Linux-Hardware Digest #617, Volume #13 Fri, 22 Sep 00 21:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP LaserJet 1100A (Kevin Brown)
Re: PCI bus not recognized after re-compile (mst)
R: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk. ("The Lastboot")
Re: 2 SCSI cards in one machine (Johan Kullstam)
Raid checking (MIke Dixon)
Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP! ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Interested In Learning More About Curses In Python ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PCI bus not recognized after re-compile ("Andrew P. Billyard")
SiS 6215C Graphics Card (Karl Payer)
Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices? (John Palkovic)
Re: Linux-compatible (4 channels) Sound Card suggestions (Edward Lee)
Re: GeForce MX ("Mark Seavers")
CD-RW help!
ATA100 support (Thomas Amsler)
After Install X-windows comes up I run Xterm, X-windows quits (mike)
Re: External Modem Woes (David Efflandt)
mass multiple's 'thin twin' ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk. (Karl Heyes)
Help kudzu set up my ethernet card, but now modem doesn't work! (Craig McCluskey)
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From: Kevin Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP LaserJet 1100A
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 17:30:07 -0000
Tim Moore wrote:
>
> > Can anyone guide me in the installation of an HP LaerJet 1100A (with
> > scanner?)?
>
> Uses the same driver as HP Laserjet 4/5/6. Havent figured out how to
> make the scanner work. Damn good printer though.
> --
> timothymoore
> bigfoot
> com
Thanks for your advice and interest. I'll let you know how I get on -
especially with the scanning function
Kevin B
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From: mst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.corel
Subject: Re: PCI bus not recognized after re-compile
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:32:33 -0400
Fountainhead wrote:
>
> During the compile, I modularized several things, but nothing PCI-related as
> far as I know. I know I am doing (or, have done) something stupid; I just
> don't know what though. I would really appreciate your help.
>
Stupid question for a stupid problem: did you remember to include PCI
support at all?
MST
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From: "The Lastboot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: R: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:50:55 +0200
Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
8p89d7$jq8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Ive RH 6.0 install in my laptop.I created a boot disk from RH 6.2 CD in
> another system.
> Used the boot disk (floppy) to boot in my RH 6.0 laptop and was told
cannot
> find hard disk in my system.
> Must I transfer the Base and RPM files in other for the boot to find the
> hard disk?
> Thanks.
> Roger
Maybe because the kernel was compiled for another system, not for a laptop
which has a very different architecture from a normal Personal computer. Try
building a new kernel for the laptop then make the floppy!!!
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 2 SCSI cards in one machine
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Sep 2000 14:00:26 -0400
Larry Irons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a Linux computer running Caldera OpenLinux 2.3. It has been
> running fine for over a year with one Adaptec 2940 SCSI card with 5 SCSI
> hard drives attached. We have added a 2nd Adaptec 2930 SCSI card with a
> SCSI 8mm tape drive. At boot the BIOS for both drives is recognized as
> well as all of the devices. One Hard drive SCSI card is on irq 11 and
> the tape SCSI card is on irq 5. There are no device conflicts for irqs.
> There are no device conflicts for i/o ports.
>
> Linux does not see the 2nd SCSI controller, but it sees the first one. I
> do a "dmesg" and there is no mention of the second controller.
> There are no additional LILO boot parms for the Adaptec aic78xx driver
> regarding irqs and i/o ports. Currently the SCSI driver for the
> controller is being loaded as a module. Is there anything that I can do
> to get the 2nd controller to be recognized by the kernel?
hmm. i am using a pair of symbios 8715sp (sym53c875) pci scsi cards
in one of my boxen. irq sharing is not a problem. they're both using
irq 15. the kernel seems to find both of them without problems. i
have the driver built-in to the kernel. i do not pass any options to
the scsi system either.
you might try asking on the linux-scsi or linux-kernel mailling lists.
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J o h a n K u l l s t a m
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sysengr
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Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:49:11 +0100
Subject: Raid checking
From: MIke Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
So Ive got raid 1 on RH 6.2, How do I check that there has been no disk
failure or a raid problem?
Problem 2, it is a remote server so only telnet suggestions please
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linksys lne10/100tx HELP!
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:34:16 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Clifton T. Sharp Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : I didn't get any driver source on the diskette provided with the card.
> : All that was there was a pointer to the source on scyld.com.
>
> Hmmm, odd. Mine came with a floppy disk which included an older version
> of the netdrivers tarball.
Actually, there's more to my story. I bought one single NIC late last
year; that one was fun. It came with source. So did the kernel. And there
was yet a third version on the scyld site. I looked them over to see what
might be the newest, and they all looked like three parallel branches off
the source tree; each had some new-looking stuff the others didn't have.
So I went with the kernel driver and it worked dandy.
Then I bought the switched-network-in-a-box, which came with two 4.1
cards, and one diskette that (as I mentioned) had no source
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From: "Andrew P. Billyard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.corel
Subject: Re: PCI bus not recognized after re-compile
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 18:44:17 GMT
Real nice! Warm fuzzy comments like that will definitely make more people feel
welcome.
mst wrote:
> Fountainhead wrote:
> >
> > During the compile, I modularized several things, but nothing PCI-related as
> > far as I know. I know I am doing (or, have done) something stupid; I just
> > don't know what though. I would really appreciate your help.
> >
>
> Stupid question for a stupid problem: did you remember to include PCI
> support at all?
>
> MST
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From: Karl Payer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SiS 6215C Graphics Card
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:33:16 +0200
Hi,
Is there anybody who can tell me where I could get a driver for my SiS
6215C graphics card?
I'm running SuSE 6.3. Looking to the README.SiS (v 3.5.2.10 1999/06/25)
I found some SiS drivers but the SiS 6215C is not mentioned.
Appreciating your help,
Karl
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From: John Palkovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mobo for Duron - any advices?
Date: 22 Sep 2000 17:40:55 -0500
"Nisi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Tom of tomshardware.com just did a review of 10 boards for the Duron. Here
> is the link:
> http://www.tomshardware.com/mainboard/00q3/000919/index.html
Tom did not test the FIC AZ-11
(url http://www.fica.com/products/motherboard/Socket462/AZ11.stm).
I just built a duron system (600 MHz) based on this motherboard. I'm
quite happy with it. I have booted three different linux kernels (two
different installers and tomsrtbt) and I have succesfully installed
debian 2.1 on it. So far so good, but I've only had it up for three
days. I'm waiting for a debian 2.2 CD set it and plan to install that
when it arrives.
-John
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From: Edward Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux-compatible (4 channels) Sound Card suggestions
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:04:22 -0700
Edward Lee wrote:
> Brendan Killackey wrote:
>
> > Howdy--
> >
> > I'm relatively new. Anyone have any suggestions for a 4-channel sound
> > card runs under Linux?
> >
>
> I am aware of three multi-channels sound chips/cards.
>
> 1. Turtle Beach Santa Cruz based on the Crystal CS4630 engine.
> 2. Best Data Theatrix 5.1 based on a custom chip.
> 3. ESS Maesto 1978+, potentially 32 channels.
>
> 1. and 2. have no Linux driver yet. 3. is capable but not enabled in
> standard driver. Actually, I thought I had 4 channels working at one time
> but then lost it again. For what is worth, I am trying to play Dolby
> Suround sound from my Toshiba Laptop. Unfortunately, I can't figure out
> where the additional channels are routed to.
PS: Does anyone know of a pci card with the ESS 1978, 1979 or 1980? I have
one on my Laptop,
but i need one for my Desktop. By the way, 4 channel sound is working, i
will be posting the
driver next week.
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From: "Mark Seavers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GeForce MX
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:06:09 +0100
I've got a Hercules 3D Prophet II MX which is based on the GeForce 2 MX
chipset.... so that IS supported under XFree 4, right? I couldn't see
drivers specific to the MX on the NVidia website, they only had drivers for
the GTS or something.... are they compatible?
I do hope it's ok, because I really want to get X up at some point.....
"Tim Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Barry Wilkes wrote:
> >
> > "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.
>
> I was wondering how you installed the drivers for the geforce?
> the manual supplied with the dirvers is too complicated for me as I just
> installed the os 2 weeks ago. since them I've been forced to use an old
> matrox card, a far cry form the geforce!
> any help would be appreciated and if you do reply, please do so in very
> simple terms.
>
> many thanks
>
> tim
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CD-RW help!
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 23:30:04 -0000
okay, my IDE CD-RW is acting up. I have an HP 9100 IDE/ATAPI. For some
reason, Linux refuses to recognize it. Every so often I would be able to
use it, but once I rebooted I couldn't anymore. I have reinstalled
Mandrake about 15 times and even installed it from the CD-RW. My DVD
works just fine. As a last resort, I tried removing
Mandrake's "Supermount Technology" and opted to mount removable drives
myself. My DVD mounted OK, my zip the same, but when I went to mount my
CD-RW, it said "mount: The kernel does not recognize /dev/cdrom as a
block device (maybe 'insmod driver'?)". I also logged on as root and
typed cdrecord -scanbus. This was the error message I received "No such
file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver." Another observation I
made: whenver the CD-RW was working (the rare occasions) I would go into
the HardDrake configuration utility and listed under the category CD-ROM
Drives would be the following:
Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD
HP CD-Writer Plus 9100
Unknown (When I clicked on this it was identified as a SCSI device.
Perhaps it was a driver used for SCSI emulation???)
Anyway, whenever the CD-RW didn't work, I would go into the HardDrake
again and see the following:
Toshiba SD-M1212 DVD
HP CD-Writer Plus 9100
The unknown SCSI device disappeared. Am I correct in my assumption that
the unknown device was a SCSI emulator? Is this why my CD-Writer isn't
working? If it is a SCSI driver, how do I reinstall it? Thanks for
helping me on this mind-boggling problem!
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From: Thomas Amsler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA100 support
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 16:36:14 -0700
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How do I enable ATA100 support for my HD? I have an ASUS CUSL2,(i815e chipset),
motherboard and am running RH6.2.
Thank you.
-- Thomas
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: After Install X-windows comes up I run Xterm, X-windows quits
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:04:29 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to get X-Windows setup with an unknown
type of Cirrus Logic "SIIG" ISA graphics card. I only seem to get
some response when I set it up with Xconfigurator in 8-bit mode.
I am using Redhat 6.1 and KDE. The KDE desktop comes up
after a while. When I click on the Xterm icon, there is a delay,
the Xterm window comes up and just as it comes up, X-Windows
drops back to the Linux shell. There is a message:
QImage::color:Index out of range.
What does this mean and how can I correct the problem.
Is there any way that I can find out exactly what model
of card that I have. There is a model number, but it does
not look like anything related to what is in the Xconfigurator
list nor on the SIIG site. The model is MVGA-AVGA3.
I have a dual boot system and the card works with the Linux
shell and Win95C with a resolution of 1024x768 and 16 bit
hicolor.
Thanks
Mike
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Efflandt)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: External Modem Woes
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:20:44 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I recently purchased a Zoltrix Rainbow 56K external to replace one
>burned up in a storm we had here. My old Zoom 56K external ran
>flawlessly under Linux. This new one does not.
>
>The one thing I do notice is that this one is seen by Windows Plug and
>Play. Is there something anyone may suggest for trying to get this up
>and running under Linux? I have no probs under Windoze.
>
>I can implicitly assign it a stty/com number, and it dials out under
>Linux in kppp, but falis to connect to the host. It fails to be
>detected in wvdial in SUSE 6.3 at all.
>
>The Zoltrix uses a Rockwell ACF56K chipset.
>
>I have it connected to stty01 aka COM2.
I have an 'stty' program, but no such devices. What does setserial -ag
show for the device? It should be something like this:
# setserial -ag /dev/ttyS1
/dev/ttyS1, Line 1, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x02f8, IRQ: 3
Baud_base: 115200, close_delay: 50, divisor: 0
closing_wait: 3000, closing_wait2: infinte
Flags: spd_normal skip_test
If you connect minicom to /dev/ttyS1 (or your /dev/stty01?) do you get a
response to AT codes? The output of AT&V might be useful to see if it has
any strange defaults.
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Subject: mass multiple's 'thin twin'
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 00:32:02 GMT
anybody know anything about these lcd flatpanels? dell offers them as
an option and i purchased an 18.1" pair for about $6400, but now i'm
having second thoughts. there's nothing about them on the net, except
for mass multiple's site: http://www.massmultiple.com. they're made
by sharp. the single stand dual monitor setup sounds appealing, but
i'm considering viewsonic's vp181. any feedback would be appreciated.
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From: Karl Heyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Boot Disk Cannot Find Hard Disk.
Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 01:48:32 +0000
In article <8p89d7$jq8$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Roger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ive RH 6.0 install in my laptop.I created a boot disk from RH 6.2 CD in
> another system.
> Used the boot disk (floppy) to boot in my RH 6.0 laptop and was told cannot
> find hard disk in my system.
> Must I transfer the Base and RPM files in other for the boot to find the
> hard disk?
What type of boot disk. Do you see LILO or just
Loading.............................
<kernel stuuf>
failed to mount root on xxxxx
If it the latter, then determine what the root on the laptop is and from your other
system do (with the floppy in the drive do
rdev /dev/fd0 /dev/<whatever the root is>
karl.
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From: Craig McCluskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help kudzu set up my ethernet card, but now modem doesn't work!
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:57:26 -0500
I seem to have the opposite problem of many users. Kudzu saw my ethernet
card and Advansys SCSI card and set them both up. The SCSI works correctly.
I don't yet know about the ethernet card, I'm going to try that out
tonight.
My problem, however, is that since kudzu set up the ethernet card (which
I'm going to use to connect an ethernet-based printer), I can dial up my
ISP on my modem but can no longer see the Internet through it.
How do I fix this?
Thanks,
Craig
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