Linux-Hardware Digest #178, Volume #14 Sun, 14 Jan 01 19:13:14 EST
Contents:
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Gareth Randall)
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Gareth Randall)
Write permissions (Rajiv)
Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card solution (E J)
Re: Write permissions (Tony Curtis)
Re: Strange alpha clock issue (Michal Jaegermann)
Re: USR 2977 & 2976 - Comments Please ("PC Wizard")
Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible? (Scott Alfter)
please help me with my win linux (REGGIE BOLAND)
Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible? ("jazardous")
Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos? (Matt O'Toole)
Re: Bellsouth DSL Modem and Linux (Sinner from the Prairy)
Help: SCSI Card Upgrade (George)
Video4Linux Not Working ("William Fong")
Re: Manual switchbox ("William Fong")
Mandrake Support for Abit KT7 Raid Array Controller ? ("Samian")
Re: Server Pro's/Con's Wanted ("William Fong")
Re: lost interrupt? (Sigismondo Cenni)
Pcmcia modem ("underworld6d9")
Re: SB Live IRQ problem (Lee Webb)
Re: faulty travan tape (John Orren Battle)
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:13:58 +0000
Thought:
I wonder whether the IRQ setup under Linux may be different from your Windows setup,
meaning that IRQ10 is actually in use under Linux.
Windows can sometimes share IRQ's between devices. For instance, you may have USB and
something else sharing IRQ 11. Under Linux, this sharing may not occur, and something
gets pushed off to the only other free interrupt IRQ 10. Hence the soundcard can no
longer obtain the necessary resource (that is the correct error message for this
situation) when it initialises.
Just check the situation with: cat /proc/interrupts and see if anything is on 10.
Fixing this problem will involve more work on your part. I suggest you repost giving
details of what hardware you've got (/proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports etc) and someone
can tell you how to share IRQs in more detail than I can.
As far as I'm concerned we should all curse the moronic designers who keep
perpetuating this ancient cascading IRQ limitation and who never bother to design a
simple circuit to switch 100's of IRQs which could be turned on at bootup by new
OS's... (That's worth a post in itself.)
Craig Barel wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This newbie has just installed mandrake 7.2 and everything went smoothly
> except for my SB Live Value PCI sound card. Whenever I try and configure it
> I get a device or resource busy error message and there is a message
> suggesting my irq setting is invalid for the card on boot up. I have moved
> the card around all available PCI slots to no avail and don't know what
> else to do. I followed the installation instructions and printed a resource
> report from within windows and on the irq usage summary there are two
> entries for irq 10 (the one SB live is trying to use) they are:
>
> 10 Creative SB Live! Value
> 10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
>
> I don't know much about this stuff so I'm not sure if the ACPI entry is
> causing the problem or not?
>
> I know that the card isn't broken because it works under windows ok. I am
> quite sure that this IRQ business is the problem but I just don't know how
> to get around it.
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> Craig.
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======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Gareth Randall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:19:55 +0000
Thought:
Basically, I wonder whether the IRQ usage map is different under Linux.
e.g. under Windows you may have two devices sharing say IRQ 11.
Under Linux these don't share and consume IRQ 10 before your soundcard
comes to initialise. (Your error message is what you'd expect if this
occurred.)
Repost with contents of /proc/interrupts, /proc/ioports, and some hardware
details and someone may be able to identify shareable devices and tell you
how to do it.
[Sorry, Netscape crashed and lost my longer first reply. Shit code ... I
could do better myself if I only had the time...]
Yours,
======= Gareth Randall =======
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From: Rajiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Write permissions
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:37:27 +0000
When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but not write
("access denied") permissions on the other mounted partitions. The only
write permissions I have are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
I log in as root, I have no problems writing to other mounted
partitions.
My fstab shows all directories to have rw permissions, though. I have
tried chmod 777 with all the directories, but to no avail.
Could anyone out there help me?
Thanks.
Rajiv
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From: E J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card solution
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:42:26 GMT
Praise on ATI. At least they assisting in supporting the new Radeon code in
XFree86 4.02.
They have to support Linux more, considering they lost on providing graphic
chips to xbox and the new apple computers.
Now that you have ATI working on Linux, can you watch TV?
The TV software is gatos at http://www.linuxvideo.org/gatos/
Arctic Storm wrote:
> Here's the solution to the ATI All-in-Wonder 128 PCI 16 MB card mystery.
> Run the Xconfigurator as you normally would, which will add "r128" driver in
> the device section of XF86Config-4 file; I think it's because of graphics by
> rage.
> Open XF86Config-4 file and add the following line.
> ChipID 0x5246
> No quotes around the number 0x5246.
> Adding the BusID seems to be optional, if you have only one video card.
> This kind of information should be readily available to the public in ATI's
> support web site. It's surprising that ATI doesn't do more to help its
> customers.
> Shame on you, ATI.
>
> -
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From: Tony Curtis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Write permissions
Date: 14 Jan 2001 15:17:29 -0600
>> On Sun, 14 Jan 2001 20:37:27 +0000,
>> Rajiv <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> When I log onto my SuSE 7.0 box as user, I have read but
> not write ("access denied") permissions on the other
> mounted partitions. The only write permissions I have
> are my user and /tmp directories. However, when
> I log in as root, I have no problems writing to other
> mounted partitions.
Files under UNIX and UNIX-like systems have permissions
associated with them. You, as a mortal non-root user, can
only write to files for which you have the requisite
permissions (root can go anywhere).
I think you need to understand basic administration and
multi-user issues here. Get some linux/UNIX books,
otherwise you're going to end up trashing all permissions
and security on the machine.
(I also don't see why you chose c.o.l.hardware to post
to. c.o.l.security or .misc might be a better choice).
hth
t
--
Eih bennek, eih blavek.
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From: Michal Jaegermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Strange alpha clock issue
Date: 14 Jan 2001 21:10:15 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In comp.os.linux.alpha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I've just become aware that since I "upgraded" my Alpha Linux boxes
: to RedHat 6.2 none of them maintain the correct time from one boot to
: the next. I have a mixture of 366XL,433a,500a machines. This wasn't
: a problem under 6.1. So I've simply decided that this is a 6.2 bug
This "6.2 bug" did not show up on numerous machines with 6.2, or pretty
close, installations which I have seen. True, none of these was of the
type listed above but they were quite diverse - both booting from SRM
and from MILO.
Saying that there is a bug in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit where a code tries to
guess if SRM or ARC clock should be used, without paying any attention
what was set /etc/sysconfig/clock, and it screws up badly on some
platforms. On UX, for example, you will find that you are running 20
years late. The problem is that, IIRC, these broken three lines
(comment them out!) showed up in RH 7 and not in 6.2.
Even if I do not remember details correctly the best policy with
hwclock, as that one in 6.2 and above, is NOT to pass to it any
flags forcing a particular hardware clock mode. In reality there
is more than two types and hwclock left alone is pretty good in guessing
which one should be used. If your hardware is not covered then fix
hwclock sources and send your patches to hwclock maintaner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]).
Michal
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Reply-To: "PC Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "PC Wizard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR 2977 & 2976 - Comments Please
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 02:44:36 -0700
Thanks for the info!
Keith
"Rob Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:lvs76.1324$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> In article <vin76.5295$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> PC Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I need an internal pci full hardware modem for linux and windows. I've
have
> >USR 2977 & 2976 recommended to me. Anyone have experiences with these
(good
> >or bad)?
>
> I have no comments good or bad about the quality of these modems, but
> please keep in mind that they are OEM models and are not officially
> supported by USR. Also USR is being spun off again from 3Com, so...
>
> You may want also to consider the Lucent Venus-based PCI modems as they
> are call-waiting aware and may be out in front on V.92 as well.
>
> Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Alfter)
Subject: Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:28:22 -0000
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michal Szymanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there any way to run a relatively modern mobo (ASUS P2B) with
>an old ISA Tseng ET4000 video card? For the time being, the machine
>does not even start to boot (no output on the display). Otherwise
>it is OK (I mean with a AGP card it boots up, also the old ISA
>card put into an old 486 machine works fine).
As long as you have ISA slots in which to install the card, it should work.
I have a Hercules-compatible mono-graphics card (8-bit ISA) on an Asus
SP97-XV that runs my home server, and it works fine. I had to disable the
on-board video (no UMA here) and twiddle a setting in CMOS setup to have it
talk to this card. With an ISA VGA card, all you should have to do is plug
it in. (If there's a "boot with AGP or PCI video first" option, you might
try changing that and see if it makes any difference.)
For sh*ts and grins, I even started X and KDE on the mono card one time. It
worked, but I wouldn't recommend it for daily use. :-) For a server that
you'll only occasionally need to control from the console, it'll work fine.
_/_
/ v \
(IIGS( Scott Alfter (remove Voyager's hull number for email address)
\_^_/ http://salfter.dyndns.org
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From: REGGIE BOLAND <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: please help me with my win linux
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:34:23 GMT
i have win 98 and i have just installed winlinux. it detected everything
except the printer. but my real problem is that there is something wrong
with the display it detected it perfectly in the config but i wont let
me open it up. i have a sis 2326 video card can someone help me fix my
problem!!!
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From: "jazardous" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISA video card in "modern" mobo - possible?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 21:42:39 GMT
Of course, is posible, provided the mobo has isa slot.
In fact, there are situations of corrupted bios that you
can display booting mesagers ONLY with a isa card.
I putted a EGA card(with their IBM ega monitor, NO GRAPHICS)
on a aladin5 chipset mobo like yours.
I think your lucky, your card is xfree suported.
Perhaps the problem is your monitor, a new digital monitor that
refuses use the timing/refresh the card provides.
Try in your bios selecting "PCI display first" instead of agp display
first.
Also, "asign irg to vga". Or try "video mode:ega" mode in the main screen,
that on displays attached hard disks.
Good Luck
En el art�culo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Michal
Szymanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> dijo:
> Hi all,
>
> Is there any way to run a relatively modern mobo (ASUS P2B) with an old
> ISA Tseng ET4000 video card? For the time being, the machine does not
> even start to boot (no output on the display). Otherwise it is OK (I
> mean with a AGP card it boots up, also the old ISA card put into an old
> 486 machine works fine).
>
> any hints would be welcome (but please do not advice me to buy a new
> card. This solution I know w/o asking :))
>
> regards, Michal.
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:49:18 GMT
lobotomy wrote:
> You might want to check out the motherboard you are using right now. A
> lot of later Socket-7 boards (not super7) can use K6-2 and 3 CPUs with a
> simple BIOS update. All you need is the availibility of a 2.2v setting
> or something around it. High multipliers help also, but even if it only
> goes up to 3.5x, you can just set it to 2x and it will be remapped ot 6x
> by the processor. Your performance will be limited somewhat compared to
> a new motherboard due to the slower FSB, but it will still be
> substantially faster than your current CPU, and the only expense is the
> CPU, which can be had for <$40.
The trouble with processor upgrades is that I'm still stuck with
motherboards which max out at 128MB, and use the older FPM and EDO RAM,
which is a lot more expensive. The difference in RAM cost alone would
about pay for the new motherboards and processors. Besides, I don't think
my current motherboards can even be upgraded this way. They're just cheap
OEM boards, not super-neato hobbyist models with adjustable BIOS' and
jumpers.
Matt O.
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From: Matt O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Good, cheap *AT* motherboard/processor combos?
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 22:51:56 GMT
Scott Alfter wrote:
> I've used an FIC VA-503+ in my primary system for a couple of years now,
> first with a K6-2-300 with 64 megs of oc'd PC66 memory and now with a
> K6-III-450 with 256 megs of PC133 memory (run as PC100). I've never had
> any problems with it, and the boards and processors should be dirt-cheap
> nowadays. (The company from which I've been buying stuff lately, Spartan
> Technologies, has the VA-503+ at $73 and the K6-2-400 at $38. You can
> probably find lower prices among the Pricewatch lowballers, but I haven't
> had any trouble with these guys in several purchases.)
Cool. I'll check them out. They are AT for sure, not ATX?
> (Since this is comp.os.linux.hardware, I should mention that this combo
> works great with Linux. :-) )
That's why I asked here! ;-)
Matt O.
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From: Sinner from the Prairy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Bellsouth DSL Modem and Linux
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 17:58:13 +0000
> > I've got the Intel 2100 internal modem from Qwest. "USWorst is now
> > Qworst". :)
> > I got a slightly different spin: your choice of modem, installation is
> > a separate $90 fee. However, the internal is free, the external costs
> > $150 because it's actually a router thus more costly.
> > It sucks, but I'd have to challenge you to get an external that will
> > WORK with your service for much less.
> > If there's EVER a driver for Linux for the internal, PLEASSSSE let me
> > know!
> > Brian
Hi Brian,
I haven't seen the original post, so I answer here.
I'm with BellSouth with Linux. I use external ethernet with PPPoE.
I signed in with the usb-modem (I saw that it was external ... but it
happened to be usb. Thanks God, it never worked. BS techs came, checked
the non-working usb modem and produced an ethernet, no-NAT Alcatel Speed
Touch Home. Of course it works great under Linux (my wife says that also
works in her windows).
Can you get a PC with no-usb ports and all the PCI slots in use? Then,
when they show up, you can claim that only ethernet will work in your
PC. And do not mention Linux, but have an ethernet card available and
ready and try to be not real expert in computers.
Hope this helps,
Salut,
Sinner
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From: George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Help: SCSI Card Upgrade
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:12:14 GMT
Help
System
RedHat 7.0, P200, 132 Ram, 1 Gig IDE, SCSI CD and HardDrives
Removed Future Domain SCSI card (seagate driver).
Installed a BusLogic SCSI Card
With KDE setup for BusLogic Card, deleted seagate
On boot it still looks for the seagate card
On boot NEVER looks for the BusLogic card
???? How can I fix this ????
I booted the system off an install disk, used the driver disk
and indicated that I had a local cdrom, selected BusLogic and
Anaconda came right up. Indicated that I wanted an upgrade using
the Buslogic SCSI driver for my CDROM. When the process completed
I thought that it would fix the problem.
On boot still uses the seagate and never the BusLogic.
Suggestions !!!!
George
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http://www.deja.com/
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Video4Linux Not Working
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:27:22 GMT
Trying to get an old Bt848 video capture card to work for a Web cam setup.
I compiled Video4Linux into the kernel (tried both 2.2.18 and 2.4.0) and it
doesn't work. Apache gives an error (Apache module)
[Sat Jan 13 22:53:17 2001] [error] (21)Is a directory: Failed to open video
device
This happens with both kernels. When I boot with the 2.2.18 kernel, it
finds the card (displays some information about it), but it does not make
/dev/video. When booting with 2.4.0, I don't see anything that resembles
the card, but I have a /proc/video/dev. I tried to symlink /proc/video and
/proc/video/dev to /dev/video, but that didn't work.
Maybe I'm doing something wrong or left something out? I'm not too
experienced with Linux; I know enough to get into trouble... :)
Thank you!
-william
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William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Manual switchbox
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:30:19 GMT
I've heard that manual switch boxes are not good with PS/2 devices.
Unplugging a PS/2 keyboard or mouse shorts the port. That may explain why
Linux freaks. If you keep doing that, you may ruin the port permanently. I
found that having a junk keyboard and mouse is a lot easier. When I need to
connect to the server, I either telnet it, or use a VGA extension cable and
manually switch it. I don't touch my servers too often.
HTH.
-will
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"Frank Van Geirt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:Wkj86.173876$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi,
>
> I have linked a Linux pc and Win 98 pc to a manual switchbox (mouse,
> keyboard and monitor).
>
> When switching to Win 98, there is no problem. My mouse is still working.
> When switching to Linux, my mouse pointer goes crazy. It flies to the
upper
> right corner (as well in KDE as in textual mode). and stays there.
> Keyboard and monitor are working fine.
>
> I tried several things already:
>
> - killing gpm and restarting with ps2 as well as ms3 options
> - crtl-alt- f7 + ctrl-alt-f1
>
> None of these resolve the problem. I always have to reboot the system.
> Since this system is working as a server, I really do not like this.
> I have been searching the internet for other solutions, but without
succes.
>
> Does anybody have any other suggestions?
>
> My system:
> - RedHat 7.0 (standard installation)
> - Upgrade to KDE 2.0.1 with rpms
>
> Frank
>
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From: "Samian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mandrake Support for Abit KT7 Raid Array Controller ?
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:08:17 GMT
Hello ,
Does anyone know weither Mandrake 7.2 supports a raid array controller ? I
have one on my motherboard, and redhat 6.2 and mandrake 7.1 installs don't
recognise it. Or is there another solution te fix my problem ?
thnx
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Server Pro's/Con's Wanted
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:32:33 GMT
At my old work, we had IBM Netfinity and Dell PowerEdge servers. They
worked great and never had a problem under heavy stress. They were running
Windows NT 4.0 Server though.
Sorry couldn't be more help.
-will
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"Ken McCord" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Moving our existing Linux server to a new platform and wanted to get
> people's opinions on the prospective new servers: The new servers I'm
> looking at are:
>
> HP LH3000
> IBM Netfinity 5600
> Dell PowerEdge 4400
> Gateway 8400
> Compaq ML530
>
> The new server is to be scaled to support approx. 180~210 Samba clients
> and 40~60 Netatalk users.
>
> If VA Linux and some of the other Linux-only hardware companies offer
> 7x24,4 hr response, I'd include them in the mix.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken McCord
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From: Sigismondo Cenni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: lost interrupt?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:39:25 +0100
I had the same problem, with my second working hard-disk,
In my computer, I turned off in the bios setting the hard-disk detect
(none, without disk),
in the boot, linux detect the disk.. and run.. I don't knows why, but
run..
Try..
S.C.
James Tappin wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I've just been resurrecting an old machine to run as a sort of
> try-things-out box. I was installing Debian potato on it, and things were
> going fine until it got into one of the configuration stages quite late on
> (sorry I didn't remember to not down exactly what was configuring) at which
> point I got the error message:
> hda: lost interrupt
> which repeated every few seconds with no other signs of activity until I
> pressed the reset button.
>
> Does anyone have any clue what might be the cause of the error (I've been
> using Linux for about 3 1/2 years and it's a new one on me). My worry is
> that possible the IDE controller is flakey -- the machine had been unused
> for a couple of years since it's power supply failed [slowly and painfully].
>
> Any ideas?
> TIA
> James
>
> --
> James Tappin, O__ "I forget the punishment for using
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- \/` Microsoft --- Something lingering
> http://www.xena.uklinux.net/ with data loss in it I fancy"
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From: "underworld6d9" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Pcmcia modem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:38:59 GMT
does any one know where i can find info on a 3fem556cx it is made by 3com i
would lke to know if it is supported by linux thanks
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From: Lee Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB Live IRQ problem
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2001 23:52:00 +0000
I've got the A7V with an SB Live! 1024.
Running Mandrake 7.2
I found the IRQ that it's using:
$ cat /proc/pci
<snip>
Bus 0, device 11, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Unknown vendor Unknown device (rev 7).
Vendor id=1102. Device id=2.
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
Latency=32. Min Gnt=2.Max Lat=20.
I/O at 0xa400 [0xa401].
And mine's on IRQ 10 as well.
Something you may want to try to look for in your BIOS:
Goto into your BIOS -> Advanced -> PCI PCI/PNP IRQ Exclusion -> IRQ 5 For
Legacy = YES
This helped me to get the card working.
Hope this helps.
Lee.
Craig Barel wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> This newbie has just installed mandrake 7.2 and everything went smoothly
> except for my SB Live Value PCI sound card. Whenever I try and configure
it
> I get a device or resource busy error message and there is a message
> suggesting my irq setting is invalid for the card on boot up. I have
moved
> the card around all available PCI slots to no avail and don't know what
> else to do. I followed the installation instructions and printed a
resource
> report from within windows and on the irq usage summary there are two
> entries for irq 10 (the one SB live is trying to use) they are:
>
> 10 Creative SB Live! Value
> 10 ACPI IRQ Holder for PCI IRQ Steering
>
> I don't know much about this stuff so I'm not sure if the ACPI entry is
> causing the problem or not?
>
> I know that the card isn't broken because it works under windows ok. I am
> quite sure that this IRQ business is the problem but I just don't know
how
> to get around it.
>
> Any advice appreciated.
>
> Craig.
>
>
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From: John Orren Battle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: faulty travan tape
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 00:00:17 GMT
A E Lawrence wrote:
> Andrew wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a tape device that used to work (and now it won't).
> >
> > I highly suspect a hardware failure since it never has been properly cleaned
> > (and I also found a mushed-up tape once).
> >
> > So, I've been trying various mt commands and they each fail (except status)
> > with:
> > /dev/st0: I/O error
> >
> > tar also fails with I/O error
> >
> > dump -B 4000000 -0uf /dev/nst0 /dev/sda1
> > EOT detected at beginning of the tape!
> >
> > I am wondering whether it is normal that the mt error is prompted
> > "instantly". Am i right to think about replacing the drive, or could there
> > be anything else to do?
>
> Why not clean the drive? :-) Could the EOT sensor be dusty?
>
> ael
> --
> A E Lawrence
Would you mind telling me what type of drive you have been using? I have been
trying to get mine to work under Kernel 2.2.12 and partly works, but will not
write large blocks of data withoug choaking.
It is a 4/8 HP Travan.
--John Battle
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