Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

Hi,

try as root

modprobe aic7xxx

if that works, you could check for alias scsi_hostadapter in /etc/conf.modules, and see what it's set to. If it's set to off, then you might try to set it to aic7xxx ( this is a guess :-)

Regards, Tor Sigurdsson

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Thanks, Tor. You're right, I felt duly ashamed, and took some time confessing my sin. Back to aic7xxx. modprobe aic7xxx loads the module all right , but the scanner still does not work, even if Yast makes a valid link /dev/scanner to /dev/sg2 (sg0 = dvd drive, sg1 = cdrw). Inserting alias scsi_hostadapter aic7xxx after the ide-scsi alias does not change anything: the module is not loaded on boot.. What next? fx

Þann föstudagur 05 janúar 2001 20:07 skrifaðir þú:

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Tor Sigurdsson wrote:

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Hi, Just add: Option "RightAlt" "ModeShift" for XFree 4, or RightAlt ModeShift for XFree 3.3.x, in your XF86Config under the keyboard section.

Thanks for the advice, but it did not do the trick, nor did the various other suggestions I got . Strange case of the vanishing latin keymap, I guess. Because I couldn't figure out what to do next, I used the other obvious option, barring suicide: I reinstalled the whole thing. God. How can a distribution grow in a few months!

Anyway, two hours later I was back in business, with a working fr keyboard map complete with Alt Gr,, but with a snag: my SCSI scanner was not working anymore. In fact, the Adaptec Scsi card was not even detected on boot up. On checking the boot messages, I found this strange message from outer space:

"Atapi device hdd" "error - bot ready - sense key = 0x02" "(reserved error code " {thanks guys, this really helps} "--lax=0x30, asco=ax01)" "The failed "read cd/dvd capacity" packet was "25 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 "

(Linus/Alan Cox work in wondrous ways...}

I should explain that I have an IDE DVD on hdc, and an IDE CD writer on hdd; scsi emulation is enabled,; and the two drives have been working happily since the beginning of time (or when SuSE 7 came out, whichever came first).

So I booted on the SuSE DVD, aborted the installation, chose "load modules", selected the AIC7XXX scsi module, and got an error message, complaining that the module could not be loaded, followed by the very same message I quoted earlier, which appears on every boot. After which the module is loaded anyway (I checked with: "check loaded modulmes" or whatever the command is. And the scanner works. But if I reboot, all is lost (I mean, the Scsi card...).

Scsi emulation works fine, I can burn CD's.

But why isn't the Scsi card detected anymore, and what can I do to load it?

I would appreciate the input of the list's Wise Men.

Fx

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My Alt Gr key does not seem to be working anymore.

Problem is I can't say when it stopped working exactly. I have been fiddling quite a bit with my configuration after upgrading my motherboard, processor, memory and video card. Having problems configuring my ATI Expert 98, I installed Xfree 4.02 from the SuSe FTP site, and later went back to the original SuSe 7 Xfree 4. That might have done it.

I am running SuSe 7 with kde 2.01. The problem appears with all window managers.

The key works fine in console mode, so my keyboard definition (pc105 - be) is fine.

Can anyone offer a suggestion?

Thanks

Fx Fraipont

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