Linux-Hardware Digest #499, Volume #14 Sun, 18 Mar 01 19:13:03 EST
Contents:
Re: Goin Shoppin (Peter Gross)
Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner (E J)
Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what? (iQXth)
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? (Jerry Peters)
Re: TIFF file is corrupted!!!(HylaFax) (Mark T. Ganzer)
Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner (Young4ert)
Re: Need help getting modem to work ("bluster")
Re: XF86Config for IIyama Vision Master Pro 410 (Wilhelm Wienemann)
Memory required to run uClinux (Bard_64)
Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? (Dances With Crows)
Help with ESS1788 sound chip (Walter Dnes)
Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS (Stewart Jenkins)
HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . . (Norvell Spearman)
Epson 777 and Wordperfect (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Help with ESS1788 sound chip (Dances With Crows)
Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers? ("Peter T. Breuer")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gross)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: Goin Shoppin
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:14:21 GMT
On Tue, 13 Mar 2001 01:18:08 GMT, olliecat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'm going to finally break down and build a new box. I've never done this
>before but I think it will be a good learning experience. 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. I'm thinking this might be a common
>question so pointers to descriptive docs would be much appreciated as well as
>your own personal advice.
>
>I would like to get a motherboard/processor that will allow me some growing
>room. I don't want something that will become technically obsolete in two
>years. I heard that AMD might be a good choice here, processor wise anyway.
>Not so sure about the motherboard. I have IDE drives now and haven't had a
>problem but have been informed that for drives and other peripherals SCSI is the
>way to go, which seems reasonable.
>
>I want a nice video card (that plays nice with XFree86) and a nice sound card.
>I like to play games. I really like the space savings of the newer flat screen
>monitors but understand they might not have as good resolution as the standard
>CRT. I want a nice cd burner, external would be preferable, an internal DVD/CD
>player, as well as a floppy drive. Oodles of (cheap but good) memory is
>important, and nice fast hard drive(s) with as much room as possible. I would
>also like an external tape drive to perform backups on. I want to try and do
>all of this for under $2000. The machine, when complete, will be used as a
>developer workstation.
>
>Thanks for any advice.
There is an excellent article on building yourself a PC on Tom's
Hardware:
http://www4.tomshardware.com/howto/01q1/010115/index.html
Just be sure the video card you buy works with Linux. This article
ought to get you started. Another piece of advice: get a full tower
case (I went with SuperMicro -- the accessability is great).
Over and out,
--peter
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:45:58 GMT
Doesn't look good. A big MAYBE. See
http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
I guess you should try the PRIMAX driver and see if it will work.
Young4ert wrote:
> I just purchased a Visioneer 4400 USB scanner from the local Staples for an
> incredible price (~$15 after a combined of $65 rebates). Unfortunately,
> when I checked http://www.mostang.com/sane and learnt that such a scanner
> is not listed under the "Supported Scanners" section and therefore is not
> supported or usable under Linux OS.
>
> The question I would like to ask is if anyone knows of such scanner is
> supported under Linux OS through other drivers, instead of the one provided
> by the SANE?
>
> TIA.
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From: iQXth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise FastTrak100 - OK, now what?
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:29:17 GMT
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 15:35:23 GMT, Larry Snyder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> After creating a boot partition using the supplied driver disk from
> Promise I did modify lilo.conf and all is well - booting the stock RH
> 7 kernel. I would like to move forward and use 2.4.X - any progess
> getting RAID0 to work with this platform ?
>
> Larry
I'm sorry, I cannot comment on the 2.4.X kernel. I have not worked
with it.
--- iQXth ---
Please respond to this thread
or post with 'ulvfboqj' in the
subject to get my attention.
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From: Jerry Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:53:40 GMT
In comp.periphs.scsi Peter T. Breuer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Ron Reaugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ed Blackman wrote in message ...
>>>On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 01:17:05 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
>>>>Ed Blackman wrote in message ...
>>>>>On Thu, 01 Mar 2001 00:09:27 GMT, Ron Reaugh wrote:
>>>>>>NewsReader2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message ...
>>>>>Because a single drive failure in RAID 0 array takes down the entire
>>>>>array, the probability of failure of a RAID 0 array is the *sum* of the
>>>>>probability of failures of all of the drives in the array. So a single
>>>>>drive *is* more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
>>>>
>>>>That's not the issue.
>>>
>>>It might not be the only issue, but it's the one that my comments where
>>>directed towards. Newsreader2 said that single drives had greater
>>>reliability and stability. You said that his statement was nonsense.
>>>I showed you were wrong: it *isn't* nonsense so say that single drives
>>>are more reliable than a RAID 0 array.
>> You are a bold faced liar as anyone who reads the thread for themself can
>> see.
> I think that's "barefaced" or "bald-something"! I don't personally
> trust people who aren't able to say what they mean.
> I'm happily buying up 1996 quantum 1.2GB scsi 2 drives for $20 apiece
> at the weekly flea market outside my door! Wheee ... let's go for raid1
> or raid5, shall we?
> Peter
IIRC "bald faced liar".
Ron does get testy when someones dares to disagree with him, doesn't he.
Jerry
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark T. Ganzer)
Subject: Re: TIFF file is corrupted!!!(HylaFax)
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:01:03 GMT
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 13:50:24 +0300, Cityline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... So, I can to receive any fax! But! All
>faxes, received as TIFF files, is corrupted! Kodak Image Viewer can't to
>read it. There is some error in process transferring the information.
Having just gone through setting uop Hylafax, I have also had problems
reading any of the TIFF files. However, I can run them through tiff2ps
and ps2pdf and come up with a perfectly readable PDF file. Go figure...
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From: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Visioneer 4400 USB Scanner
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 20:46:18 GMT
Thanks for the response. BTW, where do I get the PRIMAX scanner driver for
Linux? Is is part of SANE?
E J wrote:
> Doesn't look good. A big MAYBE. See
> http://www.buzzard.org.uk/jonathan/scanners.html
> I guess you should try the PRIMAX driver and see if it will work.
>
> Young4ert wrote:
>
>> I just purchased a Visioneer 4400 USB scanner from the local Staples for
>> an
>> incredible price (~$15 after a combined of $65 rebates). Unfortunately,
>> when I checked http://www.mostang.com/sane and learnt that such a scanner
>> is not listed under the "Supported Scanners" section and therefore is not
>> supported or usable under Linux OS.
>>
>> The question I would like to ask is if anyone knows of such scanner is
>> supported under Linux OS through other drivers, instead of the one
>> provided by the SANE?
>>
>> TIA.
>
>
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need help getting modem to work
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 16:20:17 -0500
jpm27 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> I have a U.S. Robotics 56k PCI Voice Modem and I'm trying to get it to run
> under Linux-Mandrake 7.2. When I run HardDrake is shows that the modem
has
> been recognized under the modem category. But when I try to connect to my
> ISP using Kppp and I try all the different com ports all I get on each one
> upon trying to connect is a message that states that the modem is busy.
Can
> someone please tell me the steps I need to take to get the modem working
so
> I can connect to my ISP? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
The registration of serial ports occurs when the serial driver is loaded.
The logs of that are in the /var/log/messages, and /var/log/dmesg files.
For example,
<snip from /var/log/messages>
zephyr kernel: Serial driver version 4.13 with no serial options enabled
zephyr kernel: tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
zephyr kernel: tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
zephyr kernel: tty02 at 0x03e8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
<snip from /var/log/messages>
Here, COM 1 is the UPS attached to the on-board serial port. COM 2 is a
mouse attached to the second on-board, and COM 3 is a hardware modem
jumpered to COM 3 and IRQ 7. Notice the error in reporting the IRQ. I then
run setserial as part of the boot scripts, to set the IRQ to the correct
value.
To make a quick check of the serial ports that were registered with
the linux kernel at boot time (as root) type:
[root@zephyr]# grep tty /var/log/dmesg
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[root@zephyr]#
If it *is* in the list but the IRQ or IO-port
is wrong fix it with the setserial command (see: man setserial).
Hope this helps,
Bluster
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Wienemann)
Subject: Re: XF86Config for IIyama Vision Master Pro 410
Date: 18 Mar 2001 19:12:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wilhelm Wienemann)
On Wed, 14 Mar 2001 at 13:21 GMT wrote
IJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
with MsgID: <98nr32$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > IJ wrote:
> > > I recently bought a IIyama Vision Master Pro 410 (A702HT). I
> > > want to use this screen with linux but I have no XF86config
> > > file for this screen. If someone here can give a XF86Config
> > > file for this device, it would help me a lot.
> >
> > RTFM to get vsync and hsync values; run xf86config and plug
> > these values into the monitor specs.
>
> The problem is that i can run my A702HT in 1024x768 @ 100Hz in
> Windows and the hsync and vsync for this mode are not specified in
> the monitor documentation.
If you bought an monitor you will usually get a manual for it.
In this manual there are also a page where you can look the
technical specs. And there you will also find the values for
the horizontal-sync and the vertical-sync besides the other
values you need to configure with 'xf86config'.
> Is there a tool to generate a XF86Config file from windows ?
Maybe this is a good question for the developers-team of
Microsoft. ;-)
The configuration of your screen under Windows is another
part of work then under Linux.
> I just want to have the same graphic mode in linux as in windows.
> no more, no less.
If you dont find your monitor manual you can give the following
URLs a try to find out your specs:
http://www.griffintechnology.com/monitors/
http://www.telalink.net/~griffin/monitors/
http://www.monitorworld.com/Monitors/
bye - Wilhelm
--
__ _ ___ ___ ______
/ / (_)__ __ ____ __ |_ | |_ | < ( _ ) ...it works even better!
/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \ / / __/_ / __/_ / / _ | Wilhelm Wienemann
/____/_/_//_/\_,_//_\_\ /____(_)____(_)_/\___/ Kalkar/Germany
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From: Bard_64 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Memory required to run uClinux
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 21:33:25 +0000
Hello
When using the uClinux port, how much memory would be needed for a
system designed to control an IDE Hard disk.
Thank you
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: 18 Mar 2001 22:00:19 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:26:24 +0100, Peter T. Breuer staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001 20:37:14 -0500, Rinaldi J. Montessi staggered into
>> the Black Sun and said:
>>>Dances With Crows wrote:
>>>> the Modules floppy, mount it, copy the scsi-mod.gz file to somewhere,
>>>> gunzip it, mount that file (sigh), and you'll find megaraid.o in there.
>
>> The .gz is a Minix filesystem image, and as such contains not just the
>> modules, but a bunch of filesystem information. It's *NOT* a tar
>> archive; tar says "hmm, this doesn't seem to be a tar file". Hence the
>> fiddling with mount. I don't know why they decided to do it this way--
>> probably so the whole thing could be loaded into a RAMdisk with a
>> minimum of hassle.
>
>How did you spot that? It would possibly have occurred to me too, but
>I wouldn't like to bet on it being a 10sec affair.
>
>Or is this an install disk of some kind?
Yes, it is. I tried looking around on the SuSE 7.0 CD-ROM for this
module, couldn't find it. However, it was on the "modules" floppy.
Curious. And of course, I found this out by gunzipping the file and
running "file" on the result.
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Walter Dnes)
Subject: Help with ESS1788 sound chip
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I got my hands on a 90 mhz Pentium Compaq Pressario 9536 with 40 megs
of RAM and cannibalized a CDROM and 6-gig hd from another defunct
machine. I had intended it to be my Windows netcruiser machine for
those sites that insist on using Quicktime or Windows Media Player.
Let's just say it was very underpowered for Win98. Choppy animation,
and only 480 kbits/sec downloading on my ADSL connection. This was
*AFTER* major tweaking above and beyond the defaults. (I don't brag
about this, but I'm damn good at tweaking Win9X. I've had to learn in
order to get any performance out of it at work.) So I'm trying to use it
as my backup linux machine (and RH7.0 testbed) instead. RH 7.0 is much
snappier.
My one problem is the embedded ESS1788 sound chip. I cannot get it to
work under Redhat. According to Windows, and to the Compaq diagnostics
diskette, it's using...
Gameport 0x201
Audio 0x220-0x22F
0x330-0x331
0x388-0x38B
IRQ 5 and DMA 1
Xconfigurator can't find it. Neither pnpdump nor "cat /proc/pci"
shows any sign of it. I've tried manually configuring. the sound config
utility has entries for ESS688, ESS1688, and ESS1868, but nothing for
the ESS1788. All my attempts at manual config have resulted in an
absolute total lockup. This includes trying plain Soundblaster.
/proc/devices shows " 14 sound"
/proc/dma shows " 1: SoundBlaster8"
/proc/interrupts shows soundblaster on IRQ 5
/proc/ioports shows "0220-022f : soundblaster"
"0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3"
/proc/modules shows
via-rhine 9376 1 (autoclean)
opl3 11472 0 (unused)
sb 33888 0 (unused)
uart401 6224 0 [sb]
sound 57504 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 464 0 [sound]
soundcore 2608 5 [sb sound]
/proc/sound shows
OSS/Free:3.8s2++-971130
Load type: Driver loaded as a module
Kernel: Linux waltdnes2 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:16:55 EDT 2000 i586
Config options: 0
Installed drivers:
Card config:
Audio devices:
0: ESS ES1888 AudioDrive (rev 11) (3.01)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL3
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
--
Walter Dnes
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: Stewart Jenkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: 10 gig disk in a 500 meg BIOS
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:22:24 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rick Griffiths wrote:
>
> Need I even do all this if I am only using Linux? Can I, in other
> words, make the first partition 5 gig and still expect the BIOS to find
> the master boot record in the first 1024 cylinders?
I have a generic 486-66 with the 540 meg BIOS limitation. I am running
Debian 2.1 on the machine. I have two partitions on the machine. Hda1 is
9 gigs and linux swap is 128 megs. Linux installed just fine. The machine
boots up just fine. I don't understand it, but it works. This machine
runs my file server for all the Win machines in the house. No monitor,
mouse or keyboard. It is soon to take over internet routing duties from my
personal machine.
I did nothing special to make this work. I put the CD in the drive, put
the boot floppy in the floppy drive and booted up. The install worked just
as it has on any Pentium I have installed on, just slower. I had to put 32
megs of ram in the thing to get the install completed in less than five
days. After that, I pulled 16 megs from it and it boots and handles its
duties just fine.
--
Stewart...
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From: Norvell Spearman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HPT370 RAID Chip, Linux installation. . .
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:27:53 -0600
Has anyone successfully installed any distribution of Linux on an ABIT
KT7A-RAID mainboard, using RAID-1? If I install a 2.2.15 kernel on one
of the HDDs (on a regular IDE channel), can I then upgrade to 2.2.16,
adjust /etc/lilo.conf, /etc/fstab, run /sbin/lilo, and---oh, how exactly
to I ensure the modules for the htp370 get loaded before the kernel
tried mounting partitions---then mirror the drives?
Thanks for any help with this. . .
---Norvell Spearman
===========================
``Trouble is my business.''
---Philip Marlowe
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Epson 777 and Wordperfect
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 18 Mar 2001 18:34:49 -0500
I've got this printer working fairly well with CUPS and the gimp-print
drivers. The WP driver options don't list anything close to this model.
All look to be laser or postscript printer drivers. The ACSII 'pass
through' works fine for plain text. The only other thing close to a
generic driver is Postscript 'pass through', which prints out only what
looks to be pages of postscript commands. AFAICT, you have to use one of
the supplied WP drivers.
Anyone been through this, and have any suggestions? TIA.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Help with ESS1788 sound chip
Date: 18 Mar 2001 23:55:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 22:37:21 +0000 (UTC), Walter Dnes staggered into the
Black Sun and said:
>Choppy animation, and only 480 kbits/sec downloading on my ADSL
*ONLY*??! Count yourself lucky; 80% of everyone is stuck on < 56K.
> My one problem is the embedded ESS1788 sound chip. I cannot get it to
>Gameport 0x201
>Audio 0x220-0x22F > 0x330-0x331 > 0x388-0x38B
>IRQ 5 and DMA 1
>
> Xconfigurator can't find it. Neither pnpdump nor "cat /proc/pci"
>shows any sign of it.
It's not a video card, so XConfigurator would never touch it. It's an
ISA card, so the PCI bus doesn't want to know about it. ISA-PNP is a
wretched gack of a kludge in the best of cases.
>I've tried manually configuring. the sound config
>utility has entries for ESS688, ESS1688, and ESS1868, but nothing for
>the ESS1788.
Using sndconfig is not manual configuring. Make sure that the BIOS
"plug and play OS" setting is OFF (Compaq may call it something else,
but turn it off, whatever it's called.) Then try these commands:
rmmod sb
modprobe sb irq=5 dma=1 io=0x220 esstype=1788
modprobe opl3 io=0x388
The esstype= parameter is probably essential; autodetection of some ISA
stuff is problematic.
>/proc/dma shows " 1: SoundBlaster8"
>/proc/interrupts shows soundblaster on IRQ 5
>/proc/ioports shows "0220-022f : soundblaster"
> "0388-038b : Yamaha OPL3"
...seems reasonable to me. HTH,
--
Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
=============================/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Support for Dell PowerEdge RAID controllers?
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 00:47:49 +0100
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Mar 2001 12:26:24 +0100, Peter T. Breuer staggered into the
> Black Sun and said:
>>Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> The .gz is a Minix filesystem image, and as such contains not just the
>>> modules, but a bunch of filesystem information. It's *NOT* a tar
>>> archive; tar says "hmm, this doesn't seem to be a tar file". Hence the
>>> fiddling with mount. I don't know why they decided to do it this way--
>>> probably so the whole thing could be loaded into a RAMdisk with a
>>> minimum of hassle.
>>
>>How did you spot that? It would possibly have occurred to me too, but
>>I wouldn't like to bet on it being a 10sec affair.
>>
>>Or is this an install disk of some kind?
> Yes, it is. I tried looking around on the SuSE 7.0 CD-ROM for this
> module, couldn't find it. However, it was on the "modules" floppy.
> Curious. And of course, I found this out by gunzipping the file and
> running "file" on the result.
Aha. Your "file" is better taught than mine. But being on an install
fl.oppy gives it away. Those are always compressed file system images.
The only problem is if they start at some offset. Curious that they
went for minix .. the savings must be about 40K on a 1.44M floppy.
Peter
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