Linux-Hardware Digest #717, Volume #12 Thu, 20 Apr 00 10:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: newbie: turning off modem sound (Neil Blue)
help w/on board video card please! (yosh-puppy)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx (Blitter)
Tape backup Python SCSI question (Blitter)
("Marius Andra")
Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info (Keith)
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
BE6 ("T.Iskantharajah")
Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo (Hal Burgiss)
Re: Best printer for linux box? ("The Wogster")
voodoo 2000 video card problem (Parminder Lehal)
low nbench values with Athlon600 (Konstantin Malakhanov)
Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info (h0l0gRaM)
Re: sblive + audiopci (Andy Ford)
Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 "PnP" (Andy Ford)
Ethernet stops responding out of the blue. (Reid Sutherland)
Re: LOGITECH mouseman+ USB ("Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko")
My Voodoo card switch to 8 bit??? ("Eric ")
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Subject: Re: newbie: turning off modem sound
From: Neil Blue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:18:45 -0700
Hi ,
I have tried to put atm0 after the ATZ command in the init
string, but it doesn't seem to make any difference. Should I put
it somewhere else?
Cheers
Neil
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From: yosh-puppy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help w/on board video card please!
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 02:40:08 -0700
When I try to install rhat 6.2 on my new computer w/ an on board video
card (listed as intel 810 chipset in windows), it detects the video card
as PCI entry intel corp 810. However, when I proceed to enter my
monitor's info(in which case my monitor isn't listed) and when it tries
to test the configuration, it says there is an error and I should try
configuring my video card manually. I kept going back and trying to do
that, but nothing works...I already had Linux before on the same
monitor, but dif. video card, so the problem must be my video card
right? Any suggestions?
Thanks in advance,
Alex
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blitter)
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:38:24 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20 Apr 2000 08:20:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cedric Ware) wrote:
>
>>Im trying to install Slackware Linux on a
>>PowerEdge 2400
>>When i use the cdrom or a bootdisk i keep getting
>>SCSI-timeout errors.
>
>Does that PowerEdge have more than one CPU, and are you trying to boot
>a SMP-enabled kernel, version 2.2.13 or 2.2.14?
>
>>Does any1 know why these errors occur, and how i
>>can solve this problem?
>
>I think the Dell PowerEdge 2400 has its own chipset, which causes problems
>with SMP on those versions of the Linux kernel (and some versions of FreeBSD
>as well). I've been working with one, and the three ways of booting it were
>to use only one CPU, or to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.12 (but the eepro100
>driver had problems), or to upgrade it to at least 2.2.15pre7.
>
>2.2.15, which should be out any day now, will fix the problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Cedric.
>
We have same machine and had 2.2.13-0.13smp kernel linux redhat6.1
pre-installed. Runs perfectly with two processors.
Sorry, I'm not able to help with the scsi errors, did you check
hardware, perhaps install windows nt4 to check that ?
Greetings !
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Blitter)
Subject: Tape backup Python SCSI question
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 10:07:56 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
apparantly I can't seem to get functioning our Python 12GB scsi tape
drive.
I do the following :
[root@callisto blitter]# mkdir test
[root@callisto blitter]# touch test/test
[root@callisto blitter]# tar cvfW /dev/st0 test/
test/
test/test
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Read error on /dev/st0: Input/output error
tar: Too many errors, quitting
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
An excerpt of the output of dmesg was told me st0 was the device :
...
(scsi1:0:6:0) Synchronous at 10.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 15.
Vendor: ARCHIVE Model: Python 04106-XXX Rev: 7350
Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
...
st: bufsize 32768, wrt 30720, max buffers 4, s/g segs 16.
Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi1, channel 0, id 6, lun 0
...
Has anyone seen a problem like this ? Does it has something to do with
synchronous versus asynchronous SCSI modes ?
Best greetings !
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From: "Marius Andra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject:
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 12:52:30 +0300
Hi
I have created a small linux site ( http://fr.ee/linux )
and I'm wondering, if anyone could visit it and then recommend some new
programs/games/links/...
I'd really apreciate it.
--
Marius
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://fr.ee/penguin
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From: Keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:00:09 GMT
ID - any ID except 7 should work fine. I'd go for 0 or 1.
Termination - the end devices on your cable should have termination
switched on. If you only have one drive, connect it to the end of the
cable and switch termination on.
With multiple devices you need a device with termination at either end
of the cable. Something like this:
DT -- devices -- CT
DT -- devices -- controller -- devices -- DT
Where DT = device with termination and CT = Controller with termination.
The latter arrangement is often used when there is both an internal and
an external connection on a SCSI card.
Parity - not normally required
Delayed Spin-up - not required on a single drive system
Drive power to terminator - usually on, otherwise power is drawn from
host.
Sync - only used on arrays
Can't think of anything else,
Keith.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
h0l0gRaM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So ,I bought old cheap scsi drive.
> In top of drive reads Tomahawk Micropolis ,and Linux detects it
> correctly as Fast-10.
>
> Now I need some info about it ,those jumper pins ,how I configure
other
> ID/Parity/Termination ?
> Controller is on-board symc810 (ncr 53c810) ,and it works fine
,computer
> is DEC Alpha XL266.
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:28:39 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 20 Apr 2000 08:20:25 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cedric Ware) wrote:
>
> >
> >>Im trying to install Slackware Linux on a
> >>PowerEdge 2400
> >>When i use the cdrom or a bootdisk i keep getting
> >>SCSI-timeout errors.
> >
> >Does that PowerEdge have more than one CPU, and are you trying to
boot
> >a SMP-enabled kernel, version 2.2.13 or 2.2.14?
> >
> >>Does any1 know why these errors occur, and how i
> >>can solve this problem?
> >
> >I think the Dell PowerEdge 2400 has its own chipset, which causes
problems
> >with SMP on those versions of the Linux kernel (and some versions of
FreeBSD
> >as well). I've been working with one, and the three ways of booting
it were
> >to use only one CPU, or to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.12 (but the
eepro100
> >driver had problems), or to upgrade it to at least 2.2.15pre7.
> >
> >2.2.15, which should be out any day now, will fix the problem.
> >
> > Hope this helps,
> > Cedric.
> >
>
> We have same machine and had 2.2.13-0.13smp kernel linux redhat6.1
> pre-installed. Runs perfectly with two processors.
>
> Sorry, I'm not able to help with the scsi errors, did you check
> hardware, perhaps install windows nt4 to check that ?
>
> Greetings !
>
If its possible with redhat, its possible with slackware (i just need
to know what was changed in the kernell to properly support the
poweredge configuration.)
and why do u think im gonna install slackware (and not Windows NT)
GreetZ
Tom
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PowerEgde 2400 AIC7xxx
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:26:26 GMT
Heya
1st of all, i only have 1 proc in the PowerEdge.
Well . . . i made 2.2.12 kernell without SMP support, and . . . . it
didnt work.
i also tried to boot with the aaic7xxx=no_reset parameter . . . but,
that didnt help either . . . =[
any more suggestions?
GreetZ
Tom
In article <8dmek9$2u1h$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cedric Ware) wrote:
>
> >Im trying to install Slackware Linux on a
> >PowerEdge 2400
> >When i use the cdrom or a bootdisk i keep getting
> >SCSI-timeout errors.
>
> Does that PowerEdge have more than one CPU, and are you trying to boot
> a SMP-enabled kernel, version 2.2.13 or 2.2.14?
>
> >Does any1 know why these errors occur, and how i
> >can solve this problem?
>
> I think the Dell PowerEdge 2400 has its own chipset, which causes
problems
> with SMP on those versions of the Linux kernel (and some versions of
FreeBSD
> as well). I've been working with one, and the three ways of booting
it were
> to use only one CPU, or to downgrade the kernel to 2.2.12 (but the
eepro100
> driver had problems), or to upgrade it to at least 2.2.15pre7.
>
> 2.2.15, which should be out any day now, will fix the problem.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Cedric.
>
>
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From: "T.Iskantharajah" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: BE6
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 19:49:24 +0800
<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
Hi,
<br> Anybody know how to boot off the hpt366 controller
on the BE6? Thanks in advance.</html>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hal Burgiss)
Subject: Re: Suse Linux and BP6 mobo
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:52:11 GMT
On Thu, 20 Apr 2000 00:49:02 -0700,
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>does anyone have any advice on running linux on the abit
>bp6 mobo. i'm interested in getting hold of a dual celeron
>system but it appears that the udma66 is flaky and the bios
>is delicate. any advice on which distributions work best..
Abit has 'Gentus' Linux, but not really a distro problem. I would avoid
the HPT controller. Not enough speed gain to justify all the hassles.
Also, you want to flash to QQ BIOS, and use a late model kernel >=
2.2.14.
--
Hal B
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "The Wogster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best printer for linux box?
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 08:02:53 -0400
IBM bungled OS/2 in three ways (IMHO)
1) They never asked people to trust it, they should have installed it on
every PC they produced, possibly with the option to replace it with Windows,
instead the PC division installed Windows everywhere, and made people go out
and buy OS/2.
2) They made Win3.0 emulation to good, if support would have been flakey,
then software vendors might have been more willing to produce native mode
stuff for it.
3) The application programming interface sucked, it wasn't really compatable
with anything, so software developers had to learn another interface. If
they would have made the API compile compatable with Windows, then software
vendors would have simply recompiled Windows software to run on it. The API
could then change, as Windows changed, and software vendors could simply
split the tree, and keep going with both.
Larry Ebbitt wrote in message ...
>On Wed, 19 Apr 2000 14:10:57 GMT, Rod Smith wrote:
>
>>Besides which, anybody who's used OS/2 and watched as IBM has shot itself
>>in the foot with squabbles between divisions knows that IBM is completely
>>incapable of helping itself when it comes to cross-division cooperation.
>>For instance, it's almost impossible to find an IBM computer with OS/2
>>pre-installed.
>
>Too true. OS/2 is good because of an excellent group of designers
>and developers. No thanks to IBM management, who have not been nice
>to those developers at all.
>
>
>Larry - Atlanta - OS/2
>
>
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From: Parminder Lehal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: voodoo 2000 video card problem
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 07:50:57 -0400
I am unable to configure X for my voodoo 2000 video card.
Documentation says that SVGA server runs fine for this card
but in my case it only works in 320X240 pixel mode. I am
using REDHAT6.0 and XFree86-3.3.3
Can any body help ? Please................
Thanks,
Parminder Lehal
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From: Konstantin Malakhanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: low nbench values with Athlon600
Date: 20 Apr 2000 14:55:22 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
First of all, I hope this is a right newsgroup to ask my question.
Recently I've found an article about optimizing gcc@Athlon:
http://aboutlinux.com/art_k7opt1_a.html
I've got nbench-byte-2.1 and run it on my Athlon
600Mhz, 128 Mb SDRAM (1200 BogoMips). I got the
following results (summary):
C compiler : gcc version 2.95.2 19991024
(release)
libc : unknown version
MEMORY INDEX : 0.215
INTEGER INDEX : 0.170
FLOATING-POINT INDEX: 0.433
Baseline (LINUX) : AMD K6/233*, 512 KB
L2-cache, gcc 2.7.2.3, libc-5.4.38
The test machine in the URL above has the same CPU/memory and gets
about 3.0 of baseline in all three indexes.
Something is obviously wrong with my setup here! Does anyone tested
nbench with Athlon? Could it be a question of wrong BIOS setup?
--
Konstantin Malakhanov
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From: h0l0gRaM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Tomahawk Micropolis 4.3gb SCSI drive ,need info
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:27:51 +0200
Keith wrote:
> ID - any ID except 7 should work fine. I'd go for 0 or 1.
>
> Termination - the end devices on your cable should have termination
> switched on. If you only have one drive, connect it to the end of the
> cable and switch termination on.
>
> With multiple devices you need a device with termination at either end
> of the cable. Something like this:
>
> DT -- devices -- CT
> DT -- devices -- controller -- devices -- DT
>
> Where DT = device with termination and CT = Controller with termination.
>
> The latter arrangement is often used when there is both an internal and
> an external connection on a SCSI card.
>
> Parity - not normally required
>
> Delayed Spin-up - not required on a single drive system
>
> Drive power to terminator - usually on, otherwise power is drawn from
> host.
>
> Sync - only used on arrays
>
> Can't think of anything else,
>
> Keith.
So pins ,how I compare those to this test ?
How I configure new ID on this disk ?
What pins should I shorten ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Ford)
Subject: Re: sblive + audiopci
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:55:54 -0500
On Sat, 1 Apr 2000 06:51:56 -0600, Andy Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I'm trying to get an AudioPCI and a Sound Blaster live to work
>together with the ALSA drivers. Everything seems to work
>except for oss sequencer emulation:
>
>trane:/usr/local/src # modprobe snd-seq-oss
>/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: init_module: Device or resource busy
>/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o
>failed
>/lib/modules/2.2.13/misc/snd-seq-oss.o: insmod snd-seq-oss failed
>
>Is it really a hardware/resource conflict or could it be
>my choice of alsa modules?
>
>trane:/usr/local/src # lsmod
>Module Size Used by
>snd-pcm-oss 16520 0 (unused)
>snd-pcm-plugin 13128 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
>snd-mixer-oss 4084 0 [snd-pcm-oss]
>snd-card-emu10k1 2340 0 (unused)
>snd-emu10k1 19528 0 [snd-card-emu10k1]
>snd-pcm 28952 0 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-emu10k1]
>snd-timer 7872 0 [snd-pcm]
>snd-emux-mem 1488 0 [snd-emu10k1]
>snd-rawmidi 9112 0 [snd-emu10k1]
>snd-ac97-codec 23968 0 [snd-emu10k1]
>snd-mixer 23312 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1 snd-ac97-codec]
>snd-seq-device 3308 0 [snd-card-emu10k1 snd-rawmidi]
>snd 34464 1 [snd-pcm-oss snd-pcm-plugin snd-mixer-oss
>snd-card-emu10k1 snd-emu10k1
>snd-pcm snd-timer snd-emux-mem snd-rawmidi snd-ac97-codec snd-mixer snd-seq-device]
>tulip 31128 1 (autoclean)
>dummy0 900 1 (autoclean)
>
OK for the record: the kernel was wrong. I had compiled support for the OSS drivers in
addition
to generic sound support. Got rid of that, and off I go...
--
yours,
Andy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Ford)
Subject: Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 "PnP"
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 06:02:21 -0500
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000 14:21:18 +0200, Ferry van Steen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hey there,
>
>I've got an Aztech Sound Galaxy 16 ISA "PnP" soundcard in my system and
>compiled all the sound modules. In the help files it said most Galaxy 16
>cards weren't actually pnp but they would work with a rom that remembered
>the addresses so it would be just like jumpers... Now when I try to modprobe
>sgalaxy.o I get an error device or resource busy and this is the only error
>it gives me...
>
>Anyone got any experience with this type of card or does anyone know of a
>possible solution for this prob?
>
>Kind regards,
>
>Ferry van Steen
>
>
In my experience, when you need to set up a card in it's ROM, you need to
use a DOS program that comes with the card. You can make a DOS bootable
floppy with Dr. DOS ( from Caldera ) and then run the setup pgm.
--
yours,
Andy
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From: Reid Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Ethernet stops responding out of the blue.
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:32:35 -0400
For some reason just recently my ethernet (Kingston 10/100tx) will stop
responding for no real reason. I've been using Linux for well over 5
years and have a good understanding of wtf is going on, but this is too
bizarre. I search out anything in /var/log/messages, to no avail.
What it does is stops responding to any requests, so I simply "ifconfig
eth0 down; ifconfig eth0 up; route add default gw mygwhere". But I run
services on this machine. And can't be doing this all the time. Making a
perl script and crontab it to check my card.
I'm more less thinking this is a hardware related issue or maybe a
driver issue, I recently bumped my system up to 100mbit, that may be
doing it too.
Thanks.
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From: "Jarek \"Krusher\" Onuszko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LOGITECH mouseman+ USB
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 13:51:23 GMT
USB is initialised at startup (i can see lots of messages like registering
HID interface etc.) but my device isn't listed in /proc/bus/usb/devices both
files (devices and i think interface are clean ! )
!!!!!!!!! and what if i have a PILOT mouse ? is it different than mouseman ?
maybe that's the problem ?
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LINUX is like a wigwam, no gates, no windows - apache inside
> Is it listed in your /proc/bus/usb/devices?
>
> Should see a bunch of parameters and stuff, but there should be two lines
like:
>
> S: Manufacturer=Logitech
> S: Product=USB-PS/2 Mouse M-BA47
>
> Also is the usb being detected on boot? You should see several lines of
info about the USB device on bootup, you can check out the boot messages
from /var/log/messages.
>
> --
> Jim Zubb
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
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From: "Eric " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: My Voodoo card switch to 8 bit???
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 09:51:36 -0500
Hi,
Since I re-installed Linux on my system (RedHat 6.1) a few days ago, I see strange
behaviors
with my video card.
My video card is a Voodoo 3 2000 and my monitor is a NEC Multisync 70.
1024 x 768 16 bits is my default setting. Ok, everything is fine! But after a while
or when
im working (could be 30 minutes, 2 hrs...) or when I just reboot my machine, my
default screen
is still 1024 x 768 BUT in 8 bit mode instead 16!!???
It's very annoying. What I have to do is go to the setup and reconfigure my card to
get back
my setting.
Is there a way to fix that problem?
Thanks.
Eric.
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