Linux-Hardware Digest #504, Volume #9 Fri, 26 Feb 99 03:13:51 EST
Contents:
Re: Adaptec 2940UW w/RH5.2 (Johan Kullstam)
Re: Printing under Linux (jik-)
Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support. ("Chan, Siu-Kei")
Re: Cyrix 6X86 166+ (Ryan Maples)
RedHat 5.2 Workstation Install: SIS6326 ("Frank Britton")
Re: Booting without a keyboard (Michael Creasy)
XF86Config for Micron / Diamond 550 / Hitachi 21" 812 (Richard Finney)
Re: PPP !!! ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1 (Ryan Maples)
DVD Video Under Linux (Froggy)
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Subject: Re: Adaptec 2940UW w/RH5.2
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 24 Feb 1999 19:42:19 -0500
MikeM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have the same thing....it would help if you gave us what version of linux
> what system. etc...you have......I have 2.2.1 and both my cd-rom and my hd
> are working wonderfully....
>
> mike...
>
> so give us some details!!
ok here are my details.
> Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> > Robert Schiele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > > Johan Kullstam wrote:
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > > i have an adaptec 2940uw and have a problem.
> > > >
> > > > when i boot from power off state, everything is fine. however, when i
> > > > try to reboot (either shutdown -r ... and/or reset button on case) the
> > > > scsi system hangs. the card announces itself but fails to give the
> > > > control-a message. it then fails to look for any drives, fails to
> > > > find them and the machine just sits there failing to boot.
> > > >
> > > > what is going on? do i really need to toggle power to reboot? how do
> > > > i fix this?
> >
> > > I also had such a problem. The problem was that the harddisk needed to
> > > much time to initialize. Needed to set harddisk pre boot delay to 6(!)
> > > seconds. After that system booted up perfectly.
> >
> > thanks for your help.
> >
> > i set the pre boot delay to 10 seconds and no change. the only device
> > i have on the scsi system is a hard drive.
> >
> > from cold boot, right after memory scanning, i get
> >
> > 1) get the adaptec banner proclaiming that it is a 2940uw with bios
> > version 1.25.
> >
> > 2) a prompt saying hit control-a to fiddle with bios settings.
> >
> > 3) a message about scanning for devices.
> >
> > 4) a messge saying it has found my hard drive.
> >
> > during the warm boot sequence, get
> >
> > 1) the adaptec banner about 2940uw.
> >
> > 2) hang.
> >
> > i do not get the `hit control-a' to set up bios prompt. it does not
> > go on from there.
> >
> > thus i do not think that the card even tries to find anything.
> > increasing the delay for the drive to have more time to get ready does
> > nothing if the adaptec never goes looking in the first place.
> >
> > i looked on the adaptec site and there is a flash bios update to bring
> > this scsi card up to v1.34.3. does anyone have any experience with
> > doing this? i do not have windows on the machine, i'd have to use
> > ms-dos. could i move the card to a machine with windows, leave the
> > harddrive and apply the fix there?
> >
> > the faq also threw out the possibility that it may be a problem with
> > my system bios. how would i check that?
i have upgraded my adaptec bios to v1.34.3.
new symptoms.
1) i can now reboot via the `reset' button. i no longer need to turn
the power off.
2) when i try to reboot straight from linux `shutdown -r now', i no
longer even get the adaptec blurb.
so now i ask, is my card not getting the hint about rebooting when i
do a shutdown -r? how do i tell the system to reset a bit harder than
before? is it a kernel setting or a shutdown configuration?
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when i boot i get
diamond stealth 3d 2000
2MB installed
flashing by on my screen.
then i get a page of (paraphrasing from my
memory and taken from notes - the screen flashes by too fast to write
it all down)
PhoenixBios 4.05.11
Data General Corporation
AViiON AV3600 Enterprise Server
CPU = PentiumPro 200
0000640k System RAM Passed
0261120k Extended RAM Passed
..... stuff about bios shadows .....
4 PentiumPro Processors Enabled
Adaptec AHA-2940 Ultra / Ultra Wide Bios v1.34.3
<hit control-A for SCSI controller setup>
Found: FUJITSU M2949E-512 scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
*******************************************************************************
here is my dmesg from a boot
Linux version 2.2.2 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.60 19981201
(egcs-1.1.1 release)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 24 08:12:51 EST 1999
Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.4
Virtual Wire compatibility mode.
OEM ID: ALR Product ID: Revol. QUAD6 APIC at: 0xFEE00000
Processor #3 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #1 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
Processor #2 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17
I/O APIC #4 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000.
Processors: 4
mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000)
Detected 200004689 Hz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 199.48 BogoMIPS
Memory: 258016k/262144k available (844k kernel code, 420k reserved, 2820k data, 44k
init)
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.26 (19981001) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 100.00 usecs.
CPU3: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
calibrating APIC timer ...
..... CPU clock speed is 200.0012 MHz.
..... system bus clock speed is 66.6668 MHz.
Booting processor 0 eip 2000
Calibrating delay loop... 199.88 BogoMIPS
OK.
CPU0: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Booting processor 1 eip 2000
Calibrating delay loop... 199.88 BogoMIPS
OK.
CPU1: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Booting processor 2 eip 2000
Calibrating delay loop... 199.88 BogoMIPS
OK.
CPU2: Intel Pentium Pro stepping 09
Total of 4 processors activated (799.13 BogoMIPS).
enabling symmetric IO mode... ...done.
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
init IO_APIC IRQs
IO-APIC pin 0 not connected.
number of MP IRQ sources: 16.
number of IO-APIC registers: 16.
testing the IO APIC.......................
.... register #00: 04000000
....... : physical APIC id: 04
.... register #01: 000F0011
....... : max redirection entries: 000F
....... [IO-APIC cannot route PCI PIRQ 0-3]
....... : IO APIC version: 0011
.... register #02: 00000000
....... : arbitration: 00
.... IRQ redirection table:
NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
01 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
02 0FF 0F 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
03 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
04 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
05 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 71
06 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
07 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
08 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
09 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
0a 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
0b 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
0c 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A9
0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
0e 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B1
0f 000 00 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 B9
IRQ to pin mappings:
IRQ0 -> 2
IRQ1 -> 1
IRQ3 -> 3
IRQ4 -> 4
IRQ5 -> 5
IRQ6 -> 6
IRQ7 -> 7
IRQ8 -> 8
IRQ9 -> 9
IRQ10 -> 10
IRQ11 -> 11
IRQ12 -> 12
IRQ13 -> 13
IRQ14 -> 14
IRQ15 -> 15
.................................... done.
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf6fe3
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
OPTI621: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 18
OPTI621: placing both ports into native PCI mode
OPTI621: Missing I/O address #0, please report to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
OPTI621: device disabled (BIOS)
Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
(scsi0) <Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter> found at PCI 12/0
(scsi0) Wide Channel, SCSI ID=7, 16/255 SCBs
(scsi0) Downloading sequencer code... 419 instructions downloaded
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 5.1.10/3.2.4
<Adaptec AHA-294X Ultra SCSI host adapter>
scsi : 1 host.
Vendor: FUJITSU Model: M2949E-512 Rev: 1654
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
scsi : detected 1 SCSI disk total.
(scsi0:0:0:0) Synchronous at 40.0 Mbyte/sec, offset 8.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17781964 [8682 MB] [8.7 GB]
tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xfc00, 00 00 f8 03 71 09, IRQ 11.
eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth0: Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
eth0: Index #1 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
eth0: Index #2 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
eth0: Index #3 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2 < sda5 sda6 sda7 sda8 sda9 >
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
*******************************************************************************
here is /proc/pci
PCI devices found:
Bus 0, device 2, function 0:
Non-VGA device: Intel 82375EB (rev 5).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=248.
Bus 0, device 3, function 0:
IDE interface: OPTi 82C621 (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 12, function 0:
SCSI storage controller: Adaptec AIC-7881U (rev 0).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 10. Master Capable.
Latency=64. Min Gnt=8.Max Lat=8.
I/O at 0xf800 [0xf801].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdfff000 [0xfdfff000].
Bus 0, device 13, function 0:
Ethernet controller: DEC DC21140 (rev 18).
Medium devsel. Fast back-to-back capable. IRQ 11. Master Capable.
Latency=64.
I/O at 0xfc00 [0xfc01].
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xfdffec00 [0xfdffec00].
Bus 0, device 14, function 0:
VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. ViRGE (rev 6).
Medium devsel. IRQ 9. Master Capable. Latency=64. Min Gnt=4.Max Lat=255.
Non-prefetchable 32 bit memory at 0xf8000000 [0xf8000000].
Bus 0, device 20, function 0:
RAM memory: Intel 82450GX Orion P6 (rev 4).
Fast devsel. Fast back-to-back capable.
Bus 0, device 25, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Orion P6 (rev 4).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=72.
Bus 0, device 26, function 0:
Host bridge: Intel Orion P6 (rev 4).
Medium devsel. Master Capable. Latency=72.
*******************************************************************************
--
J o h a n K u l l s t a m
[[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Don't Fear the Penguin!
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From: jik- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Printing under Linux
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:42:28 -0800
Gregory Leblanc wrote:
>
> I know how to get simple directory listings and plain text to print on
> my printer, but what about color images from GIMP? I've got a couple
> of color HP inkjet printers, and I wanted to do some of image
> processing from there. Thanks,
> Greg.
Gotta use ghostscript and set it up as a filter in /etc/printcap.
Graphic files have to be turned into PS files, and then turned into PDL
files by gs....
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From: "Chan, Siu-Kei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Need a 16 meg Video card recommendation w/RedHat 5.2 support.
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 14:43:04 +0800
I agree on what you say. I will personally go for the Matrox Millennium G200
(8MB SGRAM version). The card is more stable than the TNT. XFree86 3.3.3.1
do support the TNT but they are still very fresh to the market and I cannot
promise all the TNT card can work well with the XFreee86 3.3.3.1.
TNT cards are good on Microsoft Windows but definitely not X windows at this
moment. Keep check on the updated XFree86.
--
Chan, Siu-Kei
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Todd Ostermeier wrote in message ...
>Look into getting a Riva TNT. X won't work out of the box (for now -- you
>need xfree86 3.3.3.x, while I think RH 5.2 still ships with 3.3.2.x), but
>upgrade xfree, and the TNT is excellent. Also, you could look into
>getting a Matrox G200
>
>On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Jazzy_one wrote:
>
>: Hello,
>: I am looking for a great video card with 24bit color support for
RedHat
>: 5.2 and XFree86-3.3.3-1. I really want a 16 meg or a 32 meg card but I
want
>: something supported.
>: Any suggestions? What are you currently using?
>: Please e-mail me back @ scobee(NOSPAM)@home.com. Just remove the nospam
from
>: the e-mail address.
>:
>:
>:
>:
>
>________________________________
>
>Todd Ostermeier
>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~ostermer/index.html
>ICQ UIN: 2253928
>A-723
>________________________________
>
>
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From: Ryan Maples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Cyrix 6X86 166+
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:11:42 GMT
Jarmo Salonen wrote:
> Okey I have a machine with almost the same speccs, a Cyrix P166+, Mystique 4M,
> I have no problem at all with my machine. You can try to turn of the L2 cache
> and set less agressive memory timings.
> You should also verify that the machine works fine with some other OS like Win95
> ...
>
> Good luck,
> -- Jarmo
>
> David Guillot wrote:
>
> > Novice dans le monde libre de Linux, je me trouve confront� � des probl�mes
> > sans fin de plantage hard (clavier out). J'ai fais et refais des
> > installations rien n'y fait quelque soit le WM sachant que cela se produit
> > sous XWindow. Ma config mat�rielle est la suivante : Cyrix 6X86 166+, 64mo
> > Ram, Carte vid�o Matrox mystique 4mo, Ecran Smile 1706, disque dur Seagate 2
> > Go d�di� exclusivement � Linux...
> > Je penche pour un conflit avec le processeur et recherche �me charitable
> > pouvant guider ces premiers pas. Un grand merci.
> >
> > Novice in the free Linux's World I 've a lot of problems in the X mode. My
> > Pc is crashing and my keyboard is out. My config is the following :
> > Cyrix 6X86 166+, 64mo Ram, Carte vid�o Matrox mystique 4mo, Ecran Smile
> > 1706, DD Seagate 2 Go just for Linux...
> > If you can help this poor guy, thanks a lot...('xcuse my bad english)
I have a system similar to this where I work, and have had some serious problems
with it. The thing that killed my system was a bad motherboard. A good test of
this would be to try to compile and link a new kernel. If you can do this you may
just have problems with your video card. In my situation the IDE and cache
elements were no good. If you cannot compile a kernel then I would suggest
reinstalling the compiler and/or the distribution you have chosen. If this doesn't
help you may just have a bad motherboard. I doubt seriously that your processor
has failed. As with your situation many of my problems were not uncovered untill I
started using X. Hopefully I have given you some help you can use.
Regards,
Ryan
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From: "Frank Britton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 5.2 Workstation Install: SIS6326
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 10:29:59 -0800
Being new to Linux I am first trying the simplest install but seem not to be
able to succeed. Is there a Linux drive for SIS6326? I have just tried SVGA
and boom.
Thanks
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From: Michael Creasy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Booting without a keyboard
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 17:39:38 +0000
Wouldn't it be easier just to leave a cheap keyboard plugged in ?
Michael
> All of the bios settings are set to ignore errors, not to wait on "F1"
> etc.
> The bios post seems quite happy, as does LILO, which loads linux off
> hda1. its only after loading and before uncompressing that everything
> stops. Are there any boot parameters that would be useful, or would
> using an uncompressed kernel help?
>
> Thanks
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From: Richard Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: XF86Config for Micron / Diamond 550 / Hitachi 21" 812
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 12:42:58 -0500
Need some help!
This should become a relativly popular video combination; it's provided
by Micron. However; I can barely make X-windows work. Will the
author of the definitive config file for this please speak up ???
The video card is: 16MB Diamond Viper 550 TNT AGP
(do I need to worry about the clocking on this ??? the chipset ???)
(does Diamond MM webpublish XF86 config files for this ???)
The Monitor is Hitachi SuperScan 812 21" (20" viewable)
(There is no model # on the front of the monitor, the model ID
is on the back and is "CM812U")
Hitachi 812 tech info from
http://www.hitachidisplays.com/products/21_813.htm is:
auto sync range: 31-107 kHz 50-160 Hz,
max res 1600x1200,
refresh : 640x480=160Hz, 800x600=160Hz,
1024x768=130Hz, 1280x1024=95Hz, 1600x1200=75Hz)
Any help is much appreciated; and thanks in advance! (Also, forgive
me if I'm messing up this posting somehow; this is the second posting I've
ever done.)
-Richard Finney ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
hk.comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,tw.bbs.comp.linux,uk.comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: PPP !!!
Date: 24 Feb 1999 15:15:39 GMT
In the sacred domain of uk.comp.os.linux didst Robert Waugh
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> eloquently scribe:
: Use the ppp setup tool that is in YaST. In fact I don't know if it is in
: 6.0, I only have 5.2 but I would assume it is there. It is under System
: Admin -> Configure Hardware -> modem .....
Nope.
System Admin -> Network configuration -> PPP
: That will do it all for you, I assume you will have to use the default
: PPP setup and add your own phone number, username and password. I
: recomend not using diald at first.
diald is pretty pointless.
just use the two scripts supplied. ppp-up and ppp-down.
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From: Ryan Maples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Need NIC Recommendation for Stock RH5.1
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 1999 18:36:55 GMT
> synthetic wrote:
>
>
> I would like to solicit comments on the best NIC(pci) to install in a stock RH5.1
>box. I am trying to choose between Intel, 3Com, and SMC (unless someone knows of any
>better brand name cards). I would like to use 100m/b pci cards to network 2 win98
>boxes to a Linux server.
>
> Is one brand of NIC more reliable than the other and/or easier to setup?
>
> Any advice and comments are appreciated.
>
> TIA,
>
> Tony
I would have to suggest a 3Com card they are way more expensive than netgear or
linksys, but they "always" work. For 10MPS try a 3c590 and for 100MPS try a 3c595.
Also check out the Ethernet-HOWTO on your favorite LDP mirror. I have been very
successful at finding used
version of these cards for a substantial savings if you are in the Dallas-FtWorth,
Texas area I can give you some hints where to go. Hope I have helped.
Regards,
Ryan
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From: Froggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DVD Video Under Linux
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1999 07:51:27 GMT
What about DVD Video on Linux.
Do you have informations ?
Thanks
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