Linux-Hardware Digest #88, Volume #10 Thu, 22 Apr 99 18:13:34 EDT
Contents:
Re: Newbie Questions (**Nick Brown)
Re: LILO Install (Oscar Kind)
Re: Pbl with ATI RAGE PRO TURBO 8Mo ("Fazza")
Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Soundcard not being "remembered" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Need ISDN suggetions ("Leopold Toetsch")
Re: UDMA CDrom problem... ("Explorer caused")
Re: HW-accelerated OpenGL for LINUX ("Jeremy L. Buchmann")
Re: SCSI CD-ROM problem (Mykool)
Re: SMP : How do I know if it's working ok. Use top? (Curt Timmerman)
Re: Fast Ethernet Card support ..... (Pavel Grinfeld)
Re: Fast Ethernet Card support ..... (Pavel Grinfeld)
Re: USR/3com question (newbie) (Phil DeBecker)
Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?) (Tor Iver
Wilhelmsen)
Re: Linux and Zip Drive ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
cs4235 and linux (Dale Henderson)
Strange IDE disk errors: "VFS: wrong blocksize" ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: **Nick Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 17:14:23 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Any reason why you can't run the modem off COM2 ? You'd free up IRQ5
(which might also be a source of conflicts with other stuff).
Also, have you tried rebuilding the kernel to add what's missing ?
Start with /usr/doc/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.gz.
"news.freeserve.net" wrote:
> Being new to Linux (SuSE LINUX 6.0 using the 2.2.7 (I think-not the stable
> 2.2 Kernel as this was not available in this release)) and running KDE and
> as most people growing up with usable but slightly unstable Windows
> operating systems (Windows 3.11,95,98 and NT4), I have a few questions which
> I would be grateful if someone out there could answer.
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From: Oscar Kind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LILO Install
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:34:39 +0200
On Thu, 22 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i recently installed redhat 5.2, but didn't install lilo during setup. How do
> I install it to my root partition now without reinstalling linux? thanks
Read the manual page of lilo.conf to find out how to set up a file called
/etc/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo (make sure you are root). If all works OK,
lilo is installed.
mvg,
Oscar
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From: "Fazza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.development,alt.os.linux,alt.linux,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: Pbl with ATI RAGE PRO TURBO 8Mo
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 18:43:44 +0100
God Knows!
Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a big problem with my video card. My hardware are
> ATI RAGE PRO TURBO 87Mo with a Trinitron Sony 19" screen.
>
> With the serveur MACH64 I can't put the resolution above 1024*768.
> When I start with the SVGA server I can put the resolution to 1280*1024
> but all text console have a black screen.
>
> How can I solve this problem ???
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCI modem /with/ a controller?
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 13:52:42 GMT
In article <_0KS2.4001$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Clark) wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >Johan Kullstam wrote:
>
> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] () writes:
> >> > is there such a beast, and if so, who makes it? they all seem to be
> >> > controllerless winmodem pieces of sh*t to me..
> >> one word: *external*
>
> >An external PCI modem? I've got to admit, I've never even
> >considered that...
>
> Actiontec has announced that they will have a PCI, call-waiting-detect
> modem with Linux drivers coming out next month, if you can wait (based on
> Lucent Venus=hardware controller chipset).
>
That'll be nice. Sometime it's more convenience to have everything on a
single box, so internal PCI modem come in handy.
> Multitech's MT5634ZPX-PCI is also a hardware modem, though no one seems to
> have gotten one to work with Linux yet.
>
trying to get one a while back, but couldn't find any local distributor for
the card here. :(
> Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>
HO Soo-Khim
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Soundcard not being "remembered"
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:35:41 GMT
I am running RedHat 5.2 (kernel 2.0.36) on a Toshiba 480CDT laptop with a
Yamaha OPL3-SAx soudnchip. I got the card working fine, but every time I
reboot, I have to reconfigure the card before it will play anything. The
configuration is the same as I leave it, but I don't get any sound until I
run through the setup again. This is with using 'setup' and 'sndconfig'.
Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks.
-Josh
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From: "Leopold Toetsch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking
Subject: Re: Need ISDN suggetions
Date: 22 Apr 1999 19:16:48 GMT
Anthony Ewell wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi,
>
> I am told that a Terminal Adapter (TA) for ISDN is the way to go with
>NT due to
>the time delays associated with RAS and dial up networking.
>
> But Linux is much better written. Does it make any sense to use a TA
>with Linux?
>Or is this a quality problem only associated with Windows products?
>
> Is there a such thing as an internal PCI ISDN adapter that is Linux
>friendly?
>Any suggestions?
A external TA behaves like a modem and you take ppp & diald to get it
running.
A internal card is more like another network card. You'll need i4l
(isdn-for-linux), compiled as a module (www.suse.de)
No problems (this message runs out of my internal net over a linux box, ISDN
Fritz! Card Classic.
www.avm.de
other working cards come from
www.teles.de
leo
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Reply-To: "Explorer caused" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: "Explorer caused" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.soyo,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.cd-rom
Subject: Re: UDMA CDrom problem...
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 20:05:33 GMT
sounds like the drive has a problem,
you've tried it in diff environments ..... same results,
as long as your not reusing same sound card... etc.
Bum drive - would be my call.... what do you think ?
Jeff Volckaert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7fn39k$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
: Hello Everybody,
:
: I have an Artec 40x UDMA cdrom drive which I have returned twice to the
: manufactorer. They say the drive is fine. The system I am installing in
: has a Soyo 5eh mainboard w/ AMD K2-266. I dual boot Win98 & Redhat 5.2
: (w/2.2.5). Under both OSes I have problems listening to CDs. I might get
a
: song or two before the song starts to stutter and then the player reads
"no
: disk".
:
: I have tried disabling udma on the cdrom in the bios and setting the mode
to
: 3. No difference. Under win98 I have tried the latest ETEQ and VIA
drivers
: as well as the standard dual PCI. Again, no difference.
:
: I installed the drive in other machines which don't have udma and have the
: same problem. One was a K5-166 w/win98 and the other is a P120 w/Redhat
: 5.2.
:
: Any help? I'm about ready to just throw the drive on the shelf to collect
: dust.
:
: TIA,
: Jeff Volckaert
:
:
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From: "Jeremy L. Buchmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.graphics.api.opengl,comp.os.linux.x,de.comp.os.linux.hardware,de.comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: HW-accelerated OpenGL for LINUX
Date: 21 Apr 1999 18:13:17 GMT
In comp.os.linux.x Ekkehard Beier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: Hello anybody,
: I'm looking for a hardware-accelerated OpenGL for LINUX
: SuSE 6.0/6.1.
: The supported graphics card should be an Elsa Gloria Synergy
: or another board with Per media 2 chip set. However, I could
: use another chip set (VOODOO) if necessary.
: - Where can I get a corresponding OpenGL implementation?
: (commercial or free, does MESA support HW?)
Look for Mesa. I hear it is pretty much a perfect copy of the real OpenGL.
: - Do I need special X servers (commercial or free)?
You'll need the appropriate X-server for your card, of course.
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From: Mykool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SCSI CD-ROM problem
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 11:16:43 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> after installing RedHat 5.2 from an IDE CD-ROM, I decided to replace the
> drive with a Pioneer DR-766 SCSI CD-ROM. The problem is that I cannot mount
> it. The 'mount /dev/cdrom' command gives a message saying '/dev/cdrom is not
> recognized as a block device' and it fails. '/dev/cdrom' is the name in the
> file system setup. The SCSI card is an Adaptec AHA-2940AU, and during boot,
> both the card and the CD-ROM drive seem to be recognized properly.
> Termination is also okay as far as I can tell. I know that the CD-ROM and
> also SCSI in general have to be supported in the kernel. After reading the
> kernel howto, I decided to re-run the configuration to make sure they are
> enabled. Unfortunately, the 'make config' command does not work, it's not
> located in the /usr/src/linux directory as the howto says it should be.
>
> Can someone give me advice what should I do to make the drive to work?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tamas.
First make sure you have compiled scsi cdrom into your kernel as either
a module or actually into it. You might want it compiled into it the
kernel first, just to see where linux sees it as being during boot. Run
'dmesg' if you have to. Then 'del /dev/cdrom', this is a symlink to
where ever your ide cdrom used to be. Then 'ln -s /dev/<scsi cdrom id>
/dev/cdrom'. All will be ok then.
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 12:02:24 -0800
From: Curt Timmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.periphs.scsi
Subject: Re: SMP : How do I know if it's working ok. Use top?
If you run xosview, it will show the load and interrupts on both CPU's.
David Travers wrote:
> I recompiled the linux kernel but I don't know if SMP has been activated and
> is using both processors to full effect.
>
> System is as follows
> Supermicro Motherboard
> Dual Pentium 2 350Mhz
> 128MB ECC Registered SDRAM
> 9.1GB IBM Ultrastar U2W Hard Disk
> Plextor UltraSCSI 40x CD-ROM
> Netgear 310TX 100BaseT Network Card
> APC Backup PRO UPS
>
> Linux Version: Redhat Linux 5.2 with kernel 2.2.1 (will update soon to
> 2.2.6)
>
> On our HP-UX system, when running top it gives an indication of which
> processes are running on which processor and the relative load on each
> processor.
>
> When ruuning top on Redhat Linux 5.2 with 2.2 kernel there seems to be no
> indication as to which processes are running on which processor.
>
> What am I doing wrong (if anything) and how can I check that SMP is working
> properly. I don't want to have bought two processors for them not to being
> used to their full potential
>
> Also do processes get allocated to whichever processor has the smallest
> load?
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice given.
>
> Please reply to email at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Pavel Grinfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,cern.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:28:05 +0000
Huseni, you have probably gotten your card to work now, but if not, I
wanted to let you know that Linksys themselves have the necessary driver at
their website!
Pavel
Hus wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Greetings!!!
>
> I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> modules provided by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> need a specific linux device driver for it??)
>
> I have entered relevant info such as ip addresses, subnet
> masks,gateways,dns etc.
> I dont see "eth0" in my proc/net/dev or my ifconfig. They both show me a
> "lo"-local loop and a dummy device...thats it.
>
> I need to understand if this card is supported by Linux at al?? And
> what are my options other than buying a new card!!
>
> Need help ..sooooooonnnn...!!
>
> Thanks
> Huseni
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From: Pavel Grinfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,cern.linux,utah.linux
Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet Card support .....
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 16:28:52 +0000
Do you know what the line "The transmitter stopped! ..." means. My system
outputs the same message!
Pavel
Rod Smith wrote:
> [Posted and mailed]
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Hus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Greetings!!!
> >
> > I've a LinkSys LNE100Tx Fast Ethernet card on my PC which my SuSE Linux
> > 5.3 fails to recognise/startup.
> > Apparently this card is not in the list of standard networking card
> > modules provided by my Linux vendor. So I tried selecting a similar
> > 3Com card and a few other standard cards ..but no luck.(Is this the
> > right way to do it?? how do u connect non-standard cards anyway?? do I
> > need a specific linux device driver for it??)
>
> The Linksys LNE100TX is one of MANY cards based on the DEC "Tulip"
> chipset. Unfortunately, I gather that DEC is no longer making this
> chipset (the reports I've seen are that Intel swallowed up that part of
> DEC and has discontinued the chipset). Fortunately, a number of clones of
> the Tulip chipset have become available, and most Tulip board
> manufacturers, including Linksys, have simply switched to one of these
> clones. The clones may not be recognized by any but the latest of the
> Linux Tulip drivers, though. You can obtain the latest from:
>
> http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/tulip-devel.html
>
> You'll need to take the tulip.c file and put it in your kernel source
> directory (in drivers/net, IIRC), then recompile either modules or the
> kernel, depending upon how your system is configured.
>
> Now, if your card is old enough to have a "genuine" DEC part, it SHOULD be
> recognized already, assuming that SuSE includes Tulip support by default.
> That assumption could be wrong. In either event, try this at a command
> prompt:
>
> dmesg | grep eth0 -
>
> This will show you the kernel bootup messages concerning the eth0 device.
> Here's what this returns on my system, which uses a recent Linksys
> LNE100TX with a Tulip clone:
>
> eth0: Lite-On 82c168 PNIC at 0x7c00, xx xx xx xx xx xx, IRQ 11.
> eth0: MII transceiver #1 config 3100 status 7829 advertising 01e1.
> eth0: The transmitter stopped! CSR5 is 2068012, CSR6 812e0002.
> eth0: Changing PNIC configuration to half-duplex, CSR6 812e0000.
>
> (I've axed my board's identifying numbers.) The output for a board with
> an original DEC part will be a bit different, of course, but you should
> see some sort of part identification and status report.
>
> --
> Rod Smith
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://www.channel1.com/users/rodsmith
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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:55:37 -0400
From: Phil DeBecker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: USR/3com question (newbie)
DMarshall wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I'm VERY new to the Linux thing, and have what may be a silly quesion.
> Before I convert my PC from NT to Linux, I'm researching if Linux will
> support all (or most) of my hardware.
>
> Many of the items, like my 3com (USRobotics) Sportster56k modem does not
> have any drivers listed for Linux.
>
> IF I find a driver for Unix, will that work? Or is Linux too different?
>
> Thanks
There are two versions of this modem: the WinModem, and the regular PnP
modem. The WinModem will not work; the PnP will. I'm not sure how many
different versions of these modems exist, but the PnP one I use with linux
has jumpers on it that allow you to manually set the IRQ and COM port used;
if the jumpers are unset the modem relies on a PnP configuration.
Phil
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Crossposted-To:
comp.lang.java.advocacy,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
Subject: Re: All the current OSes are idiotic (was Re: Is Windows for idiots?)
From: Tor Iver Wilhelmsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Apr 1999 22:31:55 +0200
"Edwin E. Thorne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> His sentence is correct according to the rules of American English. We
> still capitalize the names of languages (proper nouns).
My point exactly, if you read between the lines...
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Linux and Zip Drive
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 19:17:11 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Please see <http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/ZIP-Drive-4.html> It
> describes the installation and basic usage. The LDP is great for this kind of
> info. I have RH5.2 kernel 2.0.36 and I am using a Zip-Atapi.
I've also got an atapi zip.
Getting it to work is *not* difficult.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: cs4235 and linux
From: Dale Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 22 Apr 1999 16:18:38 -0500
I have a E-machine 300k with a built in cs4235 sound chip. The chip is
an ISA plug and play.
Does anyone know anything about this card?
How do I set it up. Which drivers do i install in the modem (I've
tried the 4232 without any luck).
thanks for any help.
--
Dale Henderson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
"Imaginary universes are so much more beautiful than this stupidly-
constructed 'real' one..." -- G. H. Hardy
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Strange IDE disk errors: "VFS: wrong blocksize"
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 21:47:48 GMT
Our server machine uses 2 IDE disks on the primary and secondary IDE bus
(hda and hdc). The machine boots ok and runs well unless an operation with
heavy I/O load is started (e.g. a large file copy operation using "cp").
Such a process crashes and cannot be killed anymore.
The error messages found in "/var/log/messages" look alway similar:
Apr 20 21:25:28 ceviserv kernel: ll_rw_block: device 16:03: only 1024-char
blocks implemented (1056)
Apr 20 21:25:43 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 20 21:25:48 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 20 21:28:16 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 03:03
Apr 20 21:28:17 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 20 21:28:17 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 20 23:07:44 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 03:03
Apr 20 23:38:13 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 20 23:41:46 ceviserv kernel: ll_rw_block: device 16:03: only 1024-char
blocks implemented (1056)
Apr 20 23:52:22 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 16:03
Apr 21 01:15:06 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 03:03
Apr 21 01:15:10 ceviserv kernel: ll_rw_block: device 03:03: only 1024-char
blocks implemented (1056)
Apr 21 01:15:11 ceviserv kernel: VFS: Wrong blocksize on device 03:03
Did anybody encounter similar problems? Any suggestions to solve the problem?
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