Linux-Hardware Digest #958, Volume #13 Wed, 29 Nov 00 06:13:07 EST
Contents:
Asus A7V ("Drew")
Best hardware items (Leonardo Vasconcelos Alves)
Re: Kernel panic with Mandrake 7.2 (x86_serial_nr=1 doesn't seem to work) (Blake
Leverett)
partition on S390 (Paras)
Re: ne2000 setup problems ("Jan Nov�k")
Re: Video card recommendations for new system? (Sven Bovin)
HP Colorado 20 GB internal Tape drive ("J.Keitgen")
Re: partition on S390 (Richard Steiner)
Plexwriter 12/10/32A not verify after write (Monika Strack)
Re: Cdrecord. ("Federico Baraldi")
Wacom in RedHat 7.0??? (asage)
Re: head-banging hard drive - any help? (Thuktun Flishithy)
Re: Best hardware items (Jurij Smakov)
Winfast Geforce2 MX + Xfree86-4.0.1 + TV-out? (Burkhard Plaum)
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From: "Drew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Asus A7V
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 22:21:10 -0800
I'm a Linux newbie who just built a new box with an Asus A7V and Duron CPU.
My IBM drive is on the ATA100 connector on the mobo and the Linux install
can't see it (Mandrake 7.1). It sees only the drive on my primary IDE
channel. Are there any new Linux distros that will see the ATA100
controller on the A7V right out of the box? Failing that, are there any
step by step procedures for a newbie (who has yet to experience compiling a
kernal) that will enable me to get my system loaded with Linux on the ATA100
channel of the motherboard?
I have found several bits and pieces of info on several websites, but still
have alot of holes in my knowledge. For instance, one site said put the
Linux drive on the primary IDE channel, upgrade it to kernal 2.4.x,,
configure the kernal for Promise ATA100 controller, make some lilo.conf
changes and move the Linux drive back to the ATA100 channel. But I don't
know if the Promise driver is in the 2.4 kernal, or if it is in another RPM
I must add.
I'm anxious to learn but need help. Has anyone succeeded with an A7V?
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From: Leonardo Vasconcelos Alves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Best hardware items
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 06:06:20 -0200
Hi masters!
What is the best hardware items to build a Windows & Linux based system
and perform a good cost/benfit ratio? I really need a motherboard and
modem / video card (not an accelerator - I want to work, not
play!) suggestions...
Sorry! I have a poor english!
Thanx in any help.
[]'s.
Leo.
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From: Blake Leverett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Kernel panic with Mandrake 7.2 (x86_serial_nr=1 doesn't seem to work)
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 07:18:32 GMT
Just a wild guess, but I got a message like this when I tried to
get Mdk to recognize all 40MB of RAM in my kids' computer. It
would only recognize 32MB. It looks like it's running into a
memory-no-good situation.
Blake Leverett
Jeffrey Veiss wrote:
>
> Any assistance is appreciated!
>
> I've recently put together a new system, freshly installed Windows
> 98,
> but can't seem to get Mandrake 7.2 linux to boot. It keeps
> crashing (hard...I have to power cycle the machine) with:
>
> Memory: 256000k/261120k available (1136k kernel code, 420k
> reserved, 3016k data, 128k init, 0k bigmem) general protection
> fault: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0121c37>]
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any and all assistance!
>
> -Jeff
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From: Paras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: partition on S390
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 13:31:57 +0000
hi ,
i have a s390 machine with Red Hat Linux - 2.2.16 running on it.
i want to partition the hard disk dasda1. how do i do that ? is there
anything like fdisk that can make it possible ?
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From: "Jan Nov�k" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ne2000 setup problems
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:49:40 +0100
I have some problem and i solve it to copy ne module to ne1, change alias
for second to ne1 and in modules.conf give the correct I/O and int
(options ne io=0xXXX irq=Y, options ne1 io=0xXXX irq=Y).
J.
.
Jeremy Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> p��e v diskusn�m
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>
>
> D. Abuan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
> <89KS5.529457$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> > I'm tackling another little project at work and ran into
> > some real basic problem. I can't get two ethernet cards to work on a
> P100
> > 64MB RAM, 10 GB HD.
> >
> > I have two identical Linksys Etherlan 16 network cards.
> >
> > alias eth0 ne
> > alias eth1 ne
> > eth0 io=0x300 irq=3
> > eth1 io=0x340 irq =10
> >
> > These cards were both configured using the standard linksys utility to
> set
> > these parameters.
> >
> > I have done a fresh install of RH6.2 and don't have either of these
cards
> > detected. Yet when I add them to the conf.modules file as above, and run
> > a ifconfig eth0 up, the card gets recognized but doing the same to eth1,
> it
> > gives
> > me an error where it can't find the cards at all.
> >
> > Checking the ioports and interrups indicate that there is no conflicts
> with
> > these card settings.
> >
> > I ran the diagnostic check on both cards and the utility said that they
> were
> > both
> > fine.
> >
> > On a reboot with the conf.module settings above do not show any
detection
> of
> > the cards.
> >
> > Does anyone have any other ideas in tackling this problem? I thought
> these
> > cards
> > were pretty much no brainers.
> >
>
> I had a similar problem a while back, using two el cheapo ne2000 clones. I
> read somewhere that chepo cards don't always work. Not under Red Hat 6.2
> anyway.
>
> try this in /etc/conf.modules:
>
> alias eth0 8390
> alias eth0 ne
> alias eth1 ne
> options ne io=0xXXX,0xXXX irq=Y,Y
>
> alternatively
>
> insmod 8390
> insmod ne io=.....
>
> critical bit is to load the 8390 module first.
>
> Hope this helps.
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From: Sven Bovin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.mandrake,alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt
Subject: Re: Video card recommendations for new system?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:17:52 +0100
JJ Chan wrote:
>
> Is the 2D display problem limited to the GeForce2 MX, or are all
> nVidia based cards
> affected? such as the GeForce2 GTS?
[snip : 2D not crisp on GeForce2 MX]
All GeForce cards can apparently be affected. It has to do
with the RF filter that is supposed to filter high
frequency EM interference signals out of the output signal.
Apparently the design of that RF filter is flawed (it seems
to have a cut off at too low a frequency). This seems not
to be a problem for all cards: some work well, others don't
(even true for cards of the same model from the same
manufacturer).
Sven
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From: "J.Keitgen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: HP Colorado 20 GB internal Tape drive
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:40:10 +0100
Hello,
I have purchased a HP Colorado 20 GB internal tape drive for my file server
(Redhat Linux 6.2 w/o) so that I can back up the files... I would like to
know ... what do I enter in fstab file??? I know how to add harddrives but I
do not know how to add a tape drive... I would appreciate any help...
Thanks...
PS: it would also be nice if someone could give me a command with which i
can i.e. backup my entire /home directory on to the tape drive...
Joseph
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Steiner)
Subject: Re: partition on S390
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 02:30:26 -0600
Here in comp.os.linux.hardware, Paras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
spake unto us, saying:
>i have a s390 machine with Red Hat Linux - 2.2.16 running on it.
Gads... I wish I had one. :-)
--
-Rich Steiner >>>---> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>---> Eden Prairie, MN
OS/2 + BeOS + Linux + Solaris + Win95 + WinNT4 + FreeBSD + DOS
+ VMWare + Fusion + vMac + Executor = PC Hobbyist Heaven! :-)
No matter what it is, it's more important than housework.
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From: Monika Strack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Plexwriter 12/10/32A not verify after write
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:40:13 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hallo,
In on PC I have only the Plexwriter for read and write in. I have
install thisATAPI-CDRW
like it is describet in the CD-Write-HOWTO and "cdrecord -scanbus" found
the CD-Writer.
I can write CDs with Xcdroast, but I dont can verify the CDs and I can
not read anny other CDs.
The CD, which I have burne can I read in other PCs, it is ok.
I use RedHat 6.2 with the Kernel 2.2.17. Loopback device, IDE-CD,
IDE-SCSI, SCSI-Support,
Generic SCSI and SCSI-CD are modules; The ISO 9660-filesystem and the
Joliet-Filesystems are
in the kernel. The vendor-vendor spezific Option are enabelt.
Here ware my configurations and the logs for this machine:
/etc/lilo.conf
:
image=/boot/bzImage-2.2.17-5
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hda1
append="hdc=ide-scsi"
:
/etc/conf.modules
options ide-cd ignore=hdc # tell the ide-cd module to ignore
hdc
alias scsi_hostadapter ide-scsi
alias scd0 sr_mod # load sr_mod upon access of scd0
#pre-install ide-scsi modprobe imm # uncomment for some ZIP drives
only
pre-install sg /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sg
pre-install sr_mod /sbin/modprobe ide-scsi # load ide-scsi before sr_mod
pre-install ide-scsi /sbin/modprobe ide-cd # load ide-cd before
ide-scsi
> ls -lsa /dev/cdrom
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Nov 29 09:22 /dev/cdrom ->
scd0
> 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) 'PLEXTOR ' 'CD-R PX-W1210A' '1.02' 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) *
> lsmod
Module Size Used by
ide-scsi 7316 0 (autoclean)
sg 12160 0 (autoclean)
scsi_mod 37860 2 (autoclean) [ide-scsi sg]
> mount /dev/cdrom -t iso9660 /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/cdrom,
or too many mounted file systems
> lsmod
Module Size Used by
ide-scsi 7316 0 (autoclean)
sr_mod 17064 0 (autoclean)
cdrom 27100 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod]
scsi_mod 37860 2 (autoclean) [ide-scsi sr_mod]
/var/log/messages
:
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation
for IDE ATAPI devices
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: scsi : 1 host.
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: Vendor: PLEXTOR Model: CD-R
PX-W1210A Rev: 1.02
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: Type:
CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0,
channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 32x/32x writer
cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.11
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: ide-scsi: The scsi wants to send us
more data than expected - discarding data
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost last message repeated 83 times
Nov 29 09:23:05 localhost kernel: Unable to identify CD-ROM format.
Can someone help we.
Thanks
Monika
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Institut fuer Tierzucht und Tierverhalten
Bundesforschungsanstalt fuer Landwirschaft
31535 Neustadt e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Federico Baraldi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,de.comp.periph.cdrom
Subject: Re: Cdrecord.
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:00:41 +0100
"Paul Lew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Did you specify the device (e.g. /dev/scd1) when doing mkisofs?
Well ... actually I tried to burn cd with this command:
cdrecord -v speed=2 dev=0,0,0 -isosize /dev/scd1
where /dev/scd1 is my DVD player. So I bypass mkisofs command.
> If you had used cdrecord 1.9, then I found that version required it when I
first
> used it (at least with my system).
Do you think I shold try making a cd iso-image and then triying to burn
from the iso-image and not diretcly from my cd-player ??
Bye.
Federico.
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From: asage <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Wacom in RedHat 7.0???
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:36:35 GMT
Has anybody gotten a Wacom to work with RedHat 7.0? (XF86 4.0) I had it
working with RedHat 6.1.
I'm wondering if it's because I am using a PS/2 mouse instead of the
mouse that the tablet comes with. There are instructions for
configuring the Wacom with XF86 4.0 at the LDP site, and I followed the
instructions, and tweaked them when that didn't work.
I'm keeping it down to just the stylus until I get it working - dunno.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
A. Sage
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From: Thuktun Flishithy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: head-banging hard drive - any help?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 09:30:48 GMT
Hi...
In article <vuSU5.20041$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"John Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would [maybe with the assistance of your local computer geek friends
so
> you don't have to actually buy all these parts]
Heh... among my friends, I am the computer geek. :)
> Put the new HD on the primary IDE controller by itself, with a new IDE
> ribbon cable.
> Clear the CMOS with the jumper on the motherboard for such purpose
[after
> recording or memorizing your important bios settings]
> Set the bios up [you're not using "large" mode are you? Use LBA
instead]
I think it's using LBA now... if not, can I change to "large"
without losing the data? Also, the newest drive is something like 45GB,
but the BIOS only lets me use 32GB (maybe 35)... this is plenty for my
current needs, but when I get a new system I will obviously want to
re-configure it to use the whole drive! The old drive was relatively
small and was used to its full capacity.
> Choose the pio mode setting appropriate for your drive.
> If the controller/drive/ide ribbon all support UDMA, by all means have
it
> enabled.
The board is pre-UDMA, though the newer drives support it, and the
newest one is Ultra-UDMA capable. (Does me no good, of course!)
> Boot off a diagnostic floppy. Run a hard-drive diagnostic app. An old
DOS
> one I recall that would work fine for this purpose is "QAFE".
Hmm... maybe I have my old Norton Utilities disk somewhere... I can
try this, if the drive does not do as the previous one -- as soon as I
powered on and went into the BIOS setup screen (to avoid booting the
system), it would start clanking.
Is this "QAFE" program available for download? Is there a good
Linux tool (preferably one that would run with the system booted from a
floppy) for HD diagnostics? (Quick Freshmeat search just now turned up
nothing likely.)
> This may seem like a pain in the ass, but it's the only way to start
> narrowing down what's actually wrong instead of playing guessing games
for a
Actually, it sounds like standard troubleshooting procedure. I was
just hoping I could be lazy and get an easy answer from somebody else --
always preferable to doing hours of work myself, which I don't have much
time for these days.
You are right, though -- it may be a PITA, but it likely *is* the
only way. :/
> Note, if you're still using AT [which I suspect if you have a lot of
ISA
> components, as they are rare(r) on atx machines] You should upgrade to
ATX
> and enable powermanagement and some of the newer diagnostic toys like
> "S.M.A.R.T".
This Asus motherboard is ATX, and so is the system power supply,
though the case was not designed for ATX. (I have the power wires going
to the "Turbo" button, and I double-click it to turn on/off. It seems
cool to have a big rocker switch that does nothing...) Actually the
board was intended as a transitional piece -- it takes either AT or ATX
power connections, and has several ISA slots plus two PCI ones. I think
it also has two different kinds of memory banks, though I'm not sure
which flavor of chips I have in there.
I actually have been planning to get a new system (or at least
system board/CPU) in the next few months... this may be the kick in the
pants that makes me go out and do it. It could be I've wrung as much
usage out of this system as I can, and it's time to retire the box to
duty as a print server or a firewall or something. :/
Thanks very much for your informative answer, and I will try these
things as soon as I am able. (After I get moved, sadly, which means
another week or so.)
--
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Before you buy.
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From: Jurij Smakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Best hardware items
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:18:02 +0100
On Mon, 27 Nov 2000, Leonardo Vasconcelos Alves wrote:
> Hi masters!
>
> What is the best hardware items to build a Windows & Linux based system
> and perform a good cost/benfit ratio? I really need a motherboard and
> modem / video card (not an accelerator - I want to work, not
> play!) suggestions...
>
>
> Sorry! I have a poor english!
>
> Thanx in any help.
Hi!
The documents to consult are:
1. Hardware compatibility HOWTO. I don't know what's the latest version,
but the one from http://howto.tucows.com/LDP/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html is
the one I usually use. Everything which is listed there as "supported",
should work ok.
2. www.linuxhardware.net - a great site with information on the
compatibility of hardware with Linux.
I can recommend ASUS or Abit motherboards, i740 8MB video card works fine
for me in 16bpp (enough for work), good disks are IBM Deskstar (aka DTLA).
I don't know much about modems, though most of the external modems should
do the trick, winmodems (and generally, everything stamped as "designed
for Windows") should be avoided. Intel Etherexpress and 3Com network cards
look good.
Best regards,
J.
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From: Burkhard Plaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Winfast Geforce2 MX + Xfree86-4.0.1 + TV-out?
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:27:36 +0100
Hi,
did anyone get the TV-Output of the "Leadtec Winfast Geforce2 MX"
working?
I downloaded and installed the lastest Nvidia drivers and everything,
except the
TV-output, works (my System is a K7 900 MHz with Redhat 7).
The additional problem is, that I don't know, in which way the TV-output
can be
accessed anyway (export the whole screen or single windows or work in
dual-head mode
with xinerama?)
The best way would be trough the Xv-interface of Xfree86. I wrote a
small program
which scans all available Xv-ports, but no TV-out is present.
In the XF86Config file, there can be VideoAdaptors configured, but the
man-page
gives no information about how to do this.
Any ideas?
Regards
Burkhard Plaum
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