Linux-Hardware Digest #68, Volume #13 Mon, 19 Jun 00 04:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Matrox G200 ("Kevin")
Re: Matrox G200 (Hal Burgiss)
Red Hat 6.2 Hardware compatibility with Hard Disk Drives ("N Mengale")
Re: Red Hat 6.2 Hardware compatibility with Hard Disk Drives (Hal Burgiss)
Toshiba 2515CDS and CT69000 Video Adapter (Shane R. Ward)
Hardware list (Antonius Herry Sukardi)
Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?! (Mircea Luca)
Re: Water cooling system (Richard Petty)
Re: HP DeskJet support (Chris Harshman)
Re: Water cooling system (Lew Pitcher)
Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?! (Dolgan)
Re: number lock (Harry Phillips)
Re: Networking glitch: What's Up? (Guardian)
printer on firewall. (jmantel)
Re: Athlon problems (Guardian)
WIN-Modem Question (Darwin Velez)
Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?! (Mircea Luca)
Re: WIN-Modem Question ("Joe G")
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From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Matrox G200
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:12:44 -0400
Will the matrox G200 install and configure jsut as easily as the G400??
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Matrox G200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:20:52 GMT
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:12:44 -0400, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Will the matrox G200 install and configure jsut as easily as the
>G400??
Very easy here.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "N Mengale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Red Hat 6.2 Hardware compatibility with Hard Disk Drives
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:35:26 GMT
Hello Linux Gurus,
I bought a Dell Dimenstion XPST700r PC recently that came with Windows 98
SE. I also bought a book Special Edition of Using Red Hat Linux from Que
which included a Red Hat 6.2 CD-ROM.
My PC came with a big 20GB hard disk on a single drive (C:). I used FIPS
from a bootable DOS floppy to create a new partition (at cylinder 1965) of
about 4GB (D:). I was planning to install Linux on D drive.
When I booted my PC from Red Hat 6.2 CD-ROM, the graphics installer started
properly. I went through the steps as prompted on the screen (selecting
language, keyboard, mouse etc.) and also as documented in the book. However
the book said that I will be asked to choose where I am loading Linux from
(CD-ROM, Hard Disk etc...) before the graphics installer asks me to choose
Mouse Configuration. It did not ask me to choose where I am loading Linux
from, but took me striaght to the Mouse Configuraion. After that it took me
to Installation Type Screen and I chose the defaults of New Installation (as
opposed to Upgrade) with GNOME workstation (as opposed to KDE Workstation).
I did not choose "Use FDISK" as it was not the default. When I click <Next>
on this screen I get the following error message -
"An error has occurred - no valid devices were found on which to create new
filesystems. Please check your hardware for the cause of this problem."
I am not sure I understand this message. My hard-disk is a Maxtor New
DiamondMax Plus 40 Series 20.4 GB IDE 52049U4 Ultra DMA 66 hard drive with a
Promise Technology's Ultra66 IDE Controller.
Currently the first partition of about 15.4GB is assigned to C drive where
Win98 resides happily. The other partition created with the help of FIPS
(which seemed to work fine) is about 4 GB starting at cylinder 1965.
According to the book, the graphics installer should have taken me to the
"Auto Partitioning" screen right after the "Installation Type" screen but
instead I get the above error message.
Any help will be greatly appreciated by this first time Linux Installer.
Thanks,
Nitin.
PS: The Dell rep thought that all the hardware on my PC should be compatible
with Linux !!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Red Hat 6.2 Hardware compatibility with Hard Disk Drives
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:44:45 GMT
On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 04:35:26 GMT, N Mengale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I am not sure I understand this message. My hard-disk is a Maxtor New
>DiamondMax Plus 40 Series 20.4 GB IDE 52049U4 Ultra DMA 66 hard drive with a
>Promise Technology's Ultra66 IDE Controller.
The installer is not recognizing the controller and/or drive. The RH
kernel does not have ATA/66 support. See if any help here:
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Ultra-DMA.html
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Shane R. Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Toshiba 2515CDS and CT69000 Video Adapter
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 05:12:45 GMT
I am having trouble getting my laptop working with XFree86 4.0.
The problem is with the video adapter, Chips and Technologies CT69000.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Shane
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From: Antonius Herry Sukardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Hardware list
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 13:24:48 +0700
Hi,
I am looking for a list of hardware that are proven to have worked well
with Linux. Can anybody point me to a site where I can find such a list
? (preferably with the drivers ready to be downloaded). I am
particulary looking for Network Interface card and SCSI adapters (both
with PCI interface). I know 3COM 3c509 works well also the NE2000. But
I am looking for a newer and most importantly cheaper alternatives.
Thanks
Antonius
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From: Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?!
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:44:49 +0000
Velian wrote:
>
> OK, I've spent... 8 hours on this now. Non-stop.
>
> How do I get my USB mouse working in 2.4.0test1? Or in ANY kernel, ever,
> anywhere?!?!
>
> I compiled with USB HID support, USB UHCI support, USB support, USB mouse
> support, and all that. I am fairly confident that, after 7 times, I have the
> kernel compiled correctly for USB. I modprobed usbmouse, usbcore and
> usb-uhci. All are loaded.
>
> When I boot X, it errors me with:
> "/dev/usbmouse: No such device"
>
> Same when I cat /dev/usbmouse
>
> I did mknod /dev/usbmouse c 10 32
> And mknod /dev/usbmouse c 180 16
> I tried putting it in /dev/usb/usbmouse.
> I tried usbmouse0.
>
> What is it that's missing? Why does it say no such device?! I deleted
> /dev/mouse, too (forgot why), so I can't even use my PS/2 mouse anymore.
>
> Something with this alias char-major-*-* business? Something I'm not
> loading?
>
> Using Debian 2.3. Help *GREATLY* appreciated. I'm still pretty new, but I'm
> a fast learner.
>
> Using XFree 4.0. Nvidia drivers. But I don't think it has anything to do
> with X because it can't find the device when I cat either.
>
> When I do more /proc/interrupts and click my mouse a bit, the number next to
> usb-uhci increases. So the mouse is being recognized by something, at least.
>
> This No Such Device thing really has me stumped.
>
> TIA,
>
> -Dolgan
here is the relevant part from the
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb/input.txt
Begin quote
______________________________________________________________________
2. Simple Usage
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
For the most usual configuration, with one USB mouse and one USB
keyboard,
you'll have to load the following modules (or have them built in to the
kernel):
input.o
mousedev.o
keybdev.o
usbcore.o
usb-[uo]hci.o
hid.o
After this, the USB keyboard will work straight away, and the USB
mouse
will be available as a character device on major 13, minor 32:
crw-r--r-- 1 root root 13, 32 Mar 28 22:45 mouse0
This device, has to be created, unless you use devfs, in which case
it's
created automatically. The commands to do that are:
cd /dev
mkdir input
mknod input/mouse0 c 13 32
After that you have to point GPM (the textmode mouse cut&paste tool)
and
XFree to this device to use it - GPM should be called like:
gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/input/mouse0
And in X:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "ImPS/2"
Device "/dev/input/mouse0"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
EndSection
When you do all of the above, you can use your USB mouse and keyboard.
________________________________________________________________________
As you see,your implemetation was a bit different.
--
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)
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From: Richard Petty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:14:17 GMT
Don't run Intel CPU's.
--Richard
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi,
> I currently have one Celeron 433 which is Always functioning at
> 100% of
>capacity ( i always have a few animation renders of povray runing with low
>priority)... when the CPU is not in use it's at 38C and when it's at 100%
>capacity it's at 40-42C... I have a fan on the CPU which expulse the heat
>out
>into the room... That's fine... but the room in which the heat is
>expulsed is
>actually my bedroom... and this summer it's kind of real hot in it...
>And
>since I'm going to buy another computer in a month or two to make a
>supercomputer I figured I could probably not survive the heat!
>
> That's why I thought about a water cooling system, the heat could
> be given to
>the water passing through some tube and back into a reservoir... That
>reservoir
>could then heat my bedroom unless I added ice into it! And of course a
>fish
>pump would be more silent, since I could have only one fish pump for all
>the
>tubing network across all my computers!
>
> The only detail would be the little device that would catch heat
> from the CPU,
>the heatsink should be modified to fit my water requirement...
>
> Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few
> documentation
>webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other
>suggestion that
>wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
>
>Any help would be VERY apreciated ;)
>Thanks,
> Simon
--
Spam deterent: Remove the "BOGUS" part for a correct address.
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From: Chris Harshman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HP DeskJet support
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 23:24:31 -0700
The 700 series were "winprinters," which required some pretty extensive reverse
engineering to work with Linux. They are listed as "mostly" working with Linux,
and details can be found here:
http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/show_printer.cgi?recnum=61536
Julie Churchwell wrote:
> Do you know that for a fact DG? I have lost 2 months of my life trying to get
> my 722C working under Linux, so far nothing. I am extremely upset for the cost
> of all this lost time. I would have been far and away ahead to go out and buy
> another printer, and I may yet have to.
>
> Julie
>
> DG wrote:
>
> > josh wrote:
> > >
> > > Espen Ekeroth wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Just a simple question:
> > > >
> > > > Is the HP DeskJet 710 C or 840 C supported ?
> > > >
> > > > In the RedHat documentation it looks like all HP DeskJet/DeskJet Plus is
> > > > supportet, but just want to be sure before buing one.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Espen
> > > >
> > > > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > >
> > > No 710 is NOT supported
> > > dont know about 840
> >
> > I don't think there are any consumer-brand HP printers that are
> > "supported" under Linux. However, any PCL printer (the 840) will work
> > reasonably well, and all postscript printers. Even the PPA printers
> > (710 for example) can be made to work decently.
> >
> > --
> > DG (remove the Zs)
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Water cooling system
Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 09:52:21 -0400
Hal Burgiss wrote:
>
> On Sat, 17 Jun 2000 20:07:06 GMT, Simon Lemieux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> >Has anybody work on the subjet, can anybody direct my to a few documentation
> >webpage or a FAQ, primer.... anything! Or if you have any other suggestion that
> >wouldn't cost much (I'm quite out of cash!)
>
> I ran into a homemade howto on this, but can't recall where. Maybe
> overclockers.com. The guy used an aquarium pump, and a 2 litre empty
> coke bottle, etc. Sounded _interesting_ ...
One suggestion, look for a 'Peltier junction' cooler rather than just
using a drilled/channeled heatsink.
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
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From: Dolgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?!
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 06:30:18 GMT
It worked.
Thanks for pasting that to me. My question really deserved a "RTFM." Don't know
why I didn't. *Embarassed*
Thanks though. It's great.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Harry Phillips)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: number lock
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 05:40:54 GMT
Install Mandrake 7, it's based on Redhat, it's 100% compatible and it
has lots of nifty little vaule added stuff, some of ones I like:
1. ls gives you different colours for different files types and dir's
2. numlock is set to on
3. line completion when you hit <TAB> fills out the matching part and
lists the rest on the first press. eg. lin<TAB> will fill out linux
and then list linuxconf and linux_logo underneath. Redhat will fillout
linux and then beep hit <TAB> again and it will list the two commands.
4. It's optimised for Pentuim's
There are others but they are the ones I remember at the moment (I am
at work) and I don't use RH. I *know* that RH can be configured to
give you what I have mentioned but it comes out-of-thebox with
Mandrake.
Harry
On Mon, 5 Jun 2000 22:00:23 +0100, "alexisc"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hello peeplz,
>Does anyone know how to get number lock to come on at boot time, I'm fed up
>typing numbers in and finding nothing happens or I've arrowed all over the
>place (RH6.0) this is a ps2 win kb with some xtra shortcut buttons along the
>top, these have a driver of their own - I'd love to know if and how I can
>get those working under linux too.
>Thanx in advance,
>-- Alexis
>--Scraping by on coins I found in the sofa--
>
>
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From: Guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Networking glitch: What's Up?
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:05:21 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:59:59 GMT, David Steuber
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have on occasion moved large amounts of data over the network, using
>NFS, without problem. This is one of those 'intermitent' bugs.
>
>Any useful suggestions that help track down and kill the culprit will
>be gratefully accepted.
>
>--
>David Steuber | Hi! My name is David Steuber, and I am
>NRA Member | a hoploholic.
Sounds like a cable or hardware problem.
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From: jmantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer on firewall.
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:22:28 -0700
I have set up a linux firewall system. I would like to have this
system be my print spooler for my network. I have an HP deskjet
printer attached to the parallel port on the firewall system.
I cannot print to the printer. The parallel port modules get loaded
but nothing make it to the printer. A basic lp command gets sent to
the lpd and goes through the spool but never makes it to the printer.
I know the printer works I can attach it to another system running
linux and all is well. I am assuming there is some problem with
identity on the firewall system such that the print spooler is unable
to actually get the job to the printer. Has anyone come across
this and if so how can I print to a locally attached printer on my
firewall system?
TIA,
J.M.
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From: Guardian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: Athlon problems
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 03:32:38 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Jun 2000 11:56:54 GMT, James Pearson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm having problems running Redhat 6.2 on an Athlon box - it freezes
>when I try to run mkfs on a disk partition.
>
>My set up:
>
>Athlon 700Mhz, Gigabyte 7IX mainboard, 256Mb RAM, 2 IBM
>Ultra66 disks (IBM-DTLA-307030).
>
>Redhat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.14-12.
Why you tring to run mkfs, doesn't the installer do this for you? I
suspect you have hardward conflicts, try toggling the bios pnp-os =
yes/no setting.
Guardian
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From: Darwin Velez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: WIN-Modem Question
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 07:30:06 GMT
Hi. I have a WIN-Modem 56K and I have Red Hat Linux 6.2. i would like to
know if there is any way to make this type of modem work with Linux OS. I
contacted the Manufacturer and they told me it does not work for any other
OS but Windows. How ever I have the hope that probably somebody already
knows how to make it work for Linux. I will appreciate if somebody knows
anything about it. Thank you very much.
--
Posted via CNET Help.com
http://www.help.com/
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From: Mircea Luca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.x,linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: USB Mouse with 2.4.0test1?!
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 00:35:56 +0000
Dolgan wrote:
>
> It worked.
>
> Thanks for pasting that to me. My question really deserved a "RTFM." Don't know
> why I didn't. *Embarassed*
>
> Thanks though. It's great.
No problem.It happens.
--
The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.
Alan Saporta
My waste of cyberspace=
http://deepblue.dyndns.org :-)
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From: "Joe G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: WIN-Modem Question
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 02:38:41 -0500
Reply-To: "Joe G" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Check out www.linmodems.org for help. Your WinModem could become a
LinModem, if it's supported.
(I'm currently trying to get mine to work, but the Modem is having trouble
dialing).
Good luck. ;o)
- Joe G.
"Darwin Velez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi. I have a WIN-Modem 56K and I have Red Hat Linux 6.2. i would like to
> know if there is any way to make this type of modem work with Linux OS. I
> contacted the Manufacturer and they told me it does not work for any other
> OS but Windows. How ever I have the hope that probably somebody already
> knows how to make it work for Linux. I will appreciate if somebody knows
> anything about it. Thank you very much.
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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