From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Grigsby Date: Tue, 11 May 1999 18:26:32 +0000 Subject: Re: Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-sound@vger.kernel.org George wrote: > >Hello: > >First an apology for the really stupid question I'll start with...I'm >just drawing a complete blank here. > >System Info: >Gateway 9100XL Notebook > Pentium 350MHz > 384 MB RAM > 8.1 GB Hard Disk > all Linux with 768MB of Swap partitions (6 x 128) >120MB SuperDisk Drive >Xircom CE 10/100 Ethernet PCMCIA Adapter >Caldera OpenLinux 1..3 >kernel 2.0.35 > >First the stupid question.... > >1) How do I mount the floppy drive /dev/fd0 I've tried > >mount -t umsdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy > >with NO success using either a SuperDisk or 1.44MB standard floppy >formatted under WIN98. What the %^*&% am I missing?? I have the same machine (although with a slightly less memory :-) -- hopefully I can help! The Superdisk isn't recognized as a floppy -- it shows up as /dev/hdd. Try 'mount -t umsdos /dev/hdd /mnt/floppy' (This was my biggest problem getting Slackware installed initially -- once the bootdisk finished, the rootdisk was then not found under /dev/fd0, but /dev/hdd, so I got stuck. Ended up using Zipslack from my Win98 partition.) The Superdisk works fine with both 1.44Mb and 120Mb disks, albeit rather slow. (You think it takes a long time to write a 1.44Mb floppy? Try 120Mb! :-) The other thing that's handy to change, if you're using the mtools package (e.g. mdir, mcopy, mdel, etc.) is to edit the /etc/mtools.conf file (or wherever it lives on your machine, so the line that specifies drive a: says # # Linux floppy drives drive a: file="/dev/hdd" exclusive (instead of /dev/fd0). >2) Has anyone got PCMCIA working on a system like this? I've got it >enabled in the kernel but it doesn't seem to see any cards and running >cardmgr by hand get me a "no entries in /proc/devices" error in the >log. I'm using the excellent pcmcia package (3.0.6 or 3.0.9) from David Hinds -- http://hyper.stanford.edu/HyperNews/get/pcmcia/home.html I don't know if the kernel by itself supports pcmcia -- I think you need to use this package. > >3) Is the SuperDisk and the Xircom Ethernet supported in the PCMCIA >package? The Superdisk doesn't need pcmcia -- it's just /dev/hdd. It looks like some Xircom ethernet cards are supported by the pcmcia package -- probably depends on which model you got. (I'm using a 3Com card.) >4) What do I select for a Mouse and Video Adapter for X-Windows or kde >here to get the built in Display and the little glide point thingy >working I can't seem to get the mouse responding at all and am unsure >on the video also. I already owned the Accelerated X server from Xi Graphics, so I'm using that. However, there is an XFree86 server available that I've also used which worked fine. seth@sunflow.com has put up an excellent web page about his 9100LS, which is where I learned most of these tricks: http://www.sunflow.com/~seth/GW2k-9100.html He has a link to an X server that he's modified that works fine. The mouse (touchpad) is /dev/psaux -- it works just like a regular PS/2 mouse -- make sure you have support for a PS/2 mouse either compiled into the kernel, or loaded as a module. >5) What type of sound drivers do I need to get that working here...I >haven't tried to address this much up til now but since I'm >asking..... I'm using the latest version (3.92-k) of OSS from 4Front Technologies ($20) -- I just got it to work yesterday, but it seems like my volume is really low -- even turned up all the way, it's not very loud (not as loud as in Win98). So I think I need to tweak it some more. I'll probably also try the method(s) Seth mentions. >6) Is there any DVD Support for the DVD that is here as well? Not a >necessity but it sure would be nice to have.... The DVD drive works fine as a CDROM drive (data and music). I haven't heard of any actual dvd players for linux, though, and I have no idea what'd be involved in writing one. Anybody know of any DVD-linux projects going on? It'd be fun to help out. >These are my five (or 6) core critical issues here, once I'm past >these I can get the rest of the system going (I hope). I've done alot >of Linux on "standard" machines but never on a notebook.... There are a couple other very useful links to have: The linux-laptop page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ There are links to two other people's pages that have 9100s -- Seth's is very good, the other one is helpful, too. Between the two of them, I have mine working quite well. (Couple minor things to still fix, but for the most part, it's great.) Hope this helps! Scott -- Scott Grigsby Systems Administrator ProxiNet, Inc.