Linux-Hardware Digest #101, Volume #14 Fri, 29 Dec 00 21:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: CD Burner ("Tran Zient")
Timer triggered on serial port activity ("Theo van der Merwe")
Modems & Printers.... ("LUELLA J KAZNAK")
Re: A good place to buy components? (Mark Post)
please help me get my modem working ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices? (Dances With Crows)
CDR Compatability - MMC? (Hans Russell-Egbert)
Re: Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ? ("lobotomy")
Re: Mice under Linux (wynn winkler)
Re: ASUS A7V UDMA installation problems ("Brian Morrison")
Re: Matrox G450 and Xfree86 question (Paul-Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F6rr=F6nen?=)
Re: How to configure a NIC in RH6.2?? (Bit Twister)
Re: CDR Compatability - MMC? (Dances With Crows)
Re: Timer triggered on serial port activity (CBFalconer)
Re: Is this DO-able? (Young4ert)
Intel 815EEA Board ("Vish P. Satya")
Nvidia driver w/ 2.4 (JH)
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From: "Tran Zient" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.admin
Subject: Re: CD Burner
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:14:06 -0700
"Bill Unruh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:92ir4u$7e3$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Oliver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
>
> ]Jimmy Gagnon wrote:
>
> ]> > >I would like to know how I could install and use a CD Burner as a CD
ROM
> ]> > >like on Windaub?
>
> ]Basically you will follow these steps:
>
> ]1. Get SCSI working if you don't already (yes, even if you don't have a
> ]SCSI card)
> ] This is done by recompiling your kernel--not hard. This creates the
> ]ide-scsi module
>
> aaaargh. No. almost nothing requires recompiling the kernel. ide-scsi is
> included in all distros I know of. Telling him to recompile his kernel
> is BAD advice. He is much more liable to mess something up than to fix
> anything (especially something which is not broken in the first place)
>
Humm, well i don't know. My distro (RH 6.2) didn't come with it
(and i re-compiled my kernal and got it---and it's now working great
on stuff that i couldn't copy on my Win Me machine)
>
>
> ]2. Set up your symbolic links appropriately:
> ] ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdburner
>
> ]3. Set up lilo to make the kernel use ide-scsi:
> ] append=" mem=256M hdb=ide-scsi hdc=ide-floppy"
> ] (hdb is my cdburner, this causes it to be /dev/scd0)
> ] (hdc is a zip drive so I use the ide-floppy kernel module)
>
> ]4. Get cdrecord:
>
> ]http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/glone/employees/joerg.schilling/priva
te/cdrecord.html
>
> ]5. Get xcdroast:
> ] http://www.xcdroast.org/
Only works if your X sees an 800X600 graphics device.
>
> ]You should be good to go!
>
> ]For more information (this helped me a great bit) see the CD-Writing
> ]howto at
> ] http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-1.html
Yeah,....well!!
See ya
Tran
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From: "Theo van der Merwe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Timer triggered on serial port activity
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:10:46 +0200
I would like to implement a very accurate timer on a Linux machine. The
exact time between a series of trigger pulses on the serial port is desired
(the time between pulses would typically be larger than 10 ms -
milliseconds). Can you provide me with feedback on:
1) What timing accuracy can be achieved with a standard PC?
2) How can I minimize the delay from activity on the serial port to
processing of the serial data under Redhat Linux (e.g. a realtime kernel
patch)? What would typical delay times be?
3) How would one log the time between pulses (activity on the serial port)
accurately under Redhat Linux? I am only interested in the time between
pulses, not the exact time the pulses occur (unless the delay in processing
is too long of course).
Best regards,
Theo van der Merwe ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: "LUELLA J KAZNAK" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modems & Printers....
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 15:01:24 -0700
I'm current writing within Windoze because I just recently found out that my
computer manufacturer put a Conexant WIN MODEM as my modem. If anyone knows
where to get a hardware based, 33.6-56k(Preferably) modem for under 20 bucks
(I'm a student, I have a low budget), it'd be appreciated.
Now, to address my second problem
I got a brand spankin' new HP DeskJet 842C for Christmas, and it's not
working under Linux. A linux driver for my printer would be great.
Thank you,
Steve Kaznak
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post)
Subject: Re: A good place to buy components?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:11:28 GMT
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:47:07 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Any suggestions on a good place to buy components for a new
>"build-from-scratch" computer project? I'm trying to find a single site to
>order everything from as ordering parts from 3 or 4 different suppliers will
>be annoying on several levels, but so far I've only found a few of the things
>I'm looking for at each site.
-snip-
Before you buy from _anyone_, go to http://www.resellerratings.com/ and
research what other consumers experienced with that vendor. I personally
won't buy from anyone that doesn't have a reasonable rating on the site.
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]
Subject: please help me get my modem working
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 22:42:05 GMT
<< previous � next in search >>
Hi, I'm a linux newbie (there's always one, isn't there?) trying to get
his modem
up and running. I've figured out the serial port number, set up minicom
at pretty
standard settings, but when I go to the main terminal screen I don't
seem to be
able to type anything, including AT. The keyboard hasn't frozen, and
neither has
the program-I can still get the help screens up, but still I cant get
the damn thing
to respond. I've tried Gnome-PPP as well, and again there seems to be
no
response from my modem (Diamond Multimedia SupraExpress 56e/i Pro)-no
dial tones or anything. Has anyone got any ideas? Thanks
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Can I use more than 4 IDE devices?
Date: 29 Dec 2000 23:20:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 09:45:00 GMT, Phillip Deackes staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>I am using the 2.2.18 kernel and currently have two hard drives on the
>first IDE controller and a CDRW and CDROM on the second. I also have an
>internal zip drive I would like to use. Is there any way I can connect
>it to my system without losing any of the other devices?
Is there another IDE port on the board? If so, you can do this.
Plug the ZIP drive into this 3rd IDE port and look for the drive on
/dev/hde or /dev/hdf . If there isn't another IDE port, you will have
to go buy an IDE controller card. You can get UDMA/33 PCI IDE cards for
relatively cheap ($30-40 US) and Linux works with almost all of them.
IDE only supports 2 devices per channel. Always has, and it won't
change until Serial ATA becomes the new standard, and possibly not even
then. If you need lots of devices hanging off one machine, then SCSI is
the only way to fly.
--
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: Hans Russell-Egbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDR Compatability - MMC?
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:36:58 -0700
I'm considering buying a CDR, but have some compatability concerns (I
don't want to have to return the damn thing...). So, anyway, the
CDR-Howto states that any MMC-compliant CDRs will work. Does anyone
know what this means? Or how I might check?
Thanks
Hans
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sounblaster Live on kernel 2.2.18 ?
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:35:09 GMT
The snd-card-emu10k1 driver sounds like an alsa driver. ALSA is a more
advanced sound card interface currently in development, which SuSE
includes in their distribution. You can get the latest driver source
from www.alsa-project.org, compile that against the new kernel, and you
will have the driver you were using before.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hans Nelisse"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
>
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Fugutech = Hi Sing = Houston = Hsing Tech = H Tech = Matsonic = Minstaple =
PCWare = Pine = Protac = QDI = Warpspeed
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (wynn winkler)
Subject: Re: Mice under Linux
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 23:48:16 GMT
Linux X comes from www.xfree86.org - beyond that there are
the linux help sites, and you may be eligible for RH support.
My knowledge is limited - I have set up several Linux systems
and the mouse/keyboard have always been no-brainer select-from-
lists and they worked right off, so I never studied the details.
Then I tried to get the new
Microsoft Optical Trackball (usb&PS/2 connectors) working under
SuSE 6.4 and had major problems and finally gave up. SuSE has
big config utilities that lets you select from lists to set
things up throughout the system. With the Optical Trackball on
the PS/2 connector it
would set the /etc/XF86Config pointer Device to /dev/mouse
which was symlinked to /dev/psaux. I read somewhere that
the kernel is automatically supposed to find and configure
the ps/2 ports/devices during boot. For the XF86Config pointer
Protocol I would first try "Microsoft" which is the
microsoft serial protocol and, I think, applies even when
going in through the PS/2 connector, although I haven't
tried that connector with the expert mouse. Apparantly,
using the PS/2 connector does not require the Protocol to
be set to "PS/2" (which is the other setting I would
recommend trying if "Microsoft" fails). I couldn't find
documentation as clear as I needed on this stuff, and these
are educated guesses from several hours of hacking on it.
As I said, it does work to put the expert mouse on COM1,
set XF86Config pointer Device to /dev/ttyS0 and Protocol to
"Microsoft" - with no other parameters in the pointer subsection.
You might try that just to be sure it works, and we're not
missing some other config settings that RH needs. HTH.
"tayker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It was working on my 3 other computers, in WinME, Win98, WinNT 4.0 and
>Win2000. I don't use the serial port for it, I use the PS/2 port. I disabled
>my serial ports to free up IRQs. Would you know where I can go to find out
>about all the mouse settings in X? It seems that maybe that only one axis is
>enabled. Thanks for the response
>
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From: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V UDMA installation problems
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:19:02 +0100 (BST)
Reply-To: "Brian Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 03:18:17 GMT, Vladimir Danishevsky wrote:
>I have problems to install Linux (RedHat 7.0) on ASUS A7V motherboard with
>Promise UDMA controller on board. Installation program does not see hard
>drive and installation does not go through. I installed using onboard IDE
>controller but did not find way to make it work with UDMA. Any suggestions?
I did this by:
Placing disk on ATA66 bus, then setting BIOS for UDMA mode 2 (ATA33).
After that you need either a 2.4.0-test kernel or the IDE backport
patch for 2.2.18 obtainable from www.linux-ide.org.
HTH
--
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the sickle-sharp boar tusks he used for defacing Readers' Digest....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul-Erik =?iso-8859-1?Q?T=F6rr=F6nen?=)
Subject: Re: Matrox G450 and Xfree86 question
Date: 30 Dec 2000 00:17:30 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 10:33:16 -0800 Eugene Wu wrote:
>Does the new Matrox G450 Dual head w/ 16MB memory work w/ an VIA dual
>Intel processor motherboard work w/ Xfree 3.3.5?
There seems to be some sort of driver, see
http://www.matrox.com/mga/support/drivers/3rd_party/home.cfm
for more information.
I've rolled a new version of Xfree86-4.0.1 for the Redhat-7.0 with the
dual-head support and the RAMDAC of the second head tweaked to 230 MHz so
3200x1200@24bit can be used.
The Xfree86 was changed according to AnandTech's guide (who also used the
4.0.1) http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1322&p=1 with the exception of
setting the value to 230000 instead of 200000.
The packages can be found here: http://gothic.777-team.org/Software/RH/
Poltsi
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+358 424 1624 204 | Linux made Linus Torvalds a rock-star.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bit Twister)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How to configure a NIC in RH6.2??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 00:18:33 GMT
You can use /usr/sbin/netconfig pop in initial network values
then you can use linuxconf to configure the network.
On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 16:19:51 GMT, Bo Berglund <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just installed RH6.2 after a disk crash that destroyed my previous
>RH5.2 installation. This is not the first time I have installed RH6.2
>but it was a while ago....
>Now I have this problem:
>I have 2 NIC:s in the PC and I must now configure the IP addresses of
>them. There was no dialogue in the setup sequence where I could do
>that so it has to be done manually.
>In earlier situations I think I remember I used the command netcfg to
>bring up a program screen where I could configure these details.
>But on this system when I type netcfg in a command window in KDE
>nothing happens, or really a sequence of error messages pop up ending
>with 'No such file or directory'
Yes, running Mandrake and had to do a custom install
to get the other tools like netcfg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: CDR Compatability - MMC?
Date: 30 Dec 2000 00:50:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 21:36:58 -0700, Hans Russell-Egbert staggered into
the Black Sun and said:
>I'm considering buying a CDR, but have some compatability concerns (I
>don't want to have to return the damn thing...). So, anyway, the
>CDR-Howto states that any MMC-compliant CDRs will work. Does anyone
>know what this means? Or how I might check?
If it's SCSI, it should work. If it's IDE and it was made after about
Jan. 1999, it is most likely mmc-3 compliant. mmc-3 is a standard that
specifies how certain peripherals like CD-RWs should work. Anyway, it
is very likely that a randomly selected IDE CD-RW will work. When my
Philips 460 suffered mechanical failure, I went to the store and bought
the cheapest model they had (Cendyne RW7063A) and it worked without me
changing anything at all.
Last I heard, there were some problems with the Iomega ZipCD and a
couple of Sony drives, but haven't heard much about those lately.
Bottom line: It will probably work.
--
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: CBFalconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Timer triggered on serial port activity
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 01:24:21 GMT
Theo van der Merwe wrote:
>
> I would like to implement a very accurate timer on a Linux machine. The
> exact time between a series of trigger pulses on the serial port is desired
> (the time between pulses would typically be larger than 10 ms -
> milliseconds). Can you provide me with feedback on:
>
> 1) What timing accuracy can be achieved with a standard PC?
>
> 2) How can I minimize the delay from activity on the serial port to
> processing of the serial data under Redhat Linux (e.g. a realtime kernel
> patch)? What would typical delay times be?
>
> 3) How would one log the time between pulses (activity on the serial port)
> accurately under Redhat Linux? I am only interested in the time between
> pulses, not the exact time the pulses occur (unless the delay in processing
> is too long of course).
You can't do this in any reasonable operating system, even a RTOS
(where there is a maximum time to notice an event specified, but
not a guaranteed time).
Your best bet is to build an interrupt driven driver outside the
OS, and arrange it to run on a high priority interrupt. Even this
won't guarantee that something else doesn't disable interrupts
some time, unless you use the NMI. The driver should notice the
time (from a dedicated hardware timer - same reason) in a buffer.
Now other code can access the buffer and read back the event
times. This portion can run under the OS in a normal fashion.
You can also build hardware that does the same thing, has its own
FIFO buffer, and can be unloaded as a normal device. Probably the
best solution. A single PIC could probably handle it (well, maybe
two to avoid collisions between unloading and events). About $20
parts cost.
You failed to specify the time resolution needed, which is a
critical parameter.
--
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this DO-able?
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 01:40:25 GMT
Steve wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Dec 2000 14:27:58 GMT, Young4ert wrote:
> >
> >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.
>
> Have a look through the archives of comp.os.linux.announce, the has been
> programs mentioned in there that seem to do roughly what you want.
>
Thank you for your response. I went tp the comp.os.linux.announce and
there were a bunch of software releases. Could you kindly be more specific
on which package I should be looking? TIA.
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From: "Vish P. Satya" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Intel 815EEA Board
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 10:40:48 -0800
Wondering about the compatibility of Intel 815EEA Desktop Motherboard with
p3. Did anyone install linux redhat on it? whats the Graphics and network
card selection during installation for the onboard supported graphics and
network ports?
GReatly appreciate any input you could provide.
Thanks in advance.
Vish
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From: JH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Nvidia driver w/ 2.4
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 18:06:33 -0800
I'm trying to compile the NVidia video card kernel drivers under the
2.4.0-test12 kernel, and it seems to do fine except that insmod gives a
bunch of unresolved symbols errors
text data bss dec hex filename
387725 26944 40 414709 653f5 NVdriver
depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in /lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
mem_map_inc_count
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
mem_map_dec_count
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
put_module_symbol
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: unresolved symbol
get_module_symbol
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver failed
/lib/modules/2.4.0-test12/video/NVdriver: insmod NVdriver failed
make: *** [package-install] Error 255
Is this just me not upgrading to the kernel properly, or is the module just
not going to work period?
- Josh
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