Linux-Hardware Digest #695, Volume #13 Sun, 8 Oct 00 20:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: UDMA problem (Ton)
bjc-4200 driver (Karl Payer)
Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please (Richard J. Freedman)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2) (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux Mandrake and Lexmark z52 ("Shaun McCann")
Re: bjc-4200 driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0 ("Michael Jones")
how add new hardware in linux ("Liberat0r")
Re: bjc-4200 driver ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: stcolor epson860 ("Gene Heskett")
Re: how add new hardware in linux (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: UsRobitics sportster voice series, supported? (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M (GAUTIER Christopher)
Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3 (GAUTIER Christopher)
Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux Mandrake and Lexmark z52 (Grant Taylor)
Q: on CDDA (Mike Hall)
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From: Ton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA problem
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:20:00 +0200
Ton wrote:
> Hi,
[cut]
Hi again,
First of all, thanks for the suggestions. Unfortunately it wasn't the
perfect solution, tried all of that before..
I'll state the problem again.
1. Dmesg shows this:
RAM disk driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size
PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
hda: SAMSUNG SV0432D, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ST51080A, ATA DISK drive
hdd: TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-5702B, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide2: ports already in use, skipping probe
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: SAMSUNG SV0432D, 4112MB w/480kB Cache, CHS=524/255/63, UDMA
hdc: ST51080A, 1033MB w/128kB Cache, CHS=2100/16/63
.. no matter what. BIOS settings always show "pio" (for _both_ drives),
while correctly set up in BIOS, and regardless of changed LBA, PIO or UDMA
settings. Furthermore, hdc is shown with its phycical parms and a force in
lilo.conf is needed but does not help solving the DMA problem.
2. hdparm -i /dev/hdc:
/dev/hdc:
Model=ST51080A, FwRev=14.14.01, SerialNo=HA393073
Config={ HardSect NotMFM HdSw>15uSec Fixed DTR>10Mbs }
RawCHS=2100/16/63, TrkSize=65535, SectSize=987, ECCbytes=22
BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=128kB, MaxMultSect=32, MultSect=off
CurCHS=2100/16/63, CurSects=1287651360, LBA=yes, LBAsects=2116800
IORDY=yes, tPIO={min:180,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
DMA modes: sdma0 sdma1 sdma2 *mdma0 mdma1 mdma2
Drive does not seem to be detected as PIO4, DMA2 disk. But it is.
3. hdparm -p /dev/hdc:
attempting to auto-tune PIO mode
HDIO_SET_PIO_MODE failed: function not implemented
Really? Hmm.. Should it be?
4. I can do hdparm -d1 -X34 /dev/hdc though, this is permitted.. This
improves the reading from about 2.56 to 4.43 MB/s. Hdparm with no options
show that all is still set up as default, while for /dev/hda it shows dma is
enabled and speed has been improved from about 4 to 14 MB/s with UDMA mode
2.
So, it looks like a bios problem to me, or..? It should be clear by now that
the disk is not properly recognized at all, its speed is far below normal
and it isn't comfortable working with :-)
Ton
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From: Karl Payer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: bjc-4200 driver
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:36:43 +0200
I'm running a Canon bjc-4200 printer with the bjc600 driver under Linux
(SuSE 6.3, Ghostscript v5.10). The results are o.k. for a resolution of
360 dpi.
In the hardware support database of SuSE I found for this printer also
the resolution of "720*360" mentioned. So I tried to run the driver with
720 dpi. But this results in an error. On a page only a quarter of the
page that should be printed is output (that means the original is
doubled in size).
Could you tell me whether the bjc600 driver supports resolutions higher
than 360 dpi at all. I know that in the "Details of Ghostscript output
devices" on the Ghostscript-Homepage
(http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/aladdin/doc/Devices.htm) only 90dpi,
180dpi and 360dpi are mentioned.
Many thanks,
Karl
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard J. Freedman)
Crossposted-To: de.comp.os.linux.hardware,linux.dev.tape
Subject: Re: Wangtek SCSI Streamer with Linux, help please
Date: 8 Oct 2000 20:59:05 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun, 08 Oct 2000 10:52:50 +0200, Zbigniew Lisiecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi Dick,
>here is output of mt status:
>
>drive type = Generic SCS-1 tape
>drive status = 268435968
>sense key error = 0
>residue count = 0
>file number = 0
>block number = 0
>Tape block size 512 ybtes. Density code 0x10 (QIC-150/250 (GCR
>10000bpi)).
>Soft error count since last ststus=0
>General status bits on (45010000):
> BOT WR_PROT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
>
>Than You for YOur interest.
>
>"Richard J. Freedman" wrote:
>>
>> Sat, 07 Oct 2000 19:47:36 +0200, Zbigniew Lisiecki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> >Hi,
>> >I use SuSE 6.2 Linux and try to switch on my old Wangtek 5525ES SCSI
>> >Streamer.
>> >The device is recognised at boot time. I set SCSI-tape support in
>> >kernel,
>> >but its obviously not enough. After dd if=/dev/st0 i get Input/output
>> >error.
>> >Also mt won`t push the tape. Who can help me please.
>> >Wangtek is not officially supported by my Linux distrubutor SuSE, but
>> >a generic SCSI driver must work. Am I right ?
>> >--
>> >Zbigniew Lisiecki
>>
>> What is the output of "mt -f /dev/nst0 status"
>>
>> Dick Freedman
>
>--
>Zbigniew Lisiecki
Your status output looks OK. Notice that your tape is write-protected.
It is possible that your drive or tape is bad. I would get a new tape
if possible, make sure the write protect is off and the use tar or dd
to write a file and try and read it back. Not sure what else you can do.
--
Dick Freedman
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2)
Date: 8 Oct 2000 21:18:59 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:21:39 GMT, Siukong wrote:
> recently, i tried to setup up my cdrw drive to my rh 6.2 system.
>After doing some brief research, it led to a point that i should have
>scsi emulation in order to setup my ide cdrw drive. well, no, i don't
>have a scsi card in my computer and i am not sure whether i have setup
>a scsi card support while installation. i do have scd* nodes in my /dev
>directory. does it mean that i have scsi support installed already?
>however, while i typed the command cdrecord -scanbus, it complaint that
>it couldn't open the scsi bus as, of course, i was a root user. that's
>why i am a little bit confused about the have/have not scis support
>situation. ok, if it determines that i don't have it,
SCSI support and IDE-SCSI support are not the same thing. There is a
detailed guide to this subject at
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html , and I suggest you read
it.
And RedHat 6.2 ships everything you need for IDE-SCSI support by
default; if you haven't built your own kernel yet, you probably don't
need to, just follow these steps:
0. Boot system with
linux hdX=ide-scsi
where X is the location of your IDE CD-RW (usually b, c, or d)
1. "modprobe ide-scsi"
2. "modprobe sg"
3. If those commands didn't generate any error messages, you should be
all set, but keep in mind that your CD will now be on /dev/scd0 instead
of /dev/hdX.
4. RTFM to find out how to make the series of commands in steps 0-2
automatic upon bootup--the HOWTO addresses this question, among many
others.
--
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Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Shaun McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake and Lexmark z52
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:18:28 +0100
"Grant Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > out?
>
> Hmm. That list was wrong; AFAIK *no* distribution, including I think
> Mandrake 7.2, supports the Lexmrk z52.
>
> The driver, however, does actually exist. See this printer's entry in
> my database: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=328553
>
> --
> Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
> Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
> News, Discussion Forums, Support Database, Software, and more...
Cheers, got the driver. Don't suppose you you could tell me how I go about
installing the driver. As a Linux novice the installation
instructions included in the archive are very brief and not that clear.
Thanks,
Shaun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bjc-4200 driver
Date: 8 Oct 2000 21:54:08 GMT
> In the hardware support database of SuSE I found for this printer also
> the resolution of "720*360" mentioned. So I tried to run the driver with
> 720 dpi. But this results in an error. On a page only a quarter of the
> page that should be printed is output (that means the original is
> doubled in size).
Is it doubled in one direction only?
I've got a BJC-4400, running with the BJC-600 driver 360*360. It came
with a 'photo quality' cartridge which gives 720*360 with special Windoze
drivers, which probably affects the color balance as well.
One day I tried it with this cartridge, just to test whether a problem
was due to the cartridge or something else. The page got shrunk into
half in the direction of the shorter edge of A4. (Of course, since the
driver produced a 360*360 image).
So by changing the cartridge, the printer magically turns into a
720*360-capable one. Looks like if you get one of these photo-quality
cartridges, you'll get 720*360, but the colors may be distorted.
Now I'll have to try this myself :)
--
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your pardon, me the same phonetic theme, of.
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From: "Michael Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SCSI support in RH 6.2, kernel 2.2.14-5.0
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:27:51 GMT
Thanks David and Gary. I may have enough information to work though
this :-). If additional guidance is required to solve this matter, I
will post a follow-up reply to this message.
Mike
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From: "Liberat0r" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: how add new hardware in linux
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 15:29:17 -0700
is there something like 98s plug and play in Linux? how do you make Linux
see new hardware
thanks for your time
Liberator
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: bjc-4200 driver
Date: 8 Oct 2000 22:32:19 GMT
Some test results on BJC-4400:
With the photo cartridge and gs (v5.50) resolution set to 720x360, the
printout is otherwise correct (no scaling) but only half of the
page is printed.. i.e. the same half that is filled with the shrunk
image if 360x360 is used.
--
Risto A. Paju ::: http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
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Date: 8 Oct 2000 18:21:29 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: stcolor epson860
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Grant Taylor;
GT> "Ivan Danicic" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Hello, My printer has very poor resolution output when printing
>> under linux using the stcolor driver for ghostscript.
GT> Use the stp driver from the Gimp-print project. See
GT> http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
I've been trying for about 4 days to get that to ./configure Grant, but
its a no-go on my machine.
Using kgcc, present kernel 2.2.18pre15, removed gimp-1.0.4, and have
installed and removed the new gimp in both its default of /usr/local,
and tried it a couple of times in /usr too. Its currently in its
default install location of /usr/local.
Hand exec'ing "gimptool --version" reports 1.1.27 IIRC, but during the
configure, the next line after it says its checking gimptool for version
>1.0.0 and proceeds to print 'no', it exits on the next line instantly
saying the compiler isn't capable of compiling anything. That
/usr/local/bin/gimptool is the only one on the system.
And it spits out the correct path when queried with the pathlist
options, or at least they look good to me.
This is the same compiler that has built the last 2 kernels, and all the
newer gimp stuff, and the last gtoaster. Gimp seems to run ok, but then
I'm not a graphics whiz either.
The config.log tries to convince me I need to run ldconfig, but thats
been done after each gimp install, as has its config in /etc been
checked, it looks ok.
Ideas? As my only printer is a Stylus Pro, now getting ancient, I'd
like to try these new ones to see if they can do what epson claimed it
could do 6 years ago when I wrote a check for $531 and carried it out
the door.
Cheers, Gene
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how add new hardware in linux
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:53:38 GMT
Liberat0r wrote:
> is there something like 98s plug and play in Linux? how do you make Linux
> see new hardware
>
> thanks for your time
> Liberator
It depends on what you are adding. If it is supported it might find it by
itself. Sometimes you need to patch the Kernel, or rebuild the Kernel.
Sometimes you need to configure something in a file.
What do you need to add?
JRT
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UsRobitics sportster voice series, supported?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:00:43 GMT
Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> I am about to buy a Us Robotics sportster voice modem and am trying to find
> out if they are supported in Linux (I have the latest stable kernel).
>
> Has anyone got one of these modems working successufuly on Linux?
> Please help,
>
> cheers,
> Alex
Modem questions:
Please state type of modem: external, internal (ISA, PCI)
Please state model number of modem.
Please state version number of Kernel and if you are using a Serial driver,
the version of the Serial driver.
Thank you.
JRT
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From: GAUTIER Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: UDMA-Driver (IDE) 4 ASUS K7M
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 01:07:53 +0200
> Yup. If you're not afraid of devel kernels, try 2.4.0-test8. Got my HPT366
> running.... :)
>
It is the same for me, but unfortunately, I am unable (poor newbie) to
configure lilo correctly to boot on my hde1... When I choose windows on lilo,
I have the message 'loading windows' and then the machine halts. I could not
find documentation on this topic in the howto, I only know that I have to type
a magical line to trick the BIOS, but I can't remember it.. Can anyone give it
to me please ?.
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From: GAUTIER Christopher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury 128 and Suse 6.3
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 01:31:41 +0200
Marian Kamendy wrote:
> Get the rpm and instructions here:
> http://sdb.suse.de/sdb/en/html/cg_rage128_63.html
>
but are you sure it also supports the 3D acceleration for the ATI Rage 128 ?
krys
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Cable modem, ethernet, and DHCP
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:34:12 GMT
and if that doesn't work wait for mandrake 7.2 with its special config tool
for seting up cable, isdn, or dsl modems.
In article <Qa3E5.7439$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <replace spam-me-not with graha.ms)> wrote:
>
> > > Hey guys, thanks for all the help. But it is STILL not working. Now, I
> am
> > > either a complete idiot or tremendously unlucky. I went into netconf
> and
> > > set everything to blank except kernel module and net device.
> > > kernel module = 3c509
> > > net device = eth0
> > > of course
> > > Then I tried rebooting. During the initialization, I got to "booting up
> > > eth0" and then it hung for a while. Then I got the error again, unable
> to
> > > setup eth0 via dhcpcd..failed. But this time, the PC light on the cable
> > > modem actually turned on and the data light was blinking.
> > >
> > > Then when I was logged in, as root, I typed "pump -i eth0" and then the
> PC
> > > light came on again, it hung for a while, then it said "operation
> failed"
> > > and the light went off. I even tried typing "dhcpcd -r" and the same
> thing
> > > happened. The light goes on then off. Please don't hate me for
> bothering
> > > you guys but I really wish to learn Linux. But I can't when some things
> > > don't work. BTW, the ethernet isn't the only thing working. But I'm
> taking
> > > it step by step.
> > >
> > > thanks again
> > >
> > > James wrote:
> > >
> > > > Arg, linux newbie here with some problems setting up my cable modem
> with
> > > > dhcp. I have Mandrake 7.1. I type in "netconf" which takes me to the
> > > > network configurator. In "Basic Host Info" there is a "hostname +
> > > > domain" entry which is set to "localhost.localdomain".
> > > > Under the "adapter1" tab is the following info:
> > > > net device: eth0
> > > > kernel module: 3c509
> > > > irq: 10
> > > > ip: my ip
> > > > the dhcp radio button is selected
> > > >
> > > > When I close out of netconf and tell is to activate changes I get an
> > > > error. Here it is:
> > > >
> > > > Executing /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/S10network reload:
> > > > > Bringing up device eth0 Determining IP information for eth0 via
> > > > dhcp...faile
> > > > > [FAILED]
>
> I had exactly the same prob with mandrake 7.1
>
> what I did was just to statically assign an IP address to eth0
> and then once it had booted run "dhclient eth0"
> and that did the trick
>
> G
>
>
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Mandrake and Lexmark z52
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:53:37 GMT
"Shaun McCann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> The driver, however, does actually exist. See this printer's entry in
>> my database: http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=328553
> Cheers, got the driver. Don't suppose you you could tell me how I go
> about installing the driver. As a Linux novice the installation
> instructions included in the archive are very brief and not that
> clear.
Well, this driver is rather unpolished at the moment; it's just a
quick hack against a slightly older jetprinter 7000 driver.
The lexmark7000linux-000924 tarball actually contains the two programs
already compiled. You should be able to follow the instructions in
the package to add it to printtool; just pretend that you have a 7000.
If you aren't using a printtool-based distribution, let us know and
we'll suggest whatever makes sense.
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor<at>picante.com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing Website and HOWTO: http://www.linuxprinting.org/
News, Discussion Forums, Support Database, Software, and more...
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From: Mike Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: on CDDA
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:16:40 -0500
Hi, all!
Have a stupid question... is CDDA supposed to be real slow?
I have a generic 44x CD/ROM, and it reads data CDs fine...
I copied a CD to an image file just fine.
Whenever I try to read an audio CD, it takes "forever"...
perhaps 1/10 real-time to read a track. Is this normal?
/proc/ide/hdc/model says ATAPI 44X CDROM
/proc/ide/hdc/driver says ide-cdrom version 4.53
I've scanned the CD/DA pages, but nothing has "clicked" yet.
Any clues would be appreciated. Thanks!
--
Mike
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