Linux-Hardware Digest #450, Volume #14 Wed, 7 Mar 01 16:13:09 EST
Contents:
Re: Cable Modem / Network Card Configuration ("No One Here")
Re: Kernel-2.4.2 and es1371 -> very small sound. why? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: HPT366 Problem? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: Modem and Xfree86 (Matt Johnston)
I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and it
won't boot with it. ("Linux Newbie")
Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD and
it won't boot with it. ("Chris Armitage")
Re: 1280x1024 resolution with Geforce2 MX card (Hun)
WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux (Stephen Anthony)
Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card? (Hugh Gibson)
Re: HELP - Dual Input Monitor (Dan G. Lunde)
What modem should I buy? ("Tom Jones")
TDSL - Problem ("Thomas Abert")
Obtaining the MAC address ("Bruce E. Varney")
Re: GDI-Printer (Markus Kossmann)
LILO ("Hendri Schoeman")
Processor ID ("Bruce E. Varney")
Re: Processor ID (Lew Pitcher)
Re: A Mattel Toy Digital Camera vs. Linux [Was: My own mother!!!] (Phlip)
Re: Obtaining the MAC address (Klaus Stysch)
Re: LILO (Mark Bratcher)
Re: Obtaining the MAC address (Dave Blake)
Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!! (Toby Haynes)
laser printer for Linux (John Culleton)
toshiba / alsa sound problems ("Major Dondo")
Re: LILO (John Culleton)
Re: What modem should I buy? (Armond Perretta)
Problem with SMC 1211TX Ethernet card (Szeming Lau)
Re: WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux (Mikael Pettersson)
Question: setup cable modem, Linux and Windows ("bmeson")
Re: Obtaining the MAC address (Mike McDonald)
wireless keyboard? (John Culleton)
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From: "No One Here" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cable Modem / Network Card Configuration
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:38:36 GMT
Personnally, I've have lots of success with both 3Com & DLink cards
(currently running 2 dlink cards in my firewall/server, and a 3Com card in
each workstation).
For just a single computer connection, just run linuxconf, setup your NIC
for DHCP, and away you go. If you want to do some NAT/Firewalling/etc... it
gets a little bit more in depth, but not bad.
A.C.Static
Kevin M. Nawroth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have been using Linux for about 2.5 yrs now. I have recently
> upgraded to a cable modem, but am not familiar with configuring the
> network card to communicate with the cable modem. I think I have all
> the information I need, for example, the IP address, subdomain address,
> DNS servers, etc.
>
> The cable modem service provider attempted to set the M$ Windows side of
> my computer up, but succeeded only in corrupting several windows
> configuration files. I am going to buy a network card supported by my
> Linux distribution (Red Hat 6.2) and set it up from there.
>
> I would appreciate any help solving this problem. If a specific
> network card works better than others, let me know.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin
>
>
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Subject: Re: Kernel-2.4.2 and es1371 -> very small sound. why?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:44:34 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hun) wrote in
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>The kernel is 2.4.2 and I compiled es1361 as a module.
> soundcore
> es1371
> ac97_codec
>
>As soon as I load above modules from soundcore, the sound card began to
>work.
>
>Well, the output of volume is very small. I guess it's 30% of maximum
>volume when I used it Microsoft Windows 98.
Try aumix and turn up the volume ?
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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Subject: Re: HPT366 Problem?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:46:10 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil b. ) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> I'm using the onboard HPT366 on an Abit BP6. I have had two drives
> on the
>first controller on it doing raid0 for months now. I installed another
>drive on secondary controller on it and when doing a mke2fs the system
>was alive but unusable due to high load. Looking at what had happened I
>got this to start off with:
[SNIP]
>Mar 6 19:05:46 shofixti kernel: hdg: irq timeout: status=0xd0 { Busy }
>Mar 6 19:05:46 shofixti kernel: ide3: reset: success
>
>This is on a patched 2.2.17 kernel using Andre Hedrick's ide patch,
>which appears to be the 9/4/2000 one.
I'd recommend upgrading the kernel to 2.4.2, which seems to work better
with these chipsets.
--
Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22950312
Nordbergv. 60 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0875 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: Matt Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem and Xfree86
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 22:49:47 +0800
For winmodems with a Lucent chipset, the driver at
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
works great for me.
Cheers,
Matt Johnston.
Mark F. & Joyce E. Clohecy wrote:
> I also have an actiontec 56K internal PCI modem with a Lucent chipset.
> I have never been able to get it to work with Linux.
> If you get yours to work, let me know what you did.
>
> Mark
>
> "Tallman Nkgau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I have an Actiontec 56K Internal PCI Call Waiting Modem(L56DV+P) and
>> running in single user mode without X running, I can communicate with
>> the modem. But when X starts it takes over IRQ 11 from the modem (I
>> think thats what it does) and the modem is no longer accessible to the
>> system. It turns out that IRQ 11 is assigned to the VGA Controller....I
>> have an Intel i810...Anyway, since its a PCI bus this should pose no
>> problem...but it does. How can setup the modem (or X) so that they are
>> both active at the same time. Thanks.
>> TZ
>>
>>
>> --
>> Posted from tor-smtp3.attcanada.ca [207.181.101.71]
>> via Mailgate.ORG Server - http://www.Mailgate.ORG
>
>
>
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From: "Linux Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a CD
and it won't boot with it.
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:11:03 -0000
Please can you help me?
I've downloaded the SuSE EVal 7_1 ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've
burned a CD and it won't boot with it.
I've never installed Linux before and I am at a loss as to how I make the CD
bootable from a PC that only has Windows 98. I have tried to out YAST2 on a
floppy - it wouldn't boot the CD, it kept asking for CD#1.
I also made another boot floppy from "bootdisk" file. It still didn't work
out - it was trying to find CD#1 as well.
WHat can I do to get the install to work?
Thanks.
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From: "Chris Armitage" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I've downloaded the ISO file. Now what do I do with it? I've burned a
CD and it won't boot with it.
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:02:16 GMT
Did you make sure that you burnt the cd as an image and not just copied it ?
"Linux Newbie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:985j0q$cok$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Please can you help me?
>
> I've downloaded the SuSE EVal 7_1 ISO file. Now what do I do with it?
I've
> burned a CD and it won't boot with it.
>
> I've never installed Linux before and I am at a loss as to how I make the
CD
> bootable from a PC that only has Windows 98. I have tried to out YAST2 on
a
> floppy - it wouldn't boot the CD, it kept asking for CD#1.
>
> I also made another boot floppy from "bootdisk" file. It still didn't
work
> out - it was trying to find CD#1 as well.
>
> WHat can I do to get the install to work?
>
> Thanks.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hun)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: 1280x1024 resolution with Geforce2 MX card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 16:38:35 GMT
I run 1600x12000 @70Hz.
Monitor is LG Flatron 795FT Plus
Horizontal Freq. 30-96
Vertical Freq: 50-160
Graphic board: ASUS V7100 GeForce2 MX - 32
XFree86 4.0.2
NVIDIA_Kerel-0.96
NVIDIA_GLX-0.96
In my experienc, the resolution is depend on Monitor's Frequency range and the
graphich board.
Before I use this graphic card, 1024x768 isn't good by the old graphic board.
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001 14:10:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi,
> Has anybody been able to set 1280x1024 @ >70Hz vertical
>refresh rate with their Geforce2 MX graphics card on Linux? If
>so, I would be grateful for some help.
>
>I have managed 1024x768 @85Hz and also 1280x1024 but at a
>refresh rate of only 60Hz (which is quite hard on the eyes).
>
>I am running Redhat 7.0 with Xfree86 V4.0.2 with the Nvidia
>drivers
>
> NVIDIA_Kernel-0.95
> NVIDIA_GLX-0.95
>
>Graphics Card: NVIDIA Geforce2 MX - 32MB
>
>Monitor: Mitsubishi Diamondplus 73 (Diamondtron NF)
>
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>krishan
>
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
>
>--
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From: Stephen Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 13:38:59 -0330
I'm planning on adding an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive to a Promise ATA100
PCI controller card. I'm keeping a CD writer on the internal IDE port
and disabling the other IDE port (to gain an IRQ).
Anyone have this type of setup, and if so, are you having any problems?
I'm currently running Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.4.2. I've heard that
the 2.4 kernels have support built in, how well does it work. Also, is
anyone actually getting 37MB/sec from this drive and controller, as I've
heard is possible in Windows?
Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Steve Anthony
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From: Hugh Gibson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What's a good AGP 1x video card?
Date: 7 Mar 2001 12:13:04 -0500
Rob Komar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'm wondering what's a decent AGP *1x* video card that will work well with
>> XFree86 4...
>> Suggestions appreciated...
> My Matrox G400 works fine with my DK440LX motherboard.
Same here.. I normally run 1280x1024 and it looks good.y
I tried 1600x1200 and it works on my 20" fancy HP monitor, but it's pushing
the resolution of the monitor, and the small text gets a little too small.
The Matrox card works V well, installs easily and you can run it
at higher AGP speed multiples for further acceleration. The videoDAC
output looks very clean.. nice crisp edges without 'ringing' or ghosting
etc..
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From: Dan G. Lunde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HELP - Dual Input Monitor
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 18:40:55 +0100
Jeff Gentry:
> Hello All,
>
> I am researching dual input monitors.
> I will soon be upgrading to RedHat 7.0 on an Intel x86 host
> platform due to project constraints.
> I have limited work space but a generous equipment budget.
> Can someone tell me if RedHat will support dual input monitors?
> If so, can I get the vendor and model numbers for the video card(s)
> and monitor?
>
I use my Eizo F67 19" which has both bnc and vga connectors. That way I can
use both my Amiga and a PC at the same time. Saves me the space (and money)
of having to monitors. I easily switch between the two using a button on
the monitors frontpanel.
Dan
--
Dan G. Lunde - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: What modem should I buy?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 12:47:02 -0500
For my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop??? There is an internal Winmodem in it -
and I have read all about this - so I don't even want to deal with it. What
is the best and easiest modem (PCMCIA) to get ?
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From: "Thomas Abert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TDSL - Problem
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 19:08:48 +0100
Hi,
Ich habe ein Problem mit TDSL.
Ich besitze die SUSE 7.1 Version mit dem Kernel 2.4.
Netzwerkkarte habe ich richtig installiert.
Doch sobald ich eine Verbindung mit pppoed aufbauen m�chte
bringt er immer die Fehlermedlung in der Consolen Log f�r Linux:
Console Log for Linux
Mar 1 23:53:26 linux pppoed[2976]: ioctl(SIOCGIFHWADDR): No such device
Mar 1 23:53:26 linux pppoed[2976]: unable to get hardware Adress
An was kann das liegen ?
Was mach ich falsch ?
Hoffentlich kann mir da einer weiterhelfen ?
Danke schon mal im Vorraus !!
MFG
Thomas Abert
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From: "Bruce E. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Obtaining the MAC address
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:39:31 GMT
All,
ifconfig and dhcp are obviously able to pull the MAC address from the
NIC, but I
can't seem to isolate the appropriate system call to do this in my own
program. How
do I obtain the MAC address from the ethernet card?
TIA,
Bruce
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: GDI-Printer
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 18:47:34 +0100
Sabri Altunbas wrote:
>
> hi,
>
> My system redhat 7.0, kde2.1
>
> i try to install my gdi-printer (hp710c) on my system.
>
> i have installed rhs-printfilters. i showed the file printdb. my printer
> hp710c exists in printdb but i can not select my printer in printtool.
>
> what is the problem ?
>
Have a look at http://www.httptech.com/ppa/ and/or
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=1322
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Hendri Schoeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LILO
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 21:07:04 +0200
I had LILO installed but as I have a windomem I have to use windowz as an
INTERNET os. So my windows just stoped functioning (like it always does) and
I had to reinstall it. Unfortunately it re-writed my boot sector and I can't
boot linux. Now I have to reinstall linux and I don;t have a clue how to do
it. I run RedHat 7.0 and I don't have a boot disc...........any ideas???
Thankyou in advance!!!
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From: "Bruce E. Varney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Processor ID
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:13:00 GMT
The Pentium III (and the Celeron?) supports a processor ID. Is there a
system
call in Linux which queries this value?
Bruce
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lew Pitcher)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Processor ID
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:18:03 GMT
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:13:00 GMT, "Bruce E. Varney"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>The Pentium III (and the Celeron?) supports a processor ID. Is there a
>system
>call in Linux which queries this value?
IIRC, the x86 Linux kernel explicitly disables the processor ID
facility.
Lew Pitcher
Information Technology Consultant
Toronto Dominion Bank Financial Group
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
(Opinions expressed are my own, not my employer's.)
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From: Phlip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: A Mattel Toy Digital Camera vs. Linux [Was: My own mother!!!]
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 11:15:28 -0800
Phlip wrote:
> Does anyone know if it really has an Epson PhotoPC inside, and what its
> protocol is???
It's an el-cheapo chipset with only a primitive protocol. Read more about
it here:
http://www.goodnet.com/~emeb/mattel_cam.html
--
Phlip [EMAIL PROTECTED]
============ http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PhlIp ============
-- DARE to resist drug-war profiteering --
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From: Klaus Stysch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Obtaining the MAC address
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:26:04 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Bruce E. Varney" wrote:
>
> All,
>
> ifconfig and dhcp are obviously able to pull the MAC address from the
> NIC, but I
> can't seem to isolate the appropriate system call to do this in my own
> program. How
> do I obtain the MAC address from the ethernet card?
>
> TIA,
> Bruce
hi bruce,
just a quick hack for the eth0 device in C. for more information take a look
at the ioctl call and the appropriate structures.
hth,
klaus
---code starts here---
#include <stdio.h> /* standard I/O */
#include <errno.h> /* error numbers */
#include <sys/socket.h> /* socket definitions */
#include <sys/ioctl.h> /* ioctls */
#include <net/if.h> /* generic interface structures */
int main()
{
int s;
struct ifreq devea;
/* Get a socket */
s = socket(AF_INET,SOCK_DGRAM,0);
if (s < 0) {
perror("socket");
exit(1);
}
strcpy(devea.ifr_name,"eth0\x0");
/* Get the HWaddr */
if (ioctl(s,SIOCGIFHWADDR,&devea) < 0) {
perror(&devea.ifr_name[0]);
exit(1);
}
printf("MAC-Address is ");
printf("%.2X:", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[0]&0xff);
printf("%.2X:", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[1]&0xff);
printf("%.2X:", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[2]&0xff);
printf("%.2X:", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[3]&0xff);
printf("%.2X:", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[4]&0xff);
printf("%.2X\n", devea.ifr_ifru.ifru_hwaddr.sa_data[5]&0xff);
printf("\n");
return (0);
}
---code ends here---
---
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:53:38 GMT
In article <9860rv$k6o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hendri Schoeman wrote:
>I had LILO installed but as I have a windomem I have to use windowz as an
>INTERNET os. So my windows just stoped functioning (like it always does) and
>I had to reinstall it. Unfortunately it re-writed my boot sector and I can't
>boot linux. Now I have to reinstall linux and I don;t have a clue how to do
>it. I run RedHat 7.0 and I don't have a boot disc...........any ideas???
>Thankyou in advance!!!
>
When you installed Linux the first time did you create a boot
(recovery) diskette? If so, you can just boot that and run 'lilo'
to restore the MBR to run LILO.
If not, try booting your RedHat 7.0 CD-ROM (which should be bootable)
and I think they may have a recovery mode there (where you can boot
an existing linux partition). Then run 'lilo'.
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Blake)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Obtaining the MAC address
Date: 7 Mar 2001 19:32:37 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bruce E. Varney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ifconfig and dhcp are obviously able to pull the MAC address
> from the NIC, but I can't seem to isolate the appropriate
> system call to do this in my own program. How do I obtain the
> MAC address from the ethernet card?
I would try one of the following.
1) Download the source to ifconfig
2) strace ifconfig
That is kinda the point of an open source operating system.
Any functionality you wish to duplicate, you can. And you
generally don't even need to write your own code.
--
Dave Blake
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Toby Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 4.0.2 Troubles!!!
Date: 07 Mar 2001 14:56:11 -0500
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well, I think, I have found the problem. And it seems to be related to
> the SuSE 7.1 X-Configuration tool SaX or the gfx-driver itself.
>
> (==) GLINT(0): Min pixel clock is 16 MHz
> (--) GLINT(0): Max pixel clock is 110 MHz
[snip]
> (**) GLINT(0): Mode "1280x1024": 102.2 MHz, 58.9 kHz, 55.0 Hz
>
> I definitly know, that my max. pixel clock is 150Mhz, NOT 110MHz. With
> the old SaX belonging to XF336, I was able to change the clock
> manually and all was fine for me. In SaX2 (XF402) I couldn't find
> where to do so.
It's not obvious ...!
> I just wonder that the XF402-cfg tells me I have a
> BoardName "Winner2000Office"
> but I have a "ELSA GLoria Synergy 8MB" (the upper L is no typo! ;-)
I think this is merely a nicety rather than a requirement. But you could
change it to read GLoria Synergy if you like.
> Well, I am a novice in configuring XF. Is there another cfg-program to
> setup the XF-config? I also tried XF86config, but well, there I have
> the same problem. Maybe I just use the wrong tool. Unfortunately I am
> not that keen on the cfg to "tune" it myself...
There are other tools - I personally do the initial configuration with
xf86cfg and then tidy up any errors by hand.
> Attached you will find the log, the old XF336 cfg & the new XF402
> cfg. Maybe you can tell me, where I can adjust the clock-speed
> manually...
Try this - this manually sets the memory clock and might be the right
thing to tweak. There isn't any other obvious Clock tweak... but be
warned - this may hang your machine, so make sure that you can boot to
runlevel 3 if you have to reboot. The other two options below are
safer. (Just in case you don't know, to boot to runlevel 3 you would
type 'linux 3' at the LILO prompt - this is the text-only startup).
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "Elsa"
Driver "glint"
BoardName "Winner2000Office"
BusID "1:0:0"
Option "SetMClk" "150"
EndSection
One other possibility is to force the chipset detection rather than
letting it probe for it. This would look like
Section "Device"
Identifier "Device[0]"
VendorName "Elsa"
Driver "glint"
BoardName "Winner2000Office"
ChipSet "pm2"
BusID "1:0:0"
EndSection
or possibly the 'pm2v' chipset instead of the 'pm2' if this doesn't do
it.
The order of the Section "Device" doesn't matter, but it's easier to
read in this order :-)
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: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: laser printer for Linux
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:12:49 GMT
I will be buying a laser printer for Linux. I want native postscript and if
possible paper handling for 11x17 paper. Any recommendations?
Cost per page printed is a factor.
Thanks,
John Culleton
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From: "Major Dondo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: toshiba / alsa sound problems
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 14:46:05 +0500
I have a toshiba laptop. It uses the yamaha YMF754 sound chip.
I have it set up with the latest sound drivers from alsa-project
(production, not beta).
I've been through the HOWTOs and set up modules.conf correctly.
I am running RH 7, Alsa 0.5.10b,, 2.2.18 kernel (stock, not RH).
It plays CDs fine. But when I try to use the PCM channel (?? - the
channel that all the .wav sounds are played on) I get a loud buzzing sound,
with a very weak sound being played over it.
I've been through the alsa maillist; the problem is discussed, but
there's no solution.
I've tried to use the "new" deja, but their search engine is so broken
it's totally useless.
So - anyone have any ideas?
--Yan
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From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:24:19 GMT
On Wed, 07 Mar 2001, Hendri Schoeman wrote:
>I had LILO installed but as I have a windomem I have to use windowz as an
>INTERNET os. So my windows just stoped functioning (like it always does) and
>I had to reinstall it. Unfortunately it re-writed my boot sector and I can't
>boot linux. Now I have to reinstall linux and I don;t have a clue how to do
>it. I run RedHat 7.0 and I don't have a boot disc...........any ideas???
>Thankyou in advance!!!
1. You can replace your winmodem with the real thing for as little as $24.95 US.
It might be worthwhile!
2. If you use loadlin from your Win partition you don't need lilo. Search on
loadlin.exe
3. I use Slackware. Everything I need can be downloaded from the
www.slackware.com site. (For years I ran strictly from downloaded distros.)
I imagine the RedHat site is similar. In particular you could probably rummage
around and find a way to download a boot disk.
HTH
John Culleton
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From: Armond Perretta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: Re: What modem should I buy?
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:25:52 -0500
Tom Jones wrote:
> For my Dell Inspiron 7500 laptop??? There is an internal Winmodem
> in it -
> and I have read all about this - so I don't even want to deal with
> it. What is the best and easiest modem (PCMCIA) to get ?
I have the same machine running with a Dacom Gold Card pcmcia
modem. Works fine. I did _not_ equip the machine with the internal
winmodem. I seem to recall some discussion that having both modems
in the machine was a problem for some when setting up Linux, but
that's only a vague recollection. If you look in Google you will
find quite a few sites that give specifics on setting up Linux on
this particular machine.
--
Good luck and good sailing.
s/v Kerry Deare of Barnegat
http://kerrydeare.tripod.com
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From: Szeming Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Problem with SMC 1211TX Ethernet card
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:31:24 GMT
I have RedHat 7.0 installed (with the 2.4 kernel test version), although
I don't think that the fact that it is a beta has anything to do with my
problem. I am trying to load the 8139too.o module, but it won't
recognize the presence of the card.
I checked in /proc/pci and found this:
Bus 0, device 9, function 0:
Ethernet controller: PCI device 0001:1211 (rev 16).
IRQ 9.
Master Capable. Latency=32. Min Gnt=32.Max Lat=64.
I/O at 0xa400 [0xa4ff].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xdf800000 [0xdf8000ff].
I would guess that since it is not detected as an SMC 1211TX, the driver
doesn't recognize it as valid hardware.
Is there anything I can do to fix this?
Thanks
Szeming
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Subject: Re: WTD: Info on Promise ATA100 controller and Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Pettersson)
Date: 7 Mar 2001 21:37:25 +0100
In article <985pvg$fph$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Stephen Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm planning on adding an IBM Deskstar 30GB drive to a Promise ATA100
>PCI controller card. I'm keeping a CD writer on the internal IDE port
>and disabling the other IDE port (to gain an IRQ).
>
>Anyone have this type of setup, and if so, are you having any problems?
>I'm currently running Mandrake 7.2 with kernel 2.4.2. I've heard that
>the 2.4 kernels have support built in, how well does it work. Also, is
>anyone actually getting 37MB/sec from this drive and controller, as I've
>heard is possible in Windows?
I have this setup, except I haven't disabled the unused on-board IDE port.
ASUS P3B-F (440BX chipset)
Promise Ultra100 PCI card.
IBM DTLA-307030 on Promise (/dev/hde)
CD-Writer and ATAPI tape on on-board controller (/dev/hdc & /dev/hdd)
A few problems:
- You need a kernel with PDC202XX support. Failing that, you need to
pass magic "ide=" options to the kernel at boot, which is no fun.
- Add "lba32" at the top of /etc/lilo.conf.
- Note that lilo WON'T boot off /dev/hde if there are any disks on the
onboard controller. lilo limitation which had me stumped for a while.
- The BIOS sees the Promise controller as a SCSI controller, so I had to
change the BIOS boot order to include SCSI.
I'm running 2.4 and 2.2.19pre + ide patches, no problems at all.
hdparm -Tt /dev/hde gives 36MB/s.
--
Mikael Pettersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University
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From: "bmeson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Question: setup cable modem, Linux and Windows
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2001 15:45:26 -0500
Hi, I have a Linux and a Windows PC. I need to connect them together and to
the cable modem. I also want the outside world be able see my Linux machine
(I want to setup Linux as webserver, ftp and telnet, etc.) I'm thinking
buying a hub for this task.
So what is the proper connection? is it
cable modem --- Linux --- Hub --- Windows
or
cable modem --- Hub --- Linux
|
------ Windows
Or should I use something other than hub?
Thanks.
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike McDonald)
Subject: Re: Obtaining the MAC address
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.networking
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 20:43:43 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Klaus Stysch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> strcpy(devea.ifr_name,"eth0\x0");
^^^
What's that ||| all about?
Mike McDonald
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: wireless keyboard?
Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 19:51:02 GMT
Anyone have experience (good or bad) with a wireless keyboard for Linux?
How about the built in touch pad "mouse" device? Any recommendations?
John Culleton
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