Linux-Hardware Digest #713, Volume #13 Thu, 12 Oct 00 03:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: LNE100TX...o.k., last time! (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Winmodem (Marcus Lauer)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes (Lawrence Houston)
Re: All in one printers (Grant Taylor)
Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mandrake 7.1 on an i815E board? (Ian Mac Lure)
grabbing AVI w/sound from an old Hauppauge and SBLive? ("R.K.Aa.")
Re: Aureal Sound Cards (J Wendel)
ATI Rage 128 Pro & Redhat 6.2 - Help (Sasha NoizGuild)
Re: Pinout for a serial-cabel for apc smart ups and powercute (Brent Willcox)
Re: IDE-SCSI woes ("R.K.Aa.")
Abit Vt6X4 m/b with ATI All in Wonder Pro 128 / 32mb ("Rick I")
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LNE100TX...o.k., last time!
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:27:44 -0700
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Michael W. Davis wrote:
>I bought the Linksys LNE100TX (version 4) solely because there is a "Linux
>Tested" sticker on the front of the box (and Linksys has been easy to setup
>in the past). I have tried RedHat 7.0 and Mandrake 7.0 installs on this
>computer (AMD K-6/2 500MHz). No luck configuring the card!!! Mandrake 7.0
>(Lothar) does not report a network card!
>
>I go to the Linksys web pages to get the 0.93 (or so) version of tulip.c. I
>try the commands they suggest (gcc...), but you need pci-scan.h and
>kern_compat.h (no problem...download them from www.scyld.com ) ...compile
>errors!!!
>
>Can someone show me how masterful they are with linux...and COMPLETELY spell
>out (A-Z) how to get this card recognized (/proc/pci does show the
>card...with unknown maker/type). Assume a brand new FULL install of RedHat
>7.0 or Mandrake 7.0.
>
I have Mandrake 7.0 and just installed one of these cards. Lothar
can't detect mine either, but it works. Here's what you do:
1) Get this file:
ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdriver-2.0-3.src.rpm
2) As root (login as root, or use "su"), install the file:
rpm -i netdriver-2.0-3.src.rpm
3) Go to the /usr/src/RPM directory
cd /usr/src/RPM
4) Type this:
rpm -bb SPECS/netdriver.spec
5) Next, type this:
rpm -i --force RPMS/i386/netdriver-2.0-*.i386.rpm
6) Next you either reboot (if you're new to Linux) or type "depmod -a" and then
"modprobe tulip". Either way, the card should be auto-detected next time you
boot the computer.
Marcus
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Winmodem
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:33:57 -0700
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 11:31:29 -0400, Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I'm unable to gat a winmodem on an IBM laptop to register with Redhat Linux
>>6.2. I was wondering if anyone has had similiar problems, and a solution.
>
>It's not a modem. It's a sound card with software to whistle like a modem.
>
>Get a real modem.
By which he means an external one, since as I assume we all know, there
aren't too many expansion slots in a laptop :)
Marcus
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From: Lawrence Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:36:33 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 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.
I was also unable to get the CD-Writing HOWTO's suggested Modules CONF
Entries to work under Red Hat 6.2??? I saw one posting suggesting
RH 6.2's "pre-install" directive is "broken", therefore I suggest Matt's
proceedure of running MODPROBE manually!
Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: All in one printers
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:32:35 GMT
"Noble Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> www.linuxprinting.org
Quite ;)
> "Philippe BLATIERE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would like to buy a new printer But I want it to have some
>> additionnal features : fax, copy, color scan
So the scoop on low-budget multifunctions is this:
- Some HP devices now more or less scan, I think.
- One or more Epson devices may also work.
- The devices, in general, are pretty mediocre.
As another poster said, you may be better off buying two or three
different things and have the added flexibility and capabilities that
will bring; especially for Linux use, where our choices are so
limited.
I'll be speaking at the Multifunction Periperal Association's annual
conference here in Boston in two weeks. Anyone can see the
presentation I will be giving; feel free to comment or make
suggestions. http://www.linuxprinting.org/mfpa.pdf
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AAAAaaaaarrrgggggghhhhh
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 04:47:32 GMT
Thank you, much appreciated!
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bernhard Mogens Ege <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>>> "xyz32" == xyz32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have been having the exact same problem you described. Thank you
for
> > posting how you fixed it. I will try to do the same thing. Could
you
> > please tell me how exactly you disabled the USB function in RH
Linux?
> > Thank you.
>
> I have disabled USB in the BIOS. Thats it. I guess it should be enough
> just not loading the drivers. Looking through /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit, I
> see that adding "nousb" on the lilo boot line should prevent loading
> of usb drivers. Also, in /etc/modules.conf, adding the line
> "alias usb-controller off" should also prevent usb from being loaded.
>
> So, 3 ways to disable usb in RH.
>
> I hope this helps.
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard Ege
>
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From: Ian Mac Lure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 7.1 on an i815E board?
Date: 12 Oct 2000 05:06:18 GMT
BloodRed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Is there any problem with this combo? When I try to boot into LM 7.1, all I
: get is "LI" on the screen. I went through the help docs and found this:
: ****
: LI
Indeed there is trouble.
I only got that particular error after an install ( one of
many attempts ) crapped out at the Lilo stage.
My setup is an 815E M/B with a 30G Maxtor IDE drive and
a Matrox G400 32MB AGP video board.
It also doesn't like:
RH6.2
RH6.0
SuSe6.1
Slakware 4.0
Caldera ( forgot the release )
Debian ( from the Linuxcare Bizcard CD )
In short it does not like Linux AT ALL!
I putzed about with the BIOS.
I've selected less video RAM than I've got ( 16 instead of
32 ).
I've played with partitioning.
And its not just one of the boxes. I've had at 3 of them so
far to no avail.
Failures are many and varied the most annoying being when it
croaks/hangs/reboots near the end of package installation.
It matters not whether I install graphically or in text mode.
The damned machine won't install Linux.
Mind you it will install Windoze 2K but thats beside the point
other than telling me the components are more or less working.
This particular board is giving me severe heartburn and I have
some 20 of the things to deal with. Now it may in fact be
something unrelated to the board per se like the X server but
I'm leaning toward the board itself as the culprit.
What's really annoying is that I didn't get to spec the boxes
and the motherboard was chosen on the recommendation of a
Windoze junkie.
And, while I'm venting, how about RedHat. H/W Compatibility
Lists inaccessible since at least last Friday and forget
about writing up a trouble ticket from their website. Now
I'm prepared to make allowances for the crap storm resulting
from the RH7.0 release but somebody screwed up major league
fashion in their support department. Needless to say this
is going to color my view of their product.
I'm also not terribly happy about the problems I had trying
get RH6.2 to install and run on a dual CPU (733MHZ) gift
horse I received last week. Finally gave up and tried a
copy of Mandrake 7.1 I brought from home. Surprise, surprise
it now works ike a charm. Unfortunately now I have to install
Windoze 2K on hda and isn't that going to be fun.
There, I feel much better now.
Some of you are no doubt asking why hasn't he tried RH7
which is fair enough. Lets just say I am captive of a
procurement process which can only be described as severely
disfunctional.
--
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* No Times Like The Maritimes *************************************
* Opinions Expressed Here Are Mine. That's Mine , Mine, MINE ******
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From: "R.K.Aa." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: grabbing AVI w/sound from an old Hauppauge and SBLive?
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 07:17:44 +0200
Has anyone succeeded capturing avi files with sound (mono) with an
old'ish mono Hauppauge WinTV/PCI (801?) and a SBLIve 1024?
Been trying to use xawtv's inbuilt avi capture feature, and also
"streamer", without any success:
Every time i try to capture with sound, the app becomes inresponsive to
further input and has to be killed.
The avi-file will grow and grow untill app is killed, and aborting it
all of course corrupts the file.
-Recording avi-files from xawtv or streamer *without* sound works just fine.
-Recording sound from xawtv with Gnome Sound Recorder works works just
fine as well. (Using "line" as device.)
I have tried everything that can possibly be recorded from of devices,
via both kmix and gmix, to see if that could be the error, but no go -
it freezes regardless.
Both sound and image keeps on running OK, but the app becomes
unresposive to keyboard input, so i can't terminate the recording.
the mixer in ~/.xawtv is:
mixer = line
Version of xawtv currently 3.21, but had the problem in 3.18 as well.
System: RH6.2 with all upgrades, ps/2 logitech scrollwheel, an external
modem, a Viper v500 PCI in an ASUS P2B-F. No radio, no lirc. Keyboard is
a ps/2 logitech thing set up as a normal 102 key keyboard.
Is it a PCI related problem, or a known problem with old bttv and emu10k1?
Or rather..Is the some sneaky workaround for lazy grabbers with
module-angst?
--
R.K.Aa.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Wendel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Aureal Sound Cards
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:23:47 GMT
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000 10:42:45 -0700, me <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The folks over at SourceForge have improved the Aureal driver, and
>their modified version is supposed to work much better. You can get
>the modified driver, and information abvout it, here:
>
>http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/
>
>I am currently having trouble getting it installed under RedHat 7, but
>that may be a problem just with that distribution. The SourceForge
>driver apparently works great with RedHat 6.2, and many other
>distributions.
>
>PS - Anyone know how to make the driver work under RedHat 7?
>
I've tried the SourceForge version of the driver under 2.2.17 and
2.4.0-test9. In both cases, it worked fine when running without X, but
the computer locked up totally while I was resizing a window under X.
I'm running X 4.01 with a Voodoo Banshee, on an AMD K6-III.
Any advice will be greatly appreciated.
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sasha NoizGuild)
Subject: ATI Rage 128 Pro & Redhat 6.2 - Help
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 05:27:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Just installed Redhat 6.2 on Dell T650R and I have trouble with the
ATI Rage 128 Pro, my machine recognizes this as "ATI Technologies Inc
Rage 128 PF".
I cannot initiate a the X Server. I don't know why. Can you help me.
I think I need the higher version of X86Free. Perhaps 4.0.1.
Sasha
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brent Willcox)
Subject: Re: Pinout for a serial-cabel for apc smart ups and powercute
Reply-To: [email protected]
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 06:18:48 GMT
On 6 Oct 2000 17:50:49 GMT, S.Wirth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>hallo ...
>
>I look for a pinout for a cabel, so I can use the smart-ups 420 with linux
>and powercute plus. apc says, the ups works with the cabel #940-0024c. If you
>can help me, send the pinout for this cabel to my mailaddress.
>
>thank's s. wirth
Been here, done that, except mine's a SMART-UPS 1000. Look around on
http://www.exploits.org/ for something called NUT (Network UPS Tools),
one of the links has a JPEG of the so-called "smart" cable diagram.
Aha, here's the link---
http://www.exploits.org/nut/library/940-0024C.jpg
Built two different cables and my UPS is working great. Also a friend is
using another of my cables with Powerchute and the built-in UPS support
of Windows 2000 (also by APC) with the same cable.
Good luck!
--
Brent Willcox
Univ. of North Texas
mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "R.K.Aa." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IDE-SCSI woes
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 08:50:54 +0200
Lawrence Houston wrote:
> Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : 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.
>
> I was also unable to get the CD-Writing HOWTO's suggested Modules CONF
> Entries to work under Red Hat 6.2??? I saw one posting suggesting
> RH 6.2's "pre-install" directive is "broken", therefore I suggest Matt's
> proceedure of running MODPROBE manually!
>
> Lawrence Houston - ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I run RH6.2, and this is what i found was the easyest approach:
Add this in /etc/conf.modules
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
pre-install sg modprobe ide-scsi
pre-install ide-scsi modprobe ide-cd
(in the first like, let the device (here hdc) be the one that origially
was your own assigned IDE device)
Then, create (or add to) a file called rc.modules in /etc/rc.d/
modprobe -t scsi sg.o
modprobe -t block loop.o
modprobe -t scsi ide-scsi
do a chmod ugo+xr on it, as it is a script. This is in accordance with
the permission policy on the other files in /etc/rc.d/
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit looks for this file, and will load the modules
listed in it if it exists. (It doesn't exist by default on a clean RH6.2
install.)
The other "modules" you need are already in the kernel.
If you do as above, and have linked /dev/cdrom to the correct device,
and edited /etc/fstab and afterwards ran /sbin/lilo, the next time you
boot the CD-R/W should be immediately accessible. And mountable, if you
intend to read CD's. THe only "oddity" i found was that when i preload
all modules, the gnome applet "cdplayer" will attempt to hold on to the
CD device, so in order to eject a data CD after unmounting, i have to
use the eject-button on cdplayer. No big deal. (Btw.. In case you use
gnome applets, remember to remove and add them again so they "see" the
new scsi device, or they'll think it's still the old IDE disk.)
I made a quick and dirty variant of the script to load and check modules
with (as listed in the CD-burner howto)
Requires cdrecorder installed.
Call it "drivertest", set access to u+x and run it as root from anywhere
with ./drivertest
Not flawless but it works. (it checks for a little too much, that's all,
but the paths weren't quite Redhat'ish in the original on web.
Do COMPARE it to the listing on web if you aren't sure what this does.
Never run strange stuff found in mailing lists before you know what it
does. You'll find that all i've modified is removing lines or adding paths.
test `whoami` = 'root' || echo "You must be root to execute the commands."
cdrecord -scanbus > /dev/null
if ! (/sbin/pidof kerneld || test -f "/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe"); then
echo "Neither kerneld nor kmod are running to automatically load
modules".
fi
report_no_autoload() {
echo "Ensure the module $1 is loaded automatically next time."
}
if test ! -f "/proc/scsi/scsi"; then
report_no_autoload scsi_mod && /sbin/insmod scsi_mod
fi
if ! grep "^........ sg_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then
report_no_autoload sg && /sbin/insmod sg
fi
if ! grep "^........ sr_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then
report_no_autoload sr_mod && /sbin/insmod sr_mod
fi
if ! grep "^........ loop_" /proc/ksyms > /dev/null; then
report_no_autoload loop && /sbin/insmod loop
fi
if ! grep iso9660 /proc/filesystems > /dev/null; then
report_no_autoload iso9660 && /sbin/insmod iso9660
fi
echo "The following is only needed for IDE/ATAPI CD-writers."
if ! grep ide-scsi /proc/ide/drivers > /dev/null; then
report_no_autoload ide-scsi && /sbin/insmod ide-scsi
fi
cdrecord -scanbus
Hope this helps.
R.K.Aa.
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From: "Rick I" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Abit Vt6X4 m/b with ATI All in Wonder Pro 128 / 32mb
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 23:50:37 -0700
I'm having great difficulties configuring Xwindows to even get proper vga16
on this video card. I've installed Mandrake 6.5. Also using an old Samsung
SyncMaster 3Ne monitor. Is there a new driver for the video card, and if
so, where do I find it, and what settings do I need in the config file for
sync values. I briefly had X up, but it was hanging off the bottom of the
screen. Thanks.
Rick
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