to it. On bootup, SCSI card BIOS detected
> the drive fine but none of the backup commands worked. I always get
> erorrs saying no such device at /dev/st0. /var/log/dmesg has nothing
> to say about the Adaptec card. Does this mean that the system can't
> see the card as well as the attached drive?
This means that the card's device drivers have not loaded.
> The card does not come with drivers for Linux but I was told that 'RH
> 6.1 knows about the card'.
>
> Do I have to install any driver for the tape drive to work properly.
Yes. Add this line to /etc/conf.modules:
alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx
and reboot.
Be sure to regenerate your boot floppy (via mkbootdisk) afterwards, so
it will be able to access any SCSI devices.
If you plan on booting from a SCSI hard drive, be sure to also generate
an initrd file (via mkinitrd) after doing this, so that your ramdisk
will have the SCSI driver in it - then update LILO before rebooting.
(If you don't require any files on any SCSI drives at boot time, then
this last step is optional.)
-- David
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't write to Zip on Net - Fixed???
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 14:32:37 -0400
Paul Crumpton wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Greetings -
> >
> > Help - I need a clue, folks!
> >
> > in brief:
> >
> > -Linux box (Mandrake 7.0) on NT/W9x network.
> >
> > -Zip100 parallel on Linux box -
> > works locally (using vfat disks)
> >
> > -Linux HD (ext2) partition on same Linux box
> > is published (Samba) on the net and accessable
> > (read & write) to all the NT/W9x machines -
> > this works fine.
> >
> > -tried to put the Zip drive on the net, and it can
> > be read, but no-one can write to it.
> >
> > Current Samba:
> >
> > [Zip]
> > comment = HyperTux Zip 100 drive
> > path = /mnt/zipdos
> > writeable = Yes
> > guest ok = Yes
> >
> > Current fstab:
> >
> > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos vfat user,noauto,mode=0777 0 0
> >
> > (the mode= was an act of desperation - I've tried w&w/out)
> >
> >
> > The long version:
> >
> > I'm running a lonely Linux box in an NT/W9X
> > network. I added a parallel Zip 100 to this box
> > a while back and have been using it (locally)
> > w/no problem.
> >
> > A couple of the NT/W9x folks asked if they could
> > use that drive. I had previously Samba'd one of my
> > HD partitions, which they have been happily filling
> > up, so I said "No problem guys - Linux can do
> > anything!"
> >
> > I Samba'd my /mnt/zipdos mountpoint (vfat-
> > formatted ZipDisks), walked over to one of
> > the W9x machines, popped open Network
> > Neighborhood, and there was my Zip - still
> > no problem. I said "Go to it guys" About
> > 4.5 seconds later, they were standing around
> > my cube, disgruntled because they couldn't
> > write to the drive. They can read it fine,
> > just not write to it.
> >
> > I've RTFM'd myself blue in the face chasing
> > this one, and I evidently haven't found the
> > right M to RTF, cause I'm at a loss. I suspect
> > this is more of a VFAT issue than a Zip
> > issue, In other words, I suspect if I had a
> > VFAT HD partition on my box that I tried
> > to Samba out, that I might encounter the
> > same stumbling block - I've fiddled with
> > fstab and Samba a bit, but haven't found the
> > magic combination yet
> >
> > Any ideas? Thanks
> > --
> > Regards,
> >
> > Chris
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
> Did you check the permissions on the mount point for the zip?
> (i.e. is it world-writeable from / all the way to the actual mountpoint)
Yes, but you put me on the right track, thanks. Modifying my mount
options fixed it - kind of. Adding the following umask in fstab made
ALMOST everything OK.
/dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,umask=0000 0 0
Now you can copy files to the ZipDrive from an NT machine, but
weirdly enough, when you try to create a dir on the Zip from NT,
NT says "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." (or an equivalent error
message) - And apparently fails - but when you refresh the File
Manager, the dir that couldn't be created is right there. So,
everything's working, kind of, but for that bogus error message
from NT - Anyone know where this comes from and if it
can be eliminated?
Thanks again, Paul.
--
Regards,
Chris Wren
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't write to Zip on Net - Fixed? Help.
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 15:18:26 -0400
Chris wrote:
> Paul Crumpton wrote:
>
> > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Greetings -
> > >
> > > Help - I need a clue, folks!
> > >
> > > in brief:
> > >
> > > -Linux box (Mandrake 7.0) on NT/W9x network.
> > >
> > > -Zip100 parallel on Linux box -
> > > works locally (using vfat disks)
> > >
> > > -Linux HD (ext2) partition on same Linux box
> > > is published (Samba) on the net and accessable
> > > (read & write) to all the NT/W9x machines -
> > > this works fine.
> > >
> > > -tried to put the Zip drive on the net, and it can
> > > be read, but no-one can write to it.
> > >
> > > Current Samba:
> > >
> > > [Zip]
> > > comment = HyperTux Zip 100 drive
> > > path = /mnt/zipdos
> > > writeable = Yes
> > > guest ok = Yes
> > >
> > > Current fstab:
> > >
> > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos vfat user,noauto,mode=0777 0 0
> > >
> > > (the mode= was an act of desperation - I've tried w&w/out)
> > >
> > >
> > > The long version:
> > >
> > > I'm running a lonely Linux box in an NT/W9X
> > > network. I added a parallel Zip 100 to this box
> > > a while back and have been using it (locally)
> > > w/no problem.
> > >
> > > A couple of the NT/W9x folks asked if they could
> > > use that drive. I had previously Samba'd one of my
> > > HD partitions, which they have been happily filling
> > > up, so I said "No problem guys - Linux can do
> > > anything!"
> > >
> > > I Samba'd my /mnt/zipdos mountpoint (vfat-
> > > formatted ZipDisks), walked over to one of
> > > the W9x machines, popped open Network
> > > Neighborhood, and there was my Zip - still
> > > no problem. I said "Go to it guys" About
> > > 4.5 seconds later, they were standing around
> > > my cube, disgruntled because they couldn't
> > > write to the drive. They can read it fine,
> > > just not write to it.
> > >
> > > I've RTFM'd myself blue in the face chasing
> > > this one, and I evidently haven't found the
> > > right M to RTF, cause I'm at a loss. I suspect
> > > this is more of a VFAT issue than a Zip
> > > issue, In other words, I suspect if I had a
> > > VFAT HD partition on my box that I tried
> > > to Samba out, that I might encounter the
> > > same stumbling block - I've fiddled with
> > > fstab and Samba a bit, but haven't found the
> > > magic combination yet
> > >
> > > Any ideas? Thanks
> > > --
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Chris
> > >
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > >
> > Did you check the permissions on the mount point for the zip?
> > (i.e. is it world-writeable from / all the way to the actual mountpoint)
>
> Yes, but you put me on the right track, thanks. Modifying my mount
> options fixed it - kind of. Adding the following umask in fstab made
> ALMOST everything OK.
>
> /dev/sda4 /mnt/zipdos vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,noauto,umask=0000 0 0
>
> Now you can copy files to the ZipDrive from an NT machine, but
> weirdly enough, when you try to create a dir on the Zip from NT,
> NT says "I'm sorry, Dave. I can't do that." (or an equivalent error
> message) - And apparently fails - but when you refresh the File
> Manager, the dir that couldn't be created is right there. So,
> everything's working, kind of, but for that bogus error message
> from NT - Anyone know where this comes from and if it
> can be eliminated?
>
> Thanks again, Paul.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Chris
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Update: from a W95 machine, New Folder errors immediately,
saying "New Folder - Object creation error - can't create object
that already exists" - sure enough, when you refresh the view
after this message, "New Folder" DOES get created. That message
makes me think Windows has something out of sequence, because
it creates the directory then says it can't create what's already there.
What's up with that?
Thanks
--
Regards,
Chris
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vidar Skjelanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Printing with the stp-driver and PDQ
Date: 15 Sep 2000 21:37:52 +0200
I have an Epson Stylus Color 760 that I've been trying to get to
work in RedHat6.2 with PDQ-2.2.1.
According to www.linuxprinting.org the stp-driver is the best
choice for this printer. So I used PDQ-o-matic to generate a driver
specification file and put it in /etc/pdq/drivers/ghostscript. Then
I started xpdq and created a printer using this driver, configured
it and tried printing.
"Unknown device: stp" was all that was printed.
What could be wrong?
/etc/pdq/printrc looks like this (left out some comment lines):
==========================================================================
# Path that gets passed to driver scripts
driver_command_path "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
# Path that gets passed to interface scripts
interface_command_path "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin"
########################################################################
#
# Extra pieces of this config file, that define drivers and interfaces.
#
#
try_include "/etc/pdq/interfaces/*"
try_include "/etc/pdq/drivers/*/*"
printer "Epson" {
# Added by the wizard on Thu Sep 14 23:46:29 2000
location "fidoworld"
model "Epson Stylus Color 760"
driver "POM-stp-Epson-Stylus-Color-760-968967138"
interface "local-port"
driver_opts {"PlainPaper", "escp2-760", "720DPI", "AdaptiveHybrid",
"720DPIHighQuality", "LineArt", "A4", "Color"}
driver_args {"OPT_Gamma" = "1.0", "OPT_Cyan" = "1.0", "OPT_Density" = "1.0",
"OPT_Saturation" = "1.0", "OPT_Magenta" = "1.0", "OPT_Yellow" = "1.0",
"OPT_Brightness" = "1.0", "OPT_Contrast" = "1.0"}
interface_opts {"send_eof"}
interface_args {"PORT" = "/dev/lp0"}
}
default_printer Epson
==============================================================================
--
mvh,
Vidar Skjelanger
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