Linux-Hardware Digest #588, Volume #10 Fri, 25 Jun 99 13:13:38 EDT
Contents:
3c575 PCMCIA ethernet card locks up system on shutdown (Jan Bredereke)
RZ1000 to Fujitsu TAU ("Eric Wick")
Re: some BIOS settings ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
problem running xserver with a SiS6326 AGP display card on RHL6.0 ("Yogesh Agarwal")
Re: Can't print; /dev/lp0 not detected; procfs? (Courtney Thomas)
USB Scanner (Ron Denis)
Using Multiple Sound-Cards in the Kernel... (Chris Gahan)
Re: Info get from DMESG (Leejay Wu)
Re: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list (Eric DE VITO)
CDROM problems on a Dell Laptop ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
suse und HP-Netserver LH 4 (Joerg Ebert)
HELP: scsi error ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT! (Brian Hartman)
Re: determining CPU freq of Sun Sparc 10? (Jeff Seeger)
Parallel port cd (Kari Laine)
Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux? ("J. J. Ottusch")
scanner umax astra 1220s problems ("Walter Harms")
Re: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list (Eric DE VITO)
Re: RIVA TNT (Vagelis Blathras)
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From: Jan Bredereke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 3c575 PCMCIA ethernet card locks up system on shutdown
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:56:35 GMT
Hi,
My 3com 3c575 PCMCIA ethernet card locks up my Linux system when I
try to shut the card down.
Details: 3com Fast Etherlink XL CardBus PC Card 3C575-TX 32-bit
10/100BASE-TX, SuSE 5.3 Linux (i.e., kernel 2.0.35 and
pcmcia-cs-3.0.4), but updated to pcmcia-cs-3.0.11, on a Toshiba
Satellite 320CDT laptop. The Ethernet is un-configured nicely, but
it appears to be impossible to remove the module 3c575_cb.o. If I
try to shut down the pcmcia services, the un-configure beep starts,
but does not end anymore, and the entire system is locked up. The
beep even comes when I used "cardmgr -q" to switch off the beeps.
This happens when cardmgr is killed. If I remove the card
physically, sometimes the system comes back, sometimes I have to
remove the battery. The lock up happens less often if the ethernet
card is connected to the Ethernet than when it is not. Since I
can't shut down the system in the lock up case, the disk is not
unmounted cleanly. A few days ago, this destroyed the master boot
record of my hard disk (yes, I DID have a hardcopy of the partition
table, and a rescue CD, too :-) ).
For pcmcia-cs-3.0.4, before I updated, I suspect that the usage
count of the loaded modules is wrong, and that the module 3c575_cb.o
cannot be unloaded because there still appear to be users of it. At
least the error message of rmmod said something like "module still
in use". If the system came back, lsmod said that the modules still
were there, and that the usage count was 1, but no using module
was given.
I could do "/etc/pcmcia/network stop", which would switch the usage
count from 2 to 1. "... start" would toggle it back to 2.
Currently, with pcmcia-cs-3.0.11, when the system is running, lsmod
says something like:
Module Pages Used by
3c575_cb 5 1
cb_enabler 1 [3c575_cb] 2
ds 2 [cb_enabler] 2
i82365 6 2
pcmcia_core 10 [cb_enabler ds i82365] 0
memstat 1 0
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
vfat 4 1 (autoclean)
fat 6 [vfat] 1 (autoclean)
After shutting down the pcmcia services only, lsmod says
(if the system doesn't lock up):
Module Pages Used by
memstat 1 0
nls_iso8859_1 1 1 (autoclean)
vfat 4 1 (autoclean)
fat 6 [vfat] 1 (autoclean)
So the modules are removed now. But the beep still comes and
doesn't stop, and often the system locks up entirely.
Is there any fix, or what information do I need to provide for
further investigations?
As a workaround, when not using the Ethernet, but when still having
the card inserted, I have a different run level that doesn't load
the module in the first place. But this doesn't help when I need the
network.
Thanks,
Jan
--
Dr. Jan Bredereke University of Oldenburg, Comp. Sce. Dept., Germany
Email: jan(dot)bredereke(at)topmail(dot)de
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From: "Eric Wick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RZ1000 to Fujitsu TAU
Date: 24 Jun 99 19:55:12 -0100
Hello,
can this combination give no more troughput that Pio1 with kernel
2.0.36? Whenever using hdparm to switch to pio or dma-mode, there will
come an error "not supportet". The RZ1000 Workaround is enabled into
the kernel.
What went wrong?
--
--
ByeBye
Eric
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: some BIOS settings
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:44:51 GMT
In article <7kuikh$2fp$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I don't recall having any difficulties in particular with either of
the
> K6/VP3 systems I'm running on here ... both are set up with the 2.2.10
> kernel and are even using the vt82c586 IDE drivers with no
difficulties not
> to mention that I love the way K6's handle Linux, I can't wait to get
my
> hands on a K7...
>
> Ray Schwamberger
So, maybe I am unlucky. There is certainly something wrong with the
hardware : I experience from time to time, other than random hangs, a
spontaneous reboot just after the memory test of BIOS.
Anyway, thanks.
junichi
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From: "Yogesh Agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: problem running xserver with a SiS6326 AGP display card on RHL6.0
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 06:47:17 +0530
I am not able to run x server. Everything else works fine. I am using a SiS
6326 AGP display card with 4MB vram. While running xconfigurator, i set
display card as sis6326 and set my monitors and when it starts the xserver,
i just see a black screen with the mouse pointer. I am able to move the
pointer but i dont see the dialog box.
Please help me.
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From: Courtney Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Can't print; /dev/lp0 not detected; procfs?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:09:09 GMT
John Zbesko wrote:
> When using the RedHat 5.2 printtool, I get a message saying that no devices
> were detected at /dev/lp0 or lp1 or lp2 and that there may be a hardware
> problem. This has prevented me from using my Epson ActionLaser 1500, which
> is HP III cpmpatible.
>
> My parallel port works- I can use my zip drive. In my dmesg listing, I see a
> message saying the parallel port is detected, but in order to enable
> interrupt driven processes I need to:
>
> use procfs
>
> What is this and can it be the solution to my problem? Just what is the
> printtool looking for? Thanks for your help.
>
> John Zbesko
I have the same problem and would VERY much appreciate hearing the solution if
you find it before I do else I'll let you know.
Thanks,
Courtney
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From: Ron Denis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: USB Scanner
Date: 25 Jun 1999 11:00:41 -0400
I have an HP 6200 flatbed scanner and can only currently use it in WinDoze. I
would love to use it with the Gimp in linux. The problem is that I only have
the USB interface. My system doesn't currently have a SCSI card.
Should I expect that the I will soon be able to use my scanner via USB in
linux (say by the end of summer) or should I break down and buy a SCSI card?
--
Ron Denis
E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Consultant
Lucent Technologies Inc.
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From: cgahan@[nospam]geocities.com (Chris Gahan)
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.help,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Using Multiple Sound-Cards in the Kernel...
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 14:47:50 GMT
How would I go about configuring my system so that the two sound card
drivers I have compiled in the kernel (each of which work
individually) will work at the same time? Apparently, just compiling
them both in won't do the trick, which is rather unfortunate.
I'm using Kernel v2.2.10, and I've got an ESS1668 (aka. SB PCI128) and
an old SoundBlaster-16. Can anyone help?
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From: Leejay Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Info get from DMESG
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:16:39 -0400
Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux.hardware: 25-Jun-99 Info get from
DMESG by [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hi all. I have some doubt what the information from Dmesg means:
>
> Memory: 64108k/66496k available (732k kernel code, 384k reserved, 1272k
> data)
>
> 1.What's this means? I have 128M memory.
See the FAQ of your choice; only 64MB is being reported to Linux, that's
what. e.g.: BootPrompt-HOWTO, section 3.3.1.
> 2.Ramdisk driver initialized : 16 ramdisks of 4096K size
> ???
It's *support* for ramdisk devices, each of which may not exceed that limit
(4MB). They won't consume that memory unless used.
IIRC, these devices would be /dev/ram1 --> /dev/ram16. If you needed to
use one, you could do something like
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ram1 bs=1k count=4096
/sbin/mke2fs -m 0 /dev/ram1
mount -t ext2 /dev/ram1 /mnt/ramdisk
[do whatever]
umount /mnt/ramdisk
tweaking params as desired. Well, I've not done it for a while, so that
sequence may need some tweaking. Useful if you're creating a boot disk
and you absolutely want to be sure that it will fit...
> 3.hda: WDC AC28400R, 8063MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=1024/255/63, UDMA
> what's 'UDMA' means? Is it Ultra DMA?
Yes.
> 4.eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xb000, IRQ 9, 00:48:54:3a:98:1e.
> what's this means : '00:48:54:3a:98:1e'
It's your Ethernet NIC's hardware address: 12 hex digits. Every single
one has a unique hardware address, useful for identifying that interface
to the network before it's assigned anything like an IP address. In
addition, it might be good to note down in case you ever need to contact
the manufacturer.
> 5.why there are so many lines here? Does it mean it keep on testing this
> protocol?
Not sure here. Maybe it auto-probed like mad, or whatever; never seen this
behavior. <shrug>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Re: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list
Date: 25 Jun 1999 12:54:28 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Eric DE VITO wrote:
>>
>> I am currently creting a list of linux users interested in scsi-idle system
>> to be added to the kernel scsi driver.
>>
> Spinning down SCSI disks is generally a bad idea. Here's why:
> 1) First of all, SCSI disks are sold as server hw. They have a
> relatively high MTBF, but generally a very low (if compared to IDE)
> number of guaranteed startup-cycles. So, exessive restarting SCSI disks
> will lead to a shortened lifetime of SCSI disks.
I used it for my disks with 2.0.36 and got no problems.
> 2) Because of (1), integrating such support in the stock kernel would
> lead to many people enabling it w/o knowing what they do.
Just let people choose ! we just want an add to the kernel config
with lots of "Not Recommended - Read Documentations/spin-down-scsidisks.txt"
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: CDROM problems on a Dell Laptop
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:24:01 GMT
I am attempting to install Red Hat Linux 4.1 on a Dell Latitude CPi
A-series laptop computer. I cannot get linux to recognize the cdrom
drive, a 24x Samsung SCR-2438. I have searched most of the available
linux sites, and cannot find a reference to this particular drive. I
believe it should be recognized as a standard ATAPI cdrom, but I don't
have any verification of that assumption. The only clue I have to
what might be going on is a cryptic error message on linux boot-up,
about an unrecognized pci device.
I cannot try installing a more recent version of Red Hat, as business
constraints require me to use version 4.1. Any help would be
appreciated. Please Email me if you think you can help.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Ryan
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From: Joerg Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: suse und HP-Netserver LH 4
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 17:37:40 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
hallo zusammen,
hat schon jemand erfahrungen mit linux auf einem hp-server LH4 mit 4
Prozessoren, 4GB ram und RAID 5?
ciao
joerg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: HELP: scsi error
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:19:41 GMT
hi all,
i recently received the following error message:
(host name) kernel: scsi: aborting command due to timeout : pid
(###), scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Write (6) 06 2a dd 02 00
what could be the cause of this and what should i do to prevent this
error from happening again.
tia,
--re
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From: Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.linux.setup
Subject: Re: Windows easy to install? BULLSHIT!
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 11:03:58 -0400
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 23:19:15 -0400, Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 24 Jun 1999 15:17:27 -0400, Brian Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>wrote:
> >> >Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> >> : Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> : > Brian Hartman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> >> [deletia]
> >> >> Yes, yes! I know the theory. In theory I can even do that myself.
> >> >> Only a practice is a bit different and I have seen a similar stuff on
> >> >> a number of occasions. :-) This is called "Reboot, reboot, reboot and
> >> >> pray". The card in question, which was getting in, was one of Diamond
> >> >> S3 cards - BTW. When I have seen that "procedure" for the first time
> >> >> I was surprised myself. I did not realize that things are __that__ bad.
> >> >>
> >> >
> >> >The procedure I outlined above involves two reboots. One to acknowledge the
>new card,
> >> >another to complete the installation of the drivers. And if the drivers are any
>good (I've
> >> >got a Trident 9440 card in my PC) there won't be a problem. Amd amyway.
>Windows supports
> >> >more hardware than Linux, so you're more likely to have a problem on the Linux
>side.
> >>
> >> NO, you're more likely that it just plain won't work. However,
> >> if you're adding hardware that's a non-issue. The same effor
> >> you expend avoiding the ATIs can be put into ensuring that the
> >> new device will work well under Linux.
> >>
> >
> >It's not the same effort. You can pick nearly any hardware device off the shelf in
>any
> >computer store and get it to work with Win 95 in some way. (There are exceptions
>of course,
>
> That simply doesn't cut it. No consumer should tolerate it either.
> That any of them would shows that the current computing market is
> very broken.
>
The only exceptions are products with faulty drivers. And if "no consumer should
tolerate"
hardware not working with an OS, that rules Linux out immediately.
>
> [deletia]
>
> Nevermind that if you bother with such an artifically wide
> definition of hardware support, Linux derives a similar
> 'benefit'.
>
Linux has nowhere near the hardware support of Windows. That's documented. (see the
PC Magazine
article I referenced in another post). The fact of the matter is, Windows is the
model for
hardware support, and if it wasn't for Windows, there wouldn't *be* a computer
hardware market.
Linux doesn't support USB. Linux support for video cards is shaky. And PCMCIA
support is
sparse. Add to this the fact that if you *do* find those drivers, you have to
configure them by
yourself. And a number of the "fixes" to make hardware compatible with Linux are
clumsy and
time-consuming.
>
> --
>
> It helps the car, in terms of end user complexity and engineering,
> that a car is not expected to suddenly become wood chipper at some |||
> arbitrary point as it's rolling down the road. / | \
>
> Seeking sane PPP Docs? Try http://penguin.lvcm.com
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From: Jeff Seeger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.sys.sun.hardware
Subject: Re: determining CPU freq of Sun Sparc 10?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 00:10:59 -0400
James C. McPherson wrote:
>
> snip <
>
> and you'll get a list of the details about your cpu modules - speed, cache
> size, bus speed etc. I _think_ the RT625 runs at 100MHz - mine do.
RT625 and 626 refer to the cache controller. 625 is 256kb
and 626 is 512kb, I think.
--
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Chief Technical Officer Tyngsboro, MA 01879
jseeger "at" appliedcad "dot" com 978 649 9800
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kari Laine)
Subject: Parallel port cd
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 13:26:07 GMT
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear All,
I would need a parallel port CD-drive to install Linux on computers
not having CD. I remember seeing someone mentioning HP drive but don't
remember the model. Could someone give a pointer?
Best Regards
Kari Laine
LinuxWare Oy http://personal.inet.fi/business/linuxware
Tel. +358-(0)19-334618 Fax +358-(0)19-334627
GSM +358-(0)400-480273 Home +358-(0)19-334616
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From: "J. J. Ottusch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: alt.os.linux,comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: Best sound card for use w/ Linux?
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 21:56:20 -0700
David Murray wrote:
> > A sure bet is Soundblaster. Make sure you don't get one that's PNP,
> they're
> > a pain to set up although it can be done. But the non-pnp are a simple
> part
> > of the configuration of the kernel.
>
> Actually, a PnP SoundBlaster is just fine under RedHat.. in fact is is
> easier. You just put the card in and run "sndconfig" and it immediatly
> comes up and says "Found Creative Labs Sound Blaster PnP" and it sets it
> all up and you just click on test. That is is.. The non-PnP models work
> fine too..
>
> --DavidM
I find it interesting that so many people have apparently had a relatively
easy time setting up their PNP Soundblaster sound cards. That has
definitely NOT been the case for me at all.
For weeks I have been trying without success to get my SB32PNP card to work
at all under RH 6.0.
I get the error "Device or resource busy" whenever I try to install the
sound drivers (whether manually or using 'sndconfig', or whether OSS or
ALSA), despite what seems to be a perfectly reasonable /etc/isapnp.conf
file.
I wrote a detailed message to linux.dev.sound and comp.os.linux.setup but
haven't gotten any responses.
Any help or useful suggestions would be appreciated.
Someday I'd like to join the chorus of those extolling the virtues of
Soundblaster cards within Linux. Right now it's the most frustrating aspect
of my system.
J. J. Ottusch
(To send a direct reply, delete anti-spam zeros in reply address.)
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From: "Walter Harms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: scanner umax astra 1220s problems
Date: 25 Jun 1999 13:23:18 GMT
I have a Umax astra 1220 now. i can access it with sane xscanimage but the
system crashes when i use it a while or with higher resolutions.
Is any ASTRA user outthere ? (i suspect the scsi-card)
walter
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric DE VITO)
Subject: Re: Spinning down scsi disks : mailing list
Date: 25 Jun 1999 13:03:41 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marc Mutz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 1) First of all, SCSI disks are sold as server hw. They have a
> relatively high MTBF, but generally a very low (if compared to IDE)
> number of guaranteed startup-cycles. So, exessive restarting SCSI disks
> will lead to a shortened lifetime of SCSI disks.
> 2) Because of (1), integrating such support in the stock kernel would
> lead to many people enabling it w/o knowing what they do.
> 3) Spinning down disks usually requires a re-configuration of updated,
> so that it takes more time between syncs to the disk. While this is
> generally acceptable for laptops (because they have their own sort-of
> UPS: the battery), it can cause the hell for a desktop system, which is
> not protected against power failures.
>
Example (this is my case):
just imagine the following configuration: you have 2 internal scsi disks
one has linux the other windows. Sometimes you want to access your win partition
from linux, amd most of the time, you don't.
With spinning down the windows disk can keep quiet and not turn for nothing.
I am aware of the fact that this is not the best solution for scsi disks, but
let us choose please.
--
Eric DE VITO
IPSN/DPEA/SERAC
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Vagelis Blathras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: RIVA TNT
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 19:57:04 +0000
Jim Henderson wrote:
> Use the SVGA server from XFree86 3.3.3.1. That works with the RIVA TNT
> card chipset.
I also recommend getting the Xfree86 3.3.3.1 Server from nvidia place, as
well as the libraries that support 3d accell support from that place too.
( http://www.nvidia.com/Products.nsf/htmlmedia/software_drivers.html)
This 3.3.3.1 Server if I am correct, is ONLY for TNT chipsets, and is much
faster than the 3.3.3.1 server I had from xfree86.org, since it is newer,
and has the GLX support for 3d functions in it.
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