Linux-Hardware Digest #886, Volume #13 Mon, 13 Nov 00 20:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: getting the mouse wheel to work ("Anthony")
mandrake 7.2 and abit kt7 raid (Francois Morvillier)
Re: SCSI card driver question ("pl")
cdrom can't unmount after eject, have to reboot! grrrrr ("Jean-Michel F Moreau")
Good news for owners of M820e CD-RW ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: cdrom can't unmount after eject, have to reboot! grrrrr (Randy Cooper)
Re: ADSL via serial ports (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Camera & Colour printer, any ideas? (Zero Piraeus)
Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0 ("Ernest N. Mamikonyan")
XFree86 4.0.1 and TNT2 Ultra (Carlos Rodrigues)
Re: ADSL via serial ports
Re: i810 chipset & PanelLink interface ? (Bill Altmann)
Enlight EN-8950 & EN-8700, server case and hot-swap RAID enclosure (Rohan Oberoi)
Re: ADSL via serial ports (Hal Burgiss)
Internal ISA Modem Blaster DI5601 (was Internal PCI Modems) (Ph. Jausions)
Re: Linux Helpdesk *NEW* ("Linux4u")
SuSE 7.0 + A7V + GeForce2 MX + X (Andreas)
Re: SIIG UDMA board woes - attached hard disks won't init. Help?? (shane)
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From: "Anthony" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: getting the mouse wheel to work
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 05:27:48 +0800
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> XFree86 3.3.X has bugs in its IMPS/2 protocol handler, that causes the
> mouse pointer to wing off to the top right corner occasionally, and sulk
> there. XFree86 4.0.x hasn't done this to me once yet, even using
> /dev/gpmdata
>
Yes, I think I have seen this before and I thought it was the mouse got
stuffed up (MS Wheel Mouse PS/2).
Now that I own a Logitech Mouseman Optical and just run mouseconfig and
treat it as intellimouse ps/2 and it works, even the wheel. It also has
a USB to PS/2 convertor.
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From: Francois Morvillier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mandrake 7.2 and abit kt7 raid
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:34:28 +0100
I'd like to know if mandrake 7.2 installs and boots correctly on the
abit kt7 raid on one of the ATA 100 controllers (no need for raid
configuration though).
I know Suse 7.0 does but mdk 7.1 did not.
Thanks for any help.
François
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From: "pl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI card driver question
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:50:25 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Smitty"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a Domex UDS-IS11 ISA card. Supposedly, I can get this to work
> on Linux with a g_NCR5380 driver. Where could I download this driver?
> Also, any suggestions for alternative SCSI cards that would work
> with a Umax Astra 1200S? Smitty
I haven't used that card, but its quite likely that you already have the
g_NCR5380 driver, sources at least. You didn't say what distribution, but
look in your kernel modules directory and see if it came already
compiled. If not, recompile the kernel and select support for it (IIRC,
its called generic NCR5380 scsi support). One note, I think its been
included with the kernel for quite a while, but I could be wrong, and if
you're using an older kernel, I suppose its possible you don't have it
already.
I have my astra running on a cheap adaptec 1505 which I bought new
for I think $20 a while back. I tried for a little while to get the
included card to work with no luck. That's been quite a while ago, and I
think you have a different card than what I had, so you may be able to
get yours to work...
Good luck.
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From: "Jean-Michel F Moreau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: cdrom can't unmount after eject, have to reboot! grrrrr
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 14:05:08 -0800
Hey ya'll
After I mount a cdrom. I can still hit the eject button on the cdrom drive
and eject the cd. After I do this I can't unmount /dev/cdrom. It says
"Device is busy". Is there someway to force the umount? umount -f didn't
work :(. I have to reboot everytime. I know the simple solution to this is
stop ejecting cd's before doing umount /dev/cdrom, but i always forget. Is
there anyway to fix this problem. I am using RH7 with 2.4.0-test10 kernel,
generic atapi eide cdrom.
As always I greatly appreciate people taking time to answer my questions.
Thanks :)
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address
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Good news for owners of M820e CD-RW
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 21:59:30 GMT
For those of you who have been dying for a solution, there just might be
one. When HP shipped this drive, they included a bullshit SCSI PCMCIA
card (instead of a good one like Adaptec SCSI). Now, I realize that
forking over 100 bucks for a new Adapect SCSI card could solve the
problem as well, but there may be a more economically solution. I just
installed the NinjaSCSI drivers into my PCMCIA card servies and
reinstalled them. Upon reboot, the drive is recognized and when I run
x-cdroast I can scan the SCSI port and detect the drive by name. I have
not successfully burned yet due to some stability issues, but perhaps
the more people that give it a whirl the more we can understand.
Check out the details:
http://www.jmop.de/linux/suse.html
Dan Allen
send all comments/concerns to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Randy Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: cdrom can't unmount after eject, have to reboot! grrrrr
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:27:37 -0600
Jean,
I use a little function I keep in .bashrc, named ejectcd that unmounts the CD
then ejects the disk.
It looks like this:
function ejectcd {
echo "Unmounting /cdrom and ejecting /dev/hdd"
umount /cdrom
eject -v /dev/hdd
mount
}
Of course you have to change hdd to the appropriate value.
I have a similar function for my zip drive.
Jean-Michel F Moreau wrote:
> Hey ya'll
>
> After I mount a cdrom. I can still hit the eject button on the cdrom drive
> and eject the cd. After I do this I can't unmount /dev/cdrom. It says
> "Device is busy". Is there someway to force the umount? umount -f didn't
> work :(. I have to reboot everytime. I know the simple solution to this is
> stop ejecting cd's before doing umount /dev/cdrom, but i always forget. Is
> there anyway to fix this problem. I am using RH7 with 2.4.0-test10 kernel,
> generic atapi eide cdrom.
>
> As always I greatly appreciate people taking time to answer my questions.
> Thanks :)
> --
> http://members.tripod.com/jeanmichel_moreau <--- aquarium webpage, email
> address
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ADSL via serial ports
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:50:31 GMT
On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:25:20 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I don't think for that curious ISP, there is any other option. It is
>> how their modem is designed.
>
>But the serial port is limited to 115 kbps which is even slower than 128
>kbps ISDN. Why would anyone design an ADSL modem which is slower than
>ISDN?
Good question, I agree. It is quite contrary to what one would expect.
Maybe someone who has this service and understands it, will explain it
for the curious.
--
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From: Zero Piraeus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Camera & Colour printer, any ideas?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:53:49 +0000
Hey:
> > > I've been looking at Hewlett Packard DeskJets, and Epson Stylus;
> > > they seem likely candidates...
[...]
> > http://www.linuxprinting.org/suggested.html
> >
> > http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net/
[...]
> Thanks, I'd already done those sites....
>
> I was hoping to have a reply from somebody who's got the peripherals
> working...
I have an Epson Stylus Photo 870 working perfectly after downloading
gimp-print and following the instructions.
-[z].
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Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 17:52:10 -0500
From: "Ernest N. Mamikonyan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USB printer and RedHat 7.0
Try setting it up as a `Postscript Printer' in `printtool'. Yeah...the
choice of printers isn't really that great.
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Good Luck!
Ernie ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Jack Kaufmann wrote:
>
> I tried your advice. Here's what happened:
> modprobe usb-uhci: seemed to work, but I didn't check with modprobe -c to
> see if it was there before it tried it.
> modprobe usb-core: said it couldn't find usb-core.
> modprobe printer: seemed to work.
> What then seemed to work in printtool was pointing the filter at dev/usb/lp0
> [with a '/' between usb and lp0; that's what I found in the directory].
> However, there was no exact driver (or whatever it's called in Linux) for my
> HP deskjet 812C, and all I got was garbage out of the printer after
> selecting various HP options, even when I tried the generic HP deskjet
> choice in printtool and was simply sending the ASCII text test to the
> printer. I suspect there is some deeper problem than not having exactly the
> right filter, since the last choice should have produced something readable.
> Two other oddities: (1) If I didn't first hit a button called restart LPD
> or some such in printtool, I invariably got an error message, and nothing
> went to the print queue. (2) Although dev/usb/lp0 seemed to find the
> printer, the autodetect showed it as dev/dev/lp0.
> Any clue why I am getting garbage and how I might fix it (other than buying
> a new printer)?
>
> "Dances With Crows" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 04:02:44 GMT, Jack Kaufmann wrote:
> > >I just installed Red Hat 7.0. When I tried to install my USB printer,
> > >Autodetection didn't find it, and left this message:
> > >"If you have a USB printer but it was not detected, make sure that the
> USB
> > >printer module has been inserted and is working."
> > >What is the USB printer module, and how do I insert it and/or make sure
> it
> > >is working?
> >
> > modprobe usb-uhci (could be usb-ohci; depends on your machine!)
> > modprobe usb-core
> > modprobe printer (this is the usb-printer module. the regular
> > printer module is "lp".)
> >
> > There should be a device called /dev/usblp0 . If it doesn't exist, do a
> > "mknod -m 660 /dev/usblp0 c 180 0". When setting up your USB printer
> > via printtool or whatever, point the printer filter at /dev/usblp0
> > instead of /dev/lp0 . You may want to put those modprobe commands into
> > /etc/rc.d/rc.local as loading USB modules on demand doesn't work
> > sometimes. HTH, good luck....
> >
> > --
> > Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to
> see
> > Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> > http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> > -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
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From: Carlos Rodrigues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: XFree86 4.0.1 and TNT2 Ultra
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:09:59 +0000
Greetings!
I'm using XFree86 4.0.1 included with redhat 7.0 and I own a Nvidia
TNT2 Ultra (nv driver).
I'm having some strange problems with the mouse pointer, sometimes (this
doesn't happen all the time) if I move it fast, some white squares flash
under it. What's causing this? How can I fix it? (Except by downloading
Nvidia's drivers, I did that already and they are giving me some other
problems.
Thanks in advance!
--
- I think my men can handle one little penguin!
- No, Mr. Gates...your men are already dead!
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: ADSL via serial ports
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:20:26 GMT
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 22:50:31 GMT, Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2000 19:25:20 +0100, Henrik Carlqvist
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>
>>> I don't think for that curious ISP, there is any other option. It is
>>> how their modem is designed.
>>
>>But the serial port is limited to 115 kbps which is even slower than 128
>>kbps ISDN. Why would anyone design an ADSL modem which is slower than
>>ISDN?
>
>Good question, I agree. It is quite contrary to what one would expect.
>Maybe someone who has this service and understands it, will explain it
>for the curious.
Nobody would design such a modem. It would be like GM announcing the next
generation corvette having a 10HP 110cc lawnmower engine.
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From: Bill Altmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: i810 chipset & PanelLink interface ?
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:30:03 -0000
Mr. Engel-
Silicon Image is working on a daughterboard for the DVO output
connector on many Intel 815 and 810 motherboards. This small board
would plug into the motherboard, and then offer a DVI output connector
at the back panel of the PC chassis, occupying one PCI slot.
We are demonstrating this daughterboard, which we've named "DVI Link",
at Comdex this week.
For more information you may e-mail myself, or Gary Manchester at
Molex, Inc, at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To answer you specific questions about 810 and 154, I am not aware of
any released motherboards with 810 which also include the DVO connector.
The two available from Intel both have their 815 GMCH chip. These are
named D815EEA and D815BN. The first is the ATX form factor and the
second is the microATX (9.6" by 8.5"). You may find some information
on them on Intel's web site.
Michael Engel wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> is anyone working on support for digital LCD panels ? Specifically, I'm
> interested in support for intels 810 chipset in cooperation with a
> Silicon Image SiI 154 PanelLink driver chip. Any information on
> progress in this area is welcome ...
>
> Best regards,
> Michael
> --
> Michael Engel([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rohan Oberoi)
Crossposted-To:
ne.forsale,misc.forsale.pc-specific.misc,misc.forsale.computers.storage,misc.forsale.computers.net-hardware
Subject: Enlight EN-8950 & EN-8700, server case and hot-swap RAID enclosure
Date: 13 Nov 2000 23:41:12 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I bought this great, inexpensive, PC RAID server combination a few
months ago, but have decided to go with a 2U rack-mount combination
instead.
- EN-8700 hot-swap SCA RAID module, holds 4 drives in 3-bay space
- EN-8950 mid-tower *or* rackmount server case
The EN-8700 sells for $160, and the EN-8700 for $300.
See product pages:
http://enlightcorp.com/data_storage/8700.shtml
http://enlightcorp.com/server_cases/8950_server.shtml
Streetprices price pages:
http://www.streetprices.com/Computers/search.pl?query=en-8700&startwithnumber=1
http://www.streetprices.com/Computers/search.pl?query=en-8950&startwithnumber=1
Because I am moving and need to sell these now I will sell both for
$300 or best offer, and will sell separately if necessary.
If you have any interest, please call (617)666-4727 or email
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]". Must sell -- these will go to the best
offer.
Rohan.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: ADSL via serial ports
Reply-To: Hal Burgiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:47:40 GMT
On Mon, 13 Nov 2000 23:20:26 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>Nobody would design such a modem. It would be like GM announcing the next
>generation corvette having a 10HP 110cc lawnmower engine.
http://www.maxuk.net/hc/faq.html :
2. How do I make HC work with Linux?
A. This is easy. Simply run the following on the command line:
pppd ttyS0 115200 local noauth defaultroute receive-all connect ''
where ttyS0 is com1: under Linux.
Interesting reading material. Uses standard PPP client to connect (not
PPPoE!). The service also includes some kind of video on demand, so the
bandwidth is there:
A. The bandwidth available on the HomeChoice ADSL line is 2.3Mbps, which
is significantly lower than DVD, which streams at around the 10Mbps mark.
However it is sufficient for most television programmes on a standard TV set,
even though picture quality is visibly lower than other digital TV services.
There is also a 160Kbps bidirectional channel for control signals, such as
commands you send via your remote control. The Internet service shares
this channel.
This is one strange service.
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Hal B
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From: Ph. Jausions <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Internal ISA Modem Blaster DI5601 (was Internal PCI Modems)
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:13:46 GMT
Greetings!
About the Modem Blaster DI5601... how do I make it work now that I know
that it does (see below)? I set the jumpers to Non Plug-and-Play, COM3
and IRQ 7. I also have another ISA card in that computer, with a total
of 3 ISA slots. Do I have to do anything else? I read somewhere that I
have to type in something like: setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 1 irq 7 uart
16550A.
I have installed RedHat Linux 7. I've contacted the support but they
were not very helpful. The guy told me the external version was
compatible but not the internal...
Sorry if that's the wrong newsgroup to send that, let me know where I
should send it, and I'll do it, I just want to be able to connect to the
internet with that modem (if possible).
Thanks.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Joseph C. Kopec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] Creative makes an ISA controller modem -- the DI5601 -- which
works fine (in fact, I am using one now)
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From: "Linux4u" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux Helpdesk *NEW*
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 13:39:55 +1300
> You can start with teaching people the difference between cross-posting,
> which is allowed/tolerated on NG's and multiposting, which is considered
> extremely rude.
????????
> And maybe you could read up on netiquette too.
where Eric?
Whathave I done wrong here?
Tom
> Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas)
Subject: SuSE 7.0 + A7V + GeForce2 MX + X
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 00:44:08 GMT
anybody got that to run?
Hiya,
I have this tiny problem that I seem to be unable to get X on my new
computer to run, not even after compiling XFree86 4.0.1 from its
sources and compiling the 0.95 of NVidia's and the same under Kernel
2.4 test9. All I got was a black screen meaning I had to log on to the
machine from remote and log off the user in order to get to see
something again. It cannot really be that it asks too much from the
monitor as X does not appear to be starting up completely as I do not
have to kill the beast.
Any suggestions?
System specs:
Asus A7V
Duron 700
GeForce2 MX 32 Mb
256 Mb RAM
SB128 PCI
IBM 15 Gb HD 7200
SuSE 7.0
Kernel 2.2.16
However, if you look at Tom's Hardware guide his setup was pretty much
the same?!
Cheers,
Andreas
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From: shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SIIG UDMA board woes - attached hard disks won't init. Help??
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 01:00:41 GMT
On Sat, 28 Oct 2000 23:23:02 -0700, Kinnison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I've bought a SIIG UltraATA/66 PCI board, and for various reasons had
>to install it as the only active board in my system. Windows 98
>(after a little jiggering and swearing and the accidental loss of some
>nontrivial data) boots from the new controller and works fine. Now to
>install Linux.
>
>I've already found the UDMA howto, and it gets me right up to the
>point where the drives are supposed to init and be recognized. What I
>get is
>
>probing with STATUS(0x00) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x51)
>probing with STATUS(0x01) instead of ALTSTATUS(0x51)
>no response (0xa1)
>resetting drive
>
>and it does this for both /dev/hde and dev/dhf (which would be all the
>hard disks in the system).
>
>The CD-ROM drives on the secondary IDE controller on the card appear
>to be working fine, but the hard drives won't initialize. Anybody got
>any idea why, and what I could do about it?
>
I've had one of these cards in my system, working, w/o any
problems for probably almost a year. It is currently in a
Redhat7 2.2.17 box with 1 drive attached as master to each channel.
Here's dmesg output:
AEC6210: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70
AEC6210: chipset revision 1
AEC6210: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
AEC6210: ROM enabled at 0xfebf8000
ide4: BM-DMA at 0xef50-0xef57, BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
ide5: BM-DMA at 0xef58-0xef5f, BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio
I'm not sure whether that helps you any or not...
Shane
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