Linux-Hardware Digest #858, Volume #12 Sun, 14 May 00 15:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: HDD keeps spinning ("NKL")
Re: via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound (Rod Smith)
RHat Linux with IMES CDROM drive (in text) (aherrgott)
Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed? (Matthew Gatto)
Re: VIA Chipsets: which? (Mark Hawkes)
Re: Mouse detected but not working properly ("T0talcha0s")
Re: Mouse detected but not working properly ("Boris Cobelens")
Sound Blaster and Corel Linux (Madness)
Linux Redhat 6.1 on Travelmate 330T series laptop ("Charles")
Linux Redhat 6.1 on Travelmate 330T series laptop ("Charles")
memorex-cdrw-6424 (root)
Re: CD Music Problem (Junk Mail)
Re: VIA Chipsets: which? (Junk Mail)
Re: Canon BJC-240 (Ian Morris)
Re: via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound (Junk Mail)
Problems installing network (Steven Bradtke)
Re: SCSI Reset with Adaptec AIC-7880 and SMP (Morris Meyer)
Re: Mouse Does Not Work In X Windows ("Walter D. Hill")
Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!) (Sandhitsu R Das)
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From: "NKL" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: HDD keeps spinning
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 22:37:12 +0800
Dear Steve:
Thks for responding.
I have 64 mb RAM on my machine.
When I hang up the modem, that would esentially mean Netscape is still
running and KPPP. Is that any cause for excessive swapping at this point in
time?
I have only started running LINUX so I am not too sure most the time if it
is the OS or my HW. As this is the first I ever used a >8 GB HDD, ( a 10.2
GB Quantum lct) although during setup there was no no indication of any
disagreement from the OS.
The HW was running fine under WIN NT4 and Win 95 using up to 6.2 GB HDD.
Rgds
NKL
"Steve Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> NKL wrote:
> >
> > Very Occassinnally my hd would just go on spinning, especially after I
> > disconnect my modem. Does anybody knwo what can cause this? Is it my OS
or
> > is it a hw problem.
> >
> > I just had to switch off the machine, as it will not respond.
>
> Well, usually when I run into a case of excessive disk activity
> and non-responsiveness, it turns out to be disk thrashing due to
> excessive swap activity. How much physical RAM do you have in
> the machine? Perhaps some process is allocating large amounts
> of memory, which might cause the system to hit the swap hard.
> (Of course, I don't know what that might have to do with using
> a modem, but you try the familiar things first :)
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Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rod Smith)
Subject: Re: via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:39:30 GMT
[Posted and mailed]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Doug Alcorn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have an Epox 7KXA motherboard that comes with the VIA 82C586
> chipset. Included is the VIA 82cxxx audio codec. I compiled it as a
> module and loaded it. It appears to have loaded OK. I can even start
> up xmms and play an mp3 file. The catch is that there is no sound
> coming out.
I can't make any promises about that board specifically, but I've had good
luck with the ALSA (http://www.alsa-project.com) drivers, version 0.5.6 or
above, on two computers with recent VIA chipsets (an ASUS K7M and a Compaq
Presario 1200-XL106 notebook). The ALSA drivers are a bit of a nuisance to
install, but work well once configured.
--
Rod Smith, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.rodsbooks.com
Author of books on Linux networking & multi-OS configuration
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From: aherrgott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RHat Linux with IMES CDROM drive (in text)
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 08:34:59 -0700
Hello.
I just installed Red Hat linux v6.1 and had success. After
installation, the CDRom wouldn't mount, telling me that there is "no
medium found". If the CDR hadn't
been opened since boot, it would find the CDR, however.
My CDR is a IMES 8x drive. Old, crappy machine, but great for learning
linux. (Too small for the NT giants...) :)
Installing Red Hat linux v6.2 has trouble with getting files from the
CDR. It dies at different points.
I have read a little about treating some old ATAPI devices as SCSI, even
though they are IDE. However, I cannot find info on how to do that.
Any pointers?
Has anyone had success with the IMES CDROM?
Thanks for any help,
-ah
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthew Gatto)
Subject: Re: What is your ATA66 HDD speed?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 16:05:23 GMT
>
>I was baffled by this a month ago when i got a new Maxtor 52049U4
>"DiamondMaxPlus 40" (a newer and better version of the DiamondMaxPlus
>6800). I've got a promise ultra66 card, Epox MVP3G-M Mobo, K6-2 400, and
>kernel 2.2.14 patched with the unified IDE driver, on Mandrake 6.1.
>
>hdparm -t reveals about 15.5 MB/sec
>I get 30MB sec on windoze.
>
>$ hdparm -T /dev/hda
>reveals 56.9 MB /sec timed cache reads.
I just tried out bonnie++, here's the results (UDMA66):
Version 1.00a ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine MB K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP
Unknown 200 1786 97 31409 69 9239 53 4267 97 24731 41 34.3 0
--
~MGatto~
"Tech support?!!??! We don't need no stekin tech support!?!"
Support the anti-spam movement; see <http://www.cauce.org/>
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From: Mark Hawkes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA Chipsets: which?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 16:05:19 GMT
I've also heard of UDMA/66 difficulties for these chipsets.
Currently, it's not physically possible for disk heads to
get any more than about 30MB/sec off the surface of a disk,
so UDMA/66 is only really beneficial when retrieving data
that the HDD has cached in its buffer. However, I do like
things to be set up properly :-)
The boards I'm looking at are Asus P3V4X and K7V. I'm
probably swaying in the direction of the P3V4X at the
moment, even though PIII CPUs have become more expensive
lately :-/ Win2000 is also said to be more buggy on the
KX133 chipset, but this OS is probably buggy regardless
of hardware!
Many thanks
__________________________
Mark Hawkes
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.luna.co.uk/~hawkesm
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From: "T0talcha0s" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Mouse detected but not working properly
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 16:42:50 GMT
Thanks, actually I had already played around with mouseconfig and
xf86config... But I also noticed that I was getting a lot of NACKs from my
keyboard (Microsoft Natural running on my USB port). So I disabled USB and
put the keyboard on PS/2. The NACKs are gone, and now the mouse seems to
work a little better. Now I actually have control over the mouse, but the
only problem is that it still goes a little crazy every once and a while...
It was ok at first, then I opened Netscape and the cursor flew off the
screen. It usually comes back in a few seconds. It seems like it is losing
itself on the Virtual Desktop... strange...
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:8flosp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <nprT4.12524$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "T0talcha0s"
says...
> >
> >During the installation of RH6.2, my cursor (Microsoft Optical
Intellimouse
> >PS/2) seems to stay on the right side of the screen, and moving it
anywhere
> >just makes it go crazy... I tried hooking up my Logitech mouse (the basic
2
> >button PS/2 model), and that mouse did the same thing! And it still does
it
> >in X. The same thing occurred when I installed the latest version of
Corel
> >Linux... any ideas?
> >Thanks
> >
> >
>
> strange. When you do
>
> ls -l /dev/mouse
>
> what do you get?
>
> run xf86config again, or you could also try xmseconfig to see if that
helps.
>
> it looks like your mouse device was not configured ok somehow...
>
> Nasser
>
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From: "Boris Cobelens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.redhat,comp.os.linux.setup,linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: Mouse detected but not working properly
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:44:39 +0200
Hi there,
Try 'Generic 3-button PS/2'. I have an Intelli Explorer and this settings
works for me. XFree 4.0 has native Explorer support by the way!
Good luck,
Boris
T0talcha0s <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:nprT4.12524$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> During the installation of RH6.2, my cursor (Microsoft Optical
Intellimouse
> PS/2) seems to stay on the right side of the screen, and moving it
anywhere
> just makes it go crazy... I tried hooking up my Logitech mouse (the basic
2
> button PS/2 model), and that mouse did the same thing! And it still does
it
> in X. The same thing occurred when I installed the latest version of Corel
> Linux... any ideas?
> Thanks
>
>
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From: Madness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound Blaster and Corel Linux
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:34:47 +0200
Hi!
I've just installed a new version of Corel Linux but I can't setup my
Sound Blaster AWE64. I knew that Corel Linux does'nt support it but
there's a way to make it work..
Thank you very much
Alessio
Reply to : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Redhat 6.1 on Travelmate 330T series laptop
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:31:34 +0800
i visited redhat website(http://www.redhat.com) , it lists Acer Travelmate
330T series under Redhat certified System.
However i tried to install Redhat 6.1 into Travelmate 330T laptop, it was
unsuccessful. Installation process shows no error. Problems comes when
installation program restarts the system. It showed an error messages
indicating that there's a GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT at 0000. and also shows
many memory addresses at BIOS level , then it jammed down there!
These error messages were displayed right after the loader displays "BIOS
version 1.2 (Driver 1.9)" message.
i reflashed my BIOS using its latest BIOS version(3.0
R01-AE4)..............it doesn't help....=(
Is there anyone know which version of Travelmate 330T BIOS version that is
compatible with Redhat 6.1?
thanx!
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Charles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Redhat 6.1 on Travelmate 330T series laptop
Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 01:40:20 +0800
i visited redhat website(http://www.redhat.com) , it lists Acer Travelmate
330T series under Redhat certified System.
However i tried to install Redhat 6.1 into Travelmate 330T laptop, it was
unsuccessful. Installation process shows no error. Problems comes when
installation program restarts the system. It showed an error messages
indicating that there's a GENERAL PROTECTION FAULT at 0000. and also shows
many memory addresses at BIOS level , then it jammed down there!
These error messages were displayed right after the loader displays "BIOS
version 1.2 (Driver 1.9)" message.
i reflashed my BIOS using its latest BIOS version(3.0
R01-AE4)..............it doesn't help....=(
Is there anyone know which version of Travelmate 330T BIOS version that is
compatible with Redhat 6.1?
thanx!
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: memorex-cdrw-6424
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 19:40:44 +0200
Hi,
anyone knows if this CDwriter works under linux
I encounterd some problems...
thanks
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From: Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CD Music Problem
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:14:12 -0700
Anthony Ewell wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using red hat 6.0 and an ensoniq audio PCI card.
> I can not get music CD's to play.
>
> When I start xplaycd, everything seems to be working visually
> (the time counter runs, the track indicator gets all the tracks
> correct, etc.). X11amp works fine. My XFce noises all sound off
> the way they should. Under Windows NT (this is a multiple boot
> system) the CD-ROM plays music without problem.
>
> Also, sometimes when I try to get the CD to play and loose
> track of time, it will actually start playing. But, this anomoly
> can take over an hour to occur.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what is going on and
> how to fix it?
>
> Many thanks,
> --Tony
> aewell @ gbis dot com (remove the spaces and replace "dot" with ".")
You did not mention whether you opened up a mixer (gmix is one) and
checked the mixer settings.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA Chipsets: which?
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:19:48 -0700
Mark Hawkes wrote:
>
> Apollo Pro 133A or KX133
> Which is the least problematic chipset to get for Linux?
>
> Any opinions gladly appreciated :-)
For me, a KX133 on an Epox 7KXA mb, Redhat installed effortlessly and
everything except sound worked. The sound (built in sound using the VIA
VT82C686A) required me to install the ALSA driver.
I has continued to run flawlessly for a month and a half or so.
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Ian Morris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Canon BJC-240
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 12:45:02 +0100
I had some luck with the BJC600 driver although my bjc 240 was faulty
and thought all colour cartrages were photo so it printed at 1/2 the
width of the page. However it outputted colour as well. using the 600
driver
"Warren B. Hapke" wrote:
>
> theCelt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Good day -
>
> : I am running Mandrake 7.0 and would like to get my Canon BJC-240
> : working there. However, I can find no documentation other than The
> : Linux Printing HOWTO on it. Unfortunately, they do not say how to get
> : this printer to work under Linux.
>
> : I tried printtool, but the printer is not listed, but the BJ-240 is.
> : Does this mean that my printer should do at least bw? Does anyone know
> : if it is possible to get this printer to work? I hate to buy a new
> : printer...
>
> I use this printer on my Linux system, though only in black and white.
> (I print nothing but text.) If you use "printtool", just choose the
> BJ-240 filter and run the tests. You will probably have to check
> the button that does carriage return/line feed translations, but the
> tests will guide you through that process.
>
> Look at
>
> http://gatekeeper.picante.com/~gtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
>
> for more printer information.
>
> Warren B. Hapke
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Junk Mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: via82cxxx_audio module loaded, but no sound
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 11:22:30 -0700
Doug Alcorn wrote:
>
> I have an Epox 7KXA motherboard that comes with the VIA 82C586
> chipset. Included is the VIA 82cxxx audio codec. I compiled it as a
> module and loaded it. It appears to have loaded OK. I can even start
> up xmms and play an mp3 file. The catch is that there is no sound
> coming out. I have powered speakers plugged in, but nothing. BTW, I
> know the speakers work cause I use them with a portable cd player all
> the time.
Howdy,
I have the Epox 7KXA, and found that sound required the use of the ALSA
sound driver. I even wrote a brief web page on this:
http://www.leewardfpga.com/sound.html
--
My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Problems installing network
From: Steven Bradtke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:20:11 GMT
I've got a Gateway 2000 P4D-66 that I'd like to use as a firewall machine.
I've got two NIC's, the first an SMC 1211TX, and the second a WD 8013.
They are PCI and ISA cards, respectively. I'm using Redhat 6.1. The SMC
is supposed to talk to my cable modem, and the WD to my internal LAN.
I have no trouble getting the WD card to talk to the other machines on my
internal LAN. I CANNOT get the SMC to talk to anyone under linux.
However, when I install it in my Windows machine it seems to have
absolutely no problem talking to my cable modem.
Now for the weird part of the story. The first time I installed the
system, I managed to get the 1211TX to talk to the outside world, and the
WD to talk to my internal net. Everything seemed fine. I shut down the
machine and went to bed. The next morning, the SMC card can no longer talk
to the outside world through the cable modem. Both the card and the modem
lights blink like crazy, but the network is unreachable. It still works
fine in my other machine when running under Windows, however.
Please let me know if you have any clues about how to resolve this
difficulty.
Frustrated and Mystified,
Steve
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From: Morris Meyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: SCSI Reset with Adaptec AIC-7880 and SMP
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:22:18 GMT
hi,
i have a supermicro p3dm3 with two cpus, running 2.3.99-pre8, with an
ultra160 disk. i'm getting resets intermittently as well.
is the "noapic" a config option, or an option that i need to pass a the
boot prompt (or lilo.conf).
many thanks in advance,
--morris
Taurus wrote:
> Hans Utz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > We use a Tyan Dual S1662D board and an Adaptec 2940 AU. AIC-78xx.
> Also,
> > the board boots without SMP support but not with SMP support enabled.
> > The curious thing is, that the same Kernel (exchanged the hole hard
> > disk) works fine with a dual Pentium II board, and the same Adaptec
> > controller.
>
> I managed to get hold of Doug Ledford, he pointed me at the "noapic"
> option, which fixed the problem outright.
>
> > But what DID do better, was pluging the SCSI-card into another
> PCI-slot.
> > (???) Since you use an on board adapter this doesn't seem to be a
> > option. But it might encourage you to search for a bios update or try
> > fidling with the placement of the other PCI cards. If you have access
> to
> > another SCSI-Adapter you might give it a try, too.
>
> Bit hard that one - it's an on-board SCSI adapter... anyway problem's
> solved now - hopefully yours is too ;-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> T.
>
> --
>
> Robert Thornburrow, Taurus Software and Consulting
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Before you buy.
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From: "Walter D. Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Mouse Does Not Work In X Windows
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:30:26 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
have you tried xf86config in usr/X11R6/bin ? it lets you set-up your
mouse, not sure of it will help but it's worth a shot
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From: Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux
Subject: Re: Memory unrecognized (not the >64M problem!)
Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 14:31:35 -0400
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Michael Coffin wrote:
Thanks for everyone who tried to help me. Turns out that the system had an
on-board 4MB RAM - which caused me to overestimate the capacity of my
modules. When I put in only one in the first slot - I got 12 - so I
thought it's a 12M stick (although I've never heard of one). Then I put
the same in the second slot - I had 4! I think this was only the onboard
RAM being recognized - and putting a module only in the second slot meant
it wasn't recognized at all (I would like to know why - though). And when
I put in two of those sticks - I got 20 - which I think is ok - 8+8+4
onboard.
> If the BIOS doesn't recognize it, are you sure you have it well seated? Have
> you tried moving the cards around to other slots?
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Sandhitsu R Das <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >I have an old Packard Bell Legend 220CD machine with 486DX2 running at
> >66MHz. I have two RAM slots in which I currently put two 12M modules. It
> >seems the second slot module is always recognized as max. 4MB. Do I have
> >to tweak anuything to have its full amount recognized (even the BIOS
> >recognizes 4MB only).
> >
>
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