Linux-Hardware Digest #136
Linux-Hardware Digest #136, Volume #13 Wed, 28 Jun 00 09:13:40 EDT Contents: Postscript printing using serial port ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) parallel port programming ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Problems with Hot Rod 66, Fireball lct10 (kenneth.rø[EMAIL PROTECTED]) large disks ( 32 GB) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Scanner HP Scanjet 5100c ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Compaq Deskpro: strange problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 - distortion problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Dual or single processor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) HP, Linux, and tape drives :-( ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Slim cases for rack-mounted solution ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) GeForce driver installation for a linux newbie. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) USB driver for Sony Vaio laptop? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) large disks ( 32 GB) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 61GB Maxtor HD problem, please help! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Microstar versus asus k7v ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Sound Card CS4236B Line Input doesn't work fine (sergio.fernández.muñ[EMAIL PROTECTED]) Driver for IBM LAN Adapter/A for Ethernet? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Panasonic Cr5X CD ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Video card lag ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) phone line network cards supported? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thoughts on this configuration? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Proliant 3000 and Linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PCI ISDN cards ? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Help! Does This Mean I Can't Run Linux? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thoughts on this configuration? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Postscript printing using serial port Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT From: Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, I have troubles printing on a Apple Personal Laserwriter NT (postscript level 1) under SuSE 6.4 using the serial port (ttyS0) I got it working up to the point that it prints the first page of a document (most of the time I'm using emacs). But I don't succeed to print more than one page. After the first page the led blinks for about one minute (lpc says that the queues are empty) and then just stops blinking, so the remaining pages never got printed. Printing very simple postscriptcode or more difficult postscriptcode (different type of fonts and graphics) works, but only for one page... (fyi, when I go back to Windows 98 I can print multiple pages). I tried with long and short documents with always the same results. Only the first page is printed, the others never come out. I tried Xon/Xoff and hardware flow control (both supported by the LaserWriter). I tried to change a lot of the parameters in printcap (especially :ty: parameters). I tried to change the timeout settings using setserial without success. My system is a Pentium III/667 MHz, 128MByte RAM, 20 GByte harddisk. The serial ports are at the standard addresses/IRQs and have a build in FiFo (16550 type of UART) Is there a tried and ready printcap(?) to get my printer printing all the pages? Thanks, Koenraad Van Nieuwenhove -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: parallel port programming Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:06 GMT From: Ruediger Knoerig [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi folks! Last week I tried to write an interface program to a parallel port PIC programmer, which was supplied only with DOS 16 Bit Software. DOS and Win shit are history :-). The main task is to set D0 and D1 according to a synchroneous serial connection, so I tried a simple fopen() with /dev/parport or /dev/lp0 (as root) and unformatet writings with fputc() - big fail. Is there a better way to get this job done? -- From: kenneth.rø[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Problems with Hot Rod 66, Fireball lct10 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Rørvik) I am running Mandrake 7.0 with the standard 2.2.16 kernel and the IDE patch from Hedrick to get support for my Hot Rod 66 HPT 366 based PCI card. Currently, I have both the hard drive (Fireball lct10, 10G on hda, onboard) and cdrom (hdc, onboard), on the mainboard controller. (Gigabyte ga5ax rev3.0, ALI Aladdin V chipset) Compile is successful (Enabled HPT366 support, USING_DMA_FIRST), and the Hot Rod is properly detected on bootup. Everything OK so far. However, if I switch the Fireball over to the HOT ROD 66, and try to boot from it, the kernel hangs when it tries to probe the hard drive now on hde. Passing hde=noprobe to the kernel makes the kernel boot proberly again, but of course, now the hard drive is not detected :( ide.txt says to pass the drive geometry to the kernel at boot time, but this does not help (wrong values?) Any experiences? -- Kenneth Rørvik 91841353/22718452 Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED] 0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: large disks ( 32 GB) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 09:46:07 GMT From: Espen Sand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi
Linux-Hardware Digest #136
Linux-Hardware Digest #136, Volume #11 Mon, 30 Aug 99 08:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: linux/apache server (Pat Heuvel)
Re: Can't detect Adaptec AVA 1505 (Nils Freese)
Tekram C210 driver shows only black screen (Dirk Rachut)
Re: RISCCISC (Johan Kullstam)
Re: PCI Modem Problems (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Help needed with SCSI Problem with aha152x .. TIA (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: can I tell a winmodem by looking at it? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Modem and sound card etup problem with Mandrake 6 ("Duncan B. Cameron")
Re: PCI Modem Problems ("Duncan B. Cameron")
Re: Problem with Aztech 3858 SP-UE modem (Rob Clark)
From: Pat Heuvel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: linux/apache server
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 20:35:01 +1000
Gday Brian,
Brain Fisher wrote:
I have been appointed to set up a community ISP for a town pop.5,000 and
would like to know some really basic stuff. Experienced with HW, windows
('ugh') and Internet.(earn an existance creating Web Sites in wider area)
Can someone please guide me on some vey basic stuff such as minimum PC
specs. any other hardware software required. Linux technicalities not
required at this stage. Have a distribution and quite sure 'I will need a
little help from my friends' (cyberfriends) in the future.
thanks brianF
Depends on your actual requirements, but you should be able to get quite
a reasonable web server going on a 486DX with 16 meg of RAM (No X
Window). What you haven't stated is whether you will be supporting a lot
of CGI or "active" web pages, or static HTML. Obviously, the more you
want the server to do, the more grunt you'll need.
I am currently running a P133 with 128meg of RAM, with PostgreSQL 6.5.1
(database server), Apache 1.3.6 (haven't upgraded yet :) ), ISC DHCP and
one or two other bits and pieces, and it's still very responsive.
Feel free to email if you have any more specific requirements.
Regards,
Pat
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+ "Logic clearly dictates, that the strokes of the many +
+ outweigh the strokes of the two..." +
+ (Apologies to Mr Spock) +
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From: Nils Freese [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: redhat.config,redhat.x.general
Subject: Re: Can't detect Adaptec AVA 1505
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:27:45 +0200
I have an Adaptec AVA 1505 SCSI card but my red hat linux 6.0 can't detect
it.. i/o is 0340 and irq is 11.
I tried put modprobe aha152x aha152x=0x340,11,7,1 in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
it doesn't work.
also put append="aha152x=0x340,11,7,1" in /etc/lilo.conf
didn't work either..
anyone have any ideas?
Hi,
The AVA1505 is a PNP-card. You have to configure it via isapnp or,
as I did, use the adaptec-tool provided with the driver-disks
(1505acfg.exe I think) to switch off the pnp-mode.
After that, it works quite fine.
regards
Nils
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From: Dirk Rachut [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Tekram C210 driver shows only black screen
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 12:46:31 +0200
Hi,
at my University we bought a Tekram C210 frame-grabber-board, because we
see at Debian, that there exists a driver for Linux. But this driver
must
be for an older Version of the C210, because it's for the Zoran ZR36120
(actual is the Zoran ZR36125 on the board, but I downloaded the
documentation
of Zoran, the changes seems not interesting for me) and the digitiser
Phillips SAA 7110 and this I think is the Problem. The actual digitiser
is
the Phillips SAA 7111 and the documentation's of Phillips shows to me,
that
this digitiser is completely different. I mailed to Tekram, but no
answer.
I tried to rewrite the driver, but all I get is a black window with a
first
pink line (I use the test-program of the old driver). Is there anybody,
who
solved this problem or have an idea, what I can do?
Thanks Dirk
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Crossposted-To: redhat.general
Subject: Re: RISCCISC
From: Johan Kullstam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 30 Aug 1999 07:03:04 -0400
"Andrew J. Norman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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Originally RISC stood for a "Reduced" instruction set architecture, while
CISC was the "Complex" instruction set. Roughly speaking the difference
between the two is the way in which certain classes of instructions are
implemented.
In a RISC arch there is a small core set of instructions which are
typically all implemented with the same opcode length, latency etc...These
core instructions are then used to "create" more complicated instructions.
In a CISC arch a large number of instructions are supported, but with
varied lengths, latencies, calling convent
Linux-Hardware Digest #136
Linux-Hardware Digest #136, Volume #10Sun, 2 May 99 01:13:32 EDT Contents: Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 problems (Harold Hotham) Re: Creative has just posted SB-Live Linux drivers! (Jim Brooks) Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 14:30:26 +1000 From: Harold Hotham [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,linux.redhat.misc Subject: Re: SoundBlaster PCI128 problems Hi, Try www.opensound.com otherwise you will probally need to upgrade to kernel 2.2.* Harold Salman Ahmed wrote: I am running RedHat 5.2 w/ kernel 2.0.36. sndconfig gives an error message "Unable to play audio: sox: Can't open output file /dev/dsp : operation not supported by device". I tried to setup the card using the ALSA drivers (following the instructions in the ALSA mini-HOWTO) , but that didn't work either. After building and installing the alsa-driver package, I went and tried to compile the alsa-lib package. When running "./configure" on the alsa-lib package, at the end the configure script complained that "alsa-driver package must be installed first"!! But I thought I had already done that when I had installed the alsa-driver package (and that seemingly went without any problems). Can anyone offer detailed instructions on howto setup the PCI128 card without having to recompile the kernel ? Do I have to upgrade to one of the 2.2.x kernels to be able to setup the PCI128 ? Thanks. -- Salman S. Ahmed ssahmed AT interlog DOT com Remove the "nospam." portion from my email address to reply to this message. -- Date: Sun, 02 May 1999 00:20:18 + From: Jim Brooks [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Creative has just posted SB-Live Linux drivers! Jim Zubb wrote: Rich Powell wrote: They have just posted Linux drivers on their web site. I have just downloaded them and am about to try them out. Whoa baby - sound! http://developer.soundblaster.com/linux/ Rich No MIDI. xplaymidi does not work for me also (complains about /dev/sequencer). Though I used insmod -f in order to stay with kernel 2.2.7. But kudos to Creative for at least trying. -- | |Jim Brooks | _ |mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] __|_(_)_|__ http://www.jimbrooks.org +|+ [ ( o ) ] +|+ PGP public key available * O[_]---[_]O * -- ** FOR YOUR REFERENCE ** The service address, to which questions about the list itself and requests to be added to or deleted from it should be directed, is: Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can send mail to the entire list (and comp.os.linux.hardware) via: Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux may be obtained via one of these FTP sites: ftp.funet.fipub/Linux tsx-11.mit.edu pub/linux sunsite.unc.edu pub/Linux End of Linux-Hardware Digest **
