Linux-Hardware Digest #209, Volume #10 Tue, 11 May 99 14:13:35 EDT
Contents:
Re: SCSI - aha-1520a ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Ataptec AVA 1502AP not detected (killbill)
Re: NEWBIE.. Extremely Newbie questions. (erich not devnull)
Re: Linux on Apple Macintosh SE30 (Frank M. Mattes)
sound (Los)
Installing SB16 (Alper Oezmacun)
APM with Linux-2.2.* (Martin Booth)
ATI Rage Fury (Squire Earle)
Re: HELP W/ MANDRAKE 5.3 & SOUND ("Peter Brooks")
UPSONIC UPS help needed ("Carl Filpo")
Re: making linux go away ("Jan Johansson")
Seagate IDE ATAPI Tape Drive (Matt Kressel)
Re: ??? HP DESKJET 720C and linux ??? (Norberto Di Carlo)
Buslogic FlashPoint LT not recognized after RH 5.2 Upgrade ("Snoop")
RH 6.0 official can't find adaptec 7890 (DWade12345)
Compaq Armada 1750 Docking Bay ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Tiny Linux Boxes? ("Wizard01")
Re: How to low-level format a SCSI (Remco van den Berg)
Imation Super Disk (Chris Aiken)
Stress test cd-rom (Kari Laine)
Re: sever doesn't exist (Daniel Rueegg)
KWINTV Problem: Operation not supported by device?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Date: 11 May 99 09:27:25 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI - aha-1520a
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Arian ;
> I'd appreciate any advice and/or assistance on this:
> Problem:
> The latest RedHat installer won't recognise my Adaptec SCSI card
> (aha-1520a s39 bios 0100).
> I've tried:
> Autoprobe, and specifing the parameters but I get the same result:
> "I can't find the device anywhere on your system"
> I tried "aha152x=0x340,11,7 tmc8xx=0x340,11" - that should be it???
This is the 'alt' ^^^^^ address, is the card jumpered that way?
> I also have an Adaptec 1542, however I get the same response.
Cheers, Gene
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<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or |Buddha + 4 gig WDC drive, 525 meg tape
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RC5-Moo! 22kkeys/sec isn't much, but it all helps
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From: killbill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ataptec AVA 1502AP not detected
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:31:19 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> KW> I got a Ataptec AVA 1502AP SCSI card.
> KW> the normal Installation (Red Hat) was not able to detect any SCSI
> KW> device How can I run my card and is it possibel to run an Scanner
> KW> with Linux or a CD-Toaster
>
> KW> Thanks! Klaus
>
> Linux doesn't seem to see that card unless you jumper it for the
> alternative 0x340 address. at aha152x=0x340,11,7 it works just fine
> with any disk drive I've thrown at it so far.
Just to add a touch of clarification to Gene's correct and complete
response... The card will probably not autoprobe (I am guessing based on
related experience). You will probably manually have to tell it the
address and IRQ with the "aha152x=0x340,11,7" line Gene correctly
identified above.
Bil Kilgallon ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
--"I believe, what I believe, has made me what I am. I did not make
it, It is making me, it is the very truth of God, not the invention
of any man". Rich Mullins, quoting G.K. Chesterton.
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From: erich not devnull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: NEWBIE.. Extremely Newbie questions.
Date: 11 May 1999 13:36:53 GMT
Garrie W. McLaws Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> verily spake, saying:
+ Hunter Thomas wrote:
+ The problem is I don't know how to recompile the kernel... as far as the sysadmin
+ goes, that would be me. I have the machine dual booting to Win95 as well as
+ Linux for testing. The network cards work fine in Win95. So what kind of
+ information do you folks need inorder to assist me? I know that this is
+ something extremely simple that I'm missing I just don't know what.
Read the Kernel-HOWTO:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html
Basically, install the source (via ``cd /usr/src ; tar xvzf <wherever-you-put
-your-source-tarball'' or get an rpm if you use redhat) find tulip.c (cd
/usr/src/linux ; find . -name 'tulip.c') and replace it.
Then go back to the main source directory (cd /usr/src/linux) and
make menuconfig
to reconfigure your kernel
make dep ; make clean
make zlilo
make modules
make modules_install
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Erich | Test your Computer Lore! What computer has monitor
at wreck.org | brightness adjustment buttons on the keyboard?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank M. Mattes)
Subject: Re: Linux on Apple Macintosh SE30
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:46:08 +0100
I think you can install Debian distribution (68k) on a SE, providing that
your HD is big enough.
Frank
In article <7h8pr0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "chris Günther"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dear Gurus,
>
> I'm an absolute beginner in Linux on Mac (although I use Linux on PC for
> almost 4 years) and like to know if there is a possibility to install and
> run on an Apple Macintosh SE30.
> I don't want to do alot on this machine. It's thought to e used as a
> Web-Browser-based-User-Interface for our DB-Application.
>
> If anybody knows where to get the appropriate Linux and how to install it,
> pleeeeease drop me a note
>
> thanx in advance
> chris
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Los <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: sound
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 05:57:42 GMT
<Carlos M> I am having a problem with my sound I read some of them but
most of them were not my type of card , I have a 1938 ess solo-1 sound
card, It is not listed , but so wasn't my ethernet card and It worked ..
Does anybody have this same card or knows how to make it work,, thanks,,
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Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 13:48:12 +0200
From: Alper Oezmacun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Installing SB16
Hi
I have an older Soundblaster 16, I think whitout pnp.
How can I install it?? Im using Suse 6.0 and the way the manual
describes it is only for pnp.
thanx
bye
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From: Martin Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: APM with Linux-2.2.*
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 15:20:14 +0100
I'm trying to get APM to work with the new systems, 2.2.[4-7], but it no
longer works (or doesn't seem to). With 2.0.36 my computer would shut
down completely without any hassle (not *too* useful but cute if I wont
to shut it down remotely), now it doesn't even register the APM in the
bios, is there a problem with the latest kernels?
Martin Booth.
P.S. In case of E-mails remove the nospam.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Squire Earle)
Subject: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 04:20:50 GMT
I cannot get X windows to work with my ATI Rage Fury 32Meg video card.
Can somebody email me detailed instructions on how to set this up?
Thanks,
Squire
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From: "Peter Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HELP W/ MANDRAKE 5.3 & SOUND
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:44:07 +0100
I was under the impression that KDE still needed to Xserver stuff and was
run from a script that starts it on top of the Xserver.
Therefore, thats why you get the "cannot connect messages" while trying to
start KDE on its own.
If I remember correctly, the location of the file that runs the script to
start KDE was in my .xinitrc file on my home directory. I think the entry in
here was "startkde" or something like that.
MaD HaTTeR wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>I just Installed Mandrake 5.3 ($1.89 from Linuxmall.com) and the install
>went great, except for one thing, my sound.
>
>When I type "kde", it gives me a bunch of "cannot connect to xserver"
>messages for different sound modules, but I can type "startx" and it takes
>me to kde and it works. So now I d/l oss drivers but it says I have to
>recompile the kernel to take out the sound. When I recompile it, do I have
>to put No for the "Enable sound" option? Also, will this fix the KDE
>loading problems?
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From: "Carl Filpo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.debian.user
Subject: UPSONIC UPS help needed
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:31:14 +0800
Can somebody please advise on how to setup an UPSONIC UPS
with debian.
I have tried the cable configuration on the UPSONIC web site but
I can't get it to work with genpowerd, powerd, upsd.
I have a feeling the cable spec from the web page is not correect as there
seems
to be no signaling to the init process that a power-fail event has occurred.
Any advice/info would be apprceciated.
Thanks.
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Computer Network Consultant
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Computer Network Consultant
C&M Computer Solutions
26 Russell St
MORLEY WA 6062
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Phone: +61 08 9375 1144
Fax: +61 08 9375 1141
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From: "Jan Johansson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.caldera,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: making linux go away
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:47:24 +0200
Just answer his question, if he wants linux removed, why not just help him
by saying
"Run the dos command FDISK /mbr"
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Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 20:47:39 -0400
From: Matt Kressel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Seagate IDE ATAPI Tape Drive
Hello,
I am looking for drivers/utilities for a Seagate Tape Drive for Linux.
I used the ATAPI-IDE tape driver in the 2.2.x kernel which maps the
drive from /dev/hdd to /dev/ht0. Then I tried using "kbackup", which at
first seemed to work, but when I went to verify it said "Can not find
valid header".
What backup drivers/utilities do I need to get this setup working? I
would think that since the drive is ATAPI that any software should
work. How should I go about backing up the entire system? Any help
would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Matt
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"And you run, and you run to catch up with the Sun, but its
sinking. Racing around to come up behind you again." -PF
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From: Norberto Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ??? HP DESKJET 720C and linux ???
Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 16:07:13 +0000
Michael Van Donselaar wrote:
> On Wed, 05 May 1999 12:50:08 -0300, Norberto Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Look, I've called HP and asked them personally. They said that the
> >printer works only under win platforms (Shit I got one and don't know
> >what to do with it!)
> >Hope you find another answer! If you do ( or already did), please don't
> >hesitate to inform me!
> >Norberto
>
> I'm on the road right now, so I can't check the URL, but do a search for "linux ppa"
>
> Alternatively, go to the ghostscript pages and snoop around.
>
> There IS support for the HP720/722 for linux, it's just not from Hewlett Packard!
>You need to have
> ghostscript set up on your machine, then install this new filter which translates a
>raw bitmap to
> HP's ppa PDL.
>
> Currently only works for B/W text but last I heard color was in development.
>
> NB that if you have SMB running on your network, you can hang the HP on lpx of the
>Linux box, and
> you can print from any of your win9x boxen as well.
Listen I'll search for linux ppa, if you can find the url it'll be greatfully
appretiated
Thanks.......
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From: "Snoop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc,linux.dev.config,linux.dev.scsi,linux.redhat.install,linux.scsi.ncr53c8xx
Subject: Buslogic FlashPoint LT not recognized after RH 5.2 Upgrade
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:13:14 +0200
Hi Folks!
I recently re-setup my windows system due to too much shareware testing and
so on. So when I eventually wanted to start my linux system (RH 5.2), I
encountered the LILO boot prompt wouldn't show up. I tried mounting my hard
disk (sdb5) by use of boot/rescue disks set up by rh and debian, but I
really wouldn't succeed. So finally I decided to try upgrading the system
with the Red Hat 5.2 CD. I reinstalled almost all the packages, which lasted
about 20 minutes, but when I rebooted, it read: "scsi: detected 0 hosts" or
something like that and a couple of lines later it says something like
"kernel panic: can't mount root on 08:15 ..." (I really don't know it).
Why doesn't the installation procedure set up the adequate buslogic.o
module?
If I'd find the mod on the net, could someone please tell me how to
integrate it on a boot/rescue disk or immediately into my old system.
Is there any possibility the system got totally broken? I mean, there's some
stuff I'd really like to see again...
Thanks for your time,
Philipp
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (DWade12345)
Subject: RH 6.0 official can't find adaptec 7890
Date: 11 May 1999 16:24:05 GMT
I first installed RH 6.0 Beta and it located the adaptec 7890
no problem. I was able to install the os.
I downloaded RH 6.0 "official release" and it will not recognize the adaptec
7890. I cannot install or upgrade.
I cannot install 6.0 official release.
Someone PLEASE help!!!!
-Dave
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Compaq Armada 1750 Docking Bay
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 07:12:22 GMT
Hello, does anybody know where to find drivers for my notebook???
Pls info to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Wizard01" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tiny Linux Boxes?
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 12:01:20 -0500
try www.fireplug.net
Per Jessen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7h9frj$n42$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> bryan wrote in message ...
> >that name doesn't resolve. do you have an IP for them?
>
> Perhaps it should have been http://www.fireplug.com ?
>
> [snip]
> >: Peat Bakke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> >: > Heya,
> >: >
> >: > I'm trying to build a tiny Linux box to act as a router and gateway.
> In
> >: > theory, I could go the traditional route, spend $400 on hardware, and
> have
> >: > a functional machine .. but where's the style? ;)
> >: >
> >: > So, with price issues aside, how would I go about building the
smallest
> >: > Linux box I can with the following specs:
> >: >
> >: > 3 100Base-T ethernet cards
> >: > 32MB RAM
> >: > 1GB hard drive
> >: > basic VGA output *
> >: > a serial port
> >: > a keyboard port *
> >: >
> >: > .. items with a * are only for the initial installation and
> configuration
> >: > purposes, and can be removed later. I'll have it configured to dump
> >: > logging information over the serial port to my workstation.
> >: >
> >: > Can anyone help me?
>
> I'm not certain exactly what it is you're after, but I've got my old
486
> running
> as router/gateway/firewall. It's 16Mb, 486Dx2, 340Mb, no video, no
> keyboard,
> otherwise standard.
> I used SuSE 5.3, kernel 2.0.36, plus the standard firewalling,
> masquerading and
> diald tools.
> I read the HOWTOs, and spent perhaps a weekend getting it to work.
> What I would call tiny would be if I powered up the old 386SX25 I've got
> somewhere
> and got Linux running on that - 2MB, no SIMMs. Not much point, though.
>
> Per Jessen, ENIDAN Technologies, London
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco van den Berg)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: How to low-level format a SCSI
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:31:44 GMT
On Tue, 11 May 1999 10:42:11 -0500, Albert Wiersch wrote:
>
>How can I low level format a SCSI drive on my remote Linux system?
>
>I don't want to have to physically go to it to do so (want to do it through
>telnet). I think the SCSI BIOS has a format utility, but I would like a
>Linux program to do it. Can't access the SCSI BIOS from here.
>
>The drive doesn't have any useful files on it right now... I would just like
>to low-level format it and then set it up as a backup drive.
>
>(Please send your reply to my email, too. Thanks!)
>
>Thanks,
>Albert
Just curious, why is a normal reformat not enough?
You know that most disks are not allowed to be low level reformatted?
-Remco
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Certified Systems Engineer
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From: Chris Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Imation Super Disk
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 08:24:49 -0400
I have an Imation Super Disk (128MB floppy) attached to my
parallel port. Has anybody been able to get this external floppy
drive to work under Linux ? If so, have you been able to get it
to operate in the 128MB mode or just the 1.44MB mode.
Thanks......
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Laine)
Subject: Stress test cd-rom
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 17:36:42 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think there might be a problem with my cd-rom drive. It's scsi.
Is there tools to stress test the cd-rom very heavily?
Best Regards
Kari Laine
LinuxWare Oy Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Daniel Rueegg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: sever doesn't exist
Date: 11 May 1999 12:57:00 +0200
Hi, John, you wrote in article <7h8goi$7r5$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on Tue, 11 May 1999
01:56:57 -0000
> I get the following error msg when I use Xconfigurator to set up my Diamond
> SpeedStar A50.
> You know, this card is not in the list. I am using RedHat5.1.
> sever doesn't exist can't continue
> tried to use ../../usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
Install the SVGA Xserver. Then you can Xconfiguration to set up your
system, but in VGA Modes only !
You can check some commercial Xservers to support your graphic card.
bye Daniel
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,alt.os.linux
Subject: KWINTV Problem: Operation not supported by device??
Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 16:43:07 GMT
I am having trouble running KWINTV with my Avermedia Tv Tuner.
Here are the particulars:
-The tuner works fine under windows.
-Kwintv Compiles and installs fine.
-MAKEDEV in kwintv Source tree is executed.
-Video4Linux is compiled into Kernel, bttv.o compiled as module.
-bttv.o module is loaded into Kernel.
When I execute kwintv, I am told: /dev/video: Operation not supported
by device. /dev/video is symlinked to /dev/video0, which has a
major/minor number of 81, 0.
As far as I've read, I'd done everything correct... why isn't this
working?!?!? If I can't watch TV under linux, I may have to quit
Linux altogether, and just return to watching TV.
Any help appreciated,
Dan.
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