Linux-Hardware Digest #98, Volume #14 Fri, 29 Dec 00 10:13:08 EST
Contents:
make work a winmodem under mdk 7.2 ("jules")
DSL Availability In Your Area? .................... 5vdNWWAt
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Mice under Linux ("tayker")
Re: win98 runs slow after reinstall of eDesktop 2.4 (Howard C Johnson)
Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ? (Hans Nelisse)
IBM serveraid driver: more info? (Holger Marzen)
most robust 100Mbit NIC? (Paul Fox)
VMWare = Swap space on Host Linux and paging space for Guest OS (Subba Rao)
Is this DO-able? (Young4ert)
How to get asus agp v7100 to work? ("Xochipilli")
Re: most robust 100Mbit NIC? (Michael Heiming)
Linux and ATI Radeon DDR 32M Card ("A7V")
Re: Shifted print page on LaserJet 1100 (Julie Brandon)
Re: Shifted print page on LaserJet 1100 (Julie Brandon)
Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment? (Julie Brandon)
Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment? (Julie Brandon)
Re: Strange Reporting of Free Space on the HDD (Julie Brandon)
Re: ASUS 7100 DVI and SGI 1600SW, success (Julie Brandon)
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From: "jules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: make work a winmodem under mdk 7.2
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:13:22 +0100
I'm just trying to install the driver for my pci connexant.
I used the drivers found on http://www.eastwind.com.au/pctel.htm.
For kernel versions 2.2.15 or later (only 2.2.x kernels supported): mine is
k 2.2.17-21.
http://members.nbci.com/netllama/pctel_hsp.o
http://members.nbci.com/netllama/pctel_pci.o
I followed the instructions and advises found on
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001214060900 (put the files
/dev/modem and /dev /ttyS15 to the basket, actually) and it finally appeared
the
modules had been loaded.
BUT, the use of kppp still indicates "modem buzy"
I use the mdk 7.2 and the initial link to /dev/modem was to /ttyS3 (that i
had to modify).
Any idea of what to do
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Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:24:26 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DSL Availability In Your Area? .................... 5vdNWWAt
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From: "tayker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mice under Linux
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 12:37:45 GMT
I have a kensington expert mouse trackball, and I have Mandrake Linux 7.2,
and when I installed it, the default mouse driver
was working. When I rebooted, the cursor only moves up and down along the
edge of the screen. I don't know where to begin, any help is greatly
appreciated. The only time I ever had it working was under Red Hat 6.0, this
problem also happens under Storm, Turbo, and Slackware.
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From: Howard C Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: win98 runs slow after reinstall of eDesktop 2.4
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 13:41:52 GMT
If you look at "my_computer" >properties>performance you may see that you
are now using 16 bit compatibility on the hard disk. If so:
this seems a problem in the PCI controller -- Linux to work must set
Serialize IDE. AND windows to work with 32 bit drivers must NOT set
Serialize.
Look at regedit:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CURRENTCONTROLSET\SERVICES\VXD\IOS
if there is a key called NOIDE -- its the problem. remove it, shut down,
Power OFF! WAIT then reboot windows. This is taken from a Microsoft
advisory.
Howard Johnson
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alfia wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> After reinstalling the eDesktop 2.4, everything on the win98 partition
> seems running very slowly. I wonder if the reinstallation of linux has
> somehow affected the way win98 retrieve data on the hard drive.
> The scenario of my hard drive is shown as follow:
> 3 OSs are on a 10.2GB hard drive. They are win98 (32-bit, 5GB), Corel
> linux (1.5GB), and Caldera eDesktop 2.4 (3.5 GB). Win98 is a primary
> partition. The two linuxs are in separate logical partitions within an
> extended partition.
>
> Could anyone explain to me why it happen? and how to solve the problem.
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Alfia
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From: Hans Nelisse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:04:23 GMT
I have a problem installing the soundblaster drivers in linux (kernel
2.2.18). I started with 2.2.16 and there they worked fine, but i had
to upgrade to 2.2.18 because of a network card problem.
In 2.2.16 there was a driver called snd-card-emu10k1, in 2.2.18 there
isn't. There is however a driver called emu10k1. But i cant get it to
work with this one.
I tried to copy the old driver to the 2.2.18 folder, i tried hacking
the version number of the old driver, i tried renaming the emu10k1
driver to snd-card-emu10k1, i tried fiddling with the modules.conf,
but nothing worked. Linux keeps complaining that it cant load
snd-card-emu10k1.
Or could it be the Yast program from Suse 7.0 ?
Any ideas?
Hans
--
http://users.bart.nl/~hneel/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Holger Marzen)
Subject: IBM serveraid driver: more info?
Date: 29 Dec 2000 13:46:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can I get more infos from that driver, eg. failed disks?
Info from /proc/scsi/ips/0 does not show that kind of info.
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From: Paul Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: most robust 100Mbit NIC?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:14:34 GMT
it's been a while since i've looked at NICs, or the linux enet
drivers, very carefully.
i want to switch to 100Mbit around my house (2 servers, 3 or 4
diskless clients), and i have wiring that uses cat-5 parts, and was
installed by yours truly (i.e. i tried to be careful, but this isn't
my day job).
is there a NIC/driver combo i should look at that's more tolerant of
suspect wiring?
(and given that i'd be replacing all of my NICs at once, cost is a
minor, but not overwhelming, consideration as well.)
paul
=---------------------
paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Subba Rao)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: VMWare = Swap space on Host Linux and paging space for Guest OS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:28:48 GMT
Hello
I am planning to install VMWare on a Linux Host and have WindowXX as guest
systems. The question before the installation is, do the guest operating
systems use the host systems swap space? Do I need to create a swap partition
like /dev/hdxx, for each guest OS?
Any experiences and ideas appreciated.
Thank you in advance.
Subba Rao
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pws.prserv.net/truemax/
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is this DO-able?
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:27:58 GMT
Hi,
I have an Aplio/Phone unit that requires a standard PPP connection. These
days, most Free ISP only support Windows and Mac platforms (not Linux).
Alternatively, since I have a Linux machine with a 56Kbps analog modem and
it is currently connected to the Internet by means of the cable modem, I am
thinking to connect my Aplio/Phone to the Internet through my Linux
machine. This will definitely save me at least a telephone line with a
cleaner and clearer connection. The scenario can be summarized as follows
(knowing most 56Kbps modem has an input (Line) and output (Phone) RJ
connectors):
1. Setup the Linux box with a PPP account (done).
2. Let the modem "Line" open, i.e. do not connect it to the phone line.
3. Connect an Aplio/Phone unit to the modem's "Phone" in-let.
4. Setup the Linux box to generate the dial tone for the modem on its
"Phone" in-let.
5. Setup the Aplio unit to detect the dial tone (otherwise, it will not
dial) and dial any number (can be a one digit or any number of digits), and
have the Linux box detect such a tone to launch a PPP connection between
the Aplio/Phone unit and the Linux box. If the Aplio/Phone unit does not
need to detect a dial tone, then a Linux machine with a PPP account is
sufficient in the sense to let the Aplio/Phone dial the number and have the
Linux machine detect the such a tone on its modem in-let.
The question I have is if the items #4 and #5 are do-able under Linux? If
so, can anyone please at least help me in this matter? TIA.
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From: "Xochipilli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to get asus agp v7100 to work?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:53:12 +0100
Hy@all
I have a asus a7v mainboard a wdc and a seagate hd, and the big problem a
asus V7100 graphic-card with 32mb sdram and gforce2MX.
How to get it to work under SUSE Linux 7.0?
The both x-window server not work with this graphic card!
Please help me!!!!!!!!
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: most robust 100Mbit NIC?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 17:02:18 +0100
Hello,
I would consider NICs with an RTL8139 chip, they are cheap, very
reliable and
have good drivers, made by Donald Becker (NASA), this driver were made
for the beowulf project.
For more info:
http://www.scyld.com/network/
Good luck
Michael Heiming
Sysadmin
Paul Fox wrote:
> it's been a while since i've looked at NICs, or the linux enet
> drivers, very carefully.
>
> i want to switch to 100Mbit around my house (2 servers, 3 or 4
> diskless clients), and i have wiring that uses cat-5 parts, and was
> installed by yours truly (i.e. i tried to be careful, but this isn't
> my day job).
>
> is there a NIC/driver combo i should look at that's more tolerant of
> suspect wiring?
>
> (and given that i'd be replacing all of my NICs at once, cost is a
> minor, but not overwhelming, consideration as well.)
>
> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "A7V" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux and ATI Radeon DDR 32M Card
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 08:55:42 -0600
I installed RedHat 7.0 on my computer with ATI Radeon DDR 32M card and
Xconfigurator can not detect the video card and use VGA_16. The graphic is
very bad. What driver shall work? I try Mach64 et. al, but does not work.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: Shifted print page on LaserJet 1100
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:42:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:54:55 -0800, Thomas Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>I've set up my LaserJet 1100 as a PostScript printer on Redhat 6.1.
>When I print, pages appear "shifted" upwards about an inch towards the
>top of the paper. This cuts off the top part of the text on the
>document. My printcap file is listed below. Anyone have any
>suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Do you get exactly the same when you lpr
/usr/lib/rhs/rhs-printfilters/testpage.ps? That should have an exact
boarder around the edge. If you could measure exactly how much it is out,
it'll probably make stamping out the cause of the problem a little easier --
especially if it is a page size issue.
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: Shifted print page on LaserJet 1100
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:40:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:54:55 -0800, Thomas Bell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>I've set up my LaserJet 1100 as a PostScript printer on Redhat 6.1.
>When I print, pages appear "shifted" upwards about an inch towards the
>top of the paper. This cuts off the top part of the text on the
>document. My printcap file is listed below. Anyone have any
>suggestions? Thanks in advance.
Page size issues perhaps? Are you sure ghostscript itself is rendering for
the correct page size. (Being in the UK I usually find I have to edit
gs_init.ps to change the default page set to A4, perhaps you need to do
something vaguely similar for your relevant page size?)
Ta-ra,
Julie
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment?
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:46:39 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:18:52 -0700, D. Stimits ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>Instead try setting the serial port to match the current PCI card
>values. E.G.:
>setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 9 spd_normal
>skip_test
>OR
>setserial -v /dev/ttyS2 uart 16550A port 0xafe0 irq 17 spd_normal
>skip_test
>
>Depending on how I boot up, I use one of those two, since the two
>configurations set up the modem differently. Instead of fighting the PCI
>slot I set COM3/ttyS2 to match the modem.
A bit dangerous, as if anything with your PCI configuration changes I would
imagine that the IO addresses and possibly the IRQs chould change?
A neater solution might be to use the latest serial driver from
serial.sourceforge.net (which is what I did in the end, after initially just
using the above type of technique)?
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: PCI configuration in Linux 2.2.18 : IRQ assignment?
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:50:27 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 20:14:05 -0700, D. Stimits ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>That's something which might mean the particular card does not have an
>ability to reassign the particular irq or resource. There are a lot of
>pci devices out there that simply don't allow but a minimal set of
>resource values. You might temporarily see if it makes any difference to
>set your bios to "o/s IS plug-n-play aware". This will of course break a
>lot of other pci configurations, but I am thinking of that more as an
>experiment.
I'll probably not bother this time around as I'd rather not risk mucking up
the config without reason (i.e. if it works, don't fix it *8-) ) as I've had
a good few of weeks of doing some serious reconfiguration et-al and all
presently appears to work nicely (touch wood). However (and this is pushing
my memory somewhat) I gave up as when I had a look at the various kernel
sources I think got the impression that for those lines simply just writing
to those registers was not enough -- other resources no problem, but not
interrupts .... BUT my memory is very hazy on this and it was very late at
night!
Ta-ra,
Julie
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Subject: Re: Strange Reporting of Free Space on the HDD
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:59:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 28 Dec 2000 23:59:18 GMT, Dances With Crows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>benefit from the reserved blocks with "tune2fs". "man tune2fs" and
>remember to mount the partition read-only before you tune2fs it. HTH,
Ah yes, that begs a question -- so *is* it actually fairly safe to use a
tune2fs on a partition that is mounted, but has remounted read-only?
Presently got our fsck remount count limit very low (about 3) on all our
partitions as we've been using a new HD. Touch wood, all appears to have
been behaving so I'd like to increase the count again, but haven't done so
yet 'just in case' it was iffy to do so on a read-only mounted fs as the man
page for tune2fs said not to do it on mounted partitions. I couldn't see
why it could hurt doing relatively passive non-structure-changing ops on a
read only fs, but I haven't wanted to take the risk without checking!
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: ASUS 7100 DVI and SGI 1600SW, success
Date: 29 Dec 2000 14:53:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:44:12 +0100, Oliver Stahlhut ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
said:
>Hi there!
>
>As some people are interested in success stories concerning the SGI
>1600SW Flatpanel, I thought I should mail my (working) configuration:
>
>* ASUS 7100 GeForce2 MX graphics with DVI connector
>* SGI 1600SW flatpanel (res: 1600x1024)
>* SGI multilink box (MLA) - you need this for a DVI connection
>* SuSE Linux 7.0 with XFree86 4.0.1 and NVidia drivers (nvidia.o kernel
>module)
>
>Here is the magic modeline (it's the same that is used for the Number
>Nine Revolution card ...):
>
>Modeline "1600x1024" 103.125 1600 1600 1656 1664 1024 1024 1029 1030
>
>During and after the boot process / Linux installation the screen is a
>bit messed up with missing lines, "ghost" pictures, etc. but it's o.k.
>for the console mode and boot messages, etc. - that means text is
>readable ;) ... but the 1600x1024 resolution is fantastic - well, and
>that's the reason we bought the panel, isn't it ?
>
>Hope this helps others to get a cool setup, too ;)
Assuming there's an appropriate framebuffer device, you could perhaps have
your cake and eat it... why not convert the modeline into a framebuffer
device suitable one, and use framebuffer console -- then you'll get
decent console ttys as well.
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
+++ See homepage for details of my present E-Bay auctions +++
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