Linux-Hardware Digest #784
Linux-Hardware Digest #784, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 05:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config ("Ken Abrahamsen")
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive ("Greg H.")
Re: Linux don't want to boot with Promise FastTrak66 Raid Controller! (Clark Brash)
Ghost partition ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing (Jon Wright)
Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100 (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: RH + HDD problems (James Richard Tyrer)
Re: atlon thunderbird, problems with vi and screen writing ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
Re: Jaz 1G removable hard-drive ("Vincent")
Re: Ghost partition (Mark Post)
Miss and Mach config files from differnt distribution. ("Kevin Dunbar")
Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Nicholas Yue)
Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1 (mike)
Re: Ethernet card problem... ("Jason Carlisle")
Can't boot on Sparc/SuSE ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ata100 (a7v) and linux (Eric)
Re: Jaz 1G removable hard-drive (Eric)
From: "Ken Abrahamsen" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: HP35480A scsi tape drive config
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 16:26:13 -0700
OK, this was a few years ago, so the details may only be close but.
I *struggled* with one of these same Hp drives for 1-2 weeks on a Dell
server running NT 4.0 server.
FWIR, tapes on this HP tape drive will *immediately* eject after loading IF
the current drive setup/configuration is different from the existing tape
header record. The magic key to solving this is to do a FULL reformat of
each tape which will not mount.
So you ask, how do you format a tape when the fool tape drive spits it right
back out?
At least under NT backup, there was an option to suppress reading the tape's
header record upon loading the tape in the drive. Under Linux, I'd suggest
looking for something like this option too. Sorry I don't know what it is
though. Maybe someone can tell you the command now that you know what needs
to be done. Once you find it and get the tape to stay in the drive. REFORMAT
the tape (assuming your tape drive has now been configured/optioned the way
you want it; ie; recording density / compression on/off, block size, etc).
Once reformatted, the tapes will now remain loaded in the drive but also
still check them for the usual media defects before using them.
Hope this helps.
ken
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 8svelu$e5a$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I can't give you much real help, but I can offer
some encouragement. I got my Archive Python DAT
drive to work without a problem. I can suggest
that you look at the manual for the drive to
figure out if there might be a hardware problem --
or even try the drive under Windows, which might
allow you to set up your drive easier, initially
(try a W98 or W2K backup program, for example).
You can read the manual page for mt (and st) and
I think there may be a well-known HOWTO for
tapes. I'm not sure if it will help, but you can
look in the linux source code tree, too. But I
just ran something like 'mt status' and figured
out that /dev/tape was not set up, so I linked it
to /dev/nst0 and away it went. I can do multi-
volume tars; everything seems to work.
See below where I have copied your questions.
I don't visit this newsgroup often. If you want
to ask me a question (not sure that I can offer
much more help), email me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (remove "SMAMLESS).
-Thomas
In article d7PG5.325775
$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"Guy Smith" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, the symptoms changed a bit after I
selected a resonable varitation of
a scinit.def file.
Sorry, what is that?
Now the tape drive will not hold onto a tape.
Insert
the tape, it loads, spins for a few seconds,
then ejects.
I'm not sure what might cause this. Could it be
a hardware problem: SCSI cable problem, dirty or
busted drive? Bad tape? I think maybe remember
something like this happening to me when I had a
SCSI configuration problem. If your cable, SCSI
addresses, termination, SCSI adaptor and drive
are all right, you should have no problem, I
think (assuming your drive has no major quirk --
and I doubt that).
"mt load" results in an I/O error.
What does 'mt status' return?
Attempting a tar results in " Cannot write: No
medium found"
So, I'm stumped. Anyone successfuly using a
HP35480A that can give me some
pointers?
--- orig msg ---
I have loaded Red Hat 6.2 on an old PC. Most
everything is working OK,
except for an HP35480 DAT drive. The device is
seen at boot (see next -
dump from dmesg)
--
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, channel 0, id
3, lun 0
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info
fld=0x0, Current st09:00: sense
key Not Ready
The SCSI
Linux-Hardware Digest #785
Linux-Hardware Digest #785, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100 (Jabroni154)
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9? ("À̽ÂÇå")
Excellent NIC card for Redhat (Jeff Moore)
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)? ("À̽ÂÇå")
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive ("Joachim Ring")
Re: Ghost partition (Jeff Moore)
Re: Please recommend a webcam and good SW for it. (Jeff Moore)
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive (Jeff Moore)
USB connect of Visor with 2.2.18pre17 (Holger Schauer)
Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1 (Lew Pitcher)
Re: Ghost partition (Eric)
Re: Mystery Processor wont run Redhat 6.1 (Grzegorz Mazur)
backup with ecrix vxa-1 (Peter Maas)
Re: ATA100 RH7.0 ("Christopher Keller")
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jabroni154)
Subject: Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100
Date: 26 Oct 2000 08:06:22 GMT
Do you have the global parameter: "linear" in your "lilo.conf" file?
JRT
Yes, I do
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From: "À̽ÂÇå" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:31:16 +0900
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test9?
Thanks
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From: Jeff Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Excellent NIC card for Redhat
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:34:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I just bought a combo pack from CompUSA and it works great.
I bought the D-Link 10/100 Network in a Box, 5 Port Network Kit,
DFE-910, with two DFE-530TX+ 10/100 NIC cards and a 5 port 10/100 auto
switching hub.
I installed the cards and changed the nic modules and it came right up
and works great.
I have yet to initialize it in 100mbs mode but I have it up serving
appletalk netatalk to two macs at 10mbs and it works great the first
time.
I am currently using a cyrix 6x86 166+, RedHat 6.0 with the RealTek
RTL8129 / RTL8139 (rt18139) module driver, using IP masquerade firewall,
caching dns, netatalk, leafnode news server, and smtp mail, and I have
checked all these servers and they all work great.
Good Job D-Link.
Jeff Moore
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From: "À̽ÂÇå" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:38:30 +0900
Which one is IDE patch for linux kernel 2.4.0-test(6,7,8)?
Thanks..
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From: "Joachim Ring" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.misc
Subject: Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:48:24 +0200
Here's exactly what you're looking for:
http://home.austin.rr.com/bkeryan/slram/
unfortunately he seems to use win, maybe a reason to convert?
joachim
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From: Jeff Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ghost partition
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 04:47:02 -0600
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
That's not a ghost partition.
Linux installs the extra 2 partitions in an extended partition map (hda2
extended partition, not primary partition) all the partitions 5 are
included in this extended partition. This is not necessary if you have =4
partitions, if you use fdisk you can make all your partitions primary
(1-4). This is not too important as a user, but if you reinitialize with
more than 4 partitions then you will have to make an extended partition to
hold the partitions 5 and above. Don't forget your swap partition which
doesn't show up in your boot or fstab sometimes, and is required for swap
virtual memory, but does not have a file system designation. Just be sure
to make your /boot partition completely below the 1023 cylinder if you use
fdisk so your kernel and lilo can boot properly. swap and /boot partitions
are both required and very important, read about disk partition
requirements before you try to use fdisk. This is required reading for
installing your own partitions for initializing your hard disk. Also very
important that you know how to do this if you ever use more than one hard
disk or scsi disks possibly.
Hope this helps you in your future install endeavors.
Jeff Moore
Mark Post wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:32:05 -0500, "Clifton T. Sharp Jr."
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At startup, I have three partitions; 'fdisk' shows the two I put there.
Ideas?
[from 'dmesg' output]
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda4
[from 'fdisk']
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 2495 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System
/dev/hda1 133265072 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda2 *34 2495 19776015 83 Linux native
What does cfdisk show? I've always liked it more than fdisk.
Mark Post
Postmodern Consulting
Information Technology and Systems Management Consulting
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Linux-Hardware Digest #786
Linux-Hardware Digest #786, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 11:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Promise FastTrack100 with Suse7 or RH ("Dr. Oreste Venier")
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (Eric)
can't mount LS-120 (Gary Dale)
RAID 1 ?? (" ¤j©ú")
Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100 ("W. C. Senior")
From: "Dr. Oreste Venier" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Promise FastTrack100 with Suse7 or RH
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:39:49 +0200
Hallo,
Please an information: I have a SMP box (supermicro Mboard), 512 MBram, an
existing Adaptec Uscsi with an 9Gb disk and Suse 7.0 installed. The system
goes fine. I bought an Promise FastTrack 100 and a couple of IBM 307030 DTLA
30Gb ATA100 drives (blank). I want to use the pair in mirroring (raid1) mode
to test the raid ide solution. I recompiled the 2.2.16smp kernel and I see
the controller correctly during the kernel boot: pdc20267 etcetera ... and
also i see it in the scsi generic section (scsi0: scsi emulation for atapi
drives; scsi1: my adaptec).
But i see the message, at the end of the pdc20267 negotiation, that "neither
ide drives found (BIOS)"
The FastTrack Bios see the drives, i set up the array and checked it.
How can I have access to the array from linux? Any idea?
Thank in advance, Oreste V.
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From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 16:29:52 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where is the xf86config file located? thx.
No it's the XF86Config file (*nix is case sensitive)
And it depends a bit on your distribution where it's located, most
likely /etc/X11R6 or /etc
You can use `locate XF86Config` to find where it is.
(You may need to run `updatedb` first (as root))
Eric
In article 8sovg3$ed0$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should try to put "IMPS/2" instead of "PS/2" in your XF86Config file.
If you want to use the wheel take a look at "imwheel". I don't have an url
for it, but you shouldn't have trouble to find it. There is good
documentation with it and it is relatively easy to install.
good luck,
Pierre.
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: Gary Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: can't mount LS-120
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:37:20 -0400
I'm trying to mount an LS-120 disk without luck. According to lsmod, I
have ide-floppy module support. I've adjusted /etc/fstab to include a
line "/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0" and created a
/mnt/ls120 directory. I've added a link in /dev to link ls120 to hdd
(similar to a link I found linking cdrom to hdc).
Unfortunately, every time I issue a "mount /mnt/ls120" command, I get
"mount: /dev/hdd: can't read superblock". In fact, the mount doesn't
even try to access the drive (the light doesn't go on). I've tried it
with several disks (ls120 and normal floppies) and even with no disk in
the drive. The result is always the same.
This used to work - a long time ago I had it running with Caldera v2.3.
I just replaced my 2.3 installation with the newer eServer 2.3 (fresh
install) and now I can't get it to work again.
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From: " ¤j©ú" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,tw.bbs.comp.linux
Subject: RAID 1 ??
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:39:59 +0800
Hi All,
I'm trying to config a PC with 3 SCSI disks, 1 is 9.1GB , and the remain
is 18.2GB each. I would like to create a RAID 1 (mirror) for the 2 18.2GB
disks
so, I grabbed the 2.4.0-test9 kernel for testing. But during the lilo boot
process, I saw alot of "Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: (checking disk #)" ,
what does this mean ?
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: raid1: device sdc1 operational as mirror 1
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: raid1: device sdb1 operational as mirror 0
I have configurated it with RAID 1 only, why it show sdb1 operational as
mirror 0 ??
Rgds,
Simon.H
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: Linux version 2.4.0-test9 (root@cheetah)
(gcc version 2.95.2 2220 (Debian GNU/Linux)) #1 Wed Oct 25 19:37:35 HKT
2000
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 000a @
(usable)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 0001 @
000f (reserved)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 0fefe000 @
0010 (usable)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 2000 @
0fffe000 (reserved)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 0008 @
fff8 (reserved)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah kernel: BIOS-e820: 0001 @
fec0 (reserved)
Oct 26 22:23:48 cheetah
Linux-Hardware Digest #787
Linux-Hardware Digest #787, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 13:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: ata100 (a7v) and linux ("Andreas Förster")
Re: can't mount LS-120 (Gary Dale)
Re: Question - make remote block dev look like local (Don Carroll)
Looking for external disk drive (bonminh lam)
Compaq Prosignia 150 Linux Strange behavior (Miguel Manso)
Re: RAID 1 ?? ("Bill Shirley")
Re: Lucent 56k pci software modem (Edward Lee)
Re: Audio (Henrik Carlqvist)
From: "Andreas Förster" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ata100 (a7v) and linux
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:12:31 +0200
Hi all,
nevertheless that was the solution, after passing "ide2= ..." and "ide3 ..."
to the kernel at bootup-time, the HD was recognized and worked fine w/o
installing additional drivers and/or patches.
(Also take a look at http://www.geocities.com/ender7007/index.html, you'll
find a HOWTO about A7V and ATA100, be aware, ide2 and ide3 are swapped in
the article ...)
Thanks,
Andreas.
"Markus Kossmann" [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Transpute wrote:
I have the same problem with my ASUS CUBX-E motherboard (with integrated
Promise ATA100 controller) and IBM 75 GB disks. AFAIK lies the problem
in the
ATA-100 controller. The kernel (2.2.16) used on the SuSE 7.0
installation
doesn't recognise it. (W98SE works fine, so it isn't a matter of
harddisk
jumpers).
Did you try the following recipe ( from the UDMA Mini-Howto) ?
If we can access the console with the installation disk, we can
also
use "cat /proc/pci" to display the Promise interface settings:
RAID bus interface: Promise Technology Unknown device (rev
1).
Vendor id=105a. Device id=4d33.
Medium devsel. IRQ 12. Master Capable. Latency=32.
I/O at 0xe000. (a)
I/O at 0xd804. (b)
I/O at 0xd400. (c)
I/O at 0xd004. (d)
I/O at 0xc800. (e)
and pass "ide2=a,b+2 ide3=c,d+2" as a command line parameter to
the kernel.
--
Markus Kossmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Gary Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: can't mount LS-120
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:44:19 -0400
Never mind. Found the problem.
Gary Dale wrote:
I'm trying to mount an LS-120 disk without luck. According to lsmod, I
have ide-floppy module support. I've adjusted /etc/fstab to include a
line "/dev/hdd /mnt/ls120 vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0" and created a
/mnt/ls120 directory. I've added a link in /dev to link ls120 to hdd
(similar to a link I found linking cdrom to hdc).
Unfortunately, every time I issue a "mount /mnt/ls120" command, I get
"mount: /dev/hdd: can't read superblock". In fact, the mount doesn't
even try to access the drive (the light doesn't go on). I've tried it
with several disks (ls120 and normal floppies) and even with no disk in
the drive. The result is always the same.
This used to work - a long time ago I had it running with Caldera v2.3.
I just replaced my 2.3 installation with the newer eServer 2.3 (fresh
install) and now I can't get it to work again.
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From: Don Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: Question - make remote block dev look like local
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:36:08 GMT
Kaz Kylheku wrote:
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000 19:39:27 GMT, Don Carroll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a way to make remote block dev look like local dev
There is support in the kernel for a ``network block device''.
make a Linux Appliance with a cdrom or dvd drive and make it accessable
with /dev/cdrom on another Linux system
You could juse use NFS for this instead of remoting at the block device
level.
I do not believe NFS would allow you to AUTH... a dvd drive , but will NBD
thanks for your input
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From: bonminh lam [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Looking for external disk drive
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 19:09:54 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
I am looking into getting an external disk drive for my PC running RH
6.1.
Does anyone have recommendation? It would also be helpful to know how
easy (or tedious) to integrate the new device into Linux. Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miguel Manso)
Subject: Compaq Prosignia 150 Linux Strange behavior
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 15:54:08 GMT
Hi ppl.
I've bought a Compaq Prosignia 150 notebook a while ago and I've decided
to install Linux (Yeah baby, yeah! :) in it.
Everything went ok until I start to work with it.
I don't know why but the mouse have a strange behavior... we move the
finger over it and it performs some jumps while moving. This happens
Linux-Hardware Digest #788
Linux-Hardware Digest #788, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 18:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Edward Lee)
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ghost partition ("Clifton T. Sharp Jr.")
How to install a PC with only SCSI/floppy/CD-ROM but no IDE ?! (root)
Modem - IRQ not found ("Herman Viaene")
Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux? (Stuffed Crust)
Re: use un-cachable RAM as swap on RAM drive (Remko Bolt)
Re: MSI694 and Promise ATA100 (Jabroni154)
Vid drivers on Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Vid drivers on Windows ("bluster")
Re: Vid drivers on Windows ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Supermicro PIIIDME + IO-APIC: A New Hope? (Chris Rankin)
Re: 10base2 hubs, where can I find one? (The Old Bear)
OnStream SCSI Drive Problems ("Kjell Uddeborg")
From: Edward Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: rec.video.desktop,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: TV Tuner/Video Capture cards that support Win2K or Linux?
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 10:13:01 -0800
Nicholas Yue wrote:
Igor wrote:
If you know of any decent TV/Video Capture card that supports EITHER
Win2k or Linux, please let me know. (I expect that most people would not
know a card that supports both just because they do not deal with the
two operating systems. So please let me know the cards that support
one of them).
You might also want to have a look at FlyVideo'98.
http://www.lifeview.com
They have W2K support and also URL links to Linux.
I did not find anyting on Linux. Can you post the url? Thanks.
The application software that comes with it is quite buggy (overlay
display problem). The drivers works fine.
I use AVI_IO (http://www.nct.ch/multimedia/avi_io/) instead.
The card uses the Conexant (formerly BrookTree) chip BT878
(http://www.lifeview.com/DOWNLOAD/Main.htm)
Cheers
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:16:44 GMT
This reply from Larry Ebbit was a real useless piece of information.
The poor guy is trying to get his mouse working and all you can say
is that you got it going just fine and the wheel doesn't work, but
that's fine by you since you don't like the wheel anyway. What kind
of stupid reply is that? Why don't you at least tell the guy *how*
you got it going, and what changes you would make if you *did* want
to use the wheel. Contribute something useful rather than just saying
"Well I did it."
Dumb Southerners.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Larry Ebbitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Simon Welch wrote:
I have just installed Suse Linux 6.4, I can not get my Microsoft
Intellimouse Optical mouse to work. I have tried PS/2 USB (it has
a
converter) but neither works.
Does anyone know where I can download some drivers? And do I
definetely need some?
I have a RH 6.1 installation. I installed an Intellimouse Optical in
the palce of my plain ol' mouse and it works well. As I don't care
for
the wheel, this is fine. If I want wheel support I must make changes
to
the X configuration.
--
Larry Ebbitt - Linux + OS/2 - Atlanta
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Before you buy.
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From: "Clifton T. Sharp Jr." [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Ghost partition
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 12:59:45 -0500
Eric wrote:
And to Clifton, could you post a file containing your MBR?
(ie. dd if=/dev/hda of=MBR.img bs=512 count=1)
and post MBR.img (as an attachment)
Better to post it in text (binaries don't belong in non-binary newsgroups).
00 [all-zero lines snipped through 0x1af]
0001b0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0001c0 02 00 82 fe 3f 20 01 00 00 00 e0 16 08 00 80 00
0001d0 01 21 83 fe ff ff e1 16 08 00 1e 84 5b 02 00 00
0001e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
0001f0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 03 55 aa
I see that fdisk stored the remaining 769 sectors in the nr_sects element
of the fourth partition. That's probably it. Now to figure out why it
didn't just stuff those extra sectors into the second partition I defined
(where I told it to use everything that was left).
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From: root [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: How to install a PC with only SCSI/floppy/CD-ROM but no IDE ?!
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 20:28:21 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I am trying to install a new mail server without an IDE drive; there is
only a floppy disk and a CD-ROM and a SCSI-disk.
Linux-Hardware Digest #789
Linux-Hardware Digest #789, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 20:13:05 EDT
Contents:
SnapScan e50 (Plamen Neykov)
Re: soundcard for linux (christian mueck)
Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical (Poinsett Weldon)
Re: Help! Soudblaster setup in Mandrake 7.1 (Poinsett Weldon)
Re: Modem - IRQ not found ("D. Stimits")
LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Arctic Storm")
Re: what's the meaning of "Retraining"? (Jim Broughton)
Re: Linux Mandrake 7.1 Athalon (Mathias Meisfjordskar)
Re: recompiling the kernel: how to find drivers (Jim Broughton)
Re: Vid drivers on Windows ("bluster")
Re: Configuring 2 Com Ports? (Jim Broughton)
New D-Link wireless LAN equipment + Linux? (Moscito)
Re: Networking performance problem (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: linuxppc 2.2.17 / cdrecord 1.10a04 - scsi device MADNESS! (Andrey Vlasov)
From: Plamen Neykov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: SnapScan e50
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:10:06 +0200
Hi All,
Is it possible to use SnapScan e50 under Linux ?
Thanks in advance!
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From: christian mueck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: soundcard for linux
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:31:25 +0200
Dave Stanton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Nicolas Bouche" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
I'd like to purshase a soundcard for my linux box.
I am running debian linux 2.2.16 with a 686 processor.
There are so many different kinds of soundcards out there, i dont know
what to look for.
So if you have something that works fine, let me know.
I also use a soundblaster.. Works just fine for me.
The one I use is called 128PCI. It's pretty cheap and is just right
for playing mp3's
byee
christian
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:50:44 -0400
From: Poinsett Weldon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Microsoft Intellimouse Optical
hey you can try this sight for some help.
http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/hardware/intellimouseexplorer.html
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
where is the xf86config file located? thx.
In article 8sovg3$ed0$[EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should try to put "IMPS/2" instead of "PS/2" in your XF86Config file.
If you want to use the wheel take a look at "imwheel". I don't have an url
for it, but you shouldn't have trouble to find it. There is good
documentation with it and it is relatively easy to install.
good luck,
Pierre.
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 18:56:15 -0400
From: Poinsett Weldon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Help! Soudblaster setup in Mandrake 7.1
I got my card working using this.
Neil Blue wrote:
Hello,
I am trying to setup my SoundBlaster Live! value in Mandrake 7.1
I have so far turned off PnP in the BIOS in order for the card to be
detedted by the hardware wizard. I can hear the test message, but when
I hit okay I get an error that sox: is unable to open '/dev/dsp'.
Please could anyone tell me what this means and how I can fix it.
Thank you
Neil Blue
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Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 17:04:02 -0600
From: "D. Stimits" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Modem - IRQ not found
Herman Viaene wrote:
I have an internal hard modem Zoltrix which works under WinNT on com4, port
2e8 IRQ3 (set on the board, no PNP).
When under Corel linux I use minicom, the modem answers on AT commands, but
very
slowly. I can also dial out, but the modem seems to hang after negotiating
with the remote party. According the Modem-Howto, the slow handling is due
to IRQ problems. And that is very likely the case since in the Corel Control
Center I see all other IRQ's used, but not IRQ3. I have editied 0setserial
in /etc/rc.boot to exclude dev/ttyS1 and made the line on dev/ttyS3 active
and created a link /dev/modem to /dev/ttyS3, but this has apparently no
effect on the activation of IRQ3.
Anybody an idea how to handle this
TIA
See if the irq and address is what you expect via:
setserial -a /dev/ttyS3
It'll tell you what the actual serial port settings are. A lot of 56k
modems also require an option string to tell them to enable 56k
protocols (specific to the modem hardware, and I know nothing about this
particular modem).
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From: "Arctic Storm" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux.
Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:07:27 GMT
LinkSys betrayed us!
I bought a LinkSys LNE100TX ethernet card because it had the box label
"Linux Tested".
It came with a driver floppy disk, but it had no driver for Linux. The
floppy disk had instructions for installing an old copy of tulip onto RedHat
5.0, which used kernel 2.0; I have RedHat 7.0 w/ kernel
Linux-Hardware Digest #790
Linux-Hardware Digest #790, Volume #13 Thu, 26 Oct 00 23:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Aureal drivers for Linux? (Jim Broughton)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Valentin Guillen)
Re: RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID ("MaxOCP")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Michael Westerman")
Re: RedHat 7 and ABIT KT7-RAID (Rafael)
Re: SCSI recommendation, please (Tony Spinillo)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (John Hasler)
udma on a BX board ("Lightning")
Re: Networking performance problem ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Ethernet card problem... (Dances With Crows)
Re: Looking for external disk drive (Dances With Crows)
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. (Jerry L Kreps,,,)
Re: Did you succeed? (Cheong Kwon-Hee)
Linux driver for PCM-3640 4-port RS-232 module (PC/104)? ("clive")
Re: Lucent 56k pci software modem ("Joseph C. Kopec")
Re: LinkSys betrayed us! Poor prospects for Linux. ("Jason")
From: Jim Broughton [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Aureal drivers for Linux?
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 00:07:05 GMT
Daniel Lenski wrote:
Thanks for your suggestions ... I tried them all but I still seem to have
the same problem ... the drivers install fine, modules load fine, but I
cannot hear anything ... very strange ... i'm wondering if maybe it's a
problem with my PCI bus or something? I've done 'cat /proc/pci' and I
get:
Bus 0, device 8, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 254).
Vendor id=12eb. Device id=2.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=12.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xec00 [0xec00].
I/O at 0xc800 [0xc801].
I/O at 0xcc00 [0xcc01].
Can anybody who has a an Aureal Vortex 2 tell me if this looks ok? Is
there a way to tell the au8830.o module specifically what are the I/O
addresses or IRQ of the sound card?
Thanks!
Daniel Lenski wrote:
Hi, I have an Aureal Vortex sound card (8830 chipset) and I've had no
luck installing the version 1.1 drivers available at
http://aureal.sourceforge.net ... the drivers compile and install fine
under 2.2.15 kernel, but I can NEVER hear any sound, not by playing a
CD, not by playing an mp3, nothing. I just installed a new 2.2.17
kernel, hoping that might fix it, but now it won't even compile. Does
anybody have any suggestions or tips?
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Daniel Lenski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us."
--Calvin and Hobbes
This was a problem for me also. Here is the solution to the no
sound with the aureal drivers. IF you are using a modular kernel out of
the box then this will work for you if not then your going to need a
kernel recompile and to include some extra modules.
If using a modular kernel with all modules do this 1)
Place these in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
modprobe soundcore modprobe au8830 modprobe sound modprobe softoss2
IF modprobe complains append a .o to each module name and check
/lib/modules/yourKERNELversion/misc to see if they exist.
Note: they must be in this exact order. You must remove any reference in
/etc/conf.modules (/etc/modules.conf other distros than RH) of the
loading
of the au8830 driver.
If you are not running kernel with the above modules recompile the
kernel and modules install them and do the above.
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Daniel Lenski
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us."
--Calvin and Hobbes
Here is my /proc/pci for my vortex 2. The only thing I wonder is why
it has such a high IRQ number. In my experience both windows and
linux all put multimedia controllers lower if done PnP style. Mine
is forced there by me through my computers bios though.
I am not sure whether the module excepts any arguments.
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 250).
Vendor id=12eb. Device id=2.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 3. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=12.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xe600 [0xe600].
I/O at 0xe800 [0xe801].
I/O at 0xec00 [0xec01].
===
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: Loading...
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: Scanning for device VENDOR=0x12eb, ID=0x2
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: Found vortex PCI device:
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: id=2
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: bar0=0xe600
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: irq=3
Oct 26 17:24:15 jimspc kernel: au88xx: Add device, audio=3, mixer=0, midi=2
This is what I get in my
