Linux-Hardware Digest #229
Linux-Hardware Digest #229, Volume #9Wed, 20 Jan 99 14:13:33 EST
Contents:
Re: Booting problem after install... (Mark Paulus)
Problem getting SoundPro on-board sound chip to work (Keith Ellul)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Sven Utcke)
Re: SCSI Problem (AIC-78xx) (Ian Smith)
Re: Diamond Rio ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
fdisk partitioning 8GB drive (Bryan McKinley)
Can I run a DOS Device Driver in an emulator ("Norm Dresner")
Re: Sound Blaster PCI 64 (Scott Alfter)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Gabor)
PCMCIA Network card (David Moulton)
Re: AMD K6-2 66MHz, freeze on install of 5.2 ("karlo")
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Sven Utcke)
Re: What Cheap 56K Modem for Linux? (Bradley M Keryan)
Re: onboard DSP winmodem? ("Simon Allfrey")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Paulus)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Booting problem after install...
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 15:13:45 GMT
If you can boot from the rescue disk, then do so. Once you
are in, run fdisk, do a p (print table), and make sure of where
your /root and /boot partitions are (if they are different). Then,
check /etc/fstab and make sure they are the same. Then,
check /etc/lilo.conf and make sure those entries match and
rerun lilo (assuming you do). If you are using loadlin, make
sure your /root entry matches what fdisk says.
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 23:46:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (w joseph mantle)
wrote:
Hi,
I am having a problem booting Linux. After installing Slackware 3.6
with Linux kernel 2.0.35, the computer halts during boot and gives
the message
Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount the root fs on 03:03
There doesn't seem to be any problem with the hard disk. We've
had windows NT on there for two months without any problems.
Also I can boot from the rescue disk and mount the root filesystem
and run disk checking program e2chk (?).
The hard disk is a 10.2 Gigabyte Ultra ATA IDE Quantum Fireball
EX 10.2 AT. The specs on it are 19885 cylinders, 16 heads, and
63 sectors. Linux doesn't return the correct specs from
probing. I've been passing the specs into the kernel on the
boot command line using "hda=cyl,heads,secs". I've tried
a number of different parameters on that line.
The documentation says that Linux may requre the hard disk
specs to be entered on the command line for some SCSI disks.
Why is it not probing/returning the correct specs for my IDE
drive?
After reading the Large Disk HOWTO (I don't know if my
computer has BIOS INT13 or not), I've tried to partition
the disk with different parameters than those given by the
manufacurer and have had the mounting problem mentioned
in the first paragraph. I even tried the maximum numbers
that fdisk didn't compain about cyl=1024, heads=255, secs=63.
When I try to give linux the correct specs, the BEGIN and
START fields in the partition table don't agree. Is that
okay?
Any help would be appreciated.
Joe Mantle
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From: Keith Ellul [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problem getting SoundPro on-board sound chip to work
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 13:59:31 -0500
Hi. I have a Houston Technologies M575 motherboard with an on-board
SoundPro sound chip.
Does anyone know how I could get this sound chip to work under Linux?
I've been trying for a while with no luck.
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks
-Keith!
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Keith Ellul 4th Year Pure Math / Computer Science
[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Waterloo
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From: Sven Utcke [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.misc,comp.emacs,comp.editors
Subject: Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use)
Date: 20 Jan 1999 14:53:16 +0100
Erik Naggum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Festus van Landingham)
| Do emacs users not type captial letters or does emacs not support
| capital letters?
sometimes, I wonder how the human race survived this far, but it can't be
^
that much longer before we're history.
Emacs users don't need a caps lock key. they have much better
^
ways to capitalize words, expressions, regions, whatever
Linux-Hardware Digest #231
Linux-Hardware Digest #231, Volume #9Wed, 20 Jan 99 18:13:34 EST
Contents:
Re: xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens (Harald Arnesen)
Re: Good Server MB Super 7 or PII? ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: Funny error from 3COM 905B on warm boot ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Problem with modem and ethernet cards on Gateway Solo 9100 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: fdisk partitioning 8GB drive (Jose Urena)
Re: AMD K6 3Dnow cpu with m590 motherboard supported in linux 2.0.36 ? ("Michael Lee
Yohe")
Re: Pentium II vs K6-2 ("Michael Lee Yohe")
Help with a Digiboard Digiport PC/4 multiport card (john orrells)
Re: Voice/Fax modems and Linux (John Walstra)
Re: Cannot talk to /dev/cua1, which is a modem (and NOT a winmodem). (Christopher
Bruce)
Re: Winmodem or no?? (Peter Johnson)
Re: Graphical Recommendation (Jason McKnight)
Re: quiet CPU fans (?) (John Belew)
Re: linux viruses (Matthias Bruestle)
Re: Which AMD K6-2 is faulty (BL)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Erik Naggum)
From: Harald Arnesen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: xf86Elo.so module / for Elo touchscreens
Date: 19 Jan 1999 11:17:22 +0100
Eric Hegstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A driver for the serial interface is included in the RedHat distribution
/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/xf86Elo.so
my question is how do I get this driver loaded or what do I need to do
to make it work. If anyone has any suggestions I'd love to hear them.
I _think_ this should work:
# /etc/X11/XF86Config
Section "Module"
Load "xf86Elo.so"
EndSection
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Harald Arnesen, Apalløkkveien 23 A, N-0956 Oslo, Norway
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Good Server MB Super 7 or PII?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:41:39 -0600
I kidding aside, all other things being equal. Will an AMDK6-2 or K6-3
make a good server? Should I still invest in the Pentium II or will the
Super 7 systems work just as well?
Processors based on AMD's K6-2 (or K6-3 when released) will make excellent
servers. Cyrix processors will also do an excellent job. If the machine is
truly going to be a server (and not a duo-workstation like many people do)
then processor speed is not the biggest issue. I/O subsystem performance
plays a key part in excellent server performance.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Funny error from 3COM 905B on warm boot
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:48:17 -0600
I am not sure whether that is related, but do you boot into winXX
before?
Because if you do, the win drivers change some register settings, which
aren't reinitialized during a reboot.
In my case my card claims to have a MAC of ff:ff:ff
3com, Donald Becker, and various motherboard manufacturers have stated that
it's due to the way PnP works on PCI devices. Fortunately, the 905 series
seems to be among the very few with the problem. The solution they
recommended is turning PnP off in the BIOS and _cold_ booting the machine.
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From: "Michael Lee Yohe" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 14:39:58 -0600
Red Hat LINUX 5.2 -- I have a 3Com 3c905B-TX on a 100Mb LAN. The card
seems to start ok as I can ping my IP address, and I see no errors
during bootup. I verified all my IP settings with network support. I
cannot ping anything else on my subnet (including gateway) nor outside
the subnet. Is the card supposed to autosense the speed of the
network? Is there a configuration setting for setting the speed to 100
that I missed? Thanks in advance.
The 3c905B-TX is a problem-prone card that has given many network
administrators around the world fits. Solutions come like this:
-- view the web page by Donald Becker regarding the 3c509x driver (type
"dmesg" and look for the web address).
1) Turn PnP off in the BIOS
2) Check your motherboard manufacturer for any BIOS updates regarding the
card (yes -
Linux-Hardware Digest #232
Linux-Hardware Digest #232, Volume #9Wed, 20 Jan 99 22:13:48 EST
Contents:
Re: Where to buy equipment? ("4pcdeals.com")
Re: Netscape 4.5 makes screen blink frequently (Christian Huebner)
setup printer server (Richarad Wang)
Re: 98 - Linux dual boot with a large disk - Help! ("Iain Bennett")
Accton 1207 Ethercombo-TX - compatible? ("Clifton")
Re: Sparc, Emacs, and RedHat 5.2 (Eric Wurbel)
HP 7200e with CD-ReWritable as a backup system ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: 3Com 3c905B-TX (Dan Nguyen)
Re: Linux compatible modems (Rob Clark)
Re: my 'man' has lost all its entries (jamie)
Re: Netscape 4.5 makes screen blink frequently (Robin Atwood)
Help on linux needed (Torsten Christiansen)
Re: Wangtek 5099EN24 streamer and Linux? (Gereon Wenzel)
ATI Mach32 SVGATextMode (Alois Huber)
IBM EtherJet 100/10 - drivers? ("Zbigniew Lukaszewicz")
X windows - resolution ("Cody")
Passive Creatix ISDN LPT BOX Driver (PAUL ZUBER)
Re: Want Linux bogomips numbers for Intel PII-450 (Juho Cederstrom)
Re: iomega 2GB jaz drive (with iomega SCSI) and RedHat 5.2, installation (luca78)
Re: modem/pppd config-bit 7 set to 0? ("AllenF")
HP 8100 CD-RW (K. B. Lee)
Olicom Driver..HELP (Thane Bellomo)
Re: Linux keyboard? (For emacs use) (Allan Gottlieb)
Re: HELP: IBM ISA Token Ring 16/4 ("Christopher Cox")
Re: HP Deskjet 895Cxi - anyone seen it working ? ("Dan")
Re: Which CPU to upgrade to? ("ST :-D")
Ram Detection ("digitalklown")
How to set RH5.2 to use old Mono display ? ("Andrei A. Dergatchev")
IBM Micro Channel Port MCA PS/2 ("Zach")
From: "4pcdeals.com" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,comp.periphs.scsi,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Where to buy equipment?
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 17:50:20 -0500
Give me a chance to price out your needs -
We only buy from top-tier distributors (Like Ingram Micro),
we have been in business since 1990,
we only sell quality parts - not refurbs or knock-off
or fell-off-the-truck -
thanks,
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
toll-free - 877 DEAL 4 PC
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From: Christian Huebner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x,comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Netscape 4.5 makes screen blink frequently
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:57:44 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Dartt wrote:
I've recently done a clean install of Red Hat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36), along
with an update of all of the XFree86 RPMs (even ones I don't need) to
3.3.3-1 and Netscape to the 4.5 RPM from NS's site. Now, whenever I run
the browser, my screen will sporadically blink, often when I've just
followed a link. This problem only seems to occur when a Netscape
window is open.
I'm using a laptop with a Trident Cyber 9397DVD, and as an earlier post
mentioned, this hasn't been a problem when I've run Windows, so I don't
think it's the hardware.
I also have a notebook with the Cyber9397DVD chip. I also noticed the
blink
You describe, though its only really noticeable in 24-bit. I think it
does
not occur in 32 or 16 bit. I didnt yet suspect Netscape 4.5 but Ill take
Your hint and try this.
If You find something, please tell me ... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...
thanks.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Also does anyone know whether one of
the two choices for the Cyber 9397 in the XFree86 Setup program is
preferred, or are they identical?
I have no idea. Basically I just edited my XF86Config file
As a final question, does anyone know how to configure an ESS 1968S
(Maestro-2) sound card under Linux?
You seem to have the same notebook I have. I was told there will be a
beta sound driver for the 1968 soon, but there has not been a date yet.
Good luck
Chris
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From: Richarad Wang [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setup printer server
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 02:03:19 -0800
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
can anyone tell me how to set up linux printer server for other Unix
machine? Thanks!
Richard
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From: "Iain Bennett" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: 98 - Linux dual boot with a large disk - Help!
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 11:10:33 -0500
partition (11GB) and I only want to give it about 5. So should I partition
the whole drive before hand? Will Linux be able to drop the OS onto one of
the logical drives? And in this kind of situation do I still install 98
first?
I'd install Win98 first - use a disk to boot to dos, use fdisk to setup the
hard drive the way you want (two partitions - one for Win98, the other will
be used for linux - you'll partition the Linux side when you get to the
Linux install)
I currently have a 7.6GB drive on my system. I've given Win98 3.2G and
Linux 4.4G.
-I
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From: "Clifton" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Accton
