Linux-Hardware Digest #822, Volume #9 Wed, 24 Mar 99 09:14:19 EST
Contents:
Re: Burning.... ("sven the hairy")
Re: workout for new smp system (David Rees)
mono, not stereo sound (Bill Simpson)
RH5.2 and Sound Blaster 16 (Arnulf QUADT)
Re: Writable ATAPI Cdrom, I have no hair left!!! (Mitch on linus1)
Re: HSP-Modems (Allen)
Re: Netgear FA310TX - telnet timeout (david parsons)
ADAPTEC AHA 2940 : PLease help (ms)
Re: Any expirience with the GA-6BXDS Dual/SCSI PII board ? (Peter Druck)
diskless netboot but SCSI-CDROM and SCSI-Scanner ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Kernel 2.2.{3,4} and AIC-7895 (Chris MacKenzie)
Sony Vaio 747, Touchpad (Ansgar Radermacher)
Re: Banshee - how to get the Xserver ("Phil Guerney")
Kernel 2.2.{3,4} and AIC-7895 (Per Steinar Iversen)
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From: "sven the hairy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Burning....
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 02:08:14 -0800
Well, I went and did bought it (yamaha 4416) , so it's a moot question now.
Thanks for the input. Wasn't easy to find one in stock, had to make a
shitload of calls/website views.
Now I need to buy the 10,000 blanks to dupe all of the software at work,
school and every program owned by friends, aquaintances and random people I
stop in the street. Not that any of it would be for anything other than
educational purposes and to evaluate the quality of software before I buy
it. ;)
Can't wait to get all my 7"s on cd!
Tim Moore wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> I have a yamahe 4260, which is basically the 4416 but a bit slower.
>> However, it does have an advantage. Time. It is known to be a good
>> writer, and it has mature firmware. Also it is a bit cheaper. And both
>> write at the same speed (not rewrite). SO if you want a good one, and
>> don't need the 4x rewrite, I highly reccommend the yamaha 4260 if you
>> can find one. And upgrade the firmware to 1.0q if it isn't already.
>> I'm sure the 4416 isa a good drive, and it will probably be widely
>> respected in time, and I'm sure it will have mature firmware eventually,
>> but it's too young to be certain it's got no problems in my opinion.
>
>The 4116 uses the same mature firmware. 1.0q.
>
>--
>[Replies: make the double y a single]
>
>"Everything is permitted. Nothing is forbidden."
> WS Burroughs.
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From: David Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.development.apps
Subject: Re: workout for new smp system
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 1999 23:18:19 -0800
ag wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm looking for a burn-in app for a new smp system. I need something
> that can run continously and exercise all the major subsystems. I've
> run the quake demos, but that only pushes one cpu.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Andrew
Repeatedly recompile your kernel, or some other large program such as
egcs, glibc, or gcc, etc. Run a couple of compiles in separate
directories at the same time, and watch the load grow. It's a lot of
fun. ;-)
-Dave
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:25:15 -0600
From: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Bill Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: mono, not stereo sound
I have Sony PCG-812 laptop with "soundblaster compatible" stereo sound
card. However, under Linux, the sound is only mono. Is there any way to
get stereo? I read the sound HOWTO and saw nothing about this. I also
looked at DejaNews.
Here is result of $ cat /dev/sndstat
Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue Dec 1 14:48:53 CST 1998 root,
Linux lh147 2.0.34 #2 Thu Jun 4 23:56:40 PDT 1998 i686 unknown)
Kernel: Linux cbe207 2.0.34 #3 Tue Dec 1 14:49:45 CST 1998 i686
Config options: a80002
Installed drivers:
Type 1: OPL-2/OPL-3 FM
Type 2: Sound Blaster
Type 7: SB MPU-401
Card config:
Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 5 drq 1,5
(SB MPU-401 at 0x320 irq 5 drq 0)
OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0
Audio devices:
0: ESS ES1688 AudioDrive (rev 11)
Synth devices:
0: Yamaha OPL-3
Midi devices:
Timers:
0: System clock
Mixers:
0: Sound Blaster
Thanks very much for any help.
Bill Simpson
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From: Arnulf QUADT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RH5.2 and Sound Blaster 16
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:43:11 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
in the process of installing RH5.2 I also tried to setup my Sound
Blaster 16 card using sndconfig. I can chosse the DMA and IRQ, but at
the end of the configuration procedure sndconfig tells me that there was
an `error opening /dev/audio'. Any idea what that means and how to get
around this problem ?
Cheers,
Arnulf
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From: Mitch on linus1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Writable ATAPI Cdrom, I have no hair left!!!
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 05:42:52 -0600
How can I tell which kernels are stable and which are development grade,
should I consider the "latest" in a class to be ok. Is there a list
somewhere ?
I will look try 2.0.36 and report back.
... Many thanks
Mitch
Thomas Zajic wrote:
> Mitch on linus1 wrote:
> > Ok,
> > I've FAQ-ed and I've Hack-ed til I am bald from
> > pulling my hair out.
> > I have an HP-7200i Cdrom writer. I have been trying to
> > get Cdrecord or Xcdroast up, but I can't get ide-scsi
> > emulation to work. Whe my kernel boots it sees it as
> > exactly what it is and calls it hdd. If I set that option
> > when configuring a kernel (2.1.80 and 2.1.99), the
>
> These are rather old and outdated development kernels. You
> might want to consider downgrading to 2.0.36 or upgrading to
> 2.2.3 (although I�ve read about a lot of problems with CD
> writing on 2.2.3 already).
>
> > "make" barfs in the ide section complaining:
> > ---------snip -------
> > drivers/block/block.a(ide.o): In function
> > `ide_init_builtin_drivers':
> > ide.o(.text.init+0x5e1): undefined reference to
> > `idescsi_init'
> > make: *** [vmlinux] Error 1
> > ---------snip----------
>
> Make sure you DISable ATAPI CD-ROM support and ENable
> ATAPI-SCSI host emulation (both in the IDE section),
> and ENable SCSI CD-ROM support and SCSI generic support
> (both in the SCSI section) - and don�t forget to �make
> clean; make dep� after a failed kernel compilation!
>
> > After I apply the patches included in the doc file
> > readme.ATAPI (that comes with both "cdrecord-1.6.x &
> > Xcdroast) it gets alot worse (the patches succeed). (Are
> > those patches version specific ??)
>
> Depends. If the patch changes something that has changed
> from one version to another, then yes. Otherwise no. BTW
> the patches aren�t necessary for versions > 2.0.34, IIRC.
>
> > I GOTTA be missing something, (maybe I shoulda bought a
> > SCSI CD-burner!)
>
> Nah, works fine - at least for me. :-)
>
> Thomas
> --
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Allen)
Subject: Re: HSP-Modems
Date: 24 Mar 1999 05:24:58 GMT
No, and I rather doubt the validity of it. For it to be true, someone
would either have to have (stolen?) inside information from (each?)
manufacturers on hardware specific register information, or MUCH time on their
hands to reverse-engineer a solution, have the requisite programming skills, and
probably be very bored. I was just in a Comp USA and a Best Buy today, and even
off the shelf, one could buy a functional modem at retail for less than $100 US,
and while I don't have the programming skills (yet?) to write drivers for Linux,
my time is already worth more to me than that, and even if that were the only
choice for a Linux capable modem, I suspect that ANYone who gets to the point of
being able to do this job, has already gotten a good modem, and is not willing
to put the time into this task. Even if it were true, one would probably need
to either get the exact model modem that was used as the basis for this, or have
separate drivers written for each soft modem, and after all that hassle, one
would still have a "winmodem", that would perform more poorly than a hardware
based solution, or at least utilize more (valuable?) system resources.
On Mon, 22 Mar 1999 17:50:51 +0100, "Paco Lozano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have heard in es.comp.os.linux that someone is developing a driver for HSP
>modems. Have anybody of you heard about it?
>
>
Allen
(email addy; user ID portion has a numeral one in place of word
onespoiler, and of course, delete the bogus secondary domain of nospam.)
PC/hardware Guru, and Linux Newbie
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From: o r c @ p e l l . p o r t l a n d . o r . u s (david parsons)
Subject: Re: Netgear FA310TX - telnet timeout
Date: 24 Mar 1999 00:45:57 -0800
In article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Eric Lee Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On Tue, 09 Mar 1999 18:57:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote:
>>I have a curious problem with the Netgear FA310TX on my RH5.2 system.
.
.
.
>Yes. The new Netgear FA310TX uses the PNIC Lite-On chipset. This chipset
>has severe media detection problems, as well as having a delay in the
>transmitter setup to attempt to cope with that.
This may depend on the version of the driver you use to talk to it.
I use the new and improved FA310TX in several machines, and it has
very little problem detecting the (umm, netgear) switches it's talking
to, nor in detecting full duplex and 100bt connections (unlike the
SMC Etherpower 100s I replaced, which would NOT go full duplex or
100mbit unless I manually replugged the cars after poweron. Grr.)
But I use the tulip.c that Bay^WNortel provides on the driver disk,
which is very happy when it sees an all-netgear world.
____
david parsons \bi/ I don't know about the bandwidth of the netgear
\/ switches, but they seem to have enough for small
offices.
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From: ms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ADAPTEC AHA 2940 : PLease help
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:25:54 +0000
I have connected a AHA Adaptec 2940 board (AIC7870P) with an IBM DSAS
-3540 HD and a PANASONIC CD Writer CW 7502 B. My PC is a dual boot
(W95, Linux RH 5.2) and none of the 2 os work with this configuration :
W95 crashes and Linux does not see any SCSI device.
This configuration was working on my old PC (Gateway P5-90) but not on
the new one (Abit BH6 motherboard HN Bios) + Celeron 400.
Any idea ?
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From: Peter Druck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any expirience with the GA-6BXDS Dual/SCSI PII board ?
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 13:19:13 +0100
Ulrich,
the experienc I had (have) withe the BXDS is:
1) The Board is O.K if you don't need the SCSI-Option. The
(SCSI)-BIOS/implementation is bad
2) Forget about the support, you simply get none
I was lucky, my dealer changed it with an ASUS-MB
Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: diskless netboot but SCSI-CDROM and SCSI-Scanner
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 09:17:21 GMT
I'm currently trying to build a diskless Linux-based X-Terminal with an
attached SCSI Scanner and SCSI CD-Rom. I like to use an Adaptec 1542
Controller. I build a kernel with no SCSI disk support (only CD-Rom and
generic) and still the driver hangs during boot in an endless loop tying
to get hold of scsi id 0 and trying to initialise it.
Thanks for any help please reply also by E-Mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gerrit
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From: Chris MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.{3,4} and AIC-7895
Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 00:01:49 +1100
Per Steinar Iversen wrote:
> Are there any known bugs with the AIC-7xxx driver
> in recent kernels? I have a machine with an
> integrated AIC-7895, the mainboard is an MSI MS6120.
> A manual is at http://www.msi.com.tw/BBS/686BASE/6120/6120.PDF
>
> At boot (linux 2.2.4) there are messages like this:
> (scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES)
> (scsi0) Illegal cable configuration!! Only two
> (scsi0) connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time!
>
> It complains about 3 connectors in use, yet only 2 are
> used, the second UW connecter is not at all connected to
> anything! There is one disk on the UW cable and a tapedrive
> on the narrow cable.
I also have an AIC-7895 and mine does exactly the same thing, ignore it
everything works fine despite the error message. The message is just the
driver warning about the fact that all the cables are terminated on the
channel when it's only legal to have two, usually because you have auto
termination enabled in the bios.
--
Rgds,
Chris MacKenzie
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Windows 95/NT - 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell
for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating
system originally coded for a 4 bit
microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company
that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
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Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 14:23:01 +0100
From: Ansgar Radermacher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sony Vaio 747, Touchpad
Hello,
I have a Vaio 747 notebook with a (logitech?) touchpad. The installation
of Linux went just fine (X, modem, powersave) with one single exception:
I can't prevent the pad to ignore "tabbing" (or to change its
sensitivity), i.e. a slight touch is often interpreted as
mouse-button-1.
I tried different settings in the Xconfig (e.g. Protocol=PS/2 or
GlidePointPS/2) without any difference. I also tried gpm without getting
rid of "tabbing". The tpconfig utility reported "Not a (Synaptics)
touchpad device".
I can disable tabbing with the mouse utility in Win98, but rebooting
into Linux seems to reset this setting to the original behaviour.
Any suggestions?
Regards
A. Radermacher
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fax: +49 89 6004 2268 `------------. Werner-Heisenberg-Weg 39
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From: "Phil Guerney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Banshee - how to get the Xserver
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 22:58:24 +1000
To all who had trouble downloading the Voodoo Banshee X server.
For some reason, IE4 does not like the .tar.gz file on the xxedgexx site or
the alternative site listed below. Nor does Lynx which reports that it has
downloaded the correct number of bytes but stores a zero length file. But
Netscape has no problem. The result is great - a high resolution XWindows
screen, without having to pull the Banshee card and put in the old S3 one.
Many thanks to Darryl Strauss for this.
The file is also at http://www.linuxberg.com which is where I successfully
downloaded it with Netscape.
I still have one problem - unless I boot Win95 first, I do not have a mouse
in Linux - a pointer, but no response. Seems like some low-level initiation
of the serial port is not happening, but that Win gets it going??
Phil
=====
Chris Plummer wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>>>> Is the Voodoo Banshee supported at all in X?
>>>
>>>http://glide.xxedgexx.com/3DfxRPMS_vb_glibc.html
>>>
>>>Try the above URL for instructions and a binary download of an X server
>>>for Banshee graphics cards.
>>
>>
>>I have tried several times to download this file. I never get a gzip
>>compatible file as a result, and all the usual indications are wrong
during
>>the download (time estimates of 100's of hours). The file on my local
drive
>>always ends up being BansheeX-199902230.tar.gz and 3,130kB long, not
1,286kB.
>
>I have tried the same URL, with the same results. Twice. No good. My
>solution? Ditch the Banshee, I went back to my crappy but reliable S3
Virge
>based Diamond Stealth 3D 2000.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Per Steinar Iversen)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Kernel 2.2.{3,4} and AIC-7895
Date: 24 Mar 1999 09:53:33 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are there any known bugs with the AIC-7xxx driver
in recent kernels? I have a machine with an
integrated AIC-7895, the mainboard is an MSI MS6120.
A manual is at http://www.msi.com.tw/BBS/686BASE/6120/6120.PDF
At boot (linux 2.2.4) there are messages like this:
(scsi0) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel A, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Warning - detected auto-termination
(scsi0) Please verify driver detected settings are correct.
(scsi0) If not, then please properly set the device termination
(scsi0) in the Adaptec SCSI BIOS by hitting CTRL-A when prompted
(scsi0) during machine bootup.
(scsi0) Cables present (Int-50 YES, Int-68 YES, Ext-68 YES)
(scsi0) Illegal cable configuration!! Only two
(scsi0) connectors on the SCSI controller may be in use at a time!
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
(scsi1) <Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 9/1
(scsi1) Wide Channel B, SCSI ID=7, 32/255 SCBs
(scsi1) Downloading sequencer code... 404 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi1 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AIC-7895 Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 2 hosts.
Vendor: IBM Model: DDRS-39130D Rev: DC1B
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Vendor: HP Model: C1533A Rev: A708
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 3, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17850000 [8715 MB] [8.7 GB]
It complains about 3 connectors in use, yet only 2 are
used, the second UW connecter is not at all connected to
anything! There is one disk on the UW cable and a tapedrive
on the narrow cable.
-psi
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