Linux-Hardware Digest #735, Volume #14 Sun, 6 May 01 19:13:07 EDT
Contents:
CompactFlash and linux ("Paolo Bernasconi")
DVD hardware. (No Name)
Gilat 360 Satellite Modem (No Name)
Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160 ("D. Stimits")
dvd playback (kos)
Re: newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2 (kos)
Computer case badges with 3D effect with your own logo. Order (SecurisysAgency)
DVD playback (kos)
Re: Linux DVD-RAM support? (kos)
linux kernel 2.2.12 and DAC-960 (aaron conole)
Re: sgi challenge server S (John-Paul Stewart)
R: avoiding USB support at start-up ("Massimo Pinto")
Re: Is there any X option to run 2 different resolutions on LCD and external
monitor? (Ian Stirling)
Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt
servers)? ("Abe Lian")
how to use MOD (Magneto Optical) drive under redhat 7.0? (Ewald Pfau)
Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt
servers)? ("Ken Hansen")
Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards (Otto J. Makela)
Onboard video and eMachines ("none")
Re: DVD hardware. (Bora Ugurlu)
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From: "Paolo Bernasconi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CompactFlash and linux
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 19:11:53 GMT
Dear all,
I need to interface a CompactFlash memory card under linux (ARM and am186
platform). Do someone know what driver I need and where I can find it
Best Regards,
Paolo
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From: No Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD hardware.
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:30:01 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I have been asked to find a list of DVD player devices which are
supported by Linux.
I suppose the DVD players are those which are designed to work with
computers and not the ones you would get from a high street electrical
store (or are they the same?).
And also what is required by the way of Linux device drivers to get them
to work?
Anyone know of where this info can be found?
Thanks in advance.
Nick
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WWW: http://www.nhthomas.freeserve.co.uk
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From: No Name <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gilat 360 Satellite Modem
Date: Sun, 6 May 2001 20:32:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All,
At work we have a Gilat Satellite modem, and I have been asked to look
into what is required to do a Linux device driver for it.
I think the modem has a USB connection, or can be connected to a USB
bus.
I know that there is a Micro$oft device driver for it to work with
WinNT, but I can't find much info about it anywhere.
Anyone know of a driver for this device, or any info relating to it?
Thanks in advance?
Nick
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Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 13:54:11 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: RH 7.1, kernel 2.4, and Adaptec 29160
J Hayward wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Interesting. Thanks for the explanation. This is the bug redhat is tracking
> concerning this problem.
>
> http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29555
This same error condition as shown in the bug can be caused by more than
one problem. The broken IO-APIC of the i840 chipset is one of those, but
almost anything that causes failure with the drive will give this same
message. I am trying to add a follow-up message addition to the
particular bug, and I am logged in, but it appears something with the RH
Bugzilla is broken...the text entry area for adding follow-up text is
not actually a text entry box anymore...it is not possible to add text.
If I get that figured out (bugzilla broken), I will ask how many people
with that error are using i840 chipset. It appears that those mentioned
so far are NOT i840; and the BX or GX chipset should be good in those
regards.
D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Regards,
> JIm H
>
> D. Stimits wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > The IO-APIC is responsible for sharing hardware irq's across multiple
> > cpu's. Most uniprocessor machines do not have an APIC, though some do.
> > When the APIC of a multiprocessor board is disabled, it simply means
> > that the first cpu handles all hardware irq's. It in no way breaks an
> > SMP board. Uniprocessor kernels run fine on SMP machines, as well as
> > multiprocessor kernels. Both will run fine and install fine on SMP
> > boards with IO-APIC disabled. If you were to place only one cpu in the
> > machine, and it was in the second cpu slot, I suspect you'd have a
> > problem. Some multiprocessor boards also have a problem if you run on
> > one cpu without putting a dummy terminator in the second slot. It does
> > seem true that Intel chipsets end up with most of the IO-APIC problems.
> >
> > D. Stimits, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dvd playback
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:06:53 GMT
whatda
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: newbie Req: PCI Audio Vortex on Mandrake 7.2
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:07:38 GMT
totoro wrote:
>
> Please note that I'm a fresher, the query may therefore be badly
> posed.
> I installed Mandrake 7.2 and it seems to dislike my audio card (PCI
> Audio Vortex AU8810) - no sound at all indeed.
> If anyone can help...
>
> I also couldn't configure my USB mouse (Logitech i-Feel)... for the
> good of heart...
>
> thanks,
> totoro
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD playback
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:10:58 GMT
whada
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From: kos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux DVD-RAM support?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:12:09 GMT
PJC wrote:
>
> I have a Hitachi DVD-RAM and a few disks formetted for fat32, how the heck
> do I mount the drive? So far it is just being seen as a regular cdrom and
> inserting a dvd-ram disks has no effect.
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From: aaron conole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: linux kernel 2.2.12 and DAC-960
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:20:55 GMT
I am running a redhat 6.1 box on an Intergraph Interserve (Integraph?!?!
I know they stopped making computers) with dual Pentium Pro 133 mHz
processors and a 3-channel Mylex DAC960 pci firmware 1.x. I haven't been
able to make either mandrake, debian or redhat see the Mylex, so I just
used the onboard Adaptec card. However, I just got in a few 4.3 gb
drives and I wanted to take linux off the 2 gig drive and throw it on
the Mylex card. I still can't get any distro to see the card. I've even
looked at the drivers and can't find anything to help me. The card is
registered as being busy so the kernel can't grab it. Any fixes? Anyone
else heard of this problem?
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From: John-Paul Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sgi challenge server S
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:50:34 GMT
"Jeremy A. Gray" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 04 May 2001 14:27:06 GMT, Noam Kloos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello group,
> >
> > Is there an easy way to install linux on a SGI challenge S server?
> > That is without having to install IRIX.
> >
>
> As much I sometimes want to put linux on some of the SGIs I admin,
> there's no way to do it. There was some effort at a linux port to mips,
> but it was with a modified RH 5.2 and I think it only worked on an Indy
> or Indigo, but not a Challenge.
Try again. See
http://linuxdocs.org/HOWTOs/MIPS-HOWTO-3.html for info.
Linux will run on an Indy. A Challenge S is basically an
Indy without graphics (according to the HOWTO). YMMV.
J-P Stewart
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From: "Massimo Pinto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: R: avoiding USB support at start-up
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 20:51:07 GMT
Right. Sounds like a simple idea, but what if USB came as a module with the
pre-built kernel 2.2.16 that came with RedHat 7?
More generally, I would like to ask how to manage the modules that are to be
loaded at boot time, if modules are available.
Another question comes to my mind. I have compiled the kernel 2.4.2 a few
times now, looking carefully in the properties of each "element" of the
config stage, that I do via xconfig. Still there are a few features of my
pre-built 2.2.16 that I cannot reproduce with the newer kernel as I compile
it. Is there a way, given a kernel, to trace all the config options that
were given to compile it in the way it is? In this way, I could check what
do I need to include in kernel 2.4.2 to make it work better than my 2.2.16.
Thanks again
Massimo
Duane Healing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Build a new kernel with no USB support.
>
> --
> -Duane
> -DNAware SoftLabs
>
> In a feverish moment of semi-lucidity, "Massimo Pinto"
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flailed at the keyboard thusly:
> [yadda, yadda, yadda]
I liked that.
> > I would like to remove USB support
> > completely at start-up.
---
Massimo Pinto
Ph.D. Student
Gray Laboratory Cancer Research Trust
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/usr/pinto
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From: Ian Stirling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Is there any X option to run 2 different resolutions on LCD and external
monitor?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:11:57 GMT
Alex Yung <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have a laptop (Toshiba) with a docking station. I figured out how
>to control my resolution on LCD screen 1024x768 and external monitor
>1280x1024. But I don't know how to do it automatically. I am running
>XFree 3.3.4 and I have 2 "XF86Config" files (one for each). I always
>have to restart the X server when I dock or undock my laptop since
>there is a change on the resolution.
Does changing display resolutions work?
Ctrl-Alt-+
xvidtune -next
will switch to the next mode also, I don't know if you can say what mode
you want to switch to.
XF86VidModeSwitchToMode or similar is the appropriate call.
I don't know how you'd find when it docks.
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From: "Abe Lian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com (Cobalt
servers)?
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:03:37 GMT
Now Sun Microsystems is selling Cobalt Server Appliances on
the front page of www.sun.com.
If you read the fine print you discover that these are of the same
hardware and OS platform that Cobalt used to sell before being
acquired by Sun Microsystems.
It is interesting that they chose to stay on the PC-Linux
platform and not to migrate to either a PC-SolarisX86 or
Sunblade 100-SolarisSPARC platform.
Anyone know why they chose not to migrate to either
Solaris X86 or SPARC hardware? Anyone know which
version of Linux it now runs on?
Since they will have to support these systems, they are
a Linux vendor.
BTW, we have an older Cobalt cube box in the lab. They are pretty cool little
boxes...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ewald Pfau)
Subject: how to use MOD (Magneto Optical) drive under redhat 7.0?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 16:41:15 +0200
alex <jadream at chat dot ru wrote:
a> I have an ATAPI MOD drive Fujitsu 640MB on a generic i815-based
a> pc-machine with RH7.0 and updated kernel to 2.4.2
a> Unfortunately there's almost nothing in rh docs about MOD and all of
a> it is about SCSI versions.
a> How can I make this wonderful stuff work under linux?
I found that recent kernels have a problem with dos/vfat partitions on
MO drives under SCSI (could not read old disks anymore). Maybe this is
under SCSI only, not with IDE. I don't know, how you will find the
device with 'ATAPI' interface; maybe it is somewhere '/dev/hdx' - or but
it is some SCSI numbering again, as the term 'ATAPI' suggests somehow?
Under Linux you may make more efficient use of it, when you 'reformat'
the medium with ext2 filesystem, with no partitioning. Be aware that the
640 MB medium demands for 2048 bytes per block. So you end with
something like: 'mke2fs -b2048 -m0 /dev/hdx' (for a 'superfloppy'). Be
sure that '/dev/hdx' _is_ the drive and not some harddisk ('fdisk -l
/dev/hdx' for more info).
With the line in '/etc/fstab': '/dev/hdx /mnt/mo ext2 noauto 0 0' it is
mounted with 'mount /mnt/mo' then.
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From: "Ken Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris
Subject: Re: Why is Sun selling Linux-based PC Server Applicances on www.sun.com
(Cobalt servers)?
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 21:49:39 GMT
Right, they bought the company to re-engineer their entire product line in
180 days!
They bought the company becuase they saw value in what they were currently
doing, and what they *could* be doing, with the proper backing. Also, I
think the boxes are merely X86-based, not PCs per se. (You cannot run Win2K
or even Solaris for X86 on a Cobalt Server Appliance, for example).
Your last line is interesting:
> BTW, we have an older Cobalt cube box in the lab. They are pretty cool
little
> boxes...
Why change what works?
Ken
"Abe Lian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Now Sun Microsystems is selling Cobalt Server Appliances on
> the front page of www.sun.com.
>
> If you read the fine print you discover that these are of the same
> hardware and OS platform that Cobalt used to sell before being
> acquired by Sun Microsystems.
>
> It is interesting that they chose to stay on the PC-Linux
> platform and not to migrate to either a PC-SolarisX86 or
> Sunblade 100-SolarisSPARC platform.
>
> Anyone know why they chose not to migrate to either
> Solaris X86 or SPARC hardware? Anyone know which
> version of Linux it now runs on?
>
> Since they will have to support these systems, they are
> a Linux vendor.
>
> BTW, we have an older Cobalt cube box in the lab. They are pretty cool
little
> boxes...
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Crossposted-To: sfnet.atk.linux,redhat.hardware.arch.intel
Subject: Re: XFree86-4.0.3, kernel-2.4.2 and television cards
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Otto J. Makela)
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:10:49 GMT
"news" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> "Otto J. Makela" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > (This is a translation -- I have a Hauppage BT878-based television
> > card which doesn't work right in i386/RH7.1 a system with the setup
> > mentioned in the subject)
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Viljo Hakala) writes:
> > > I remember that Xv used to cause problems with XFree86 4.0 where
> > > only black screen was shown.
> > >
> > > How about trying xawtv with the options -noxv -noscale?
> >
> > Yep, finally a picture, albeit a rather sluggish one!
> >
> > How would I resolve this Xv problem in the long run?
> > Switch over to using video4linux, how is this done?
>
> What type of card is it exactly? I've set-up an ATI tv tuner, a
> VODOO3500tv tuner, and a straight bt card under linux, 9x and
> nt... it's alot of fun NOT. what is the card exactly though?
Of course I threw away the package in a major cleanup last week, and
all the manuals just talk about "WinTV". Just a second... opening up
the machine, I find that the card says "PAL - BG/I, 61324 Rev D208".
It'w a PAL tuner card with NICAM digital stereo.
Seems Linux is able to access the hardware just right, as I can get
xawtv working with the above switches, it's just that my XFree86 setup
probably wouldn't handle _any_ kind of video input right. A further
complication may be that my video card is a GeForce 2MX clone, which I
was able to get working right using the usual amount of blood, sweat
and tears with the NVIDIA binary-only drivers.
To reiterate: my problem is that I just get a black screen + no audio
if I let xawtv try to use Xv for displaying the television card input.
What should I do, probably something magical with the modules.conf
device numbers or such?
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From: "none" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Onboard video and eMachines
Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 22:22:24 GMT
I've recently acquired a year-old eMachine and would like to install RedHat.
The last time I tried, I was unable to point Linux past the onboard video
card to the Voodoo 3 in a PCI slot. Consequently, no XWindow.
Where do I make this configuration change from a console window?
Thanks,
Tony
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From: Bora Ugurlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DVD hardware.
Date: Mon, 7 May 2001 00:38:30 +0200
No Name wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been asked to find a list of DVD player devices which are
> supported by Linux.
You don't need any device drivers to play DVD movies, you just need a
player.. Take a look at http://xine.sourceforge.net
You need DVD device driver to be able to mount and read data from DVD-ROMs.
And it is already supported in the 2.4.x kernels.
> I suppose the DVD players are those which are designed to work with
> computers and not the ones you would get from a high street electrical
> store (or are they the same?).
No they are not. I mean, technically they do the same job, but the ones for
computers (DVDROM drives) can do a bit more..
> And also what is required by the way of Linux device drivers to get them
> to work?
A Linux kernel. Either 2.2 series with DVD support patched, or 2.4, which
has already DVD support.
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Bora Ugurlu
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