Linux-Hardware Digest #860, Volume #14 Sun, 3 Jun 01 13:13:05 EDT
Contents:
Re: Bad A7V133 MB ("Chris Croome")
sb16 config problems (Marc)
Re: sb16 config problems (Chiefy)
Re: Middle mouse button depressed when going in to X? (roel)
Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND (David James)
Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation? (Matt Majka)
(new!) D-Link DFE-570TX Quadcard - Comments? ("Daniel Seiler")
Re: LINUX Freezes During install ("Stan Gay")
Building Your Own PC? ("Gavin Cox")
Re: Does xawtv work under XFree86 4.0.1? (pete)
Re: recommend a ups for linux? ("bowman")
Re: recommend a ups for linux? ("bowman")
Re: Low-power, embedded SOC with wireless capabilities? (Wolfgang Denk)
Re: ORiNOCO timeouts (Dan Smith)
natural microsystems corp model vbx601 (Chad Pauli)
monolith corporation series 2 econo com card (Chad Pauli)
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From: "Chris Croome" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Bad A7V133 MB
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 10:25:55 GMT
Hi
I'm having _really bad_ problems with tha A7V133 and RedHat 7.1 qnd I'm on the
verge of taking it back to the place I brought it from and asking for it to be
swapped for another board.
In article <QRkP6.12300$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "cadaver"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED] remove periods in user name to reply!> wrote:
> The BIOS for the A7V133 is NOT 1007 IT IS 1004
1005 is out now:
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Socket_A/VIA_Chipset/Apollo_KT133A/A7V133/
But it's not helped my situation.
This is what I have (the only new items are the Soundblaster and Nvidia, all
the other comopnents have been in use in different boxes over the years):
- ASUS A7V133 with onboard Promise IDE RAID controller and onboard sound
- AMD Duron 600Mhz
- Two 256Mb 100Mhz DIMM's
- ELSA Nvidia Geforce 200MX 64Mb RAM AGP
- IDE 1 (not the Promise IDE RAID controller)
Primary - Maxtor 91728D8 16Gb UDMA 33 (AFIK)
Secondary - Quantum Fireball EX6.4A 6Gb UDMA 33 (AFIK)
- IDE 2 - Primary - Creative CD2423E
- Ethernet 1 Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100]
- Ethernet 2 NetVin NV5000SC
- Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10000
The first time I installed the RedHat X11 installer looked up when trying to
select the time zone. I didn't save the python error messages.
A search on Google resulted in be finding someone else reporting that the text
mode install worked with this motherboard.
The second, text-mode install went OK. However I had problems copying large
numbers of files onto the machine, both with SCP and NFS, each time copying the
files failed with errors (again I didn't save the error messages). With SCP I
had a error message that Google couldn't find. The net cards were in PCI slots
3 and 4.
I tried a third install. This seemed stable for a while however I had terrible
sound quality from the onboard audio (this was before I brought the
Soundblaster card). I tried turning on and off the Soundblaster emulation, I
compiled alsa-project.org dirvers, it still sucked. I also had intermitent seg
faults and core dumps, some from doing something as trivial as a ls -la | less.
Doing some more searching on Gooogle I discovered that several of the PCI slots
share IRQ's with other things, like the AGP port and the promise controller. I
then spent a day removing and swapping PCI cards around and chqnging IRQ
assignments in the BIOS trying to get the onboard sound to work properly. I
used mpg123 and Q3A for testing (my old vid card was a banshee... ;-). I
discovered that in the screen section of the X config file I had to disable AGP
to stop Q3 locking up. Whatever combination I tried the sound was choppy. The
next day I brought the Soundblaster.
I was still getting quite a few seg faults and NFS problems so I decided to do
a new install with the new soundcard. This time the install would not complete.
More searching on Google. I discovered the latest BIOS which came out a few
days ago. I installed it and restored the bios defaults.
The RedHat 7.1 installer was still failing. I put the hard disk in another box
and installed on that. Kudzu worked perfectly, it detected all the PCI cards
when I put the HD back in the A7V133. However I'm still getting seg faults.
Anyone have andy suggestions to save me from abandoning this board?
Chris
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From: Marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: sb16 config problems
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 10:21:26 GMT
I'm having difficulties getting my ISA SoundBlaster 16 PNP sound card
working correctly with Mandrake 8.0 and a 2.4.5 kernel. Using wavplay,
I'm only able to hear the first fraction of a second of a sound file,
and then I get the following error message in the console:
Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Sound is compiled in as a module, and I'm letting HardDrake configure
it. It looks like an IRQ conflict. Also I've noticed that the sb
module gets loaded twice during the boot sequence. Any help would be
greatly appreciated!
sndconfig results from /var/log/messages:
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C)
by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: Creative ViBRA16C PnP detected
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16C
PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 7, dma 1, 5
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed -
Probable IRQ conflict
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: <Sound Blaster 16 (4.13)> at 0x220 irq 7
dma 1,5
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: <Sound Blaster 16> at 0x300 irq 7 dma 0,0
Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: 1 Soundblaster PnP card(s) found.
/proc/bus/isapnp/devices:
0100 CTL0070CTL0001
0102200300038800000000000000000000070200000105050000000000000000000000000000000000
0101 CTL0070CTL7001
0000000000000000000000000000000000000200000404040000000000000000000000000000000000
/proc/interrupts:
CPU0
0: 242092 XT-PIC timer
1: 3089 XT-PIC keyboard
2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
7: 0 XT-PIC soundblaster
9: 0 XT-PIC usb-uhci, usb-uhci
11: 4782 XT-PIC aic7xxx, eth0
12: 69736 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
14: 243877 XT-PIC ide0
15: 4 XT-PIC ide1
NMI: 0
ERR: 0
from /proc/ioports:
...
0213-0213 : isapnp read
0220-022f : soundblaster
02f8-02ff : serial(auto)
0300-0303 : MPU-401 UART
0376-0376 : ide1
...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chiefy)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: sb16 config problems
Date: 3 Jun 2001 11:22:17 GMT
03 Jun 2001 10:21 UTC, Marc typed:
> I'm having difficulties getting my ISA SoundBlaster 16 PNP sound card
> working correctly with Mandrake 8.0 and a 2.4.5 kernel. Using wavplay,
> I'm only able to hear the first fraction of a second of a sound file,
> and then I get the following error message in the console:
>
> Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?
Try redirecting the output of 'pnpdump' to /etc/isapnp.conf
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: Soundblaster audio driver Copyright (C)
> by Hannu Savolainen 1993-1996
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: Creative ViBRA16C PnP detected
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: ISAPnP reports 'Creative ViBRA16C
> PnP' at i/o 0x220, irq 7, dma 1, 5
The usual defaults for sb are io=0x220 irq=5 dma=1
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: SB 4.13 detected OK (220)
> Jun 2 06:21:37 speedy kernel: sb: Interrupt test on IRQ7 failed -
> Probable IRQ conflict
I got irq7 errors until /etc/isapnp.conf was created.
--
Chiefy. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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From: roel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Middle mouse button depressed when going in to X?
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:14:31 +0200
grendel wrote:
> I've noticed that sometimes when first going in to KDE or GNOME that the
> middle button (wheel) is depressed. I can tell this because I have to hit
> the middle button again before any of the other buttons will work. I have it
> set in my XF86Config for Buttons with 4 and 5 XAxis. Any ideas?
You mean this line
ZAxismapping 4 5
Buttons
3 # this line is not needed on my system
go to autostart rightclick new -> application set in execute
imwheel -k
ofcourse imwheel has to be installed too.
And don't crosspost, one posting will do.
Best regards,
Roel Koelewijn | SuSE 7.0 Kernel 2.4.2
Netherlands | Dual PIII 667
homepage | 384 RAM
http://home.hccnet.nl/rl.koelewijn
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From: David James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: WinTV BTTV driver with NO SOUND
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 12:17:46 +0100
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bobster wrote:
> David Leblond wrote:
>
> > I have tried everything I have seen in this newsgroup to get my WinTV to
> > have sound, but so far nothing has worked. I am not getting any sound
> > through my Line Out jack on my TV card, so it is not the mixer itself.
> > Here are my current settings.
I had the same problem, what I did was to connect a spare set of speakers
to my tvcard and all was well. It seems that the line out cable to the
sound card did not work. Have you tried connecting your speakers to the
tvcard just to check it works.
Dave.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matt Majka)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded
Subject: Re: Serial port expansion board recommendation?
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 06:25:25 -0500
Thanks to all who replied back with their suggestions!
I'll look at them all...
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From: "Daniel Seiler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: (new!) D-Link DFE-570TX Quadcard - Comments?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:19:09 +0200
Hi NG!
I'm about to buy some PCI quadcards for a linux box (2.4 kernel). Has anyone
got any experiences with the D-Link DFE-570TX?
I'm asking because I've seen that they seem to have changed the board from
tulip to intel chipset!! (?)
And, yes, there should be a linux driver as mentioned on dlink webpages but
all you seem to get when clicking on download linux drivers is an archive
with windows drivers...duh. (no matter if you try .com, .de, .tw whatever)
So is anyone using this card? Comments, Bugs, Tip etc. are very, very
welcome!
thanx in advance,
Daniel
PS: I've once successfully installed an adaptec quartet quadcard (also using
an intel chipset) and I've been very pleased with the drivers, performance
etc. but searching the web I couldn't find a distributor here in Germany. :(
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Reply-To: "Stan Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Stan Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: linux.redhat.install
Subject: Re: LINUX Freezes During install
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 13:09:39 GMT
Thanks for the replies -
After reading the replies I decided to reinstall from scratch redhat
version 7.0 and get rid of Redhat 7.1 so I could eliminate the
a problem with the version.
The install went well for version 7.0 however .....
Text mode works great. I can run lynx and other programs.
But when I startx mouse movement causes the system to totally freeze.
This tells me that the freeze problem is not a version problem.
Since version 7.0 previously worked with the same system setup,
something on the hardware side must be going bad that is causing grief for
linux but not windows.
It must be catching a bad bit in the video memory.
I'll follow-up this up in comp.os.linux.hardware
Thanks.
"Stan Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:aO4S6.58930$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> On a Pent 233 96 meg PC I am having the worst time with linux.
>
> I've been running Redhat 7.0 since November in a lilo dual boot
> environment with windows 98.
>
> I don't know if the kids powered off the PC while linux was running or
> if the P.C. started having problems earlier I didn't notice,
> but on a later boot to linux fschk kicked in and passed after some inode
> recovery.
>
> Then things started happening badly. KDE desktop would only start a very
few
> applications. After a while the PC running linux would freeze up.
> I mean hard freeze where I could not stop the xserver or go to a
> console. I had to press reset.
>
> Things got worse from there. Text mode would work ok. But
> my KDE desktop would freeze up after a few seconds. In text mode
> I switched to gnome but gnome would also freeze.
>
> Since I just got Red Hat 7.1 in the mail I decided to upgrade and during
> the CD disk copy the PC would freeze at various packages.
> Thinking that the inodes were totally foobar I decided to do a
> full installation with various number of packages. Somewhere during the
> copy the PC freezes and pressing reset is the only way to clear it.
>
> Please keep in mind all during this time ( and as I write this message)
> windows98 is working quite well and I have had no problems with windows.
>
> Things I've done:
> Removed a PCI TV card that I don't use any and retried - FREEZE during
> install
>
> Removed the network card - Freeze during install
>
> Pulled all the memory 96meg from the PC and replaced with 64meg of working
> memory from another PC - Freeze during install.
>
> I have windows on hda1 (4 gig) and (hdc=20 gig) hdc1 (4 gig) with Linux
> being on hdc5+ (16 gig) .
> I removed and repartitioned hdc5+ for linux with various mount points -
> Freeze during install.
>
> Broke down and removed the fat32 partition on hdc1 and made the
> entire second drive linux partitions with full format checking for
> errors.-Freeze.
>
> Unplugged my zip drive and printer - Freeze during install.
>
> The latest is that the PC froze up before the install copy of the CD
> right when it was probing for the mouse type.
>
> Like I said windows is working fine with lilo going to dos
> and the network card in, printer hooked up, zip drive working.
>
> During the linux installs I am using a boot floppy.
>
> If anybody has any kind of insight I would be most appreciative.
>
> Thanks, Stan
>
>
>
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From: "Gavin Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Building Your Own PC?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:40:26 +0100
We offer a completely free, step-by-step guide to help you prepare, build
and test your new PC.
Visit us at http://www.buildyourown.org.uk
Hope we can help. Thanks
>:o)
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From: pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Does xawtv work under XFree86 4.0.1?
Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 00:08:21 +1000
Hello Andy,
I've jts been through the runaround with getting my TV card to work under a
RH7.1 distro - XFree86 4.0.3 and (updated) kernel 2.4.4.
Here is the guts of the post I made about what I did to get xawtv working.
--
1. added 'Load "v4l"' to the Module section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4
2. bttv options are card=10 tuner=1 pll=1 (though lots of cards work okay
it seems, and the pll=1 option specifies a PAL local oscillator frequency,
relvant for Australian TV standards)
So, the relevant part of my modules.conf file looks like
alias char-major-89 i2c-dev
options i2c-core i2c_debug=1
options i2c-algo-bit bit_test=1
alias char-major-81 videodev
alias char-major-81-0 bttv
options bttv card=10 tuner=1 pll=1
HOWEVER, I can only get xawtv to work, which is fine, but I cannot get
kwintv to work. I still get the smearing I described before. It may have
something to do with the way /dev/video has been changed under the 2.4.x
kenels (at least in the RH distro).
--
Perhaps the first point is relavant to your problem?
Good luck.
peter
> I've just loaded XFree86 4.0.1 to my Mandrake7.2 box and cannot now get my
> Pinnacle PCTV card to work. It worked fine under my old X3 setup but now I
> cannot get a signal. I've checked the modules bttv, i2c and i2c-core are
> loaded and no problems there as far as I can tell but when I run the
> tuning wizard on kwintv it comes up with nothing as channels found. I've
> also tried xawtv and the same problem there so I think it must be X that
> is causing the problem as everything seems to be installed ok. I also have
> the new NVidia drivers loaded but I can't see that being the problem.
> Has anyone got it to work under X4.0.1 and how did you do it? Any help
> would be most appreciated.
> Thanks
>
>
>
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recommend a ups for linux?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 09:22:16 -0600
"Michael Meissner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
>
> Also, you very definately want to connect the monitor to the UPS -- it
makes it
> rather inconvient to work, such as saving documents if you can't see what
you
> are typing.
Good point, but it is also a good idea to have autosave (assuming it is
supported) set up so you lose minimal work. Sooner or later, there will be
an unattended shutdown and the system has to handle this gracefully. Losing
a little work is painful, but nowhere near as painful as messing about with
fdisk, badblocks, and friends trying to nurse a hd back to working
condition.
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From: "bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: recommend a ups for linux?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 09:44:08 -0600
"bowman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:5AsS6.544
> fdisk, badblocks, and friends trying to nurse a hd back to working
er, make the 'fsck'. let's not get too drastic
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.embedded
From: Wolfgang Denk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Low-power, embedded SOC with wireless capabilities?
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 14:27:30 GMT
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joane Lispton) writes:
>We are currently looking for an embedded, low power (PowerPC?) SOC/SBC
>capable of (a) running Linux, (b) with integrated Ethernet transceiver
>and (c) support for either Bluetooth or 802.11b. Or simply a PCMCIA
>card slot. :-)
>It would be used inside a server, so that, upon being wirelessly
>instructed to do so, it would, via "normal" Ethernet, wake the server
>up using standard Wake-On-Lan.
>Can you give me a hint on where I might find such a device?
How about the TQM8xxL Embedded PowerPC Module?
See for instance http://www.denx.de.embedded-ppc-en.html :
MPC8xx Embedded PowerPC Controller
(MPC823, 850, 855 and 860 CPUs, all sub-types available)
up to 64 MB SDRAM
up to 8 MB on-board Flash
2 x serial port (or more), parallel port, I2C, SPI, USB
Ethernet, PCMCIA, LCD-/VGA-Controller (with TQM823L)
up to 2 x CAN-Bus Controllers
... and all that on just 54x44 mm�!
Wolfgang Denk
--
Software Engineering: Embedded and Realtime Systems, Embedded Linux
Phone: (+49)-8142-4596-87 Fax: (+49)-8142-4596-88 Web: www.denx.de
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: ORiNOCO timeouts
From: Dan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 03 Jun 2001 12:32:44 -0400
I've heard that the PCI adapter from ORiNOCO really has troubles.
When lucent told me this, I went for the ISA one and it works great.
May want to pick one up and give it a try..
--Dan
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Pauli)
Subject: natural microsystems corp model vbx601
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 16:37:15 GMT
Hi,
I am trying to track down some info and maybe drivers for a dialer
card. This works with the phones and runs under the PICK environment.
Made by Natural Microsystems Corp, around 1997,
it is their Model VBX601 Rev D
Any info would be appreciated.
Chad Pauli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chad Pauli)
Subject: monolith corporation series 2 econo com card
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2001 16:40:42 GMT
Hello,
I am trying to find out some info about a communication card I have.
made by Monolith Corporation Series 2
their Econo Com - it is a ISA card.
The system was made arount 1997. It has an adapter for 16 RJ11
plugs. Not sure if it is a 16 port modem card or just a 16 port serial
card.
Info / manual, or anything on it would be usefull. Any one using such
a thing in Linux?
Chad Pauli
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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