Linux-Hardware Digest #703, Volume #14 Sun, 29 Apr 01 15:13:12 EDT
Contents:
Re: how to use wheel mouse ("Wayne Osborn")
Re: Modems HELP ("LittleFish")
Re: Cannot Install RH7.1 - Partition Table Corrupt ! (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Re: Samba - nmbd (Thomas Papendieck)
writing a kenel ("bindou")
Re: Two OS, two hard drives, one computer (Thomas Papendieck)
Re: writing a kenel ("Gerard H. Pille")
Re: Linux on Compaq Prolinea ?? ("bowman")
Re: Promise RAID with RedHat 7.1/Mandrake 8.0 ("O. Venier")
Re: Radeon 64mb ddr under linux (D. C. Sessions)
start up commands ("E. Carrillo")
Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives (Gabriele Del Prete)
Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives (Gabriele Del Prete)
Re: start up commands ("Brett I. Holcomb")
Re: start up commands ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: Radeon 64mb ddr under linux (David Konerding)
Re: Creative Vibra 128 PCI ("lobotomy")
Adding memory (Rossz Vamos-Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: writing a kenel (Garry Knight)
Re: writing a kenel ("Ian Ellis")
Re: Samba - nmbd ("Ian Ellis")
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From: "Wayne Osborn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: how to use wheel mouse
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:04:19 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Warren Burke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Certain applications need to be configured seperately. Further
> information can be found at:
> http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
Thanks heaps for the tip.
--
Wayne A. Osborn, SCADA Engineer.[dnar AT iinet DOT net DOT au]
Registered Linux User #212818. [2.2.16-22-Win4Lin-686] [i686]
7:00pm up 1 day, 5:41, 6 users, load average: 1.03, 1.05, 1.13
...The IBM 2250 is impressive ...
if you compare it with a system selling for a tenth its price.
-- D. Cohen
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From: "LittleFish" <littlefish_au[SPAM ME AT YOUR OWN RISK]@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Modems HELP
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:09:45 +1000
Run modemtool and set it too Com1 dev/ttyS0 and try the modem with Minicom
type ATZ and you should get O.K. back or something like that. I fit doesn't
work run modemtool again and try the next port until you get a response from
Minicom.
Littlefish
"Daniel Moody" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3ae68dd2$0$25505$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a Netcomm Mega-i-modem 56 (external, Serial on COM1 or in linux
terms
> dev/ttyS0)
>
> i boought this modem cause i had a winmodem and i wanted to use Linux and
> now i have this modem i till cant use net.
>
> when i try to connect it says Sorry cant find modem (or something like
that)
>
> Im using Mandrake 7.2
>
> Please help
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Svend Olaf Mikkelsen)
Subject: Re: Cannot Install RH7.1 - Partition Table Corrupt !
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:18:13 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J-Pip) wrote:
>Great! It worked !
>I tried to install RedHat 7.1 and everything went fine (almost) ...
>But that's only because it complained about my 2nd disk being faulty
>and missing at least one RPM.
>I just have to try burning it again, and avoid messing around with
>'fdisk' or some such right now!
>
>Thanks for the help Svend Olaf.
>
>Regards,
>J-Philippe.
You are welcome.
--
Svend Olaf
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From: Thomas Papendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba - nmbd
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 13:45:37 +0200
Pleas look for sufficent help in news goup "linux.samba"
bgfgf schrieb:
> Please help-me
>
> I have the CL 6.0 linux and whem i go to samba status appears the mensage:
>
> smb running
> nmbd not running
>
> so i restart de samba and not happens...
nmbd is a process of its own and has to be started explicidly.
if it doesn't work look at /var/log/messages if any entries tell why nmbd failed. I
had to deactivate the 'interface' option in smb.conf to make nmbd run.
> the clients ( win98) can't do the
> logon in the linux server? It's because this?
Yes, nmbd provides the access point trough which win-clients connect to the shares.
>
>
> The clients are in samba password list and unix password list!!!
you also need to make a refference from linux user names to windows user names in
/etc/samba/smbuseres
>
>
> Can somebody help-me please!!1 it's urgent
>
> Thank's
--
MfG
Thomas Papendieck
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From: "bindou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: writing a kenel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:49:08 +0400
Hi all,
I am a computer student and would like to write a kernel from scratch based
on minix. I know that linux has already all the source code necessary for
kernel writing and there are other free os with source code. But i would
like to develop one myself just to get a grasp on the inner workings of my
pc and to understand the linux kernel better. I have the intention to start
with a 486 dx computer. anyone have any comments or suggestions??
Rgds
Bindou
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From: Thomas Papendieck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: Two OS, two hard drives, one computer
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:14:20 +0200
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb:
> Install each OS on a different HD. If The hd's are IDE you have to change
> the boot letter in the bios. If you've scsi disks and an adaptec host
> adapter you can change the boot id in the adapter bios
This forces you to boot your PC twice if you change the OS.
better use a bootmanage like LILO or the NT(W2K)-bootmanager.
accept MS-DOS all OS will boot from any drive(letter)
--
MfG
Thomas Papendieck
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Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:52:36 +0200
From: "Gerard H. Pille" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: writing a kenel
bindou wrote:
>
> Hi all,
> I am a computer student and would like to write a kernel from scratch based
> on minix. I know that linux has already all the source code necessary for
> kernel writing and there are other free os with source code. But i would
> like to develop one myself just to get a grasp on the inner workings of my
> pc and to understand the linux kernel better. I have the intention to start
> with a 486 dx computer. anyone have any comments or suggestions??
>
> Rgds
> Bindou
Is that you, Bill?
--
Gerard H. Pille
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on Compaq Prolinea ??
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:04:47 -0600
"Mike & Terri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> The hard drive was setup on another system and dropped in here.
Was the other system a MSWindows box? Go into the BIOS (hit F10 during
startup on this model, iirc) and turn off Plug and Play and allow the BIOS
to determine the IO address and IRQ's. There are some pretty good HOW-TO's
for PnP and PCI. You've read these?
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From: "O. Venier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Promise RAID with RedHat 7.1/Mandrake 8.0
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:08:41 GMT
I also have this problem.
I have some production servers, UP & SMP, that runs Red Hat 7.0 with a pair
of IDE HD with Promise FastTrack Raid Controller (RAID1 mode).
I wrote to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and they sent me the lastest drivers
(12/Feb/2001), but only a clean-up for 2.2.14 and 2.2.16 kernel, both UP and
SMP.
I am waiting for UP/SMP drivers for Promise FastTrack100 on 2.4 kernel.
But they are - I think - not interested/involved to get their code out.
Oreste
"Mark Meytin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto nel messaggio
news:ODiG6.2958$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I sent an e-mail to Promise a week ago - haven't gotten a response yet.
> Anyone
> interested in resolving this problem should let them know about it -
perhaps
> popular pressure will have some effect. E-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] or call
> (408) 452-1180 (Ext 4)
>
> -M-
>
> "iQXth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Sun, 22 Apr 2001 14:16:48 -0400, "Larry Snyder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> > > Anyone get RedHat 7.2 and/or Mandrake 8.0 to work with the Promise
RAID
> > > conectroller that comes with the A7V133 motherboard in RAID 0?
> > >
> > > If so, some pointers please!
> > >
> > > Larry
> >
> >
> > I've had no luck either with Mandrake 8.0 and my Promise RAID
> > controller. I've not tried Rad Hat 7.2, but I can tell you Red Hat 7.1
> > is a no go either.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, we have to wait for Promise to release the Red
> > Hat driver for it. Only then are we limited to using the Red Hat
> > distribution of Linux. I'm pretty sure they'd have to make a
> > Mandrake-8.0-specific driver for it to work there. The source code for
> > their driver can not be found anywhere on their website.
> >
> > I'm considering getting a 3ware card because I don't think these
> > issues exist with their IDE RAID controller cards.
>
>
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From: D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Radeon 64mb ddr under linux
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 06:51:50 -0700
A.C. 'Static' Stadt wrote:
> In any case (I'm assuming here that you have Xfree 4.0.x) if you, as root,
> run X -configure it will probe all the video cards that it knows about
> and then write out a basic XF86Config file. You can either use that
> one or do a comparison with you existing one, and update where
> necessary. One side note, I don't believe that X -configure will
> generate the necessary information for DRI... there should be a HOWTO
> floating around somewhere on that one (or if all else fails, check DRI's
> site at sourceforge).
I don't like the way the names in this thread are going ....
Anyway, the Radeon driver seems to be pretty fussy about the chip IDs
that it recognizes. For instance, it refuses to accept a Radeon VE that I
picked up; I haven't had time yet to go into the code to find out why.
--
| I'm old enough that I don't have to pretend to be grown up.|
+----------- D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------+
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From: "E. Carrillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: start up commands
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 09:45:05 -0700
Hi guys:
I have a small question, Is there a way to tell linux to start a
program or module sort of the same way that windows starts programs from the
startup folder? I have to use the OSS sound drivers for my sound card since
it's not working with my distro, but OSS is doing very well. So, I have to
type the command "soundon" every time I turn on the PC. I'm running SuSe
7.1, Does anyone know how to start this module under SuSe 7.1? I tried
typing the "soundon" line on one of the system files but it didn't work,
maybe I placed the line out of place. Thanks.
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From: Gabriele Del Prete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:04:41 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 00:58:59 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Alan P. Kennedy, Sr) wrote:
>
>Note these are the drives.
Thank you!
>Both drives are very quiet. I mean very quiet. I cannot hear them at
>all.
>Sorry I thru away the box a long time ago. Don't know if they are they
>diamond version or not. Both drives are 7200 rpm and ata100
This makes me really confident that DiamondMax80 80gb drive is silent,
as it is a 5400rpm drive. :)
>compatible. I'm currently using them with Linux software raid that
>comes with kernel 2.4.2.
>
>Hope this helps. I had a computer in the bedroom once and found that
>the power supply fan was the biggest source of noise.
The computer I'm using is an old HP Vectra VE5 Series 3. The only fan
it has is in the PSU and makes just a little whisper :) (I bought it
second hand only for this reason)
BTW, anyone tried Acoustic Management? Recent Maxtor (and IBM, and
Fujitsu, ...) can be set to reduce seek noise, at the cost of
decreasing performance. I'm not interested in performance, so it could
be a viable answer to my needs in case the HD I will get is still too
noisy. However I don't know if the quiet mode can be switched with the
OS running. (the note on Maxtor's site about Acoustic Management seems
to imply that you need to reboot).
Bye and thanks to everyone for helping me!
--
Gabriele Del Prete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gabriele Del Prete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Ultra66/100 card and Maxtor drives
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:12:14 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 29 Apr 2001 05:49:55 GMT, "Michael Faurot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Monte Milanuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>: I was considering a Promise ATA-100 controller (non-RAID) as a way to
>: utilize these drives on this machine, and then try for software RAID. Are
>: the Promise controllers workable for this kind of solution??
>
>I haven't used the ATA100 card, just the ATA66 one. But from my
>experience with the ATA66 cards they work great for use in creating IDE
>based RAID systems. I've built some RAID-1 systems and most recently
>a RAID-5 system with these cards and Linux software RAID.
Can you send me your email address? I'd like to send a reply for your
last mail but it keeps bouncing when I send them to the address in the
signature. Thanks :)
--
Gabriele Del Prete [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: start up commands
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 12:35:16 -0500
It depends on your system. On Caldera you have an /etc/rc.d directory with
an rc.local file that can be used. Read the OSS docs you have and they
will give you two ways to do an autostart.
--
Brett I. Holcomb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AKA Grunt<><
"E. Carrillo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9chgf9$75a4$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi guys:
>
> I have a small question, Is there a way to tell linux to start a
> program or module sort of the same way that windows starts programs from
the
> startup folder? I have to use the OSS sound drivers for my sound card
since
> it's not working with my distro, but OSS is doing very well. So, I have
to
> type the command "soundon" every time I turn on the PC. I'm running SuSe
> 7.1, Does anyone know how to start this module under SuSe 7.1? I tried
> typing the "soundon" line on one of the system files but it didn't work,
> maybe I placed the line out of place. Thanks.
>
>
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: start up commands
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:35:20 +0200
E. Carrillo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a small question, Is there a way to tell linux to start a
> program or module sort of the same way that windows starts programs from the
Yes. That's the entire purpose of the sysv init structure on ypur disk.
Man init.
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Konerding)
Subject: Re: Radeon 64mb ddr under linux
Date: 29 Apr 2001 17:11:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 06:51:50 -0700, D. C. Sessions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A.C. 'Static' Stadt wrote:
>
>> In any case (I'm assuming here that you have Xfree 4.0.x) if you, as root,
>> run X -configure it will probe all the video cards that it knows about
>> and then write out a basic XF86Config file. You can either use that
>> one or do a comparison with you existing one, and update where
>> necessary. One side note, I don't believe that X -configure will
>> generate the necessary information for DRI... there should be a HOWTO
>> floating around somewhere on that one (or if all else fails, check DRI's
>> site at sourceforge).
>
> I don't like the way the names in this thread are going ....
>
> Anyway, the Radeon driver seems to be pretty fussy about the chip IDs
> that it recognizes. For instance, it refuses to accept a Radeon VE that I
> picked up; I haven't had time yet to go into the code to find out why.
because the VE is very new and wasn't on the market when the driver was written.
There was a patch on the "Xpert" mailing list (see www.xfree86.org for info
on how to subscribe and possibly see the archives) against recent
XFree86 source code that purported to add support for the VE card.
Dave
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From: "lobotomy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Vibra 128 PCI
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:22:26 GMT
Not familiar with the specific card, but odds are it is based on some
kind of ensoniq chipset, either the ES1370 or ES1371 (probably the 1371).
Try manually loading the modules (es1370.o or es1371.o) and see what
happens.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Clayton Russell"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am having trouble getting the above sound card to work under Linux
> (RH7.0), I have tried sndconfig, alsa, oss, all to no avail. Does anyone
> out there know where there is some good doco on how to get it working ,
> does anyone else own such a sound card ???? :) If anyone is able to
> help can you please email me direct also. Thanks in advance.
> Clayton
>
--
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Aristo = Asia Gate = Asiatech = Assa = Atrend = Elpina = Eurone = Fugu =
Fugutech = Hi Sing = Houston = Hsing Tech = H Tech = Matsonic = Minstaple =
PCWare = Pine = Protac = QDI = Warpspeed
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From: Rossz Vamos-Wentworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Adding memory
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:26:53 GMT
I recently added another 64meg of memory to my box bringing the total to 128meg
of physical memory. My windows partition recognizes it, but my SuSE 7.0 Linux
partition doesn't seem to see it. Here's the results of "free":
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 66084 64488 1596 0 2656 21720
-/+ buffers/cache: 40112 25972
Swap: 136544 51288 85256
Am I supposed to do something to get Linux to recognize the new memory?
Rossz
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From: Garry Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: writing a kenel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 18:05:05 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 29 Apr 2001 14:52:36 +0200 in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Gerard H. Pille <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> bindou wrote:
> > I am a computer student and would like to write a kernel from scratch
> > based on minix. I know that linux has already all the source code
> > necessary for kernel writing and there are other free os with source
> > code. But i would like to develop one myself just to get a grasp on the
> > inner workings of my pc and to understand the linux kernel better. I
> > have the intention to start with a 486 dx computer. anyone have any
> > comments or suggestions??
> Is that you, Bill?
I thought it was a long-lost post from Linus...
--
Garry Knight
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: writing a kenel
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:45:53 +0100
> I am a computer student and would like to write a kernel from scratch
based
> on minix.
Eh?
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From: "Ian Ellis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Samba - nmbd
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 19:52:38 +0100
Probably something up with your Samba config file (normally /etc/smb.conf).
Have a look at the nmbd log file to see what the error was (RedHat 6.2 samba
logs are in directory /var/log/samba, log file clause in /etc/smb.conf will
tell you where they are on your machine).
Regards
Ian Ellis
"bgfgf" <gfgfgf> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Please help-me
>
> I have the CL 6.0 linux and whem i go to samba status appears the mensage:
>
> smb running
> nmbd not running
>
> so i restart de samba and not happens... the clients ( win98) can't do the
> logon in the linux server? It's because this?
>
> The clients are in samba password list and unix password list!!!
>
> Can somebody help-me please!!1 it's urgent
>
> Thank's
>
>
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