Linux-Hardware Digest #183, Volume #14 Mon, 15 Jan 01 17:13:05 EST
Contents:
new site ("Jurgen Roels")
Re: Problems with Red Hat 6.2 & Ati Rage Fury HELP!! ("Andreas Tretow")
Linux on Toshiba Satelite 35DVD ("Ross Burton")
Re: Slooow Linux (Marcus Lauer)
Re: VIA KT133A support? . . . horror stories ("Ben")
Re: Video4Linux Not Working ("William Fong")
Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905? (Vidar Skjelanger)
Missing IRQ for USB controller (Rolf Bleher)
Linux Benchmarks (Cubic Meter)
dpt (adaptec) smartraid iv monitor ? (Dean Eggert)
no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 ) ("Fu")
Re: Strange alpha clock issue ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( red hat 6.2 ) ("Fu")
Re: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 ) ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: How to test a joystick? ("Ruediger Arp")
Re: Grecord alternative? (Mark Bratcher)
small, inexpensive rack mount case ("RetroGrouch")
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From: "Jurgen Roels" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: new site
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:24:31 +0100
Linux Mandracke The Expirience of Frederik now on SJC visit
http://start.sjc-gent.be/real/
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From: "Andreas Tretow" <andres.tretow@durham[no_spam].ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Problems with Red Hat 6.2 & Ati Rage Fury HELP!!
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:28:39 -0000
Reply-To: "Andreas Tretow" <andres.tretow@durham[no_spam].ac.uk>
What is your exact problem ? The ATI Rage Fury is supported by RH 6.2 and
XFree86 3.3.6.
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Andreas Tretow
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From: "Ross Burton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux on Toshiba Satelite 35DVD
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:32:14 GMT
Hi,
I'm not sure if this is the best group to post to, but my ISP doesn't
have the comp.os.linux.laptop group I was looking for.
I am interested in buying a Tosh 35DVD laptop and duel-booting to Linux
with it (I need Windoze to play Half-Life and Quake on). It comes with
the following kit:
Graphics:
ATI Mobility-M
Sound:
Crystal 2481
Ethernet:
Accton EN2242
Modem:
Unknown at present (anyone?)
IIRC, the ATI graphics card is in XFree86 3.3.6 and XFree86 4,the sound
card is in kernel 2.2.17+ and the ethernet card is in the Scyld drivers
(and the kernel?).
Things are looking good for this laptop to be my portable linux box.
So, what experience has anyone had with the above components,
good/bad/indifferent comments are all welcome. Anyone saying "don't get
one" best provide a good reason or I'll ignore them! Finally anyone know
what the modem is in this laptop?
Thanks for any help,
Ross Burton
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From: Marcus Lauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Slooow Linux
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:43:44 -0800
q wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> System:
> AMD Athlon 700 / 256mb sdram pc100
> Kernel 2.2.16 / XFree86 3.3.36
> ATI AIW 16mb PCI video
> Kondara Linux Distro'
> AMD Chipset on a gigabyte Mainboard
>
> Problem:
> Apps and GUI seem to run fine, [tho' KDE is a bit sluggish], but when I run
> a game such as Quake 3 or Heavy Gear II it is so incredibly slow,
> it's like watching a slideshow of Great-Great-Grandchildren at a retirement
> home, while overdosing on depressants! But the screen resolution is
> amazing! [dunno]
>
> What I have done:
> 1. Recompiled kernel to optimised i6x86 architecture, leaving out the mods
> and services I do not need such as radio support, PCMCIA etc.
> 2. Run SysVinit to disable those [again] services I do not use, but
> retaining those which 'serve' the system.
> 3. Made sure to append="mem=255m" in Lilo.conf and running .../sbin/lilo
> 255 vice 256m to avoid any conflicts
> 4. Threatened the machine with a big glass of water.
I'm not sure that your video card has any kind of 3-D acceleration
under XFree86 3.3.6. Of ATI's products, only the ATI Rage Pro is accelerated
(through the Utah-GLX project's work). However, according to this page:
http://dri.sourceforge.net/DRIuserguide.html
there is DRI support in XFree86 4.0.x for most ATI cards. I suspect that
your best bet would be to upgrade to XFree86 4.0.1 at least.
Marcus
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From: "Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: VIA KT133A support? . . . horror stories
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:08:22 -0500
You want horror stories? Mine's too long to go into, but I made
the sad mistake of trying to build a RH 7 server using an ABIT
KT7-RAID . . . and now am reduced to trying to get Win98 to
run on it, so I can use my desk machine, a very stable Epox-KII-500
based unit instead. At present, I'm very pleased to have reduced system
crashes on the Abit to only once ever 2 - 3 hours and this is after
30+ hrs of OS installs and reinstalls, poring over newsgroup postings
and FAQ's and so on.
Never could get either RH7 or Linux to install, and had to go to
beta Via and Abit BIOS to get Win98 to be reasonably stable. May
have a bad SIMM as well, and the Matrox G200 video is a
nightmare all on its own.
My recommendation? Find a system that someone else has that
is working 100% . . . and then buy EXACTLY the same mobo,
video and MEMORY they have.
Also, check out the relevant newsgroup for the mobo you settle
on: the Abit board has gleaned glowing reviews all over the web,
but if you check the newsgroup, you'll find it full of folks who haven't
even been able get an OS installed . . . and of folks who've achieved
'success' after 20, 30, 50 hours of 'tweaking'. Wasn't the way I'd
planned to go.
Good luck!
Ben
"Mikael Pettersson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Has anyone tested any recent linux kernel (2.4 or 2.2 + ide patches)
> on a VIA KT133A-based mainboard? Any horror stories?
>
> I'm trying to decide whether to buy an ASUS A7V (KT133 + Promise ATA100
> controller) now or wait for the A7V133 (KT133A w. FSB 200/266 and
> ATA100 support). Alternatively, I might buy an ABIT KT7A now, but
> I have more confidence in ASUS. This will be for a non-overclocked
> server/development machine.
>
> /Mikael
> --
> Mikael Pettersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> Computing Science Department, Uppsala University
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From: "William Fong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Video4Linux Not Working
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 20:22:32 GMT
This looks like what I need! Thanks!
Old as in I don't have a clue where it came from. It was in our computer
box at work. We have two of them, probably a failed video conferencing
experiment. Probably be able to find them cheap on eBay.
Thanks again.
-will
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______________________________
William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
"Glenn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> You might find some explicit help at
> http://www.metzlerbros.de/bttv.html
> and they've got links to other linux-video stuff.
>
> Perhaps local capture more error-informative than apache?
> Is that old as in cheap? Can I get one too?
>
> Glenn
>
>
>
> William Fong wrote:
>
> > 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
> >
> > --
> >
> > ______________________________
> > William Fong - www.digitaldev.com
>
> --
>
> Glenn Wittrock
>
> Linux: when you need to run like a greased weasel.
>
>
>
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From: Vidar Skjelanger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RH 7 doesn't work with 3C905?
Date: 15 Jan 2001 21:22:31 +0100
Henrik Carlqvist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is your card really usable and not only detectable? If so, then there is
> probably different versions of the 3c905C.
Oh, unless those bits have grown wings and learned to fly, it is
definitely working. :)
> I think that RedHat has also included the 3c90x-driver from 3com with
> their kernels. However, if you are using your own downloaded and
> compiled 2.2.17 kernel that driver is not included.
I use the "3c590/3c900 series (592/595/597) "Vortex/Boomerang" support"
driver in the standard 2.2.17 kernel.
However, Ray's original problem was that his card would not work with
the standard RedHat7.0 kernel.
--
mvh,
Vidar Skjelanger
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rolf Bleher)
Subject: Missing IRQ for USB controller
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:18:33 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello...
My USB controller is enabled in the BIOS but Linux does not see an
interrupt line for it.
Loading usb-ohci fails because of not seeing an interrupt. Kernel is
2.2.16 (SuSE 7.0), MSI-5169 motherboard with ALi15X3 chipset,
AMD-K6-II-350, 128MB.
I installed Windows for testing and USB works, so it should not be a
direct hardware/BIOS related problem.
Any help?
TIA Rolf
Windows says:
ALi PCI/USB Open Host Controller
Interrupt 9
Speicherbereich 08000000 - 08000FFF
/var/log/boot.msg:
Starting service USB: usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0xc8c4e000, IRQ 0
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
usb-ohci.c: request interrupt 0 failed
usb.c: USB bus 1 deregistered
Hint: this error can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid
IO or IRQ parameters
usb.c: deregistered driver usbdevfs
usb.c: deregistered driver hub
Loading usb-ohci failed!
Maybe USB or USB IRQ is disabled in the BIOS, enable it.
modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module usbdevfs
mount: fs type usbdevfs not supported by kernel
lspci -vvx:
00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB (rev 03) (prog-if 10
[OHCI])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping-
SERR+ FastB2B-
Status: Cap- 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 32, cache line size 08
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 0
Region 0: Memory at dffff000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)
00: b9 10 37 52 17 01 80 02 03 10 03 0c 08 20 00 00
10: 00 f0 ff df 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
30: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 00
dump_pirq:
Interrupt routing table found at address 0xf7be0:
Version 1.0, size 0x0090
Interrupt router is device 00:07.0
PCI exclusive interrupt mask: 0x0000 []
Compatible router: vendor 0x10b9 device 0x1533
...
Device 00:01.0 (slot 0): PCI bridge
INTA: link 0x01, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15]
INTB: link 0x02, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15]
Device 00:02.0 (slot 0): USB Controller
INTA: link 0x59, irq mask 0xdef8 [3,4,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,14,15]
Device 00:0f.0 (slot 0): IDE interface
INTA: link 0xfe, irq mask 0x4000 [14]
INTB: link 0xff, irq mask 0x8000 [15]
Interrupt router at 00:07.0: AcerLabs Aladdin M1533 PCI-to-ISA bridge
INT1 (link 1): irq 9
INT2 (link 2): unrouted
INT3 (link 3): irq 10
INT4 (link 4): irq 11
INT5 (link 5): unrouted
INT6 (link 6): unrouted
INT7 (link 7): unrouted
INT8 (link 8): unrouted
Serial IRQ: [disabled] [quiet] [frame=21] [pulse=12]
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_______________________________________
Rolf Bleher DK7IN /
N52d32.660' E013d20.920' / Linux - life is too short for reboots
_____________________________/ http://www.qsl.net/dk7in
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From: Cubic Meter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux Benchmarks
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:33:57 -0500
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can anyone recommend a good all purpose Linux benchmark prog? Preferably w/
a GUI. Thanks.
m^3
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 14:51:07 -0600
From: Dean Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: dpt (adaptec) smartraid iv monitor ?
hi,
i need to remotely monitor the status of a dpt smartraid iv running
redhat 6.2 since the dptmgr does not have a linux version and the
eata_dma driver doesn't show anything in the /proc/scsi/.. section,
i can't tell how the hot spare is doing, did a drive fail, etc.
currently, if a drive fails and the controller rebuilds on the hot
spare,
i can't tell. the only thing that does happen is that the controller
complains
(loud beep) if a drive fails and no hotspare is available.
any help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.
thanks
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Fu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,git.unix.linux
Subject: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 )
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:56:17 -0500
i have been able to configure my realtek 8029as chipset nic on eth0 with
ne2k-pci. however when i try to load the module for my sound card, it tells
me no device found ( paraphrased ) but i can see my sound card in /proc/pci
has been given an irq of 10.
any suggestions?? assume that i didn't try your idea.
thanks in advance again.
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha
Subject: Re: Strange alpha clock issue
Date: 15 Jan 2001 20:53:26 GMT
In comp.os.linux.alpha Chris Elvidge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why does the time on the hardware clock matter?
It is nice to have sane time in the boot process or you may end
up with some files in the future and this is "not a good thing" (TM). :-)
> I use (admittedly intel)
> ntpdate to set the clock at boot, and ntpd to keep it synced when
> running. Would this help? (www.ntp.org AFAIR)
Even if you have a connection and a time reference which allows you
to run (x)ntpd then it will not synchronize, by a design, time which
is too far off. If your hardware clock is really wild (a clock
battery going away may have such effects) then as a workaround you
may try to run 'rdate -s ...' early in your startup scripts but
some kind of a network connection have to be going when you are
attempting that. PPP will do in a pinch but latencies may be
significant.
Michal
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From: "Fu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,git.unix.linux
Subject: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( red hat 6.2 )
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:58:25 -0500
i have been able to configure my realtek 8029as chipset nic on eth0 with
ne2k-pci. however when i try to load the module for my sound card, it tells
me no device found ( paraphrased ) but i can see my sound card in /proc/pci
has been given an irq of 10.
any suggestions?? assume that i didn't try your idea.
thanks in advance again.
--
know Jesus, know peace... no Jesus, no peace.
fu
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: no sound in linux 2.4.0 ( redhat 6.2 )
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup,git.unix.linux
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 21:30:34 GMT
In comp.os.linux.misc Fu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i have been able to configure my realtek 8029as chipset nic on eth0 with
> ne2k-pci. however when i try to load the module for my sound card, it tells
> me no device found ( paraphrased ) but i can see my sound card in /proc/pci
> has been given an irq of 10.
> any suggestions?? assume that i didn't try your idea.
> thanks in advance again.
Upgrade your modutils package?
Adam
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From: "Ruediger Arp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How to test a joystick?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 22:22:57 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <Djp86.46213$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "jazardous"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi. I have a joystick attached to my game port and just compiled a kernel
> with support for it.
>
> How can I test the axes and so on? Is there any program or similar
> floating around?
>
> Thanks!
Hi,
try kcmjoy.
The homepage seems not to work right now, but you can get it from
Tucows (Utilities a-m).
HTH,
Ruediger
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From: Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Grecord alternative?
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:34:43 -0500
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Karl,
I tried the app and it does indeed do what I want...
EXCEPT... sadly, in some cases creates a bad wave file (eg, I recorded a 100MB
wave file and when I attempted to play or edit it, the player/editor said it was
corrupted somewhere in the middle of the file).
Mark
Karl-Heinz Herrmann wrote:
>
> Mark Bratcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Thanks for the suggestion, I'll check it out.
> >
> > However, if it only checks levels after recording has already completed, then
> > it's probably not really what I'm looking for. I'd like a recorder that shows
> > real-time input level such as I get with the Creative Recorder that runs on
> > Windoze.
>
> no no, there is some misunderstanding --- gramofile *does* show
> realtime display (update every half second or something like that) of
> the input levels. Afterwards it gives an *aditional* detailed
> statistics.
>
> It's a quite basic textscreen interface, fut absolutely functional.
>
> K.-H.
>
> --
> -----------------------------
> Karl-Heinz Herrmann
> E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "RetroGrouch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: small, inexpensive rack mount case
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 15:45:13 +0500
I'm looking for an inexpensive rack mount case for a TBU and a CD. Nothing
fancy, just a really simple rack mount box with a 60W PS, and provisions
for SCSI connector. All I need is a cheap 2 bay rack mount box.
I've been looking around and all I can find is VERY expensive, far beyond
what I need hardware, with prices around $450+.
(I have a CRU enclosure with dataports for my hard drives, so I'm not
afraid to pay when I need to - but a CD is hardly a critical component
that needs dual PS and 160LVD cabling....)
Does anyone have a source for basic rackmount cases?
Thanks,
--Yan
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