Linux-Hardware Digest #789
Linux-Hardware Digest #789, Volume #14 Fri, 18 May 01 09:13:03 EDT Contents: Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) Re: Genius GM56PCI-L Modem Driver??? (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) UMAX 1220U flatbed scanner linux support? (Tobin Fricke) Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1 (Vladimir Florinski) ATI All In Wonder 128 PCI card Help needed (Krishnan Subramanian) Re: Linux: reduced capacity of my hard disk? (Eric) Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! (Jon Leech) Re: How to use USB scanner ? (Andrey Vlassov) Re: Tape, Travans and Misery (Juergen Pfann) Screen Size problem on Sony LCD screen (Lea Anthony) Hard disk clonning (TS) Re: difference between kernel 2.0.x and 2.2.x (John Thompson) IBM DFHSS4E SCSI Disks (JP) Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! (Bryan) Re: USB - modem (Georg Acher) Iomega ZipPlus with Red Hat 7.1 (Alexander K M Leung) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup Subject: Re: Suspend-to-RAM on Linux Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:19:42 + (UTC) In article 3b01cfc3$0$14447$[EMAIL PROTECTED], Dances With Crows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2001 13:31:40 + (UTC), Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah staggered into the Black Sun and said: Is Suspend-to-RAM (STR) supported on Linux? If it is would appreciate pointers to the docs. I think the suspend function on most laptops is dependent on the hardware. For me, a large assortment of kernels, all compiled with APM support, worked with a Thinkpad 380D and a Thinkpad 600X. The command is apm -s, but most laptops automagically invoke suspend-to-RAM when the lid is closed. Thinkpads have a number of options as to what they do when an APM suspend event occurs; tpctl can control them. Finally, if you give more information about your hardware, someone will probably be able to help you out more. I'm using a desktop computer using a motherboard from Microstar model number MS-6178 which has suspend-to-ram support. Does anyone have any experience with this board with suspend-to-ram ? Thanks. Napi -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mohd-Hanafiah Abdullah) Subject: Re: Genius GM56PCI-L Modem Driver??? Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:25:00 + (UTC) In article 3afeb376@news, Vicente y Lorena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for this driver.. Thaks. I believe it uses Lucent chipset. You can get the driver from: http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html or http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/lucent_old.html or http://walbran.org/sean/linux/stodolsk/ Napi -- From: Tobin Fricke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: UMAX 1220U flatbed scanner linux support? Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:37:57 GMT Is the UMAX Astra 1220U (usb) flatbed scanner supported by any free software? It is explicitly supported by the Linux USB Scanner driver, but I'm not sure if there's a SANE backend. Unfortunately SANE's USB support webpage at www.buzzard.org.uk seems to be down. thanks, Tobin -- From: Vladimir Florinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR Redhat 7.1 Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 21:28:43 -0700 In article 9e1o8v$8h2$[EMAIL PROTECTED], John McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: right tried it again without the .o for each module but still no joy, there is no i2c.o module just i2c-old.o and i2c-parport.o I've tried both and got the same result, running xawtv I am unable to tune in any channels all that I get is noise in the top 25% of the tv window... /me is going nuts... John McCabe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Has anybody managed to get this working? I've tried to use the suggestions for the WinTV on the Hauppage support site (modprobe /usr/sbin/bttv.o etc...) but it reports that the modules are not found... Any assistance is greatly appreciated.. /John There is no i2c module. There are i2c-core and i2c-algo-bit (these you need). The new bttv knows how to load them and probes the tuner type all by itself. I recommenmd the following in modules.conf: alias char-major-89 i2c-dev alias char-major-81 bttv I emphasize: don't load modules by hand. I use zapping with the new XFree and the quality and performance are great. -- Vladimir -- From: Krishnan Subramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ATI All In Wonder 128 PCI card Help needed Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 02:43:53 -0400 Hi, I have installed the ATI all in wonder 128 PCI video card. I installed Suse 7.1 Linux Professional edition. It doesn't recogonize my video card (I think) and hence I couldn't run X windows on it. If anyone can help me with a step by step instruction, please send the instructions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks. Krishnan. -- From: Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:
Linux-Hardware Digest #790
Linux-Hardware Digest #790, Volume #14 Fri, 18 May 01 13:13:09 EDT Contents: Re: 3com 3c574-TX drivers needed. (John Niedermeyer) My clock doesn't back up!!! (SpacemanSpiff) Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Re: Linux: reduced capacity of my hard disk? (Ennio) Re: Linux LCD problem (Kin Keung) Re: Iomega ZipPlus with Red Hat 7.1 (Juergen Sauer) Re: I need help. RH7.1 wont configure my ATI Xpert 128 AGP 32 RAM. Log attached (Sarkie) Re: Will my sound card work? (Markku Kolkka) From: John Niedermeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: 3com 3c574-TX drivers needed. Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:58:49 GMT That worked. Thanks. Dances With Crows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:3aff4619$0$18894$[EMAIL PROTECTED]... On Sun, 13 May 2001 23:26:48 GMT, John Niedermeyer staggered into the Black Sun and said: Anyone have or know of where to get drivers for the 3com Fast Etherlink 16-Bit PC Card? /lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION/pcmcia/3c574_cs.o ? The 3Com 574 has been supported for quite some time. pcmcia-cs 3.1.24 certainly supports it, and the pcmcia-cs that was current over a year ago supports it. If pcmcia-cs is installed and the cardmgr daemon is running, plugging the card into a PCMCIA socket should result in two high beeps as the appropriate module is loaded and the actions specified in /etc/pcmcia/network.opts are taken. If these things don't happen, then a report on the error messages that do get generated would be useful. pcmcia-cs is actively developed on http://sourceforge.net/ , search for pcmcia-cs and make use of the forums and documentation there. 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 -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SpacemanSpiff) Subject: My clock doesn't back up!!! Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 13:58:45 GMT All I want is to set my time to one of those government servers, with a simple script. say: now = telnet time.blah.blah 13 | grep... | cut ... hwclock --set now ... hwclock --hctosys ... Simple enough, right? WRONG! I messed with this for 2 hours, reading howtos, man pages, web searches, setting TZ, tzconfig, etc... I'd try something, and get DIFFERENT results with the same command!!! I'm in central time in the US, and UTC was getting set to my RTC. I could see it with the `hwclock` command. But no matter what I tried, hwclock --hctosys WOULD NOT set my clock backwards to my time zone. It would set my clock to the SAME as the RTC, it would set my clock 6 hours FORWARD from UTC. It even set my clock to 24 hours ago. I have not idea why. I screwed with TZ, --utc --local and a plethora of other things. As far as I can tell, my environment is just fine. But this just wouldn't work the way the documentation seemed to say it should! I finally shutdown the PC, and set the BIOS time to UTC (which, for some reason was 6 hours ahead) Then , when I booted, suddenly the system time is correct. Can ANYONE give me a clue as to what's going on? I do not want to reboot my server just to get the time set properly. (and I'm not going to just go --local everywhere, that's not the way things are supposed to work!) -Scott Weber -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sgi.graphics,comp.os.linux.x Subject: Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! Date: 18 May 2001 13:49:47 GMT In comp.sys.sgi.graphics Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : uhm, numbernine is OUT OF BUSINESS. what possible gain is there to : hold back info on a totally unsupported board? did sgi design the : protocol to 'talk brightness' to the display via the board? why would : sending display data be non proprietary yet the brightness control be : 'secret sauce'? there's just no logic that any sane person can see here. The logic is ownership. Just because #9 is out of business doesn't mean that *someone* still doesn't own the IP. How do you know this does not have some value to them? Let alone that fact that it simply isn't SGI's property to sell or give away. The gain is being able to look at yourself in the mirror each morning and say to yourself I am an honest person. Apparently that is still worth something to the people at SGI. : I'm not shooting you, the messenger. in fact, I used to work at SGI a : few years ago, so I know a bit about life inside SGO. I wasn't a : customer back then, just an employee; but I remember reading endless : tirades on the internal usenet groups about customers complaining : about sgi not wanting to even SELL them this or that; much less : release specs on items.
Linux-Hardware Digest #791
Linux-Hardware Digest #791, Volume #14 Fri, 18 May 01 17:13:09 EDT Contents: Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) (David Hawkins) Case badges with your own logo from under $0.50 each (SecurisysAgency) Selecting from the crop of DSL hub/switch/firewall units (Harry Putnam) IRQ conflict-- CMD 646 IDE and ESS Maestro 2E (Nicholas Weininger) Re: Screen Size problem on Sony LCD screen (Kwan Lowe) Re: yes, 2 SGI 1600sw LCD panels DO work in linux in dualhead mode! (The Linux AntiChrist) USB problem (Linux Guerilla) Re: Anyone selling basic cheap Linux boxes? (Kwan Lowe) G400 + XFree 4.0 (Sebastian Bossung) Re: G400 + XFree 4.0 (Peter Riggs) gravis stinger (Chris Schadl) USB problem (Linux Guerilla) Re: More Info - Problems with Adaptec 2930CU w/ BRU and SEAGATE Travan in RH6.2 (William N Moore) From: David Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux Subject: Re: PCMCIA / PS2 IRQ12 Conflict (2.4 kernel) Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 10:12:43 -0700 Thanks Len! This works great. I really needed to have access to my serial port, so this helps me a lot. Where did you get info on the lilo boot parameter? I had looked at 'man bootparam' and 'man lilo' and couldn't see how to mask off the interrupts - I had assumed that this should be possible, but couldn't work out how. I had a look at the bug report in Bugzilla - interesting discussion. Is the problem still there in 2.4.4? Since you appear to have a similar machine, perhaps you could tell me how you got the sound to work. Its not really a high priority for me, so I gave up when it didn't work initially. I suspect the OSS sound drivers might work, and I did read some info in the Documentation directory, but haven't had a chance to play with it again. Perhaps you can save me some time. Again, this is great. Thanks so much! Dave Hawkins Caltech. Leonard Evens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... David Hawkins wrote: Thanks Clark, I'm not quite sure the problem is 100% related to the Yenta driver though. Any idea why the mouse won't work if I uninstall the PCMCIA drivers? If you stop the PCMCIA services, then the interrupt is released. of course I haven't tried removing the service on boot though. Thanks for the comments. Dave clark tompsett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I have posted a bug report with Redhat. I have a Winbook XL also. The problem appears to be bios related. The 2.4.2 kernel used Yenta for the socket driver and it looks at the bios and claims irq12. The only solution I have at present is to install RH7.1 and replace the kernel and pcmcia back to 2.2.19. I don't know if this will be solved. Clark In article 9dffj7$[EMAIL PROTECTED], David Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd like some suggestions as to the cause and fix of a problem I am having with Linux 2.4 freezing up on me. My system is - Winbook XL - Red Hat 7.1 (2.4.2-2 kernel) The mouse is a PS/2 device (the Winbook has a keyboard 'nipple' and touchpad), and this is what Win95 sees it as. When installing RH, it didn't recognize the mouse, so I used the text install. On first boot, the mouse was recognized by the hardware detection and assigned as a generic ps/2 mouse. The first time I booted into X, the system froze. Booting next time and staying in text mode, I tried gpm and mev, the laptop froze both times. (/dev/mouse - /dev/psaux so thats ok) Looking under /proc/interrupts I see that the PS/2 interrupt is being shared with the TI PCI1131 PCMCIA cardbus controller. Several documents indicate the the PS/2 must use IRQ12, so the 1131 IRQ may need to be changed. However, looking at /etc/pcmcia/config.opts lists IRQ12 as being excluded - so how come the controller claimed it? (perhaps the exclude only applies to devices in the PCMCIA slots...?). Under Win95 the 1131 uses IRQ15. Thinking that maybe the interrupts from the TI1131 were the cause of the problem I performed: /etc/init.d/pcmcia stop This removed PCMCIA services and /proc/interrupts shows only the PS/2 mouse on IRQ12. However, booting into X still freezes and so does mev. Actually, I just ran mev (with PCMCIA services off), and could type text, however, as soon as I touched the mouse, the system freezes. This system has had RH 6.2 working fine in the past, and booting into Win95 shows all is well there. dmesg and /var/log/messages don't contain any interesting info on why the system may be crashing. Although there is the comment that the serial driver is 5.02 and that SHARE_IRQ is enabled. I deleted /etc/sysconfig/mouse and ran mouseconfig ... and receved a
