Linux-Hardware Digest #303, Volume #14 Tue, 6 Feb 01 05:13:05 EST
Contents:
Re: 4 beeps on apm --suspend, how to debug this? (Mikael Pettersson)
Re: Ensoniq ES4815 (Steve Mills)
Re: 4 beeps on apm --suspend, how to debug this? (Krzys Majewski)
Re: Really old printer - Epson FX-80 (Michael Black)
Thanks... (Sein)
Re: ISDN hardware (Thor Anders Aarhaug)
es1869 onboard PIIX4 >> SB Live! (Thor Anders Aarhaug)
Help needed for Linux X configuration with ATI Rage Mobility-M PCI ("Jeroen de
Vries")
Linux with analog+digital TV-card (Rainer Lehrig)
Hardware differences??? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Installing Linux RH7 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Using old PC's ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
SB Live! Software and Redhat 7 (Tomi Kinnunen)
Re: Incredibly slow hard drive ("Norm")
Re: Help: Kernel Panic: Could not set ID ("Peter T. Breuer")
Re: I need an advice for Zip USB, ("cazzi miei")
Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD (Georg =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasen=F6hrl?=)
isdncard (teles 16.3) (Tobias Schlottke)
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Subject: Re: 4 beeps on apm --suspend, how to debug this?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Pettersson)
Date: 6 Feb 2001 05:17:27 +0100
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>After upgrading from a Legend/QDI Advance-5 mobo to an Asus P3V133,
>APM no longer works. I've enabled APM in the BIOS, but when I do an
>apm --suspend I get 4 beeps from the motherboard, and nothing
>happens. The mobo docs say nothing about 4 beeps, what should I do?
>-chris
If you're running RedHat or something based on RedHat, try
disabling kudzu (the hardware detection thingy), reboot, and
try apm -s again.
As root, "chkconfig --del kudzu" should do it.
kudzu kills APM on my ASUS P3B-F :-(
/Mikael
--
Mikael Pettersson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Computing Science Department, Uppsala University
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From: Steve Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Ensoniq ES4815
Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2001 20:53:47 -0800
Dances With Crows wrote:
>
> On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 14:32:44 -0800, Steve Mills staggered into the Black
> Sun and said:
> >I just installed RedHat 7.0 on a new machine. I have a Ensoniq es4815
> >PCI audio card. Anyone know if this *should* work?
> >Is trying the Ensoniq 1371 driver worthwhile?
>
> What does "cat /proc/pci" say for the card? Grepping for "4815" in the
> /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/ directory returns nothing relevant, but
> there seem to be a reasonable number of ES cards out there that are
> 1371-compatible while having different numbers/letters/names. (Mine
> comes up as "Crystal PnP Audio System" in 'Doze, but is IDed as a 1371
> in Linux.)
>
> /proc/pci will tell you at least what Linux thinks the card is, which is
> a good starting point.
>
> >What other options might there be? I've done a deja search already, 2
> >other poor bastards with the same problem, but in 2000. Also, I tried
> >the redhat hardware compatiblity list. What a joke that is.
>
> Hardware moves quickly, and there's a lot of it out there. Tried
> http://linhardware.com/ , or the ALSA project, or the (free trial,
> commercial product) stuff at http://4front.com/ ? Post the output from
> "cat /proc/pci", and if you get this thing working, please say so....
>
> --
> Matt G|There is no Darkness in Eternity/But only Light too dim for us to see
> Brainbench MVP for Linux Admin / Workin' in a code mine, hittin' Ctrl-Alt
> http://www.brainbench.com / Workin' in a code mine, whoops!
> -----------------------------/ I hit a seg fault....
OK, I admit it. I'm a dumb-ass!
First of all, "cat proc/pci" delivers:
Bus 1, device 13, function 0:
Multimedia audio controller: Ensoniq Unknown device (rev 2).
Vendor id=1274. Device id=5880.
Slow devsel. IRQ 11. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min
Gnt=12.Max Lat=128.
I/O at 0xcf00 [0xcf01].
But /usr/sbin/sndconfig configured the S.O.B.
I thought the install pinged for sound devices. (for all devices ... and
tried to do something meaningful when encountering one)
Now I need to get my SCSI CD-RW to work!
Thanks, DWC, for the input.
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From: Krzys Majewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 4 beeps on apm --suspend, how to debug this?
Date: 05 Feb 2001 21:00:12 -0800
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikael Pettersson) writes:
> If you're running RedHat or something based on RedHat, try
> disabling kudzu (the hardware detection thingy), reboot, and
> try apm -s again.
>
> As root, "chkconfig --del kudzu" should do it.
>
> kudzu kills APM on my ASUS P3B-F :-(
Nah, this is a Debian box:
Linux mi 2.2.17 #59 Mon Feb 5 17:09:08 PST 2001 i686 unknown
-chris
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux.slackware
From: Michael Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Really old printer - Epson FX-80
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 00:05:38 -0500
On Mon, 5 Feb 2001, Rob Malpass wrote:
> Hi,
>
> While I've had a quick look in Printing-HOWTO, can anyone answer what should
> be a really simple question...
>
> Can I use an Epson FX-80 printer with Linux?
>
> I'm running Slackware 7.1 (2.2.16). I do have a workaround if this is
> impossible i.e. connect the FX80 to a Windows box and print using Samba but
> that's a bit clunky - besides which it would mean Windows can do something
> Linux can't.
>
> As far as I can tell, the FX-80 (now nearly 20 years old) is not directly
> supported but given that it's so old and so basic, I wonder if some generic
> driver might be the answer.
>
> Cheers
> Rob
>
I haven't gotten as far as printers, or else I'd be in a better position
to answer you, because I have nothing but dot-matrix printers.
I have an older Printing HOWTO, and it specifically mentions that printer.
But I notice the HOWTO has changed quite a bit since that version, and
perhaps the process has changed too.
The FX-80 was a fairly popular/common printer, so finding details about
it should be simple. I can't remember if it had "near letter quality"
printing or not.
I thought the control codes for the different modes became standardized
enough that other printers used the same codes, adding if they did
something non-standard. I can't get to my Star Micronics NX-1000 manual
without risking my neck, but I thought it used the same control codes.
Hence, if there is something for dot-matrix printers, you should be
covered.
If it does have "NLQ" or you want to set the fonts or size (is it young
enough to have that?), you should be able to set it by sending the proper
string of bytes to the printer port (if the front panel switch doesn't
allow for this.
If you want the fonts to change through the text, then you'll have
to read some more, and I better go back to the more recent HOWTO
and see how different it is from the old one.
Michael
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From: Sein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Thanks...
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:41:34 +0100
Both good sites (BTW, www.thedukeofurl.org is also mentioned on
linhardware.com), just what I was looking for.
Thanks!
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From: Thor Anders Aarhaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: ISDN hardware
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:57:49 +0100
On Mon, 05 Feb 2001 16:30:33 -0500, Drew Cutter
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Could someone recommended ISDN hardware for redhat 7.0 ?
My Eicon DIVA 2.01 ISA PnP connected to my ISP on the first attempt
when installing RH 7. The card worked under Suse as well, although it
took me a while longer to set up isdn4linux.
Thor Anders
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From: Thor Anders Aarhaug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: es1869 onboard PIIX4 >> SB Live!
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:05:49 +0100
Hi,
Tried almost everything to get my soundcard to work. The es1869 is
simply not detected. All examples treats this card as an ISA, but no
dump tools finds it.
The motherboard is a PIIX4, not recognised as native and irq probing
will be performed later (according to 2.2.16/2.4.1). The PC is a
*sigh* Compaq Presario 5296.
I've given up trying to detect the card, so unless there is an obvious
solution my question is:
Is Soundblaster Live! a stable and well-supported card for linux?
Thor Anders Aarhaug
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Jeroen de Vries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati,alt.uu.comp.os.linux.questions,comp.os.linux.portable,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Help needed for Linux X configuration with ATI Rage Mobility-M PCI
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:22:35 +0100
I have a NEC Versa Note VXi laptop with an ATI Rage Mobility-M PCI 4MB
graphics card.
I have 2 distributions Mandrake 7.0 and Red Hat 6.0, with both distri's
Linux works fine except for X. I can't get X configured for my video card.
NEC is not supporting Linux and ATI is not supporting their cards in
laptops.
Does anyone have experience with this type of card? If so please let me know
how to get things up and running. I tried to configure a Mach64 card but
that does'nt work. From the postings I concluded that I should maybe
configure a Rage 128 card. I haven't tried that yet.
Anyway somebody willing to share his experience, give me some tips or even
can supply a XF86Config file is very welcome to do so.
When replying to me directly please remove '.nospam' from my e-mail adress.
Greetz.
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From: Rainer Lehrig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux with analog+digital TV-card
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 09:34:32 +0100
I have a analog Hauppauge WinTV PCI and a digital Hauppauge DVBs
installed in my PC. Can anybody tell me more about issues in installing
both cards simultaniously in one PC ?
When I "make insmod" on the digital driver I can see 1 digital channel
with kwintv, but of course I can't switch the channels. When I try
gVideo I can also see the channel but when I move the mouse cursor into
the window of gVideo the program terminates with a segmentation fault.
Is there a conflict between the analog and digital drivers ?
If so I would like to disable the analog card.
Yours:
Rainer Lehrig
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hardware differences???
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:30:35 GMT
What is the main difference between a sun workstation runnning sunOS
and a desktopPC running Linux?
Are there huge benefits for using one or the other?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Installing Linux RH7
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:46:11 GMT
Hi,
I'm having the same problem.
What I did find is that you have to activate the ide2 and ide3 by
using some kernel parameters, but I don't know how.
Can anyone help me with this?
Regards,
John
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Using old PC's
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 08:54:01 GMT
Is it possible to have say 3 pc's, where only one has a graphics, sound
card, cdrom, floppy, and Monitor. They all have an ethernet card,
harddrive, motherboard, and processor. Could you then install linux
onto all of the pc's but use one pc (the one with the grpahics card
etc) to interact with the others. i.e. with the one teminal you can
comminucate via exceed with all pc's linux OS's.
This would distribute the processors to different tasks with the
capability to add different sorts of hardware to different pc's.
The idea being to use onld pc's that can be picked up for nearly
nothing!
Rich_ard
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From: Tomi Kinnunen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: SB Live! Software and Redhat 7
Date: 6 Feb 2001 09:14:20 GMT
Hello to all Linuxists,
I'm a newbie to Linux, just installed Redhat 7. I have few questions about the use of
Sound Blaster
Live! 1024 on this system:
1. Is there available SAME KIND of DRIVERS for Linux than the Live!Ware package in
Windows?
( The ability to control all DSP-effects available in the card real-time,
applied e.g. to guitar
"multi-effects processor" ? )
2. I apologize that I have to use "Windowz terminology" :-), but I'd also need the
'corresponding' audio
software:
* "FastTracker / MadTracker"
- Some good tracker to build music from samples & instruments.
* "SoundForge"
(btw., THE BEST audio editing software ever made, IMO !!)
- Adding all possible effects with software to audio files,
( including Compression,Reverb,Delay,Bending,Fading,Tapping,
EQ,Flanger,Chorus, etc. etc. etc. )
* "MultiQuence", "DDClip", "Vegas Audio", etc.
- Multitrack editor/recorder.
Any useful help is very welcome !!! With best regards,
Tomi K.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Norm" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Incredibly slow hard drive
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 01:32:03 -0800
"Rob Reid" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Hi,
>
> My 20GB 7200 RPM hard drive only goes at about 100kB/s. It's quite variable
> but never gets above 800kb/s. I've tried hdparm but other than getting it to
> lock with some of the options it hasn't made any difference.
>
> 58 linux# hdparm -i /dev/hdc
>
> /dev/hdc:
>
> Model=Maxtor 52049U4, FwRev=DA620XS0, SerialNo=K40FFSEC
> Config={ Fixed }
> RawCHS=16383/16/63, TrkSize=0, SectSize=0, ECCbytes=57
> BuffType=DualPortCache, BuffSize=2048kB, MaxMultSect=16, MultSect=16
> CurCHS=16383/16/63, CurSects=-66060037, LBA=yes, LBAsects=40020624
> IORDY=on/off, tPIO={min:120,w/IORDY:120}, tDMA={min:120,rec:120}
> PIO modes: pio0 pio1 pio2 pio3 pio4
> DMA modes: mdma0 mdma1 mdma2 udma0 udma1 *udma2 udma3 udma4
>
> Some things from dmesg:
> Board Vendor: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. .
> Board Name: 7IXE .
> Board Version: 1.1 .
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> AMD7409: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> AMD7409: chipset revision 7
> AMD7409: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
Hmm - that drive is supposed to be a udma4 (DMA66), not udma2
(DMA33). I saw similar incredibly bad performance when I tried
to use one of these on an Intel BX chipset board that only
supported udma2. The fix was to lower the maximum DMA speed
of the drive down to udma2 using the 100UPDT.EXE utility from
http://www.maxtor.com/ - in your case I would check to make sure
a BIOS setting isn't forcing a slower mode too, since your 7IXE
is supposed to be able to do udma4.
If the drive thinks it is running at udma4 (as set by the BIOS)
and Linux is for whatever reason trying to run it at udma2, at
least, the 100UPDT utility should do the trick if you lower the
drive max to where Linux wants it.
You have to run the utility off of a bootable MSDOS floppy. Yuck.
But I'd try it anyway.
BTW I am assuming you are running a 2.4.x kernel or one patched
with the latest IDE patches.
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From: "Peter T. Breuer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Help: Kernel Panic: Could not set ID
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 08:37:51 +0100
Xiaoqin Qiu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Error: only one processor found
> Enabling symmetric IO mode ... ... done
> Enabling IO-APIC IRQs
> Changing IO-APIC physical APIC IO to 16
> kernel panic: Could not set ID
> In swapper task - not syncing.
> Is there anyone have any idea about the reason of it?
broken apic, apparently. Use "noapic" at boot.
> By the way, we are using kickstart installation. How to set up it to
> install single processor kernel?
Why do you want to?
Peter
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From: "cazzi miei" <cazzi_miei@micros~1.com>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: I need an advice for Zip USB,
Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 13:03:17 +0100
Glitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> ME wrote:
>
> > Thanks for reading this,
> >
> > I am trying to mount (dev/sda4) a Zip 100 USB drive under Kernel 2.2.16
> > (Suse 7.0). The modules usbcore, usb-ohci and usb-storage are loaded,
but
> > yet the system fails to communicate with the Zip drive. While booting up
the
> > system it finds the Zip drive. The error message is:
> >
> > sda: Read Capacity failed
> > sda: status=0, message=00, host=7, driver=00
> > sda: sense not available
> > sda: block size assumed 512 bytes, disk size 1 GB
> >
> > sda: scsidisk I/O Error: dev08:00, sector 0
> > unable to read partition table.
> >
> > My USB Sony CD/RW drive is also seen but can not be mounted. I think it
is a
> > SCSI issue, which I have tried to remedy with the insertation of module
sg,
> > but that did not help either. Perhaps somebody has an advice for me, any
> > input is appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Bruce
>
>
> The error message is 'unable to read partition table'......maybe it
> can't read one b/c there isn't one in the first place? (ie. there is no
> disk in the drive)
>
you gotta load the module sd_mod to make the device recognized, because it's
seen as a scsi device....
then you mount sda4... and that's done... i took a while to understand that
too as I'm not used to scsi devices...
Byez
Giorgio Agrelli
========================================================================
I'm at university away from my Linux Box...
heck this lookout thing sucks men
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Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 10:51:28 +0100
From: Georg =?iso-8859-1?Q?Hasen=F6hrl?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Having Windows98 and Linux on the same HD
Hi!
Apolozige if this question is to easy or someone has answered this
before... but i am a linux beginner -)
I want to install suse linux 7.0 on my windows 98 PC. My harddisk has
15GB. I have read in the suse documents that the boot partition of linux
and windows must be in the first 1024 cylinders.
I have the tool PartionMagic for partitioning the harddisk. This tool
can format the also partitions for linux (linux ext2).
Can I partition my harddisk as following?
10 MB boot partition for linux (in the first 1024 cylinders)
8 GB for windows 98 (C:) (must I divide the windows partition because
of the 1024 cylinders?)
6 GB for linux
Thanx for your help!
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From: Tobias Schlottke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: isdncard (teles 16.3)
Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 11:03:17 +0100
Hi all,
I have a strange problem. In my old 486 is a
teles isdn card and all is fine (kernel 2.0). I booted this
via DOS and loadlin. Some weeks ago the HD chrashed.
The linux partitions are still ok (on other disk).
I installed a new HD, boot again via DOS/loadlin
and the teles card doesnt work.
At boot time I get the same output
(1 teles card found, io/irq settings etc)
When I do a ping to remote site I see the
outgoing call in the imon. But on the other side
of the isdn line is no call. Same if a call from remote
to this pc comes in, no incoming call arrives.
The card itself is ok, I checked with a teles test driver
(loopback).
What I dont understand:
If I do a cat /proc/interrupts I see no interrupts
on the teles card.
Question: Where does the reported irq setting come from?
Is it read out by the kernel or is it stored in the driver?
Do I need to set the irq via a external plug'nplay utility?
(I dont remember the config.sys/autoexec.bat of the old DOS hd,
may be there were some tools called to modify these settings.)
Any hints, comments welcome
Toby
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