Linux-Hardware Digest #187, Volume #11 Sun, 5 Sep 99 21:13:38 EDT
Contents:
Re: What ISDN adapter to buy? (David Cooley)
Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: VoiceSURFR 56 Internal modem (Rob Clark)
Re: IDE irq timeout (Peter Kunz)
stability problems with my system (Gary Bankston)
Using two different sound cards simultaneously (Brian Hall)
Re: FS: 5 DEC VRT19-HA 19" Triniton monitors ; $135 US (Chris Scheers)
Re: FS: 5 DEC VRT19-HA 19" Triniton monitors ; $135 US (Duncan Brown)
Re: Jaz Jet SCSI, 2Gb Jaz internal, RH 6.0 doesn't see. (Peter T. Breuer)
Re: ISA NIC Card in RedHat6 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Problem dialing out, Modem dials to quickly (Chris Mahmood)
there's a murder in my Linux system!!! <G> (Caspar von Seckendorff)
FS: Alpha Machine, 600MHz, LOADED ("M. Shadfar")
Modem setup help (Keith the Wonder Wookie)
Postscript 2? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Insatallation Problem ("Mansong Shen")
Re: Creative Audiopci (es 1371 ) and midi (Steven Ponsford)
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From: David Cooley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What ISDN adapter to buy?
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:18:37 -0400
MBr wrote:
>
> I'm planning to buy a passive ISDN adapter just for surfing on the net,
> using Linux,
> so I went to my local phone shop to get some advice...
> I asked them if the had any ISDN adapters are supported under Linux ,
> but they didn't knew...
> So I asked the box of the external ISDN adapter to have a look... The
> manual showed that it's controlled by an
> extended AT Hayes set, afaict, so I think I can just use it as a
> modem...
>
> Only I realized one problem, afaik, the UART 16550 can only handle up to
> 10Kbyte/s
> So I don't think I could - use it to/benefit when - combining two Lines
> together, because the UART can't handle this...
> So that brings me to an internal modem, but these are much likely to
> give a problem on the driver side, also when trying out other OSes like
> BeOS, FreeBSD etc....
> Does anyone have an opinion on this?
10Kb/s?? since when?
the 16550 runs 115.2KBPS and some can run 230.4KBps
I'm running a Motorola Bit Surfer Pro external. Linux thinks it's a
standard Hayes modem.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: LINUX and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 01:13:51 GMT
linux doent reconize anything past the first 8 gigs on the hard drive
put the OS on the fist 600mg bit of the drive
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Mathias Margulies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Could someone tell me how to install LINUX on a DELL with a 18Go
hard
> drive and SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 adapter ? Current distributions like
> RedHat6.0 or Mandrake6.0 don't work.
> --
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
----
> Mathias MARGULIES
>
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Subject: Re: VoiceSURFR 56 Internal modem
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 21:16:44 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am using Mandrake 6.0 and I can't get it to see my modem, can anyone tell
>me if VoiceSURFR 56 Internal modem is a win modem? I checked at site
>http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html already and it is not listed.
Please check in the AK3 section of the list and see if the FCC
registration number is the same as the 56K ModemSURFR. Are you using
isapnptools to set the address for the modem?
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Peter Kunz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linx.help,de.comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: IDE irq timeout
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:51:46 +0200
Jens Holzhaeuser wrote:
> After switching from an IDE multi I/O to an EIDE multi I/O card, I now
> get the following message frequently:
>
> hda: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest }
> ide0: reset: success
>
> And then something crashes or kernel compilation stops with "signal 11".
> The HD is spinning as usual, no noises.
> Besides the EIDE card I haven't changed anything in hw, kernel, or
> configuration, and it worked fine before:
>
> 486DX-66, AMI BIOS, ISA bus, kernel 2.0.36,
> Seagate st3120AT master, st3290A slave on a CompUSA EIDE multi I/O card
> w/ COM 1: IRQ 4, COM2: IRQ 3, LPT1 enabled, GAME disabled;
> FDC on IRQ 6, HDC IRQ 14;
> also there's an AHA1542CF (IRQ 11) w/ HD and CD-ROM in the system.
>
> Any ideas? Do i have to change anything kernel-wise, when switching to
> EIDE?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Jens
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
> Jens Holzh�user Phone: +1-804-355-2723
> Richmond, VA (USA) E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count.
> It's the life in your years.
Hello Jens,
I had those problems with an old and defective IDE-CDRom. It may be a bus
conflict. The kernel has several drivers for the different IDE-controllers.
Maybe you have to enable a bugfix for you special controller type. But
probable it�s a defect in your controller.
Peter
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From: Gary Bankston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: stability problems with my system
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:04:57 -0500
I've got a question about trouble that I'm having with my system. The
system is very unstable and locks up, hangs or even reboots itself. It
uses a supermicro S2DG2 dual processor mother board and pentium II xeon
400Mhz processors. The system dual boots linux and NT and the problem
affects both operating systems. I've tried everthing in order to track
the problem down.
Finally, the one thing that I've found that makes the problem go away is
disabling the cache on the processor. Of course the system runs dog slow
and it does no good to buy a xeon if you have to dsable it's cache. But,
this is the only thing that makes the system stable.
Now here's the question - Does anyone know whether this means that,
without a doubt, the problem is in the processor (or the processor
module at least)? Is it possible that the problem could still be on the
mother board or in the bios?
Remember, xeons have the cache built onto the cpu module. Also, if the
problem is undoubtedly with the cpu, that would mean that I've recieved
2 flawed cpus.
I would just like an unbiassed opion here before I go back to supermicro
with the results. Further info on my system and the tests I've done is
below.
System Description:
mother board: SuperMicro S2DG2
bios: AMIbios
processor: Pentium II xeon 400Mhz 512k cache
memory: 128MB PC100 ECC registered
hard drive: SEAGATE ST34502LW ULTRA2-LVD 4.5Gb
CD-ROM: PLEXTOR PX-4TS
video: Matrox G200 16MB AGP
I/O cards: none
operating system: dual boots
Red Hat Linux 6.0 and
Window NT 4.0 service pack 3
Complete problem description:
Sometimes the graphics just freeze and the keyboard and mouse both stop
responding. Sometimes the screen goes completely blank and the keyboard
and mouse both stop responding. Sometimes the system reboots itself just
as if the reset switch had been pushed.
Since this is a dual processor sytem, I have 2 of every component. I
even bought an extra video card. I've set up the system with only 1 of
each component - 1 cpu, 1 stick of memory, 1 hard drive. Next I
subsstituted each component 1 at a time. I've substituted EVERY
component including the mother board (I had supermicro replace it), the
cpu, the video card, the power supply, and I've tried ECC and non-ECC
memory from several manufacturers. I've also tried a non-AGP video card
and an IDE hard drive. Nothing has made any difference.
I've also tried some bios changes. I disabled the ECC functionality for
the memory and I've disabled the ECC funtion for the processor's cache.
Still no difference.
The engineer at supermicro had me set up the board outside of the case
so that it was just sitting on a table (a non-condutive one or course)
and not touching the case. The power supply and hard drive were left in
the case, so there were power and data cables going back to the case,
but the MB was isolated. This was supposed to verfiy that there was not
a wiring or grounding problem in the case. Still no difference.
Stability test under linux is a kernel compile. I do not run X windows,
I just work from the console. Sometimes, rather than the problems listed
above I get "fatal Signal 11" (see the url
http://www.BitWizard.nl/sig11/ for more info on this). I've performed
the tests mentioned there and this is definatley a hardware problem.
Under NT winzip will always set it off - just unzip a large file and
~poof! The screen goes blank and thats it. It does not necessarly happen
on the first run, but certainly no more than 4 or 5 runs.
--
__^__
/_______\ glary
\_______/ sandstorm
/|\
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Hall)
Crossposted-To: linux.dev.sound,fa.linux.sound
Subject: Using two different sound cards simultaneously
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:16:41 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I have two sound cards I'd like to use at the same time, a ISA SB16 and a PCI
Ensoniq 1371. I've made a cable to connect the output of the 1371 to the Line
In of the SB16, and compiled them both as modules. I have the system set to
use the SB16 as the default sound card. I can install the 1371 module, but when
I send sound to /dev/dsp1 I get nothing out. Can this be done, or am I wasting
my time? System is RedHat6 with the 2.2.12 kernel.
BTW, the reason I want to do this is that the SB16 has good tone controls and
hardward MIDI, but the Ensoniq has smoother sound with Xmame.
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From: Chris Scheers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers.monitors
Subject: Re: FS: 5 DEC VRT19-HA 19" Triniton monitors ; $135 US
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 16:32:25 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kent Rankin wrote:
>
> >Where would these be shipping from Kent? Do you know if they're
> >essentially the same as the Sony GDM-1962? If they are, they should be
> >useful on Sun systems as well.
>
> They are GDM-1961's. If I recall correctly, they are 1152x864 at 72Hz.
1280x1024 @ 66Hz and 72Hz.
=======================================================================
Chris Scheers, Applied Synergy, Inc.
817-237-3360 (Voice) 817-237-3074 (Fax) Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Duncan Brown)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.vms,comp.sys.dec,misc.forsale.computers.monitors,misc.forsale.computers.workstation
Subject: Re: FS: 5 DEC VRT19-HA 19" Triniton monitors ; $135 US
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 22:45:32 GMT
On Fri, 03 Sep 1999 19:09:34 GMT, "Kent Rankin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The monitors are located in Pulaski, VA, 24301.
>
> They are DEC model VRT19-HA monitors with Triniton tubes. Quite nice
>monitors, mind you, as I use several of them on a daily basis. Sony OEM
>part number GDM-1961, in case that's useful.
I bought a couple of these for use with some VXT2000 boxes (without
monitors) that I had picked up cheap. That is one of their original
applications in the DEC world (if you had the high-end graphics card
in the VXT). As he says, they are *quite* nice! With the fixed
resolution and pair of fixed frequencies and sync-on-green they are
problematic to use on PCs, but for just about any workstation or
X-window term of that era (~6 years ago?) there's a good chance this
*was* the high-end monitor offered.
Duncan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter T. Breuer)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Jaz Jet SCSI, 2Gb Jaz internal, RH 6.0 doesn't see.
Date: 5 Sep 1999 22:39:50 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Gary Trachier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: Hi All,
: I recently bought new hardware for a Linux system. I installed RH 6.0,
: have kernel 2.2.5-15 running. I can't get the system to recognize the Jaz
: Jet SCSI interface, and certainly not the Jaz drive.
You don't recognize the jaz itself.. that's the business of your scsi
controller. All you need is a driver for your scsi controller. The jaz
is just a scsi disk drive.
: From the tid-bits that I have found, it appears that I need to have the
: kernel module advansys. lsmod says that it is in the kernel. The system
That would seem rather essential if you have an advansys scsi
controler <sarcasm off>.
: reports finding 0 SCSI devices on boot-up. I found a Jaz drive Mini
In that case you don't. The scsi controller is a device. 0 devices = no
scsi controller. Bad luck. Go to jail. DO not pass go. Sigh. I
think I have said this before.
: How-To, but it starts at the point of having a working SCSI interface
: (which I don't yet have).
I think you ought to work on THAT then.
: Can someone please help get me started down the right road?
Get a driver for your scsi controller. Which is it?
: I have searched How-To's, etc, but can't find the answers. Thanks very
: much for your help.
: -Gary
: --
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: Telephone: voice (603) 646-4303 fax (603) 646-4720
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Peter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,linux.redhat.misc
Subject: Re: ISA NIC Card in RedHat6
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:20:58 GMT
> I recently installed Linux RedHat 6, and I'm having some trouble getting one
> of my NIC cards to work. During setup, RH detected and set up the PCI NIC
> that my internet connection runs off of, but didn't detect my ISA nic for my
> LAN. I've tried turning PnP on and off to no avail. I'm a real newbie here,
> so if someone could post instructions as to how to setup Linux to see/use my
> ISA card, I would greatly appreciate it.
Hi,
The kernel detects only one NIC by default. You have to tell her what
and where the
other NIC is. Or actually in the case of two NICs you have to tell her
both of them.
For me, since they are compiled as modules, they are specified in
/etc/conf.modules:
alias eth0 tulip
alias eth1 ne
options ne io=0x300
If you compile them right into the kernel then use the "append" feature
for lilo.
the Ethernet HOWTO is your friend.
Vilmos
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From: Chris Mahmood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Problem dialing out, Modem dials to quickly
Date: 05 Sep 1999 15:29:54 -0700
"B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If I dial the number by hand I get the ISP's modem. I'm
> wondering if my modem might be dialing to quickly for the local phone
> switch to handle. Is there something that I can add to th chat script to
> slow down the dial rate.
I doubt the speed is a problem. It may start dialling too early,
esp. if you are disabling call-waiting or something similar. If it's
a Hayes-compat. modem, try inserting one or two ','. I have to use
this:
ATDT*70,,123456
The '*70' just turns off call-waiting,
-ckm
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From: Caspar von Seckendorff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: there's a murder in my Linux system!!! <G>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:24:35 -0400
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Hi,
when startin Redhat Linux 6.0 I encouter a strange problem from time to
time: The graphical login won't start. The monitor chages from text to
graphics-mode appx. 15 sec. Until I get a " .... respwaning to fast"
message. The error message that shows up is the following:
According to /var/run/gmd.pid, gdm was already running ([--changing
number of process--]) but seems to have been murdered myseriously.
Now what does that mean!? Who is beeing murdered and who is the
murderer?
Caspar
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Reply-To: "M. Shadfar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "M. Shadfar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.alpha,misc.forsale.computers.pc-specific.systems,misc.forsale.computers.workstation,misc.forsale.computers.storage
Subject: FS: Alpha Machine, 600MHz, LOADED
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:23:28 GMT
Samsung Alpha Machine
600MHz Alpha Processor
256 MB ECC RAM
Two 4.5GB Ultra-Wide SCSI Hard Drives
CD-ROM Drive
Floppy Drive
10/100 Ethernet
Matrox Video board
Loaded with Windows NT 4 and Linux (Linux part needs
configuration that I don't know how to do).
Less than 10 hours of use.
Perfect for NT Server or Linux
$1,600 OBO
If interested, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith the Wonder Wookie)
Subject: Modem setup help
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:54:38 GMT
First off, I am a Linux newcomer woking my way up the learning curve.
Here is my question. After replacing a Winmodem with a SmartLink 56k
ISA modem I have been trying to set it up with many problems. I run
"statserial" and it detects my modem on cua2. I ran "minicom" with
the initialization strings removes and I can get the modem to dial and
talk to my ISP. My problem is that I don't know how to dial a number,
run a logon script, and keep the connection open so I can sun programs
like Netscape. I know this if probably a trivial problem but I could
really use the help. Thanks.
Keith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Postscript 2?
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 23:45:19 GMT
To someone willing to take a split second:
I just wanted to double check before I bought a Lexmark Optra E310
Laser Printer -- will any printer with Postscript 2 emulation work with
Linux? I use Redhat 5.2. Thanks for any response. E-mail is
preferable ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Jonathan Bowman
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From: "Mansong Shen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Insatallation Problem
Date: Sun, 5 Sep 1999 19:19:33 -0700
Hello,
Has anybody here ever experienced installing Mandrake Linux 6.0 on an
Socket7+K6 II machine. My system is self-buit with the following
configuration:
MB: BCM(GVC) VP1541 Motherboard
ALI (Acer) M1541/1543C AGP/PCI/ISA Chipset (aladdin V)
CPU: AMD K6II 3D Now 266MHz
HDD: 10.1 GB, IBM Deskstar 14GXP DTTA-371010
Video: Diamond Viper V330, Riva 128, 4 MB
CDROM: NEC 32X
When I tried to install from CDROM, the system always randomly hung on
during the file copy process. I tried to install the system on other Intel
based system without problem. it seems that the IDE controller on the
motherboard can't work well in the installation. Could anyone here give me
some advices to work around this problem. I've been working on it for two
days but failed so far.
Thanks,
Mason
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From: Steven Ponsford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Creative Audiopci (es 1371 ) and midi
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 1999 17:51:49 -0700
Karl-Georg Toelle wrote:
>
> "o.t" wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 30 Aug 1999 19:52:10 +0530, "parag" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > >hello can anyone point to may how to get midi player of kde to play midi on
> > >es1371 card.
> > >i am useing RH6.0 with 2.2.11 kernel. i can play wav files and audio cd but
> > >my midi files wont play! any help is appriciated
> >
> > http://www.goice.co.jp/member/mo/timidity/index.html
> >
> > http://www.cgs.fi/~tt/timidity/
> >
> > kmidi (not kmid) from the KDE server
>
> Is there any other way to get the midi to work ? Because I don't want to
> convert a mid to wav file to listen to it.
> Thanks
> Karl-Georg
You don't have to convert it from mid to wav to listen to midis.
Just configure timidity like this
../configure --enable-audio --enable-esd --enable-gtk
then
make ; make install
or whatever audio/frontend option you want in it instead of esd/gtk
look at ./configure --help for more options in the Timidity directory.
just remember to use --enable-audio option if you want to hear midis
in realtime.
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