Linux-Hardware Digest #702, Volume #13 Mon, 9 Oct 00 22:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Thanks was Recommendation (olliecat)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2) (Siukong)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (Gary Sandine)
Monitor Settings (Andrew Renalds)
MAXI RADIO FM2 =?iso-8859-1?Q?support=E9?= sous linux (Olivier Le Roy)
Re: S3 Savage4 X-Windows problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Monitor Settings (Tony Curtis)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2) (Mark Post)
Re: Recommendation (Mark Post)
Re: Monitor Settings (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem (Ken Feingold)
Re: CDROM burning (Bnchbrrs)
Re: Adding a Windows hard drive (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: Anyone managed to get CD-writer to work?
Debian: Problems accessing parallel port (Oliver Battenfeld)
Re: how add new hardware in linux ("Shane Baker")
Multiple SCSI adapters in the same system (Elliott Martin)
Distros that'll work with an AMD Duron 700Mhz??? (Graham TerMarsch)
Linux and the Stealth III S540 video card ("Matthew J. Bulfinch")
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From: olliecat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks was Recommendation
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:37:40 GMT
Thanks for all of your input!
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From: Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:36:33 GMT
Neil,
What do you mean "rerun"? you mean reboot? yes i did. i am still
cannot figure out what's going wrong in my system. help......
Dummy V
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 03:45:14 GMT, Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >Matt G,
> >
> > well, i followed the howto to add the append="hdd=ide-scsi"
> >into the line in lilo.conf. however, it doesn't seem to work for me.
the
>
> Did you rerun lilo after you did that?
>
> [deletia]
>
> --
>
> I am so optimistic about beef prices that I've just leased a pot
roast
> with an option to buy.
>
> Q: How do you know when you're in the <ethnic> section of Vermont?
> A: The maple sap buckets are hanging on utility poles.
>
> I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth.
> -- Neil Armstrong
>
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From: Gary Sandine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:01:46 GMT
Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Did you rerun lilo after you did that?
> What do you mean "rerun"? you mean reboot? yes i did. i am still
You have to let lilo know about the changes you made. By "rerun",
he means typing /sbin/lilo [enter] as root and watching lilo say
Added linux*
Added [other images]
Else, your changes to /etc/lilo.conf are unkown to lilo.
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From: Andrew Renalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Monitor Settings
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:26:34 -0500
Does anyone have the monitor settings for the Philips 109S monitor for
Red Hat Linux 6.2? I have tried almost every conceivable permutation
with Xconfiguation but X will not run. It complains about the monitor
settings. I will pay cash to anyone in the Chicago area (I live
downtown) to have someone come over and help me with this because it's
driving me nuts!
- Andrew
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From: Olivier Le Roy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: MAXI RADIO FM2 =?iso-8859-1?Q?support=E9?= sous linux
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:29:56 +0200
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Installer une carte MAXI RADIO FM2 de Guillemot.
On trouve beaucoup de ces cartes tuner bon march�.
Il n'y a qu'un seul chip sur les cartes MAXI RADIO FM2: Gemtek. Le
support est assur� par le driver video4linux radio-gemtek.
Les �tapes sont:
* V�rifier que bttv et radio-gemtek sont disponibles sous forme de
modules dans /lib/modules/.../misc, sinon les compiler en tant que
module ou compiler un noyau qui inclue ces drivers. Les
distributions Mandrake 7.1, Redhat 6.2 et Slakware 7.0 ont ces
pr�requis disponibles (test�).
* Noter l'adresse io indiqu�e par les cavaliers JP1, JP2. Ensuite
modprobe radio-gemtek io=0x34c (si les deux cavaliers sont en
place).
* Il est n�cessaire de cr�er un dispositif /dev/radio0 avec la
commande suivante: mknod /dev/radio0 c 81 64
* Un programme a �t� d�velopp� pour l'utilisation de tuners suport�s
par v4l, avec une interface graphique ayant l'aspet d'un tuner en
GTK,+ et ligne de commande, il s'agit de GRadio. GRadio est en
version 1.0.0 lanc� par: gradio -d /dev/radio0.
Le r�sultat est parfait.
--
Olivier LE ROY
Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cellulaire : 00 33 / 6 12 02 51 68
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<br>Installer une carte MAXI RADIO FM2 de Guillemot.
<p>On trouve beaucoup de ces cartes tuner bon marché.
<p>Il n'y a qu'un seul chip sur les cartes MAXI RADIO FM2: Gemtek. Le support
est assuré par le driver video4linux radio-gemtek.
<p>Les étapes sont:
<ul>
<li>
Vérifier que bttv et radio-gemtek sont disponibles sous forme de
modules dans /lib/modules/.../misc, sinon les compiler en tant que module
ou compiler un noyau qui inclue ces drivers. Les distributions Mandrake
7.1, Redhat 6.2 et Slakware 7.0 ont ces prérequis disponibles
(testé).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
Noter l'adresse io indiquée par les cavaliers JP1, JP2. Ensuite
modprobe radio-gemtek io=0x34c (si les deux cavaliers sont en place).</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
Il est nécessaire de créer un dispositif /dev/radio0 avec
la commande suivante: mknod /dev/radio0 c 81 64</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>
Un programme a été développé pour l'utilisation
de tuners suportés par v4l, avec une interface graphique ayant l'aspet
d'un tuner en GTK,+ et ligne de commande, il s'agit de GRadio. GRadio est
en version 1.0.0 lancé par: gradio -d /dev/radio0.</li>
</ul>
Le résultat est parfait.
<br>
<br>
<pre>--
Olivier LE ROY
Courriel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cellulaire : 00 33 / 6 12 02 51 68</pre>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: S3 Savage4 X-Windows problem
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:25:30 GMT
I am using the exact same video cards with the
exact same issues with Red Hat 7.0 you've
described. Everything works beautifully with RH
6.2.
Brett
In article <Uh2D5.947$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Kristoffer Vinther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I think I have the exact same problem using a
Savage 2000. Have you tried
> earlier versions of RedHat with succes?
>
> -KV
>
> "Rowdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I just downloaded and installed Red Hat 7.
> > I have a Diamond Stealth III S540 video card
(PCI),
> > based on the S3 Savage 4 chipset.
> > During installations, the screen already
looks garbled,
> > some parts of the screen keep repeating, and
when you use a scrollbar,
> > the new items just scroll over the old ones,
making everything
> > impossible to read. You should also not try
dragging a windows then ;)
> > But anyway, I continued with the install,
thinking the problem might
> > be over when installation was complete.
> > But the installation is complete, and when I
start XServer and GNOME
> > or KDE, the screen comes up good, but as soon
as I start dragging a
> > windows, or maximize it, or scroll down,
everything becomes garbled.
> >
> > Does anyone know this problem, and a
solution ?
> > My Savage4 card is detected correctly by
Linux, but it would appear
> > the drivers don't work well with my Diamond
card...
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Rowdy van der Veen
> > -
> > ICQ# 10612255
>
>
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Settings
Date: 09 Oct 2000 18:41:52 -0500
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 18:26:34 -0500,
>> Andrew Renalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Does anyone have the monitor settings for the Philips
> 109S monitor for Red Hat Linux 6.2? I have tried almost
This might be a good starting point:
http://www.monitorworld.com/
And from the horse's mouth:
http://www-eu.sv.philips.com/news/press/pr109s2int.html
hth
t
--
Namaste!
And an "oogabooga" to you too!
-- Homer Simpson
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes (was: Add SCSI support RH 6.2)
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:44:23 GMT
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 22:36:33 GMT, Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Neil,
> What do you mean "rerun"? you mean reboot? yes i did. i am still
>cannot figure out what's going wrong in my system. help......
Uhh, no. He means re-run lilo. I.e., /sbin/lilo at the command prompt.
This will re-write the boot sector with that nice new 'append=' parameter in
it. Otherwise all you've done is reboot with the same old stuff.
>
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 03:45:14 GMT, Siukong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> >Matt G,
>> >
>> > well, i followed the howto to add the append="hdd=ide-scsi"
>> >into the line in lilo.conf. however, it doesn't seem to work for me.
>the
>>
>> Did you rerun lilo after you did that?
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: Recommendation
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:45:39 GMT
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 00:38:58 GMT, olliecat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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 have an HP 9300i, and it works well under Windows NT, and Linux.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
To send me email, replace 'nospam' with 'home'.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Monitor Settings
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 23:56:03 GMT
Andrew Renalds wrote:
> Does anyone have the monitor settings for the Philips 109S monitor for
> Red Hat Linux 6.2? I have tried almost every conceivable permutation
> with Xconfiguation but X will not run. It complains about the monitor
> settings. I will pay cash to anyone in the Chicago area (I live
> downtown) to have someone come over and help me with this because it's
> driving me nuts!
>
> - Andrew
If you have XFree86 3.xx, try running XF86Setup. This has a choice of
generic monitor specs.
Chose 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz and see if it works. Turn it off quickly at the
test and try again.
If you have XFree86 4.0.x try running xf86config chose 5, 6, 0r 7 based
on the most basic info about your monitor. If not, chose 6 as above.
There is supposed to be a file with monitor info that comes with XFree86
4. I didn't get it. But, you can look for it at:
http://www.xfree86.org/
JRT
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From: Ken Feingold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 6.2 Souund Blaster PCI 128 Problem
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 20:09:25 -0400
The commercial driver from OSS works very well for this card -
http://www.4front-tech.com/
Marcel Massana wrote:
>
> I've tried it too, but it doesn't work. Thanks.
>
> Any other idea?
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ric Rivera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > See if you can make it use the 1370 driver instead of the 1371. I
> think
> > both chips were used in the PCI128 at one time or another.
> >
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bnchbrrs)
Subject: Re: CDROM burning
Date: 10 Oct 2000 00:05:18 GMT
I've also had several problems with xcdroast, so I tried some of the alternate
"front-ends". For the easiest in useability I recommend "Koncd", and "Gnome
Toaster". If these two "front-ends" give you problems as well, then you may
want to look into your cd-writer.
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From: James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adding a Windows hard drive
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:15:29 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have a machine that runs solely Redhat 6.1. It has a 9GB hard drive
> dedicated to Linux. Now I would like to add a second hard drive
> entirely dedicated to the latest version of Windows 2000. About 10GB
> would be fine. The question is, what steps do I have to take to add a
> second hard drive? I want it to boot into Linux by default or into
> Windows if explicitly stated.
>
> The reason is that my employer is requiring remote access for on-call
> work, and Linux is not supported. I have been given a SecureID key and
> I don't even know how to begin to configure Linux for remote access. I
> need this ASAP so it cannot turn into a 10 day project. :)
>
> I realize this is a FAQ question, so any pointers to web sites, etc.
> would be greatly appreciated. Also estimated cost for a SCSI hard drive
> + copy of Windows would be great.
>
> Ilya [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If you don't have a Master/Slave cable, jumper the new drive for Slave.
Plug in the same ide cable as your current drive.
If for some reason your ribbon cable only has one connector, buy a cable
with two.
If you have UDMA 66, be sure to get the special UDMA 66 cable (80
conductor, half are grounds).
Connect it to power. If necessary, buy a "Y" cable with Molex connectors.
Normally your current HD will be "hda", if so, the new drive will be
"hdb".
Boot the system. The new disk should be recognized at boot up.
Mount the disk and format it with fdisk (vfat partition)
Make a vfat file system on it.
Edit "lilo.conf"
Run "/sbin/lilo"
Install MS Windows.
At "pcprogress.com", a 10.2 MB will cost about $100.00 and they will sell
you MS Windows for about $100.00 if you buy a disk from them.
JRT
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: Anyone managed to get CD-writer to work?
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 00:22:41 -0000
On 10 Oct 2000 00:10:33 GMT, Bnchbrrs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I know this is going to sound like a silly question, but have you downloaded a
>good "front-end" for your Linux box? If not I recommend xcdroast,
>GnomeToaster, or Koncd. I've good results with all. Also, I'm surprised to
>hear that you rebuilt your Kernel. For the most part all of the latest
>distributions support cd-writing right out of the box. Good Luck.
However, the commandline utilties are still a good way to
diagnose things. How are the shiny happy tools when it
comes to diagnostics?
--
Recent research has tended to show that the Abominable No-Man
is being replaced by the Prohibitive Procrastinator.
-- C.N. Parkinson
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From: Oliver Battenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Debian: Problems accessing parallel port
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 02:23:00 +0200
Hi,
I have quite some problems accessing the parallel port under my Debian
2.2 installation. I started out with the printing howto, which suggests
to make a basic test "echo"ing something to /dev/lp0. My bash however
reports "/dev/lp0: No such device" (or lp1, etc. respectively).
The parallel port is an onboard port, BIOS setup 378h, IRQ7. I used
modconf to make the system load "parport_pc" (and parport) on bootup,
which works without error messages (the printer even makes a reset, when
the driver is loaded).
"cat /proc/parport/0/hardware" reports:
base: 0x378
irq: 7
dma: none
modes: SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2
Am I missing something ? The howto also suggests to add
===
alias /dev/printers lp # only for devfs?
alias /dev/lp* lp # only for devfs?
===
to modules.conf - which I did to no use. So how do I access my
printer/parallel port under Debian ?
TIA !
--
Ciao,
Oliver
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From: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:28:28 +1100 (EDT)
Reply-To: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: how add new hardware in linux
On Sun, 08 Oct 2000 22:53:38 GMT, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>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?
A trivial example, I admit, but when I changed video cards, I rebooted just
to see how RH 6.2 would cope. It found the change, asked if I wanted the
appropriate drivers installed - and then asked about monitors, etc.
Couldn't have been easier!
Shane Baker
Canberra - Australia's national capital
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From: Elliott Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Multiple SCSI adapters in the same system
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:39:23 -0700
I'm having a lot of trouble getting two SCSI host adapters to work in my
machine at the same time right now, and I'm sure it's something simple
to get going (after all, win98 could do it), and I was hoping someone
could help me.
I have two adapters, an Adaptec 2930CU and a Symbios 53c8xx, only the
adaptec one has a bios, plus it has all the hard drives. The driver for
the adaptec card is compiled into the kernel and the symbios number is
compiled as a module, the thing is when I try to load the module
sym53c8xx.o I get the error:
/sbin/modprobe /lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi/sym53c8xx.o
/lib/modules/2.2.17/scsi/sym53c8xx.o: init_module: Device or resource
busy
...I don't get it. I must be missing something basic. Anyway, any help
here would be awesome,
-Elliott
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From: Graham TerMarsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Distros that'll work with an AMD Duron 700Mhz???
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 01:23:12 GMT
We recently upgraded one of our machines here to a Duron 700Mhz running on
a QDI mainboard, and haven't been able to get a few recent Linux distros to
install reasonably on it.
RH6.2 installs but chokes constantly whenever we exit the X-server
(XFree-3.3.6, running on an S3V Trio64), and Linux-Mandrake 7.1 won't even
install on the system.
I know that this is a fairly "recent" system and as such the hardware
support in the kernels distributed with the distros aren't necessarily up
to date. Wanted to find out from others on this list who are running
Durons what distro they're running so that I can try to get this machine up
and going again.
--
Graham TerMarsch
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// Why do they call a fast a fast, when it goes so slow?
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From: "Matthew J. Bulfinch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and the Stealth III S540 video card
Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2000 21:22:00 -0400
Okay, I am confused here - I can start X fine, but I cannot EXIT X. Even if
I kill the server (CTRL-ALT-BSPACE) I get nothing. I have to hit reset and
let Linux yell at me for not shutting down. BIOS settings are generic, I'm
using the Soyo SY-6VBA 133 mainboard (Apollo Pro 133 chipset). Does anyone
have any ideas?
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