Linux-Hardware Digest #720, Volume #14 Thu, 3 May 01 10:13:04 EDT
Contents:
Mouse doesn't work under X ("Chuck Bearns")
Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid... (Lew Pitcher)
Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it (Craig Kelley)
Re: Researching Linux & AMD Duron ("Pavan")
need help with video card problem :(((( ("asif")
Re: Supported largest IDE hd size? (Axel Roehken)
Re: kppp say Modem is busy ("arthur")
Re: Accton EN2242 (Oddbjorn Hansen)
onstream tape ADR50 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
RE: Researching Linux & AMD Duron ("C.")
i810 and X-windows (Arne)
Re: Hot-swapping IDE drives (Marc D. Williams)
Re: Any recommendations for photo-scanners? (Simon Brooke)
Re: run two linuxes (Simon Brooke)
Re: vrefresh out of range on Viewsonic VP181/GEForce2 GTS on Linux (Jonadab the
Unsightly One)
Floppy drive problems ("J.H.ETTLE")
Mouse Problem in Xwindow ("Sabri Dilmi")
Re: Researching Linux & AMD Duron (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
TrueMobile 1150 WLAN (Falko =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fe=DFer?=)
font for text screen (Norman Levin)
Re: TrueMobile 1150 WLAN (Dean Thompson)
Re: onstream tape ADR50 ("Nick Lockyer")
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From: "Chuck Bearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse doesn't work under X
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 22:11:39 -0700
Reply-To: "Chuck Bearns" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have a PS/2 port mouse, Microsoft Serial Port Mouse Compatible Mouse 2.0.
The mouse works in other situations just fine. It doesn't work under X.
The X config seems to be done OK, including the mouse.
Any suggestions?
thanks
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From: Lew Pitcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: adding an IDE hard disk - ok, call me stupid...
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 22:27:33 -0400
"William B. Cattell" wrote:
>
> Yo all;
>
> I installed Mandrake 8.0 on a mchine with a 1Gb drive and CDROM (from a
> CD). I want to remove the cdrom and put an 18Gb IDE hard disk in its
> place as /dev/hdb.
>
> I [thought] it would be simple however when I connect the hard disk it
> shows up correctly in the messages file but if I try to access through
> fdisk I get an error about a driver not having been loaded for it.
>
> Mandrake 8 install kernel 2.4.3 by default - is the driver thing new with
> 2.4? I don't remember having this trouble under 2.2.
>
> Help??!?
I've installed second hard drives in several working systems without
problems.
Could you quote (cut'n'paste) the error message into a post, so we can
see exactly what the system is complaining about? Also, could you
cut'n'paste the results of
dmesg | grep hdb
into your reply as well?
Thanks..
--
Lew Pitcher
Master Codewright and JOAT-in-training
Registered Linux User #112576
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From: Craig Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: USB harddisk - how to get more out of it
Date: 02 May 2001 23:53:26 -0600
William Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi all,
>
> I am using kernel 2.4.3 and I have attached a USB-IDE harddisk to my
> thinkpad 600.
> Right now, the current status is
> Upon booting up
> cat /proc/scsi/sci gives the following
> Attached devices:
> Host : scsi0 Channel : 00 Id: 00 Lun:00
> Vendor :Quantum Mdoel: Sirocco1700A
> Type : Direct Access ANSI SCIS revision :02
> cat /proc/scsi/usb-storage-0/0 gives
> Host scsi0: usb-storage
> Vendor : Anchor Chips, Inc.?Firmare Fra
> Product: Firmware Frameworks....
> Serial Number:None
> Protoclol :8020i
> Transoport: Control/Bulk
> GUID :04e60001000000000....
>
> I also do a "mount -t usbdevfs /dev/usbdevfs /mnt/usbhd"
> and when I "cd" to /mnt/usbhd
> I got
> "001" as a directory and 2 files, "devices" and "drivers"
> and under directory "001", there are 2 files "001" and "002".
>
>
> so what can I do further....i have tried fdisk /dev/usbdevfs and of
> course failed.
My USB CF reader presents itself as a SCSI drive. Check
/var/log/messages after doing a
insmod usb-storage
You should see something like this:
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : READ CAPACITY failed.
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : status = 1, message = 00, host
= 0, driver = 08
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : extended sense code = 2
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc : block size assumed to be 512
bytes, disk size 1GB.
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: sdc: I/O error: dev 08:20, sector 0
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: unable to read partition table
May 2 23:53:13 c705613-a kernel: USB Mass Storage support registered.
May 2 23:53:47 c705613-a kernel: usb.c: deregistering driver
usb-storage
May 2 23:53:47 c705613-a kernel: scsi : 2 hosts left.
(I don't have a card inserted, which is why the reads failed --
but it works just fine when I have a card in)
--
It won't be long before the CPU is a card in a slot on your ATX videoboard
Craig Kelley -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.isu.edu/~kellcrai finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP block
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From: "Pavan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Researching Linux & AMD Duron
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 11:28:35 +0530
"Zhan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who has successfully installed
a Linux
> distro on a machine running an AMD Duron processor. In your reply,
please
> include your system configuration, the related distro with version,
and any
> other pertinent information. I would also like to hear from those
who have
> been unable to install Linux on a Duron machine. Please, of course,
include
> the info mentioned above.
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
I have the following-
AMD Duron 700
ASUS A7Vi-Vm
128MB RAM
.
.
.
Ran RH7 till recently. Now I have RH7.1 and Mandrake8 running
smoothly. No Probs.
-Pavan
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From: "asif" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: need help with video card problem :((((
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 07:16:44 GMT
I have got a weird video card problem!! the problem is i have dual boot
system on my machine; linux and windows. whenever i boot to windows and try
to boot back to Linux Mandrake 8, I get first "out of sync" message while
LILO is loading and then when it loads Linux Mandrake 8.0, the screen is all
messed up :( The only solution through trial and error I have found is
reboot in "fail safe" mode and type the command "rdev -v /dev/hdd1 -1".
After that if i reboot back after a "complete" shut down, everything remains
OK as long I don't boot back to windows. And if I do that by mistake, I have
to go through the whole ordeal once again. My question is what in the world
is going on? and where can I stick that command so i won't have to go
through the torture again and again.
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From: Axel Roehken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Supported largest IDE hd size?
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:27:46 +0200
I have 2 Maxtor hard disk each with 81 GB up and running.
a.
NTK wrote:
> What is the supported largest IDE harddrive size in the current linux
> 2.2.x?
>
> THanks
>
> --
> Posted via CNET Help.com
> http://www.help.com/
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From: "arthur" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: kppp say Modem is busy
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 01:38:54 -0700
I had the same problem with a USR 2977/6/ PCI modem caused by Linux
2.2.16 (RH 7.0) not being able to share an IRQ with the Asus A7V133 USB.
Fix for me was to use PCI slot 3 which does not share IRQ with the USB.
I discovered this from an earlier (5 weeks ago?) post. I have to use
setserial to enable the modem and assign it to ttyS3.
Arthur
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Todd"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Modem busy" often indicates an IRQ problem...
>
>
> On Wed, 2 May 2001 16:09:56 +0200, Eitan Berkovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>>I have a ess modem. Linux doesn't auto-recognize it but when I configure
>>it in kppp it finds it and says the the modem is busy. why? how? etc.
>>
>>JShard.
>>
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From: Oddbjorn Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Accton EN2242
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:44:02 +0200
Bruno Morais wrote:
>
> I bought a HP Omnibook XE3.
> The lan card is an Accton EN2242 MiniPCI and i dont find drivers for this
> lan card.
> Annyone help???
>
> Bruno Morais
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Take a look at http://www.math.u-bordeaux.fr/~depouill/XE3/
This works for me with kernel 2.4.2 and SuSE 7.x.
A very nice collection of Linux on laptops can be found at
http://www.linux-laptop.net/
--
Oddbjørn Hansen, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: onstream tape ADR50
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 09:46:01 GMT
I have some problems writing to an onstream ADR50 tape streamer,
running RedHat 7.0. I can't write to it...
$mt -f /dev/st0 status
SCSI 2 tape drive:
File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
Tape block size 32768 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
Soft error count since last status=0
General status bits on (41010000):
BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
$tar cpv -b 64 -f /dev/st0 --label="test" --directory / home
tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/output error
dmesg
st0: Error on write filemark.
st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0xb6ca6,
Current st09:00:
sense key Illegal Request
Additional sense indicates Invalid field in cdb
Thx for any help.
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From: "C." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Researching Linux & AMD Duron
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 12:44:29 +0200
I havent got a Duron, but an Athlon (Thunderbyte) @ 1,2 GHz. Anyway, I
suppose if it works with a Tb then it works with a Duron.
I have Red Hat 6.2 and I had some problems booting it up because you have to
pass to the kernel "x86_serial_nr=1" 'cause the kernel thinks mine is a PIII
and tries to disable the CPU serial number instructions and then locks. With
"x86_serial_nr=1" it just doesnt try it. I don't know if this is simmilar
with Red Hat 7.0 or they've corrected it.
Anyway, now the systems runs very smoothly, no locks at all and everything
runs fast. I have :
Toshiba IDE DVD-ROM
IBM IDE H.D. 6.2 Gb
Maxtor IDE H.D. 6.1 Gb
3dfx Vodoo Banshee
192 MB Ram @ 133 MHz
ABIT K7A motherboard (VIA KT133A chipset) (nice one, no jumpers @ all)
Hope this helps. By the way, I consider the Duron the best CPU purchase up
to date. I just buyed the Tb@1,2GHz 'cause I need a lot of computing power.
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From: Arne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: i810 and X-windows
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 13:40:52 +0200
Hi,
When i run startx, i get a black screen and the screen only appears when i
pick a low resolution and then i only see a portion of the screen.
Aside of this the mouse doesn't work properly, it jumps over the screen
when i move my mouse.
I can't seem to find the solution.
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Please reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc D. Williams)
Subject: Re: Hot-swapping IDE drives
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:49:35 -0000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 27 Apr 2001 21:24:59 GMT, Mitch Foxworth wrote:
> Halloo all,
>
> I have 2 hard-drives that I have installed in removable hard-drive racks,
> and want to be able to hot-swap them while my SuSE 7.1 system is running.
> Assuming I umount the filesystems that the drives are mounted in before
> removing the drive, can anyone think of any problems that might be caused
> because of this? Any advice would be appreciated.
>
In a related thread elsewhere someone mentioned the use of hdparm
to put a drive to sleep (-Y) and/or unregister it (-U).
The latter is of course dangerous if the hardware isn't made for
hot swapping.
I have Windows on a removable drive and since it wasn't being
accessed/mounted I tried to at least remove it.
hdparm -Y /dev/hdc
The drive went to sleep and I pulled it out. What I haven't done
is put it back in to a running system.
man hdparm
Pay particular attention to -C, -R, -U, -y, -Y, -S, and -Z.
Or maybe just grep for the word `dangerous'. :-)
--
>>ANIME SENSHI<<
Marc D. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.oldskool.org/~tvdog/ -- DOS Internet & Tandy 1000
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Platform/8269/ -- Win3.x Makeover
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From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Any recommendations for photo-scanners?
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:51:48 GMT
on Tuesday 01 May 2001 22:04, Jonathan Buzzard wrote:
> In article <DlEH6.37$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Anyone got any reccomendations for a photo-scanner? I run Debian,
>> kernel 2.2.17, have SCSI, have USB hardware but haven't looked at
>> patching the kernel to drive it.
>>
>
> Do you mean a scanner for photograph negatives?
Yes, and slides and so on. Strictly 35mm.
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; better than your average performing pineapple
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From: Simon Brooke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: run two linuxes
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 11:54:54 GMT
on Thursday 03 May 2001 01:39, Eric P. McCoy wrote:
> "alik blochin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> can i run both Mandrake 8.0 and RH7.1 on the same hdisk ?
>> i suppose i can but two separate disks would definitly be
>> better choice for such endevour...
>> the question is how do i do it?
>
> No, the question is "why in the world would you _want_ to do it?"
I ran dual boot Mandrake and Debian for a while, whilst I was switching
over from Mandrake to Debian. Once I'd got confident that all the stuff
I really needed was working comfortably on Debian, I deleted the
Mandrake partition. And given the current state of RedHat, anyone who
wants to move from RedHat to a.n.other distribution has my sympathy!
--
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/
;; better than your average performing pineapple
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jonadab the Unsightly One)
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
Subject: Re: vrefresh out of range on Viewsonic VP181/GEForce2 GTS on Linux
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 12:48:11 GMT
"dude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The Viewsonic VP181 is best at 1280x1024, but X on linux takes
> it to a max of 1152x864.
>
> I have tweaked XF86Config-4 numerous times and the XFree86.0.log
> keeps deleting various modes, saying "vrefresh out of range"
>
> This same monitor, via KVM switch, works flawlessly on Windows
> 2000 at 1280x1024...
>
> I have the latest nvidia drivers, 2.4.2 kernel, etc.
Does the colour depth matter?
Also, try running your X configuration utility (for
example, Xconfigurator) and instead of telling it a
brand and model name for your monitor, use one of the
"monitor that can do foo x bar at baz Hz" settings,
picking of course the one that matches what your
monitor can do. Do not pick a setting that exceeds
what your monitor can display, though. I think also
that one of the X configuration utilities will let
you specify the horizontal and vertical refresh
ranges from your monitor's specifications, which
should accomplish the same thing.
- jonadab
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From: "J.H.ETTLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Floppy drive problems
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:41:20 +0100
I am using kernel 2.2.14, and I am trying to access a normal DOS
formatted 1.44Mb floppy disk, but I keep getting I/O errors. I'm told
that /dev/fd0 is not a valid block device, it isn't ready. When I check
dmesg, the kernel keeps going on about an I/O error on the floppy
device.
When I try to use the drive, it lights up, but I just get the error
message. On boot-up, the BIOS says nothing about not being able to find
it.
This computer was not used for many months; could a dust build-up be
responsible, or is my floppy drive past it?
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From: "Sabri Dilmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Mouse Problem in Xwindow
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:04:38 -0400
I need a little of help here.
My mouse works fine but each minute or so it goes by itself to the top-left
corner of the screen. I don't know why this happens knowing that during the
installation process of Linux this didn't happen !!!
Can someone helps.
Sabri
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Subject: Re: Researching Linux & AMD Duron
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alan P. Kennedy, Sr)
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 13:08:08 GMT
You can't be serious? Duron, Athlon, slot A, or socket A work
perfectly with all x86 software. That's is all we use here is duron or
athlons and not one problem with four new machines. If you can't
install Linux it is not secondary to the processor but some other
hardware, or setup problem.
>> Hi, I would like to hear from anyone who has successfully
>> installed a Linux distro on a machine running an AMD Duron
>> processor. In your reply, please include your system
>> configuration, the related distro with version, and any other
>> pertinent information. I would also like to hear from those who
>> have been unable to install Linux on a Duron machine. Please, of
>> course, include the info mentioned above. Thanks for your help!
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From: Falko =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fe=DFer?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: TrueMobile 1150 WLAN
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 15:10:13 +0200
Hi folks,
I'm going to set up a Dell Inspiron Notebook including a Dell TrueMobile
1150 WLAN PCMCIA-Card with S.u.S.E. Linux 7.1 and I'm looking for a
driver or at least some information about the support of this WLAN card
under linux. I hope someone in this group can give me a hint! Maybe, the
card is driven by an ordinary chipset and I just didn't find out at
Dell's support...
Waiting for help,
Falko
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Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 12:18:43 -0500
From: Norman Levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: font for text screen
It seems in rc.sysinit, the variable SYSFONT is checked - though I can't
see where it is set. There is then a lot of checking in various directorys
for fonts, but finally /sbin/setsysfont is executed and it does NOT
supply $SYSFONT so whatever is loaded must be a default.
Is there an error in the script? Or am I mis reading the script.
I need a larger font on my screen, preferably a very clear font, similar
to the one AIX uses on it's graphic screen - when used in text mode.
ps - I thought this would be more a 'setup' group question, but I can't seem
to append there.
--
Norman Levin
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From: Dean Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: TrueMobile 1150 WLAN
Date: Thu, 03 May 2001 23:37:08 +1000
Hi Falko,
> I'm going to set up a Dell Inspiron Notebook including a Dell TrueMobile
> 1150 WLAN PCMCIA-Card with S.u.S.E. Linux 7.1 and I'm looking for a
> driver or at least some information about the support of this WLAN card
> under linux. I hope someone in this group can give me a hint! Maybe, the
> card is driven by an ordinary chipset and I just didn't find out at
> Dell's support...
You might be interested in this web page:
http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.drivers.html
It contains information on your Network card and also explains how it is
really a re-badged CISCO AiroNet card. It does outline a driver and some web
pages that you might like to get and look up.
See ya
Dean Thompson
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From: "Nick Lockyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: onstream tape ADR50
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 14:22:11 +0100
Yes I get similar, but with mine I can write small amounts, but when I read
it back after about 500M I start getting errors. I suspect the driver is
not very good!
But do check that you do not have two devices both as slave/master on the
same IDE channel, that really can do nasty things!
Also check that the user has rights to write to the device!
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have some problems writing to an onstream ADR50 tape streamer,
> running RedHat 7.0. I can't write to it...
>
> $mt -f /dev/st0 status
> SCSI 2 tape drive:
> File number=0, block number=0, partition=0.
> Tape block size 32768 bytes. Density code 0x0 (default).
> Soft error count since last status=0
> General status bits on (41010000):
> BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN
>
>
> $tar cpv -b 64 -f /dev/st0 --label="test" --directory / home
>
> tar: /dev/st0: Cannot write: Input/output error
>
> dmesg
> st0: Error on write filemark.
> st0: Error with sense data: [valid=0] Info fld=0xb6ca6,
> Current st09:00:
> sense key Illegal Request
> Additional sense indicates Invalid field in cdb
>
>
> Thx for any help.
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