Re: Grown defect list for IDE disks?
Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I can obtain the grown defect list (disk blocks gone bad since the factory) for my SCSI drives with sginfo -G. Does anyone know of a similar utility for IDE disks? Do IDE disks even keep this information? (This is for a Seagate disk ~2-3 years old.) I don't think IDE drives give detailed fault information. Newish drives (ATA5 and above?) tend to have extensive built in diagnostics known as S.M.A.R.T. This monitors many stats while running and during user requested tests. Look at the smartmontools and hddtemp packages to monitor and/or test drives. It includes smartctl which lets you view stats, start tests and check the results. smartd can monitor the status of your drive and send syslog messages when it changes. hddtemp can ask the drive its temperature to make sure it is not overheating (Heat makes it wear out faster). If you are worried about the condition of the drive use the manufacturers diagnostic software from their website. It may offer a few more tests then you can get with plain S.M.A.R.T. since the standard is often extended. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues
Chad Davis wrote: How do I get the line out jack to work on the back of this pc? Have you tried playing with the mixer? Try aumix for OSS/Free drivers or gamix for ALSA. The AC97 codecs on VIA sound chips often have a bunch more channels than you would think. There may also be some option switches in ALSA that affect it. BTW Isn't there a way to connect this internally? My Zoltrix tuner connects to the CDROM audio connector. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: TV Tuner / Sound Card issues
Chad Davis wrote: I have been using gnome-alsamixer. I however did go ahead an get gamix. Seems as if everything is all the way up, still no volume from the line in on the back. :/ It did come with a internal cable, however I have lost it. I will have to purchase a new one. What switches in alsa do I need and how do I look into that? I seem to recall at one point I had 2 sound cards listed in mixer apps. Not sure what happened to the other one.. I don't have the same system so I can't give many more hints. On my system for example the line-in only works if line-in as surround is turned off since otherwise it is a speaker output. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ALSA Default Card
I recently started having some trouble with ALSA and possibly hotplug. I noticed some problems with playing sounds and it looks like ALSA has placed my TV card as hw:0,0 instead of the VIA driver (which gets hw:1,0). This is a big problem for OSS based programs since the (record only) TV card gets /dev/dsp. The sound card ends up on /dev/dsp1. Is there any way to get the sound card as card 0 and the TV card as card 1? I assume hotplug loads snd_bt87x first, when I want it to load snd_via82xx first. I am running Unstable with kernel 2.6.7-1-k7 on a GigaByte GA-K8VNXP. Relevant packages: ii alsa-base 1.0.6a-10 ALSA driver configuration files ii alsa-headers 1.0.6a-10 transitional package that can be safely remo ii alsa-oss 1.0.6-2ALSA OSS-compatibility library ii alsa-utils 1.0.6-4ALSA utilities ii alsamixergui 0.9.0rc2-1-7 graphical soundcard mixer for ALSA soundcard ii alsaplayer-als 0.99.76-0.2PCM player designed for ALSA (ALSA output mo ii alsaplayer-com 0.99.76-0.2PCM player designed for ALSA (common files) ii alsaplayer-gtk 0.99.76-0.2PCM player designed for ALSA (GTK version) ii alsaplayer-oss 0.99.76-0.2PCM player designed for ALSA (OSS output mod ii hotplug0.0.20040329-1 Linux Hotplug Scripts /proc/asound/cards: 0 [Bt878 ]: Bt87x - Brooktree Bt878 Brooktree Bt878 at 0xe300, irq 16 1 [rev60 ]: VIA8233 - VIA 823x rev60 VIA 823x rev60 at 0xe400, irq 22 -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel 2.6.8 and usb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have been having problems getting the 2.6 kernel to properly identify my usb ports when my printer and scanner are plugged in. The boot process will hang where hotplug is loading the usb modules and configuring the usb devices. The error is control timeout on ep0in. If the printer and scanner are not plugged in the computer will boot normally but only occasionally can I get /etc/init.d/hotplug restart to complete successfully. I have had lots of trouble with USB on newer 2.6 kernels with a Gigabyte K8VNXP. The newest kernel that works properly is 2.6.7-1-k7. lspci in case anyone recognizes buggy USB controllers, etc. :00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8385 [K8T800 AGP] Host Bridge (rev 01) :00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI bridge [K8T800 South] :00:0c.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 02) :00:0c.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 02) :00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06) :00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) :00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) :00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) :00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82x UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81) :00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86) :00:10.5 Network controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 Integrated Fast Ethernet Controller :00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [K8T800 South] :00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60) :00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78) :00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 NorthBridge :01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV15DDR [GeForce2 Ti] (rev a4) -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Organizing Multiple OSes on Drive(s)
Phil Bardanes wrote: 1. Using a single /home partition with one user/UID. Can I make this work even if one OS only uses Gnome and another only uses KDE? Also if one OS uses Evolution 1.4 and the other uses Evolution 2.0? 2. Using a single swap partition. 3. Using a single boot partition to stuff the kernels. 1. May or may not work. I had trouble sharing /home between Debian and SuSE since everything was in different places (SuSE installs KDE in /opt) and different programs were installed. 2. Should be fine 3. This is probably okay unless they go stepping on each others bootloader config (/boot/grub/menu.lst). Debian should be okay since it will ignore the items not added by debconf. Keep backups and learn to use the 'grub-install' command. Have a bootable CD or floppy around in case it gets screwed up. I have a floppy disk with nothing but grub on it that can be very useful. Hope this helps. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Getting realplayer streams to disk files
On Friday 04 May 2001 05:43, asdfasf asfasf wrote: This is getting ridiculous. I've been trying for many hours over many days now to save realplayer broadcasts to files on my disk and have been completely unable to do so. It almost seems as if the realplayer software has been _designed_ so that you can't save content you view through the player to disk. (I can't actually confirm or deny this though through google searches.) Is there a way to do this? If you just want the audio you can use a full duplex sound card to record it. I have done this with a SoundBlaster Live Value II. Select the 'Volume' channel as the record source and you will record anything that is played. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No sound from CD, but timidity works
On Sunday 22 April 2001 18:29, csj wrote: JUST wondering did you connect the audio cable on the CD writer to the soundcard? You can try connecting your headphones to the headphone jack on the writer's front panel (if it has one). Otherwise bring out your screw driver. before you get out the screw driver make sure the CD volume is turned up in the mixer. Timidity will need the PCM and Main volumes up. CD Audio needs Main and CD turned up. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-RW recommendations
On Friday 13 April 2001 22:23, D-Man wrote: I think my desktop qualifies as cheap ($, I only paid ~$400) because I bought some parts and kept some others. It is a Duron 750 with 128MB RAM. If I get that drive I will get the free memory and have 256MB! I forgot to mention that the Yamaha doesn't say what bus it plugs into, but the picture looks like itis an internal drive. The comments in the ad say Its 8MB buffer virtually eliminates buffer underruns. An 8MB buffer sounds nice. Another feature to look for is BURNProof. This is a new feature found on many drives that lets it recover from an underrun. Cdrecord supports it on Linux. That said I have never seen an underrun on my system (850MHz Athalon, 128MB RAM). I don't do any CD to CD copying though. I have the CD Writer on the ATA100 a seperate IDE controller from the HDD and CDROM (Everything is master). This is using an ASUS K7V motherboard, a Maxtor ATA66 HDD, Plextor 12/10/32A CDR and a cheapo Creative 52x CDROM. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CD-RW support
On January 28, 2001 05:58 pm, Glenn Becker wrote: This lets me *access* the drive ok, but when I try to mount it I get the familiar mount: block device /dev/cdrom2 is write-protected, mounting read-only mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom2, or too many mounted file systems I assume you just want to read a CD in the drive. You cannot write to a mounted CD (Packet writing software does not yet exist for Linux). If the CD is good (Try it in the CDROM drive) then you probably have a configuration problem. Check what /dev/cdrom2 points at. It should be /dev/scd0 (Even for an IDE CD writer). Make sure the ide-scsi and the sr_mod modules are loaded. Hope this helps. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Linux + Asus A7V
My friend is trying to install debian and got strange problem. Installation tells that he got no hd at all ... Any clues what is wrong. Motherboard: asus a7v, processor: TB 750, HD : Maxtor 40.9 Gb udma5 (ata100) I have this board, but don't have anything attached to the ATA100 controller. Is the HDD attached to the ATA100 controller? If so you need a kernel w/ Promise IDE support. 2.4.0 supports it and I think patches exist too. I also remember seeing some parameters you could pass to LILO to get it to work, but I don't think it would do ATA100. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Matrox + XF4 + 2.4
Hall Stevenson wrote: I have been trying to help my brother set up his new Matrox G450 under debian GNU/Linux. It is their That error message is telling you the problem is with your monitor, *not* the video card. Get the sync and refresh rates for your *exact* monitor, either from the monitor's manual or the manufacturer's website. For the G450 it will do that if you use the mga driver included in X. Get the new driver from Matrox's web page. The instructions included will explain how to set it up.
Re: Sound Blaster Live
On January 14, 2001 11:44 pm, Tim 'trout' Apple wrote: Hello, I'm new to the list and debian. I have a sound blaster live sound card and was wondering if someone could direct me to a site or give me dir's on what to do to get it functioning. Thanks Use the emu10k1 module. No parameters should be needed. Newer versions of the driver are available from opensource.creative.com but you will have to compile them yourself. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Windows Hyperterm alternative for Linux
On January 12, 2001 10:02 pm, Frank Rocco wrote: will trillich wrote: [SNIP] I site is a banking institution and requires me to dial in. tcpip will not work for this. You probably want minicom. This is a telix style vt100 emulator. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Parallel attached CDR - recomendations?
On January 5, 2001 06:49 pm, Nate Bargmann wrote: Hello all. I am looking for a method to archive a bunch of stuff off of a couple different computers and since one is a laptop and one a desktop, it seems a parallel attached CDR drive might be the answer (I'm not enthused about Zip or Iomega drives). I know that the kernel has support for these devices, but I would like others' opinions on a good drive, write reliability, etc. Speed is secondary at this point and a 2 or 4x write speed would be more than adequate. Perhaps such beasts don't exist and I'm just imagining things. Right now I'm running Potato on both machines with kernel 2.2.14 on one and 2.2.15 on the other (been too lazy to upgrade) if that makes a difference. The MicroSolutions (www.micro-solutions.com) Backpack CD-ReWriter works with 2.2 kernels. You need a binary only module from there website. It does not work with 2.4. The bpck.o module from the normal paride drivers does not work with this drive. I can get 4x writing even with X runnign on a Compaq Presario 1275 (AMDK6-2 366MHz, 96MB RAM, EPP parallel port w/ interupts enabled). Reading CDs sometimes crashes the machine, so I usse the backpack for writing only and use the built in CDROM for reading. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel 2.4.0 and audio cd
On January 6, 2001 11:29 am, Anthony Fox wrote: After compiling and running a 2.4.0 kernel, I can no longer play audio cds. I can mount data cds just fine, but not audio cds. If I try to mount an audio cd I get the following error: Has anyone seen this problem or does anyone know what the problem is here and how to fix it? Could you mount them under previous kernels? Audio CDs have no file system. You play them with a CD player application which just tells the CD-ROM drive to play it. Players I can think of are xmcd, cdtools (Console based), grip, kcdplay, etc. If you can't hear anything from the speakers after the disk is playing, but can here it through the CD drives earphone jack then check the volume (Usually called CD) with a mixer (aumix, xmixer, kmixer, etc). Hope this helps. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: install on compaq 1245
On December 30, 2000 04:43 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Anyone installed debian on one of these? I'd like to know how about X, sound, and pcmcia configuration (meaning: easy, sortta, pain). Well, I'm just planing to updata the notebook and wanted to see how much time should I reserve for that installation. Thanks! What hardware does the notebook have? I have a 1275 which I think is similar so I will give you hints from that. I have a webpage about it at http://members.home.com/sdalimon/linux/Compaq1275.html Note this machine runs Mandrake (But is outnumbered by 2 other Debian machines in the house) so I can only offer general suggestions, nothing debian specific. Neomagic Video Supported by the XFree86_SVGA server. Both 3.3.6 and 4.0.1 work. Use Option intern_disp and Option extern_disp in the Device section to set wether X is on LCD and/or monitor. The keyboard control doesn't work reliably in X. Monitor switching works on the console. ESS Sound Soundblaster compatable. Get the Io, irq, dma, etc from the BIOS screen or the WIndows device manager. Volume buttons do work. PCMCIA Works with my Practically Networked (LinkSys) NP-100 network card USB (Does the 1245 have this?) Works fine with 2.2.17+backport (Probably 2.2.18 too, haven't tried it yet). Used with Zip250 and S SideWinder gamepad Touchpad This is a Synaptics Touchpad. It works as a PS/2 mouse. A utility is available to turn off tap-to-click mode if you don't like it. Modem The Compaq 56K modem is a Lucent LT Winmodem. A driver for most 2.2 kernels is available from http://linmodems.org. I find it unreliable, especially with the network card. More modem info and newer Windows drivers are available from www.808hi/com/56k/ltwin.htm I also use a backpack CD-Rewriter attached to the parallel port using the binary driver from microsolutions webpage. I also use an external monitor, keyboard and logitech cordless wheelmouse (On a cheap PS/2 y cable. Compaq claims that y cables are not reliable, but I have had no problems). Hope this helps. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: shell to /dev/ttySxx
On December 30, 2000 01:15 pm, Matthieu Paindavoine wrote: I have a device connected to a serial port. There is no protocol, I just send out characters. I would like to know how to have a shell where every thing I typed is sent to this device once I type [enter], pretty much like irc. Currently I can output files to this device (Cat xxx /dev/ttySxx), but I am looking for a more interactive mode. You probably want to use a terminal program like minicom. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: mouse question
On December 29, 2000 07:57 pm, Cam wrote: Hello, I recently bought a Logitech Cordless Mouseman Wheel mouse and I am unable to get the wheel to work at all. Here is what I have in my XF86Config-4 file for my mouse: I haven't tried this on my Debian machine, but here is what Mandrake did on that machine (Xfree86 4.0.1, KDE2). Also look at http://www-sop.inria.fr/koala/colas/mouse-wheel-scroll/ for hints in making the wheel work in many applications (Netscape, emacs, etc) This works with my Logitech Cordless Wheel Mouse (The one with the red, blue and grey interchangable covers). All KDE applications, Netscape and xmms work great. Section Pointer ProtocolMouseManPlusPS/2 Device /dev/mouse ZAxisMapping 4 5 #Emulate3Buttons #Emulate3Timeout50 # ChordMiddle is an option for some 3-button Logitech mice #ChordMiddle EndSection -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: High ASCII characters at console
On December 26, 2000 09:47 am, Malcolm Miles wrote: I accidently more-ed a binary file and now everything I type at the console is in high ASCII characters. Is there an easy way to get back my normal console characters? Typing 'reset' usually works. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kernel config questions: SCSI, Tux and letters
On December 5, 2000 07:20 pm, Ignasi Tura wrote: I have a SCSI card Symbios Logic 53c400. Searching list archives I read that the kernel option for my card was the NCR 5380. But if I look the kernel options in SCSI low-level drivers I find the following options: NCR53c7,8xx SCSI support NCR53C8XX SCSI support and a final SYM53C8XX SCSI support What one should I choose? The symbios 53c416 no, isn't it? I have one that came with an HP scanner and have had no luck with it. The drive you want is Generic NCR53800/53c400. Read /usr/src/linux/drivers/scsi/README.g_NCR5380 for some info. The card I have has only 1 jumper with no marking, but doen't show up in a pnpdump. I found an FAQ from HP that said the card automatically gets an address and gives a list of possible addresses. None of these work. The machine locks up with a message about bus timeout. Even stranger is the way it does the same thing if the card is not installed. I was hoping to hook the scanner up to this to share across the network with SANE, but a SCSI card would cost more than the machine is worth. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: NCR53C9x (MCA) SCSI problem with scanner
On November 19, 2000 08:49 pm, Lee Elliott wrote: Seems like it's just a conflict between the controller and the scanner because the other devices work ok. As it crashes anyway, with termination on the controller, try it without. man sane-scsi only briefly refers to the ncr53c8xx controller in the context of 2.0 kernels. You could try setting the SANE_DEBUG_SANEI_SCSI variable to see if anything in the debug messages help. Also check sane-hp. I will try that. I changed the motherboard termination, but that didn't help. I also loaded up Win95 and tried HP's software which worked perfectly. I assume it is not a problem with the controller or setup, but with the driver or SANE. -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
NCR53C9x (MCA) SCSI problem with scanner
I am trying to hook a scanner up to my NCR 3350 using the built in SCSI controller but the machine is crashing when I try to use it. I tried searching with Google and Deja but couldn't find anything. The machine is: NCR 3350 (486dx2 upgraded to AMD586, 16MB RAM, MCA bus) Debian Potato 2.2r1/DRDOS 7.02 (Linux loaded by Loadlin) Built in NCR53C9x SCSI controller with: 2 Harddrives, and CDROM internal HP ScanJet IIp scanner No ID conflicts, no other SCSI problems. When I run find-scanner I get the message NMI generated from unknown source! and the SCSI bus locks up (LED on solid). Does anyone know what causes this? Here is the SCSI info from dmesg: SCSI ID 7 Clock 25 MHz CCF=0 Time-Out 167 NCR53C9x(esp236) detected Adapter found in slot 5: io port 0x240 irq 5 dma channel 3 scsi0 : NCR 53c9x SCSI scsi : 1 host. Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST31230N Rev: HP04 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 Vendor: CONNERModel: CP30540 545MB3.5 Rev: B0C2 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0 Vendor: HPModel: C1790ARev: 3226 Type: Processor ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Vendor: TOSHIBA Model: CD-ROM XM-3401TA Rev: 2873 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total. esp0: target 1 [period 200ns offset 15 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI] SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 2051460 [1001 MB] [1.0 GB] esp0: target 2 [period 200ns offset 15 5.00MHz synchronous SCSI] SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 1045242 [510 MB] [0.5 GB] eth0: SMC Ethercard PLUS Elite/A UTP/AUI (WD8013WP/A) found in slot 4 eth0: Parameters: 0x800, 00 00 C0 DB B9 09, IRQ 10 memory 0xc-0xc3fff. Partition check: sda: sda1 sda2 sdb: sdb1 -- Shawn D'Alimonte [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Stuck with M$ Exchange.
On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Leandro Dutra wrote: I work at a company which uses only M$ Exchange for email, and a gateway to SMTP. I could install Linux on my machine, but would need a piece of s/w to be able to talk to the Exchange server. Is there any thing available? Exchange servers, at least where I work, support POP, IMAP and a web/Javascript based interface that looks kinda like Outlook. For POP try your exchange server as the server with Domain/UserName as the login. Hope this helps. -- Shawn D'Alimonte - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Under university lab conditions, the laws of nature do not apply-
Only root can print?
I am using Linux/m68k (hamm) and am having trouble printing. Only root seems able to print. When i try as my normal account lpr responds with 'lpr: can't create /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq'. lpq claims that no daemon is running. When I am root everything works perfectly. I am using lpr5.9-29 in its default configuration with a Star NX1000R attached to the built in parallel port (/dev/lp0). -- Shawn D'Alimonte - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Under university lab conditions, the laws of nature do not apply-
Re: dot matrix printer
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Justin Maurer wrote: matrix printer. it is a Panasonic KX-P1624. we have had difficulties in setting it up (it is a dot matrix printer). please contact me if you can help (i am not subscribed to the list). it would be nice if there was one tool or something that would work for all three (i didn't see an appopriate filter with magicfilterconfig). Are there example settings for an Epson dot matrix? Many dot matrix's are Epson compatible. I haven't spent much time setting up printing on my yet, but text prints fine on my Star NX1000 with out any changes to the setup. If you want to print PostScript try using Ghostscript with the epson DEVICE setting. -- Shawn D'Alimonte - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Under university lab conditions, the laws of nature do not apply-