Linux-Hardware Digest #33
Linux-Hardware Digest #33, Volume #14Thu, 14 Dec 00 21:13:09 EST
Contents:
making a Contour Perfit USB mouse work under Linux (Brendan Kehoe)
Can't get floppy to work (Jorge)
Re: ATI Rage Fury (Jorge)
making a Contour USB Perfit mouse work with Linux (Brendan Kehoe)
Re: ATI Rage Fury ("PyrO")
Re: new hard disk (Andrey Vlasov)
D-Link DFE 550 FX ("news.btx.dtag.de")
D-Link DFE 550 FX ("Christian Westphal")
configuration ttyS0 on HP netserver lc2000 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
soundblaster16 PnP plays 16-bit as noise ("Stewart Heitmann")
Which motherboard? (Henning Pedersen)
Re: Running linux on 486 (sik)
Re: D-Link DFE 550 FX (Jens Stomber)
CD key for the PowerDVD 1.6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
sox: Invalid audio buffer size 0 (Black Cat)
Re: Cable Modem Connecting??? ("Jennifer Sinsley")
Re: Running linux on 486 (Carl Paul)
From: Brendan Kehoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: making a Contour Perfit USB mouse work under Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:12:39 GMT
I just wanted to take a moment and scribble down these notes, since I'm sure
others have encountered the same problems.
The goal has been to make my Contour Perfit USB mouse (model UP-L-R) work with
my Linux system. The laptop is a Toshiba Portege 3200, and it's running a
very-updated version of RedHat 6.1. (By now it's somewhere between RedHat 6.2
and 7.0, I imagine.) It's running a 2.2.16 kernel, with the USB patch named
usb-2.4.0-test2-pre2-for-2.2.16
from the Linux-USB group at
http://www.suse.cz/development/usb-backport/
http://www.linux-usb.org
Anyway, I got my mouse to work by doing these commands:
insmod usbcore
insmod usb-uhci
insmod input
insmod usbmouse
My kernel build was configured to have
CONFIG_USB=m
CONFIG_USB_DEBUG=y
CONFIG_USB_UHCI=m
CONFIG_USB_MOUSE=m
(actually most of the CONFIG_USB_* stuff is set to be a module)
I then created /dev/usbmouse with:
mknod /dev/usbmouse c 13 32
It uses major device 13 based on the result of doing a cat of /proc/devices,
which listed
13 input
Anyway, after doing that on my non-X console screen, I then did
gpm -k
gpm -t ps2 -m /dev/usbmouse
and it worked! I changed the /dev/mouse symlink to point at `usbmouse', and
with the XF86Config file containing
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "PS2"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol""PS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/mouse"
EndSection
running X (version 4.0.1) seems perfectly happy. Now to make all of that
insmod'ing more automatic.
You don't want to know how long it took to find this correct sequence of
events. :)
B
--
Brendan Kehoe
CTO, nobie.com (http://www.nobie.com/)
-- Finally true Net marketing in .ie
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From: Jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Can't get floppy to work
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:26:15 GMT
I am unable to I/O to my floppy drive, althoght it has been congured by
the OS when I use 'fdflush' it reports that the following
floppy0: probe failed.
When I 'ls' the /dev/fd0 the file is set to
brx--t 1 root floppy 2, 0 .
I tryed the same floppy drive on a Win95 and it worked, which leads me
to accept that it is CLOS where the problem is and not in the floppy
drive.
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From: Jorge [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: ATI Rage Fury
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:31:12 GMT
I have the same card, and although my monitor is a vga/svga, I get
640x480 with 32 bit colour.
All you have to do is manually modify the XF86Config.
If this is what you are looking for just let me know and I'll give you
the details.
good luck!
Robert wrote:
Hi all!
anyone been succesful on configuring an ATI Rage Fury under xfree86
4.0.1?
i actually can only get 640x480, which is *pathetic*
please any related information is welcome, thanks very much
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From: Brendan Kehoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: making a Contour USB Perfit mouse work with Linux
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 22:42:22 +
I just wanted to take a moment and scribble down these notes, since I'm sure
others have encountered the same problems. I'd sent an earlier copy of this,
but that was missing a crucial part (the insmod of mousedev). Thus this
revised copy is being sent in its place. I think this information would be a
great addition to the www.contourdesign.com/perfit_linux.htm page, which at
the moment only talks about the PS/2 and Serial uses of the Perfit.
The goal has been to make my Contour Perfit USB mouse (model UP-L-R) work with
my Linux system. The laptop is a Toshiba Portege 3200, and it's running a
very-updated version of RedHat 6.1. (By now it's somewhere between RedHat 6.2
and 7.0, I i
Linux-Hardware Digest #33
Linux-Hardware Digest #33, Volume #13Mon, 12 Jun 00 20:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Problem: Linux doesnt recognize my PCI NIC (Andrey Vlasov)
Anybody using Seagate's Tapstor Travan w/LINUX (David A. Lethe)
Re: Old Monitor (H Dziardziel)
Dual boot from scratch... ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Poweroff no longer powering off (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: What happened to the aic7xxx SCSI driver between 6.1 and 6.2 ? ("Bob Hayden")
Re: How does dual-heading work? (David C.)
Re: Anybody using Seagate's Tapstor Travan w/LINUX (David C.)
Re: A newbie's USB mouse/keyboard problem ! (Andrey Vlasov)
Re: Installing Linux ona Compaq Deskpro 6000 (Mrcpu1)
Re: A newbie's USB mouse/keyboard problem ! (David C.)
Re: Linux on Intel 810 (H Dziardziel)
Re: Poweroff no longer powering off (Andrew Onifer)
Re: Help! --Can I set the display frequence in Linux enviroment (H Dziardziel)
Re: scsi-emulation (Duane)
From: Andrey Vlasov [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Problem: Linux doesnt recognize my PCI NIC
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 15:12:41 -0700
Hi guys.
if you sure about driver which you shoud to use is correct try to check and
turn off PnP OS in BIOS if you didn't turn off it yet. I spent two days
before
found what cause the problem.
Check chipset on NIC itself as from model to model they change it,
So, happend with my friend who had D-Link 530TX+ which he could not
manage to run and he had to replace on D-Link 530TX. I have both of them
and I do not have any problem with this NICs.
Andrey
RP wrote:
it keeps giving me the message:
"Device or resource buissy"
when I try to run 'modprobe tulip'
what can I do?
its a PCI NIC of linksys which suppose to work just fine with the tulip.o
module
on the Windoz - it works great! but the linux doesnt recognize it.
I know what IO port or What IRQ it needs (assigned by the BIOS)
nothing is using those ports/IRQ (I tried the cat /proc/interrupts...)
so what else can be the problem?
any ideas???
Ron P
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Lethe)
Subject: Anybody using Seagate's Tapstor Travan w/LINUX
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:16:00 GMT
Is anybody using seagate's 20GB Tapestor travan unit (with scsi
interface) on LINUX?
Any compatibility problems? I assume I use the standard tape driver
that I would normally be using with a DAT.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (H Dziardziel)
Crossposted-To: alt.linux,alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.turbolinux,comp.os.linux.x.video
Subject: Re: Old Monitor
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 22:28:03 GMT
On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 01:26:31 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Andrew
Arbour) wrote:
I have a daytek 1436A 14" monitor. the specs I can find for it say it
has a Horizontal Freq.: 30-48Hz, and Vertical:60-90Hz. A Max resolution
of 1024x768 and a working frequency of 70Mhz.
I have managed, after monkeying for a while, to get it to run in a really
weird 1024x768(I think it is 1024x768) but it has ALOT of flicker. Once
and only once have I managed to make it visible at all. Any other time I
do anything I get crappy out of sync image.
Oh by the way I have an ATI-All-In-Wonder 128 w/16Megs. Not sure if this
card is supported properly anyway.
And if anyone knows how do I turn of that damned graphic logon in
TurboLinux? I can't get X running so I can't login without screwing
around to get to a text based login(ctrl-alt-F2) then very very uncleanly
killing the gdm.
Hi hope this helps. Its from this fine site:
http://ms.ha.md.us/%7Ehawks/hardware/mychoice.html
DP = Dot Pitch
ActiveBand-
Physical
Display DP Width HsyncVsync
Max Res
Manufacturer Model(mm) (Mhz) (KHz) (Hz)
(pixels)
==
Daytek1436D274 x 209 .28 6530-48 40-120
979 x 746
It looks like the specs you were using are way off base since this
appears
to be a maximum 800x600 when new. with age the electronics could be
tired
(no, really, poetic license but true). the model nbr is different but
probably insignicant and anyway this one is lower spec so safe to use.
You don't say if standard vga comes up ok? It should unless you are
picking too many modes from the start to try.. I suggest pick only
basic
vga 640x480 and basic vga monitor and go from there. picking some of
the higher level modes and/depths can drive the card/monitor too much
since the server always picks the highest frequencies it thinks are
usable (as provided by you). Try one mode at a time and expand on the
monitor settings a little at a time. The flicker may mean you are
trying at too high a color depth which brings the card's vertical
refresh rate down.Good luck.
Regarding the startup s
Linux-Hardware Digest #33
Linux-Hardware Digest #33, Volume #11Tue, 17 Aug 99 16:13:41 EDT
Contents:
AMD and TNT (David A. Rogers)
Booting Keyboardless on Tyan S1830S Tsunami AT ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
LS-120 Probs (Steffen Sobiech)
Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W (Jerry Craker)
ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0 (Iteration X)
Re: Old Adaptec ISA SCSI Support (B'ichela)
eiger pcmcia combo 10baset +33.6 modem card ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SB Pro and MP3's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Problem with a dual nic system (chili)
third hard disk and slow boot ("john w. connolly")
Re: Driver Question ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATAPI CD-RW w/ SCSI Emulation Question (David C.)
Hardware Related Issues would like working ! ("Omega")
Questions: segmentation fault, ppa, floppy ("B. Chapman")
Re: emachines eOne w/ Intel 21145 ethernet controller under Linux?` (Henrik
Carlqvist)
Re: Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ? (Greg Leblanc)
Re: S3 Savage4 GT 8MB (Gareth Reeves)
Re: DMA66 support (on the Abit BP6 dual ppga) (Gert van der Knokke)
Millennium G400 or G400 MAX - Linux ? (Michael Malone)
Re: SB16 PnP problems (Brett Hall)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David A. Rogers)
Subject: AMD and TNT
Date: 17 Aug 1999 15:29:42 GMT
I've seen in a couple of places on the web that AMD cpus and TNT video cards
don't play well together. I'm thinking of getting a new system with an AMD
K6-450. What 3D video card should I get that is supported by xfree?
Thanks,
dar
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Booting Keyboardless on Tyan S1830S Tsunami AT
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 16:02:31 GMT
I've searched past posting to this problem, but found no definitive
answer.
For some reason the BIOS for this motherboard does not have a setting
that permits booting without the keyboard. I seen where it's been
suggested that a loopback plug for the keyboard should work, execept I
can seem to find one anywhere.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Sincerely,
MK
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From: Steffen Sobiech [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: LS-120 Probs
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:10:58 +0200
Hi!
My LS-120 parallel-port drive works basically fine with Linux,
but everytime the computer accesses it the system cpu usage goes to
100% and it nearly freezes up until the drive operation is completed.
I think the problem has something to do with the parallel-port driver
not working correctly, as it does not use the irq I assigned it.
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From: Jerry Craker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Linux and Adaptec 2940U2W
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 10:25:49 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Good Luck :)
"J.M. van der Kolk" wrote:
RedHat 5.2 install can't find the SCSI adaptor either. I just got word
from RedHat support. Tech. support is working on a fix. Unfortunately
it might take some time, so I'll have to wait.
Thanks,
Jean-Marc van der Kolk
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 11:28:10 -0400, Jerry Craker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I had the identical problem with a 2940UW. My solution was fairly complex,
since I could get nothing out of RedHat. I had installed 5.2 (which worked
fine). I created a boot disk for that kernel. I then installed RedHat 6.0
using the 5.2 installation diskette. ( I got some errors but it installed
O.K.). I then booted the 5.2 diskette, and overwrote the kernel (2.5) with
2.9, which I had downloaded from the net. (www.kernel.org). This kernel
fixes all the SCSI problems, and everything works now. (I am currently
running kernel 2.11). I realize this is fairly complex, but it was the only
way I could get it to work, since the Adaptec drivers in 6.0 do not seem to
function correctly.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iteration X)
Subject: ATI Rage 128 GL AGP / X11 / RedHat 6.0
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 13:36:18 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Installed RH 6.0 on a Gateway E-4200 with a P3/450 and an ATI Rage 128
GL AGP video card.
Can't seem to get an Xserver to find the card or work. Tried the
Mach64 server, but no dice.
If I understand this correctly, I don't need the OpenGL support in
X11, I'll need to find that elsewhere. I just need an Xserver that
will work.
Ah, the joys of running Linux on new hardware . . .
Help?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (B'ichela)
Subject: Re: Old Adaptec ISA SCSI Support
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 05:07:58 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mon, 16 Aug 1999 12:25:55 -0700, Ryan Dlugosz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got an old Adaptec ISA SCSI Card in my pc, it works in
Windows, I think its dectected as a 152x or something to
that effect. So far I've been unsuccessful with getting it
to work in Linux. Even if I tell it that its at IRQ 10,
the system swears that it doesn't see it... Any Ideas?
Please Cc: in email.
I don't know if Slrn can CC: bu
Linux-Hardware Digest #33
Linux-Hardware Digest #33, Volume #10Thu, 15 Apr 99 12:13:19 EDT
Contents:
Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!! ("David Murray")
Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape? (Markus Wandel)
Computone IP2 Linux Driver Help? (Frank Paprosky)
Re: x11amp crashing...
Re: [Fwd: Source Code To Windows 98 (programmer humor) (fwd)]
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: help! mouse vs GA-5SMM ("Stephen Lim")
Re: keyboards w/ extra programmable keys (Oscar Kind)
Re: Gateway Solo 5150SE (**Nick Brown)
USR Modem (Ollie)
Re: Adaptec AHA-1542 SCSI problem (Alan Jones)
Re: 16GB hardrive-problems with fdisk (Stijn Opheide)
kernel compiling error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Turning an old 486 into a term/xterm (Markus Wandel)
soundblaster 64 PCI no Sound ("News")
Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!! (Tim Moore)
Xserver on an Acer Extensa 501T running RedHat linux 5.2
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Video card recommendation for Linux X server ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Mac SCSI Scanner on a Linux _PC_ SCSI system? (Markus Wandel)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (westprog)
3Com 900 network adapter for Linux ("Ole Eirik Dalbye")
From: "David Murray" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: I NEED 4 THINGS !!! PLEASE !!!
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 13:14:02 GMT
I know it sounds like a lot but until I am able to get these things
resolved I will be unable to delete Microsoft Win95. I really want Linux
to win but if things like this aren't addressed with a little more ease
IT NEVER WILL!! I am fed up with messing with zipped files and compiling
shit!
This sounds more like an upset customer who is trying to convince help out
of a salesman who wants to sell him something. In this case, since Linux
is free.. I think it is appropriate to say that if you Like it, use it.. If
you don't like it, don't use it or make it better by writing your own
software. This has been the philosphy of Open Source Software. Although I
seldomly advocate WIndows 95, I still use it for my Scanner despite support
for it in SANE. Same reason as you.. However, I still use Linux most of
the time. I am comfortable using both operating systems (including my
macintosh as well) and see no requirement that I delete all but one O/S.
Sometimes it is better to use multiple as you learn more about both sides
of the fence. Compiling stuff is a pain sometimes, but that is part of the
open source. The fact that I can compile it means a lot. I can download
one source code and compile it on my Macintosh running Linux or my Intel
box.
--DavidM
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Wandel)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Can I read an HP-UX backup tape?
Date: 15 Apr 1999 12:51:06 GMT
When trying to read 8mm or DAT tapes from non-Linux systems, the magic bullet
for me has been:
mt setblk 0
It has to do with the physical block size on the tape. I don't know what it
does exactly, it just works.
Markus
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From: Frank Paprosky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Computone IP2 Linux Driver Help?
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 12:22:19 GMT
Our company had installed about 14 customers with a Computone
Intelliport II
i/o card under Linux 2.0.30. The drivers comes
from Computone Corp. version
1.0.9.
All systems are hanging about 3 to 5 times a week. This issue
gives
us a serious problem of corrupted files.
Computone Corp has not gave us a
great support. In fact, they
don't support us at all.
Is there anybody had
or has the same problem ?
Computone Intelliport II driver has a serious bug
and we are
looking forward to have a fix.
Thanks
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ()
Subject: Re: x11amp crashing...
Date: 15 Apr 1999 13:17:33 GMT
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 17:06:12 -0400, Michael Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Okay, this may not be the right place to post this but I'm getting
VERY fustrated. Scenario: At the begining of the school year I installed
slackware on my machine off the internet. My sound card is a Yamaha
OPL/3 whatever built into my intel motherboard (PII 233). Since
I couldn't get sound working I shelled out the 20 bucks to get the OSS
auto-install driver from 4front. It installed easily and I had sound.
ditto here... i have an i1451 w/the same sound system and also use
the OSS commercial drivers...
But the thing crashed like crazy when ever I used x11amp (installed
about the same time as the system, no idea what version it was). Some
times the system locked, sometimes X bombed, sometimes x11amp bombed and
sometimes x11amp just locked up. It happened anywhere between 5 seconds
of starting it and 2 hours of playing mp3s.
yes, i'
