[SLUG] USB hardware query
My computer (bought in 2002) came with four USB ports, two in front, two in back. However, they were all for USB version 1.1. Later, I installed a PCI card with two external USB version 2 ports. At the time, having two version 2 ports was enough. Recently, I decided to increase the number of my version 2 ports, so I bought a new PCI card that has four external ports to replace my two port card. When I looked at the new card more closely, however, I discovered that, not only did it have four external ports, it also had an internal one. I checked the USB ports that had come with my computer. The two at the back seemed to be connected directly to the motherboard. However, the two at the front were connected to the motherboard via a single cable. I can't easily see how that cable connects to the motherboard, since the point of connection is obscured by all sorts of ribbon cables. Is it at all likely that the connection would be via a USB port on the motherboard itself? If it is, I could try to unplug the cable from the motherboard and plug it instead into the internal port on the new PCI card. If I did that, would the two front ports then both operate as version 2 ports? I should add that I found the part number for the cable (IBM; 22P1187) and googled it, but all I got was sites trying to sell replacement cables. I couldn't find anything about what was on the motherboard end of the cable. Thanks in advance for any guidance. Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB hardware query
In general motherboard connectors for USB are done with header connectors. Each USB port needs 4 wires which are for +5V,Ground, Data+ and Data-.Your IBM cable probably has 8 wires, though it might double up on the power signals and hence only need 6 wires. If the front panel port is in fact a mini USB hub it might even only have 4 wires. Your PCI card probably obly has a single USB port internally, and so have the 4 wires you need to at least connect up a signal front panel port. Depending on how the internal port is presented (as to what looks like a standard USB port or as a header connector) this might make your job hard or easy. Sometimes the pin ordering on these header connectors are different so you need to be sure you have everything oriented the correct way. There are some instructions on this site, http://www.usbman.com/Guides/BelkinMotherboard_cable_assembly.htm, which may (or may not) be useful.Regards, MartinOn 10/23/06, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My computer (bought in 2002) came with four USB ports, two in front, twoin back. However, they were all for USB version 1.1.Later, I installed a PCI card with two external USB version 2 ports. Atthe time, having two version 2 ports was enough. Recently, I decided to increase the number of my version 2 ports, so Ibought a new PCI card that has four external ports to replace my twoport card.When I looked at the new card more closely, however, I discovered that, not only did it have four external ports, it also had an internal one.I checked the USB ports that had come with my computer. The two at theback seemed to be connected directly to the motherboard. However, the two at the front were connected to the motherboard via a single cable.I can't easily see how that cable connects to the motherboard, since thepoint of connection is obscured by all sorts of ribbon cables. Is it at all likely that the connection would be via a USB port on themotherboard itself? If it is, I could try to unplug the cable from themotherboard and plug it instead into the internal port on the new PCI card. If I did that, would the two front ports then both operate as version 2ports?I should add that I found the part number for the cable (IBM; 22P1187)and googled it, but all I got was sites trying to sell replacement cables. I couldn't find anything about what was on the motherboard endof the cable.Thanks in advance for any guidance.Leslie--SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html-- Regards, Martin Martin Visser -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Problems with Evolution email
On Sat, 2006-10-21 at 21:46 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: I keep seeing the following message in evolution: Error while Storing folder 'Inbox'. Summary and folder mismatch, even after a sync I have seen other queries about this on Ubuntu forums but not what causes it or how to fix. Can anyone on this list cast any light on this? I see this with downloading from UTS and Optus at the same time. UTS finishes and then I can remove JUNK from my inbox and it seems to give this message. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using SuSE 10.1 I was easily able to get my old ATI 7500 card (32Mb)to work properly. Since moving to Ubuntu 6.06 I have been unable to get any reasonable speed out of it. I grabbed my daughter's old 9200 ATI (126Mb)and tried that and I still am unable to get games such as Chromium (I use it to check my card) to work properly - the frame rate is so slow that it takes about four seconds for the ship to respond to a mouse movement. Under SuSE (with the older card) it was smooth and fast to respond, under Ubuntu I can get neither card to work properly. Is there some way to set the card up so that it works? Is ther a graphical tool to set up the video in Debian/Ubuntu- I can't find one. TIA Ashley -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFPLacgu0BrMM6usYRAk3vAJ9ZtJUCHu/fnWwOfdIA5iv6TGqZpwCfRONS T6cXSZWbd8re+kGq+EMVpN0= =DmwU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu
Looks like you'll need to install the proprietary ATI drivers. http://www.ati.com/online/customercareportal/linux.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ashley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using SuSE 10.1 I was easily able to get my old ATI 7500 card (32Mb)to work properly. Since moving to Ubuntu 6.06 I have been unable to get any reasonable speed out of it. I grabbed my daughter's old 9200 ATI (126Mb)and tried that and I still am unable to get games such as Chromium (I use it to check my card) to work properly - the frame rate is so slow that it takes about four seconds for the ship to respond to a mouse movement. Under SuSE (with the older card) it was smooth and fast to respond, under Ubuntu I can get neither card to work properly. Is there some way to set the card up so that it works? Is ther a graphical tool to set up the video in Debian/Ubuntu- I can't find one. TIA Ashley -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFPLacgu0BrMM6usYRAk3vAJ9ZtJUCHu/fnWwOfdIA5iv6TGqZpwCfRONS T6cXSZWbd8re+kGq+EMVpN0= =DmwU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu
Simon Males wrote: Looks like you'll need to install the proprietary ATI drivers. http://www.ati.com/online/customercareportal/linux.html the 7500 works with kernel.org gpl drivers. The relevant section of my xorg.conf on debian etch looks like so: Section Device Identifier ATI Technologies, Inc. Radeon Mobility 7500 Driver ati BusID PCI:1:0:0 EndSection -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] thigh
I am going to walk out silently, when Betty pops up and says, "so how was everything? Makes me long for the slower days of summer when I could get out for a long run at lunch. We didn't end up finishing it because all the ladies got dehydrated and we had to leave. Not sure what to do about it. My legs and everything else felt great but my gut felt like I had been punched by Mike Tyson. So this morning I set my alarm and got up with the sun. Things were getting tighter and worse. So I split off, saw the finish line, and hustled in. There are no credit cards to max out. That wasn't the point. Dish sucks, or so everybody tells me. I now get to do a bit of rest for a the next few months. People would sit down near us, eat and leave and we are still waiting on food. That would be perfectly reasonable a day or two ago but apparently you have to find this out after the fact after you wait around for these wonderful people to show up. It will allow you to target your market and open the whole world for you. My right foot, right knee and hips will thank me for it. Our wait is also our "fault" I get the feeling. Comcast doesn't offer it. They figure that was an opening issue and its probably resolved by now. Part of me felt depressed and ashamed because I didn't set out to do what I wanted. It wasn't my address. If I stretch it hurts more. There is another in May downtown. It felt good for the first few days but then the internal struggle mounted. Everything just went into a big knot. DIRECTV manufactures this box? DIRECTV manufactures this box? I told them not to come here. Its really easy to zone out and just cruise along. The real challenge will be to hold my fitness up over the winter. Then my mother got me a road ID bracelet for when I get hit. After eating, there we several short classes to choose from. If you ask a question, they seem to tell you like you are dumb. This one is your longest in your training plan. Signature file is those couple of words below your name usually in an email or other document. It wasn't my address. We are actively working on removing the dirt. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] TV cloning in Ubuntu Dapper
G'day everyone, Can anyone point to a good howto for how I might clone my display to my TV through Ubuntu Dapper? I've got an ATI Mobility Radeon 9600. I've installed the ati drivers via easyubuntu and appear to have up to date versions of the linux-restricted-modules installed. I'm running gnome. I'm using the default (possibly auto-updated) version of xorg and have the xorg-driver-fglrx installed. I installed atitvout and it happily told me that it could see both my laptop display and my TV (through composite) but I couldn't get it to do anything else for me. I've attempted to follow the following HOWTOs with no significant success: * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=221174 The xinerama didn't seem to make any difference The ati howto made the TV flash but that's about it. * http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=23628 Resulted in my login screen showing half off screen, no effect on the tv Also the xorg.conf suggested by Klin'Targ (no result) * http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=141031 It's not a HOWTO, but I tried the ideas there, nothing useful I read the xorg.conf logs and it said that dual head displays were broken and I should use MergedFB. I don't have much of an idea of what that is, but I searched and found this: http://mg.pov.lt/xorg.conf Unfortunately even after using that as a template, all I've achieved is a lower resolution on my primary display. I've played with aticonfig: sudo aticonfig --initial --tvf=PAL-B --dtop=clone sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal which both worked in that I my display was mirrored in the TV but the framerate was abysmal. Attempting to play a DVD resulted in me seeing two or three seconds of movie then skipping forward by about the same amount repeating. Xine eventually complained that the framerate was too low and suggested I improved my hardware. Somewhere along the way something suggested that I installed GATOS, but the GATOS page suggests that it's already incorporated into my version of xorg. I've got a mini-HOWTO for patching GATOS to allow TV out, so that's the next step, but I thought I'd ask here just in case there's an easier way. Any suggestions? J -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Graphics card problem with Ubuntu
G'day Ashley, Have a look in your xorg.conf ( /etc/X11/xorg.conf ) to see what driver your machine is using for your card. You'll need to skip down until you see a section starting with: Section Device If it's not using the ati driver: Driver ati then try changing that and see if that improves matters. If that doesn't help, then try installing xorg-driver-fglrx and changing the Driver part to: Driver fglrx A good test to see whether you're getting any difference is to run glxgears. $ glxgears They should run smoothly and at a reasonable speed. All the best, Jacinta -- (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ | Jacinta Richardson | `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) | Perl Training Australia| (_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' | +61 3 9354 6001| _..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (il),-'' (li),' ((!.-' | www.perltraining.com.au | -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Network Card Woes
I have installed an exttra NIC on my fedora server so I can apply some QOS.On the fedora machine as far as I can tell each nic (eth0 eth1) has their own ip address (10.1.1.30 10.1.1.31) and are pointing to different devices ( comparing mac addresses).Howevver it appears that all other devices on the network seem to get confused as the ip addresses from remote devices seem to point to the one network cardWhat To Do!!! RegardsPhill O'Flynn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Network Card Woes
On 10/24/06, Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed an exttra NIC on my fedora server so I can apply some QOS.On the fedora machine as far as I can tell each nic (eth0 eth1) has their own ip address (10.1.1.30 10.1.1.31) and are pointing to different devices ( comparing mac addresses).Howevver it appears that all other devices on the network seem to get confused as the ip addresses from remote devices seem to point to the one network cardWhat To Do!!!Your machine is no doubt quite confused, because it has two routes into it's local network: it won't know which interface it should be forwarding packets out of. What's probably happening here is that the ARP responses saying I'm 10.1.1.31 are leaving out the 10.1.1.30 card - in fact, everything is probably leaving via that card, regardless of its address. Run tcpdump to confirm this..You may be able to do something fancy with iptables rules and/or iproute2 and policy routing to make this work, but I think you'd be better off taking out the second card and making the second address just an alias on the first card. You mentioned you're trying to achieve some kind of QOS - could you tell us more about the original problem that you're trying to solve? RegardsPhill O'Flynn --SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html-- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Microtouch USB touch screen X/Y axis swapped
I just got some LCD touch screens in for a customer and unfortunately I didn't get the serial ones I was expecting, instead I have the USB ones. It's pretty cool how it works, just plug it in and start moving your finger round the display and it just works - Fedora Core 5. Only thing is the Axis are swapped around and it needs some sort of calibration. What I want to know is where to start looking to fix it. It appears that somehow the mtouchusb kernel module loads and this creates some stuff under /dev/input which ends up working in parrallel with the PS/2 mouse I already have plugged in. If somebody could explain how this multiple input stuff works, and can be configured, that would be useful too. The answer may possibly be in configuration of these bits. Kernels 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (standard) and 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 (most recent update) make no difference. xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.0.1-8, xorg-x11-drv-microtouch-1.0.0.5-1.2, xorg-x11-drv-mouse-1.0.4-1 are installed. The man page for the xorg microtouch driver is next to empty, says it needs to be written. If somebody has their Xorg source unpacked maybe see if there's anything more useful there but I doubt it. For the serial version I used the xorg 'microtouch' driver, this USB one works without modifying the xorg.conf file. I would be happy to modify the xorg.conf file if the USB version could be coaxed into looking like a serial port. cat /proc/bus/input/devices gives I: Bus=0003 Vendor=0596 Product=0001 Version=0400 N: Name=3M 3M USB Touchscreen - EX II P: Phys=/input0 S: Sysfs=/class/input/input3 H: Handlers=mouse1 event3 B: EV=b B: KEY=400 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 B: ABS=3 lsusb -v gives Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0596:0001 MicroTouch Systems, Inc. Touchscreen Device Descriptor: bLength18 bDescriptorType 1 bcdUSB 1.10 bDeviceClass0 (Defined at Interface level) bDeviceSubClass 0 bDeviceProtocol 0 bMaxPacketSize064 idVendor 0x0596 MicroTouch Systems, Inc. idProduct 0x0001 Touchscreen bcdDevice4.00 iManufacturer 1 3M iProduct2 3M USB Touchscreen - EX II iSerial 0 bNumConfigurations 1 Configuration Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 2 wTotalLength 25 bNumInterfaces 1 bConfigurationValue 1 iConfiguration 0 bmAttributes 0xe0 Self Powered Remote Wakeup MaxPower 100mA Interface Descriptor: bLength 9 bDescriptorType 4 bInterfaceNumber0 bAlternateSetting 0 bNumEndpoints 1 bInterfaceClass 255 Vendor Specific Class bInterfaceSubClass 0 bInterfaceProtocol 0 iInterface 0 Endpoint Descriptor: bLength 7 bDescriptorType 5 bEndpointAddress 0x81 EP 1 IN bmAttributes3 Transfer TypeInterrupt Synch Type None Usage Type Data wMaxPacketSize 0x0020 1x 32 bytes bInterval 2 -- ---GRiP--- Grant Parnell - senior LPIC-1 certified consultant Linux User #281066 at http://counter.li.org (Linux Counter) EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup tech support. Web: http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and elx.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs. ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Network Card Woes]
çÞü~˪{ë¯yçnùã^6Ó^´ÓOn 10/24/06, Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have installed an exttra NIC on my fedora server so I can apply some QOS.On the fedora machine as far as I can tell each nic (eth0 eth1) has
their own ip address (10.1.1.30
10.1.1.31) and are pointing to different
devices ( comparing mac addresses).Howevver it appears that all other
devices on the network seem to get confused as the ip addresses from remote devices
seem to point to the one network cardWhat To Do!!!Your machine is no doubt quite confused, because it has two routes into it's local network: it won't know which interface it should be forwarding packets out of.
What's probably happening here is that the ARP responses saying I'm 10.1.1.31 are leaving out the 10.1.1.30 card - in fact, everything is probably leaving via that card, regardless of its address.
Run tcpdump to confirm this..You may be able to do something fancy with iptables rules and/or iproute2 and policy routing to make this work, but I think you'd be better off taking out the second card and making the second address just an alias on the first card.
You mentioned you're trying to achieve some kind of QOS - could you tell us more about the original problem that you're trying to solve?
RegardsPhill O'Flynn
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[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Network Card Woes]
ïÎý~˪xÛ®·çyã^6Ó^´ÓOn 10/24/06, Phill O'Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed an exttra NIC on my fedora server so I can apply some QOS.On the fedora machine as far as I can tell each nic (eth0 eth1) has their own ip address (10.1.1.30 10.1.1.31) and are pointing to different devices ( comparing mac addresses).Howevver it appears that all other devices on the network seem to get confused as the ip addresses from remote devices seem to point to the one network cardWhat To Do!!!Your machine is no doubt quite confused, because it has two routes into it's local network: it won't know which interface it should be forwarding packets out of. What's probably happening here is that the ARP responses saying I'm 10.1.1.31 are leaving out the 10.1.1.30 card - in fact, everything is probably leaving via that card, regardless of its address. Run tcpdump to confirm this..You may be able to do something fancy with iptables rules and/or iproute2 and policy routing to make this work, but I think you'd be better off taking out the second card and making the second address just an alias on the first card. You mentioned you're trying to achieve some kind of QOS - could you tell us more about the original problem that you're trying to solve? RegardsPhill O'Flynn --SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html-- There is nothing more worthy of contempt than a man who quotes himself - Zhasper, 2004-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Network Card Woes]
Phill O'Flynn wrote: So this morning is used the tc command to throttle back my servers eth0 to 168k and the voip worked fine. But obviously this became a speed problem to the internal network. You can define two classes to tc -- your local subnet and everything else. Then give 168k to the everything else class and allow any bandwidth to the local subnet class. See the CBQ qdisc. -- Glen Turner Tel: (08) 8303 3936 or +61 8 8303 3936 Australia's Academic Research Network www.aarnet.edu.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Anti-Spam/Anti-Virus Advice
Could someone offers some advice, we already have an email server up and running communigate on an apple xserve. My manager has asked me if there are any anti-spam/anti-virus solutions that we can use as a pass-thru solution on a separate box. ie:router|anti-spam/virus solution|email server|desktop clientsI have looked at clarkconnect, e-smith, astaro etc. Is there anything that would say run on Fedora (as a bunch of daemons/services). Obviously with other distros have an email server built-in which we do not need.Any help is always appreciated. Lyle Chapman Prepress Supervisor Torch Publishing Company Pty Ltd 47 Allingham Street, Condell Park, NSW, 2200 Ph: 612 9795 Fax: 612 9795 0096 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
