Linux-Hardware Digest #696, Volume #13 Sun, 8 Oct 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Dell Dimension video config (Joshua Baker-LePain)
46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ? (Andreas Leitner)
Recommendation (olliecat)
Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Stylus Color 760 (KC)
yamaha ac-xg sound card (vkanta)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card (mesc)
Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model #ST33232A
("Scott Nied")
ESS Solo 1 and Gravis Blackhawk Digital (Mark Hennessy)
DVD-RAM for storage?? (Matthew Newcomb)
Re: Help-Cirrus internal modem will not negotiate after dialing (using ppp) ("Scott
Nied")
Re: M820E linux driver (Ming Kee =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9=FA=B0O?=)
Re: Recommendation (Dances With Crows)
Re: Q: on CDDA (Dances With Crows)
Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card (Gary Sandine)
Re: Recommendation (Steve Bradley)
Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!! (John)
Re: 46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ? (mike)
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dell Dimension video config
Date: 9 Oct 2000 00:22:45 GMT
John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Andrew Lanczi wrote:
>>
>> I have installed redhat Linux 6.X on my Dell Dimension L667r with an
>> M780 17" graphics display. The install program did not recognize the
>> graphics card (default installed at Dell). I have tried several custom
>> configs and the result is that X displays in large, pixels that provide
>> a crude appearance.
>>
> If I'm not mistaken, the Dell L Series desktops use the
> Intel i810 chipset with its built-in graphics capabilities.
Dell has RPMs available on their website which provide XF86Config files
for several resolutions. Just be sure to edit the monitor frequency lines
to match your monitor's specs.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Andreas Leitner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ?
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:23:15 +0100
Hi,
I got this IBM-DTLA-307045 harddisk. Linux on bootup reports it with those
parameters: hdd: IBM-DTLA-307045, 43979MB w/1916kB Cache, CHS=23819/16/63
That looks rather ok to me. The hard disk is supposed to have 46 gigs, but
whatever. But when I try to make a partition or just format hdd, I only
get 11G out of it.
There is a lengthy article at IBM describing the same problem with some
older BIOSes. But since with Linux I bypass the BIOS anyway (not booting
from that device), I thought I don't need to care.
I am using linux 2.2.12-20 on a i386 RH 6.2 box. It's a really old P75. Is
there anything I can do? Should I upgrade the kernel to 2.2.17 or 2.4.x even?
many thanks in advance,
Andreas
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From: olliecat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Recommendation
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:38:58 GMT
Can anybody recommend a CD burner brand/model that works well under
linux that they are happy with ? I want to get one and I would like it
work under both Winxx, any flavor of linux, and maybe someday BeOS.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:26:48 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:44:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
> -snip-
> >The CDRW can be
> >referenced
> >> at least two ways: /dev/scd? and /dev/sr? . If you're using
mkisofs
> >and
> >> cdrecord, I believe it also uses /dev/sg? for it as a character
> >device.
>
> >I don't have a SCSI card in my box so I just need ide-scsi compiled.
If
> >I try to use ide-cd it then ide-scsi can't find /dev/hdc which is the
> >rw drive. If I insmod ide-scsi first then ide-cd can't find /dev/hdd
> >which is the CD-ROM drive.
>
> You're missing my point. When you reference your CDRW, you won't
call it
> /dev/hdx. You will call it /dev/scdx or /dev/srx. That's how scsi
devices
> (even emulated ones) are named when using a CD or CDRW.
If I map both of my CD drives to use ide-scsi then the RW shows up as
scd0 and the CDROM as scs1. If I only map the RW to ide-scsi then only
scd0 appears but when I modprobe ide-cd it complains that it can't
access /dev/hdd.
I'll try and have another play tonight and grab the error messages. I
was out all weekend so I couldn't try anything.
Steve
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: KC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Stylus Color 760
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:45:41 GMT
Well I seem to have an up to date PDQ description file. Looks
like we may be looking at the files in ~/.printjobs.
Which one should I look at first? What am I looking for?
Thanks,
kevin
Grant Taylor wrote:
> KC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Downloaded gimp-print 4.02b, copied the code for ghostscript,
> > rebuild ghostscript, reran the pdq printer install tool.
> >
> > No luck.
> >
> > I can cat a text file directly to /dev/lp0, and it will print. But when I
> > use
> > % pdq <filename>
> >
> > the printer prints out an error message. Here are the first several
> > lines:
> >
> > Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
> > Error: /undefined in --get--
> > Operand stack:
> > --dict:1/1(G)-- setpagedevice --dict:30/30(L)-- true
> > Execution stack:
> > %interp_exit --nostringval-- 6 4 %oparray_pop --nostringval--
> >
> >
> >
> > and so on.
> >
> > What have I screwed up this time?
>
> Oh, I'm sure it's not you...
>
> Let's see. Where and when did you obtain the stp/760 PDQ description
> file you are using? Some older versions didn't support printing text,
> which might easily explain this.
>
> Check that your PDQ file says:
>
> # It was generated by pdq-o-matic.cgi version 2.06
>
> and in the 'help' says:
>
> The execution information currently here corresponds to the driver
> version <em>after</em> 4.0b2 (b2 shipped in Mandrake 7.2; this data
> matches the CVS version). I'm attempting to track Robert's changes
> as he makes them, so that as 4.0 approaches things will be in synch.
>
> If not, then push the proper buttons at
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=stp
> to obtain the latest...
>
> If not, then there's something else wrong, which we may debug by
> examining the various partly processed job files in ~/.printjobs.
>
> --
> 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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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 11:07:51 +0100
From: vkanta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: yamaha ac-xg sound card
i have a pci yamaha ac-xg (windows drivers say so) sound card running on
my linux box the manual says is compatible with sound blaster but i
cannot make it work under redhat 6.2
it must also say that in the pci detect the sound card is detected as
intel 810
any ideas on how to configure?
thanks
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Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
From: mesc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 01:11:01 GMT
netcfg?
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Andrew Werden wrote:
> >
> > I've just loaded Redhat 6.2 on an old Gateway 166 previously running NT 4.0.
> > Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO). It
> > neither starts the ethernet adaptor, nor recognizes any interrupts for it.
> >
> > Any idea how I can get my network card working?
> >
> > /Andrew
>
> first thing to do is to get the 3c509 out of the PnP mode.
> 3com has 2 installation diskettes on their site. boot from your windows
> bootdisk and use the second 3com install disk to run 3c5x9cfg.exe. make
> sure you disable pnp and reboot. first write down the IRQ and IO
> settings!
>
> second thing to do is to setup your internet-settings in RH. i don't
> remember what the programme is called, but it's that handy config tool
> that comes with RedHat. (what's it called again?)
> remember to fill in the io-adress like this: io=0x300 (substitute 300
> with the actual io. IRQ is optional as you will see.
>
> if you filled it al in correctly, you should be able to ping your
> localhost (no response? NiC is not properly installed, check the io).
>
> good luck!
>
> Niels
>
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From: "Scott Nied" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't get RedHat 5.2 to install on my Seagate Medalist hdd model
#ST33232A
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:15:55 +0800
I'd like to know if you come up with anything. For me, with lack of time, I
used my other medalist drive and the installation went perfect!
I used Norton Disk Doctor on the bad disk to mark the "supposed" bad
clusters and planned to use the disk for temporary backups etc.
You might be in luck if you choose check for bad clusters during the RedHat
installation. I did not try this option but it might help?!
Scott
"Adam Shrader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Not sure but I'll check that out. Were you able to find any work around
this
> problem? I'll let you know what I find out about mine.
>
> Scott Nied wrote:
>
> > I had the same problem, same disk but I used 6.2. Came to find out I had
a
> > bad cluster. Disk Manager that comes with these drives, downloadable at
> > Seagate, could zero fill the drive, low level format but could not pass
the
> > surface test at 91% completion.
> >
> > Do you have the same problem?
> >
> > Scott
> >
> > "Adam Shrader" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > Can anybody tell me why I keep getting an abnormal installation error
> > > either when I try to partition my hard drive w/ disk druid or fdisk or
> > > when the RPM's are installing. Would a more up to date version of
> > > RedHat solve this? Any suggestions would be helpful.
> > >
>
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From: Mark Hennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ESS Solo 1 and Gravis Blackhawk Digital
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 21:32:30 -0400
I'm finding quite a difficult time trying to get this Gravis Blackhawk
Digital card working with the ESS Solo 1.
I see from dmesg that the ESS Solo 1 reports that a joystick port is
being found on 0xbc01, but I'm not sure as to how to pass this on to the
joystick driver.
Has anyone gotten this combination to work correctly? I know that both
drivers are still works in progress, but I'm just curious to know.
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From: Matthew Newcomb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD-RAM for storage??
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 21:24:08 -0400
G'day,
I'm interested in getting a DVD-RAM drive for storage. I've been
looking at the Panasonic LDF-102 ( the external model ). Anyone know if
it's possible to use this beast for storage under linux? I've seen a
lot of evidence that it MIGHT be possible, but nothing definet yet..
Anyone have any success? Thanks a lot!
Matt Newcomb
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From: "Scott Nied" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help-Cirrus internal modem will not negotiate after dialing (using ppp)
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 09:25:10 +0800
SOLVED!! It really is amazing what happens when you spend time in a
manual!!!!
Scott
"Scott Nied" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8rk3dt$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> First, I'm a proud Linux newbie!
>
> Using Red Hat 6.2, with an internal cirrus modem
>
> detection is not a problem, I can dial but connection will not negotiate,
> then times out.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Scott
>
>
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From: Ming Kee =?iso-8859-1?Q?=A9=FA=B0O?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: M820E linux driver
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 20:53:20 -0500
alas...there's NO driver for supplied card for M820e, I am using Adaptec
1480...
David Aguilera wrote:
> Hello,,,
>
> Is thier somebody out there the would know were I can get the
> drivers for a HP cd-writer plus model M820e with a PC CARD ( scsi )...
> I'm in need of on quickly... The cd-writer works fine with at scsi
> adaptec 1480... So it the pc card that gives me problem ... Linux is
> always asking me to install the module insmod < module > I've tried a
> bunch but unsucessful... Any info would be highly apreciated....
> Thanks.......
>
> David....
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Recommendation
Date: 9 Oct 2000 01:58:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:38:58 GMT, olliecat wrote:
>Can anybody recommend a CD burner brand/model that works well under
>linux that they are happy with ? I want to get one and I would like it
>work under both Winxx, any flavor of linux, and maybe someday BeOS.
I bought a Philips 460 CD-RW 4/4/16 11 months ago. It works flawlessly
in Linux, not quite so well under Win9x. I don't think these particular
models are made anymore, but the latest model in the 400 series is very
similar, and it reads at higher speeds.
Basically, most newer IDE CD-RWs and all SCSI CD-RWs should work under
Linux. The only ones that I've heard problem reports about are some
Sony models and the Iomega ZIP-CD. Make sure you read the CD-Writing
HOWTO at http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO.html before you
start, or get a distro like Mandrake which sets things up automagically
if it detects a CD-RW on installation.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Q: on CDDA
Date: 9 Oct 2000 01:58:34 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 19:16:40 -0500, Mike Hall wrote:
>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
No, this is not normal, but if you're using cdparanoia, it will be
slower than cdda2wav. cdparanoia performs a lot of data integrity
checking and tends to read each sector of an audio CD several times to
catch and repair any scratches/errors on the medium. Some CD-ROMs are
better at reading audio data than others, but the old 8x drive in my
laptop can read CDDA at 0.75x, and my 4/4/16x CD-RW can read it at about
1.5x with cdparanoia.
Do you get a lot of + signs (or, Cthulhu forbid, * or ! signs) in the
display when you're using cdparanoia? If so, it means your drive isn't
reading CDDA very well. You can use cdda2wav to improve the speed, but
that will also reduce the quality.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
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: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to use 3Com ISA Ethernet Card
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:33:12 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Andrew Werden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Linux does recognize the 3Com ISA Etherlink III card (model 3C509B-TPO).
Set the I/O and IRQ with jumpers so the device does not conflict
with other devices in your box (watch for serial device conflict) -
say I/O = 0x300 and IRQ = 5. Make sure /etc/modules.conf (or
/etc/conf.modules) has the lines
alias eth0 [module]
options io=0x300 irq=5
where [module].o is the driver for your network card (I don't know
what module drives that card - I have never owned a 3com product).
I use sis900.o and ne.o for my two ethernet cards.
Once that's done, you activate the card by, as root, typing
ifup eth0, or by setting ONBOOT=yes in the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
Here is the config script for my eth0 card:
DEVICE=eth0
USERCTL=no
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=none
BROADCAST=x.x.x.255
NETWORK=x.x.x.0
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
IPADDR=x.x.x.y
GATEWAY=x.x.x.z
You will need your numbers at x,y,z - it depends on what you are
using the card for. Once that is in place and the module is loaded,
type ifup eth0 (or once all works, "ONBOOT=yes" will activate the
device automatically at boot time). If you see no message like
Delaying eth0 initilization
it's probably working. Type "ifconfig eth0" to see.
For Red Hat specific configuration information, read
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/tips/Network-Config-Tips/Network-Config-Tips.html
-[ http://www.lanm-pc.com (Cheap Linux boxes!) ]-
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From: Steve Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Recommendation
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 02:29:24 GMT
olliecat wrote:
> Can anybody recommend a CD burner brand/model that works well under
> linux that they are happy with ? I want to get one and I would like it
> work under both Winxx, any flavor of linux, and maybe someday BeOS.
>
> Thanks
>
I have a Plextor Plexwriter 8/4/32 that worked perfectly under windows and
has made the transition to Linux without a problem.
--
Steve Bradley
Registered Linux User#187404
(register at www.linuxcounter.org)
ICQ#92564221
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Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 21:36:13 -0500
From: John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: External ISDN Modem connection Help!!
That's some of the problems I am having. I read all the available
How-to's, but none
explain why I an single channeling, and I think its because I do not
have the correct
AT&------- commands. I was able to use the Kppp to get connected but, I
cannot find
these commands. I e-mailed Eicon but have not received anything back and
it has been
a little over 2-weeks, so I thought I could find someone here to help. I
am not afraid
to spend a little money to get it right. I'll try to see if I may have
missed something, and
I'll re-read the serial how-to's again.
Appreciate the help
John
M. Buchenrieder wrote:
> John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>
>> I hava an Eicon Diva T/A external ISDN modem I would like to get working
>> properly on my
>> Mandrake 7.1 side. This modem is working fine on my Widows2000 prof
>> side.
>
> External ISDN modems can be used just like standard serial modems;
> that is, you may use whatever program you want, as long as you are
> pointing the communication program to the correct device. If this
> modem is connected to your primary serial port, use /dev/ttyS0 (e.g.).
> You can then just send standard AT sequences to it, and/or use the
> program's functions to initialize a connection.
>
>
>> The How-to's
>> leave a lot to be desired and very confusing at the least.
>
> Depends. The Serial-HOWTO goes into great details over the internals
> of serial communications, though it rarely mentions ISDN modems,
> as these are not very common.
>
>
>> Is there
>> someone who knows how to
>> correctly install this modem on a Linux box. I am a little surprised by
>> the somewhat lack
>> of experienced techies in this group.
>
> How would you know this?
>
>
>> If there is a qualified support
>> company that knows what
>> they are doing and charges reasonable fees that can help I am open to
>> this also.
>
> [...]
>
> There are many companies offering professional Linux support, but
> they are all asking real money for it - just like all support services
> do, regardless of the OS used.
>
> Michael
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From: mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 46 gig hdd under linux on old pc ?
Date: Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:41:17 -0400
Hi Andreas,
I added a 15 GB drive to a P90 by getting
a Promise Technology DriveMAX bios extender card. The
card cost me maybe 16 or 17 dollars. It allows up to about
128 or 132 GB drives. I also downloaded the new Lilo
from ftp://ftp.metalab.org. It does not have the 1024 cylinder
limits. I used the phrase "lba32" on one line in the lilo.conf
file. Leave out the quotation marks. I think the new lilo
is version 21.5.
You don't have to use lilo to boot Linux if you don't want
to as there are other ways to boot.
Mike
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