Linux-Hardware Digest #68, Volume #10 Tue, 20 Apr 99 08:13:35 EDT
Contents:
How to congigue Ensoniq AudioPCI Card? Please! (Chen Zhong-Shan)
Printers - HP OfficeJet 630 or Cannon multipass C5500 ?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
UPS ("Joshua D Rusch")
Matrox Marvel G200 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Oak TV Card 64111/ S3 (Jean)
Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller? (John Thompson)
Re: HELP ME PLEASE (Christopher Mahmood)
Re: HELP ME PLEASE (Josh Stern)
Brother HL-1050 Laserprinter (Jack Andersen)
Re: How many IDE-interfaces can I use? ("Curtis Adams")
dhcpcd error with 3com 3c900 (Keith W Sheffield)
Re: sb16 audio device (Keith Rhodes)
MovieMachine and Linux ? (Bernd Kresse)
Log. TrackMan Marble FX?? (Nick Papadonis)
Sound problems (-???-)
Re: any1 from Canada will sell or burn linux cheaply ? (William Burrow)
Re: Programmers are gods (Chris Costello)
Deskpro & printer ("Beppe Coffano")
Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 OffTopic ("Daniel Flinkmann")
Re: Programmers are gods (Matthias Warkus)
Re: MaxPC - support for this device in kernel 2.2 == when? ("AB")
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chen Zhong-Shan)
Subject: How to congigue Ensoniq AudioPCI Card? Please!
Date: 19 Apr 1999 14:55:31 GMT
Hi all,
I installed RedHat Linux 5.1 on my HP Pavilion 8290
computer. However, sound card, modem, and Iomega SCSI 100MZIP drive
don't work. I'd like to solve the sound card problem first. I tried
sndconfig. It gave me a error message after trying a sample test. I
know the IRQ is 5 and I/O is 0220-022F, but I don't know DMA. I am
new to linux, would you please help me?
Thanks!
you can send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Have a nice day!
--
Zhongshan(Sam) Chen
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159E University Village
Ames, IA 50010
(515) 294-2465(o)
(515) 292-8538(h)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~zschen
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Printers - HP OfficeJet 630 or Cannon multipass C5500 ??
Date: 20 Apr 1999 06:24:50 GMT
I have read the printing HOWTO and checked the printer database, but am still
wondering what sorts of results, if any, people are getting with these two
printers under Linux.
Neither model is mentioned specifically in the printer DB, but similar models
are - OJ 626 and MP C3500, are listed as having partial support with no
information on just what can be achieved.
Anyone using either of these two multi-functional printers ?
IAP
--
I am using anti-spam measures, please replace 'not.valid' with 'value.net'
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From: "Joshua D Rusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPS
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:38:49 -0400
I'm looking to buy an uninterruptible power supply for my Redhat 5.2 system
(kernel 2.2.5) Any suggestions on a specific brandname and or linux friendly
equipment. Also are there any FAQs on this?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Matrox Marvel G200
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 01:53:59 GMT
I have a Matrox Marvel G200 and I'm in the process of installing and
setting up Slackware Linux 3.6. I saw that the G200 chip is supported
but it says for PCI and I have an AGP card. Anyone know if my card is
supported?
Also as a side note, I assume there's only a snowball's chance in hell
that the TV tunner capabilities and video capture are supported at
all. Any info on this would be appreciated?
Tim
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From: Jean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Oak TV Card 64111/ S3
Date: 20 Apr 1999 06:32:16 GMT
Is there a driver for this or one that can be used as an alternative in
order to enable SVGA? Could it just be set up using the correct dot clock
values etc. ?
At least I want to enable 16 bit colour. Another option is to put in
another S3 card but then I only want to use it under linux and Win98
should not do display to it.
Any advice?
(Only had the OS on for 4 days now)
Thanks
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:38:33 -0600
Johan Kullstam wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
>
> > is there such a beast, and if so, who makes it? they all seem to be
> > controllerless winmodem pieces of sh*t to me..
> one word: *external*
An external PCI modem? I've got to admit, I've never even
considered that...
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-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Christopher Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE
Date: 20 Apr 1999 00:44:34 -0700
as long as you are using a non-accelerated server, the performance
will be horrible. buy a new card or a commercial server
(such as metroX or Xi)...
the reason buttons are in black and white is that you are running out
of colors. try starting at 16 or 32 bpp.
-ckm
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HELP ME PLEASE
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Josh Stern)
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 08:57:27 GMT
Nico Point <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Now my X is runnig but everything is going a bit slow and the buttons
>from Netscape are not in color but in black and white.
If you are running in 24 bit color then the problem is not with
your setup, it's with Netscape - Netscape on Unix just doesn't support
24 bit color properly (yes it's incredible, but true).
>Also playing a .mpeg file is the same as watching all the frames one by
>one :-)
What application are you using to view the mpeg? (and what is your
cpu/memory setup like?)
- Josh
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Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:38:18 +0200
From: Jack Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Brother HL-1050 Laserprinter
Hi !
I am considering buying a Brother HL-1050 laserprinter. Has anybody
succeded
in using this under Linux ?
- I have searched the printer compatibility database listing under
www.picant.com/~gtaylor - but the HL-1050 has not made it to that list
(yet ?).
Otherwise it is a super list - super initiative.
The HL-1050 supports (Brother claims) PCL-6 - so I suppose it should
work.
But the Canon LBP-660 I bought was also supposed to support PCL - but
not a "PCL" version that works under Linux (as the compatibilty database
also
shows). Anyway - I am not going to be very popular at the store if I
return
another printer...
Jack...
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From: "Curtis Adams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How many IDE-interfaces can I use?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:19:26 -0400
Use one of Promise's Ultra33 controllers. It can co-exist with the another
controller (Promise or motherboard's built-in controller) This would give
you a total of 8 drives. Maybe able to use another Ultra33 for 12 drives,
but I haven't tested that. Check out...
http://www.promise.com
Bjorn Lundberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone know if it's possible for any PC-chipset to control more
> than 4 IDE-harddisks?
> If so, can I plug in a 'dual harddisk controller' in the PCI-bus?
> I'm building a cheapo NFS disk-server where I use a linux-machine
> with 4x25GB IDE disks, but the question is if I can put in more (8?).
> There shouldn't be a problem with IRQ's since I'm only using a NIC
> on the PCI-bus.
>
> And, yes I know that I can fit many SCSI-disks, but then it isn't
> 'cheapo' anymore...
>
> Regards
>
> Björn Lundberg
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Keith W Sheffield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: dhcpcd error with 3com 3c900
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 04:20:10 GMT
I have a 3Com 3c900 pci ethernet card that works under Windows 95.
However I get the following error when I try running dhcpcd 0.70 on
Linux:
ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS (ifConfig): Try again
I am running 2.0.36 and here is what is displayed when the machine is
booted:
eth0: 3Com 3c900 at 0xe800, 00:50:04:72:46:7b, IRQ 9
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/NWay Autonegotiation
interface.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
3c59x.c:v0.99E 5/12/98 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
Could it be that I have an IRQ conflict or something?
I'd like to get this resolved ASAP so I don't have to use Windows.
Thanks
--
Every man's work is a portrait of himself.
Keith Sheffield [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Keith Rhodes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sb16 audio device
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 10:11:55 +0200
ComFuMasta wrote:
>
> Hi and thanx for dropping in.
>
> ok, i have a sb16 audio device, i was told that it was not sound
> blaster, if it is not what is it ? i read my motherboard manual and it says
> that it is sounblaster 16/pro compatible (yes it is intergrated), if it is
> not soundblaster, what is it ? i run redhat 5.1 kernel 2.0.34 i know nothing
> of how to rebuild the kernel, it seems a bit complicated. when i did pnpdump
> i turned up and i can configure it to irq5 io
> 0x0220 dma 1,5 but when i do all of this in soundconfig it gives me an
> error.
>
> please help
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> thank you.
Here's a reply I posted to someone who had a smilar problem. It
describes the problem I had with an SB32AWE, that kept giving me the
message 'an eror occurred when opening /dev/audio'....
I think that sound support is built into the precompiled kernel you
get with RedHat 5.2 as a MODULE... and I've had a few problems myself.
I have a SoundBlaster 32 AWE PnP in my system, at I/O 0x220, DMA 1 and
5, the MPU at 0X330.
These settings used to work under RedHat 5.1, but stopped when I
installed 5.2... strange.
I installed onto a new, clean disk. So I can verify the state of the
/dev directory as it
was under 5.1.... and sndconfig was unable to help me...
I've got the card to make noises, but I need to kick it into life "the
hard way"; I would
like it to wake up automagically at boot time, and would appreciate some
help.
In the mean time, my experience might help others... read on.
First thing is to stop off on the way home from work and buy a few
beers.
You might as well become root right now, you'll need to be later.
Now, heres what you need in /dev:
[root@loxley klrhodes]# ls -al /dev | grep audio
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 6 Mar 26 11:15 audio -> audio0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 14, 4 Mar 26 11:14 audio0
crw-rw-rw- 1 root sys 14, 20 May 5 1998 audio1
Now try waking up the sound card (replace these values with others, as
appropriate)
[root@loxley klrhodes]# modprobe sound
[root@loxley klrhodes]# insmod uart401
[root@loxley klrhodes]# insmod sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5
mpu_io=0x330
Now, look for a sound file:
[root@loxley klrhodes]# locate cowbell.au or locate *.au
/usr/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds/cowbell.au
If this doesn't turn anything up, try this procedure:
[root@loxley klrhodes]# updatedb
go drink a beer while this updates the file database, then try the
locate command again.
Alternatively, you could use the old faithful find command: find /
-name "*.au"
Finally, send the sound file to the audio port:
[root@loxley klrhodes]# cat
/usr/share/afterstep/desktop/sounds/cowbell.au > /dev/audio
If it works, have another beer to celebrate.
Good luck.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bernd Kresse)
Subject: MovieMachine and Linux ?
Date: 20 Apr 1999 09:18:58 GMT
Is there a driver for the MovieMachine II from FAST ?
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Subject: Log. TrackMan Marble FX??
From: Nick Papadonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 20 Apr 1999 01:18:49 -0400
Hello,
Anyone been able to get good support for the
Logitech Trackman Marble FX's extra buttons in Xwindows??
I would like to get one of the buttons to do draglock,
but have been unsucessful.
- Nick
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From: -???- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound problems
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 17:15:06 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi there!
I'm having a little trouble with my soundcard under linux. It is working
as it should but the sample rate gets set slightly lower than it should.
For instance Quake2 reports a sample rate of 10869 Hz in stead of 11025
Hz (the default for Quake2). Also my mp3's get played too slow. Under
Windoze everything is okay :( .
My soundcard is a logitech soundman wave, which turns out to be almost
the same as a MV Jazz16 and therefore uses the same drivers.
So are there any Jazz16/SMWave users with the same problem ??
I am thinking the problem is related to the driver because when looking
through the source code the function to set the speed of the Jazz16
card uses numbers that look pretty arbitrary to me.
Anyone some thaught or advise on that?
--
Slackware Rulez!
Linux fortuyn 2.2.3 #3 Tue Apr 13 22:03:44 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
4:55pm up 2:36, 2 users, load average: 0.01, 0.02, 0.00
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (William Burrow)
Subject: Re: any1 from Canada will sell or burn linux cheaply ?
Date: 19 Apr 1999 15:27:02 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:35:58 GMT,
Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 18:23:54 -0700, "Paul Kuzemczak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>any1 from canada can sell linux cd's or burn then very cheaply ?
>>i want to change my linux OS, but all dists are located in US, and i hate to
>>pay shipping and hand.
>
>1) Check with your local Linux user group
> - The Association of Canadian Linux User Groups (CanLUG)
> is at http://www.oclug.on.ca/
> They maintain a list of Canadian regional Linux user groups
> - Linux Online also maintains a list of Canadian Linux user groups
> at http://www.linux.org/users/groups/canada/index.html
Cheapbytes will sell a couple of dozen CDs for the same S&H as one CD.
So it could be possible for a LUG to order and resell the CDs for less
than burning a new disk.
--
William Burrow -- New Brunswick, Canada o
Copyright 1999 William Burrow ~ /\
~ ()>()
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Costello)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 16:33:00 GMT
In article <7ffjuv$k85$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Leslie Mikesell wrote:
> And by the way, comments really have nothing to do with making
> code understandable and when the code is broken there is no
> reason to trust the comments.
char achar, bchar, cchar, dchar, echar, fchar, gchar, hchar,
ichar, jchar, kchar;
int dsiz = M_SIZE;
int
func(int a, char b, char *c, char **d)
{
if (a == b == *c == (d[0][0]+d[1][a])) {
c = malloc(sizeof(a+b+c+(*d)));
memccpy(c, *d, kchar, dsiz);
return strlen(c) + d[0][a] % (a + (b*2));
} else
memcpy(c, *d, dsiz);
return *d[0][a % 3];
}
This is broken code, but it's hard to figure out the real
purpose of it. Wouldn't comments help here?
>
> Les Mikesell
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Chris Costello
Programs: What software used to be, back when we knew how to write it.
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From: "Beppe Coffano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Deskpro & printer
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 12:59:01 +0200
Scenario:
- Compaq Deskpro EP PII 266
- HP 720C
- Linux Mandrake 5.3 (Festen)
During the installation the o.s. (Festen includes RedHat 5.2) recognized a
printer on /dev/lp1. Everything is (correctly - I suppose) defined in
/etc/printcap .
1- The minor problem. It's the second time I see the installation process
probing a printer on /dev/lp1 while it should be on /dev/lp0 (because is
lpt1 in Win). In the first case (Epson Stylus 800 connected to my home pc
that's not Compaq) everything works (in any case) well.
In the second one (the scenario above) it doesn't, as you can read for ...
2- ... the MAJOR problem. Printing doesn't work at all. No printer response
no action but also no errors; simply it doesn't print :-((
Already tried to configure the printer on /dev/lp0: unsuccessfull.
Can anybody help me ?.
Thanks in advance.
Beppe Coffano
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From: "Daniel Flinkmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3dfx VooDoo3 OffTopic
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:05:46 +0200
By the way,
Ist 3dfx VooDoo 3 an addon card or standalone ?
Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Warkus)
Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Programmers are gods
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 18:24:12 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It was the Mon, 19 Apr 1999 12:59:40 +0200...
..and Osvaldo Pinali Doederlein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> gus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > Just as an aside, these are some things you DON'T want to see in some
> > code .... ;-) (And I have personally encountered some ...)
> > "Shit, this SUX"
>
> What about this one:
>
> // I hate this hack, but I fucked up and didn't set the default to 100
>
> Should companies do a "policitally correct" clean-up of sources that they
> "open" all of a sudden? Or should we respect programmers and not do that?
> ;-)
Have a look at some result lines of
find "*.[ch]" | xargs grep -3 "[Ff]uck" | tee ~/bar
in audrey:/usr/local/src (slightly edited):
XScreenSaver source:
/* I don't believe this fucking language doesn't have builtin exponentiation.
I further can't believe that the fucking ^ character means fucking XOR!! */
..
It would be better to not remove it at all, but that's harder
because Xlib has such a non-design for this kind of crap, and
in this application it doesn't matter if the events end up out
of order, so in the grand unix tradition we say "fuck it" and
do something that mostly works for the time being.
..
int qwad; /* fuckin' C, man... who needs namespaces? */
==
Enlightenment's modified CPP, called epp:
/* OK, now bring us back to the state we were in before we entered
* this branch. We need #line b/c the newline for the pragma
* could fuck things up. */
output_line_command(pfile, 0, same_file);
*(obp++) = ' '; /* just in case, if comments are copied thru */
*(obp++) = '/';
int i, size;
AFfilehandle file;
long fuck = 99;
char *dick;
==
Audiofile library:
double fuckstick;
..
AUpvgetval(list, 0, &fuck);
printf("AUpvgetval: %d\n", fuck);
AUpvgetval(list, 1, &fuck);
printf("AUpvgetval: %d\n", fuck);
AUpvgetval(list, 2, &fuck);
printf("AUpvgetval: %d\n", fuck);
AUpvgetval(list, 3, &fuck);
printf("AUpvgetval: %d\n", fuck);
mawa
--
Q: What do the letters D.N.A. stand for?
A: National Dyslexics Association.
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From: "AB" <(aaronb)@eskimo.com>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: MaxPC - support for this device in kernel 2.2 == when?
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 23:42:13 -0700
Hardware wrote in message <01be8912$437d89f0$24921e18@test>...
>This thing looks awesome. It is like an all-in-one multimedia card, and
>beats the ATI-All-in-Wonder by a mile.
Not difficult to do, really.
>When will Linux support this?
When either:
1)Someone writes or patches drivers for it or
2)Someone buys one, looks at the chips, and finds that they're already
supported
That someone could be YOU!
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