Linux-Hardware Digest #188, Volume #14 Tue, 16 Jan 01 16:13:07 EST
Contents:
re: modem in RH6.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new VIA AC'97 sound drivers? (Rod Smith)
SCSI Confusion: Help! (Troy Telford)
Re: L120 (Paul Bristow)
Re: XFree86 crashing monitor and mouse on Gateway Performace w/ EV700?
([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: new VIA AC'97 sound drivers? (Peter Christy)
Re: Via686a onboard sound help (Peter Christy)
Lexmark Z42 printer
Re: Via on-board sound success! (Peter Christy)
Re: dual xeon problems (Alex Deucher)
infra red - making it my self ("steven koolen")
Re: D-Link DU-C300 USB Webcam Problems (Alex Deucher)
Re: infra red - making it my self ("Jerry Shaw")
Re: Matrox g400 tv (Alex Deucher)
Re: Dual Monitor setup problem. Can't start X. (Alex Deucher)
Re: Diamond Fire GL2 (Alex Deucher)
Re: Radeon All in Wonder vs. Matrox G450 TV (Alex Deucher)
Re: Lexmark Z42 printer ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: re: modem in RH6.2
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 18:53:47 GMT
Can anybody recommend me any modem which can be easily installed in
RH6.2?
Dale Khehra
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: new VIA AC'97 sound drivers?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:01:19 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My Gigabyte motherboard came with RH 6.2 drivers for the built in sound
> card. They worked fine with SuSE 6.3. Now I am running Mandrake 7.2 and
> they are a no go. They complain about the kernel version. Can I update
> the drivers to work with 2.2.17-21xxx ?
In my experience, the VIA 82c686a sound drivers that come with the
kernel are pretty weak. They support only 8-bit sound, for instance. The
ALSA project (http://www.alsa-project.org) has much better drivers.
They're a nuisance to install, but once installed, they work much more
reliably and produce better (16-bit) sound. A tip: Read the
instructions. Read them again. THEN compile and install while reading
the instructions the third time.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux & multi-OS configuration
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Subject: SCSI Confusion: Help!
From: Troy Telford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 11:33:22 -0700
I've been looking around at installing a SCSI Adapter for my desktop
computer.
From what researched, a new SCSI hard drive should be
backwards-compatible (although perhaps requiring a 68->50 pin adapter)to
an older-standard. (eg an Ultra-160 HD will work on a SCSI interface
that uses the older Fast SCSI standard). This makes sense to me, but I
haven't used SCSI enough to learn more than how to add a device to a
computer; not actually know the standards. If there are backwards
compatability issues, or there are any other caveats, please let me know.
All I am going to do is connect an external SCSI scanner, and eventually
a new HD or two. I would add an IDE drive, but I have all my IDE slots
used, and as long as I have to use SCSI to connect my scanner, I might
as well use the SCSI for disks too.
From the research I have done, Ultra-SCSI has a 'standard' transfer
rate of 20 MB/s, and the newest drives have a similar (though somewhat
faster) rate of data transfer. Since it's a desktop machine, the
highest bandwidth usage I expect would be when scanning an image and
saving it to the disk, or perhaps in the future to copy from one SCSI
disk to another, I don't think this would be too much of a problem.
(Espescially since I'm aiming to get an inexpensive SCSI card for now,
and when I upgrade my system, worry about high-performance SCSI)
Any thoughts about this? Are my impressions fairly correct?
And one last Q: Are there any brands/models of SCSI cards that I should
generally avoid? (Excluding the cards that don't play nice with Linux,
of course)
Thanks,
Troy
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From: Paul Bristow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: L120
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:13:48 +0100
Dennis J. Tuchler wrote:
> How do I mount an L120 floppy drive, which is an IDE drive. Do I treat
> it as a floppy or as a hard drive? If as a hard drive, what number does
> it have?
You mount it as an ide device, /dev/hda, /dev/hdb, /dev/hdc, or /dev/hdd
Which one you mount it as depends on where the drive is connected.
Use the "dmesg" command to find out which one it is.
You will see something like:
hdd: LS-120 VER5 00 UHD FLOPPY
> Thanks
>
> dj tuchler
>
--
--
Regards,
Paul Bristow
ide-floppy maintainer for linux kernel
http://paulbristow.net/linux/idefloppy.html
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: XFree86 crashing monitor and mouse on Gateway Performace w/ EV700?
Date: 16 Jan 2001 11:15:17 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hello,
>
> I am currently attempting to set up Linux on a Gateway
...<snip>...
>
> Recently, I was running XFree86 while under a heavy CPU load
> and in the middle of a large download, and running irqtune so that
> the modem would get higher priority in the IRQ listing. I attempted
> to switch virtual terminals from X to a text console, as I've done many
> times before without incident, when the monitor popped up a box
> like it's configuration screen - except this time, it was complaining
> that I had sent it a bad frequency (15 horizontal, approximately,
> if I recall correctly) and it gave 20 seconds until it suspended itself.
...<snip>...
> It is now working correctly. However, the pressing questions
...<snip>...
I had a problem with intermittent failures of X-Windows. It turned out
the CPU fan was failing and it was a long time before I discovered that
that was the problem. You might want to take the skin off and have
a look while the system is running.
---replace "ragwind.localdomain" with "rahul" to get my email address
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: new VIA AC'97 sound drivers?
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:16:41 +0000
John Scudder wrote:
> My Gigabyte motherboard came with RH 6.2 drivers for the built in sound
> card. They worked fine with SuSE 6.3. Now I am running Mandrake 7.2 and
> they are a no go. They complain about the kernel version. Can I update
> the drivers to work with 2.2.17-21xxx ?
>
>
Hmmm! I too had a lot of problems trying to get the AC97 sound working on a
Gigabyte board. I cracked it in the end using the Alsa drivers. I've posted
a mini howto elsewhere in this NG. Do a search for via and you should find
it...
--
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Via686a onboard sound help
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:17:54 +0000
Marada C. Shradrakaii wrote:
> New mainboard (Amptron/PCChimps/70 other names M807) comes with onboard
> sound. All I can get out of the manual's discussion of the sound is a lot
> of blather about AC97, so I have to assume that I'm working with the sound
> faculties in
> the chipset (VIA KT133/686A). While both the kernel and ALSA can detect
> the
> circuitry and load modules, sound itself is another thing. With the
> (2.4.0 final) kernel driver, only a tiny peep is audible at the highest
> mixer
> settings, and the sound rate seems off. With the ALSA driver, it seems to
> only support the MIDI end of things, and the same nil-volume issue.
>
> What am I missing, if all I want is to hear an occasional .wav and the
> piped-in
> output of a TV card connected to line-in? Anyone gotten this beast going?
> I'd prefer not to have to go back to the previous setup (YMF724F and
> ALSA)
See my post elsewhere in this NG on how to get the onboard sound working
(search for via.....)
--
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Lexmark Z42 printer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:30:10 -0000
Has anyone gotten the Lexmark Z42 printer to work in Linux? Any help is
appreciated. JH
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From: Peter Christy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Via on-board sound success!
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 19:30:09 +0000
My problem was getting ANYTHING out of the on board sound system at all! If
you've got sound coming out of it, you are halfway there.
It sounds like you may have a conflict somewhere. This could either be an
irq or dma conflict. Its also possible that if you are using 7.2 "out of
the box" that there is another driver installed that is fighting with your
Aureal driver.
When I install a system, the first thing I do is recompile the kernel using
ONLY the drivers and resources I need - anything else gets binned. That
way, if I add new hardware I know that it is unlikely to conflict with
anything already on the system.
All distributions tend to come with everything, including the kitchen sink,
built in as default. The first thing to do is discard all the unnecessary
"baggage". You will have to go through your kernel configuration from top
to bottom to make sure it is "clean". You will also have to go through all
the stages that load modules (/etc/modules.conf /etc/modules
/etc/rc.d/rc.local and so on) to check that nothing is being loaded that
conflicts with your aureal drivers.
Sorry to sound so vague, but this is a very big subject and without an
intimate knowledge of your system and its configuration (please, no! Life
is too short....! ;-) all I can do is offer general pointers.
--
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:17:32 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: dual xeon problems
Check the kernel mailing list archives. There was a bug in some of the
test kernels that caused xeons to hang or run very slowly. I can't
remember what it was, maybe something with mtrr...
Alex
ekk wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I sent a message a little while ago about my dual xeon 550 hanging
> unpredictably. I have pretty much ruled out the cpu temperature as the
> source of the problem. It must be some hardware issue. Could you
> please review the hardware I have below and let me know if you know of
> any potential flaky hardware:
>
> Motherboard: Super S2DGU/DGE running Bios R1.6 (based on intel 440GX)
>
> ekkguest1:~ 101% hinv
> Total Processors: 2
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> cpu MHz : 551.258
> cache size : 512 KB
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> cpu MHz : 551.258
> cache size : 512 KB
>
> Main Memory Size: 960 MB
>
> Host: ide1 Channel: hdc
> Vendor: CD-ROM Model: 50X
>
> scsi0: Adaptec AIC7xxx driver version: 5.1.28/3.2.4
> Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00
> Vendor: IBM Model: DMVS18V Rev: 0250
>
> Keyboard Detected: 1
> Serial Ports: 2
> Parallel Ports: 0
> Ethernet Controllers: eth0
>
> IDE interface: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 IDE (rev 1).
> USB Controller: Intel 82371AB PIIX4 USB (rev 1).
> SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7890/1 (rev 1).
> Ethernet controller: Intel 82557 (rev 8).
> VGA compatible controller: ATI Unknown device (rev 0).
>
> ekkguest1:~ 102% cat /proc/cpuinfo
> processor : 0
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 7
> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> stepping : 3
> cpu MHz : 551.258
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
> bogomips : 1101.00
>
> processor : 1
> vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> cpu family : 6
> model : 7
> model name : Pentium III (Katmai)
> stepping : 3
> cpu MHz : 551.258
> cache size : 512 KB
> fdiv_bug : no
> hlt_bug : no
> sep_bug : no
> f00f_bug : no
> coma_bug : no
> fpu : yes
> fpu_exception : yes
> cpuid level : 2
> wp : yes
> flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr xmm
> bogomips : 1101.00
>
> ekkguest1:~ 104% cat /proc/interrupts
> CPU0 CPU1
> 0: 360195 0 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 387 0 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 8: 1 0 XT-PIC rtc
> 9: 829 0 XT-PIC eth0
> 10: 36047 0 XT-PIC aic7xxx
> 12: 78 0 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 0 XT-PIC fpu
> 15: 7 0 XT-PIC ide1
> NMI: 0
> ERR: 0
>
> please help me-
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From: "steven koolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: infra red - making it my self
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 21:15:15 +0100
i want infra red on my computer, but its very exspencive, does anyone know
how to make a infrared port my self
thanx
steven koolen
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:37:29 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: D-Link DU-C300 USB Webcam Problems
I think the c300 is based on the ov511. make sure you are loading the
module before you try and use the camera. As far as the usb errors go,
I'm not sure what to tell you.
Alex
Stephen Newey wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I've just bought the above mention camera, assuming it was basically a
> DSB-C300 (which is not actually mentioned on the D-Link websites).
> However, it doesn't wanna work, I'm running Mandrake 7.2, Kernel 2.2.18
> (tried in 2.4.0test12 too), K7/900Mhz on an Gigabyte motherboard, here's
> what I get in /var/log/messages....
>
> Jan 4 19:15:14 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
> device number 2
> Jan 4 19:15:14 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: TD @
> c4a20040/04A20040, MaxLen=07 DT0 EP=0 Dev=0 PID=(SETUP) buf=013a0de0
> Jan 4 19:15:14 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Len=07 e0 Stalled
> CRC/Timeo
> Jan 4 19:15:14 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Link points to TD
> @ 04a20080, Breadth first
> Jan 4 19:15:14 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
> address (error=-110)
> Jan 4 19:15:26 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device -1
> Jan 4 19:15:29 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
> device number 2
> Jan 4 19:15:29 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: TD @
> cede2fa0/0EDE2FA0, MaxLen=07 DT0 EP=0 Dev=0 PID=(SETUP) buf=013a0620
> Jan 4 19:15:29 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Len=07 e0 Stalled
> CRC/Timeo
> Jan 4 19:15:29 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Link points to TD
> @ 0ede2f60, Breadth first
> Jan 4 19:15:29 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
> address (error=-110)
> Jan 4 19:15:48 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device -1
> Jan 4 19:15:55 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB new device connect, assigned
> device number 2
> Jan 4 19:15:55 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: TD @
> c4a20080/04A20080, MaxLen=07 DT0 EP=0 Dev=0 PID=(SETUP) buf=013a0a60
> Jan 4 19:15:55 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Len=07 e0 Stalled
> CRC/Timeo
> Jan 4 19:15:55 voyager kernel: usb-uhci-debug.h: Link points to TD
> @ 04a20040, Breadth first
> Jan 4 19:15:55 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB device not accepting new
> address (error=-110)
> Jan 4 19:16:30 voyager kernel: usb.c: USB disconnect on device -1
>
> Any clue as to what's up/what I can do to sort it?
>
> Cheers,
> Stephen.
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From: "Jerry Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt,alt.comp.hardware.homedesigned,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd,alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt
Subject: Re: infra red - making it my self
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:34:54 GMT
look at http://www.tweakhardware.com/guide/remote/
"steven koolen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:3a64ac02$0$20777@reader4...
> i want infra red on my computer, but its very exspencive, does anyone know
> how to make a infrared port my self
>
> thanx
> steven koolen
>
>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:41:10 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Matrox g400 tv
Checkout http://marvel.sourceforge.net
Alex
Roel wrote:
>
> Hello
>
> Can anyone tell me how well the g400 works in Linux.I am thinking of
> buying one.
> The vga and dualhead is supported, read somewhere that the tv funcion
> works, but can I use it as a video recorder, capture and edit movies,
> use the teletext, in short, are all funtions of the g400 tv (with the
> blue breakout box) useable in Linux (SuSE 7.0).
> Any response is welcome.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:54:57 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Dual Monitor setup problem. Can't start X.
You need to edit your /etc/X11/XF86Config(-4) files depending on which X
server you are using (3.3.x or 4.0.x). ATI's tend to not like to be the
secondary display. You may have to go into your BIOS and set the BIOS
to initiallize the ATI first. If the built in adapter is AGP and you
are adding in a AGP ATI card, then they both can't be used together. In
this case the bios should disable the onboard one.
Alex
Arctic Storm wrote:
>
> Dual Monitor setup problem. Can't start X.
> I have Intel D815EEA motherboard that came with integrated video.
> I had RedHat 7 running fine.
> I just installed ATI's All-in-Wonder 128 PCI video card, so I could have
> dual monitor setup.
> I rebooted, and I was presented with an option to configure the new card.
> I screwed up, and now, when I try to power on, I get an error.
> It says something like, "...gdm was already running,...mysteriously
> murdered,..."
> The only way to boot up is to enter runlevel 3, and enter the interactive
> boot up, and disable everything. Then I can log in, but can't start X.
> When I issue the command Xconfigurator, it recognizes the new ATI card, but
> can't finish setting it up.
> Any help would be appreciated.
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:59:21 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Diamond Fire GL2
supposedly there are drivers for it, although I don't have the card, and
have never tried to download the drivers.
www.firegl.com
Alex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> HI, I have a Diamond Fire GL2 display card, but I can not find the driver
> for it in Linux. Does anyone has encontered such problem and fixed it? If so,
> how can you do?
>
> Thank you very much!
> heiko rolof.
>
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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 16:01:17 -0500
From: Alex Deucher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Radeon All in Wonder vs. Matrox G450 TV
I Haven't used either personally, but here are soem useful links:
linuxvideo.org - for ATI video stuff (among other things)
marvel.sourceforge.net - for matrox video stuff
Adam Atherton wrote:
>
> I am looking at purchasing a 3D video card with the video editing, and
> TV
> tuning capabilities, and the two that I am trying to settle between is
> the
> ATI Radeon All in Wonder, and the Matrox G450 TV card. I am currently
> using both Mandrake 7.2 and RedHat 7.0 (having troubles picking) and
> am wondering about which card is better supported under linux. Any
> comments would be most welcome.
>
> Thanks,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Lexmark Z42 printer
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 20:52:17 GMT
Not personally, but see if these links help any:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=317129
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=328553
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the Lexmark Z42 printer to work in Linux? Any help
> is appreciated. JH
>
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