Linux-Hardware Digest #481, Volume #14 Wed, 14 Mar 01 18:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Palm vs. Visor for Linux (Tim)
What Software for Linux Video Conferencing, was Re: Video Conferencing (Tim)
Re: Linux w/ tv-out ? ("Christopher H")
Patch rejection (Kirill Kozmin)
Is this nic supported : Tulip NCC-16 ??? (Rik Lambrichts >)
Video Camera w/ DV (Firewire) (Thomas Harsch)
Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working (aflinsch)
Re: Is this nic supported : Tulip NCC-16 ??? (Jay & Shell)
Re: 4-Way on Linux, what hardware? (Johan Kullstam)
promise controller bios? (ekk)
will a tv tunner card work with red hat ("Andrew Diaczyk")
Re: Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID 0 ("ogni")
Re: Palm vs. Visor for Linux (Michael Meissner)
Logitech wireless mouse. (John Culleton)
Re:Laser printer for Linux (John Culleton)
Modem not receive and send faxs ("Cityline")
Re: VIA82Cxxx Install Probs - MD 7.1 (Malcolm Bebb)
Resetting a CD burner? ("Daniel Roy Lenski")
Cirrus Logic gd5426 1M and 16bpp crashes. ("m.c.dooligan")
Re: CD-ROM support (Michael Hofmann)
Re: promise fasttrak 100 + suse 7.0 problems ("Andrew McIntosh")
Re: Goin Shoppin ("Robert J. Hansen")
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Palm vs. Visor for Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:19:16 -0500
Hi Martin,
There are several new Linux-driven PDA's coming soon. Maybe you want to
wait awhile:
http://www.zdnet.com/enterprise/stories/linux/0,12249,2695018,00.html
Martin Brown wrote:
>
> I'm thinking about getting either a Palm or Visor, and my initial
> investigations have left me with a few questions:
<snip>
I have absolutely no use whatsoever for a PDA, but I am going to buy the
first Linux PDA I can find, just to support Linux.
Later--
Tim
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Timothy J. Schutte
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http://www.wwnet.net/~kc8hr
"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What Software for Linux Video Conferencing, was Re: Video Conferencing
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 11:23:27 -0500
Hi All,
Tony Hague wrote:
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> The Real Bev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >The $20-but-free-after-rebate D-Link camera from Circuit City works, but
> >the image is truly crappy and you only get that if you shine a 100-watt
> >spotlight on your face.
>
> In my experience so far, the only usb cameras I've found which give
> non-crappy image quality are the Philips ones, and then not the
> bottom of the range offerings. Check for CCD imagers rather than CMOS -
> the latter are usually poor quality. Many omit an IR cut filter,
> giving awful color in daylight.
I have a Sony camcorder hooked up to a Pinnacle PCTV capture card, and I
am looking for decent video conferencing software that is compatible
with <bleah> MS NetMeeting and CuSeeME. There are a few programs
available, but they are all in beta.
Anybody have any ideas?
Tim
--
Timothy J. Schutte
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"I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" --Popeye the Sailor-Man
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From: "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Linux w/ tv-out ?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:26:03 GMT
Thanks Colin !
That's exactly what I was looking for.
"Colin G." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:GEDr6.566291$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Christopher:
>
> I found this on the Creative open source site. Might try giving it a shot:
>
> ftp://opensource.creative.com/pub/snapshots/dxr2-20010313.tar.gz
>
> Colin G.
>
>
> "Christopher H" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:3iyr6.441541$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi everyone,
>
> I have a Creative decoder card (DXR2) and I can play DVDs/VCDs/MPGs on my
TV
> through Win2k with no problem. But now I want to take out the card and put
> it in my P166 box (which is closer to my bigger TV).
>
> Would it be possible to have the decoder card working along with the
tv-out
> capability ? What software would be needed (if possible a console soft.)
>
> Thanks,
> Christopher H
> remove NOSPAM to email.
>
>
>
>
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From: Kirill Kozmin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Patch rejection
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:51:10 +0100
Hi!
I tried to apply patch to kernel 2.4.2 and got many rejections.
Is it normal?
I made it with command
cat patch-2.4.2-ac2 | patch -p0 -R --force
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From: Rik Lambrichts <Riki Lambrichts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Is this nic supported : Tulip NCC-16 ???
Reply-To: Rik Lambrichts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:57:02 +0100
[This followup was posted to and a copy was sent to the cited author.]
It's about a nic of brand: Tulip Computers (The Netherlands)
Type : NCC-16 CAT
It is an ISA-Card, with chip : SONIC (Tm) S9352AD DP83916VF.
In Win9X it is supported as TULIP NCC-16.
It is not mentioned in the Hardware-HOWTO at
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-12.html (networkadapters).
Is this card nevertheless supported in Linux??
--
Regards.
Rik Lambrichts
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Thomas Harsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video Camera w/ DV (Firewire)
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:22:34 +0100
Hi,
I am just thinking of buying a Videocamera with a DV Out Jack to connect
to my Notebook (Vaio F709).
Are there any Cameras known as working with Linux (Debian, Kernel 2.4.2) ?
I would be glad to get some links to Firewiresupport for Linux.
--
Thomas Harsch
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file :-)
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From: aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Netgear FA311 ethernet card Not working
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 12:18:53 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware aflinsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > "Peter T. Breuer" wrote:
> >> DO it again, this time correctly! Compile against the sources of your
> >> running kernel, not against something else. It's likely you are being
>
> > He could try, but it won't work. The supplied source does not compile.
>
> It most certainly DOES compile. Or do you imagine that the writers did
> it blindfold?
Odd, when I tried it, it would not, in fact, gave me about 1000 lines
of assorted warnings and errors, mostly involving dreferencing
pointers of incomplete types.
Looking into the source code reveals a comment in the "Unsupported
Features section", listing 1.xx.xx and 2.2.xx kernels as being
unsupported. It does claim to have been tested on a 2.0.36 kernel.
Perhaps it will compile with that set of kernel headers, but it will
not with the 2.2.17 kernel supplied with Mandrake 7.2.
>
> > He needs to snag the Redhat 7.0 version and recompile.
>
Which uses a 2.2.xx kernel, and will compile using what was supplied
with Mandrake 7.2
> No. He needs to ...
>
> >> befuddled by your distributors use of one set of kernel header files in
> >> /usr/include/linux, and another set in /usr/src/linux/include.
>
> unbefuddle himself (and redhat).
Agreed.... Especially the redhat part.
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From: Jay & Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: Is this nic supported : Tulip NCC-16 ???
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:46:28 GMT
Try here:
http://www.scyld.com/network/
"Rik Lambrichts
>
> [This followup was posted to and a copy was sent to the cited author.]
>
> It's about a nic of brand: Tulip Computers (The Netherlands)
> Type : NCC-16 CAT
> It is an ISA-Card, with chip : SONIC (Tm) S9352AD DP83916VF.
> In Win9X it is supported as TULIP NCC-16.
> It is not mentioned in the Hardware-HOWTO at
> http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO-12.html (networkadapters).
>
> Is this card nevertheless supported in Linux??
>
> --
> Regards.
>
> Rik Lambrichts
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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MS-Windows - A Colorful Clown Suit For Dos !
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Subject: Re: 4-Way on Linux, what hardware?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Mar 2001 13:06:11 -0500
Les Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ok, I want to play with SMP system, and I've got a few dollars to spare
> (not wads of cash, but enough) to investigate. I've seen 4-way
> motherboards going for around $600-$900, but I was wondering if anyone
> had had any experience with running Linux on a 4-way?
i've got an old ALR revolution quad6 doing 4 ppro200s.
> Does anyone know of any problems there are running Linux on a 4-way, or
> recommended hardware??
no real problems for me since linux 2.0.37 or so.
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
sysengr
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From: ekk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: promise controller bios?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:07:07 -0500
Hi there,
Just built a machine with a promise controller. Would like to put linux
on it. But, apparently the contoller's BIOS cannot be found, because
after checking the memory, the AMIBIOS doesn't switch to Promise
Controller BIOS - which typically detects the drives connected to it.
Instead, it goes to the device list (where it does indicate a Mass
Storage Device, IRQ11 on slot 3 - I've tried another slot btw.), and
then looks for boot records from floppy and CDROM. I did tell the
AMIBIOS to look for boot records on SCSI and other devices as well,
although it doesn't try SCSI (I assume because the controller's
BIOS wasn't found).
Sorry for the off-linux topic, I know there are a lot of knowledgeable
promise controller linux users here though.
Please help-
Ken
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From: "Andrew Diaczyk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: will a tv tunner card work with red hat
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:29:30 GMT
I will be installing red hat and peanut linux on the same machine. Im
interested in installing a tv tunner card on my linux system. Which one
should I buy. I have 3 video cards a trident blade 3d a ati expert 98 pci
and a voodoo 3 3000 agp with 16 meg of ram which one should I use.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "ogni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Fasttrack 100 RAID 0
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:04:24 +0100
wie hast du es geschaft das suse 7.0 deine festplatte als raid 0 erkennt??
ich schafte es bis jetzt nur mit hilfe von kernelparametern (ide2=xxxxxx
ide3=xxxxxx) voneineander unabh�ngig (??) auf die platten zuzugreifen (hde,
hdg)
wie gehts dir mit dem modul? das wuerde mich natuerlich auch sehr
interresieren
cu
ogni
Mike L�schau schrieb in Nachricht <94qfjb$2a8$01$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>
>"Thees R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:944qa8$359$04$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Wer hat den unter LINUX jemals zum Laufen bekommen , und vor Allem: WIE ?
>> Es geht um S.u.S.E. 7.0 und Mandrake 7.2
>>
>>
>also ich konnte zumindest suse 7.0 darauf installieren.. nur beim booten
>kommt immer nur ein LIL-
>bin gerade dabei das modul von RedHat anzupassen.
>ich hoffe das es damit geht.
>ansonsten kann ich es nur mit der suse cd starten..
>installation abbrechen und installiertes system starten
>dann gehts.
>
>cu mike
>
>
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Subject: Re: Palm vs. Visor for Linux
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 14 Mar 2001 14:09:16 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Brown) writes:
> I'm thinking about getting either a Palm or Visor, and my initial
> investigations have left me with a few questions:
>
> Are there any web sites or other resources that deal specifically with
> using Palm/Visor in a Linux environment?
>
> I like the Palms due to their upgradable OS, and have seen info on
> software for Windows and Mac to do this to the units. How do you do this
> from a Linux machine?
>
> I'd be interested in general opinions to the usefulness of Palm/Visor in a
> Linux environment. And why one over the other.
>
> Thank you for any info you can provide.
With a pilot, the cradle plugs into a normal 9 pin serial port. The visor uses
a USB connection, and you need a recent kernel to support it. I use the
pilot-link package which provides low level programs to copy stuff to/from my
Pilot IIIc and a transfer rate of 57600. There are Gnome and KDE layers on top
of this if you need the eye candy. You will have to check whether pilot-link
is provided by your distribution (it is with Red Hat). The two programs I tend
to use are 'pilot-xfer' which does backup and restore functions, and 'read-cal'
which converts a pilot calender into ical format.
--
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PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech wireless mouse.
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:17:46 GMT
I have just bought a Logitech wireless mouse. This is the new model with the
usb connector and an adapter for ps/2 mini-din. I added a further adapter to
connect to my serial port, on the theory that if usb can convert to ps/2, and
ps/2 can convert to serial, then with two adpters one can go from usb to
ps/2 to serial.
In any case the thingie doesn't work. I have tried Microsoft, Mousesystems,
MouseMan and I think one of the Logitech drivers in both gpm and Xwindows.
The Logitech web site is of course useless. Anyone have one of these (or the
next previous model) and what protocol etc. did you use?
Temporarily I am using a Belkin Classic Mouse. It defaults to Microsoft mode.
I specified three button mouse in the Pointer section of XF86Config but the
middle button doesn't work under xwindow. It works under gpm. Any hints on
the Belkin?
John Culleton
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From: John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re:Laser printer for Linux
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 18:03:27 GMT
Thanks for the replies. I do want 11x17 and don't need to hookup via ethernet
although that is of course a possiblity.
Does anyone have experience with the HP 5000? How about the Ricoh AP 2100?
Any other alternatives for a laser printer with native Postscript for Linux??
TFYH
John Culleton
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From: "Cityline" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Modem not receive and send faxs
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:10:10 +0300
Modem not receive and send faxs
Hello All!
I have a problem. I am using Red Hat 5.2 on my server and HylaFax as
fax-program. I have modem Zyxel U1496E+, it's good fax-modem. When I am
working in Internet, the modem's work is fine. But when I want to receive
or to send the fax, modem do not work! Transfer is beginning, run,run, and
... error!!! The connection is dead. And this situation each case is
repeating. I think, I incorrectly made settings of Hylafax or faxgetty, or
modem.
If You can help me, I shall be very grateful! In Russia not enough
information about Linux, Hylafax, etc!
Best regards!
Dima mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Malcolm Bebb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA82Cxxx Install Probs - MD 7.1
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:03:50 +0000
In article <98gicn$o7i$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Christy
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Malcolm Bebb wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've just installed Mandrake 7.1 on a generic PCI PC. The PC has VIA
>> 82cxxx (AC97) integrated sound, which doesn't work.
Thanks for the replies,
Malcolm
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From: "Daniel Roy Lenski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Resetting a CD burner?
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 15:57:55 +0500
Hi,
My ATAPI CD burner works pretty well under Linux (Mandrake 7.2, Kernel 2.4.2)
with the ide_scsi driver, but there is one problem: if I abort a burn or
if it crashes for some reason, the drive locks up and I can't eject the
disk or do anything else with it. After a few minutes the SCSI drivers
go crazy and start rapidly streaming the following error messages to the
console:
kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid 0) timed out - resetting
kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Test Unit Ready 00 00 00 00 00 Mar 14 15:29:33 danimal kernel: SCSI host 0 abort (pid
0) timed out - resetting
kernel: SCSI bus is being reset for host 0 channel 0.
kernel: scsi : aborting command due to timeout : pid 0, scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Prevent/Allow Medium Removal 00 00 00 01 00
This grinds the system almost to a halt and I have to reboot. I was
wondering if there's a way to reset the CD-RW drive so that it will
respond to commands again. Currently the only way I can reset it is to
physically shut off the power to the computer, a soft reboot won't work!
Any help with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Daniel Lenski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 13:20:03 -0800
From: "m.c.dooligan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Cirrus Logic gd5426 1M and 16bpp crashes.
Does anyone understand linear addressing and vintage video cards?
My card: Cirrus Logic gd5426 with 1024k, vesa local bus (yes. on a
i486dx2)
X-windows will run at 16bpp with linear addressing, membase 0x4e00000
(?!?)
but completely locks the machine up when I run any decent application
(like Netscape).
Any ideas?
Thanx in advance.
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From: Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD-ROM support
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 23:07:23 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ian Blake wrote:
>
> [old single speed CD-ROM]
Quite a while ago I tried to install on an FX-001D. IIRC I had to use RH5.2,
any newer wouldn't recognize the CD-Rom.
I just crosschecked, RH5.2 does indeed have a driver for Mitsumi CD-Roms.
Actually there are two of them, you may need to check both.
HTH,
Michael
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From: "Andrew McIntosh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: promise fasttrak 100 + suse 7.0 problems
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:31:24 -0600
I had the same problem you do, and I called promise about it. They said that
right now they only have support for Redhat, (as you already know) and that
you'd have to compile your own drivers if you want it to work with SuSE. So
personally I switched to a 3Ware card. That probably doesn't help you
much... sorry. Just thought I'd let you know.
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From: "Robert J. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 22:39:36 GMT
> What I'm not so sure of is what components will be best
> suited to run Linux so I wanted to open it up to the Linux
> community for recommendations.
If you want room to grow, I'd recommend getting a dual-processor mobo. They
cost a little more, but the expandability can't be beat. Today you can get
a 1 GHz Pentium III and have a nice, fast box. In three years you can add
another 1 GHz Pentium III and have a nice, fast box. Linux has pretty good
SMP facilities; take advantage of them.
Second: go with name-brand parts for the fewest troubles. Don't buy some
el-cheapo $10 made-in-Bangladesh 10/100 Ethernet card; plunk down the $50
and buy a nice 3Com instead. Don't buy hard drives from Dr. Fred Mbogo's
Computer Parts and Professional Dry Cleaning Service; go for Maxtor, Western
Digital, Seagate.
Third: go with industry standards whenever possible. I bought a Voodoo3 for
my box, even though other 3D accelerators are out there which have better
performance, because the Voodoo3 is pretty close to an industry standard
(just about everybody supports it). Never had a problem with it. Go for
Riva TNT2, the GeForce, the Voodoo3. Don't go for anything that's too new
and bleeding-edge; odds are, Linux won't have the support for it that you
want.
Don't bother with SCSI. I'll probably get flamed mercilessly for this, but
UltraDMA/100 is soon coming to Linux, and if there's any significant
difference performancewise between UDMA/100 and most SCSI cards, I haven't
been able to see it.
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