Linux-Hardware Digest #915, Volume #14 Mon, 18 Jun 01 09:13:06 EDT
Contents:
Re: buying a CDR/RW (Julian Bordas)
Re: Cheap place to buy new/used SCSI disks? (Michael Meissner)
Re: Can I use my USB mouse whit suse6.2? (Chris Cox)
Re: 3rd party partitioning tool (Frank Miller)
Re: Multi user machine (Michael Meissner)
Re: buying a CDR/RW (Ed Blackman)
Re: Redhat 7.1 with Intel D815EEA motherboard ("Vyacheslav Fedorov")
RFI on a new mobo for Linux (Tomasz Korycki)
Driver for Dell PowerEdge 2550 PERC3/Di Raid Controller ("Cosmos Tong")
Can I use UCB camera? ("Yongsuk Lee")
Re: Driver for Dell PowerEdge 2550 PERC3/Di Raid Controller ("*Mea Culpa")
quake2 suse7.1 rage 128 openGL/MesaGL (kp)
H E L P !!!! ("K.A.")
Re: Multi user machine (John Thompson)
Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help! (Dave Uhring)
Sound problems ("Z. Kadar")
Promise Fastrak 100 and SuSE 7.x ("news.t-online.de")
Re: Promise Fastrak 100 and SuSE 7.x ("*Mea Culpa")
Re: Details about the ECI USB modem chipset (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Brun)
Alternate Methods of Creating 1:1 CD Copy?? (Michael Knight)
DeviceDrivers in kernels 2.2 -> 2.4 ?? help please (Nick Belshaw)
Re: Alternate Methods of Creating 1:1 CD Copy?? (Sebastien Stormacq)
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From: Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: buying a CDR/RW
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:11:21 +1000
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Richard wrote:
>
> LG is goldstar reborn wouldn't touch it.
>
> my 2 cents worth
>
> Richard James
You're the second person to avoid this one. The thing is that the hardware
guide at http://www.linux.org gives this 5 out of 5 !!
Julian
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Subject: Re: Cheap place to buy new/used SCSI disks?
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Jun 2001 22:47:08 -0400
"Ryn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to purchase 6 4/9/18 gb SCSI disks. Has anyone found any
> cheap places on the web? I need the HH drives that would fit in
> an Ultra 1.
>
> Thanks for any info,
I tend to like www.compgeeks.com myself.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: Chris Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can I use my USB mouse whit suse6.2?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 02:49:55 GMT
It's possible of course!
You will need a newer 2.2 kernel (2.2.19). You'll need to compile
the kernel with USB support.
Unfortunately, I have only done a USB modem device configuration...
so I can't address the specifics of using a USB mouse.
Take a look at http://www.linux-usb.org
Some of the information there is a little old, but most of it should
get you going in the right direction.
Regards,
Chris
Tozzy wrote:
>
> I'm running suse6.2 and I would like to use my USB Microsoft IteliExplorer
> Mouse.
> Does any body have any suggestions?
>
> Thanx
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From: Frank Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3rd party partitioning tool
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:03:17 GMT
cj101 wrote:
>
> I know this has probably been asked before, but I was wondering which 3rd
> party Partitioning tool worked better: System Commander or Partition Magic
>
> I'm running WinME, W2k, and would like to run Red Hat 7.1, Suse 7.1 &
> Solaris 8 (Intel). To make things easier (if that's possible..:)) , I would
> like to use a 3rd party application. Any insights?
>
> thanks!
I have used Partition Magic, Ver 6. with acceptable results. Don't know
about the others.
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Subject: Re: Multi user machine
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Jun 2001 23:03:34 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mojo B. Nichols) writes:
> Does anybody have any experience with using two monitors and keyboards
> on one machine? I would like to have two seperate people logged into
> their respective accounts on the same machine. The second machine
> would be for my girlfriend. I'm thinking I could sink 1/2 what I would
> spend on a new machine into the monitor, and make her much happier
> then buying a new machine. It seems like this would be a very common
> given the number of people in a typical household. And the number of
> cheapskate fathers who are tired of buying more crap for their kids;-)
It is probably a lot simpler problem is to get a cheap 386/486/pentium, 2 lan
cards, cross over cable (or normal cables if you have a hub/switch), video
card, and make her machine an X server to your machine, either with minimal
disk, or by booting from floppy and having the root partition NFS mounted.
This is because PC hardware tends to assume one keyboard/mouse, unless you go
to USB. Here is one link:
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta/unix/xterminal/index.html
One advantage of networking, is you can separate the machines up to something
like 100 meters.
--
Michael Meissner, Red Hat, Inc. (GCC group)
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886, USA
Work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +1 978-486-9304
Non-work: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax: +1 978-692-4482
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Blackman)
Subject: Re: buying a CDR/RW
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 03:36:11 GMT
On Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:11:21 +1000, Julian Bordas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Richard wrote:
>> LG is goldstar reborn wouldn't touch it.
>>
>> my 2 cents worth
>
>You're the second person to avoid this one. The thing is that the hardware
>guide at http://www.linux.org gives this 5 out of 5 !!
I'm not familiar with linux.org's hardware guide. Perhaps they're
rating compatibility and not quality.
I used to work in a whitebox computer store, and we used LG
electronics cdrom drives. This before CDRW drives were cheap enough
to be popular, so I don't know about them, but the CD drives we used
were decent quality: not the best on the market, but not the worst,
and pretty good considering the price.
Just my 2 cents.
Ed
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From: "Vyacheslav Fedorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Redhat 7.1 with Intel D815EEA motherboard
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 07:11:18 +0300
During installation RH 7.1 has found out all 815chip's devices
(video,audio,ethernet ...)
RH 7.0 had kernel 2.2.x, RH 7.1 has 2.4.2 which support 815 chipset without
additional drivers.
"Clarke Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Thanks for your help. I had heard that the onboard video had some
problems
> with Redhat 7.0, but maybe that was fixed with 7.1. That would stand to
> reason, since the 815e is a popular chipset.
>
> "Vyacheslav Fedorov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:9ghb87$9te$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > I have a similar system (Win98 and RH 7.1 on 815 chipset) and it work
> good.
> >
> > "Clarke Robertson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> >
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> > > I just got an Intel D815EEA motherboard with onboard graphics support
> > (815e
> > > chipset). I was wanting to add Redhat 7.1 to my system in a separate
> > > partition from Win98. Has anyone tried Redhat 7.1 with this board?
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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From: Tomasz Korycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RFI on a new mobo for Linux
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 06:08:04 GMT
Hi, everyone!
After lurking for a while (and learning some, I hope), I have a
question: I am looking for a new mobo. It _has_ to have 2 NICs and two
serials on board. Video would be nice - don't care which, since it will
be CUI-only machine. Far more important is serial-port access to BIOS
settings. USB does not figure anywhere.
So, does anyone have such a baby? I bought Tyan S2510NG (Thunder LE),
but I'm not too happy with it - the one that still works locks up, the
other 4 (!!!) either didn't work right off the bat, or soon afterwards.
One stopped on the first boot after install...
Thanks for any info!
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From: "Cosmos Tong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Driver for Dell PowerEdge 2550 PERC3/Di Raid Controller
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 15:46:49 +0800
Dear all,
I would like to ask if there is Linux driver other then the one supplied by
Dell. As that is for kernel-2.2.16 and RH7.0 only. I would like to have it
installed on a SuSE 7.1 box.
Thankx in advance
--
Regards
Cosmos Tong
Network Administrator
NetVillage (Asia) Co. Ltd.
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From: "Yongsuk Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can I use UCB camera?
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 08:05:54 GMT
Hello!
I'm trying to use PC camera. What model of camera can I apply?
Could you give me any recommendations ?
Thank you .
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From: "*Mea Culpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Driver for Dell PowerEdge 2550 PERC3/Di Raid Controller
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:13:46 +0100
Check this out: http://www.dell.com/us/en/esg/topics/linux_aacraid.htm
"Cosmos Tong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:9gkblc$peq$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I would like to ask if there is Linux driver other then the one supplied
by
> Dell. As that is for kernel-2.2.16 and RH7.0 only. I would like to have
it
> installed on a SuSE 7.1 box.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (kp)
Subject: quake2 suse7.1 rage 128 openGL/MesaGL
Date: 18 Jun 2001 02:21:14 -0700
I have just installed Quake2 onto suse7.1 following the How-To guide
from www.linuxgames.com. I have got the software renderer working,
SVGALIB, but I want to run quake2 in GL mode.
When installing suse I selected my graphics board and the 3D option
and I know the GL screensavers work.
How do I get quake2 to recognise the already installed GL rage 128
drivers?
The How-To guide from www.linuxgames.com says you need to install
glide (voodoo boards)then use either MesaGL or the openGLX renderer.
No use.
How do I get it to use the already installed GL renderer?
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From: "K.A." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: H E L P !!!!
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 11:21:58 +0200
I'm looking for caldera openlinux 2.3, please give me some adress for
download it or information.
Thank YOU very much!!!!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Multi user machine
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 21:27:06 -0500
"Mojo B. Nichols" wrote:
> Does anybody have any experience with using two monitors and keyboards
> on one machine? I would like to have two seperate people logged into
> their respective accounts on the same machine. The second machine
> would be for my girlfriend. I'm thinking I could sink 1/2 what I would
> spend on a new machine into the monitor, and make her much happier
> then buying a new machine. It seems like this would be a very common
> given the number of people in a typical household. And the number of
> cheapskate fathers who are tired of buying more crap for their kids;-)
You could pick up an old 486 or Pentium and run it as an X
terminal off the main machine.
--
-John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,alt.os.linux.mandrake
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.0 freezing with DMA problems, please help!
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 00:20:34 -0500
Yu Di wrote:
> Dave Uhring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>> What motherboard chipset is dmesg reporting?
>>
>> For the meantime, run as root
>>
>> # hdparm -d0
>>
>> which will turn off DMA and maybe save what data you have on the drive.
>
> Hi, I have pasted the "dmesg" output to the end of this message. When
> I tried to boot Linux this time, I noticed that it said IRQ is unknown
> for hda or so, and suggested using "pci=biosirq", so I re-booted and
> started Linux with the option "pci=biosirq mem=280M". Then I ran dmesg
> and got the information.
>
> Also, I found that my /usr partition has suffered losses, a lot of
> libraries were damaged, as a result a lot of applications cannot run.
> Therefore I will need to re-install everything. If you found what is
> wrong with my machine, could you kindly tell me how I can prevent it
> from freezing up during the installation also? Thanks a lot!
>
>From the admittedly limited experience I have had trying to use a 2.4.X
kernel on older hardware, I have found that the best solution is to turn
off DMA in the BIOS until you can get a 2.2.19 kernel built and installed.
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From: "Z. Kadar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound problems
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:25:29 +0200
I have MSI Turbo motherboard with VIA KT7 chipset with sound onboard. I
have RH 7.1, the sound works, but there are scratch noises when playing a
.wav or .mp3 in the beginning. It is also annoying, that with many .mp3-s,
syncronization seems to fail, the resync option of mpg123 doesn`t help,
xmms can be paused for 2 seconds then it`s all right. The AC97 driver and the
via82cxxx driver as well seems uptodate, but what else can be the problem
than not having the best driver for the device ?
Zoltan Kadar
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From: "news.t-online.de" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Promise Fastrak 100 and SuSE 7.x
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:37:38 +0200
Hi there,
I am desperately trying to get my onboard (MSI-6380 board)
Promise Fastrak 100 Lite IDE RAID controller working.
I want to do a clean install off a boot medium into an
empty partition of an existing RAID0 stripe-set.
My configuration is as follows:
AMD 1.33GHz, MSI-6380 with VIA KT266
Two 30GB IBM IDE HDDs
Four other IDE-drives on the onboard controllers
I would apreciate any comments/suggestions.
Regards,
Christian Blichmann
_____________________________________________
don't hesitate - email me with your thoughts:
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- please remove the ".nospam" from address.
_____________________________________________
do you want to know more?
web: http://www.blichmann.de
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From: "*Mea Culpa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Promise Fastrak 100 and SuSE 7.x
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:02:32 +0100
http://support.promise.com/Linux/Default.htm
> I am desperately trying to get my onboard (MSI-6380 board)
> Promise Fastrak 100 Lite IDE RAID controller working.
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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Herv=E9?= Brun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Details about the ECI USB modem chipset
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:46:04 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
S�bastien Helleu a �crit:
> I'm developing Linux driver for modem ECI USB.
> All helps are welcome.
>
> More infos: http://flashcode.free.fr/linux
>
> ----
> Sebastien.
>
> e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> web: http://flashcode.free.fr
>
>
>
I think it is a GlobeSpan G7000
(http://www.globespan.net/products/ticusb.html)
I know that a module for the G7070 model has been developped
(http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/pipermail/bridge/2000-December/000080.html)
but I couldn't manage to find the source code nor the binary.
Does anyone has more details about this chipset ?
If no one can help us, what could be done to obtain the chip's technical
papers to develop a "driver" ?
Thanks for your help !
--
See you.
Herv� Brun
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Knight)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Alternate Methods of Creating 1:1 CD Copy??
Date: 18 Jun 2001 05:17:56 -0700
Is there any other way to go about creating an exact duplicate of a CD
other than using:
dd if=/dev/scd0 of=cdimage
For some reason, using dd writes an initial ~1.6MB image and then hangs
endlessly. I have to do a system halt and reboot to get rid of the process.
Kill -9 <process ID> does nothing. I only have this problem with a couple
of CD's, so I'm going to assume the problem does not involve dd.
I was thinking of maybe mounting the CD and doing a
cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/foo
cd /tmp/foo
mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/cdimage ./*
cdrecord -v speed=2 device=0,0,0 /tmp/cdimage
I suspect that this approach is too elementary, and I'm not getting all the
info from the original CD that I should be getting.
Are there alternate approaches I might try?
-Michael
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From: Nick Belshaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DeviceDrivers in kernels 2.2 -> 2.4 ?? help please
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:20:43 +0100
Sorry for this but I am v.poor in C and hacking....I would really
appreciate any assistance.
My problem is trying to upgrade a few little DeviceDrivers from Kernel
2.2 to 2.4.
I managed one of them ok which was nice, but the second uses
'wake_up_interruptibles'
and dies horribly whatever I try.
Not wanting to burden you with the whole thing could anyone spare a
moment to indicate
what has changed in the following test-driver - which I think may then
solve my problem.
I think it's from the book and it seems to work fine on 2.2 but not at
all on 2.4
(I don't even understand the compile errors in 2.4!!!!).
I just can't get wake_up_interruptible to accept its argument, though as
far as
I can look at other system stuff in other system drivers it seems
similar ?
It loads and unloads as a module ok but it segfaults (at least) when
accessed.
- so what is different?
please for some help - I am simply not clever enough to get to grips
with all this :-(
thanks in hope
Nick
=========================================================/*
* sleepy.c -- the writers awake the readers (v2.1)
*
*/
#ifndef __KERNEL__
# define __KERNEL__
#endif
#ifndef MODULE
# define MODULE
#endif
#define __NO_VERSION__ /* don't define kernel_verion in module.h */
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/version.h>
char kernel_version [] = UTS_RELEASE;
#include <linux/sched.h> /* current and everything */
#include <linux/kernel.h> /* printk() */
#include <linux/fs.h> /* everything... */
#include <linux/types.h> /* size_t */
#include <asm/segment.h>
#define read_write_t long
#define count_t long
int sleepy_major=77;
static struct wait_queue *wq = NULL ; /* must be zeroed at the beginning
*/
read_write_t sleepy_read (struct file *filp,
char *buf, count_t count)
{
printk(KERN_DEBUG "process %i (%s) going to sleep\n",
current->pid, current->comm);
interruptible_sleep_on(&wq);
printk(KERN_DEBUG "awoken %i (%s)\n", current->pid, current->comm);
return 0; /* EOF */
}
read_write_t sleepy_write (struct file *filp,
const char *buf, count_t count)
{
printk(KERN_DEBUG "process %i (%s) awakening the readers...\n",
current->pid, current->comm);
wake_up_interruptible(&wq);
return count; /* succeed, to avoid retrial */
}
struct file_operations sleepy_fops = {
read: sleepy_read,
write: sleepy_write,
};
int init_module(void)
{
int result;
/*
* Register your major, and accept a dynamic number
*/
result = register_chrdev(sleepy_major, "sleepy", &sleepy_fops);
if (result < 0) return result;
if (sleepy_major == 0) sleepy_major = result;
printk("registered sleepy\n");
return 0;
}
void cleanup_module(void)
{
printk("unregistered sleepy\n");
unregister_chrdev(sleepy_major, "sleepy");
}
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From: Sebastien Stormacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Alternate Methods of Creating 1:1 CD Copy??
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 14:49:05 +0200
Hello,
> I was thinking of maybe mounting the CD and doing a
>
> cp -a /mnt/cdrom /tmp/foo
> cd /tmp/foo
> mkisofs -r -J -o /tmp/cdimage ./*
> cdrecord -v speed=2 device=0,0,0 /tmp/cdimage
>
> I suspect that this approach is too elementary, and I'm not getting all the
> info from the original CD that I should be getting.
>
> Are there alternate approaches I might try?
Should a graphical environment be one of your options, you can use a
frontend to those command line programs like XCDToaster or GToaster
Those perform a 1:1 CD copy on the fly.
Hope this helps
Seb
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