Linux-Hardware Digest #355, Volume #14 Fri, 16 Feb 01 13:13:08 EST
Contents:
help needed to recognize ethernet card (richard noel fell)
Re: help needed to recognize ethernet card (Michael Heiming)
Re: Getting a faster IDE controller (Toby Haynes)
Re: help needed to recognize ethernet card (Kevin Embree)
Re: intel 810 chipset (tam)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (jtnews)
Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000 (Tor Houghton)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Chris Pitzel)
Re: ethernet card problem (jtnews)
large hard disk (Kostis Mentzelos)
Q: Epson Stylus Color 680 ("Javier Conti")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Jean-Francois Landry)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (jtnews)
Re: can't cat to /dev/lp0 (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (jtnews)
Re: can't cat to /dev/lp0 (Tom Law)
Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000 (Tor Houghton)
Re: Linux solutions for VoIP and text editors (Wilhelm Wienemann)
Re: DVD decoder: software vs. hardware (Alan Jones)
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From: richard noel fell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: help needed to recognize ethernet card
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:21:04 -0500
I am using redhat 7.0. My ethernet card is not recognized upon boot.
Earlier versions of redhat did recognize the existence of the card,
although I did not use it for anything. Since I am having a cable modem
connection installed, it is essential that I am sure my system will
recognize the card. However, I am absolutely clueless how to do
this. To compound the problem, I am not even sure what type of card is
installed. I think it is a 3Com.
So, I must resolve this before I have the cable man come. Any help
is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Dick Fell
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From: Michael Heiming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: help needed to recognize ethernet card
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:21:58 +0100
richard noel fell wrote:
> I am using redhat 7.0. My ethernet card is not recognized upon boot.
> Earlier versions of redhat did recognize the existence of the card,
> although I did not use it for anything. Since I am having a cable modem
> connection installed, it is essential that I am sure my system will
> recognize the card. However, I am absolutely clueless how to do
> this. To compound the problem, I am not even sure what type of card is
> installed. I think it is a 3Com.
You think?
Obviously we can't look in your machine, open it and look which chipset
sits on your NIC!
Provide some more info, in order to make it possible for others to help
you.
What says
dmesg
lspci
cat /proc/pci
>
> So, I must resolve this before I have the cable man come. Any help
> is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Dick Fell
Is your card metioned in some kind of hw DB, asuming RH should have one,
as I use
SuSE, where you can get this info on their site, if some component will
run or not.
Good luck
Michael Heiming
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Getting a faster IDE controller
Date: 16 Feb 2001 10:13:38 -0500
On 14 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> The system is seldom under 100% CPU load, and when it is, it's usually
> not bound by disk access. And besides, if striping causes significant
> CPU overhead, the md code needs to be rewritten from scratch (unless
> I'm missing something big, it should take only a few instructions to
> translate md-accesses to device-accesses).
>
> % time hdparm -tT /dev/md0
> [...]
> real 0m29.671s
> user 0m0.220s
> sys 0m7.550s
>
> % time hdparm -tT /dev/hda
> [...]
> real 0m30.635s
> user 0m0.210s
> sys 0m8.880s
>
> Not quite the results, I expected, but they certainly support my
> claim about not being bound by CPU power. (Note, btw, piss-poor
> times, for both; about 3.5MB/s.)
Umm - are you running in 16bit no UDMA no nothing more by any chance? 3.5MB/s
is pretty typical for the lowest of the low.
Find out what your discs claim to be able to support with
/sbin/hdparm -i /dev/hda
IF your system supports it, take it down to single user mode and try turning
everything on (the christmas tree setting!) and redo your tests
Something like
hdparm -c3 -d1 -X66 /dev/hda
to enable 32 bit I/O, DMA and multiword DMA mode 2 transfers. You might even
investigate multisector I/O mode.
BEWARE: you can hang your machine solid by setting these settings. Don't
experiment if someone else is depending on your machine (thats why you should
be in single user mode).
Once you have your settings sorted and you have tested them a bit, stick the
hdparm line in rc.local to have the settings active on every boot (but after
fsck - setting dodgy disc settings before fsck'ing the drive is asking for
trouble).
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
--
Toby Haynes
The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
not necessarily reflect those of IBM Canada.
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From: Kevin Embree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: help needed to recognize ethernet card
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 15:26:34 GMT
You may have to re-compile a new kernel that has a driver for your card.
To do this you will need to know what card it is. If you open up your
machine you may be able to read the chipset model. That should be enough.
If you have never compiled a kernel before read up on it. I found the
kernel how-to to be pretty good.
This is what I would do. There may be an easier solution.
richard noel fell wrote:
> I am using redhat 7.0. My ethernet card is not recognized upon boot.
> Earlier versions of redhat did recognize the existence of the card,
> although I did not use it for anything. Since I am having a cable modem
> connection installed, it is essential that I am sure my system will
> recognize the card. However, I am absolutely clueless how to do
> this. To compound the problem, I am not even sure what type of card is
> installed. I think it is a 3Com.
> So, I must resolve this before I have the cable man come. Any help
> is greatly appreciated.
> Thanks,
> Dick Fell
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From: tam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: intel 810 chipset
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2001 00:04:29 +0800
I had the same problem as yours. After upgrading to XFree86 4.0.2 X ran OK
again. I think the old X server doesn't work with the 2.4 kernel.
Good luck.
LYT
van Duivenvoorde wrote:
> I have a dell optiplex gx 100 system with a intel 810 chipset for video. I'm
> running mandrake 7.1 and I have a weird problem.
>
> After editing the XFconfig file myself because mandrake didn't detect the
> card at all I have a fine running X system when using the standard kernel
> 2.2.15. I want to use the 2.4.1 kernel, but when boot that one X starts
> whining that it doesn't know the intel chipset while I do have the right
> drivers.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Marc
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:00:54 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Oh great! Thanks for your input!
I'll give my old Adaptec 2940 another chance
in my Dell Dimension L700cx then!
I hope I can get it working somehow! I thought the old
Adaptec 2940 couldn't keep up with the processor for
some reason but your experience seems to indicate
otherwise.
Tony wrote:
>
> Part 1.1 Type: Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding: 7bit
> jtnews wrote:
>
> > I'm at a crossroads now and I need some opinions
>
> >
> > 90Mhz machine with an Adaptec 2940. However, the
> > 90Mhz machine is too slow now and I want to use
> > a 700Mhz machine. The Adaptec 2940 card will no
> > longer work in the new system.
>
> I do not agree, I'm using the Adaptec 2940 in a Pentium III
> 800Mhz connected to a CD-ROM, CD-RW, a Zip 250 and
> an HP Scanjet 3c, all working perfectly. BTW until recently
> I used to hang two SCSI2 drives from the same card, I since
> switched to an IBM EIDE.
>
> Why do you think it wont work?, is it not supported in Linux?.
>
> Also don't give up the Scanjet 3c, it's a great scanner (one
> of the VERY few things that HP managed to do well).
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From: Tor Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:12:38 +0000
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Dean S. Messing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I have a Dell Inspiron 5000 (not 5000e) running Linux
> > Mandrake 7.1 with a 1400x1050 pixel 15" screen. The
> > video card is an
> >
> > ATI 3D Rage P/M Mobility AGP 2X
> >
> > with 8MB memory. I'm running XFree86-3.3.6 Mach64
> > server patched with Steve Hsieh's patches according to
> > the various Linux on Laptop HOWTOs for the I-5000. I'm
> > using vga=2 in the lilo.conf file as required.
> >
> > For the life of me, I can't get 1280x1024 to run on
> > this thing---which I need for presentations. I always
> > get a distored wrapped-around image. 1400x1050,
> > 1024x768, and 800x600 work fine.
> >
> > Have tried `xvidtune', read ESR's video HOWTO, &c.,
>
> I have a 5000e, but things are mostly similar. You need XFree86
> 4.0.2, or a patched XFree86 4.0.1 to get this working properly.
> Redhat 7 comes with a patched XFree86 4.0.1 which works. Mandrake 7.2
> comes with an XFree86 4.0.1 which doesn't work, at least on mine, but
> if you replace /usr/X11R6/lib/somepathIdontremember/r128_drv.o with a
> newer one (like from RedHat), it works.
>
Interesting.
What package owns this file? My Mandrake 7.2 install claims no packages
own /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
If I grab a RH7.0 RPM, which one should I get?
I am getting fed up trying to rebuild the MDK 7.2-cooker SRPMS from
scratch (seems I have problems installing the Glide RPMS, which are
needed for a compile).
Hm, any help appreciated!
Tor
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From: Chris Pitzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 16:20:21 GMT
..
> ?I'm at a crossroads now and I need some opinions
> ?on whether or not I should abandon SCSI or
> ?continue to invest in the technology.
>
> That's a growing question. The latest rumors are that Plextor will not do
> its 16X burner in SCSI and IF true then the likely marks the beginning of
> the end for SCSI on single user workstations.
"the end"? How many workstations do you know of that *don't* come
equipped with SCSI? I can only think of the Ultra10 at the moment, and
most buyers of those throw the IDE drive out and buy SCSI drive anyways.
In other words, think before you open your mouth.
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:25:34 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ethernet card problem
kudzu, the hardware detection tool, may have
misidentified the driver.
You should probably try the 3c90x driver.
You can go into /etc/modules.conf
and make sure you have something like
alias eth0 3c90x
in there. Alternatively, you can
use linuxconf to change the kernel module
for eth0.
fgrep 3C905 /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c*.c
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c90x.c: 3C905C Family and 3C920 ASICs
EtherLink 10/100 PCI including
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c90x.c: 3C905B Family and 3C918 ASICs
EtherLink 10/100 PCI including
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c90x.c: 3C905B-COMBO EtherLink 10/100
PCI COMBO
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c90x.c: 3C905B-T4 EtherLink 10/100
PCI T4
/usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c90x.c: 3C905B-FX EtherLink 100 PCI
Fiber
jim wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> A networking/ethernet card config problem:
>
> I have installed Mandrake on a machine which has what Windows called a
> "3Com Etherlink 10/100 PCI for Complete Pc Management NIC (3C905C-TX)."
> However, on startup Linux identifies it as "3Com 3c905C Tornado" and gives
> the error "***INVALID CHECKSUM 002f***".
> It identifies the card as being at 0xd800 with IRQ 10, which is what Windows
> thought too.
> The driver installed is 3c59x.c and the card is installed (term?) as eth0.
>
> When I try to use dhcpc to configure networking, it times out. I take it
> this is due to the ethernet card not working - is this correct?
> If so, what do I need to do to get it working? Bear in mind that I don't
> know anything about Linux - for example, which files control the
> configuration of the card.
>
> Is there a HOWTO/troubleshooting guide for this type of thing?
>
> Thanks.
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From: Kostis Mentzelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: large hard disk
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 18:38:37 +0200
I have installed a large ide disk
(Quantum Fireball plus AS 20.5 GB)
into an old ALTOS 7000.
This system does not have ide controller so I install one.
(I took it from an old 386 system, it is a common multi IO
card that I have disabled floppy, game, serial and parallel ports.)
The disk seemed to work fine but one day it lost the partition table.
(after one week of non stop operation.)
How did that happent?
I am using linux SuSE 5.3 2.0.36
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From: "Javier Conti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: Epson Stylus Color 680
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:46:21 +0100
Hi, does anyone here has a fully working Epson Stylus Color 680?
Mine works but when I try to use the 670 driver (from the gimp) to use
720x720 dpi it prints a very blurred image.
Is someone aware of a 680 specific filter? or a driver for the gimp?
thanks, av
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jean-Francois Landry)
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 11:50:14 -0500
Once upon a time, jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm leaning towards dumping all my SCSI devices.
>I've been looking at the tech specs for USB
>and it appears to be more promising than SCSI,
>even though with USB 2.0 you only get 60MB/sec instead
>of 160MB/sec with SCSI-3.
*Ahem*
You're confusing megabits with megabytes here. SCSI-3 will do 160
megabytes/sec. I haven't heard of USB 2.0, but the current one does 12
megabits/sec. And actually, you can't possibly get all the bandwitdh, so
expect a max of about 900 kilobytes/sec with that. If and when USB 2.0
comes (and new hardware takes advantage of it) it will probably support
60 megabits/sec. So, about 7.5 megabytes/sec. In practice probably 7
megabytes/sec max. That's slower than the cheapest SCSI you can buy. The
current USB is pretty much 160 times slower than SCSI-3, so you might
want to reconsider.
BTW, can't you buy a SCSI-2 controller? Doesn't need to be Ultra-Wide
either to drive tape drives and scanners. It would be pretty good for
just about any hard drive out there too.
Jean-Francois Landry
--
"Down, not Across"
The official ASR motto
--
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:06:26 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Is this book wrong?
My reference is
Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing PCs 12th edition,
Que 2000, pg. 946.
"USB 2.0 is a backward-compatible extension of the
USB 1.1 specification that uses the same cables,
connectors, and software interfaces, but that runs
40 times faster than the original 1.0 and 1.1 versions.
...
Table 16.10 USB Data Rates
--------------------------------------------------
Megabits Megabytes
Interface per Second per Second
--------------------------------------------------
USB 1.1 low speed 1.5Mbit/sec 0.1875MB/sec
USB 1.1 high speed 12Mbit/sec 1.5MB/sec
USB 2.0 480Mbit/sec 60MB/sec
-------------------------------------------------- "
Jean-Francois Landry wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm leaning towards dumping all my SCSI devices.
> >I've been looking at the tech specs for USB
> >and it appears to be more promising than SCSI,
> >even though with USB 2.0 you only get 60MB/sec instead
> >of 160MB/sec with SCSI-3.
>
> *Ahem*
> You're confusing megabits with megabytes here. SCSI-3 will do 160
> megabytes/sec. I haven't heard of USB 2.0, but the current one does 12
> megabits/sec. And actually, you can't possibly get all the bandwitdh, so
> expect a max of about 900 kilobytes/sec with that. If and when USB 2.0
> comes (and new hardware takes advantage of it) it will probably support
> 60 megabits/sec. So, about 7.5 megabytes/sec. In practice probably 7
> megabytes/sec max. That's slower than the cheapest SCSI you can buy. The
> current USB is pretty much 160 times slower than SCSI-3, so you might
> want to reconsider.
>
> BTW, can't you buy a SCSI-2 controller? Doesn't need to be Ultra-Wide
> either to drive tape drives and scanners. It would be pretty good for
> just about any hard drive out there too.
>
> Jean-Francois Landry
>
> --
> "Down, not Across"
> The official ASR motto
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: can't cat to /dev/lp0
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:07:37 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Law wrote:
>Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Law wrote:
>> >I can't get my printer to print to my Canon BJC-2010 from either of my
>> >new RH6.2 installations: my router or my (dual-booting) laptop. The
>> >laptop WILL print to it when booted into Win98, and the router WILL
>> >print to it when I boot it from a Win98 hard drive. In both Win98s, the
>> >IRQ is automatically set to "7".
>> >The following info is also true for both machines:
>> >------------------
>> >- after booting up, there is nothing about parport or IRQ7 showing in
>> >the /proc directory.
>> >Is that normal?
>> >-------------------
>> >- But after I try a 'cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0' (which produces NO
>> >response from the printer), I _do_ find a /proc/parport directory, with
>> >an '0' directory, containing 4 entries. The 'hardware' entry shows
>> > base: 0x378
>> > irq: 7
>> > dma: none
>> > modes: SPP,PS2
>> >When I run 'dmesg', I see
>> > parport 0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
>> > parport 0: Printer, Canon BJC-2000, and
>> > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
>> >Does all that look reasonable? Or should there be a setting for the
>> >dma?
>> >--------------------
>> >My /etc/conf.modules file contains the lines
>> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc and
>> > options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7,auto
>> >
>> >What should I now try? I've run out of ideas.
>> >
>>
>> In your "cat" test, try:
>>
>> echo -e "\f"
>>
>> Right after you execute your "cat" command.
>>
>> See if that works. If not, we'll have to think of something else :-/
>
>Thanks, but still no luck. I know I'm doing (or not doing) SOMETHING stupid,
>but I can't figure it out.
>I tried:
>echo -e "\f"
>echo -e "\f" > /dev/lp0
>echo -e \f > /dev/lp0
>echo -e '\f' > /dev/lp0
>(did a "cat testfile > /dev/lp0" before each one, too)
>
Tom,
If anything would work, the echo -e "\f" should have done it.
I'm not extremely familiar with the BJC-2010. I've read that the
BJC-2000 can be configured as if it were a BJC-600 under Linux.
That tells me that the BJC-2000 is not a Windows-only printer.
I'm assuming the BJC-2010 is basically the same thing but I
don't know 100% (perhaps a check of the Canon web site would
tell).
Anyway, does the printer accept a plain text file if you boot
into a DOS command prompt (assuming you're set up to do this)?
>If I do a "cat /dev/lp0" I get:
>#DWS:NO;DOC:4,00,NO;DSC:NO;DBS:NO;
>
>What might that indicate?
>
This is a IEEE-1284 compliant printer, so this is likely some
information coming from the printer port using this
protocol. I don't know what the symbols mean specifically.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===========================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:20:17 -0500
From: jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Incidentally, another reason why I think
USB is more promising is that its serial
nature makes it a good candidate for
fiber optic extension. Imagine
using USB protocol with dense wave
division multiplexing (DWDM) to get very high
data rates. If you design the USB software
drivers right on both ends you could conceivably
construct a dynamically scalable USB device
network. If you need more bandwidth
you just upgrade DWDM transceivers where you
need them along the USB chain.
jtnews wrote:
>
> Is this book wrong?
>
> My reference is
>
> Scott Mueller, Upgrading and Repairing PCs 12th edition,
> Que 2000, pg. 946.
>
> "USB 2.0 is a backward-compatible extension of the
> USB 1.1 specification that uses the same cables,
> connectors, and software interfaces, but that runs
> 40 times faster than the original 1.0 and 1.1 versions.
> ...
>
> Table 16.10 USB Data Rates
> --------------------------------------------------
> Megabits Megabytes
> Interface per Second per Second
> --------------------------------------------------
> USB 1.1 low speed 1.5Mbit/sec 0.1875MB/sec
> USB 1.1 high speed 12Mbit/sec 1.5MB/sec
> USB 2.0 480Mbit/sec 60MB/sec
> -------------------------------------------------- "
>
> Jean-Francois Landry wrote:
> >
> > Once upon a time, jtnews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >I'm leaning towards dumping all my SCSI devices.
> > >I've been looking at the tech specs for USB
> > >and it appears to be more promising than SCSI,
> > >even though with USB 2.0 you only get 60MB/sec instead
> > >of 160MB/sec with SCSI-3.
> >
> > *Ahem*
> > You're confusing megabits with megabytes here. SCSI-3 will do 160
> > megabytes/sec. I haven't heard of USB 2.0, but the current one does 12
> > megabits/sec. And actually, you can't possibly get all the bandwitdh, so
> > expect a max of about 900 kilobytes/sec with that. If and when USB 2.0
> > comes (and new hardware takes advantage of it) it will probably support
> > 60 megabits/sec. So, about 7.5 megabytes/sec. In practice probably 7
> > megabytes/sec max. That's slower than the cheapest SCSI you can buy. The
> > current USB is pretty much 160 times slower than SCSI-3, so you might
> > want to reconsider.
> >
> > BTW, can't you buy a SCSI-2 controller? Doesn't need to be Ultra-Wide
> > either to drive tape drives and scanners. It would be pretty good for
> > just about any hard drive out there too.
> >
> > Jean-Francois Landry
> >
> > --
> > "Down, not Across"
> > The official ASR motto
> > --
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From: Tom Law <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: can't cat to /dev/lp0
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 12:33:59 -0600
Mark Bratcher wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Law wrote:
> >Mark Bratcher wrote:
> >
> >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tom Law wrote:
> >> >I can't get my printer to print to my Canon BJC-2010 from either of my
> >> >new RH6.2 installations: my router or my (dual-booting) laptop. The
> >> >laptop WILL print to it when booted into Win98, and the router WILL
> >> >print to it when I boot it from a Win98 hard drive. In both Win98s, the
> >> >IRQ is automatically set to "7".
> >> >The following info is also true for both machines:
> >> >------------------
> >> >- after booting up, there is nothing about parport or IRQ7 showing in
> >> >the /proc directory.
> >> >Is that normal?
> >> >-------------------
> >> >- But after I try a 'cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0' (which produces NO
> >> >response from the printer), I _do_ find a /proc/parport directory, with
> >> >an '0' directory, containing 4 entries. The 'hardware' entry shows
> >> > base: 0x378
> >> > irq: 7
> >> > dma: none
> >> > modes: SPP,PS2
> >> >When I run 'dmesg', I see
> >> > parport 0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2]
> >> > parport 0: Printer, Canon BJC-2000, and
> >> > lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven)
> >> >Does all that look reasonable? Or should there be a setting for the
> >> >dma?
> >> >--------------------
> >> >My /etc/conf.modules file contains the lines
> >> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc and
> >> > options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7,auto
> >> >
> >> >What should I now try? I've run out of ideas.
> >> >
> >>
> >> In your "cat" test, try:
> >>
> >> echo -e "\f"
> >>
> >> Right after you execute your "cat" command.
> >>
> >> See if that works. If not, we'll have to think of something else :-/
> >
> >Thanks, but still no luck. I know I'm doing (or not doing) SOMETHING stupid,
> >but I can't figure it out.
> >I tried:
> >echo -e "\f"
> >echo -e "\f" > /dev/lp0
> >echo -e \f > /dev/lp0
> >echo -e '\f' > /dev/lp0
> >(did a "cat testfile > /dev/lp0" before each one, too)
> >
>
> Tom,
> If anything would work, the echo -e "\f" should have done it.
>
> I'm not extremely familiar with the BJC-2010. I've read that the
> BJC-2000 can be configured as if it were a BJC-600 under Linux.
> That tells me that the BJC-2000 is not a Windows-only printer.
> I'm assuming the BJC-2010 is basically the same thing but I
> don't know 100% (perhaps a check of the Canon web site would
> tell).
I _used_ to be able to print to it, in a previous RH6.1 installation. But that
was admittedly mostly printing from Windows, via Samba.
> Anyway, does the printer accept a plain text file if you boot
> into a DOS command prompt (assuming you're set up to do this)?
I'll boot from a DOS floppy and try that.
I'm no DOS-person, so I gotta ask: would I just type
' type testfile > LPT: ' ?
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From: Tor Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:30:27 +0000
Ok, I know it is bad to reply to one's own postings, but..
Tor Houghton wrote:
>
> Interesting.
>
> What package owns this file? My Mandrake 7.2 install claims no packages
> own /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/drivers/r128_drv.o
>
> If I grab a RH7.0 RPM, which one should I get?
>
I found the right one, but MDK doesn't like the drivers. X claims it is
compiled for the wrong version and halts.
Grr. I guess tarballs it is, then.
Tor
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From: Wilhelm Wienemann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux solutions for VoIP and text editors
Date: 12 Feb 2001 20:20:16 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Wienemann)
John Vorstermans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> informed
comp.os.linux.hardware with the following:
> In comp.os.linux.networking V.G.Guhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So far I have not yet found any packages for VoIP clients for Linux.
>
> Have a start at
> http://www.openh323.org/
> http://www.linuxtelephony.org/
> http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+voip
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/VoIP-HOWTO.html
> http://www.voxilla.org/
Beside the above URLs you can also look at:
http://www.telos.de/linux/H323/
http://www.opengatekeeper.org
http://www.willamowius.de/openh323gk.html
http://www.openphone.org
http://bayonne.sourceforge.net
http://www.vovida.org
http://www.quicknet.net
http://www.speakfreely.org
bye - Wilhelm
--
>>>>>>>>> Wilhelm Wienemann, Amselweg 10, D-47546 Kalkar/Germany <<<<<<<<<
==========>>>>> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <<<<<===========
"And since you are the future keepers of everything, including music, we
hope you will keep it well, with love, and in joy." (Frederick Fennell)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan Jones)
Subject: Re: DVD decoder: software vs. hardware
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 17:33:01 GMT
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001 01:45:14 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] () wrote:
>>Also, even if you are a total DVD newbie (e.g., me), installation and use
>>of a well-packaged product such as the Sigma Designs Hollywood Plus is
>>fairly straightforward.
>
> ...assuming your OS supports it.
What can you say specificaly about such hardware and software under
Linux? BTW, I have a dual Celeron 300/450 system. Using Linux, is the
dual CPU of much use in playing a single movie with software decoder
for DVD, DivX, MPEG4, etc.?
> Even DVD acceleration support for common video cards is a lot
> more widespread. A lot more people have and are intrested in
> the Matrox G400 than the Hollywood+.
>
> This is pretty much true accross platforms.
What is DVD acceleration in video cards, and what is special about the
G400 for DVD playback? Would something from the GeForce family work
as well? Some video cards have built in DVD decoders. Do they work
well, and with Linux? Is ther suitable supporting Linux drivers and
software?
I'm just getting into video on the computer. I'm in the market for, a
video card, sound card, etc. I was actualy leaning towards a G400 AND
a Hollywood +. I think the Hollywood + is worth the cost for DVD and
MPEG-2 playback. but it does nothing for DivX/MPEG-4 formats, which
are becoming more common, and I'm not sure I want to give up a slot.
I'm not going to buy a huge moitor, but TV out might get some use.
I just recently instaled the DivX decoder in Win98 and I'm amazed that
I can view medium format DivX using an old 1M ISA video card and
single CPU at 300Mhz.
Alan Jones
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