Linux-Hardware Digest #598, Volume #13 Mon, 18 Sep 00 23:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) - 4.0a3 most recent??? (Skip Gribbin)
modem initialization problem (Francis Tseng)
Re: CD-R Question? (Frank Sweetser)
Re: Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with?
Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) - 4.0a3 most recent??? (Grant Taylor)
Re: Tearing video display ("Martin Graiter")
Re: two devices into one serial port? ("Martin Graiter")
installing hp 882c with samba (Jordan Thompson)
Memory upgrade - worth? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1 (-ljl-)
Re: Mandrake 7.1 with 3c509b NIC ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: expand video ram on an old machine?? (Dances With Crows)
Re: I/O Magic CDRW work with Linux? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Mounting FAT32 ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: expand video ram on an old machine?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PB with CDRW 2224 plus Traxdata (Sebastien)
Problem with UDMA33 on Alladin (Yu Zhang)
Problems to configure sound in Soyo K7 via mobo.... ("Luiz Cl�udio")
Re: Which Soundcard? (Steve Bradley)
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From: Skip Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) - 4.0a3 most recent???
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:57:14 -0400
This is way too advanced for me. I don't even know what CVS stands for?
Is there any way I can just install a driver?
If not, to what directory should I download gimp-print 4.0beta when its
out?
I assume it will be in a tar.gz fle do I just tar xvzf the file?
Then what exactly where do these go. how do I cd to them?
Where do I check for needed files?
"aclocal, autoconf; automake, ./configure, makeghost did not work?
configure --disable-gimptest, make ghost did not work/
I have the ghostscript (5.10)
and on...
Otherwise, how and where do I get the driver...I checked Epson to no
avail?
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Francis Tseng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: modem initialization problem
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 19:03:47 -0500
Hi, I have a Zoom external modem but have trouble initializing it upon
boot. After my system is ready, I run minicom and don't get the "OK"
prompt. If I type "AT" myself, I see nothing on the screen. The strange
thing is that if I switch the power of my external modem off and then on
again, I can get the modem to respond with "OK" when I type
"AT". Does anyone know why this is happening? Oh, the modem is turned on
during the boot process.
I've gone through the suggestions in the Modem-HOWTO. ie. I've checked
for IRQ conflicts. So far, everything in my system seems to be set up
correctly.
Any suggestion is appreciated. Thanks.
--
Francis
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Sweetser)
Subject: Re: CD-R Question?
Date: 18 Sep 2000 23:51:32 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a problem recording to a SAF CDR-4012 (SCSI) connected to a
Ah, yes, the Smart and Friendly, affectionaly known here as the
Smart and Fuckup drive. What they actually do, is take the cheapest
drive currently on the market, and repackage it as one of theirs. Last
one we bought, burned about 5 drives before becoming a coaster factory.
Replacement never even spun up properly.
Then, we went out and bought a yamaha cdr4416, which promptly burned
somewhere around 1000 discs, with a total of two or three coasters over
an entire summer.
--
Frank Sweetser rasmusin at wpi.edu, fs at suave.net | $ x 9
Full-time WPI Network Tech, Part time Linux/Perl guy |
To ordinary folks, conversion is not always automatic. It's something
that may or may not require explicit assistance. See Billy Graham. :-)
-- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Anybody got a TV capturing solution to be happy with?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:23:05 -0000
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 00:38:58 +0200, Michael Burian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>To make it short, I've got a 433Mhz Celeron
>and wanna watch TV, hear FM, record both on
Realtime de/compression is going to be a problem with any
PC based solution. Typically, specialized hardware is used
to deal with this.
>Harddisk and put out Video to a vanilla VCR.
>
>quality should be VHS or better, Diskspace for
>an hour should be less than 3GB.
>
>So far I've figured 2 possibilities:
>
>1. TV tuner card and Software compression.
>Problems: no tuner found with TV out and reasonable hardware
>compression.
>
>2. Tuner card + video editting board,
>Problems: Buying a professional video editting board would be
> a) an overkill, b) too expensive
>
>3. USB Tuner box -> [tv2firewire converter box] -> firewire input
>(Anybody tried something like that?, read this in de.comp.tv+video)
--
Small things make base men proud.
-- William Shakespeare, "Henry VI"
"For the love of phlegm...a stupid wall of death rays. How tacky can ya get?"
- Post Brothers comics
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Epson 880 (Stylus color) - 4.0a3 most recent???
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 00:33:07 GMT
Skip Gribbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> This is way too advanced for me. I don't even know what CVS stands
> for? Is there any way I can just install a driver?
Hmm. Well, Mandrake 7.2 will be including this driver. Other
distributions can be expected to follow suit.
It's reasonable to expect that the Mandrake 7.2 Ghostscript RPM would
work on Red Hat or SuSE, so perhaps that's the best path to go down.
> If not, to what directory should I download gimp-print 4.0beta when
> its out?
Oh, anywhere, really. /usr/local/src is a good place.
Obtain also the ghostscript source distribution from
www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
> I assume it will be in a tar.gz fle do I just tar xvzf the file?
Yes. Do the same to the ghostscript sources. Then you have to add up
the install directions from Ghostscript and the install directions
from the stp driver to build the thing. Read them both and then
you'll know how to add in the stp driver to your Ghostscript.
Really, the Ghostscript build instructions are very good. I say give
it a shot, and if it gets the better of you, then give up and wait for
some merciful person to present an RPM or .deb or whatever.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
I offer consulting services; innovative Linux use a specialty
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From: "Martin Graiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Tearing video display
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:46:28 +0200
Try LOWER the sync values. Tell the X configurator that your
monitor is less capable than it actually is. That usually helps.
MG
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From: "Martin Graiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: two devices into one serial port?
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 01:41:58 +0200
"Bartek Kostrzewa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: > Can I connect my external Zoom Modem OR my mouse to the
parallel port?
:
: The modem should work with a converter, I'm not sure though.
Just try, those
: devices are pretty cheap.
Why not buy an extra serial card, they're cheap too?
MG
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From: Jordan Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: installing hp 882c with samba
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 01:20:13 GMT
Hi all,
I have an HP 882C on my linux machine. It is shared over samba to my windoze 98
machines. They can see the printer over the net. When I try to install the
printer on one of the 98 machines (by adding a printer from the printers
folder), it finds a blank driver on the installation CD (the name is only
spaces.) When I continue, it asks me to give it a name and then begins to
install it. Then it stops and says:
This printer cannot be installed now because its driver
(You_must_use_the_supplied_setup_program_to_install_this_printer!) could not be
loaded. The driver or the INF file may be damaged. Restart Windows, and then
try again.
The only option I have at this point is to press the OK button and it exits
without installing the printer.
I know this should work as I can connect to the printer when it is connected to
a Windows machine on the net.
Any suggestions would be most helpful.
Thanks in advance,
Jordan
--
=================================================
Jordan R. Thompson
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://JordanThompson.freeyellow.com
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Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 21:59:29 +0200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory upgrade - worth?
Hi,
I have 200MMX with 64M ram (2 x 32). If i buy a 128m ram to replace one
of the 32m to have total of 160m ram, would that worth upgrading to get
more speed? Thanks.
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From: -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI tape drive problem w/ RH 6.1
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 01:42:58 GMT
In article <8q5vc1$csb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Harshal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In article <8q5oqs$4fn$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, -ljl- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> > You can try and load your adapter's module by hand using "insmod".
> > Keep an eye out for error messages, check "dmesg | less" too.
>
> I can add both aic7xxx and st using insmod (dmesg confirms this) but I
> still can't use the tape.
>
> mt -f /dev/st0 rewind gives:
>
> /dev/st0: No such device
>
> > You only have one module loaded?
>
> Yep. This is a very minimal web server. I want to back it up on a SCSI
> DLT drive that works fine on a couple of other Red Hat 6.1 systems we
> have.
>
> 2 things still puzzle me:
> 1. I can't figure why a reboot is not loading the aic7xxx module
> 2. And why can't I use the tape after manually loading the module.
>
> Thanks for all your help so far. I am pretty sure I am missing
> something simple but I can't figure out what.
>
> Any HOW-TOs or FAQs I should look at?
Here is an excerpt from "/usr/src/linux/Documentation/scsi.txt":
The scsi-core contains the core of scsi support. Without it you
can do nothing with any of the other scsi drivers. The scsi core
support can be a module (scsi_mod.o), or it can be built into the
kernel. If the core is a module, it must be the first scsi module
loaded, and if you unload the modules, it will have to be the last
one unloaded.
Could this be the problem; my system has 'scsi_mod' built-in.
--
Louis-ljl-{ Louis J. LaBash, Jr. }
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 with 3c509b NIC
Date: 19 Sep 2000 01:59:00 GMT
chewie8han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I can ping myself, but i can't ping anyone else, including my roomate who
: i'm connected to by a hub. so i'm not even getting connection outside my
: computer at all let alone the internet. any other thoughts?
Maybe post your and your roommates routing info, plus the stats from
ifconfig?
But honestly this sounds like a misconfigured NIC .. typically a 3Com
ISA NIC for example will only work on certain IRQs and ioports, but
will allow you to set it up at any one you feel like. Then it will
never talk to the outside world but will just respond OK from the
inside (since the kernel simulates ping responses to a local address).
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: expand video ram on an old machine??
Date: 19 Sep 2000 02:00:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 20:16:25 GMT, Davis Eric wrote:
>Problem 1, I could not find the video card, either PCI or ISA, which are
>normally found on 486 and 586 PCs. Does this machine have only these two
>Problem 2, because these two video rams are plugged into two sockets on
>the mainboard, does it mean that I can not change them? I want to expand
>the video ram anyway.
>Problem 3, is there anyway that I can add some PCI video cards or even
>AGP video cards to this machine? I could find the PCI slots but not the
>AGP whatever. I don't know what the difference between PCI video cards
1: The video is most likely integrated onto the motherboard. This is
not really a good thing.
2: It's possible, but those chips are more than likely not being
manufactured anymore, and if you could find chips that would fit those
sockets, they'd be expensive.
3: A machine that old would not have an AGP slot. The AGP slot is brown
in color and looks very similar to a PCI slot, but it's offset a bit in
the case and its connectors are different.
Your best bet is to but a PCI video card and plug it in, then go into
the BIOS of your machine and disable the onboard video. You can find
PCI video cards for about $40 or so with 4M RAM--plenty for 1024x768@
24-bit color, so long as you don't want to do 3D gaming stuff. ATi's
stuff is very well supported under Linux and cheap too; check out the
selection at http://pricewatch.com/ under "Video -> PCI".
--
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)
Subject: Re: I/O Magic CDRW work with Linux?
Date: 19 Sep 2000 02:00:40 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000 14:46:27 -0500, David Hostetler wrote:
>I have an I/O Magic DR-CDRW832 8X4X32 EIDE CDRW. I was wondering if it
>will work under Linux Mandrake 7.1 as it isn't listed in the Hardware
>compatibility list. I have several pieces of hardware that werent
>originally in the compatibility list that work fabulously under MDK 7.1
>. Also what do I need to do to get this drive working? I want to replace
>an old HP SCSI CD burner with this one...
Almost every new IDE CD-RW is mmc-3 compliant, and every mmc-3 compliant
drive works with cdrecord. You will most likely have no problems, so
long as you read the CD-Writing-HOWTO and follow its directions wrt IDE
drives. http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html ....
--
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: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mounting FAT32
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 22:06:40 -0400
You need to creat a mount point and then add the partition to
/etc/fstab. The procedure is as follows:
1) su root
2) cd /
3) mkdir /win98
4) edit /etc/fstab (This assumes that your C partition is /dev/hda1, it
usually is)
/dev/hda1 /win98 vfat user,exec,dev,suid,rw,uid=500,gid=500 0 0
5) exit out of root
6) on the Gnome desktop do a right mouse button click and select rescan
devices, this will create an icon for your win98 partition
As an alternative you can use linuxconf to create the partition instead
of editing /etc/fstab by hand.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm new to Linux. I'm using a Redhat 6.2 I'm wondering how to mount a
> FAT32 drive. I'm tried using the Drive Mount Applet found in GNOME, but i
> do not know what to type in the mount point text box. Can anybody help?
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
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Subject: Re: expand video ram on an old machine??
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 18 Sep 2000 22:25:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows) writes:
> Your best bet is to but a PCI video card and plug it in, then go into
> the BIOS of your machine and disable the onboard video. You can find
> PCI video cards for about $40 or so with 4M RAM--plenty for 1024x768@
> 24-bit color, so long as you don't want to do 3D gaming stuff.
The budget 3dfx Voodoo3 cards are going for $99 with a $30 rebate.
With the rebate, the Voodoo3 was cheaper at a local Staples than their
cheapest other card (whose box bore the label "VGA CARD" and no other
text.)
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Sebastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PB with CDRW 2224 plus Traxdata
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:30:04 -0000
I have a CDRW 2224 plus Traxdata in IDE with linux-mandrake 7.0 and my CDRW
is mount in SCSI what do you do?
Excuse me for my English
Thank you very much
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http://www.help.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yu Zhang)
Subject: Problem with UDMA33 on Alladin
Date: 19 Sep 2000 02:36:02 GMT
Hi,
I tried to configure a Mator UDMA33(through an EIDE port)
on a board with Aladdin chipset. The kernel is 2.2.14 (redhat 6.2)
It turned out linux does not regcognize the controller, and
DMA is disabled on default. I tried to use
hdparm -d1 /dev/hda1
It complains that the dma is disabled and not allowed to be
activated. I checked the bios several times, nothing seems worng.
Here's some additional info:
/dev/hda:
Model=Maxtor 90845U2, FwRev=FA550480, SerialNo=E207HCSC
Config={ Fixed }
RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
BuffType=3(DualPortCache), BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
DblWordIO=no, OldPIO=2, DMA=yes, OldDMA=0
CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=16514064
tDMA={min:120,rec:120}, DMA modes: mword0 mword1 mword2
IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, PIO modes: mode3 mode4
UDMA modes: mode0 mode1 *mode2 mode3 mode4
Note the UDMA has one active mode (*mode2), can anyone give a hint
how to get around this problem?
Strangely enough, I remember that I was able to enable dma using hdparm
on redhat 6.1, the speed reaches 10mb/s(now 6.8)
TIA.
-Yu
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From: "Luiz Cl�udio" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problems to configure sound in Soyo K7 via mobo....
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 23:58:47 -0300
I�m triyng configure the sound onboard (via 8xx pci ) in a sistem with
kernel 2.2.14-19.... the sndconfig found the board but don�t play nothing
:^(
Any one can help me???
Luiz Claudio ( from Brazil )
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From: Steve Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Soundcard?
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 02:59:59 GMT
Stanislav Kogan wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Steve Bradley wrote:
> >
> > G'day,
> > Opinion time:
> > I'm experiencing problems with my soundcard - it's a Diamond
> > MX300. Great card, but not supported by Linux. The folks at
> > Sourceforge have some excellent drivers for it, but they conflict with
> > the Nvidia 0.9-5 drivers that I want to load for my video card - or
> > the Nvidia drivers conflict with it - either way, as soon as you
> > access any sound functions while using the AU8830 driver and Nvidia
> > 0.9-5 together, the system completely locks up.
>
> This may be a correctable problem. Try moving the card to another slot.
> I had a similair problem with Vortex2 (same chip), and a completely
> different video card (an ATI Rage II). After I moved the sound card to a
> different PCI slot, the problem disappeared.
>
> Besides from that is can also be a motherboard problem. Which
> motherboard do you use?
>
>
> BTW, Aureal Vortex2 is a great sound card. I wouldn't trade it for
> anything.
Really? A different slot?? I will try that immediately. I'm using an
EPOX MVP3G5 - it uses the VIA chipset, which I understand some people have
had problems with...but I haven't had any problems until this video driver
update...and I'm not willing to switch my video card, it was too damn
expensive!
You're right, the vortex2 *is* a great soundcard - and I love it for
playing Windoze games...too bad Aureal isn't around to help make drivers
for it! I ordered an SB Live! for now - but if changing the slot solved the
problem, I'll be sending it back!
--
Steve Bradley
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2.4.0-test7,KDE2.0Beta5,XFree86 4.01
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