Linux-Hardware Digest #223, Volume #11 Fri, 10 Sep 99 14:13:29 EDT
Contents:
Re: Miro TV almost working...but not with KWinTV :-( (Andy Busch)
Re: UDMA problem? SOLVED! (No thanks to Maxtor) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: SupraMAX 56k PCI Modem and Red Hat 5.2 ("HillBoy")
Re: Problems configuring Sound Blaster 128 PCI. HELP!!!! (Jonathan Jette)
Re: NICs T/X LEDs stay off ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3c503 card under SuSE 6.2 (Alan M. McKenney)
Re: AMD K6-2 ("William B. Cattell")
Re: KDE (EKK)
KDE ("Paul Overbey")
Re: adsl (Mike Frisch)
Re: CD Rom not working....... HELP!!! (Mike Frisch)
Problem With TNT2 Video Card Please Help (Luckydaze1)
Re: Req.: Experience with SyJet Drive (SyQuest) (David Rabanus)
Re: CD-R suggestions... (Mike Frisch)
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From: Andy Busch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Miro TV almost working...but not with KWinTV :-(
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:29:11 +0000
Thingi wrote:
>
> Does the Video 4 Linux setup have anything to do with the problem? when I
> select this from the multimedis menu in K nothing seems to happen!
v4l-conf, which is what runs when you select that from the menu just
runs some config stuff, it's not a configurator in the normal sense of
the word (want to see what I'm talking about? Run "v4l-conf" from an
Xterm.
As far as your other problem, do you have kwintv's settings right?
especially the braodcast and tuner settings.
Personally, I like xawtv better, as kwintv is way slower.
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.nt.setup.hardware
Subject: Re: UDMA problem? SOLVED! (No thanks to Maxtor)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:30:18 GMT
In article <7qnlrk$oqc$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Maxtor 91360U4 (13.6gig U/66), but it runs very s.l.o.w.l.y.....
>
> /dev/hda:
> Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.61 seconds =79.50 MB/sec
> Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 21.26 seconds = 3.01 MB/sec
(This drive is a U/66 drive attached to a U/33 MB-integrated controller;
Debian Potato with 2.2.10 kernel.)
The problem turned out to be a claimed interaction difficulty between
the drive and the (Award) BIOS: the drive reports that it is U/66 on
prob, and the BIOS attempts to put the MB IDE controller in U/66 mode,
but unfortunately, the controller is only u/33 capable. "What we have
here, is a failure to comunicate." Naturally, Maxtor blames this on
Award, and Award blames Maxtor.
Maxtor tech support was of *NO*HELP* in this matter, at all.
I talked to four different techs at Maxtor (three seniors), and the best
that they could come up with were:
0) (eMail response to webpage request for support) "Often times, due to
the need for interaction, correspondence via EMAIL is not the best
avenue for handling difficult issues. Our intent is to get the most
qualified answer for your issue." (Sure guys, I'll be happy to read
you pages of diagnostic output over the phone. Really, definitely
better than eMail.)
1) "I don't know anything about those drives; they're not even on my
list" (That's not surprising: your phone system says the model
number is invalid: a Mystery Product.)
2) "Its the cable, definitely. That drive is *sooooo* fast, it needs
the U/66 cable, even on a U/33 connection. Definitely."
(Uhhh-huh. Even the guy who sold me the drive, who would just
loooove to tack on a few more $$ didn't think the u/66 cable was
required.)
3) "You need to uninstall the drivers from Linux. Simply delete them,
then install them again. Should work just fine. I'm an
experienced Linux user, and have had to do this myself." (Yeah,
right. Ever build a kernel, dude?)
4) "Well, the disk works, because the OS and the BIOS can use it. And
the BIOS works, because it can use the drive. If you're not happy
with the performance, I would suggest that clearly the OS is at
fault, and you might consider switching to an OS with better
performance, like WindowsNT. NT can work with your RAID array, as
well." (Suuuuuuuure-thing, I'll think about that. Really, I
will.)
That stellar advice only required spending a total of about 45 minutes
on hold, and another 20 minutes talking to the assorted bozos.
A poster here generously provided the solution: a set of Maxtor
utilites, one to upgrade the drive microcontroller firmware, and another
to tell the drive to only report itself as u/33 capable. Using these,
and the drive now works *very* well:
/dev/hda:
Timing buffer-cache reads: 128 MB in 1.62 seconds =79.01 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 64 MB in 3.78 seconds =16.93 MB/sec
(System in multi-user mode, lightly loaded with ordinary stuff going on;
I've seen anywhere from a low of 16MB/s to a high of 18MB/s. Processor
is 333/66, and these performance numbers are quite close to my 10k rpm
UW SCSI drives.)
When I pressed the tech support people on the availability of these
utilities, I was told that they definitely would not apply to my
situation, would not help, and would probably make the drive stop
working in my system: more wrong advice.
Note to people running NT/WindozeWhatever with one of these drives: the
drive may work, but seem to provide extremely poor performance! You too
need these Maxtor utilites to fix the true cause of the performance
problem!
One final note: I'm not sure why, but for this drive, the BIOS must be
told of its existence; if the BIOS does not see it (drive marked as
'none'), Linux will not be able to put the drive into u/33 mode, and the
drive will perform slowly and badly (errors and resets). With other IDE
drives I've worked with on Linux boxen, the bios has not had to know
about the ide drives unless booting them; then again, those drives were
not udma.
Thanks again to the people who did provide assistance!
-frank
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From: "HillBoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: SupraMAX 56k PCI Modem and Red Hat 5.2
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 14:54:53 GMT
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but your SupraMax modem is a software
modem and will not work under Linux. If you'll look under Windows, it's
loading an HCF serial driver. There is no Linux equivalent for this driver.
To get a modem working, you'll need to either switch to an external modem or
get an ISA V.90 modem that has jumpers that enable you to set Com Port/Irq.
These modems are still around and are very cheap. I suggest looking for the
Hayes Accura modems which are being liquidated since Hayes is no more.
Beware PCI modems. Except for the newest Lucent CallerID modems, they are
not Linux friendly.
Marco Costa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi.
>
> I bought a SupraMax 56k PCI and it works fine under Windows 9x/NT.
> I tried to use it under Red Hat Linux 5.2 and I could not get the modem
> to work.
>
> Before I bought it, I checked
>
http://www.redhat.com/corp/support/hardware/intel/52/rh52-hardware-intel-14.
html#ss14.3
>
> and it says that the following (among others) are incompatible modems:
>
> - Plug-and-Play (PNP) modems (these may be set up via isapnptools and
> setserial).
> - Modems that require software drivers for compression, error
> correction, high-speed operation, etc.
> - PCI Memory Mapped Modems (these do not act like serial ports)
> - Internal SupraExpress 56k
> - Internal SupraSonic 56k
> - ...
>
> But is says nothing about SupraMax. So I assumed it would work.
>
> I have read now "Modems: Traditional, Controller-less and Soft" white
> paper
>
http://www.supra.com/products/white-papers/communications/c-less_paper.html
>
> and now I am afraid that is too late.
>
> Is it possible to get the modem working in a different OS other that
> Windows 9x/NT ?
> And is it possible to get the modem working under Linux ?
>
> Thank you
> Marco Costa
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: Jonathan Jette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,fa.linux.sound
Subject: Re: Problems configuring Sound Blaster 128 PCI. HELP!!!!
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 11:35:01 -0400
Hi Jeff,
I've tried both chip set and neither works!... I really don't know
what to do...
Thanks anyway,
Jonathan Jette.
Jeff wrote:
> Hi Miguel! Jeff here. Are you sure about this chip? I have the same
> card, and I believe it is actually an es1370 *not* 1371, if mem serves
> me correctly. If I'm correct, could be the whole problem right there.
> However, here's a new spin. I use both COL 2.2 and Red Hat 6.0. In
> Caldera sound is excellent. In Red Hat, under Gnome, all system sounds
> are okay, but I can't listen to a musical cd, play wav files or
> whatever. LOL Go figger! :p
>
> jlr at soltec dot net (ANTIspam)
>
> Miguel wrote:
> >
> > Hi there,
> >
> > It's the 3rd week that I spend on my computer not being able
> > to hear anything coming out of the speakers! I really need help. I
> > use Red Hat 6.0. My sound card is Sound Blaster PCI 128 (sound chip
> > es1371). I'm also sure that the card is supported since I've seen it
> > explicitly mentionned as such on many official sites.
> >
> > The 1st thing I tried was to use the sndconfig tool to
> > configure my card. Everything was just fine except that the sound
> > test didn't work. So I manually picked up the right card (still in
> > sndconfig), which was the sound chip es1371 and tried the sound test
> > again. Here's what it said:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: init_modules: Device or
> > resource busy
> >
> > So I quit the sndconfig tool and try to reboot. The following
> > error message came up:
> >
> > Loading sound modules
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: init_modules: Device or
> > resource busy [FAILED]
> >
> > From there, I tried to manually load the sound module es1371.o
> > using the command:
> >
> > insmod es1371.o
> >
> > which gave me the following message:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_mixer_R7afc9d8a
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_dsp_Rcd083b10
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_midi_R39c69610
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_dsp_Rb9e4e5a6
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_mixer_R373704d4
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: unresolved symbol
> > unregister_sound_midi_Rfdab6de3
> >
> > Not knowing if this was good or bad, and seeing that sound was
> > still not coming out, I asked a friend to give me a couple of lines of
> > his conf.modules file. At that point my conf.modules file looked like
> > that with the last two lines copied from my friend's file (replacing
> > all "sb" by "es1371"):
> >
> > alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
> > pre-install pcmcia_core /etc/rc.d/init.d/pcmcia start
> > pre-install sound insmod sound dmabuff=1
> > options es1371 io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
> >
> > I tried to boot again. The following message appeared when
> > booting:
> >
> > Loading sound modules
> > /lib/modules/2.2.5-15/misc/es1371.o: invalid parameter io
> > [FAILED]
> >
> > I'm really out of options. I'm fairly new to linux (only 1
> > month) and has searched the net, read HOWTO's, FAQ, Newsgroup, used
> > IRC #linux & #linuxfr. I'm out of options and ideas. I really need
> > help. If you have ANY idea please tell me about it.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jonathan Jette.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: NICs T/X LEDs stay off
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:14:35 GMT
In article <7rb283$atg$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
gendro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Goal:
> Conigure an old 486 as Internet routeur/firewall for my ADSL
> internet connection.
>
> Facts:
> 1)I just completed the configuration of my firewall/routeur-to-be
> machine.
> 2)I have succeeded in installing two NICS (ifconfig/modprobe stuff)on
> this
> machine. Both cards are running ok when querying ifconfig.
> One card is config'd as DHCP.
> The other card has ip 192.168.1.1 config'd.
>
> Other facts:
> 3)My other is a P200 pro (with Linux/Win98) which plays the
workstation
> role . This machine also has a NIC properly configured on both Win98
and
> (eg IP 192.168.1.2 ......).
Is the Gateway set to 192.168.1.1 in Linux and windows?
>
> 4)These two machines are connected using a twisted pair type of RJ45
> cable. This wired used to "net"work well a while ago between two Win95
> machines.
Are you using a hub?
>
> Problems:
> Can't telnet, ping or anything between machines.
If your using Ipchains, you may have a rule that does not allow this.
> LEDs transmit/receive (T/X) on both static IP config'd NICs never come
> on when both machines are running Linux.
> But When my P200 runs Win98 (and 486 still runs linux), both cards
LEDs
> T/X then come ON .............
>
> Can this be caused by misconfiguration in my linuxconf network config
?
> Or hardware problem (would be surprised ref above fact 4)?
> Or else ?
>
> Thanks to all !
>
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From: Alan M. McKenney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: 3c503 card under SuSE 6.2
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:21:46 GMT
I'm trying to install a 3c503/16 card on my Linux
box, to connect the Linux box to a Windows NT box,
and I can't get either box to ping the other. My
initial guess is that the problem is that the Linux
box has trouble receiving packets.
When I ping from the Linux box, I notice that the
packet counts reported by "netstat -i" go up as I would
expect -- TX-OK goes up, as does RX-ERR. RX-OK does not.
On the NT box, "netstat -s" shows an increase in the total
number of packets received and sent, and no errors.
Pinging from the NT box doesn't work either.
I got the 3c503 for free; in fact, I got 4. With one of
them, ifconfig won't bring the interface up, but the other
3 get exactly the same behavior.
Any ideas? Does this sound like hardware? or software?
One idea I had was to put 2 cards in and have one ping
the other, but I don't know how to configure this.
- - - - - - - - -
The Setup:
I've set the 3c503 jumpers to use I/O address 0x300,
shared memory starts at 0xC8000, and I jumpered it
to be in 16-bit mode. The card has a thick (D-connector)
and thin (BNC) Ethernet connecter, and I have used the
BNC connector to connect to the BNC on the Windows box.
I have terminators on both ends of the coax; in other words,
I connect the cable to each card via a T with the cable,
the interface, and the terminator on the 3 legs. There
doesn't seem to be any way to select thin vs. thick;
I'm guessing that the card always talks to both and
receives from either. Nothing is plugged into the thick
ethernet connecter.
I'm using SuSE 6.2, straight out of the box (yes, I bought
the box from SuSE), the kernel is 2.2.10 (?). I'm
not using a graphic interface (X is installed, but I'm
not using it for these tests.)
The 3c503 driver is a module, and I have set the appropriate
line in /etc/conf.modules to have option 3c503 io=0x300 irq=5
(more or less -- this is from memory, but I imitate the commented-
out lines.)
The computer (a Pentium Pro box from VA Research, with a P54/75MHz
processor, Triton chip set, AMBIOS bios, 4 PCI & 3 ISA slots)
had an on-motherboard "sound card" using IRQ 5; I moved this to
IRQ 10 (I don't use the sound card anyway) and marked IRQ 5
as "used by ISA card" in the BIOS setup.
The Linux box boots up OK, the 3c503 driver comes up and prints
out a comforting message, ifconfig, route, etc., run OK (these
are all run from the /etc/rc.d scripts) If I run ifconfig,
it says that eth0 is up and has the correct IP address
(192.168.1.1), netmask, and broadcast address.
The NT box is set up to have address 192.168.1.2, and
I confirmed this with ipconfig .
Routing is OK for both "lo" and "eth0", as confirmed
with netstat -r on both boxes.
On the Linux box, IIRC, there's no default gateway defined,
but that doesn't matter in this case, since both are on the
same network.
Alan M McKenney
Tarrytown, NY
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From: "William B. Cattell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:02:53 GMT
Swami Chandrasekaran wrote:
>
> I'm planning to buy a new computer with AMD-K6-2 processor (400Mhz). Is
> it compatible with RH 6.0? How is the performance and possible troubles
> I could come across.
I'm using a K6-2/350 and its been working without a problem. As you build
your system I would *strongly* suggest that you make sure your motherboard
is on AMD's "tested" list. I did that and found that the FIC PA2013. When
ordering the motherboard I also researched what memory speed I should use.
I've been working in the computer industry for fifteen years and have seen
SOOOOO many systems that are put together poorly. It's so important that
you match the components (motherboard, memory, BIOS, etc). If you don't
then you see alot of nagging little problems that you just can't seem to
find an answer for. FWIW.
Bill
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From: EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: KDE
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 07:19:58 -0700
Paul Overbey wrote:
>
> My particular distribution of OpenLinux boots to KDE automatically. How can
> I stop this as I need to install an RPM to make it support my video chipset?
> I have a SuSE distribution also. Do I need to install it first, install the
> RPM and then install OpenLinux over it?
you could switch to a terminal with Ctrl+Alt+F1,F2,F3, etc.
and install your RPM.
to stop kdm from starting by default,
just replace the '5' with a '3' in the /etc/inittab file:
id:3:initdefault:
AG
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From: "Paul Overbey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: KDE
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 16:50:10 GMT
My particular distribution of OpenLinux boots to KDE automatically. How can
I stop this as I need to install an RPM to make it support my video chipset?
I have a SuSE distribution also. Do I need to install it first, install the
RPM and then install OpenLinux over it?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: adsl
Date: 9 Sep 1999 16:49:53 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 15:38:34 GMT, Tim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi, I was thinking of getting bell sympatico adsl, can this work under
>linux? I don't see adsl modems listed in the compatibility lists. TIA
ADSL modems typically connect to the PC through a standard Ethernet
interface, so as long as you have a Linux compatible NIC, it should work
fine. You will have to configure DHCP client software on Linux, but this
shouldn't be a problem with most of the current distributions.
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: CD Rom not working....... HELP!!!
Date: 9 Sep 1999 17:10:36 GMT
On Thu, 09 Sep 1999 16:50:26 GMT, Louis A. Weyrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Can anyone help me. Linux can see the CD drive on boot up, but I do not
>have access to it.
Do you have access how? Did you 'mount' the drive?
>I can not find a path to my floppy drive either.
Likewise...
Although Linux detects these devices at boot-time, they must be mounted
onto the filesystem before they are accessible. It is not like Windows
where you put a CD into the CD-ROM drive, and can instantly access it.
Mike.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Luckydaze1)
Subject: Problem With TNT2 Video Card Please Help
Date: 10 Sep 1999 17:01:12 GMT
I get a garbled screen when I choose RivaTNT as the chip from the list. The
screen goes screwy when Xconfigurator tries it out. I then bypassed
Xconfigurator and tried configuring it manually with XF86config but I get the
same results. Has anyone got their TNT2 card working and what setup did you
use?
Any suggestions please? I'm using mandrake 6.0
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From: David Rabanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Req.: Experience with SyJet Drive (SyQuest)
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 10:50:17 -0700
The problem that I have is that I don't have a SCSI bus. I have to use
their Parallel-2-SCSI cable. I heard that there are special drivers needed.
but anyway - thanks for answering - David
Bill McClain wrote:
>
> David Rabanus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Does anybody have any experience with the SyQuest SyJet 1.5 GB
> > harddrive under Linux? I anticipate some difficulties since there
> > is some special s/w necessray even under DOS/Windows/OS2...
> >
> > Thanks in advance - David
>
> I have one. No installation or operational problems at all. No special
> drivers or other software. Plug it into SCSI, create a mount point and
> run mkfs.
>
> The big "gotcha" is that the company is in Chapter 11, last I heard. I
> wish the media price would come down a bit.
>
> -Bill
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Frisch)
Subject: Re: CD-R suggestions...
Date: 10 Sep 1999 16:52:34 GMT
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999 04:58:11 -0700, EKK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Also, which package if any is best for recording music tracks on
>a CD, i.e. copying music CDs?
cdrecord appears to work okay.
Mike.
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