Linux-Hardware Digest #376, Volume #14 Tue, 20 Feb 01 17:13:13 EST
Contents:
Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama (Pankaj Chauhan)
isdn via serial terminal (German Telekom) (Oliver Kastner)
IBM TokenRing PCMCIA Card ("Andreas Nauerz")
Re: CDROM and Mandrake 7.2 (Frederic Hugot)
Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem (Henrik Carlqvist)
Re: RH 7.0 with a 3Com 3c509 ISA network adapter. (Matthew Kilbride)
Re: ide-scsi problem after upgrade ("jujubeesRULE")
Re: How to test Connectivity? (John-Paul Stewart)
Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Replicate/Clone RH6.2 Linux (Steven Conway)
Re: IBM TokenRing PCMCIA Card (Mike Phillips)
Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem (Eric Ho)
Re: Velocity 100 & Linux ("lobotomy")
which CD-RW on sco unix for cdrecord? ("gdm")
Re: Canon S400 and Linux (Toby Haynes)
intel pro/100+ server network card (bluto)
Re: How to test Connectivity? (Eric P. McCoy)
Joystick in X ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Lilo scsi problems (Tywon)
Re: ttyS0 vs cua0??? (M. Buchenrieder)
ATA cable length ("lewis e. lipkin")
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) (Philippe Massicotte)
Re: ttyS0 vs cua0??? (Neil Cherry)
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From: Pankaj Chauhan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: replacing startx with startx -- +xinerama
Date: 20 Feb 2001 11:49:56 -0500
I think this is a better solution
edit /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf
there is an entry for X server, just pass xinerama or whatever option
to it.
>My problem however is that right now my etc/inittab file has me going
>to only run level 3. if I change this value to 5, the systems takes
>me to a graphical logon..but with only one monitor. My guess is that
>the system is still strying to run startx as opposed to startx --
>+xinerama. Where
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From: Oliver Kastner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isdn via serial terminal (German Telekom)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:02:10 +0100
Hello everybody,
"Deutsche Telekom" sells isdn-analog terminal adapters with built-in
isdn-card under the name 'eumex 504'. You may connect to it via an
usb-port (I don't have one on my computer), or by the use of the serial
line port (UART 16550). So I have to learn how to connect my linux-box
to this external terminal.
Is there anybody having some experience to this setup, or at least can
give me
hints where to find _explicit_ information how to handle isdn-terminals
via the serial line?
Thank you in advance
&
Best regards
Olli
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From: "Andreas Nauerz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: IBM TokenRing PCMCIA Card
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:05:38 +0100
Hi,
I've got a IBM Turbo 16/4 TokenRing PC Card 2 in my Thinkpad 570.
I use SUSE Linux 7.0 with Kernel 2.2.16.
This card does not work, I tried a lot, but no chance...
Has anybody got an idea ?
In fact the cardmanager realizes the card but during booting I get a message
like
get dev info no such devive failed
Thanks for your help.
With best regards
Andreas
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From: Frederic Hugot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CDROM and Mandrake 7.2
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:15:51 +0100
Greetings,
> >I cant seem to access audio cd's from either my cdrom or my cdrw. Data
> >cd's will open and display fine but neither the root acct or my personal
> >acct can access audio cd's... any help would be greatly appreciated. TIA
Did you by any chance install automount ?
It nukes the direct hardware access.
Ie., your basic CD reading with xmms or other.
Actually, it only mounts the cdrom for itself, and monitors it. As audio CDs
are not a valid filesystem, it does nothing. But keeps the hadware, just in
case
a real CD appears.
A nice toy, but the price is a bit high.
Plus, I don't really see how you can have decent caching with automount.
Just drop it (automount).
Cheers.
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From: Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 20:30:22 +0100
Eric Ho wrote:
> Anyway, every time I re-run LILO, it gives the following error :
> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
LILO is unable to boot from your secondary IDE controller.
> Will it solve the problem if I make the 13G hard disk
> Primary Master ?
Yes. However, it would also help to make it your primary slave.
regards Henrik
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From: Matthew Kilbride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: RH 7.0 with a 3Com 3c509 ISA network adapter.
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 10:41:27 -0800
Manfred....
Can you elaborate on the part about a problem with the 3c509 with 2.4.x? I'm using
that
card. Is it just that card or a 3c503 as well? I have posted my issue below under
"dual-nic failure based on ip settings." Another person replied to my issue saying
that
he's got identical symptoms and also has no answer...
Thanks,
Matt
Manfred Bartz wrote:
> "John Peterson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I am pulling my hair out trying to install Red Hat Linux 7.0
> > on a Dell Dimension XPS P133c with 98MB RAM.
>
> Which version of the kernel? I think there is a problem with
> 3c509 in 2.4.x
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From: "jujubeesRULE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ide-scsi problem after upgrade
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 18:53:54 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "David Tiselius"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Mark Bratcher wrote:
>
>> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Tiselius wrote:
>>
>>> After an upgrade from a RH6.2 system to the fisher beta (kernel 2.4)
>>> my IDE cdroms cant be mounted. I have one RO and one CD-R and they
>>> both worde fine under 6.2. I think scsi-emulation is compiled with
>>> the fisher kernel.
>>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Can you confirm this? I'm not sure what the upgrade will assume about
>> your devices.
>
> Hi!
>
> I thought that the lsmod showing the sr_mod and scsi_mod loaded and the
> dmesg "hdc=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup:
> hdb=ide-scsi "-part was confirmation of this. But I'm far from a
> /dev-guru, so I don't know. How can I confirm this for real?
>
> I could of cource make my own kernel, but if it won't fix this problem I
> thought it better to make a fresh install (but that feels a bit
> windowzy...).
>
> /David
>
Well, there should be a couple of things you can try to confirm ide-scsi
support.
First, look in the /lib/modules/<whatever-kernel> directories for an
ide-scsi.o module. If there's one there, its obviously not compiled into
the kernel and must be loaded, in which case it will show on an lsmod
command. Something like "find /lib/modules/* -name ide-scsi.o" should do
the trick.
Second, you should be able to find the file /proc/ide/drivers. This file
will list which drivers are in place, and if ide-scsi support is built
into the kernel(or as a module, and the module is loaded), it should show
there.
Third, you could try to find the .config file that was used to build the
kernel. IIRC, RedHat used to include it, but I can't remember where or if
it was renamed.
Lastly, build your own kernel. IMO, if you have enough
room for the compiler and devel-packages on your harddrive, building a
custom kernel is the only way to go anyhow. No guarantees though, Fisher
is BETA, so I suppose its possible that the support is broke.
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to test Connectivity?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:11:34 GMT
"Eric P. McCoy" wrote:
> "Hatem" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > I am using IP address 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 for both and netmask
> > 255.0.0.0 for both!!
>
> You'll need to choose different IP addresses for those two computers
> if you ever want to use the Internet, unless you've actually been
> assigned those numbers. 192.168.0.0/16 is a common choice.
No need. 10.0.0.0/24 (one Class A network) is reserved for
the same purposes as 192.168.0.0/16 (256 Class C networks)
as are 172.16.0.0/16 through 172.31.0.0/16 (16 Class B
networks).
J-P Stewart
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Help with X on Dell Inspiron 5000
Date: 20 Feb 2001 11:15:51 -0800
Tor Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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).
I think it's the main XFree86 package, but I don't remember. Your
subsequent post seems to say this didn't work for you - I don't know
why, I'm quite sure it did for me.
I tried rebuilding from scratch as well, and it took some work but I
was eventually successful. That's what I'm running now. I ran into
the same Glide problems you refer to. My eventual solution was to
uninstall all Glide-related packages, and modify the XFree86 spec file
to not try to compile Glide stuff. The main thing was to change a
"YES" to a "NO" in a couple places where the spec file tells XFree86
what the configuration is. Rebuilding from scratch is a pain, as it
takes an hour or so and you pretty much have to start over from the
beginning if it fails.
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From: Steven Conway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Replicate/Clone RH6.2 Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 14:37:54 -0500
On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 13:18:54 -0500, Steven Conway
Thanks Scott, Tim & Jim for your input. But two problems:
1) The workstations are ICL/Fujitsu workstations that are extremely
difficult to access the on board HD controller & indeed have no
additional PCI or ISA Slots (Everything is on the main board).
Compounding the issue is that the workstations are physically secured
into a counter. So to access the drives would be about 1Hr/ea not
including cloning time.
2) I am Habitually a lazy person :). Is there a way that I can make a
image of this PC. store it on a central location on the network,
create a boot disk and have the workstation clone its self from the
image. Or am really just too lazy :)
Steven Conway
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From: Mike Phillips <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: IBM TokenRing PCMCIA Card
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:45:25 GMT
Check out www.linuxtr.net on the documentation page.
There are instructions on there for getting the token ring pcmcia adapters
up and running. Basically with the configuration you've got you'll have to
modify the /etc/pcmcia/config.opts file.
Mike
Linux Token Ring Project
http://www.linuxtr.net
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From: Eric Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slackware 7.1 install problem
Date: 20 Feb 2001 19:50:46 GMT
Thanks Henrik, I have move the 13G drive to primary-slave and everything
works fine now.
Best Regards,
Eric Ho
Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eric Ho wrote:
>> Anyway, every time I re-run LILO, it gives the following error :
>> Warning: BIOS drive 0x83 may not be accessible
> LILO is unable to boot from your secondary IDE controller.
>> Will it solve the problem if I make the 13G hard disk
>> Primary Master ?
> Yes. However, it would also help to make it your primary slave.
> regards Henrik
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Velocity 100 & Linux
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 19:51:52 GMT
The Velocity 100 essentially is a Voodoo3. It works with Voodoo3 drivers
under windows. So yes, it should work with the Voodoo3 X driver.
In article <96svvb$ham$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Konstantin Okounev"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello, Could anybody provide any info regarding running Xfree86 X-server
> with video card Velocity 100 ? Is it possible to use for this card
> drivers targeted to Voodoo3 family ?
>
> Regards, Konstantin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>
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From: "gdm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: which CD-RW on sco unix for cdrecord?
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:00:53 +0100
I want to choose a scsi CD-RW for my sco unix 5.0.6. I will use "cdrecord"
to write on the CD. Which model could fit? Where could I find a list of the
models of CD-RW for "cdrecord" ?
gdm
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon S400 and Linux
Date: 20 Feb 2001 15:18:44 -0500
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> can i use a canon S400 printer under linux?
> maybe this printer is compatible to an other printer which is supported
> from linux?
Check
http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/ and look under supported printers to see
whether any of those actually work - you might try any of the 4000 series.
Cheers,
Toby Haynes
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The views and opinions expressed in this message are my own, and do
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From: bluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: intel pro/100+ server network card
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:48:51 GMT
Just got an intel pro 100/+ server card for my Suse linux.
was wondering if any body had any experience with using it??
can I load balance the two output streams to my hub?
I am trying to avoid the bottleneck at the hub by having more input.
etho from cable modem to server
eth1 server to hub
eth2???? server to hub
is it possible to load balance eth1 and eth2?
or will both ports on the nic card be putting out as eth1?
any help or pointing me in the right direction will
be appreciated..
a7v thunderbird 850
rage 32 meg video
intel nic cards
trying to use the sb82558b chipset
sb live 5.1
adaptec 2940 u2w
promise ata 100
thanks
Tim
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Subject: Re: How to test Connectivity?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 20 Feb 2001 16:00:50 -0500
John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > You'll need to choose different IP addresses for those two computers
> > if you ever want to use the Internet, unless you've actually been
> > assigned those numbers. 192.168.0.0/16 is a common choice.
> No need. 10.0.0.0/24 (one Class A network) is reserved for
> the same purposes as 192.168.0.0/16 (256 Class C networks)
So it is. My mistake.
> as are 172.16.0.0/16 through 172.31.0.0/16 (16 Class B
> networks).
The IANA reports that 192/8 and 172/8 are assigned to "Various
Registries." Did the registries reserve those numbers themselves?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Joystick in X
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 20:25:11 GMT
Hi,
Can anyone give me a pointer on how I can check that my joystick workd in X? I
can get it to be recognised in a terminal but not in X. Is there a program
that I can use that checks the joystick in X?
Thanks,
L
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From: Tywon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lilo scsi problems
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:09:27 GMT
we have a webengines blazer server
running redhat 6.2
for some reason when we try and run lilo
we get the following
Reading boot sector from /dev/sdb
Open /dev/sdb: no such file or directory
I've booted with a rh cd and just did my work from the console
mounted /dev/sdb1 which has the lilo.conf file we were working with
checked the configuration for typos and all that good stuff.
It looks fine as far as I can tell.
so its saying that there is no /dev/sdb but I have a /dev/sdb partition mounted
just for kicks I've tried just running fdisk on /dev/sdb
it says no such file or directory
it also says the exact thing with /dev/sda
I haven't done alot of work with scsi so I'm not totally sure whats the deal here.
Does anyone have a link or advice on this issue?
Thanks
- Tywon Muckler
Screaming Media
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: ttyS0 vs cua0???
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:35:11 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry) writes:
>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:43:21 GMT, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
[...]
>Hmmm, do you have any idea why I'm getting the following error
>message when I access ttyDx (Digi board under 2.2.14):
>(hcsd) used obsolete /dev/cud3 - update software to use /dev/ttyS3
>Please note I'm not calling cud3 but I am calling ttyD3. I have all
>the code and can post any section you think may need looking at.
It's not your code that does it, it's the Digiboard driver.
Please see
/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/README.ecpa
especially lines 433ff .
Michael
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From: "lewis e. lipkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATA cable length
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:31:46 -0500
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The cablle that cane with my plextor cdRW is 18 inches long--not
quite long enough to reach the 2nd IDE port connector on the mother
board in my tower case.
Is there an imposed limit on cable length in ATA systems? If not
are there longer standard cables? If not the only alternative
seems to be a controller card. Any caveats about that?
TIA
Lew
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From: Philippe Massicotte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:34:03 -0500
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 14:56:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> >root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> My system:
> >> Red Hat 7 (2.2.16-22smp)
> >> Joystick : MS SideWinder Precision Pro USB (I can connect in the
> >> gameport without the USB adaptor)
> >> I am able to load joystick.o, but if I try to load the hardware
> >> specific driver (joy-sidewinder.o), it gives me the following error:
> >> [root@localhost /root]# insmod joy-sidewinder
> >> /lib/modules/2.2.16-22smp/misc/joy-sidewinder.o: init_module: Device or
> >> resource busy
>
> Hmm. What's the sound card, and does it detect the joystick port at
> 0x200? (0x200 is the standard place, IIRC you can load "joystick" if
> the port isn't initialized but loading joy-gravis or whatnot will then
> return an error.) I do this with the line
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
> in /etc/modules.conf . Do a "dmesg | grep 0x200" and see if you get
> something like "soundcard: features joystick 0x200" back.
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
I tried "dmesg | grep 0x200" but with no result.
My sound card is a SB Live!
It can play music, but I guess the gameport is not initialized.
How can I it? (The gameport's address in Win2000 is E400 - E407)
I've added the line "options es1371 joystick=0x200" but it didn't change
anything
(What the heck is es1371 ??)
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry)
Subject: Re: ttyS0 vs cua0???
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 21:55:50 GMT
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:35:11 GMT, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Neil Cherry) writes:
>
>>On Tue, 20 Feb 2001 07:43:21 GMT, M. Buchenrieder wrote:
>
>[...]
>
>>Hmmm, do you have any idea why I'm getting the following error
>>message when I access ttyDx (Digi board under 2.2.14):
>
>>(hcsd) used obsolete /dev/cud3 - update software to use /dev/ttyS3
>
>>Please note I'm not calling cud3 but I am calling ttyD3. I have all
>>the code and can post any section you think may need looking at.
>
>
>It's not your code that does it, it's the Digiboard driver.
>
>Please see
>
>/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/README.ecpa
>
>especially lines 433ff .
Thanks, I'll try to get the new driver, my file only goes up to 0x205
lines. :-) But it is nice to know that it's not my code.
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