Linux-Hardware Digest #376, Volume #12 Tue, 29 Feb 00 20:13:10 EST
Contents:
Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb ("Melissa Nelson")
Re: 3-button serial mouse (Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES)
Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: ANSWER TO HOW TO MAKE A PROMISE ULTRA66 CONTROLLER CARD WORK WITH LINUX (Tammy
Rattz)
Re: The Efing Floppy drive (Andreas Hoffmann)
Re: Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner (David C.)
Re: Problem w/my CD Burner (Richard R Urena)
Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb (David C.)
Re: heating linux (Kenneth Crudup)
UPDATE: HELP needed with TB Montego and Slackware 7.0 ("Linus Harling")
Re: MouseManPlus where are you? ("Jim Hawksworth")
Re: Can't load aha1542 driver (new 1542CF as 2d SCSI) (teri)
Re: The Efing Floppy drive (Forrest Taylor)
Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb (Forrest Taylor)
shutdown question? (David Watson)
Re: PCMCIA ("Risto A. Paju")
Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM (Aaron Tuinstra)
panning in x windows in rehat 6.1 (Bill Ng)
Re: heating linux ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
I miss my Scrollie!!!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3-button serial mouse (R Leigh)
Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM (C. C. McPherson)
Re: 3-button serial mouse (tripix)
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From: "Melissa Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:16:15 GMT
When you partition it you have to make the patitions under 8g's
JuanMa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89hm19$hjq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've a HD with 13 Gb and 26550 cylinders, and I want to install a Linux in
> this HD, but I've a problem with LILO, 'cause LILO only can see HD
> partitions with 1024 cylinders.
>
> What can I do?
>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:23:16 +0000
From: Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
R Leigh wrote:
> Durham, at least for the SPARC IPCs with those horrible optical mice.
Up until it got replaced with an Ultra 5 I had one of those, and I
really liked the mouse :-)
Paul
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:20:38 +0000
JuanMa wrote:
>
> I've a HD with 13 Gb and 26550 cylinders, and I want to install a Linux in
> this HD, but I've a problem with LILO, 'cause LILO only can see HD
> partitions with 1024 cylinders.
>
> What can I do?
Make a small /boot partition (3MB should be enough), where you put all
LILO needs.
(i.e. Kernel(s), System.map, chain.b, boot.b ...)
The paritioning of the rest doesn't matter than.
Andreas
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI problem configuring 7 devices
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:27:08 +0000
Paul Gray wrote:
>
> Our system has seven SCSI devices (six drives and one tape
> drive) that are all *detected* upon boot-up, but the last
> device is not being mapped to a dev (e.g., /dev/sdf).
> These devices are split between two controllers, one
> integrated, the other in a PCI slot.
>
> The /dev/sd* entries present are sufficient to cover all of
> these devices, but nonetheless, the controller and only six
> devices are configured in total.
No, /dev/sd* are only SCSI disks. The (first) tape drive should be
/dev/st0 as writen in the devices.txt. Try finding this.
> [...]
Andreas
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From: Tammy Rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ANSWER TO HOW TO MAKE A PROMISE ULTRA66 CONTROLLER CARD WORK WITH LINUX
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:30:25 GMT
Michael Kelly wrote:
>
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2000 00:30:09 GMT, wayne rattz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> >I typed this so many times that I decided to put this in the forum.I
have
> >a howto for the promise ultra66 pci controller card at my site that
dosent
> >envolve installing drivers.It works with my cards and with the
> >distributions Ive used-redhat6.0-6.1,mandrake6.0/6.1/7.0-suse6.2/6.3-
> >slackware7.0 My site is http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux1.html
GOOD
> >LUCK WAYNE!
>
> Wayne, there's a whole load of Linux stuff on that page. Think you
> could post the URL to the direct page with the Promise info? If
> there's a link I'm not seeing it(even though it may be there.. the
> page is kind of busy.)
>
> I have a Promise Ultra 66 and I'd sure like to get Linux on
> it without opening the box as I have a couple other OSs on
> it already.
>
> TIA
>
>
> Mike
>
> --
>
> "I don't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member."
> -- Groucho Marx
HELLO:For those of you who want the direct link to the promise ultra 66
howto I have wrote here it is. http://www.geocities.com/wrattz/linux6.html
This will take you right to it.Its simple to ,dosent require installing
drivers,And can be done without opening your computer.Its about telling
linux where your hard drive is attached which to the ultra controller
card.Thanks to all the people who have replied to me by email saying its
helped them.It made it worth the trouble.My main site is
http://www.geocities.com./wrattz/linux1.html GOOD LUCK WAYNE!
--
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From: Andreas Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Efing Floppy drive
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:33:34 +0000
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 01:49:56 +0000, Andreas Hoffmann
> <<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
> >NecroBurn wrote:
> >> when i try to mount my floppy drive i type
> >> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> >> and then whether the disk has right protection on or not i get an error
> >> that says:
> >> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or to many
> >> mounted file systems"
> >You need to specify the file system type with
> >mount -t <fs> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
>
> Nah. There's a much easier way to do it. There should be a line in
> /etc/fstab that looks kind of like so:
> /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,user 0 0
> If it doesn't match that line exactly, change it so that it does.
>
> After that, you can mount a DOS, ext2, minix, or what-have-you floppy by
> merely entering "mount /mnt/floppy" or "mount /dev/fd0" as any user.
> Caution: If you enter "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy", then you will get
> error messages.
Even more easy access to floppys: Install automount/autofs. Only access
the mount point by any prog and it's mounted. (Info: man 5 autofs)
>
> --
> Matt G / Dances With Crows \ In the MS-DOStrix,
> There is no Darkness in Eternity \----\ there is no fork().
> But only Light too dim for us to see \
> ===== Usenet: ceci n'est pas une guerre des flammes =====
Andreas
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: Need help with SCSI CD-Rom burner
Date: 29 Feb 2000 17:37:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>
> scsi0: MEDIUM ERROR on channel 0, id 0, lun 0, CDB: Read (10) 00 00 00
> 00 10 00 00 01 00
> Info fld=0x10, Current sr0b:00: sense key Medium Error
> Additional sense indicates L-ec uncorrectable error
> CD-ROM I/O error: dev 0b:00, sector 64
> isofs_read_super: bread failed, dev=0b:00, iso_blknum=16, block=32
Ah! This helps enomously.
Check cable lengths, and termination before going on any further.
Each end of the bus should be terminated with an active terminator or by
a device with built-in active termination. Your SCSI card counts as
such a device. No other device on the bus should have termination.
There should be no dangling ends of the cable. Make sure the last
connector at the end of the cable is connected to a device or a
terminator.
If your bus is Ultra-Wide SCSI, make sure the total amount of cabling is
1.5m or less. If it's Ultra-SCSI, the limit is 3m. If it's fast- or
fast-wide SCSI, then the limit is 6m. If it's LVD (Ultra2 or Ultra3),
then the limit is 12m. If your cables are too long, you will get
failures.
Note that if you have any non-LVD devices on your bus, then the bus will
not be using LVD, and will instead be running as Ultra- or Ultra-Wide.
-- David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard R Urena)
Subject: Re: Problem w/my CD Burner
Date: 29 Feb 2000 17:37:49 -0500
Silly question: are you sure it's /dev/scd0 ?
(do a cat /proc/devices to make sure)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David C.)
Subject: Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb
Date: 29 Feb 2000 17:40:00 -0500
"JuanMa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> I've a HD with 13 Gb and 26550 cylinders, and I want to install a Linux in
> this HD, but I've a problem with LILO, 'cause LILO only can see HD
> partitions with 1024 cylinders.
No problem.
LILO only needs to access files in the /boot directory.
Create a small partition (of 2-3 cylinders - which will be about 15M on
most drives) for /boot when you do the install, and make sure it is
completely contained within the first 1024 cyliders. You can use the
rest of your drive any way you want after that.
-- David
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Subject: Re: heating linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth Crudup)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 22:47:59 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] says:
>Note that a 300W power supply don't need to consume 300W
>of electrical power.
Not only that, the figure for power is *output* watts, and
that means that due to inefficiencies in the PS, you're probably
using much more than what you're sending into the machine (which
for the purposes of calculating thermal drain, is really all
that matters, though).
-Kenny
--
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Home1: PO Box 914 Silver Spring, MD 20910-0914
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Work: 19420 Homestead Road Cupertino, CA 95014-0606 (408) 447-6654
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From: "Linus Harling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: UPDATE: HELP needed with TB Montego and Slackware 7.0
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:56:10 +0100
Oh, I guess I forgot: I have recompiled my kernel with soundsupport, I run
the installation script without errors, so I guess it might be a general
configuration issue, but I have no clue how to resolve it, I've read the
sound-HOWTO, but that didn't get me anywhere. Any input at all would be of
tremendous value.
Linus Harling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev i
diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:FmVu4.2378$[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> I've downloaded the driver from linux.aureal.com, installed it, but
> nothing works... I'm a bit of a newbie, so I don't know what (if anything)
> else to do, sndconfig doesn't seem to exist, is it RedHat only? Anyone who
> has succeded? Thanks in advance!
>
> /Linus Harling (Tarboy)
>
>
>
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From: "Jim Hawksworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: MouseManPlus where are you?
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 15:07:23 -0800
ALSO:
you can check out this web page:
http://www.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/
If you don't want to check that out what you need to do is declare a bindtag
in your XF86Config, add the following line in the pointer section:
ZAxisMapping 4 5
That is assuming you are using XFree 3.3.2 or later which you probably are.
Good luck
George & Kay Anzinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:89ghje$5fp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a MouseManPlus mouse. It has a PS/2 plug and an adapter to serial.
> How can I set this up to use the scrolling wheel.
>
> So far the best set up seems to be to call it "Auto". X then plug-n-play
> ids it and sets it up as a three button mouse. Still I would like to get
> the wheel on the program.
>
> Any thoughts out there.
>
> For what it worth, I dual boot with NT4.0. The wheel works there in
Emacs.
> Scrolls and all. Emacs help describe key gives "vertical-scroll-bar
> mouse-1". So it looks like emacs is ready, just need to get the
connection
> made. xev showed nothing when the wheel is moved. Help.
>
> George
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (teri)
Subject: Re: Can't load aha1542 driver (new 1542CF as 2d SCSI)
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:19:20 EST
In article <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000227190938.12302C-100000@rwc1>,
Randy Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>It looks to me like the correct syntax is:
>
> options aha1542 aha1542=0x340
>
>I know this looks redundent, but it is consistent with the syntax for an
>Adaptec aha152x, which is what I use.
>
>Why don't you enter the following from the command line (as root) and see
>what happens:
>
> /sbin/modprobe aha1542 aha1542=0x340
The aha1542 driver obviously requires different options, this is what I
get:
# modprobe -v aha1542 aha1542=0x134
/sbin/insmod -L /lib/modules/2.2.10/scsi/aha1542.o aha1542=0x134
/lib/modules/2.2.10/scsi/aha1542.o: invalid parameter aha1542
scsi_mod: Device or resource busy
The only difference is that now it returns right away, without needing to
interrupt it via ^C.
>If it doesn't work, perhaps you will get a meaningful error message.
Unfortunately, just the same error. Thanks for the suggestion though.
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:25:46 -0700
From: Forrest Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: The Efing Floppy drive
NecroBurn wrote:
>
> when i try to mount my floppy drive i type
> mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> and then whether the disk has right protection on or not i get an error
> that says:
> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/fd0, or to many
> mounted file systems"
>
> what can i do to fix this???
>
> p.s. what seems odd to me is that i put my linux boot disk in that i had
> made at install and it read it fine.......
>
> please help a linux Newbie
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
Do you have a /mnt/floppy directory?
Forrest
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Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 16:30:54 -0700
From: Forrest Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO + HD 13 Gb
Melissa Nelson wrote:
>
> When you partition it you have to make the patitions under 8g's
>
> JuanMa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:89hm19$hjq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I've a HD with 13 Gb and 26550 cylinders, and I want to install a Linux in
> > this HD, but I've a problem with LILO, 'cause LILO only can see HD
> > partitions with 1024 cylinders.
> >
> > What can I do?
> >
> >
> >
You only have to put the /boot partition below the 1024th cylinder. It
only needs to be about 20MB. The rest can be above.
Forrest
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From: David Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: shutdown question?
Date: 29 Feb 2000 23:35:20 GMT
I recently had a AX6BC installed on my Pentium II 266, running
SuSe 6.1. Now, when I shutdown, I have to switch off with the
button at the front of the case AND the switch at the back of
the case! Was the board incorrectly installed? Is there a fix
for this or do I have to live with a double switch-off action?
Thanks for any suggestions.
Dave
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From: "Risto A. Paju" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCMCIA
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:38:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://pcmcia.sourceforge.org/
is the general source for linux pcmcia stuff. If the card is supported
in Linux, the driver is very likely included in the general pcmcia
package.
--
Risto A. Paju
http://www.iki.fi/teknohog/
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From: Aaron Tuinstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:30:48 GMT
Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko wrote:
>
>
> yo !
> i've got a aureal 8820 based soundcard, after installing au drivers from
> linux.aureal.com everything seemed to work fine, but i've discovered that
> sound in KDE isn't working. i'm talking bout the system sounds (for
example
> x11amp works fine), when I start X-windows I get an error
> (/etc/sysconfig/sound does not exist or sth. like that) HELP
> Krusher, Poland
>
>
I had the same trouble, go to the site
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1.html
and you will find lots of stuff there including the workaround for
KDE sound troubles.
Here's what to do.
ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
Good Luck
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From: Bill Ng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: panning in x windows in rehat 6.1
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:31:10 GMT
I have an ati rage II video card working in redhat 6.1; this card installed
only in 640 x 480 mode although I had other modes in redhat 5.x; also, my
screen no longer pans from side to side and top to bottom like it use to;
how can I get higher screen resolutions from this card and how can I
restore the panning feature? I haven't found any help from the
documentation and I have TRIED! Thanks
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: heating linux
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:44:14 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Hofmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> NO. Don't confuse people with wrong assumptions. Your formula holds
true
> for DC ONLY, which is NOT what we have in the case of a PC power
supply.
Why not measure the current w/ a clamp-on right behind the power supply,
where it's all coming out as 5/12v DC?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: I miss my Scrollie!!!!
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 23:48:05 GMT
I have RedHat dual booted w/ Windoze95. I'm using a Kensington
ScrollMouse, and all Linux can ID it as i9s a 3 button mouse. How do I
set it up to use the scroll wheel? I miss my scrollie!
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R Leigh)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: 1 Mar 2000 00:30:23 GMT
On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:23:16, Paul Jimbo Duncan G7KES wrote:
>R Leigh wrote:
>
>> Durham, at least for the SPARC IPCs with those horrible optical mice.
>
>Up until it got replaced with an Ultra 5 I had one of those, and I
>really liked the mouse :-)
I would have liked them, but through overuse (or bad design?), the pads on the
bottom wore off, so that the plastic edging scratched the black grid lines
off the optical pad, making using the mouse difficult due to the friction, and
the bad optical properties of the damaged pad.
--
Roger Leigh
** Registration Number: 151826, http://counter.li.org **
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From: C. C. McPherson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE SOUND PROBLEM
Date: Tue, 29 Feb 2000 19:37:04 -0500
>
> Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko wrote:
> >
> >
> > yo !
> > i've got a aureal 8820 based soundcard, after installing au drivers from
> > linux.aureal.com everything seemed to work fine, but i've discovered that
> > sound in KDE isn't working. i'm talking bout the system sounds (for
> example
> > x11amp works fine), when I start X-windows I get an error
> > (/etc/sysconfig/sound does not exist or sth. like that) HELP
> > Krusher, Poland
> >
> >
> I had the same trouble, go to the site
> http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/gotchas/6.1/gotchas-6.1.html
> and you will find lots of stuff there including the workaround for
> KDE sound troubles.
>
> Here's what to do.
>
> ln -s /etc/sysconfig/soundcard /etc/sysconfig/sound
>
> Good Luck
>
>
>
> --
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> http://www.help.com/
>
Have you tried the new version of the drivers 1.0.5? They
are suppose to fix that.
-clyde
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From: tripix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: 3-button serial mouse
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2000 00:58:24 +0000
Alex Butcher wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:07:20 +0000, Herbert Fruchtl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I bought a 3-button mouse for my Linux box (RH 6.1). With "mouseconfig"
> >I get two buttons to work (iirc, it works as 'generic serial',
> >'logitech' or 'microsoft'), but none of the drivers recognizes the third
> >button.
> >
> >The mouse is a 'Primax Rainbow', and of course the description on the
> >box only mentions DOS and Windows. Any ideas?
>
> Try holding down one or more of the buttons on power-up and configure the
> mouse as MouseSystems under gpm and X. That's how my el-cheapo Anubis
> mouse worked.
Emulate 3 buttons is a bodge for the time being (pressing 2 buttons at once
to get at the 3rd) for som eof your apps that need it.
Secondly read thorugh the 3-button-mouse HOWTO, and the manpage for XF86Setup.
You may find a mouse config combination not possible from 'mouseconfig'
that is settable in XF86Setup.
You will also find more options, I think, never used anthing else much.
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