Linux-Hardware Digest #460, Volume #10 Thu, 10 Jun 99 20:13:54 EDT
Contents:
Need help with Diamond SupraExpress V.90 ("Keith Ackerknecht")
Re: Network Card Says 'Device Busy' (Eric Wick)
Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card (Jim Zubb)
Re: "Kernel size too large" (David McMullen)
Sound help: ESS 1969-based embedded soundcard (Douglas Eck)
large disk linux/win98 dual boot help?? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY) (Tsmanlyman)
Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems (root)
Re: Happy Hacking Keyboard (Brett Neely)
Re: about SB AWE64 ISA ("Amir Man")
Re: mt ... fsf not working (Michael Meissner)
Does the HP7200i ATAPI CD Writer need SCSI emulation (Paul John)
Linux in Powerbook G3 ???? (Daniel Gonzalez Valero)
Re: Celeron or PII? (Johan Kullstam)
Re: SuSE 6.0 Installation problems (Jaime Mantel)
problems with second disk (Michal Szymanski)
Re: Linux on desktop Dells (Leejay Wu)
[Q] IBM ServerRaid is it supported ?? ("Tony Platt")
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From: "Keith Ackerknecht" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Need help with Diamond SupraExpress V.90
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 17:24:37 -0400
I have a Diamond SupraExpress V.90 ISA Pnp Modem. I have been trying to
install but I getting error messages when saying I/O error with every damn
address I try. I got it to dial once but I don't know how I did it. Any help
is appreciated.
Keith
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Wick)
Subject: Re: Network Card Says 'Device Busy'
Date: 10 Jun 1999 07:16:44 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] says...
>I'm having trouble getting my SMC 9432 NIC installed....... I'm
>getting a Device is Busy Delaying initialization' error with RedHat
>5.2.......
Are there any more PCI-Cards in the Machine? Some of them won't work together,
like the RT8029 and Dawicontrol-SCSI.
Sometimes it may help to shuffle the PCI-Cards in their Slots.
Bye
Eric
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From: Jim Zubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.x
Subject: Re: GLX accelerated quake with TNT card
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 23:21:27 -0400
Donovan Rebbechi wrote:
>
> Hi. I am trying to get quake 2 working with my TNT card on linux.
> Unfrotunately, this is not in the quake howto yet ( hint hint )
>
> So far, I have the following:
>
> firstly, it works fine in software rendering modes ( softx and soft )
>
> My current setup is as follows:
>
> I removed the ref_glx.so file from the quake2 directory ( /usr/local/quake2 )
> and copied the nvidia glx.so library into that directory , and made
> ref_glx.so a link to glx.so
>
> I also have the libGL.so* files from the nvidia distribution in my quake
> directory, and symbolic links libMesaGL.so* in that directory.
>
> When I try to put it into GL/X mode, it exits with this error:
>
> LoadLibrary("ref_glx.so") failed: /usr/local/games/quake2/ref_glx.so:
> undefined symbol: GlxExtensionInitPtr
>
> Does anyone have an idea (a) how to set up quake2 with a TNT board or
> (b) what I am doing wrong ?
>
> thanks,
>
> -- Donovan
Ok, here are some clues. I am assuming you installed the
glx driver using the supplied Nvidia script.
Make sure you run your X session in 16 bit mode, doesn't
work in 8 or 24 or 32.
Make sure after X initializes you see the lines:
GlxExtensionInit
RIVA GLX Version = 1.0
in the console from the X server startup. This will
indicate that your Riva glx driver is installed correctly.
Run Quake 2 with the command
./quake2 +set vid_ref glx +set gl_driver libGL.so
Plus any other switches you want. Make sure the libGL.so is
the one from the Riva glx driver, make a link in the quake2
directory to it. It looks like you copied these to your
quake 2 directory, this should be ok.
I am not running my quake2 X session with a window manager
so I don't know if this matters or not.
This is how I got mine running. It is kind of slow, but
playable, I still use Windows when I really want to play
Quake2 (much faster). :(
As an aside it appears that they don't have multitexturing
enabled yet, Quake2 says it can't find that extension.
--
Jim Zubb
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: David McMullen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup,aus.computers.linux
Subject: Re: "Kernel size too large"
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 16:13:57 -0500
Craig Sharpe wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm in the process of configuring my own kernel. I'm using RedHat 6 and
> need to reconfigure the kernel to suport scsi, parallel ports, and zip
> drivers so that I can install my zip 250 parallel drive.
>
> I've selected the options I want in xconfig .. and have typed "make
> dep", then "make clean" and then "make zImage" but then after it has
> looked at the sectors of my HD it comes up with two error messages
> saying " Use bzImage or modules". I took the advice and ran "make
> xconfigure" with very few y options and after the rest of the procedure
> the error message came up again. It takes about a whole morning to do
> the process and so I was wondering if it was possible to see the amount
> of bytes used in the kernel by the different drivers.. and hence know
> how much I can add without going over the kernel size limit??
>
> Or does anyone know were to find xconfig lists that display the drivers
> installed and produce a working kernel?
>
> thanks for your time.
Use bzImage
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From: Douglas Eck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sound help: ESS 1969-based embedded soundcard
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 14:52:28 -0600
My Asus P5A Super 7 motherboards comes with a builtin sound
card. When I do lspci --v I see this:
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1969
(rev 01)
Subsystem: Unknown device 125d:8888
Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop-
ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B-
Status: 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR-
Latency: 2 min, 24 max, 32 set
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 5
Region 0: I/O ports at b800
Region 1: I/O ports at b400
Region 2: I/O ports at b000
Region 3: I/O ports at a800
Region 4: I/O ports at a400
I'm having a hard time getting it to work. I read that *tons*
of ESS chips are supported, but not the 1969 yet.
I'm running debian/gnu linux with kernel 2.2.1, and building
under kernel-package. I've tried the OSS drivers, but with no success
**CCs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] are much appreciated***
Regards,
Doug
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: large disk linux/win98 dual boot help??
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:36:18 GMT
I just added a second Maxtor 8.4G drive to my existing old dual boot
machine. I can't make the system work!.
system config:
(1)new Maxtor 8.4G EIDE as master, the old 1.6G win98/linux dual boot
drive as slave.
(2) my bios is old 1994 AMI that has limitation of 2.1G, so I
installed maxblast (EZBIOS) and installed win98 into 8.4G.
(3) use fips to repartion 8.4G into 5.5G + 3G and delete 3G drive for
linux.
(4) I then run redhat 5.2 either before or after EZBIOS, upgrade or
fresh install, all failed. For "upgrade": One error is during "find rpm
package", linux cannot mount /dev/hdb5, although I can mount myself in
the prompt. After manual mounting, things worked fine. However when I
reboot, the lilo in masterboot won't work. The bootdisk created in the
upgrade process will give me "kernal hang" in the booting process.
I tried "install", even worse, no matter EZBIOS enabled for not, fdisk
only see my 8.4G as 2.1G, and there is 5.5G win98 installed there
already, so freespace remain there is negative 3.4G! no free space to
install anyware!
Help! How can install both linux and win98 into 8.4G Second disk? How
can I get around problem of old bios 2.1G harddrive limitation?
Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tsmanlyman)
Subject: Re: ATI video card (RAGE FURY)
Date: 10 Jun 1999 22:10:06 GMT
Go to www.XFree86.org. Red hat 6 comes with Xfree86-3.3.3.1. Check there to be
sure, but I understand that the server for that card isn't finished yet. I also
understand that it is definitely in the works. I have the ATI Xpert98 so I went
lookin'.
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From: root <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.alpha,comp.os.linux.development.system
Subject: Re: Terabite Plus Filesystems
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 18:13:42 -0500
"Christopher B. Browne" wrote:
>
> On 29 May 1999 19:05:07 -0400, "Stefan Monnier
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted:
> >>>>>> "David" == David T Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> PCs with *x86 architecture have about 1/3 the computing power
> >> of an alpha at the same clock speed. That is the penalty for
> >> keeping legacy chip architecture around.
> >
> >You lost here all credibility.
>
> Indeed. My Alpha/166 system is absolutely *not* the equal of a 400MHz
> IA-32.
>
> It is instead roughly the equal to a P75/P90, thus suggesting a rather
> different ratio, such as that PC's with IA-32 architectures have
> approximately twice the computing power of an Alpha-based system of the same
> clock speed.
>
> I would not, however, promote *that* position either, as it is not a
> reasonable characterization of either Alpha or IA-32.
>
> A fairer claim would be that for FP-intensive operations, Alpha systems are
> comparatively a *lot* faster than IA-32 systems of similar price.
>
> It is not clear which processor has advantage when working with highly I/O
> intensive operations; that is liable to be dominated by:
> a) The speed of the disk system, and
> b) The rate at which DMA can move data back and forth between memory and the
> devices.
>
> In that circumstance, Alpha won't have a substantial advantage.
>
> In applications involving hefty amounts of integer calculations that can fit
> into 32 bits, IA-32 appears to be a more economical answer.
>
> When 64 bit values start to represent important factors in applications,
> Alpha will doubtless look better in that it can do things in one instruction
> that likely take 4 or more on IA-32.
>
> Those are the sorts of factors that *should* be used to assess which
> architecture will be preferable; the blanket assessment that
> "AXP = IA-32 * 3" just makes the proponent look ignorant.
>
> --
> Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
> -- Henry Spencer <http://www.hex.net/~cbbrowne/alpha.html>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - "What have you contributed to free software today?..."
I Know nothing about alpha's but I do work with alot of sparc machines,
can't compare any enterprise 5000 with 10 processors to no pc but I do
have an ultra 1 that is 167mhz that out performs my pentium II 300, but
I don't think it out performs my 400....
Just my two sense
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From: Brett Neely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Happy Hacking Keyboard
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:29:59 -0700
Hi,
Linuxcare Labs, our company's hardware testing/certification division,
has certified this keyboard to work with Linux. It was tested on
RedHat, Caldera, TurboLinux, Debian, and SuSE. A concise certification
report is online at
http://labs.linuxcare.com/products/happy-hacking.html
Niklas Matthies wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Does anyone worked with the Happy Hacking Keyboard from PFU?
> I'd be grateful for any experience reports, pros and cons etc.
>
> -- Niklas
--
Brett Neely, Technical Support Engineer, Linuxcare, Inc.
415.354.4878 x269 tel, 415.701.7457 fax
[EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com
Linuxcare. At the center of Linux.
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From: "Amir Man" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: about SB AWE64 ISA
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 1999 06:27:28 +0300
I've been using this sound card with no problems so far.
chunfuyu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
Hi:
I want to install redhat 6.0 and my sound card is Sound Blaster Awe 64
bit ISA interface. Is that ok to 6.0?
Besides, can I use my SCSI hard drive as the boot disk?
Thanks a lot!
Peter
.
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: mt ... fsf not working
From: Michael Meissner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Jun 1999 18:47:15 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> andreas,
>
> paul's specified the tape not to rewind /dev/nst0.
> ^
>
> paul,
>
> i came across the same problem. here's one of many solutions:
> dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/nst0
> then you can fire up restore.
Rev'ing mt up to 0.5b (or down to 0.4) will also fix the problem. FWIW, RedHat
5.2 ships 0.5 (ie, the buggy version), and RedHat 6.0 ships 0.5b.
--
Michael Meissner, Cygnus Solutions
PMB 198, 174 Littleton Road #3, Westford, Massachusetts 01886
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 978-486-9304 fax: 978-692-4482
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From: Paul John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Does the HP7200i ATAPI CD Writer need SCSI emulation
Date: 10 Jun 1999 11:28:36 -0400
Relevant config:
SuSE 6.1 kernel 2.25
KDE
HP 7200i IDE CD writer
8.4GB EIDE hda
4.2GB SCSI sda
PPro 128M
In order to get my HP 7200i IDE CD writer to work, I enabled SCSI
emulation in the kernel & recompiled. Everything is fine, and the
drives are recognised correctly by cdwrite & cdrecord. However,
whenever I write a CDR, 9 times out of 10 it fails part way through
due to a SCSI I/O error & the buffer becoming empty. I stepped the
write speed down to x1 and the result is the same. Oddly enough,
it does seem to work without error on a rewriteable CD. I have tried
several brands of CDR's & all fail somewhere between 25 & 60%
through the write process.
I can only assume the problem lies with the SCSI emulation. I notice
there are other cd recording apps about, keasycd for example and I
wondered if there are any that will work with the CD writer in
native ATAPI/IDE mode.
Failing that, are there any special parameters I should be using for
the SCSI emulation. At the moment, it is recognised by CDToast as a
generic SCSI CD-Writer.
Any help appreciated. Thanks.
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From: Daniel Gonzalez Valero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Linux in Powerbook G3 ????
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 10:33:38 +0200
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Hi folks,
Has anybody tried to install Linux in Powerbook G3?
Is it possible?
What is the hardware support of this laptop? I am considering
buying a P3 and install Linux on it, but no idea whether it is
possible...
Daniel
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Subject: Re: Celeron or PII?
From: Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 10 Jun 1999 17:59:12 -0400
bryan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Johannes Nix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> : Johan Kullstam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> : >
> : > if you *really* *need* raw cpu performance, then alpha might be a good
> : > choice - especially for floating point. they are a bit more expensive
> : > than the intel offering however.
> : >
>
> : This is very interesting for me.
>
> : I would like to have some numbers, especially concerning floating
> : point arithmetics.
>
> : Are there SMP Alphas?
>
> I can't answer that, but I can say that my dual celeron linux box can
> build a 2.2 kernel (with reasonable options) in 1:45. I believe that
> would be on-par with alphas - if not beating them.
compiling code for the alpha is slower than compiling for an i386.
the ia-32 arch has few registers and since they all have special
purposes, there is only one way they can go. the alpha has many
general purpose regs and hence many ways to juggle them.
the question really is, how fast can an alpha cross-compile a kernel
for an ia-32?
> and for a fraction of the cost, too.
yes. but if you need floating point speed in a single cpu, the alpha
will still cream the celerons.
--
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: Jaime Mantel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: SuSE 6.0 Installation problems
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 12:29:59 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> My problem is this. I'm trying to install SuSE 6.0 on a 486 computer.
> The problem is that the cd rom is plugged on the sound card. When I try
> to install it said that the cd rom isn't mounted. Help me please how to
> avoid (skip) this problem. I have 2 months more to install this package.
> Thanks.
>
> Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
Install the modules you need for the cdrom. It should let you do this
at some point of the installation.
Jaime
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michal Szymanski)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: problems with second disk
Date: 10 Jun 1999 23:25:16 GMT
Hi,
I got a PII/400 PC with two IBM-DTTA-351680 16GB disks. I have
installed RH 5.2, then upgraded kernel to 2.2.1 (but this does
not change anything regarding this post).
At boot, both disk are recognized, even partitions on the second
are shown:
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 < hda5 hda6 hda7 >
hdb: hdb1 hdb2 < hdb5 >
But then, when I try:
fdisk /dev/hdb
I get: Unable to read /dev/hdb
and that's it, no more info, neither in 'dmesg' nor in 'messages'
Does this make any sense?
thanks in advance for any help,
regards, Michal
--
Michal Szymanski ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Warsaw University Observatory, Warszawa, POLAND
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Linux on desktop Dells
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 19:43:11 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 10-Jun-99 Re: Linux on
desktop Dells by Jonny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Careful though. I just got a dell, linux installs and runs fine but they
> come with winmodem's. I'm sending mine back to dell and getting a refund
> but it would have been easier to get the right thing to start with.
Aye. They'll replace the typical WinModem w/ a hw modem for a fee, 'tho,
when you order if ya ask...
--
| [EMAIL PROTECTED] | the silly student |
|--------------------------| he writes really bad haiku |
| #include <stddiscl.h> | readers all go mad |
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From: "Tony Platt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Q] IBM ServerRaid is it supported ??
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 21:52:51 +1000
SCSI-2 Fast / Wide ServeRAID PCI RAID Controller, FRU P/N 76H6875 (06H9334)
Is it supported under linux
Picture
http://www.computercable.com/ecom/76h6875.jpg
Thanks
Tony Platt
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