Re: [newbie] Hardware Questions
On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 14:30:15 -0800 Amy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card Doubtful you would have problems. That's mostly current stuff. My advise would be to first try a live cd distro on it just for testing purposes, such as knoppix or mepis. Then if it boots fine and detects the hardware you could just go ahead and install mandrake on it. Then you'd still end up with a good and useful other distro to try for testing, or for other uses. Amy -- David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Hardware Questions
REMEMBER I AM A GMAIL USER, CHECK THAT RESPONSES ARE GOING TO THE LIST. THANKS. Hey guys, a quick question. A friend of mine gave me some hand me down hardware. He's recently upgraded his computer, and knew I was sorely in need of an upgrade, so he offered to give me his old stuff. He's unfortunately a windows user, so I have no idea about linux compatibility of this stuff. I was wondering if anyone had some specific information about if I might encounter any trouble trying to use any of the following with Mandrake? Asus p4s533 motherboard p4 1.6 GHz processor geforce ti4200 agp video card My friends make it sound like all of it should work fine, I just figured I'd check with you guys on it real quick. Also, if any of that is likely to give me a problem, would you be so kinda as to mention if it'll still work with some fuss? And if so, what sort of fuss would I have to make? One of my friends is making it sound like the video card may be an extra bit of fuss, but if it's not too hard to do, I don't mind. Thanks in advance for the help! Amy ~~ ^..^ ~~ I'm a gmail user! I'm still waiting on them to listen to my request to allow me to disable my reply-to field. If you get this message via a mailing list, please double check the to field before sending your reply. Thanks much! ^_^ ~~ ^..^ ~~ http://deathkitten.net Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind. ~Rudyard Kipling Several friends have asked me if I will again leave the country. In light of the failure--a second time--to count all the votes, that won't be necessary. My country has left me. ~Greg Palast Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware questions
dfox wrote: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan Flashing red usually indicates a broken link. /dev/scanner should point (link to) to the proper /dev/ entry for the scanner, which depends on your particular model. I don't have a scanner so I don't know what that would be. FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it. Hmm. it might be /dev/s* something - /dev/sda is scsi hard disks, there are other entries (/dev/st) for scsi tapes, etc. It's not on Sane's supported list, so I'll probably have to leave that for the time being. modprobe usb-storagethen mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader 'usb storage' is going to provide hard-disk like access for usb devices, not SCSI ones. I have this cardreader (SmartMedia Compact Flash, and also a LS120 drive, both usb, so I'm really wanting to get them going, though the LS120 is not as important as the cardreader. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Hardware questions
FemmeFatale wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: Two problems, possibly related: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it. 2) Problem 1 came to light when I was trying to sort out the problem of my cardreader (compact flash and smartmedia). Following the advice to a previous question, I typed modprobe usb-storagethen mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader This crashed spectacularly, needing a forced fsck to get it going again. It occurred to me that sda1 may be the filmscanner, so I tried to look at the directories in a shell. Under /dev/usb there is only lp0 - my printer, presumably. Under /dev/scsi there are 3 entries, host0, host1, host2. Each of these shows subdirectories bus0/targetx/lun0 (lun0 in every case). Host0 shows 'generic', host1 shows 'cd generic' and host2 shows 'disc generic'. Can someone please explain to me what is happening, and how I can check whether the cardreader is being recognised without risking another serious crash. TIA Anne anne, if you want i'll put up a full set of docs on USB card readers USB-related stuff on my ftp for you. perhaps that will help? I'm sure it would. Please make sure that you have idiot-proof instructions here on the list :-) Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware questions
Two problems, possibly related: 1) In /dev there is an entry scanner, which is flashing red. What does this mean? It may be connected with the fact that my CanoScan FS2710, a scsi film scanner, is recognised at boot-up, but that is as far as I have got with it. 2) Problem 1 came to light when I was trying to sort out the problem of my cardreader (compact flash and smartmedia). Following the advice to a previous question, I typed modprobe usb-storagethen mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /mnt/cardreader This crashed spectacularly, needing a forced fsck to get it going again. It occurred to me that sda1 may be the filmscanner, so I tried to look at the directories in a shell. Under /dev/usb there is only lp0 - my printer, presumably. Under /dev/scsi there are 3 entries, host0, host1, host2. Each of these shows subdirectories bus0/targetx/lun0 (lun0 in every case). Host0 shows 'generic', host1 shows 'cd generic' and host2 shows 'disc generic'. Can someone please explain to me what is happening, and how I can check whether the cardreader is being recognised without risking another serious crash. TIA Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Hardware questions
I checked the list of compatiable hardware and i'm putting together a new linux machine that is going to run mandrake 8.0. I'm currently considering a voodoo 5 5500 or more likely a geforce 2 or 3, but neither of those is on the list..should i consider something else? Also, i have a yamaha crw8424E series cd-rw and that isn't on the list...any possibility of me getting that to work? Thanks in advance for any help. Newbie J
