Linux-Hardware Digest #512, Volume #14 Thu, 22 Mar 01 05:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: new linux idiot here (Dances With Crows)
Re: creative vibra 128 (Dances With Crows)
Re: Linux on a HP 712/60 (Markus Kossmann)
Need Help...... Please ("Ye Myint")
Problems in 2.4??? (Michael Gibson)
Re: Difficult Linux version/distro question ? ("Matt O'Toole")
Re: No sound for TV-cart (Marcus Lauer)
Re: TNT 2 or G-Force video card for Linux and Windows ?? (Marcus Lauer)
Re: new linux idiot here (Marcus Lauer)
Re: Ditto 2gb external parallel? (Marc D. Williams)
Re: Memory - Can't see entire memory? (Kenneth R�rvik)
Linux on INSIDE Technology LCD786/3.5" SBC. Anybody did it? (Kris Heyrman)
Re: Memory - Can't see entire memory? ("NyQuist")
Re: Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Is it possible for me to install TP-Link modem? ("web")
Re: kabel modem wanadoo(casema) ("Vladislav Dembskiy")
Re: HP2500C - MIO card port name for remote printing (A. Khan)
Re: help setting up cd burner (A. Khan)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: new linux idiot here
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 Mar 2001 03:33:38 GMT
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:39:40 +1030, mik staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
>since im such a stupid idiot windows user can some1 tell me what modem
>u use in linux? and yeah i got a win modem u think developers would
Find out who made your LoseModem, then send them a message asking them
to release the hardware specifications for the device. If the kernel
developers can get those, they can crank out a driver for the thing
reasonably quickly, and no other people with your make+model of
LoseModem will have to suffer through what you had to suffer through.
If Lucent made your LoseModem, go to
http://www.walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ . The module available
there should work with all Lucent LoseModems, and it's so easy to build
and install that a raw newbie could do it.
>take into consideration that there r idiots in this world a simple
>message on cd cover for dummys hey u need a diff modem hmm just gotta
>wonder bout linux with all the faq's goin on in here
Everybody is somebody's idiot.
There is a learning curve for Unix. If you work with it for a while,
you will begin to grok how the entire system fits together, and you can
apply this knowledge on just about any Unix system. In general, Unix is
aimed at people who don't mind reading the instructions before starting
something new. Unix is "Power User/Adiminstrator"-friendly, not "Raw
Newbie"-friendly, which you may appreciate at some point in the future.
If all this is too much trouble, go buy an external modem that connects
to the 9-pin serial port. Those are extremely simple to set up and use,
and they often work better than software modems.
(Also, you have a Shift key and a "." key. Make use of them.)
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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!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: creative vibra 128
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 22 Mar 2001 03:33:35 GMT
On Wed, 21 Mar 2001 09:57:00 GMT, gonenc onay staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
>mandrake 7.2 recognize my card as ensoniq 1371es but it can't able to
>set it.helppppppp
So what happens if you bypass the Mandrake config utility, log in as
root, and do a "modprobe es1371" from the command line? Also, what does
"cat /proc/pci" say about the sound card? There's a chance that the
firmware revision on the card is too new for Mandrake's stock kernel to
work with, which means getting the latest kernel package from Mandrake's
FTP site and installing it, or getting linux-2.2.18.tar.gz from
ftp://ftp.us.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.2/ and compiling/installing
that. HTH,
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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!
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From: Markus Kossmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a HP 712/60
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 04:10:33 +0100
Cory Houston wrote:
>
> Is there a version of Linux that runs on a HP 712/60 workstation?
>
Have a look at http://parisc-linux.org/
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Markus Kossmann
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From: "Ye Myint" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need Help...... Please
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:55:10 -0600
Today, I installed Wine and Music Match on my RH 7.0.
I have two hard drives. One is an IDE drive with 3 Dos partitions and 3
linux (ext2, swap, boot) partitions. The other one is a SCSI drive with just
one dos partition (sda1).
And, I have two cd drives: one is an IDE (/dev/cdrom) and the other one is a
SCSI cd-burner (/dev/cdrom1).
Unitl today, all the devices (all hard drive partitions and the cd roms)
were working well.
After I have installed Wine, both cd roms were not accessible. I got a
message saying.. "wrong fs type.. ..... or too my devices mounted."..
I have checked my /etc/fstab and there was no change.
After rebooting linux, I got my IDE cd drom back.
But, the SCSI cd rom is not accessible anymore.
It is mounted : /mnt/cdrom /dev/cdrom1.
I tried to mount from shell. It still won't work.
So I checked if the hardware is OK and booted into windows ME and found both
CD roms are working fine.
What went wrong? Did Wine changed something on my linux?
I haven't checked the wine.conf becuse I am new to it.
Please help me out.
YM
Northern Illinois Univeristy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Gibson)
Subject: Problems in 2.4???
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 02:14:24 +0000 (UTC)
We've been having an intermittent problem with our linux setup. We have a
2 processor server with 3 IDE hard drives and an IDE CD-ROM drive.
When we run this at high load and the 2.4 kernel, it works for some amount
of time then hangs. The higher the load, the more frequent hangs. In
particular, when we started doing disk-intensive stuff, the mean time to
failure is 5 or 6 hours. (High load = lots of computation + serving out
NFS + lots of disk access.) We've tried 2.4.0 and 2.4.2.
After much wailing and gnashing of teeth, we've switched back to the
2.2.16enterprise kernel, and the same machine has been up for a week
running the same tests without crashing.
(NOTE: before you tell me to plug/unplug hard-drives, etc., re-read the
previous paragraph.)
Two questions:
1) Does anyone know how to fix this?
2) If not, does anyone know how to debug this? I'm imagining that somehow
one can set up the system to print some kind of useful debugging messages,
run it until it crashes, and report the debugging messages to the right
people, and they'll be able to fix it. I'm just wondering how to do the
first step.
Thanks a lot.
Michael
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From: "Matt O'Toole" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Difficult Linux version/distro question ?
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:34:04 -0800
"peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Ok guys, I posted a msg. about memory, etc and Linux.
>
> Now, I've gotten another machine with 32 megs in it, BUT instead of
> having two pentium system with 32 megs, I'm going to put 48 megs in
> one and 16 in the other. So, the big question is, what distro/version
> should I run in each system ? I have Red Hat 6.1 and Mandrake 7.1
> laying around. I'll pick up a new version, if you think the latest
> version are better.
>
> My systems break down like this:
>
> Socket 7, Cyrix p166, 48 megs (6 eight meg simms, strange MB), S3 trio
> video card, 3 gig HD, 4X cd-rom, network card, floppy
>
> Socket 5, Intel P100, 16 megs (4 four meg simms), trident 4 meg card,
> no HD yet (may use two 200 meg drives), no cd-rom (will hook one up
> for the install, then disconnect it), network card, floppy.
>
> I would like to run X-windows on the 48 megs system, and turn 16 meg,
> P 100 into a proxy,firewall (no X-windows here).
>
> So, maybe I should run mandrake 7.1 on the 48 megs system (KDE ?) and
> RH 6.1 on the 16 meg system ?
>
> What do you think ?
>
> As far as what I'll be doing on the 48 megs system, just learning
> about linux, programming, and the 16 meg machine will be a
> firewall/proxy/web server
>
> Over time, I would like to use Linux more and more, maybe it will
> become my main system.
If this is any help to you, I have a P150 system with 48MB, which has
Mandrake 7.2 installed. It works fine but it's a bit sluggish, and it isn't
all just the lack of RAM. The P150 is a little slow for KDE 2. It was
zippier with KDE 1.x. KDE 2.1 does seem faster than 2.0 on my Celeron, and
it probably would be on the P150 as well. Anyway, it's a little sluggish
but still OK. For snappier performance, I recommend a lightweight window
manager like Ice, Blackbox, or Windowmaker; or none at all. I've even run
Netscape 4.7x on a P100 with 16MB, and it was fine as long as you're not
trying to do anything else. You can use either Redhat or Mandrake on either
or both of your systems. If you're using Redhat, I recommend 6.2.
Matt O.
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: No sound for TV-cart
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:52:01 -0800
Konstantin Schauwecker wrote:
> Hello
>
> I've a Hauppauge WinTV card (based on BT848 Chipset). The card runs at my
> linux, but there's no sound. Normally the sound is produced by hardware
> through the line-out of the TV-card to the line-in of the sound-card. But
> it doesn't work. I found the modules "tvaudio" and "tvmixer". I loadet them
> with modprobe, but it had no effect.
> What's wrong?
>
> Thanx
> Konstantin Schauwecker
>
>
Perhaps that particular channel of your sound card is muted?
Also, when you say you connected the TV line-out to the soundcard
line-in, you do mean using an internal four-pin cable, right, not an external
wire? If you used an external wire, then there could be other possible
solutions...
Marcus
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: TNT 2 or G-Force video card for Linux and Windows ??
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:57:39 -0800
mike wrote:
> Hi,
> I want to replace my old video card. A friend told me to
> look at the TNT 2 card. While I was on the internet, I noticed
> that a G-force card was just a little more money than the TNT
> card. Another friend told me that he heard that even though
> the G-Force card is faster, the TNT card has better video
> quality.
> I would like to use the card for Linux and Windows.
> Any thoughts on the two cards?
>
> Thanks
> Mike
>
>
GeForce and TNT 2 cards come in many varieties. There are GeForce
256 SDR, GeForce 256 DDR, Geforce 2, GeForce 2 MX, GeForce 2 Ultra, GeForce 2
GTS, and now GeForce 3. Then there's the TNT cards... never mind. The TNT 2
Vanta and M64 are to be avoided, that's all you need to know.
Anyway, a GeForce 2 MX is a somewhat faster card than a regular TNT2.
The difference should be noticable in some games, like Quake III, and not in
others, such as Unreal Tournament (which is more CPU-limited). I haven't
heard anything about the quality being worse on GeForce cards, but since the
GeForce 2 MX is the "budget" GeForce, perhaps we're comparing cheaply made
GeForce cards with higher-quality TNT 2 cards?
I say go for the GeForce, but spend a bit more to get a card from a
well-reputed company.
Marcus
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new linux idiot here
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 22:59:30 -0800
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:39:40 +1030, mik staggered into the Black Sun and
> said:
>
>>take into consideration that there r idiots in this world a simple
>>message on cd cover for dummys hey u need a diff modem hmm just gotta
>>wonder bout linux with all the faq's goin on in here
>
> Everybody is somebody's idiot.
>
Exactly. And that "somebody" is the IRS.
Marcus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: Ditto 2gb external parallel?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:25:51 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 4 Mar 2001 22:07:32 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello.
>Could someone please tell me the latest on the situation with
>drivers availability etc for the Ditto 2gb external parallel port drive
>on a Linux box. Is there any way at all I can get this drive to work
>under Linux?
>
Ftape handles the Ditto 2GB parallel and it's worked fine for me for some
time (this was back with kernel 2.0.38).
Get Ftape from its home page (don't have URL handy) as I think
the one included with the kernel is rather dated, last I remember.
Marc
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Subject: Re: Memory - Can't see entire memory?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:36:08 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (AS) wrote in <ogdu6.2082$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>64942080. I added 'append="mem=160M"' to lilo.conf and booted again,
>nothing changed. I swapped the banks, didn't help. I booted it with win98
Did you run "lilo" before reboot?
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From: Kris Heyrman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on INSIDE Technology LCD786/3.5" SBC. Anybody did it?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:23:13 GMT
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Hello,
I want to use this 'embedded PC' or 'single-board computer' with Linux.
It's a beauty of a board: It has a 800MHz Pentium III and all the
essentials of a PC, including a CompactFlash solid-state disk, with the
size factor of 3.5", i.e 145x102mm. For my image processing
applications, which require a high throughput, I've not yet seen
another SBC like it.
BUT. I've not yet seen any indication on the net yet that anybody uses
it with Linux. So that's why I am sending this out: is there anybody in
this newsgroup who is doing this or who can point to Linux drivers or
known problems?
For my application, I need only IDE and FD disks, parallel and printer
ports; no graphics or audio, so I feel a little at ease there. But I
foresee that the Hardware Monitor, and some other little things that I
do do not know about yet, might throw a spanner or two in the works.
I would appreciate your response. (You = anybody in this group).
With kind regards,
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From: "NyQuist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Memory - Can't see entire memory?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:25:52 -0000
Take out the 32 Meg dimm
It's very hard to find two different size Mem cards which will work together
without having major problems (i tried with 3 32meg cards once and it
completely f***ed my motherboard - *fried*) Just be happy with 128m. I know
there are problems with having Memory of the same size but from different
manufacturers; and of different types Single inline and Double inline
(SIMM/DIMM); so i'd guess there'd be larger problems with having different
sized cards most likely from different manufacturers. Also . add appens -
mem=128 to /etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo. This will make sure linux
see's your 128m card, if it's the only on in.
"AS" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:ogdu6.2082$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a debian (unstable) with kernel 2.2.18. I just upgraded the memory.
> Initially, I had 2 x 32 MB DIMMS. Now I have one 128MB (in bank
> 0) and 32MB (in bank 1). I also tried swapping the banks. Both dimms are
> CL2. My computer isupgradable upto 256MB. I booted the system and BIOS can
> see the entire memory fine (163456kb), but my linux still sees it
> 64942080. I added 'append="mem=160M"' to lilo.conf and booted again,
> nothing changed. I swapped the banks, didn't help. I booted it with win98
> (first time after a year later) to check it, it also sees as 64MB. So
> can't see more than 64MB.
> Is there anyway I can solve this issue? Thanks, AS.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Symbios (LSI) 1010 Ultra160 SCSI ok with Linux?
Date: 22 Mar 2001 09:33:02 GMT
Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:> Ladies and gentlemen, can someone tell me if the Ultra160 SCSI
:> chipset by Symbios/NCR (3C1010, used embedded in some high-end mother-
:> boards like the Tyan Thunder 2500) is compatible with current Linux, I
:> mean the current Linux kernels and if so which driver.
: Yes, and it works fine on my Thunder 2500 (with Symbios 1010). I'm
: currently running 2.4.2 which seems _much_ faster than the 2.2.x kernels.
Hi,
Thanks for your responses; do I understand your (yours and the
previous respondent's) answer to mean that Red Hat 7.0 or say Mandrake
7.2 works out of the box with it? Or do I need something newer?
[I.e. something with kernel 2.4.2 in it ...?]
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From: "web" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Is it possible for me to install TP-Link modem?
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 16:33:53 +0800
I use TP-Link TM-IA5628V HaM modem(PCI,half-soft,I think), but it doesnot
work under my linux.
>From /proc/pci, the modem can be found at IRQ 12 and oxe000. I tried to make
a clm.o for it(I download CLModem-0.3.0.tar), after I generated a character
file /dev/clm, I tried to install it. But there are many mistakes when I run
insmod clm.o. I use modprobe clm in order to find that device, but cannot
find it.
Are there somebody use that PCI modem? Where can I find a driver for
it(ambient, not Cirrus L..,I think.)?
thank you.
Does linux support AMR modem?
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From: "Vladislav Dembskiy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kabel modem wanadoo(casema)
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:49:43 +0100
Try to forward this question into casema.linux newsgroup
Best wishes.
"Bas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> �������/�������� � �������� ���������:
news:3ab90fd2$0$29226@reader5...
> Hallo allemaal,
>
> Ik heb Linux Suse 7.0 nederlandse versie geinstaleerd.
> Ook heb ik een kabel modem bij Wanadoo(vorheen Casema).
> Kan iemand mij vertellen hoe ik deze installeer in begrijpelijke taal.
>
> Bij voorbaad dank
>
> Bas
>
>
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP2500C - MIO card port name for remote printing
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:57:48 -0600
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001 17:27:04 -0600 A. Khan wrote:
> I have a HP2500C printer with a MIO print server card. I have been able
> to
> set the IP params etc. I am able to ping the machine. However, don't
> know
> the name to put in for :rp=: entry. The docs I downloaded from HP's
I got the answer from the local LUG :) Set ":rp=" parameter as follows,
leave the rest of the printcap settings as is.
:rp=raw:
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A. Khan (email: knura at yahoo dot com)
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From: A. Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: help setting up cd burner
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 12:24:07 -0600
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 22:43:54 GMT kellehmj wrote:
> i am running kernel 2.4.2 under redhat 7.0
>
> the cd burner i have is:
> SONY CD-RW CRX145E, ATAPI CDROM drive
>
> i followed the cd burner howto and compiled the modules for scsi
> emulation,
> and the extra script for modules.conf. i could not figure out how to
> setup
> the extra stuff in lilo tho.
>
> if anyone has any insight into this, please help!!
>
In lilo.conf add the following line corresponding to the kernel you want to
boot.
append = "hdc=ide-scsi "
In my setup the ATAPI CDR-RW is the master on secondary IDE controller.
Change 'hdc' to the appropriate device in your setup.
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