Linux-Hardware Digest #425, Volume #10 Sun, 6 Jun 99 10:13:32 EDT
Contents:
es1370: unable to write to codec register (SB-PCI128 Problem) (Patrick Reynolds)
Re: SB 64 PnP PCI ("michael Love")
Re: What can it be? Help needed ("Lewis Foti")
Re: AMD K6-2 Problems ("Peter Christy")
fstab and mtab ("michael Love")
IRQ Tune ("Nigel Sim")
Dlink DE-528CT Linux Driver (Dwaine Garden)
Re: CT MediaGX motherboards and Linux (Frederick)
Re: PCI SCSI adapter recommendations (inexpensive & good linux support) (Marc Mutz)
Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY ("Andrew")
Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel (Marc Mutz)
Re: IBM 0669 ESDI hard disk parameters? (Georg Schwarz)
Re: CT MediaGX motherboards and Linux (Steffen Kluge)
Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA (Thorsten Mein)
Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel (Konstantinos Agouros)
Re: PCI-slots: plug and play ?? (M. Buchenrieder)
LinuX server, for sale (Sergio Brandano)
compiling for Hitachi SH-3 with gcc ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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From: Patrick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: es1370: unable to write to codec register (SB-PCI128 Problem)
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 00:12:04 -0700
I've been working with RH 5.2 for about five months now, dual
booting Win98. My Intel mobo has a Crystal CSxxxx chip on it, and it's
been working with Linux, and Win98, but I use my PCI 128 for Win98 for
games that support 4 speakers, its nice to have, blah blah blah.... But,
its a pain to switch between the 128, and going into BIOS and Enabling
and Disabling the onboard sound whenever I switch between 98 and RH 5.2
(linux).
When I try to SNDCONFIG my PCI128 card, it probes it as the AudioPCI
card, thats correct. When it tries to play the sample sound I get a
repeating
es1370: unable to write to codec register
es1370: unable to write to codec register
es1370: unable to write to codec register
es1370: unable to write to codec register
es1370: unable to write to codec register
......
And before that, I get the LD4 error, so I have to go into ISAPNP and
(VERIFYLD N). When I boot Linux, I get the same error when it tries to
init. Sound. Any help please? Anything will help, trust me.
Thanks in advance -- Patrick --
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From: "michael Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SB 64 PnP PCI
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:30:48 +0100
http://www.alssound.com
or if you want to pay for drivers like I did :( http://www.opensound.com
you will get instructions about building a kernel without kernel sound
support(I think).
If you want the kernel drivers as modules. Read the sound how-to's. They
will take you a while but after you have read them, not only will you know
more but you will also know more about the way the Linux documentation is
very badly) written for newbies like me.
Kvdveer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:7j902e$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Help...
>
> I bought a nice computer (win98 preinstaled...) with a SB 64 PnP. I
> installed SuSE Linux on it, but I'd like to use sound. It doesn't work, in
> the manual my card isn't listed, so I don't have the faintest Idea how to
> handle this problem.
>
> probebly I will have to download a driver somewhere....
>
> I am completely unexperienced with Linux so please don't assume beasic
> knowledge...
>
>
> thanx
>
>
> Koert van der veer
>
>
> (delete the obvous to mail me at home...)
>
>
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From: "Lewis Foti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: What can it be? Help needed
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:22:07 +0100
Denis
As Tim says it looks like you have a DNS problem, this means that the
information necessary to translate a computers name, such as
www.mentation.com, into an IP address, such as 206.67.59.248 is not
available for all names. The IP address is required in order to send a
message to the destination computer. In order to get the IP address a
program, say Netscape, contacts another program (on RedHat Linux this is
normally called named) in order to have it do the translation.
The reason for doing things this way is that you only need to tell one
program what the translation should be for a given name, rather than every
program that you run on the system. (DNS servers know how to query remote
DNS servers for the names they don't know.) In a linux window type the
command nslookup, which should give you a reply that looks something like
this.
[lewisf@sol lewisf]$ nslookup
Default Server: sol.mentation.home
Address: 10.0.0.1
The default server line gives the name of the machine that is running the
name server. Now type in the name of the mail server,
mail-db.acpub.duke.edu, that you want to use. This should respond with the
IP address required, like this.
> mail-db.acpub.duke.edu
Server: sol.mentation.home
Address: 10.0.0.1
Name: kuttner.acpub.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.233.59
Aliases: mail-db.acpub.duke.edu
If it does then it looks like your mail program configuration has either
lost the name of the mail server, or the IP address of the DNS server.
However if the DNS doe snot know the name then the next step is to check
under windows and what setting has been entered in your TCP/IP configuration
for the DNS server. The information can be found in Control
Panel->Networks->TCP/IP Properties. There should be one or more IP addresses
entered here. If they are different from the address returned by the
nslookup command then you will probably want to add the missing addresses to
your DNS configuration on Linux. At this point you should take a look at the
networking HOWTOs which will explain what you need to do. The DNS-HOWTO is a
good place to start.
hope this helps
Lewis
Denis wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, Tim Moore wrote:
>>The windows networking side is doing host name resolution and this needs
>>to be setup on linux (eg- DNS). Something needs to supply the IP
>>address of godzilla.acpub.duke.edu:
>>
>>[21:53] asus:~ > ping godzilla.acpub.duke.edu
>>PING godzilla.acpub.duke.edu (152.3.233.44): 56 data bytes
>>64 bytes from 152.3.233.44: icmp_seq=0 ttl=246 time=204.3 ms
>>64 bytes from 152.3.233.44: icmp_seq=1 ttl=246 time=190.0 ms
>>64 bytes from 152.3.233.44: icmp_seq=2 ttl=246 time=180.2 ms
>>
>>--- godzilla.acpub.duke.edu ping statistics ---
>>3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
>>round-trip min/avg/max = 180.2/191.5/204.3 ms
>>
>>Netscape on linux, just like windows, needs to know where your mail
>>server is and what protocol it speaks.
>
>Tim, first of all thanks for help, but I don't understand what you said.
>All right, I admit I don't know much about linux or networking for t
>hat matter, could you please be more detailed I guess?
>
>1) so i should let my email program (kdemail) know about
>mail-db.acpub.duke.edu host? but all this info is there - it was working
>for past 7 months, so i don't understand what i can change there.
>
>2) you say,>Something needs to supply the IP
> >address of godzilla.acpub.duke.edu:
>so what is it? Like I said I never changed anything (it just stopped
>working for no apparent reason to me) and I don't
>really understand waht IS involved.
>
>3) is not it that the server i connect to is supposed to find
>godzilla.acpub in case of telnet or mail-db.acpub.duke.edu in case of
>retrieving emails? and this server is at school, not here on my computer?
>
>thansk - I'm totally lost here.
>Denis
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: AMD K6-2 Problems
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 08:17:52 +0100
I have a K6-2-350, overclocked to 400, running in an Asus P5AB motherboard,
and it works well. I believe that the latest experimental kernals support
the chipset properly (I'm just about to find out!), but even without that
support, it really flies. The onboard sound chip can be made to work too,
and sounds MUCH better than under Windoze!
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <7jbh08$a3q$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Some of the issues here are based on what motherboard you place the k6-2
>in, does anyone think I will have to spend a lot of time troubleshooting
>a k6-2 350 or 400, in an asus P5A motherboard. I'm using an 100sdram,
>IDE drv, and a matrox millenium 8meg gb.
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From: "michael Love" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: fstab and mtab
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 11:31:49 +0100
either your installation setup program or entries on fstab, mtab. Read the
How-to's
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From: "Nigel Sim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: IRQ Tune
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 20:34:46 +1000
Hi,
I am trying to set up IRQ tune on my 486 net gateway in an attempt to
improve the throughput and packet-loss rates it is incurring but I am unable
to get it set up.
I am running Debian 2.1 with kernel 2.2.6. All the packages are up to date
with those on the Debian mirrors.
When I run irqtune with the -e switch I get the following:
/sbin/irqtune -e
irqtune: version is 0.6
irqtune: kernel version 2.2.6
tblread: SYNTAX ' CPU0 '
probe: irqtune must be invoked via the full path -- OK
probe: /sbin in $PATH -- YES
probe: insmod found in $PATH (/sbin) -- OK
probe: insmod simple execution -- OK
probe: insmod has version (2.1.121) -- YES
probe: rmmod found in insmod directory -- OK
probe: insmod version supports command line options -- OK
probe: insmod version (2.1.121) compatible with kernel version (2.2.6) --
ERROR
probe: insmod version should be 2.1.34 (or better) -- OK
probe: insmod and kernel compatible with CONFIG_MODVERSIONS -- OK
probe: irqtune_mod loading will be tried -- OK
probe: kernel version irqtune built under (2.2.6) matches current system --
YES
probe: kernel IRQ handling is compatible -- OK
probe: kernel has module support (CONFIG_MODULES) -- OK
probe: kernel has symbols -- OK
probe: kernel is using versions (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) -- NO
probe: kernel symbols are checksummed (CONFIG_MODVERSIONS) -- NO
probe: kernel has /proc/interrupts -- OK
irqtune: probe detected errors
irqtune: loading not performed (may be overriden by -f)
irqtune: complete
It would appear to me that insmod is out of date, but it seems to be the
latest version I can find, and appropiate for this kernel.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Nigel
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From: Dwaine Garden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dlink DE-528CT Linux Driver
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 08:15:31 GMT
Redhat v6.0 config/setup program detected the DLink DE-528ct card as a
NE2000 card. From what I have read about the drivers, the
card/drivers are garbage.
What is the better driver that is supposed to be used. Which chipset
does this card have?
a) RealTek 8029 chip or
b) RealTek 8139 chip
Also what about the driver via-rhine.c? I have complied the source,
but it does not come up from the drop down list in the kernel Daemon
Configuration when you are setting up the card. How do you get a new
module to show up in the list?
Thanks...
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:40:01 +0800
From: Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: CT MediaGX motherboards and Linux
How can I enable the Media GX sound? I am using Mandrake 6.0.
Steffen Kluge wrote:
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >I don't have "hands-on" experience with Cyrix MediaGX, but I did some
> >research. Looks like this motherboard, the CPU and video are supported,
> >but audio is not. However, audio might be supported in the future by
> >OSS.
>
> I don't know about that particular motherboard, but I had Linux
> running on a Compaq Presario 2200 (166MHz MediaGX). The XFree
> SVGA server ran ok at 1024x768 16bpp. Sound worked as
> SoundBlaster compatible. It might not have made the most out of
> the MediaGX chip, but then, I didn't use the box as an MP3
> player. The bass/treble adjustment the chip supposedly supports
> doesn't work under W95 either.
>
> Hope this helps
> Steffen.
>
> --
> Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Fujitsu Australia Ltd
> Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
> --
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:56:23 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: PCI SCSI adapter recommendations (inexpensive & good linux support)
mikez wrote:
>
> I'm looking for a reliable PCI scsi adapter and of course it needs Linux
> support!
>
> Any suggestions?
>
Symbios Logic adapters work just fine for me. They also have the benfit
of being able to talk to each device using the maximum speed (if the
spec allows). So if you have a FastSCSI CDROM and a UltraSCSI HD then
the disk will be accessed w/ 20M/s and the CDROM w/ 10M/s. That's nice.
Marc
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From: "Andrew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 23:48:26 +1200
When I try to mount my floppy disk ( Only one, in dos is A:) I got the
following message:
VFS: can't find an ext2 file system on dev 02:00
mount: Wrong fs type, bad opinion, bad superblock on /dev/fd0 or too
many mounted file systems.
Plese tell me what I need do, thank you very much in advance.
(I can mount my cd-rom however).
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 14:06:57 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel
Konstantinos Agouros wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just installed a K6-II/400 in my P55T2P4S and it does not look so good.
> In trying to compile the kernel I get a signal11 very fast and one a sig6
> Anybody has an idea?
>
German c't mag had a test last month of most socket 7 board. They
checked various processors and your combination got a '-', i.e. not
supported or not stable. OK.
That's what you knew. But now you know that it's not your fault. Look at
the asus site to check if there are simple workarounds, else check out
if someone in
news:alt.comp.periphs.mainboard.asus
knows a hardware manipulation to make it run.
Good Luck,
Marc
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Georg Schwarz)
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.ibm.ps2.hardware,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Subject: Re: IBM 0669 ESDI hard disk parameters?
Date: 6 Jun 1999 12:07:00 GMT
Using a small DOS tool downloaded from http://www.seagate.com I found the
correct parameters to be C/H/S=110/64/32. Specifying eda=110,64,32 with
lilo does the trick. I'm currently making the new file system. Bye, bye
DOS :-) (which takes quite some time for such a small disk compared to
IDE, BTW)
--
Georg Schwarz ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], PGP 2.6ui)
Institut f�r Theoretische Physik +49 30 314-24254 FAX -21130 IRC kuroi
Technische Universit�t Berlin http://home.pages.de/~schwarz/
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steffen Kluge)
Subject: Re: CT MediaGX motherboards and Linux
Date: 6 Jun 1999 12:09:22 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Frederick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>How can I enable the Media GX sound? I am using Mandrake 6.0.
Well, the box I was talking about doesn't run Linux at the
moment (it could, but my son is using it at the moment and I
would have to restore LILO on the MBR), but from my
recollection: I found out what IRQ, IO and DMA the sound was set
to (in the PC BIOS) and loaded the sb module with those as
parameters.
If I find some time I boot the machine into Linux and have a look.
It was running RedHat 5.2 with a 2.2.5-ac6 kernel, btw.
Cheers
Steffen.
--
Steffen Kluge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Fujitsu Australia Ltd
Keywords: photography, Mozart, UNIX, Islay Malt, dark skies
--
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From: Thorsten Mein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 14:23:53 +0200
Hi there,
I have a problem with kernel 2.2.3, my harddisk Fujitsu MPB3043AT and
the UDMA mode. The kernel says
PCI_IDE: unknown IDE controller on PCI bus 00 device 78, VID=10b9,
DID=5229
PCI_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
PCI_IDE: simplex device: DMA disabled
ide1: PCI_IDE Bus-Master DMA disabled (BIOS)
hda: FUJITSU MPB3043ATU, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
hda: FUJITSU MPB3043ATU, 4125MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=525/255/63, UDMA
The mainboard has the Aladdin 5 chipset (ASUS P5A-B).
Where�s the problem ?
Bye
Thorsten Meinl
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Konstantinos Agouros)
Subject: Re: K6-II/400 and Signal 11 while compiling Kernel
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 09:01:12 GMT
Paul Trost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Signal 11 can mean a number of things, I got signal 11 errors in Xwindows
>when I had my kg2-350 overclocked to 366 so I could use 66mhz dimms. When I
>replaced the dimms with a 128 MB 100mhz module and changed my clock speed
>back to 350 everything was ok. If you're previous processor worked ok then
>make sure you're not overclocking anything. Linux is extremely sensitive to
>that.
Well that's another fear, it was sold to me as a 400, but maybe it's fake.
Is it possible that the problem comes from different Caches (sizes) in a
K6 and a K6-II? I also have Tagram installed.
Konstantin
--
Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otkerstr. 28, 81547 Muenchen, Germany. Tel +49 89 69370185
============================================================================
"Captain, this ship will not sustain the forming of the cosmos." B'Elana Torres
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (M. Buchenrieder)
Subject: Re: PCI-slots: plug and play ??
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 10:17:24 GMT
"Jef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>I have 3 pci-cards (SCSI, video, NIC) and one ISA-card (second parallel
>port).
>I can set my BIOS to :
>- set IRQ, etc. manually
That's what I'd suggest. You'll have to tell the BIOS to be excluding the
IRQ your secondary par. port card uses, though.
>- use PNP OS (Win9x)
>- use PNP OS (other PNP OS) (* choosen by me)
>Depending on wich slots I use for the different cards:
>- the pc doesn't power on
Either your BIOS is broken, or the video card doesn't work with the
IRQ the card gets by the BIOS.
>- the pc gets power, but doesn't see a screen
>- pc power and screen, but no boot-device
>- pc power and screen and disk, but NIC doesn't work
I'd strongly suggest searching for a newer BIOS version, then.
>- pc power and screen and disk and NIC, but Linux crashes while printing
At least, it works. If Linux doesn't like the printer port, did you tell
it about your secondary parallel port and its settings ?
Michael
--
Michael Buchenrieder * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * http://www.muc.de/~mibu
Lumber Cartel Unit #456 (TINLC) & Official Netscum
Note: If you want me to send you email, don't munge your address.
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From: Sergio Brandano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: LinuX server, for sale
Date: 6 Jun 1999 12:57:25 GMT
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=====================
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==============
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---------
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.os.linux.development.apps,comp.os.linux.anwers
Subject: compiling for Hitachi SH-3 with gcc
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 14:59:25 +0200
I'm actually looking for the libraries (or modules; whatever needed) to
compile programs for a Hitachi SH-3 CPU with gcc running on i386 linux.
Thanks, Peter [[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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