Linux-Hardware Digest #434, Volume #14 Sun, 4 Mar 01 07:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY? (Marcelo Rodrigues)
Re: ASUS A7V133 ("Al Mal")
My own mother!!! (Phlip)
batch files to access Windows files ("Alex Kalman")
Re: How-to- Linux on Unix?? (Raymond Russell)
PCTel Internal Modem ("Daniel Sullivan")
Voodoo 5 & quake3 ("Didier Lasne")
Re: batch files to access Windows files (Eric P. McCoy)
Conexant MiniPCI 56k soft-modem and 10/100 Ethernet Combo Chipset (Kevin Connor Arpe)
Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY? (Monte Milanuk)
Re: ASUS A7V133 (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Zilla=A9?=)
Re: iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ???? (Arctic Storm)
Re: iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ???? ("James Forbes")
Re: Linux Modem ("YFC")
Re: Sound: Creative AudioPCI128 problems (Wolfgang Fritz)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
Subject: Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY?
Date: 4 Mar 2001 03:27:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED](Marcelo Rodrigues)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monte Milanuk wrote:
> I just installed (like last night) a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (model
> F1D104), and it seems to work like a charm so far. I am using it to
> access my Win98 desktop, my FreeSCO firewall, and my (work-in-progress)
> server box. No problems w/ any of the OS's seeing it, it works fine w/
> my Dell 1626HT (21") monitor at 1024x768 resolution (I think it can go
> higher), a PFU Happy Hacking Lite keyboard, and a M$ PS/2 Intellimouse
> Trackball. It even works just fine w/ the trackball. The info on the
> webpage for it says it will, the papers that came with it said it didn't
> since the wheel used a non-PS/2 protocol. It has additional serial
> ports for mice as well, and is daisy-chainable for future expansion to
> control up to 16 total hosts. You can control the KVM from either the
> box, or from the keyboard using 'ScrLk-ScrLk-UpArrow/DownArrow'
> depending on which way you want to cycle. There are other key
> combinations for cycling btwn banks if you end up daisy-chaining. The
> scroll lock key is pretty easy to hit on a HHL keyboard, so it's pretty
> slick -- tap,tap,beep,tap,beep,pause new screen ;) Works for me so far
>
> Monte
I have one of of these at home and also the two port version. I use them as
high as
1600x1200, 75MHz and they work just fine at that resolution. The only
problem is that often when I switch out of a computer into another using
the
keyboard sequence, the electronics get confused and starts to put a
sequence
of '3' s on the keyboard input of the machine that I switched out of.
This
can be, in the very least, a bit anoying when you switch back and find
pages full of trash on whatever you were doing. Probably badly designed
debouncing on the keyboard part of the switching circuitry. I've solved
the problem by using only the switch on the box itself and not the keyboard
sequence. The video portion of the switching seems well designed as I
noticed very little signal degradation on my setup. I also hooked up my
SparcStation 20 to one of the ports and it works well with a PS/2 adaptor (
by the way, the problem I cite above started before I hooked up the
SparcStation. ) Nevertheless, for the price I paid ( $160 and $100, )
I am pretty happy with them.
---
"NeXTMail" OK at this address only.
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From: "Al Mal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V133
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 04:53:34 GMT
I know several people who have resolved all kinds of troubles with the
latest ASUS motherboards by downloading and flashing the latest BIOS from
their web site. Try this.
Al
"optimator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I have tried installing both Redhat 7.0 and SuSe 7.1(Professional).
They
> > > both
> > > seem to stall out during the install.
>
> I disable the DMA in the bios for the harddrive and the install worked
> just fine. Now, I will try to setup the kernel to handle the UDMA.
>
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From: Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My own mother!!!
Date: 04 Mar 2001 04:55:20 GMT
Linucists:
This is humiliating, but my >own mother< gave my daughter a NickClick toy
e-camera.
She did this >after< I told her I had erased MS Windows from every computer
in the house.
Of course there's no technical web site for this thing, and of course the
"users manual" is buried in a bunch of compressed DAT files on the CD.
I suspect (due to the advertized 640x480 image size, and certain list
server posts) it's a Epson PhotoPC 500 "classic".
The two relevant programs are gPhoto and photopc. One's the GNOME project's
main camera program, and uses a nice long list of drivers. Each did not
work. The other is a quicky command-line interface to the Epson PhotoPC
chipset.
When I point photopc at /dev/ttyS0 it gives me a bunch of back-talk (yes, I
enabled the port for read/write).
When I point gphoto at /dev/ttyS0, gphoto emits no error messages, but
returns nothing for every command, as if there were no communication.
Yes, the camera is turned on.
How do I set the baud rate on gphoto? What do I tweak next?
Feel free to tell me to crack open source code; I've been programming since
the Ray-gun years...
--
Phlip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
============== http://phlip.webjump.com ==============
-- Wanted: Marriage counselor who also keeps pet rats --
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From: "Alex Kalman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: batch files to access Windows files
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 16:17:09 +1100
I am compleatly new to Linux .I have successfully installed to my 20gig
Seagate drive a 2 gig Linux partition and a 100mg swap partiton,
and installed lilo..works like a charm,
My question is how do I get onto my desktop,,KED or Gnome..a link to my
windows 98 partition without having to go to super user login and physicaly
mount win98 and then use the folder file programm to see my .doc or graphic
files?
could some one help me or point me to some site..
Other thing ..using rpm to install tar type files how do i find the
terminology on how and what every thing is like in dos you type help ..the
command and it gives you info ..
I am really lost .
Thanking you all in advance...Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Raymond Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: How-to- Linux on Unix??
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:32:40 -0500
Ron Wigmore wrote:
>
> Do you mean running both at the same time?
>
> Closest to what you may be asking for is "vmware". It'll let you run
> multiple Intel based O/S's concurrently. eg. Windows and Linux or
> Caldera Linux and Turbolinux - you could even create a whole network of
> virtual Linux's running on a single PC (if your hardware was powerful
> enough) to simulate your real network configuration.
>
> The software for UNIX like Solaris and AIX will not run on Intel
> (hardware) systems.
Solaris? Hmm I could have sworn I have Solaris on this machine.
--
Ray Russell
Caldera eDesktop 2.4 Helix GNOME Desktop
http://users.ntplx.net/~ray1083
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From: "Daniel Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCTel Internal Modem
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 18:01:00 +1100
Hi there,
I am running RedHat 7 and I have a PCTel Internal (winmodem?) Modem.
RedHat won't recognise it.
I have a PCCHIPS MLR41MT motherboard.
Thanks,
Daniel Sullivan
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From: "Didier Lasne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Voodoo 5 & quake3
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:30:27 +0100
Hello,
I have some problems with quake3 and my config :
Atlhon 1GHz, Asus A7V,256Mo ram, Yamaha based sound card (guillemot
fortissimo) work with ESD on gnome.
When I run Quake3 I have two error :
- Not found glide2x.so
- Your soundcard can't do this
I try to compile Glide2 but I have error about a missing directory 'h3'
I have Glide3 compiled and working, XFREE4 with DRM support of voodoo5
(module tdfx.o)
For the soundcard, can I launch Quake3 without sound ?
Thanks for help
didier
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Subject: Re: batch files to access Windows files
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric P. McCoy)
Date: 04 Mar 2001 02:42:57 -0500
"Alex Kalman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am compleatly new to Linux .I have successfully installed to my 20gig
> Seagate drive a 2 gig Linux partition and a 100mg swap partiton,
> and installed lilo..works like a charm,
> My question is how do I get onto my desktop,,KED or Gnome..a link to my
> windows 98 partition without having to go to super user login and physicaly
> mount win98 and then use the folder file programm to see my .doc or graphic
> files?
> could some one help me or point me to some site..
You need to look into the /etc/fstab file, which determines what FSes
are automatically mounted (on startup or later).
> Other thing ..using rpm to install tar type files how do i find the
> terminology on how and what every thing is like in dos you type help ..the
> command and it gives you info ..
Typically, you can type `command --help', e.g., `tar --help'. That
will give you a terse summary. `man command' or `info command' will
give more complete information (try the latter first, for GNU programs
it's more useful).
--
Eric McCoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Knowing that a lot of people across the world with Geocities sites
absolutely despise me is about the only thing that can add a positive
spin to this situation." - Something Awful, 1/11/2001
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From: Kevin Connor Arpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Conexant MiniPCI 56k soft-modem and 10/100 Ethernet Combo Chipset
Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:59:48 -0800
Hello.
I'm *very* interested in developing drivers for this Conexant chipset.
I have enclosed a copy of a PCI dump (from lspci -vv, kernel 2.2).
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: CONEXANT: Unknown device 1803 (rev 08)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0023
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
BIST result: 00
Region 0: I/O ports at 1400
Region 1: Memory at f4000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [58] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI- D1- D2- PME-
Status: D3 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
00:09.1 Communication controller: CONEXANT: Unknown device 1815 (rev 05)
Subsystem: Compaq Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0022
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
BIST result: 00
Region 0: I/O ports at 1080
Region 1: Memory at f4004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Flags: PMEClk- AuxPwr- DSI+ D1- D2- PME-
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
I have emailed Compaq and Conexant regarding this chipset. It can be
found in recent Compaq laptops, Presario 1700T is mine. (Searching both
pages seriously, as well as the general 'Net I found no information
regarding this chipset.)
Not being the next Donald Becker, (sorry if he's reading this, no
disrespect meant) what can I do to pursue this project. Can someone
point me either in the right direction, or to a resource on probing
hardware... or developing network drivers. I've read some of Mr.
Becker's code for some 3Com NICs. It seems to make sense, however,
where would I start for my machine?
Rest assured this is *NOT* a random message. I'm quite serious about
getting my networking functioning the way it _should_ be under Linux.
As well, this is a modem attached to this chipset. Getting that to
function correctly is defintely a secondard procedure, but as I
understand, it is not nearly as difficult as writing functional network
drivers.
Thanks in advance for any help/support.
Kevin Connor Arpe.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 21:35:03 -0700
From: Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KVM;RECOMMENDATIONS ANYBODY?
Hmmm... something to keep an eye out for, I guess. Haven't noticed it
yet, perhaps they've fixed it, like they seem to have the Intellimouse
thing.
Monte
Marcelo Rodrigues wrote:
>
> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Monte Milanuk wrote:
> > I just installed (like last night) a Belkin OmniView SE 4-port (model
> > F1D104), and it seems to work like a charm so far. I am using it to
> > access my Win98 desktop, my FreeSCO firewall, and my (work-in-progress)
> > server box. No problems w/ any of the OS's seeing it, it works fine w/
> > my Dell 1626HT (21") monitor at 1024x768 resolution (I think it can go
> > higher), a PFU Happy Hacking Lite keyboard, and a M$ PS/2 Intellimouse
> > Trackball. It even works just fine w/ the trackball. The info on the
> > webpage for it says it will, the papers that came with it said it didn't
> > since the wheel used a non-PS/2 protocol. It has additional serial
> > ports for mice as well, and is daisy-chainable for future expansion to
> > control up to 16 total hosts. You can control the KVM from either the
> > box, or from the keyboard using 'ScrLk-ScrLk-UpArrow/DownArrow'
> > depending on which way you want to cycle. There are other key
> > combinations for cycling btwn banks if you end up daisy-chaining. The
> > scroll lock key is pretty easy to hit on a HHL keyboard, so it's pretty
> > slick -- tap,tap,beep,tap,beep,pause new screen ;) Works for me so far
> >
> > Monte
>
> I have one of of these at home and also the two port version. I use them as
> high as
> 1600x1200, 75MHz and they work just fine at that resolution. The only
> problem is that often when I switch out of a computer into another using
> the
> keyboard sequence, the electronics get confused and starts to put a
> sequence
> of '3' s on the keyboard input of the machine that I switched out of.
> This
> can be, in the very least, a bit anoying when you switch back and find
> pages full of trash on whatever you were doing. Probably badly designed
> debouncing on the keyboard part of the switching circuitry. I've solved
> the problem by using only the switch on the box itself and not the keyboard
> sequence. The video portion of the switching seems well designed as I
> noticed very little signal degradation on my setup. I also hooked up my
> SparcStation 20 to one of the ports and it works well with a PS/2 adaptor (
> by the way, the problem I cite above started before I hooked up the
> SparcStation. ) Nevertheless, for the price I paid ( $160 and $100, )
> I am pretty happy with them.
>
> ---
> "NeXTMail" OK at this address only.
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From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Zilla=A9?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ASUS A7V133
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 03:42:39 -0500
Al Mal wrote:
>
> I know several people who have resolved all kinds of troubles with the
> latest ASUS motherboards by downloading and flashing the latest BIOS from
> their web site. Try this.
I did flash my BIOS just a month or two ago, in order to get Win2k to
install. But I'm having the same sort of problem in trying to install
Redmond Linux (a Caldera offshoot). It is not seeing my hard drive. The
install program works fine ( choosing language, mouse, keyboard, video
card) up to the point of choosing where to put Linux. It is not only not
seeing the partitions (and free space), but not even seeing the drive at
all! I have an A7V with the Promise ATA-100 Controller, and a Maxtor
ATA-66 hard drive.
As I said before, W2k crashed on install, until I: A.> Flashed the BIOS,
and B.> loaded downloaded drivers during the checking hardware phase.
But I think Windows DID see the hard drive, as Win98 loaded fine. It was
the CD that wasn't being recognized by W2k, and it would hang when it
attempted to go from the DOS-Mode to the graphical install. After I did
the two steps above, it loaded fine. But the Linux install doesn't give
me the option of loading the drivers...
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From: Arctic Storm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ????
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 09:47:54 GMT
> 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...
Since you wrote your post in french, you probably don't speak English.
If you *do* speak English, but posted in french, that would be a whole
different problem.
Were you hoping that someone who reads/writes french to stumble upon your
post?
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From: "James Forbes" <jsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: iPaq + Pocketlinux -> le bon plan ????
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:55:57 -0000
Reply-To: "James Forbes" <jsa [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
No probably just hoping that someone may realise , someday that more than
one language is spoken in this world ;-)
And I dont even speak french ......
"Arctic Storm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
message news:eboo6.1717$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > 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...
>
> Since you wrote your post in french, you probably don't speak English.
> If you *do* speak English, but posted in french, that would be a whole
> different problem.
> Were you hoping that someone who reads/writes french to stumble upon your
> post?
>
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From: "YFC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Linux Modem
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 06:30:38 -0500
******That one is not compatible with linux******
Matt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Is this modem compatible with Linux?
>
> 3COM/USRobotics 56K PCI VFD V90 Retail
>
> Is it any Good? Can anyone recommend a better alternative?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matt.
>
> http://freespace.virgin.net/matthew.planchant/
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From: Wolfgang Fritz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound: Creative AudioPCI128 problems
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 07:18:13 +0100
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:33:07 +0000, Dave Williams staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
> >Hello folks,
> >I am in the process of trying to setup Linux on some spare kit. I
> >acquired a Creative AudioPCI128 soundcard, in the belief that being of
> [large snip]
> >The technical necessities are:
> >Redhat 7.0 - Kernel 2.2.16-22
> >sndconfig version is 0.57
>
> modprobe es1371 joystick=0x200
>
> That's all you should need to do. If that works, go edit
> /etc/modules.conf and put in the following lines:
> alias char-major-14 es1371
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
>
> If that doesn't work, then you have one of the latest and greatest
> es1371s, which has slightly different firmware. Kernel 2.2.18 should
> support those with the very same command and procedure.
>
The CT5880 sound chip is supported by the es1371 driver since at least
2.2.16. I have an onboard sound using this chip on my home PC (running a
stock 2.2.18) and at work we have Soundblaster PCI128 cards with CT5880
running fine with kernel 2.2.16.
I saw some postings about problems with the CT5880 recently, nearly all
of them tried to install it using sndconfig (which is unknown to me, I'm
running SuSE). So the sndconfig may be the problem.
Wolfgang
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