Linux-Hardware Digest #249, Volume #14 Thu, 25 Jan 01 17:13:07 EST
Contents:
Re: Any of 2.2.x not have CPUID problem with AMD CPUs? (Lee Webb)
webcam i linux ("Tom A. Seljeflot")
Re: Trouble configuring NVIDIA GForce2 + Samsung 19" 950p monitor (Jonathan Adams)
Re: webcam i linux ("Tom A. Seljeflot")
What is the kernel module for realtek 8139??? ("Morten F. Klausen")
Re: AMR modem & CS4280 sound chib (Hossam Hossny)
Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive (Marcell Stoer)
Re: US Robotics modem and SuSe 6.4 (Dale Elisabeth Atems)
Re: Any of 2.2.x not have CPUID problem with AMD CPUs? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Firewire support in Linux? ("Shane Baker")
Re: SMC 1211 Network Card - Problems with Kernel 2.4 ("Saender A. Clark")
Re: System reliability ("Corey W. Clamp")
Re: System reliability (Tom)
Sound with internal PC speaker (Ekkard Gerlach)
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From: Lee Webb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any of 2.2.x not have CPUID problem with AMD CPUs?
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 19:24:19 +0000
Add to your lilo.conf:
append="x86_serial_nr=1"
Lee.
Rich Carreiro wrote:
> I have heard that at least some versions of 2.2 have problems
> with AMD Athlon/Duron systems because of CPUID issues. This
> is a concern to me since I'm running a 2.2-based system
> and will probably soon be migrating it to an AMD-based system.
>
> I am running 2.2.18. Does it work ok with AMD CPUs? And if
> not, does making it so require a kernel recompile or is there
> some boot-time kernel command-line option that can be given to
> fix things?
>
>
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From: "Tom A. Seljeflot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: webcam i linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:31:00 +0100
Jeg har litt problemer med å få til mitt web-kamera i RH7.0
Kameraet heter TerraTec USB (ikke pro).
Jeg har kompilert med CPiA i 2.4.0 kjernen.
feilmeldingen lyder som så når jeg setter i kameraet :
usb.c: USB device not accepting new address=6 (error=-110)
Jeg er ny på linux så jeg håper noen der ute vet hva dette kan være.
Tom A.
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From: Jonathan Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Trouble configuring NVIDIA GForce2 + Samsung 19" 950p monitor
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 11:57:27 -0800
Robert L. Klungle wrote:
> "Henry S. Greenside" wrote:
[..]
> > I was able to get everything working nicely at
> > 1024x768x16 but could not get the monitor to work at the
> > desired resolution of 1280x1024x32, the machine produces a
> > dark screen and I have to reboot the computer.
[..]
> > How do I go about getting this card and monitor to work at
> > 1280x1024x32?
> >
Most drivers don't support 32bit color depth in Linux. Try 24bpp as the
default and see if that works.
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001
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Jonathan A. Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Tom A. Seljeflot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: webcam i linux
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:21:26 +0100
Most of you didn't understand much of this.
I ment to post it in a norwegian group, sorry.
Tom A.
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From: "Morten F. Klausen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: What is the kernel module for realtek 8139???
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 21:35:31 +0100
Hi!
What is the kernel module for realtek 8139???
Best regards
Morten F. Klausen
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From: Hossam Hossny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMR modem & CS4280 sound chib
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 20:27:51 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:10:23 GMT, Hossam Hossny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray) wrote:
> >> On Wed, 24 Jan 2001 01:02:40 GMT, Hossam Hossny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >wrote:
> >> >hi all
> >> >this is about AMR modems again
> >> >well I have i810 MB with i810 video card & crystal CS4280 sound
chib
> >> >built-in.
> >> >my modem is volcano AMR modem (ICH82801AA chib on it).
> >> >so easily I managed to configure the video card with support from
> >Intel
> >> >website. I had troubles configuring the sound chib even after
using
> >> >ALSA drivers which I discovered that their drivers configure the
> >chibs
> >> >built on cards (not built in the MB) like they got a module
> >called "snd-
> >> >card-cs461x" but the module I should use is "snd-cs461x" which is
> >> >already provided in my linux distribution and loaded successfully
BUT
> >> >with no sound in the end !!!
> >>
> >> I'm pretty sure that snd-card-cs461x is correct regardless of
weather
> >your
> >> sound card is built into the motherboard or not.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Ray
> >>
> >
> >I'm afraid that it's not !
> >when I do "modprobe snd-card-cs461x" it gives me "device busy or not
> >found" error !
> >also, when I do "cat /proc/modules" or "lsmod" it lists all the sound
> >modules loaded succefully but "not used" !!!
> >I think I should use "amixer" to unmute the sound.
> >anyway..any other ideas??
>
> Well them maybe something else is wrong but you really do want to load
> snd-card-something. Just snd-something won't ever initialize the
card.
> FWIW here's the appropriate part of my modules.conf (might be
conf.modules
> on your system):
>
> # --- ALSACONF verion 0.4.2 ---
> alias char-major-116 snd
> alias snd-card-0 snd-card-opl3sa2
> alias char-major-14 soundcore
> alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
> alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
> alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
> alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm1-oss
> alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm1-oss
> options snd snd_major=116 snd_cards_limit=4 snd_device_mode=0660
> snd_device_gid
> options snd-card-opl3sa2 snd_port=0x370 \
> snd_sb_port=0x220 snd_wss_port=0x530 snd_fm_port=0x388
snd_midi_port=0x330 \
> snd_irq=9 snd_dma1=1 snd_dma2=3 snd_isapnp=0
>
> # --- END: Generated by ALSACONF, do not edit. ---
>
> Here's the output of lsmod when everything's working:
>
> ppp_deflate 39404 2 (autoclean)
> bsd_comp 3892 0 (autoclean)
> ppp 20140 2 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp]
> slhc 4372 1 (autoclean) [ppp]
> snd-pcm1-oss 13192 0 (autoclean)
> snd-mixer-oss 3992 1 (autoclean)
> snd-card-opl3sa2 9148 1
> snd-seq-device 3472 1 [snd-card-opl3sa2]
> isapnp 25065 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2]
> snd-cs4231 17516 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2]
> snd-mixer 25728 0 [snd-mixer-oss snd-card-opl3sa2
> snd-cs4231]
> snd-pcm1 16956 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-cs4231]
> snd-pcm 9068 0 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-
cs4231
> snd-pcm1]
> snd-mpu401-uart 1880 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2]
> snd-midi 12844 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-mpu401-uart]
> snd-opl3 2052 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2]
> snd-timer 7964 0 [snd-cs4231 snd-pcm1 snd-opl3]
> snd-hwdep 2700 0 [snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-opl3]
> snd 34956 1 [snd-pcm1-oss snd-mixer-oss
> snd-card-opl3sa2 snd-seq-device snd-cs4231 snd-mixer snd-pcm1 snd-pcm
> snd-mpu401-uart snd-midi snd-opl3 snd-timer snd-hwdep]
> soundcore 2596 4 [snd]
> ds 6536 2
> i82365 28516 2
> pcmcia_core 44384 0 [ds i82365]
> toshiba 2409 0
>
> If you havn't already check out the Alsa mailing list archives linked
of the
> main site.
>
> Good Luck
> --
> Ray
>
>
that's another problem...when I do "modprobe snd-card-*" nothing really
loaded...but when I do "modprobe snd-*" I find a a lot of modules
loaded but whith no use !!!
here's a part of my modules.conf:
# ALSA portion
alias char-major-116 snd
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs461x <---- not snd-card-cs461x which is not
working !!!
# OSS/Free portion
alias char-major-14 soundcore
alias sound-slot-0 snd-card-0
alias sound-service-0-0 snd-mixer-oss
alias sound-service-0-1 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-3 snd-pcm-oss
alias sound-service-0-8 snd-seq-oss
alias sound-service-0-12 snd-pcm-oss
thanx for listening
Sent via Deja.com
http://www.deja.com/
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From: Marcell Stoer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: upgrading/adding a 2nd drive
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 12:46:17 -0800
This thread got sort of interesting. Thanks for all the input. I pondered
for a while and then just re-installed the whole thing. I'm getting better
at these RH7 installs. This is the fifth in 3 months! Not all on the same
machine, two on this one right now and 3 on two other machines (I screwed up
the first one!).
If I ever upgrade again I may do things differently.
Thanks,
Marcell
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From: Dale Elisabeth Atems <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: US Robotics modem and SuSe 6.4
Date: 25 Jan 2001 15:46:06 -0500
John Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Steven,
>
> Find your IRQ by typing: lspci -v
> That utility will list all your PCI appliances with address and IRQ.
> You need both to set up a modem. Then use setserial to set the IRQ and
> address
>
> John
> >
> > Gee I wish I could get my 5610 PCI modem to run on RH 7.0. I've tried
> > "setserial" with the info I got out of "cat /proc/pci". One thing I've
> > noticed is that there is no irq noted in the "cat /proc/pci" listing. Is
> > there any hope for my box?
> > steverl
> >
> > John Scudder wrote:
> >
I also have a 5610 PCI modem in a Dell Dimension L733r running under
RedHat 6.2. lspci -v returns the I/O port address (0xdff0) and also
IRQ == 9. However,
setserial /dev/ttyS2 port 0xdff0 irq 9
sets only the port, not the IRQ; the IRQ remains at the original
value, 2.
What am I doing wrong???
--
D. Elisabeth Atems, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone 313-577-1203
Department of Physics and Astronomy fax 313-577-3932
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Any of 2.2.x not have CPUID problem with AMD CPUs?
Date: 25 Jan 2001 21:06:28 GMT
> the new 2.4.0 kernel can be compiled for the Duron/Athlons directly,
> whenever that gets stabilized and added to someone's distro . . .
This depends only on the compiler you're using. Back in the time of
2.2.x, I could use PGCC and its K6 optimization by editing the relevant
CFLAGS in arch/i386/Makefile. The same flags are now included in the
default kernel Makefile.
However, some people have reported problems with PGCC kernels, and the
speed improvements may not be too massive. I do not know if the K6 or
Athlon/Duron options have much effect when the normal GCC is used.
--
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It was clearly nobody had made I can you care if the hell we have tell.
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From: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 08:21:08 +1000 (EST)
Reply-To: "Shane Baker" <sbakerATpcug.org.au>
Subject: Re: Firewire support in Linux?
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:27:02 +0000, D. D. Brierton wrote:
>What is the current state of Firewire support in Linux?
<snip>
>Secondly, are there actually many firewire devices out there yet?
(I'm telling you everything I *THINK* I know here): I understand the Firewire
"standard" is a bit problematic at present. Things won't necessarily talk to
each other.
Might be worth waiting for a while until standards standardise .....
Happy Australia Day.
Shane Baker
Canberra - Australia's national capital
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From: "Saender A. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SMC 1211 Network Card - Problems with Kernel 2.4
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 06:33:38 +0900
Brian wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just compiled the 2.4 kernel under Mandrake 7.2...
>
> Everything worked great (I thought)... No error messages or anything when
> compiling...
>
> On booting, however, with the new 2.4 kernel I noticed that eth0 failed,
> which suggests that my network card was incorrectly selected when I set up
> the new kernel.
>
> My question is, which card should I select, that supports the SMC 1211, when
> setting this kernel up?
>
> Thank you for any help... =)
>
> Note: Please send a copy of any replies to -> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Thanks again!
>
> - Brian -
Brian,
The SMC1211 (or smcez card ) uses the rt18139.o module. Make sure it is in
your /lib/modules/2.4.0/net direcotry.
sandy
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From: "Corey W. Clamp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System reliability
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 21:49:50 GMT
One thing I would like to point out...when you take your case off the
cooling system is nowhere near as effective as with it on...
Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001 00:11:25 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Ray wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 23 Jan 2001 19:36:28 -0800, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> >I have been having some problems with system reliability of late.
> >> >
> >> >The problem: My system tends to hang (I suspect a hardware problem
due to
> >> >the nature of the crash) very frequently, whereas it used to be
completely
> >> >stable. Every time it hangs I am running X-windows, and am in the
process
> >> >of moving my mouse.
> >> >
> >> >My system:
> >> >Tyan dual Pentium Pro motherboard
> >> >2 Pentium Pro 200 MHz processors (256k cache)
> >> >Adaptec 2941 SCSI controller
> >> >4 Seagate SCSI drives
> >> >UMAX SCSI scanner
> >> >Matrox video card
> >> >
> >> >I doubt the rest of the details are terribly significant.
> >> >
> >> >My system originally ran 2 IDE drives and kernel 2.0.27, with
extremely
> >> >good results. The longest uptime I managed was around 3 months;
longer
> >> >than that and things like an accidental bump of the power switch or
> >> >completely clogged fans would end the stint.
> >> >
> >> >This all came to an end about a year ago when one of the drives died,
> >> >taking my system with it. It was at this time when I switched to an
all
> >> >SCSI system after obtaining the drives. At the same time I started
using
> >> >the 2.2.9 kernel.
> >> >
> >> >I had the occasional crash with the 2.2.9 kernel, but after upgrading
to
> >> >2.2.16, stability returned for awhile.
> >> >
> >> >I found that the 4 internal SCSI drives pumped out a heck of a lot of
> >> >heat, and if I wasn't careful about the cooling of the system, it
would
> >> >crash during the summer.
> >> >
> >> >I no longer suspect system cooling to be an issue, since it's much
cooler
> >> >now and I've got the case off. However, a couple months ago, I
noticed
> >> >one of the 5 volt contacts on my power connector to my motherboard
> >> >overheated and burnt out. Soon thereafter, among great system
> >> >instability, the other 3 cooked as well (I've got an ATX system). I
> >> >solved this by soldering a new connector to the back of the
motherboard,
> >> >bypassing the cooked contacts. During the procedure, I took the
> >> >opportunity to unplug every single thing from the motherboard in order
to
> >> >re-seat all contacts (including the RTC and BIOS). Upon re-assembly,
I
> >> >have had these frequent crashes when using X-windows.
> >> >
> >> >Suspecting a corrupted BIOS configuration, I re-set the BIOS (using
the
> >> >motherboard jumper), and suspecting SMP issues, I've run a single
> >> >processor kernel, all to no avail.
> >> >
> >> >What can I do to try and figure out what is wrong? Every time my
system
> >> >hangs it appears to be a hardware problem since no <Alt><SysRq> keys
> >> >work, and there are no messages logged.
> >>
> >> If the power cables to your motherboard are burning out then something
is
> >> SERIOUSLY wrong with your system. I'd remove (or at least disconnect
> >> anything you value (like those drives) before going farther. I'd also
tend
> >> to suspect the PS has gone south with the extra load of those drives
and the
> >> dual CPUs but be carefull because a bad PS can and will toast other
parts of
> >> your system.
> >>
> >
> >I checked my power supply with my system running. I'm getting 5.03 volts
> >out of the 5 volt lines, and 12.07 volts out of the 12 volt lines.
That's
> >pretty much within spec if you ask me.
> >
> >The contacts on the ATX connector are quite pathetic. Once the first one
> >had a poor contact and cooked, this overloaded the rest of the 5 volt
> >connections causing them to cook in short order. Of the 6 ground
> >contacts, all are in perfect health, so the 5 volt problems stemmed from
> >one poor contact (since all power goes through the ground contacts, and
> >only some through the 5 volt lines), and not through over-volting
(causing
> >excessive current).
> >
> >Good idea, but the power supply seems fine to me.
>
> I'd still be a little warry of the PS since it could be an intermittent
> issue but in the mean time maybe you could try Memtest86, burnP6, and
burnBX
> (even thought you don't have the bx chipset) to check for memory and heat
> related issues. Beond that you could try beating up on the scsi subsystem
a
> bit with several instances of "dd if=/dev/sd?? of=/dev/zero" and see if
that
> triggers anything.
>
> --
> Ray
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From: Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: System reliability
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:38:26 -0800
On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Ray wrote:
(*SNIP!*)
>
> I'd still be a little warry of the PS since it could be an intermittent
> issue but in the mean time maybe you could try Memtest86, burnP6, and burnBX
> (even thought you don't have the bx chipset) to check for memory and heat
> related issues. Beond that you could try beating up on the scsi subsystem a
> bit with several instances of "dd if=/dev/sd?? of=/dev/zero" and see if that
> triggers anything.
>
I've got the Intel 440FX chipset. . .
I tried dd if=/dev/sd? of=/dev/null for all SCSI drives, and /dev/sd?? for
all SCSI partitions many times over concurrently (last count 36, spaced to
start a couple minutes apart). Aside from a tremendous amount of disk
thrashing and high filesystem latency, everything still works just fine
(implying no SCSI problems).
I don't have any of the Memtest86, burnP6, or burnBX utilities you spoke
of. Could you list an FTP site where I can retrieve them? I find it
difficult to search for this stuff myself without risking my system
crashing after starting up X.
Since it only crashes in X-windows (while moving the mouse), could it
conceivably be a video card issue (even though it seems to have worked
properly in the past)?
___
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T O O MM MM @o o@
T O O M M M So if it is in it or if it is on it, it is *
T OO M M as it is, be it in it or on it. `-'
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From: Ekkard Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound with internal PC speaker
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 01:35:27 +0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi,
has anybody experiences with sound output with
internal PC speaker? I'd like to put some different
signals depending on events, e.g. logins,
mail income, etc.
The beep that can be produced by
echo -ne "\a" ;
is not enought for me. I'd like to output
some real music.
I know that the internal speaker sound quality is bad
an there is much CPU overhead.
Are there somewhere howtos, infos, etc about?
thx
Ekkadr
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