Linux-Hardware Digest #858, Volume #9 Sun, 28 Mar 99 09:13:51 EST
Contents:
Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0 (Enkidu)
Q: UDMA with ASUS P5A and Linux-2.2.3 ("A. Hirche")
Re: ISAPNP modem error (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: ADAPTEC AHA 2940 : PLease help ("A. Hirche")
Re: linux, isdn modprobe ("A. Hirche")
Howto inst RedHat 5.2 (Apollo) ("S a f e c r a c k e r �")
risc 6000 chip ("123")
trying to install wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm ("Igor Vedernjak")
Re: trying to install wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm (jwk)
Re: Mismatched DRAM problem (Thomas Dorris)
Re: IRQ Sharing (was: Two PCI NE2000 Problems) (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: Mismatched DRAM problem (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: ES 1938 sound card (Cece)
eicon diva 2 isa pnp ("MB")
Re: Dual PPro (Jim Kingdon)
Re: How fast is your HD? (Thomas Dorris)
isdn support in 2.2.X kernels? (Mark Hamlin)
Re: isdn support in 2.2.X kernels? (Mark Hamlin)
SB Live & Redhat 5.2 ("Al Kooz")
Help! My dtc3280A card couldn't run properly under Linux. ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Enkidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,linux.redhat.misc,alt.linux,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Idea: Make a seperate "i686" tree for Redhat Linux 6.0
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 21:33:05 +1200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wizard wrote:
>
> It would be foolish for redhat not to develop a 686 specific
> version of Linux. The reality is if they don't someone else will.
>
Redhat do not develop anything, they "just" package it.
Cliff
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From: "A. Hirche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Q: UDMA with ASUS P5A and Linux-2.2.3
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:19:03 +0100
Hi!
I found a few messages stating that the new kernel DOES support UDMA
with the ASUS P5A.
I have compiled the kernel with default ide dma enabled, checked that
the BIOS has UDMA enabled on both controllers and still get the
following messages:
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide0: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) <----------
THIS IS NOT TRUE!
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS) <----------
THIS IS NOT TRUE!
Any hints on what I did wrong? I could not find anything helpful in the
kernel documentation.
Thanks for the help!
Bye,
Axel
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: ISAPNP modem error
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 07:00:24 GMT
Archival Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I am running a dual OS system with Redhat 5.2 and Win98 on an Intel P200
>system and am having trouble getting my modem to dial. I have verified
>that the modem is not a winmodem (it is a USR 56K voice PCI PNP
>internal). ^^^^^
[...]
That's a HCF modem , and there's no driver support for Linux at all.
Bring it back and /or get yourself a trouble-free external 56K model.
Michael
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From: "A. Hirche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ADAPTEC AHA 2940 : PLease help
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 11:49:42 +0100
Hi!
Check the following:
(1) Are al l cards REALLY insertet properly into the slots (no joke -
check it 10 times!)
(2) IBM desktop disks are terminated by default (in contrast to the server
disks, AFAIK) . This means if you change the order of the devices on the
internal cable,
you WILL get a termination problem with the ADAPTEC controllers, if you do
not remove the termination jumper (normally number 6 with IBM disks, check
the documentation).
That is what solved a similar problem for me.
Best regards,
Axel
ms wrote:
> 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: "A. Hirche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.comm.isdn,de.comm.isdn.computer,de.comm.isdn.technik,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: linux, isdn modprobe
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 12:10:33 +0100
Hi Mark!
module isdn automatically loads modules hisax. That is what modprobe is
there for.
Use lsmod to see which modules are loaded and which modules use what other
modules:
modprobe isdn
lsmod
Take care,
Axel
Mark Hamlin wrote:
> # modprobe isdn
> # modprobe hisax type=5 protocol=2 id=Fritz
> /lib/modules/preferred/misc/hisax.o: init_module: Device or resource
> busy
>
> # dmesg
>
> ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.44/1.41/1.47/1.28/1.8 loaded
> HiSax: Driver for Siemens chip set ISDN cards
> HiSax: Version 2.1
> HiSax: Revisions 1.15/1.10/1.10/1.30/1.8
> HiSax: Warning - no protocol specified
> HiSax: Note! module load syntax has changed.
> HiSax: using protocol EURO
> HiSax: Total 0 card defined
> HiSax: Driver for Siemens chip set ISDN cards
> HiSax: Version 2.1
> HiSax: Revisions 1.15/1.10/1.10/1.30/1.8
> HiSax: Total 1 card defined
> HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=Fritz (0)
> HiSax: AVM driver Rev. 1.6
> HiSax: AVM A1 hscx A fifo port 0 already in use
> HiSax: Card AVM A1 not installed !
> ISDN-subsystem unloaded
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From: "S a f e c r a c k e r �" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Howto inst RedHat 5.2 (Apollo)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:22:03 +0200
i've got a pii-450 with 64 mb
and a maxtor 10 gb hd 7200 rpm
i've got a 8,5 gb partion fat32 with win98 on it
and an empty one with the size of 1,5gb
how could i instal linux ?
with the linuxfdisk and/or disk druid i can't change the partition size...
can i ?
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From: "123" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: risc 6000 chip
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 02:04:00 -0800
i have a risc 6000 based system
i want to put linux on it is it possable????
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From: "Igor Vedernjak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: trying to install wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:37:38 GMT
Hi
I have RedHat 5.0 Installed on my server and when trying to install
wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm recieving message:
failed dependencies:
/usr/local/bin/perl is needed by wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18vr14-2
I have perl installed in /usr/bin/perl
What I must do to install this upgrade of wu-ftpd
Thanks
Igor Vedernjak
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (jwk)
Subject: Re: trying to install wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:03:23 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 08:37:38 GMT, "Igor Vedernjak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Hi
>
>I have RedHat 5.0 Installed on my server and when trying to install
>wu-ftpd-2_4_2b18vr14-2_i386.rpm recieving message:
>failed dependencies:
> /usr/local/bin/perl is needed by wu-ftpd-2.4.2b18vr14-2
>
>I have perl installed in /usr/bin/perl
>
>What I must do to install this upgrade of wu-ftpd
>
>Thanks
>
>Igor Vedernjak
>
>
try --force as extra argument to rpm?
Jurriaan
--
Firstly, when confronted with the twisted strangeness of variable numbers of
arguments, the problem returns... and he who has not kept his faith strong by
repeated practice shall surely fall to this subtle trap.
Henry Spencer - The Ten Commandments for C programmers (Annotated Ed.)
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From: Thomas Dorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mismatched DRAM problem
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 23:09:18 +0000
CodeWizard wrote:
> see all 82 megs, but Linux limits me to 64. Anyone have any
> suggestions on how to fix this?
If you've got a 2.0.35 kernel (or older I suppose) and you're booting
with lilo, then you gotta add a line like
append="mem=82M"
to your lilo.conf file (and of course then run /sbin/lilo).
Thomas Dorris
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: IRQ Sharing (was: Two PCI NE2000 Problems)
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 07:02:42 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter F. Curran) writes:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bill Klein) writes:
[IRQs for PCI slots]
>>
>>My motherboard's BIOS unfortunately won't let me manually
>>assign IRQs. I've tried moving the cards around to different
>>slots, but still no luck. Any ideas?
>>
>I assume your motherboard _would_ assign the cards different
>IRQs if there were enough available. If possible, you might
>try disabling features you don't currently use. (Examples:
>USB, infrared, EPP (for printer), second ide channel, even a
>serial might not be needed...)
[...]
Depending from the motheboard, this may or may not work. There are
models that always share one IRQ amongst two or more PCI slots.
Sometimes a BIOS update helps; in some cases, however, you'll
have to change the motherboard to get it working.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Mismatched DRAM problem
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 10:33:42 GMT
CodeWizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have a 430 TX motherboard with 2 DRAM slots. In slot 1 have a 64 meg
>chip, in slot 2 I have a 16 meg chip for a total of around 82 megs.
>According to the motherboard manual this configuration should work
>perfectly and my other OS (that piece of crap Microsoft produces) can
>see all 82 megs, but Linux limits me to 64. Anyone have any suggestions
>on how to fix this?
>"Life would be easier if I had the source code"
Change it to
"Life would be easier if I had searched for the answer at DejaNews"
Hint: mem=82M would do it, but this will drastically reduce your
overall performance due to the built-in cacheing limitation of the TX
chipset you're using. Your system will be running much faster if you
keep the limit at 64MB - or use the rest as a RAMdisk .
Michael
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Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 00:30:00 -0500
From: Cece <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ES 1938 sound card
Walter Harms wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Panajotis Karajannis) writes:
>
> >Hi
> >I have an ES1938 PCI sound card and I heard that I can configure it as Sound
> >Blaster under Linux. However I don't know what IRQ and I/O settings to give.
> >Under Win 95 I have 2 related drivers:
>
> >ES 1938 DOS emulation I/0 0220-022F,0388-038B,0330-0331 DMA 1
>
> >ES 1938 PCI Audio Drive IRQ 5 I/O C400-C40F,C800-C80F,CC00-CC0F,D000-D003
>
> >Thanks for any help
> >Panos
>
> I have the same problem you have to recompile your kernel using
> SB pro support , MPU401 and /dev/dsp & /dev/audio support.
> Its still not 100% but find the specs and i guess the author will add
> support for this type also.
>
> walter
> --
> -----
> "Exotic alien swords are easy to come by -- Aces are rare."
> -----
To find the IRQ, dma and I/O settings. While you are in Windows 95, open the
control panel and open 'system' icon. In the device manager list click 'my
computer' at the top. Then click 'properties' You can get ALL the IRQ, I/O, and
DMA settings by checking the box for each resource one at a time. Make sure, as
in the case of most sound cards, that you copy all the settings. Many use more
than one DMA, IRQ, and I/O settings. Even using sndcfg, you need to know these
settings as there are more than one for most cards. Just setting it for SB pro,
MPU 401 is not enough without the correct resource settings.
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From: "MB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: eicon diva 2 isa pnp
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:01:18 +0200
did anyone got this card to work under linux ??
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Jim Kingdon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Dual PPro
Date: 28 Mar 1999 07:32:27 -0500
> Reminds me of a question I've been meaning to ask: When will 2.2.x be
> officially released? I like to stick with RedHat releases, but I am also
> running a dual PPro and would like to move forward. I just don't want the
> pain of running beta software :-)
Given that set of preferences I'd probably suggest that you stick with
2.0.x; 2.0.36 (or maybe it is the 2.0.x pre-patches at Alan Cox's
site, I forget) is much better at SMP (where "better" == "less buggy")
than, say, 2.0.30.
I know people will say that 2.2.x has SMP improvements, and I'm sure
that is true but SMP is most useful on CPU-intensive tasks and in the
pure CPU-intensive case (in which system calls are not significant,
performance-wise), those improvements are not relevant. Especially
for a dual processor system than than 4, 8, or more processors.
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From: Thomas Dorris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How fast is your HD?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 01:04:40 +0000
morgan wrote:
> Seagate 2gig UW:
> Timing buffered disk reads: 16 MB in 0.49 seconds =32.65 MB/sec
...
> Why is the seagate so much faster than the IBM drives?
Holy smoking hard drive, Bat Man! How much memory does each system have
and what tool(s) did you use to perform the tests? I'm sure you know
this already, but most disk IO benchmarks need to be run with a
read/write size twice that of the real memory. Otherwise, you'll just
be testing the in memory transfer rates of the OS.
For example, on my IBM 9ES 4.5 gig U2 drives, if I specify a 128meg file
size to Bonnie, the results are 40 MB/sec block reads. However, when I
specify 256meg, I get a more realistic number around 12.5 MB/sec.
Thomas Dorris
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From: Mark Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.alt.comm.isdn4linux,comp.dcom.isdn.capi,de.comm.isdn.computer,demon.service.isdn,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: isdn support in 2.2.X kernels?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:09:59 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is this a contradiction in terms. I just upgraded and installed
successfully the 2.2.0 kernel with my avm b1 support built in to the
kernel. (upgraded from 2.035) . I did this specifically for isdn
support of my card. Am I wasting my time here, do I need 2.036
specifically. I would have used 2.036 but I didn't want to have to
download the 6MB. Will 2.2.0 work with available patches?
Cheers,
Mark Hamlin
p.s. please send a direct e-mail response. If you have trouble cc.ing
I'll forward a copy to the newsgroups.
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From: Mark Hamlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
de.alt.comm.isdn4linux,comp.dcom.isdn.capi,de.comm.isdn.computer,demon.service.isdn,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: isdn support in 2.2.X kernels?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:19:23 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I forgot to include the info about why I was asking the question. When
trying to install isdn4linux, I can complete the 'make config' but the
'make' procedure fails with the following:
gcc -g -Wall -pipe -DLIBAREA -DAVON=\"avon\"
-I/usr/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2 -c -o avon/createDB.o avon/createDB.c
ar rs libisdn.a isdntools.o conffile.o libtools.o ../areacode/areacode.o
avon/createDB.o
ranlib libisdn.a
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2/lib'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2/lib'
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2/isdnctrl'
gcc -DVERSION=\"3.0beta2\" -Wall -O2 -I.
-I/usr/src/linux22/linux/include -DI4L_CTRL_CONF -DI4L_CTRL_TIMRU -c -o
isdnctrl.o isdnctrl.c
isdnctrl.c:460: warning: #warning ISDN_NET_DM_OFF not defined? Old
isdn4kernel?
isdnctrl.c: In function `listif':
isdnctrl.c:414: structure has no member named `dialmode'
make[1]: *** [isdnctrl.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/isdn4k-utils-3.0beta2/isdnctrl'
make: *** [subtargets] Error 2
please cc me a direct response, I'll forward a copy to the NG if you have
trouble.
Thanks,
Mark
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From: "Al Kooz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SB Live & Redhat 5.2
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:22:56 +0200
Ok I know messages like this one probably have been posted on here a
thousand times before. I just recently purchased a SB Live soundcard, and I
would like to know if, and how I can install it under Linux. Can use the
regular sndconfig ? Or where could I get information about this topic. I
would really like my linux to make some noise !!
Thanx for any information
Al
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Help! My dtc3280A card couldn't run properly under Linux.
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:20:05 GMT
My DTC3280A card is configured as IRQ 11, base address D800h, and works well
under win95 by using DTC3280/3270/3250 driver, but it dosen't work under
Linux by using dtc.o module. The card and the attached devices(MAXTOR LX213S,
CORNOR CFP1080S fixed disks and MITSUSHITA CR-506B CD-ROM drive) can be
recognized, but the disks' partition table is said unknown(FDISK displays
very large begin and end cylinder number, and the problem cannot be corrected
by repartition), and CD-ROM could not be mounted becaue of invalid fs type. I
has tried to set every possible IRQ and base address of the card, and also
tried to low level fomat LX213S with the DTC3280A and AHA2940U card. The
disks and CD-ROM drive works well under Linux when attaching to AHA2940. The
computer seems to have no problem when I installed RedHat 5.1 or Slackware
3.4 when using a IDE hard disk.
My computer is a IBM compatible, which has a Intel 486DX33 CPU, 16MB RAM, a
MAD16 sound card, a Cirrus Logic 5422 display card, a Logitech ScanMan Color
interface card, a IBM 14.4KBPS internal modem, a external ASVD 33.6KBPS
modem, a muli-function card and a GoldStar GCD-R542B CD-ROM drive besides the
SCSI card and devices.
I disabled the floppy controller of DTC3280A(It dose not work after I using a
floppy drive cleanning program), using the multi-function card to attach the
floppy drives and IDE hard disk(I don't use IDE HD normally). And the CD-ROM
drive is connectted to MAD16.
I cannot belive that my DTC3280A card is damaged, not sutiable for Linux. I
wonder where I can download a differnt dtc.o module, or in which program do
some hacking. I will very be appriciated if any one could give me some
suggestion.
By the way, my display card can only work in VGA mode when using the program
that using SVGA LIB, such as seejpeg, zgv, although it's said CL5422 is fully
supported. The card works well when using SVGA XWindow server.
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