Linux-Hardware Digest #232
Linux-Hardware Digest #232, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 06:13:30 EDT
Contents:
Re: "read XX" and backspace key in console vs in X solved (Zoran Cutura)
Re: serial mouse (Zoran Cutura)
Voodoo3 XServer Detailed Installation Help Please ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
dvd (waco)
Re: Amd-k6-2 (Brien Sullivan)
Linux compatible SMP motherboard, reviewed (Bill Henning)
Re: mouse, gpm and X (Zoran Cutura)
Re: ASUS-P2B-DS feels slow ("marco viola")
Install AHA1542CP SCSI card (Stephen)
Re: Linux dials modem but Browsers can't find it? (rprescott)
LINUX machine instead of iMac (Don Saklad)
Iwill 2930C SCSI adaptor, Linux 2.2.5 (Suse 6.1) ok for CDW? (Sandra Silcot)
DIVA T/A ISDN modem ("Claus Jul Larsen")
Looking for PCI video card advice ("Acme")
Re: CMI8338 soundcard
Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive
Re: PS/2 or serial?
CL Banshee installation ("Geert")
HP JetDirects (using DLC) on Linux??? ("Billy Dunn")
Re: CD-RW's for Linux (Swietanowski Artur)
Re: Anyone know if a Nvidia TNT-2 will work with X11? (Norbert Goebel)
Re: Exhaustive testing of a suspect hard drive ("D. Vrabel")
Can I use four IDE HD drives under Linux? ("Dave Ewart")
From: Zoran Cutura [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: "read XX" and backspace key in console vs in X solved
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 08:32:42 +0200
Robert Bernecky wrote:
I asked some time ago why backspaces in "read XX" in shell script works
fine in
non-X mode (acting as character delete), but fails in XFree86.
I eventually figured out (from reading the "keyboard and console HOWTO")
that delete and backspace are set up wrong (in the HOWTO author's
opinion
and in my opinion...) in X. In spite of them working properly in non-X
environments, X appears to remap those characters silently. The fix I
adopted
was to place an
stty erase ^H
in /etc/profile.local. I think you could also put in your own .bashrc or
,profile or /etc/profile, depending on your taste. My understanding is
that /etc/profile.local is the best place for this if you want;
a. the change to apply to all users
b. the change to stick when you upgrade linux, as an upgrade may
overwrite /etc/profile, but is not supposed to touch
/etc/profile.local.
Someone please correct me if the above is wrong, and let me know
what The Right Way is, and Why.
This was in SuSE 5.3.
Bob
At least when you start X xmodmap is normaly used to setup the keyboard.
So one could type xmodmap on the prompt to see the settings in X.
Here is my .Xmodmapfile from my home-dorectory which was working on SUSE
since 5.0 (I first ran DLD1.3 which was a german ditro in '95) and ever
before! (It is for german keyboard only!!):
!
!in Xmodmap comments begin with a '!'
clear Mod1
clear Mod2
clear Mod3
clear Mod4
clear Mod5
remove mod1 = Alt_L
keycode 9 = Escape Escape
keycode 10 = 1 exclam
keycode 11 = 2 quotedbl twosuperior
keycode 12 = 3 section threesuperior
keycode 13 = 4 dollar dollar
keycode 14 = 5 percent
keycode 15 = 6 ampersand
keycode 16 = 7 slash braceleft
keycode 17 = 8 parenleft bracketleft
keycode 18 = 9 parenright bracketright
keycode 19 = 0 equal braceright
keycode 20 = ssharp question backslash
keycode 21 = apostrophe grave
keycode 22 = BackSpace
keycode 23 = Tab Tab
keycode 24 = q Q at
keycode 25 = w W
keycode 26 = e E
keycode 27 = r R
keycode 28 = t T
keycode 29 = z Z
keycode 30 = u U
keycode 31 = i I
keycode 32 = o O
keycode 33 = p P
keycode 34 = udiaeresis Udiaeresis
keycode 35 = plus asterisk asciitilde
keycode 36 = Return
keycode 37 = Control_L
keycode 38 = a A
keycode 39 = s S
keycode 40 = d D
keycode 41 = f F
keycode 42 = g G
keycode 43 = h H
keycode 44 = j J
keycode 45 = k K
keycode 46 = l L
keycode 47 = odiaeresis Odiaeresis
keycode 48 = adiaeresis Adiaeresis
keycode 49 = asciicircum degree
keycode 50 = Shift_L
keycode 51 = numbersign apostrophe
keycode 52 = y Y
keycode 53 = x X
keycode 54 = c C
keycode 55 = v V
keycode 56 = b B
keycode 57 = n N
keycode 58 = m M
keycode 59 = comma semicolon
keycode 60 = period colon
keycode 61 = minus underscore
keycode 62 = Shift_R
keycode 63 = KP_Multiply
keycode 64 = Alt_L Meta_L
keycode 65 = space space
keycode 66 = Caps_Lock
keycode 67 = F1 F11
keycode 68 = F2 F12
keycode 69 = F3 F13
keycode 70 = F4 F14
keycode 71 = F5 F15
keycode 72 = F6 F16
keycode 73 = F7 F17
keycode 74 = F8 F18
keycode 75 = F9 F19
keycode 76 = F10 F20
keycode 77 = Num_Lock
keycode 78 = Scroll_Lock
keycode 79 = KP_7
keycode 80 = KP_8
keycode 81 = KP_9
keycode 82 = KP_Subtract
keycode 83 = KP_4
keycode 84 = KP_5
keycode 85 = KP_6
keycode 86 = KP_Add
keycode 87 = KP_1
keycode 88 = KP_2
keycode 89 = KP_3
keycode 90 = KP_0
keycode 91 = KP_Decimal
keycode 94 = less greater bar
keycode 95 = F11 F11
keycode 96 =
Linux-Hardware Digest #237
Linux-Hardware Digest #237, Volume #10 Fri, 14 May 99 23:13:54 EDT
Contents:
Re: Amd-k6-2 ("Ian Nicholls")
Help with Sblive-o.1b.tar: ("David Leathers")
pcmcia-3.0.10, kernel 2.2.9, MO 640 MB on Armada 7730 (Ewald Pfau)
Re: USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: CD-RW's for Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Linux installation on Generic box (Scott)
Re: UDMA33 hard drive runs at 6 megs/second - WTF? ("Gene Heskett")
HP deskjet 710C support (Pascal Greuter)
Re: removing cooling fans--how dangerous? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Sonny 33A ("Pedro Sampaio")
Re: What happened to fdformat (Gary I Kahn)
3Com cards address reported wrong (David Lisle)
ELSA Microlink 56K PCI under Linux? (Fred Ost)
ELSA Microlink 56K PCI under Linux? (Fred Ost)
ELSA Microlink 56K PCI under Linux? (Fred Ost)
Re: Iwill 2930C SCSI adaptor, Linux 2.2.5 (Suse 6.1) ok for CDW? (Taso Hatzi)
Config SCSI DDS drive (Stephen)
Network Card help! ("Dave Mckeown")
Re: Video Card Suggestions (Allen Wong)
Re: UDMA33 hard drive runs at 6 megs/second - WTF? (Philip Morris)
Ensoniq SoundscapeVIVO (Greg Weber)
Re: PS/2 or serial? (Remco van den Berg)
make your first $1 million (Wong)
ATI XPERT@PLAY 98 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: LINUX machine instead of iMac (Mohd Hamid Misnan)
problem with ZIP drive under LINUX (Jan Wuyts)
From: "Ian Nicholls" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Amd-k6-2
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:24:06 +0100
Hubert CLEONIS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Sorry but I miss the leading posting from this thread. Is it about K6-2
random
lockups under Linux? If so I am desesperately seeking a solution to this
problem.
I too am having the same sort of problem, particularly with X. I have had
Red Hat 5.2 with KDE 1.1 running fine using an AMD K6 233 Mhz processor.
This is on an AOpen AX59Pro motherboard using the VIA MVP3 chipset, 192Mb of
SDRAM, and the motherboard running at 66Mhz. No problems at all. I could
use the Creative Banshee card (Darryl Strauss's server) and Creative's
driver for the Sound Blaster Live sound card.
I then upgraded the processor to an AMD K6-3 400Mhz. This was a mistake.
The Banshee X server usually crashes before it completes loading KDE, or
crashes as soon as I move the mouse. The system does not exit the failed
server neatly, often leaving me with a blank screen, from which the only
exit is a reboot. This doesn't exit Linux cleanly and I have to run fsck to
restore the filing system!
I have replaced the motherboard, tried PC100 SDRAM, bought a new heatsink
and fan, but it makes no difference. Error messages often refer to
segmentation faults or "SIG 11". Is there really a problem with the newer
AMD processors? A solution, or even a believable explanation would be very
welcome.
The machine works fine with Windows 95!
Ian Nicholls
I
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From: "David Leathers" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help with Sblive-o.1b.tar:
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 19:01:35 -0700
Hi
I have just installed red hat 6.0. I have a sound blaster live value sound
card. I found and downloaded the file sblive-o.1b.tar which is the Linux
drivers for the card.
My problem is that I have no idea how to install these drivers. Could
someone point me in the right direction on this installation.
Thanks:
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ewald Pfau)
Subject: pcmcia-3.0.10, kernel 2.2.9, MO 640 MB on Armada 7730
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 22:06:44 +0200
EP For report only: On an Armada 7730 laptop now, finally, I can
access
EP a 640 MB MO-drive pretty fine (except that it is slw) with the
EP Adaptec 1460 SCSI-card.
To add:
Slow for vfat. With ext2 filesystem, it is pretty fast as well (through
the 1460 card) - 90 MB in about 120 seconds for writing. Calling
'mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1' without the parameter '-b 2048' would crash the
machine: Linux rebooted after having tried to write the inodes.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: USR Modem Prob / Cable Modems
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 00:08:32 GMT
Tyler Beaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finally, does anyone know of any problems using a cable modem (not ASDL)
with Linux?
If your prospective cable modem ISP uses a cable modem that plugs into a
normal NIC, then it should work just fine so long as the NIC itself is
supported by Linux. Also, some cable modem ISPs require you to log in via
their log-in program. If this is the case, there will most likely be no
version of it for Linux (only Windoze and Mac). RoadRunner does this, and
in response, Linux users have written third-party log-in programs for RR.
I, myself, fit into that category and have been using Linux over my cable
modem happily for nearly a year now.
Greg H.
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Subject: Re: CD-RW's for Linux
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 15 May 1999
