Linux-Hardware Digest #167, Volume #13 Sun, 2 Jul 00 19:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: Eliminating particular addresses from physical RAM ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds (gLaNDix)
Re: where can i find epson laser epl-5700L driver ? (Jim Conner)
XFree 4 multi head support (Stefan Schimanski)
problem with alsa drivers and sblive ("Yaseen Dadabhay")
Blackout Buster on Alpha ("Kay Keys")
Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time? (J Bland)
Re: Is my Athlon going bad? ("Chris J. Milne")
Re: Is my Athlon going bad? ("Chris J. Milne")
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Eliminating particular addresses from physical RAM
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 15:15:48 -0400
If you've got multiple bad SIMMs then chances are they are not fast
enough for your system, or they have some other incompatibility such as
refresh timing. Trying to patch out some bad locations is a kludge, if
the room gets warmer the RAMs will get even worse. RAM is cheap, buy
some SIMMs that work, but first make sure that the RAMs you have are
seated properly in the SIMM sockets.
Leif Steinhour wrote:
>
> I have some SIMMs which have particular addresses which are bad as
> determined by the mtester program from freshmeat.net. My bios tests
> them as fine (hence the problem). I was wondering if there was a way to
> tell the memory manager on the linux side to disregard those adresses
> and/or my Bios (although I looked in my config utility and didn't see
> anything). My bios is an older Phoenix Bios for a pentium class CPU. Any
> ideas?
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From: gLaNDix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq AudioPCI queuing sounds
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 14:55:31 -0500
On 26 Jun 2000 23:14:06 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dances
With Crows) wrote:
>The ES1371 has two output channels, dsp0 and dsp1 AFAICT, but for some
>reason only dsp0 gets used unless you explicitly configure one (or
>more) sound-emitting programs to use the other one. DOn't know for sure
>what's up with that.
>
>The Enlightenment sound daemon (esd) can mix several audio sources in
>software, allowing you to stack sounds. Many programs including xmms can
>make use of esd--have you tried that?
well, i've got an es1370, and it does have two channels (only when
using ALSA, but i get horrid pop's when playing sounds)... the only
problem w/ setting licq or xmms to use /dev/dsp1 is that mine is not
working (ALSA or kernel drivers)... not only that, but if two things
tried to access /dev/dsp0 (ie: sound from a game and sound from
WSoundServer), i still have the same problem... this is a minor
work-around, but not a fix... anyone know how to FIX the problem?
gLaNDix
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From: Jim Conner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: where can i find epson laser epl-5700L driver ?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 20:38:31 GMT
Try the following web page:
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=158569
Jim
Gerhard Reuteler wrote:
> High,
> After searching quite a while I have no more idea where to find a driver
> for the epl-5700L. Is there a possibility under ghostscript? Is this
> printer running with the driver of any HP-laser?
> Thanks for help.
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From: Stefan Schimanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: XFree 4 multi head support
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:42:49 +0200
Hi,
I'm planning to buy a new graphics card soon and want to know one is
recommed for xfree 4.
Important is that there is
*hardware opengl support and
* multihead support in
- Xinerama mode AND
-with two independent x servers.
The second card can be one of those:
1. Matrox Millenium I 4 MB
2. Nvidia Riva128 4 MB
3. Ati Xpert@Work 4 MB
4. Voodoo Banshee 16 MB
5. Nvidia RivaTNT 16 MB
I'm planning to get one of these cards as primary gfx adapter:
1. Nvidia GeGorce 256 32 MB
2. Matrox 400 DH 16/32MB
3. Nvidia TNT2 32 MB
4. Voodoo 3 32 MB
Has anybody experience which card combinations work for this?
Bye
Stefan
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From: "Yaseen Dadabhay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem with alsa drivers and sblive
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 23:35:27 +0200
hi . i am running suse 6.4 using the 0.58 alsa drivers for my sound blaster
live and i am not able to use my gravis game pad pro which is connected to
the sblives joystick port . if i do a insmod joystick and then insmod
joy-gravis i get a resources busy eror message
however using the 0.4 creative drivers that also come installed with suse
6.4 i can use my joystick . however some of my games dont work with the
creative drivers ( flight gear and tux a quest for herrings) which just hang
when i have the creative drivers installed .
my question is : is there a way to use my gamepad using the alsa drivers and
if not is there way of making the creative drivers work with my games .
thanking you in advance
Yaseen .
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From: "Kay Keys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Blackout Buster on Alpha
Date: Sun, 2 Jul 2000 17:17:42 -0500
I recently purchased a "Blackout Buster" UPS by PK Electronics for use on my
Alpha personal workstation. I have yet to get the software required to
perform an automatic shutdown based on the UPS data port. The ups comes
with a cable, so I downloaded genpower, and modified the program to work
with the cable instead of vice versa. It compiled but segfaults on opening
the serail port. Any ideas? I may just rewrite genpowerd.c till I get it
to work....
Thanks
Kyle Keys
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J Bland)
Subject: Re: How do I turn on IDE DMA at boot time?
Date: 2 Jul 2000 22:21:52 GMT
>From a kernel point of view you can config the kernel to use dma by default
if you want.
Frinky
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is my Athlon going bad?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 19:02:14 -0400
Bernhard,
i'm surprised no-one has yet to suggest you upgrade your system to a
newer version of RedHat. I ran 6.0 & had multiple lockups with it (the
lockups were undoubtedly X-related but beyond that seemed to be
semi-random), i can't even consider recommending anyone install it onto
anything. 6.1 was a much improved system and our regular lockups went
away. When I say regular lockups i mean uptimes of a week & then a
freeze - not an out of control netscape or mathematica but a full
freeze.
I'd highly recommend upgrading to either 6.1 or 6.2 (6.1 had absolutely
no problems or crashes, after the upgrade we had uptimes of >60days &
the only reason they didn't get longer was because of scheduled
construction power-outages in our building).
chris
NOTE 1 : this entire thread is assuming you aren't overclocking your
athlon
NOTE 2 : the fact that you could ping the machine & connect to the
telnet daemon suggests it was an out of control process (>99% CPU) & not
a complete freeze - you're not going to be able to prevent netscape from
crashing but in my experience it doesn't take the machine with 95 times
out of 100 - now that you're aware of possible surfing problems try
noting what pages initiate such behaviour.
Bernhard Mogens Ege wrote:
>
> >>>>> "B" == B Joshua Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Several questions,
> > 1) Did your system become unstable after a software upgrade, or did it
> > just happen?
>
> Just happened as far as I can tell (the first anyway, since then I
> have upgraded kernel and orther packages).
>
> > 2) Have you added any new hardware?
>
> No, no hardware changes at all.
>
> > 3) You mentioned that you were running Netscape when it hung, is it
> > always Netscape that's running when it hangs? Netscape is a piece of
> > crap that crashes all the time, and frequently wedges X Windows in the
> > process. Ctrl Alt Backspace usually can fix it, but not always. Netscape
> > is very sensitive to communications problems so if your internet
> > connection has become less reliable then you'll see more Netscape
> > problems.
>
> Keyboard was dead, so was the mouse. Couldn't telnet or ftp in (the
> sockect connection was established, though). The first crash caused a
> complete kernel lockup (no response) and hardware reset was my only
> option.
>
> Can netscape cause a complete system crash (no telnet access)? I can
> understand netscape killing X (has happened some times to me) but the
> kernel?
>
> > A few things to try,
>
> > It's possible that you have a hardware problem, but the first thing to
> > do is make sure all of your DIMMS, boards and cables are seated
> > properly. Open up your machine and jiggle everything.
>
> Good ide, completely forgot that one. This could help. Maybe use less
> aggressive timings in the bios (haven't toughed them for several
> month, though).
>
> > It's also possible that something in the OS has been corrupted or that
> > you added something that was incompatiable. I'd grab an up to date
> > distribution, like RedHat 6.2, and do a clean install. By clean I mean
> > reformat the / partition and then re-install the OS. An upgrade is
> > likely to make things worse and won't fix any problems that are caused
> > by a bad settings. A clean install will get you a consistant set of
> > components and will get all of the configurations back to a known good
> > baseline. If you do this make sure all of your data is on a different
> > partition, and copy /etc over to a different partition so that you can
> > reference your old settings (mostly fstab and the various networking
> > configurations) when you are reconfiguring the system after the
> > re-install.
>
> Hmmm, this I would rather avoid as I have about 3.5Gb stuff laying
> around (including the rh60 install). If I reduced the extra modules
> and disabled NFS export and stuff like that, maybe I could locate the
> cause.
>
> > Finally, hitting the reset button is what caused the file system problem
> > that resulted in the manual fsck, not the prior crash. However a
> > filesystem problem severe enough to require a manual fsck means that you
> > might have lost something important, another reason to do a clean
> > install of the OS.
>
> Why do you think the reset caused the file system problem and not the
> kernel crash? For all I know, the ide driver could have been halted
> during disc update.
>
> I just wish that Linux was able to store crash data somewhere on the
> disc (or on floppy) when a crash occured.
>
> The log just doesn't mention anything about the crash...
>
> Jun 23 12:45:33 overmind PAM_pwdb[1155]: (su) session closed for user root
> Jun 23 12:45:45 overmind PAM_pwdb[1232]: (su) session opened for user root by
>bme(uid=21359)
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslog: klogd startup succeeded
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
>
> Crash happened between 12:45 and 13:18...
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard Ege
>
> > Bernhard Mogens Ege wrote:
> >>
> >> My Athlon is freezing more often than I care for. It has happened 4
> >> times now, 3 times at night, and 1 just now. This last time it hasn't
> >> been running more than 16 hours!
> >>
> >> I am using the 2.2.16 kernel with the ide driver patch applied (to
> >> make it recognize my ide controller). The patch I do not suspect as
> >> the crashing has occured before I used that patch.
> >>
> >> The crash was as follows:
> >>
> >> I watched netscape draw a page (loading big image from net) and the
> >> machine suddenly stopped responding (no mouse, keyboard). From another
> >> machine I could ping it (kernel responed normally), and a telnet and
> >> ftp did connect, but the daemons never got further than establishing
> >> the connection (no HD access).
> >>
> >> ctrl-alt-del did not work. ctrl-alt-backspace neither. alt-sysreq
> >> isn't compiled in.
> >>
> >> Nothing else to do than push hardware reset (really hate that part).
> >>
> >> On bootup, fsck did not detect any errors on the filesystem
> >> (fortunately! but on earlier crashes a manual fsck was required). Just
> >> as I was logged in (in X) the HD spun down and then spun up again!
> >> This I have never experienced before.
> >>
> >> What can be wrong with my system?
> >>
> >> The first 6 month of Linux were without crashes, now they suddenly
> >> turn up. I need this machine to work at all times (always on).
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Bernhard Ege
> >>
> >> System: Athlon Classic 500, MSI 6167, Western Digital Expert 18Gb drive, 128Mb
>RAM, 50x CDROM, 3com network interface (100Mbit)
>
> --
> Bernhard Mogens Ege, M.Sc.E.E. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Medical Informatics and Image Analysis Direct call: +45 96 35 87 82
> Institute of Electronic Systems Switchboard: +45 96 35 80 80
> Aalborg University Fax: +45 98 15 40 08
> Frederik Bajersvej 7, D1-203 Homepage:
> DK-9220 Aalborg East http://www.vision.auc.dk/~bme
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Home: Hadsund Landevej 454, DK-9260 Gistrup, Phone: +45 96365086, +45 22749713
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From: "Chris J. Milne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Is my Athlon going bad?
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2000 19:02:46 -0400
Bernhard,
i'm surprised no-one has yet to suggest you upgrade your system to a
newer version of RedHat. I ran 6.0 & had multiple lockups with it (the
lockups were undoubtedly X-related but beyond that seemed to be
semi-random), i can't even consider recommending anyone install it onto
anything. 6.1 was a much improved system and our regular lockups went
away. When I say regular lockups i mean uptimes of a week & then a
freeze - not an out of control netscape or mathematica but a full
freeze.
I'd highly recommend upgrading to either 6.1 or 6.2 (6.1 had absolutely
no problems or crashes, after the upgrade we had uptimes of >60days &
the only reason they didn't get longer was because of scheduled
construction power-outages in our building).
chris
NOTE 1 : this entire thread is assuming you aren't overclocking your
athlon
NOTE 2 : the fact that you could ping the machine & connect to the
telnet daemon suggests it was an out of control process (>99% CPU) & not
a complete freeze - you're not going to be able to prevent netscape from
crashing but in my experience it doesn't take the machine with 95 times
out of 100 - now that you're aware of possible surfing problems try
noting what pages initiate such behaviour.
Bernhard Mogens Ege wrote:
>
> >>>>> "B" == B Joshua Rosen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Several questions,
> > 1) Did your system become unstable after a software upgrade, or did it
> > just happen?
>
> Just happened as far as I can tell (the first anyway, since then I
> have upgraded kernel and orther packages).
>
> > 2) Have you added any new hardware?
>
> No, no hardware changes at all.
>
> > 3) You mentioned that you were running Netscape when it hung, is it
> > always Netscape that's running when it hangs? Netscape is a piece of
> > crap that crashes all the time, and frequently wedges X Windows in the
> > process. Ctrl Alt Backspace usually can fix it, but not always. Netscape
> > is very sensitive to communications problems so if your internet
> > connection has become less reliable then you'll see more Netscape
> > problems.
>
> Keyboard was dead, so was the mouse. Couldn't telnet or ftp in (the
> sockect connection was established, though). The first crash caused a
> complete kernel lockup (no response) and hardware reset was my only
> option.
>
> Can netscape cause a complete system crash (no telnet access)? I can
> understand netscape killing X (has happened some times to me) but the
> kernel?
>
> > A few things to try,
>
> > It's possible that you have a hardware problem, but the first thing to
> > do is make sure all of your DIMMS, boards and cables are seated
> > properly. Open up your machine and jiggle everything.
>
> Good ide, completely forgot that one. This could help. Maybe use less
> aggressive timings in the bios (haven't toughed them for several
> month, though).
>
> > It's also possible that something in the OS has been corrupted or that
> > you added something that was incompatiable. I'd grab an up to date
> > distribution, like RedHat 6.2, and do a clean install. By clean I mean
> > reformat the / partition and then re-install the OS. An upgrade is
> > likely to make things worse and won't fix any problems that are caused
> > by a bad settings. A clean install will get you a consistant set of
> > components and will get all of the configurations back to a known good
> > baseline. If you do this make sure all of your data is on a different
> > partition, and copy /etc over to a different partition so that you can
> > reference your old settings (mostly fstab and the various networking
> > configurations) when you are reconfiguring the system after the
> > re-install.
>
> Hmmm, this I would rather avoid as I have about 3.5Gb stuff laying
> around (including the rh60 install). If I reduced the extra modules
> and disabled NFS export and stuff like that, maybe I could locate the
> cause.
>
> > Finally, hitting the reset button is what caused the file system problem
> > that resulted in the manual fsck, not the prior crash. However a
> > filesystem problem severe enough to require a manual fsck means that you
> > might have lost something important, another reason to do a clean
> > install of the OS.
>
> Why do you think the reset caused the file system problem and not the
> kernel crash? For all I know, the ide driver could have been halted
> during disc update.
>
> I just wish that Linux was able to store crash data somewhere on the
> disc (or on floppy) when a crash occured.
>
> The log just doesn't mention anything about the crash...
>
> Jun 23 12:45:33 overmind PAM_pwdb[1155]: (su) session closed for user root
> Jun 23 12:45:45 overmind PAM_pwdb[1232]: (su) session opened for user root by
>bme(uid=21359)
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind syslog: klogd startup succeeded
> Jun 23 13:18:55 overmind kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
>
> Crash happened between 12:45 and 13:18...
>
> regards,
>
> Bernhard Ege
>
> > Bernhard Mogens Ege wrote:
> >>
> >> My Athlon is freezing more often than I care for. It has happened 4
> >> times now, 3 times at night, and 1 just now. This last time it hasn't
> >> been running more than 16 hours!
> >>
> >> I am using the 2.2.16 kernel with the ide driver patch applied (to
> >> make it recognize my ide controller). The patch I do not suspect as
> >> the crashing has occured before I used that patch.
> >>
> >> The crash was as follows:
> >>
> >> I watched netscape draw a page (loading big image from net) and the
> >> machine suddenly stopped responding (no mouse, keyboard). From another
> >> machine I could ping it (kernel responed normally), and a telnet and
> >> ftp did connect, but the daemons never got further than establishing
> >> the connection (no HD access).
> >>
> >> ctrl-alt-del did not work. ctrl-alt-backspace neither. alt-sysreq
> >> isn't compiled in.
> >>
> >> Nothing else to do than push hardware reset (really hate that part).
> >>
> >> On bootup, fsck did not detect any errors on the filesystem
> >> (fortunately! but on earlier crashes a manual fsck was required). Just
> >> as I was logged in (in X) the HD spun down and then spun up again!
> >> This I have never experienced before.
> >>
> >> What can be wrong with my system?
> >>
> >> The first 6 month of Linux were without crashes, now they suddenly
> >> turn up. I need this machine to work at all times (always on).
> >>
> >> regards,
> >>
> >> Bernhard Ege
> >>
> >> System: Athlon Classic 500, MSI 6167, Western Digital Expert 18Gb drive, 128Mb
>RAM, 50x CDROM, 3com network interface (100Mbit)
>
> --
> Bernhard Mogens Ege, M.Sc.E.E. E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Medical Informatics and Image Analysis Direct call: +45 96 35 87 82
> Institute of Electronic Systems Switchboard: +45 96 35 80 80
> Aalborg University Fax: +45 98 15 40 08
> Frederik Bajersvej 7, D1-203 Homepage:
> DK-9220 Aalborg East http://www.vision.auc.dk/~bme
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Home: Hadsund Landevej 454, DK-9260 Gistrup, Phone: +45 96365086, +45 22749713
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