Linux-Hardware Digest #427, Volume #10 Sun, 6 Jun 99 18:13:44 EDT
Contents:
Re: Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA (Marc Mutz)
Re: Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA ("Peter Christy")
Re: Sony DDU-220E (Frank Kuehnel)
Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY (Leejay Wu)
Re: Help w jaton video 97 agp card (Andrew Comech)
Level Domains DNS qestion. Help badly needed. (Denis)
Re: Linux and BIOS (Andrew Comech)
Various floppy and Hard Drive Booting problems (Micah McCurdy)
Can someone instruct me on installing HP 722C printer? (Dick Roth)
SoundBlaster 16 high channel DMA 3 (Ya`akov Nachum Miles)
s3 savage4 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
setserial i/o error (Andy)
NVIDIA GL Driver (Ignacio E Thayer)
Re: Linux and BIOS (Ya`akov Nachum Miles)
SCSI and mkinitrd (Daniel Naughton)
Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY (Ya`akov Nachum
Miles)
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Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:14:07 +0200
From: Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA
Thorsten Mein wrote:
>
> Hi there,
>
> I have a problem with kernel 2.2.3, my harddisk Fujitsu MPB3043AT and
> the UDMA mode. The kernel says
>
<snip>
> The mainboard has the Aladdin 5 chipset (ASUS P5A-B).
> Where�s the problem ?
That's the problem! This specific chipset is not supported in 2.2.x
kernels. It is however supported (but maybe broken) in 2.3.x and there
exists a patch. See various postings on this before.
Marc
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From: "Peter Christy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Aladdin 5 + Fujitsu MPB3043AT + UDMA
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 18:31:30 +0100
Funnily enough, I've got an Asus P5AB and 2.2.3 kernel. Your right, it
doesn't recognise the UDMA functions, though its still pretty quick. I've
just been experimenting with 2.3.4 ( a "hacker" kernel). This recognises an
Ali V chipset, and activates UDMA. Disk speed as reported by hdparm -t
nearly doubles. However, it kills the midi driver for the onboard CMI 8330
chips. It complains of a DMA conflict, but doesn't report one under
/proc/dma or anywhere else. I guess thats the downside of an experimental
kernel.........!!!
Pete
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thorsten Mein wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
>Hi there,
>
>I have a problem with kernel 2.2.3, my harddisk Fujitsu MPB3043AT and
>the UDMA mode. The kernel says.......
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From: Frank Kuehnel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Sony DDU-220E
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:00:32 -0400
I don`t think that a particular driver for DDU-220E is needed!
My system is able to boot Linux from the CD, strangely enough
the DVD-Drive is detected correctly as an regular ATAPI drive.
I could only guess what is going wrong when booting Linux from
a hard disk: the problem might be caused by the BIOS or a mystique
initialization key is needed?!
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was having the same frustration and looking all
> about for a driver. I have a patch for the IDE
> driver which makes this DVD drive work. I am not
> an expert on IDE/DVD/CDROM/file systems, so use
> this at your own risk.
>
> This was applied to the 2.2.8 kernel. It enables
> the kernel to recognize the type 17 (0x11) device
> as a CDROM.
>
> --- drivers/block/ide-probe.c.save Thu Jun 3
> 18:56:49 1999
> +++ drivers/block/ide-probe.c Thu Jun 3
> 19:10:27 1999
> @@ -119,6 +119,11 @@
> printk
> ("OPTICAL");
> drive->removable =
> 1;
> break;
> + case 0x11:
> + printk
> ("DVD-CDROM");
> + type = ide_cdrom;
> + drive->removable =
> 1;
> + break;
> default:
> printk("UNKNOWN
> (type %d)", type);
> break;
>
> Hope that this helps you.
>
> Henry
>
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> Ernst de Haan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have a Sony DVD drive, model DDU-220E (ATAPI).
> Does anyone know how to
> > get this thing working> I've written to Sony,
> but they don;t have a
> > clue. Anyone working on this? I'd be willing to
> help. Any pointers?
> >
> > GreetinX++, Ernst
> >
> > --
> > Ernst de Haan
> > Chief Technical Officer
> > Tector i.o.
> >
> > "Come to me all who are weary and burdened,
> > and I will give you rest" -- Jesus Christ
> >
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 14:54:03 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 6-Jun-99 Can't mount my
floppy disk... by "Andrew"@canterbury.ac.n
> When I try to mount my floppy disk ( Only one, in dos is A:) I got the
> following message:
...so you've a floppy disk in your only floppy drive, i.e. /dev/fd0. 'k.
> 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.
'k. The natural question is -- *is* the floppy disk formatted with ext2?
Or does it use something like FAT16? I'm working here on the assumption
that your kernel supports ext2 (extremely likely, esp. if you're not using
umsdos) and normal floppy drives (possibly 100% odds, since it checked).
If it has no filesystem, make one first (unless you're just going to
overwrite it w/ tar or whatever). An ext2 filesystem can be built using
mke2fs, a.k.a. 'mkfs.ext2'.
If it's a dos floppy, try something like (as per the mount(8) man page;
see 'man mount'):
mont -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy
subbin' as apropos for /mnt/floppy, and possibly vfat for msdos.
> Plese tell me what I need do, thank you very much in advance.
> (I can mount my cd-rom however).
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Help w jaton video 97 agp card
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jun 1999 14:57:27 -0500
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:08:29 -0400, E.Y. Coley III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am very new to Linux/unix and am in need of very specific, dummy proof
>instructions for setting up XFree86 to work with a Jaton Video97 AGP card
>together with a Trident 3D Image 9850 chipset. I am unfamiliar with
>navigating through the files, and finding/editing the appropriate modelines,
>etc. so I'm talking about help even with how to get into/find the files I
>need to edit.
Man, you are asking for impossible: the support for Jaton videocards
is seriously screwed up....
locate FILENAME
shows you where the file is (first, run `updatedb' as a root, to update
locate's database).
emacs allows to edit the file.. (or else have fun learning vi).
ls -l FILENAME
shows all what's known about the file (and, if it is a symbolic link,
where it points to);
ls -lu FILENAME
shows when the particular file was `u'sed (by you or by the system).
ls -lut * ; ls -lutr * shows files ordered according to the access time
(accending/decending order).
I guess this gives you enough degrees of freedom for configuring X.
Regarding configuring that videocard:
First, try running xf86config; tell it as much as you can, and say you
want to use SVGA xserver, and say "do not probe clocks".
Who knows, maybe everything would work right away; with Jaton's cards
I doubt it, though...
If you are getting the black screen for some/most/all modes, try
http://www.math.sunysb.edu/~comech/tools/3DImage975.html
which explains how to deal with Trident's 3DImage975 chipset; your
3DImage985 is supposed to have very similar "features"...
Keep in touch,
a.
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From: Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Level Domains DNS qestion. Help badly needed.
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:20:44 -0400
Hi, I'm stuck here.
I started having problems connecting to one of my account at Duke.
it is an ACPUB account, ac opposed to EGR account that is working.
I give their names here so you can understand the following output.
I read DNS HOWTO and used nslookup command to find out the following:
[root@localhost denis]# nslookup
Default Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
> me1.egr.duke.edu
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
Name: me1.egr.duke.edu
Address: 152.16.101.1
> godzilla.acpub.duke.edu
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
*** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find godzilla.acpub.duke.edu: Non-existent
host/domain
> teer14.acpub.duke.edu
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
*** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find teer14.acpub.duke.edu: Non-existent host/domain
Address: 152.3.250.1
> set q=ns
> duke.edu.
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
duke.edu nameserver = dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
duke.edu nameserver = dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu
duke.edu nameserver = dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu
dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.1
dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.2
dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 128.109.131.40
> acpub.duke.edu.
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
*** dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu can't find acpub.duke.edu.: No response from server
> egr.duke.edu.
Server: dukedns1.netcom.duke.edu
Address: 152.3.250.1
egr.duke.edu nameserver = dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu
egr.duke.edu nameserver = dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu
egr.duke.edu nameserver = ee.duke.edu
dukedns3.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 128.109.131.40
dukedns2.netcom.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.250.2
ee.duke.edu internet address = 152.3.17.193
>
as you can see I can access my EGR account because the DNS server can
find egr.duke.edu. At the same time I can not access my ACPUB account
because DNS can't find acpub.duke.edu. Some people suggested that I ask
Duke network people about that, but I think there's no need becasue
from win95 I CAn access my ACPUB acount - so there's something wrong
here on my Linux system, that I can't find yet. To me all the files
that I looked at while reading DNS-HOWTO look fine, but I might be
wrong. Any ideas where these beast sits?
Thanks a lot
PS. I know the IP address of say godzilla.acpub.duke.edu (from above),
so I telneted it with telent 152.3.233.44 and it works, too
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Comech)
Subject: Re: Linux and BIOS
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: 6 Jun 1999 14:33:53 -0500
On Sun, 06 Jun 1999 13:58:00 -0400, Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I want to try to get into my BIOS to disable Plug and Play(I think it's
>screwing up my network card).
> Does anybody know how to do this?
>
Somebody wrote something about "non-PnP operating system" option
in BIOS; reboot, press DEL, and go through the menus..
a.
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From: Micah McCurdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.linux.slakware,alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux,answers
Subject: Various floppy and Hard Drive Booting problems
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 16:55:11 -0300
I recently realized my goal of booting my Slakware 4.0 system without
floppy disks by editing my lilo.conf file to boot from my Linux
partition when I choose it from the menu I get at startup of my machine.
I am relatively pleased with this. However, if I boot it read-write,
then I get an annoying message saying that filesystem checking cannot be
performed b/c the partition is in read-write. If I boot read-only, then
this message goes away and is replaced (at a different point in the
bootup) with a message saying that nothing is going to work because the
partition is in read-only, and then it hangs at it attempts to start the
daemons. My question is this: how do I boot my Linux system without
floppies and without error messages?
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From: Dick Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Can someone instruct me on installing HP 722C printer?
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 18:56:18 GMT
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I'm having trouble installing an HP 722C printer, which works=20
wonderfully in w95, but is a problem under Linux. So far, I've=20
learned that no HP driver exists for Linux. Can someone who has=20
installed this kind of printer give me a hand with this chore?
I'm running RH5.2.
Thanks
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<P>I'm having trouble installing an HP 722C printer, which works
wonderfully in w95, but is a problem under Linux. So far, I've learned
that no HP driver exists for Linux. Can someone who has installed this
kind of printer give me a hand with this chore?</P>
<P>I'm running RH5.2.</P>
<P>Thanks</P>
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From: Ya`akov Nachum Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SoundBlaster 16 high channel DMA 3
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:17:24 GMT
My Plug&Pray Soundblaster 16 wants for its "high" channel DMA 3 which
is not an option accepted by the Soundblaster driver (which wants 5-7)
Can anyone suggest how to modify the driver to use high channel DMA 3
or else force the Plug&Pray to use DMA channel 5 instead of DMA 3 ?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: s3 savage4
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 19:12:37 GMT
Any experience with s3's new savage4 video card. I might be picking one
up soon.
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From: Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: setserial i/o error
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 14:21:15 -0500
Hello all, new to this group and looking forward to interacting with you
all in the future.
I tried to check the settings of my tty02 with setserial, but I recieved
an I/O error on tty02 instead of the info I was hoping to get. Any
ideas what this could be?
Thanks,
Andy...Not quite a newbie, and nowhere near a veteran...
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From: Ignacio E Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: NVIDIA GL Driver
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 15:20:03 -0400
I recently installed the drivers from NVIDIA for my riva 128. i also
installed the GL libraries so that GL programs linked against mesa would
use hardware acceleration (per the instructions from nvidia). anyway,
the server works fine, except when i try and run any xscreensaver GL
hacks, they run fast, accept they seem to flash white every other frame,
and needless to say look pretty crappy. i'm wondering if this maybe be a
clock timing problem or maybe i need to run at a lower resolution? if
anyone had this problem or can successfully run gl programs hardware
accelerated, i would appreciate it if you could send me your XF86Config.
thanks.
ignacio
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From: Ya`akov Nachum Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux and BIOS
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:57:56 GMT
Mike Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: I want to try to get into my BIOS to disable Plug and Play(I think it's
: screwing up my network card).
: Does anybody know how to do this?
In my PackardBell 880C there lives an AWARD bios which is entered by
hitting "F2" during boot. This particular AWARD bios won't disable Plug
and Pray...
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From: Daniel Naughton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: SCSI and mkinitrd
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 20:22:48 +0000
I am trying to get an Advansys SCSI card to be detected on my RH 5.2
Pentium box. I'm not having much luck. I finally tried reinstalling
the entire OS on another HD and what do you know - the card was
detected, and the thing loads up fine. The /proc directory had
"advansys" information in about 15 places. The RedHat install is much
smarter than I am:)
The problem is I don't what to format my hard drive every time I change
cards.
in the RH 5.2 manual, it says that "an initrd image is needed for
loading your SCSI module at boot time. The shell script /sbin/mkinitrd
cab build the proper initrd image for your machine....etc". I thought I
struck gold when I read this. no such luck.
The loopback is in place
The /etc/conf.modules has in it:
alias scsi_hostadapter advansys
I tried the following
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/newinitrd-image 2.0.36-0.7
It seemed to take (it didn't destroy anything), but nothing changed -
still no SCSI card. Is there something else that needs to be changed to
possibly change pointers to this new initrd image??
The RedHat install seemed to configure everything fine , but it does
explain evertything that is done during the install process?
Any help would be appreciated.
Dan Naughton
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From: Ya`akov Nachum Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't mount my floppy disk. Plz HELP ME, LINUX DRIVE ME CRAZY
Date: Sun, 06 Jun 1999 21:09:08 GMT
Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
: 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).
All you need to do is "mount /dev/fd0 /mnt" The "mount" command will
probe fd0 for magic numbers and figure out what file system is on it.
You do NOT need to specify a filesystem with the -t option. Handy...
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