Linux-Hardware Digest #509, Volume #10 Wed, 16 Jun 99 23:13:27 EDT
Contents:
RedHat 60 on Sparc 10 ("Hall, Johnny")
New computer, is it ok? ("bot_b")
Re: scsi iomega zip, scsi emul (Michael Sherman)
Joystick strangeness (Fire martial Bill)
Re: Linux Backup Solution. (Matthias Kilian)
Irwin A250 and DC2120 RHOMAT tapes (Greg Koch "@usa.net>)
TV-out support for Matrox Mystique G200 (Mark Bestel)
Re: Boot from Network Y/N (Phil Griffiths)
Re: Exabyte 8500XL freezes my system! (Greg Koch "@usa.net>)
help with IRQ assignments for PCI card (LML33 frame grabber) (Richard Mann)
Re: Help with RedHat 5.2 initrd.img file (Timothy Murphy)
Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box... ("m")
compatibility ("bot_b")
Gravis Stinger and Linux ("Jim Williams")
Re: Adaptec aic7895 in redhat 6.0 ("SuperPete")
Re: SupraExpress 56i modem driver? ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
AD1848 Sequencer not initialized? (Eric Wick)
Re: Good AT MB for Cel Processor (PhilD)
Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box... (Colleen & Richard)
help! permedia 2 card! ("K.O.Wai")
Re: Booting headless? (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Serial console - Sys msg, but no login! (Cokey de Percin)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? (David Fox)
SCSI CD-Roms - trouble (PhilD)
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From: "Hall, Johnny" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RedHat 60 on Sparc 10
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:01:51 -0700
All,
The install went flawlessly except for the boot loader. I got back to
the prom and setup an alias for the linux boot disk but when I boot
(i.e. boot linux) I get "SProgram terminated"
Does anyone know what that means?
Feel free to email me directly at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks..
--
"Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous
positions." - Sun Tzu
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From: "bot_b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: New computer, is it ok?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:47:25 -0600
You kids have helped me pick out this system, I am having built, please let
me know if there are going to be any problems with it.
I hope to run windows and linux.
SuperMicro SC-750A 300w case
Epox mvp 3g-m
Crucial PC-100 128mb -8ns
Maxtor Diamond Plus 5120 10.2 gb
Diamond Viper AGP 550 16mb
AMD K6-2 450
Acer 40x cd-rom
Diamond SupraExpress v/f/d-isa modem
(with jumpers)
Ps/2 mouse
Will be using my old 15" monitor for now, if it will work.
Thanks
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From: Michael Sherman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: scsi iomega zip, scsi emul
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:46:47 -0400
> My zip drive is seen by linux (seen in dmesg)
> scsi1: Iomega VPIO (ppa) interface
> how can I mount that drive ?
>
> Also, the SCSI emulation for IDE ATAPI devices is mounted (scsi0)
> but programs like cdrecord or xcdroast don't see the CDRW :-(
You may want to check out the Linux ZIP how-to. I just
bought an ATAPI zip drive and got it working in about
five minutes...
http://njtcom.com/dansie/zip-drive.html
If it's found on startup, and SCSI emulation is working, you
should be able to do mount -t vfat /dev/sda4 /mnt/zip or
something like that. Also, try mounting it under the
IDE device, like /dev/hdc or /dev/hdd.
-Mike
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From: Fire martial Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Joystick strangeness
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:40:29 GMT
I have RH6.0 kernel 2.2.7 with joystick
support built in the kernel ( Sidewinder 3D )
sometimes it finds the joystick and sometimes it don't.
Does anyone know of a bug?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Matthias Kilian)
Subject: Re: Linux Backup Solution.
Date: 16 Jun 1999 21:24:59 GMT
> I don't understand why the multi-volume option and the compress option
> are mutually exclusive...
I did some tests a few months ago. I don't remember the results exactly, but
here are some hints:
The Linux tape driver and the streamer often have different ideas about
the current tape position. You can see this using mt(1) with command
"status" (ioctl MTIOCGET, field mt_blkno of struct mtget), which prints
Linux's idea of the tape, i.e. the driver status), and "tell" (ioctl
MTIOCPOS, field mt_blkno of strict mtpos), which queries the streamer for
the current position. The latter is only supported by some SCSI tapes
(most DAT streamers). When writing until a write error occurs (short
write), the current block number reported by the tape driver will be
greater than the block number reported by the streamer.
Yet worse, even if the software asks the streamer for the current block
number, it appears that this number is too high.
[speculations on]
This may have to do with the cache built in the streamer. When using
hardware compression, several megabytes may fit on the last inches of the
tape, e.g. if the data written consists of zeroes only. If the data is
"uncompressable", the streamer may fail to put the last blocks on the tape.
[speculations off]
May be one could patch tar to use ask the streamer for the tape position at
end of tape, but my experiments showed that reliable synchronization only
works with hardware compression and write buffering disabled. Thus, a write(2)
to the tape waits until the data has been physically written to the tape.
Unfortunately, this slows down backup by a factor of 5 to 10.
If all the above is total nonsense, please tell me, I'm willing to learn more
about tape operations :-)
> As a response to that problem, I wrote a GPL package called backburner
> (see www.freshmeat.net) that will chop up, fixate, and recombine
> streams.
Sounds great.
Regards,
Kili
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From: Greg Koch <"gkoch<enough_with_the_spam>"@usa.net>
Subject: Irwin A250 and DC2120 RHOMAT tapes
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:03:23 GMT
I have a friend trying to read the above tapes on the above tape drive
and not having any luck. The tapes were written on an SCO xenix box
using tar. I gather the format of the tape isn't an issue as the drive
is for RHOMAT tapes. I would have to verify that they were written on a
RHOMAT drive. What would I need to do to read these tapes under linux
assuming I get it installed on his ps2. I would be using slackware
zipslack I guess for a simple install.
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From: Mark Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: TV-out support for Matrox Mystique G200
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:41:47 +1000
Does anyone know if this feature works with the xfree86 drivers?
Is there a way to make it happen?
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From: Phil Griffiths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Boot from Network Y/N
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:28:09 +0100
I have sorted it!
Eric Wick wrote:
> if there is one, try to remove it.
I had another look at the card and peeled back a label to find a DLINK
eeprom. I have removed the offending IC and all is well.
--
Many thanks
Phil
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From: Greg Koch <"gkoch<enough_with_the_spam>"@usa.net>
Subject: Re: Exabyte 8500XL freezes my system!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 00:20:20 GMT
Jim Smith wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have an Exabyte 8500XL attached to my linux box with an old adaptec
> > 1502 scsi board.
> >
> > I have a problem with my backups. Quite often, will backuping, my system
> > freezes and I have to power off. I found no message in my logs.
> >
> > I have the feeling that it occurs when the amount of data to save is
> > large, but I cannot quantify this. The problem showed with tar and with
> > dump. Any idea ?
> >
> > In addition, my tape drive already broke several tapes by crumpling
> > them. What is the reason for this ? Should I try to clean the drive ?
> >
> > Thanks for any help,
> >
> > Christophe
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Share what you know. Learn what you don't.
>
> I had a similar problem with my exabyte 8500. I had an ncr host with
> devices connected on the internal 50 pin AND a disk on the external cable.
> It work great for the disks and cdrom, but when I added the exabyte
> (internal and not at the end of the internal cable so termination is the
> same) I'd often get 1-2 gigs out then lockup. When I added a second
> controller with a termination block, for the exabyte only it worked great.
> I th ink the exabyte was just very sensitive to the termination. I've put
> out 4 large (~3.5 gig) data sets since. They look good. The best I can
> suggest is to check your termination.
Try an active terminator if all else fails. Make sure the termination on the
tape drive is off unless you have no other terminator. Also
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From: Richard Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help with IRQ assignments for PCI card (LML33 frame grabber)
Date: 16 Jun 1999 20:41:31 -0400
Does anyone know how PCs assign IRQs for PCI cards?
In particular, I've got an LML33 frame grabber (www.linuxmedialabs.com).
When I install this card, it takes an interrupt (such as IRQ 9) fine,
but other cards (such as my video or SCSI card) also take the same
interrupt. It would not work when LML33 and SCSI took IRQ 9.
I finally got it working by shuffling cards (put the LML33 in the last slot).
The following are the IRQs (from /proc/interrupts, /proc/pci):
IRQ 9: Intel SAA7116 (Matrox meteor frame grabber?),
aic7xxx (scsi),
DS21140 (ethernet card)
IRQ 10: vga (Matrox Millenium II)
IRQ 11: Zoran ZR36057 (LML33 card)
IRQ 12: PS/2 Mouse
Does anyone know the rules followed for assigning IRQs? Should each card get
its own IRQ? (Eg., is it bad to have SCSI and Ethernet using the same IRQ?)
Is there any way to control this in Bios and/or Linux?
BTW, I'm using an Asus P2L-DS (LX chipset, dual, scsi) board with Bios 1.04.
Thanks for any help,
Richard
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Timothy Murphy)
Subject: Re: Help with RedHat 5.2 initrd.img file
Date: 17 Jun 1999 01:52:38 +0100
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Leslie Smith) writes:
>Dose anyone know how to make a the initrd.img file, also could
>anyone tell me what is in the file ?
In principle you say something like
/sbin/mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.2.10.img 2.2.10
(or whatever version of the kernel you are using).
Then you need to include a line like
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.10.img
in the /etc/lilo.conf entry for this kernel.
And then of course run /sbin/lilo .
--
Timothy Murphy
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tel: +353-1-2842366
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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From: "m" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box...
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:15:55 GMT
Can you reboot from a cd?
If you can, it isn't a hardware problem. If you can't then maybe it is.
However, if you can get a cd to boot, you should be able to create a
recovery floppy disk.
With that you should be able to mount all your file systems. You then need
to mount the /boot file system and the / filesystem.
create a new lilo.conf that points to the right files. according to your
new floppy recovery disk.
run lilo pointing to this conf file.
it should reinstall everything just like you expect and lilo will return.
It tends to be bad to reboot linux with out properly closing down the
filesystem. You have probably lost some work.
check to see if any of your linux filesystems are full. It sounds like
that.
Robert Nickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in article
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> So, there I sat, happily plinking away in my KDE window. I needed to
> leave the room and decided that I would log off. Doing so, my Linux
> machine obediently charged toward respawning kdm an BOOM, purple
> vertical lines on the screen and a locked up machine. Ack! I thought.
> I guess it's time to drop back and kick. So I hit the reset button
> expecting to be told all about how a check is being forced since I
> didn't shut down correctly. However, as I watched the machine go
> through the BIOS and start to ramp up I notice that I don't have LILO:
> on the screen, but I get LI and a locked up machine! Now the box that
> has been my trusted companion for the last year is suddenly taken ill.
> I don't understand exactly what's going on.
>
> Ok, so here are the facts:
> The crash was sudden. Although I had seen a similar crash in the
> past, a reboot and patient
> wading through fsck usually fixed it.
>
> The LI portion of LILO: shows up whether booting from the hard drive
>
> or a bootable floppy.
>
> No hardware changes have been made for at LEAST 6 months.
>
> Has anyone else seen this type of problem before? I'm fairly certain
> that it is some type of hardware issue, but I just can't seem to finger
> it out.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Robert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the no_spam and .no.spam irritation avoiders to get email to
> me)
>
> p.s. e-mail responses are preferred, but I check the list often enough
> if you simply post it here.
>
>
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From: "bot_b" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: compatibility
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 18:51:36 -0600
Would it be safe to assume that if hardware works with DOS it will probably
work with LINUX?
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From: "Jim Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Gravis Stinger and Linux
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:21:53 -0500
I just bought an extra Gravis Stinger serial port joystick. Does anyone know
of any way to get it to work under Linux?
TIA
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From: "SuperPete" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Adaptec aic7895 in redhat 6.0
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:25:19 -0500
Try passing the noprobe switch. I can't remember exact syntax, but it is
well documented!
-Peter
Thomas Waldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I've a Gigabyte GA6BXDS running here. It also has a 7895 onboard dual
channel
> UW-SCSI and it runs without a problem (using kernel 2.2.6).
>
> > I am using Tyan 1836DLUAN-GX motherboard.This motherboard has onboard
> > adaptec's AIC-7895 scsi card.
> > When I try to install Redhat 6.0 and when it came at the point where it
> > scans the scsi card, it hangs there.I tried with changing motherboards
but
> > am having same problem.The same card works fine with Redhat 5.2.Anybody
has
> > any idea what the problem might be.
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Subject: Re: SupraExpress 56i modem driver?
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 21:07:08 -0400
I had this kind of a problem and went into setup of the BIOS at boot
up of the machine. Then in PCIPNP devices setup I marked the thing
that indicated a pnp os as not. Apparently, Win 95 is pnp oriented,
but Linux is not. If the answer is marked no, then the BIOS sets up
the pnp cards and passes the settings to linux. It seems to make no
difference to Win 95. My computer has an Award BIOS
You might try this.
Good Luck
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999 08:30:45 +0100, "Rui Soutelino"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got the same problem, but I still believe it will work because when I
>try it in win98 appeared in a window on control panel a message like "to use
>this modem in DOS use the following settings .... " witch were different
>from the settings on win, my question is:
>if it can work in DOS, is it a Winmodem?
>And by the way it has two nice Chips from Rockwell, this means anything?
>If anyone has any clue about it please post it, please.
>
>
>Rob Clark wrote in message ...
>>In article <7japot$3ie$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>>David Rais <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>>I have problem with instalation of SupraExpress 56i internal pci modem. My
>>>RedHat 5.1 distribution seems not to support it. Could you help me finding
>>>the right driver or give a good advice?
>>
>>It's probably a Windows-only software modem. Please check the table at:
>> http://www.o2.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html
>>in the Diamond Multimedia section to see if it's listed.
>>
>>Rob Clark, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>
>
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From: Eric Wick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: AD1848 Sequencer not initialized?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 1999 20:45:30 +0000
Hello,
on my 486er resides a Analog Devices Soundport 1848. So i inserted the
Drivers (Microsoft Soundsystem) to Kernel 2.0.36 and the Chip can play
WAV and MPG without any problems.
Today i just start XMP to play a s3m Module, it just plays but on the
commandline per Module i can see "Sequencer not initialized". Under /dev
exist two sequencer nodes, what did this message mean?
Any suggests and comments? Do this Chip have no Sequencer?
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PhilD)
Subject: Re: Good AT MB for Cel Processor
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 01:46:42 GMT
On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 22:18:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (+Pablo+) wrote:
>On 16 Jun 1999 17:30:48 GMT, PhilD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
><snip>
>>upgrading the MB, CPU, Ram, and vid. Since my funds are limited, I have
>>decided a Cel 300A or 333A would be my best bet for a cheap upgrade. The
>>problem with this is that I need a AT board. Looking around, I have found
>
>>information you can spare. would like to keep the total upgrade to around
>>$250. I have a 15" Sony monitor and was planning on 64MB PC-100 DIMM and
>>a ATI Xpert 98 8MB vid card (looks to be well supported). So that only
>>leaves about $140 or so for a MB/CPU combo.
>
>check out www.shoppingplanet.com
>
>This is only my opinion:
>they have amd k6/2 - 350 for $69 (less than a Celery 333)
>they have 64MB PC-100 DIMM for $50
>choose any M/B with 1MB cache for around $75
>the ATI card is $51
>----------------------------------------
>$241 + shipping
>
>also try www.pricescan.com for each item on your shopping list, watch
>out for hidden "handling" charges though...
>
>usual disclaimers, no affiliation, blah, blah, YMMV..
>
>+Pablo+
Thanks, I am always looking for good shopping sites.
PhilD
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From: Colleen & Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: Strange problem with my RH6.0 box...
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:31:49 GMT
I have the same thing happen on my machine. (In my case vertical green
lines).
Its cause: a flakey video card and/or video RAM. The logging out process
probably sends some interesting reset directives that sometimes trigger the
problem.
It locks up the machine hard, usually with the disk activity light on, and
I have to cycle the power to get the machine back. With the disk activity
light solid its no wonder file corruption occurs.
My solution, I'm going to shop for a new video card. My bypass, don't log
out
unless you have to...
Robert Nickel wrote:
> So, there I sat, happily plinking away in my KDE window. I needed to
> leave the room and decided that I would log off. Doing so, my Linux
> machine obediently charged toward respawning kdm an BOOM, purple
> vertical lines on the screen and a locked up machine. Ack! I thought.
> I guess it's time to drop back and kick. So I hit the reset button
> expecting to be told all about how a check is being forced since I
> didn't shut down correctly. However, as I watched the machine go
> through the BIOS and start to ramp up I notice that I don't have LILO:
> on the screen, but I get LI and a locked up machine! Now the box that
> has been my trusted companion for the last year is suddenly taken ill.
> I don't understand exactly what's going on.
>
> Ok, so here are the facts:
> The crash was sudden. Although I had seen a similar crash in the
> past, a reboot and patient
> wading through fsck usually fixed it.
>
> The LI portion of LILO: shows up whether booting from the hard drive
>
> or a bootable floppy.
>
> No hardware changes have been made for at LEAST 6 months.
>
> Has anyone else seen this type of problem before? I'm fairly certain
> that it is some type of hardware issue, but I just can't seem to finger
> it out.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> --Robert
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> (remove the no_spam and .no.spam irritation avoiders to get email to
> me)
>
> p.s. e-mail responses are preferred, but I check the list often enough
> if you simply post it here.
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From: "K.O.Wai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: help! permedia 2 card!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 09:51:00 +0800
how to set it?
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Booting headless?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:02:23 +0000
dpc wrote:
>
> Found this on deja while looking for something else. <g>
> UltraPenguin 1.1.9 boots and installs headless just fine. It uses kernel
> 2.2.2 by default.
>
> > I remember an early packaged version of Linux - don't recall if it was RH
> or
> > Slakware that provided an option to configure the install for a headless
> > server. Ring anyone's bell?
Booting headless is a bios problem, not a Linux problem. I have
several headless servers and the only thing I've done is to go
into the bios and set it to 'STOP ON NO ERRORS'. When the machine
boots, it may beep a few times, but it will come up. Note that on
some 486s, you will have to leave a video card in as they will not
boot without one regardless of what the bios is set to. Most Pentium
class boards don't care. None of my headless servers have any video,
keyoards, or mice attached.
If you want to monitor the system from a dumb terminal, there is
a serial console option in the 2.2.x kernels as well as a serial
lilo option. This allows you to see the bootup on the serial
terminal (no bios stuff) including the lilo prompt so you can
pick what kernel you wish. Very nice. It's also available in
the 2.0.x kernels, but you must patch. Note that this also allows
one to logon and do things if the network goes down for some
reason.
Best
Cokey
--
==================================================================
Cokey de Percin, DBA Email:
Policy Management Systems Corp. Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Cokey de Percin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Serial console - Sys msg, but no login!
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:15:04 +0000
dpc wrote:
>
> OK. Let me calm down for a sec, <g>
>
> I'm trying to set up a serial console. First I'll go over approximately
> what I've done so far.
>
> Have a null-modem cable from com2 on NT box to ttyS1(com2, of course) on
> linux box.
Hmmm... Null modem? As I remember, the serial port is a DCE device and
a modem is a DTE device. You're connecting two DCE devices and I don't
believe a null modem cable will work. I believe you need a serial cable
with some crossed lines; can't remember which ones at the moment. I
think that for serial to serial communication such as laplink will work.
> Enabled serial console support in the kernel and recompiled.
> I've got CRT open in NT waiting on com2.
>
> Modified /etc/inittab and added a line for the serial port, i.e.
> S1:2345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS1 57600 vt100
> I have tried many variations of this such as getty -h and DT38400 for the
> speed, and agetty, etc. None have worked.
>
> Also found I didn't have a /etc/gettydefs file, so I added the appropriate
> lines to that.
> I also type Linux console=ttyS1,<SPEED> at the boot prompt... (Could that be
> locking up the port so it's not able to open it for a login??) The
> suggestion doesn't seem to be the case as even when I don't add anything at
> the boot prompt, I still get no login prompt on the serial.
>
> In any case, I usually get the error message INIT: Id "S1" respawning too
> fast: disabled for 5 minutes. but other than that, I can't recall any other
> one. But if I hit Alt+F9 I believe it is, I see an error message (I think
> this is with agetty, pardon me for being vague, I'm losing braincells here)
> with the tail end looking like "ioctl Input/Output Error".
>
> Alright, I'm spent - I think that's all the info I can give. If anybody can
> give me any pointers here, I will deeply appreciate it. This is driving me
> nuts! hehe Thanks again!
>
> dpc
>
PS - Don't forget to put the serial option in your lilo config so you
can see the boot messages....
Best
Cokey
--
==================================================================
Cokey de Percin, DBA Email:
Policy Management Systems Corp. Work - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Columbia, South Carolina Home - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
From: d s f o x @ c o g s c i . u c s d . e d u (David Fox)
Date: 16 Jun 1999 19:10:00 -0700
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 1999 04:49:03 GMT, Gravot wrote:
> >prefaced with a "win"? I am especially curious about sound cards. Is
> >there any one card that is more suitable than the rest? If so, what is
> >the reasoning? Any favorites?
>
> Creative labs ISA cards are a snap to set up on linux. And you get to put a
> useless ISA slot to use (-;
But they don't sound particularly good (music-wise) if that is
something you are concerned about.
--
David Fox http://hci.ucsd.edu/dsf xoF divaD
UCSD HCI Lab baL ICH DSCU
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (PhilD)
Subject: SCSI CD-Roms - trouble
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 02:17:29 GMT
Hello everyone,
I am having a bear of a time with my SCSI CD-Roms (along will all my
other win tweaked hardware) I have a Teac 32x and a Yamaha 400t cd-r
on an Adaptec 2940UW controler. It has no problems seeing them. At
least on the startup I see it find them and configure them to sr0 and
sr1. However, when my RH6 system is loaded and logged into, I can not
find a /dev/sr0 or /dev/sr1 to mount. Why is this? Also, do you have
to have media in the drive to mount? Isn't this a pain in X when you
have to mount every time you want to get something from a disk or CD?
(If you can't tell, I am new at this) I can mount my IDE 4x cdrom
which is helpful! Any help would be great!!
Philip Dean
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Long journeys are often the most rewarding -- me
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