Linux-Hardware Digest #174, Volume #13 Tue, 4 Jul 00 11:13:07 EDT
Contents:
Re: Built-in IDE controller: secondary controller very slow (Kenneth R�rvik)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (E J)
3c90x module ("David Li")
Compaq FP720 digital flat panel display and XFree86??? (Stefan Wedin)
Data Acquisition Help ("ChrisE")
hard drive issue ("Gary Buchanan")
PCTEL Winmodems ("Jonathan MCVICAR")
Jetway J771AS MoBo ("Ken McCullagh")
Re: SBLIVE driver OK, but no sound, CD player OK, MIC OK too, what's the problem ?
(Markus Holzapfel)
Which Atapi CD-RW for Linux ? (Markus Holzapfel)
Re: VAIO PCG-F450 ? ("B. Joshua Rosen")
Looking for sexy embedded linux hardware (Finn Schiermer Andersen)
FastTrak66 & RedHat 6.2 ("Andrea Bari")
Re: Which Atapi CD-RW for Linux ? (Steve Martin)
Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working.... (Steve Martin)
ATi Rage Fury Maxx (64mb) ("Mark Thomas")
Re: SBLIVE driver OK, but no sound, CD player OK, MIC OK too, what's the problem ?
(Florian E.J. Fruth)
Re: S3 Trio3D/2X VGA card in Xwindow (Julian Bordas)
Re: 3c90x module (Joshua Baker-LePain)
On board Audio Codec and CPU usage (Yosi)
Re: Built-in IDE controller: secondary controller very slow (James Knowles)
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Subject: Re: Built-in IDE controller: secondary controller very slow
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth R�rvik)
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 06:38:31 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Knowles) wrote in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Putting a CDROM on the same interface as a hard drive will slow down
things, but what you're reporting here seems a bit slow even for that
problem - at least compared to a setup I used to have. check to see if
there are any differences on the setups of the two harddrives with hdparm -
i
>I have:
>Athlon 650 on a ASUS K7M motherboard.
>8GB HD on primary controller (hda)
>8GB HD on secondary controller [master] (hdc)
>CD-ROM on secondary controller [slave] (hdd)
>
>I have DMA enabled via hdparm -d1 on both hda and hdc. Without this I
>lose over half of my speed. However, hdc is very slow compared to hda.
>Running hdparm -Tt /dev/hda /dev/hdc gives me
<snip>
>Is there some fundamental reason why hdc is less than 20% of the speed
>of hda? Am I incorrect in assuming that both controllers should have the
>same throughput?
>
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Kenneth R�rvik 91841353/22718452
Steenstrupsgate 5 B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
0554 OSLO home.no.net/stasis
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2000 23:33:55 -0700
$ su -
password: <scret>
# cp /etc/conf.modules /etc/conf.modules.bak
# vi /etc/conf.modules
Modify conf.modules for your CDROM writer, my CDROM is located at /dev/hdc
Here is my conf.modules
alias scd0 sr_mod
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
options ide-cd ignore=hdc
# cp /etc/rc.d/rc.local /etc/rc.d/rc.local.bak
# vi /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Put this at the end of the rc.local
# load ide-scsi module
insmod ide-scsi
# cp /etc/lilo.conf /etc/lilo.conf.bak
# vi /etc/lilo.conf
put the append statement for /etc/lilo.conf your cdrom
'append="hdX=ide-scsi"' and run lilo.
Here is /etc/lilo.conf, my CDROM is located at /dev/hdc
boot=/dev/fd0
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-6.1.1
label=linux
root=/dev/hda4
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
read-only
# /sbin/lilo
Now relink the /dev/cdrom to your scsi emulation of your cdwriter
# mv /dev/cdrom /dev/cdrom.bak
# ln -s /dev/scd0 /dev/cdrom
Reboot. (I don't know how to restart with new conf.modules and rc.local
in linux :( )
Run dmesg to see if your scsi emulation is working after the reboot
# dmesg
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: HP Model: CD-Writer+ 8100 Rev: 1.0g
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
Run cdrecord to see if you scsi emulation is working also.
# cdrecord -scanbus
Cdrecord 1.8 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2000 J�rg Schilling
Using libscg version 'schily-0.1'
scsibus0:
0,0,0 0) 'HP ' 'CD-Writer+ 8100 ' '1.0g' Removable CD-ROM
0,1,0 1) *
0,2,0 2) *
0,3,0 3) *
0,4,0 4) *
0,5,0 5) *
0,6,0 6) *
0,7,0 7) *
I hope it works for you, it works for me.
NYCeyes wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have tried kernel reconfig, conf.modules,
> updating packages etc, but cannot get
> my HP 8100 CDRW to be recognized. I can
> play music off of it, I can mount filesytems
> off of it, but I can't use it to burn CD's.
>
> Below is some information that might help you
> help me.
>
> TIA,
> NYCeyes
>
> #######################################################################
> I have RedHat 6.1
>
> root@linuxpc# uname -a
> Linux linuxpc 2.2.12-20 #1 Mon Sep 27 10:25:54 EDT 1999 i586 unknown
> #######################################################################
>
> #################################################################
> root@linuxpc# cdrecord -v -scanbus
> Cdrecord release 1.8a29 Copyright (C) 1995-1999 J�rg Schilling
> TOC Type: 1 = CD-ROM
> cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open SCSI driver.
> #################################################################
>
> #################################################################
> root@linuxpc# cat /etc/conf.modules
> #----------------------------------------------
> #Alias for eth0 placed here by mvega. This is
> #for the 3c905b 3COM Card in the lower slot.
> #----------------------------------------------
> alias eth0 3c90x
>
> #----------------------------------------------
> #Alias for eth1 placed here by mvega. This is
> #for the 3CR990 x3 3COM Card in the upper slot.
> #The card is not supported at the moment, but
> #we'll give this one a try until it is. Doesnt
> #work... need to wait for a new driver for the
> #3COM 3CR990x3 card (top slot).
> #----------------------------------------------
> alias eth1 3c90x
>
> alias sound sb
> pre-install sound /sbin/insmod sound dmabuf=1
> options opl3 io=0x388
> alias midi awe_wave
> post-install awe_wave /bin/sfxload /etc/midi/GU11-ROM.SF2
> options sb io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1 dma16=5 mpu_io=0x330
>
> # -------------------------------------------------
> # Stuff to try to get the HP8100i CD-RW to work.
> # -------------------------------------------------
> alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
> alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi # SCSI hostadaptor emulation
> options ide-cd ignore=hdb # if /dev/hdb is your CD-writer
> #################################################################
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From: "David Li" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c90x module
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 14:47:06 +0800
Hi,
Does somebody know where to get 3c90x module for TurboLinux6.0?
Cheers!
David
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Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 10:12:41 +0200
From: Stefan Wedin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Compaq FP720 digital flat panel display and XFree86???
Has anyone managed to get XFree86 to work on a Compaq FP720 digital flat panel
display? I'm using it with a TNT2 graphics board with digital out.
Thanks,
Stefan
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From: "ChrisE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Data Acquisition Help
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:01:40 +0100
Can anybody recommend a good DIO PCI card that works under Linux. I have
been using an Nat Inst DIO-32HS under NT but haven't got the experience to
write the drivers and NI do not want to support Linux. I need 32 IO channels
Max IP voltage of 5V and capable of 2.8 MS/s or 11 MB/s for 32bit input.
Any help gratefully recieved.
ChrisE
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From: "Gary Buchanan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: hard drive issue
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 09:06:59 GMT
I have a gigabyte motherboard with an Award bios. I told my bios the no PnP
os in installed and everything seems to be PnP configured ok. My Issue is
ever since then when I run the Xwindow system in Linux hard drive activity
occurs in one second burst until I log off of X. Has anyone had a simuler
situation?
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From: "Jonathan MCVICAR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: PCTEL Winmodems
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:07:50 +0200
Has anyone managed to get their PCTEL HSP 56K Winmodem working with Linux ?
I went to the linmodems.org page and downloaded a driver but can't seem to
get it installed, it just doesn't recognise my modem.
I am running Redhat 6.2 on my laptop with the above modem. Anyone know if I
can get it working ?
Thanks.
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From: "Ken McCullagh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Jetway J771AS MoBo
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 11:24:28 +0100
Has anyone successfully used one of these MoBo's with an AMDAthlon 650? I
have major problems installing RH 6.1/6.2. I'm trying to build a case for
getting my money back from the supplier.
Cheers
K
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Holzapfel)
Subject: Re: SBLIVE driver OK, but no sound, CD player OK, MIC OK too, what's the
problem ?
Date: 4 Jul 2000 11:05:02 GMT
calvix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: i upgraded my kernel to 2.2.14 successfully. it includes emu10k1 driver for
: sblive, it works fine. i can listen to CD Audio and the microphone works
:
Hi,
how (where) do i get the emu10k1 module ? When i recompile my kernel there
is no option for emu10k1 or sblive :-( Which parameter do i have to check ?
Or is there a kernelpatch i can download ? At creative's homepage is only
a sblive.o module for kernel 2.2.5 :-(
Thanks,
Markus
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Markus Holzapfel)
Subject: Which Atapi CD-RW for Linux ?
Date: 4 Jul 2000 11:26:05 GMT
Hi,
i'm thinking about buying a CD-RW. I've heard that there are
problems with Atapi CD-RW. Is that true ? What are the problems ?
Would it be better to get a cheap SCSI controller and a SCSI
CD-RW ? Would that be worth the extra cost ?
Thanks,
Markus
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From: "B. Joshua Rosen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VAIO PCG-F450 ?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 07:47:25 -0400
Check out
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop
Jim Michmerhuizen wrote:
>
> Has anybody gotten Linux up on this machine?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Finn Schiermer Andersen)
Subject: Looking for sexy embedded linux hardware
Date: 4 Jul 2000 13:49:03 +0200
Hi, I hope you'll help me on this one.
The IT-University (www.it.edu) in Copenhagen, Denmark, is currently
working to establish an "embedded Linux Lab", and I'm doing a
preliminary survey trying to find interesting issues and gadgets
powered by Linux. I have no prior experience with embedded devices,
though, and I'm afraid of missing out something interesting. So far
we've narrowed our focus to devices *with* MMUs. I'm looking for
devices which can be usefull for teaching purposes. They must be
(in some respect) new, interesting, sexy.. like for instance very
small. I'm aware that the "very small" requirement is somewhat in
conflict with the "with MMU" requirement.
I've found things such as the itsy and the yopy. I read sites
like www.linuxdevices.org. Am I missing something ?
Personally, I am rather fond of the
ARM architecture, but we are currently pretty flexible in this
regared. I'm also very attracted to SoC's, but we do not wan't
to assemble systems ourselves. I'm very interested in experiences
with SoC's that can be bought "ready-to-run" (or almost).
Any responses is very welcome.
Best regards, Finn
(please also email: [EMAIL PROTECTED])
--
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my
contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the
spinal cord would fully suffice." -- Albert Einstein
"Inside every man a human is fighting to get out" -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Andrea Bari" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: FastTrak66 & RedHat 6.2
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:43:47 +0200
I know: the Fasttrak66 is not officially supported,
but i have found around the net a beta release of drivers
( file name: "ft66.tar.gz" )
that try to give some support to RedHat 6.0 & 6.1
( ...only with the original kernels..)
I have tried it under RedHat 6.2
( with kernel 2.4.0-t1 ) but in my system it doesn't work..
I'm looking for a newer release.. (or good tips)
If someone want to try this drivers the link is
http://www.control.auc.dk/~danji/ft66.html
Please report in this newsgroup any good result (or suggestion)
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Which Atapi CD-RW for Linux ?
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:05:14 -0400
Markus Holzapfel wrote:
> i'm thinking about buying a CD-RW. I've heard that there are
> problems with Atapi CD-RW.
There are no problems that I'm aware of with ATAPI drives per se
(I have one here that works like a charm both as a CD-ROM and CDR);
getting them to work under Linux takes a little more effort than
simply plugging in a SCSI card and drive, though. You have to
include SCSI emulation support in your kernel (either compiled in
or as a module) as well as SCSI CD and SCSI disk support.
You'll need to be able to modify and recompile your kernel in either
case, either to include the emulation or to include the driver for
the SCSI card. If you're not comfortable with that idea, then you
need to read up on the process.
That being said, I'd recommend against the HP 8250i drive. Other
than that, I have no recommendations for or against.
> Would it be better to get a cheap SCSI controller and a SCSI
> CD-RW ? Would that be worth the extra cost ?
IMHO, probably not.
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From: Steve Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.help
Subject: Re: HP 8100i CDRW not working....
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:08:43 -0400
OSguy wrote:
> You need to recompile your kernel to add scsi emulation support and SCSI
> support for CD drives. Cdrecord will then treat your CD as a scsi CD
> device. Without that emulation, cdrecord will never see it. Read the
> notes on the kernel compile carefully because you may have to remove the
> ATAPI/ide CD support to keep from interferring with the SCSI emulation.
I agree. In fact, if you're using SCSI emulation, there's no need at all
to keep the IDE CD driver. IDE peripherals such as a Zip or a CD-RW
will both show up as SCSI devices and can be accessed as such (I'm
doing that here with both).
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From: "Mark Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATi Rage Fury Maxx (64mb)
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 13:13:17 +0100
Hi All,
Has anyone managed to get the subject card working? I have had it working
640x480 (8 bit) using XFree4.0.1, but this is garbage, it detects it as two
seperate cards, as opposed to one card with two GPU's, and sets it up
as mutliheaded.
I cant get the res up beyond the above mentioned, or the colour depth. I
think the Xfree has defaulted back to the bog standard FrameBuffer device.
Any pointers as to how, (if), this works.....
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From: Florian E.J. Fruth <fejf@gmx*/dev/null*.de>
Subject: Re: SBLIVE driver OK, but no sound, CD player OK, MIC OK too, what's the
problem ?
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 14:04:35 +0200
In article <8jsgcu$s3k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
paderborn.de says...
> calvix ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> : i upgraded my kernel to 2.2.14 successfully. it includes emu10k1 driver for
> : sblive, it works fine. i can listen to CD Audio and the microphone works
> :
> Hi,
>
> how (where) do i get the emu10k1 module ? When i recompile my kernel there
> is no option for emu10k1 or sblive :-( Which parameter do i have to check ?
u can download the 2.4.0-test2 kernel - there it is a build in option
> Or is there a kernelpatch i can download ? At creative's homepage is only
> a sblive.o module for kernel 2.2.5 :-(
u can use this module by insmod -f sblive.o
(the -f forces to load the module even if it's not compiled for this
kernelversion - but it should work [did for me])
> Thanks,
>
> Markus
hope i helped
fejf
--
the backup of my harddisk only takes the half time it
did yesterday. i started to pipe it to /dev/null
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: S3 Trio3D/2X VGA card in Xwindow
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 22:43:32 +1000
"K. M. Lau" wrote:
> Dear All:
>
> I am running slackware 7.0 with kenel 2.2.13.
>
> I could not config Xwindow to work with my display card: S3 Trio3D/2X.
>
> Does anybody konw the solution to wrok around with the S3 Trio3D/2X VGA card
> in Xwindow ?
>
> Hope to have any reply soon.
>
> K. M. Lau
Hello
I am running this card with linux mandrake 7.1 The X windows works
fine. I did have a large square white cursor, but setting the SW_Cursor to ON
got rid of that. Does slackware 7.0 have version 3.3.6 of the X server? That
what I have in my box.
Xfree86 4.0.0 is meant to be good in providing support for this particular
video card.
What exactly is the problem?
Cheers
Julian
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From: Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3c90x module
Date: 4 Jul 2000 13:45:55 GMT
David Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Does somebody know where to get 3c90x module for TurboLinux6.0?
> Cheers!
http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linuxdownload.htm
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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From: Yosi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: On board Audio Codec and CPU usage
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 16:34:08 +0200
Hi,
I have a rather general question abuot on board sound cards. Do onboard sound cards
(like the one that
comes on my VIA KX133 board, VIA 82C686 ac97) use the cpu to do their work? For
example, when you
use winmodems ( on Windows, of course), there is a slight performance hit, because the
winmodem uses
the cpu to do it's compression, instead of doing a hardware compression like any
non-winmodem.
Is this the same situation with onboard sound cards/audio codecs? Do they use the cpu
and cause a
performance hit? and if so, does that mean that sound cards (such as Creative
SoundBlaster models)
use their hardware instead of the cpu, and thus do not cause a performance hit?
Yosi
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From: James Knowles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Built-in IDE controller: secondary controller very slow
Date: Tue, 04 Jul 2000 08:39:07 -0600
> Putting a CDROM on the same interface as a hard drive will slow down
> things, but what you're reporting here seems a bit slow even for that
> problem - at least compared to a setup I used to have.
Something is fishy with the newer HD I believe. I've re-arranged
hardware moving hdc->hdb (slave on the primary controller) and
reinstalled Linux from scratch.
I get the same type of throughput (hda=11MB/s;hdb=2MB/s), so I assume
that it's the hard drive. I checked the BIOS settings thoroughly and
everything that I could think of from the bottom up.
hdb does not accept DMA. If I "hdparm -d1 /dev/hdb" I get some error
messages from the kernel about the drive timing out and it resets the
drive. I can no longer change the DMA setting on hda using hdparm. I had
to add "ide0=dma" to lilo.conf to enable DMA on hda.
hdparm -i does not show anything suspicious. The only real differences
are minor and expected. (i.e. the newer wierd drive shows newer pio
modes, etc.)
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