Linux-Hardware Digest #799, Volume #13 Sat, 28 Oct 00 14:13:14 EDT
Contents:
Re: i810 ("Harald Pachler")
Re: Printer driver for Canon BJC6200 ("Noble Pepper")
Re: RH7 Install Problem (Anthony Chippendale)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Gregory Spath)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Jerry L Kreps,,,)
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... ("Gene Heskett")
Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time (Maarten)
Re: RH7 Install Problem (Hal Burgiss)
Modem Setup ("Cosmo")
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (T)
Compaq Presario 5000 Series and Linux. ("William H. \"Will\" Du Chene")
DSL help (Joseph Lee Pereira)
Xircom CEM56 problem (Stefan Duffner)
APM Question (Andy)
Re: Modem Setup (Steve)
printer filter not working (Jason Duell)
Re: Modem Setup ("bluster")
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From: "Harald Pachler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.suse,at.linux,ger.pc.linux,z-netz.alt.linux
Subject: Re: i810
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:16:50 +0200
intel bietet fuer den intel810 respective 815 auf ihrer homepage fuer
3xfree.3.6 ein rpm bzw. ein tarball an samt beschreibung an
http://support.intel.com/support/graphics/intel810/linuxsoftware.htm
3.4 kenn ich nicht. als minimum wird 3.3.6 angegeben.
harald
"Christian Birkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8tdad5$60dq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> also ich versteh das nicht eigentlich sollte ja der chipssatz i810 von
xfree
> 3.4. unterstützt werden - wenn ich aber sax2 zu starten versuche gibt es
> immer einen server crash
> weiß jemand was da los sein könnte
> ich verwende das S2054 Tomcat i810 Board von Tyan
> Chris
>
>
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From: "Noble Pepper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: ucam.comp.linux
Subject: Re: Printer driver for Canon BJC6200
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:28:16 +0500
Try www.linuxprinting.org
"Paul Evans" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Where might I get a printer driver for my Canon BJC6200 printer?
>
> --
> Paul Evans
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (alternate) ICQ number: 4135350
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From: Anthony Chippendale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: RH7 Install Problem
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:30:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have looked in the RH errata and I cant find any boot images at all! (I
looked at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata) Surely there must be a way
for me to install Linux onto a drive that is on a UDMA100 controller!
Hal Burgiss wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:37:22 +0100, Anthony Chippendale
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I'm trying to install RH7 on an IBM 27gb drive. The problem is that I
> >have an Asus A7V motherboard which has an integrated Promise UDMA100
> >controller...which the hard drive is hooked upto. When I try to install
> >RH7, it says there is no device to install Linux onto. How do I get the
> >installer to "see" the hard drive on my Promise controller?
>
> Check the RH errata. I am pretty sure there is a boot img for ATA66/100.
>
> --
> Hal B
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory Spath)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:33:55 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In <YztK5.12013$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Les Mikesell
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
>"Jason" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:Ub6K5.310$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> I disagree with this one sorry. Win2k can be rock solid, mines been up
>and
>> running for 1 month. The only time it goes down is updates and
>> thunderstorms. I might also add the Linux box has been up for 2 weeks.
>> Course that's also how long I've had it running Linux.
>>
>> But come on, you can't be seriously saying that learning Linux is as easy
>to
>> learn as windows?
>
>Linux is much easier. If you learned unix 20 years ago you would realize
>it is all very stable and sensible, while Microsoft changes the way
>windows does things every year or two for no particular reason
>and you have to learn it all over again.
Not to mention that there is no consistency in the way things are
configured/located/run within each windows release itself.
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From: Jerry L Kreps,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:38:58 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jason wrote:
> True, but we have to remember that the vast majority of users were weaned
> on
> Windows of one sort of another. While Windows has a "few" quirks to it,
> for the most part its much more user friendly and less intimidating then
> Linux/Unix can be.
I think the main reason why windows is 'easy' to use is that on
standalones, in effect, eveyone runs as root!
Linux maintains security regardless of the user or environment.
> But Linux is defiantly catching up to Windows in user friendliness. RH7
> was
> a piece of cake to install and just as easy to configure. I must be one
> of the few to feel that way judging by some of the posts though.
>
> Jason
> "Michael Westerman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:39f8f547$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | depends on your background.
> |
> | if comming from unix then ...
> |
> | but apple os is easyer than all if computer illiterate (my opinion)
> |
> | windows is easy if you upgrade from windows ...
> |
> |
> | Jason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> | news:Ub6K5.310$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | > I disagree with this one sorry. Win2k can be rock solid, mines been
> | > up
> | and
> | > running for 1 month. The only time it goes down is updates and
> | > thunderstorms. I might also add the Linux box has been up for 2
> | > weeks. Course that's also how long I've had it running Linux.
> | >
> | > But come on, you can't be seriously saying that learning Linux is as
> easy
> | to
> | > learn as windows?
> | >
> | > Jason
> | > "John Hasler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> | > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> | > | Arctic Storm writes:
> | > | > Win2K is just as stable, but easy and user-friendly.
> | > |
> | > | A friend of mine (a quite experienced Windows user) just installed
> | Win2K.
> | > | If his experience is any guide, you'll never get it to work.
> | > |
> | > | Buy a machine with Linux pre-installed, like you did your Windows
> | > | box. --
> | > | John Hasler
> | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> | > | Dancing Horse Hill
> | > | Elmwood, Wisconsin
> | >
> | >
> |
> |
>
>
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Date: 28 Oct 2000 11:17:4 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Albert A;
>Valentin Guillen wrote:
>>
>> Spicerun,
>>
>> A polite suggestion:
>>
>> CC this message to Diamond. Don't write a different message to
>> Diamond. Rather, make it very obvious to them that you're publicizing
>> this in many forums like NewsGroups.
>Ah yes, pissing people off is always the best way to get support!
>> I would research the email addresses of their technical support, their
>> corporate officers, etc. Make sure they receive a copy of the message.
>Even better!
>> By the way, just throw the card over here....:-)
>Hehe :)
>Anyway, Mr Spicerun could have ofcourse gone to http://www.firegl.com
>and fill out the technical support request form there, which goes
>directly to the people who make these FireGL cards and its drivers.
>I'm sorry to see somebody so disappointed in a product that I do tech
>support for, especially a product this expensive, but throwing a fit
>about it isn't going to work, not if you throw it at the technical
>support people or the manufacturers, and even less if you throw it in
>public.
I beg your pardon!
I think you have missed the point entirely Albert. His diatribe was
generated by (from what I read between the lines to get) object code
your company released, object code that apparently was compiled with
a specific kernel in mind, and possibly even a specific cpu.
Obviously, with his probably even newer system, this code is broken.
This is not his problem IMO, it is yours, where 'your' refers to your
company. If your attorneys aren't willing to release that source code
specs, the API if you will so that we can write drivers and keep it up
to date, or to actually opensource it such as creative has done with the
sound cards, then again, its an artificial restriction ENFORCED BY YOUR
COMPANY that leads to the frayed tempers and such on display here.
I'd like your 'powers that be' to get in touch with TPTB at Creative and
ask them just how successfull their opensourceing of the drivers for the
SBLive, AWE, and one other card whose acronym I forget has been.
For starters, the SBLive is probably the prefered audio card for a
linux box, so popular that its drivers have now been moved into the
kernel sources to join a long list of others. I have no idea how many
SBLive cards that fact has sold, but every one of them is in all
probability to a very satisfied customer who may ask a question or 2
about how to make it run, but has had no excuse whatsoever to issue a
public diatribe against a specific company. I know, I have one, and its
a great card, but thats only anecdotal.
Maintaining the so-called integrity of your source intellectual property
is one thing, but when the purchaser of said product cannot use it to
its abilities in *his* system, thats a totally different situation. He
paid good money (I mean he didn't print it in his basement, he earned it)
for this product, and he has a quite reasonable expectation of being
able to use it.
In our eyes, your drivers ARE a part of the card sale, we are buying a
CARD, and its drivers are expoectedt to be part and parcel of the deal.
If you are not willing to adequately support your product, which after
all isn't the drivers, but the card itself, then I think you can expect
to be on the receiving end of some bad publicity from the non-windows
using world.
The choice seems to be yours, not ours.
That said, I know where a couple of them, permedia2 based I think, are
running very well.
Cheers, Gene
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Maarten)
Subject: Re: Using IDE CDROM and CDRW drives at the same time
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:47:38 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
>> On Tue, 03 Oct 2000 00:44:21 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>
>> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Post) wrote:
>> -snip-
ditto
>If I map both of my CD drives to use ide-scsi then the RW shows up as
>scd0 and the CDROM as scs1. If I only map the RW to ide-scsi then only
>scd0 appears but when I modprobe ide-cd it complains that it can't
>access /dev/hdd.
Maybe I'm missing the point here but I use only the ide-scsi and
access both the normal cd and the cd-rw as scdX. At that point why
would you want to use the ide-cd anyway ? It works doesn't it ?
Maarten
>I'll try and have another play tonight and grab the error messages. I
>was out all weekend so I couldn't try anything.
>
>Steve
>
>
>Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
>Before you buy.
--
Your mouse has moved. Please wait while Windows restarts for the change
to take effect.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: RH7 Install Problem
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 15:58:46 GMT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 14:30:46 +0100, Anthony Chippendale
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have looked in the RH errata and I cant find any boot images at all!
>(I looked at http://www.redhat.com/support/errata) Surely there must be
>a way for me to install Linux onto a drive that is on a UDMA100
>controller!
I don't see it mentioned either, so maybe I am hallucinating. There is a
new img of some kind in the update dir under 'img'. I kind find what
this fixes though. Maybe somebody else knows...sorry.
--
Hal B
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From: "Cosmo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Modem Setup
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:13:27 -0400
I have a 3com USR Sportster 56k pnp ISA internal modem I have been trying to
get working under Redhat 6.0. Can anyone give me some direction on how to
accomplish this? I have been through all the HOWTO's without any success.
Any help would be appreciated.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 09:34:37 -0700
I've been scanning this and other newsgroups to help me pick out
hardware for my next Linux machine. This helps me make up my mind
about sound cards. Thanx.
On Fri, 27 Oct 2000 17:29:15 -0500, Spicerun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What a piece of junik!
>
>I got the supposed driver to work with XFree86-4.01, but it still screws
>up royally. On top of that, If I run any kernel over linux-2.2.16 (I
>usually run linux-2.2.17 or linux-2.4.0-test9) then I'm out of luck
>since they don't have a library that can be linked with a module to
>create a driver.
>
>I've had enough of this BS. I'm throwing away this FireGL1 crap and
>getting an ATI Card where I know I can get full Linux support, with a
>Driver incorporated correctly into the Xfree system (None of this
>proprietary config utilities and install crap)!
>
>I will never buy another Diamond Multimedia product again! They've
>pissed me off so much that even if they were to straighten out later,
>I'd still wouldn't touch their product with a 10 ft. pole. In fact,
>this !@#$ Firegl1 Video Card goes straight into the trash compactor....I
>wouldn't dream of passing off this piece of junk to anybody.
>
>
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From: "William H. \"Will\" Du Chene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Compaq Presario 5000 Series and Linux.
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 11:50:00 -0500
Hi list. I am new to this list, so if the question has been asked before, I
do apologize.
I am at my wits end. I have tried to install RedHat 6.2 on the computer that
I just purchased. It is a Compaq Presario 5000 series box, having 128mb RAM,
a 1ghz Athlon processor and a 40gb WD drive.
Everytime that I attempt to do the install, my partitions get hosed up. For
some reason, they all finish up into one large partition on the drive. There
is also a smaller one beside it.
Does anyone have any suggestions, or comments?
I thank you all in advance.
Will
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From: Joseph Lee Pereira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DSL help
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 10:52:13 -0600
How do I get DSL to work on my Linux Mandrake box? I configured the
Cisco 675 off of a Win98 box, I should just be able to plug in the
cable to the nic on the Linux box. Linix box has the nic card
configured to dhcp. Still I get no connection to the outside world.
Yes, everything works fine when I plug the 750 to the Win98 box.
Mandrake 7.1
Joseph L. Pereira
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Stefan Duffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Xircom CEM56 problem
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:37:10 +0100
I have a Mitac 6020 Notebook with a Xircom Creditcard Ethernet/Modem
(CEM56).
My Software: Suse Linux 7.0 / Kernel 2.2.16
The problem is that on the ethernet adapter the light is not flashing.
The pcmcia modules are correctly loaded an no errors are reported in
/var/log/messages.
I've changed the interrupt, io-ports without success.
Is it right that there is only one interrupt for the network interface
and the modem?
I've got Windows NT on my machine as well. And there it works. For the
windows driver you have to specifiy 2 different IRQs.
Shall I try to change the memory addresses as well?
Has anybody experienced similar problems?
Thanks in advance,
Stefan
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: APM Question
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 17:07:03 GMT
Hey everyone,
I have a linux box thats used mostly as a router/proxy. Since HD use is
rare, i'd like to have the hard drives spin down when they're not being
used. Anyone know how to go about doing that?
Thanks
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem Setup
Date: 28 Oct 2000 18:16:06 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 12:13:27 -0400, Cosmo wrote:
>I have a 3com USR Sportster 56k pnp ISA internal modem I have been trying to
>get working under Redhat 6.0. Can anyone give me some direction on how to
>accomplish this? I have been through all the HOWTO's without any success.
>Any help would be appreciated.
When you say it's not working what exactly are you doing and what messages
are you getting?
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Cheers
Steve email mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
%HAV-A-NICEDAY Error not enough coffee 0 pps.
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5:43pm up 17 days, 19:03, 3 users, load average: 1.45, 1.24, 1.14
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From: Jason Duell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: printer filter not working
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 20:28:13 +1000
I've got RedHat 6.2, and set up my Lexmark E310 printer (which
understands postscript)
as a "postscript" printer. I used printtool to do the setup.
I can print text and postscript files fine now, but when I try to print
any other kind
of file (like a JPEG), it winds up printing as if it were a text file
(i.e. I see
"JFIF" plus lots of garbage.
I've looked at the setup in etc/printcap, and it shows an input filter
which looks like
it detects JPEGs and converts them to postscript. But that doesn't seem
to be happening...
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jason Duell
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From: "bluster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Modem Setup
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2000 13:27:19 -0400
Cosmo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a 3com USR Sportster 56k pnp ISA internal modem I have been trying
to
> get working under Redhat 6.0. Can anyone give me some direction on how to
> accomplish this? I have been through all the HOWTO's without any success.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What serial port is the modem set for?
In linux /dev/ttyS00 == DOS COM1, /dev/ttyS01 == DOS COM2, etc...
To make a quick check of the serial ports that were registered with
the linux kernel at boot time (as root) type:
[root@zephyr]# grep tty /var/log/dmesg
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
[root@zephyr]#
If the modem's port is not listed in the output there may be a
hardware conflict, e.g. IO port or IRQ in use by another device.
Bluster
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