Linux-Hardware Digest #414, Volume #14 Wed, 28 Feb 01 09:13:04 EST
Contents:
Re: Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft (Ghost)
Re: Initio's lack of Windows 2000 support ("Telford C Chuck")
Re: FastTrak100 - accessing and booting from RAID 0 array (iQXth)
Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what? (iQXth)
recognizing SCSI devices w/o reboot (A. Khan)
Re: VIA IDE problems (was Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID??) (Sak
Wathanasin)
Dlink ("ja")
Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual (Luigi Cavallo)
Re: Hardware Donations to Open Source Projects ("Alan Meade")
Re: Sound - how to configure microphone ("Randy")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Ron Reaugh")
Re: GLX driver for Riva TNT in RedHat (Marcus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4gglund?=)
Re: Copy Playstation 1 games in Linux? (Julie Brandon)
Boot from PCMCIA ("Simon Poole")
Re: Dlink ("Proksy")
iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ???? ("Nicolas Rubin")
sound: help with herucles game theatherxp ("Michael Evans")
Re: Dlink ("ja")
Re: USB Harddrives? (Kenneth Crudup)
Samsung ML 4600 and pxlmono driver ? ("Gilles Gosselin")
Problem with video chip while installing suse linux 7.1 on Compaq's (Michael Haack)
Re: Hardware Donations to Open Source Projects (Rod Smith)
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From: Ghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:17:40 GMT
Scott,
I would suggest asking that same question in
comp.os.linux.portable. They are extremly helpful over there ( Not to
say that they are not in here) and all issues relate to laptops of
some sort.
Ghost
On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:49:23 -0500, Shangyou Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Run X on Laptop Ashton Maximate 420 W/ Piii 850mhz, 14.1"tft?
>
>
>Anyone tried this? It says the video card is sis 630.
>I tried many modes for X. Mostly I got are about 1/4
>(left-upper) corner of screen. Anyhelp would be greatly
>appreciated. Please also reply to me via email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>just in case I miss the post on news group.
>
>By the way, I use netscape to read newsgroup. Is there any
>way I can search contents of all posts? Or about searching
>the subject line?
>
>Scott
Kill your parents, Fuck your friends, and have a nice day!
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Reply-To: "Telford C Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Telford C Chuck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,microsoft.public.win2000.hardware
Subject: Re: Initio's lack of Windows 2000 support
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:44:39 GMT
The F**king driver is included on the Win2k disk. I am using that model scsi
card and it performs better than the new 2936. You've got other problems.
"Peter Seebach" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a9c969e$0$26817$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tim Buck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >I just found out the hard way that you do not support your INI-9100UW
> >SCSI adapter under Windows 2000. I am dumbfounded by your decision to
> >not support this product under Windows 2000.
>
> Why? Huge development cost, and *ZERO* sales. They aren't selling this
> card anymore; why should they write drivers for it now?
>
> Anyway, if you want to blame someone, blame the folks who decided that
they
> needed to invent a brand new, incompatible, driver model for their "new"
> system.
>
> -s
> --
> Copyright 2001, all wrongs reversed. Peter Seebach / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> C/Unix wizard, Pro-commerce radical, Spam fighter. Boycott Spamazon!
> Consulting & Computers: http://www.plethora.net/
>
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From: iQXth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FastTrak100 - accessing and booting from RAID 0 array
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:49:56 GMT
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 20:26:23 +0100, "Werner Paukert"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello,
> I hope my english is good enough-
> Take a look on the promise support side for their Redhat 6.2/7.0 Uni
> Processor driver.
> Install the driver to a floppy.
> Start the Redhat CD installation as "expert" and during installation
> automatically comes the question " have you any driver"
> Answer yes and insert the floppy and install the promise driver. (Readme
> file on Promise floppy read before).
> That�s all.
> I have installed Redhat 7.0 and Promise Fastrack 100 in Raid 0 with no
> problem.
> Ps.: Lilo Problem for big Hd�s
> You have to edit to lilo.conf in the second line : lba32 ( with
> lba32 the 1024 cylinder problem is then killed)
> bring lilo mbr to /dev/sda
Hey, I got it to work now.
I WAS able to use the boot disk! I had to use the 'root=/dev/sda3'
parameter. But shouldn't the boot disk know this already? It even
makes reference to '/dev/sda3' in the paragraph that precedes the boot
prompt.
Anyway, after getting it up and running, it was easy to change
'lilo.conf' and apply the changes.
Now I can boot to Red Hat Linux without a boot disk!
Thanks for your help..!
--- iQXth ---
Please respond to this thread
or post with 'ulvfboqj' in the
subject to get my attention.
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From: iQXth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 09:51:15 GMT
Hey, I got it to work now.
I WAS able to use the boot disk! I had to use the 'root=/dev/sda3'
parameter. But shouldn't the boot disk know this already? It even
makes reference to '/dev/sda3' in the paragraph that precedes the boot
prompt.
Anyway, after getting it up and running, it was easy to change
'lilo.conf', add the 'lba32' option, and apply the changes.
Now I can boot to Red Hat Linux without a boot disk!
--- iQXth ---
Please respond to this thread
or post with 'ulvfboqj' in the
subject to get my attention.
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: recognizing SCSI devices w/o reboot
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:07:45 -0600
I have an external SCSI Zip drive and a scanner that is not powered ON all
the time. Is there a way to refresh the SCSI bus to recognize the "newly"
turned ON devices (similar to MyComputer->Properties->Devices->Refresh in
Win9x) without having to reboot the system? (Using Caldera eDesktop 2.4)
Thanks.
--
A. Khan
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From: Sak Wathanasin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: VIA IDE problems (was Re: Need LOTS of disks: Promise ATA RAID??)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 08:54:17 +0000
Paul Grayson wrote:
>
> On Tue, 27 Feb 2001 14:15:27 +0000, Tony Houghton made me spill my beer when saying:
>
> >I keep hearing of problems with VIA IDE, in particular that enabling DMA
> >can cause corruption (only with kernel 2.4 though I think). Is this only
> >for ATA100 or can VIA motherboards safely be used with ATA33 with DMA?
>
> My system had severe problems with DMA enabled when using a 2.2.18
> kernel patched with the then current IDE driver (as provided with Debian).
> With a simillarly patched 2.2.17 kernel there wasn't a problem. I'm wary
> of running 2.4.x until I can guarantee that the problem is resolved - I
> don't want to have to reinstall yet again.
No probs here with 2.1.18 and the Hedrick patches:
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
idebus=xx
VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
VP_IDE: chipset revision 6
VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
VT 82C691 Apollo Pro
Chipset Core ATA-66
Split FIFO Configuration: 8 Primary buffers, threshold = 1/2
8 Second. buffers, threshold = 1/2
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xe000-0xe007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
ide0: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xe008-0xe00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
ide1: VIA Bus-Master (U)DMA Timing Config Success
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
hdb: ST34311A, ATA DISK drive
hdc: ATAPI CD ROM DRIVE 50X MAX, ATAPI CDROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: IBM-DPTA-372050, 19574MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=39770/16/63
hdb: ST34311A, 4104MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=8895/15/63, (U)DMA
--
Sak Wathanasin
Network Analysis Ltd
178 Wainbody Ave South, Coventry
Phone: 024 76 419996 Mobile: 079 70 751912 Fax: 024 76 690690
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From: "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dlink
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:06:53 +0100
Reply-To: "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Do DLink ethernet cards work with linux? What modules?
What pci/isa model?
JA
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From: Luigi Cavallo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Help with LILO and ATA 100 on dual
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:41:25 +0100
Hi,
I just installed RH 7.0 on a Dual PIII with ATA 100 HDs on the ATA100
ide2.
However, when I try to reboot from the HD the box hangs before arriving
at the lilo prompt. Actually, it hangs with the first two uppercase
charcaters of lilo, as
LI
If I boot from the floppy made during installation, and by feeding linux
ide2=...
it boots properly.
I tried to install lilo both in the MBR as well as on /dev/hde, but the
box behaves the same.
Any suggestions ?
HW
MicroStar 694D MB
2 PIII CPU
2 30 GB Quantum Fireball lct20 ATA 100 HDs on ide2 and ide3
TIA
luigi
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From: "Alan Meade" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Donations to Open Source Projects
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 20:53:06 +1000
Some disabled foundations and old peoples homes and stuff
will take them.
Patrick Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:RoAm6.235$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Is anyone out there aware of a non-profit organization that accepts
> donations of used hardware for further dissemination to Open Source
> projects? My company has a large number of RS/6000 machines that are in
the
> process of being replaced. We would like to donate some for a tax
> write-off. The problem with this is the general nature of Open Source
> projects - lots of separate people, no central organization/corporation
for
> handling this kind of transaction.
>
> So, if anybody has any leads/ideas, please let me know.
>
> Thanks!
> -Pat
>
>
> --
> Patrick Marshall
> Systems Administrator
> Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Randy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound - how to configure microphone
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 06:11:53 +0500
>
> You don't mention what sound card and driver you are using. I suppose
> its possible that the driver doesn't support the microphone.
>
> But before I'd jump to that assumption, try a search at google for
> "linux microphone <shatever soundcard driver>" or something like that,
> and make sure that the microphone is not muted or turned way down in the
> mixer
> (many mixers are available, I don't know what you have installed, maybe
> aumix, gmix, etc.).
Sorry. My soundcard is a SoundBlaster AWE64. For a mixer, I just use
kmix. I've tried everything in the mixer, adjusting levels, preferences,
you name it.
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From: "Ron Reaugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:26:59 GMT
J.B. Nicholson-Owens wrote in message ...
>Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>> RAID 0 is great for high performance desktops, but if you want a
>> storage solution that's also *reliable*, it's useless.
>
>I wouldn't say it's useless--that depends on the data stored on the volume
>and how well the site has prepared for failure. But I agree--RAID 0 is a
>high price to pay for failure.
Nope, just keep good backups like is required with a single HD.
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From: Marcus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4gglund?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GLX driver for Riva TNT in RedHat
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:34:58 +0100
By the way, are you running kernel 2.2.x or 2.4? I'm running 2.2.16 myself!
Harri Haataja wrote:
> Marcus H�gglund wrote:
>
>> I "uninstalled" (rpm -e) the preinstalled Mesa and disintegrated every
>> GL lib on the system, then reinstalled the Nvidia package and now it
>> seems to work. :-)
>
>
> It works? On a regular TNT_1_ card?
> What card is that?
>
> (I had an ASUS V3400 and 0.9.5 failed in many mysterious ways)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Julie Brandon)
Crossposted-To: rec.games.video.sony-playstation
Subject: Re: Copy Playstation 1 games in Linux?
Date: 28 Feb 2001 11:37:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001 02:00:08 GMT, Walter Francis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said:
>I've searched and searched, but I can not figure out how to copy
>Playstation disks in Linux. I have modified my playstation so I can
>copy all 16 games I own and play the backups (i was given the modchip,
>wouldn't have bothered otherwise..)
>
>I don't have the time to play lots of games, so pirating isn't the
>issue, I'd just like to copy my own games. I've had a few (mostly ones
>I loan out :( that won't play correctly anymore.
>
>Thanks for any help! Or a suggestion on where to put this, I'm not sure
>of the best place.. :(
I would imagine you could use cdrdao?
cdrdao read-cd psx.toc - to read the cd
cdrdao write psx.toc - to write the cd
Ta-ra,
--
Julie Brandon, Derby, UK
<URL:http://www.computergeeks.co.uk/>
Homepage now includes a cheap 'n' cheerful pointless LIVE WebCam
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From: "Simon Poole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Boot from PCMCIA
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 11:43:33 GMT
Hi - I'm looking for some tips on booting from PCMCIA.
I have:
1. a SanDisk ATA flashdisk card;
2. hardware and BIOS that supports boot from PCMCIA.
I have been commisioned with the worthy task of debugging the h/w and BIOS
to make sure boot from PCMCIA is working before it goes into production.
Does anyone know what is the easiest way to get an OS onto the flash card?
In Linux I have tried:
dd if="/boot/vmlinuz" of="/dev/hde"
where /dev/hde is where the ide_cs.o driver presents the card. Trouble is,
the system won't boot the kernel but I have no idea whether the h/w/BIOS is
to blame, or whether I've done something wrong.
Any ideas? Perhaps there is an easy, tried-and-tested way of putting DOS
onto it from
Windows?
I'd appreciate any help.
Cheers,
Simon
--
Simon Poole
The Appliance Studio Ltd.
http://www.appliancestudio.com/
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From: "Proksy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dlink
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 12:05:48 GMT
In article <97ij29$l0s$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do DLink ethernet cards work with linux? What modules? What pci/isa
> model?
>
> JA
>
>
Yup they do. Go look on your distros site and read.
--
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VMB - Disabled at the moment.
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From: "Nicolas Rubin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ????
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:39:56 +0100
Bonjour,
Je me renseigne sur le PC de poche iPaq de Compaq tournant avec Pocketlinux
(www.pocketlinux.com ):
Quelles sont les applications dispo ?
La reconnaissance d'�criture est-elle probante ?
+ toutes infos disponible sur la b�te...
Merci d'avance
Nicolas
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From: "Michael Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound: help with herucles game theatherxp
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 06:50:42 -0600
Hey all, I'm trying to get a Hercules game theater XP to work and function,
it is running a crystal sound chipset 4630 which I have been told is
compatible with the cs461x driver, the module will load on boot, but I
cannot get the unit to output sound. The most common error I get is a
"connection to sound server failed-make sure artsd is really running".
I have also tried the alsa 5.0.9d drivers, but I have not yet been able to
get them to load on boot, I can load them manually after boot but I still
get no sound.
Any Ideas?
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From: "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dlink
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:05:28 +0100
Reply-To: "ja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> Yup they do. Go look on your distros site and read.
>
>
thanks
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Subject: Re: USB Harddrives?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:45:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>A better question would be, "Who on Earth would be STUPID enough to
>think that putting a hard drive on USB is a good idea?"
Well, FWIW, my USB Zip drive (essentially a hard disk) works so well under
Linux I ditched my old SCSI one.
It's not about "speed" as much as "portability", I'll bet. Some of those
USB HDs are about the size of a hardcover book- great for when you need
to carry a few GB between places.
-Kenny
--
Kenneth R. Crudup Sr. SW Engineer, Scott County Consulting, Washington, D.C.
Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Home2: 38010 Village Cmn. #217 Fremont, CA 94536-7525 (510) 745-8181
Work: See: "Home2". The hell with slow Bay Area drivers! (510) 745-0101
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From: "Gilles Gosselin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Samsung ML 4600 and pxlmono driver ?
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:40:09 +0100
Hallo,
I have tried this printer with the ljet4 driver with 600x600 dpi
and it's work OK, but how using the pxlmono driver with 1200x600
dpi ?
I have search in www.linuxprinting.org, hold the lpd-matic driver
and program, install all but I don't see any differences ?
Maybe I miss something.
Thank's for your help.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Moltkestrasse 19
77933 LAHR GERMANY
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From: Michael Haack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Problem with video chip while installing suse linux 7.1 on Compaq's
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 15:55:16 -0700
Hi,
I have problems to install Suse Linux 7.1 on my notebook, Presario 1400
from Compaq. The source for the trouble seems to be the video chip,
which is a Trident Cyberblade i1. That is at least what I was told at
the Suse hotline. Unfortunately they could only localize but not solve
the problem. So if anybody had the same problem, I would appreciate a
lot to hear how it works. Please bear in mind, that I am very
unexperienced with computers in general and Linux in particular.
Thanks in advance, Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware
Subject: Re: Hardware Donations to Open Source Projects
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 14:03:20 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Posted and mailed]
In article <RoAm6.235$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Patrick Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is anyone out there aware of a non-profit organization that accepts
> donations of used hardware for further dissemination to Open Source
> projects? My company has a large number of RS/6000 machines that are in the
> process of being replaced. We would like to donate some for a tax
> write-off. The problem with this is the general nature of Open Source
> projects - lots of separate people, no central organization/corporation for
> handling this kind of transaction.
There are organizations behind specific projects or groups thereof. Two
that spring to mind are the Free Software Foundation and XFree86. I once
donated a video card to XFree86 (I think my name's in their supporters
list for that).
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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