Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

[georgek]

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??

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.

3) Is the SuperDisk and the Xircom Ethernet supported in the PCMCIA
package? 

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.

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.....

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....

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....

Thanks,
George

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Re: Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

[lawson_whitney]

On Tue, 11 May 1999 georgek@netwrx1.com 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

This is more RAM than the total for all the computers I've ever
programmed in my life.  Including mainframes.

> 	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

mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
> 
> with NO success using either a SuperDisk or 1.44MB standard floppy
> formatted under WIN98. What the %^*&% am I missing??

win98 don't do umsdos.  vfat is fat16 with a long filename kluge, and
probably what it'd use on a floppy.  cat /proc/filesystems to see what
choice you have.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 3) Is the SuperDisk and the Xircom Ethernet supported in the PCMCIA
> package? 
> 
> 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'm just guessing.  I'd try PS/2 mouse for the glide point thingy.
> 
> 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.....
> 
> 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....
> 
> 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....
> 
> Thanks,
> George

Well, that's 1 and a half of your questions answered.  If you get that
much of a response from each of the lists you cross posted to, you
should be right.

Lawson
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Re: Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

[flatmax]

On Tue, 11 May 1999 georgek@netwrx1.com 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....
> 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.....
> 
> Thanks,
> George
> 
> ==[George R. Kasica]==        +1 414 541 8579
> President                       +1 800 520 4873 FAX 
> Netwrx Consulting Inc.          West Allis, WI USA 
> http://www.netwrx1.com

For sound you will need to try two methods :
a] No fuss newbie OSS method :
	Go to www.4front-tech.com and grab a self extracting menu driven
	sound driver
b] Super learning trip to interstellar source :
	compile a kernel setting the correct options for sound.
	www.kernel.org (I think) has kernels. Latest is linux 2.2.x
	Hint : compile it as a module first !
c] Check out the other drivers - heard of one called ALSA - don't know
	much about it at this stge though 
	Someone else with a website ref:

Matt
__________
reverse ...
backwards needs forwards
want backwards - first go forwards
viva

Re: Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

[shaleh]

> 
> 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??

Try mount -t msdos or vfat, umsdos is unix fs on msdos so you can try to run
linux installed in a dos directory.

> 
> 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.
> 

Make sure you have the latest and greatest pcmcia package (ike 3.0.x).

> 3) Is the SuperDisk and the Xircom Ethernet supported in the PCMCIA
> package? 
> 

Unsure, in the pcmcia package there is a doc listing known working and not
working hardware.

> 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.
> 

mouse is prolly /dev/psaux (ps/2)

> 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.....
> 

Unsure here.

> 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....

Not yet.  ANd DVD movies dont work either and may not for some time.

Re: Couple of questions 1 real stupid - sorry

[Scott Grigsby]

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.