Linux-Hardware Digest #382, Volume #14 Thu, 22 Feb 01 09:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: EZCam II (USB) (Young4ert)
Re: Using an AMD board (Joseph)
Re: Using an AMD board (Someone Special)
Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2? (Filip Westers)
Lexmark Inkjet Drivers? (Dan Smith)
Voodoo Banshee Woes ("Dan")
Re: mounting udf cds as nonroot ("Eric")
Re: Turning off dialtone check (How?) (Keith Rhodes)
ISA USR56k fax internal modem ("Ninja")
DoubleTalk Text-to-Speech synthesizer with Linux (Fung Wai Keung)
CDRW troubles ("Fred Schroeder")
UDMA100 on VP6 (Hamish Marson)
Agfa 1212U scanner question (Kristjan Runarsson)
Re: Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive (Joshua Baker-LePain)
Re: Lexmark Inkjet Drivers? (Martin Racette)
Re: kernel 2.2.18 + ide patch panics when trying to mount root fs ("Rinaldi J.
Montessi")
mt talkes loooong time? (Mark Bratcher)
Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers ("Alim")
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: EZCam II (USB)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 03:11:24 GMT
Drew Roedersheimer wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:46:06 GMT, Young4ert wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >I just got the EZCam II (USB) from the local CompUSA (free after the
> >rebates) and tested on the Linux kernel-2.4.1 to novail. Has anyone had
> >ever try this camera? I checked the http://webcam.sourceforge.com and it
> >has a CPiA driver that claimed to support this type of camera. I believe
> >this CPiA driver is already incorporated as part of the latest Linux
> >2.4.1
> >kernel distro. Am I missing something?
> >
> >TIA.
> >
>
>
> I haven't gotten a USB camera to work under Linux yet, only because my
> camera isn't supported yet. I have, however, successfully gotten my
> HP Scanjet 6200c to work with USB. My suggestion is to try the following:
> `cat /proc/bus/usb/devices`
>
> If you don't get any output, you probably don't have USB support installed
> in your kernel - that or you don't have the correct /proc entries mounted.
>
> I have the following in /etc/fstab:
> none /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0
> 0
>
> to enable the /proc interface to the USB devices on bootup.
>
> Check out http://www.linux-usb.org/ to get you started. Also, a resource
> I found useful was the documentation that comes with the kernel. On my
> machine, it's located in /usr/src/linux-2.4.0/Documentation/usb/
>
> The way it sounds though, you may have to patch the kernel, assuming CPiA
> hasn't been incorporated in 2.4.* yet. I tried visiting the URL you
> listed above, but it looks like the server is down or something similar.
>
> Hope this helps you get started - and best of luck.
>
>
> -DR
Thank you for the response. However, I have done what you have mentioned
before also the CPiA has been incorporated into 2.4.1 kernel (may be not
the latest one). I am still having no clue.
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Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:48:43 +0000
From: Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using an AMD board
I have used AMD chips for a long time with Linux.
Currently witha striaght athlon and a thunderbird. Works fine.
On-board net is usually ok also. on-board sound rarely works right.
on-board video sometiomes causes problems also.
Joseph
"James C. Morris" wrote:
>
> I'm using that exact board with Mandrake 7.1. Sound doesn't work :) but it
> is a server so I never did try it to see, but it is using a Realtek chip for
> the Netcard and so far it works perfectly. Well except it wouldn't detect
> more than 32 meg of ram, but after I did a "append="mem=64M"" all was fine.
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8thnne$qff$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >
> >
> > I am thinking installing Linux in a motherboard PcChips 805LR with AMD
> > ATHLON Thunderbird CPU. The motherboard already includes the sound and
> > network board. I have never worked with an AMD CPU.
> > Does Linux support AMD CPU and OcChips boards ? I have been advised to
> > buy instead a PIII machine as it seems is more stable.
> > Help is welcome.
> >
> > Thanks, luis
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
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From: Someone Special <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using an AMD board
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 04:46:26 GMT
I've never used anything but AMD processors until very
recently when I figured I'd go ahead and install Linux on an old
Pentium 75... I have less problems with my AMD machines than my
friends and associates do with their Intel stuff... but hey, if it's
more stable for you, work with it;)
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:48:43 +0000, Joseph <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have used AMD chips for a long time with Linux.
>Currently witha striaght athlon and a thunderbird. Works fine.
>On-board net is usually ok also. on-board sound rarely works right.
>on-board video sometiomes causes problems also.
>
>Joseph
>
>"James C. Morris" wrote:
>>
>> I'm using that exact board with Mandrake 7.1. Sound doesn't work :) but it
>> is a server so I never did try it to see, but it is using a Realtek chip for
>> the Netcard and so far it works perfectly. Well except it wouldn't detect
>> more than 32 meg of ram, but after I did a "append="mem=64M"" all was fine.
>>
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8thnne$qff$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> >
>> >
>> > I am thinking installing Linux in a motherboard PcChips 805LR with AMD
>> > ATHLON Thunderbird CPU. The motherboard already includes the sound and
>> > network board. I have never worked with an AMD CPU.
>> > Does Linux support AMD CPU and OcChips boards ? I have been advised to
>> > buy instead a PIII machine as it seems is more stable.
>> > Help is welcome.
>> >
>> > Thanks, luis
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>> > Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Filip Westers)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.os2.multimedia
Subject: Re: Cheap PCI sound card supported by Linux and OS/2?
Date: 22 Feb 2001 04:45:31 GMT
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 08:42:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (paul marwick)
wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Shane Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Subject line says it all.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
> I have two cheap PCI based cards here. One is an ESS Solo 1, the other
> is based on the Crystal 4614. Both are supported by OS/2 and Linux. Of
> the two, I think the results from the ESS based card are somewhat
> better, but the ESS drivers don't support WinOS2, whereas the Crystal
> ones do. For the ESS, you'll need the Alsa drivers under Linux.
>
> paul.
For the ESS you can try the Generic WinOS2 drivers.
--
cheers
Filip Westers
OS/2 Warp 4 Athlon 700MHz, AIX 4.3.2 RS/6000 320 and 360 at home
Member of the dutch HCC OS/2 usergroup
email: remove _NoSpAm_ from email-addres
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From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark Inkjet Drivers?
Date: 21 Feb 2001 23:15:57 -0500
Who knows anything about getting a Lexmark 5700 working under linux? Right now, I
have the ghostscript driver for it, but it doesn't give me much flexibility.
Thanks!
--Dan
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From: "Dan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo Banshee Woes
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 17:14:43 +1100
Hi,
I'm a linux newbee who has a problem.
I need to install either Red Hat 7.0 or Mandrake 7.2 on my system.
Problem is that I can't get the 16Mb voodoo banshee PCI card configured
correctly with either distro.
I'd like to run at 1024x768x16 and have the 3D acceleration working too.
Can someone walk me through it?
I'll be installing the system from scratch so it's a simple baseline to work
from.
Thanks in advance.
Dan
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From: "Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: mounting udf cds as nonroot
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 07:55:59 +0100
"Gregory Davis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I made a post a few weeks ago (maybe) about not being able to mount a
> udf disk as a user. I thought the solution lay in upgrading my version
> of utils-linux to the version required by kernel 2.4.1, i upgraded that
> and still no dice. This is the output directly from console (no kde gui
> or anything):
>
> greg@linux:~ > mount /dev/cdrom /cdrom -t udf
> mount: only root can do that
> greg@linux:~ >
>
> If it helps, I will tack on my fstab and filesystems files, but I have
> pored over them, and I am almost positive that they are correct. I can
> mount the a udf cd as root successfully. What's up???
>
Like you were told last time:
`mount /dev/cdrom`
only root is allowed to give more than one parameter to the mount command
All other users must use the fstab entry.
PS. this info is in the manpages (man mount)
Eric
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Turning off dialtone check (How?)
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 09:29:45 +0100
Try to find a document published by Rockwell called something like:
"AT Commands for RCV56ACx, RCV336ACx, RCV288ACx, RCV144ACx, Modems, Reference
Manual (Preliminary)". It is Rockwell order number 1048.
I got this from Kortex's site (www.kortex.com) a while ago, but the site is
being re-mangled and this doc has disappeared for now...
This gives a *very* full description of the standard "Hayes" command set that
just about all modems (internal and external) use.
Then, as Max Blanco wrote, change the initialisation strings to whatever you
need.
KR.
Max Blanco wrote:
> "Neil Watson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >Hi,
> >I'm using mandrake 7.2 and a standard external modem. How do you turn off
> >the check for a dial tone before dialing? I can't find an option for it
> >anywhere and I have a strange dail tone on my phone line which it doesn't
> >recognise.
> >Thanks,
> >Neil
>
> the key is in the initstring.
> change "x4" to "x3" like:
> atq0s2=43x4 ---> atq0s2=43x3
> max.
--
==
I don't like spammers. So take the warning
out of my address before you reply.
++
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From: "Ninja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ISA USR56k fax internal modem
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:40:23 +1300
can someone please give me a complete run down of how to use this in RH 6.1
i can make an isapnp.conf file using pnpdump and then run isapnp on it but
it still doesnt respond when i use the statserial command on the different
ttySx ports
what am i doing wrong or not doing
Thanks in advance
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From: Fung Wai Keung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DoubleTalk Text-to-Speech synthesizer with Linux
Date: 22 Feb 2001 10:04:40 GMT
Hi all,
I have a DoubleTalk Text-to-Speech Synthesizer running on RedHat 5.1. I
have the device modules dbtk.o loaded and a device file in /dev/dbtk in
linux. When the PC boots, the speech synthesizer sounds normally during
initialization. I know there is a way to make the synthesizer to speak
a string that I type in command shell without using any special
software, but I forget how to do it. I have browsed through the net for
the command without success. Would you tell me how to do it?
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Wai Keung, Fung
Department of Automation and Computer-Aided Engineering,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
Shatin, N.T.,
Hong Kong
Tel: (852)26098056 Fax: (852)26036002
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Fred Schroeder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDRW troubles
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 13:25:21 -0600
Hi!
Can anyone tell me what this means, and how to fix it?
[root@petlab fred]# hdparm /dev/hdb
/dev/hdb:
HDIO_GET_MULTCOUNT failed: Input/output error
I/O support = 1 (32-bit)
unmaskirq = 0 (off)
using_dma = 1 (on)
keepsettings = 0 (off)
HDIO_GET_NOWERR failed: Input/output error
readonly = 0 (off)
BLKRAGET failed: Input/output error
HDIO_GETGEO failed: Invalid argument
where /dev/hdb is my CDRW. When I try to burn a CD, it appears to have
written it, one can see the files and directories, but can not open any
files, just like they are not there.
Any ideas?
This is a HP 9150i writer, in a box with an Asus P5A motherboard with
K6-2/500 chip, 128meg ram, running Mandrake 7.2
TIA,
Fred
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From: Hamish Marson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.abit
Subject: UDMA100 on VP6
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:48:01 +0000
Are all IDE interfaces on the VP6 capable of UDMA100? Or are some more
equal than others? I currently have a 30GB IBM 75GXP attached as master
on ide0, and am seeing 24MB/sec read (measured by hdparm -t /dev/hda on
Linux Redhat 6.2, kernel 2.4.1).
DMA mode was set using hdparm -X65 /dev/hda, which I believe is udma-2
(?)
Question is, should I be seeing more throughput than that? And what
should be the preferred setting for hdparm on this drive, kernel & MB
combination?
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From: Kristjan Runarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Agfa 1212U scanner question
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:04:44 +0100
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I am the proud owner of an Agfa 1212U USB scanner and would like to get
the sucker to work under LINUX.
I went to:
http://hem.fyristorg.com/henrikj/snapscan/
Where the drivers for this thing can be downloaded. One of the steps
required to get the 1212u up and working is to upload a Firmware file
called:
SnapScan 1212U_2.bin
Is this firmware like I know it from CD/DVD devices and such where if
the computer crashed and the transfer was broken one could poteintially
be stuck with a useless piece of hardware? I am therefor hesitant to
take this step.
Has anyone gotten an Agfa 1212u to work under LINUX? If so any "micro
howto" based on your experience would be appreciated.
Cheers
Kristjan
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<p>Where the drivers for this thing can be downloaded. One of the steps
required to get the 1212u up and working is to upload a Firmware file called:
<p>SnapScan 1212U_2.bin
<p>Is this firmware like I know it from CD/DVD devices and such where if
the computer crashed and the transfer was broken one could poteintially
be stuck with a useless piece of hardware? I am therefor hesitant to take
this step.
<p>Has anyone gotten an Agfa 1212u to work under LINUX? If so any "micro
howto" based on your experience would be appreciated.
<p>Cheers
<br>Kristjan
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Trouble connecting SCSI AIT drive
Date: 22 Feb 2001 12:44:47 GMT
In comp.os.linux.hardware Matt Clay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having trouble connecting an externally mounted Seagate
> Sidewinder-50 AIT drive to a RH 7.0 box. The machine is using an Adaptec
> 29160N SCSI controller card and has all the latest RH updates.
> I've heard that there may be some incompatibilities between the 29160
> card and the Sidewinder-50 and was wondering if anyone had found
> anything similar?
Is that an AIT-1 drive? Be *very* careful. AFAIK, all AIT-1 drives
are Fast or UW SCSI only. In other words, HVD. The external connector
on a 29160 is LVD. Connecting HVD devices to an LVD chain can lead to
serious damage to the devices or the adapter itself without an
appropriate (and expensive) LVD-HVD adapter.
What type of Dell workstation? I've got a Sony SDX-300C (35/70 AIT-1)
on a Precision 420, hanging off the secondary embedded controller, which
has an external UW connection.
Get an adapter, or get another SCSI card. But get that drive off of the
29160 (unless I'm mistaken about the drive -- what is the exact model
number?).
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Martin Racette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Lexmark Inkjet Drivers?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 12:56:02 GMT
Dan Smith wrote:
> Who knows anything about getting a Lexmark 5700 working under linux? Right
> now, I have the ghostscript driver for it, but it doesn't give me much
> flexibility.
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Dan
Well with Linux Mandrake 7.2, and CUPS I'm using that printer with no problem
--
Good Luck
Bonne Chance
Martin
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From: "Rinaldi J. Montessi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: kernel 2.2.18 + ide patch panics when trying to mount root fs
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 08:04:40 -0500
Tim Van Holder wrote:
>
> I'm running SuSE 7.0 Pro (kernel 2.2.16 with loadsa patches).
> I want to upgrade to 2.2.18 (I'll also try 2.4.1, but as a test
> environment only, for now). Since I have an Asus A7V133
> motherboard, I needed the ide patches to support the hard drive that
> is connected to the Promise Utra100 controller. Kernel compiled fine.
> Boots up fine, detects all 4 IDE devices but then panics, claiming
> it can't mount the root filesystem because the device has unsupported
> features.
> I'm booting from a hard drive that's attached to the motherboard's
> controller (which has a VIA 82CXXX chipset, for which support is
> compiled into the kernel), so there should be no problem (in fact,
> the SuSE kernel I use is the 'eide' version which also has the
> support for Promise & VIA compiled in).
> What's going on? Most likely I enabled some configuration option I
> shouldn't have (or vice versa), but which one?
>
Maybe the last few lines of your boot log or dmesg (if it got written)
might help.
--
Rinaldi]$
When we remember we are all mad the mysteries disappear and
life stands explained. - Mark Twain
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: mt talkes loooong time?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:14:54 GMT
Hey all,
I have a Seagate 10GB/20GB IDE (ATAPI) drive on
RedHat Linux 6.2.
I've been using it for backup and using the 'mt' command to
please file or tape marks (using 'mt weof 1' to the tape)
This basically works well, but one problem is that if
I search for a file mark with 'mt fsf {n}' from the beginning
of the tape to a mark that is about 7GB out it takes over
2 hours and causes a driver DSC timeout error.
If the tape mark it searches for is not that far out, say 5GB,
it works, but it still takes over 1.5 hours (less than 2hrs).
Should mt really take this long? I could fix this by modifying
the driver to increase the timeout, but I'm wondering if there
is some other more fundamental problem happening.
Thanks.
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
===============================================================
Escape from Microsoft's proprietary tentacles: use Linux!
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From: "Alim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Netgear FA311 and nvidia drivers
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 13:23:09 -0000
Hi there
Does anybody know how to get the Netgear FA311 fast ethernet card up and
running using the 2.4 kernel?
Also, my GeForce 2 GTS always starts XFree86 in a bizarre way for the first
time... the desktop is displayed thin and tall threee times across the
screen with a weird refresh rate. I have to exit and restart XFree86 for it
to work properly.
Thanks
alim
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