Linux-Hardware Digest #73, Volume #13 Tue, 20 Jun 00 04:13:06 EDT
Contents:
pctel 'linmodem' driver with 2.2.16 problem (lobotomy)
usb mouse on Linux?! (Peter Bismuti)
Re: winmodem and printer ("Nathan Appleton")
Re: Mustek 12000SP ("Nathan Appleton")
serial mouse with linux laptop? (Peter Bismuti)
HP DeskJet 930C (p e a r c e)
non-winmodem problems (Stephen Greene)
Re: non-winmodem problems (Dances With Crows)
Need help XConfig (pmcode)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (Butch Seaman)
Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs? (Craig
Kelley)
Sound - Need SBLive Help (Andrew McCoubrey)
Re: Need a clean hard disk (Charlie Brown)
Re: 2.2.16 Redhat RPM install breaks 2940uw (Stu)
Re: non-winmodem problems ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Linux Printing HOWTO's Database need testers and feedback! (Grant Taylor)
Troubles adding extra keys in Linux kernel (Nikos Kalogridis)
Re: Hardware list (Thomas Hommel)
Re: serial mouse with linux laptop? (J Bland)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (lobotomy)
Subject: pctel 'linmodem' driver with 2.2.16 problem
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:20:25 GMT
I have been using a Zoltrix Phantom 56k winmodem (yes I know it is
junk and I should get a real modem...but it was really cheap and it
does generally work...) under RH6.0 with the pctel 'linmodem' driver
for some time with the included 2.2.5-something kernel and it has
worked reasonably well. I upgraded to 2.2.16 recently, and recompiled
the pctel module for it as well. I don't think the configuration is
much different than before, other than enabling svga text mode and
compiling in the sound and iomega drivers, but now whenever it
accesses the modem, it gives a segmentation fault. I tried it with
2.2.15, and the same problem occurs, however it does work under 2.2.14
(each time I have recompiled the driver, same .config). Is there
anything I can do?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: usb mouse on Linux?!
Date: 20 Jun 2000 00:25:38 GMT
I have a laptop and am trying tofigure out how to use both an
external mouse and keyboard with only one ps2 slot. I tried using
a serial mouse but that didn't work. How come?!
Can you use a USB mouse with linux, or is that strictly a MS animal?
Thanks!
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: winmodem and printer
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:30:33 -0700
> does anyone of you know if there is a good printer driver for the
HP-Deskjet
> 930C?
http://www.linhardware.com/db/searchdriver.cgi?name=550&maintainer=&sourcefi
le=
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From: "Nathan Appleton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mustek 12000SP
Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 17:38:32 -0700
This driver may work:
http://www.linhardware.com/db/dispdriver.php3?DISP?789
"H.A.J. van Niekerk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have a Mustek 12000SP scanner and it works flawless under W95. Now I
> would like to use it under RH 6.1 as well. Does anyone know if there's a
> driver or possibility at all to do so?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Huub
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Bismuti)
Subject: serial mouse with linux laptop?
Date: 20 Jun 2000 00:36:56 GMT
Alex, I'm trying to figure out how to use both an
external mouse and keyboard with my laptop even though
I only have one ps2 slot. I tried using a serial
mouse but that didn't work, do you know why?
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From: p e a r c e <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP DeskJet 930C
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 00:43:55 GMT
Does this printer work under Linux?
TIA!
p e a r c e
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From: Stephen Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: non-winmodem problems
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:31:56 GMT
Hi,
I have a 100% hardware modem made by US Robotics. The problem that I am
having is that the card defaults to COM5 even though it is on IRQ 3.
Does anyone know of a way to "trick" linux into finding the card?
I know that it only supports up to /dev/ttyS3
Any help is greatly appreciated.
- Stephen Greene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: non-winmodem problems
Date: 19 Jun 2000 21:52:48 EDT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 01:31:56 GMT, Stephen Greene
<<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> shouted forth into the ether:
>Hi,
>I have a 100% hardware modem made by US Robotics. The problem that I am
>having is that the card defaults to COM5 even though it is on IRQ 3.
>Does anyone know of a way to "trick" linux into finding the card?
>I know that it only supports up to /dev/ttyS3
Say what?
# mknod -m 666 /dev/ttyS4 c 4 68
...ttyS4 aka COM5 now available if your distro didn't create it
already. "setserial -v /dev/ttyS4 port 0xXXX irq Y uart 16550A" and you
should be closer to victory. Replace XXX and Y with the I/O range and IRQ
the modem uses; you may need to get this info from DOS if you don't know
it already.
--
Matt G / Dances With Crows /\ "Man could not stare too long at the face
\----[this space for rent]-----/ \ of the Computer or her children and still
\There is no Darkness in Eternity \ remain as Man." --David Zindell "So did
But only Light too dim for us to see\ they become Gods, or Usenetters?" --/me
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (pmcode)
Subject: Need help XConfig
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:09:08 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am a relatively new user, and need help setting up XFree86. I am
running a Jaton video card (nVidia TNT2 M64 chip) with 32 Mg Ram. X
server does not seem to like my card, and I really don't know why. Any
help would be much appreciated.
Btw, I am running Linux-Mandrake 6.0 on an AMD K6-2 350 with 128Mg,
8.4Gig HDD, PB 15" monitor.
Paul
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Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
From: Butch Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:13:16 GMT
On 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> <grin>
>
> In any case, you haven't really cleaned the disk. You've only cleaned
> that partition.
>
> You want to crank out FDISK and do a 'FDISK /MBR' from DOS. There's an
> equivalent in Linux; you may have to use lilo to do it, though.
>
> Anyway, once you've written a known MBR to the disk, run FDISK (or fdisk
> in Linux), blow away all existing partitions, then recreate the ones you
> want, and format them using your favorite command.
>
> In DOS, I recommend:
>
> FORMAT X: /u/v:VOLNAME
>
> In Linux:
>
> mke2fs -c /dev/hdx#
>
> or for a swap partition:
>
> mkswap -c /dev/hdx# [block count optional]
>
> --J
>
> In comp.os.linux.hardware Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> :>>I doubt the /s would be needed.
> :>>
> :>>Jake
> :>>
> :> Sorry, you're right.
>
> :> format c: /q /u/
>
> : That of course makes the disk very unclean. ( yukky FAT filesystems ... )
>
> : "mke2fs -c /dev/hda" would be much better.
> : This makes the entire disk ready for linux.
> : I would call this "clean" :).
>
> : Delete linux groups from the newsgroups list if the thread moves away
> : from anything to do with linux ...
>
> : leon
>
I have found that after setting partions with Linux that FDISK /MBR will
not clean out the partitions. You must clean the disk with
LILO..... this has been what I have found, I would be interested to know
if anyone else has found this to be true
Butch
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.comp.linux,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Can Linux do this? KIOSKS - Lite Linux desktop? Lock-down configs?
From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 19 Jun 2000 21:00:37 -0600
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (JEDIDIAH) writes:
> On Mon, 19 Jun 2000 18:01:03 +0200, Matthias Warkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >It was the 19 Jun 2000 06:02:43 -0500...
> >...and Tim Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >- Simple web browser with low memory requirements; must be easy to use for
> >> >people familiar with IE and Netscape.
> >>
> >> You can iether use Netscape, which requiars more RAM and a faster CPU, or you can
>use AREENA,
> >> which isnt' finnished and probably never will be.
> >
> >Arena is obsolete anyway, it has been replaced by Amaya, but when I
> >need a lightweight browser, I use w3m anyway.
>
> Also keep in mind that all a kiosk web browser on Linux would
> need run is the browser itself and X. You don't need to load
> a window manager or the rest of the desktop that would necesarily
> be running under Windows or MacOS.
Until the user selects File->New Window
[snip]
It would probably be best to run fvwm95, or another EXPLORE.EXE clone
(theme), so as not to confuse the users.
--
The wheel is turning but the hamster is dead.
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: Andrew McCoubrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound - Need SBLive Help
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 03:21:33 GMT
Hi.
I can't get my new SBLive to work. I have run out of things to try and
I'm beginning to think the card is broken. I've tried every IRQ and all
the slots in my machine. I've even tried putting the card in my old
Pentium system. No success yet.
The Creative driver compiles fine, and even loads correctly. But if I
can't play any sound. For example, the command "play sound.wav" blocks
without playing anything. I can interrupt play with a Ctrl-C, but if I
don't, it just sits there doing nothing. There appear to be some
interrupts on the emu10k1 IRQ if I look at /proc/interrupts, but not a
lot (maybe 2 each time I call play).
Thinking the problem was the Creative driver, I have also attempted to
use the ALSA and OSS evaluation version drivers. The ALSA driver won't
load, reporting this error:
snd: The AC'97 access is not valid, removing mixer.
snd: EMU10K1 soundcard #1 not found or device busy
And the OSS driver has the same problem as the Creative driver - OSS
loads fine but I can't play any sound.
Here's my PCI device listing for the card:
00:0f.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! (rev 08)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1102:8027
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 9
I/O ports at ff80
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
00:0f.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! Daughterboard
(rev 08)
Subsystem: Unknown device 1102:0020
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32
I/O ports at fff0
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Any ideas or how to proceed from here? My next step is to install
Windows to see if the card works there, and I'd rather avoid that
process.
Thanks,
Andrew
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Charlie Brown)
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: Need a clean hard disk
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:13:14 GMT
On Tue, 20 Jun 2000 02:13:16 GMT, Butch Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> shocked
the world by writing:
>
>On 26 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>> <grin>
>>
>> In any case, you haven't really cleaned the disk. You've only cleaned
>> that partition.
>>
>> You want to crank out FDISK and do a 'FDISK /MBR' from DOS. There's an
>> equivalent in Linux; you may have to use lilo to do it, though.
>>
>> Anyway, once you've written a known MBR to the disk, run FDISK (or fdisk
>> in Linux), blow away all existing partitions, then recreate the ones you
>> want, and format them using your favorite command.
>>
>> In DOS, I recommend:
>>
>> FORMAT X: /u/v:VOLNAME
>>
>> In Linux:
>>
>> mke2fs -c /dev/hdx#
>>
>> or for a swap partition:
>>
>> mkswap -c /dev/hdx# [block count optional]
>>
>> --J
>>
>> In comp.os.linux.hardware Leon Garde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> :>>I doubt the /s would be needed.
>> :>>
>> :>>Jake
>> :>>
>> :> Sorry, you're right.
>>
>> :> format c: /q /u/
>>
>> : That of course makes the disk very unclean. ( yukky FAT filesystems ... )
>>
>> : "mke2fs -c /dev/hda" would be much better.
>> : This makes the entire disk ready for linux.
>> : I would call this "clean" :).
>>
>> : Delete linux groups from the newsgroups list if the thread moves away
>> : from anything to do with linux ...
>>
>> : leon
>>
>I have found that after setting partions with Linux that FDISK /MBR will
>not clean out the partitions. You must clean the disk with
>LILO..... this has been what I have found, I would be interested to know
>if anyone else has found this to be true
>
>Butch
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
I'm not quite sure exactly you want to do, but if you truly want to
clean a drive, try a utility (such as WIPE.EXE from IBM) that will
write zeros to each sector, returning the drive to esentially the same
state it was in when it was first sold. That is, needing an
fdisk/format.
This way, there are no old boot or partition records to get in the way
of anything.
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From: Stu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.rpm,comp.os.linux.redhat
Subject: Re: 2.2.16 Redhat RPM install breaks 2940uw
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 04:33:43 GMT
mark kennett wrote:
> Interesting situation: I just installed the redhat rpm for 2.2.16 due
> to the security issues. Now when I boot it shows 0 scsi hosts found and
> then kudzu wants me to remove my scsi cdrom drives from it's
> configuration. The machine boots up fine the rest of the way and
> everything seems to be working except for the scsi card, "lsmod" show
> all the other modules have been loaded. I can do a "insmod aic7xxx" and
> then everything is just fine. I checked conf.modules and the line to
> load the scsi module is still there. Anyone else having this same
> problem? One note when I installed the new kernel it didn't create a
> corresponding "/boot/initrd-2.2.14-5.0.img" for the new kernel, so I
> commented this line out. Since I am unfamiliar with the contents of the
> file, might that have some impact of my problem? Thanks in advance.
I would think that's part of the problem. I'm assuming you installed the
kernel via rpms (the kernel, source, headers, ibcs, pcmcia, etc.). You
should follow the redhat kernel upgrade instructions on thier site:
http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade-3.html
The two last steps of the rpm upgrade are making the boot image, and adding
the changes to lilo. If you didn't do that, you probably "confused" linux
on reboot.
Stu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: non-winmodem problems
Date: 20 Jun 2000 01:51:02 -0400
Stephen Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a 100% hardware modem made by US Robotics. The problem that I am
> having is that the card defaults to COM5 even though it is on IRQ 3.
> Does anyone know of a way to "trick" linux into finding the card?
> I know that it only supports up to /dev/ttyS3
It doesn't matter. Is it ISA PNP? You have it configured for some IRQ and IO
address (which correspond to a non-existent or disabled COM port)? Then pick
some ttySx that is not being used. Link dev/modem to that ttySx (or simply
configure ppp to use dev/ttySx instead of dev/modem). Then use setserial to
set that ttySx to the same IRQ and IO.
(when you configure the card, Linux does not know it is a modem and so
dev/modem does not link to it - you can link dev/modem to ttySx device - when
you configure the card, Linux does not even know it is a serial device! - so
you link dev/modem to some ttySx device, install and configure the card and
setserial that ttySx device to the same settings as the card - just watch out
for conflicts and Bob's your Uncle!)
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From: Grant Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Printing HOWTO's Database need testers and feedback!
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 05:53:12 GMT
I've just completed the initial work for my new data-driven printer
configuration system, and am looking for people to help me get the
kinks out. Once this works, it will be a major step forward for
printing under Linux: one site, with complete and good free software
support for effectively all printers and spoolers.
If you have:
- An Epson Stylus (most any model) and the 'stp' Ghostscript driver
installed, or
- A Lexmark Color Jetprinter 1100 or 1000 and the 'lm1100' program,
plus you have Ghostscript installed, or
- A PCL HP DeskJet and the 'hpdj' Ghostscript driver installed, or
- An LaserJet 4-like PCL Laser printer and the 'ljet4' Ghostscript
driver installed, AND
- Perl ability (for debugging, if/when it doesn't work),
and use as your printing system one of LPD, PDQ, or CUPS, then I can
use your help. If you've got a little time to fiddle with a new
printer configuration method, visit the appropriate URL from below,
play, and give me some feedback:
LPD: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/lpd-doc.html
PDQ: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/pdq-doc.html
CUPS: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/cups-doc.html
You may also wish to follow the evolution of the system in the
construction updates and other news items posted at the Linux Printing
HOWTO website: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
--
Grant Taylor - gtaylor@picante<dot>com - http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/
Linux Printing HOWTO: http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/
I do consulting in most things Unix/Linux/*BSD/Perl/C/C++
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From: Nikos Kalogridis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Troubles adding extra keys in Linux kernel
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 08:06:20 +0100
Hello,
I have a PS/2 keyboard that apart from the usual keys it has 14 more
that produce the following escape key codes
e017, e025, e018, e032, e01e, e010, e012, e022, e024, e019, e02e, e030,
e020, e026.
I found in the Keyboard-Console-HOWTO that there are some utilities to
inform the kernel about those new scan code and allow it to assign them
to specific keycodes.
I tried as a root in the shell prompt the following:
setkeycodes 0e17 120
Now I assume that this tells the kernel to interpret the 0e17 scancode
to the 120 keycode. Instead the kernel still complains about the unknown
scancode 0e17. What am I doing wrong here.
Assuming that I solve this problem the next step if I understanded well
is to set the keymap by using the loadkeymaps utility and feeding it
with the new keymap.
Are these steps required to add support for those keys in the X server
as well?
Thanks in advance
Nikos Kalogridis.
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From: Thomas Hommel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Hardware list
Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 09:29:23 +0200
Have a look at www.linux.org
Antonius Herry Sukardi wrote:
>
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: serial mouse with linux laptop?
Date: 20 Jun 2000 01:10:04 GMT
On 20 Jun 2000 00:36:56 GMT, Peter Bismuti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Alex, I'm trying to figure out how to use both an
>external mouse and keyboard with my laptop even though
>I only have one ps2 slot. I tried using a serial
>mouse but that didn't work, do you know why?
Depends on your mouse but generally you select (in X) Microsoft protocol for
the type of mouse on /dev/ttyS0 (this is the first serial port, ttyS1 is the
second etc). Use 3button emulation if it only has 2 buttons.
For gpm select gpm -t ms -m /dev/ttyS0
On my laptop I'm running bog standard serial mice, and have on occassion
used an external PS/2 keyboard. They work fine.
Frinky
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