Linux-Hardware Digest #367, Volume #14 Sun, 18 Feb 01 23:13:08 EST
Contents:
(USB) CompactFlash card reader (Luc Van Oostenryck)
Turtle Beach Pinnacle Pro- need help configuring on mandrake 7.0 ("Tim Ebert")
Re: Really old printer - Epson FX-80 ("Rob Malpass")
Re: Q: Epson Stylus Color 680 (John D Lamb)
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Q: Epson Stylus Color 680 (Richard Kimber)
Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
DVD-RAM (Toshiba SD-W2002) under linux? (Frank Miles)
The Best Site OF Linux. In this site there are all on linux www.frecell.6go.net
("frecell")
Re: Has anyone been able to run DirecPC on a real OS? (John Acuff)
AHA 950 (really annoyed now) (Alexis)
CDROM wierdness (Alexis)
Zenith 486 (Alexis)
new user ("David")
Re: new user (Dances With Crows)
Re: Zenith 486 (Dances With Crows)
EZCam II (USB) (Young4ert)
Flat Panel LCD Monitors ("yeah")
Re: Should I abandon SCSI? ("Folkert Rienstra")
Re: Big Brother is watching you............................please read
. 9696 (Allodoxaphobia)
Re: CDROM wierdness (Mark Bratcher)
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Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:12:57 +0100
From: Luc Van Oostenryck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (USB) CompactFlash card reader
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<pre>Hi alls,</pre>
<pre>Anyone know if it exist a CompactFlash card reader, if possible a USB one,</pre>
<pre>that it is possible to make works under Linux</pre>
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<pre>Thanx</pre>
<pre>--
Luc Van Oostenryck</pre>
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From: "Tim Ebert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Turtle Beach Pinnacle Pro- need help configuring on mandrake 7.0
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:44:01 GMT
Over the last year I have tried to get Linux running on my system a number
of times. This last time I've worked through almost all my problems except
for getting my turtle beach pinnacle pro working. It's not listed in
Lothar. In sndconfig its listed with another TBS card ( I think the Fiji).
It tells me to download the pinnacle dev kit from tbs. You then have to
take a piece of code from the kit and do some things that looks like your
are trying to compile your own driver. At any rate, I haven't been able to
get it to work. I was hoping someone else may have had some experience with
this.
Thanks
Tim
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From: "Rob Malpass" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
Subject: Re: Really old printer - Epson FX-80
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:45:07 -0000
Works fine. One or two little niggles but it's printing fine. Thankfully
there wasn't much to do by way of editing the printcap file.
Cheers
Rob
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From: John D Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Epson Stylus Color 680
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 20:46:57 +0000
There is a setting in gimp-print-4.1.3 for the stylus 680. You can get
the source code from http://sourceforge.net/projects/gimp-print.
Alternatively, if you can choose a stylus 777 driver in your current
setup that might well work.
JDL
Javier Conti wrote:
> Hi, does anyone here has a fully working Epson Stylus Color 680?
> Mine works but when I try to use the 670 driver (from the gimp) to use
> 720x720 dpi it prints a very blurred image.
>
> Is someone aware of a 680 specific filter? or a driver for the gimp?
>
> thanks, av
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:16:43 GMT
Dances With Crows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm. What's the sound card, and does it detect the joystick port at
> 0x200? (0x200 is the standard place, IIRC you can load "joystick" if
> the port isn't initialized but loading joy-gravis or whatnot will then
> return an error.) I do this with the line
> options es1371 joystick=0x200
> in /etc/modules.conf . Do a "dmesg | grep 0x200" and see if you get
> something like "soundcard: features joystick 0x200" back.
I did
dmesg | grep -i oystick
but I didn't see anything. So to get the above, should I be using options sb
or options uart401?
> mknod -m 666 /dev/js0 c 15 0
> /dev/js0 should already exist anyway.
And it does. Thanks,
L
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From: Richard Kimber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Q: Epson Stylus Color 680
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 21:20:45 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Javier Conti wrote:
> Hi, does anyone here has a fully working Epson Stylus Color 680?
> Mine works but when I try to use the 670 driver (from the gimp) to use
> 720x720 dpi it prints a very blurred image.
>
> Is someone aware of a 680 specific filter? or a driver for the gimp?
>
> thanks, av
I'm using a generic Epson Stylus Color driver that is listed. It seems to
work OK.
I'm not happy with the printer, though, it sounds like a tank gearing up
for battle whenever it prints. My wife has an almost totally silent HP.
Unfortunately it's not Linux friendly :-((
- Richard.
--
Richard Kimber
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: joystick driver on RH7 (2.2.16)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:09:43 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> dmesg | grep -i oystick
> but I didn't see anything. So to get the above, should I be using options sb
> or options uart401?
Got it! I managed to get my joystick to work
my loading joy-analog instead of joy-gravis. I also added the option for the
joystick port in my conf.modules.
All that's left is to make sure that it works in X! T'anks!
L
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Miles)
Subject: DVD-RAM (Toshiba SD-W2002) under linux?
Date: 18 Feb 2001 21:54:45 GMT
I'm considering getting the Toshiba SD-W2002 (nearly 5GB/side)
for backups, image storage, and the like. Don't care about commercial
DVDs, other than I'd like to be able to use it to read ordinary CD's.
Has anyone gotten this to work with Linux 2.2.1x?
TIA...
-frank
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From: "frecell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: The Best Site OF Linux. In this site there are all on linux
www.frecell.6go.net
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:29:05 +0100
The Best Site OF Linux. In this site there are all on linux
www.frecell.6go.net
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From: John Acuff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.satellite.direcpc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Has anyone been able to run DirecPC on a real OS?
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 22:47:55 GMT
Nebulink supports Linux. Their basic package is $35/ month. They are
offering $30 off the modem card for existing DPC users.
www.nebulink.net
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From: Alexis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AHA 950 (really annoyed now)
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:24:43 +0000
OK I missed any replies to the last time I asked about this but didn't
see any when I checked before so amybe there weren't any, so sorry for
the repost anyhow. I have this TMC 950 scsi adapter, which I just tried
to get RH6.0 to recognise at install time, just to see if it would,
mainly, and the damn thing wouldn't find it still. I know the card
works cos windoze has no problem with it. Do I have to pass some
parameters, if so will somone please tell me how (I know its a comma
separated list but what do I put in it?). Same goes for this AHA 1502
(said to work with aha152x driver) really *dumb* card that I have.
Perhaps if someone replies you could send it also to my email addy
otherwise I will miss it again! Incidentally, mandrake 7.2 doesn't even
appear to support the TMC card. Ho hum.
Alexis
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From: Alexis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: CDROM wierdness
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:27:52 +0000
I was given a rather nice Samsung 32x cdrom drive, as faulty but if I
could fix it I could keep it. Strangely it refuses to work under
windoze (device not ready error) but works beautifully under mandrake
7.2. Makes me happy :-)
Alexis
btw does anybody know why this should be the case?
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From: Alexis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Zenith 486
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:32:15 +0000
I have been given an old zenith data systems z station 500, nice piece
of kit, 486 dx. It has no hard drive but i put one in, only to find I
cannot boot from a floppy to install linux on it. It has an obscure
soldered to the board phoenix bios in it, is there a way I can get
around this strange problem. The bios setting seem to contain nothing
about boot sequence.
I know this is a bit off topic but i do want to run RH or some other
linux on this machine, which is very nice.
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From: "David" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new user
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:34:43 -0600
I am new to Linux. Is there any site I can goto to learn more about Linux?
I head that Lucent Winmodems are supported. How do I get mine set up?
David
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: new user
Date: 19 Feb 2001 00:46:31 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[Followups set]
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 18:34:43 -0600, David staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I am new to Linux. Is there any site I can goto to learn more about
>Linux? I head that Lucent Winmodems are supported. How do I get mine
>set up?
http://linuxnewbie.org/
http://linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/
file:/usr/share/doc/howto/
deadtree:/manual_in_distro_box
For the Lucent modem, try the following site:
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/
Make sure you read the directions before you try it. It dialed,
authenticated, and communicated just fine with no hitches on my Thinkpad
600X, but it would drop carrier at random moments. Crappy phone lines
or something weird with battery power?
Anyway, setup was a breeze. I downloaded the tarball, then executed the
following series of commands when logged in as root:
tar xzf ltmodem5.78e.tar.gz
cd ltmodem5.78e
./build_module
./ltinst
...and that was it. HTH,
--
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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances With Crows)
Subject: Re: Zenith 486
Date: 19 Feb 2001 00:46:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:32:15 +0000, Alexis staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
>I have been given an old zenith data systems z station 500, nice piece
>of kit, 486 dx. It has no hard drive but i put one in, only to find I
>cannot boot from a floppy to install linux on it. It has an obscure
>soldered to the board phoenix bios in it, is there a way I can get
>around this strange problem. The bios setting seem to contain nothing
>about boot sequence.
>
>I know this is a bit off topic but i do want to run RH or some other
>linux on this machine, which is very nice.
See if you can find the original manual for the machine, which should
tell you what steps you need to take to boot from a floppy. I don't
know that I would call a 486 "really nice" if it takes hours of hassle
to get it to boot from a floppy though. If this was a "server system"
back in the day, you may actually have to insert a key into the front
case and turn it to unlock the boot sequence settings in the BIOS. 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: Young4ert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: EZCam II (USB)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 00:46:06 GMT
Hi,
I just got the EZCam II (USB) from the local CompUSA (free after the
rebates) and tested on the Linux kernel-2.4.1 to novail. Has anyone had
ever try this camera? I checked the http://webcam.sourceforge.com and it
has a CPiA driver that claimed to support this type of camera. I believe
this CPiA driver is already incorporated as part of the latest Linux 2.4.1
kernel distro. Am I missing something?
TIA.
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From: "yeah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Flat Panel LCD Monitors
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 02:31:07 GMT
Does anyone have any recommendations on a moderately priced flat panel LCD
monitor that has linux support?
thanx,
serg
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Reply-To: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Folkert Rienstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Should I abandon SCSI?
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 01:03:44 +0100
Crossposted-To: comp.periphs.scsi
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allodoxaphobia)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Big Brother is watching you............................please read
. 9696
Date: 19 Feb 2001 03:32:17 GMT
On Sun, 18 Feb 2001 10:56:48 +0500, Fluri Dave scribbled:
>And why do you presume that your WIndows software should be spammed to _this_ group?
And, why do you presume that spammers read followups?
Jonesy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Bratcher)
Subject: Re: CDROM wierdness
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 03:43:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alexis wrote:
>I was given a rather nice Samsung 32x cdrom drive, as faulty but if I
>could fix it I could keep it. Strangely it refuses to work under
>windoze (device not ready error) but works beautifully under mandrake
>7.2. Makes me happy :-)
>
>Alexis
>
>btw does anybody know why this should be the case?
Windows handling of CD-ROM drives is drain bamaged.
Outside of that, I'm not sure. :-)
--
Mark Bratcher
To reply direct, remove both underscores (_) from my email name
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