Linux-Hardware Digest #18, Volume #13 Sat, 10 Jun 00 08:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Programm das serielle Schnittstelle protokolliert ??? (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: nVidia TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3500 or Creative Annihilator Pro? ("Rick Townsend")
Re: Did i killed my hard disk? (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: question about serial port read delays (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI128 (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: aha1520/linux compatability (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: Serial Port Problem (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100 (sleddog)
Re: scsi interface doesnt work (Klaus Syttkus)
Re: 2.2.15 + USB patch hangs on my Athlon (cl)
VA-503+ won't boot without keyboard, any solution? (Walter Francis)
Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems? (M. Buchenrieder)
Re: NO DIALTONE message with my modem (M. Buchenrieder)
Please Help on my Final Year Project ("Alan Po")
Re: Silent Power Supply? (Bob)
Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems? (Doug Robbins)
Re: SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem) (Jacek
=?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Re: Need your help again... (Pieter Breugelmans)
ATAPI Zip 250 probs (was: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ???) (Richard Townsend)
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Programm das serielle Schnittstelle protokolliert ???
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:11:39 +0000
Hi,
IIRC there is a program called ttysnoop which does the job. Never used
it, though.
Good luck!
Klaus.
Rachid Broum wrote:
> Welches Programm koennen wir unter Linux einsetzen um die Protokolle die auf
> die serielle
> Schnittstelle ausgegeben werden, gleichzeitig auf eine Datei umleiten zu
> koennen ?
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From: "Rick Townsend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: nVidia TNT2 M64, Voodoo 3 3500 or Creative Annihilator Pro?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 16:20:42 +0100
John Cronin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Haral Tsitsivas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I am configuring a new PC (to run RH Linux 6.2) and I have a choice
> > of these three video cards:
> >
> > 16MB nVidia TNT2 M64 Pro graphics Card
> > 3dfx Voodoo 3 3500 16MB with TV Out Only
> > Creative Annihilator Pro with 32MB - DDR RAM
> >
> > Which works the best (drivers available, reliable, fast) on Linux?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> >
> > --
> > --Haral Tsitsivas, UniSolutions Associates (http://www.unisol.com/)
> > System Accounting & Chargeback
>
> I run a Creative Annihilator Pro with 32MB - DDR RAM under Linux - 3d
> acceleration works OK under 3.3.6 (it crashes a few times), but I am
plagued
> with problems with XFree86 4.0.
>
Could you let me know how you got Creative Annihilator Pro with 32MB -
DDR to work with Linux?
I've tried installing XFree86 4.0 but still can't get Gnome or KDE to
run. The wrong windows manager runs when i type startx (wm.)
Thanx.
Regards.
RTee
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Did i killed my hard disk?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:24:59 +0000
Hi,
robbe wrote:
>
> Next, I got a bios error: ERROR C-DRIVE.
> When I staeted the installation program, I got this error: HDA NOT READY FOR
> COMMAND.
> Next, a bit farther, ERROR READING PARTITION TABLE FOR THE BLOCK DEVICE HDA
> : INPUT/OUTPUT-ERROR.
These error messages indicate very basic problems. Check your cables,
make sure they connect pin 1 of the controller with pin 1 on the HD
(most cables are not keyed)
> I pressed on skip drive, then i got this: NO DRIVES FOUND
> NO VALID DEVICES WERE FOUND IN WICH TO CREATE NEW FILESYSTEMS
>
> Even windows wont recognise my hd, but my bios will.
What do you mean by "recognize"?
Does it find out about your disk's geometry?
> (This hd was just new, there is no windows or another os on it.)
Re-check the cable connections; if it still does not work, return it.
Good luck,
Klaus.
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: question about serial port read delays
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:31:57 +0000
Hi,
sounds to me like you have a 16550A UART (which comes with a 16-byte
FIFO). This is usually configured to wait for either a number of bytes
or a single byte and a timeout before it triggers an interrupt.
This number of bytes can be set to 2, 8 and 14 IIRC.
Try disabling the FIFO (configure it as a 15450 using setserial) and
tell me if it works!
Regards,
Klaus.
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Creative Soundblaster PCI128
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:34:14 +0000
Hi,
a hint: There seem to be two flavours of PCI128 out there. One uses a
es1370, the other one es1371.
Have you used lspci?
Good luck,
Klaus.
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: aha1520/linux compatability
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:47:03 +0000
Mike Walker wrote:
>
> I am attempting to install redhat 6.1 on a SCSI drive controlled by an
> Adaptec 1510/20/22B. During installation, I attempt to "specify parameters"
> (i.e. aha152x=0x340,11,7,1). After I install the driver, I get the message
> that says "cannot find any devices to install linux on"
Don't know RedHat, don't know your setup.
Do you have a running OS on this machine? If so, are there any free
partitions (aka devices) to install linux on? If not: Does your
controller have a bios? Does the bios support the irq/address/dma
settings you mentioned?
Regards,
Klaus.
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial Port Problem
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:54:54 +0000
Hi Chong,
you are missing a serial driver. Do dmesg | grep tty; if there is a
kernel driver installed, your ports should be listed.
find out about modprobe or insmod (there are HOWTOs on this)
Best regards,
Klaus.
Chong Jiayi wrote:
>
> Whenever I do the setserial for ttyS0 which is my COM1,
> I get the message: No such device. (for ttys0 I get:input/output error)
>
> I've checked my bios and it says that my base address is 0x03f8 which I have
> set
> but I still get the error message...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (sleddog)
Subject: Re: Performance of a 486DX4/100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:04:06 GMT
On 9 Jun 2000 09:14:15 GMT, Martin Herrman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>On 9 Jun 2000 09:08:13 GMT, Daniel Haude
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> I then bought a cheap, used 486DX4-100/72MB for home use, and I'm
getting
>> a little bit something of performance but I'd like to get more, of
course.
>> All I want to know is if I could try to tweak a little more speed
out of
>> it, or if I just have to live with what I've got (like 90+ minutes
for a
>> complete 2-2-14 kernel build). After all, it's only a $100
computer...
>
>90+ minutes is normal. My 66mhz, 8mb 486dx2 takes about 2,5 hours to
>accomplish the job ;-)
There must be other factors here besides cpu speed and memory? My AMD
486DX5-133, 24mb RAM, PCI machine does a kernel compile ('make
bzImage') in about 38 minutes. (Add about 5 minutes for 'make dep' and
about 15-20 minutes for 'make modules' for the complete job.) That is
starting with a clean src tree ('make mrproper') and a .config file
copied from another directory. This machine is a multipurpose
mail/web/file server with no X. RH 6.0 + errata + kernel 2.2.16
(436kb). There are eth and ppp interfaces, two ~2gb IDE drives, 2X old
CDROM. I assumed 38 minutes was kind of sluggish... I've never run
Linux on a fast new machine :-)
--
sleddog
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From: Klaus Syttkus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi interface doesnt work
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 08:13:24 +0000
Hi Tobi,
what do you mean by "the adaptec card is recognized at bios boot"?
"device or resource busy" sounds like an IRQ/port/dma conflict. Check
the card settings (you probably have a setup utility to write the card's
EEPROM) and cross-check with the parameters you give to insmod (or the
defaults if you don't give them)
Good luck,
Klaus.
Tobi wrote:
> i have two different scsi cards one AZ delivered with mustek scanners
> and the other is an adaptec ava 1505/1515. i compiled them as modules
> but when i want to insmod them, the kernel responds with
> "device or resource busy". (the adaptec card is reckognized at bios
> boot)
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (cl)
Subject: Re: 2.2.15 + USB patch hangs on my Athlon
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 09:51:48 GMT
On 9 Jun 2000 21:27:54 +0200, Konstantinos Agouros
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Anders Skovsted Buch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>Hi,
>>I am using RedHat 6.1 on my Athlon 500, and have recently installed a
>>2.2.15 kernel with the USB backport patch. After that my machine has had
>>occational lockups. Before it was running rock-solid. Does anybody know about a
>>fix? (If it matters I have my ATAPI CD-RW configured as an scsi device.)
>>Any help will be greatly appreciated!!
>>Anders Buch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
>Hmmm I think you are not alone. I have the same problem running on a HP-Omnibook
>4150. It has a PIII.
>Can it be, that you have the lockups happening during high memoryload?
>Konstantin
I am having lockups aswell, using kernel 2.2.16. I like to
play around with ip-loggers, expecially snort and ngrep.
During high netload my machine just locks up, keyboard
stops working and then the net (dhcp) dies. This also
happens when Netscape times out, total lock up, have
to kill X and manually kill netscape, then kill dhcpcd
to restart network.
My hardware is a p266MMX (oc'ed) and 64 MB SDRAM.
Perhaps too little memory to be healthy?
CL.
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From: Walter Francis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: VA-503+ won't boot without keyboard, any solution?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 05:48:01 -0400
I have a server with a VA-503+ motherboard in it, and it has more than
enough horsepower to do great as my server machine (httpd, sendmail,
squid, several other proxies), some other assorted stuff.. It has no
monitor attached, nor keyboard or mouse.. Just a power connector and
two NICs.. :)
but the durn thing won't recover from a power disruption because it
refuses to boot without a keyboard! And the worst thing is, it has a
message something along the lines of "Keyboard not found. Hit F10 to
continue" Duh!
I've heard of keyboard 'dongle' things to fake a computer into thinking
a keyboard is present, but those sound pretty silly.. Any solution to
this besides one of those things, such as a motherboard jumper I'm not
seeing listed in the manual or a BIOS option?
If there is no other solution, where is a place to get one of the little
dongle-like things to make the computer think a keyboard is present? If
I had the room I'd buy a $10 keyboard.
Thanks!
--
Walter Francis
http://wally.hplx.net Powered by Red Hat Linux 6.0
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:44:54 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Robbins) writes:
>Hoping someone has some knowledge of the long-gone EISA systems. I have
>a Digital 486-66 that I'd like to use as a Linux mail server, but it's
>a mess right now. I haven't got to the point of installing thew OS as
>there are startup problems. There are boot-time error messages like:
>"ID Information Mismatch for Slot 2"
>"Invalid EISA configuration information - please run the configuration
>utility"
Probably some changed card in slot 2.
>The "configuration utility" is /not/ the BIOS setup utility (I got
>other errors referring to the "SETUP Program" -- the BIOS setup, which
>I resolved) does anyone have any ideas what/where this "configuration
>utility" is? Needless to say, I have *no* software relating to the
>machine.
EISA uses a setup program on a floppy disk for the installation
and configuration of add-on cards. If you don't have it, you're stuck,
since you need it for all further steps. You may have some luck if
searching for someone with an identical system in the various HW-related
groups, but without that floppy you'll not be able to properly setup
your system at all. I doubt that you'll be able to get much information
from Compaq (yes, they bought Digital about 2 years ago), since they
have basically dropped all support for the older Digital systems after
the takeover.
Michael
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: NO DIALTONE message with my modem
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:39:36 GMT
"Shane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>elwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>news:8hrflr$o82$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>> Hi Linux people,
>> I'm trying to connect to my ISP with Linux, but I got the message NO
>> DIALTONE immediatly. If I remember correctly I'd the same problem
[...]
>>
>The Trick will be to put in your modem initialisation string the command
>"x3" or "x4"
[...]
X3, yes. X4, no. X4 is the default setting, which includes "wait for
dialtone". X3 is the correct setting here.
Michael
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From: "Alan Po" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.linux.development,comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Please Help on my Final Year Project
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 18:37:22 +0800
Dear All
I am a University Student in Hong Kong. I have choosen to develop an
Embedded Linux Environment for Industrial as my Final Year Project. My
Lecturer suggest me that my first step is to use a linux to control a Web
Camera first. However, in Hong Kong, almost all Web Camera only support USB
(Windows 98 or iMac). In my plan, I also find that if the USB Hardware
Interface may be more useful and meaningful because USB is PnP and it is
easy to find in the market (also the industrial). However, as I know, Linux
does not support USB.
Can anyone tell any USB development plan on Linux? Where can I get more
solutions or hints on USB for Linux? Thanks and welcome for any help and
suggestion on my project. Thanks a lot.
Alan Po
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Bob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,alt.comp.hardware.overclocking
Subject: Re: Silent Power Supply?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:59:06 +0200
On 10 Jun 2000 07:48:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Rubin) wrote:
>In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>Alexander Derevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>I have a Silencer 275 PSU and I put it head to head with a "regular"
>>high-quality Sparkle 300-watt ATX PSU... outside of the case, the noise made
>>even by the Sparke with a Yate Loon fan is neglible... what seems to matter is
>>that the PSU VIBRATES and that resonates off my case....
Absolutly true. As for fans looking at rated noise level tells you
only half the story, ill-balanced rotors vibrates and a PC chassis
makes a great amplifier.
>The main noise-reduction method of the Silencer seems to be its fan,
>whose blades are shaped a little differently than conventional fans.
>My Silencer (200 watt AT slim) is definitely noticably quieter than
>the generic PS that it replaced. I haven't tried the Sparkle--where
>can I get one?
FSP-group......Fortron, Sparkle, Powerman.
http://www.sparklepower.com/ and http://www.fortron-source.com/
Get the FSP350-60BN (or BT) models. You can't go wrong with that one.
Make sure you order it with the Fan Noise Killer option.
>>As far as the quiet heatsinks go... if you have money, buy the high-output
>>Papst 60mm fans for them.. You'll wind up paying something like $20 per fan
>>(and I have yet to see Papst fans for sale ANYWHERE), but they're the most
>>powerful fans (21 cfm) in the 28-29db range. Your other contenders are the
>>Panasonic (17 cfm) and Sanyo Denki (19 cfm) fans, with the same noise... slap
>>that on an Alpha heatsink for the CPU configuration of your choice... and
>>you'll be in business.
http://www.alliedelec.com/ sells PAPST fans for less.. They stock the
40mm, 80 and 12omm, don't know about the 60mm series.
>Interesting. Again I'd be interested to know of vendors. I was using a
>PC Power and Cooling cpu fan on my old Pentium 120 but sold that machine
>and now have an AMD K6-2 333 with a generic heatsink/fan. I was thinking
>of getting one of the quietpc.com fans but other suggestions are welcome.
Get a PAPST fan.
>>One other thing to look at - CoolerMaster ATC-200 mid-tower case... Why $300
>>for a case, you ask? Because it's made out of aluminum - the entire case is 1)
>>a heatsink and 2) A sound dampener...
Way too expensive, besides it won't do much good for hot CPUs and
chipsets.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Robbins)
Subject: Re: Anyone still familiar with EISA systems?
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:00:49 GMT
On Sat, 10 Jun 2000 07:44:54 GMT, M. Buchenrieder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>EISA uses a setup program on a floppy disk for the installation
>and configuration of add-on cards. If you don't have it, you're
stuck,
>since you need it for all further steps. You may have some luck if
>searching for someone with an identical system in the various
HW-related
>groups, but without that floppy you'll not be able to properly setup
>your system at all. I doubt that you'll be able to get much
information
>from Compaq (yes, they bought Digital about 2 years ago), since they
>have basically dropped all support for the older Digital systems
after
>the takeover.
Thanks. I think I'll just get another m/b. I love the Digital case --
mid-tower, steel... weighs twice as much empty as new fully-loaded
systems :-)
--
Doug Robbins
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacek =?iso-8859-2?Q?Pop=B3awski?=)
Subject: Re: SoundBlaster Live (emu10k1 module) (yet another sound card problem)
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 11:06:12 GMT
Ethan Alpert wrote:
>trying to get my SoundBlaster Live card to work.
hmmm... I don't give any parameters to module, try download
newest snapshot from opensource.creative.com, or
alsa-0.5.8
if IRQ is a problem - maybe you should change slot? but
I tried few slots and never have any conflict...
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From: Pieter Breugelmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.hardware,de.comp.os.unix.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Need your help again...
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 13:29:20 +0200
Right... that's what I had forgotten .. ;) thankx for the info!
Greetings,
Pieter
Duane schreef:
> Pieter Breugelmans wrote:
> >
> > Yep.. you are absolute correct ... and in my opinion, 30MB/s is quite a lot cos
> > other people that i know get around 24Mb/s with UDMA66. Anyway... your PCI-bus is
> > running at 33MHz, and this will give you a maximum transferrate of 133MB/s (don't
> > ask me any math.. cos i seem to have forgotten it :)...See why the manufactures
> > are making the UMDA100? ... just optimizing the speed....
>
> The bus is 32 bits, or 4 bytes wide.
> 4 bytes per clock, so 4 x 33 = 132MB/s
>
> Or in high end machines you might get a slot that is PCI 66/64 wh
> ich is
> 64 bits at 66 MHz:
> 8 x 66 = 528MB/s
>
> --
> My real email is akamail.com@dclark (or something like that).
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From: Richard Townsend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATAPI Zip 250 probs (was: IDE Zip disk faster via ide-scsi ???)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 12:40:06 +0100
On a related topic, I bought an IDE (ATAPI) Zip 250 drive (internal) last
year, and I've never been able to get it working properly as an ATAPI
Floppy drive. It seems that the drive reports two different capacities to
the kernel, the kernel then gets confused, and writing data to the drive
hangs after a certain amount of activity (and the data get corrupted).
I posted a few messages to this NG back then, to see if anyone had any
idea what was happening - no joy. So, in the meantime, I've been using
SCSI emulation. Has anyone else had this problem? And does anyone know of
a fix?
cheers
Rich
On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Andrey Vlasov wrote:
> Hi Igor,
>
> I remember that I read one day that ZIP drive inside is SCSI.
> If it true - it a reason why it faster in SCSI emulation mode.
>
> Andrey
>
> Igor Boukanov wrote:
>
> > When I enabled SCSI interface emulation to my 100 MB IDE Zip drive
> > (via modprobe ide-scsi) I noticed significant performance improvements,
> > i.e. "dd if=/dev/zip of=/dev/null" started to run 20% faster with
> > zip=/dev/sda4 than it had been with zip=/dev/hdd4.
> >
> > Are there any reasons for that? I mean if you so easily can improve
> > performance by 20% with this trick why it is not on by default???
> >
> > Regards, Igor
>
>
>
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