Linux-Hardware Digest #809, Volume #13 Mon, 30 Oct 00 05:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Sound and mouse probs in RH 6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Sound and mouse probs in RH 6.2 (Dave Clark)
Automatic Powerdown problems ("Frank")
Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card... (Adam Majer)
Re: New monitor - X (MCheu)
Re: Using an AMD board (MCheu)
Re: Looking for external disk drive ("Gene Heskett")
damn floppy! ("eftech_1-=-")
canon bjc-50 in linux ("karl")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Peter T. Breuer")
512MB SDRAM that I no longer need for good price on Ebay. ("Jeremy Buttell")
Re: Linux on a pocket pc??? (Taiki Yamaguchi)
Free Internet? (Taiki Yamaguchi)
Re: linux sound (Sebastian Niehaus)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Joe Schaefer)
How to Auto Insert USB module? (root)
Re: damn floppy! (CDM)
Re: Linux firewall information, where (CDM)
Re: Using an AMD board ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Sound and mouse probs in RH 6.2
Date: 30 Oct 2000 05:10:02 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What mouse do you have? What version of X?
Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2, it is right on the redhat setup
menu. The mouse gives no problems until the sound card messes with it.
And I believe I am running X11R6, or whatever is standard with redhat 6.2
I have tried disabling PNP and on board sound support in the BIOS with no
luck. I have tried to install the ALSA driver, but I have not been able
to figure out how to remove the driver installed by redhat.
--
Dave Clark
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Dave Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sound and mouse probs in RH 6.2
Date: 30 Oct 2000 05:21:07 GMT
James Richard Tyrer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What mouse do you have? What version of X?
Microsoft Intellimouse PS/2, it is right on the redhat setup
menu. The mouse gives no problems until the sound card messes with it.
which XFree86 version you mean? 4.0.1a is what I have.
I have tried disabling PNP and on board sound support in the BIOS with no
luck. I have tried to install the ALSA driver, but I have not been able
to figure out how to remove the driver installed by redhat.
--
Dave Clark
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Frank" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Automatic Powerdown problems
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 05:37:02 GMT
Hi all,
when I logout from Gnome and select 'Halt' my system does not automatically
powerdown. However, if I select 'Halt' from the graphical logon screen menu
(before you log in) my system does powerdown automatically.
The shutdown sequence seems identical to me, however, when the system does
power down automatically the message 'Power Off' appears briefly before the
computer turns off. When I have to turn it off manually it just says "The
system is now halted."
I am running RedHat 7 on an AMD TBird 750, Asus A7V mobo. Does anyone have
any idea what can cause this? Is there a config file I have to edit
somewhere so that the system powers off with gnome??
Thanks,
Frank
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Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:40:41 -0600
From: Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: I'm throwing away my Diamond FireGL1 Card...
Hi again,
Albert A Arendsen wrote:
>
> You misunderstood me. It's quite obviously not his (primary?) goal to
> piss the company or the support crew off, but inadvertently he will do
> so. Screaming and shouting is not the way to get what you want. If I got
> an email in the tone this person's message displayed, I would be in no
> way obliged to reply or do anything at all about it. Likely, I would
> move it straight to /dev/null. In this same scenario, had he written a
> well thought out message explaining his problems and expressing his wish
> (dire need?) for updated drivers, I would have forwarded it straight to
> the people responsible for writing those drivers. See the difference?
> That's what I mean.
>
So when is DMM going to write some OpenGL drivers for Linux? At least
libraries that will work under kernels 2.2.12-14 (stable). I also would like
to ask (just in case you didn't read my previous reply), why wouldn't
DMM release all programming specs for their cards? Wouldn't that speed up
driver development? They could even co-ordinate it through their website!
- Adam
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: New monitor - X
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:06:40 -0500
Jonas Grave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> my monitor just died the other day. Is X Windows going to recognize my
> new monitor or is it possible that when I start Linux for the first time
> with the new monitor that I can damage the monitor since X is configured
> to the old monitor?
Assuming that your new monitor is a current production monitor, and
your X settings are for a refresh rate of 75Hz or lower, and your
video mode is for one of the more common resolutions (800x600,
1024x768, 1280x720), odds are pretty good that the new monitor support
your current settings.
> I have my Linux confired to GUI login. What are my options?
>
> I'm using RedHat 6.2.
as I don't have mine configured to boot up in X, I don't know if this
will work. If your monitor doesn't support your default refresh
rate/resolution, then try cycling through your other configured
combinations. Use CTRL_ALT_<+> or CTRL_ALT_<->.
This works in X in most windows managers, but I don't know if it will
work in the login. Also, for the video mode cycling to work, you
must have configured other refresh rate/resolution combos for X; if
you only set up your default mode as your only video mode, then this
won't work.
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From: MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Using an AMD board
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 01:06:45 -0500
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:45:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>I am thinking installing Linux in a motherboard PcChips 805LR with AMD
>ATHLON Thunderbird CPU. The motherboard already includes the sound and
>network board. I have never worked with an AMD CPU.
>Does Linux support AMD CPU and OcChips boards ? I have been advised to
>buy instead a PIII machine as it seems is more stable.
>Help is welcome.
>
You shouldn't have any problems with the AMD CPU, BUT what you should
be concerned with is the built-in network card and sound support.
You need to find out what chipsets those are based on and find out if
those are supported under Linux. As for PC-Chips, IMO, they should
be avoided, due to their less than stellar track record (regardless of
operating system).
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Date: 30 Oct 2000 0:48:17 -0500
From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Looking for external disk drive
Unrot13 this;
Reply to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Gene Heskett sends Greetings to Dances With;
DWC> On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 02:44:11 +0200, bonminh lam wrote:
>>For external IDE drives, what can one expect in terms of performance
>>and price? Admittedly, I am not well informed regarding hardware
>>trends. Thanks for giving an idea.
DWC> There is no such thing as an external IDE drive. The cabling
DWC> used for IDE has very little shielding and doesn't work very
DWC> well when it's outside of the computer case's reasonably
DWC> shielded environment.
This is a quite common mis-conception. Shielding has little if anything
to do with it while grounding and termination, the lack of both to be
precise do. The IDE/ATAPI whatever name its using this week bus is
an un-terminated buss whose length is constrained to 18 inches maximum.
Any longer than that and the echo's and such that you get from an
unterminated source and load begin to effect the validity of the data
being moved. The receiver end of the cable simply can't reliably tell
if that bit is a zero or a one if its still bouncing up and down 700
millivolts at the time the receiver latches the data into its input
registers.
Combine that with the virtually non-existant ground reference when the
two ends of the cable aren't bolted to the same hardware frame, and its
a disaster that doesn't have to look for a place to happen, its found
it! There is only one little 30 gauge wire actually used for a signal
ground, and the power connector ground is worthless for this purpose.
This is exactly the reason for the scsi buss. Every other wire in the
scsi cable is a ground. Properly terminated, it can run at full speed
over a cable thats several tens of meters long. The termination to
absorb the echos, and the better signal ground references obtained with
more ground conductors makes all the difference.
I haven't actually checked, but I'd suspect the length specs for an
ATA100 cable have been cut to 12 inches or so, and since they're now
hanging the first drive off the bottom of the PSU rack, a 4 inch cable
will reach the average motherboard connecter and give a very reliable
100 mhz data path. Try and reach the top drive slot in a big tower and
watch the fun, I know, I've tried it at 21" overall in a huge tower
right here. It doesn't work well enough for the bios to find the drive
even when set for a 33 mhz buss!
DWC> The ORB drive that I mentioned earlier
DWC> fits in a 5.25" drive bay and takes removable 2G cartridges.
DWC> You can get one for about $125 (with one 2G cartridge) plus
DWC> shipping.
DWC> If the drive must be external, you're better off with SCSI. It
DWC> will most likely cost more, but SCSI is superior to IDE in every
DWC> respect except price.
And that pricing is quite close to being artificial, as its mainly
caused by the small increase in the connector pin counts, 25 cent stuff,
and the relative size of the market. The majority of the cost
differential isn't the small increase in quality of cabling and the
costs of the terminators, but is due to the perception that because its
a small, quality piece of the market, it really should be worth the 100
dollar surcharge just to get a drive with a scsi controller on its
bottom instead of an IDE card.
It sucks, but thats life.
Cheers, Gene
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From: "eftech_1-=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: damn floppy!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 06:21:17 GMT
i have a brand new floppy drive in a mandrake7 box. the light goes on and
everything, and in the /mnt/ partition there is a floppy drive, but it says
it cannot read from the drive. does anyone know if its possible the
motherboard might have gotten messed up? or is it one of those mode things
where i have to type chmod floppy 777 or something like that?
thanks alot in advance.
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From: "karl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable
Subject: canon bjc-50 in linux
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:05:00 -0800
Greetings. Trying to get my canon bjc-50 portable printer working on my
laptop in redhat 6.2. Using the parallel port. Choosing the bjc-600 driver
in printtool, it is supposed to work. but all that happens is the printer
kicks over but only prints out "no way to print this type of input file".
The printer works fine on my desktop in corel linux 1.2 using the built-in
kde desktop print app.
I have been up to linuxprinting.org and found some of it helpful. Any other
suggestions do not hesitate to reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks--
and remember to remove the references to the canned "meat" when replying.
--karl
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: 29 Oct 2000 09:20:51 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
:> In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:> : On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by olcnffvat gur
:> : abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe cebprffrf
:> : frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for bothering.
:>
: V pbhyq gryy lbh, ohg gura V'q unir gb xvyy lbh...
Now that took genius. Encoded backspaces? How how how. I'm going to
have to play with this.
Peter
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From: "Jeremy Buttell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 512MB SDRAM that I no longer need for good price on Ebay.
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 23:27:58 -0800
http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=479140901
I'm auctioning a 512MB SDRAM (one) PC100 8ns 3.3volt CAS2 Unbuffered. If
anyone is interested, please check out my auction above. It was purchased
for a system that I desided not to put together.
Thank you!
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From: Taiki Yamaguchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on a pocket pc???
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:36:05 GMT
root wrote:
> Does anyone know if Linux can be put onto a pocket pc? So far, I've only
> seen windows CE and palm pilots os. I don't want to buy a pocket pc
> with windows ce. Also, I'm looking for a pocket pc with a hard drive not
> just 16 MB of ROM. I know that some digital cameras have a new IBM hard
> drive of almost 1 GB. Why can't they put these on a pocket pc???
> Please help,
>
> Pierre
There is a pocket pc called "zaurus". They have a program which enables
that small pc to run the linux shell.
It is however just a shell program; not a whole linux OS.
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From: Taiki Yamaguchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Free Internet?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 07:38:57 GMT
Is anybody using a free Internet Service Provider w/ only a dialer on
linux?
If so, I'd love to hear more about it.
Thanks
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From: Sebastian Niehaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: linux sound
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:10:30 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I have a isa slot sound card does it work with linux?
Maybe...
Sebastian
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
From: Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 30 Oct 2000 03:55:25 -0500
"Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In comp.os.linux.misc Joe Schaefer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> :> In comp.os.linux.misc Tim Haynes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> :> wrote:
> :> : On linux you can make the system effectively single-user, by
> :> : olcnffvat gur
> :> : abezny vavg naq trggl & ybtva cebprffrf naq fgnegvat lbhe
> :> : cebprffrf
> :> : frcnengryl sebz gura bajneqf, but you'd be a prize moron for
> :> : bothering.
>
> : V pbhyq gryy lbh, ohg gura V'q unir gb xvyy lbh...
>
> Now that took genius. Encoded backspaces? How how how. I'm going to
> have to play with this.
It's always a good idea to compress your data before encrypting it;
but lossless compression is usually preferable.
Cheers.
--
Joe Schaefer
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: How to Auto Insert USB module?
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:37:11 +0800
Dear sir
I am using a Creative Web3 Cam and have installed a usb driver ov511.o.
However, I need to use the command "insmod ov511.o" to activate it. I
have tried to use xconfig to set "y" instead of "m" and then build
kernel again but cannot work :-(. Is there any place in Linux can
automatically run some commands during startup (such as AUTOEXEC.BAT in
DOS) ?
Please give me some advices on this case.
Thanks a lot
Alan Po
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Subject: Re: damn floppy!
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:30:01 +0100
So what command you use to mount it?
What format is the floppy (ext2, dos)?
Then do
man mount
"eftech_1-=-" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:xr8L5.93986$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> i have a brand new floppy drive in a mandrake7 box. the light goes on and
> everything, and in the /mnt/ partition there is a floppy drive, but it
says
> it cannot read from the drive. does anyone know if its possible the
> motherboard might have gotten messed up? or is it one of those mode things
> where i have to type chmod floppy 777 or something like that?
>
> thanks alot in advance.
>
>
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (CDM)
Crossposted-To:
alt.linux.redhat,alt.os.linux.mandrake,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.security,comp.security.firewalls,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Linux firewall information, where
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 10:34:33 +0100
http://www.linuxsecurity.com
"ewen.dell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:yJHK5.1990$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
>
> I am looking for Linux firewall information.
>
> - what firewalls to use (software and hardware)
> - how to install them (specially the software ones)
> - any web pages that provides an overview of Linux fire information.
Opinions expressed herein are my own and may not represent those of my employer.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Using an AMD board
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:47:48 GMT
Is there any motherboard that you recomend ? I have been looking
for information about AMD supporting motherboards in Linux
and RedHat website (could not find much).
thanks,
luis
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
MCheu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 17:45:19 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I am thinking installing Linux in a motherboard PcChips 805LR with
AMD
> >ATHLON Thunderbird CPU. The motherboard already includes the sound
and
> >network board. I have never worked with an AMD CPU.
> >Does Linux support AMD CPU and OcChips boards ? I have been advised
to
> >buy instead a PIII machine as it seems is more stable.
> >Help is welcome.
> >
>
> You shouldn't have any problems with the AMD CPU, BUT what you should
> be concerned with is the built-in network card and sound support.
> You need to find out what chipsets those are based on and find out if
> those are supported under Linux. As for PC-Chips, IMO, they should
> be avoided, due to their less than stellar track record (regardless of
> operating system).
>
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