Linux-Hardware Digest #309, Volume #13 Thu, 27 Jul 00 23:13:08 EDT
Contents:
Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface) (sideband)
Re: ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 - distortion problem (sideband)
Re: SCSI Card Upgrade - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4 (sideband)
Re: Setup the 3Com ISDN Impact 2 Modem (sideband)
RAID on exiistin IDE system ("Gerald R. Jensen")
Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem (NecroBurn)
who is responsible for the cache? (Robert Schweikert)
Re: VIA VT82C**** IDE driver (Steve Maughan)
Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface) ("J. Escalante")
Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages (Tim Moore)
Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4 (Kevin Adams)
Logitech wheel mouse in mandrake 7.1 (Topher Cawlfield)
Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface) (Rob Clark)
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface)
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:23:48 -0400
If it's a detection problem, just cat /proc/pci and find your modem in
there... If it's not listed, or isn't listed as a serial or modem device,
it's more than likely a winmodem. This will also give you the IRQ and port
assignments for the card.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
"J. Escalante" wrote:
> I just installed Slackware 7 on a PC that was a Windows PC. Needless to
> say, the PC had a lot of Windows garbage in its guts, but most of the
> WinOnlyComponents have now been replaced with good ones. Now, I just
> have one more problem to solve; after it has been solved I will finaly
> be able to make the FAT partition an ext2.
> The problem I have I that the modem in the box is a AOpen FM56K Data /
> Fax / Speaker phone PCI.
> The question is; a side from the howtos, which are not very helpfull on
> this topic, where else can I get info about installing and configuring a
> PCI modem. I know that we are supposed to avoid PCI modems, but
> technology sims to be moving towards it and sooner or later I have to
> learn to work with PCI components.
>
> Thanks in advance.
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 - distortion problem
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:26:03 -0400
edit /etc/X11/XF86Config, and put this line in the Device section for
your card:
ChipID 0x5246
Set up the rest of your defaults as you see fit. and enjoy!
Yes, it DOES work under RedHat 6.2 with kernel 2.2.16... At least on my
box. ::grin::
Hope this helps.
-SSB
baghdady wrote:
> I have an Xpert 2000 on my machine and I have recentlely
> installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 with XFree 3.3.6. Until now, I
> haven't been able to get the graphics card to work and I am
> using the VGA16 server instead (very ugly). I have tried all the
> cards in the list in both XF86Setup that have the words "rage"
> or "xpert" in them without any luck. I have tried to change the
> XFConfig file manually following the suggestions of some web
> pages and some friends without any luck either. I even installed
> the "XFCom-r128-glibc2.1-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm" mentioned above and
> following the steps in the web page without any success.
> I gather from your emails that you *all* have managed to install
> this card (even though some of you have some problems). Could
> somebody *please* tell me what he/she did to install the card?
> Any suggestions are of great help.
> Thanx
>
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: SCSI Card Upgrade - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:29:40 -0400
Uh... did you insert the module info into lilo.conf to get the 152X to configure it?
Looks like a LILO configure line to me.
Hope this helps.
-SSB
Kevin Adams wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am using the standard SuSE 6.4 Linux 2.2.14 kernel on a clone with an Intel
> Pentium-II 400 CPU and Intel 440BX chipset. Nothing (very) fancy.
>
> I recently removed an old Adaptec AHA-1520 SCSI card and replaced it with an
> Adaptec AVA-2906 (PCI SCSI card with an Adaptec AIC-7850 chipset).
>
> I then did the following:
>
> 1. I modified the file
>
> /etc/modules.conf
>
> as per the SuSE Support Database
>
> 2. I ran the program
>
> depmod -a
>
> as per the SuSE Support Database
>
> 3. I changed the variable
>
> INITRD_MODULES="aha152x"
>
> in "/etc/rc.config" to read as
>
> INITRD_MODULES="aic7xxx"
>
> However, when I boot the system, SuSE Linux fails to recognize the new SCSI
> card. I have to run "modprobe aic7xxx" manually to get my SCSI devices up and
> running.
>
> In addition, the boot scripts are still looking for my old AHA-1520 SCSI card.
> Here are my boot messages (blank lines inserted for clarity; look for
> "aha152x"):
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> <6>Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30
> <4>ide: Assuming 40MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with
> idebus=xx
> <4>PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> <4>PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> <4> ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> <4> ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> <4>hda: WDC WD205BA, ATA DISK drive
> <4>hdb: IBM-DPTA-372050, ATA DISK drive
> <4>hdc: TOSHIBA DVD-ROM SD-M1212, ATAPI CDROM drive
> <4>hdd: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
> <4>ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> <4>ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> <6>hda: WDC WD205BA, 19574MB w/2048kB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63
> <6>hdb: IBM-DPTA-372050, 19574MB w/1961kB Cache, CHS=2495/255/63
> <4>hdc: ATAPI 32X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache
> <6>Uniform CDROM driver Revision: 2.56
> <6>hdd: 98304kB, 96/64/32 CHS, 4096 kBps, 512 sector size, 2941 rpm
> <5>hdd: The drive reports both 100663296 and 0 bytes as its capacity
> <6>Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> <6>FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> <6>LVM version 0.8e by Heinz Mauelshagen (4/1/2000)
> <4>lvm -- Driver successfully initialized
> <4>md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
> <4>linear personality registered
> <4>raid0 personality registered
> <4>raid1 personality registered
> <4>raid5 personality registered
> <4>scsi : 0 hosts.
> <4>scsi : detected total.
> <4>Partition check:
> <4> hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 >
> <4> hdb: hdb1 < hdb5 hdb6 hdb7 hdb8 hdb9 >
> <5>RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
> <4>Uncompressing........................done.
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
>
> <4>
> <4>aha152x: invalid module argument aha152x=0x340,11,7,1,1,0,100,0
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |
> +------ How do I make this error go away?
>
> <4>VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> <4>change_root: old root has d_count=1
> <5>Trying to unmount old root ... okay
> <4>Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
> <6>Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -1)
> <6>Adding Swap: 136512k swap-space (priority -2)
> Kernel logging (ksyslog) stopped.
> Kernel log daemon terminating.
>
> .
> .
> .
>
> What script is still looking for "aha152x"? Or what configuration file is still
> looking for "aha152x"? How do I point the script or config file to "aic7xxx"
> instead?
>
> I've searched the manpages, looked through "Running Linux" by O'Reilly (great
> book in general, but short on some things), and read the README in
> "/sbin/init.d" among other things, all to no avail...
>
> Any help much appreciated! :-)
>
> Thank You,
>
> Kevin Adams
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: sideband <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Setup the 3Com ISDN Impact 2 Modem
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:36:52 -0400
I'm assuming it's an external modem, and not a PCI card?
If so, it's treated just like an analog modem would be under linux... I have the
NETGEAR XM128, and all I had to do was go thru the AT command reference to set
up the modem for the particular options I have with my ISDN and ISP service, and
it works like a charm...
I might also suggest your friend invest in a high speed serial card, if it's an
external modem. Most machines' built-in serial ports stop at 115,200bps, which
is slower than the 128000 bps the modem is capable of without data
compression....
Hope this helps.
-SSB
Stephen Heo wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> My friend had just setup his Linux box to access Internet and his ISP told
> his to buy the 3Com ISDN Impact 2 Modem and the modem only come with Windows
> driver. His ISP said it is easy to do the setup but need to charge 140/hr.
> Can anyone tell me how to do the setup please?
>
> Thanks and Regards.
> sh
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From: "Gerald R. Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RAID on exiistin IDE system
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:45:34 -0500
I have an existing RH 6.1 system (Kernel 2.2.12-20) that has a single 6gb
ATA33 IDE hard disk running Apache & PHP. The IDE controller is on the
motherboard (Intel 440).
I want to add two more identical drives, and set them up in a RAID array
(RAID 5?), but I'm not sure how to proceed ... or if it can be done ...
without a complete rebuild on the system.
If I have to do a rebuild/reinstall, would it make sense to go with an EIDE
RAID controller (disable the onboard), or just bite the big one and install
SCSI controllers & drives ($$$$$!)
I would appreciate some recommendations.
G. Jensen
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Subject: Re: 8gb and 13gb = problem
From: NecroBurn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:08:40 -0700
small questoin should my lilo.conf file say read-only??? any
where in it?
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From: Robert Schweikert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: who is responsible for the cache?
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:14:29 -0400
Hi all,
I've been fighting for a while now trying to build gcc-2.95.2 on RH6.2,
no luck yet. I have a few leads, one is that the L2 cache is getting
trashed. So I would like to find out who is responsible for the cache?
Is it the kernel, some libraries in the distro or some mysterious black
magic?
Any help, comments insight are appreciated. Also if there's a good trick
to get gcc-2.95.2 compiling on RH6.2 I'd like to know. I am pretty close
on just simply blaming it on RH. After all they must have had a reason
to stay with gcc-2.91.66 instead of shipping gcc-2.95 with the 6.2
release.
Thanks,
Robert
--
Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU
[EMAIL PROTECTED] LINUX
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From: Steve Maughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA VT82C**** IDE driver
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:06:32 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> determined that this is probably due to my mb's chipset, namely VIA
> VT82C686A.
Hmm, I my motherboard has a VT82C586 IDE chipset - I've not had any
problems with 2.2 or 2.4... Just to let ya know.
> direction i'll be very happy. I've already looked around on kernel.org,
> but im not sure what to make of the files with the (.bz2) extention in
> the /pub/linux/kernel/people/hendrick directory.
just stick the tar.bz2 in /usr/src (assuming kernel source is in
/usr/src/linux) and type:
bzip2 -dc patchXX.bz2 | patch -p0
(the above was taken from the linux source README file, line 65)
--
Steve Maughan
Don't run away from your problems...
Riding is much faster.
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From: "J. Escalante" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:18:58 GMT
Thank you for replying to my message, I really appreciate your interest.
Now going to the matter at hand. lspci reports the following:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 430FX - 82437FX TSC [Triton I]
(rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX ISA [Triton I] (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I]
(rev 02)
00:12.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device 1005
(rev 01)
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 215GTB [Mach64
GTB] (rev 9a)
I believe the modem would be:
/*00:12.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device 1005
(rev 01)*/
My question is, what parameter should I pass to setpci to configure the
modem?
Once again, I really appreciate your help.
Dances With Crows wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jul 2000 14:44:28 GMT, J. Escalante wrote:
> >The problem I have I that the modem in the box is a AOpen FM56K Data /
> >Fax / Speaker phone PCI.
> >The question is; a side from the howtos, which are not very helpfull on
> >this topic, where else can I get info about installing and configuring a
> >PCI modem.
>
> If a PCI modem is a Real Modem, then all you should need is the
> "setserial" command discussed in the Modem-HOWTO. Installing and
> configuring a PCI modem should be no different from installing and
> configuring an ISA modem.
>
> Check http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html to make sure that you
> have a Real Modem before trying this, naturally. If it is a LoseModem,
> throw it out and get yourself an external modem. Those are much easier
> to set up and have pretty blinking lights.
>
> >I know that we are supposed to avoid PCI modems, but
> >technology sims to be moving towards it and sooner or later I have to
> >learn to work with PCI components.
>
> The technology is moving towards "Broadband everywhere" if you believe
> the ads and the number of people howling for DSL/cable service, so forget
> about modems in the long run. PCI components are generally easier to
> work with than ISA, as they can share IRQs, auto-config their I/O ports,
> and identify themselves and their capabilities on demand. Only problem
> is manufacturers who won't release their specs, meaning no drivers....
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Tyranny is always better organized
> http://www.brainbench.com / than freedom.
> -----------------------------/ --Charles Peguy
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From: Tim Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Laserjet 1100 and delay between pages
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:30:00 GMT
I've two printers hanging off fast parallel port cards (RH 6.2 base, 2.2.16
kernel, parport driver). Parallel port selections are all statically built
into the kernel. I switched to IRQ driven due to severe CPU loading (i486)
for polling. This machine is a firewall/gateway/print queue server so spare
interrupts aren't a problem.
In /etc/lilo.conf
=================
append="parport=0x378,7 parport=0x278,5"
At some time in the past, the interrupt for the second port wasn't getting
activated automatically (kernel: lp1: using parport1 (polling).) although it
is now. Doesn't hurt in any case.
In /etc/rc.d/rc.local
=====================
# 0x278 epson parport probe fixup
echo 5 > /proc/parport/1/irq
# abort on error, careful error check, trust IRQ.
# see tunelp(8) & /usr/src/linux/drivers/misc/lp.c
/usr/sbin/tunelp /dev/lp0 -a on -o on -T on
/usr/sbin/tunelp /dev/lp1 -a on -o on -T on
dmesg output
============
...
kernel: parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
kernel: parport0: Printer, Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 1100
kernel: parport1: PC-style at 0x278 [SPP,PS2,EPP]
kernel: parport1: Printer, EPSON Stylus COLOR 600
...
kernel: lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
kernel: lp1: using parport1 (interrupt-driven).
--
timothymoore
bigfoot
com
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From: Kevin Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Changing SCSI Cards - Boot Error Messages - SuSE 6.4
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:51:57 -0400
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello Johan,
Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> did you make a new initial ramdisk? redhat has a command called
> mkinitrd that creates on. you have to have your aic7xxx module in
> your ramdisk image.
You sent me in the right direction - I went to the SuSE site and looked up
"ramdisk" on their support database... It looks like it just might be the
information I need.
However, I have yet to put it to the test, so I'll try to make a new initial
ramdisk using their methods and see what happens. If I don't get anywhere, I
will post back at the newsgroup...
Thank You for your quick response!
Good Evening and Best Regards,
Kevin Adams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Topher Cawlfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Logitech wheel mouse in mandrake 7.1
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:49:21 -0500
Hi,
I am unable to get my wheel mouse to work properly in Linux. I'm using
mandrake 7.1, KDE, and have a Logitech PS/2 mouseman+. This same mouse
worked just fine in RedHat Linux and gnome. I believe I'm using XFree86
version 3.3.6, if that helps.
> rpm -q XFree86
XFree86-3.3.6-14mdk
One thing that mystifies me is that there are two possible XF86Config
files to use, /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86config-4. The latter
has a different formatting, but I don't see any references to it in any
documentation. In XF86config, there is section containing the lines
Protocol "MouseManPlusPS/2"
Device "/dev/mouse"
ZAxisMapping 4 5
which look like they ought to be correct. When I use "harddrake", which
has done no good for me in configuring my other hardware, it informs me
that I do have a mouseman+ mouse. When I use "mousedrake", it always
indicates a generic mouse, and when I select the right mouse from the
list there is no apparent effect. I should mention here that harddrake
detected my SBLive soundcard, could play a WAV sample with it, but gave
me an error message when trying to configure it (something like
"/dev/dsp: no such device"). I recently got it working, "by hand".
Similarly, it didn't do anything about my USR PCI modem (5610), which I
was able to get working thanks to a lot of research and some helpful web
pages. I also managed to get an ethernet card working after some fuss,
but everything else except this mouse worked upon installation. The
only documentation on www.mandrake.com is that wheel mice do work just
fine, even with Netscape. Sounds good. I'd love to see it.
The current behavior of my mouse is that the wheel works properly as a
middle button, but rotating the wheel upwards gives me button-1 events,
and downward is identical to clicking the right button. I would rather
it use buttons 4 and 5, which I think should work properly for things
like Eterm scrollbars, and I have gotten them to work in emacs as well
(using RedHat Linux).
I appreciate any help you can offer!
Topher Cawlfield
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Subject: Re: PCI (Painful Communiction Interface)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark)
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 02:56:02 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
J. Escalante <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>00:12.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International: Unknown device 1005
>(rev 01)
The problem is, that's the device ID for a Rockwell HCF 56K V.90 PCI modem
with Data/Fax/Speakerphone/Voice capabilities. HCF stands for
host-controller family, which is Rockwell's name for a winmodem.
In other words, the problem is not the PCI interface-- the problem is that
the device shifts part of the functionality of a modem into software.
This software is only provided for Windows :(
Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
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