Linux-Hardware Digest #965, Volume #9 Thu, 8 Apr 99 09:13:25 EDT
Contents:
Re: Autoshutdown in ATX (Mohd H Misnan)
Spurious characters on Dell keyboard (**Nick Brown)
Re: Is this a Win Modem? (**Nick Brown)
Re: Setting Up Newbie Installation of Redhat 5.2 - Matrox G200, HP 895CXi and TWM!
("R.Bertrand")
Re: Modem on Linux ("Andre Malafaya Baptista")
Re: Is this a Win Modem? ("Dominic Leland")
Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux? (Douglas H. Steves)
Re: Setting Up Newbie Installation of Redhat 5.2 - Matrox G200, HP 895CXi and TWM!
(Jason McCaul)
Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux? (Morten Dreier)
Re: MiroVIDEO DC30plus support in Linux? (daniel azzarri)
Travan TR4 / Seagate Hornet Tape Dirve (Jason McCaul)
Guillemot Maxi 64 Home Studio 2 problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Nakamichi 5.16S changer hanging in 2.0.36 (Nick Andrew)
Trantor T160 SCSI Card (Tom Herman)
Re: D-Link DFE 530-TX ("Kar Gay Lim")
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Matthew
Hunter)
Re: Best chip/method for new PCI card design (Heinz Baier)
Re: Modem install (TerryB)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd H Misnan)
Subject: Re: Autoshutdown in ATX
Date: 7 Apr 1999 22:21:27 GMT
Reply-To: mhmsys$pc,jaring,my
On Tue, 06 Apr 1999 01:28:41 GMT, Patrick Mayer wrote:
>In article <7ea556$c94$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Andre Malafaya Baptista"
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>A couple of months ago, I was using kernel 2.0.35.
>>I compiled my own version with APM support enabled.
>>Whenever I shutdown, power was turned off.
>>Since I upgraded to 2.2.3, and with the same option(s) enabled, power won't
>>turn off.
>>Anybody has a hint on this?
>>
>>Regards,
>>André
>>
>>PS: Please, email.
>>
>>
>Funny, I've got the same problem myself... Hints, anyone?
Add -p to halt command inside /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt.
The line command="halt" should be changed to command="halt -p"
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Spurious characters on Dell keyboard
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:03:13 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have a Dell OptiPlex GXa with Linux kernel 2.0.36.
Sometimes, when I start to type a command, a backquote (`) is inserted
before the first character on the line. This happens with perhaps one
command in 30.
I know that some Dell PCs of this series had minor keyboard problems,
but of course Dell doesn't have a patch for Linux. Is anyone else
experiencing this kind of problem ?
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 12:08:32 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dominic Leland wrote:
> Another way that it is a Winmodem (as far as linux is concerned) is that it
> is a PCI modem. I have heard it said that pci modems will never work in
> linux. This is probably because the manufacturer would have to release the
> specs or release a linux driver themselves.
This might be true of Winmodems (although I'm sure that someone,
somewhere is beavering away at reverse engineering some of those), but
the fact that it's a PCI card surely won't stop a regular modem working
under Linux. Incidentally, there are a number of ISA Winmodems as
well...
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Nick Brown, Strasbourg, France (Nick(dot)Brown(at)coe(dot)fr)
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Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:02:11 +0200
Reply-To: "R.Bertrand" <nospam_please@nowhere>
From: "R.Bertrand" <bertrand@bearbull>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Newbie Installation of Redhat 5.2 - Matrox G200, HP 895CXi and
TWM!
M.B a écrit dans le message <7eham9$ue5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
>I've installed Redhat 5.2 ( free with PC Plus Mag) and everything went OK,
>using bootmagic to triple boot Win95, WinNT40 and now Linux.
>
>Problems....
>
>1. I've tried to setup xwindows on "autoprobe only"? but I can only get
>it to work if I select 640 x 480 std VGA. I'd love to set it up for my
>Matrox Millennium G200 AGP ( 8MB) but I can't find a driver on Matrox's web
>site or via a link I saw for another post for a different graphics card to
a
>Linux help page.
>
Install XFree 3.3.3 (Redhat 5.2 install XFree 3.3.2).
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From: "Andre Malafaya Baptista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Modem on Linux
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:28:24 +0100
When you say that port and IRQ are OK, how did you check that? With
setserial?
Isn't your modem Plug & Play? If so, you will have to use the isapnptools
(isapnp, pnpdump, check man pages) so that the modem actually uses the
resources you put in setserial.
HTH,
André
Patrick Perron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I recently installed OpenLinux 1.3 on my computer (K6/200) and I can't
>get my modem (Hayes Accura 336 voice) to work on it !
>
>Originally, under Win98, it is configured under COM5 ! I downloaded a
>utility from what was once Hayes' web site and it is now configured
>under COM3 in Win.
>
>In Linux, I set it up under /dev/ttyS2. The port and and irq are OK (ie
>
>the same as in win). When I run setserial -g utility all the settings
>are fine. When I run pppd I get nothing ! When I use X-ISP I get an
>error message after about 30 secs (connect failed). When I use kppp and
>
>select "query modem" I get a message telling me that the modem is busy !
>
>Does anybody know what I can do next ? I would really appreciate
>anyone's help !
>
>Thank you,
>
>Patrick Perron
>
>
>
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From: "Dominic Leland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is this a Win Modem?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:40:29 GMT
This is by no means the final word (I could be wrong here), but I think your
modem is in fact a Winmodem.
90% of the time what "Winmodem" means is that most of the modem's functions
are done by the processor (using the software that came with it--ie:
drivers). Since the drivers are windows programs and developers aren't
releasing the specs, there is little, if any, chance that they will ever
work in linux.
You're modem may be one of those (the high processor requirement is what
tips me off).
Another way that it is a Winmodem (as far as linux is concerned) is that it
is a PCI modem. I have heard it said that pci modems will never work in
linux. This is probably because the manufacturer would have to release the
specs or release a linux driver themselves.
Regardless, I think for the time being your out of luck.
Dominic Leland
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas H. Steves)
Subject: Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux?
Date: 8 Apr 1999 05:29:43 -0500
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
James Stafford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tim Moore wrote:
>
>> > Is there FireWire/IE1394- support in the latest Linux kernels?
>> Didn't make 2.2. Check www.kernel.org for 2.[3-4].x kernel support.
>I thought I just read somewhere that Apple has made firewire an open
>standard.
IEEE 1394 is the standard for Firewire, which #includes IEEE 1212
(also used by USB) as the configuration architecture. An A/V device
control spec was included in the DV blue book issued by Sony et al.
More info is available from the 1394 Trade Association (www.1394ta.org).
I investigated writing a firewire driver a few years ago, and found
there wasn't much interest, since the only 1394 devices were (are?)
DV camcorders which require an editing package to be useful.
The other problem with firewire on Linux was the cost of the
adapters, which was way out of proportion to the cost of the
chipsets, due to lack of volume. Intel was/is pushing USB on
the motherboard, which effectively relegates firewire to
secondary/high-end uses (kind of like IDE v. SCSI). This is
really unfortunate, since USB is a much inferior technology
(master/slave v. peer-peer, 12Mbps v. 400 Mbps), and wasn't
that much cheaper to implement initially. (The *first*
TI 1394 chipsets were under $30.)
Boards are now down to $200, but this is a lot to pay for
80Mb asynch networking (the other 320Mbps are nominally
reserved for isoch devices).
Doug
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From: Jason McCaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setting Up Newbie Installation of Redhat 5.2 - Matrox G200, HP 895CXi and
TWM!
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:30:58 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
R.Bertrand wrote:
>
> M.B a écrit dans le message <7eham9$ue5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> >Hi,
> >
> >I've installed Redhat 5.2 ( free with PC Plus Mag) and everything went OK,
> >using bootmagic to triple boot Win95, WinNT40 and now Linux.
> >
> >Problems....
> >
> >1. I've tried to setup xwindows on "autoprobe only"? but I can only get
> >it to work if I select 640 x 480 std VGA. I'd love to set it up for my
> >Matrox Millennium G200 AGP ( 8MB) but I can't find a driver on Matrox's web
> >site or via a link I saw for another post for a different graphics card to
> a
> >Linux help page.
> >
>
> Install XFree 3.3.3 (Redhat 5.2 install XFree 3.3.2).
Latest version is 3.3.3.1 available from http://www.xfree86.org
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Jason McCaul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Morten Dreier)
Subject: Re: FireWire / IEEE1394-support in Linux?
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 12:34:42 +0200
Matthew Wilby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I just thought that Firewire was a mac only affair?
nope, my PII here at the office runs i Radius FireWire-card
smoothly...of course, our G3 runs even smoother, but... :)
Our digital low-end camera has got a FireWire/IEEE1394 connection as
well, so we just hook ut up to the machine and transfer the video
digitally...very cool.
Now I'd like to do that in linux.
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Morten Dreier
NTNU - Institutt for Datateknikk og Informasjonsvitenskap
http://www.ifi.ntnu.no/~mdreier/
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From: daniel azzarri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MiroVIDEO DC30plus support in Linux?
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 09:05:25 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ask allan cox about that, and/or look at his video 4 linux page:
http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml
//dan
Chris Evich wrote:
> "Michael A. K. Gross" wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> I've got the miro DC20 and am in the same situation. I saw the specs on
> Miro's page but they were an api for "video for windows". I wonder if a
> driver could be hacked from the information provided in the api. Not
> that being able to capture in linux would do much good w/o a good
> editing program (ala premiere). It would be nice to see a driver for it
> though.
>
> > I've inherited a miroVIDEO DC30plus video capture card, currently on an
> > NT4.0 box. The computer (not too surprisingly) locks up hourly, and the
> > rest of our lab is running Unix, so I'd like to convert the NT box to Linux
> > if all of its hardware is supported.
> > So far, I've tracked down drivers for all the hardware (including an HP
> > scanner), except for the video capture card. A search through the newsgroup
> > came up with nothing, aside from a different Miro product. Miro's web
> > page says that one has to use Windows, but that sounds like the Diamond
> > video card party-line from a few years back. Has anyone written a Linux
> > driver for this card?
> > I'd be grateful if responses could be posted AND mailed. Many thanks in
> > advance.
> >
>
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From: Jason McCaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Travan TR4 / Seagate Hornet Tape Dirve
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:06:36 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Does anyone know if it is possible to use the Seagate Hornet STT8000A
ide tape drive under linux? This is a Travan TR4 device that connects to
the ide controller not the floppy fdisk controller (hence ftape is no
use)?
The tape drive is recognised at boot time and is assigned the hdd and I
think there is a link added to /dev/ht0. I have tried mounting this to
/mnt/tape and I can write to this dir but nothing actually gets written
to the tape.
I'd appreciate anything anyone can offer on this.
Thanks
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Jason McCaul
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Guillemot Maxi 64 Home Studio 2 problem
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 11:23:43 GMT
I'm using linux-2.2.5 and trying to configure my sound card: Guillemot Maxi
64 Home Studio 2 Pnp/ISA (supposedly based on ES1868 AudioDrive)
Even after reserving the IRQ:5 in the Bios for the ISA legacy card,
I cant't hear a sound. But it seems that I can record with it! I grabbed
a CD-track with it from /dev/audio (the xmixer works) and played under W98.
(The format seems to be 8 bit linear). Under Linux, no sound!
I tried the eval version of the latest OSS, same problem!
Has anyone succeeded in configuring such card? Even on Linux 2.0.36.
Laurent
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Andrew)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Nakamichi 5.16S changer hanging in 2.0.36
Date: 8 Apr 1999 21:32:03 +1000
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Ioannidis) writes:
>I'm running Red Hat 5.2 with the 2.0.36 kernel straight out of the
>box, on a Pentium-II machine with an Adaptec 2940UW, which has a
>Nakamichi 5.16S cd changer and a Seagate 2G Barracuda hanging off it.
I have a box with about 6 Nakamichi changers connected. But that's a
story for another day.
>The five LUNs of the Nakamichi correctly appear as /dev/scd0 through
>/dev/scd4. When I have more than one mounted, what will frequently
>happen is that the system will hang when I try to access the CD that
>is not currently in the reader slot. "Hang" in this case means that
>the display/keyboard/mouse are not responding, but the machine is
>accepting pings and tcp connections (although it won't fork to give a
>login prompt).
A long time ago in a galaxy far away I had this problem with another
CD changer unit. I solved it by patching the SCSI (or CD-ROM) device
driver to increase the read timeout.
I don't think my box hung though; it probably emitted console messages
if the read operation (on the changed device) timed out.
Nick.
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From: Tom Herman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Trantor T160 SCSI Card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 11:37:43 GMT
A newbie friend is trying to boot his new Linux box.
He has a Trantor T160 SCSI controller card. His RedHat
kernel is having trouble seeing the T160 card.
We checked the HOWTOs and I scanned the kernel source code.
Apparently the Trantor T128 card is OK. No mention of the
T160 card.
I heard Adaptec bought Trantor.
Does anyone have any experience with this particular card?
Would another driver be a likely candidate?
Should my friend throw away the card and get another brand?
(He had a perfectly good Future Domain SCSI card he gave away
recently).
TIA
Tom Herman
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From: "Kar Gay Lim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link DFE 530-TX
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 01:17:28 +1000
Alain BURET wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I saw some days ago someone who was searching for the way to configure
>the 530 TX Ethernet/Fast Ethernet under Linux ... and I was alsolooing
>for this information.
>I made a search on the SuSE hardware database and this PCI card is
>supported thru the VIA-RHINE model ... I recompiled my kernel and it's
>working fine.
>
>PS: using SuSE 6.0 with kernel 2.0.36
>
>Alain BURET
>Belgium
What I did was just mapping eth0 -> via-rhine and it worked without
recompiling.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Hunter)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
Date: 8 Apr 1999 11:59:32 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 15:31:38 +0100, in comp.lang.java.advocacy,
Jerry Yuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> The nice thing about Linux, it that everytime someone complains about a
>> missing feature, I can respond, "Well, go write it!"
>My argument is, 'is this feature possible?' Seeing a lot of users
>converted from MSDOS/WIN asking for it, I begin to wonder why nobody
>is actually working on it.
Not only is the feature doable, but it's been done. I think there's
even a HOWTO about it.
The bad news is that it can't be done perfectly for various reasons;
basically, because of UNIX's multiuser, multiprocess nature, the odds
of the deleted data being overwritten before you recover it are much
higher than with single-user systems.
For this reason, the "how" is pretty obscure; you need to obtain this,
that, and the other thing, compile them all, and then jump through the
right hoops.
I would rather see a system convention where files are moved to a
trashcan directory somewhere, and deleted dynamically when more space
is needed. This would be a better solution in general.
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Matthew Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Heinz Baier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Best chip/method for new PCI card design
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:34:57 +0200
I used very succesful Altera FPGA` s for PCI designs. Altera offers a Macro,
called PCI_B, which handles all the PCI interface stuff. It even supports the
so called Burst Mode.
I achieved data rates up to 50 MB/s for Burst transfers (OS AIX).
You can build all your custom logic into the same FPGA.
Gregory Benjamin wrote:
> I'm in the early stages of designing a PCI card
> for a laser film recorder (LFR) device. I have never
> designed a PCI card or written a Linux driver, but
> I have both designed hardware and written low-level
> RTOS code for several processors over the years.
> I want to produce a board design that works well on
> the first try, or failing that, with minimal rework.
> Volume will be low, so PCI interfaces in the form of
> an IP core in an FPGA are probably out. The
> computer system is dedicated to driving the LFR and
> doing simple queue management. What I'm looking for
> are recommendations on the most appropriate vendor/chip
> for the PCI interface, the cleanest buffering/FIFOing
> architecture that will assure me of no data loss, and
> pointers on the most appropriate driver sources to use
> as a starting point. I am also interested in inexpensive
> (<$500) PCI development boards/tools to allow prototyping.
> I have some familiarity with product offerings from
> AMCC, Anchorchips, PLX, etc.
>
> Here are some particulars:
>
> # Laserlab LFR PCI design
>
> o device is a high-resolution laser film recorder (LFR)
> o LFR is controlled by a dedicated PC
> o PC will run Linux (no support for other OSes planned)
>
> o PC configuration
> - ASUS P2B mainboard
> - Intel CPU >= 366MHz.
> - 128MB RAM
> - Matrox G200 graphics adapter
> - UDMA IDE disk(s) attached to mainboard
> - 10/100 mbit/sec NIC
> - LFR PCI card
>
> o LFR charcteristics
> - synchronous device -- data MUST be present when needed
> - data processed as scan lines
> - two scan line periods: 2.5 and 5.0 ms
> - 5 Kilobytes per 2.5 ms scan line
> ( 400 scans/sec * 5KB/line = 2MB/sec)
> - 10 Kilobytes per 5.0 ms scan line
> ( 200 scans/sec * 10KB/line = 2MB/sec)
> - image takes up to 8 minutes, 40 seconds to produce
> - image size 1040 Megabytes (maximum)
>
> o LFR PCI card requirements
> -- outbound data rate 2 megabytes/sec
> -- inbound data rate < 100 kilobytes/sec
>
> o Data flow
> -- receive from NIC via tcp/ip
> -- save to disk as sequence of files
> -- read from disk to RAM
> -- minimally process in RAM
> -- output to LFR PCI card
>
> All input appreciated!
> o-----------------------------------------------------------------------o
> | Gregory Benjamin Laserlab, Inc. o Laser photoplotting |
> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6790 Top Gun Street o CNC machining |
> | Suite 9 o Chemical milling |
> | San Diego, CA 92121 o Printed Circuit Fabrication |
> | www.laserlab.com Tel: 619-646-7660 o Precision photomasks |
> | ftp.laserlab.com Fax: 619-646-7667 o AutoCAD to Gerber conversion|
> o-----------------------------------------------------------------------o
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TerryB)
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem install
Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:04:28 GMT
On Wed, 7 Apr 1999 11:45:18 -0600, "James Liston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi,
>I need help installing a modem in colv1.3. It is a Motorola 56K
>internal modem. I have already asked around and found that others
>have got this modem working in linux. So in theory I should be able
>to get it to work. I was told that I needed to add an rc.serial
>script with some lines to change the irq, which I did.
>I am also using kppp inside of KDE to set up the dialing part.
>
>I think I am missing some steps for installing it because I keep
>getting a message that the modem is busy. Could someone please
>explain the steps for installing a modem.
>
>Thanks,
>James Liston
>
Hi James,
I was copping that modem busy message as well at one stage, One of the
things I did do that I think was the cure was,,, in the kppp there is
somewhere a button saying "let modem set CDE" or some thing like that,
I disabled that & my problems were solved.... This may of course not
fix your problem. If I could get into my Linux now I would check the
exact kppp page & details but am on Win95 at moment with connection.
My modem is external rockwell chip set flashed to V90. I got
connection in Linux to my isp without any scripts, only init string of
AT&F.
Best 'O luck.
PS My woes are posted bit further down in this Group. OpenLinux 1.3
stuck in loop. cheers......
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